My dear friend, Pablo Romero, is selling his new CD of holiday music. You
can listen to sample tracks or download the album via Amazon, or you can purchase the CD here. I just purchased a copy earlier this morning and have been enjoying the music thoroughly! Help out my friend and buy your copy today!
Front Range Objectivism (FRO) is pleased to announce supper talk with historian John Lewis on "Government Medicine: The Metaphysical Attack on a Profession" on Saturday, May 14th. If you'd like to attend, you must register by this Monday, May 9th!
Many people agree that government control of medicine is a vicious attack on individual rights, and that the use of force against doctors is immoral as well as unconstitutional. But, this talk will maintain, the attack is far deeper: it is directed at the very nature of man as a thinking, goal-directed being. Government control of medicine undercuts the ability of doctors to use their minds in a first-handed way, and makes it impossible to project long-range goals on every level. This hard-hitting talk, motivated by first-hand personal experiences in medicine, will ask every thinking person to consider whether they want the United States to stay on a path leading to government control of their own personal health care.Space is limited, so register now! The deadline for registration is Monday, May 9th. After that, we may or may not be able to squeeze you in!
Dr. Lewis is visiting associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University. He is an Anthem Fellow for Objectivist Scholarship, and adjunct associate professor of business at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent book is Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Today is your last chance to register for SnowCon -- or just its keynote FROST Supper Talk on Saturday, March 12th.
At the FROST Supper Talk, you'll learn valuable skills for managing your relationships with friends, family, and co-workers better. (I know that from personal experience... their techniques have even helped me train my dogs better too!)
The FROST talk is by Jenn Casey and Kelly Elmore on "Effective Communication: How Objectivists Can Use Positive Discipline Tools In Their Adult Relationships." Here's the abstract:
In our talk, we will present a set of parenting principles called "Positive Discipline" that is compatible with teaching our children to use the Objectivist virtues while behaving virtuously ourselves. Positive Discipline techniques include respectful communication, problem-solving skills, and limit-setting that is both kind and firm. Positive Discipline techniques do not include reward systems, praise, punishments, behavior modification techniques, emotional manipulation, shaming, or logical consequences.
The focus of the talk will be on the communication and problem-solving tools used in Positive Discipline, tools that are essential not only to parenting but to all healthy relationships, at work, at home, with friends, with romantic partners, and on the phone with the customer service representative at your credit card company. The talk will be dynamic and interactive, and you will walk out with at least one new skill to try the next time you are in a difficult situation with your spouse, your coworker, or your child.
If you're unsure about attending, we recommend that you listen to their podcast about the lecture, available here.
We must give the final head count to the Rio Grande restaurant tomorrow morning, so you must register for either SnowCon or just the FROST talk today, preferably by noon.
Register for FROST here:
http://www.frontrangeobjectivism.com/snowcon/frost.html
Register for SnowCon here:
http://www.frontrangeobjectivism.com/snowcon/registration.html
If you attend the FROST lecture, and you'd like to attend another SnowCon event or two à la carte, just send Diana Hsieh an e-mail.
(Note to students: Thanks to contributions from generous FRO supporters, we can offer deeper student discounts than just the student rate. Please e-mail Diana -- ASAP! -- if you'd like to attend but you can't afford the regular student rate.)
Also, everyone is welcome to join us for Friday night's SnowCon Happy Hour at Landry's. It's free, but you'll be responsible for your own food and drinks. Please RSVP via e-mail to Diana if you plan to attend.
SnowCon and FROST welcome all friendly people with a serious interest in or honest curiosity about Ayn Rand's philosophy, regardless of their level of knowledge.
Please e-mail Diana Hsieh if you have any questions!
Front Range Objectivism is pleased to announce the full schedule and to open registration for SnowCon -- our March mini-conference. The core of the conference runs from Friday, March 11th to Sunday, March 13th in Denver, but you can also join us for three days of winter play in the beautiful Colorado Rockies beforehand.
You can view the full schedule of lectures and events on the SnowCon web site: http://www.frontrangeobjectivism.com/snowcon/
Or you can watch/listen to my preview of it: http://www.frontrangeobjectivism.com/snowcon/webcast.html
Colorado is a wonderful state to visit, and SnowCon will be good intellectual fun! So please join us!
To attend SnowCon, you must register by noon on Thursday, March 3rd. If you register by noon on Thursday, February 24th, you'll save $20, paying only $140 rather than $160. (That price includes two buffet meals.)
Here are some more details from the SnowCon web page:
The core events of SnowCon will be held in Denver on Saturday and Sunday. Lectures include Dr. Paul Hsieh on the morality of carrying firearms, Dr. Diana Hsieh on moral character, Santiago Valenzuela on immigration, and Joe Collins on America's founding. Saturday night's keynote FROST lecture will feature Jenn Casey and Kelly Elmore on applying the principles of positive discipline to adult relationships.
SnowCon also offers a workshop on activist writing with Ari Armstrong, a discussion and performance of Beethoven by pianist Hannah Krening, a workshop on Atlas Shrugged Reading Groups, a demonstration of Liberty Toastmasters, and more. Other optional events include a tour of Denver microbreweries, a hike in Roxborough Park, a tour of the Denver Museum of Art, and a trip to a local shooting range.
For details, see Denver Activities and Schedule.
In addition, SnowCon attendees can enjoy three relaxed days of skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and other winter activities together in Breckenridge before the weekend in Denver -- from Wednesday to Friday.
For details, see Breckenridge Activities and Schedule.
SnowCon welcomes all friendly people with a serious interest in or honest curiosity about Ayn Rand's philosophy, regardless of their level of knowledge.
Santiago and I will be attending the Breckenridge and Denver conference days and we hope to see you there!
