Howe, Red Heads to be inducted into Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

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Before helping the All-American Red Heads put men in their place on a nightly basis, Connie Howe struck a few blows for gender equality much closer to home.

Howe vividly remembers squaring off against her older brother, Mike, in the Breezy Acres subdivision in Rock Falls. She stood 5-foot-3, a full foot shorter than her big brother.

That didnt stop me, Howe said. I was like, I can beat you. I think that kind of made me tough. We played every minute we could.

This evening, Rock Falls' very own will be one of about 60 All-American Red Heads in Springfield, Mass., for the team's induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The team's pending induction was announced April 2.

Its a very exciting feeling, Howe said. It will be the thrill of a lifetime.

The Red Heads were founded in 1936 by C.M. Olson and helped spearhead the progression of women in sports until the team folded in 1986.

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There were no girls high school sports when Howe graduated from Rock Falls in 1970.

Needless to say, pursuing a physical education degree at Southern Illinois University was a game-changer.

"That was really when my eyes became open that girls could play sports, Howe said.

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Nasa Mars robot Curiosity leaves tire tracks

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In just one month, it's driven 368 feet (112 meters) on the red planet. Curiosity's slightly zig-zaggy tire tracks were photographed by a Nasa satellite circling Mars and also from the rover's rear-facing cameras.

When the images from the Martian satellite showed the rover tracks, there was much celebration, mission manager Michael Watkins said on Thursday. He said engineers were thrilled by the idea that "we left tracks on Mars that we can see from orbit" because it gave them a visible sense of accomplishment.

Curiosity will not be travelling any more for several days. Engineers will spend the next week checking out its crucial robotic arm. At the end of that arm is a "Swiss Army knife" of scientific instruments designed to test rocks and the chemicals in the soil, Watkins said.

After the arm and its tools are given clean bills of health, the rover will continue on a trek of more than a week to its first destination, a point called Glenelg, where three types of terrain meet. The rover will likely stop on the way to test its first rocks.

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NASA LaRC Notice of availability of inventions for licensing 6 Sep 2012

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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2012)] [Notices] [Pages 54933-54934] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-21911]

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (12-067)]

Government-Owned Inventions, Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of inventions for licensing.

SUMMARY: Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

DATES: September 6, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robin W. Edwards, Patent Counsel, Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 30, Hampton, VA 23681-2199; telephone (757) 864-3230; fax (757) 864-9190.

NASA Case No.: LAR-17485-2: Metal/Fiber Laminate and Fabrication Using a Porous Metal/Fiber Preform; NASA Case No.: LAR-17791-1: Method for Producing Heavy Electrons: NASA Case No.: LAR-17789-1: Electroactive Scaffold; NASA Case No.: LAR-17799-1: Methods of Real Time Image Enhancement of Flash LIDAR Data and Navigating a Vehicle Using Flash LIDAR Data; NASA Case No.: LAR-18023-1: Landing Gear Door Liners for Airframe Noise Reduction; NASA Case No.: LAR-17555-1: Lock-In Imaging System for Detecting Disturbances in Fluid; NASA Case No.: LAR-17318-1: Preparation of Metal Nanowire Decorated Carbon Allotropes; NASA Case No.: LAR-17869-1: Team Electronic Gameplay Combining Different Means of Control; NASA Case No.: LAR-18016-1: Wireless Temperature Sensor Having No Electrical Connections and Sensing Method for Use Therewith; NASA Case No.: LAR-17681-1: Method and System for Repairing Cracks in Structures; NASA Case No.: LAR-17919-1: Methods of Making Z-Shielding; NASA Case No.: LAR-17735-1: Assessment and Calibration of a Crimp Tool Equipped with Ultrasonic Analysis Features; NASA Case No.: LAR-17967-1: Multistage Force Amplification of Piezoelectric Stacks; NASA Case No.: LAR-17455-2: A Nanotube Film Electrode and an Electroactive Device Fabricated with the Nanotube Film Electrode and Methods for Making Same; NASA Case No.: LAR-17952-1: Multi-Point Interferometric Phase Change Detection Method; NASA Case No.: LAR-17689-1: Negative Dielectric Constant Material Based on Ion Conducting Materials; NASA Case No.: LAR-17857-1: In-Flight Pitot-Static Calibration; NASA Case No.: LAR-17906-1: Abnormal Grain Growth Suppression in Aluminum Alloys; NASA Case No.: LAR-17833-1: Active Aircraft Pylon Noise Control System; NASA Case No.: LAR-17908-1: Photogrammetry System and Method for Determining Relative Motion Between Two Bodies; NASA Case No.: LAR-17877-1: Autonomous Slat-Cove-Filler Device for Reduction of Aeroacoustic Noise Associated with Aircraft Systems; NASA Case No.: LAR-17832-1: Aircraft Engine Exhaust Nozzle System for Jet Noise Reduction; NASA Case No.: LAR-17985-1: An Acoustic Beam Forming Array Using Feedback-Controlled Microphones for Tuning and Self-Matching of Frequency Response; NASA Case No.: LAR-17994-1: Method for Manufacturing a Thin Film Structural System; NASA Case No.: LAR-17836-1: Sub-Surface Windscreen for Outdoor Measurement of Intrasound; NASA Case No.: LAR-17894-1: A Method for Enhancing a Three Dimensional Image from a Pluralitry of Frames of Flash LIDAR Data; NASA Case No.: LAR-17786-1: Smart Optical Material Characterization System and Method; NASA Case No.: LAR-17958-1: Wireless Open-Circuit In-Plane Strain and Displacement Sensor Requiring No Electrical Connections; NASA Case No.: LAR-18026-1: Anisotropic Copoly(imide Oxetane) Coatings and Articles of Manufacture, Copoly(imide Oxetane)s Containing Pendant Fluorocarbon Moieties, Oligomers and Processes Therefor; NASA Case No.: LAR-17638-1: Antenna with Dielectric Having Geometric Patterns; NASA Case No.: LAR-17987-1: Fault-Tolerant Self-Stabilizing Distributed Clock Synchronization Protocol for Arbitrary Digraphs; NASA Case No.: LAR-17895-1: Physiologically Modulating Videogames or Simulations Which Use Motion-Sensing Input Devices; NASA Case No.: LAR-17923-1: A Method of Creating Micro-Scale Silver Telluride Grains Covered with Bismuth Nanoparticles; NASA Case No.: LAR-17888-1: Time Shifted PN Codes for CW LIDAR, RADAR, and SONAR; NASA Case No.: LAR-17813-1: Systems, Apparatuses, and Methods for Using Durable Adhesively Bonded Joints for Sandwich Structures; NASA Case No.: LAR-17769-1: Modification of Surface Energy via Direct Laser Ablative Surface Patterning; NASA Case No.: LAR-17694-1: Fourier Transform Spectrometer System; NASA Case No.: LAR-17831-1: Blended Cutout Flap for the Reduction of Jet-Flap Interaction Noise; NASA Case No.: LAR-17386-1: Fine-Grained Targets for Laser Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes; NASA Case No.: LAR-17149-2: Mechanically Strong, Thermally Stable, and Electrically Conductive Nanocomposite Structure and Method of Fabricating Same; NASA Case No.: LAR-17747-1: Wireless Temperature Sensing Having No Electrical Connections and Sensing Method for Use Therewith; NASA Case No.: LAR-17993-1: Locomotion of Amorphous Surface Robots; NASA Case No.: LAR-17886-1: Method and Apparatus to Detect Wire Pathologies Near Crimped Connector; NASA Case No.: LAR-18006-1: Process and Apparatus for Nondestructive Evaluation of the Quality of a Crimped Wire Connector; NASA Case No.: LAR-17332-2: Jet Engine Exhaust Nozzle Flow Effector; NASA Case No.: LAR-17743-1: Stackable Form-Factor Peripheral Component Interconnect Device and Assembly; NASA Case No.: LAR-17088-1: Nanotubular Toughening Inclusions; NASA Case No.: LAR-16565-1: Electric Field Quantitative Measurement System and Method; NASA Case No.: LAR-17959-1: Method of Making a Composite Panel Having Subsonic Transverse Wave Speed Characteristics; NASA Case No.: LAR-18034-1: Compact Active Vibration Control System for a Flexible Panel; NASA Case No.: LAR-17984-1: Elastically Deformable Side-Edge Link for Trailing-Edge Flap Aeroacoustic Noise Reduction; NASA Case No.: LAR-18024-1: External Acoustic Liners for Multi- Functional Aircraft Noise Reduction; NASA Case No.: LAR-17705-1: Compact Vibration Damper; NASA Case No.: LAR-18021-1: Flap Side Edge Liners for Airframe Noise Reduction.

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NASA GSFC Notice of availability of inventions for licensing 6 Sep 2012

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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2012)] [Notices] [Page 54936] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-21914]

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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Government-Owned Inventions, Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of inventions for licensing.

SUMMARY: Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

DATES: September 6, 2012.

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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2012)] [Notices] [Page 54935] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-21913]

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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Government-Owned Inventions, Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of inventions for licensing.

SUMMARY: Patent applications on the inventions listed below assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have been filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are available for licensing.

DATES: September 6, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kaprice L. Harris, Attorney Advisor, Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Code 500-118, Cleveland, OH 44135; telephone (216) 433-5754; fax (216) 433-6790.

NASA Case No.: LEW-18340-2: Offset Compound Gear Inline Two Speed Drive; NASA Case No.: LEW-18313-2: Chalcogenide Nanoionic-Based Radio Frequency Switch; NASA Case No.: LEW-18601-1: Inductive Power Device; NASA Case No.: LEW-18566-1: Low Density, High Creep Resistant Single Crystal Superalloy with Lower Manufacturing Cost; NASA Case No.: LEW-18362-2: Space Radiation Detector with Spherical Geometry; NASA Case No.: LEW-18771-1: Integrated Temperature and Capacitive Ablation Recession Rate Sensors; NASA Case No.: LEW-18473-1: Ka-Band Waveguide 2-Way Hybrid Combiner for MMIC Amplifiers with Unequal and Arbitrary Power Output Ratio; NASA Case No.: LEW-18254-2: Simultaneous Non-Contact Precision Imaging of Microstructural and Thickness Variation in Dielectric Materials Using Terahertz Energy; NASA Case No.: LEW-18724-1: Vessel Generation Analysis; NASA Case No.: LEW-18639-1: Atomic Oxygen Fluence Monitor; NASA Case No.: LEW-18042-2: Process for Preparing Polymer Reinforced Silica Aerogels; NASA Case No.: LEW-18076-2: Dust Removal from Solar Cells; NASA Case No.: LEW-18236-2: Polyimides Derived From Novel Asymmetric Benzophenone Dianhydrides; NASA Case No.: LEW-17877-2: Antenna Near-Field Probe Station Scanner; NASA Case No.: LEW-18631-1: Circuit for Communication Over Power Lines; NASA Case No.: LEW-18608-1: Method for Making Fuel Cell; NASA Case No.: LEW-18483-1: Interference-Free Optical Detection for Raman Spectroscopy; NASA Case No.: LEW-18714-1: High Strength Nanocomposite Glass Fibers; NASA Case No.: LEW-18605-1: Electric Propulsion Apparatus; NASA Case No.: LEW-18762-1: Selenium Interlayer for High-efficiency Multijunction Solar Cell; NASA Case No.: LEW-18426-1: Dual-Mode Combustor; NASA Case No.: LEW-18615-1: Purify Nanomaterials; NASA Case No.: LEW-18632-1: Method for Fabricating Diamond-Dispersed Fiber-Reinforced Composite Coating On Low Temperature Sliding Thrust Bearing Interfaces; NASA Case No.: LEW-18492-1: Synthesis Methods, Microscopy Characterization and Device Integration of Nanoscale Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Gas Sensing in Aerospace Applications; NASA Case No.: LEW-18636-1: N Channel JFET Based Digital Logic Gate Structure; NASA Case No.: LEW-18634-1: Multi-Parameter Scattering Sensor and Methods; NASA Case No.: LEW-18586-1: Shock Sensing Apparatus; NASA Case No.: LEW-18221-2: Method and Apparatus for Thermal Spraying of Metal Coatings Using Pulsejet Resonant Pulsed Combustion; NASA Case No.: LEW-18619-1: Method to Transmit and Receive Video on Preexisting Wiring in Fixed and Mobile Structures; NASA Case No.: LEW-17458-2: Compact Solid State Entangled Photon Source; NASA Case No.: LEW-17634-2: Method for Making a Fuel Cell; NASA Case No.: LEW-18649-1: Ultracapacitor Based Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System; NASA Case No.: LEW-18648-1: Epoxy-clay Nanocomposites; NASA Case No.: LEW-18594-1: Thermomechanical Methodology for Stabilizing Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Response; NASA Case No.: LEW-18717-1: A High-Efficiency Power Module; NASA Case No.: LEW-18785-1: Prestressing Shock Resistant Mechanical Components and Mechanisms Made From Hard, Superelastic Materials; NASA Case No.: LEW-18432-2: Method for Providing Semiconductors Having Self-Aligned Ion Implant; NASA Case No.: LEW-18604-1: Mechanical Components From Highly Recoverable Low Apparent Modulus Materials; NASA Case No.: LEW-18614-1: High-Temperature Thermometer Using Cr-Doped GdAlO3 Broadband Luminescence; NASA Case No.: LEW-18761-1: Surface Temperature Measurement Using Hematite Coating; NASA Case No.: LEW-18296-1: Modular Battery Controller; NASA Case No.: LEW-18658-1: Levitating Electromagnetic Generator and Method of Using the Same; NASA Case No.: LEW-18248-1: Cellular Reflectarray Antenna and Method of Making Same; NASA Case No.: LEW-17916-2: Carbon Dioxide Gas Sensors and Method of Manufacturing and Using Same; NASA Case No.: LEW-18542-1: Functionalization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs) by Photooxidation; NASA Case No.: 18477-1: Graphene Based Reversible Nano-Switch/Sensor Schottky Diode (nanoSSSD) Device.

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ClassOne Equipment Donation Supports the Nanotechnology Mission at Georgia Tech

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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire -09/06/12)- The applications of nanotechnology are vast and have potential to revolutionize medicine, environmental protection methods, and lead to the development of new and innovative systems and devices based on nano materials and processes.

On April 24th, 2009, the Georgia Institute of Technology dedicated the new Marcus Nanotechnology Building; named after its prime sponsor, Mr. Bernie Marcus of the Marcus Foundation. The building is dedicated to exploring new fields of science, technology, and engineering for the benefit of humankind. It is also the headquarters for the Georgia Tech Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

This signature facility embodies Georgia Tech's dedication to improving the human condition through advanced science and engineering.

In support of this mission, ClassOne Equipment, a leading supplier of high quality refurbished equipment to the semiconductor, MEMS, LED, wireless, and emerging technology markets, has made a significant contribution of key process equipment.

"We appreciate this significant contribution of equipment that is now contained within the Marcus Organic and Inorganic Cleanroom Laboratories," said Mark Allen, executive director of the IEN.

ClassOne has core expertise in Suss Microtec, EVG, SPTS, Oxford, Plasmatherm, Semitool, and KLA-Tencor equipment. They can provide a turn-key solution which includes full refurbishment to original specifications, 6-month warranty, and full installation and training by experienced factory trained technicians. ClassOne currently has 40 full-time employees. ClassOne engineers and technicians have worked in technical positions at Suss Microtec, EVG, Semitool, STS, and KLA-Tencor. Since its founding in 2002, ClassOne has refurbished and sold over 2,000 pieces of equipment to more than 500 satisfied customers around the world, including some of the best-known institutes and semiconductor industry labs. In addition to its headquarters in Atlanta, GA, ClassOne has offices in California, Germany, UK, and China.

The IEN is a Georgia Tech interdisciplinary research center designed to enhance support for rapidly growing research programs spanning biomedicine, materials, electronics and nanotechnology.

The IEN is comprised of multiple Electronics and Nanotechnology research units, each offering a unique intellectual focus ranging from basic discovery and innovation to systems realization for academic, industry and government sponsors. Faculty leadership within the IEN centers includes global experts, several of whom are Eminent Scholars and National Academy of Engineering members. IEN faculty and researchers are capable of providing a broad spectrum of research and development activities ranging from basic discovery to systems prototypes.

These research programs are enabled by the IEN Nano, Micro, and Bio Cleanroom Laboratories valued in excess of $400M. These open-user, fee based laboratories are available to global academic, industry, and government clientele, offering a unique and comprehensive laboratory and teaming environment. For more information about IEN please visit: http://www.ien.gatech.edu/

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Alberta’s rat battle: Medicine Hat in poison war with nest of rodents

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CALGARY The city of Medicine Hat, Alta., has opened a new front in the war against a nest of rats that took hold of the border-towns landfill last month.

In a bid to recapture the provinces status as one of the few rat-free regions on Earth, the city launched Operation Haystack: A large roll of hay was baited with poison and placed downhill from the landfill. Gnawing signs near the stack, which are near-perfect homes for rats, indicated there had been activity, said Brandy Calvert, spokesperson for Medicine Hat. So far, although the battle has not yet been won, she said the city remained hopeful the rat population was dwindling.

The grand total is 111 [dead carcasses found] at the landfill. We have 18 in the county and in the city weve had 19, she said.

Promisingly, all of the rats found outside the landfill have been singletons, indicating no breeding pairs had established themselves.

We got them before they went anywhere else, she said.

City workers followed a trail of reports of rat sightings to the landfill in August. Since then, theyve left poisoned food and water in the hopes the population would die.

City staff have stopped finding rat bodies in the landfill a sharp improvement from several weeks ago when the bait would routinely kill as many as nine rats per day.

Not as much bait is being taken, were not finding as many bodies, she said.

Were not seeing as much evidence of activity. We have had many locations throughout the city checked, the city facilities have all been checked and theres been no sign of activity.

At the initiatives peak, as many as 60 people left poisoned bait or inspected nearby residences for signs of the vermin. Ten of those specialists kept a near round-the-clock vigil full time. The team has also been using cameras to spot the rats.

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Interview with Associate Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah, Associate Professor at a local medical school

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By Yeoh Lai Lin – The Online Citizen Spoke to Associate Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah, associate professor at a local medical school and infectious diseases specialist, member of the SDP Advisory Healthcare Panel and one of the engineers of the plan.   1. Since its official launch, The SDP National Healthcare Plan has yet to [...]

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Medical School becomes St Augustine Primary School

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Government has tabled a parliamentary resolution to transfer the Medical School site at Guardamangia to the Augustinian Order to use it as a primary school for 400 children.

Government is proposing to lease it to the Order for 99 years for 1,000 a year as rent. Sports and other educational facilities can be developed on the site and even the 2,177 sq m car park in front of the Medical School building can be made use of by the school.

The Augustinian Order is committing itself to spend at least 1,000,000 on the primary school project and that the work on it will start within 10 weeks of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) issues the necessary permits.

In exchange for the Medical School site, the Augustinian Order will transfer to government the site on which they were going to build the primary school for a lease of 99 years at 900 per year. Government will pass back this land to the Order on condition that no development is carried out on it.

After working hard for more than three years on a new primary school for St Augustines College, MEPA last February turned down the application by five votes to four and wanted the extension to have two and not three floors as planned, making the whole project too small and costly to be viable.

On 9 February 2012 the Prime Minister was given a petition signed by parents after the students of the school, parents and teachers met near the War Monument in Floriana and walked to Castille.

Neighbours of the college had objecting to the project as the new building would block their view and devalue their property.

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Gold, Copper Explorer Liberty Star Submits Work to Alaska Dept. of Mines and Mineral Resources (ADMMR)

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TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (Liberty Star or the Company)(LBSR: OTCQB) announces that work completed on the Big Chunk Super Project (BCSP) north and south blocks will satisfy Alaska State requirements for the Annual Labor year September 1, 2011 to September 1, 2012 on Liberty Stars State Mining Claims.

Liberty Star will submit Affidavits of Annual Labor valued at USD $121,648.48 for the north block (184 claims) and USD $535,795.76 for the south block (428 claims). These sums exceed yearly requirements and the overage will carry over to next years requirements. The Company will file complete documentation for this assessment work within 90 days from September 1, as prescribed by the Alaska Department of Mines and Mineral Resources (ADMMR) regulations for Alaska State Mining Claims.

James A. Briscoe James A. Briscoe, Professional Geologist, AZ CA CEO/Chief Geologist Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp.

About Liberty Stars Big Chunk Super Project:

Liberty Star, through its wholly owned Alaska subsidiary, Big Chunk Corp., holds exclusive mineral exploration rights to 612 state mining claims in two blocks covering approximately 177 square miles in southwestern Alaska. The Big Chunk claims were initially staked in 2003 along the Big Chunk caldera, which is believed to host Northern Dynasty Minerals/Anglo Americans Pebble Project. Liberty Star has recently conducted exploratory drilling on specific targets for porphyry copper, gold, molybdenum (moly), silver and zinc. SRK Consulting submitted a NI 43-101 compliant technical report on the Big Chunk Super Project in 2010: available on Liberty Stars web site http://www.libertystaruranium.com/.

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Pete O’Heeron Named to Liberty Star Board of Directors

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TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (Liberty Star or the Company)(LBSR: OTCQB) is pleased to announce Pete OHeeron of Houston, Texas has joined the Liberty Star Board of Directors. Mr. OHeeron is a significantly large and longtime LBSR shareholder and was instrumental in forging a relationship between Liberty Star and Northern Dynasty Minerals, resulting in a strategic partnership and the resurgence of Liberty Star in the southwestern Alaska mining region. Mr. Charles D. Vollmer has resigned as Director to pursue his Jobenomics Movement full time. If the opportunity presents itself, Liberty Star will team with Mr. Vollmers Jobenomics on future projects.

About Mr. OHeeron:

Mr. OHeeron leads an operationalinvestmentgroup which identifies early stage opportunities in the medical field with strong intellectual property positions. Through his 20+ years of medical product development experience, Mr. OHeeron brings together the resources from strategic disciplines necessary to commercialize unique technologies. Prior to founding Advanced Medical Technologies LLC, Mr. OHeeron founded NeoSurg Technologies, Inc. to develop a minimally invasive access system. As a result of his efforts, NeoSurg Technologies was successful in developing the T2000 Minimally Invasive Access System, the world leader in reposable surgical instrumentation. Mr. OHeeron completed the sale of NeoSurg Technologies to CooperSurgical in 2005. Mr. OHeeron graduated from Texas StateUniversitywith a BS in Healthcare Administration and a minor in Business Administration. He received his Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Houston. Mr. OHeeron currently holds 5 patents and has 4 patents pending.

Jim Briscoe, Liberty Star CEO and Chief Geologist, comments, Petes business acumen and natural ability connecting with people will definitely stimulate our growth potential. Even before becoming a Liberty Star Director, Petes support benefitted us materially. I have found there to be a real similarity between the scientific methodology of practicing medicine and exploration geology and I especially appreciate Petes achievements in the field of medical technology; he understands what we do as mineral explorers. Pete is a very energetic entrepreneur who will introduce Liberty Star to investors that are attracted to our commitment to using cutting-edge technology in mineral exploration.

James A. Briscoe James A. Briscoe, Professional Geologist, AZ CA CEO/Chief Geologist Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp.

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Taxing "Darwinian" Consumption

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A specter is haunting Robert Frank's latest book the specter of libertarianism. For him, it is a doctrinaire view with little to recommend it; yet he again and again seems drawn both to try to refute it and to deflect it. Libertarianism he takes to be wrong; but even those who accept it, he thinks, ought to see that his proposals for progressive taxation and assorted welfare measures are reasonable. One might at first be inclined to explain Frank's behavior by saying that it responds to the bad influence, as he sees it, that libertarian positions have on discussions of public policy. I suspect that there is more to it than that, though. Libertarianism exerts a peculiar fascination over him.

He says about libertarianism,

Unlike most critics on the left, I will grant the libertarians' most important basic assumptions about the world that markets are competitive, that people are rational, and that the state must meet a heavy burden of proof before restraining any individual citizen's liberty of action. Although there are reasons to question each assumption, the internal contradictions of the libertarian framework emerge clearly even if we accept these assumptions uncritically. (p. 11)

What is the internal contradiction at the heart of libertarianism that Frank claims to discern? Here Frank reprises a theme familiar to readers of his earlier books.

The fatal flaw in that [libertarian] framework stems from an observation that is itself completely uncontroversial namely that in many important domains of life, performance is graded on the curve. The dependence of reward on rank eliminates any presumption of harmony between individual and collective interests, and with it, the foundation of the libertarian's case for a completely unfettered market system. (p. 11)

A recent news item illustrates what Frank has in mind. The US Anti-Doping Agency has stripped Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France victories on the grounds that he used forbidden performance-enhancing drugs. The merits of that controversy aren't here our concern, but it serves to raise the question, Why do athletes ingest substances that may harm them? Obviously, they do so to gain an advantage over their competitors. But so long as a substantial number of rival athletes do this, none will gain an advantage over the others. You would get a jump on the competition if only you took the substances and no one else did, but this is irrelevant to what happens in the actual world. Athletes have gone to useless trouble and put their health at risk, and the result is that they are exactly where they were before in their battles with one another.

The dependence of reward on rank of course affects many others besides athletes, and one particular instance of it especially bothers Frank. People want their children to attend the best available school, and schools in richer neighborhoods are better than those in poorer areas. This leads parents to work longer and harder and under riskier conditions than they otherwise would have, in order to afford to move into a better neighborhood. Once more, though, their efforts do not gain for them the result they hope for: each parent is thwarted by the similar efforts of other parents.

A worker might well accept a riskier job at a higher wage because doing so would cover the monthly payments on a house in a better school district. But the same observation applies to other workers. And because school quality is an inherently relative concept, when others also trade safety for higher wages, no one will move forward in relative terms. They'll succeed only in bidding up the prices of houses in better school districts. (p. 40)

Frank draws an analogy between this type of futile struggle and a phenomenon studied by Charles Darwin. An example is the bull elk, which has developed outsized antlers. These "function not as weaponry against external predators but in the competition among bulls for access to females" (p. 21). The antlers make them less speedy and thus easier for wolves to attack them. They are even worse off than Lance Armstrong and his fellow cyclists. Darwin's study of this phenomenon leads Frank to "offer the following prediction. One century hence, if a roster of professional economists is asked to identify the intellectual father of their discipline, a majority will name Charles Darwin" (p. 16).

This is all very well, you may say or actually, as we'll soon see, not so very well but what does it have to do with libertarianism? The answer is simple. The government can rescue us from these futile competitive struggles by imposing a heavy progressive consumption tax. People would then have less money to waste on trying to get ahead of one another, but they would be no worse off: remember, the money that we spend on clawing our way to the top does us no good. All of our efforts leave us where we were before we spent the money. Given the good offices of the government, people could still attempt to surpass one another, but the government can now spend the money it extracted in all sorts of useful projects.

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Libertarian candidate scorned, to sue own party

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By Alicia Mandigo | September 06, 2012

A Libertarian candidate for District 28 of the State House of Representatives said he is planning to sue the Libertarian Party of Florida in small claims court.

Franklin Perez, who was featured in a Seminole Chronicle story last April, said he became at odds with the state party after taking a public stance on the Trayvon Martin case. He said the party de-vetted him as a candidate after he announced his position on the case.

On Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking through a gated Sanford community. Suspect George Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense and initially was not arrested in the shooting. At the time Perez spoke out, calling for Zimmerman's arrest. Although Zimmerman was ultimately arrested in the case, Perez said the Libertarian Party took issue with his public position, saying that it was in conflict with the party's non-initiation-of-force policy.

"I really felt I needed to take a position on this because Sanford is in my district," Perez said.

This is Perez's fourth attempt to win a seat in the state House in District 28.

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S Korea in islands military drill

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7 September 2012 Last updated at 00:32 ET

South Korea's coast guard is leading military exercises near islands also claimed by Japan, amid ongoing tension over the territorial row.

The operation near islands known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan also involves the army, navy and airforce, South Korean media said.

Tensions have risen since a visit to the islands by South Korea's leader.

Japan wants international arbitration over the islands, but South Korea has rejected the proposal.

Last month Japan briefly recalled its ambassador to Seoul in protest over a surprise visit to the islands by President Lee Myung-bak.

South Korea, which controls the islands, has maintained a small police force there since 1954.

"The exercise is carried out under the scenario in which coast guard takes a leading role in repelling foreign civilians invading territorial waters near Dokdo or trying to land on Dokdo," Col Lee Boong-woo was reported as saying by Yonhap news agency.

South Korea has decided to exclude exercises that involve landing on the islands in a move that is ''mindful'' of the diplomatic row with Japan, the Yonhap report said.

Previous exercises had involved marines landing on the island, it added.

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ENCODE: Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements – Video

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06-09-2012 04:00 ENCODE, the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements, is the most ambitious human genetics project to date. It takes the 3 billion letters described by the Human Genome Project in 2000, and tries to explain them. Remarkably, ENCODE scientists have managed to assign a biochemical function to 80% of the genome, including the genes and the parts of the genome that tell those genes what to do. This information is helping us understand how genomes are interpreted to make different types of cells and different people -- and crucially, how mistakes can lead to disease. In this video, ENCODE's lead coordinator, Ewan Birney, and Nature editor Magdalena Skipper talk about the challenges of managing this colossal project and what we've learnt about our genomes. To read the research papers and more, visit

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