text:
Showing results for tags 'law'.
Introductions and Local Forums
Introductions and Personal Notes
Local Forums
Questions about Objectivism
Books, Movies, Theatre, Lectures
Intellectuals and the Media
Science and the Humanities
Psychology and Self Improvement
Intellectual Activism and Study Groups
Activism for Reason, Rights, Reality
Study/Reading Groups
The Objectivism Meta-Blog Discussion
Recreation and The Good Life
Work, Careers and Money
School, College and Child development
The Critics of Objectivism
Ask Jenni
Books to Mind – Stephen Boydstun
Dream Weaver's Allusions
The Objectivist Study Groups
Eiuol's Investigations
About Objectivism Online
Website Policy and Announcements
Chat Moderator
New Intellectual
User-Operated Forums
Other Public-visible Contact Info
Chat Nick
Interested in meeting
Digg Nick
Biography/Intro
Experience with Objectivism
School or University
Private Property-Who Does It Belong to Anyway?
Collectivist posted a topic in Political Philosophy
Private Property-Who Does It Belong To Anyway? If you recognize that a person has the right to live their own life then you must out of necessity recognize the right of a person to hold, give away, remove, regulate or sell private property as an owner sees fit. These two principles (the right to life and property) are inseparable. They have been the preeminent trait of American ideals since the founders of the nation signed the document of independence which separated us from the innumerable morose philosophies of the rest of the world. To deny these two principles of rights renders such persons as a meer stewards of the state. You may have bought you home, car, furniture etc. with your own money but the state may dispose of these possessions whenever or wherever it desires (without warning or permission) as is the case of millions of people living under rights denying totalitarian regimes. Let me provide a small example from a fictitious little town located somewhere USA. This town has a project going to replace worn, corroded and leaky sewer pipes within city limits. In order to lay new pipes the town must dig 6~10 to the right a main road intruding on private property. However most of the public would agree that the town has the right of egress to repair, prevent and eliminate public hazards with these limits. What the public would not agree is while performing this project, the city destroys homeowners driveways, expensive fixtures, garden beds and other private outways without a promise to repair any damage performed by the project.The damage stands for months with the public involved asking for but not getting any relief. The most they receive are vague promises that the town administration will deal with the damage caused at a later date...so on and so forth. Here is the problem: does the town own the right to your private property to ignore your requests for relief? If so does the town consider you just a steward in the way of "their" property without said rights? Are your taxes you pay on your property just a way to invade your wallet without care or responsibility? If so then the charter of rights Americans are said to have is just a sham, a trick and a "slight of hand" you." This is what is called "creeping statism", the kind when you wake up some time in the near future wondering what happened to you your family your property and your country! If private property turns out to, as it seems today, be but an annex to the state then the whole institution of Americanism falls by the wayside! Somehow we have lost our way and now serve a new principle that we, the people are servants of the government and not the other way around. Is this the kind of America that we and our children have to look forward too! I sincerely hope not, for me, for you, for our small fictitious town and for America!
This is defamation or not? About the law..
Ricardo Monteiro posted a topic in Ethics
Here in Brazil a philosopher said in facebook :'' My wishes in 2014: that Rachel hug tight, after being raped, an anteater'' '' My Wish in 2014: that rachel shererazade be raped.'' rachel is a journalist. He deleted the comment and the journalist wants to sue him He should be prosecuted or not? What says the objectivism for that particular case? sorry for my bad english ;p
Truckers Ride For The Constitution
brianleepainter posted a topic in Current Events
I'm curious as to this upcoming protest, which seems to at least have a somewhat coherent message: Truck Drivers For the Constitution, and their website but I'm even more interested in how it relates to the law, and the actions of two companies, Facebook and Twitter. *Their Facebook about page(which was recently shutdown by Facebook, and then had to be reopened) reads: "The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Americans can strike in solidarity with truck drivers!" My question is about the legality of this planned protest in relation to how the Right to free speech is limited when it infringes on others, if it is illegal to obstruct and block traffic then also,too, it's as I understand, illegal to plan to stage an obstruction of traffic? Would it have been/is illegal for Facebook to keep this page up? Morality and legality are often in opposition with our unprincipled government, so, does an illegal activity such as this intentional slowly of traffic deserve sanction today? A wrong(limitless Gov control) does not justify another wrong(obstruction of traffic on Gov highway). As I understand, censorship is and only is when the Government restricts ones speech. Now, both companies, Twitter and Facebook have acted to stop this planned protest, which is just fine if they think sanctioning this group is "cutting their own throat". Twitter has suspended "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" and Facebook had closed their initial Page, which is now reopened, for now at least. As for drawing a parallel, how is this act different than Dr.King's lead of peaceful, sit down protests?
individual rights
Video game prohibition in Korea
Dániel Boros posted a topic in Video Games
Gamers should protest a law such as this. All this will achieve is that people will go from legal servers to illegal ones. As if we didn't have enough of those already. This is insane. Seriously can't believe this.
human rights abuse
govenrment
Nature of Property: Objective or Subjective
Swerve of Shore posted a topic in Political Philosophy
Having introduced myself already, I am now making my first substantive post. This is the first of an intended series of interrelated posts. While it might change based on the flow of discussion, I expect to advance the following argument: because property rights are subjective by nature and must be defined by government, democracy must therefore be a more fundamental principle than property rights. I question whether there are any fundamental property rights or whether all property rights flow from the social contract, i.e., are necessarily defined, and therefore created, by government. The most difficult case, to which I plan to devote my next post, is the question of ownership of natural resources, including land. This post explores what seems to be a far simpler case, a case closer to being fundamental: ownership of inventions of the mind. To put it in terms of Atlas Shrugged, I will save the case of d'Anconia copper for my next post and take on Rearden metal here. The principle that one should own the product of one's own invention seems, at a minimum, to be reasonable: among other things, it encourages progress and productivity. But I wonder whether it is truly a fundamental and inviolable principle. The case becomes more difficult when we think of the most common type of invention in this era: inventions for hire. If one man (or corporation) hires another (or an entire workforce) to develop an invention, should the invention belong to the one who puts up the money or the one(s) whose mind and work actually creates the invention? But, let's leave that aside and take the easier case: Rearden metal, which was created almost entirely by Henry Rearden's tireless individual efforts of sweat and mind over many years. Unless Rearden keeps the metal entirely to himself, property rights in even this most personal of inventions must be defined by government. Under current U.S. law (and that of most other nations), Rearden has essentially two options for maintaining his property rights: trade secret protection and patent filing protection. If he chooses the first option, trade secret protection, Rearden's rights are perpetual … at least until somebody else duplicates his invention, either by independent research or by reverse engineering. As long as Rearden puts contracts and other confidentiality procedures in place, the law protects him from others wrongfully appropriating his trade secrets, principally by giving him the right to monetary compensation (i.e., transferring the thief's profits to Rearden). Rearden's other option is to file for a patent on his invention, which requires him to publicly disclose all of the invention details, but provides him with a monopoly on it over a fixed number of years, even against those who might independently develop the same invention. Patent law is clearly a creation of government, designed to balance the rights of the individual inventor against the collective benefit to the public of disclosure of the details of the invention. It would be difficult to argue that the exact contours of this legal regime can be objectively determined. At a minimum, the government must make a subjective decision as to the number of years that the patent monopoly is afforded. Until reading The Virtue of Selfishness, I thought that this fact was an indictment of Objectivism itself. However, I now see that Ayn Rand recognized the need for government to set out the details and that there could be well-intentioned disputes among the law makers: Objectivism, it seems, only requires that government set out its standards in an objective way ("the rule of law") rather than through arbitrary and subjective guidelines that must be interpreted by an outside arbiter ("the rule of man"). The question I have for this forum is whether there is a central kernel to property rights in inventions that objective reason requires. That is to say, is there some fundamental property right that no legitimate government can modify or impinge?
Rearden metal


text:
Member Research and Reports
Member Research and Reports February 18, 2020
Minnesota: Qualitative Data Can Help Explain Complex or Conflicting Results in Climate-health Studies, Improve Interventions
Climate can affect the health of people through many mechanisms, including changes in food access or availability, heat stress, and drought. Quantitative studies examining the links between climate and health can clearly reveal those associations, details about their severity, and how they may harm a population's physical wellbeing. However, to turn those findings into helpful policies and interventions, researchers may need to understand more about what people think and value in those situations and the ways those beliefs factor into how they respond.
A University of Minnesota School of Public Health researcher recently co-authored a commentary in The Lancet: Planetary Health with University Department of Geography, Environment & Society associate professor, Dr. Kathryn Grace. The paper explains how including qualitative data gathering methods, such as ethnographies, in quantitative studies can help explain why subjects behave as they do and offer key details into the story behind the findings.
"Quantitative data is great for measuring what is happening and determining associations, trajectories and things like that," said commentary author and research scientist Dr. Jude Mikal. "You can add to the story and details of how things work — and avoid making possibly erroneous assumptions — when you add qualitative information."
In the commentary, Dr. Mikal explores how qualitative data could explain the confusing results of a study in Kenya and Mali examining how climatic factors — such as precipitation, temperature, rainfall and vegetation — correspond to the growth of babies and young children.
Tags: Friday Letter Submission, Publish on February 21
February 18, 2020 "Iowa: Researchers Release New Policy Recommendations to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths" February 18, 2020 "Emory: When Patients with Diabetes Used Online and Mobile Tools, They Managed Their Disease Better"

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Trashed (1994)
Reviewer Greg
"Does the word 'duh' mean anything to you?"
Lagwagon were the first band signed to Fat Wreck Chords, and along with founder Fat Mike's NOFX as well as No Use for a Name and Propaghandi, Lagwagon had a major hand in shaping the sonic aesthetics of the label early on, a sound that was cohesive enough for a teenage Greg0rb to mail—order things from the label's print zine without even hearing a note. In my opinion, Lagwagon were the best at this "sound," hell, they were better at what NOFX did than NOFX was themselves——they were faster, played their instruments more proficiently, and had better singing and more well—crafted lyrics. I always loved NOFX but I love love Lagwagon.
Lagwagon ruled hardest for me because every single element of the band is skate punk perfection. Derrick Plourde was a drumming hero of mine, and the album is full of inventive beats within an oft—constricting genre, and fills that were both lighting fast and intricate. Bassist Jesse Buglione could put any showy guitarist in their place, playing both tastefully and expertly——the intro of "Give It Back" is an excellent example. Guitarists Chris "Big Bitch" Flippin and Shawn Dewey were a huge part of the Lagwagon sound with agile runs and enough speed to keep up with the best of 'em——just check out "Coffee and Cigarettes." Vocalist Joey Cape has always been at the top of the heap in the genre, with lyrics both well—constructed and meaningful, but also frequently fun as hell.
To sum it up, Lagwagon is a bunch of metal heads playing punk. Their 1992 debut "Duh" was rough around the edges and showed their metal and hardcore influences thoroughly, with lots of shredding guitars with that buzzsaw tone and singer Joey Cape giving it some grit and plenty of youthful anger. But by Trashed they had stepped up their game tenfold, keeping the metal technicality without sounding outright metal. The vocals got a pinch cleaner and the melodies and lyrics were tighter. Didn't hurt that the production was more crisp and powerful too.
They kept the minor—key angry songs, like opener "Island of Shame" which shows their socially—conscious side rallying against homophobes in a small town. They also kept the silliness, from the youthful destruction of "Stokin' the Neighbors," the drinkin' n' fightin' song "Goin' South," and secret track parody of LL Cool J, theirs titled "Mama Said Back One Out" about, well, taking a shit. Their double—time cover of "Brown Eyed Girl" (as well as Duh's "Bad Moon Rising") set the template for Me First and Gimme Gimmes' take on the classics.
But more important than all this, on Trashed Lagwagon honed their pop chops. While Duh was primarily minor key angry stuff, here we get some killer hooks in songs that remain live staples to this day. A big one is "Know It All," the tale of a hipster before the term came to prominence, a song confronting those who cry "sellout". They took their melodic prowess to its apex on their third album Hoss, my personal favorite, but many prefer this album for its balance of melody and riffage.
Lagwagon is about to put out a new album, 26 years after their formation. While their work is sporadic these days, Trashed shows an excited young band just showing their promise and dominance of the genre. Poppy and technical, Trashed will always be a classic skate punk album, and one of Fat's best releases.
Elliott Smith: Roman Candle
Jawbreaker: 24 Hour Revenge Therapy


Located in the Medina Library, the Franklin Sylvester Local History and Genealogy Collection was inaugurated September 1992. Named for the local cattle baron who donated the money for the first public library in Medina, the collection is devoted to basic genealogy resources and the rich history and colorful people of the immediate Medina County area.
In October 2013, the Medina County District Library (MCDL) became a Family History Center Affiliate Library. On August 31st of 2016, The Family History Library (FHL) suspended loaning of microfilm. However, as an affiliate library, the Medina library grants access to some of the restricted images.
To search and view the images go to the FHL web site: https://familysearch.org Full access requires registering for free online.
This is a priceless resource and MCDL is excited to be offering this service to their members interested in discovering their family history.
But if that is all you have in your family history, it will be very boring. Use these types of sources to start filling in the gaps and make your family history come alive!
2. Read books on "how-to" do genealogy. The library has many fine books that explain the process of researching your family history. Learn from other's experience and don't make unnecessary mistakes.
Take genealogy classes either from the library or the local genealogical society.
3. Collect family stories and personal testimonies These should be verified in other sources. Talk to all of your relatives, particularly the older ones, and collect family stories and information from them.
AND… Be sure to ask if anyone else has ever worked on the family history!
4. Organize your research and keep it organized!
Choose a filing system and/or computer program to contain your research.
Use a log to track your research. Who have you requested information from? Have they replied?
Protect irreplaceable documents in a secure location. NEVER take original documents on trips to do research.
Dates; month, day, year. i.e. January 1, 1989. The month should be spelled out or use a three letter abbreviation to avoid confusion. Do not use a number for the month. Use four digits for the year since you will be researching different centuries.
Places should go from the smallest, most local to the larger, i.e. City, County, State, Country. i.e. Lodi, Harrisville Township, Medina County, Ohio, USA.
If you use any abbreviations, be sure to supply a key to what the abbreviations mean. Don't assume everyone uses the same abbreviations.
6. Completely document the source of your information.
When gathering information from relatives, be sure to record the date and location of the interview and the full name and relationship to you of the person.
When using an Internet source, cite the full name of the resource, and the date and how accessed.
For government records, list location (city, county, state) and volume number and page and the date found.
Your goal is to make it possible for someone else to retrace the steps in your research.
Vital records, birth, death and marriage records, are generally held at county or parish court houses and state departments of vital statistics. Handybook for Genealogist and Ancestry's Redbook list where vital records can be found anywhere in the world. www.vitalrec.com is an online resource.
Census records for the U.S. are held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. HeritageQuest.com and Ancestry.com (and the library version AncestryLibraryEdition) all provide access to the Federal census records.
Libraries are good sources of information on general history, genealogy processes, state and national indexes, and local or county histories.
Internet sources, like the ones mentioned above, as well as the GenWeb network of sites can help further your research.
All of these sources, and more, are covered in any good genealogy "how-to" book!
Produce copies of your research and share with interested family members.
Make a copy for the libraries and genealogical societies in the counties and states where your ancestors resided.
9. Remember: You are never "finished" with your family history. For every new person you find, there are at least two more people you must find, the parents!
Explore your New England ancestors' lives using American Ancestors' collection of 1.4 billion records from the United States, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond. Available only at Medina Library.
Search for your relatives in records from around the world. Access 135 million restricted records by using FamilySearch at any MCDL location.
The Obituary Index covers obituaries, death notices, and probate notices that have appeared in the Medina County Gazette (1850 - present) and the Medina County Sentinel (1899 - 1962). Obituaries may be requested based on search results.
Features detailed maps at building level for more than 400 Ohio communities from 1868 to the 1960s.
The Medina County District Library Genealogy Blog covers all topics of interest to genealogists and local historians with an emphasis on the undiscovered resources at MCDL.
The Cleveland Necrology File contains local cemetery records and newspaper death notices for the following years: 1833, 1847-1848, 1850-1975. A more complete description of the file's contents can be found in the about section of the database. For necrology information after 1975, please use the Cleveland News Index.
The online edition of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, a joint effort by Case Western Reserve University and the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Help and links for researching your Medina County ancestors.
The primary source for information on local Medina County genealogy and history.
The official web site of the Medina County Historical Society featuring events, history and some photos.
The largest state genealogical society in the United States, the OGS is dedicated to researching the people who settled Ohio.
A collaborative project of the Ohio Historical Society and the State Library of Ohio.
Obituary index at the Rutherford B. Hayes library indexing death notices from many different Ohio counties, including the Wadsworth newspapers.
On this website are thousands of pages of information created by dedicated volunteers providing free Ohio genealogy resources.
Features an index to Ohio death records from the Ohio Historical Society covering 1913-1937.
Created by Steve D. Hambley, PhD, the 2015 edition of the timeline includes a number of new illustrations, historical events and facts since the previous edition's release in the summer of 2009.
American Memory provides free access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
A computerized database of 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War.
If your ancestors emigrated through Ellis Island during the years 1892 through 1924, you can search for them on this site.
The largest collection of family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Bureau of Land Management and the General Land Office provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present.
Great place to look up famous and not so famous graves, cemeteries and burial records.
Basic genealogy instruction links, plus information on how to use the genealogy resources at the National Archives.
A service organization that leads and educates the national genealogical community.
Rootsweb is the oldest and largest free genealogy site whose primary purpose is to connect people doing genealogy research.
Provides Internet web sites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
Information about where to obtain vital records from each state and county of the United States.
A 128 volume compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
1877 - The Medina Circulating Library Society was formed.
1899 - The Medina Circulating Library Society became Medina Library Association. A small building on the north side of the Public Square was purchased.
1904 - Franklin Sylvester a Medina County businessman, gave $10,000 to be used for a library. Mr. Sylvester and his wife, who had no heirs, decided to build a library in Medina to keep his name alive.
1905 - The corner of Washington and Broadway Streets was chosen as the site for the library.
1907 - The Franklin Sylvester Library opened in September with 2,000 volumes. Unfortunately, Mr. Sylvester died before his library was completed.
1933 - The Franklin Sylvester Library voted to extend the borrowing privileges to all Medina County residents, excluding Wadsworth, which already had a library.
1947 - In December, the County Budget Commission approved $9,300 for the purchase of a bookmobile to serve the county's rural areas.
1948 - The bookmobile was debuted at the County Fair and began servicing outlying areas. After the first year of operation staff registered over 4,000 borrowers and circulated 45,364 items.
Bookmobile service began at Brunswick elementary schools, the Lodi school and the Lodi town square, Valley City and at the Liverpool School.
1950 - Local organizations in Lodi started working on a campaign to have their own library.
The Bookmobile started making stops in Seville.
1958 - A second bookmobile was acquired. One had adult materials for community stops and the other carried materials for schools.
The Friends of the Lodi Library committee was formed.
An addition to the Medina Library was completed providing more stacks and a reading room.
1960 - The Friends of the Brunswick Library was incorporated and raised money to open a small library on Pearl Road.
The first Lodi Library opened in a room in the Lodi Advertiser. The Rotary Club purchased lumber for shelves; City Hardware and Western Auto donated paint; and volunteers donated time to put it all together.
1961 - The Seville Community Library was established. The Friends of the Seville Library, the Seville Lions, and Dandy Lions were instrumental in making the library a reality, but it was a total community effort.
1962 - The 1948 bookmobile was replaced.
1964 - The Friends of the Hinckley Library formed to start a library-building fund.
1965 - The Brunswick Library moved to the Brunswick Shopping Center under the bowling alley.
A room in the town hall opened as the first Hinckley library with 4000 books.
The American Legion Post 523 offered to rent part of their building to the Lodi Library. The Lodi Library moved into its new quarters in April of 1966.
1966 - The 1958 bookmobile was retired.
1970s - The Library Board of Trustees and the city of Brunswick agreed to construct a library.
1972 - A 5-year levy passed by Medina residents allowed for expansion of the Medina library.
1974 - The Friends of the Hinckley Library leased the Stouffer homestead on the corner of Routes 3 and 303. Community businesses and organizations renovated the home and supplied materials and labor. The Hinckley Library opened in 1975.
1975 - Work on the addition to the Medina Library began and was completed in August of 1976.
1976 - The former Elliott Funeral Home was purchased by the Friends of the Lodi Library and the Medina Library Board. The Lodi Community Library moved to its new facility in 1977.
1979 - Land on Center Road was donated and voters approved a bond issue to finance construction of a new Brunswick Library.
1980 - The 20,500-square foot Brunswick Library opened in December, with 70,000 volumes.
1982 - The library board voted to change its service area from a school district library to a county system and the library became the Medina County District Library.
Bookmobile service was suspended as it became too expensive to make repairs and improvements to school libraries made the school stops less necessary.
1985 - Irene Welday bequeathed $100,000 to build an addition on the Seville Library.
1986 - The Irene Welday wing of the Seville Library was opened.
1987 - Voters in Medina County passed an operating levy. It allowed for operating expenses, the purchase of a new bookmobile and the purchase of the building adjacent to the Medina library for Administrative offices.
1988 - The Lodi Library building was remodeled in with money from the Mary Still Trust and donations form the Friends of the Lodi Library.
1991 - A new 28-foot Bluebird bus took to the roads. After fourteen years of service this Bookmobile was retired in September of 2005.
1992 - An operating levy passed and allowed for expanded hours of operation, increased staffing, expanded services, enlarging the collections and renovations at all locations.
1996 - The library debuted its first website on 47 new personal computers offering full Internet access to its patrons. This service was met with both an overwhelming positive response and opposition from area residents who objected to the open access Internet Policy.
1997 - An Intellectual Freedom challenge ended with a victory at the polls when MCDL's 10 year levy was renewed.
2003 - The MCDL bond issue passed allowing for construction and expansion of libraries in Medina County. The Buckeye school area was earmarked for a new library due to the success of Bookmobile service there. The Steingass-Riggs family donated land the construction of the new library.
The Buckeye Library was the first new branch of MCDL opened in more than 20 years. The building houses the public library, the system's Maintenance and Delivery departments and Outreach Services and MCDL's Bookmobile and delivery vehicles.
The Hinckley Library, Stouffer homestead location closed due to deteriorating conditions. The Bookmobile provided library service through stops at the Hinckley, Sharon and Granger town halls.
2004 - The Hinckley Library opened in a new location at 1315 Ridge Road.
2005 - The current Bookmobile hit the road. It holds 4,000-5,000 items including books, magazines, audio books, CDs, and DVDs.
The Buckeye Library opened in December.
2006 - The Lodi Library moved its current location at 635 Wooster Street in February.
2007 - The expanded and renovated Brunswick Library opened in September.
The renovated Seville Library opened in September.
2008 - The renovated and expanded Medina Library was opened in January.
The new Highland Library opened in March.
2009 - State of Ohio reduced funding to all public libraries in Ohio. MCDL instituted layoffs and cutbacks in hours and services to accommodate the reduction in funding. Fees were instituted for some services.
2011 - In November it was discovered that the new Lodi Library had major structural issues causing MCDL to temporarily close down the branch and re-assign staff. The branch reopened in their meeting room in 2012, while the investigation continued to discover the cause of the structural deficiencies.
2013 – The Lodi Library moved temporarily into the Lodi Outlet location while reconstruction began on the permanent location.
2014 - The Lodi library moves back into the "new" repaired building.
2015 – Repurposing of library spaces commences in all branches.
2016 – The library is notified that they are the recipients of the Virginia Wheeler Martin genealogy collection and the funds to build a new genealogy room.
2017 – The Operating Levy from 2007 expires. The Library goes to the public in May for a renewal levy and a small .25 mill increase.


For a unique and stylish addition to your garden, the Aldford Barn is the ideal solution This building has all of the practicalities required form a garden building creating a functional outdoor space. The height of the building is incredible, giving you all of the storage space you will need. This cabin comes equipped with joinery made double doors ans side windows as standard. Available in both 28mm and 44mm logs.
Double Glazing or Toughened Glass can be specified at £79 or £158 for both.
To convert the doors and windows to Full Pane style (including toughened glass) - £149.


text:
International 'Paedophile cannibal' and 12-year-old girl axed man to death before cooking and...
'Paedophile cannibal' and 12-year-old girl axed man to death before cooking and eating his brain
A Russian cannibal pedophile and his 12-year-old "girlfriend" have been arrested for axing a man to death and eating his body parts afterwards. The victim, Alexander Popovich, 21, was living with the accused and his girlfriend outside of St. Petersburg. The 12-year-old child told police officers she had stabbed the man – in whose flat they were lodging – after he went to bed. She then opened his abdomen with a knife because she 'always wanted to see what was inside there'.
Police said the 22-year-old accused, Arkady Zverev, likely groomed his girlfriend to be a willing participant in the crime. The girlfriend, identified only as Valerie, is a runaway, who had previously been reported missing. The police said she looked like she was 15 or 16 years old.
She posted the following message on social media before she went missing 10 days from her home 2,400 km away: "I love one stalker. I won't give him away to anyone, he is only mine. I do not need anybody else."
The police said the Zverev admitted to being sexually involved with the girl. They added that the duo were found cooking the head of the victim in the oven when the police found him. The accused and his girlfriend told the police that they "cooked the brains" of Popovich because "there was nothing else to eat." The girl told investigators that Popovich's heart was 'too sweet'.
Popovich's body — minus the head and arms — were discovered by his brother under a white sheet. The dead man had been disemboweled.
"The contents of the frying pan did not look like the fresh meat found at a supermarket," the police said.
Popovich's brother told reporters: "It was a mess there as if the apartment had been robbed. Then I saw something covered with a blanket and in blood. I did not know it was him, I rushed out. I was in a panic. My only thought was – please don't let it be him."
The girl is below the age of criminal responsibility in Russia and is in care at the Centre for Underage Criminals of St Petersburg. Zverev on the other hand, faces 25 years in prison on murder and sex crimes charges.
India-national who snagged "dream job" in Singapore now hunts for a...
'Hell' of Japan fire that killed dozens at anime company
by Quentin TYBERGHIEN Details emerged Friday of the horrifying blaze that ripped through a Japanese anime firm, killing dozens including people who tried in vain...
US senator calls for investigation into FaceApp
Popular Russia-based application FaceApp, which allows users to change their appearance to look older or younger, came under fire in the United States Wednesday,...
Game of Thrones author speaks out on whether backlash of TV finale will affect books
George RR Martin, author of Game of Thrones has announced whether the polarising finale to the TV show will affect the books. The book series...


geniaBeana Scraps: New Release Sneak Peeks!
You will not want to miss all of the amazingly awesome Color Play stuffs from the other ES designers.
The March Blog train departs soon... Be sure to hop on board. My blog is one of 100 stops along the way.
A Super Special New Collab!
February Color Play: U Rock and a Freebie, too.


Unlike the blocky, low-resolution games found on Atari's machine, Coleco's games were like having an arcade in the home thanks to the Z80A processor that powered it. Indeed, many of the games it hosted were arcade conversions and most of them were close to arcade perfect – a term that had to be invented for their machine.
I personally played Combat for hours against my sister who was extremely good at tank pong. What made the game so fun was the two player aspect and even though to today's eyes one may think the game was simple it took on a whole new dynamic just by switching levels. Even when we got Pac-Man as a present a few weeks later we always came back to Combat because of the fun factor.


Above. Secrets to a Basic Meditation Practice.
"Emy exhibits excellent professional skills and abilities as a speaker, writer, and trainer. She engages her clients, empowering them in their vision, actions, and professional growth. Through her ability to connect with her audience, Emy's strength in knowledge overflows to those whom she trains and enables them to gain better insights and broaden their awareness. I highly recommend Emy for your professional needs."
Families Just Wanna Have Fun!


Our basketball coaches have been fine tuning their training abilities for years and are now under the roof of Acme Athletics, improving the skills of young athletes. Sign up for a private lesson or with up to 3 other players for an hour session today!
Acme Athletics is equipped with a full-sized basketball court, which formerly hosted the University of Connecticut Huskies. The court's goals can be adjusted to match your athlete's ability and growth. Call (931)-919-2575 to book our court for your event or to work on your skills today!
At Acme Athletics there are always new camps and clinics available for young athletes. Be sure to stay up to date on all of our exclusive camps and clinics designed to allow students of the game the opportunity to further their skills with some of the best coaches around!
Perfect your jump shot, become an unguardable scorer, learn the fundamentals, and hone your basketball skills in a private or small group session. Acme Athletics encourages athletes to push other athletes to their limits. Coach Ted Young, a former professional basketball player, directs our basketball program with access to leading training resources to make any athlete an all-star.


Mr. Sushil Kumar Tiwari is Wholetime Director of Heidelbergcement India Ltd. He is Engineer in Electrical as well as in Electronics and Communication from the Institute of Engineers, Kolkata. In his career spanning over 32 years he has experience of more than 25 years in the Cement Sector. He has been associated with Raymond Limited (Cement Division) which was taken over by Lafarge India Private Limited in the year 2001. Mr. Tiwari has been associated with the Company for the past 4 years and undertaken multi farious assignments in the areas of production and has been the team as Technical Head. Mr. Tiwari joined the Company in April 2007 as Unit Head of Ammasandra Plant. He has knowledge and experience in operation of cement plants and matters pertaining to the Cement Industry. In August 2008 he was appointed as Unit Head of the Company's Damoh and Jhansi units. In view of the contribution of Mr. Tiwari, he was elevated to the position of Technical Head of the Company w.e.f. 1st September 2010. Mr. Sushil Kumar Tiwari was appointed as an Additional Director and Wholetime Director of the Company with eff ect from 29th April 2011.


text:
The clubOperating hours
MAY 1 - OCTOBER 31
Our operations are affected by seasonal factors. An early spring permits us to open early. The end of the season is determined by the onset of winter.
weekends, public holidays, PLUS MONDAYS in 2021, weather permitting
by special arrangement
available to club members during regular operating hours
available during regular operating hours. Please consult our introductory flights page for details
To help you plan your visit to Rideau Valley Soaring, it may be useful to understand how a typical day at the airfield unfolds.
At around 9:00am, students arrive and prepare the equipment. The ropes are laid-out and the aircraft inspected. A tow pilot readies the tow-plane and an instructor makes an assessment of the day's weather. Lessons begin immediately to take advantage of the calmer conditions which prevail before lunch. This can also be a good time to take an introductory flight.
By 10:30am, licenced pilots will arrive to prepare for flights in the club's higher performance aircraft or to rig their own aircraft, possibly for cross-country flights. If you've never seen a sailplane assembled you may be able to approach the pilot for an explanation, but please understand that they are performing a safety-critical task and must maintain their focus.
At this time of the morning, senior students may also be arriving for advanced lessons. Many of the members gather in the shade of the Red Shack picnic table and enjoy lunch together. Flights usually continue during lunch, although launching may halt while the tow pilot takes a break.
Around lunch-time, or earlier if the conditions are super, the higher performance aircraft will be launched. The private aircraft may not be seen again until landing after 4 or 5pm, at least this is the pilot's wish. The club aircraft will normally be back within an hour for the next member to use. Lessons continue as usual.
At the end of the day, the aircraft all return for a final landing and are disassembled or hangared. The members store the equipment and complete the aircraft log books.


The Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 is a big, black and bulky multifunctional PC.
But the looks aren't all bad: the Kodak EasyShare ESP 5's curved front and yellow pin-striping are pleasing enough.
On the top left of the Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 you'll find controls for basic multifunctional printer functions, such as copying and scanning, along with a 2.9in colour LCD for navigation.
The Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 has a single input/output tray capable of holding up to 100 sheets of plain paper, but the paper guide feels flimsy. This wasn't the only build-quality issue either, most notable was the floppy scanner lid and a fragile-looking plastic arm that holds the scanner section up while you change the two ink tanks (one black, and one five-colour).
The Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 makes printing easy. The printer can automatically determine what kind of paper you're feeding and adjusts ink levels accordingly - that's great for no-fuss printing, although we'd like a bit more flexibility than the default settings.
With mono prints the Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 delivers decent black levels, thanks to the separate pigment-based black cartridge. However, it's distractingly noisy and isn't quick - it took 35 seconds to output a single page, while 10 pages took 3 minutes 30 seconds. There's no duplex option.
The Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 fared better with photo prints, taking 2 minutes 30 seconds from when we hit Print. Output using Kodak Premium Paper was disappointing. Although colours seemed accurate, the overall effect was a little washed out - something that won't please those who like their photos to have a little punch. Our test photo print from the ESP 5 passed both the water and scratch tests.
One of Kodak's USPs is the low cost of ink and paper. A single black ink cartridge costs £6.99, while the pigment-based cartridge costs £9.99. With page yields of 914 pages for both cartridges, the average cost per page works out at 4p per sheet. Print life is said to be 100 years plus, even without having to place your photos under glass.
Easy to use, with large colour LCD and a fast scanner, the Kodak EasyShare ESP 5 could be quicker at printing. And photo prints lack a little verve.


NEW YORK (AP) Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash turned to bench coach Charlie Montoyo early in the game and mentioned how closely Jonathan Loaisiga resembled a former Yankees great and future Hall of Famer.
Cash just hopes this 23-year-old prospect doesn't develop the same nasty stuff closer Mariano Rivera once featured.
"There were some similarities," Cash said while mentioning the cutter perfected by baseball's career saves leader. "Don't give him any ideas, though. He doesn't need to be pitching in the ninth inning anytime soon. Talented young kid. Very poised."
With two outs in the fourth, the Rays loaded the bases but Loaisiga - the 15th major leaguer from Nicaragua - regrouped and calmed down after a visit from pitching coach Larry Rothschild and struck out Christian Arroyo behind the support of 45,112 roaring fans at Yankee Stadium.
"I think that's the part of the game you have to learn how to manage," Loaisiga said.
New York manager Aaron Boone considered extending Loaisiga past the fifth inning even though he eclipsed 90 pitches for the first time in his professional career - he threw more than 80 in four minor league starts this season. Only once has Loaisiga pitched seven innings, during a Dominican Summer League start in 2013.
"I think everyone got a look at the stuff that this kid has and the arm he has and the easy delivery he has," Boone said. "I felt like mentally, emotionally, he's equipped to handle this."
With one out in the eighth, Eovaldi gave up consecutive singles to Aaron Judge and Gregorius before issuing an intentional walk to Stanton. Johnny Venters struck out Greg Bird before Sanchez's bases-loaded line drive to right field skipped past a diving Johnny Field to make it 5-0.
"I did feel good being that I had a long time that I wasn't contributing to the team batting like that, bringing in runs and getting on base with hits," he said.
The Yankees traded RHP Chad Whitmer to Milwaukee for $59,000 in international signing bonus pool money. That raises New York's available total to $5,061,000 for the signing period that starts July 2. The 23-year-old Whitmer, a 10th-round pick in the 2017 draft, went 3-0 with a 3.79 ERA for the Gulf Coast Yankees last season in rookie ball.
Yankees ace Luis Severino (9-2, 2.27 ERA) tries Saturday to improve to 6-0 at home this season. Tampa Bay is expected to open with right-handed reliever Ryne Stanek on another "bullpen day."


Art Deco Paris Cufflinks. Paris Chain Link Cufflinks. Vintage Supremor Souvenir Cufflinks.
Very nice set of vintage Paris France Eiffel Tower souvenir cufflinks. Probably picked up sometime in the 1930's during a trip. These are unusual for the fact that these are chain link cufflinks. This style is not nearly as common as the swivel backs. Comes with original SUPREMOR vendors card. The card is displaying age spots. If you prefer to not have the card included, just message me. Round tops are 1/2 inch across.


July 3rd, 2018. Inspiring Decor and Design Ideas, Chalkboard Wall Paint Colors.
Joan Price, the author of this post "Chalkboard Wall Paint Colors". You can check to Joan Price author page to know more.
Posted at July 4th, 2018, Joan Price about Large Square Kitchen island.
Posted at July 30th, 2018, Joan Price about White Brick Fireplace with Wood Mantel.
best 25 brick fireplace mantles ideas on pinterest white brick fireplace and rough he..
Posted at July 14th, 2018, Joan Price about Wall Murals for Kids Rooms.


My wife and I lived in the rear apartment at 76 St. Joseph Avenue for a couple of years after we got married in 1975. When we felt like spurging we'd enjoy a Martucci's pizza, which was at 625 Walden, and occasionally treated ourselves to a Friday night fish fry at Ray's Cafe at 874 Walden. Thanks for the history lesson! It is so interesting to try to envision Buffalo prior to urbanization.
Joseph Doll was born on a farm at Main and Huron Streets in 1839. His parents bought the land when they came from Baden, Germany in the early 1830s. They came across the Atlantic on a ship that took 72 days. The final portion of the journey came via the Erie Canal, which was at the time still under construction, so their voyage was partly via canal boat, partly via stagecoach and partly via foot, carrying their baby daughter (Joseph's sister) at the time.
I was totally reading that and thought of my own ancestors that may have done the same thing as they emigrated through Buffalo about that same time. They of course went to Kentucky! That was a little more traveling for them!!!


text:
Vancouver GOLFEXPO Special Promo Code Now Available Online
Yes, it's that time of year again. Thank goodness. With the start of each new year comes the desire to get ready to head out onto the local golf links in our fine province as Spring is surely just around the corner.
And one of the harbingers of that time of year is of course the Vancouver GOLFEXPO, where golf enthusiasts can get an early start on special deals for their favourite courses, see the latest exciting equipment that's being offered and do some great pre-season shopping for apparel as well.
The Vancouver GOLFEXPO is now under the management of the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) of Canada and with that there promises to be a host of new and different experiences at the show so be sure to come and check it out.
Find out more details and get the discount PROMO CODE for your ticket below.
Me, Golf, And Mr. Harry White
A Photo From A Junior Event Held At Westwood Plateau A Few Years Back With A Young Chris Crisologo (3rd From Left Standing, Middle Row) And His Acknowledged Mentor Harry White (Back Row, Centre) - Image Courtesy Brad Ewart (Kneeling, Far Right In Photo)
One of Harry White's most gracious and talented young disciples, Chris Crisologo, pays tribute to the gentleman who helped him fall in love with the game, but more importantly, as Chris iterates, taught him so many valuable life lessons.
By Chris Crisologo (reprinted with permission)
The one question I get asked often is 'why did you choose golf?' The short and quick answer I like to give is that my dad thought it was a good idea to introduce me to all sports and see which one stuck.
Here's the long story that got me hooked to competitive golf, one that seems very fitting.
British Columbia Golf Office Will Be Closed For The Holiday Season
Everyone at British Columbia Golf would like to wish all golfers and their friends and family a wonderful Holiday season, however you choose to celebrate.
Please be safe and enjoy your loved ones as we all look fore-ward (sorry...) to a new and exciting year in golf in 2018.
Note that the British Columbia Golf office will be closed from Friday, December 15th, 2017 - Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018.
See you all in the New Year!
Best Wishes For The Holidays and The New Year From Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum (Tall Gentleman In The Middle) And BC Golf Staff From L-R: Kojo Frempong, Susan White, Corrie Wong, (Mr. Applebaum), Elizabeth Dunn And British Columbia Golf CEO Kris Jonasson. (Missing from photo: Debbie Pyne, Tyler McKay, Andy Fung and Bryan Outram) - Image Credit Bryan Outram
viaSport To Host Collaborative Workshops To Engage Parents On Their Kid's Involvement In Sports
image courtesy viaSport British Columbia
This is an open letter and invitation from viaSport's Chief Executive Officer, Sheila Bouman, to parents and sport leaders of young people who take part in sports in our B.C. communities on how they as mentors and coaches can be involved in positively affecting the experience our youngsters have within sports environments in British Columbia.
BC's Macdonald Looking To Make More Q-School Magic
Vancouver's Stuart Macdonad, Shown Here Competing In The Pacific Coast Amateur, Will Be Looking To Punch His Ticket To The Web.com Tour On A Full-Time Basis This Coming Week - Image Courtesy PCGA
By Brad Ziemer/British Columbia Golf
Qualifying schools are supposed to be golf's ultimate pressure-cookers, but so far they haven't fazed Stuart Macdonald. The 23-year-old rookie pro from Vancouver has sailed through the first and second stages of the Web.com Tour qualifying school to earn a spot in the finals.
"Getting through first and second stage isn't exactly the easiest thing to accomplish," Macdonald said in an interview. "So to get to the finals and have a chance to play on the Web.com Tour is good. I am excited to get there and see what I can do."
British Columbia Golf Seeks Expression Of Interest For 2018 Directors At Large
British Columbia Golf is the Provincial Sport Organization, recognized by Government and Golf Canada as the body responsible for the sport of golf within British Columbia.
Membership is comprised of over 300 golf facilities with an individual membership that exceeds 50,000 golfers. British Columbia Golf is incorporated under the British Columbia Societies Act with By-Laws approved by the membership.
A volunteer board of directors governs British Columbia Golf and sets strategic direction and policies for the association. The board size is twelve and consists of nine directors, elected at large, two elected by the Zone Council and a Past President. Board terms are staggered, with a three-year term.
The nomination committee is currently seeking interested individuals who have an interest and passion in engaging British Columbians in the sport of golf. In total three directors at large will be elected at the Annual General Meeting, which is expected to occur in March 2018.
Please CLICK HERE to see a PDF of the complete Memorandum on the Expression of Interest for the Position of Director with British Columbia Golf.
BC's Susan Xiao Picks Up PNGA Player Of The Year Honours
Surrey, BC's Susan Xiao Added The Junior Girls PNGA Player Of The Year Award To Her 2017 Trophy Case Which Includes The Hardware Shown Here From The Canadian Junior And Juvenile Girls Titles - Image Courtesy Golf Canada
Federal Way, Wash. – The Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) announced its 2017 Players of the Year for the region and among those winners is Susan Xiao of Surrey, B.C., who topped the Junior Girl's category.
In 2017, Xiao captured the Canadian Junior Girls Championship, the AJGA UA Canadian Championship and the MJT Vancouver Season Opener. She had top-5 finishes in four other events.
British Columbia Golf Announces 2017 Players Of The Year
British Columbia Golf Players Of The Year - Top L-R: Christina Proteau, Jackie Little, Doug Roxburgh, Craig Doell & Alison Murdoch. Bottom L-R: Steven Diack, Nolan Thoroughgood, Naomi Ko, Chris Crisologo & Susan Xiao.
The British Columbia Golf Championship Committee meets each year in October to vote and select the Players of the Year in the categories of Women's, Men's, Senior Women's, Senior Men's, Women's Mid-Amateur, Women's Mid-Master, Men's Mid-Amateur, Men's Mid-Master, Junior Girls' and Junior Boys'.
The British Columbia Golf Titleist Order of Merit Performance Points list is used as the primary guide for the selection.
B.C. Golf Notes: Hadwin's Presidents Cup Debut; Du Toit, Three Others, Sail Through Q-School
Kimberley, BC's Jared du Toit Took Medallist Honours As He And Three Other BCer's Earned Their Way Into Round 2 Of Web.com Q-School - Image Courtesy Golf Canada
Abbotsford's Adam Hadwin officially ended the Presidents Cup on Sunday afternoon when he conceded a three-foot putt for par to Phil Mickelson on the 17th green at Liberty National Golf Club.
Hadwin and Mickelson were the last two players on the course in Sunday's singles finale. Of course, the Presidents Cup had been clinched by the Americans much earlier.
BC's Lindbjerg & Gallacher Among Champions Crowned At PNGA Senior Team Championships
BC's Gudmund Lindbjerg (L) From Port Moody & Parnter John Gallacher (R) Of Burnaby Were Among The Champions Crowned At The PNGA Senior Team Championships - Image Courtesy PNGA
Bremerton, Wash. - At the 35th Pacific Northwest Senior Team Championships, Erik Hanson of Kirkland, Wash. and Craig Larson of Tacoma successfully defended their Men's Senior Team title; Gudmund Lindbjerg of Port Moody, B.C. and John Gallacher of Burnaby, B.C. won the Men's Super Senior Team; Ginny Burkey and Leilani Norman, both of Eugene, Ore., won the Women's Senior Team title; and Mary Ryan of Renton, Wash. and Sun Douthit of Steilacoom, Wash. successfully defended their title in the Women's Super Senior Team with the defending champion pair of Jackie Little and Kathryn McGarvey from B.C. coming in T2nd.
Phil Jonas Wins PGA Of BC Club Professional Championship
A Final-Round 66 Secured A Two-Stroke Triumph For Phil Jonas In The PGA Of BC Club Professional Championship At Victoria Golf Club - Image Courtesy PGA of BC
VICTORIA, BC, September 19, 2017 (PGA of British Columbia) - Phil Jonas separated himself from the field to win the Cleveland Golf/Srixon Canada PGA of BC Club Professional Championship presented by Oakcreek Golf & Turf at Victoria Golf Club.
Jonas (Philip Jonas Golf Academy) fired a tournament-low, 4-under-par round of 66 on the esteemed Oak Bay course to finish with a 36-hole total of 3-under-par 137, beating out Matthew Palsenbarg (Northview Golf Academy) by two strokes to claim the Dick Munn Memorial Trophy.
Rating Golf Courses A Science Of Sorts For BC Golf's Kwadwo Frempong
Image Courtesy Golden Eagle Golf Course
Kwadwo 'Kojo' Frempong spends a lot of his working day on the golf course and it seems many people are a little jealous about that. "I get asked a lot, how did you get that job, and how do I get a job like you," Frempong says with a chuckle. "And I say, 'You have to wait until I die.' Then I add that it's very stressful."
Frempong's job is to do the course and slope ratings for golf courses in the province for British Columbia Golf. And that entails spending a lot of time on the course. It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it.
B.C. Golf Notes: Big Bonus For du Toit; Kelly Takes Down The Bear; Hadwin Off To Atlanta
Kimberley, BC's Jared du Toit Has Had A Pretty Solid Start To His Pro Career, Earning Canadian Player Of The Year Honours On The PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour Circuit - Image Credit Bernard Brault/Golf Canada
He wasn't happy with the way he finished his round, but Kimberley's Jared du Toit hung on to win Canadian Player of the Year honours on the PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour circuit.
That award, sponsored by Freedom 55 Financial, carries a hefty $25,000 bonus and du Toit said it helped soothe the frustration he was feeling about ending his round Sunday with three straight bogeys.
Du Toit closed with an even-par 70 to finish the season-ending Freedom 55 Financial Championship in London, Ont., at 10-under par and tied for 17th place. He finished the season 23rd on the money list with $26,233, although he made more than that in unofficial money on Sunday.
B.C. Golf Notes: Another Chapter In Sagebrush Saga; Monty On Form As He Prepares To Defend At Bear Mountain; Little, Turbide Advance To Match Play At U.S. Senior Amateur
The Saga Of Sagebrush Golf Club Has Taken Another Turn As The Future Of The Property Outside Of Merritt, BC Remains Up In The Air - Image Courtesy Sagebrush Life
Two key executives of Sagebrush Golf Club have resigned and the course had some of its maintenance equipment and power carts repossessed earlier this summer.
Sagebrush, located about 15 minutes north of Merritt in Quilchena, has remained closed since Newmark Group, a Langley-based residential development company, bought the course from its original owners nearly two years ago.
BC's Euna Han Among Six Selected To Represent Canada At The Fourth Annual World Junior Girls Championship
Coquitlam, BC's Euna Han Is In Ottawa As A Member Of Team Canada For The World Junior Girls Championship At The Marshes Golf Club - Image Credit Jurgen Kaminski (JKam Photos)/ BC Golf
Two Teams Will Fly The Flag For Canada At The Marshes Golf Club In Ottawa
OAKVILLE, Ont. – The world's top 18-and-under female junior golfers will head to Ottawa for the fourth edition of the World Junior Girls Championship from Sept. 26-29 at The Marshes Golf Club. As host nation, Canada will send two teams of three athletes to compete for the international title of World Junior Girls champion.
"It is an honour to host this prestigious event and we look forward to welcoming these players to Canada," said tournament director Mary Beth McKenna. "The course is in fantastic shape and we are thrilled to host some of the world's best juniors at this historic club. Our partners at The Marshes Golf Club and the communities in the surrounding area have come together to make this a truly memorable event for our competitors."
B.C. Junior Boys Champion Christian Zalli Reverses Course And Commits To Playing For UBC Thunderbirds
2017 BC Junior Boys Champion Christian Zalli Will Be Studying And Playing Golf At UBC This Fall - All Images Credit: Jurgen Kaminski (JKam Photos)/British Columbia Golf
When Christian Zalli won the B.C. Junior Boys Championship in July at Squamish Valley Golf & Country Club, the Vancouver resident was adamant that college golf was not in his future.
He was going to the University of B.C. to focus on his studies and would not be playing golf. End of story. But Zalli has had a change of heart and UBC golf coach Chris MacDonald is thankful about that.
B.C. Golf Notes: Hadwin Clinches Presidents Cup Spot; Richdale Birdies Raise Bucks For Hurricane Relief; Solid Season Ends For Taylor
Abbotsford, BC's Adam Hadwin Clinched His Automatic Selection This Weekend To The International Squad For This Year's Presidents Cup Competition In New Jersey - Image Courtesy adamhadwin.com
It wasn't quite the round he had hoped for on Monday, but Abbotsford's Adam Hadwin still accomplished a huge goal by clinching a spot on the International team for this fall's Presidents Cup.
That Presidents Cup berth is the cherry atop what has been a spectacular year for Hadwin, who shot a 59 at the CareerBuilder Challenge in January and earned his first PGA Tour win two months later at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.
Hadwin finished 10th on the International team points list for the Presidents Cup, which goes Sept. 28-Oct. 1 at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J. International captain Nick Price will make his two captain's picks later this week.
Helping Kids Take Their First Swings, Tyler McKay Is Loving His New Life As British Columbia Golf's Manager Of Golf Participation
British Columbia Golf's Manager Of Golf Participation, Tyler McKay, Seen Here With A Budding Golf Superhero, Is Bringing The Concept Of The Game To Youngsters In A Fun Fashion - Image Credit Jurgen Kaminski (JKam Photos)/ British Columbia Golf
Tyler McKay discovered golf as a kid growing up in the West Kootenay community of Rossland and it wasn't long before he became hooked on the game.
Years later, it's now McKay's job to get British Columbia youngsters interested in golf and he relishes that challenge. McKay, British Columbia Golf's new Manager of Golf Participation, figures the game sells itself.
His biggest challenge is getting kids exposed to golf, so he spends most of his days doing just that. McKay sets up shop in parks and lets children take their first swings.
Register Now For Fraser Valley Girls Regional Golf Camp
The focus of the upcoming 2017 British Columbia Regional Camp being held October 14th at Chilliwack Golf & Country Club is to identify female players in a particular region on the competitive stream and to align Provincial Coaching support with them for the 2018 competitions.
Coaching and training will serve to support player growth and encourage the development of an annual training plan for the upcoming competitive season. In addition, players and families of competitive juniors will be informed and guided on all aspects of the Long Term Player Development Pathway inclusive of leading them to the next stage.
After Close Call At Canadian Mid-Amateur, BC's Steven Diack Looks Forward To A Pro Career
Coquitlam's Steven Diack, Shown Here Getting Set To Tee Off In The VGT Golden Ears Open At Pitt Meadows GC, Is Raring To Get His Pro Career Under Way - Image Credit Bryan Outram/BC Golf
When Steven Diack decided he was going to turn pro, there was an obvious place to start the next phase of his golfing life. The Vancouver Golf Tour's Vancouver Open is being played Sept. 22-24 at Northview Golf Club in Surrey, a place that has been good to Diack in the past.
"Once I saw the Vancouver Open was at Northview I was like, that is so good for me," Diack said in an interview. "I love that place and I can't wait to go out and start this new chapter in golf. I have actually won two tournaments out there. I won a MJT (Maple Leaf Junior Tour) tournament a long, long time ago and I won the VGT Spring Championship out there as well."


This mark is automatically generated based on current and recent activity in the IV/LAB.
* The number of lab members who have logged in to our linux machines in the past 24 hours is 1.
* The number of lab members who have logged in to our linux machines this week is 1.
* The current size of the directory for our published research papers is 24331079 KB.
* The lights in the lab are on.
Daniel F. Keefe, Daniel Acevedo Feliz, Tomer Moscovich, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J. LaViola Jr.
Some material on this website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are	those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Copyright Daniel Keefe and the University of Minnesota.


text:
The Emmerson Papers
Posted in Video Games
Journal of the Plague Year: Surviving Tom Clancy's The Division
Posted on October 17, 2016 October 17, 2016 by David
It started well, if nothing else. At launch in March, Tom Clancy's The Division was a sales prodigy, generating more than $330 million worldwide in its first five days – a record for a new gaming IP. But while the game sold like hotcakes, it wasn't long before things went the way of the soufflé. By June, thanks in part to failings both unintended (glitches, bugs) and intended (an ungenerous endgame, a Dark Zone friendly to griefers), The Division's playerbase on Steam had declined by more than ninety per cent. A game set in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic was itself being tested for vital signs.
For my part, the downward spiral was especially depressing because, for the first month or two after release, I loved The Division. A little too much, if anything. The game hooked me like a talon, refusing to relax its grip. The graphics, the loot, yes, even the infamous Dark Zone – I was bonkers for all of it. I counted the day lost that was not spent in the streets of post-apocalyptic Manhattan, an alternative reality where numbers came out of people's heads and time's passing went unnoticed. Remarkably for such a social phobic, my favourite activity in the game was matchmaking with random players to complete the story missions. Playing solo was enjoyable too, but there was nothing quite like the esprit de corps of teamwork, of flanking enemies tactically or rushing in like a white knight to pull off clutch revives. Even impossible-seeming missions where the whole squad wiped multiple times (hello Hudson Refugee Camp) weren't frustrating, but fun.
Most lapsed Division players can pinpoint the date when, for them, the fun stopped. For me it was with the release of patch 1.1 in April. Never mind the much-hated nerf to the crafting system, my main gripe was the arrival of 'gear score,' a crude power rating that could be viewed by all other players. Suddenly matchmaking wasn't so simple: now you could get kicked from groups for the crime of having too low a score (below 190 or some other arbitrary sum). The result for me: a status anxiety I assumed I left behind when I logged on. The result for the game: a generalised prejudice against newer, lower-geared players.
Two more patches followed, but neither helped. Among The Division's long-suffering community, one opinion is aired so often it's become a truism: the game is best from levels 1-30. Ask someone mired in the unforgiving endgame about their 1-30 experience and watch them go into ecstasies of nostalgia as if recalling a golden age: when loot was plentiful, progress was meaningful and enemies could be killed without first spraying them with every bullet in your backpack. All this changes – how it changes! – once you hit level 30. Up goes the difficulty of the missions, down goes the quantity of build-improving loot: it's almost as if developers Massive forgot what made the base game so great and determined to wipe the experience clean of every trace of fun. Like A Christmas Carol told in reverse, the game starts out generous and ends up as a miser, universally resented. The Division: the loot shooter that isn't.
By the endgame, the stinginess really is bottomless. While it was at least possible, if laborious, to gear up as a solo player in patch 1.0 – using Phoenix Credits, high-end blueprints and crafting materials – it wasn't from 1.1 onwards. To get the best gear, you needed to beat the hardest content. And to beat the hardest content, you needed the best gear. To square this impossible circle, we were encouraged – nay compelled – to group up with other, stronger players. But here's the kicker: if your gear score wasn't high enough, there was a good chance those stronger players wouldn't let you in their group in the first place.
It was never clear, at least to this gamer, what The Division's endgame has against the casuals ('filthy casuals,' if you will). The developers' unsparing sternness seems to fly in the face of established videogame psychology, to reject that well-worn feedback loop where players are rewarded for successes – small and large – and thereby compelled to play on. I say this to Massive: we are happy to grind for our rewards. All we ask is a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. Ploughing through a metric ton of bullet-sponge enemies on the vanishingly slim chance that RNGesus might favour us with a useable drop – if The Division was a job, it would violate every employment law on the statute book. Is it any wonder that most of the playerbase, their patience spent, have gone on long-term strike?
But a change is coming. The tide is on the turn. Massive, the architects of so much torment for so many, have decided to listen. Or perhaps their Ubisoft overlords, in despair at the game's haemorrhaging playerbase, went and bashed a few heads together. Either way, in September Massive hosted an 'Elite Task Force' in Malmö, Sweden, composed of prominent YouTubers, Twitch streamers and other names to reckon with in the community. The brief of the invitees: to diagnose the game's failings and workshop the solutions (no pressure, then). Shortly after, Massive let it be known that a Public Test Server – or 'PTS' – would be released on PC, allowing us to playtest the new 1.4 patch before release. For beleaguered players like me, this was the first cold proof that they might actually be serious about putting The Division the right way up.
The PTS went live on September 26th, stained with the tears of Massive's contrition, but I didn't play it straight away. Five months had passed since I weaned myself from The Division's teat, and I wasn't sure I wanted to start suckling again just yet. After all, could a game this fucked ever be fixed? But curiosity eventually getting the better of my cynicism, I started playing. And I have to admit, I loved it. My sneer didn't make it past the loading screen. Immediately it was clear that loot drops and difficulty levels had been rewired out of recognition. A new 'world tier' system let the player select a universal enemy level appropriate to their gear score, and conferred a palpable sense of endgame progress. But here was the best thing. To the general stupefaction of the playerbase, loot actually dropped. My eyebrows shot up and stayed there when I saw a teal gearset item – once so vanishingly rare – drop from a random mob. Lord god! This was unprecedentedly amazing.
More good news: the game was accessible to the casual player again. Challenge mode, once best tackled with a full squad and a stiff drink, was solo-able if you had decent gear. Some dissenting voices said that Massive had made the game too easy, had turned the loot taps on too full. Opinion divides sharply on this issue. Obviously the game has to get easier: this is a patch aimed at the lapsed, not the faithful. But if enemies are too squishy and loot too liberal, the playerbase will soon be all geared up with nowhere to go. There was a squeal from the community when the difficulty pendulum swung back the other way, but I think we've finally landed in the sweet spot.
Apparently, 1.4 will go live in October (most likely the 25th). For hardcore agents who've hung onto the game like grim death, as well as lapsed casuals (raises hand) who gave up a month after release, these are exciting times: a Year Zero for the game we love, or at any rate want to love. Of course, there's a chance it's all too little, too late – especially with Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 and Civilization 6 and even Watch Dogs 2 all competing for our thumbs. But I'm inclined to be optimistic. The Division may be in a downed state right now, but I think Massive have got the skill power to perform a revive.
The Queen is Not Dead: Rise of the Tomb Raider
Posted on October 3, 2016 October 17, 2016 by David
Before she rose, the tomb raider very nearly fell. For reasons best known to themselves, publishers Square Enix launched Lara Croft's latest on a date when most gamers had a diary clash. November 10th 2015 was – as everyone knows – the global release date of Fallout 4, a game which didn't so much threaten to eclipse Rise of the Tomb Raider in sales as toast it for breakfast in an apocalyptic fission fireball. Sadly, it gets worse: owing to a timed exclusivity deal struck by Microsoft in a rearguard action against all-conquering Sony, ROTTR was available, initially, for Xbox gamers only. Who evidently weren't tripping over themselves to buy it. The game shipped only 63,000 copies on launch in the UK, against its 2013 predecessor's 183,000.
Those who did snap up ROTTR on launch – few though they were – would have no cause for remorse, however. The game is a triumph: bigger, better and more beautiful than its predecessor, and quite possibly the finest entry in Tomb Raider's two-decade history. I should qualify this, firstly, with a word on the plot. A hidden-treasure MacGuffin reputed to grant eternal life? A father whose life work was devoted to tracking down said treasure? An evil collective determined to find and keep said treasure in a tilt at world domination? I mean, for shame, is it or isn't it an unblushing rip-off of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Yes, the story does prod the action along competently enough, but if ROTTR didn't breach the Copyright Act, it must have been a close-run thing.
Whether you deem Lara Croft or Indiana Jones better looking is a matter of taste, but I put it to you that no game, before or since, has better visuals than ROTTR. From knuckly cave openings in Syria to mountain passes in frostbitten Siberia, Rise is a game of commanding, ravishing beauty. Lara leaves deep trails as she tramps through thick snowdrifts, campfires look real enough to warm your hands on and the sight of godrays filtering through the shivering branches would make Wordsworth weep – especially if, like me, he played on PC. Truly, it's a game unlikely to offend anyone's aesthetics.
And ROTTR manages to be more than just an eye-popping tech demo. Recapturing the formula of its successful predecessor, it's easy to pick up yet hard to put down. 'Open world' may be the catchword of the day, but ROTTR is defiantly, almost proudly linear, with an attention-to-detail that dazzles in the cinematic set pieces that see Lara being sprang at by bears, leaping across fast-disintegrating platforms and ducking from arrows shot by a sinister undead race. While the game plainly doesn't have the depth of its exact-contemporary Fallout 4, there is a cod-RPG progression system akin to Far Cry or Assassin's Creed, letting you upgrade Lara's skills and weaponry – though even at the start of the game, she feels plenty powerful enough.
Combat is satisfying, if a little easy at the default difficulty setting. The game gets stealth right, however: killing enemies with a bow before stealing away unobserved affords a keen pleasure (all the more so because enemy AI is quite sophisticated). If Lara was a survivor in the prequel, this time around she's a one-woman commando unit, taking down battalions of enemies with explosive arrows and Molotov cocktails and an arsenal of no-nonsense guns. While those aforesaid enemies are evil, Lara has a lot of bloodshed on her conscience: at a low estimate, I butchered over a hundred human souls. It can be hard at times to square the steely, yet sensitive, young woman we see in cut scenes with the unfeeling killing machine who emerges in free play.
All the more so because Lara's signature accessories these days aren't so much her twin pistols as the twin ice picks that serve as climbing aids. In the intervals of slaying enemies, you'll likely as not be climbing: scaling sheer precipices in the howling wind with impossibly deep ravines gaping below. Usually it's worth the climb: the game is generously strewn with crafting materials and collectibles – from historical artefacts to extracts from journal entries that provide background on the plot. But what I was especially looking for were the optional challenge tombs, those holdovers from Tomb Raiders' halcyon days that were such a hit in the 2013 reboot. And they're even better here. I solved the early ones with little ado, but sussing the larger later ones require significant smarts. None took more than half an hour's head scratching, I should add, and the endorphin rush on solving the harder ones is like nothing else in the game.
If nothing else, the tombs are a welcome gear shift, an opportunity for the player to mop their brow between firefights and get their puzzle hit. Of course, there those who think that the firefights, not the tombs, should be the optional side activity. It's a high wire that developer Crystal Dynamics must walk: what should Tomb Raider be? Clearly they needed to contemporise Lara to meet modern gaming expectations, but without throwing aside the series' hallmarks: the exploration, the mystery and above all the puzzles. To hard-bitten Tomb Raider traditionalists, quick time events and on-rails set pieces – staples of 2013's reboot – are not in Lara's line at all. Personally, I think ROTTR is much more faithful to its legacy than its predecessor.
And let's guard against viewing the classic Tomb Raiders with nostalgia-tinted goggles. Yes, they blazed a trail for 3D gaming and helped sell PlayStations by the truckload, but face it: the combat was crude even by contemporary standards (hold down the shoot button; who needs aiming?), and Ms Croft, for all the craft and love that went into her appearance, controlled more like an eighteen-wheeler than a woman. Then was the uncompromising difficulty setting: '90s Lara was a stern mistress. The puzzles – free from hints – were bafflingly hard, and many was the time I died to a falling boulder or marauding T Rex or sudden bastard spike pit. Is it any surprise that most players (raises hand) had the level-skip cheat memorised?
As a history buff, Lara will be aware that no golden era lasts forever. In 1997, Tomb Raider would never have been upstaged by Fallout, or the Fallout equivalent. Tomb Raider was the upstager. While its star has since fallen, and new entries in the series don't inspire anything like the same event glamour, Lara still has a reputation to uphold as a cultural icon, the first lady of videogaming. But, as ROTTR shows, she's more than a legacy act. The tomb raider has risen again, and this time she means to stay. Call off the National Trust: Croft Manor hasn't crumbled to dust just yet.
Master of War: Dispatches from Battlefield 1
Stuck Inside of Moberly With the Exeter Blues Again
Rumble in the concrete jungle
Fedal XXXV: Encore, encore!
On the buses, or why they're much better than trains


text:
CannabisApril 16, 2019
Cannabis Social Equity Report
Repairing the Harms, Creating the Future
Today, along with Equity First Alliance Los Angeles and the Social Impact Center in Los Angeles, UFCW 770 published a report about how we create a healthy Cannabis industry for all Repairing the Harms, Creating the Future: Centering Cannabis Social Health & Equity in Los Angeles.
The new Repairing the Harms, Creating the Future: Creating Cannabis Social & Health Equity in Los Angeles (2019) report compiles extensive research that shows the City of Los Angeles' promising programs meant to repair the war on drugs need a more comprehensive approach – and immediate funding – to succeed. A wide range community, worker and industry voices and experts are highlighted who share the effects of the war on drugs but also their engagements with health and social justice through cannabis. The report then outlines how to realize a broader vision of repair and renewal via cannabis in alignment with intersecting work throughout Los Angeles on social and health equity.
Included are comprehensive recommendations on incorporating greater community voice in cannabis regulation, building social equity programs that meet worker and small businesses needs, ensuring non-criminalizing enforcement, and reinvesting cannabis tax funds in health and social equity. Through detailed picture of past, present and future harms and potential in relation to the cannabis industry, Repairing the Harms provides unique data and analysis on how policymakers, industry, workers and community can build a national model of equity in cannabis together.
Report Produced by: Cage-Free Cannabis, Equity First LA, The Social Impact Center and UFCW Local 770
Author: Robert Chlala, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California and Social Equity Researcher/UFCW 770
With: Jackie Cornejo, UFCW 770; Dr. Brandie Cross PhD, Smart Pharm Research Group; Kristen Lovell, The Social Impact Center; Adam Vine, Cage-Free Cannabis
The report explores ways the city of LA can continue to make equity a priority in the future of Cannabis regulation. We must repair the harms of the war on drugs on affected communities and to build a future that serves the needs of the Los Angeles community. This is a roadmap for how we do it.
Although it's a short read on its own, here are the key takeaways:
Defining Equity
We first developed a shared definition of the word "equity." Without it, there's a danger that our efforts to put people and their lives in the center of the future of Cannabis would be unsuccessful. Drawing from the latest research on equitable implementation, we look at equity in three parts, past, present, and future:
1. When implemented, equity closes historical gaps that often align with place, race, and gender;
2. In the present, equity requires strong partnerships with affected communities that supports their participation and power.
3. Finally, when implemented, equity takes into consideration future disparities by building for the long-term (in adaptable ways) and anticipating future harms.
As our cannabis stakeholder forums confirmed, for Los Angeles to be successful, equity has to be centered across all cannabis policies and practices. It must also work in unison with other equity efforts in different sectors of the city and county.
We examined multiple perspectives from a range of stakeholders for insight into the needs of communities, interests of voters, and commitments to equity that policymakers have made. The report investigates areas where equity principles can be applied immediately. The most pressing area in all our minds:
1. Enforcement
2. Funds to support social equity applicants and workers
3. Corporate social responsibility
Here are some of our recommendations to push this vision forward:
1. Create a Cannabis Health & Social Equity working group
2. Develop a progressive and comprehensive enforcement strategy for cannabis regulations and halt further criminalization of youth
3. Create a community reinvestment fund to repair the harms of the war on drugs
Read the full report to learn about a future of cannabis that puts people, their voices, and stories in the center of growth and development.
BREAKING: New England Stop & Shop Workers Go On Strike
Actualización sobre negociaciones de contrato de supermercados – 22 abril, 2019


text:
Der Panzerbär – Kampfblatt für die Verteidiger Groß-Berlins fue un periódico nazi editado exclusivamente en Berlín durante el asedio del Ejército Ruso al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

El Panzerbär fue publicado por Ullstein-Verlag y en su primer número el 22 de abril de 1945 apareció con una proclama oficial de Adolf Hitler haciendo un llamamiento a la lucha con todos los recursos contra los invasores de la ciudad. Tenía solamente cuatro páginas y se limitaba exclusivamente a la exhortación a la lucha y al heroísmo nacional socialista. La última edición data del 29 de abril de 1945 y anunciaba un falso anillo de defensores alrededores de la capital del Tercer Reich para permitir salir a los combatientes del cerco soviético. Muy pocas personas leyeron este periódico al final de la guerra.

Referencias
 Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedurftig (1997); La Enciclopedia del III Reich, Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80793-9

Enlaces externos

 Fotografía de la edición final del Panzerbär,el 29 de abril de 1945

Panzerbär
Periódicos en alemán
Alemania en 1945
Historia de Berlín
Alemania en la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Publicaciones fundadas en 1945
Publicaciones desaparecidas en 1945
Periódicos desaparecidos de Alemania

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Building a Healthier Israeli Society Through Access to University
I'm four years old, with a pony-tail and a big smile. I sit in my dad's old Renault car, he just picked me up from kindergarten and we are driving to Beer Sheva at the heart of Israel's Negev desert. Even though at the time the city was not that big, it seemed huge to my four-year-old self. And as we drive up the main street of Beer Sheva, my dad looks at me through the car's mirror and points out the grey huge buildings on the side of that street and tells me "This is the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. One day you will be a student here, just like me." I asked him "Why should I?" and he answered – "Well, that is just what we do in our family." So, at the age of four, a little girl named Rotem started dreaming.
Sixteen years later I finished my army duty, not far from Beer Sheva, gave back my uniforms and three weeks later stood humbled and excited at the entrance to Tel Aviv University Law school. Did your parents raise you telling you that college is an option for you? Maybe the only option? Do you remember your first day at college?
As I was looking out the car window at Ben-Gurion University, on the other side of that street, I saw a boy named Yaakov, in Quarter D (שכונה דלת), the worst neighborhood in Beer Sheva, where children wander around unsupervised, and drugs and violence pervade the streets. Even though the university was just on the other side of the street, Yaakov never entered its gates. Not as a visitor. Not as a student or later as an adult, to buy a pencil for his kid at the university store. Not even to sit at the coffee shop. Yaakov never thought the gate keepers would let him in. Actually, he told me he did enter the university once: on his wedding day, he came with his new wife to take their wedding pictures there, as it is the greenest and nicest place in the desert city of Beer Sheva.
But after Yaakov's beautiful wedding he didn't go to the university. Instead, as so many others on the edge of society, Yaakov got in trouble. He became a drug dealer, as this was the only way he knew to survive. Yaakov went to jail, Yaakov came out of jail. And later became a burden on the welfare authorities. He also raised his kids in Quarter D. As he would walk along the main street of Beer Sheva with his four-year-old daughter, Yuval, he never told her about that grey building on the other side of the street – the university. She could not start dreaming of that place.
Yaakov and I could have never met, but we did.
I went to the university — he never entered its gates. I became an attorney in a leading law firm in Israel — he went to jail. I never dealt with welfare authorities — he was a regular client. Yaakov lived in an environment that does not encourage learning and does not recognize the importance of education. I grew up in an environment that nurtured education and that pushed me to study in the university, where I received all the knowledge I needed. Since he never entered the university gates, he never exposed himself to that knowledge.
Yaakov and I might have never met. But we did.
Thanks to "Access for All," an Israeli NGO that provides access to university education for all people, especially those who otherwise would not have such an opportunity. We bring 2,400 adults from the margins of the Israeli society, all of whom are welfare recipients, who never set foot on campus, whose children don't think of higher education as an option – to study courses in four universities — all across Israel.
And how do we do that?
Do you remember how empty it felt at evening time at University? No-one likes to teach at night — so we teach classes to our participants in the evenings when there are so many empty classrooms;
Do you remember how you got around at school? Bike, foot, car, bus? Our participants don't have cars or money for public transportation – so we take them in buses from their hometown to the campus;
Do you remember all the food available to you in the cafeteria, or the local cafes and restaurants? We don't know when our participants started their day or when they last had something to eat – so we welcome them with a sandwich and beverages before class. (Can you hear your Jewish mother telling you never to study on an empty stomach?)
What do we teach them?
Remember that time you neded legal advice regarding your employment rights? We teach introduction to law.
You know how you wish someone would have taught you about nutrition and health related issues when you were younger? We teach introduction to medicine.
Think of how you stood helpless in front of the mortgage agent. We teach introduction to business.
And the many times you really hoped someone would tell you how to talk to your children? We also teach introduction to psychology.
Everyone should have access to that knowledge. Not just those of us who were lucky enough to get in to University.
And who teaches?
Remember that 21-year-old Army graduate who went to law school? The curricula is taught by a 100 BA students each year – they are our second target group at "Access for All." Students like me, who were never exposed to the periphery of the Israeli society, are actually being taught through their teaching; they are trained and see and experience the makeup of Israel, what needs to be changed in our society, and in what ways that change can be accomplished.
If we do our work right, when those BA students become lawyers they'll take on pro-bono cases; when they become doctors they will work for government hospitals not private practices; when they become psychologists, they will work with kids in the tough neighborhoods and not in the privileged ones. If we do our work even better — they will become teachers and the future social change agents of Israel.
Remember your graduation day? How proud you were? And how proud your parents were of you? Access for All graduations are sky-rocketing exciting! It's a big happy mess — children all over the place — hanging from the ceiling and the curtains. Those kids are finally inside a university and when they see their mom go up on stage to get a certificate from the Dean of the Law School or when they see their dad has completed a course in the university, they know that the university is a place for them as well. They, too, can start dreaming.
"Access for All" is a story of building a healthier Israeli society. One in which higher education is the right of every person — rich or poor, man or a woman, Jewish or Arab, young or old, literate or not. It is also the story of the young generation in Israel who looks at our country and keeps looking for ways to make Israel an equal and thriving society.
Rotem Yadlin,a current Wexner Israel Fellow in Class 28 at Harvard, serves as CEO for "Access for All," a nonprofit organization opening university gates for adults from weakened populations, with courses taught by undergraduate students. Rotem also serves as Director at Levinsky College of Education, as a member of the Diaspora Affairs Ministry's public advisory committee and as an elected member in her local community, leading the education committee. From 2009 to 2013, Rotem served as Senior Advisor to the Israeli Cabinet Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and, prior to that, as a lawyer at Goldfarb Seligman law offices. Rotem holds an LLB Degree from Tel Aviv University and was granted the Israeli Bar Association's "Honoris Causa Award" for reducing social gaps. She can be reached at rotem.yadlin@gmail.com.


21.02.2017 > Multidimensionality of well-being and spillover effects across life domains: How do parenthood and personality affect changes in domain-specific satisfaction?
Multidimensionality of well-being and spillover effects across life domains: How do parenthood and personality affect changes in domain-specific satisfaction?
Title Multidimensionality of well-being and spillover effects across life domains: How do parenthood and personality affect changes in domain-specific satisfaction?
Whether having children improves our well-being is a long-standing topic of debate. Demographic and sociological research has investigated changes in individuals' overall well-being and partnership satis- faction when they become parents. However, little is known about how becoming parent may produce vulnerability—observable as an enduring decrease in well-being—in life domains that are strongly interdependent with the family domain, such as work and leisure. Linking life-course and personality psychology perspectives, the authors examine the trajectories of subjective well-being—measured as satisfaction with life, work, and leisure—3 years before and 3 years after the transition to parenthood. The authors particularly focus on the moderating effects of gender and personality. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2013) and multilevel growth curve modeling, the authors show strong gender-based vulnerability in how people react to parenthood. Although men display a nonlinear pathway of decreasing life satisfaction and a stable trajectory of job satisfaction, women experience more changes in their satisfaction with work and more dramatic decreases in leisure satisfaction. Contrary to most of our expectations, the moderating effects of personality were modest. Extraversion influenced the trajectories of work satisfaction, whereas neuroticism and conscientiousness affected the pathway of leisure satisfaction for women only. This article shows that the transition to parenthood influences well- being trajectories in specific domains, and this influence differs between women and men.


text:
ODB 149: Jon Kennedy
Jon Kennedy 'Corporeal Remixed Part 2' Released 6th April 2015
Continuing to extend the thumping, often moody and prowling hip hop and techno explorations of such electronic sonic "turntablists" pioneers as Shadow and Howie B; and following in the wake of a closer to home Chemical Brothers; and yet just as influenced by the string sectioned pop requiems of ELO and conceptual rock-operatic's of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, international DJ extraordinaire and musician Jon Kennedy injects a wry humored and clinical, sophisticated skill to dance music. Bending genres, including the most commercial (usually the preserve of faux-phantom (k)nob twiddlers and beat-matched laptop celebs and superstar DJs), to his will Kennedy has more or less mixed, remixed and incorporated every style, from D'n'B to hard house, into his work.
Making his mark in the eclectic Noughties, the Stockport drummer turn electronic artist first came to the attention of Mr.Scruff via his Brighton radio show on Juice FM, before signing with the city's Tru Thoughts label. Relocating in more recent years from Bristol – though his constant global hotfooting tours and DJ appearances mean he's more likely to be living out of his suitcase – to the cultural/historical Czech capitol of Prague, Kennedy has been busy with both his own imprint, the Jon Kennedy Federation (which has signed a number of acts), and producing new material. The home of Kafka; a capitol occupied by a host of barbarous ideologies and repressive regimes over the years, liberated to some degree and part of the EU; Prague's strategic position in central Europe may offer Kennedy a hub, closer to the east and growing "EDM" obsessed fans of former Iron curtain satellites, previously deprived of western dance music. Whatever the reasons, he's been very productive. Though on this occasion with the work done and reception positive on his last original album of tracks, Corporeal, Kennedy takes a backseat, as the "remixer of choice" is himself remixed once again by an esteemed roll call of producers and artists. Corporeal Part 2 hands the reins over, so to speak, taking the originals in, mostly, different directions for the second time around; sometimes floating and at other times amplified with more gristle and growl, starting with the eased off on the treble, steely reworked version of the opening Shadow-stalking prowler Boom Clack by 2011 DMC Word DJ champion Chris Karns. Congruously following on from each other Flow and Tonto Rides The Gain sound even more harmoniously entwined, the former's satellite probing spy soundtrack caressed and given an Indian-esque mystique by the London trio Sparkle Darkly, whilst the latter's vocal riff is given an Ibiza style air-y flavour and Daft Punk bass pump by Kapibara.
Other notable transformations include the original Jurassic 5 swinging Pronounce Your Shit, featuring the New York rap partnership of Q-Ball & Cazal, which is given a far moodier, heavy hitting bass and drums mix by the Belfast funk, soul and hip hop producer Covershocks; the Blend Mishkin pirate radio rub-a-dub styled take of Live My Life; and the skipping drum'n'bass remodeling of the carefree Brasilia saunter, Bossa No Va by renowned original 'rude boy' Spikey Tee.
A few remixes prove to be subtler affairs; the former Beck meets Alabama 3 feel Rock The Boat, featuring Ashley Slater of Freak Power on vocals, spruced and brightened with an Arrested Development style down-home swing by Innereyeful, and the G.I. at the hop vocals of Amie J on the original You Are The Fire now sound far more soulful on the lush Dopedemand version. That final haunted swan song The Parade is heightened by the darker touch of dbridge, who takes it on a 90s imbued sophisticated minimal techno journey into the ether.
In many cases these remixes prove a complimentary extension, others an inventive alternative. Though Kennedy is fluent in most of the styles offered up and used to bend the source material into new shapes, it's interesting to hear the numerous interpretations. Whether you're familiar with the original material or not, you can't go wrong with this second selection of remixes.
Pre-orders of the album are bolstered with a further eight remixes from Markey Funk, Nate Connelly and DJ Detweller which can currently be sampled on the Bandcamp page.