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Eugene Holman

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Nov 23, 2009, 12:19:05 PM11/23/09
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Veterans of soc.culture.baltics will be saddened to know that the once
prolific contributor to our forum, Tapani Hietaniemi, passed away last
month at the age of 51. Tapani taught at the University of Helsinki as
well as at institutions of higher education in Tallinn and Tartu. His
field of specialization was Max Weber, about whom he wrote his doctorate.

For details, see
http://www.vihrealanka.fi/uutiset/vihre%C3%A4-vaikuttaja-tapani-hietaniemi-on-poissa.

Regards,
Eugene Holman

Vladimir Makarenko

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Nov 23, 2009, 2:20:56 PM11/23/09
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What happened? 51 is an age for an accident not natural.

Sorry to hear. It is a difficult year. On a positive side - he taught
students, he left himself embedded in many many minds. In some sense -
made himself immortal.

VM.

Eugene Holman

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:30:44 PM11/23/09
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In article <GL2dnc3SveYHfZfW...@giganews.com>, Vladimir
Makarenko <vma...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:

One of the articles about his demise says that he died in his sleep.
Another one says that he died of heart problems. Recent photographs, e.g.
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Tapani_Hietaniemi.jpg, clearly
indicate that he was having serious weight problems.

Regards,
Eugene Holman

Vladimir Makarenko

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Nov 23, 2009, 6:09:36 PM11/23/09
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I am just upset that brilliant people neglect "home cleaning" so that we
lose them, it doesn't take much effort - no revolutionary methods:
if you cannot quit smoking - do it slow - e.g. forbid yourself smoking
in the house - only outside, or at least 15-20 minutes after you woke up
and between. This is a psychological escape route - "I do not get rid I
just introduce rules." This way one can cut smoking in half or down to 1/3.
Drinking? No drink before Friday or if heavily burdened till 5 p.m. -
beer, till 9 p.m. liquor. Try Valeriana extract instead in the morning.

Fat food? - For two weeks a run on "green" - just two week and after
that tons of fats whatever.
It is just not fair that we lose brilliant minds to such neglect to
our body machine modest requests.

And of course exercise - till you really sweat. No heroism again, if it
starts really hurt - stop.

VM.

captain!

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Nov 24, 2009, 8:47:19 PM11/24/09
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"Vladimir Makarenko" <vma...@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:w8adnXI8ba2si5bW...@giganews.com...

and also so many that we have lost to that ever present scourge of the arts:
depression > abuse > suicide.


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