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IAPh 2020
The XVIIIth Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers: Defining the Future, Rethinking the Past
Paderborn University, Germany, July 19-22, 2020.
The International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) is a decisive organisation in promoting women's research in philosophy and its history. Founded in Germany in 1976, it is now a global network for all women in philosophy. Given its strong tradition, IAPh covers all philosophical disciplines, feminist philosophy as well as the history of women philosophers.
After venues at Monash University, Melbourne (2016) and Tsinghua University, Beijing (2018), the 18th world congress of IAPh will be hosted by the Center for the "History of Women Philosophers and Scientists" (HWPS) at Paderborn University, Germany.
IAPh 2020 will be devoted to the most pressing issues of our future: In times of rapid technological progress, climate change, and economic turmoil, we invite women's contributions on the philosophy of economics, philosophy of technology, and ecology/environmental ethics.
Moreover, given the initial aim of IAPh and the research focus of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, we also seek to discover and reassess the role of women philosophers. We therefore welcome submissions on historical female thinkers.
Postponed to 2021 due to the corona pandemic.
See "IAPh 2021: Defining the Future, Rethinking the Past"
Organizational Note
The IAPh board has decided to postpone the XVIIIth IAPh Symposium due to the current disruptions caused by the coronavirus. The conference will take place one year later, from July 18 to 21, 2021. Please save the date! Location, topics, keynote speaker and preliminary program will remain the same. Stay well and join us in 2021 to define the future by rethinking the past!
In our main sections, possible topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
Micro/Macro Economics
Feminist Economics
Economic Methodology
Environmental Philosophy
Food Ethics
Climate Ethics/Economics
Algorithms and Digitization
Surveillance and Responsibility
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
New Work/Future Directions
Feminist Philosophy of Technology
Feminist Historiographic Methodology
History of Women Philosophers: Western & Non-Western Traditions
Carol J. Adams, Dallas US
A distinguished researcher and activist, Carol J. Adams will talk about the connections between meat consumption and sexism. Her ground-breaking book "The sexual politics of meat" is now a modern classic and bridges animal ethics and the women's lib movement. Adams' talk at IAPh 2020 also marks her first professional visit to Germany.
Federica Giardini, Rome ITA
Prof. Giardini will explore how philosophy can offer new intellectual paths in thinking about the economy: How can be combine ecology and economy, and how can the unpaid work of women adequately been included in economic analyses of, for instance, GDP?
Lisa Herzog, Groningen NL
In times rising economic inequality and threats to democracy, Lisa Herzog will give a talk about the links between "Economic Knowledge, Democratic Knowledge".
Kateryna Karpenko, Kharkiv UA
At IAPh 2020, Kateryna Karpenko (Kharvik National University, Ukraine) will talk about the links between gender injustice and ecological issues, because it is no news that we will face tremendous environmental problems in the future. Do feminist perspectives offer possible solutions? After all, it's women who suffer the most from climate change, overpopulation, and deforestation.
Heisook Kim, Seoul KR
Professor Kim is a renowned philosopher of science and president of the prestigious Ewha Woman's university in Seoul). Her keynote for our section on the philosophy of technology discusses how AI research might profit from integrating women's research on this area. Prof Kim's expertise on this is far from being purely abstract: She has recently established a special research field on AI at Ewha Woman's University where she seeks to incorporate not only women's research on AI, but also to establish a strong connection between philosophical research with the latest findings from information technology.
Yuko Murakami, Tokyo JP
At IAPh, we want to go into the subtler issues behind AI and machine learning, and invite contributions on any aspect of philosophy of technology. We are therefore very pleased to welcome Yuko Murakami from Rikkyo University, Japan, as our keynote speaker on the philosophical questions of AI. Prof Murakami is an international expert on AI who works at the intersection between philosophy and information science. Most recently, she has worked on what kind of ethics should guide the information education of robots.
Julie A. Nelson, Boston US
Julie A. Nelson will complete our trio of women philosophers on economics. Nelson's work focuses on the methodology of economics and feminist economic theory and draws attention to the underlying social and cultural mechanisms (aka: values) that shape and influence markets. Nelson argues that we need to be aware of how cultural norms and expectations influence our thinking about the supposedly "amoral" market sphere in order to address issues like climate change.
Caterina Pello, Cambridge UK
Caterina Pello, a trained classicist and philosopher, will give a talk on women in the Pythagorean tradition. Her keynote will close an important gap in the history of philosophy.
Gisele Secco, Santa Maria BRA
Gisele Dalva Secco will give a talk on the philosophy of mathematics, precisely: the Four-Color Theorem proof, which happens to be the first original mathematical result depending on computer assistance. Secco will argue that this celebrated mathematical proof is still relevant for contemporary philosophy of mathematical practice for reasons not envisioned until now: it marks the rise of a new mathematical culture, in which the work of women can play a significant part.
Mpho Tshivhase, Pretoria ZA
Mpho Tshivhase received her degree in Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. Her overarching research concern aims to delineate what uniqueness amongst persons is and how we relate to it. She is a member of the Philosophical Society of South Africa, as well as Golden Key Society in South Africa. At the IAPh 2020 she will give a talk on women philosophers and AI.
Xiao Wei, Beijing CN
Xiao Wei's studies focus on ethics, gender studies and bioethics (Public Health Ethics). Her book and teaching has won two professional prizes. She has also been selected as one of the "one-hundred promising scholars of the Beijing government for the 21st century". Her keynote at the IAPh 2020 will be about "Women Philosophers on Health and Environmental Issues".
Send in a submission for a workshop or a section.
Click here to take a look at the preliminary program.
We also encourage submissions for the following workshops:
Die IAPh - Ihre Anfänge (in German)
Convenor: Herta Nagl-Docekal
The aim of this workshop is to review the history of IAPh: what did it achieve, and how can we tackle the remaining obstacles women philosophers still face?
Women Philosophers' Presentation in the Digital World
Convenor: Ruth Hagengruber
At IAPh 2020, we want to increase the digital presence of women philosophers by encouraging the development of projects which pursue the same aim. This workshop will take place over the whole duration of IAPh 2020 as a special event of our project "Defining the future, rethinking the past".
German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy
Convenors: Tuija Pulkkinen, Susanne Lettow
In this workshop we want to explore the various interrelations between German Idealism and feminist philosophy by dwelling on key concepts like equality, autonomy, the subject, nature, and consciousness, as well as, e.g. the dialectics of master and slave. In addition, gender and sexuality were central issues of German Idealists, and many of them reflected intensively on topics such as love, marriage, the family, and the political status of women. How and to what extent can their ideas be made fecund for today's gender issues?
South-East European Women Philosophers
Convenors: Luka Boršić, Ivana Skuhala Karasman
In this workshop we will discuss women philosophers and feminists from the south-eastern part of Europe i.e. from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. This European region boasts an extraordinary history as it was subject to various political forces, which left their mark on this region's intellectual history and culture. This had tremendous effects not only on the general position of women in society, but also on the choice of philosophical activities of those women. We will explore the roots and backgrounds of their philosophical views, as well as some of their main philosophical positions.
Diana Tietjens Meyers on Autonomy
Convenor: Evangelia Aikaterini Glantzi.
In line with the conference theme of "Defining the Future, Rethinking the Past," we are soliciting workshop papers that position Meyers' thought in the evolution of feminist and/or mainstream philosophy of action or papers that consider whether and how Meyers' work might contribute to issues of current and ongoing concern to feminist philosophers and activists. The workshop session will take place Monday, July 20, 2020, 10:00AM-noon. It will be structured as follows: presentation of three formal papers, followed by Meyers' response and open discussion. Note that abstracts for this workshop are due April 15, 2020. Please email your abstract to eglantzi@gmail.com. We very much look forward to receiving your submissions.
Diotimas Begehren – Muße als Dialogkultur auf dem digitalisierten Campus? (in German)
Convenor: Marion Mangelsdorf (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
In Platons Symposium wird die Muße, die das Gespräch ermöglicht und rahmt, als basal vorgestellt. Dabei entwickelt Sokrates in der Wiedergabe eines fiktiven Gesprächs mit der Seherin Diotima eine Vorstellung des Eros als Triebkraft, die hinter allem Verlangen nach dem Schönen, Guten und Wahren stünde. Damit begreift Sokrates Eros als Basis eines unstillbaren Verlangens nach Erkenntnis und wissenschaftlichen Forschens.
Der Rede Diotimas ebenso wie einer durch Muße ermöglichten Dialogkultur spürt der Workshop als (selbst-)kritische Inspirationsquelle für Fragen am digitalisierten Campus der zeitgenössischen Alma Mater nach: In Form von Webdokumentationen und künstlerisch mediengestalterischer Gesprächsformate möchte ich den Campus als Versammlungsort wiederbeleben (vgl. https://genderingmint.pageflow.io/ein-gastmahl).
Women Philosophers in the Arab World
Convenors: Zeineb Ben Saïd-Cherni, Ana Rodrigues (Paderborn University)
So far, the perception of Arabic-speaking philosophy in Europe has been limited to classical male authors such as al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rušd. Nevertheless, recent research such as the work of Tamara Albertini challenges this predominant perception of philosophy in the Islamic world. There have been important contributions by women such as Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya of Basra or 'A'Ishah Al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus. This workshop aims at contributing to an increased visibility of female philosophers in the Arab World in history and today. We invite contributions on any epoque and any topic.
Women in Early Phenomenology
Convenors: Ronny Miron (Bar-Ilan University Israel), Julia Mühl (Universität Paderborn)
In this workshop we will discuss women philosophers who were part of the phenomenological movement of the 20th century. Our main focus will be on the phenomenologists Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Gerda Walther. While Hedwig Conrad-Martius was a key figure of the Göttinger phenomenological circle, Gerda Walther was a student of Alexander Pfänder and Edmund Husserl and a member of the Freiburger phenomenological society. Both women were important contributors to the development of phenomenology. We will delve into the historical backgrounds of these women phenomenologists and explore their philosophical contributions.
Welcome to Paderborn
Tourism Culture
Click here for more information on the venue Paderborn.
Accommo- dation
More than 30 hotels and guesthouses in Paderborn offer a big choice of accommodation in all categories.
Press Infopoint
City tour in Paderborn's old town
July 19th, 11 a.m.
This one-and-a-half hour guided tour shows the historical sights of Paderborn.
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Museum tour in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum
July 23rd, 10:30 a.m.
We offer a one-hour tour of the largest computer museum in the world.
Selected papers will be published. If you would like your paper to be considered in advance of the conference for publication, please submit an essay of up to 10,000 words (including notes) to: iaph2020@lists.uni-paderborn.de (include a separate, single page containing: title, author contact details, affiliation, conference section to which you are submitting the paper to (e.g., section 2.e.,) abstract and short CV). You do not have to submit an additional abstract for presentation at the conference.
Organization: Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber and team.
contact@historyofwomen
philosophers.org
The IAPh Board 2018-2020: Chris Sanchez, Madrid ES; Mary Ellen Waithe, Cleveland/Washington US; Xiao Wei, Beijing CH; Karen Green, Melbourne AUS; Heisook Kim, Seoul KR; Christina Schües, Lübeck GER; Cintia Martinez Velasco, Mexico City MX; Martina Reuter, Jyväskylä FN; Ruth Hagengruber, Paderborn GER.
Program Committee: Waltraud Ernst, Linz University; Elke Holst, Berlin; Herta Nagl, University of Vienna; Clara Mavellia, Berlin; Jutta Weber, Paderborn University
PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILMING DISCLAIMER
Please note that photographs and video footage will be taken throughout IAPh 2020. These will be used by Paderborn University for marketing and publicity purposes in online and print media. Please contact the event organizers if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this.
Vegan/vegetarian snacks and drinks will be provided during the conference.


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date: 2014-09-30 11:44:00
layout: post
title: Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2
categories:
- programming
- development
- Duality
- Fsharp
- Csharp
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This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

I thought I should rewind a little bit, and have an overview of the game before we continue.

The C# version of the game has 9 files and each, each has a class where (generally a component is defined), I decided to change this for the F# version of the game, tho I am not sure type per file is an idiom of F# or not. (Comments on this, really welcome)

The idea of doing this port is to show the progression of the code from C# to F# to (hopefully) better F# so if you have some comments on how to improve, they are super welcome, particularly commenting with code samples (or PRs). The whole game (in C# and F# and the editor ) is all available from [this github repo](https://github.com/Andrea/FSharpAndGamesBreakout).

### About Duality

The engine, Duality, is a C# engine that follows some of the C# idioms. It is not in our inmediate plans to make a wrapper to make the engine more f# friendly, I find don't find it too hard to work with the two languages, however it might be because I am familiar with it enough to not feel much of the pain.

These are bits of code we will se over and over

#### Is it a bit humid here?

Declaring a component. Needs to be serializable, and inherit from component

{% highlight fSharp %}

[<Serializable>]
type LifeMeter() =
    inherit Component()

{% endhighlight %}

Most of these components will need to implement ```ICmpUpdatable``` or ```ICmpInitializable```

{% highlight fSharp %}

    interface ICmpUpdatable with
        member this.OnUpdate() =
            //Do some componenty stuff here

{% endhighlight %}

Some components need to be able to detect collisions, on those situations you need to implement ```ICmpCollisionListener```
{% highlight fSharp %}

    interface ICmpCollisionListener with
        member this.OnCollisionBegin (_, args)=
			// Do collision stuff here (or somewhere else)
        member this.OnCollisionEnd(_,_)=
            ()
        member this.OnCollisionSolve(_,_)=
            ()

{% endhighlight %}

I don't think I mind the interface implementations.

Then there is the find the (not null) component. In the example below we are looking for a ```TextRenderer``` within the object. In the None matching, it is more likely you want to log and editor warning, rather than do nothing

{% highlight fSharp %}

            let tr = OptionComponent<TextRenderer> this.GameObj
            match tr with
            | None -> ()
            | Some tr ->tr.Text.SourceText <- sprintf "Score: %i"  score

{% endhighlight %}

What does all of this mean? well I though it might be useful to sunmarize what I have seen so far.  I'll update this post with more if I think of any other repeating pattern.

Untill the next time :D

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Just when Dan Brown fans had started to accept that there might never be another book in the Robert Langdon series, Origin made it's way to bookstores in October this year.
As all Dan Brown books go, Origin promised to be an action-packed, mystery-ridden, historically and architecturally rich novel that keeps you at the edge of your seat from the very first page to the very last.
This fifth installment in the Robert Langdon series definitely lived up to the usual mark. Fast paced right from the beginning, the story begins with Langdon arriving at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Where Edmond Kirsch, a world renown futurist, atheist and Langdon's friend, holds an exclusive event for the entire world to see.
Kirsch begins the event by explaining how he has made an incredible, earth-shattering discovery with regards to the meaning of human existence and fate. He plans to unveil it to all of humanity that night.
But a shocking turn of events prevents him from doing so. This sets Langdon himself on the course to finding and unveiling his friend's discovery to the world.
With the help of Ambra Vida, the curator of Guggenheim Museum, Langdon travels from Bilbao to Barcelona in search of the truth, with the authorities constantly on their tails. Deciphering symbols, encrypting codes and the usual search for the needle in a haystack, takes place.
The story keeps you gasping and guessing, until the final reveal, which very well changes the world's perception of the present and the future that is to come.
Architecture, symbolism and literature play have the usual significance in this installment as well. The plot of the book is lead by Antoni Gaudi's peculiar style of architecture and William Blake's prophetic style of poetry and art.
So you can't help but have Google open on your phone on the side as Dan Brown takes you on a breathless journey through Europe's rich culture and history.
This book focuses on two important questions which man has been trying to answer since the dawn of his existence.
Where did we come from? And where are we going?
Religion and science both offer different solutions to the same equation, hence the never ending debate between scientists and believers prevails.
Belief and Reason have always been at war, whether it's about our history or our future. With that being said, what I absolutely loved about this book was, how in the end, Dan Brown managed to find the perfect harmony between the two extremes.
He managed to solve the equation by merging both solutions. With the help of actual facts and statistics, Dan Brown once again succeeds in making his story easily yet strongly believable for his readers.
After The Lost Symbol being a sore and Inferno being a semi-sore disappointment, Origin is the thrilling comeback that we have all been waiting for.
I would definitely rate Origin as 4/5 stars and would also recommend it to Dan Brown fans who strayed away after the release of his last two books.
Origin is sure to restore your faith!


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This year, Anderson Ranch Arts Center celebrates its 50th Anniversary, which they're marking with a week's worth of art events. On Monday, July 18, attend an open studio with artist Tom Sachs from 3 - 5PM. On Tuesday at 7PM, listen to a conversation between Fred Tomaselli and Tom Burckhardt. On Thursday at 12:30PM, check out "Summer Series: Featured Artists & Conversations", featuring the 2016 Anderson Ranch National Artist Award recipient, Carrie Mae Weems.
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And yet my days go on, go on.
While the tears drop, my days go on.
And life that will not end in this!
Whose desolated days go on.
I knock and cry, —Undone, undone!
Is there no help, no comfort, —none?
Where others drive their loaded wains?
My vacant days go on, go on.
Whose days so winterly go on?
And dare not ask an equal boon.
Cool deadly touch to these tired feet.
Till days go out which now go on.
While my new rest went on, went on.
By days that painfully go on?
The shuddering pines, and thunder on.
And listens for the creatures' praise.
What babble we of days and days?
The Day-spring He, whose days go on.
Ancient of Days, whose days go on.
Or rules with Him, while days go on?
Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown!
No mortal grief deserves that crown.
Whose days eternally go on!
I trust Thee while my days go on.
We will not struggle nor impugn.
That Heaven's new wine might show more clear.
I praise Thee while my days go on.
Smiling—so I. THY DAYS GO ON.


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Biden's attempts to dissolve Trump's 1776 commission unsuccessful
Savannah Hulsey Pointer
Former President Donald Trump's education advisory commission will begin voluntary meetings to pursue their education goals, despite being abolished by President Joe Biden according to The Washington Examiner.
According to the Examiner's report, the group has determined that their goal of undermining the acceptance of critical race theory in schools is too important to do away with at this time.
"The 1776 Commission is scheduled to convene on Monday in Washington on the annex campus of Hillsdale College to plot its next steps," the Examiner reported.
While an agenda for the closed meeting was not available the publication went on saying that their publication was granted an interview by Matthew Spalding, the 1776 Commission's executive director who said that the group sees itself as crucial to the explosive debate over how history is taught in United States schools.
"When we start going about dividing people by groups, by social identities, and especially by identities that deal with race, and we're starting to make those kinds of divisions, all Americans should get very nervous," said Spalding, who runs Hillsdale's Washington campus and is a faculty member.
"It's a departure away from the historic grounding of civil rights in America, which is that we all are equal."
The 1776 commission is the conservative counterpart to the so-called 1619 Project, which promotes the theory that American history should be re-framed around slavery in America, and focuses learning and opportunity offered to students on race.
"Current arguments about identity politics and critical race theory that … present themselves as merely responding to perceptions of their current assessment of American society, but do so by introducing as their principle that we should look at people based on the color of their skin, strikes us as a fundamental denial of the idea that all men are created equal," Spalding continued. "And that's a problem for politics. That's a problem intellectually and historically."
The 1776 Commission issued a report on the state of education just before they were disbanded by the Biden administration.
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Q: AuthenticationFailed to mongoDB with Spring boot I'm trying to create a server where my webpage / app can make calls, from now I'm starting with Login so, I've created the Server according my needs, the problem is on application.properties that I'm missing something, I have this :
spring.data.mongodb.host=localhost
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=mydatabase
spring.data.mongodb.username=stuart
spring.data.mongodb.password=stuartdto
spring.data.mongodb.database=mydatabase

And the error is this one when trying to call the login call

com.mongodb.MongoCommandException: Command failed with error 18 (AuthenticationFailed): 'Authentication failed.' on server localhost:27017. The full response is { "ok" : 0.0, "errmsg" : "Authentication failed.", "code" : 18, "codeName" : "AuthenticationFailed" }

I've started mongod using this command mongod --auth and I've created an user to do this (is working because if I do manually mongo -u user -p 'password' --authenticationDatabase "admin" works) it wasn't working until I add this --authenticationDatabase "admin" so maybe that's what I need from Spring.
What I'm missing?

A: If you are using spring.data.mongodb.uri method,
spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://stuart:stuartdto@localhost:27017/mydatabase?authSource=admin

A:
so maybe that's what I need from Spring

Of course, you are saying spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database = mydatabase and it's incorrect!
You want to use spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database = admin instead, and it will work.

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newswire article reposts united states 18.Mar.2006 09:57
imperialism & war m19 2006
For the immediate withdrawal of all US troops
author: the WSWS Editorial Board
As the war in Iraq enters its fourth year, opposition to the US occupation has never been greater. A clear and growing majority of the American people is opposed to continuing the bloody attempt to subjugate 26 million Iraqis to the interests of the US corporate elite.
Even a recent poll conducted among US troops on the ground in Iraq—support for whom is endlessly invoked to justify continuing the war—showed 72 percent in favor of complete withdrawal of all US forces within a year, and over half saying that the US should get out within no more than six months.
This sea change in public opinion has taken place despite the absence of any serious opposition or even critical analysis of the war by either the mass media or the Bush administration's ostensible political opposition, the Democratic Party. Indeed, millions of American working people have drawn their own conclusions in the teeth of a ferocious propaganda campaign aimed at terrorizing the public with a supposedly omnipresent threat of terror, against which unrestrained US militarism is posed as the only answer.
No amount of government propaganda or media distortion, however, can conceal the fact that this criminal enterprise, begun on the basis of lies, has yielded an unmitigated catastrophe.
For the Iraqi people, the US intervention, from the "shock and awe" bombardments of three years ago to the daily massacres taking place now, has constituted a historic tragedy.
While no one has counted the bodies of the slain Iraqi men, women and children, there is no question that the death toll since the US invasion now numbers well into the hundreds of thousands.
In addition, the lives of over 2,300 US soldiers—the bulk of them drawn from the working class and the poor—have been sacrificed, with tens of thousands more wounded, injured or left psychologically damaged as a result of their participation in a dirty colonial-style war.
As the occupation has dragged on, the carnage has only intensified, with scores killed and wounded daily as a result of US military operations and sectarian violence provoked by the social disintegration wrought by the US war. Bodies pile up in the Baghdad morgue, shot or garroted, the victims of the torture and execution carried out by Iraqi police-military death squads, financed and trained by the Pentagon.
The latest US military operation, Operation Swarmer, which has seen a combined US and Iraqi airborne force storming villages near Samarra and conducting house-to-house raids, is an ominous warning of the strategy that the Bush administration and the Pentagon intend to pursue Iraqi troops, overwhelmingly Shiite, are being deployed against Sunni population centers near the very city where the bombing of the Golden Mosque triggered an eruption of bloodletting. This represents a clear threat that, unless the resistance to the US occupation ends, Washington is prepared to unleash a war of ethnic slaughter.
This strategy is spelled out in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Stephen Biddle of the US Army War College: "The United States must threaten to manipulate the military balance of power among Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds to coerce them to negotiate. Washington should use the prospect of a U.S.-trained and U.S.-supported Shiite-Kurdish force to compel the Sunnis to come to the negotiating table."
There is every indication that these methods are already being employed. While defenders of the war insist that the US cannot withdraw without risking a bloodbath, Washington is deliberately initiating such a bloodbath in a desperate attempt to maintain its hold over Iraq.
All of the reasons given for the US invasion three years ago—nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and fabricated terrorist ties—have long ago been exposed as lies. Now the Bush administration promotes the ongoing war as a struggle for "freedom" and "democracy." This is undoubtedly the most obscene lie of them all.
The war was not about freedom, but rather enslavement. It was launched as an act of conquest and plunder, aimed at seizing control of the world's second-largest oil reserves in order to boost the declining fortunes of US capitalism on the world market, and to further Washington's drive for global hegemony against its rivals in Europe and Asia.
It has been accompanied by an unprecedented assault on democratic rights in the US and around the world, from the use of torture to illegal detentions and covert government spying. And within Iraq, there not only exists no democracy, but no real government either—outside of the death squads and torture centers.
That the US intervention in Iraq has produced a monumental fiasco is now openly acknowledged, even by a growing number of right-wing erstwhile supporters of the Bush administration. No one should believe for a moment, however, that this means the American ruling elite will mend its ways and eschew future use of military force to impose its will on the world arena.
On the contrary, new and even greater wars are already being prepared, as the Bush administration made clear with its release this week of a new National Security Strategy document reiterating the doctrine of "preemptive"—that is, unprovoked—wars of aggression, and making it clear that Iran is already being targeted—again with unsubstantiated claims about nuclear weapons and terrorist ties.
The drive to war is a direct product of a profound crisis of the capitalist system, which finds its sharpest expression in the unrelenting growth of social inequality. The war in Iraq and the growth of militarism generally expresses the interests of a ruling oligarchy, which is determined to use force to further its aims of dominating world markets and resources. This policy is pursued at the expense of the broad mass of working people, who face unrelenting attacks on jobs, living standards and basic democratic rights.
Ending the Iraq war and defeating plans for future wars that are already being developed cannot be achieved based on an electoral strategy of supporting the Democrats for Congress in 2006 or the White House in 2008. The Democratic Party is fully complicit in the war against Iraq and, like the Republicans, defends the interests of a ruling financial elite, from which an increasing number of its principal political figures are drawn.
In the run-up to the 2006 election, the Democratic Party leadership has made it clear it has no intention of giving political expression to the broad-based demand of the American people for an end to the war. On the contrary, it has actively sought out issues from which to attack Bush from the right, from Iran to the Dubai ports deal.
Consider the latest statement on Iraq issued by the Democratic Leadership Council, the political grouping with which Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, considered the front-runner for the party's 2008 nomination, is most closely identified: "We should press the White House to refine and meet its benchmarks, and put a new leadership team in place that inspires confidence. Above all, Democrats must make it clear to the public that we stand for winning in Iraq, not a rush for the exits."
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The struggle against war, social inequality, and the intensifying attacks on democratic rights requires a break with the two-party system and the building of a new mass political movement of working people, based on a socialist program and an internationalist perspective.
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Rudy Preston, age 67, of Rockmart, GA, passed away on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. He was born on October 25, 1951, in Atlanta, GA, and was preceded in death by his father, Rodolph Little Preston, II. He loved fishing, hunting, and riding his motorcycles. Rudy enjoyed telling stories to his children, grandchildren and was a people person. He was a United States Army Veteran and retired from City of Atlanta as a police officer.
Survivors include his wife, Angie Preston of Rockmart, GA; mother, Martha Dean Preston of Villa Rica, GA; Son, Chris & Jen Preston of Medford, Oregon; daughter, Kim & Justin Whitaker of Dallas, GA; step-sons, Curry & Cristie Stone, James Pelsue, and Matt Pelsue; grandchildren, Stella Preston, Sterling Whitaker, Emori Whitaker, Liam Stone and Lyla Mac Stone.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 3 PM, from Clark Funeral Home, with Pastor Billy Whitaker officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday, March 23, 2019, from 12 PM until the time of service.


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Beetlemania
August 31, 2009 September 29, 2011 Pooch Music
(Note: I orignally wrote this nearly seven years ago, and published it on an old version of my own web site. With the Beatles remasters coming — and because I don't blog on my site anymore — I thought it might be fitting to give this a new home at Oddball Update. I edited a few things here and there, but this is largely the same text I wrote back in 2002. I hope you enjoy.)
The year was 1964. The world of music as we knew it was about to change, and that change came from Liverpool. The Mersey Sound, as they called it, would change the face of music forever. At the forefront of this so-called "British Invasion" were four lads with the looks and musical talent that would define a generation. Together those four youngsters were known as…
…The Buggs.
Faces only their mothers could love.
With their first hit, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the Buggs stormed onto the American music scene, which they would dominate for years to come with such classic albums as Meet The Buggs!, A Hard Day's Bugg, Bugger Soul, as well as the revolutionary masterwork Sgt. Bugger. They took elements from all genres of music — rock, blues, R&B, and country, to name but a few — and molded them into something unique, something timeless…
Bah, who am I kidding?
Well, the year was 1964. The Beatles had made a splash in America the likes of which hadn't been seen since at least Elvis (Presley, not Costello). The Fab Four were everywhere; in additon to their music being nearly impossible to avoid (the week of April 4th, 1964 they held the top five slots in the Billboard singles chart, placed 12 songs overall in the Billboard Top 100 singles chart, and they had the top two albums in the Billboard album chart), they were merchandised beyond belief. It's only natural, then, that some shady characters wanted to make as much money off this new trend (as people saw it then) as possible before it fell by the wayside. Such things were not uncommon then, and they're still happening today. However, the sheer amount of products trying to leech off the Beatles' popularity was immense (I even have an Alvin and the Chipmunks Sing The Beatles on LP somewhere), and one of the more plentiful derivatives you'd see were records designed to look like Beatle albums — and maybe included a version of a Beatle song or two — to try and get gullible youngsters to buy a faux Beatle product instead of the real McCoy.
That's the real story of the Buggs. Probably just four — more than likely American — session musicians called in one day to bash out some tunes so that a record company, in this case Coronet Records in New York, could make a quick buck or two off a passing trend. The "band" was slapped with the name The Buggs (misspelled, of course, just like the Beatles misspelled their name), and the four musicians were posed in a picture that more or less resembled the cover for With the Beatles (or for you who were actually around in the 1960s, Meet the Beatles!). The album was named The Beetle Beat (printed in giant letters, of course, so as to deceive even further) and a bunch of hoo-hah was made about how it was "the Original Liverpool Sound" and "Recorded in England" or some such thing.
I know which one I'd rather have.
The album itself is intentionally vague — no credits for "The Buggs" or even for who wrote and produced the songs. The only writing on the sleeve other than the song titles or some things about Coronet Records are the simplistic liner notes:
England has invaded America! From the banks of the Mersey River, by Liverpool, England a new sound, a new beat, has gained tremendous popular acceptance.
The Mersey Beat! The Liverpool Sound! Remember these names for a new trend in popular music has arrived. The year of Beetlemania. The Mersey Beat features a strong guitar rhythm attack backed with a solid beat producing a driving, stomping, rock and rolling tempo.
The Kings of the Mersey Beat to date are The Beatles, followed by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and Jerry [sic] and the Pacemakers.
In the album you will hear the original Liverpool sound recorded on location in England by the Buggs, a fast moving, well paced group that we are sure you will like.
Interesting to note that in one paragraph they refer to the phenomenon as "Beetlemania," then in the very next paragraph actually list The Beatles as "Kings of the Mersey Beat" along with the Dakotas and the misspelled "Jerry" and the Pacemakers. I wonder if Gerry Mardsen knows about this? Or maybe they're just keeping up with the misspelling a la "The Buggs." I've also got to wonder about these guys listing Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas over the Pacemakers. Granted, the whole "Mersey Scene" — with the exception of the Beatles — died off by 1965-66, but I think the Pacemakers were far bigger than Billy J. Kramer in the States. Billy had a nice string of hits in Britain — hits, it should be noted, that were mostly written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (since all three bands — and most of the "Liverpool scene," in fact — were managed by Brian Epstein as part of his "Stable of Stars"), but I think even Billy J. Kramer faded in England before Gerry and the Pacemakers…though I could be wrong.
On the other hand, maybe Coronet got in on the craze really early, when Billy J. was still really big in England.
As noted earlier, a lot of noise is made about the fact that, yes, this album was RECORDED ON LOCATION IN ENGLAND, as if that made a difference. Hell, the Beatles recorded "Can't Buy Me Love" in Paris, and that didn't stop the song from going to #1 (in America or England). But the thought was the kids would buy anything British or Beatle-esque, and hope they didn't look too closely or read the liner notes that would reveal this album to be a fraud. Hell, even the song titles try to scream out "HEY LOOK, WE'RE BRITISH!"
Man, this album is a certified "Liverpool Drag".
Aside from the two Beatles songs covered — "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" — the rest of the song titles gain their titles from either British landmarks or British culture. In their rush to make the ultimate "Original Liverpool Sound" album, though, the "songwriters" (more on this in a sec) failed to realize — or likely didn't care — that Soho, the Thames, and Big Ben are not in Liverpool, but rather London (itself named in the song "London Town Swing"), which is well south of Liverpool — and was the home of a completely different "scene" than that of the "Mersey Sound." It could even be said that there was a bit of resentment in London over the success of the Liverpool groups, since they were seen as lower class to those in the South of England. The good people at Coronet Records obviously didn't care about this, though. British is British is British, right?
Interestingly enough, upon hearing "Soho Mash" I recognized the song as really being "Just One Look," made popular by Doris Troy — and later, the Hollies. So, it would seem that the fine folks at Coronet Records may have simply renamed existing songs and threw them on this album with their two rerecorded Beatle tunes…or in the case of "Liverpool Drag," simply did a lame near-rewrite of "I Want To Hold Your Hand." As of this time I can't tell what the other songs are, but I wouldn't be shocked if they were all established songs of some sort. So, sad to say, none of the titles have anything to do with the songs themselves. Shucks. I really wonder what a song titled "Teddy 'Boy Stomp" would sound like.
(…Though it is interesting to note that, 14 years after "London Town Swing" was recorded, Paul McCartney — or, more correctly, Wings — would release an album and single with the name "London Town." Coincidence? I think so.)
With all the examination of Beatle culture that has taken place over the last 40+ years, it's odd to note that the Buggs and their ilk have received scant attention, aside from an offhanded mention here and there. You'd think that with people examining every nook and cranny of the Beatles legend that someone would take an interest in all these Faux Fab Fours (or Fives, depending on the group). I guess we'll just have to file all these cash-ins under the "Whatever Happened To…" file.
…And something tells me these guys would rather have it that way, since they couldn't really sing worth a lick. However, I'll still take The Buggs and their version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" over Sailor Moon anyday.
Oddball Verdict: You're Kidding, Right?
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Oh God, it's these guys. Hilarious. I remember your original article, incidentally, as well as the horrible songs, which you auditioned for me. And man…those song titles as so contrived it's laughable.
Coronet might have been aiming this record at the parents of Beatle-crazed youngsters, who themselves might not have been into the whole Beatlemania thing and would say "Hey, I bet Little Debbie would love this; isn't this that band she likes?" and pick it up. And here I thought that kind of crass marketing only happened in today's world. How naïve I was.
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I imagine you're right about the album being targeted more toward uncaring parents who just had to get their kid something Beatle-related. In fact, that's probably how it came into my family — I think it was my aunt's record or something, so it was probably a gift from a parent or uncle or something like that.
As for those horrible songs, they were actually the impetus for me dredging this up. I happened upon the MP3 rips I made from the original vinyl back in 2002, which made me re-read the original post. I actually liked it (which is something I don't often say about things I wrote in the past), so I decided it should be preserved here (since my site isn't for stuff like this anymore).
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If you google "ABCs and 1-2-3s," you'll get a search result of annoying YouTube songs that I think are supposed to be geared towards kids (found the animation more inclined toward a horror movie myself!).
But the ABCs and 1-2-3s that we want to cover have to do with your website rather than a creepy singing rodent (woodchucks excluded, of course!). This week we simplify some thoughts on some A/B testing and time on page metrics in Google Analytics!
When you developed your website (or as you build a new one), you had an end-goal in mind. These measurables could have included things like increasing purchases, enlisting email subscribers, or gaining blog traffic. Inside Google Analytics, you have the capability to test variations of a landing page to determine how the variations perform when optimized for your end-goal. Google Optimize is a personalized A/B testing tool that allows for advanced targeting and reporting. Maybe a blue button draws users in more than a red button? Maybe picture alignment on the right drives your traffic through the intended funnel better than pictures on the left? This is a simple way to identify possible areas of improvement that can lead to your desired results. The beauty is that you can then tailor your site with the page that works for YOUR audience. With the deep integration of Google Optimize and your Google Analytics data, you can utilize your findings to target intended offers to specific audiences. Nobody knows what your users want like they do. It's not as catchy as the ABCs song, but A/B testing with the Google Optimize is a pretty slick behind the scenes tool!
Time on page is not as straightforward as it seems. Why? Google can't measure the time a user spent looking at the last page of their visit to your site. Time on page can only be measured if a user takes a second action on the website, such as a click or a visit to another page. The Google Analytics metric for average time on page is a good indication of the time users spent looking at a page on your site unless the page has a high bounce rate. Blog posts often have a high bounce rate because visitors will often leave your website after reading the post. Many users access a blog post from social media, read the post and then click back to the social media platform, without going further into the site. Therefore, Google cannot accurately record how much time they spent on a blog post since that post was the only page visited. Time on page can be a useful tool if you understand its capabilities. It really can be as simple as 1-2-3!


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February 4, 2019 | Events, Franchising, News
The new class of honorees to the Pro Football Hall of Fame were announced in Atlanta on Saturday night, just one day ahead of Super Bowl LIII. Among them is former New England Patriots cornerback Ty Law.
Law was with the Patriots for over a decade, starting in 1994. During that time, he won three Super Bowl rings. He was traded to the New York Jets in 2005.
Overall, he had 53 career interceptions and was known for making some of his biggest plays at the most pivotal moments.
The most memorable and, arguably, the biggest play of his career came in Super Bowl XXXVI when he intercepted a Kurt Warner pass and took it 47 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. He also intercepted Peyton Manning three times during the 2003 AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts.
Law's induction was undoubtedly also influenced by a recommendation with high clout. Tom Brady wrote a letter to the Hall of Fame selection committee urging them to consider the cornerback, which was obtained and published by ESPN. In the letter, Brady reflects on Law's success, determination and impact on the team.
"Looking back, I realize how lucky I was then to be challenged every day by one of the greatest cornerbacks to ever play the game," Brady wrote. "It helped me work harder to become successful in this league and ultimately prepared me to become the player I am today."
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Omg I hope they put that back, that is SO amazing and beautiful. I will have to make a trip up there to find that!
Calling all Virginia boxers! Come enjoy an event in a scenic part of the state you've probably never boxed in before. It will be an overnight camping event, since the event location is in the abject middle of nowhere. The park has camping and cabins.
The event is the weekend of May 19th.
Fairy Stone Park !!!! One of my favorite places, Thank you so much for hosting an event here. It's going to be awesome!!!!
While Planting in NorthSide Park in Vienna, VA the other day, I came across a ziplock container laying on the side of a hill. Its sides were cracked open and it looks like an animal has tried to get into it. I went to pick up the trash to throw away when I got home or to a trash can. I opened it and it was a letterbox!
Apparently, it was one of four that's in this park in a "code breaker" series. On the inside of the logbook, it has basic info for letterboxing and lists letterbox.org (which doesn't exist but that's ok. I think they meant letterboxing.org) no one has ever found this letterbox before, and it turns out this series is not listed on LBNA or Atlasquest! Does anyone happen to know anything about it?
As chance would have it, I was at an event a couple of weekends ago and someone told me about a website called Letterboxingcentral.com (I think that was it). I don't know anything about it but it might be worth looking into.
I don't know what the deal is with that web site but they give phone #s to call that are weird. And if you google them they are robot callers I think?
I wish I hadn't even gone to the web site. I didn't get any kind of a warning about the site though, like not to go to it.
I do remember the original letterboxingcentral.com. It was still around as a place to post.....can't remember if they listed boxes......and I joined it. I remember having discussions with other boxers. This had to have been just before AQ?
Now that you referred to that message, I have a dim memory of seeing that here on AQ....the owner selling it, etc.


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GITOMER: Do you have the character and characteristics of sales success?
2. Self-Starting. Great salespeople don't need "motivation." They have a built in fire — that's somewhere between a cup of Death Wish Coffee and a Red Bull. Nobody has to tell them what to do. They know what to do. And they do it. They make the first call of the day, and the last call of the day.
3. Great Attitude. Great salespeople believe they will make every sale. Great salespeople take "no" as "not yet." Great salespeople accept every lemon thrown at them by management, customers, and accounting — and use those lemons to open up a lemonade stand. A great salesperson is able to take everybody else's crap, and somehow turn it into money.
7. Focused and Intention Driven. Having a goal is a basic fundamental element. Intending to achieve it is the motive to achieve it. Having a plan is a basic fundamental element. Intending to implement it is the motive to put it into action. Keeping your eye on the prize and working toward it steadily is what separates those who do and those who don't. "Goals without intention and focus," is like an automobile without gasoline. It looks pretty, but it can't get you anywhere. Intention is the fuel that will take you from where you are to your goal, your destination, to where you want to be.
10. Looking for a Career, Not a Job. If a salesperson has a base salary and a commission, the job person wants a raise in his base pay. The career person wants a raise in their commission.
13. Taking Joy in Serving Others. This is the "master" quality. One of the best salespeople I've ever known is John Ruhlin. He created and is the master of Giftology, and loves to serve.


I admire you as the pink of perversity. how did I know about York-Races? & how could I be more explicit about our journey. the truth is, I was only too explicit by half, for we did not set out in earnest till the 29th of August, being delay'd partly by the bad weather, & partly by your Cousin my Lord Perrot, & his assizes, whose train we were afraid to overtake, & still more afraid of being overtaken by it. at last then we went in the sun & dust broiling to Newcastle, & so by the military road to Hexham at night, where it begun to rain, & continued like fury (with very short intervals) all the rest of our way. so we got to Carlisle, pass'd a day there in raining & seeing delights. next day got to Penrith (more delights) the next dined & lay at Keswick, could not go a mile to see anything. Dr Wh: taken ill in the night with an asthma. went on however over stupendous hills to Cockermouth: here the Dr grew still worse in the night, so we came peppering (& raining) back thro Keswick to Penrith. next day lay at Brough, grew better (raining still) & so over Stanemoor home, Sept: 5, in a heavy thunder-shower. now you will think from this detail, wch is litterally true, that we had better have staid at home. no such thing! I am charm'd with my journey, & the Dr dreams of nothing but Skiddaw, & both of us vow to go again the first opportunity. I carried Mr Brown to Gibside the 11th of Aug: & took a receipt for him: they did not set out for Scotland till the 1st of September, & as yet I have not heard from him.
If you are not too much afflicted for the loss of Charles Townshend, now is your time to come & see us. in spite of your coquetry we still wish of all things to see you, & (bating that vice, & a few more little faults) have a good opinion of you, only we are afraid you have a bad heart. I have known purseproud People often complain of their poverty, wch is meant as an insult upon the real poor. how dare you practise this upon me? don't I know little Clough! here is a fuss indeed about poor threescore miles. don't I go galloping five hundred, whenever I please? have done with your tricks, & come to Old-Park, for the peaches & grapes send forth a good smell, & the voice of the Robin is heard in our land. my services to Mr. Alderston, for he is a good creature: But I forget: you are at York again.
The Doctor presents his compliments to you with great cordiality, & desires your assistance. one of his daughters has some turn for drawing, & he would wish her a little instructed in the practise. if you have any Professor of the art at York, that would think it worth his while to pass about six weeks here, he would be glad to receive him. his conditions he would learn from you. if he have any merit in his art, doubtless so much the better: but above all he must be elderly, & if ugly and ill-made, so much the more acceptable. the reasons we leave to your prudence.


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Samsung Galaxy Grand On and Galaxy Mega On to be the first in a new series of smartphones
By Florin T.
Samsung is reportedly working on two new Android smartphones with rather unusual names: Galaxy Grand On, and Galaxy Mega On. According to SamMobile, these will be part of the rumored Galaxy O series (which may actually be dubbed Galaxy On). Both the Galaxy Mega On and Grand On are expected to be entry-level devices based on Android 5.1 Lollipop.
It's said that the Mega On (model number SM-G600) will sport a 5.5-inch 720p display, being powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor. Moreover, the handset should come with a 13 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front-facing camera, 1.5 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of expandable storage space. Weighing 145 grams, and measuring 151.8 x 77.5 x 8.2 mm, the Galaxy Mega On could include a 3000 mAh battery.
As for the Galaxy Grand On (model number SM-G550), this should have a 5-inch 720p display, while its processor is expected to be a quad-core 1.3 GHz Exynos 3475. Other features may include an 8 MP rear camera, 5 MP front-facing camera, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of expandable internal memory, and a 2600 mAh battery.
Previously, we heard that the SM-G550 would be called Galaxy O5, while the SM-G600 would be the Galaxy O7. Of course, for now we can't be sure of the smartphones' final names. Also, there's no word on when Samsung is planning to release them.
P.S.: pictured above is an older Samsung handset, namely the Galaxy Grand 2.
source: Sam Mobile


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Q: How do I reverse this formula which creates a spherical coordinate? I have a formula that maps a random point in space to a point that sits in a sphere. I want to be able to reverse this formula to get the random point in space again.
My unspherize() function below is not working. Please show me the correct way to reverse the form.
function spherize(x,y,z){
  var d = 1 / Math.sqrt(Math.pow(x, 2) + Math.pow(y, 2) + Math.pow(z, 2));
  x *= d;
  y *= d;
  z *= d;
  return {x: x, y: y, z: z}
}

function unspherize(x,y,z){
  var d = 1 * Math.pow(Math.sqrt(x) + Math.sqrt(y) + Math.sqrt(z), 2)
  x /= d;
  y /= d;
  z /= d;
  return {x: x, y: y, z: z}
}

A: There are an infinite number of points that get mapped to the same point on the sphere (e.g., for every (x,y,z) the point (2x,2y,2z) gets mapped to the same vector). Therefore, if you don't save the vector length d, the operation is not reversible.

A: Using r as the radius or Euclidean norm of the point (x,y,z),
x /= 1+r
y /= 1+r
z /= 1+r

gives you a point inside the sphere. Since this transformation is bijective, it can be reversed, for any point inside the sphere, the "unspherized" point is obtained as
x/= 1-r
y/= 1-r
z/= 1-r


Dec 19, Beech Mountain Resort, Beech Mountain NC. Robbin's Run and Powder Bowl are now open! Check our trail map for conditions. Snowfall is continuing to accumulate and Beech Mountain Resort will be opening more terrain ASAP. The Beech Mountain Resort Shuttle will be available for transportation through the weekend. Ice Skating is now open and The Beech Tree Bar and Grille will host Live music tonight starting at 8PM.
Open this morning at 9: 00 am.
Dec 12, Appalachian Ski Mountain, Blowing Rock NC. App. reports great conditions for the weekend. No snowmaking is in progress. After the fourth night of snowmaking this season, Appalachian now has a very conservative 40" – 60" base on 8 slopes. Snowmakers enjoyed excellent snowmaking temperatures last night with a low of 22, no wind, and seldom seen 12% humidity. With 8 slopes open and a fairly deep base, skiers will find mid-season like conditions.
Good snowmaking temperatures are forecasted for Tuesday night through Friday night of next week, so the remaining unopened slopes should be open by the weekend of Dec. 19th.
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Snowboard and Fleece Jackets on sale!
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Deal of the Day changes every 24 hours so check daily to find a great price on the product you need.
Dec 5, Cataloochee Ski Area, Maggie Valley NC. Open Saturday on three slopes from midstation down and two lifts on a base of 6-10" with one session of skiing, day skiing only from 8:30am – 4:30pm with a morning or afternoon half day rate also available. Weekday and student rates are in effect on Saturday. Cataloochee is currently on the early season operating schedule of 1pm until 10pm Monday through Friday and 8:30am – 4:30pm Saturdays and Sundays through Sunday, December 13. Regular operating schedule begins December 14. Midweek season passes will be valid everyday through Friday, December 18.
Dec 6. Cataloochee Ski Area, Maggie Valley NC. In conjunction with Haywood Christian Ministries, Cataloochee Ski Area seeks to help with the increase need for food and warm winter coats for special families. We ask all Cataloochee skiers and snowboarders to bring at least 10 cans of food or a winter jacket of any size that is in good condition to the ski area on Sunday, December 6th and you will receive your lift ticket on that Sunday from 8:30am-4:30pm for FREE! It's a $53 value.


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Singer Lana Del Rey Releases New Album Asking "Is This The End Of America?"
20 Jul, 2017 by	Cassy Fiano
Lana Del Rey is a singer-songwriter and model who is about to release her fourth studio album. "Lust for Life" is about to drop. Like most celebrities, she's an outspoken liberal. So, it's not surprising that one of her songs would posit that Donald Trump could be the end of America.
In the song: "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing," Del Rey sings about feeling "less safe" under Trump, asking, "Is it the end of an era/Is it the end of America?" When interviewed by Pitchfork magazine, she said that she was "posing a real question to myself: Could this be the end of an era? The fall of Rome?"
Originally, Del Rey was not much of an outspoken feminist activist. But after Trump's election, that changed and she now says that she must change the content of her songs to address things like birth control and abortion. "Because things have shifted culturally. It's more appropriate now than under the Obama administration, where at least everyone I knew felt safe. It was a good time. We were on the up-and-up," she explained.
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"Women started to feel less safe under this administration instantly. What if they take away Planned Parenthood? What if we can't get birth control? Now, when people ask me those questions, I feel a little differently. The reason why I asked Stevie Nicks to be on the record is because she changes when her environment changes, and I'm like that as well."
She also said that she feels "less safe than I did when Obama was president."
"When you have a leader at the top of the pyramid who is casually being loud and funny about things like that, it's brought up character defects in people who already have the propensity to be violent towards women," she said. "I saw it right away in L.A. Walking down the street, people would just say things to you that I had never heard."
Will you buy her album?
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between financial stress and academic and social functioning and satisfaction in a volunteering sample of undergraduate residential college women in Western Massachusetts, which included students who identified their enrollment status as either dependent or independent as defined by 2011-2012 federal financial aid guidelines. The main research question asked to investigate these relationships is "What is the relationship between financial stress and academic and social functioning and satisfaction in undergraduate residential college women's experiences?" The major findings in the study showed varying degrees of significance from moderate to strong that reflect both negative and positive correlations between the independent variable financial stress and the dependent variables, academic and social functioning and satisfaction. However, because of the limited responses received, and the study's small sample, these findings are inconclusive in regards to the research questions asked and the diversity of the population sampled. The applicability of the findings reported is limited to the respondents in this study and not generalizable to the target population of undergraduate residential college women attending schools in Western Massachusetts.
Vaughn, Nathalie A., "The relationship between financial stress and academic and social functioning of undergraduate residential college women" (2013). Masters Thesis, Smith College, Northampton, MA.


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Spotted an empty or derelict property in your neighbourhood? Want to do something about it?
Report a suitable property and we'll give you £10 cash!
With house building at its lowest level since the 1920s, thousands of families in temporary housing and an ever-rising population it makes no sense to have so many properties sitting vacant.
And empty houses don't only attract vandals, squatters, vermin and anti-social behaviour; they also cut the value of adjoining properties.
As an empty homes campaigner and an ex-journalist, I know what makes a good story and how publicity can affect change.
For too long those in authority have failed to meet standards when dealing with the empty property problem in this country.
If you're not frustrated by the number of empty properties, you're not paying attention.


[b 18 Aug. 1936 at Bridgeport, CT] Raymond Edward Fenner III m 1st Marilyn DeVries [b 4 Apr. 1936 at Chicago, IL] on 22 Oct. 1955 in Denver, CO; m 2nd Maria —, m 3rd Phylis —.
1. Raymond Edward IV [b 19 June 1960].
2. Kristen; m 1st Jeff Burk, had Heather Burk; m 2nd John Damazio.