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NSC-PRO IMMUNITION Probiotic
Retail $34.95 - Internet Special Price $29.71!
NSC-PRO Probiotic - 60 Count - with 15 Billion CFU per serving nutritionally helps promote normal intestinal flora by introducing good bacteria species to help avoid repopulation by harmful bacteria, fungi and viruses due to good microbes killed, especially by antibiotics and genetically modified foods.
NSC-Pro Probiotic contains Acidophilus, Bifidum, Bulgaricus, Lactobacillus fermentum-casei for promoting glutathione synthesis, uptake and redox turnover and five more potent bacteria strains reported to help reduce acidity while enhancing nutrient conversion and vitamin B production. Combine the NSC Pro Probiotic bacteria strains with prebiotics Inulin and MG Beta Glucan in NSC-24 Original or NSC-100 Extra Strength to form a Synbiotic. Synbiotics are reported in research to positively improve internal glutathione production up to 15 times normal in the body. (Synbiotic research did not use NSC MG Beta 1,3/1,6 Glucan but did use beta 1,3/1,6 glucan).
Watch Frank Jordan's YouTube commentary on NSC-Pro Probiotics here:
IMMUNITION NSC-PRO PROBIOTIC with 15 BILLION CFU per SERVING and NO REFRIGERATION REQUIRED!
Nutritionally Promotes Repopulating Healthy Bacteria
NSC-PRO Probiotic introduces good bacteria that cover the intestinal walls, slowing or stopping growth of harmful bacteria, fungi and viruses. NSC-PRO aids in repopulating good bacteria killed by antibiotics and other factors to maintain the 6 to 1 ratio of friendly/unfriendly bacteria required for balance and good gastrointestinal health.
NSC-PRO Probiotic contains beneficial bacteria that fortify the body with increased energy and enhanced allergy control by creating better absorption of nutrients, provision of complex B vitamins, antioxidants, minerals and amino acids plus reducing the toxic load on the kidneys and liver. That bloated feeling often accompanying constipation are also addressed by probiotics.
The IMMUNITION NSC-PRO Probiotic contains 15 Billion CFU of live bacterium per serving (450 Billion CFU in 60 capsules per bottle, with 2 capsules per serving) from a series of potent bacterium strains which require no refrigeration and include, Acidophilus, Bifidum, Lactobacillus fermentum-casei for promoting glutathione synthesis, uptake and redox turnover and Bulgaricus plus many more needed strains.
Probiotics, meaning "for life" are safe based on numerous human clinical trials over many years. You get 8 times more CFU's in NSC-Pro with 15 Billion CFU per serving compared to a major competitor' probiotic that contains only 900 million CFU per serving, or 450 Billion CFU in a bottle of NSC-Pro compared to 54 billion CFU per Competitor' bottle.
Note, as we age our good bacteria levels dramatically decline from up to 3 trillion in early age to only about 3 billion by age 60. During this same period most need to improve blood sugar control, liver function and reduction of harmful bacteria including Clostridium perfringens often associated with what we commonly refer to as food poisoning. Calcium and magnesium absorption is also improved, a positive factor in blood pressure issues.
Also feed the probiotics with prebiotics such as inulin utilized as the filler in most IMMUNITION products including NSC-24 Original MG Beta Glucan and NSC-100 Extra Strength MG Beta Glucan. When a probiotic is combined with a prebiotic, a "synbiotic" results with recent published research indicating a nutritional benefit of synbiotics in managing blood sugar and memory enhancement for Type II diabetics. A synbiotic relationship proves 1+1 can equal 8 when it comes to power!
Listen to a Frank Jordan' Commentary heard first on Sirius/XM Ch 131 by clicking on Probiotics.mp3, Synbiotics.mp3 and Prebiotics.mp3
Dietary supplements or other products above have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any disease.
Suggested Use: Take 2 capsules daily on an empty stomach
Serving Size: 2 hard gelatin capsules
Servings per Container: 30 (60 Capsules per bottle – 15 Billion CFU per Serving)
No Refrigeration Required. Keep in a dry location out of sunlight
Amt per Serving
% Daily Value
Nutritional Ingredient Benefits
Probiotic Blend – 15 billion CFU (at time of manufacture)
8 beneficial natural live microbial lactic acid bacterium strains listed below with benefits:
L. Acidophilus
Included in 1.0g
Immune response aid, while contributing to natural control of diarrhea from rotavirus and suppressive activity against H. Pylori
B. Lactis
Included in 1.0g
Contributes to the good flora relief of digestive challenges such as diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and lactose intolerance with manufacture of the enzyme lactase to help digest dairy products
B. Bifidum
Included in 1.0g
Digestion aid and enhancement of allergy tolerance plus production of B vitamins including niacin, B6, folic acid and biotin.
B. Longum
Included in 1.0g
Blocks harmful bacteria and boost immune system cells while acting as an urinary antiseptic with intestinal pH control (acidity)
L. Casei
Included in 1.0g
Enhances good bacteria growth and propagation to promote repopulation of beneficial bacteria & glutathione production
L. Brevis
Included in 1.0g
Enhances anti-viral IgG antibodies and B cell production, minimizing allergy overload in the gut
L. Bulgaricus
Included in 1.0g
Produces a hostile environment to discourage harmful pathogenic bacteria development while normalizing bowel habits. Also aids in digestive issue resolution such as acid reflux and constipation. An effective and safe antacid to aid in heartburn relief (GERD), while helping those with lactose intolerance
S. Thermophilus
Included in 1.0g
Live lactase-producing organisms that, when ingested with lactose, enhance intestinal digestion including better absorption. A classic yogurt culture
* % Daily Value not established * CFU: Colony Forming Units
Other Ingredients: Fructooligosaccharide (FOS), Gelatin & vegetable-derived Magnesium Stearate
Note: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Beta glucan) is integral to Acidophilus being able to better perform being supportive of additional growth of good bacteria in the intestinal area. Beta 1,3/1,6d glucan in "MG" processed form is available in NSC-24 IMMUNITION Original Glucan and NSC-100 IMMUNITION Extra Strength Glucan.
This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease. If pregnant or lactating, consult a physician before using.
IMMUNITION NSC-PRO Probiotic - Nutritional Benefits
Nutritionally and safely promotes a healthy intestinal function with proper acidity.
Nutritionally contributes to repopulating beneficial bacteria (often killed by antibiotics).
Acts as a natural urinary tract antiseptic inhibiting undesirable organisms including fungi.
Effective in normalizing peristalsis (digested food movement) and waste disposal.
Provides gentle colon cleansing and detox without disrupting beneficial flora.
Facilitates nutrient conversion and vitamin B production for energy and immune response enhancement through increasing allergy antibodies (IgG).
Helps normalize excess cholesterol and triglycerides.
Produces byproduct of hydrogen peroxide necessary to inhibit vaginal yeast growth.
Increases bioavailability of dietary calcium (important for the lactose intolerant).
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I use the NSC Probiotic faithfully. I have had problems with IBS in the past. I occasionally have flare ups now and then, but the NSC Probiotic product helps me overcome them quicker than without taking them. I highly recommend this product to anyone thinking about improving their digestive health.

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Daily Digest 2/11 - The Myth Of "Saudi America," The Big Mac Index
Aging baby boomers will create 'silver tsunami' for Sonoma County (Suzie G.)
Even with those programs, growing old has not been easy. Cohen struggles with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. And as the ranks of the elderly begin to swell, it's not at all clear that the community will be able to maintain the level of care and resources Cohen has come to appreciate.
The Big Mac Index: Bunfight (Nervous Nelly)
At market exchange rates, the Canadian version of the burger costs $5.39, compared with an average price of $4.37 in America. By our reckoning, then, the Canadian dollar is roughly 24% overvalued relative to its American counterpart. In Mexico, by contrast, a Big Mac is just $2.90 at market exchange rates, suggesting the peso is 33% below its long-run value relative to the dollar. The greenback buys much more Big Mac south of the border than north of it.
Gold - Weekly Buy Signal (GE Christenson)
The highs in 2006, 2008, and 2011 reached that trend line. A price of $720 in 2006 was just as extreme as the $1,900 price in 2011 and a possible $3,500 price within the next two years. Will gold prices spike that high? Time will tell, but before you dismiss such a price as unlikely, consider the following:
Diane Francis: How The Senate Became Canada's National Joke (westcoastjan)
The importance of this reform cannot be overlooked. Regional-based representation counterbalances the domination of politics and policies by the populous. It would prevent another National Energy Program raid on Alberta's oil revenues by the federal government. It would prevent the west from always being trumped by the east in general. It would help nation-build by forcing collaboration and confrontation.
Maker's Mark Reduces Alcohol Content To Stretch Low Supply (westcoastjan)
"I just think that's a cheap business practice," Erik Lane, a bartender in Brooklyn, told The New York Post of watering down Maker's Mark. "Usually you're going to notice [an alcohol reduction like] that."
The Myth Of "Saudi America" (cmartenson)
The popularity of the abundance narrative waxes and wanes, and its current ascendance comes primarily on the heels of a report by Leonardo Maugeri, a former oil-industry chief and currently a fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. When his cornucopian fantasy came out, I smelled a rat (or at least a not-too-deeply buried fish). But the International Energy Agency jumped on the bandwagon with breathless, and equally fishy, forecasts of the coming "Saudi America." Most of the media swallowed the story hook, line, and sinker, with even the usually sober Economist rising to the bait.
Shale oil is no threat to oil producers (cmartenson)
February 4, 2013 reporting about a "growing school of bullish analysts believe that booming production in the US will put energy independence within reach." And "With oil production from shale rock, oil sands and deep-sea drilling booming in the US, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere, worries about Middle East-based oil cartels and vulnerable Gulf supply lines are close to becoming things of the past."
BP Energy Outlook 2030: An exercise in wish fulfillment (cmartenson)
The strategy for most of the majors now is to replace their reserves with something called "barrels of oil equivalent." In essence, this means natural gas on an energy equivalent basis. (Approximately 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas contain the same energy as a barrel of oil.) But to admit the ongoing decline in their oil production capacity and then also to admit that there is little chance of turning that trend around would be tantamount to corporate suicide—at least if the objective is to collect the largest possible quarterly bonus and stock options payoff.
Despite Deepwater, Deep Pentagon Pockets for BP (James S.)
Now that BP has been suspended—after two long years—who will pick up the Pentagon pace? So far, it looks like Chevron Corp (NYSE: CVX) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (NYSE: RDS.A) The former has won over some of BP's contracts, and the latter is shaping up to become the Pentagon's biggest fuel contractor—at least as of 2012. Shell's defense department earnings are now at about $2.64 billion.
Report sees flurry of 'for sale' signs throughout Canadian oilpatch (westcoastjan)
Though the survey's results weren't broken up by country, Munro said he has a good idea what kinds of conversations are happening around boardroom tables in downtown Calgary.
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I could buy into this line of thinking more easily if gold prices were purely market driven. They are not; they are highly manipulated, as are silver prices. As there is no longer any reliability in the fundamental pricing mechanism, there cannot be any reliability in the data used to form theories such as this about the relative worth of gold. It makes for interesting reading, which in turn makes one think more. But the end of the day, I would still rather have a few gold coins to jingle in my pocket than a wheelbarrow full of fiat that will inevitably end up in my compost pile.
within 100 miles of the border.
The DHS "watchdog", which appears to be in-house, has determined that they need no suspicion to search your electronic devices.
Oh, and if you have any complaints they have a department to handle those as well.
"We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits."
I could buy into this line of thinking more easily if gold prices were purely market driven. They are not; they are highly manipulated, as are silver prices. As there is no longer any reliability in the fundamental pricing mechanism, there cannot be any reliability in the data used to form theories such as this about the relative worth of gold. It makes for interesting reading, which in turn makes one think more. But the end of the day, I would still rather have a few gold coins to jingle in my pocket than a wheelbarrow full of fiat that will inevitably end up in my compost pile.
That was a very typical, US-style gold bashing article. If the author was really interested in dispelling myths about gold to prove that it did not perform any useful functions during any periods of history, then perhaps he should have sought to explain why the top performing asset allocation strategy of the past 100 years includes a 20% weighting in gold?
Also, the tip-off for me that this was a hatchet job was the cherry picking of the time frame from 1980 to 2000 to measure gold against inflation in a developing country. Of course that was the exact top and bottom of gold's long bear run, brought to you courtesy of Rubin's strong dollar policy and Gordon Brown's gold-give-away among other notable interferences, and the Brazillian real spent time being pegged and then repegged against the dollar.
That's about the worst inflationary test case you could concoct for gold to perform well against.
Allow me to cherry pick my time frames and I'll "prove" to you that stocks always result in the loss of your wealth too.
Actually, it's quite embarassing when someone uses the 1980-2000 timeframe for gold as part of their 'analysis' in the same way it's embarassing when a boxer waits a full count after taking a light blow before falling to the mat in an obvious display of bad acting as they throw the match.
"Ooooohhhh....you should have practiced that a bit more!" I always think.
Has anyone read the underlying study? The Gold Dilemma: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2078535
In the article (5 Reasons Not to Buy Gold) it says the study was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. by Claude Erb, a former commodities portfolio manager for Trust Company of the West, and Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke University.
Wondering if folks are thinking that the original paper is a hatchet job, or just the article that summarizes it?
Do you have any scientific analysis of what this apparent increase in methane means?
Arctic News: Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013
& here's an article about what it might mean:
Arctic Methane: The potential impact of large abrupt release of methane in the Arctic
Arctic News: Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013
& here's an article about what it might mean:
Arctic Methane: The potential impact of large abrupt release of methane in the Arctic
Thanks for the links, I can't say I'm comforted. Methane is far more volatile than CO2 as a GHG. I hope this doesn't turn into run-a-way feedback.


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Taxi driver says: "Eish! For What?"
Cop: "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
Taxi driver: "Ahh, boss! I slowed down, and nobody was coming."
Cop: "You still didn't come to a complete stop. License please."
Taxi driver: "What's the difference?"
Cop: "The difference is you have to come to a complete stop, that's the law.
License please!"
Taxi driver: "Heish ... if you can show me the difference between slow down
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let me go and no ticket."
Cop says: "Exit your vehicle, sir."
The taxi driver gets out of his taxi, whereupon the cop takes out his batton
and starts beating the crap out of the taxi driver and says: "you want me to
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This is Subaru WRX STI, this is one of my dream car and i really really like this car ever since i learned about cars. Subaru is manufactured by japanese car maker Fuji Heavy Industries Subaru. I started to like this car when i watched the anime "Initial D". Initial D is a japanese anime and it is about illegal japanese street car racing. The racing scenes focuses on drifting in uphill and downhill also in some rare urban cities. There are 8 stages or 8 chapter arcs, in these stages the main character is competing in every location or prefecture and they are battling it out if who's gonna be the best drifter in that town or prefecture. I like Subaru Impreza because of the style, it's like me cool and great (lol that's only a joke). For the car's interior it has a good audio system, automatic climate control, touch screen GPS navigation system and six airbags. And for the car's exterior it has a turbocharged engine, great wide body design and quad outlet exhaust.
This car is really a great one, so what i'm gonna do is save and save and save money in order for me to afford this one. I will also save money to buy some good subaru parts and customize it like a drifting race car, like the car in Initial D. I think it will be so cool if i can have one and do what i want to do. That's all folks, this is my first blog article hope you enjoyed reading this article. :)


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Eroding cliff prompts Pacifica vacuation
The owners of a seaside Pacifica apartment building that was evacuated Thursday had been applying for emergency permits to build a rock barrier at the base of an eroding bluff, but nature and high tides beat them to the punch.
Delfarid Fanine, co-owner of the 12-unit building at 330 Esplanade Drive, said the owners told tenants weeks ago that they were hoping to prevent the bluff from vanishing from under the apartments.
"Unfortunately, it all happened before anyone expected," Fanine said. "It's nature. No one can beat nature."
According to city officials and workers at the apartments, as much as 40 feet of land has disappeared at the property in the past year. Early Thursday, the bluff starting falling away in alarmingly large chunks, and city officials red-tagged the apartments.
The 20 or so tenants were told just before 11 a.m. that they had only minutes to leave, prompting a mad dash to save whatever they could. One resident flung belongings from a second-story window.
Then, a few minutes later, city officials decided the tenants could safely remove possessions until 3 p.m. Mattresses, couches, chairs and random items such as fishing poles and reading lamps lined the sidewalk.
Randall Nelson, the building manager who has lived there for 14 years, said he was upset about leaving. But he also said he understood when he moved in that along with the picturesque view came the possibility that the cliff wouldn't sit still.
"We live here because we love the ocean," Nelson said, "but nothing lasts forever."
Pacifica residents have long dealt with the challenges of living on the seaside bluffs.
In 1998, seven homes on Esplanade Drive were demolished after El Niño-powered storms ate away at the cliff upon which they stood.
Nearly all the shoreline in Pacifica is soft, compacted sand, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The weak soil, the direct attack of waves and the saturation from rainwater make the area especially susceptible to erosion.
The apartments were built in 1961. The bluff has been eroding for some time, but in the past two years the situation has grown much worse, officials said.
Tony Fortunato, a superintendent with Engineered Soil Repairs, estimated that the cliff had receded as much as 15 feet in recent days because of unusually high tides.
"They had a lot more real estate last year," Fortunato said. "A lot of it is in the ocean now."
He said his company will try to save the building in the coming days by using cranes to lower boulders into the cliff's base to create a rock wall, known as riprap.
Owners of buildings on either side of the apartment building inserted similar barriers last year. The cliffs there have withstood the recent high tides.
Fanine said her company applied for permits from the California Coastal Commission at the same time last year, but delays held up the work.
Amanda O'Connell, who moved into the apartments four months ago, said she received a letter from the owners last month that a barrier would be completed by Christmas and they would have nothing to worry about.
"Guess they didn't make it," O'Connell said while packing a car. She wasn't sure where she was going to live.
Paul Wells, 47, moved in less than a month ago from Redwood City.
"I pretty much got entirely unpacked, just in time to be told it was time to start packing again," Wells said. "Of course I'm frustrated. I'm still in some degree of shock. I know that once the shock wears off, I'm going to feel a lot more anger."


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I love examining a good image. As a trained geographer I always examine an image in 20 different yet connected ways.
Sounds intense but it really is quick and can be an extended starter task or a collaborative task on the same image. I like this avenue best:)
I'll do it in numbered points so you can see the level of depth to the thinking that can be applied to a single photo.
1. Say what you see?
2. What could you hear?
3. What would you you smell?
4. How might people be feeling?
5. What would/wouldn't you touch?
6. What would your taste buds sense?
You can extend these even more by applying the question matrix to each of the 6 senses and vary the thinking required as a personalisation strategy.
As you can see this links to our senses. A simple skill to employ with a photo but one that the students finds stretches them.
This all applied to the NOW. A concept I have used lots and many will have read via the great David Didau 'The Learning Spy' with the concept of examining a photo from a variety of temporal avenues:
7. Before
8. Before, before
9. After
10. After, after
Thinking of a photo in these four ways is fascinating and gets students being creative and also reflective.
11. To the left of the image
12. To the right of the image
Add further strength to this and allows imaginations to run riot:)
The next few are geography categorising skills but can really focus students into specifics of an image or get them thinking of likely or possible issues:
13. Social
14. Economic
15. Environmental
I am putting this second last but if I am honest it should be 1st!
16. Scale - is there something or someone in the image that you can scale and therefore qualitatively make judgements on sizes of elements of the image? Say a fence. Most ones we walk past can approximately be 1m 20cm ish hence the qualitative judgment. As long as the student designates the scale value. A car height 1m 50cm ish a sheep 1m in length. Then apply that scale to other aspects of the image.
So far many of you will be thinking wow this is a lot and how on earth do students keep track of this and organise it?
17. Post it notes
This technique has transformed this method of examination of an image. I get students to stick 6 over the image. Students then lift each post it note up and then examine that specific aspect of the image. This helps to break down the image into manageable chunks. But more importantly actually stretches descriptions (other command terms) of the image. I find that many students limit their photo analysis to the big hook of the image that stands out and as a result marginal aspects are neglected or missed.
I like multiple coloured post it notes. Say yellow can be senses; oranges I use for before(s) (half a post it each); greens I use for afters splitting the post it for after and after after; pink social; lighter yellow economic and environmental.
This is then developed into a structure to write up at this stage.
18. Students review their analysis of the photos and they rank which section is the most important, second, third, fourth, fifth and then the least important section. This then became the paragraphs that students write up their photo analysis.
You could reduce it so that students examine the same image and one does senses; one before before, before; one after and after, after; one social, economic an environmental. Then students share their analysis with each other - team teaching. Then the others on the table collaborate by analysing the image and on the back of the post it notes green penning any additional thinking for that aspect as a feedback/ critique element by being Kind, Specific and Helpful.
19. A great extension and stretch and challenge activity is where you remove all of the post it notes and get students on other tables to predict what the image must look like from the descriptions, labels that are on the post it notes. One could be reading what it says on a post it and then another can draw what they say showing thinking for speaking and listening:) Then the other table evaluating what they created.
20. I often get students to use my Question grid against the image incorporating all the aspects above. It allows students to take greater control of the image and really gather its elements in their mind as they formalise the questions. A couple of excellent examples of how 2 people on twitter have used it @EmmaAbuDhabi and @Shaun_Allison
Some may see this next bit as a bit of a gimmick. Myself and @redhea79 were chatting last night about descriptions of an image and how students explore an image with detail as a marginal gains strategy. Think of it as a sniffer dog trying to pick up a scent. He mentioned Where's Wally and I though eee when I was young that was the best book for me studying a page and not leaving it till I had found what I wanted. I was intrigued by all the characters. Often all different in a specific environment. So change the CONTEXT. Great for a description using the 20 techniques, like social questions of what are the people wearing? why? What activities are they doing? How might the activities change if a tsunami hit? Some may say well the finding Wally is distracting from the actual activity the thinking as the student is simply just scanning the image not connecting that to this thinking. A method to over come this could be to have lots of Wally's easy to find and with the post it note technique describe social, economic, environmental interactions that those Wally's use. I will be giving it a go to find out.
Like my philosophy at the minute. Give it a go. I promise you, you'll be amazed at the greater thinking, analysis and evaluation that your students generate from it great for all you blooms lovers:) Even better for us Solo lovers by applying each 1-20 step and evaluating against the solo steps.


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Please let us know if there is a title you want that you don't see here.
Album, Mitch. The Time Keeper
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Babb, Sanora. Whose Names Are Unknown
Baldacci, David. The Innocent
Blum, Jenna. Those Who Save Us
Brooks, Geraldine. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl
Ford, Richard. Canada
Furst, Alan. Mission To Paris: A Novel
Gaffigan, Jim. Dad is Fat
Goldfield, David. America Aflame
Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars
Grisham, John. Calico Joe: A Novel
Helprin, Mark. In Sunlight and In Shadow
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables
Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
King, Stephen. 11/22/63
King, Stephen. The Wind Through the Keyhole
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior: A Novel
Krakauer, Jon. There Cups of Deceit
Lee, John R. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
Manegold, C. S. Ten Hills Farm
Mathis, Ayana. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
McKinstry, Carolyn Maull. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor
McMurtry, Larry. Streets of Laredo: A Novel
Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs
Morton, Kate. The Secret Keeper
O'Reilly, Bill. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America
Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat's Table
Peary, Robert E. The North Pole, It's Discovery in 1909
Robothotham, Michael. Say You're Sorry
Sendker, Jan-Philipp. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Stedman, M.L. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild
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The Providence High boys' soccer team ended the 2012-13 season with a disappointing loss, as the squad fell to Tarbut V'Torah, 3-1, in a CIF Southern Section Division VII first-round playoff match.
However, as much as the loss stung for the Pioneers players and coaches, the defeat couldn't dampen what Providence was able to accomplish during the season.
For the first time in program history, the Pioneers captured a league championship, earning a crown in the Heritage League with a 4-0-4 record. The berth in the postseason was also a first for the program.


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Lawyers and judges on the front lines of the criminal justice system pleaded with the federal justice minister Monday to tone down some of his upcoming anti-crime measures, saying they will only clog the courts and prisons with the mentally ill and other vulnerable people.
But Rob Nicholson was having none of it. He said the Harper government will press forward in Parliament this fall with its long-awaited omnibus package of crime laws — including the contentious introduction of mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes and sexual offences.
In a polite but forceful, hour-long question-and-answer session with members of the Canadian Bar Association during its annual meeting in Halifax, Nicholson stated repeatedly that the Conservatives' majority victory in the spring election amounts to a clear mandate to "crack down" on crime.
"From coast to coast one thing is clear, Canadians want to see their communities as safe places to live, raise their families and do business. We have listened to Canadians and with the strong mandate we have received, we'll continue to act on their behalf," he said.
The 37,000-member Canadian Bar Association has deep reservations about some measures in the omnibus package. It passed resolutions in Halifax on the weekend condemning mandatory minimum sentences, the imprisonment of mentally ill offenders and the over-representation of aboriginal people in the prison system.
It also pressed Ottawa to release estimates on the extra cost of jailing increasing numbers of offenders due to mandatory minimum sentences.
At the very least, the CBA wants Nicholson to add a "safety valve" provision into the Criminal Code that would give judges the discretion to exempt certain offenders from mandatory minimums in rare cases where prison time would create a clear injustice.
The CBA says Britain, South Africa and Australia have similar provisions in their sentencing laws.
Nicholson was asked Monday whether he didn't trust Canada's judges with such a provision.
"Mandatory penalties are quite reasonable," he said. "Our responsibility as legislators is to give guidance to the courts. We're doing what we're supposed to do."
Nicholson also ruled out making any allowances for aboriginal offenders who might have been victimized themselves as children in residential schools.
Dan MacRury, a Nova Scotia prosecutor who chairs the CBA's criminal justice section, said he was disappointed by Nicholson's response.
"If there is no safety valve in the system, there are no options for judges who will have to incarcerate people that may be better treated in the community.
"The minister is right, Parliament provides guidance. All we're asking for is that guidance also has a safety valve in it, so the most vulnerable in our society are well protected."
Nicholson, however, said he remains interested in more wide-ranging solutions for dealing with mentally ill offenders. Talks are currently underway on the matter between federal and provincial officials and the CBA. But Nicholson offered no details about what initiatives Ottawa might take.
Nicholson rejected the suggestion by some lawyers Monday that by bundling the government's various crime bills into a large, single piece of legislation, he is hampering parliamentarians and other watchdogs from properly examining and suggesting changes to the proposals.
He said there has been enough "tinkering" with the crime proposals already.
He also said voters were familiar with many of the crime proposals before the election, because most of the legislation was first introduced in Parliament years ago, only to die before becoming law, because Parliament was prorogued or an election was called.
The government promised during the election campaign to pass the most of the outstanding crime bills into law as an omnibus bill, within 100 days of the sitting of the new Parliament.
That gives the government until early March to do so.
– Article from The Province.


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Mens' basketball: Falcons can't gain ground
The UW-River Falls men's basketball team split a pair of close games last week, beating UW-La Crosse, 77-74, in overtime Wednesday night, Jan. 31 at Page Arena before losing to UW-Stevens Point for the second time this season, 66-64, Saturday, Feb. 3 in Stevens Point.
The split left the Falcons even in WIAC play at 5-5 (14-6 overall), heading into games this week at UW-Stout (1-9, 7-14) Wednesday, Feb. 7, and home against UW-Whitewater (6-4, 16-5) Saturday, Feb. 10.
Last Wednesday against La Crosse (3-7, 11-10), the Falcons trailed by 17 at the break, 38-21, before tying the game, 67-67, on a layup by Clay Seifert with 22 seconds remaining. Brennan Witt scored the first basket in overtime and the Falcons never trailed.
Seifert finished with a team-high 20 points in the win and Witt scored 19, including six of the Falcon's 10 points in overtime, while Alex Herink contributed 17 points and seven rebounds.
Saturday at Stevens Point (9-1, 15-6), the Pointers got a basket by Mark Nelson with 4 seconds remaining to defeat the Falcons, 66-64.
UWRF trailed by 11 midway through the first half before taking a 37-35 halftime lead. The Falcons took their biggest lead, 51-44, on a layup by Devin Buckley with 13:36 remaining but the Pointers went on a 5-0 run to take a 64-62 lead with 1:15 left.
Matt Keller hit a jumper to tie the score, 64-64, with ten seconds remaining but the Pointers answered with a quick basket by Nelson to earn the win.
Herink had 13 points and seven rebounds in the loss and Witt had 13 points and six boards while Seifert finished with 10 points and five assists.


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The head of the Economic Development Growth Engine organization says there is another side to the controversy over granting property tax abatements through payments-in-lieu-of-taxes that isn't heard in the current civic discussion about the incentives.
VIDEO: PILOT development incentives: Part I
"Members of the real estate community and others in town believe that we are way too restrictive, way too conservative, that we are losing deals because we are not aggressive enough," said Reid Dulberger, EDGE president and CEO, on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines."
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com. It is the first of two discussions on the television program on the issue with critics of the PILOT process on the second discussion to air starting Aug. 17 on WKNO and later on The Daily News Video page.
Those critics, New Olivet Baptist Church Rev. Kenneth Whalum Jr. and Memphis Fire Fighters Association President Thomas Malone, say they are not opposed to the tax breaks outright but want more disclosure of the terms and performance of them to judge how well they are working.
The controversy is not new. But this summer it intersected with cuts to health insurance benefits of city employees and retirees approved by the Memphis City Council in June. Those employees and retirees question whether the benefit cuts would be necessary if the city didn't give the property tax breaks.
Dexter Muller, vice president of the Greater Memphis Chamber, argues the impact of the liability to City Hall from the benefits on city government's fiscal condition is not related to the tax breaks.
"The program generates new jobs immediately," he said. "And it generates new investments in the city and new dollars immediately."
Dulberger added that the property taxes abated are not revenue the city had coming in before an economic development project chose Memphis because of the tax incentives. The net additional tax revenue after the PILOT's abatement, he argued, is greater than the city was getting without the project.
"People think that these projects would have happened anyway," he said. "That's just not the case. We wish it were the case quite frankly but it isn't. If you don't give the incentive we are not seeing the project."
Steve Guinn, vice president of the Memphis region office of Highwoods Properties, said the need for incentives stems from the already high property tax rate in Shelby County – the highest in the state with commercial property taxed at a 40 percent rate instead of the 25 percent rate for residential.
"If you reduce your taxes, you are going to stimulate more real estate development," he said. "From the city's perspective and the county, they are really taking no risk in this. … It is a risk-free decision to give a company a PILOT to reduce the property taxes. They are investing no money."
Memphis and Shelby County leaders use the tax incentives more than other parts of the state including Nashville, whose property tax rate is about a third of Shelby County's. But Dulberger makes the argument that Nashville is using its property tax base as an incentive.
"They use tax increment financing, which is in essence the mirror image, the kissing cousin of a PILOT," he said of Nashville, "and they have hundreds of millions of dollars in TIF (tax increment financing) districts that we don't and so they do give incentives and they are aggressive and yet they don't face the kind of competition being in the center of the state that we do in the border region."
But some of the competition faced on the Memphis side of the state line with Mississippi is for prospects who simply don't want to deal at the outset with the complex scoring matrix and other details of the PILOT process.
Dulberger said the tax breaks are tailored to particular projects by the EDGE board, which has approved 27 such agreements in three years.
"We can go 15 years on the term but our average is nine. We don't max out the abatement," he said. "There are some who say we should and we should do it automatically. And I understand that point of view. But we can certainly make it simpler."
Critics want a closer look and inventory of the tax breaks granted before EDGE was created to gauge the cumulative impact of the program on tax revenues over several decades.
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An Almond For a Parrot is the spectacular adult debut from award winning children's author Sally Gardner and be warned it is very much a book for adults. The novel is the tale of the life, loves and romantic and sexual awakening of Tully Truegood.
Following in the footsteps of eighteenth century heroines like Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill, Tully's story begins in 1756 in Newgate Prison where Tully awaits trial for murder. Through a series of recipes and recollections Tully recounts her journey from a neglected childhood with her drunken father to a life of luxury as the mistress of a Lord.
Treated as little more than a servant by her father, who gambled and drank away what little money they had after her mother's death, the only kindness Tully receives is from a indifferent gin-soaked cook. Her father trades Tully like a commodity; at 12 she is a bride in a "Fleet Marriage" at 16 she is the payment for a gambling debt. Tully enjoys fleeting happiness when her father brings home a new wife; as she has the kindness of a mother and a chance at learning, as well as new gowns and shoes but it is all too soon snatched away. When Tully finally makes her escape from her father's house it is the first time she has ever set foot outside and she is dazzled and thus begins her progress through the highs and lows of the decadent London of the eighteenth century.
With a powerful physic ability and a beautiful face Tully is soon the most celebrated courtesan of her age, before a shadowy figure from her past emerges to challenge her safety and position.
This is an incredible page turner full of immaculate period detail and peopled with great characters. A writer to watch. If you are a fan of Debra Daley, Laurie Graham or Sarah Waters then you will love this book.
Publishing next Thursday; 3rd November and coming from new imprint HQ; part of Harper Collins this is a book that should not be missed. An Almond for a Parrot has already been listed in Buzz Feeds 24 most anticipated books of the Autumn and you can expect to hear a lot more buzz about it as publication approaches.
Thanks so much to Sophie Calder at Harper Collins for a copy of the book.


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For the next Intel Extreme Masters event in Europe, Cologne was the city of choice once again. After hosting the IEM League of Legends event in the ESL TV studios only a few weeks ago, StarCraft II players will have a chance of their own to play for the title in Germany's eSports capital. From the 13th to 16th of February, 28 players will meet to determine the winner of the next IEM event. Some of the earliest 2014 WCS points will be at stake: 4000 points in total are on the line with the winner taking 750 of them!
The EU Qualifier will take place on the 18th and 19th of January 2014 with the first stage being played on Saturday and the second stage to follow on Sunday. Stage 1 has unlimited slots and is open to all players who have ESL Premium. Meanwhile on Sunday the top 4 ESL Pro Series players in Germany will not only fight for the title but also for one slot right in Group Stage.
The 16 slots for Group Stage will be given out like this:
- EU Qualifier: 3 slots (18th/19th of January)
- Asian Qualifier: 2 slots (TBA)
- Americas Qualifier: 2 slots (TBA)
- Winner of German ESL Pro Series: 1 slot (TBD: 15th of December)
- Next in line WCS players who did not qualify: 4 slots
- Top players of the Open Bracket: 4 Slots
Prize money:
1st - $10,000
2nd - $4,000
3rd-4th - $2,000
5th-8th - $1,000
9th-12th - $400
13th-16th - $350
Total: $25,000
We are looking forward to see which players will make it to our last event before the season final in Katowice!


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jlm53089 wrote:Well for Best Picture as much as people like Wall-E. It will more than likely come down to Dark Knight and Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
But Dark Knight just gives me goose bumps, I cannot wait. But for 2008 this year has not been that good for movies.
Besides Heath, I don't see The Dark Knight getting any other major nominations, you never know though. And it is way to early to say 2008 hasn't been that good of a year for movies. Look at last year, what was the best movie at this point? Zodiac? The second half of '07 gave us all of the Best Pic noms as well as a few other really good films. The second half of '08 will likely do the same, as all the films that are getting early Oscar Buzz are scheduled to come out between now and the end of the year.


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When are people going to learn? Seriously, everyone knows if you pass out at a party you are going to be a target for some major unscrupulous activity!
Lately it seems the big thing is drawing on your so-called "friends" with sharpies and then taking pictures. Oh yeah, and then posting those pictures on the internet for the whole world to see!
This poor kid is going to be scrubbing his face for the next week trying to get all that ink off!
It is good to see girls are getting involved in the fun! That is one evil smile!
It looks like this guy's "friends" got a hold of the electric shaver as well! Cold-blooded!
A "Live Strong" bracelet? What is that orange thing? Cigarette butt? Chewing gum?
This kid probably doesn't look much better without marker all over his face! 50 Cent fan?
This guy is so wasted he probably won't even notice the ink for at least a few days!
Ok, this kid doesn't look so dangerous, but I'm sure he is steamed and already thinking of a way to get even. Just remember… pay backs are hell!
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This week's topic at the Carnival is all about Love Triangles. I haven't written one of these yet, so I'm going to have to bow to other people with experience. The most famous triangle I can think of at the moment is in Twilight. Meyer got rid of the main love interest (Edward) for a while in book 2 and put Bella with Jacob. I guess it worked because it started the whole Team Edward/Team Jacob debate. Personally, I don't like love triangles. If your main character has to wonder if they should pick this guy or that guy, they obviously don't love either one. Maybe they should find a third choice.
To make a love triangle really interesting I think both choices (male or female) need to be equally good. If one is a complete ass, why bother? The main character should see through it and grab onto the good one with both hands. While writing for Harlequin I didn't have these problems, because Harlequin wants there to be a clear choice from the beginning.
My current WIP, the one I am writing for NaNo, Bait, is going to eventually have a love triangle, sort of, but not until the second or third book. First I want to have two awesome main characters, drawn to each other even though their love is forbidden. Then later, after things have come between them, I can add a potential mate for her. There is actually another guy in Bait, a potential, but she doesn't have feelings for him. He isn't even on her radar.
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Insomnia rears its ugly head again. I actually did manage to fall asleep for a few minutes, but now I am wide awake.
As you know, for the most part in this journal, the public ones at least, I never put names. I don't think it is fair. So, I am more cryptic than anything, which is good.
But someone said something interesting to me today, and it got me reflecting. It was two statements: People are mostly good or people are mostly cruel/bad/substitute your own adjective.
Its funny-some may call me naive or innocent, and that may be true. Trust me, I have heard it enough. But I really do think people are good inside. Bear with me. For the most part, I have a good sense of people-and I do like to surrond myself by people that are good. And for the most part, everyone I know is a good person. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have put up with them. So, out of all the people that I know, the only good people out there? I doubt it. But I do know a lot of people.
I think others want to be good and kind, but sometimes forget how to. Or things have happened to them so much, that they just don't know themselves anymore. For the most part, everyone deserves a chance. Maybe I'm just too optimistic for my own good, but I would just hate to think that people aren't kind. I don't think I could handle it. Maybe I'm just really, really lucky. And along the way in my life, just managed to meet and befriend really good people, kind people. Friends and family that I know if I need someone I can call any minute of the day. People I trust completely.
Everyone needs to have someone like that. Someone that will help them no matter what.
One of my favorite quotes, which I am sure I am butchering again; is from the movie Pollyanna.
"If you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will."
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 298, November 21, 2004
Give people what they want: more government!
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Re: "The Death of a Libertarian", by Jay P Hailey http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2004/tle297-20041114-03.html
I am flattered to be quoted in the company of such comic geniuses as Groucho Marx and Rylla Smith, and I'm glad you like my idea that we should focus on liberating the culture.
But please, when you quote me, spell my name right. Just remember the old meme, "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'."
Scott Bieser
Dear Sir,
In a letter to the Libertarian Enterprise, Scott Graves said,
"If New Hampshire is the bastion of liberty that we have been promised, why was it the only state the Libertarian candidate was notNader got on the ballot in New Hampshire and the Democrats were fighting to the death to keep his name off the ballot everywhere they could."
Badnarik didn't make it on the ballot primarily for one reason: shenanigans on the part of two clerks controlling the petitions. Those clerks made sure by hook or crook to prevent the petitions from being processed. Even though NH law [was] violated, a judge let them get away with it.
Considering that this is the first time a Libertarian Party candidate did not appear on the NH ballot, and considering this is the first election cycle after the FSP vote to go to NH, I find it very hard to believe it's a coincidence!
It appears to me that perhaps fear of what the Free State Project represents, in tangible form, might have caused this outrage to occur.
The entrenched bureacracy does fear the FSP. Their mendacity with the Badnarik petitions proves it.
Also, the FSP did not say that NH was a bastion of liberty, merely it was the best opportunity for liberty in the future. NH has problems, but compared to NY? CA? IL??
It's easy to find reasons to not do anything, and to belittle other people's labors. It is far harder to get out of your easy chair, and go to work.
Neil Alexander
Dear Editor/Mr.Ed/Ken, and John,
Re.: "Reflections on Race, Politics, the Election, and a Conversation with Mom, or Whither the Democrats?", by John Ross http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2004/tle297-20041114-09.html
Awestruck: That's me!
That I am able to 'publish' in the same venue as the John Ross?
Back in 1997, when all hell was about to break loose here in the State of Washington, John Ross' novel Unintended Consequences seemed to have been timed exactly right for release.
Back then I was working for the Boeing Company, on the flight line in Everett, Washington, as an Aircraft Airworthiness Inspector.
The so-called 'liberals'they are actually communistswere out to take everyone's firearms away by dint of citizen initiative I-676, regardless what the Washington Constitution had to say about the matter. See: [very long URL]
I had my job cut-out for me. When I read Ross' novel, I knew then and there what I had to do: Buy as many copies of his novel as I could, and distribute themfor freejust as quickly as I got them, along with copies of the Second Amendment Primer.
I reckon that I purchased over 50 copies of both the above, and included a copies of "The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America" published by the CATO Institute.
In addition to that, I put together a 10 page (8.5 x 11) pamphlet using the state of Washington's own facts and figures regarding accident statistics, and personally had that reproduced by a local printer, and then spent a Sunday morningagain by myself, distributing them to my surrounding neighborhood, because my so-called pro-gun buddies at Boeing didn't think it worth the time to spend a few hours getting the word out.
I guess that when you're fat, dumb and happyon a union mandated paycheck, what's to worry about, eh?
I made three tripsall on foot, back and forth from my house, delivering those pamphlets, 450 in all, to the front door of every house I could reach. Election day was just a few days away, and I needed to make sure the word was out, at least to my local neighbors.
Needless to say, the forces of freedom won the daythen.
I'd like to think that I had made some impact. At any rate, the initiative was defeated by greater than 70 percent.
So, I'll reiterate: The Party of the Democrats isn't. It is instead the party of the communist, plain and simple. All one has to do is analyze what it seeks. Of course, the Republican Party is the opposite side of the same coin, but at least it pays lip service to what it is supposed to represent.
Lately though, I consider that Clare Wolfe is closer to the truth: To late to work within the system, and too early to shoot the bastards.
And lastly, as a former Boeing boss told me one day: :"There ain't enough ammunition in the world to shoot the bastards with! So, about all we can hope for is that they will either shoot themselves, or they will see the light."
50:50. I can live with that!
And, John? That wasand still isone heck of a novel.
in Liberty,
[Get your very own copy of Unintended Consequences by clicking on that link to Amazon.comEditor]
Re: "The Last Crusade", by Jack Boone http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2004/tle297-20041114-04.html
In regards to Jack Boone's assertion that legitimate freedom fighters in Iraq are thinking: "In 2004, our country is being occupied by a superpower, which wants to use our resources for its own ends, destroying homes and families with various laws and edicts. The government in charge of the occupation, located far across the sea, is doing all that it can do to destroy our culture, our society, and our beliefs."
Last I checked, the two parties opposing the US were the Baathist remnants (Baathists, btw, are a party whose agenda is fascist imposed socialist revolution) and Shiites with Iranian re-inforcements (talk to anyone in Iraq, they call the shiite insurgents "Iranians"). Neither group could be described by any sane libertarian as 'freedom fighters', unless that libertarians definition of freedom is the freedom to throw failed olympic athletes into wood chippers and rape their sisters, or the freedom to impose Sharia law on everyone, including non-Muslim Iraqis and Kurds.
The true freedom fighters in Iraq are the Kurds, who are allied with the US and have built an autonomous, productive, peaceful, and democratic society in its northern domain, and the Iraqi National Congress associated exile groups of various sorts who have learned about freedom first hand here in the US and are now exporting that back to Iraq.
Nor do I regard the freedom to disenfranchise any non-muslim, kill, assault, or steal from any non-muslim, to be legitimate (but such are entirely legitimate in most of the muslim world). Such is certainly not ZAP. Infidels do not rate as equals to such a degree that even most christian fundamentalists would reject acting similarly to pagans or atheists. That isn't ZAP either.
As much as Libertarians like Boone like to disparage USians who use groupist phraseology here, such thinking seems all to common in what passes for Libertarian foreign policy that vaguely says that "those countries" can do what they want, that "those people" can decide for themselves. I'm sorry, but I must have missed the point where Libertarians decided to abandon universal natural law as the basis for individual liberty and self-determination.
The US LP stance toward international issues of individual liberties are extremely childish and simplistic, to an even greater degree than the French would claim of Bush, and gives credence to those who claim that Libertarianism is a philosophy built entirely around the phrase "Fuck You".
Saying "it isn't our place to judge other cultures" is a complete leftie-liberal cop out (as much of a cop-out as the wasted vote fallacy). It is our place as libertarians to judge not just our own, but every culture, society, government, group, or individual human being for each one's respect for ZAP (it is especially the place of those who so enjoy imposing litmus tests and star chambers on fellow libertarians). National borders, according to Libertarian dogma, are illegitimate fictional creations of illegitimate governments. This is why we support open immigration. Why then do we say that our rights (or other people's) end at the nation's borders?
These Nationalist Libertarians, as I call them, are not as purist as they would like to claim. They are not for "all of your rights all the time", they are only for "all of the rights of some of the human race, some of the time depending on where they happen to be located". Put that way, it doesn't sound very libertarian to me. An International Libertarian is for "All of the rights of All human beings All the time, Everywhere."
Of course, this is when the next hypocritical cop-out surfaces, "Yes, but you are talking about attacking every despotic country in the world." Not necessarily with the force we saw in Iraq. Libya, for instance, has caved without a shot fired and is working toward multi-party elections. Individual liberty will spread like wildfire around the world when the cynical despots realize that the American people, the self-styled defenders of liberty, really are serious this time. That was the power of Ronald Reagan in putting down the Soviet Bloc: he didn't care that other people spoke German, or Polish, or Czech, or Romanian, or even Russian: he knew how to call a spade a spade and be determined about ending the soviet despotism.
Saddam called our bluff more than a decade ago, and killed several hundred thousand more of his own people before anybody here had the guts to call him out. Bush's father was a failure because he stopped short with his need to "be prudent". Bush, Sr. was not a Goldwater republican, who would have seen that "fanatacism in pursuit of liberty is no vice, moderation in defense of freedom is no virtue."
Now these nationalist Libertarians are talking more like Jimmy Carter bleeding heart liberals than like true defenders of liberty. Advocating militancy against any statism internationally is no violation of ZAP. Statists, being statists, initiate force against other human beings with every waking breath. It is no vice to advocate using statists at home to eliminate statism abroad. There is no virtue in pussilanimity or miserity toward the rights of one's fellow man, where ever they may be.
Michael Badnarik's poor election numbers, beyond a spiteful attempt to be a Naderesque spoiler (and draw the future enmity of voters as a result), are to be credited to the fact that too many US Libertarians, burdened by the history of Vietnam, out of which the Party sprang, just don't get these simple facts of integrity in the campaign for universal individual liberties, while so many Americans did get that truth following 9/11.
(NOTE: The author is a previously published TLE writer, an original Free State Project member, who has spoken around the country, on NPR, NHPR, and elswhere about the FSP, is actively involved in the secession efforts of Killington, VT, and other Vermont towns, to rejoin NH.)
Mike Lorrey
I sent the following email to the Israeli Embassy in Canada (via its email address provided at its website) today and I urge you to do likewise:
Free Mordechai Vanunu!
Israel shall always remain a pariah among the nations of the earth so long as it continues its policy of vicious repression of heroes like this fine, courageous man.
I urge the government of Israel to immediately free Mr Vanunu, to permanently cease all harassment of him, and to eliminate all restrictions of his rights and liberty.
It is a horrible, historic disgrace that the state of Israel should pursue fascistic policies of repression of both the Palestinian people and Israelis.
The listing (at your website) of Israeli products is of great help to me: it tells me specifically what to boycott.
Manuel Miles
Charles Stone, Jr.'s piece on how perplexed he is at why people take offense when he acts offensive made me wonder again about Libertarians.
He writes in "Your Right Not to Be Offended" that decent white people going about their business shouldn't be hassled and badgered by airport security. Airport security he says should be going after those of "the Middle Eastern or Arab or Muslim persuasion." What an obvious and yes offensive expression of racism on his part this is.
Lest you think that this is a rant from some uppity immigrant let me say that I am a third generation American who was born and raised in Michigan. Except for when I was in the US Army I've never lived anywhere but America. Although two of my grandparents were immigrants from Syria and Egypt the appearance of the Massoud family is that of fair skin, light brown or blond hair, green or blue eyes, and who speak perfect English.
Mr. Stone would say that those of " the Middle Eastern or Arab or Muslim persuasion." should be hassled more at airports because those "swarthy" little brown people with funny names are the terrorists. Sad but true he implies racial profiling works because that is who the terrorists are.
But wait. Did this profiling of swarthy little brown people catch such foreign looking terrorists as Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Theodore Kaczynski, and Eric Ruldolf? Oh wait they were white Americans with regular last names. Never mind. My bad.
What Mr. Stone really appears to desire is to be able to express his racist views and conduct himself in a racist manner without being criticized for it. That seems to be his vision of freedom.
I'm OK with that too by the way. As a Freedomista myself I oppose affirmative action, hate crime laws, set-asides and quotas. What I don't support is Mr. Stone's call to make people like me whipping boys and scapegoats who are denied freedom and dignity so he can get through lines at the airport a little faster.
If Mr. Stone wants to act offensive he should not be surprised if people offended by it say so. Why they should hold back and suffer in silence because it offends him he fails to say. So don't bet on that happening any time soon Charlie.
The Libertarian Party seems uniquely cursed in the way it attracts people that are odd or nuts. Remember the senate candidate from Montana who turned himself blue drinking liquid silver? Or the school board candidate in California who was a Satan Worshiper and nudist?
I'll bet not many voters thought him the ideal choice to be in charge of the education of their children. Until the Lib's start acting more culturally mainstream I don't see much of a future for them in an America that is less and less white every year.
And Mr. Stone if you want to continue to write and publish your "views" on swarthy Middle Eastern types try this website: stormfront.org. They are always in the market for people like you.
Sincerely yours,
"Chemical" Ali Massoud is a father, political theorist, apostate Muslim, small business owner, college graduate, crack rifle marksman, cat lover, shrewd investor, US Army veteran, and currently single. He lives in Michigan. To see what he means by "Anarchy," go here. To see why he is called "Chemical Ali" go here.
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The development of a program for the establishment of more profitable farm flocks in Grassy Creek Community
LaRue, William Calfee
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Finally it may be logically assumed that the teacher of agriculture, the county agricultural agent or the agricultural extension worker, who marches forward to his task with the armor of a well organized all-day group over his breast; the protection of a closely co-operating farmers' evening group. like a shirt of mail about his loins; with shin guards as an advance at: effective instruction in the unorganized group; all capped by a well-planned program as an invincible helmet, together with a gleaming sword of' ambition in his trained right arm) will skilfully carve his path toward achievement in the realm of service to the American farmer.
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This work boosted annual income by 30%, Salisbury Hospital grew, and as a result more patients were helped
Front-end tasks for global fashion retailer New Look. Design and UX of new product pages.view site
A huge step forward for this global company specialising in education and study abroad.view site
Front-end work, design/UX and WorldPay styling for legendary toy brand Galt.view site
This Australian based client loved the new identity and website which gave them an immediate standing in the MPS market.view site
Launch site for visionary children's charity, run by kids, providing sports equipment to young people in the developing world.view site
A cutting edge website featured in .Net magazine. Striking images and a monochrome palette were used to showcase products.
Soft, elegant and simple, the Colourcare Cosmetics site engages prospective clients with the ethos of the brand as well as effectively displaying their products.view site
Internet PR News required a huge volume of content on their website. I was able to integrate all the elements without compromising the design.
Wireframing, original photography, illustration and design for world music specialists Network Medien.
Design for a new bike brand called Bikelove …all you need is bikelove!
Modern, masculine and CMYK logotype for Australian Managed Print firm.
A hand-drawn script to convey energy for business coach Georgina Walsh.
New logo for a children's TV production company, works both as a mark and as an animation.
A simple and strong logo for medical charity Remedy.
Part of the NHS and treating skin since 1982 this logo expresses both the ethos and purpose of the brand.
Always worth a visit, a beautifully designed blog and design resource, the tutorials are excellent so go learn something.
This site is a treasure trove of visual inspiration and it usually has me sucked in for a lot longer than planned.
I love this showcase site, it's the first one I was hooked on and the quality is generally good.
A podcast for designers, developers and general webheads, always very interesting.
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By Lilja Sigurdardottir
Published by Orenda Books (1 October 2017)
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher.
Publisher's description
After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonja is struggling to provide for herself and win sole custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer, whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies. Things become even more complicated by the fact that Sonja is in a relationship with a woman, Agla. Once a high-level bank executive, Agla is currently being prosecuted in the aftermath the Icelandic financial crash.
Set in a Reykjavík still covered in the dust of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption, and with a nail-bitingly fast-paced and chilling plot and intriguing characters, Snare is an outstandingly original and sexy Nordic crime thriller, from one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction.
My verdict
Snare is fresh and different, raw yet sophisticated with fleshed out characters and beautiful literary writing. This is a very dark yet easy read, with plenty of heart within its pages.
Both drug-smuggling young mother Sonja and soon-to-retire customs officer Bragi have hard exteriors yet are soft inside once you delve further into their lives. I found myself wanting a happy ending for both characters, even though in Sonja's case I realised I shouldn't - she's smuggling cocaine, a drug that is likely to kill people and ruin lives. Yet I just couldn't help but feel for her, stuck in a situation with no easy way out and driven by her love for her young son. The airport scenes left me holding my breath - would Sonja find a way to beat the system?
Snare is a cat and mouse game. It's a fast paced read, but it's not one filled with car chases. It's a slower, more intelligent and more measured chase. Sonja is always planning ahead, trying to keep one step ahead, but Bragi isn't far behind. He knows something is going on, but isn't quite sure who is involved or how - and even when he works out the who, he realises Sonja isn't a straightforward cocaine drugs mule. She doesn't fit the mould. I loved the depth not only of the characters, but also the situation they find themselves in - even Bragi isn't as 'straight laced' as he appears.
Agla wasn't someone I warmed to so well. She's a businesswoman, and likes to be in control - a major problem for her as when she's with Sonja she isn't in control at all. She becomes someone she doesn't recognise - and someone she isn't sure she wants to be - but just can't help her feelings. She's being investigated for financial crimes - again something that's out of her control, and she feels trapped.
This is a book about love - and how far people will go for it, whatever the consequences. A mother's love, a young son's love, a husband's love, a lover's love ... and maybe even a father's love. Love of money, drugs, sex, thrills and control. It's also a book about hate - and how far people will go for that too.
Set in Iceland, with its short days and volcanic ash at a time of a major financial crash, Snare is a compelling, suspenseful and chilling thriller. I must also add that the translation by Quentin Bates is top notch - it doesn't read like a translation at all. I can't wait for the next book from Lilja Sigurdardottir.


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Section 72.14 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) is Manufacturing Unmarked Plastic Explosives and is extracted below.
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72.14 Manufacturing unmarked plastic explosives etc.
(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person:
(i) engages in the manufacture of a substance; or
(ii) exercises control or direction over the manufacture of a substance; and
(b) the substance is a plastic explosive; and
(c) the plastic explosive breaches the first marking requirement; and
(d) the manufacture is not authorised under section 72.18 or 72.21.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) The fault element for paragraph (1)(b) is recklessness.
(3) Strict liability applies to paragraphs (1)(c) and (d).
Note 1: For the marking requirements, see section 72.33.
Note 2: For defences, see section 72.16.


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Manny Pacquiao Reportedly Taken to Hospital Following Marquez FightDecember 9, 2012
Manny Pacquiao's brutal knockout by the fist of Juan Manuel Marquez has earned him a trip to the hospital.
Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole tweeted out the news:
Manny not coming to presser. Going to hospital for CAT scan— Kevin Iole (@KevinI) December 9, 2012
Anyone who saw Pacquiao laying face down and motionless on the canvas will not be surprised by this news.
UPDATE: Saturday, Dec. 8 at 2:26 a.m. ET by Richard Langford
Well, Manny quickly put to rest any speculation that this might end his career. GMA tweeted out the news.
Pacquiao: (I will) take a rest. After a few months, back to training and back to fight. #PacMarquez— GMA News (@gmanews) December 9, 2012
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In the sixth round, Pacquiao was leaning in on the follow-through of a punch as Marquez loaded up for a monstrous overhand right that caught Manny square in the face. Pac-Man instantly sank to the canvas, and did not move for several anxious moments.
By all visual accounts, he was out cold.
However, Pacquiao did get up, and there was not a lot of medical attention paid to him at the time. He also gave a brief interview after the fight and seemed to be in decent shape, given what he'd just endured.
Still, there is no questioning the decision to send him to the hospital. You can never be too cautious with this kind of injury. Obviously, the potential for some kind of brain injury is huge. The dude just got blasted in the face.
Hopefully the CAT scan doesn't reveal anything concerning, but it will certainly be worth monitoring.
This could easily be the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of Pacquiao's boxing career. He is just 33, but this was his 61st professional fight, and anyone who has followed his career can tell you it has been years since Pac-Man was in his prime.


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Event: Homecoming 2012
Date: October 6, 2012 Duration: 55 minutes
American politics have witnessed intense ideological differences in the past, but something has changed in recent decades that is jeopardizing the ability of the two parties to negotiate and govern. Join a critical discussion on how American politics became so polarized, how the division affects governance and decision-making, and what might be done to break the gridlock in Washington and Sacramento.
Henry E. Brady is Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. A political scientist and economist, Dean Brady is past president of the American Political Science Association and former director of UC's Survey Research Center. His interests include electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, and political polling and policy-oriented surveys.
This event was sponsored by the GSPP Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement.
Webcast also available at: YouTube and UCTV
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Tell Me Something Event at Strand Bookstore – NYC
Help us kick off Oscar week!
Join us on Monday, February 24th at 7pm at the legendary NYC bookstore Strand. Filmmakers Chris Hedgedus & DA Pennebaker, Al Maysles, Rachel Grady, Sam Green and Gary Hustwit will join editor Jessica Edwards to talk advice, Oscars and take your questions. They'll even throw in some tips to win your Oscar pool!
Entry free with the purchase of a book or a $20 Strand gift card. More info here.


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HESPERIA � Lenders have been turning a cold shoulder to an Olympic ice rink complex long enough to delay its opening by a full year.
The sports and recreation venue originally was expected to open this month.
"Unfortunately, the project owner Anthony Liu was impacted by the credit market situation, and he had some difficulty financing the project," Hesperia city spokeswoman Kelly Malloy said.
A lack of funding put on hold plans for construction of an $8.6-million Olympic training facility and ice rink that was supposed to have begun in May, with the center opening by the end of this year.
The facility, the first expansion by Ice Castle in Lake Arrowhead, has secured financing from the nonprofit Enterprise Funding Corp. and does not anticipate any more delays, Malloy said.
The Hesperia Ice Castle project is now scheduled to break ground within the first quarter of 2009 and open by the end of next year, she said.
When it opens, the project will feature a 33,000-square-foot Olympic ice skating and hockey facility, two team locker rooms and showers, a video arcade, vending machines, a pro shop and various concessions, Malloy said.
"We definitely feel that this is something that the High Desert as a whole will benefit from," Malloy said. "A facility like this will provide an entertainment source and structured activities. It will definitely positively impact the area."
Ice Castle is owned by figure skater Liu, a seven-time Australian national champion who has twice competed in the Olympics.
The Hesperia Ice Castle, which will be built along Mariposa Road just north of Main Street, is part of the 32-acre Hesperia Commons Sports and Entertainment Center that also includes Colton Piano.
Owner and developer of Hesperia Commons, Jeff Tallman of LandVest Development, said he has had trouble securing construction loans for another family entertainment anchor that wants to open in the center: "The other anchor is challenged with the same thing all of us are � getting construction loans."
Aside from the anchor tenants, Tallman needs to fill 104,000 square feet of space.
While he has no confirmed tenants for that space, Tallman said various sports-related retailers and fitness franchises have expressed interest in the center if Tallman can secure construction financing � a difficult feat in today's marketplace, he said.
"It's not pretty," Tallman said, "but I have every intention to continue to fight the fight."
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Report from the Legislature
Report from the Legislature
September 10, 2014
The start of a new school year can bring out a range of emotions. It provides a fresh start for
excited parents, students, teachers and support staff. From early-learning to post-secondary,
on behalf of the Government of Saskatchewan, I would like to express my appreciation to all
those who are helping prepare our children and youth for a bright future in Saskatchewan.
Our government is committed to ensuring our schools are optimal learning environments in
which students feel safe. Our Action Plan to Address Bullying and Cyberbullying (which can be
found online at saskatchewan.ca) is one of the many ways we are working to achieve this.
As always, please remember to take extra caution in and around school zones. Over the
summer our government strengthened traffic safety laws in an effort to keep all of us, including
our children, safe. Please be careful and have a great start to the school year.
It has been said that the only day better than today in Saskatchewan, is tomorrow in
Saskatchewan. As high school students start to look at their options post-graduation, it is
encouraging to see so many furthering their education here at home. This is possible because
of the new opportunities a growing Saskatchewan provides. Our government has also provided
record support to make post-secondary education more accessible and affordable.
The Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship, for example, provides up to $500 per year to a
maximum of $2,000 for Grade 12 graduates attending designated Saskatchewan post-
secondary institutions. Our Graduate Retention Program also provides a refund up to $20,000
of tuition fees paid by eligible grads who live in Saskatchewan and who file a Saskatchewan
income tax return. Since 2008, rebates have been provided to 50,000 post-secondary grads.
The Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship provides $5 million to public post-
secondary institutions for scholarships in the areas of innovation and opportunity. Through this,
more than 4,000 students have received scholarships in previous years.
The Saskatchewan Advantage Grant for Education Savings is a new way in which families can
save for their children's post-secondary education. Our government will provide a grant of 10%,
on contributions made since January 1, 2013, into a Registered Education Savings Plan (to a
maximum of $250 per child per year). The maximum lifetime grant is $4,500 per child.
Student Financial Aid is another option for low and middle-income students. In 2014-15, the
Student Aid Fund will provide $32.5 million to support loans, grants and bursaries and
approximately 56% of overall Saskatchewan student financial assistance is non-repayable.
We wish our post-secondary students and recent grads the very best in their studies and future
endeavours. Saskatchewan continues to lead the nation in terms of employment and
opportunities, so we look forward to their contributions to our strong, growing economy.
Saskatchewan's unemployment rate (4.2% in August) was the lowest in Canada for the 20th
consecutive month and strong economic conditions are also helping to drive wages higher. The
average Saskatchewan worker's weekly wages are $980.11, up 3.6% over last year. This is
another positive step when it comes to recruiting and retaining skilled labour. Saskatchewan is
strong and it is encouraging to see steady growth and continued confidence in our province.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
proszę słonia
"do as the elephants do - when they're unhappy, they just disappear." (à bout de souffle)
today, i was sitting around, contemplating elephants, and had a passing thought about polish children's book author ludwik jerzy kern. my first elephant experience was in the form of one of his books, which was read to me when i was very small. in russian it was called listen up, elephant... and i still have the same old copy in my collection, as well as a german version, my elephant is called dominik (which has the same cover illustration as the original polish edition). the 1967 book is about the adventures of a boy named pini and his friend, a porcelain elephant.
i mention jerzy kern because as the thought of him drifted into my mind today, i absentmindedly looked him up and suddenly found that he had passed away yesterday, in krakow, at eighty-nine years old. goodbye, goodbye, and to every elephant that ever vanished: goodbye. you always seem like the last, but a new one comes ambling along when i least expect it.
Posted by yelena bryksenkova at 12:42 AM
Labels: BOOKS, collection, elephants
4 comments:
- Keia Kato-Berndt said...
this is a beautiful post. Old children's book illustrations are the best...
- November 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- konvalia said...
I know this book so well;) there was also a cartoon on tv when I was little. ( I'm from Poland;)
- November 2, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- yelena bryksenkova said...
i know you are! i was curious to see if you will recognize him and comment :)
- November 2, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Praha Papers said...
I have elephants on the brain too. Not sure exactly why. I miss going to Prague Zoo and seeing the elephants there -- will compensate by purchasing the Flensted mobile "Elephant Parade", a classic designed in the late 1970s by the Danish company. Love your travel sketchbook and congratulations on the Urban Outfitters canvas! Beautiful!
- November 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM
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FBI San Diego Announces the 2015 Recipient of the Director's Community Leadership Award
FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Eric Birnbaum is pleased to announce Securing Our eCity (SOeC) as the 2015 recipient of the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award (DCLA). On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, FBI SAC Birnbaum presented the DCLA to SOeC's executive director, Ms. Elizabeth Fraumann, during a ceremony held at the FBI San Diego's Sorrento Valley office. SOeC was selected by the San Diego Division for the work they have done to enhance cyber security awareness to the San Diego community.
The FBI presents this award annually on behalf of the Director of the FBI. The Director's Community Leadership Award was formally created in 1990, as a way to honor individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs, and violence in America. Recipients of this award are nominated by each of the FBI's 56 field offices and are recognized for their service above and beyond the call of duty to help keep America and its residents safe.
As the executive director of the SOeC, Ms. Fraumann's passion and dedication has united the community to work collaboratively to address cyber security. She has been the executive director of SOeC since its inception in 2011. The quality of her leadership is evident in the success of the programs and events created and hosted by SOeC.
One of the most creative events held by SOeC is the San Diego Mayors' Cyber Cup (SDMCC). SDMCC is a cyber hacking competition for high school students. The winning team is presented with a trophy from the mayor of San Diego and provided a one-week cyber security boot camp. SOeC also hosts Cyber Fest, an annual workshop provided to local businesses with the goal of education and awareness regarding cyber security. SOeC has developed creative events to engage the San Diego population in cyber security. This includes the Cross Border Cyber Opportunities event, commemorating National Cyber Security Awareness month and holding a Data Privacy Day. SOeC is committed to educating and protecting businesses and residents against cyber threats and is a true partner in the fight against cyber crime.
Ms. Fraumann is an alumnus of the 2015 San Diego FBI Citizen's Academy. She will join DCLA recipients selected by other FBI field offices across the nation at an awards ceremony to be held in Washington, D.C., this spring where she will be personally recognized and honored by Director Comey.
For more information about Securing Our eCity, visit http://securingourecity.org/ or contact Joice Truban Curry at c3 Communications Inc. by telephone at 858-794-6974 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information about the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award, contact Community Outreach Specialist Yadira Dickey at email@example.com or (858)320-5711.


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USA-Mexican Border 2006
Naco, Arizona.USA.October 21, 2006..Night falls on the fence to deter illegal immigration at this border crossing or port of entry. Thousands of illegal immigrates cross into the USA from in and around this town. The fence extends only a few feet in either direction from the port of entry. The towns' population is mainly Mexican - legal and illegal. .


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Welcome to the Bates College Mathematics Department Newsletter!
Math Council
Math Council hosted several great events this year!
Many thanks to the students running Math Council this year!Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
This past February, we had the amazing opportunity to attend the Tenth Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM). Our journey began with an eye-opening plane ride over the impressively flat terrain of Nebraska. Upon landing, we took a shuttle to our home for the weekend, the Downtown Lincoln Holiday Inn. The next morning, we spent our free time before registration exploring downtown Lincoln. After grabbing a bite to eat at Mom & Pop's diner, we ventured over to the University of Nebraska campus and began our weekend of mathe-magical fun.
The conference began with opening remarks from one of the conference's founders, University of Nebraska professor Judy Walker. In her remarks, she enthusiastically pointed out the wide geographic representation of the 241 conference participants, including a personal acknowledgment of yours truly from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine! After her comments, the three keynote speakers addressed the eager audience. Two of the women currently are professors and the third works for the National Security Agency. The first day of the conference ended with a delicious sit-down dinner where we had the opportunity to mix and mingle with fellow undergraduate students, mathematics professors, and graduate program representatives.
Saturday began bright and early with a morning full of student talks. Becca discussed her thesis research in a talk titled "Vaccination for the Human Papilloma Virus Using Game Theoretic and Epidemiologic Models." The knowledgeable audience was very receptive to Becca's captivating presentation. Following a lunch break, the conference participants attended a poster session in which Kerry presented a poster on her graph theory coursework titled "Beyond Prim and Kruskal: An Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Trees." After the poster session, conference participants had the opportunity to attend two break-out sessions of their choice. The first session focused on the challenges women face in balancing career and family, also known as the "Two-body problem." In the safe space of the conference, the women felt free to open up and genuinely asked for advice from their peers. The experience was impressive and moving. The second discussion talked about what to do with a degree in mathematics. Saturday ended with a casual pizza dinner and the opportunity to chat with conference participants.
On Sunday, we began our final day listening to undergraduate students present their research in more student talks. In the final panel, we heard about possible careers in mathematics. The end of the conference was bittersweet; we were sad to say goodbye to our new friends but happy to return to Bates. As we flew over the Nebraska cornfields, we both agreed that the conference was an amazing opportunity to present our work and meet fellow students and professionals. We also came away with some great Cornhusker souvenirs.Poster Presentations
Math Seniors this year presented exciting posters at the Mt. David Summit!
This was a jam-packed year for lectures, as two different mathematically oriented groups were awarded Mellon grants to foster connections among CBB faculty. Both a Bio/Math Seminar Series and an Algebra-Topology Colloquium Series brought together CBB faculty and outside speakers for fascinating scholarship and potential new collaborations. Each series has its own webpage: Bio/Math Algebra-Topology.
In addition, we had our usual round of CBB seminars, our annual Sampson Lecture, and regular departmental seminars. (Whew, and hurray!) These are listed below.
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