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Bailiff beaten - Attempted to seize JUTC bus
A bailiff was badly beaten yesterday after turning up in Cross Roads, St Andrew, to seize a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus.
Information reaching The Star is that the bailiff was so badly beaten that he was unable to walk properly.
It is reported that the bailiff was in the process of seizing the bus when it was driven to Lyndhurst Road, where he was attacked. Further reports indicate that cops were involved in the assault, however, that has not been confirmed.
On Monday, a bailiff seized three JUTC buses. The bus company is to pay out $48.7 million for the injury of four passengers following a ruling of the Supreme Court in January.
In a report carried in The Gleaner on Tuesday, attorney-at-law, Sean Kinghorn, said attempts to get JUTC to provide any of the outstanding money have been futile.
Senior Superintendent Fitz Bailey, head of the St Andrew Central Police Division, said he was unable to confirm if cops helped to carry out the assault on the bailiff.
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As I write this, I'm listening to the Quarterly Family Caregiver Coalition webinar, hosted by National Alliance for Caregiving. A presentation given about the Shire BRAVE Awards just ended. The award honors "ordinary people who give of themselves by caring for others in a meaningful, dedicated and selfless manner." Each recipient of a BRAVE Award receives $10,000 USD or the local country currency equivalent.
You can learn more about how to nominate yourself or another family caregiver here. You can submit a nomination until June 30, 2013.
An employee from Shire, plc, the award sponsor, spoke about the program and encouraged us to get the word out to you. After his formal presentation, an attendee asked, What are you looking for in the nominations?
The employee answered, We're looking for someone who has put their life on hold to be a family caregiver.
No, I screamed. No!! (A mute button means I'm the only one who heard my screams.)
This is exactly the message we work so hard to change–that you have to give up your life when you are a family caregiver. Oh, my, we work so hard to share suggestions, coping strategies, ideas, support so you don't put your life on hold.
And, just a few moments ago, another presenter during the webinar spoke about nominating a family caregiver for the award who she knows put her life on hold. I'm jumping out of my skin. ARGH!!!!
I don't mean to say that we shouldn't recognize that parts of life go on hold during caregiving. But, I worry so much that the message becomes this: You must put your entire life on hold because of caregiving.
In 1995, I started an award called Caregiver of the Year. (I stopped holding the contest in 2009 because so many companies started doing the same and gave away much better gifts than I ever could. Anyway…) When I created the award, I decided the criteria for the winning five family caregivers must reflect their ability to move through life with caregiving along side. It's not about stopping life for caregiving but about learning how to bring caregiving along.
In my award, an independent panel of judges chose five winners based on the following criteria:
- The caregiver's ability to complement their caregiving responsibilities with their own needs and interests.
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These criteria feature solutions, coping strategies and a life outside of caregiving, which become inspiration for others to think, "Maybe I can do that, too. Maybe I can have a life."
I think it's awesome to honor family caregivers. I love that we have awards now that give money to cash-strapped family caregivers. These awards get the stories out about family caregivers and their incredible impact in their families and our communities. I beg these companies who create these awards to really think about the message they're sending–and to make sure the message focuses on making compromises for caregiving not life sacrifices.
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Hartwick Hosts Annual Halloween Party for CommunityOctober 14, 2013
Hartwick will host its annual community Halloween Harvest Fest on Sunday, October 27 from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. in Golisano Hall on the College's campus. The event is free and the public is welcome to attend.
The party will include activities, games, refreshments, and a costume contest. Following the party, families and friends are invited to go on a guided trick-or-treating tour throughout the residence halls while on campus. Along the trick-or-treating path, there will be games and much more for children and families of all ages to participate in.
"We are so excited to welcome the families of Oneonta to Hartwick College for our annual community Halloween event," said Aimee Boyd, Resident Director of Saxton Hall at Hartwick College. "Our student staff can't wait to see everyone's costumes and show off the hard work they have been putting into games and activities for the kids in our area. We love having the chance to give back to the community that has given so much to us."
Hartwick College welcomes their neighbors in the greater Oneonta area for these events, which are made possible by current Hartwick students who are coordinating all of the activities that will be offered.
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Lessons to learn
My first year at Cal was full of both good and bad experiences. For the most part, most of my bad experiences (academics) were avoidable. But for now, I have to recall what I have done wrong this school year and learn from it.
My greatest mistake this school year was being a little too confident for a final. Throughout the whole semester I had a solid A in one of my classes. I thought the final was going to be easy, so I only studied for about 5 good hours. It was too late when I realized I had more topics to cover. The final came and all the topic I was not able to study for came out. With no doubt, I knew I did BAD on the test. I ended up with a B on my easiest class. Some may think B isn't such a bad grade, but the fact that the class was almost like a retake to me is a humiliation to myself. I guess sometimes people has to learn something the hard way.
Another mistake I had this school year was not taking my time to write my papers. Although I managed to finish my papers on time, I did it the last minute. I barely escaped with it. With the amount of classes I will have next school year, doing the same thing would put me in big trouble.
Lastly, I wasted too much time in front of my computer. Next school year, I am going to move to San Leandro. I won't bring my laptop to school because it is a pain in the back. Hopefully this solves the problem.
Good thing I have 3 more years. Hopefully next time I can stick to my plans. Easy to say, but better than nothing.
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Italy's rich food and wine heritage is as diverse as it is delicious! There's no better way to experience the authentic culture and tradition of Italy's regions than by following your nose and your tastebuds on the Italian food trail.
The picturesque region of Tuscany, home to panforte, pappardelle, porchetta and the world-famous Chianti wine, is one of Italy's true gastronomy highlights. Tuscany's earthy rustic fare is renowned for its simplicity and heartiness. The ultimate comfort food, Tuscan cuisine is all about slow-cooking, farm-fresh seasonal produce and long, laid-back lunches with family and friends.
Tuscany's fertile soils not only produce some of the best grapes and olives in Italy but some of the best game and meat too. The Tuscan diet is rich in wild game, cured meats and home made sausages, as well as legumes, cheese and vegetables.
Meat lovers rejoice! Tuscany's legendary steak florentine awaits – a three inch porterhouse, marinated simply in olive oil and garlic, grilled over hot coals, and served over a bed of arugula or grilled vegetables.
The region is also famous for its porchetta, roast suckling pig, served with a crusty loaf of pane toscano and a wedge of cheese made with sheep's milk, as well as for the classic bean soup, ribollita, thickened with day old bread.
Pappardelle pasta is a staple on most Tuscan menus too often served with a rich sauce such as hare or duck and no culinary visit to Tuscany would be complete without sampling the local truffles. Strong and pungent, the white truffle is cut very thin and used to flavor risotto's, pasta and meat dishes.
Few foods are more synonymous with Italy than pizza, and while you're sure to find great pizza everywhere you go in Italy, nothing competes with sampling some of Italy's best in Naples.
There's pizza and then there's Neapolitan Pizza, so much so that most restaurants in Naples will proudly display the "Vera Pizza Napoletana" sign out front, which means theirs are certified by the pizza governing body as being true examples of the traditional Neapolitan pizza pie.
Pizza in Naples is eaten with a knife and fork, and they come as a single-serving, not sliced. Pick a Napalese pizza up with your hands at your own peril - the cheeses are fresh, which means there's a higher water content that makes its way onto the base when it's cooked which can make for messy eating. Like elsewhere in Italy, the toppings are simple in Naples too - no tandoori chicken here! Think margherita, the classic made with red tomatoes, white mozzarella cheese and a few leaves of fresh green basil, Siciliana with mozzarella and eggplant or Diavola with spicy salami. Bellisimo!
One of Bologna's many nicknames is "La Grassa" or "The Fat One" which alludes to both the city's excellent food and its relative wealth - but eating out in Bologna is far from expensive. In fact, it's almost impossible to pay a lot of money for great, authentic fare in what is arguably Italy's culinary heartland.
Bologna is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy – a heavyweight when it comes to Italian gastronomy and where, amongst other Italian delicacies, parmigiano-reggiano cheese, prosciutto, and balsamic vinegar are all made.
Bologna itself is most famous for its tortellini in brodo, or tortellini pasta served in a light broth, its lasagna (nuff said), mortadella (pork sausage, but definitely not the processed faux kind you might remember from school lunch sandwiches) and of course it's famous namesake, Bolognese sauce. You won't find 'Spaghetti Bolognese' on the menu in Bologna though – the rich meaty tomato sauce we all know and mostly love is actually called 'ragu' in Bologna and its Tagliatelle al Ragú is amongst the mouthwatering signature dishes of this traveler-friendly foodie town.
The island of Sicily has a unique cuisine reflecting it's eclectic history and cultural influences. Most of the dishes you'll find in Sicily will seem Italian – pasta is a staple, as are fresh vegetables and local fish – but some of the flavours that find their way onto your plate aren't common anywhere else in Italy – pistachoes, almonds, chickpeas, even cous cous, reflecting culinary influences from Arabia, North African, Spain and Greece. It makes for a flavor palate that's truly unique in Italy.
One of Sicily's signature dishes is Caponata, an eggplant dish made with sweet vinegar and as you'd expect of an island, seafood is popular and plentiful. Sardines are a common accompaniment to pasta, or served pan friend with vegetables. Sicilians also like their fried treats, including Palermos famous fried chick-pea fritters and arancini – deep-fried balls of rice filled with meat sauce or mozzarella.
Sicily is heaven for the sweet tooth too with local delicacies including cannoli and gelato – and in Sicily, gelato is often served in a sweet brioche bun – decadent but delicious!
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Need to save a favorite tree? Cabling or bracing may be your answer.
Many people call Jimmy's Tree Service trying to save a special tree. When a tree has fallen or branches are splitting or broken it may be time to look into cabling or bracing. If you think your tree could become a hazard, yet do not want it removed, one solution is to stabilize the tree, while another is to simply remove what is under the tree. If that's a picnic table it is easily moved but if it's a patio or pool you may want to be more proactive.
After assessing a tree there are several reasons an arborist might recommend cabling. These are:
Cabling is used in crown of the tree where weak branches and leaders (large, usually upright stems) are cabled to strong ones. At Jimmy's Tree Service we prefer to use Cobra dynamic cabling, which uses elastic materials that will allow some movement in the tree canopy. Once a tree is cabled the cables should be inspected annually and replaced when necessary.
When a tree trunk requires direct support bracing may be an option. Bracing provides rigid support to the tree. Priority care should be given to trees with exposed roots.
An arborist will suggest bracing to:
Small, weak oak stabilized by bracing.
Bracing can be used to hold rubbing limbs together or apart, or bracing may done after a limb has split or tree is leaning or has toppled.
This oak tree toppled over during a storm and had exposed roots. The tree was lifted with a crane, the exposed roots covered, and support braces installed.
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Earl L. Marsland, 69, of Cumberland, died Friday at Home & Hospice Care of RI, Providence. He was survived by his significant other of Pauline C. Lovenbury and the brother of James L. Marsland and Willard �Lenny� L. Marsland Jr. both of Cumberland and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Marsland was employed as a chemical worker for Air Products until his retirement. He also served in the US Navy. His funeral and burial were private.
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Thomas: Famous lasting words about elections
From Will Rogers to Yogi Berra, immortal quotations for Tuesday
Whether your favorite candidates win or lose on Tuesday, and whether your pet propositions are OK'd or nixed, look on the bright side: We should be safe from those annoying how-to-vote phone calls and election junk mail, starting Wednesday.
It's hard to believe those mailers are effective in wooing voters. There are about 100 apartment units where I live, and all the mailboxes are in one wall on the building's main floor. There's a trash barrel right next to the mailboxes, and most of the election campaign mailers get stuffed into the trash without a second look.
Many of us registered voters, I would guess, let their answering machines screen out the calls trying to tell us how to vote. Like the old joke goes, don't confuse us with the facts — our minds are made up.
For those of us who vote by mail, it's doubly annoying to get calls telling us how to vote — after we've already mailed in our ballots.
Even if you're on the national Do Not Call registry, you're fair game for elections because Congress — all politicians — wrote two loopholes in the law creating the registry: charities and politics.
Whatever else I might write in regard to elections, someone else has already said it — and said it better. Here are some relevant samples — with some irrelevant asides:
— Will Rogers: "Politics has got so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to get beat with."
Rogers was writing seven decades ago, in the 1930s — when everything was much cheaper than it is today. Imagine his reaction if he could have foreseen the multimillions spent campaigning in Tuesday's election.
Right here in our own backyard, Tony Strickland, Hannah-Beth Jackson and several special-interest groups have reported raising more than $8 million campaigning in the 19th state Senate's District. That figures out to about $16 per registered voter in the district.
— Richard Armour: "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. "
— Bill Vaughan: "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
— Dan Bennett: "An elected official is one who gets 51 percent of the vote cast by 40 percent of the 60 percent of voters who registered."
We may hope that Tuesday's election will refute that quote. Voter registration for this election has been setting records, and most of those folks are expected to vote.
— James Freeman Clarke: "A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation."
— Adlai Stevenson: "The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving yourself unworthy of winning."
— W.C. Fields: "Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."
There was an attempt once to put "none of the above" on the ballot in California, as a vote of no-confidence in all the nominees. It failed, as it should have since there was nothing remotely useful in having that choice on the ballot, no matter what the final tally.
Way back when California Lutheran College was just that — before it became a university — there was a campus election to choose a nickname for athletic teams. There were several choices, including Kingsmen, which eventually became the nickname. (That was before the advent of women's athletics, when the name got a bit awkward.)
Also on the ballot was "none of these" — and in the nature of campus mischief, that got the most votes. But you can see the absurdity of cheerleaders imploring the student body to chant: "Win, none of theses!"
— Robert Orben: "Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
Whatever the pre-election polls, the best advice — for both Democrats and Republicans, and especially independents — is this: Forget about the polls and remember the immortal words of Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over."
— Chuck Thomas is a Star columnist whose column appears on the Opinion pages each Saturday. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Boca Raton, March 2, 2011 – Flagship Solutions Group, Inc. today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the 4th Annual IBM Tivoli Award in the Integrated Service Management Excellence category.
The IBM Tivoli Awards recognize IBM Business Partners that have leveraged the latest Service Management technology to demonstrate a unique and powerful solution that delivers the visibility, control and automation need to industrialize business and IT operations.
"We are very proud to be recognized for meeting the high standards that determine Tivoli Awards recipients," said Mark Wyllie, CEO, Flagship Solutions Group. "This award inspires us to continue to provide cutting edge technology services that will make it easier and more cost efficient for our customers to manage and grow their business."
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3.28.10 | Men's Golf
Baker men take seventh place in season opener
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -The Baker University Men's Varsity and JV Golf squads competed in their first spring tournament, the Evangel University Invitational at Rivercut Golf Course in Springfield, MO.
3.29.10 | Baseball
Cummins throws a gem, Baker splits again
Sophomore Chris Cummins pitched seven scoreless innings in the 2-0 win.
LAMONI, IOWA - The Baker University baseball team split a doubleheader with Graceland University for the second consecutive day on Monday afternoon. Baker won the first game 2-0 and dropped the finale 8-2.
4.2.10 | Softball
Baker splits doubleheader with Benedictine
- Brooke Allen leads the Wildcats with a .372 batting average and .436 slugging %.
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. - The Baker women's softball team finally got its chance to play in front of their own fans on Thursday afternoon. Baker won the first game 4-3 and dropped the nightcap 10-4.
The Wildcats took a 2-0 lead in game one thanks to an RBI single and solo home run from sophomore Allie Losey. The lead didn't last. Benedictine scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning to even the score at 2-2. But the Wildcats had a flare for the dramatic. Baker won the game in the bottom of the seventh inning courtesy of a single up-the-middle by junior Annie Hannon.
4.3.10 | Baseball
Wildcats sweep Benedictine College
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – The Baker University baseball picked up two huge conference victories this past weekend sweeping Benedictine College Saturday afternoon.
Sophomore Chris Cummins pitched a complete game, and the Baker baseball team escaped with a victory in game one.
4.4.10 | Athletics
Baker track and field highlights weekend events
- The Baker 4x100 relay team set a new school record at ESU.
Track and Field
The Baker track and field teams were back in action this weekend when they traveled to the ESU State Farm Relays in Emporia, Kan. The teams didn't dissapoint. The Baker men's 4x100 team (Hannon, Harris, Anderson, Okiomah) set a new school record with a time of 42.12, surpassing the previous record of 42.65 set in 2006 by Randle, Hubbard, Gleason, and Pitts at the Simpson Invitational.
JL Anderson and Jeremiah May were also successful in qualifying for the 2010 NAIA Outdoor National Championships with their respective performances in the 100 meter hurdles and javelin.
4.5.10 | Baseball
Cummins named HAAC Pitcher of the Week
- Sophomore Chris Cummins was named HAAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday.
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. - Baker Wildcats left-hander Chris Cummins was tabbed HAAC Pitcher of the Week the conference announced on Monday afternoon.
The Corona, California native recorded two complete-game victories against Graceland University and Benedictine College. Cummins racked up 16 strikeouts with just five walks while posting a 1.93 ERA. On the season, Cummins owns a 3-0 record with a 2.83 ERA.
4.6.10 | Football
Former Avila head coach Bruce Young returns to Baker
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – The Baker University football staff is pleased to announce the addition of former Baker assistant coach and Avila head coach Bruce Young to the coaching staff.
Young returns to Baker after serving as head coach at Avila University for the past five years. During his tenure at Avila, Young graduated 50 of 52 seniors, raised the team grade-point average from 2.2 to 2.8 and coached 10 academic All-Americans.
A member of the Missouri High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame, Young enjoyed success at Norborne, Marceline and Ray-Pec high schools. Young was an assistant coach at Baker University for five seasons before taking over Avila's program.
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Baker men take fourth at Missouri Valley Invitational, women grab second
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well they are all gone now. I couldn't manage to grab one up
D'oh!!!!! They were still showing as "only a few left" but you can't actually add them to your cart. I guess they sold out pretty quick. Someone probably bought all of them.
Edited by ashleyb on 06/13/2009 19:09:40 MDT.
might want to try again- I just got one- 6' left zipper for $150 :)thanks for posting!Mike
Do I need it?!?
Thanks I actually got one this time.
hard 2 pass @ that price :) worse case scenario a guy could probably sell it for a profit
oh wells
I tried for a Long this morning. If anybody went crazy and bought all the longs, I can help relieve some of the buyers remorse.
sorry meant to start a new thread for the zealot
Edited by pcaulder on 08/14/2009 18:58:14 MDT.
D'oh again!!!!!Dang this is frustrating... so close and yet so far! Especially when you go to the moosejaw page and it seems to suggest there are still a couple in stock. Excitement! But then of course you can't actually add them to your cart. I thought there was something wrong with my browser, so frantically installed a new one, updated my flash player etc and only then realised that they were sold out. Not sure why the moosejaw page can't keep up-to-date. If it can't be added to your cart, why not just show the stock as none left?BTW, there is a 6' bag available for $210 which is still a great deal.I really need a long unfortunately. If anyone wants to sell one, even at a bit of a profit, I'd gladly buy one off you!Even better, next time someone here spots them on sale for $150 how about buying a whole bunch of them and then selling them on gearswap to the rest of us poor buggers who are too slow!
BTW, Patrick, how did you manage to find about this deal... TWICE!? If there's a mailing list I'm missing out on I'd love to know which. Or are you just cruising the gear sites every day?!
Actually the first time, I just happened to be on moosejaw and couldn't believe the price was so low, and then today I saw on here where somebody brought up the old thread. The first time I hesitated about 5 mins and missed out, but I jumped first thing this time and got lucky I guess.
Well you have great timing!I'm usually lurking around most hours of the day (I'm working long hours in front of a computer at the moment) but have twice been slightly too late!
Oh yea if anybody jumps on the regular use the Supersale coupon code for an extra 10% off.
I had an internal struggle over what I should spend my very meager amount of cash on and the bag won. When I went to checkout it left my cart and wasn't in my order. What a CRAZY deal.
I called a competitor for a price match.They were still showing being available at Moosejaw. They guy on the phone laughed .He said that was 40.00 below cost.I don't know why they would not match price :( Poo Jim
Hello everyone. You can get the6' right zip for 189.00with supersale coupon. That means they were 135.00 earlier.I don't feel good anymore. Jim
$135!! Holy cow that's nuts. I wonder why a few more suddenly appeared? Maybe they found some lying around the warehouse. Pretty strange though and probably the most screaming deal I've ever seen for a WM bag anywhere.
"probably the most screaming deal I've ever seen for a WM bag anywhere."I doubt if we see any of these blowout sales again, now that the economy is quickly recovering from the recession.
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Play begins Friday in individual singles and doubles competition and will conclude Sunday. The Lady Demons play next weekend in Lafayette before hosting their own tournament Oct. 11-12.
Returners Polina Konop, Tatiana Larina, Nataly Krutova and Amy Williams will represent NSU in the Rice Invitational. Konop, Larina and Krutova won All-Southland Conference honors last spring, with Konop and Larina filling the top two singles slots and Krutova combining with Konop for the No. 2 doubles all-conference award.
"Although we want to see how far each player has progressed since day one of practice this fall, we certainly expect our upperclassman to have some strong results this weekend," said coach Patric DuBois. "The fall is not only for improving our games for the spring team season, but also for our players to gain ranking points in singles and doubles towards the ITA regional and national rankings.
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To Mississippians and Ole Miss Rebel fans
As a Texan and Texas Aggie, we took the trip to Jackson and then to Oxford for the football game. I want to express my sincere appreciation to the people of Mississippi for their hospitality.
Everyone from Jackson to Grenada to Oxford was polite, helpful and courteous. To the Ole Miss fans, we appreciate the hospitality during our visit to your campus and tailgating at The Grove. While the game ended in our favor, the Rebel fans made this an experience we'll cherish.
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1. G-20 of new beginning
The world is divided into different groups, asked developed and developing economics. G-8 is a group of eight countries which are economically most Edwards countries of the World. On the other hand, G-5 is a group of five countries which are the developing economics of the world. Every year, the heads of the eight states meet informally in bun of the eight countries discussed the one issues. Since last five years, whenever this group meet, they invite G-5 also. The aim being exchanged ideas between their loved and loving nations to stop this yet to, the meeting of G-8 boss had in Italy the head of G-5 but also invited. G-8 Countries
There are USA, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. G-5 Countries
These are India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.
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It is now recognized as the main bottom to discuss key economic problems raised in the Ward. In addition to G-8 and G-5 countries, the other economic included in the group of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, South Korea, Australia, Argentina and European Union. Few years back the meeting was headed at Pittsburgh, USA on 24 September 2009. It was being debated by the West and ugly at that no solution can be found to the recession and other is of the economic rebound the participation of the developing comics. The important the condition at the meet. Stimulus package to continue as the economic showing signs of recovery. Developing board succeeded in getting a higher order by 5% at the IMF. Foreign investment will be speed-ed up forbidding infrastructure as to what countries. The economic short discredit protectionism. The meeting was a great success. This had lifted in signs, showing recovery in the economic of world. The outcome of the summit is very encouraging to India and developing world. It is a good beginning that court late to major gains of the world community.
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St. Francis Barracks
St. Francis Barracks (1765-1900, 1907-Present) - First established as a military barracks in 1765 by British forces in present day St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. Active Florida National Guard post. Named for St. Francis in 1881. Also known as State Arsenal and St. Augustine Arsenal.
St. Francis Barracks Early History
The original structure began as part of the chapel and convent of Convento de San Francisco established by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in 1588. The Convento de San Francisco buildings were rebuilt with coquina walls after 1702 after several fires and conflicts destroyed the wooden structures.
British Period (1763 - 1783)
In the Treaty of Paris (1763) the Spanish ceded Florida to the British. During the British occupation of Florida between 1763 and 1783 the existing buildings were converted to military use and several additional buildings were constructed, one of which, the Kings Bakery, has survived and been restored. The British used the barracks to house the garrison for the nearby Fort St. Mark (Castillo de San Marcos under Spanish rule).
Second Spanish Period (1783-1821)
With the Treaty of Paris (1783) control of Florida returned to the Spanish. The barracks was also used by the Spanish to house the garrison for the the renamed Castillo de San Marcos.
U.S. Period (1821-1900)
The Adams-Onis Treaty (ratified in 1821) gave control of Florida to the United States and the Castillo de San Marcos was renamed as Fort Marion in 1825. The first use of the newly acquired buildings of the barracks was as a jail. In 1832, Congress set aside the barracks land as a military reservation.
Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
The Second Seminole War began on Christmas day 1835 with the massacre of 107 officers and men under the command of Major Francis L. Dade by hostile Seminole Indians. It was during the Second Seminole War that the south end garden of the reservation came into general use as a post cemetery. At the end of the conflict in 1842, a solemn ceremony took place that moved the remains of the officers and men of Dade's massacred command from the site of the massacre to the post cemetery at the barracks garden. The remains of Dade's command and eventually some 1468 officers and men killed in the Second Seminole War were interred in vaults under three coquina stone pyramids that remain there today in what became the St. Augustine National Cemetery in 1881.
U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
The Barracks was not garrisoned at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War and only a single caretaker ordnance sergeant was present when local militia troops demanded that the caretaker surrender both the St. Francis Barracks and nearby Fort Marion. The sergeant surrendered the keys to both facilities and received a receipt for them. Fort Marion and St. Francis Barracks were returned to Union hands when St. Augustine was taken back by Union forces on 11 Mar 1862.
After the war, in 1867, the barracks were refurbished and suites were provided for the officers. In 1881, the title "St. Francis Barracks" came into use while the 5th U.S. Artillery garrisoned the post. Separate officer quarters were built in the early 1880s while the post was under the command of Bvt. Brigadier General Frederick T. Dent who was a friend and brother-in-law to then President Ulysses S. Grant.
The U.S. Army abandoned the post in 1900 and leased the property to the State of Florida on 15 Aug 1907. On 13 Dec 1915, a fire destroyed the upper floor of the old barracks building. It was rebuilt in 1921 and the property was donated to the State of Florida for use by the Military Department of the State.
Current Status
Currently the Florida Military Department Headquarters and the St. Augustine National Cemetery in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. The post contains historical buildings dating back to the British era including the restored barracks building and the restored Kings Bakery building. Also present are restored officer quarters buildings from the 1880s and more modern periods. All of these buildings are currently in use. A significant part of the reservation is now the St. Augustine National Cemetery which is small by national cemetery standards but very historic. The cemetery contains the remains of the officers and men killed in the 1835 Dade Massacre that signaled the start of the Second Seminole War. All of the Dade Massacre victims are interred under three coquina rock pyramids with a marble monument to all the casualties of the Seminole Wars. The vaults under the three pyramids contain the individually unidentified remains of 1468 officers and men killed in the Second Seminole War including the Dade Massacre victims.
Location: 108 Marine Street in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida.
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Lat: 29.885708 Long: -81.309640
- Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 201
- North American Forts - St. Francis Barracks
- Wikipedia - St. Francis Barracks
- "The Dade Massacre" (by A. H. Roberts, Florida Historical Society Quarterly, 5:123‑138): includes a brief description of the mass interment ceremony at St. Francis Barracks, pp136‑138.
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Ashley Lelie is a typical 30-year-old University of Hawaii student who earned a few million playing in the National Football League.
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"He can talk to kids personally off the field," UH coach Greg McMackin said.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Garrett Richards threw three shutout innings, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 3-2 win over an Arizona Diamondbacks split-squad on Monday.
The Diamondbacks failed to hit the ball out of the infield against Richards, a projected starter. Richards gave up an infield single to Martin Prado and a bunt single to Ender Inciarte. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter.
Brandon McCarty, the Diamondbacks' likely No. 5 starter, was equally impressive, tossing five innings of three-hit ball.
McCarthy allowed only a single to Luis Jimenez, a double to Collin Cowgill and a bunt single to Efren Navarro. He struck out two and walked one.
"A really good game for him," Gibson said. "He kept the ball down and he had good late life."
The Angels pushed across a run thanks to a two-base throwing error on a pickoff attempt by Diamondbacks pitcher Eury De la Rosa. The error set up a sacrifice fly by J.B. Shuck.
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Floods in Somerset look set to spark a Commons row as the Government is accused of misleading the public over how much it is spending on flood defences.
As the row over dredging continues, Prime Minister David Cameron and Environment Secretary Owen Paterson have come under fire for claiming the Government is spending more money on defences than previously.
Critics say Defra officials failed to mention that the spending figures included millions of pounds of contributions expected from developers, councils and other non-government sources.
The row erupted as Somerset MP Ian Liddell-Grainger secured an adjournment debate in the House of Commons in which he intends to highlight what he calls the "catastrophic" failings of the Environment Agency.
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Next Wednesday MPs will hear accusations that the agency is failing to maintain the dredging of the rivers Parrett and Tone to save money, a claim the agency denies.
But as conservationists and farmers went into battle over dredging, Mr Paterson came under fire for claiming "this Government is spending more on flood defences than any previous government".
Updated Defra figures show the Government is spending £2.34 billion in the current four-year spending review period (2011–2015) compared with £2.37 billion spent in the previous four years (2007-2011). His claims are based on partnership funding from non-government sources which is expected to reach £148 million over the current spending period.
Mr Cameron told the Commons earlier this month: "In this current four-year period, we are spending £2.3 billion, compared with £2.1 billion in the previous period." It later emerged that the PM's figure of £2.3 billion was for the period 2010-11 to 2013-14, which includes the final year of the last Labour government's financial commitments, when spending reached a high of £670 million. The £2.1 billion was for 2006-7 to 2009-10.
Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Guy Shrubsole said: "Owen Paterson's own department has now been forced to admit it has cut flood defence spending, despite claims to the contrary by the beleaguered Environment Secretary. On the basis of these figures, it appears both Mr Paterson and the Prime Minister have misled Parliament and the public. They must apologise, but most of all they need to get serious about defending the country from increasing flooding as climate change worsens."
Shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle said: "The Prime Minister must now stop repeating his misleading claim that more is being spent in the current four-year period than in the previous four years, when these new figures reveal that is simply not true. The Government should also stop including money that they hope to attract from external contributions but have so far failed to secure."
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I'm offended! Not as a Polish, but as a comedian.
"This list is retarded. It reprimands FDR for not opposing his own ally while the Andrew Jackson gets off the hook for Forcing an Eviction that killed thousands. Indian Removal act > Iraqi coup."
We already know about Jackson. Its well documented
And Truman has a lower rating than Bush.
This is only a list of great presidents.
And don't link Truman to Bush by saying "spreading freedom"; it's not some magic, witty slight that makes Americans melt. You're not clever, you're a dick.
Someone needs to brush up on their history.
And they never even mentioned Japanese Internment in FDR's thing. That's like suspending Habeus Corpus-lite.
But seriously, who needs Poland anyways...oh I forgot, sausages (joke btw, to any offended)
As an aside, it was proof right there that FDR was not a good President. Being weak in negotiations to appease a tyrannical government was ludicrous. I guess FDR forgot that by appeasing a tyrannical government ten years earlier let Hitler put the world into this war.
Terribly short-sided and one of the biggest contributors to America's current long-term problems. That's why there's a two-term limit mister Roosevelt.
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Born in Pawtucket, where she lived until 2006, she was the loving daughter of the late John Frances Noonan and Yvonne (Valiquette) Noonan, and sister of the late Elaine (Noonan) DeCarlo. A lifelong resident of Pawtucket, she attended St. Leo the Great School and St. Mary's Academy Bay View, from which she graduated in 1958. She completed her degree in Radiology from Roger Williams School of Radiology in 1960. Following her graduation, she worked at Roger Williams Medical Center, until she was married in 1961. Much of the next twenty years was spent raising her family, and attending Pineview Little League and Pawtucket Youth Hockey games.
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Bleg: book recommendations for an undergraduate July 3, 2009Posted by Ben Webster in blegs.
Following Emily's advice, I recently signed up to be mentor in the AWM Mentor Network. It's been pretty good thus far (I recommend it to any of you who would like to do some menting), but I got a request from my mentee that I thought some of our audience might have better ideas about than me.
What math books would you suggest for relatively casual summer reading for an undergraduate math major finishing their third year? This is not the sort of thing I think about a lot, but I know a reasonable number of readers have a lot more experience with young mathematicians than I do.
- 1. Emmanuel Kowalski - July 3, 2009
Maybe Hardy and Wright's "An introduction to the theory of numbers"? For someone interested in number theory, it's still very nice and because it has many independent chapters, it is quite suitable for casual reading. Some chapters are still, to my mind, the best introduction to their topic (for instance the one about the order of magnitude of arithmetic functions).
It is not very abstract (which may or may not be considered an advantage), and many important results are proved in three or four different ways, so one learns many nice tricks and techniques. And although I don't really have much experience suggesting books for undergraduates, I can say that this was the first "real" math book I read, at a fairly similar age.
In general, for getting a broad and pleasant overview of "classical" mathematics, I like English textbooks of that period (e.g., Whittaker and Watson's "A course on modern analysis" might also be interesting).
- 2. taylor - July 3, 2009
rudin's real and complex analysis
- 4. Steven Sam - July 3, 2009
One book I really liked as an undergrad is Computing the Continuous Discretely by Beck and Robins. It's even freely available at http://math.sfsu.edu/beck/ccd.html
It doesn't require too much mathematical knowledge. The topics are roughly: integer point enumeration related theorems for polytopes, variations of such things, discrete Fourier analysis, and Dedekind sums.
- 5. TooMuchCoffeeMan - July 3, 2009
It might be a bit dry at first, but Korner's "Fourier Analysis" branches off into some nicely chosen tangents and applications. In view of comment #1, perhaps worth noting that one of the toy applications given early on is the Weyl equidistribution theorem, and that the last theorem of the book is Dirichlet's on primes in arithmetic progressions.
Am very fond of the book, whose structure is such that even if the reader is put off by the (relatively low-level but grindsome) hacking with continuity and epsilons, flicking ahead will bring one to little historical discursions – Bachelier, Gibbs, Watt, Kelvin, Pearson and Haldane all get mentions off the top of my head. And surely gratuitous use of Keats has to count for something?
Also, always good to remind people of Sir Cyril Burt and his uncannily precise correlation coefficients…
- 6. Allen Knutson - July 3, 2009
I remember greatly enjoying Manfred Schroeder's "Number theory in science and communication", but it may be too easy, and I may have the author wrong.
"Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik is a great read.
- 8. Anonymous - July 3, 2009
It really depends on what "casual reading" means and how much background the student has. A lot of the suggestions here are fantastic books (Concrete Mathematics is one of my very favorites, and I also loved Korner's Fourier Analysis book), and they'd be perfect for an ambitious student who really wants to learn something serious. However, even very good undergraduates at most universities may find them pretty time-consuming (with the exception of Journey Though Genius). Here are some more accessible suggestions, which could definitely be considered casual reading:
Anything by William Dunham, Underwood Dudley, Constance Reid, Ian Stewart, or Martin Gardner.
The Book of Numbers, by Conway and Guy
The Pleasures of Counting, by Korner
The Man Who Knew Infinity, by Kanigel
Goedel, Escher, Bach, by Hofstadter
Flatland, by Abbott
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, by Doxiadis
How to Solve It, by Polya
- 9. shady - July 3, 2009
Hermann Weyl – On the Idea of Riemann Surfaces
Edward Nelson – Radically Elementary Probability Theory
- 10. onymous - July 3, 2009
Milnor, Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint. Short, clear, informative, and inspiring.
- 11. Suggestion - July 3, 2009
Andreas Gathmann's lecture notes on Algebraic Geometry. (Downloadable for free–check them out using Google.)
They require only a course in undergrad abstract algebra, and are surprisingly self-contained and carefully worked out. A real pleasure to dig through! And they bring together so many areas of mathematics, from geometry to topology to algebra to calculus.
- 12. rmb - July 3, 2009
I loved Ireland and Rosen's A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory. It gives tastes of modern topics in a surprisingly low-tech way, while not forcing the reader to wade through a mess of computations.
- 13. tdstephens3 - July 3, 2009
Saunders Mac Lane and Garret Birkhoff's Algebra makes for great light reading when algebra is still new – and then it makes for some rigorous re-reading when algebra is no longer new.
And anything read on linear algebra will pay off handsomely in the last year of the standard undergraduate curriculum.
- 15. Alex Hoffnung - July 4, 2009
Conceptual Mathematics: A first introduction to categories by Lawvere and Schanuel is definitely light and even conversational for most of the book. I won't try to sell it anymore except to say that it was very useful and enjoyable for me a few years back.
- 17. estraven - July 4, 2009
I have a list of books which would be fine for undergraduates in Europe, but maybe not for americans (might be too difficult).
For algebraic geometry there's a very VERY VERY beautiful book by Karen Smith and three more (sorry folks, I know Karen personally and the other names are mostly ten letters long and finnish).
If she likes exercises and hands-on computations (I don't) there's also Miles Reid's undergraduate algebraic geometry – the last, historical chapter is worth reading anyway.
Cours d'arithmetique of Serre. I think there should be an english edition available.
I second Milnor. It was the textbook of my second year course and I really loved it.
Also Micheal Artin's algebra book, which wasn't there when I was a student.
I also loved Topology by Ja"nich (that I'm sure exists in english).
And I'm not sure what's wrong with Real and Complex Analysis. It's a lovely book, and I read it as a third year student.
There's a somewhat dated, but wellwritten and elementary introduction to "all of mathematics" by Dieudonné, I think in english.
@Hoffnung (what a beautiful surname!) Thanks for the suggestion, I never know what to give to start undergraduates in category theory in a very soft way.
- 18. Anonymous - July 4, 2009
I would recommend
1. Princeton companion to mathematics. Ed. Tim Gowers.
2. Proofs from the Book. By Aigner and Ziegler.
However, if the mentee already has a preference, the advise would depend on it.
- 19. Andy P. - July 4, 2009
Two books I found quite inspiring as an undergraduate were "Elliptic Functions and Elliptic Integrals" by Prasolov and Solovyev and "Knots, links, braids, and 3-manifolds" by Prasolov and Sossinsky. The first is probably a bit more accessible, but both are very well-written and have minimal prerequisites.
- 20. Greg Kuperberg - July 4, 2009
A lot of the recommendations that people have made aim pretty high. They might work better at the graduate level, or for the very top undergraduates.
Here are some recommendations from me. They aren't exactly easy either, but they may be a bit better, and in any case they are fun.
1) Winning ways for your mathematical plays, by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy
2) Enumerative combinatorics, by Richard Stanley
3) Quantum computation and quantum information, by Nielsen and Chuang
4) Tilings and patterns, by Grunbaum and Shepard (this one could be the most accessible of the lot)
5) Knot theory, by Livingston (I haven't read this one, but it looks good)
- 21. Charlie C - July 4, 2009
I second Alex Hoffnung (15.) re Conceptual Mathematics by Lawvere and Schanuel. It is a great introduction to category theory, full of examples and helpful exercises, and strong on motivation. I am not a mathematician, and I am making good progress, so maybe it would be considered too elementary. However, summer is here, the beach beckons, Wikipedia may not always be at hand, … so it might be just the thing.
- 22. David Ben-Zvi - July 4, 2009
For an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate I would recommend some of the expository articles in the Bulletin, as a way of gaining a broader sense of various areas before diving too deeply into a particular one. My favorite in this category is George Mackey's Harmonic Analysis as the Exploitation of Symmetry, a great historical introduction to representation theory.
- 23. Mikael Vejdemo Johansson - July 4, 2009
The Smith-and-the-finns book on algebraic geometry is a very pleasant read, and the Knot book is supremely suitable even for more junior interested students than undergraduates.
My own personal favourite for algebraic geometry, though, was Ideals, Varities and Algorithms – which I read for a summer vacation read during my own undergraduacy; and for topology, I prefer Hatcher to Jänick.
- 24. Andy P. - July 4, 2009
Another very nice book for undergraduates would be Hurewitz's book on ODE's. It's short and very easy to read, but it contains lots of nice things that don't appear in the usual undergraduate courses. It's similar in that way to Arnold's book, but Hurewitz's books is quite a bit more accessible.
When I was an undergraduate, I also did a reading course on Hurewitz and Wallman's book on dimension theory. It's probably too much for the casual student, but I found it to be wonderfully inspiring.
- 25. Anon - July 4, 2009
How about John Stillwell's Naive Lie Theory?
- 26. some_ grad - July 4, 2009
Ahem… I will like to add :
Fulton : Introduction to algebraic curves
Serre: Course in Arithmetic
Arnold: Course in classical mechanics(if the student is sufficiently interested in geometry)
Ordinary differential equations
Guillemin Pollack: Introduction to Differential topology
Halmos : Finite dimensional vector spaces
Davenport : The higher arithmetic
Joe Harris : Algebraic Geometry
I must confess that may be except for Davenport, for anyone with a modest (undergrad) background, all other books aren't really 'casual' reading but then they start from the basics and push you to the limits and that is definitely fun :)
- 27. Joel Kamnitzer - July 4, 2009
Lie groups and physics by Sternberg
It's a great intro to representation theory and also has lots of physics applications.
- 29. CG - July 5, 2009
Gabor Toth's Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry is a good book on very (and many) interesting topics that never see the daylight in most undergrad curricula. It's on an assortment of topics, for example: it talks about elliptic functions, introduces Fuchsian groups, Classification of finite Mobius groups, Klien's theory of the icosahedron applied to get an analytic solution to the quintic. Tons of interesting problems (hand-held euler's theorem on convex polyhedra). Little prereqs.
Or, how about J.W. Anderson's Hyperbolic Geometry. It's great for self-study. The book is short and can be leisurely completed in less than two months.
Or, Hartshorne's Geometry: Euclid and Beyond.
- 31. asarwate - July 5, 2009
Visual Complex Analysis (Needham)
Fourier Analysis (Körner)
Winning Ways (mentioned earlier)
Surreal Numbers
or possibly something in game theory — the compleat strategist is a little dated but it's an ok start, and maybe pitched at the right level (since the first three above may be a bit more technical than light summer reading).
- 33. David - July 6, 2009
Hi Ben,
This network sounds interesting, but do you know if there are any similar "mentor" groups that allow for male mentees as well?
- 35. Phil H - July 7, 2009
Since you've specified 'relatively casual summer reading', I can recommend Yandell's "The Honors Class Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers". It doesn't shy away from discussing the actual mathematics involved, but you don't need more than undergraduate mathematics to understand it. It also provides a lot of insight about the process of "doing mathematics".
- 36. Scott Carnahan - July 7, 2009
A lot of the books listed above are rather serious texts, and I have trouble seeing how they can be considered "relatively casual summer reading". In particular, I agree with David Speyer about Calculus on Manifolds. It was quite dense, it failed to provide any big picture view, and as my first encounter with tensors, it made me horribly confused for a rather long time. Despite the intimidating size, I found Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler a much better introduction to a similar collection of topics, although I'd still hesitate to call it casual reading.
There seem to be a number of decent expository books on math history and neat theories or theorems. Marcus du Sautoy's book on moonshine has a casual introduction to groups, along with interesting sketches of the personalities behind the classification of finite simple groups. I've heard that Constance Reid writes good history, although I haven't read any of it myself. If you like romantic historical fiction with a big heap of sexism, you can try E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics – I've heard that a lot of mathematicians found it inspirational.
- 41. rmb - July 7, 2009
How about GEB?
- 42. Steven Heilman - July 8, 2009
Klaus Janich's "Topology" is really a pleasure to read. The entertaining style and the choice of proofs (i.e. the use of a bit of handwaving) keeps the reader happy and free from being bogged down in details. It is an undergraduate text, so it is not overly advanced, but it does include introductory remarks on algebraic topology. It is also small and lightweight so you can carry it wherever you go. Once you get home then I suppose you read PCM, the less mobile of the two.
- 43. nsp - July 8, 2009
There is a delightful book on inequalities by Michael Steele titled:
The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (Maa Problem Books Series.) (Paperback)
It almost reads like a novel, with a wealth of information about how to think about inequalities. I heartily recommend this to every one.
- 45. nobody - July 9, 2009
Re: being blown away by Tate's thesis.
I had the same experience at about the same time in my undergrad career. I'd recommend reading the original paper, from Cassells-Frohlich, as it is very well-written and entertaining. It's also an inspiring source of side-projects at the undergraduate level which are suitably relaxed for summertime and can be accomplished with many books or internet sources. For example, learning about the analytic continuation and functional equation for the Riemann and Dedekind zeta functions, learning about basic analysis in the p-adic world, playing with the Gamma function, … the list goes on. None of it requires much in the way of prerequisites.
- 46. EBz - July 10, 2009
I'm at a similar stage having just finished my second year here in the U.K. I think "Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces" is excellent, and can actually be read quite casually despite touching on some deeper subjects in latter chapters. I don't really know how the uni system works in the U.S, but would someone who's done three years of maths at uni really get anything from something like "The Man Who Knew Infinity" (not to mention it's totally boring)? Milnor's differential topology book is very readable as is Pugh's analysis book (although this may be too basic for someone with 3 years undergraduate experience).
- 48. Joe - July 14, 2009
"Frobenius algebras and 2D topological quantum field theories"
by Joachim Kock is very readable!
- 49. Ssh - July 21, 2009
algebraic topology by hatcher
k-theory by atiyah
these are cool books… i like them…
- 50. anon - July 22, 2009
Alexander Soifer's new Mathematical Colouring Book is an interesting book and very accessible.
- 51. redacted - July 24, 2009
I currently work in finance but devote most of my free time to mathematics. As I no longer attend lectures or get feedback on problems sets, it's really important for me to find books that
1) Explain why and how the concept came about
2) Exercises are not all too challenging and solutions/hints are provided
3) Help relate the material to other areas of mathematics
4) Written by a master (this is the hardest one to find at introductory level but my faves are Atiyah/Milnor/Weyl/ Iwaniec/Serre)/Tao/Gowers)
I think it's especially important for the undergrad to see how different areas of mathematics interrelate with each other, because the first couple years just seem like one is memorizing a dictionary. For example, I bet few undergrads can really appreciate the Lebesgue measure or the concept compactness. So here are my recommendations:
Princeton Companion to Mathematics, ed. Gowers
Moonshine Beyond the Monster – Gannon
Primes of the form x^2+ny^2 – Cox
Visual Complex Analysis – Needham
Undergraduate Commutative Algebra – Reid
Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry – Reid
Geometry and Topology – Reid
Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration – Brossoud
A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory – Ireland and Rosen
Topology – Ja"nich (also get Munkres to do problems)
Galois Theory – by Cox
Idea of the Riemann Surface – Weyl
Rational Points on Elliptic Curves – Silverman/Tates
Hope this helps!
- 53. John Mangual - August 3, 2009
"An Introduction to Modern Number Theory" by Miller and Takloo-Bighash
- 54. Bleg: Mathematics textbooks for a high school student « Delta Epsilons - August 16, 2009
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- 55. Greg Langmead - August 23, 2009
It's been 8 years since I got my math doctorate, and I left the field, so I appreciated hearing about some of these books, thanks! I have a couple of suggestions of my own:
The Road to Reality (Roger Penrose), is a crazy-ambitious book that somewhat naively strives to bring students from high school math through twistor theory and beyond, but it is written with a nice pedantic approach that is long on discussion, and nicely complements standard fare.
Representation Theory: A First Course (Fulton & Harris) is another somewhat conversational text, and this is a field that often turns up in many other fields, so the odds of it becoming useful in the future are quite good for any student. I've always meant to explore more of Springer's "Readings in Mathematics" series to see if the quality is always as high.
- 56. Douglas J. Keenan - August 28, 2009
I would add "A Course in Universal Algebra" by Burris & Sankappanavar. The first two chapters are especially recommended: a clear presentation of the basics; suitable for someone who has had an introduction to groups and rings, and would like to see how many concepts naturally generalize. Also, the book is freely available via
- 57. Eivind Dahl - July 12, 2010
Algebra: Chapter 0
The usual undergraduate/graduate algebra shod in the unifying language of category theory.
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Takin' the Freight Elevator to the Incinerator: Joe Strummer and 9/11
"The world just can't be that bad. It just can't be."
September 11, 2013 - 6:15 am
I think you have to grow up and realise that we're facing religious fanatics who would kill everyone in the world who doesn't do what they say. The more time you give them the more bombs they'll get. Bin Laden is going to try and kill more people.
When we're all supposed to be working, a tiny cabal of my fellow Gen-Xers amuse (and depress) ourselves with daily emails about the awful music kids these days are listening to, and which sacred movies are being pointlessly remade, and which famous person we "grew up with" just had the nerve to die.
Last week, one of the "gang," Rick McGinnis, sent me a link to the quote above.
"PROOF!" Rick added. "I thought I just imagined this, but I didn't, it seems. I feel vindicated."
He'd tracked down Clash frontman Joe Strummer's immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
When Strummer died in 2002, not a few conservative writers cited Strummer's comments in their obits.
I'm not sure he would have approved.
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The Vietnam War through the eyes of an Indigenous veteran
It took a while for Gerry Laughton's uncle Kenny to finally open up to him about what he had seen whilst fighting in the jungle and tunnels of the Vietnam War, it was a very different place from the Central Australian desert Kenny set out from.
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Gerry Laughton, as a young musician, liked to write and sing protest songs.
It was his uncle Kenny who gave him his first guitar, with only ten years difference in age between them, Kenny was more like a brother.
Gerry, a Arrente and Lurtja man, liked to fly the Aboriginal flag while he was playing but initially shunned the Australian flag.
"[Uncle Kenny] reminded us that he actually fought under that flag. That was enlightening we had a really different look at the Australian flag," Gerry says.
It was one of the first glimpses Gerry saw of his Uncle Kenny's pride in his service with the Army.
Like Gerry, Kenny spent many hours out in the bush playing war games.
By the age of 19 he was excited by the adventure he saw in going to fight guerilla style in the jungles of Vietnam.
The reality of fighting with the 3 Troop 1 Field Squadron at Nui Dat was very different.
Gerry says his uncle didn't understand how much signing up to the Army would change his life.
Upon returning from his service overseas Kenny was confronted by a society who didn't accept him and the RSL who did not welcome him.
Gerry says this was made worse because he was an Indigenous soldier.
"It was the same old thing of the black and white issue in Australia, whether we like it or not that was the reality," he says.
Kenny would go on to write about his experiences in books and poetry.
He finally returned to Vietnam in 2013, where Gerry says Kenny even managed to swap hats with a rickshaw driver who used to fight in the Viet Cong.
"[Kenny] could see the Vietnamese people in a totally different light. It's like walking in someone else's shoes, you don't know unless you do that," Gerry says.
Gerry has likewise tried to put himself in his uncle's shoes in understanding the sense of adventure that drew Kenny from his home in Central Australia.
"I think that's is something I never want to be part of but I can certainly understand how different that would make somebody," he says.
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