In a case he said "cries out for punishment," a judge sentenced a Milwaukee man Thursday to 50 years in prison in the killing of 13-month-old Bill Thao, the result of shooting up the wrong house in a dispute with another drug dealer.
Darmequaye Cohill, 22, was convicted in December of first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree recklessly endangering safety, both as a party to a crime, acts Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner called "outrageous and evil."
Wagner followed the state's recommendation of 40 years for the homicide, plus 10 years for the lesser charge, followed by a total of 25 years of extended supervision, 7 1/2 years short of the maximum prison time.
"Why should there be hope for yourself?" Wagner asked. "There shouldn't be."
Cohill, who had waived his earlier opportunity to address the judge, interrupted to say, "Because I didn't do it." Wagner reminded him he'd been convicted.
The victim, known as Baby Bill, was playing on the floor at a relative's house near N. 73rd St. and W. Mill Road the evening of Dec. 27, 2014, when a barrage of 41 shots hit the building from three gunmen in the street. One bullet struck and killed the child.
"A young, innocent child playing Legos with his family," Wagner said, "a child who has a lot of nevers." Wagner then listed several life achievements, milestones and pleasures Bill won't experience.
Outside the courtroom after the hearing, Bill's father, Somboon Thao, tearfully told reporters how much he misses his son and how his life has been turned upside down.
Thao said he didn't think Cohill "understands life like I do. I think he deserved it, because life's not like that, you know.
"We have to work hard, we have to go to school. We have to do the best thing today for tomorrow. Not what he did, the bad thing."
Trial testimony revealed that Cohill's girlfriend had posted his cellphone number on social media, and another man, Kwesen Sanders, who knew Cohill was a heroin dealer, had it transferred to his own phone so he would get calls from Cohill's addicted customers.
Cohill later got one of those addicts to lead him back to Sanders. After a first attempt to shoot Sanders in the street outside his mother's house failed, Cohill and others returned the next night and shot up the Thao house, which is next door, by mistake.
Cohill still faces pending cases of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and possession of heroin with intent to distribute from September and November 2014.
The Thao homicide marked a terrible trifecta of fatal child shootings in 2014. In May, 10-year-old Sierra Guyton was playing with her 12-year-old sister at the Clarke Street Elementary School playground when she was shot in the head without warning, an innocent bystander to a gunfight between two men with a beef over some baby clothes. Sierra died on July 13.
Sylvester Akeem Lewis, 19, was found guilty and sentenced to 44 years in Sierra's death.
About six weeks before Bill Thao died, 5-year-old Laylah Petersen was sitting next to her grandfather at his house near N. 58th St. and W. Fairmont Ave. when a pair of men fired upon the house, in what they thought would be revenge for a prior homicide. One shot killed Laylah instantly.
But again, officials say, the suspects had gone to the wrong house. Three men were charged in Laylah's homicide in October. A gun tied to the killing has been linked to multiple shootings.
The shock and outrage from those cases didn't quell gun violence in 2015, when the homicide total climbed to 145, from 86 the prior year. Last year, however, there were no preteen victims killed by gunfire in the city.


The sanctuary of Wies, a pilgrimage church miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and a masterpiece of creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, near Steingaden in Bavaria, was the setting of a miracle in 1738: a simple wooden image of Christ mounted on a column, which was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensians, appeared to some of the faithful to be in tears. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary. Accordingly, work began in 1745 under the direction of the celebrated architect, Dominikus Zimmermann, who was to construct in this pastoral setting in the foothills of the Alps one of the most polished creations of Bavarian Rococo. The choir was consecrated in 1749 and the remainder of the church finished by 1754. That year Dominikus Zimmermann left the city of Landsberg where he lived to settle in Wies near his masterpiece, in a new house where he died in 1766.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (aka Wieskirche in German) is a small church located in the village of Wies outside of Steingaden.
From the outside, the church is not impressive. It is just a normal country church like you could see in any village. Inside, it is like someone detonated a Baroque bomb. Color, ornaments, and stylings cover every wall and ceiling.
The church is one of the smallest world heritage sites I have visited. Perhaps second only to the Rietveld Schröder House in the Netherlands. It will probably only take you 15-30 minutes to explore the church. Once you are inside and can see the artwork, that's all there is.
During my short time at the church, there were two buses of tourists which came through. Wies is only a 15-20 minute drive from the popular destination of Neuschwanstein Castle. If you are going to visit Neuschwanstein it is worth it to take a few more minutes to visit Weis.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany. It was inscribed in 1983 as a religious structure linked to the Christian faith. Aside from being a pilgrimage church, it is also recognized by UNESCO as the best example of the Bavarian Rococo architectural style.
The church was built in 1745 and completed in 1754. It features exuberant stucco work and frescoes that are made with lively and vibrant colors. This church was built through the initiative of brothers Dominikus Zimmermann and Johann Baptist.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies stands out in the Bavarian countryside in Wies located right in the middle of green rolling fields. The remote location of this church is for a reason though. It is not designed for everyday parishioners. Instead, it was built as a site of pilgrimage for the Christian worshippers.
Since there will be a large number of pilgrims visiting the church, it needed to be big enough to accommodate all of them. Hence, the design of the church was meant to be impressive in size, but also in terms of its aesthetics. The interior details reflect the lofty ideals for the church by the time of its construction. From the outside, the Pilgrimage Church of Wies features soft and rounded edges with a sense of tranquility. The inside is where the pilgrims will be quite impressed – it is filled with colors and intricate details. In fact, the interior details of the church are considered as Germany's best example of rococo architecture. The main section of the building consists of statues, painted ceilings, complex plasterwork, and golden trims. You will notice that the colors and details become more intense around the altar area.
During the 18th century, the Pilgrimage Church of Wies is one of Europe's most important pilgrimage sites. The miracle stories for those who came to this church and prayed on Jesus' wooden statue started to become widespread. Hence, this prompted more pilgrims to come to this church.
The interior design of the Pilgrimage Church of Wies is more than just about the work of architecture. It is also believed to be an intentional design that is meant to reflect the spirituality of the pilgrimage. In fact, the fresco at the church's main ceiling depicts the resurrected Christ along with the door to eternal life. It is therefore hinged on the theological belief that redemption can be achieved through sacrifice.
If you want to visit the Pilgrimage Church of Wies, the nearest tourist town is Fussen. Hence, this is a good starting point for pilgrims or tourists who want to visit the church. You will also find a few other tourist attractions within the area and that includes one of the world's most famous castle, the Neuschwanstein Castle. Many tourists who come here visit the Pilgrimage Church of Wies as part of a day trip to give them a chance to explore other attractions nearby.
The church itself is small; hence, it takes only a few minutes to look around and explore.
My family is from this area, (Bodensee) and we went to visit this church on our way to visit my cousin in Munich. It's so quaint and beautiful. Love the photos!


Bakeart and I, turned vegan at almost the same time in March, 2016.
Let me share with you our vegan story.
Before March 2016, I was very much the dairy and egg consuming, meat eating happy average Indian. I proudly consumed three glasses of milk everyday, ate non-vegetarian food once a week and had eggs every day for breakfast. I used ghee for my pooja lamp, proudly shopped leather as a sign of opulence and fine taste, and generally looked disdainfully at people espousing high morals. Dairy curd formed a part of daily family meals and no festival was conceivable without sweets made especially in ghee.
Through members of these groups, the reality of the dairy, egg, and general animal industry slowly but surely dawned on me. It struck me as amazing that at 35, I never felt the need to question the daily, continuous and copious milk production in a mammal. I was astounded that deep rooted childhood tales of how a cow is a mother because it gives milk remained with me unquestioningly. The naked truth stood in front of me and I could hardly face it.
Through the Facebook groups fore mentioned, I saw the movie THE HERD.
The movie humanizes the dairy industry by replacing cows with women. As a mother to two beautiful girls whom I nourished for 2.5 years on breast milk, I was broken to see the treatment met out to cows. It scorched me to my soul to watch new born male babies getting killed , girl new borns being separated from their mothers, and mothers being plugged to machines which stole every drop of their precious milk.
I then came upon PETA's video titled HORRORS IN INDIAN DAIRY.
My concerns now were not just about the ethics of animal food, but the nutritive value and safety of food derived from uncared for , tortured, underfed and chemically pumped animals. Several interesting facts came to light. These videos are just a minuscule representation of the reality of animal industries worldwide including but not limited to egg, fur, meat etc. The list is endless.
I discovered the nutritive value of vegan food, and I haven't looked back.


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Southern Copper net income for the quarter ending December 31, 2018 was $0.293B, a 202.05% decline year-over-year.
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I attended the premiere of the highly anticipated, MTN Foundation-sponsored, Fela and the Kalakuta Queens on Sunday night and it received a standing ovation! The play, produced by Bolanle Austen-Peters Productions, is about the relationship between Fela and his wives, and the inspiration behind some of his greatest hits. Let me say this, if you see the name Bolanle Austen-Peters on any play, know that it is going to be LIT! She is such an amazing producer and I have deep respect for her, I also know that Fela is such a great export of this country and I am so impressed that MTN is supporting our history and rich cultural heritage by sponsoring events like this.
The night started with light refreshment by Chef Eros and opportunity to network-which was awesome. If you've not seen my video about all that happened this evening the click HERE to see it. Now lets talk about the play-it shines a light on the life of the late Afrobeat legend, with effortless delivery by the all Nigerian cast and crew, some of whom are graduates of the MTN Foundation Sponsored MUSON Music Scholars programme. The feeling you get while watching is just one of amazement, and a personal insight to the lives of the women who helped make Fela what he was and their unconditional loyalty to him. What was most impressive was how the main lead who played Fela was so much like Fela, I felt it was Fela talking, strutting on the stage and singing. That was such a brilliant performance!
Fela and the Kalakuta Queens is sponsored by MTN Foundation under its Arts & Culture Cause; aimed at facilitating the reawakening of the theatre dimension of Nigerian Arts & Culture, and telling positive Nigerian stories. Under the Arts & Culture Cause, MTN Foundation also sponsored Saro the Musical, Wakaa! The Musical this year. I saw SARO the Musical and that was when my love for Stage Plays was cemented.
Fela and the Kalakuta Queens will be staged at Terra Kulture from Sunday, December 17, 2017 - January 7, 2018. Keep up with the show and all the highlights by following the hashtag #FelaAndTheKalakutaQueens and @MTNFoundationNG on social media.


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Horismenus culmatus is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie Eulophidae. De wetenschappelijke naam is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2009 door Hansson.

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Accurate and highly detailed 3D model that is a digital recreation of 'Hood' pendant lamp designed by Atelje Lyktan.
The model contains both Corona Renderer materials and custom made felt textures as well as material library with recreation of all of the colors offered.
Material is composed the way that applying different colours from library is easy, without the need of re-creating diffuse maps outside of 3Ds Max.
The model is made to scale and in real world dimensions.
All parts are unwrapped exept of two splines that create cables. This is to give possibility of customizing pendants height above the ground.
Unwrapped UVW mapping of elements and spline mapping are in a real-world scale so applying any other textures is easy, logical and accurate.
This 3D model is a recreation of 120x120cm Hood variant.


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A long 26 years after it's initial debut - the Nike Air Python has been retro'd. The retro should strike familiarity to the eye of sneaker lovers for it's resemblance to the Air Jordan II and Air Force II models. At the time of it's debut the Air Python was deemed groundbreaking for it's swooshless approach - something we still seldom see from Nike.


I would like to invite you to follow me on Twitter, where I tweet as @authorkingsley. So if you already have a Twitter account and don't already follow me, just click the button below so we can connect daily!
I give random shout-outs on my radio show to my Twitter followers - especially new ones!
You can see my latest tweets below, but it will remove the hassle of continually confirming you accept cookies for every video if you follow me directly on Twitter - and check-out my tweets there.
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Nowadays, Taiping Lake Garden has become one of the most popular photo shooting spots for couples doing their pre-marriage albums. When you visit Taiping Lake Garden during weekends, you can see lots of couples posing here and there trying to fit themselves into this picturesque scene.
Well, it's my honor being photographer to my boss! Dr Wahidah and her fiance Favi on this very special afternoon.
Sharing with you some of the angles I took from Taiping Lake Garden.
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Findings Could Alter Interpretation of Big Bang Remnants
By confirming certain light-scattering dynamics first proposed a half-century ago, physicists are casting fresh eyes on the universe-birthing fireworks ignited by the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago. (Image: Pixabay)
By confirming certain light-scattering dynamics first proposed a half-century ago, University of Nebraska–Lincoln physicists are casting fresh eyes on the universe-birthing fireworks ignited by the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago.
With help from the ultra-intense lasers at Nebraska's Extreme Light Laboratory and the ingenuity of colleagues at Brigham Young University, Husker researchers have experimentally demonstrated just how strangely light can behave when scattering from electrons.
With help from the ultra-intense lasers at Nebraska's Extreme Light Laboratory, Husker researchers have experimentally demonstrated just how strangely light can behave when scattering from electrons. (Image: via University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
In characterizing that behavior, they might also give cosmologists cause to reconsider aspects of the so-called cosmic microwave background: electromagnetic radiation, generated during the Big Bang, that carries hints about the origins of the universe while continuing to hurtle through it. Donald Umstadter, the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of physics at Nebraska, said:
"Our results are a prime example of that universality of scientific research. An experiment performed in the laboratory today can shed light on the understanding of phenomena that took place out in the cosmos billions of years earlier."
The researchers directed their attention and their lasers at a fundamental phenomenon known as Thomson scattering, which begins when a packet of light, or photon, strikes a free electron. In the lower-intensity, linear version of Thomson scattering, the electron effectively scatters light at the same frequency that the light approached. Under that scenario, red light approaching an electron will likewise scatter from it as red light.
But Umstadter, Colton Fruhling, and company were more interested in nonlinear Thomson scattering — a higher-intensity, multi-photon version in which light exits at a higher energy and frequency than it entered. Rather than scattering as the same color, red light might instead scatter as yellow, green, and blue, or as an invisible frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.
A map of cosmic background radiation when the universe was less than 400,000 years old. The colors indicate small variations in temperature. (Image: WMAP Science Team via NASA)
Physicists had long since established that light's polarization — the orientation of the electric field surrounding it — can influence the outcomes of nonlinear Thomson scattering. When the polarization itself is linear, so that the electric field oscillates only, say, up-and-down or side-to-side, the electron takes on a figure-eight trajectory that then modifies the polarization of the light it emits. Circularly polarized light, which features an electric field that rotates either clockwise or counterclockwise, generates a corkscrew-esque electron trajectory and distinct scattering polarization of its own.
Both of those cases, and their outcomes, were previously demonstrated in the laboratory. Much trickier, and never before measured in nonlinear Thomson scattering, is elliptical polarization — similar to circular, except that the magnitude of the electric field fluctuates with every 90 degrees of rotation, so that its edge traces the shape of an ellipse, not a circle.
That "in-between" polarization, though included as part of a longstanding theoretical framework on Thomson scattering, became the focus of experiments at the Extreme Light Lab. Fruhling, who led the research as a doctoral candidate at Nebraska before graduating and taking a postdoctoral appointment at Purdue University, said:
"Most of this theory is 50 years old. But just because it's in a textbook doesn't mean it's set in stone. Lots of things in textbooks are wrong."
First, the Extreme Light Lab had to meet the challenge of modifying a standard experimental setup so that it could accommodate the elliptically polarized laser pulses the team wanted to fire at electrons. Meanwhile, BYU's Justin Peatross, Michael Ware and colleagues were busy building an instrument that could detect just a single photon at a time. The latter was crucial, Fruhling said, to eliminate the confounding influences of other variables, adding:
"We wanted to see only the Thomson scattered light, which is challenging, because the probability of Thomson scattering is actually very small when compared to other light generated from the intense laser.
"Scattering photons from electrons is like colliding two bullets with each other, but they're very, very small bullets. And you're blindfolded when you're doing it, so you just kind of randomly shoot, and there's only a chance of hitting."
When the blindfold came off, the researchers found plenty to sift through. They confirmed, for one, that the electrons struck by high-intensity pulses adopt a back-and-forth trajectory parallel to the light that hits them — a quirk observed only in nonlinear Thomson scattering.
The unique electron trajectory triggered by elliptically polarized, high-intensity light also helps account for an observed radiation pattern that aligned with simulations the team ran prior to the experiments. That radiation pattern resembles a bold, rounded X — essentially halfway between a four-petal flower pattern yielded by linear polarization and the rounded square that emerges as elliptical polarization becomes circular.
According to some equations Fruhling derived from existing theory, the uniqueness of the electron trajectory likewise helps explain the "very weird electric field" that manifests when an electron is struck by elliptically polarized light of sufficient intensity. "It dances around and squiggles," Fruhling said of the electric field.
Nonlinear thinking
The distinctiveness of that electric field, in particular, could possibly have implications far grander than Fruhling imagined at the time. "I didn't realize the application with the cosmic microwave background until Don sent me a paper," Fruhling said.
Donald Umstadter, the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of physics at Nebraska. (Image: via University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Calculations about Big Bang using wrong information
The paper laid out calculations that cosmologists rely on to analyze and derive insights from the cosmic microwave background. Central to some of those calculations: the radiation's polarization. Much of that polarization would have been established by collisions with electrons or other charged particles less than 400,000 years after the Big Bang — and remains preserved in the radiation almost 14 billion years later.
As Umstadter came to learn, though, the calculations of cosmologists generally assume that post-Big Bang scattering was linear in nature. That assumption, he said, could potentially lead cosmologists astray when analyzing the polarization signatures of the universe's earliest radiation. Umstadter said:
"Our results need to be considered in the interpretation of recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background's polarization state — which are used to test cosmological theories — because they indicate that even a mild nonlinearity can substantially alter the polarization of the scattered radiation."
Fruhling said:
"So you might interpret the data incorrectly. It seems reasonable to me that maybe you should include the nonlinear part in those calculations, which, to my knowledge, is currently not done."
Fruhling doesn't claim to know how much of a difference that inclusion might or might not make to the Big Bang theory. But even if their implications turn out more modest than mutinous, the discoveries illustrate an important reality of exploratory science. He said:
"In science, oftentimes, you just look for something interesting, and then the motivation comes after: How does this affect other results?"
Provided by: Scott Schrage University of Nebraska-Lincoln [Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.]
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A lot to be discovered off Gulf coast, says BBC doc producer
Joey Aguilar Published on April 20, 2018 | 09:34 PM
A scene in one of Blue Planet II's episodes.
A BBC documentary producer has expressed optimism that "a lot of hidden stories" can be found in the Gulf, just like coasts in various parts of the world.
"It also gets me thinking about how many hidden stories there are off the coasts here and around as well," BBC's Blue Planet documentary producer Jonathan Smith exclaimed on the sidelines of Blue Planet II's "Coral Reefs" screening at The Pearl-Qatar.
The documentary, narrated by Sir David Attenborough and with a music score by Hans Zimmer, has rapidly become the most talked about shows around the world with 220mn views in China alone. It was the number one show in the UK in 2017, attracting nearly 38mn people across the country.
"I don't know what plans there are for (a possible) Blue Planet III, all that what we found and all that what we managed to film, I truly believe that we've only touched the surface," Smith said.
Jonathan Smith at the screening of Blue Planet II's Coral Reefs. PICTURE: Jayan Orma
"Of how much there is still to be discovered underwater, I think it is almost infinite, and so therefore certainly there will be enough content for it, and there are so many stories to be found, a lot of surprises," he pointed out.
About the airing of the critically acclaimed documentary in the country and the region via beIN's platform, Smith said the positive response from the people in Qatar makes it "a real pleasure to be here."
Based on the experience of filming Blue Planet II, the producer pointed out that plastics and coral bleaching have become among the many causes of environmental concerns on the current state of the planet.
"We have filmed from the arctic to Antartica and almost everywhere in between in the ocean and wherever you go, you see the influence of plastics," Smith stressed.
He said the BBC Earth crew's filming in the arctic was part of the documentary, which will be aired in the Mena region.
While the crew never set out to make an environmental series for Blue Planet II, Smith recounted that the more time they spend out in the oceans the more they are seeing change.
He said they never intended to do an episode on coral bleaching for their Coral Reefs episode but while filming the behaviour sequences underwater, the crew witnessed the biggest coral bleaching event the world has ever seen.
The producer added that there has never been a coral bleaching event of the scale his crew has witnessed in two years (of the total four) of filming Blue Planet II. "I think the bottom line is we have a lot of reason to be concerned."
"We couldn't turn away instead we turned our cameras into it and we managed to get lapse time over weeks of the corals disintegrating in front of our own eyes," he added. "With all of that and many other things that people are seeing through these series, yes there is cause for concern."
"But equally, there is a cause for optimism and I feel that it is not too late and I feel like we can make changes and those changes can make a big difference," Smith stressed.
"The mere fact that we are talking about it now, the mere fact that the conversation is going on, I think it gives you hope that there is solution to be found," he said. "As long as we can believe there is hope, as long as we, the human race make the right changes."
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Doncaster hospital still facing 'daily challenges' as Covid continues to cause devastation
There's been a big increase in demand for oxygen therapy
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Doncaster hospitals have not moved into surge capacity stage but high levels of staff sickness means any large influx of new Covid-19 patients would add serious strain to resources, NHS bosses say.
Richard Parker, chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, said around 180 patients were in hospital with Covid-19.
Despite a fall from a peak of around 220 in October/November, Mr Parker said pressure is 'slightly higher' on intensive care beds.
Speaking to councillors at a recent health and wellbeing board meeting, Mr Parker also said the hospital has 'daily challenges' with the amount of oxygen in the system but this is being 'managed successfully'.
The trust chief added there had been an 'significant increase' in the demand for oxygen therapy, rather than ventilation, because options have changed and health care staff treat patients earlier with high flow oxygen.
Hospitals are continuing to provide non-Covid-19 care for emergency, urgent and cancer treatments but Mr Parker said that a number of patients are waiting longer for planned operations and the faster Covid-19 rates are driven down, the faster these procedures can start up again.
"If our position were to deteriorate further then the pressure would rise. The pressure is slightly higher at the moment now than it was in October/November on the intensive care beds," Mr Parker said.
"Whilst we are still within our planning assumptions, we haven't moved into our surge capacity.
"We still have daily challenges around the amount of oxygen in the system being used and making sure that we're working within the oxygen tolerances so we don't slip into any difficulties there and at the moment that's being successfully managed.
"Staffing remains a really acute problem.
"The staff are members of the community as well and so we've got relatively high sickness absence levels higher than we wouldn't previously expect at this point in the year.
"That in itself is a real problem, particularly if we have to escalate bed capacity and manage enhanced infection control procedures with Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients.
"We've got to try to make sure that we don't get any transmissions within the hospital environments.
"It's equally important to try to make sure that everything is tight and under control."


I was very young when I knew I wanted to be a therapist. I became particularly interested in depression and how people deal with traumatic events. Never in a million years did I think I would be an addiction expert. After my graduate studies I took an internship at a substance abuse outpatient center. This was purely by chance and because they had a reputation for offering really good supervision. During my internship it quickly became clear to me that my graduate program in mental health had left me ill prepared to work with substance abuse issues. I kept screening for mental health symptoms because that's what I knew and we tend to go where we feel comfortable.
Substance abuse counselors on the other hand are often under-trained in mental illness and tend to ignore or dismiss signs of it, thinking once the drugs are out of someone's life they will get back to normal functioning. And when they don't they blame the clients "for resisting happiness" or being "chronic complainers". We fail to recognize that sometimes, even after drugs and alcohol are long gone, people struggle with what could have been there all along: mental illness.
The coexistence of mental illness and substance abuse disorders is now known as dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders. Best practice tells us to treat both simultaneously. Yet the separation still persists. I don't know where the separation between mental health and substance abuse treatment came from. If I were to guess it would be payment sources. I also believe the counseling field has a tendency to take sides; "mental illness is more important, if you don't treat it right, the client is at high risk for relapse" or "substance abuse is the key issue, if one stops using drugs, there will be no mental illness to treat". Funny thing is, these statements are both true and could both be untrue for some people. In this "competition" no one really wins. Our clients are the ones who lose in the end if we fail to recognize the complexity of their suffering.
So here I was, an inexperienced intern thrown into the unknown. My clients often feel like I felt when faced with their issues. Confused, lost, and frightened, trying to make sense of what experts say is "wrong" with them. Most of our clients don't care about diagnosis. They just want to know that they will get better. But they often get too caught up in a Chicken or the Egg dilemma. Because there it was, a parade of undiagnosed or untreated mental health issues, streaming down dressed up in drug withdrawal symptoms posing one unavoidable question: which came first? Did mental illness go untreated for so long that these people started to "medicate" it with alcohol and drugs? Was this the reason why people who had suffered from ADHD or bipolar as youth, had an affinity for stimulants such as meth or cocaine? Was this the reason kids who suffered from social phobia figured out drinking could make socializing possible? Was this the reason why people who were depressed or suffered from panic attacks (or PTSD) particularly liked opiates or benzodiazepines (which are often prescribed to treat anxiety but are highly addictive)? And on the other hand, had years of substance use and abuse, significantly and sometimes permanently, altered one's brain chemistry to the point of "producing" depression, panic, OCD, etc, etc?
I'm fully aware that this is too simplistic of a view. After all, the correlation between mental illness and substance abuse still remains somewhat of a mystery. Further more, correlation does not mean casualty. I'm not interested in trying to figure this mystery out. I'm in the business of treating individuals in their complexity and this piece is a reminder to professionals and clients to not ignore something just because they don't know about it or even worse "don't believe" in it. We need to spread awareness and education for our clients so they can understand themselves better, gain insight into their issues, find hope in knowing what to expect and power in planning for success. We need professionals to ask the right questions and pay attention when client speak their truths. We need people who are willing to get educated in the unknown. We never stop learning. No matter how many degrees we have collected or years of experience we have in the field.
If you are struggling with addiction but wonder if mental illness was there all along and is waiting in silence to jeopardize your recovery, I want you to know, help is out there for you. Find a counselor or a doctor who understands both addiction and mental illness and is willing to create an individualized treatment plan that will maximize your chances of success.
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##Bill Self enthused by Frank Mason's defense vs. Bears##
Frank Mason certainly gave Kansas University's basketball team an offensive boost off the bench in Monday's 78-68 victory over Baylor.
The 5-foot-11 freshman's nine points off 4-of-5 shooting and six assists against one turnover helped the Jayhawks ultimately conquer the Bears' zone defense. Yet it was the backup point guard's 'D' that had Kansas coach Bill Self beaming in the wake of KU's fifth conference victory in five tries.
###Newell: KU recruit Alexander among contenders for top ranking###
LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball commitment Cliff Alexander, the fourth-ranked player in the class of 2014 according to Rivals.com, might not be done making his way up the recruiting rankings.
Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Eric Bossi says there's a possibility the 6-foot-8 power forward could leap up to the top spot when the final rankings are released in April.
###Dodd: KU, MU, Wichita State players make midseason Wooden Award list, but Joel Embiid is snubbed###
The Wooden Award released its midseason watch list of 25 players on Wednesday, and Kansas, Missouri and Wichita State were all represented.
But Kansas freshman center Joel Embiid, one of the fastest-rising talents in college basketball, was not on the list. That was perhaps the biggest snub in a group that included KU freshman Andrew Wiggins, Missouri guard Jordan Clarkson and Wichita State forward Cleanthony Early.
####ESPN Freshman Math: Joel Embiid####
Center Joel Embiid has been excelling at Kansas shooting up draft boards. Take a look inside the numbers to see just how historic his freshman season has been.
####Embiid, Wiggins crack blogger's list of today's Top 25 college players####
In a recent blog ranking the 25 best players in college basketball today, ESPN.com's John Gasaway placed two Jayhawks on his list but perhaps not as high as many of you might expect.
He put freshman center Joel Embiid at No. 9 and freshman wing Andrew Wiggins at No. 21.
####New Orleans cuts ex-Jayhawk Taylor####
New Orleans — Former Kansas University guard Tyshawn Taylor has been waived by the New Orleans Pelicans, according to Yahoo!Sports. Taylor this week was traded by the Brooklyn Nets to New Orleans, along with cash, for the rights to Edin Bavcic, a 29-year old Bosnian big man who was originally drafted back in 2006 by Toronto. A free agent after he clears waivers, Taylor will be able to sign with any team. It has been rumored he could be bound for the Los Angeles Clippers, who need a guard following an injury to Chris Paul.
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Top of the morning board rats. Cold as the Klondike out there this am, but still a great day to be a Jayhawk faithful. Weatherman just said the temps are on par with the friggin Arctic Circle right now, & my old pard Woody won't even get out of bed to go out & whizz. He's probably thinkin it might just break off if he's not careful & sandbagging is the immediate plan of action & best option available.
Today Bedore says just what I noted after the OSU game. If Frank fouls Nash on the last possession, it's 3 FT's for the win. But the way it was called, Frank's the hero…in Stillwater, it may have been whistled differently & Frank is then the goat-clearly a boneheaded freshman mistake. But if he doesn't have the kahonies to man up & make a play at the end…I'd much rather him try & fail, than not try at all. He may cost us some W's down the road, but this little Bulldog is becoming aggressive as p**$ & vinegar for a team that clearly lacks that instinct at times. Kinda like Dad used to tell us if we were just standing around on the job, "Damn it-do something, anything, even if it's wrong!" Hopefully for the next 3+ yrs we have a pure point guard that can deliver the goods night in & night out, & that old combo guard spin can be put to rest for awhile.
I've noticed time after time that Nadir is either reluctant or not instinctively equipped to get the rock to the middle of the court & split the D when pushing a break. IMO he's letting some great transition opportunities slip by with this style of play. And Tharpe's a flipping great shooter too, but sometimes he just appears to be playing slower to be safe-not aggressive & at times that is necessary. But Frank is so quick to attack, & does push the middle & can really find his guys for a dish if they're filling the lanes properly (timing is everything), that these guys are exciting as hell to watch playing up tempo when the opp is there.
And for good measure, should we ever have a game that both Selden & Tharpe rack up some quick fouls, I'd be licking my chops to see Frank, Wigs & Greene on the court at the same time with Joel & Perry. I know, I know, I'm just pipe dreamin, but what the H, it's 5 am & I can't sleep anyway. I truly believe Frank & Brannen both are going to be really special players for us the next few years, if we just don't lose one to transfer or injury. As always, JMO.
Many of us old timers can remember when little, bitty Nate "Tiny" Archibald played for the NBA Kansas City KIngs back in the 70's & for those that don't, trust me, he was one helluva point guard in his day. Blazing speed like Tiny had (Frank has) running a break can be one of the most exciting things to see in the game, along with the alley oop, and you younger guys will be reminded of Roy ball & the up tempo play he liked with his point guards. Bill likes it too, & expects his guys to do it when available, so I'm really looking forward to that added element with these guys as they mature. As long as your guys don't play out of control too often-you have to be ready for a few mistakes with this type game, it is sure is fun to watch & IMO has been lacking too much with the combo guards from recent years. Myself, I just like a faster game & with the refs blowing so many whistles now, at times I almost get bored from all the timeouts & krap talk from the game announcers. OK, hey I'm selfish, but in the right ways too guys.Sound familiar? I want more, more, more…more points, more excitement, more conf championships, & one helluva lot MORE KU NC'S!
@globaljaybird I have to second what you said about Mason and Greene. I really think that we have a our point guard of the future in Mason. It is interesting, but the chatter was that Mason wasn't good against the zone. But we saw the result Monday. Mason is settling in, and getting more comfortable. He's playing more under control, it appears that he is trying to create for his teammates … but most importantly, he is strategically attacking. He's just not lowering his head and going (contrast to the Florida game). It appears that he is learning that lesson perhaps 3 seasons quicker than Tyshawn Taylor did.
I have no qualms in saying that Mason is our best point guard. To me, it's a no doubter.
That being said, Tharpe's shooting is an absolute necessity on this team. At times, Tharpe is our best player.
With Mason in the game, moving Tharpe off the ball, Self appears to have found a partial answer to our three point shooting issue. The best evidence of that, I think, is that most of us want him to shoot the ball – that's about as analytical as it needs to be.
@HighEliteMajor-I'm in the Amen Corner on that HEM. The biggest shortcoming I observed of Wayne early was that he lowered his head & charged while the others stood & watched the def collapse on him, often resulting in a TO. They're learning when & how to fill the lanes better & some of that is confidence in Frank & trusting he'll find them or finish as the def adjusts. More motion + location + timing = more success. And with Nadir shooting as well as he has, defenses will have to respect it or they'll get roasted, either by Na, Greene, CF, AW III or whomever. Additionally, we are in a great preemptive defensive posture with a guy or two back. (Wigs is too good at the rim to be one of them) Well, in reality I'm wishing to see more of the other snipers but we also know that Bill is stubborn to share the minutes more times than not. Those guys would definitely not be underutilized on about 95% of the other D 1 teams who have nowhere the depth that Self has. The cups' runnin over now but Bill's got to ride this wave cause even the unequalled Gen Patton once said, "Victory is fleeting!" I'm just so thrilled & thankful we do have a good HC instead of a Drew or Weber that have about as much coaching savvy as the proverbial bag of hammers. He may not be the best at late game management, but there are few I'd trade him for. JMO
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Like Jaybate, I can't figure out how to get this with the headlines.
#The Wall Street Journal this morning!!!#
The 7-Footer Who Snuck Up on College Basketball
By Ben Cohen Updated Jan. 23, 2014 10:22 a.m. ET
Less than three years after he started playing basketball, Joel Embiid is regarded as a possible No.1 pick in the NBA draft this June. Getty Images
Joel Embiid started playing organized basketball only in late 2011. Before that, he played volleyball and soccer in Cameroon, his native land.
Now he's projected to be the NBA draft's No. 1 pick come June.
In a sport that anoints superstars before they leave middle school, the 7-foot-tall Embiid is an outlier, a superstar college freshman who was virtually unknown until his senior year in high school.
Even after signing with the Kansas Jayhawks, Embiid received little attention compared with that program's higher-profile recruit, Andrew Wiggins, by many estimates the top recruit of his class. In fact, Embiid started this season on the bench. But he came off it with such promise and explosiveness that his performance has overshadowed that of Wiggins—and arguably everyone else in college basketball.
In his last four games—all against ranked opponents—Embiid has averaged 19.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 6 blocks per 40 minutes, prompting many NBA scouts to declare him the likely No. 1 pick in the June draft. Some observers already are comparing him with Hakeem Olajuwon, the retired Hall of Fame 7-footer whose Dream Shake shimmy Embiid has studied on film.
Last week, after the No. 8 Jayhawks beat No. 16 Iowa State, Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg called Embiid "the best player in the country." Asked why, Hoiberg, a former NBA player, coach and executive, said, "Did you see him play tonight? That's why."
What distinguishes Embiid is his height and dexterity but also his lack of experience.
Like Olajuwon, who grew up in Nigeria playing soccer, Embiid came late to basketball. As a 17-year-old in Cameroon, Embiid was invited to a basketball camp there because of his height.
Coaching at that camp was Cameroon native Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, the Minnesota Timberwolves forward, who was immediately smitten with Embiid's natural repertoire of moves. "Those were moves that guys who had been playing for years were making," said Mbah a Moute.
Mbah a Moute brought Embiid to another camp in Johannesburg, South Africa and later convinced Thomas Embiid, the boy's father, to let Embiid come to the U.S. to play high-school basketball.
Basketball was still a foreign sport to the elder Embiid, a handball player himself, but its stars were known to him.
"Here in Cameroon, we see NBA players like Kobe Bryant and LeBron—he wants to be like that," Embiid's father said in an interview this week. "When he plays four or five years, he'll get better and better."
Embiid moved to Florida to play his junior year of high school for Montverde Academy. But he sat on the bench for Montverde, stuck behind better, more seasoned centers.
In search of more playing time, Embiid switched his senior year to The Rock School in Gainesville, Fla. So little had Embiid played as a junior that The Rock coach Justin Harden hadn't heard of him until Mbah a Moute called on Embiid's behalf.
Embiid gained national attention as a senior. But if his potential was suddenly clear, so was his lack of experience, as evidenced by a grading system that Harden employed each game.
According to last year's report cards, which Harden shared with The Wall Street Journal, Embiid received an A or A+ in 19 of 37 games. But in 12 games, his grade was a C+ or worse, and in only three games did he score more than 20 points, a small number of games for an elite recruit.
At moments, however, Embiid showed glimpses of the player many are seeing now. In a high-school matchup with Wiggins, his future teammate, Embiid dropped 18 points, including an Olajuwon-like hook shot that takes most big men years to refine.
Norm Roberts, a new assistant coach at Kansas, had come to the Jayhawks from Florida, where Embiid had come to his attention. Early last season, Roberts persuaded Kansas head coach Bill Self to come to Florida to watch Embiid practice. At that time, Embiid hadn't played enough organized basketball to produce a sizable bunch of statistics. But Kansas has a tradition of great big men, dating back to Danny Manning and Wilt Chamberlain, and has had four drafted in the last three years.
Watching the young man practice, Self was unusually quiet. When Roberts asked for his impressions, Self responded that he thought Embiid could be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft someday.
"We never thought Joel was a project," Roberts said. "From a skills standpoint, he was farther along than most big guys."
Embiid's coaches say his soccer and volleyball experiences left him more flexible than most basketball players, not to mention big ones. Kansas conditioning coaches have also added 12 pounds of muscle to him, even if Embiid prefers feasting on ice cream and brownies.
Despite his inexperience, Embiid's game already compares favorably to other big men. As a college freshman, he has attempted shots on 57 possessions after posting up near the basket and is averaging 1.3 points on those trips, according to Synergy Sports Technology. The last eight college centers taken as NBA draft lottery picks averaged only .91 points per possession on their post-ups.
Large players often require time to develop. Olajuwon, for example, spent four years in college. Embiid hasn't even played the game for three full years. But he might not need that long.
"I think he could play in the NBA right now," Mbah a Moute said.
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@RockChalkinTexas-Great copy for us homers. Gotta give ya the plus + one at that!
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@globaljaybird Thanks. My boss (who read this first) called me from Colorado where he is vacationing just to tell me about it. He knows my passion for all things KU.
I felt I needed to put the disclaimer in there because I don't have a subscription.
In the article they mention 2 videos that I couldn't figure out how to get in here. One is Joel's scouting video and the other is a video of Joel vs. Andrew in high school. Check them out.
@RockChalkinTexas Is your company hiring?
@approxinfinity One comment on each story: Why are the Bears green? Most Bears I've seen are brownish, blackish, or whitish.
Alexander's Jam Time Band is playing to rave reviews in Chicago. I read the papers there and he is putting up some monster numbers against top teams.
Wooden awards don't matter much just like Heismanns. It's a nice honor, but it's not a predictor of success, just ask Tim Tebow, Ron Dayne, etc. etc. etc.
Embiid is very good, so is Wiggins. Embiid should have made the Wooden list, but three years ago, I bet he never had heard of it.
Sorry to hear about Tyshawn. He played decently when Darren Williams was hurt, thought he might be valued as a backup there but I guess not.
The article on Embiid in the WSJ was nice, but nothing new for us seasoned Jayhawk fanatics.
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@globaljaybird Remember Nate and the Kings well. Which reminds me of a change in bBall equipment. I got to play exhibition at half time on that court once. one thing about those goals back in the day. They had zero give and the balls were really inflated making for a lot of misses and rebounds. These days the breakaway goal that gives when you dunk hard means a bit of give-helps the shooters touch. I'm okay with that, just saying the goals have changed.
@wissoxfan83-In another month or two, the Wooden list will again be altered to the final 15 & they will add or subtract players again. Joel might well be on the list then. Barring serious injury, I'd be quite dismayed if he's not. JMO
@globaljaybird glottal call you on that Patton quote. If George C. Scott quoted Patten correctly. In the movie he narrates a scene describing a slave whispering a warning to a victor, "All glory is fleeting."
Glottal??? And I swear I haven't been drinking.
@JayhawkRock78-Wedman, Lacey, Birdsong, Grunfield; they had a whale of a team that not enough people supported buying tickets. Most speculation suggests that college hoops has the BB attendance market pretty well sewn up here in the metro.
I could stand to be corrected by @jaybate 1,0, but I believe there have been more Final Fours played at old Municipal Auditorium than any other arena in the USA. I've literally been to hundreds of BB games, concerts, rodeos, & circuses there since the 1950's. That's why I was so thrilled to see it get refurbished & UMKC start playing their home schedule again there this season. When they began their D 1 program 20+ yrs ago, my nephew was one of Lee Hunt's first recruits from Memphis. When Ron & Dumas played together there in the early 90's, they had a pretty decent 3/4 year run & played a lot of Big 8 schools in their non con. The year Huggins made the FF, his Bearcats only beat them by one at the buzzer. I was too outta shape to play then, but many of my friends used to play in charity games there, with Royals, Chiefs, etc.
@JayhawkRock78 Probably was Scott-anyway, it damn sure is.
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@globaljaybird That was a really great way to start my hoops reading day. And I don't think you are pipe dreaming even a little. Fouls and/or injuries and sickness will trigger the situation you are talking about sooner or later this season. And I agree with you that these back ups are going to be up to the challenge.
Regarding Tiny, he was a positively super PG who went on to Boston and Bill Fitch and Larry Bird and won an NBA ring as the leader of the team. After years of scoring big for the not so good Kings, no one thought he could fit in an ever win a ring. Boy did they misread a great talent. Put him with the Boston team and, like the great pro he was, he blended right in and delivered them to a championship.
Another thing persons forget about Tiny Archibald is that he played for Don Haskins at UTEP and that means that Tiny was an Okie Baller. Haskins is famous for the Texas Western aka UTEP team that beat KU and then UK for the ring, but young folks often forget that Haskins, who was one of the few guys that Bob Knight truly deferred to, was one of Iba's big three disciples: Haskins, Sutton, and Hartman.
Thanks for recalling Tiny for me and though it hadn't occurred to me to compare Frank with Tiny, I do believe you are right that there are parallels and that they could develop much further.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I heard Cliff is suspended for the next 2 games. Anybody know what happened?
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@jaybate 1.0 My dad used to visit the El Paso haunts in his younger days, and met Haskins at a bar one night. They proceeded to become best friends in the world for that one night, at least that's the way Dad used to tell the story. I'll never forget that tournament game where UTEP took us down that one year. Dad was from Kansas, but was never a huge KU fan, so I heard about UTEP beating us for years. I didn't like it at the time, but I sure wish he were still around to give me a hard time about that game.
@eleehehe
Unless it is a new one I have not heard of, the suspension was back in early December and was the result of being ejected for picking up 2 Technical fouls in one game. The first one was for taunting and the second for hanging on the rim.
Since the next game was cancelled due to bad weather, the suspension was postponed so he was able to play in the Chicago Elite Classic Tournament and served the one game suspension later. Not a big deal.
@JayHawkFanToo Ah I went back to the article and I missed the date. I appreciate the info.
@KUSTEVE Dads do leave a big hole when they go!
After coming back from Viet Nam, I was in the reserves for two years in KC. They needed volunteers for the Color Guard. No one signed up. The officer in charge was bitching about not getting anyone and said to me, the reason we need them is so we can do the colors before every home Kings game. For two years I marched out to Center court then sat in the front row with my wife, my brother and his wife for two years. Bob Cousy was our coach,. Chamberlain played for the Lakers. Dr. J played for the Sixers. Bob McAdoo got kicked out of a game and kicked the basketball to the top row of Municipal. Tiny would score 50 points a night and Kareem would just shake his head when he got dipsey-doodled by Tiny. My cat's name is also Tiny. Frank has the speed of Tiny but doesn't quite have the moves yet. Spud Webb was smaller than Tiny and won the NBA dunk contest.
@KUSTEVE - Don't remember ever being sooooooo POed over a game as a teenager as when they called JoJo for stepping on the line as he knocked down the shot that shoulda won it. Haven't looked it up but seems to me it ended like 88-87. What a heartbreaker the way it unfolded.
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@jaybate 1.0 My father was a Wichita St grad, and all his kids went to KU. He always had a chip on his shoulder about KU- he always thought KU basketball fans were uppity…lololol.
@globaljaybird I was too young to remember that. I started getting interested in KU when I saw them play Villanova in the NCAA tournament back in 1971, or 1972…maybe? I remember Dave Robish was KU's big man. I was hooked from the first game. I remember I went up on the roof at halftime, and swung the tv antenna around so the picture would come in better. Those were the days…
Self is doing the same thing he did earlier in the season… he's playing Frank against Naa, trying to keep pushing Naa for better performance. It worked the first time and Naa opened up as a real offensive threat with his 3-ball.
Naa's biggest weakness now is his defense. Most PGs we've faced have continually dogged Naa, and I'm not sure why. Naa has speed, including decent lateral speed, but he keeps getting burned off the drive and has resorted to arm bars to slow down his man… which is getting whistled now.
Naa hasn't figured out how to hedge his man and play the driving lanes. He needs to hedge more and get right in his man's underwear out on the key. The refs are starting to call it with a bit more fairness to the defensive player now, and if the ball handler drops his shoulder and the defender helps sell the call, defenders are starting to get the calls again. Naa needs to play with more contact and know how to play it to get calls.
Frank should be his example. Frank is still learning, too, but he doesn't fret the contact, he aggressively seeks it out!
If Naa can figure out his defense, we'll be a much better team because our defense is starting to step up now, but it can't ever be very good without decent defense from our PG.
@wrwlumpy Oh wow…I remember those teams. The Kansas City Kings.
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@globaljaybird With all the joy at winning the OSU game, I forgot that my first thought was that Frank actually made the wrong play…he shouldn't have tried to knock the ball loose…could have been a disaster…but it worked out.
@wrwlumpy-Kool stuff lumpy, thanks for the memories & all you sacrificed too. jaybate 1.0 reminded me that Nate won the title at Boston before he retired. I remembered that Wedman played for the Celtics after KC, as he played at Colorado & I followed BG 8 ball close, but I'd also forgotten about Cousey as well. Some things are a tad more faded than a few years ago-if not for google, I'd be like Hogan's goat without you guys making the clock tick in reverse.
I sure remember taking that flippin Army physical at the old induction building & the s**ty chow across the street at Fred Harvey's in Union Station. Some guys even said they found buckshot in the food & most of us didn't even attempt to eat that krap. Ah yes, those were the days we shared fellas, most definitely not the best, but the worst for sure. The women were young & hot, the beer was frosty & cold, & the damn bullets were real as real could be. Following KU BB was one of the few pleasures I could actually sustain back then without looking over the shoulder.
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@wissoxfan83 Yeah, that color should not be allowed for away uniforms. That green is brighter than white!
@HighEliteMajor Agree on Tharpe shooting. Ridic 3% in conf play. As I have said all along, Tharpe in his own head, sees himself as a scorer & shooter–> and is nothing but a 6ft tall combo guard. After all, that is what Self "likes" when he recruits a kid. Kid gotta be able to score, and Self will teach the rest.
Oh, and the announcers just dont know: Frankamp is not the "best shooter on the team". The best 3 shooter, statistically is Tharpe, I believe. Definitely in BigXII play. His experience shows. It's suddenly not about high school anymore. Its about what a kid can do for KU. Thats the best way he can make himself look good. Do what the team needs.
@approxinfinity
I always thought those uniforms look like glow-in-the- dark rubbers.


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Q: CA2208 when throwing ArgumentOutOfRangeException when using class field as argument I'm throwing an ArgumentOutOfRangeException when validating correct enum values:
internal class MyClass : IMyInterface
{
    private readonly MyEnum _myEnum;

    public MyClass(MyEnum myEnum) => _myEnum = myEnum;

    public String MyString
    {
        get
        {
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                case MyEnum.A:
                    return "A";
                case MyEnum.B:
                    return "B";
                default:
                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("_myEnum");
            }
        }
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}

I'm getting a CA2208 error when building:

CA2208    Method 'MyCLass.MyString.get()' passes '_myEnum' as the 'paramName' argument to a 'ArgumentOutOfRangeException' constructor.
  Replace this argument with one of the method's parameter names. Note
  that the provided parameter name should have the exact casing as
  declared on the method.

I'm not sure why this rule is so restrictive in that the argument has to be one of the method's parameters, and I can't use the class field.
I'm considering suppressing this warning, but I'd rather investigate why this is being called out.
Note: The MyString property is part of IMyInterface and cannot take this enum value as an argument.

A:
I'm not sure why this rule is so restrictive in that the argument has to be one of the method's parameters

That's because whatever you pass in there will be published in the ParamName property of the exception, which is defined as

Gets the name of the parameter that causes this exception.

Now, if whatever is in there is not a parameter name, things can get confusing for whoever processes the exception. In a few cases, the ArgumentException and its ParamName might even be evaluated by means of reflection, which could fail if the parameter name is not found.
If you really want to supply a custom message to ArgumentException, you can use the constructor that accepts a custom message and an exception (and pass null for the exception).
However, as your exception does not indicate an invalid argument, I'd argue ArgumentException is not the right exception to use. You throw an exception because a property of your object has an invalid value - that is, because your object is in an invalid state. The correct exception to throw in this case is InvalidOperationException, which is defined as

The exception that is thrown when a method call is invalid for the object's current state.

(Note that your code being in the getter of a property counts as a "method call".)

As an aside, even if enum value were an argument, ArgumentException may not be the most appropriate choice. There is InvalidEnumArgumentException, which is specifically meant for use with enum values.

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        dialogs: [],
        newDialogs: [],
        icon: 'normal',
        firstRender: true,
        disappearTimer: undefined
      }, options));

      this.addEventListener('div.expander, div.volatile-convo-number', 'click', this.switchState);
    },

    start: function()
    {
      this.node = this.get('console').createNewDialog(this);
      this.node.css({ overflow: 'hidden'});
      this.render();
    },

    render: function()
    {
      this.get('css_loader').load('Consoloid-Ui-Volatile-volatile');
      this._updateResponseTemplate();

      this._renderExpressionAndResponse();
      if (this.firstRender) {
        this._animateDialogShowup();
        this.firstRender = false;
      }
      this._bindEventListeners();

      this.node.addClass('volatile-container');

      if (this.activeState == "closed") {
        this.node.removeClass("opened");
      } else {
        this.node.removeClass("closed");
      }
      this.node.addClass(this.activeState);

      this.__renderVolatileDialogs();

      return this;
    },

    _renderExpressionAndResponse: function()
    {
      this.node.empty().jqoteapp(this.template.get(), this);

      this.response = this.node.find('div.response');
      this.response.empty().jqoteapp(this.responseTemplate.get(), this);
    },

    __renderVolatileDialogs: function()
    {
      if (this.activeState == "closed") {
        if (this.activeVolatileDialog != undefined) {
          this.__renderNewActiveVolatileDialog();
          this.__hideActiveVolatileDialogAfterTimeOut();
          this.__refreshExpanderPulse();
        }
      } else {
        for (var i = 0; i < this.dialogs.length; i++) {
          this.dialogs[i].node.appendTo(this.node.find('.volatile-convos'));
          this.dialogs[i].render();
          this.dialogs[i].node.show();
        }
        if (this.activeVolatileDialog != undefined) {
          this.__renderNewActiveVolatileDialog();
        }
      }
    },

    __renderNewActiveVolatileDialog: function()
    {
      this.node.find('.volatile-convo-number').hide();
      this.activeVolatileDialog.render();
      this.activeVolatileDialog.node.hide();
      this.activeVolatileDialog.node.appendTo(this.node.find('.volatile-convos'));
      this.activeVolatileDialog.node.fadeIn(1000);
    },

    __hideActiveVolatileDialogAfterTimeOut: function()
    {
      var $this = this;
      this.__clearDisappearTimer();
      this.disappearTimer = setTimeout(function() {
        if ($this.activeState == "closed") {
          var previousActiveVolatileDialog = $this.activeVolatileDialog;
          $this.activeVolatileDialog = undefined;
          previousActiveVolatileDialog.node.fadeOut(1000, function() {
            $this.__dialogCounterFadeIn.apply($this,[]);
          });
          $this.disappearTimer = undefined;
        }
      }, 5000);
    },

    __clearDisappearTimer: function()
    {
      if (this.disappearTimer != undefined) {
        clearTimeout(this.disappearTimer);
        this.disappearTimer = undefined;
      }
    },

    __refreshExpanderPulse: function()
    {
      this.__removeExpanderPulse();
      var pulse = '';
      for (var i = 0; i < this.newDialogs.length; i++) {
        if (this.newDialogs[i].getActiveState() == 'error') {
          if (pulse == 'info' || pulse == 'both') {
            pulse = 'both';
          } else {
            pulse = 'error'
          }
        }
        if (this.newDialogs[i].getActiveState() == 'info') {
          if (pulse == 'error' || pulse == 'both') {
            pulse = 'both';
          } else {
            pulse = 'info';
          }
        }
      }
      if (pulse != '') {
        this.node.find('.expander').addClass('pulse-' + pulse);
      }
    },

    __dialogCounterFadeIn: function()
    {
      if (this.activeVolatileDialog == undefined) {
        this.node.find('.volatile-convo-number').text(this.__getDialogCounterText());
        this.node.find('.volatile-convo-number').fadeIn(1000);
      }
    },

    __getDialogCounterText: function()
    {
      if (this.dialogs.length == 1) {
        return this.get('translator').trans("One dialog");
      }

      return this.get('translator').trans("<number> dialogs", {'<number>': this.dialogs.length});
    },

    switchState: function(state)
    {
      if (state != "closed" || state != "opened") {
        if (this.activeState == "closed") {
          state = "opened";
        } else {
          state = "closed";
        }
      }

      this.__base(state);
      this._animateDialogShowup();
      this.newDialogs = [];
      this.__removeExpanderPulse();
    },

    __removeExpanderPulse: function()
    {
      this.node.find('.expander').removeClass('pulse-both');
      this.node.find('.expander').removeClass('pulse-error');
      this.node.find('.expander').removeClass('pulse-info');
      this.icon = 'normal';
    },

    addVolatileDialog: function(dialog)
    {
      this.dialogs.push(dialog);
      if (this.activeState == "closed") {
        this.newDialogs.push(dialog);
      }
      this.activeVolatileDialog = dialog;
      this.render();
    },

    removeVolatileDialog: function(dialog)
    {
      this.newDialogs.splice(this.newDialogs.indexOf(dialog), 1);
      this.dialogs.splice(this.dialogs.indexOf(dialog), 1);
      if (this.activeVolatileDialog == dialog) {
        this.activeVolatileDialog = undefined;
        if (this.activeState == 'closed') {
          this.__clearDisappearTimer();
          this.__dialogCounterFadeIn();
          this.__refreshExpanderPulse();
        }
      }

      if (this.dialogs.length == 0) {
        this.remove();
      }
    }
  }
);

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During a speech at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) slammed President Trump over the White House's environment policies, particularly the decision to roll back regulations on the release of methane gasses.
"When Trump says, in effect, 'We like more methane going into the air,' that is highly destructive, very highly destructive," the California governor said.
Brown, who has cast himself as a champion of environmental issues, vowed that California will get all of its energy from clean sources by 2045 and recently announced the launch of California's own satellite to monitor climate change sources in response to Trump's threatening funding for NASA's program.
President Trump's rollbacks at the Environmental Protection Agency are part of his deregulation agenda.


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package net.minecraft.item;

import java.util.List;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockStandingSign;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockWallSign;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagList;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntityBanner;
import net.minecraft.util.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.util.EnumFacing;
import net.minecraft.util.MathHelper;
import net.minecraft.util.StatCollector;
import net.minecraft.world.World;

public class ItemBanner extends ItemBlock
{
    private static final String __OBFID = "CL_00002181";

    public ItemBanner()
    {
        super(Blocks.standing_banner);
        this.maxStackSize = 16;
        this.setCreativeTab(CreativeTabs.tabDecorations);
        this.setHasSubtypes(true);
        this.setMaxDamage(0);
    }

    /**
     * Called when a Block is right-clicked with this Item
     *
     * @param pos The block being right-clicked
     * @param side The side being right-clicked
     */
    public boolean onItemUse(ItemStack stack, EntityPlayer playerIn, World worldIn, BlockPos pos, EnumFacing side, float hitX, float hitY, float hitZ)
    {
        if (side == EnumFacing.DOWN)
        {
            return false;
        }
        else if (!worldIn.getBlockState(pos).getBlock().getMaterial().isSolid())
        {
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            pos = pos.offset(side);

            if (!playerIn.func_175151_a(pos, side, stack))
            {
                return false;
            }
            else if (!Blocks.standing_banner.canPlaceBlockAt(worldIn, pos))
            {
                return false;
            }
            else if (worldIn.isRemote)
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                if (side == EnumFacing.UP)
                {
                    int var9 = MathHelper.floor_double((double)((playerIn.rotationYaw + 180.0F) * 16.0F / 360.0F) + 0.5D) & 15;
                    worldIn.setBlockState(pos, Blocks.standing_banner.getDefaultState().withProperty(BlockStandingSign.ROTATION_PROP, Integer.valueOf(var9)), 3);
                }
                else
                {
                    worldIn.setBlockState(pos, Blocks.wall_banner.getDefaultState().withProperty(BlockWallSign.field_176412_a, side), 3);
                }

                --stack.stackSize;
                TileEntity var10 = worldIn.getTileEntity(pos);

                if (var10 instanceof TileEntityBanner)
                {
                    ((TileEntityBanner)var10).setItemValues(stack);
                }

                return true;
            }
        }
    }

    public String getItemStackDisplayName(ItemStack stack)
    {
        String var2 = "item.banner.";
        EnumDyeColor var3 = this.func_179225_h(stack);
        var2 = var2 + var3.func_176762_d() + ".name";
        return StatCollector.translateToLocal(var2);
    }

    /**
     * allows items to add custom lines of information to the mouseover description
     *
     * @param tooltip All lines to display in the Item's tooltip. This is a List of Strings.
     * @param advanced Whether the setting "Advanced tooltips" is enabled
     */
    public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, EntityPlayer playerIn, List tooltip, boolean advanced)
    {
        NBTTagCompound var5 = stack.getSubCompound("BlockEntityTag", false);

        if (var5 != null && var5.hasKey("Patterns"))
        {
            NBTTagList var6 = var5.getTagList("Patterns", 10);

            for (int var7 = 0; var7 < var6.tagCount() && var7 < 6; ++var7)
            {
                NBTTagCompound var8 = var6.getCompoundTagAt(var7);
                EnumDyeColor var9 = EnumDyeColor.func_176766_a(var8.getInteger("Color"));
                TileEntityBanner.EnumBannerPattern var10 = TileEntityBanner.EnumBannerPattern.func_177268_a(var8.getString("Pattern"));

                if (var10 != null)
                {
                    tooltip.add(StatCollector.translateToLocal("item.banner." + var10.func_177271_a() + "." + var9.func_176762_d()));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public int getColorFromItemStack(ItemStack stack, int renderPass)
    {
        if (renderPass == 0)
        {
            return 16777215;
        }
        else
        {
            EnumDyeColor var3 = this.func_179225_h(stack);
            return var3.func_176768_e().colorValue;
        }
    }

    /**
     * returns a list of items with the same ID, but different meta (eg: dye returns 16 items)
     *
     * @param subItems The List of sub-items. This is a List of ItemStacks.
     */
    public void getSubItems(Item itemIn, CreativeTabs tab, List subItems)
    {
        EnumDyeColor[] var4 = EnumDyeColor.values();
        int var5 = var4.length;

        for (int var6 = 0; var6 < var5; ++var6)
        {
            EnumDyeColor var7 = var4[var6];
            subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, var7.getDyeColorDamage()));
        }
    }

    /**
     * gets the CreativeTab this item is displayed on
     */
    public CreativeTabs getCreativeTab()
    {
        return CreativeTabs.tabDecorations;
    }

    private EnumDyeColor func_179225_h(ItemStack p_179225_1_)
    {
        NBTTagCompound var2 = p_179225_1_.getSubCompound("BlockEntityTag", false);
        EnumDyeColor var3 = null;

        if (var2 != null && var2.hasKey("Base"))
        {
            var3 = EnumDyeColor.func_176766_a(var2.getInteger("Base"));
        }
        else
        {
            var3 = EnumDyeColor.func_176766_a(p_179225_1_.getMetadata());
        }

        return var3;
    }
}


In order for a Paternity DNA Test, or any DNA test for that matter, to stand up in court there must be a secure 'chain of custody' of the samples in order to ensure that the identity of the individuals providing the samples is known. There are a number of steps involved in this, the first of which is ascertaining the identity of the subjects.
Once the identity of those providing the samples has been determined beyond doubt by an independent third party, the samples will be taken by a nominated doctor (usually the same person as determines the identity). The samples are then sent to the laboratory by the same person that collected the samples along with the identity papers. In this way, no tampering can take place, and the samples are then logged in by an accredited laboratory. The samples are logged through every process in the testing procedure, and assuming that all of this is done the test results can be notarized as acceptable admissible evidence.
In the absence of this procedure, the Legal DNA test results are not recognized in court, and are for your own information only.


1 awl : copper alloy ; 16.9 x 1.9-0.2 cm.
Heavy metal object with a domed head and possibly a flange. The shaft tapers from the head to the broken tip. The object is pierced between 8 cm. and 9 cm. below the head. The bore is clear of debris.
Color: Dark green, brown encrustation.


Hell √ a place where beings that have committed mortal sins during their lifetime are sent. It is a realm where even Soul Reapers are forbidden to interfere. When a group of vicious Sinners plots to escape from this eternal prison, they discover that Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki is the key to their freedom. The Sinners launch an attack and in the process kidnap Ichigo's younger sister Yuzu and take her to Hell. With the help of a mysterious man named Kokuto, Ichigo and his friends must now travel into the depths of Hell to stop the Sinners and save Yuzu, unaware that their actions could bring Hell to the World of the Living.


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George Reeves appeared in many movies during the 40s and 50s. He also appeared in numerous live television dramas in the early 50s and made guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, Masquerade Party, Art Linkletter's House Party, The Tony Bennett Show, and I Love Lucy. Of course he is best know for his role in the Adventures of Superman. This page will feature my favorite scenes from the sources listed above and will change frequently.
"Superman In Exile"
No! It can't be! Your whole body radioactive... forever!
Allen: Project X calling Civil Defense. Project X calling Civil Defense. Come in, Civil Defense.
Allen: You've just heard what the professor said. There may be an explosion at any moment... worse than a hundred atom bombs.
Professor Adams: I'm afraid even you can't stop this terrible thing, but... if you can remove the center rod from this center aperture and insert it in aperture B-74... that's this one... it might just work.
Professor Adams: He's done it. He stopped it!
Allen: Attention Civil Defense. Sound the "all clear." The danger from the nuclear pile has been brought under control.
Superman: But it's new isn't it, and you haven't quite figured on how to handle it, have you?
Prof. Adams: The radiation? No. That's why we started to break up the pile the moment we discovered it. It's too dangerous. Anything contaminated may stay that way forever.
Lois: Clark says he can't come come back. And why can't he... unless... unless he's Superman?
Superman: A counteracting shock of some kind.
Clark: Well, Superman had a hunch that if he exposed himself to the full fury of an electical storm it might neutralize the radiations he'd absorbed. Well it worked!
Lois: Oh it did, ay? And I suppose if Superman isn't radioactive anymore, you aren't either.
Clark: Me? Radioactive? I should say not. See... this is a geiger counter. If I were radiactive this gadget would be clicking away like mad.
Lois: And what are you doing with the geiger counter?
Clark: Oh, Superman asked me to check this plane... for any traces of contamination. Obviously it's perfectly all right. See, no clicks.
Lois: You're just trying to confuse me. But Superman and you. I still wonder.
Clark: Wonder? Well it's no wonder you wonder... you're a pretty wonderful girl!
"Like The Only Real Magic -- The Magic Of Knowledge"


What is milk? How does milk taste? As the granddaughter of a dairy farmer, I have always been curious about milk its taste, texture, consistency, and purpose. Growing up my mother aways drank a glass of warm milk in the evening. Milk/Milk was prompted by the disparate connection between milk from the store and milk from the cow. This project was a one-night event in which visitors were welcome to try two different whole milks for themselves: milk from Kroger and Snowville Creamery.
Growing up on a dairy farm in the 1960's gives me a different love for milk than most people.
All of the 240 acres of land we farmed went to the production of feed for the cows. The only source of income we had was the monthly milk check. The dairy that bought our milk paid someone to come with a refrigerated truck to pick up our milk every other day. They paid us not only on the volume of milk, but on the fat content of the milk. The higher percentage of milk fat meant the cows were provided an excellent balanced diet.
I have always loved drinking milk. On the farm we did NOT pasteurize or homogenize the milk. By doing so, gave it much more flavor. Drinking warm milk right from the cow is delicious, and why to this day, I still drink warm milk almost every day!


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Home Featured News Record First Quarter For Scottish Renewables Generation
Record First Quarter For Scottish Renewables Generation
Scotland's wind farms generated record amounts of power in the first quarter of 2015 according to new data published last week. Statistics also confirmed that Scotland achieved record levels of 'green' energy generation in 2014, with almost half of all electricity used coming from renewables.
Data released by Department of Energy and Climate Change revealed that in Scotland:
In the first three months of 2015, wind generated 4,452 Gigawatt hours (GWh), up 4.3% on the previous record quarter. That's enough electricity to power the equivalent of around 960,000 Scottish households for a year;
49.8% of all electricity used in Scotland during 2014 came from renewables;
Installed renewables electricity capacity rose by 9% during the year to March 2015 to 7,383 Megawatts (MW).
However, Scotland's Energy Minister Fergus Ewing MSP, has warned that the progress Scotland is making on realising its renewables potential face being substantially hampered by the policy of HM Government to remove taxpayer funded support for onshore wind generation.
Mr Ewing said, "These statistics show renewables continue to go from strength to strength, with almost half of Scotland's electricity use coming from renewables last year and wind delivering record amounts of power in the first three months of 2015.
"Scotland accounts for around a third of total UK renewables generation. Given the record amounts of power now coming from wind, and a healthy pipeline of wind projects with consent and in planning, the UK Government's proposals will have a profound and disproportionate impact on Scotland.
"I am pleased Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd has accepted my invitation to come to Scotland this summer to meet with the industry and developers and see the harmful effects this decision will have. Onshore wind is one of the most cost effective renewable energies, yet the UK Government's perverse decision to end support puts this hard work and progress in jeopardy and the Scottish Government will continue to argue against it."
Source: The Scottish Government
Scottish Government Issues Heat Policy Statement
NIA Urges Scots To Make The Most Of Scottish Government Assistance
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Shawn Blauvelt, Homeownership Counselor and Foreclosure Counselor at Keuka Housing Council in Penn Yan, NY, was elected to the HomeSmartNY board of directors on October 21, 2015 at the HomeSmartNY Rochester/Finger Lakes chapter training in Rochester. Mr. Blauvelt will serve as the Rochester/Finger Lakes chapter representative on the board of directors. The HomeSmartNY board of directors is composed of seven chapter representatives, chosen by each of its seven regional chapters across the state, and five at-large delegates.
Mr. Blauvelt succeeds Mary Leo, Director of Homeownership Programs and Program Compliance Officer at the Housing Council at PathStone in Rochester, NY, as Rochester/Finger Lakes chapter representative.
The full board directory can be found at https://homesmartny.org/about-us/board-of-directors/.