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Egin-Hamer Closure Goes Into Effect January 1st
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Wild Horses Still Available for Adoption: First Adoption Event very Successful
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Public Workshops Help to Refine Ridge to Rivers Master Plan: Participate online until Dec. 7
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Multiple Prescribed fires planned on the Twin Falls District: Fuel reduction and improved wildlife habitat primary objectives
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BLM and Partners to Offer Bald Eagle Watch Cruises to Veterans
Ridge to Rivers Trail Plan survey completed: Participants invited to public workshops in November
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Big Southern Butte Road to Close for Winter
Idaho Wild Horses Available for Adoption this Weekend:Exciting Opportunity to adopt a wild horse gathered from the Owyhees following Soda Fire
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BLM to Conduct Prescribed Burns
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Ridge to Rivers to develop 10-year master plan
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Soda Fire Plan Released to the Public
Mary D'aversa Sworn in as Idaho Falls BLM District Manager
Crews Complete Prescribed Burns in Southwest Idaho
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Kelly Island Campground Closes September 29
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Historic Conservation Campaign Protects Greater Sage-Grouse
Prescribed Burns in Southwest Idaho Will Support Research and Rangeland Health
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Land Managers Request Cooperation in Avoiding Areas Burned in Soda Fire to Assist Recovery Efforts
Idaho Falls Resource Advisory Council Meeting Scheduled
Restoration Projects will Temporarily Close Goodenough Creek Campground and Parking Area
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Stage 1 Fire Restrictions to be lifted in the Treasure Valley and Owyhee Areas
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Fire Conditions Permit Re-opening of BLM's Shorts Bar Recreation Site
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Team Completes Field Work, Begins Evaluating Rehab Treatments
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Field Work Begins for Soda Fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Team
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Twenty-Seven Wild Horses Perish in Soda Fire
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University of Idaho 4-H Clubs and BLM Partnerto Showcase Wild Horse Yearlings
Lighting Sparks News Fires as Soda Fire Grows
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Extreme Mustang Makeover Returning to Nampa
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Volunteers Needed to Help with Clearwater River Clean-up Event
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Secretaries Vilsack and Jewell Laud President Obama's Designation of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument: President's Action Protects, Connects Northern California Area Known for Natural Beauty, Recreational Opportunities
Celebrate America's Mustang Events coming to Idaho!
BLM Announces New Research to Curb Population Growth and Improve Health of Wild Horse and Burro Herds
Public Comments Needed for Recreation Opportunities within the Snake River Planning Area and Teton River Canyon
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Record of Decisions issued for the Smoky Canyon Mine Panels F&G Modification Project
Boise Bureau of Land Management Firefighter Passes Away
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Boise District BLM Seeks Nominations to Resource Advisory Council
BLM Leases Oil and Gas Resources on Five Parcels in Southwest Idaho
The Heatherlands Community becomes Idaho's newest Firewise Community
University of Idaho 4-H Clubs and BLM Partner to Showcase Wild Horse Weanlings
BLM, USFS Plans for Public Lands in Idaho and Southwest Montana Provide for Greater Sage-Grouse Protection, Balanced Development
Chinook Salmon Released into the East Fork of the Owyhee River by Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
Coeur d' Alene District BLM Seeking Interested Individuals for Advisory Council
Areas Affected by Pony and Elk Fires Partially Reopened
Firewood Permits Available in Eastern Idaho
Volunteers Needed at Croy Creek Trails in Blaine County
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STEPPE UP for Fire Education and Awareness
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Idaho Falls District BLM Seeks Nominations to Resource Advisory Council
Twin Falls District BLM Seeks Nominations to Resource Advisory Council
ATV Bridge to be Installed at Goodenough Campground
Salmon Field Office Participates in Annual Kids' Day
BLM's Blackwell Island Boat Launch to Open May 21
Idaho Wild Horse Trainers Successful at Arizona Extreme Mustang Makeover
Twin Falls BLM Fire Crew Members Receive DOI National Valor Award
BLM Authorizes Fuel Break Network between Boise and Glenns Ferry
BLM Seeks Input on Proposed Project near Pinehurst, Idaho
Public Input Sought on Conveyance of Land for Shooting Range
Spring Clean Up Planned for North Rim of Canyon
Skinny Dipper Hot Springs to be Removed
BLM and the Audubon Society to Present Free Migratory Bird Day Event
Kuna Third Graders Participate in Desert Discovery Days
Fire Agencies Create New Idaho Fire Information Website
Prescribed Burns Planned for BLM-managed Lands near Wallace, Idaho
Twin Falls District Resource Advisory Council to Meet
BLM Publishes Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Management Plan
Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Councils to meet on April 21, in Ontario, Oregon
Marsing "Gateway to the Owyhees" Art in the Park is on May 2
Trained Wild Horse Weanlings Available for Adoption at Idaho Horse Expo:Partnership between BLM and University of Idaho 4-H Clubs a Shining Success
BLM to Conduct Prescribed Burn Near Soda Springs
4-H Trail Challenge at the Boise Wild Horse Corrals this Weekend
Roadwork to Resume at Milner Recreation Site
BLM Opening Motorized Trails in Pocatello
Agencies Announce Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the East Smoky Panel Mine Project at Smoky Canyon Mine
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation grant helps restore habitat burned
Public Invited to Take a Hike: Five Spring Hikes Offered in Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area
Smoky Canyon Mine Panels F&G Modifications Final Environmental Impact Statement Available for Public Review
Final EIS Available for Proposed Mine Expansion
Local Students to Help Bring BLM's Blackwell Island Native Plant Garden to Life
Illegal Trash Dumping on the Rise on Public Land
Address Change for the BLM-Idaho Twin Falls District Office
BLM to Temporarily Close Mineral Ridge Scenic Trail
Idaho BLM to Hold Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Increased Vandalism at Blackrock Canyon Area is a Concern: BLM Offering $1,000 Reward for Information
BLM Seeks Bids for New Off-Range Pastures to Care for Wild Horses
BLM Requests Nominations for the 2015 Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards Program
Twin Falls District Manager Takes Oath of Office Today
Trainers Needed for Extreme Mustang Makeover to be Held at Ford Idaho Horse Park
University of Idaho 4-H Groups and BLM Partner to Showcase Wild Horse Weanlings
BLM Purchases Conservation Easement to Preserve Working Ranch and Enhance Wildlife Habitat
Proposed rules clarify and strengthen resource protections and public safety on BLM-managed public lands
Reward offered for information on damage at Jump Creek Rec. site
BLM to Conduct Prescribed Burns in Samaria Near Malad
President Proposes $1.2 Billion for BLM in Fiscal Year 2016
BLM Hiring Veterans to Staff Firefighting Crews in Idaho
BLM and Forest Service Announce 2015 Grazing Fee
Meeting set for expansion of Saylor Creek Rangeland Fire Protection Association
Public lands burned in 2013 north of Mountain Home remain closed
BLM Proposes Removal of Western Juniper from Public Lands in Southwest Idaho to Conserve Sage-Grouse Habitat
BLM Proposes Removal of Western Juniper from Public Lands in Southwest Idaho to Conserve Sage-Grouse Habitat
BLM's Cottonwood Field Office Recruiting for Seasonal Positions
2015 South Hills Seasonal Road Closure About to Begin
BLM Applying for Grant to Improve Outdoor Experiences
BLM Gives Rangeland Stewardship Award for Collaboration to Burley Landscape Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Project
Secretary Jewell Launches Comprehensive Strategy to Protect and Restore Sagebrush Lands Threatened by Rangeland Fire
Vandals Destroy Portions of Sharkey Hot Springs
Open House to Discuss the Moran Tunnel Mining Area - Arco, Idaho
Recruitment for 2015 Fire Season Underway
Idaho Falls District BLM Manager Retires After 37 Years
BLM Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Payette County


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Hurricane center still struggles with intensity forecasts
The National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County continues to struggle with intensity forecasts when it really counts – in the 36 hours before a storm would strike shore.
That's according to an in-house evaluation of its performance during the bustling 2010 season.
The evaluation showed the 12-, 24- and 36-hour forecast periods generally were less accurate than they have been over the past five years.
Specifically, intensity errors for the 36-hour period were about 16 mph, enough to make the difference between a Category 1 and a Category 3 hurricane.
The main reason for the short-term intensity errors: The center didn't anticipate the rapid intensification of a few storms, said senior hurricane specialist Dan Brown.
One of those was Hurricane Karl, which struck Mexico as a Category 3 system in September. Another was Hurricane Tomas, which brushed Haiti as a Category 1 system in November, he said.
James Franklin, the hurricane center's top specialist, said he doesn't anticipate intensity forecasts will improve much in the upcoming season.
However, in an email, he told me that an on-going project to improve track and intensity forecasts "has produced some promising results."
Notably, he said a Penn State University model is showing lower intensity errors than those made by the hurricane center.
"These errors were particularly low when the model was initialized with Doppler radar data from the NOAA P-3 aircraft," he said.
He said he hopes that model will be available to hurricane center this season.
"But we really need to see how the model performs 'live' before the forecasters will rely on it," he added.
Meanwhile, the hurricane center's intensity errors were better than average for the 72, 96 and 120-hour forecast periods.
It also continues to improve track forecasts, setting an accuracy record for the five-day forecast period.
The 120-hour track error last year was about 215 miles, down substantially from the five-year mean error of about 290 miles.
Overall, thanks to increasingly sophisticated technology, such as computer models and satellites, the hurricane center's track forecasts have improved about 50 percent over the past 15 years.
Graphic: Forecasters made large errors in the intensity forecasts for Hurricane Karl because they didn't anticipate it would rapidly intensify before striking Mexico as a Category 3 system in September.

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Summertime: Fiction (edition 2009)
by J. M. Coetzee
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Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
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This is a fictional autobiography of author John Coetzee. After his death, a biographer talks to five people who knew him; the novel consists of these interviews and excerpts from Coetzee's diary. The reader is never given any hint of what is true and what is fiction, but I have to assume that the majority of what was in the book is fiction.
I read my first Coetzee novel, Disgrace, last year, and it was disturbing enough that I wasn't eager to read any more of his work (although given the nation's history, how does any South African author write something that isn't uncomfortable to read?). However, the concept of this novel intrigued me enough to move it to the top of my list. It's not fun to read (once again, it seems like nothing South African can really be fun), but it's very well done. I interpret the stories of Coetzee's life and personality as a metaphor for the politics and culture of South Africa. I think that if I had known more about the country's history I would have gotten more out of the book. This book is definitely worth reading.
What a strange and wandering story, amounting to something both pedestrian and fascinating, and somewhat unnerving. Coetzee's picture of (himself? a fictional version of himself? a writer who only shares his name?) as told through interviews and snippets of events is a balancing act of art and memory and defense.
All told, this isn't as compelling as some of Coetzee's other novels, but it is strangely engaging, and more and more disturbing as it moves forward, amounting to a more and more jarring picture of the disconnect between a writer, a person, and the world that views him up close.
Altogether, I do have to recommend this, especially for fans of Coetzee and for artists or writers.
the author becomes the interviewer reconstructing the life of the author by interviewing lovers, acquaintances and family. An odd twist to memoir. Writing from the vantage point of his lovers who berate his style and intimacy and question his realness as a poet and writer.
I officially don't get what Coetzee's doing anymore. This book is compulsively, beautifully readable, while also being almost completely uninteresting. It seems to be not much more than a congeries of portraits, all but one of women who all - even the Brazilian woman - talk like the narrator of any given Coetzee novel. They're individualized, no doubt, and quite impressive each in their own way. And the obvious point, that this is a kind of autobiography which recognizes the importance of other people to any given life, is a decent enough one in its way. But what's really happened is that Coetzee has given up. He's no longer willing to say "this I wrote, I made it true." Now we need multiple perspectives. There are no more of those moments which strike the character of Boyhood and Youth, when an objectivity is granted to him. Now objectivity is apparently impossible. The strength it must take for a man to dissect himself, as Coetzee did in the earlier 'memoirs' is left behind; now we just have other peoples' opinions on him.
All the old themes are here, it's true: appearance vs essence, the romantic 'inner flame,' desire and art etc... but much less powerfully (either emotionally or intellectually) than in Boyhood or Youth, and far, far, less powerfully than in The Master of Petersburg. Too bad.
I guess I'm supposed to know who this writer is since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003 but really I don't know, I just happened to pick up the book for some reason and decided to read it on vacation. I wish I could say that I'm up on contemporary fiction but actually I'm not. I remember thinking I should probably be paying attention to small press fiction instead of wasting my time on stuff like this. It wasn't that memorable, other than that the main character is named after the author. This was kind of pretentious/narcissistic or whatever but also what I liked most about reading the book. It sort of inverts the narrative structure of The Sorrows of Young Werther, in that it tells the story of a man's life from the point of view of three women who are remembering him in terms of their relationship to him. This is what the story is about really. In Werther, Goethe never lets Charlotte act on her own, the reader only knows her through Werther's eyes, but that is not a part of the storytelling I don't think, it just sort of is. Man = actor Women = object that is acted upon, Etc. Using the device Doris Lessing made famous in The Golden Notebook, the reader also reads Coetze's notebook entries. The reader ends up having to piece together different perspectives to complete the picture.
As long as one character speaks, Coetzee's masterful style is on display. But when there is dialogue between investigator and interviewee, the contrivance becomes all too evident: There is no real exchange and no discernable setting.
Now we have Summertime, the third in Coetzee's ongoing volumes of more or less fictionalised memoir that began with Boyhood, continued with Youth and are subtitled Scenes from Provincial Life.
These volumes are not to be taken as literal truth, a fact underlined by the way in Summertime one John Coetzee, a famous Nobel prize-winning novelist, is dead and an Englishman who never met him is attempting to write a biography of him on the basis of interviews with a number of women who had an effect on his development.
The last part of the book is made up of extracts from his journal entries focused on his ageing and ailing father, who appears intermittently in the preceding pages as a frail and constricting figure. The account of the father has, in a way nothing else in this book does, an overwhelming poignancy.
Much of this weird book is a meditation on the absurdity of the fame that is the surface noise of a hypothetical immortality. Then there's the grief that throws it all away and in doing so throws it into high relief.
Who is JM Coetzee? In one sense the answer is obvious: world-famous novelist and writer, twice winner of the Man Booker, winner of the Nobel prize for literature. But in another sense "JM Coetzee" is a persona created by the author, especially in his volumes of "fictionalised memoir". The first of these, Boyhood, describes the character's upbringing in the 1940s and 1950s on a bleak housing estate east of Cape Town. Top of his class yet fearing failure, he is gawky, unsocial and eccentric. The second, Youth, follows his glum fortunes in the early 1960s through a wet, foggy London, where, "dull and ordinary", he nurtures dreams of artistic triumph while toiling as an IBM programmer. Literary success, he believes, will be linked with success as a lover, once he encounters the "Destined One": the woman to inspire him. But his sexual entanglements, though surprisingly frequent, prove messy, sordid, embarrassing or boring. He is not, it seems, "built for fun".
Now the third volume of the trilogy, Summertime, focuses on his return to South Africa, covering 1972 to 1977 when he was "finding his feet as a writer". Like Boyhood and Youth, it refers to "Coetzee" in the third person ("He is the product of a damaged childhood"), thus distancing the autobiographical element. But it adds a startling new dimension of literary artifice: the deployment of a postmortem biographer. For Coetzee, we learn, has died in Australia. An English researcher, Vincent, who never met him, is interviewing five figures crucial to his life in the years when he started to publish. Four of them are women, including two former lovers. Supposed transcripts of their interviews make up most of the book. The rest comprises extracts, real or invented, from Coetzee's contemporary notebooks.
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Boy George recently dropped his first album in 18 years, "This Is What I Do." Though he's been active as a DJ, 2014 marked his first U.S. tour in support of his own music in well over a decade. He played the Chicago House of Blues on April 26, one of only a handful U.S. cities during a brief nine-date tour.
While House of Blues is generally a fine venue for live performances, the show was booked for an 11:30 p.m. start, sans opener, with an advertised before-party. As such, the crowd was a bit lubricated by the time Boy George took the stage and a little loud for the lounge-style performance. George opened with "King of Everything," the lead-track from his new album, and battled with a noticeable din emanating from the wings of the club. The noise—annoying to more than just the fans—drew some ire from George who asked, "Did you come here to talk? Why even come to the show?" The subdued nature of this performance would have been better suited for the Chicago Theater.
A seven-piece band, complete with a trio of horns, and a female backing vocalist supported George. They provided a strong musical foundation that ranged from reggae infused beats to classic blues.
1980s era music fans expecting to see a rebirth of Culture Club, or those hoping to rekindle a past-life, were sorely disappointed. Boy George aptly focused on material from "This Is What I Do," deriving half of the evening's set from the new album; while tossing in a handful of covers that inspired the 80s pop icon. Music from Dylan, George Harrison, Lou Reed and even Yoko Ono, amongst others, was peppered into a set that lasted just under two hours.
George still maintains a solid singing voice, though he's definitely dropped an octave and appeared to be somewhat gravelly at times. An hour passed before "Church of the Poison Mind," the first of three Culture Club songs, was performed. The listless crowd drew life from its opening notes and quickly began to dance and sing along just as he ended the set proper.
He returned for the first of two encores to perform "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" The song that catapulted Culture Club into the musical stratosphere decades ago was reworked with reggae hooks that brought it in-line with his newer material. "Karma Chameleon" and a lively T-Rex cover of "Get It On" were the other highlights of the encore sets.


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Welcome to the latest version of Tweet4Gary. A brand new site to take us up to and beyond the 2015 General Election.
The site has been completely rewritten with an aim of simplicity. The site has been checked on all current browsers, with its fully responsive design it should now be easier to check the site on the web, on phones and tablets, the site is fully cached for speed.
As this is also our sixth anniversary year, we've looked forward to relaunching with a new look and feel but our roots remain the same. Most will of course know the site was named in support of Gary McKinnon and we're delighted to know that Gary is now doing so well.
Everyone who followed Garys Mum @JanisSharp and her #FreeGary Campaign for many years will know how devastating the UK/US Extradition Treaty has been to individuals and complete families.
The Extradition Treaty is still in force.
Between now and next May we encourage everyone to contact their local MP to express their thoughts on this issue.
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Before the last election Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the UK/US Extradition Treaty was morally wrong.
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"The wealthy must pay their fair share of taxes!"
Does this phrase sound familiar? If you pay attention to Minnesota politics, it especially should. It's been the hallmark slogan of Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton.
But does Dayton even realize how absurd and truly ignorant his famed one-liner is?
When somebody is repeatedly pushed around and bullied—such as by a supposedly "do-gooder" "government"—they eventually reach a breaking point at which they push back. The wealthy and taxation levied against them is no different. In fact, it's likely that most wealthy—if they're smart—pay no taxes at all, despite the electioneering rhetoric.
In the Bahamas, a real estate purchase of $500,000 or more gains you automatic residency there. As a Bahamian resident, you have access to their banks and may route all of your financial dealings though said banks.
And in this manner, the wise wealthy can avoid the IRS and virtually every other American government agency that demands a piece of everyone's action. Americans such as Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, and many others maintain sizable homes in Nassau. High-rise condominium developments are being planned or built there to make this opportunity available for more people.
Perhaps more mysterious is the fact that leaders such as Mark Dayton would care to conduct these polarizing conversations and debates. They surely know that wealthy Americans find ways to shelter their assets and income; those in power know how pointless the discussions are. Yet they lead us into them anyway. Why?
The time has long since passed to abandon these "leaders" and seek out solutions…different solutions than what are frequently offered presently.


text: I go to gun shows every couple of months and I saw the 'fear mongering' that Obama and Hilary Clinton were going to take everyones guns away. "You'd better get it while you still can" mentality was selling guns and created ammo shortages and was instigated by the gun industry itself. Fear is a very powerful sales tool.


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|Vandals Ready for WAC Season
MOSCOW, Idaho—Looking to put an end to its current three-game skid, the University of Idaho women's basketball team will open up the Western Athletic Conference season visiting the Kangaroos of Kansas City Thursday evening at the Swinney Rec Center.
Kansas City owns the series lead, 2-0, with both matchups taking place over 20 years ago. The schools last met in the 1992 edition of the Safeco/University Inn Classic in Moscow. UMKC edged Idaho 56-55. In 1991 the Kangroos defeated the Vandals in Kansas City, 66-51.
"I know they have a great player in [Eilise] O'Connor," head coach Jon Newlee commented. "She can do everything on the floor. They are athletic inside. They do a great job of rebounding and they can all shoot it. They play extremely hard and are extremely well coached."
Idaho ended the non-conference season with a 7-7 record, dropping its final three games. In those final three games Idaho allowed opponents to shoot 45.7 percent from the field, while only making 38.1 percent of its attempts.
One issue for the Vandals of late has been their slow start to the first half. In the last three games the Vandals have been outscored 132-96 in the opening 20 minutes.
Senior Alyssa Charlston averaged 22.3 points in the final three games, aided by her career-high 32-point performance at Eastern Washington.
Junior Stacey Barr holds a slim advantage over Charlston, averaging 15.9 points per game for the Vandals. Charlston holds a 15.4 scoring average through 14 games this season.
First tip is set for 5:00 p.m. PT. Idaho will travel to Chicago State for Saturday's matchup before returning home on Jan. 9 to take on UTPA.


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I've always found it interesting reading the design process of others (David Airey, Contrast, Brian Hoff). It's good to have an insight into others work, to see if I can learn anything from their process but also for curiosity. So I've put together a break down of my design process, using a recent project as a real life example, Newsgroup Direct.
I was recently hired by Newsgroup Direct (NGD), a leading Usenet newsgroup service provider, to revamp their website, make it more modern and improve signups.
The key objectives of the planner:
- Find out who the client is and what they do
- Who their target market/user is
- Who their competition is
- What deliverables they want from me
- Timeframe and budget
Research & Ideas
Current siteI start by going through the current website and list things that can be improved.
Various issues raised for NGD include non-semantic markup, no defensive design, markup was invalid, poor Google ranking for keywords, no signup enticement, overload of available sign up options and several usability issues.
Competitors sitesThe next stage is to analyse competitor websites; what is good or bad about them. If I can take on board what is good and eliminate what is bad, then there's a better chance of coming up with a successful solution.
IdeasI suggest several improvements that can be made to the current site, showcase various features of other non-related sites that I feel can be integrated into the new site.
Several ideas I have for NGD:
- Clear instructions on how to use NGD and setup newsreaders for novice users
- New logo to reflect new branding
- Narrow down the packages (introduce a free package for trial)
- Clear call to actions
- Highlight the key features of NGD with a slide reel in the header
LogoDepending on the project new branding may be necessary including logo, stationary, company image and the website.
To help with their new online branding, I recommended NGD have a new logo designed & I suggested a couple of professional logo designers I know or have worked with. They went with Graham Smith, a well respected and well known graphic designer from the UK.
Graham did a great job with the logo and this was the final outcome.
Information Architecture & Sitemap
For IA I jot down every section of the website on post-its and arrange them (on a wall or fridge) in order of importance. This is an great technique (that I was first introduced to by Front) that allows you to easily change and rearrange your order. In the end you will end up with various levels of importance, which will help with your sitemap and wireframes.
Once I settle on the IA I produce a sitemap. I usually produce the sitemap in Illustrator. The reason I use Illustrator is it allows me to move pages about (unlike using paper) and it also produces a professional outcome that I can pass onto the client, but there are various other tools you can use.
For NGD I only produced 1 that was the homepage as this is the most important page while I kept the other pages (pricing, info pages etc.) as paper sketches.
Some key things to keep in mind here:
- Branding - tying in with the overall brand, colours, mood
- Target audience - NGD's audience are 20-35yr old males so it has to appeal to them
- Grid - keeping the elements structured and to a grid system is important
- Development - bare in mind this has to be produced in CSS so don't make anything too complicated and keep graphics minimal
- Homepage
- About Us
- Pricing
- Sign Up
CompletionThe project is complete and the templates are then passed onto the client (in this case NGD's development team to integrate into the framework).
After launch I will still monitor the analytics and make suggestions on how to improve the site and conversion rate. It's hard (or impossible) to get it perfect first time, there are always things you can learn from how the users use the site and make improvements based on this.
What's your process involve?
Insights are always interesting and useful. Even if you're not a web designer, it's good to hear how projects develop.
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How should I refer to a matrix with a restricted domain of possible values that can be stored inside?
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Let's say you want your matrices to have its entries in a subset $X$ of $R$, where $(R, +, \cdot)$ is a ring, (if you're not familiar with the concept of ring, just think of it as a set with a sum $+$ and a multiplication $\cdot$, like the integers $\Bbb Z$).
Then you can denote the set of all matrices which entries are in $X$ as $\mathcal M(X)$. If you want to specify the size of the matrices you can denote it by $\mathcal M_{m\times n}(X)$, for some $m, n\in \Bbb N$.
Now to state that the entries $[m_{ij}]$ of a certain matrix $M$ respect some condition, you just let $X$ be the set of elements of $R$ that respect that condition and say $M\in \mathcal M(X)$.


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Days after the lead trumpet player for the Harold Wheeler Orchestra posted a note to Facebook claiming that he and his band mates had been unexpectedly cut from the 18th season of "Dancing with the Stars," a Feb. 3 joint statement by ABC and BBC Worldwide Productions confirmed the news.
The statement praised Wheeler and the orchestra for providing 17 seasons of "brilliant live music" in the famed "DWTS" ballroom and wished them "the best of luck," but confirmed that they would "not be joining us for season 18" of the hit reality dance competition, which premieres in mid-March.
The announcement sparked outrage from the American Federation of Musicians, who released a lengthy statement heavily chastising the network and Disney for the decision, which was allegedly made to attract younger viewers. AFM President Ray Hair encouraged viewers to contact ABC execs to demand that the orchestra be reinstated, and predicted that the planned use of pre-recorded music would be viewed as "artistic fraud" by show fans. He went on to blame an "insatiable thirst for profits" for the change, and predicted that the move would lead to the end of "DWTS."
Show fans can protest the change by emailing ABC at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Dancing with the Stars" 2014 premieres March 17 on ABC with an all new cast of celebrity mirror ball trophy hopefuls.
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insideHPC InterviewPosted on 16 April 2014
In an interview entitled "Plans for ISC'14" with noted HPC news site insideHPC, ICHEC responds to some questions about ongoing activities and in particular collaborations with industry and at the European level.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted last week on felony charges accusing the governor of abuse of power. Perry entered into a plea of not guilty, but for his troubles, now has lost his conceal and carry permit.
After an ethics investigation proved there was enough evidence to indict the governor, Rick Perry was on the hot seat. Travis County District Attorney, Democrat Rosemary Lehmberg, was arrested last year after a DWI charge. After serving 45 days in jail and going through mandatory counseling, Perry pushed for Lehmberg to resign. After Lehmberg refused, Perry vetoed $7.5 million in funding for the state's public integrity unit that is run by the district attorney's office. The cuts to the office resulted in the loss of jobs for many within the unit.
Local ABC news affiliate, KTXS in Texas reports on Saturday that Rick Perry, an outspoken gun rights activist, will no longer have as many rights under the Second Amendment he cherishes dearly. Under Texas state law, Perry will have his concealed and carry license suspended because of the indictment, and won't be able to reapply for two years. According to federal law 18 USC 922, Perry will also not be allowed to purchase any new firearms, but will still be able to retain the guns he currently owns. Perry will also be able to carry a gun as long as its in his own home.
Gov. Rick Perry decided to enter a plea of not guilty on the first degree felony of abuse of official capacity, and the third degree felony of coercion of a public official. If Perry is found guilty, the governor could face a maximum sentence of up to 109 years in prisons.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Asthma is the most common cause of hospitalization for children, and now, a new study finds a common surgery may help asthmatic children. The research finds removing tonsils and adenoids leads to improvement of the lower airways of children, especially those with bronchial asthma.
Asthma or reactive airway disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes hypersensitivity of the airways. Asthma attacks can have a great impact on the quality of life of a child including missed days of school and frequent use of medications. Researchers from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., conducted a study to see if removing tonsils and adenoids would lead to improvements for children with asthma.
Thirty-eight children who had asthma and underwent an adenoidectomy or tonsillectomy within the last five years were included in the study. The child's caregiver answered questions before surgery and after surgery about medication use, missed school days, and severity of the child's asthma.
Study authors report clear improvements of asthma symptoms for patients who had an adenotonsillectomy (adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy) preformed. They found medication use dropped after the surgery and the severity of the asthma decreased as well. The study also reports the number of missed school days in a year decreased from about eight days to three days, and the number of missed work days for parents decreased from seven days in a year to two days.
Researchers acknowledge this was a small number of patients in their study. But, they say even with a small number the study revealed significant improvements of asthma symptoms for patients who had their adenoids and/or tonsils removed.
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Though still in its early stages, the US greenhouse industry has been steadily growing over the past decade.
This growth, driven in part by the need for more intensive production due to limited land, water and labor, has pushed sales to more than $3 billion and is estimated to reach more than $4 billion by 2020.
This is according to Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) group. The report, titled "The Growing US Greenhouse Produce Niche – Capitalizing on High Tech Quality and Consistency," goes on to point out that reducing the cost of high-tech greenhouse installations and differentiating from lower-cost Mexican shadehouse and low-tech greenhouse competition will be the key to future growth.
The report, authored by Karen Halliburton Barber, Senior Analyst of Produce at FAR, addresses a variety of opportunities for the industry as it grows.
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Although greenhouse produce is estimated to only represent up to 2 percent of overall US fresh fruit and vegetable production, there are important trends to keep an eye on. Greenhouse tomatoes today account for as much as 70 percent of sales. This concentration in business is an indication that the key challenges noted in the report, costs and competition, are not insurmountable.
The report notes that growth in greenhouse production is likely to continue in the near term. A core challenge to that growth will be educating the consumer while differentiating high-tech greenhouse products from lower-tech products.
Stricter labeling laws as well as greater awareness of certification programs already in place in the US and Canada can aid in this education as well. Success in the niche is expected to continue to favor the most efficient, reliable and experienced producers with advantages in marketing, geography and technology.
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'Direct-to-consumer genetic testing' (DTCGT), also known as 'online DNA or genetic testing for health', is now easily purchased online. These tests are promoted as enabling individuals to be more actively involved in their health screening and make life-style choices for a healthier future based on a DNA test. However, there are concerns that these tests may not currently be clinically useful and that people may make health-related decisions on the basis of poor quality information, without the professional healthcare support that is associated with conventional genetic testing in the NHS. Little is known about people's experiences of online genetic testing in the UK, how its benefits and risks are experienced by people who buy these tests, or the views of genetics professionals who may counsel them about the results.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strong pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
How well do you know yourself and what makes you happy? Can you articulate your passions in detail?
Passions are the factors that motivate people both in and outside the workplace. Knowing what inspires you and effectively unleashing this potential is the cornerstone of our methodology and the key to you finding and following work you love. At Three Giant Leaps, we break down passions into four categories to help you develop this principle and to help you know what lights you up and motivates you in a deeper way:
1. Interests are those ideas or topics that stimulate you. As you identify those topics, consider things that you know about as well as those you would like to learn more about. Long-term career satisfaction is dependent upon how well and to what extent an area of interest can hold your attention. Interests include things like technology, social justice, and art.
2. Talents are skills that give you energy when you engage in them. Talents are skills but not all skills are talents. I define talents as those skills that you long for when you are not engaging in them. One way to discern the difference is to consider this: if you had a choice, you would not delegate a talent to someone else. Talents include things like using your hands to fix things, writing, speaking and leading.
3. Style defines how you are at work when you are being your most authentic. How you would behave at work if you could really express yourself freely might offer clues to your soul work. Your personal style includes those attributes that you bring to an organization or industry, beyond your talents or skills. Style includes things like a sense of humor, empathy and vision.
4. Environment defines what you need at your workplace. Understanding what you need at work will help you find the right cultural fit. Even if all the other factors are in place, the wrong environment can make even inspired work seem miserable. Think about the optimal environmental qualities that would make up your perfect work culture, whether you plan to create it yourself, or find it at an organization. Environmental attributes include a style of design, access to nature and levels of competitiveness.
1. Make a list of 5-10 of your own passions in each of the 4 categories above. Consider personal interests as well as professional ones.
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Fall is a great time of year to use heartier spices, like allspice, five-spice powder, and pumpkin pie spice, as well as cinnamon, ginger, and turmeric, to add flavor to cold-weather stews, sauces, compotes, and desserts. Thanks to their abundance of phytonutrients, these spices are also a great addition to a healthy diet. Check your spice rack and make sure you have these autumn favorites on hand. To keep them fresh, store them in airtight containers in a cool, dry place, preferably away from direct light.
Allspice: A little bit of allspice makes everything nice. Allspice comes from a small, dry, dark-brown berry that is native to the West Indies and Central and South America. It tastes like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, hence its name. Allspice lends a sweet and spicy flavor to stews and to casseroles like this Chickpea, Eggplant, and Tomato Casserole. It's also a primary ingredient in Jamaican jerk seasoning.
Cinnamon: Cinnamon comes from the inner bark of evergreen trees native to Asia. The variety found in most supermarkets is cassia cinnamon, also known as Chinese cinnamon. It has a robust, bittersweet flavor and is available in rolled sticks or in ground form. Studies show that cinnamon may help regulate blood sugar levels, so go ahead and season your morning oatmeal with this tasty spice. Try our Cider-Roasted Sweet Potatoes, where cinnamon enhances the sweetness of the sweet potatoes.
Five-spice powder: Chinese five-spice powder is a combo of cinnamon, star anise, ground fennel, ground cloves, and Szechuan pepper. Mainly used in Chinese dishes, it also makes a flavorful rub for chicken and pork. Look for it in larger supermarkets or Asian groceries or make your own: In a spice grinder, finely grind 2 tablespoons each of Szechuan peppercorns, star anise, and fennel seeds. Then, stir in 2 tablespoons each of ground cinnamon and ground cloves. Try our Five-Spice Grilled Chicken with Asian Dipping Sauce, where we use five-spice powder in a rub mixture for grilled chicken breasts.
Ginger: Both fresh and ground ginger can be used on all Phases of the South Beach Diet. Avoid candied ginger altogether, however. Ginger is highly regarded for its anti-inflammatory properties and it aids in digestion. For a ginger tea, steep quarter-size slices of peeled fresh ginger in boiling water for about 15 minutes. It's delicious with lemon and may help relieve nausea. We use ground ginger, along with cumin and nutmeg, in our Butternut Squash with Lentils. Ginger is also delicious in Indian and Asian dishes, compotes, and healthy desserts.
Pumpkin pie spice: This popular spice, which is so called because it's typically used to flavor pumpkin pies, is also a great addition to soups, pasta dishes, whole grain quick breads, and even lattes. The spice doesn't actually come from pumpkin; it's a combination of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Try our South Beach Diet Pumpkin Pie, which uses ground cloves, ginger, and cinnamon to season the pumpkin purée. You can sub in pumpkin pie spice for the individual spices.
Turmeric: Lauded for its powerful antioxidants, including a compound called curcumin that has been shown to help reduce inflammation and may thus help ease the pain of arthritis, turmeric is what gives curry powder its yellow color. This superspice is found in many Indian dishes such as our Tandoori Cornish Hens and it is a traditional addition to curries and lamb dishes. You can also add a little to your ginger tea.


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Liz Vaccariello, the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest, says you can accelerate weight loss and eliminate belly fat by activating your "skinny-gut" bacteria.
In an exclusive interview, Vaccariello discussed how a diet high in fiber, healthy fats, and magnesium will activate your skinny-gut bacteria, and relieves the chronic inflammation that leads to weight gain.
Vaccariello (who has an enviably tiny waist) detailed her belly-blasting weight-loss secrets in her new book, the 21-Day Tummy, where she revealed how you can lose 10 pounds in 21 days without counting calories.
Liz, who also wrote the bestselling Flat-Belly Diet, recently appeared on the Dr. Oz Show to share her tips. She discussed her secrets with us today.
Question: How does the 21-Day Tummy diet work?
The 21-Day Tummy plan does what no other diet plan can do: it trims tummies while tackling the 'big five' most common digestive problems that no one wants to talk about: heartburn, gas and bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome.
The easy-to-follow plan focuses on carb-light, anti-inflammatory foods scientifically proven to balance gut flora, reduce inflammation, soothe the digestive system and shrink fat cells ('Belly Buddies'), while avoiding pro-inflammatory fats and foods high in rapidly fermentable carbs like fructose or lactose ('Belly Bullies').
Question: I've read that the 21-Day Tummy diet is great for soothing indigestion and stomach problems, but is it also effective for weight loss?
Yes — I lost weight on it! After following the 21-Day Tummy meal plan, my bloating, pain and constipation disappeared, and I lost 10 pounds in just 21 days. I was embarrassed to talk about it at first, but now that I've realized how food-related these problems are, and that there is a real solution, I'm spreading the word.
The meal plan soothes the stomach and shrinks your waistline at the same time. Based on the research we found, the same foods that irritate our stomachs also pile on the pounds. Even better, the foods that soothe our belly also shrink it. That's why the 21-Day Tummy eating plan gets results in just three weeks. We had a test panel of 12 men and women try the plan. Every one of them lost weight and reported better digestion. Some were even able to stop taking prescription heartburn medications.
Question: Do you need to count calories or carbs on the 21-Day Tummy plan?
There is no counting on the 21-Day Tummy meal plan. We've done the work for you by carefully constructing meals that pull the Belly Buddies together into three delicious and satisfying meals each day plus one scrumptious snack. The plan includes carefully constructed meals to balance nutrients, along with some probiotic foods to help balance gut flora and reduce gas and bloating.
In order to balance gut microbiota and cool inflammation, the meal plan restricts Belly Bullies, including carb-dense foods. This means that the meal plan cuts out sugar, refined carbs and most grains. Instead it adds carb-light, natural food like bananas, potatoes and leafy green vegetables. Lean proteins and healthy fats are also carb-light.
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On a humid, airless night last March, the 42-year-old president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, opened up his palace in Male for an unusual public event.
A projection screen was hung at the back of a ballroom and brightly coloured chairs were arranged in rows. Then the audience was shown in: lawyers, Cabinet members, presidential advisers and journalists, and a sizeable chunk of Maldives society.
Nasheed, dressed in an open-neck striped shirt and dark chinos, sat in the front row.
The lights dimmed and scenes of environmental mayhem unfolded on the screen: Sydney Opera House in flames, ice sheets crashing into the seas, deserts spreading and forests burning.
Thus the people of the Maldives had their first glimpse of Franny Armstrong's documentary, The Age of Stupid, in which Pete Postlethwaite plays the last man left alive in a post-apocalyptic, climate-fried world.
It is a scrappy but passionate, a classic example of agit-prop cinema. But in the dripping night heat of Male, the film had a very different effect on its audience than it has had in the West.
Its message seemed direct and immediate, a call to arms. Nor is it hard to understand such emotion. The islands that make up the Maldives are threatened with inundation, probably by the end of the century, as ice sheets melt and sea levels rise catastrophically, thanks to global warming.
The islands are less than a couple of metres above sea level. Their highest point, at 2.3m, is the "lowest high point" for any nation on Earth.
It won't take much to inundate them. Hence the impact of the film, which left its audience desperate for reassurance from their President as he moved to a microphone stand in the centre of the ballroom.
"If man can walk on the moon, we can unite to defeat our common carbon enemy," Nasheed said. "And so today, I announce that the Maldives will become the first carbon-neutral country in the world."
The announcement was a typically slick PR exercise by Nasheed. He had been propelled into power a few weeks earlier in a national vote that had made him "the world's first democratically elected president of a 100 per cent Muslim country", as he puts it.
Yet he was already revealing himself to be an adroit and effective operator. The former investigative journalist, jailed six times by his authoritarian predecessor, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and made an Amnesty prisoner of conscience in 1991, has begun making waves - in every sense.
Apart from his pledge to turn the Maldives - a collection of atolls and islands in the Indian Ocean that have become one of the world's most luxurious tourist resorts - into a carbon-neutral state, he has revealed that he has embarked on an ambitious campaign to buy land - in India, Sri Lanka or Australia - on which he will build a New Maldives to replace the old one when it disappears under the waves.
This will be achieved by using the country's vast tourism revenue to establish "a sovereign wealth fund" to relocate its people.
"Our actions will be a template, an action kit for other nations across the world," he said.
Last week Nasheed - or "Anni" as he is known - was at it again. First, he wowed the British Conservative party annual conference in Manchester with a flawlessly delivered speech - typically presented without notes - on the importance of centre-right politics when it comes to saving the world.
Then he topped this performance by announcing that this Saturday he will chair the world's first underwater Cabinet meeting.
The aim of this plan is to raise global consciousness about the issues that must be hammered out at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen this December, he says.
Thus Nasheed's ministers will don wetsuits and air tanks, gather in the shallow waters off the island of Girifushi, and get down to the business of governing the Maldives underwater - mainly by communicating through hand gestures. One minister, for education, has already had to pull out after diving experts announced he was not fit enough to take part.
The meeting will, as some observers have noted sardonically, bring politics in the Maldives to a new low. As one official remarked: "The paperwork should be challenging."
The idea of an underwater Cabinet meeting is certainly gimmicky but it will focus attention on a nation that stands to suffer more than any other from global warming.
"Unless something is done, my grandchildren will find these islands have completely disappeared under the waves," Nasheed said last week.
Hence those undersea meetings and those carefully organised screenings.
In 2005, Nasheed fled the Maldives to Britain. You could "always talk to a Western government about democracy", he said.
He returned to his homeland after a few months, and last year stood against Gayoom - then Asia's longest serving president - in the Maldives first democratic elections. Nasheed won, with 54 per cent of the vote.
He has since shown a striking sureness of action, though his short reign has not been without its critics.
His remarks in Manchester last week, aimed to gee along his centre-right allies, together with his plans for underwater Cabinet meetings and for moving the population to a promised land free of the threat of inundation, have led to accusations that he is a little light on political substance and too gimmicky for his own good.
Nasheed is scaring off investors, say opponents who include his predecessor, Gayoom.
"This man is so hellbent on hogging the media limelight that he is forgetting to do his job, which is to run the country," said a spokesman for the former President.
Such criticism reeks of sour grapes. Nevertheless, it is questionable how far Nasheed can go for his country.
Who will sell him the land where he can build his New Maldives? And what good will it do to make his nation carbon-neutral? Providing answers will not be easy, though in many ways they distract from the real purpose of Nasheed's plans.
We are all Maldivians, he argues. Every nation on the planet is threatened today by global warming.
The Maldives may survive more than 100 years if rises in sea level remain modest. However the oceans will continue to rise throughout next century and probably the one after it, scientists warn.
The actions of Mohamed Nasheed are aimed at stimulating action by the West in the hope his country can reap some collateral benefit when a programme for dealing effectively with climate change is hammered out. As he says: "If scientists are not able to save the Maldives, then they won't be able to save the world."
* Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was born in Male in May 1967.
* He was educated at Majeediyya secondary school in the Maldives, then at a school in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1981 and then, a year later, at Dauntsey's school in Wiltshire, England.
* Completed a degree in marine studies at Liverpool John Moores University.
* Returned to the Maldives in the late 1980s, set up a magazine, Sangu, and published a series of investigative reports about President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's regime, which he accused of being corrupt and guilty of a string of human rights abuses. Police raided the magazine's offices and arrested Nasheed. The 23-year-old spent several months in solitary confinement, accused of trying to overthrow the Government.
* Nasheed says that over 10 years, he was arrested 16 times and spent a total of six years in jail. Sadly, he says, he missed the births of his two daughters: "It was a tough reminder of a fundamental truth ... that the freedom of the individual should not be destroyed at the whim of an over-mighty state."


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