Cost of #IranWar till now $ 29B and counting

Cost of new America class amphibious assault ship for #USM - $ 3.5B
Cost of 2 Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship - $ 0.65B
Cost of 2 San Antonio class amphibious transport docks - $ 3.2B
Cost of 2 Ticonderoga-class cruisers escorts - $ 2.5B
Cost of 2 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer - $ 5B
Total cost of a new #USM expeditionary strike group - $ 14.85B

#Taiwan Contingency happens post 2027 or in 2027

#ForeverWar #ForeverWars #Endlesswar #EndlessWars

#Households told to pour mouthwash into washing machine -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#daily_record

Karnataka Youth #Congress to hold 'Raj Bhavan -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html#1

#Albuquerque's country music festival Boots -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#32a

#Tennessee solar farm switches to grazing mode so cattle -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#irishnews

#Algeria’s #USM Alger beat #Egypt’s Zamalek to win CAF -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Algiers

View all news from the UK https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-kingdom.html

#PortlandME - At the #USM #Planetarium.

Cycle/Losing the Dark

"Starry skies are a vanishing treasure because light pollution is washing away our view of the cosmos. It not only threatens #astronomy, it disrupts #wildlife, and affects human health. The yellow glows over cities and towns — seen so clearly from space — are testament to the billions spent in wasted energy from lighting up the sky."

Price: $9 - $9.50

Dates:

April 16, 1pm - 2pm
April 17, 1pm - 2pm
April 17, 7pm - 8pm
April 18, 1pm - 2pm

https://usm.maine.edu/calendar-of-events/series/cycle-losing-the-dark/

#DarkSkies #LightPollution #MaineEvents

#GorhamME - #USM Spring #CraftShow

April 11
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

"Craft Shows at USM are held in the Gorham Field house on the USM campus at 37 College Ave. Gorham, ME 04038.

Featuring over 150 Maine Artisans

A $3 Parking Fee will be required. Book your parking in advance here.

Donations Accepted for Admission

Children’s Crafting Area

Raffle of Items Donated by Vendors"

https://www.mainemade.com/event/usm-spring-craft-show-2/

#SolarPunkSunday #BuyLocal #MaineCrafters #MaineEvents #Makers #MaineMade

#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location

The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME

by Riley Board, February 26, 2026

"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.

"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.

"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.

"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.

"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'

"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.

"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."

Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/26/palestine-conference-cancelled-by-usm-over-speakers-sanctions-has-new-location/

Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN

#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace

A still from #Maine artist #HeatherLyon's short film, "Parnassius mnemosyne (Clouded Apollo Sybil), 2024-25. Filmed in Parco Nzionale dei Monti Sibillini, Italy and Acadia National Park in Maine. Part of the "Of Sybils and Source" exhibit at #USM #PortlandME.

#FirstFridayArtWalk #MaineArtists
#GreekMythology #Sybils #Caves #CaveOfTheSybil #Art

I visited an exhibition yesterday at the #CreweCenter at #USM in #PortlandME yesterday. The theme is "Of Sibyls and Source: Ranges and Ruptures" showing through March 31, 2026. The first piece that caught my eye was "Invoking the Muses" by artist and teacher #SusanBickford. "These dresses are meant to invoke and honor these ancient Goddesses, indeed to welcome them into this temple, remembering their essential role in creative inspiration. Position in relationship to the architecture and an extension of the sky, sunlight, moonlight, and the wind, and made as an offering, each stitch a prayer for the future, and the artists receiving their blessing."

#Muses #NineMuses #Inspiration #FirstFridayArtWalk

Weierstrass Substitution as a Special Case of the USM Framework:
https://geometriadominicana.blogspot.com/2025/12/weierstrass-as-special-case-of-usm.html

#math #calculus #Weierstrass #USM #framework #euler #unification #integral #integration