Dear Sir; I would like to unsubscribe. > > > -----?????----- > ????: Friam-request at redfish.com > ????: Friam at redfish.com > ??: 2005/12/19(?)01:36 > ??: Friam Digest, Vol 30, Issue 29 > > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > Friam at redfish.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > Friam-request at redfish.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > Friam-owner at redfish.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (J T Johnson) > 2. Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (Roger Critchlow) > 3. Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (Roger Critchlow) > 4. Re: The south end of the table (Robert Holmes) > 5. Re: The south end of the table (Giles Bowkett) > 6. Re: The south end of the table (Douglas Roberts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:25:54 -0700 > From: J T Johnson > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: "Friam at redfish. com" , The NewsLib mailing > list > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > All: > > The story below was posted tonight on the Media Ecology listserv. > > First item on my to-do list for Monday is to ask my local public library and > my university library to see if they can find for me a copy of Mao's "Little > Red Book," official Peking version, please. > > --tom > > Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior > > By AARON NICODEMUS, New Bedford (MA) Standard-Times staff writer > > http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm > > > > > NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents > > two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on > > Communism called "The Little Red Book." > > > > Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert > > Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the > > UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program. > > > > The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for > > Professor > > Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for > > the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security > > number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two > > agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said. > > > > The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on > > > > a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time > > abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further. > > > > "I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the > > official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said. > > "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring > > inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the visit, as I > > understand it." > > > > Although The Standard-Times knows the name of the student, he is not > > coming > > forward because he fears repercussions should his name become public. He > > has not spoken to The Standard-Times. > > > > The professors had been asked to comment on a report that President Bush > > had authorized the National Security Agency to spy on as many as 500 > > people > > at any given time since 2002 in this country. The eavesdropping was > > apparently done without warrants. > > > > The Little Red Book, is a collection of quotations and speech excerpts > > from > > Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung. In the 1950s and '60s, during the Cultural > > Revolution in China, it was required reading. Although there are abridged > > versions available, the student asked for a version translated directly > > from the original book. > > > > The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the Homeland > > Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list." They brought the > > book with them, but did not leave it with the student, the professors > > said. > > > > Dr. Williams said in his research, he regularly contacts people in > > Afghanistan, Chechnya and other Muslim hot spots, and suspects that some > > of > > his calls are monitored. "My instinct is that there is a lot more > > monitoring than we think," he said. Dr. Williams said he had been > > planning > > to offer a course on terrorism next semester, but is reconsidering, > > because > > it might put his students at risk. > > > > "I shudder to think of all the students I've had monitoring al-Qaeda Web > > sites, what the government must think of that," he said. "Mao Tse-Tung is > > completely harmless." > > > > Contact Aaron Nicodemus at anicodemus at s-t.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MEA mailing list > > MEA at lists.ibiblio.org > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea > > > > > > -- > ============================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ============================================== > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051217/d20d1259/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:42:20 -0700 > From: Roger Critchlow > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Cc: "Friam at redfish. com" > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Arrgh. This reminds me that I borrowed the DVD of Brazil from the > library last weekend. Included in the Criterion edition is the "Love > Conquers All" edit that Universal was trying to force on Gilliam > before the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named the director's > cut the film of the year. The film is twenty years old, but it hasn't > lost an ounce of punch. > > -- rec -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:42:20 -0700 > From: Roger Critchlow > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Cc: "Friam at redfish. com" > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Arrgh. This reminds me that I borrowed the DVD of Brazil from the > library last weekend. Included in the Criterion edition is the "Love > Conquers All" edit that Universal was trying to force on Gilliam > before the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named the director's > cut the film of the year. The film is twenty years old, but it hasn't > lost an ounce of punch. > > -- rec -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:43:58 -0700 > From: Robert Holmes > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Oh my goodness - that paragraph on Popperism. Was the interviewee actually > admitting that string theory isn't experimentally falsifiable? In which case > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as scientific as > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > Robert > > On 12/16/05, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > > Our end of the table was talking about this very subject this morning. > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18825305.800.html > > > > -- > > Doug Roberts > > 505-455-7333 - Office > > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051217/4c0d74aa/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:26:43 -0700 > From: Giles Bowkett > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: robert at holmesacosta.com, The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 12/17/05, Robert Holmes wrote: > > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as scientific as > > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > I have to say I agree with this position wholeheartedly. I don't even > believe in the Big Bang. I think the whole thing is ridiculous. (I > wrote a huge rant about this and then left it in "Drafts" as a public > service.) > > -- > Giles Bowkett = Giles Goat Boy > http://www.gilesgoatboy.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:35:54 -0700 > From: Douglas Roberts > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Giles, > > Are you a physicist? I'm not one, myself, but my father in law is a > theoritical astrophysicist, and one of my long-time "hobbies" has been the > study of cosmology. I am curious why you think the big bang theory is > ridiculous. *All* of the observable evidence (cosmic background radiation, > redshift, COBE's ovservations of the anisotropy of the ovservable universe) > supports a big bang origin. > > --Doug > > On 12/18/05, Giles Bowkett wrote: > > > > On 12/17/05, Robert Holmes wrote: > > > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as > > scientific as > > > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > > > I have to say I agree with this position wholeheartedly. I don't even > > believe in the Big Bang. I think the whole thing is ridiculous. (I > > wrote a huge rant about this and then left it in "Drafts" as a public > > service.) > > > > -- > > Giles Bowkett = Giles Goat Boy > > http://www.gilesgoatboy.org/ > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051218/373f3c49/attachment.htm > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > Friam at redfish.com > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 30, Issue 29 > ************************************* > > > > Changwon Kim, Professor,PhD Department of Environmental Engineering Pusan National University Keumjungkoo Changjundong Busan, South Korea Tel:+82-51-510-2416 e-mail:cwkim at pusan.ac.kr Lab website:http://waterlab.env.pusan.ac.kr/ blog:http://blog.naver.com/cwkim100 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (J T Johnson) > 2. Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (Roger Critchlow) > 3. Re: [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? (Roger Critchlow) > 4. Re: The south end of the table (Robert Holmes) > 5. Re: The south end of the table (Giles Bowkett) > 6. Re: The south end of the table (Douglas Roberts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:25:54 -0700 > From: J T Johnson > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: "Friam at redfish. com" , The NewsLib mailing > list > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > All: > > The story below was posted tonight on the Media Ecology listserv. > > First item on my to-do list for Monday is to ask my local public library and > my university library to see if they can find for me a copy of Mao's "Little > Red Book," official Peking version, please. > > --tom > > Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior > > By AARON NICODEMUS, New Bedford (MA) Standard-Times staff writer > > http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm > > > > > NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents > > two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on > > Communism called "The Little Red Book." > > > > Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert > > Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the > > UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program. > > > > The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for > > Professor > > Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for > > the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security > > number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two > > agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said. > > > > The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on > > > > a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time > > abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further. > > > > "I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the > > official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said. > > "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring > > inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the visit, as I > > understand it." > > > > Although The Standard-Times knows the name of the student, he is not > > coming > > forward because he fears repercussions should his name become public. He > > has not spoken to The Standard-Times. > > > > The professors had been asked to comment on a report that President Bush > > had authorized the National Security Agency to spy on as many as 500 > > people > > at any given time since 2002 in this country. The eavesdropping was > > apparently done without warrants. > > > > The Little Red Book, is a collection of quotations and speech excerpts > > from > > Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung. In the 1950s and '60s, during the Cultural > > Revolution in China, it was required reading. Although there are abridged > > versions available, the student asked for a version translated directly > > from the original book. > > > > The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the Homeland > > Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list." They brought the > > book with them, but did not leave it with the student, the professors > > said. > > > > Dr. Williams said in his research, he regularly contacts people in > > Afghanistan, Chechnya and other Muslim hot spots, and suspects that some > > of > > his calls are monitored. "My instinct is that there is a lot more > > monitoring than we think," he said. Dr. Williams said he had been > > planning > > to offer a course on terrorism next semester, but is reconsidering, > > because > > it might put his students at risk. > > > > "I shudder to think of all the students I've had monitoring al-Qaeda Web > > sites, what the government must think of that," he said. "Mao Tse-Tung is > > completely harmless." > > > > Contact Aaron Nicodemus at anicodemus at s-t.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MEA mailing list > > MEA at lists.ibiblio.org > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea > > > > > > -- > ============================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ============================================== > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051217/d20d1259 /attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:42:20 -0700 > From: Roger Critchlow > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Cc: "Friam at redfish. com" > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Arrgh. This reminds me that I borrowed the DVD of Brazil from the > library last weekend. Included in the Criterion edition is the "Love > Conquers All" edit that Universal was trying to force on Gilliam > before the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named the director's > cut the film of the year. The film is twenty years old, but it hasn't > lost an ounce of punch. > > -- rec -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:42:20 -0700 > From: Roger Critchlow > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [MEA] whatever happened to academic freedom? > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Cc: "Friam at redfish. com" > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Arrgh. This reminds me that I borrowed the DVD of Brazil from the > library last weekend. Included in the Criterion edition is the "Love > Conquers All" edit that Universal was trying to force on Gilliam > before the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named the director's > cut the film of the year. The film is twenty years old, but it hasn't > lost an ounce of punch. > > -- rec -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:43:58 -0700 > From: Robert Holmes > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Oh my goodness - that paragraph on Popperism. Was the interviewee actually > admitting that string theory isn't experimentally falsifiable? In which case > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as scientific as > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > Robert > > On 12/16/05, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > > Our end of the table was talking about this very subject this morning. > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18825305.800.html > > > > -- > > Doug Roberts > > 505-455-7333 - Office > > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051217/4c0d74aa /attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:26:43 -0700 > From: Giles Bowkett > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: robert at holmesacosta.com, The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 12/17/05, Robert Holmes wrote: > > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as scientific as > > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > I have to say I agree with this position wholeheartedly. I don't even > believe in the Big Bang. I think the whole thing is ridiculous. (I > wrote a huge rant about this and then left it in "Drafts" as a public > service.) > > -- > Giles Bowkett = Giles Goat Boy > http://www.gilesgoatboy.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:35:54 -0700 > From: Douglas Roberts > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The south end of the table > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Giles, > > Are you a physicist? I'm not one, myself, but my father in law is a > theoritical astrophysicist, and one of my long-time "hobbies" has been the > study of cosmology. I am curious why you think the big bang theory is > ridiculous. *All* of the observable evidence (cosmic background radiation, > redshift, COBE's ovservations of the anisotropy of the ovservable universe) > supports a big bang origin. > > --Doug > > On 12/18/05, Giles Bowkett wrote: > > > > On 12/17/05, Robert Holmes wrote: > > > I'm just confirmed in my belief that string theory is about as > > scientific as > > > intellgient design, just with harder mathematics. > > > > I have to say I agree with this position wholeheartedly. I don't even > > believe in the Big Bang. I think the whole thing is ridiculous. (I > > wrote a huge rant about this and then left it in "Drafts" as a public > > service.) > > > > -- > > Giles Bowkett = Giles Goat Boy > > http://www.gilesgoatboy.org/ > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051218/373f3c49 /attachment.htm > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > Friam at redfish.com > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 30, Issue 29 > ************************************* > > > > Changwon Kim, Professor,PhD Department of Environmental Engineering Pusan National University Keumjungkoo Changjundong Busan, South Korea Tel:+82-51-510-2416 e-mail:cwkim at pusan.ac.kr Lab website:http://waterlab.env.pusan.ac.kr/ blog:http://blog.naver.com/cwkim100 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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