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The $45 million O'Connell Center renovation project is moving on to the designing phase.
The University Athletic Association made the decision to move forward with the project, approving $2.75 million Tuesday for designing fees. An architect will be hired shortly and the new design for the O'Connell Center will be drawn up.
"Today, boom, let's go," UF athletic director Jeremy Foley said. "They're going to finalize hiring an architect and then we start designing."
The $2.75 million for designing fees is part of the $103.3 million budget for 2014-15 that was approved by the UAA Board of Directors on Tuesday. The board also approved $1.75 million for designing fees for the renovation and expansion of the Office of Student Life and $450,000 for turf renovations on the football practice field.
Of the three projects, the O'Connell Center is the biggest and will come with an estimated price tag of $45 million, with about $35 million being generated by UAA and another $10 million by the university. Foley said the UAA and UF are on target to meet their funding goal in the next few weeks, but still need to raise about $15 million more, he said, before construction begins.
The complete renovation of the O'Connell Center is set to begin at the conclusion of the 2014-15 basketball season and be complete by Jan. 1, 2016.
"You walk in there, it's going to be a brand new building," Foley said. "The outside will remain in place. But we're going to seriously gut the place — new (chairback) seating, new restrooms, concessions, a concourse, new scoreboard, new entranceways.
"That's what you hire an architect for, to let them determine all the things that you can do. To me, it's not a Band-Aid approach. It's a building that can be renovated and will last us for another 30-40 years."
The O'Connell Center opened in 1980 and has served as the home for the men's and women's basketball teams, the volleyball team, the gymnastics team, the indoor track teams and the swimming teams and has played host to numerous other events, including graduation.
"The O'Connell Center is a project that is a university building and we appreciate the UAA taking the lead in fundraising to make that happen," UF president Bernie Machen said. "The building opened in 1980 and it's tired and it needs to be upgraded.
"We definitely want to remain where we are in the center of our campus and in the center of our student life. So, we never entertained anything other than renovating this wonderful structure and making it better."
With construction set to begin in March of 2015 and expected to take 10 months, coach Billy Donovan's basketball team is going to have to play its fall schedule in 2015 at various neutral sites around the state, including Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville, three cities where the Gators have played in the past.
"We'll start figuring that out," Foley said. "The basketball schedule for 2015-16 is being worked on as we speak. At some point, now that we know (the renovation is going forward), (associate athletic director) Mike Hill will sit down with Billy and say, 'This is what we need to do.'
"We've received a lot of interest from different cities from around the state. We'll piece it together. The conversation will start now and be finalized over the next seven to eight months."
As the for renovations to the Office of Student Life, Foley said an architect could be hired sometime in July and the project could be complete 18 months after that.
Foley said the new Office of Student Life could be a "game-changer" for UF athletics.
"As you go forward in the recruiting process, the academic component is bigger and bigger and bigger," Foley said. "The type of athletes we're recruiting, they want to know who they're playing for, they want to know what position they're going to play and they want to know how they're going to get educated. Parents want that, too.
"We've done a good job of that, but you're trying to keep that competitive edge. Nothing, to me, gives a better competitive edge than showing people, you come to Florida, look at their commitment to academics. Look at the type of academic institution it is, look at the type of degree you're going to get. Look how they care.
"You get really good students who are really good athletes, you've got a chance to be really successful. We've had that, but that building was built when I first became A.D. You're talking 20 years old now."
In other news coming out of the board of directors meeting:
*UAA will donate $3.5 million to UF from its revenues, a drop of $500,000 from last year. That's $79.5 million the total returned to the school since 1990.
*Foley said season tickets for football are selling well. "They're good, keeping pace to what they were a year ago. Gator fans are amazingly consistent. Their loyalty has been that way for as long as I've been here. Our loyal fan base … they're not wavering at all," Foley said. According to the 2014-15 budget, football ticket sales will generate about $22.5 million in revenue, while basketball ticket sales will generate $2.5 million.
*Foley said UF is close to hiring a men's golf coach to replace Buddy Alexander, who resigned at the end of this past season. Foley said associate athletic director Mike Spiegler has already interviewed four candidates and will interview two more. "(Alexander) left some big shoes to fill. We're in the process of trying to fill those shoes," Foley said. "We're going to have a great choice. There's a lot of interest, as you can imagine. We hope to have a decision by this weekend or Monday at the latest."
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Getting To Know Casey ColemanOctober 2, 2010
Casey Coleman wasn't even on the Cubs radar in April.
Now he's a candidate to make the 2011 starting rotation.
That's a huge improvement from his humble beginning this August,
when the Cubs summoned Coleman from Triple-A Iowa.
In his first four relief outings with Chicago he posted an 8.64 ERA.
But a transition to the rotation sparked the 23-year-old.
Coleman is (3-0) with a 2.25 ERA through his last three starts, including seven scoreless innings in Friday's 2-0 win against Houston.
He's kept the ball down, limited his pitch count, and has pitched six or more innings in his last seven starts, seemingly improving each outing.
Although Coleman is basically an unknown, his success isn't all that surprising.
Last year he earned the Cubs Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award.
This year he posted a (10-7) record at Iowa, including two complete games, and was riding a four-game win streak before his call-up.
It's time to get familiar with Casey Coleman. The kid can pitch, and there's little doubt Coleman won't be on the radar next spring.

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The settlements mean that the preliminary injunction granted by a Federal judge last November, which halted sales of the Emachines eOne on the grounds that it too closely resembled the industrial design of Apple's iMac, may be a taste of the future.
Apple's focus in these suites has been on violations of their "trade dress" -- essentially, seeking copyright which covers the appearance and design of a product rather than its functional aspect. The CNET article points out that "[h]istorically, the courts have not extended trademark protection to a product's design, but more recently, some have begun to grant trademark protection to 'stylized' items on the grounds that novel industrial design can communicate a distinctive idea or image."
Often, however, manufacturers file design patents as well, especially for products with new or unique industrial design. Given Apple's emphasis on ergonomics, color and ease of use, which concretize the abstract results of years of experimentation and testing, it seems likely that design patents will play an expanding role in the protection of their designs. But by no means will Apple be the only company fighting to establish brand identity with distinctive shapes and colors, and taking on imitators in court over trade dress or design patent violations.
dublin (the person who submitted this article) notes, "This could be ugly, because unlike regular patents (which can be readily challenged on the following grounds), design patents have no requirement for either 'utility' or 'non-obviousness to one reasonably schooled in the art.'" Can challenging or affirming a design patent, especially in the moving-target world of personal computers, be anything other than heavily subjective?
Even if the original decision was jutified, (no one is arguing that either the eOne or the Daewoo machines are based on anything other than the shape and color-appeal of the iMac), does this place us on a slippery slope? As dublin puts it, "Does Apple now have universal first dibs on anything wrapped in clear and aqua plastic? (If yes, then how about lime or the dreaded tangerine?)"


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Behind the Window: The latest behind-the-scenes style blog comes out swinging with an insider analysis of Paul Stuart's latest bloggy moves. [The Coe Journal]
Mickey Returns: Mickey Rourke gives a touching tribute to Brad Renfro, without going so far as to remember Brad Renfro's name. [GQ]
O Snap: The world's most expensive photograph sold for $4.3 million at Christie's last night. Strangely, there is no nudity. [The Atlantic Wire]
The Boxer: George Foreman opens up about our most recent Icon, Joe Frazier. [Deadspin]


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David Akers - Dr. & Mrs. Steven L. Duckor Collection - Heritage 1/2012:4619, $63,250
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David Akers (1975/88): The 1913 is scarce, but hardly rare, in the low Mint State grades. In other words, a heavily bagmarked Mint State specimen is not very hard to find, but even at the MS-63 level the 1913 is decidedly rare. Above the choice level, however, the 1913 becomes one of the rarest issues of the series. One can find a gem 1931 or 1932, or even a 1927-S, 1930-S or 1931-D, more easily than one can find a gem 1913. Some prominent specialists in this field indicate that they have never seen a 1913 they would grade MS-65. I have seen several that I consider gems but it is possible that the few top quality specimens of this issue are downgraded by others due to their generally sub-standard overall appearance. As for finding something distinctly better than MS-65, forget it! I have never seen or even heard a rumor or "tall tale" about such a coin.
The 1913 is much less sharply struck than the 912 as a rule and many, if not most, have the "flat" look of the No Motto issues of 1907 and 1908. Lustre is also typically below average for the series, and the surfaces have a "soft" frosty texture, often with a noticeable granularity and metal flow. Color seems to be fairly uniform on this issue, a medium to rich greenish gold. Even in high grade, the 1913 certainly does not rank with the better looking issues of this type.
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WEST CHICAGO – In response to continued thefts of storm sewer grates in West Chicago, police are asking residents to report any suspicious activity they witness near the grates, according to a city news release.
A black, late-1990s/early-2000s Ford F-150 pick-up truck with extended cab and a distinctive 12- to 18-inch blue stripe along the lower trim has been seen in the vicinity during the time of the thefts, the release states.
Residents should call 911 to report suspicious activity or any missing sewer grates. Anyone with information about the thefts may contact the West Chicago Police Department at 630-293-2222 or DuPage Crime Stoppers.
The DuPage County Crime Stoppers are offering as much as $1,000 in a reward for the arrest of the offender(s) responsible for the thefts. Report a tip by calling 1-800-222-8477, texting keyword "DuPage" and a tip to CRIMES (274637)
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Rhodes has been outstanding as a Red. Simply outstanding.
Despite being 40 years old he can still pitch.
This years line: 10.2 IP 3 hits 2BB/12K 1 ER
He is a free agent after this year. If he continues to pitch well I'd like him back for 2011. Obviously if we wait until the offseason he'll hit the open market.
Should Walt try to extend him now?
Wait until later in the year?
Wait until the offseason?
How much will it take for 2011?
What if he wants another 2 years deal?


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ATLANTA--Playing its final Colonial Athletic Association game, Georgia State fell to CAA regular-season champion Northeastern, 90-84, in overtime Wednesday at the GSU Sports Arena.
Manny Atkins equaled his career high with 26 points and Devonta White scored 24, including his 1000th career point, for the Panthers, who will move to the Sun Belt Conference next season. GSU finished the regular-season at 15-16, just missing a second straight winning season under head coach Ron Hunter.
Northeastern, which had already clinched a share of first place in the CAA and the top seed in the conference tournament, was a perfect 27-for-27 at the free throw line and got a career-high 29 points from Joel Smith, including the clinching three-pointer with 22.5 seconds left in overtime. David Walker added 16 points as the Huskies improved to 19-10 overall, 14-4 in the CAA.
"I am so proud of these guys," commented head coach Ron Hunter after the game. "Our guys could have given up at any point this season and they never did. They gave me every ounce of energy, determination and grit that they had. As a coach that is all I can ask."
Senior James Vincent, playing in his final game in a Panther uniform, scored eight points and pulled down three rebounds in 28 minutes. He finished his career with 117 games played, sixth most in school history. His 132 career blocked shots stand second in school history.
"I am really proud of James and wish we could have sent him out with a win," continued Hunter. "He played his heart out to the end and I am extremely proud of him for that."
In a back-and-forth second half, Atkins' three-pointer put GSU ahead 70-66 with 2:55 left, but Zach Stahl completed consecutive three-point plays for Northeastern, the second one giving the Huskies a 72-70 lead with 1:35 to play.
White answered with a driving layup to tie the game at 72 but missed the ensuing free throw that would have given GSU the lead. After both teams missed shots, Northeastern had the ball with the clock running down in regulation. Walker tried a three-pointer with about five seconds left that was blocked by R.J. Hunter, and Smith grabbed the loose ball and missed another three-point try. After a scramble for the rebound, the ball went out of bounds to GSU on the side with two seconds left, but Hunter missed a desperation three at the buzzer to force the extra session.
Northeastern scored the first five points of the overtime and held off the Panthers, who pulled within 83-82 on White's jumper with 56 seconds left, but Smith delivered the knockout punch with his trey from the corner with 23 seconds left.
With his first basket of the night, Hunter eclipsed the Georgia State freshman scoring record of 515 points, set by Matt O'Brien in 1989-90. He finished with 13 points to raise his season total to 527.
White, the junior from Alpharetta, Ga., became the 17th 1000-point scorer in Georgia State history.
Georgia State led by as many as 13 points in the first half before Northeastern finished the half with three-pointers by Walker and Smith to pull within 37-30 at the break. The Panthers maintained their lead for the first five minutes of the second half until Northeastern tied game at 43-43 on layup by Reggie Spencer with 14:34 left. From there, neither team led by more than five points until the final seconds.
Freshman Markus Crider came off the bench to score six points and pull down six rebounds for the Panthers.
Zach Stahl finished with 12 points and seven rebounds off the bench for the Huskies, while Jonathan Lee and Quincy Ford each chipped in with 11 points.


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Big East M5: 11.16.12 EditionPosted by Dan Lyons on November 16th, 2012
- ESPNU's National Signing Day Special airs tonight, and features two top-30 players who may select Big East schools. Four-star center Kennedy Meeks will reportedly decide between Georgetown and North Carolina. Meeks is a big-bodied post player who should be able to dominate the glass at the next level. Four-star Tyler Roberson will choose between Syracuse, Villanova, and Kansas. Roberson would fit well in both Jim Boeheim's and Jay Wright's up-tempo systems. He has range out to the NBA three-point line, and his coach Dave Boff from Roselle Catholic in New Jersey calls him the best rebounder in the state.
- Following a big win in Germany over Michigan State, UConn fans are pretty excited about their prospects this season, with a pair of student writers debating the possibility of the Huskies claiming the one title they can win this year – a Big East regular season crown. While the Huskies are certainly a talented team, they lack the depth and experience of the top-tier Big East teams, and the grind of the conference season does not bode well for teams in that situation. Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright are both talented scorers, but neither is a tremendously efficient player, and if one has a really off night it will be interesting to see what other players are capable of picking up the slack. The Huskies are talented, but choosing them to win the Big East is an aggressive prediction.
- In other news about a wiser monetary investment in Connecticut basketball, interim coach Kevin Ollie further demonstrated his loyalty to the program with a $100,000 donation to the new UConn Basketball Developmental Center. Combined with his big first win over Tom Izzo and the blessing of his mentor Jim Calhoun, Ollie seems to be doing all the right things in order to have his coaching contract extended at UConn. He really needs to just focus on his team improving every day in practice so that they can compete in every game where they lace them up.
- One of the major themes of this early season seems to be the growth of many big players in the conference. Yesterday's M5 touched on the evolution of Eric Atkins, and today we learn about Louisville's Russ Smith's own maturity as a player. Smith spent last year as a sparkplug off the bench for the Cardinals, and while he had a penchant for the big play, his usage rate was incredibly high and he was prone to big mistakes as well. Going into this year, Rick Pitino tasked Russ with improving his consistency and becoming a more reliable basketball player. Eamonn Brennan's ESPN article also delves into the etymology of Smith's nickname "Russdiculous." I'm not sure if it'll ever catch on outside of Louisville, but if it's good enough for one of Pitino's horses, it's good enough for me.
- This early signing period has been a joyous occasion for Marquette, as the school looks to bring in one of the best classes in school history. The Golden Eagles, who in the past have built the program on the backs of underrated players and junior college prospects from all over the nation, focused on higher-rated high school talent this time around, and were able to keep a few Milwaukee-area stars at home. Scout has Marquette's 2013 class ranked seventh in the nation, with four top-100 players committed to Buzz Williams. If this class can pan out for the school, we may see the Golden Eagles' ascendance from conference contender to top-flight program.


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#1 Camera-Ready Victims01-16-2009, 02:36 PM
Mona Charen puts the outrage over palestnian (gazans) deaths in perspective of other downtrodden peoples.
Read the whole article here
They are estimating that as many as 1,000 Gazans (unverified) may have been killed and many more wounded by Israel's counterattack against Hamas' missiles that have rained down on southern Israel's schools, homes, and businesses for several years.
Every innocent human life lost is a tragedy and a horror. But to watch the news in Brussels or Boston and certainly in Islamabad or Caracas, you will get the distorted impression that the Palestinian plight is the worst on earth -- an impression that is reinforced almost daily by the United Nations.
Since the start of 2007, 16,000 civilians have been killed in fighting. Not in Gaza, so you may have missed it. It was in Somalia, where an Islamist movement is fighting Ethiopian troops. This is the 18th year of civil strife in that country.
In Sri Lanka, some 70,000 people have perished in a civil war that has flared on and off since 1983. The regime in Myanmar (formerly Burma) has killed thousands and forced an estimated 800,000 into involuntary servitude.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 45,000 people are dying every month. Nearly 5 and a half million have died since 1998 in a conflict that grew out of the violence in Rwanda and spread. Half of those deaths were of children under the age of 5, according to the International Rescue Committee. The violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused more human devastation than any conflict since World War II.
In Darfur, Sudan, more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million made homeless by violence.
To cite these sad data is not to suggest that suffering is tolerable in any particular case -- but merely to observe that the world is strangely blinkered in the tragedies to which it responds
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Am I the only one who thinks this is rather appalling? I mean, these are beautiful, ancient relics, now completely defaced.
I agree COMPLETELY. The beautiful aesthetics of those LEGOs, ruined by those hideous stones.
No, it looks like crap. I love legos [...]
Please - learn how to spell. loose != lose.
Speaking of your sig, it's LEGO, not legos. You can have a LEGO set or box, a single LEGO brick, or just a whole mess of LEGO. The capitalization ultimately doesn't matter and you can call it Lego or lego if you like. However, calling it "legos" is just wrong. That's about as ridiculous as "I love reading slashdots".
its a wall. just about every wall in all of europe is some kind of ancient relic.
I glowed with self-righteous self-satisfaction when Steven Spielberg digitally replaced the guns in the hands of the FBI agents in ET - The Extra-Terrestrial with walkie talkies.
Now all we've left to do is edit all smoking out of movies and make it look like Greedo shot first. Then the world will be perfect.
(This was sarcasm. Cold ironic sarcasm.)
If this were an "official fix", then yes I'd agree with you.
But it's just some jackass artist trying to get noticed. And he got himself in the Telegraph. Mission Accomplished.
It even says in the article that they aren't glued in and are utterly temporary. Relax.
It seems more like a publicity stunt or possibly awareness effort than anything official. Besides, there's no way that legos or duplos have the necessary characteristics for an official fix.
Am I the only one who thinks this is rather appalling? I mean, these are beautiful, ancient relics, now completely defaced.
Better than a pile of rubble.
Am I the only one who thinks this is rather appalling? I mean, these are beautiful, ancient relics, now completely defaced.
Exactly! Lego should never be mixed with Duplo. It's a travesty!
Originally the bigger blocks were called LEGO as well. (About 30 years ago)
I called them 'Big LEGOs'...
And the fact that the guy is surprised that they are compatible with the little ones proves that he didn't have a real childhood.
Everybody knows that.
It did say it was temporary. Beautiful ancient relics is also disputable. TFA doesn't say that, these aren't ancient roman walls crumbling. Actually kind of looks like walls about a hundred years old in alleys that no one gives a crap about.
And given that apperantly every fucking teen in Europe must at some point spray paint his or her name across some public fixture, putting legos next to a crumbling wall is not bad.
It is definitely not AS common.
Are you telling me every teenager in Europe spray paints?
I'm morbidly offended; I use a paint roller.
Go to Italy. There are tons of ruins and ancient walls Bocchignano being fairly minor. When you goto important places like rome and venice you'll notice that most of it is graffitied. Some wall being legoed is the least of italy's problems when the Colosseum is being defaced regularly.
They're crumbling walls and the Lego pieces are temoprary. What's the problem? Not every old wall is an ancient relic... some are just old walls.
It's just a wall and the article never says anything about the antiquity of the wall. Nor do they look terribly beautiful. Did you look at the pictures? They look just like all the other stone walls found everywhere else.
Anyways, it's just a publicity stunt by some artist. I don't think the bricks are going to stay there long.
This isn't actually related to what this guy did, but real restorations often are purposefully "ugly" so that you can tell the difference between the original material, and the restoration. This is to preserve the historical record.
It is ghastly looking but the key is that they appear to be filling the hole and keeping the other stones from falling out of place. And more importantly, it's completely undo-able, which is an important value in any kind of preservation/restoration work dealing with relics.
With this ugly patch, its obvious what is old and new and it can be undone by just plucking them out.
Hopefully it's just a stop-gap with more significant repairs to follow that will be more aesthetically pleasing.
Personally I like it. It's something a bit interesting to look at and it's not like it's permanent.
I think people from the Americas need to realise that we're surrounded by this kind of thing here in Europe. I mean my uni accommodation in my first year was 14th or 15th century (we never found out which in the end), so was at least three hundred years older than the US itself.
It's not like they couldn't be easily removed; the article states that they're not even glued in.
Besides, the Beautiful Ancient Relic is just yesteryear's wall.
although some look suspiciously like Duplo bricks to me.
Guess who makes Duplo bricks [lego.com]
I find this almost beautiful, more captivating than the original wall. Though if it wasn't there to support the wall, I wouldn't like it.
Then it would just be like grafitti, art is relative... changing someone elses property's appearence is not acceptable.
Any artists want to come work on my basement foundation?
Doubt labor is a whole less but i bet the legos cost a far bit more than new mortar
I mean, think of it this way: let's say your house showed some signs of water damage, or maybe (minor) cracks after an earthquake. And I c
These are walls, not pieces of art...
Though if it wasn't there to support the wall, I wouldn't like it.
Are we supposed to take seriously the artist's opinon on whether this is a structural repair? I doubt that the bricks provide anything more than color.
I think it looks neat; reminiscent (to me) of those walls with shards of heavy wine bottles stucco'ed into the top as a makeshift intrusion deterrent. Europe is full of a mix of majestic architecture and ugly-hacks-through-the-ages, reflecting the materials and skillsets available at the time.
Oh well, at least they can be easily removed.
No shit Sherlock?
Actually this is what I think he means:
But as it turned out, the [Duplo Blocks]...were compatible with the [lego blocks]...and the [whole thing]...held itself in place without any glue whatsoever."
I didn't think they were compatible until my younger brother started playing with duplo blocks and started playing around with them. Granted, this is when I was around 10, but without my sibling's interest I wouldn't have figured it out.
Just wait until the time comes for further repairs and he tries to take the "glueless" legos apart...
It's like the scene has been created on the holodeck but a few holoemitters are broken
How do you know that isn't what actually happened?
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I was late for work the other day and couldn't find my car keys. I was frantic because I had been written up recently for too many unexcused latenesses and feared I might lose my job. Being an atheist I wasn't about to pray for help but like I said I was desperate. Finally when at my wits end the words involuntarily came from my lips: "Please god help me find my keys". You know what happened next, absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch. I never did find those fucking keys. I had to take a cab to work and I was right, they fired my ass.


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Thursday, 10 March 2011 16:32
PBS NewsHour
JIM LEHRER: And to a U.S. House hearing that's sparked a national debate.
Margaret Warner has our story.
MARGARET WARNER: The line outside the Homeland Security Committee room stretched down the halls, a sign of the intense interest today's hearing generated from the moment it was announced.
REP. PETER KING (R-NY), Homeland Security Committee Chairman: The Committee on Homeland Security...
MARGARET WARNER: Right at the start, committee Chairman New York Republican Peter King rejected criticism of the focus on one religious group.
REP. PETER KING: Let me make it clear today that I remain convinced that these hearings must go forward -- and they will. To back down would be a craven surrender to political correctness and an abdication of what I believe to be the main responsibility of this committee to protect America from a terrorist attack.
MARGARET WARNER: King pointed to a spate of homegrown terror cases in recent years in which American Muslims have been accused: last year's attempted bombing in Times Square; the failed plot to attack the New York City subway system in 2009; and the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings that killed 13.
Indeed, this past weekend, Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough echoed what others in the administration have said, that al-Qaida is actively trying to recruit U.S. citizens.
DENIS MCDONOUGH, U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser: They make videos, create Internet forums, even publish online magazines, all for the express purpose of trying to convince Muslim-Americans to reject their country and attack fellow Americans.
MARGARET WARNER: But appearing as a witness, Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, himself a Muslim, objected to the premise of the hearing, saying it was tarring Muslims with a broad brush.
He told of a man who rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 to save others, but was, for a time, a suspect himself.
REP. KEITH ELLISON (D), Minnesota: Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a fellow American who gave his life for other Americans. His life should not be identified as just a member of an ethic group or just a member of a religion, but as an American who gave everything for his fellow Americans.
MARGARET WARNER: Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, agreed, but said the Muslim community needs to acknowledge there's a significant problem with radicalization.
ZUHDI JASSER, American Islamic Forum For Democracy: You know, listen, I'm Muslim and I realize that it's my problem, and I need to fix it. And that's what I'm trying to do.
So we can close our eyes and pretend it doesn't exist. We can call everybody a bigot or Islamophobic to even talk about it. But you're not going to solve the problem, and the problem is increasing exponentially.
MARGARET WARNER: The main panel also included two fathers whose sons were recruited by radical groups. Melvin Bledsoe's son Carlos has been charged with killing an Army private outside an Arkansas recruiting station. He warned, other Muslim-American young people are at risk.
MELVIN BLEDSOE, Father of Carlos Bledsoe: This is a big elephant in the room. Our society continues not to see it. This wrong called political correctness, you can even call it political fear, fear of stepping on special minority population toe, even as a segment of that population wants to stamp out America and everything we stand for.
I must say that we -- I must say that we are losing American babies. Our children are in danger.
MARGARET WARNER: Still, much of the members' comments focused not on what turns young people into radicals, but on whether even holding such a hearing was appropriate.
REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D), Texas: But, you see, it already has been tainted, this hearing. There are no loud signs of reasoning that are coming through this hearing. The reason is because it has already been classified as an effort to demonize and to castigate a whole broad base of human beings.
I cannot stand for that.
REP. PAUL BROUN (R), Georgia: The focus of this hearing today is not the Islamic religion. It's Islamicists. It's the radical jihadists. It's the radicalization of our youth, as Mr. Bledsoe and Mr. Bihi have talked about.
And I think it's absolutely critical that we as a nation focus upon doing exactly what I was taught in the United States Marine Corps, to know your enemy.
MARGARET WARNER: For his part, Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca told the committee that, from what he sees, Muslim-Americans are concerned and willing to cooperate with law enforcement.
LEROY BACA, Los Angeles County Sheriff: The truth is that Muslims are just as independent, just as feisty, just as concerned about safety. They certainly don't want their homes or their mosques blown up. And thereby, as individuals, they have been doing things with local law enforcement without the cover, so to speak, of an organization.
MARGARET WARNER: The hearing adjourned after four hours, but Chairman King has said he plans to hold additional sessions in the future.
For two different perspectives from congressmen involved in today's hearing, we're joined now by Republican Michael McCaul of Texas -- he's a member of the Homeland Security Committee -- and Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress. He served as a witness today, as we just saw.
Welcome to you both.
Congressman Ellison, even before this hearing began, you branded the whole premise of it as McCarthyistic. After taking part today, is that what it felt like to you?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, I would still challenge the basic premise of the hearing.
I think that when you look at a serious, societally-wide program like violent extremism, but then to associate it with only one religious community or one racial group or one ethnicity, I think that that is the very heart of scapegoating.
And I think that we -- our history with scapegoating has never been good. Japanese internment comes to mind. But I do think there is a way, or could have been a way to have a hearing like this that could have been effective.
And that would start with having a lot of witnesses who had real law enforcement experience, who offered some understanding from a scientific standpoint on something we could build policy on.
I want to say that the individuals who testified at the hearing, except for Sheriff Baca, are people who I do sympathize with. And I think that it's important for us to acknowledge their pain and what they went through.
But we need information that we can build policy around. And heartfelt anecdotes, unfortunately, though interesting and important, simply are not what we need to build policy. After all, we're Congress. We make the laws. And we should have some good, solid law enforcement expertise in order to achieve this task.
MARGARET WARNER: Congressman McCaul, how did it feel -- feel to you? Did you learn anything from today's hearing about the extent or causes of radicalization among young Muslims?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R), Texas: I did.
I think, first of all, this is an important dialogue, I think, for the nation to have. As Mr. Bledsoe said, whose son was radicalized, it is the pink elephant in the room. And I think we should be talking about it.
I was -- and let me say, also, that the committee is not targeting the Muslim community. And I respect Congressman Ellison a great deal. It's al-Qaida that is targeting our Muslim youth in this country and attempting to radicalize them. And I think that's what we were trying to point out, were the 27 terror plots over the last two years involving radical extremism that we need to be paying close attention to as the next generation of terrorists.
And so I thought that the father and the uncle's testimony was very emotional and very persuasive in terms of these two mosques that, unfortunately, perverted the Muslim faith, took them in the wrong direction, essentially held them hostage. And -- and they ended up in Somalia and Yemen.
One was shot in the head in Somalia, and the other one returned from Yemen to kill two U.S. soldiers. And the father and uncle were very passionate about the fact that their children changed, and they couldn't do anything about it. And I think that's the important point here.
MARGARET WARNER: Congressman Ellison, do you agree that there -- do you see it as a significant problem in the Muslim-American community that needs to be addressed?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, one of the points I made in my own testimony is that I voted in favor of Jane Harman's bill to study violent extremism. The Harman bill didn't single out one religion.
But -- so, of course, I see it as a very serious problem. Look, Faisal Shahzad did try to blow up fellow Americans in Times Square. So did Najibullah Zazi try to harm Americans, as well as Nidal Hasan did kill members of our society.
So, look, obviously it's a serious problem. But so is Jared Loughner a problem. So is Timothy McVeigh a problem. So are the people who killed citizens at Virginia Tech and Columbine and so many other places a problem.
When a citizen goes from being law-abiding to being willing to kill for ideology or religion or some set of ideas, this is something we must pay close attention to. And, in my opinion, we don't know nearly enough about it. So, in my opinion, obviously, this is a very important topic. I'm focused on it. I have spoken on it. I have written on it. And I continue -- and I will continue to be engaged.
MARGARET WARNER: So, what did you both hear -- and I will begin with you, Congressman McCaul -- about why it is occurring in this community and what more could be done that would be more effective in countering it?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, in a lot of these cases, whether it's Major Hasan, as Congressman Ellison mentioned, a lot of the common threads here are the cleric in Yemen Awlaki. He has had a lot of communications.
He had it with Hasan before he killed the 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, north of my district, and many others. And then there is a radicalization taking place, whether it's through e-mails or over the Internet with these jihadist Web sites, which the attorney general and Secretary Napolitano have agreed is an imminent danger to the United States.
And, so, I think what we need to do is to get a better grasp on who are the bad apples in our society that we can focus on. I think where the congressman and I would agree is, that's going to come through not ostracizing the Muslim community, but rather bringing them in.
I worked in the Justice Department, and the outreach here is critically important, that we work with the Muslim community as a partner, not in opposition to them, to work together to identify the problem areas.
MARGARET WARNER: Congressman Ellison?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Yes, I do agree. I think that Mike is right about that.
In my own city of Minneapolis, we have seen law enforcement officials reaching out to the Muslim community, particularly the Somali community, and we have seen people try to build trust, so that folks will come forward and they will talk about what needs to be talked about to protect our community.
Here's the reality. We need to establish a level of trust, so that the community feels that the criminals are the target, not the community. That was one of the unfortunate aspects of the way this hearing was framed.
But I tell you this. I do think that building trust is critically important. Being on the Web sites, making sure we know what the Internet traffic is, is important. And I also think it's critically important to really, in the Muslim context, to attack the ideology that people like Anwar al-Awlaki use.
And I think that the Muslim community can be very helpful in refuting what they claim the Koran and Islamic doctrine say about these issues.
MARGARET WARNER: All right, and that takes us right to the last -- to my last question -- we don't have a lot of time -- but that Congressman King had raised, and he said again yesterday, that, from law enforcement people he talks to, there isn't enough cooperation from the Muslim-American community.
The sheriff today seemed to suggest otherwise. Where did today's hearing leave that question in your mind, fairly briefly, if you can?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: I think the answer is, we have a lot of work to do. There are some groups that we pointed out today who tell the Muslim community, you know, lock your doors, don't talk to the FBI. And I think that's the wrong approach.
This should be a mutual partnership. I have always said -- and we were -- I have always said the moderate Muslim is the most effective weapon against the radical extremists. And I think we need to partner with the moderate Muslim, whether it be in this country or overseas in our efforts as well to defeat the terrorists.
And so -- and I think Pete King talked a little bit about political correctness. And I think, as Mr. Bledsoe mentioned, the pink elephant in the room, I think we have to look at this in a colorblind way, that there is a problem here and an issue we have got to deal with.
MARGARET WARNER: Let me get -- and, Congressman Ellison, briefly on that point, law enforcement.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, let me just say that -- let me just say this.
The whole point about the political correctness, I don't feel is a valid point. I often fear that people throw political correctness out because they want to stereotype, but they don't want to be accused of stereotyping. I don't think there's any danger of political correctness here.
But what I also want to say, though, is, when it comes to the issue of law enforcement, at the end of the day, the Muslim community has been amazingly engaged and helpful. A number of the studies that came out show that upwards of 40 percent of the reported tips come from the Muslim community.
The Muslim community has been instrumental in thwarting efforts committing terrorist acts. I don't think we should confuse cooperation with law enforcement and abdication of people's, Americans' basic civil rights. That include people's right to seek counsel if they're going to be talked to directly and they're the target of an investigation.
That's something I don't think we should ask any American to give up, but, absolutely, cooperation is essential.
MARGARET WARNER: All right, Congressman Ellison, Congressman McCaul, thank you both.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Thank you.
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ruffles on a dude... whaaaat!?
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Grand Rapids , M...
well… I think Its well know that i love to make cardigans….So I thought that I should mix it up and get as creative as I could with one… Kinda looks like a straight jacket haha but i think in a good way im happy with it, its fun to wear
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My standard sheer fabric that i love oohh so much and have in every color
my cherished cardigan pattern
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Feb 7, 2012, 09.28 AMby buddingnaturalist
Love it, love it, love it! Very Aeon Flux. Do you have a pair of pointy white shoes to go with it?
Jan 26, 2010, 12.26 PMby nenasew
This is an awesome jacket. Love love it. I didnt get a feeling of straight jacket at all. It looks to me a bit futuristic but a near near future.
Sep 4, 2009, 12.45 AMby marloncosta
Dude! Amazing job!!! I might be a copycat and make one for myself! Congratulations!
Jul 16, 2009, 12.26 PMby ailuja
aaa! absolutely love it!
Jul 1, 2009, 08.40 PMby bereingold
very nice. i love sheer cardigans and this has a great edge
May 31, 2009, 08.56 PMby pinkfashion
Love the pleated details … show off is what you are lol
Apr 6, 2009, 12.59 PMby pinupglamour
I love this!!!! It is a very masculine way for a guy to wear ruffles!!!!
Mar 22, 2009, 09.03 PMby miraball
I really like that you are game enough to use a sheer fabric, because you have most definately pulled it off. If only I could get my boyfriend to wear something like this, sigh…
Mar 5, 2009, 12.19 AMby myk
Wow, I love the pleating done on this piece! If you say it looks like a straight jacket, then everyone in the loony bin is a fashionable mental case :) It's adorable and very well-made.
Feb 27, 2009, 08.33 PMby hamble
Hmmm… I have been perusing your amazing cardigans, and I have to say I love this one the best! So cool! Keep experimenting, keep the cardy alive! Love it. You may have listed yrself as novice, but you are no novice when it comes to cardys!
Feb 27, 2009, 12.25 PMby rbsmom
Well Done! innovative and fits great.
Feb 26, 2009, 02.46 PMby effervescenceIn my vocabulary we call them pleats!! But you're forgiven cause I'm a big fan!!! you did as usual a great job!!!
Feb 26, 2009, 08.07 AMby dressdummy
Oh, this would be another hot seller! Love it!
Feb 26, 2009, 07.10 AMby teaandcake
It totally works, it looks like it would keep you cosy and it's a really clever detail to add to a plain fabric. I like it.
Feb 26, 2009, 06.01 AMby anajan
Dude, those are not ruffles, but pleats :). Looks great.
Feb 26, 2009, 03.55 AMby clairelovestosew
This. Jacket. Totally. Rocks. :)
Feb 26, 2009, 01.47 AMby susisonne
Looks great with the pleats!
Feb 26, 2009, 01.30 AMby officebusybody
The pleats are a great idea – looks good!
Feb 25, 2009, 09.03 PMby lunatepetal
love the detail on this one!
Feb 25, 2009, 08.00 PMby alemess
awesome – I love the horizontal pleats! fits great too. nice work!
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Looks great – very fashion forward!
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Submission + - Researcher controls colleague's brain from remote location (washington.edu)
vinces99 writes: University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher. Using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea Stocco on the other side of the UW campus, causing Stocco's finger to move on a keyboard. The researchers believe this is the first demonstration of human-to-human brain interfacing. Rao looked at a computer screen and played a simple video game with his mind. When he was supposed to fire a cannon at a target, he imagined moving his right hand (but didn't actually move it) to cause a cursor to hit the "fire" button. Almost instantaneously, Stocco, who wore noise-canceling earbuds and wasn't looking at a computer screen, involuntarily moved his right index finger to push the space bar on the keyboard in front of him, as if firing the cannon. Stocco, who jokingly referred to the phenomenon as "the Vulcan mind meld," compared the feeling of his hand moving involuntarily to that of a nervous tic.