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Q: How to update with CRUD system in RAILS? I'm learning Rails and I'm trying to use CRUD system.
I want to update my article when I click on the "Edit" button.
Problem, I get this error "ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [POST] "/articles/1/edit"):"
I used "resources :articles" to create all routes for CRUD system in my routes.rb file.
Here my routes :
edit_article GET    /articles/:id/edit(.:format)  articles#edit

             PATCH  /articles/:id(.:format)       articles#update

             PUT    /articles/:id(.:format)       articles#update

Here is my form :
<%= form_with do %>

    Titre de l'article
    <%= text_field :title, '', class:'form-control' %>

    Contenu de l'article
    <%= text_area :content, '', class:'form-control'%>

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Modifier l'article</button>

<% end %>

I think it's related to the HTTP protocol of the update action which is in PATCH/PUT when we use :resource.
Link to documentation I used for doing this : https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#crud-verbs-and-actions
Thank for your help !

A: Try this you need to give controller action through form submit
<%= form_for @artice, url: {action: :update} do |f| %>

    Titre de l'article
    <%= text_field :title, '', class:'form-control' %>

     Contenu de l'article
     <%= text_area :content, '', class:'form-control'%>

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Modifier l'article</button>

<% end %>

A: form_with will replace form_tag and form_for that will be depreciated in the future, because it combines these two helpers.
In your form, you forgotten your object, so the form is not able to know what should be updated.
Replacing form_with do by form_with model: @article do should do the trick
<%= form_with model: @article do %>

    Titre de l'article
    <%= text_field :title, '', class:'form-control' %>

    Contenu de l'article
    <%= text_area :content, '', class:'form-control'%>

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Modifier l'article</button>

<% end %>

A: Try this:
<%= form_with model: @article do |t| %>

    Titre de l'article
    <%= t.text_field :title, class:'form-control' %>

    Contenu de l'article
    <%= t.text_area :content, class:'form-control'%>

    <%= t.submit "Modifier l'article", class: "btn btn-primary" %>

<% end %>

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A display of selected works by photographers Petr Beran, Oldřich Bubák, Miloš Fic, Marcel Fujcik, Miroslav Hoza, Milan Křiček, Petr Moško and Jiří Tiller, accompanied by poems of Zdeněk Jirásek.
Oldřich Hlavsa, a typographer and distinguished personality of Czech book design of the 20th c. In his work, he used fonts as part of the illustrations, he liked experimenting with formats as well as classic fonts in new contexts. Unforgettable is the typographic design of many volumes and editions (Klub přátel poezie, Slunovrat, Bohemia), or magazines (Plamen, Typografia).


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ALTINDERE NATIONAL PARK AND SUMELA MONASTERY
The Altindere National Park is the best known park in the Black Sea region, and lies to the west of Trabzon in Turkey. The Sumela (Sümela) Monastery is one of the main sites of the Altindere National Park. Also known as Meryemana, because it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was the centre of Christianity in the region. The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery. It also has a very significant place in the history of art. It is thought that the monastery was constructed in the 4th century, although Alexios III, (1349 – 1390) can be named as the real founder. It was extended in the 19th century, at a time when it enjoyed its most popular period. The national park can be reached via the 48 km road connecting Trabzon to Macka.
National parks are among the ways of protecting nature and culture. Altindere Valley National Park was turned into a national park in 1987. The total area of the national park, 901 hectares of which is forest, is 4800 hectares.
The entrance of national park is via a narrow and long staircase, and consists of water canals, library, kitchen, guest rooms, cisterns, and the pool in which holy water was collected. The building clings dramatically to the sheer rock wall, overlooking mountain forests and mountain springs.
The flora in Altindere National Park is very rich, the dominant species being the Eastern spruce tree. Fir trees, Scotch pine, chestnut, oak, lime tree, willow, black pine, Caucasian honeysuckle, and forest rose all cover the area.
The main species of animal are deer, roe deer, wild goats, wild boar, bears, wolves, jackals, foxes, and lynx, some of which owe their survival to the local flora.
Most people visit between April and October, for trekking and to visit the monastery of Sumela. There are tourist bungalows in specific areas of the national park which can be reserved through the Office.
The Sumela (Sümela) Monastery
The ruins of a monastery can be seen on the slopes of the Zigana Mountains to the south of Trabzon. The Sumela monastery is inside the Altindere National Park surrounded by a beautiful forest and at the bottom of the mountain flows one of the arms of Degirmendere Creek.
The vehicles can reach up to the parking lot at the 950 meters height near to the river, and from that point one needs to hike uphill through the path way approximately 1 km to reach the entrance of the monastery which is located at an attitude of 1200 meters from the sea level.
According to tradition the monastery was founded by Barnabas and Sophranius, two Athenian priests who visited the region during the reign of Theodosius I. Legend has it that the icon of the Virgin Mary, believed to have been the work of Saint Luke, was carried to the Zigana Mountains of Trabzon by angels, only to be discovered by Barnabas and Sophranius on their journey from Athens to the region. It is this icon of the Virgin Mary, arguable
Whilst much of the artwork and frescoes have deteriorated beyond recognition, there are examples of Turkish artwork on exhibition in the courtyard and surrounding buildings, including examples of cupboards, fireplaces and other furniture. Manuscripts, books and documents found at the monastery have since been catalogued and are now on display at the Ankara Museum and the Ayasofya museum in Istanbul. Valuable items such as plates and crosses from the monastery are on display at the Museum of Byzantine Works in Athens, and the Icon, 'Our Lady of the Roses' is on display in the National Gallery in Dublin.
It is said that "Sumela" (the Greek name of this monastery, founded in the name the Virgin Mary), comes from the word "melas", which means "dark" or "black". Many consider that this stems from the dark hues of the mountain valley in which the Monastery is situated. However, in the opinion of the author the word "sumela" could be an adjective used to refer to the icon of the Virgin Mary. The colour of the icon, which is so dark that it could be described as black, was one of the things that struck the eminent historian J.P Fallmerayer (1790-1861) when he visited the Monastery in 1840 and could well be the origin of the name.
The Healing Waters Of The Sumela Meryemana Monastery (The Monastery Of The Virgin Mary)
Into a sacred pool in the centre of the Monastery large drops of water drip at irregular intervals from thirty or forty metres above. It is these drops of water which have offered hope to sufferers of incurable ailments over the centuries and made the Monastery rich. In the old days both Christians and Muslims came here from far and wide to take the cure, first offering impressive gifts and sacrifices.
On 15 August 2010, with the permission of Turkish Government, an Orthodox Mass was held for the first time at Sumela monastery since 1923.
Altindere National Park Map

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StaRUG procedure completed successfully
Holzkirchen, 25.05.2021
The company has completed the announced StaRUG procedure.
The restructuring plan, which provides for a 5-year extension of the maturity of the two bonds at a constant interest rate of 1.5% p.a., has been duly executed in the bond terms and conditions.
In the course of voting without a meeting according to § 18 SchVG, a clear majority of the bondholders voted for the approval of the Joint Representative for the restructuring plan of February 2021. The company's strategy contains the first implantation of the statutory options of the SchVG (2009) for the convertible bond WKN A1MA45, as well as for the Energy Bond I -WKN A1PGWY, including the five-year extension of the term until 30 June 2026, with interest at 1.5% p.a. as before.
Based on the statutory authorisation of § 19 para. 6 SchVG, the Joint Representative, has uniformly granted its approval to the plan for the two bonds. The majorities required according to § 25 StaRUG have also otherwise been achieved. The plan has thus become legally binding, and its execution in the bond conditions has already taken place.
The progress of the legal challenge brought by a professional plaintiff in the case of the convertible bond against the formal internal instruction for approval by the joint representative remains to be seen. From the company's point of view, the voting procedure was appropriately conducted. The outcome of the proceedings does not influence the legally binding nature of the restructuring plan and the corresponding amendments to the bond conditions.
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Q: Python3.10.6 can't pip install things: error: subprocess-exited-with-error Using Python 3.10.6 on new Ubuntu VPS. Can't pip install dotenv, bs4 etc.
pip 22.3.1 version used.
Why is this error showing, how do I fix this? I looked at other questions, but couldn't solve my problem. I tried having a lower pip version, didn't work. I even reinstalled python3.10.
Thanks. (below error log - some emitted, all related)
root@localhost:~/bp-scraper# pip3 install dotenv
Collecting dotenv
  Using cached dotenv-0.0.5.tar.gz (2.4 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [64 lines of output]
      /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/setuptools/installer.py:27: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setuptools.installer is deprecated. Requirements should be satisfied by a PEP 517 installer.
        warnings.warn(
        error: subprocess-exited-with-error

        × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
        │ exit code: 1
        ╰─> [16 lines of output]
            Traceback (most recent call last):
              File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
              File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 14, in <module>
                from setuptools.command.install import install
              File "/tmp/pip-wheel-pm4y5c7z/distribute_07cb0f8f57c049ab919d5b5646e56f
                register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
            AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
            [end of output]
        note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
      error: metadata-generation-failed

      × Encountered error while generating package metadata.
      ╰─> See above for output.

      note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
      hint: See above for details.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 82, in fetch_build_egg
          subprocess.check_call(cmd)
        File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 369, in check_call
          raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
      subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpwdcseb1p', '--quiet', 'distribute']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

      The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
          return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
        File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 84, in fetch_build_egg
          raise DistutilsError(str(e)) from e
      distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpwdcseb1p', '--quiet', 'distribute']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

A: First update setuptools, as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/58754136/5666087
pip install -U setuptools

Then use the correct package for dotenv, which is python-dotenv.
pip install python-dotenv


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The Ultimate Futurama Gift Guide
by Joshua Olivieri
There aren't many TV shows like Futurama. Matt Groening's sci-fi comedy takes place hundreds of years in the future. It follows Phillip J. Fry, an everyman who gets frozen all that time and comes out to a new world and a new group of friends. With him working for a crazy professor, insane antics ensue complete with Groening's more humorous writing.
With several seasons to enjoy and a heartwarming story beneath all the jokes, Futurama has a lot of reasons to become a fan. With so many people in love with this older show, there are so many gifts that they would enjoy.
10 PLANET EXPRESS SHIP MODEL
The green ship from Planet Express is iconic to Futurama. It was the ship that Fry and his friends would use to go on certain deliveries across the universe. It's also a ship that raised some safety concerns. That beloved ship has a gorgeous statue in the form of this Planet Express ship model.
The model is sitting on a nice stand with the Planet Express logo on the bottom. As expected, the details are very accurate, providing a nice collectible for Futurama fans. It's also contained in a retro, colorful box that captures the tone and style of the show.
9 FUTURAMA: THE COMPLETE SERIES
For people that are into Futurama, the complete series would make for an excellent gift. Fans can watch the entire series, from the moment that Fry enters the future to the point where the series end (we won't describe it for spoilers' sake).
All of the seasons are contained in an impressive-looking box featuring art of the characters. The set certainly has a premium feel to it, which could make it a worthy gift even for people who already have a few seasons to boot. That said, it's worth noting that this collection only comes in DVD format, so don't expect any HD upgrades.
8 MEGA CONSTRUX BENDER
Mega Construx has taken some interesting licenses to create building kits. They've done numerous Pokemon characters, but they've done Futurama characters as well. In the Mega Construx Bender set, people will be able to build a miniature version of Bender.
The set doesn't try to make Bender to scale, but it's still a nice result nonetheless. The gray pieces are colored a bit differently to better represent the older metal on Bender. He is also given a bar that is "bent" to represent what he was built to do in the show. There are also special pieces for his eyes and mouth.
7 GOOD NEWS MUG
Every Futurama fan knows that when Professor Farnsworth walks into a room and yells, "Good news, everyone!", things are about to get hectic. With the phrase being so popular in the show, it only makes sense that it would inspire its own mug.
The mug features a design of Professor Farnsworth with his beloved phrase above. The mug is also both black and white. The outside with the design is white, but the inside and handle are black. It gives the mug some nice visual variation. However, it's the Professor and his catchphrase that is going to hit home with fans.
6 ZAPP BRANNIGAN FUNKO POP
Zapp Brannigan was a famous space captain at the start of Futurama. People knew him for his great deeds in service of the galaxy. However, it wasn't long before the Planet Express crew discovered he was just a lazy coward.
Nonetheless, Zapp became an egotistical, recurring character in the series, always causing trouble wherever he showed up. His attitude is well-represented with this Funko Pop! figure. Zapp is wearing his space captain suit, and his eyes are half shut, showing that self-loving look he usually has on his face. He might be a pain, but that's precisely why people love him.
5 FRY FUNKO POP
Phillip J. Fry is the main character of Futurama. He lived in the present day as a pizza delivery boy, but after being frozen for hundreds of years, came to the future. The show primarily deals with him not only learning how the future works, but also figuring out his place in this new world.
This Funko Pop! figure gives Fry a chance to shine on a display shelf. Capturing his messy hair, long nose, and scrawny posture, this is one of the best Fry figures out there. It doesn't quite capture his lackadaisical attitude, but it's a nice figure nonetheless.
4 HYPNOTOAD FIGURE
In Futurama, viewers get to see the TV shows of the future. While there are many things that most people would expect, there is one that still baffles them to this day. Hypnotoad is a show in Futurama that depicts a toad with swirly eyes and that's it.
It's a weird show, but the jokes made from it caused it to become endearing to the fans. Futurama fans can now have their own Hypnotoad with this figure. It's a good size and has different pupils on its eyes, simulating how it moved in the show. This figure is a way for fans to have their own Hypnotoad without getting hypnotized.
3 YAHTZEE: FUTURAMA COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Yahtzee is a simple game where players will try their luck in getting high scores with certain dice rolls. Much like Monopoly, Yahtzee has received several different versions pertaining to pop culture franchises. One such franchise is Futurama. In the Yahtzee: Futurama Collector's Edition, players will be rolling their dice in a replica of Bender's head. The dice themselves are designed to feature the cast from the show as well.
Apart from that, the game plays the same, ensuring that anyone will be able to jump in and have a good time. Let's just hope that none of your friends would play like Bender.
2 THE SIMPSONS FUTURAMA CROSSOVER CRISIS
While Futurama is one of Matt Groening's most popular shows, it isn't the only one he is responsible for. He created another little show called The Simpsons. While the two shows crossed over on television, they got more time with The Simpsons Futurama: Crossover Crisis book.
In this book, the characters from both shows are thrown together in the same place. It seems outlandish that all those characters from the future could make it to Springfield, but the book has an outlandish explanation for everything. Fans of Futurama are sure to enjoy reading through this.
1 FUTURAMA AND PHILOSOPHY: PIZZA, PARADOXES, AND GOOD NEWS!
Futurama and philosophy don't go quite hand in hand, but that's precisely what makes Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and Good News! such a great read for fans. While the title indicates that the book will be purely ridiculous (and it is), it also deals with certain philosophical ideas, treating animation as an art form.
Leave it to a book about Futurama to be both funny yet strangely accurate regarding how society functions. This is the kind of book that Futurama fans should add to their collection, as it's worth a read for its title alone, and that is good news.
NEXT: The Ultimate Simpsons Gift Guide
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4 easy ways to find your battle buddies after losing touch
This is how belt buckles became a thing in the military
Ruddy Cano
Published September 10, 2022 05:40:45
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marcin Platek/Released. (DVIDS).
The belt buckle used today has evolved over 2000 years. First incepted and used in China and Rome, the fastener has had multifunctional purposes. As its use went over centuries of the middle ages, the buckle became a more intricate element made of different materials, including bones and antlers.
Archaeological evidence has shown that the buckle has been used from as early as 3300 and 1200 BCE. This bronze age was defined by technological progress that defined how people used advanced tools and weapons, essential components for hunting, and other forms of survival. Bronze incepted an entirely new age of artistic decorative art who were involved people of varied creative capabilities.
As a necessity for carrying a broad range of components, particularly tools and weapons, belts with buckles became a norm.
A soldier with 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment "Manchus," 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, clutches his Manchu belt buckle while standing at parade rest at Soldiers Field House March 4. The 9th Inf. Regt. is the only unit authorized to wear the distinctive belt buckle in uniform. (DVIDS)
First Inception
The first used belt buckle was made out of softened tree bark covers. From this invention, belts have been shaped into different cultural and geographical specifications worldwide. Materials have evolved from traditional barks to bronze, seasoned leather and artificial components.
Early Roman buckles were D and square-shaped, crafted out of wrought iron by metalworkers. A few hundred years later, iron buckles were made out of hand, an art that transitioned to cast bronze. By the fourth and fifth centuries, buckles had spread across Europe, with oval and D buckles being created in large quantities for decorative art.
Military buckles made significant appearances within the civil war era and had a colossal influence on contemporary designs. American Navajo silversmiths began designing turquoise buckles, and by the 20th century, cowboys were accentuating the Stetson hat with conspicuous clasps.
Although cowboys existed way before the 1900s with suspenders and military buckles, they slowly took the stage in western movies. From over a dozen belt manufacturers to buckle-featuring flags, these components provided an avenue to feature a sense of patriotism throughout the US.
The buckle belt slowly garnered popularity from these crude beginnings and evolved to be appreciated by a dynamic art form of indigenous Indian tribes in the south. Shaped by the exquisite skills of Navajo Indians, the buckle was shaped into various styles by silversmiths.
A display of the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, belt buckles received by "Iron Knight" Soldiers after completing a "Colonel Burt Challenge" in honor of Capt. James M. Burt, April 10, 2015. (DVIDS)
Accessorized with multi-utility
Functionally, belt buckles served a significant purpose of offsetting the wearer's shoulders from the burden of objects attached to garments. Another related objective was to secure items. During the middle ages, women secured cosmetics, pomanders and purses on their belts. The buckles also endured the imagination that sword sheaths were attached to straps by knights during the middle ages.
At the same time, buckles served military identification throughout the centuries. Officers in ancient warfare were divided into general staff, cavalry and infantry, all of whom wore buckles showing different branches of service. In the Marine Corps, officers and enlisted have different belt buckles complete with tradition and trivia.
Navajo Indians seemingly borrowed the Japanese culture of ranking swimmers in the 1960s for their martial arts. Fueled by the perception that belts should initially be white and turn brown throughout its use, after which it turns black, different colors were used to show ranking. Adding stripes to the buckle was also a way of showing advancement at lower levels.
In some cities, women wore buckles to show respectability, as those with questionable character were denied wearing them. Allegedly used to mitigate women's fidelity, the Navajo Indians effectively used buckles to ensure women remained chaste while men were away.
Right through the 20th century, women's belts were often of the same material as their coats. Buckles crafted out of plastic or metal also gained traction in the west, while men exclusively wore leather belts with metallic buckles to secure their trousers.
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PUP commends Christian Workers Union and Port of Belize
Belize~Acquiescence, Estoppel, Legitimate Expectations and ICJ
Published by BBN Staff at October 25, 2018
Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2018. 11:02 am CST.
The views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not necessarily those of Breaking Belize News.
This article was written by Richard Harrison, Belizean investor in production and services businesses in Belize. He holds a Master's in Business Administration degree from Lancaster University.
By Richard Harrison: One of the arguments that the "pro-ICJ" peddles is that the ICJ will look at the 1859 Treaty and nothing else…in its determination of where the border should be between Belize and Guatemala, taking into consideration any and all legal claims by Guatemala…based on the argument that "borders are permanent, once established" as the 1859 Treaty was very clearly about establishment of "permanent" boundaries.
However, the ICJ website says:
"The sources of law that the Court must apply are: international treaties and conventions in force; international custom; the general principles of law; judicial decisions; and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists. Moreover, if the parties agree, the Court can decide a case ex aequo et bono, i.e., without confining itself to existing rules of international law."
So, the ICJ uses a lot more than treaties to make its decisions.
However, there is nothing in international law that stops a country from agreeing to change its borders that were "permanently" established in treaties…doing so of its own free will.
The ICJ statement below raised three important words the Belizeans need to understand:
ACQUIESCENCE – In law, acquiescence occurs when a person knowingly stands by without raising any objection to the infringement of his or her rights, while someone else unknowingly and without malice aforethought acts in a manner inconsistent with their rights.[1] As a result of acquiescence, the person whose rights are infringed may lose the ability to make a legal claim against the infringer, or may be unable to obtain an injunction against continued infringement. The doctrine infers a form of "permission" that results from silence or passiveness over an extended period of time.
ESTOPPEL – is a judicial device in common law legal systems whereby a court may prevent, or "estop" a person from making assertions or from going back on his or her word; the person being sanctioned is "estopped". Estoppel may prevent someone from bringing a particular claim, particularly if a promise unsupported by consideration[clarification needed] is being relied on by the other party. Legal doctrines of estoppel are based in both common law and equity.
It is also a concept in international law.
LEGITIMATE EXPECTATION – The doctrine of legitimate expectation was first developed in English law as a ground of judicial review in administrative law to protect a procedural or substantive interest when a public authority rescinds from a representation made to a person. It is based on the principles of natural justice and fairness, and seeks to prevent authorities from abusing power.
"91. In international law, the existence of an obligation to negotiate has to be ascertained in the same way as that of any other legal obligation. Negotiation is part of the usual practice of States in their bilateral and multilateral relations. However, the fact that a given issue is negotiated at a given time is not sufficient to give rise to an obligation to negotiate. In particular, for there to be an obligation to negotiate on the basis of an agreement, the terms used by the parties, the subject-matter and the conditions of the negotiations must demonstrate an intention of the parties to be legally bound. This intention, in the absence of express terms indicating the existence of a legal commitment, may be established on the basis of an objective examination of all the evidence.
…93. The Court will first analyse whether any of the instruments invoked by the Applicant, in particular bilateral agreements, or declarations and other unilateral acts, gives rise to an obligation to negotiate Bolivia's sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean. The Court will then examine, ifnecessary, the other legal bases invoked by the Applicant, namely acquiescence, estoppel and legitimate expectations. Finally, the Court will address, if warranted, the arguments based on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Charter of the OAS." [ICJ Judgment, paras. 91 and 93. Italics added.]
Besides the fact that the 1859 Treaty can be shown to have been breached twice…once by not building the cart road…and again by not paying the £50,000 compensation in lieu of the first breach….there are other evidence of acquiescence in the Maritime Areas Act, Ranguana Concurrence of 1990, Joint Communique of 1991, among many other PRACTICES such as has lead since Independence to large amounts of Guatemalans enjoying voting, land, services and other rights within Belize ….which can trigger estoppel and ligitimate expectations claims to significant portions of Belize's maritime, insular and territory geography….and where surface territory may not be ceded, rights to sea bed, air-space and underground exploitation can be ruled upon.
As a footnote…the "pro ICJ" also claims they have succeeded where the British failed…in getting Guatemala to agree to go to court…BUT they do not explain that the British were only willing to go to ICJ to ask them to determine if the 1859 Treat was valid, at a time when UK walked around the world with a big stick…not to ask the court to consider ANY AND ALL legitimate claims by Guatemala over Belize….which is now a small, broke, weak, defenseless state.
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GAAW September 2012 Bulletin
galway | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Tuesday September 25, 2012 17:31 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
GAAW Supported Peace Event and Newsletter
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
SEPTEMBER 2012 BULLETIN
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GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT
PEACE VIGIL SHANNON
SUNDAY 14TH OCTOBER, 2-3PM
AT THE ROUNDABOUT BEFORE THE ENTRANCE TO SHANNON AIRPORT
1. A MESSAGE TO GAAW SUPPORTERS
2. COMPLICITY IN TORTURE: SHANNON GARDAÍ SEE NO EVIL…..BRITISH COURTS HEAR NO EVIL
3. IRELAND & EU FOREIGN POLICY
4. FAILED STATES: LIBYA DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE
5. US PRESIDENTIAL RACE: NEITHER CANDIDATE
Website of the month: www.pakistanbodycount.org
This website details the casualties from US drone attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan. It highlights how disastrous the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has been for the people of Pakistan. However, when Irish people hear of US drone attacks in Central Asia or the Horn of Africa they should think: Shannon warport. Much of the US deadly weaponry comes via Shannon.
Clive Stafford Smith on Drones: the west's new terror campaign http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/dro...ugs-1
A MESSAGE TO GAAW SUPPORTERS
Many of you on our contact list may be unaware of a raid on the home of our PRO, Niall Farrell, by Shannon's Gardaí on the 7th of June. The excuse for the raid was that we had dared to publish in our December 2011 Bulletin an anonymous report we received detailing an act of peaceful sabotage carried out on a US warplane at Shannon warport on 20th December 2011. You may recall there was a virtual blackout of this action by the Irish media, for this reason GAAW decided it was vital to put the details of this peace act in the public domain.
At the end of the 4 hour raid, the Gardaí seized 3 computers and more than 3 months later they still have them in their possession. One of the PCs contains the email contact details of all GAAW's supporters. (Fortunately, we have just recently been able to recover the email addresses from our gmail account and are therefore able to send this bulletin to you.) It is our firmly held belief that the raid on Niall Farrell's home had more to do with data gathering than trying to find evidence relating to that peace action at Shannon five months earlier.
This is the Ireland we live in. If you oppose war and advocate peace you will be criminalised, victimised and spied upon.
We would urge you to contact your local TDs and express your concern that the Gardaí have your contact details in their possession.
COMPLICITY IN TORTURE:
…..SHANNON GARDAÍ SEE NO EVIL
…..BRITISH COURTS HEAR NO EVIL
Back in March 2011 the peace monitors at Shannon, Shannonwatch, delivered to the local Garda station two wheelbarrow loads of evidence relating to the illegal activities of the CIA and the US military at the warport. Seventeen months later, on 14th August 2012, Shannonwatch finally received a response from the Gardai. It was a brief half-page letter that simply said "No evidence has been uncovered by the Gardai which indicate [sic] any alleged breach of Irish & International laws resulting from the transit of armed U.S. troops & CIA associated aircraft in connection with wars and military aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, and in connection with unlawful detention and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo prison and elsewhere".
(It is an interesting coincidence that Detective Garda Sgt. Kevin O'Hagan was in charge of this investigation and also led the raid on the home of GAAW's PRO. He's a lot of work on his hands protecting Shannon warport.)
John Lannon, spokesperson for Shannonwatch said "This response seems to ignore a large body of evidence, much of which already exists in the public domain. We provided dates and times on which known and suspected rendition aircraft landed at Shannon Airport. Amnesty International have also brought flight logs to the attention of the Irish Government. These logs showing that planes used by the CIA for renditions landed at the airport. Council of Europe and European Parliament inquiries have also identified Shannon Airport as a stopover point in the US renditions programme."
"This all indicates alleged breaches of Irish and international laws at Shannon, despite what the Gardai claim." said Mr. Lannon.
"Perhaps it is not surprising that the Gardai would say they have uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing at Shannon" said the Shannonwatch spokesperson. "They have consistently failed to investigate complaints made when suspect aircraft were at the airport. On one occasion on 18th June 2008 they even said that a "policy decision" had been made that there were no grounds to search the aircraft in question."
"Such lack of willingness to search CIA-linked and military aircraft at Shannon seems to be at odds with the State's obligations under the UN Convention Against Torture which was ratified through the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention against Torture) Act 2000. Article 4 of the Convention makes specific reference to acts by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture".
"Turning a blind eye to the presence of known or suspected rendition aircraft at Shannon could be seen as complicity or participation in torture."
…..Meanwhile in Strasbourg, a majority of MEPs in the European parliament were echoing John Lannon's concerns. They passed a resolution calling on EU states to disclose information on the CIA's secret torture flights. According to Hélène Flautre, one of the authors of an EU parliament report into the CIA's illegal extraordinary rendition programme, stated, "It is quite clear there was a systematic programme of transfer of people", involving, "Switches [of prisoners] in third countries so as to hide the final destination of the people involved".
British MEP Claude Moraes, member of the civil liberties committee, said, "Member states have a duty to fulfil their obligations under international law and investigate the serious human rights violations that took place within the CIA programme.....State secrecy cannot stand in the way of access to justice and the disclosure of the truth."
......Meanwhile in merry old England the British government is attempting to devise a "secret-court plan" so the public will hear no evil reports about the illegal activities of the CIA and MI6. The proposals are aimed at ensuring that intelligence material, which currently cannot be heard in court, can be admitted as evidence by restricting its circulation. The intelligence would be heard by a judge but not by claimants or their lawyers.
This secret-court plan, which is now a parliamentary bill, was drawn up as a result of "sensitive evidence" getting a public airing during a case taken by CIA torture victim and Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed. The evidence showed that MI5 & MI6 knew he had been tortured.
Which brings us unhappily back to Shannon warport: Binyam Mohamed's kidnappers and torturers are known to have travelled twice through Shannon and in fact stayed overnight in a local hotel – under Garda protection no doubt. Nothing new there.
IRELAND & EU FOREIGN POLICY
"The world needs a Europe that is capable of deploying military missions to help stabilise the situation in crisis areas. We need to launch a comprehensive review of European capabilities and begin truly collective defence planning."
(José Manuel Barroso in his "state of the union" address in the EU parliament Sept 13th 2012)
It is not difficult to read between the lines of this Barroso quotation. Stabilising crisis areas is meant to appear altruistic, but in fact it is the modern imperialist equivalent of the colonialists' "whiteman's burden". We saw it in oil-rich Libya: French and British intervention "to prevent civilian casualties" – mar dhea. Not a word in the heavily censored western media of the subsequent deaths of 30,000 Libyans, most of whom were non-combatants. Nothing either about the favourable deals done with western oil concerns to exploit Libya's vast oil wealth.
The Dublin government is very much in tune with Brussels' foreign goals. The kite-flying stories about the possible use of Ireland's elite soldiers, the Irish Rangers, being deployed in oil-rich Somalia against pirates – mar dhea – is no accident. But more concretely, Foreign Affairs Minister Gilmore's failure to oppose further sanctions against Iran at the EU foreign ministers' summit in Cyprus shows that the Republic is very much part of the imperialist plot to overthrow the Tehran government.
And there will be no objections to Barroso's aspirations for a "truly collective defence planning". It, of course, is simply a euphemism for an EU army. This is another project that is very much underway and which is supported by the three main political parties in the Dáil. Fianna Fail, may be trying to reinvent itself as a "left of centre" party, but that is only a charade. It was Willie O'Dea, while Defence Minister, who decided that the Irish army should leave the EU Nordic Battle Group and join instead the German Battle Group. It is no secret that the bigwigs in the Irish army want to be alongside the EU's "big boys". And they don't come much bigger than the German armed forces!
So, Irish troops will now find themselves under the command of German officers such as Georg Klein. Back in September 2009 Klein was guilty of the biggest German war crime so far of the Afghan war. He ordered six bombs to be dropped on two abandoned oil tankers that had been earlier hijacked, despite the fact that local villagers, primarily children and young adults, were drawing off petrol at the time. At least 139 civilians were killed. Colonel Georg Klein was not forced to resign, instead in August of this year he was promoted to General! This is the culture of the Battle Group our army is joining.
Despite all Barroso's fine words this too is the culture of the EU's foreign policy.
FAILED STATES: A MEANS TO AN END
Libya doesn't exist anymore. After the western military machine bombed Muammar Al-Gaddafi's opponents to victory, the Libyan state disintegrated. There are now a huge number of competing power groups and territories. Different groupings, from clans to organised militias, have seized wide swathes of the country. The East Libyan separatists are particularly prominent. Then there are the Islamic forces, as well as ethnic groups that have taken control of single towns. In the south and the west of Libya bloody land wars are continually flaring up. In mid-August the chaos threatened to spread to Tripoli when a series of car-bomb attacks directed against the security forces destroyed the illusion of stabilisation in Libya.
Even CNN had to admit in a report that Libya is still extremely "unstable a year after the revolution". The rebel army consisted of "hundreds of militia", which held on to their weapons after the fall Gaddafi and now exercise power in the towns and regions which they occupy. According to an Amnesty International report in July 2012, "nearly a year after Tripoli fell to the revolutionary fighters, ongoing violations – including arbitrary arrests and detention, torture including to death, impunity for unlawful killings and forcible displacement…. it is estimated that 4,000 [prisoners]remain in centres outside the reach of the central authorities. Some have been held without charge for a year.…. Amnesty International also strongly criticised the authorities for failing to resolve the situation of entire communities forcibly displaced during last year's conflict and still unable to return their homes which were looted and burned by armed militias. The entire population of the city of Tawargha, estimated at 30,000, continues to be prevented from going home."
Iraq – Libya – Syria
These developments are strongly reminiscent of the disintegration of the Iraqi state after the US invasion. After the effortless collapse of Saddam's Baathist regime the country was engulfed in a long-running civil war between Sunni and Shiite militias. A united opposition to the US occupying force did not materialise. The internal struggle for power, which continues to this day, split the opposition to the US military. It was left to individual militias to at times attack the US occupying force – sometimes the Sunni Al Quaida groups and at other times Shiite Sadr militia.
Developments in Syria appear to be going in a similar direction to Libya and Iraq. The Syrian state may also disintegrate. The forces waging war against the Assad government have a distinct ethnic-confessional character. This is due in particular to the support being offered by the deeply reactionary Gulf despots to the Sunni fundamentalist forces. Then in the Kurdish regions, Kurdish militias are in de facto control. This has led to speculation that an Alawite "trunk state" may come into being if the Syrian regime is unable to quell the uprising movement. This would be Assad's plan B.
The direct (and so far in the case of Syria, indirect) military intervention by the western powers in the Arab world is all part of their battle to achieve dominance in this resource-rich region. These battle lines have the US and EU states on one side and Iran, Russia, Syria and not least China on the other side. The collapse of states such as Libya and the complete destabilization of Iraq make it much easier for the western countries to exploit their natural resources. Manipulating the divisions caused by local rivalries,the western powers are employing the classical colonial methods of divide and rule.
So at the beginning of the 21st century we are witnessing a wave of nation states in the developing world collapsing. This stands in stark contrast to the foundation of new states during the period of decolonisation in the middle of the 20th century. The collapse of power structures of nation-states in Libya, Iraq or Syria form only the latest in a long row of such crises: Somalia, Congo and Afghanistan being the most prominent. Creating failed states would appear to be 21st century imperialism's means to an end.
US PRESIDENTIAL RACE: NEITHER CANDIDATE
by BILL QUIGLEY
Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.
Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads.
Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison.
Neither candidate has called for arresting and prosecuting high ranking people on Wall Street for the subprime mortgage catastrophe.
Neither candidate is interested in holding anyone in the Bush administration accountable for the torture committed by US personnel against prisoners in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of drones to assassinate people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia.
Neither candidate is against warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, or racial profiling in fighting "terrorism."
Neither candidate is interested in fighting for a living wage. In fact neither are really committed beyond lip service to raising the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour – which, if it kept pace with inflation since the 1960s should be about $10 an hour.
Neither candidate was interested in arresting Osama bin Laden and having him tried in court.
Neither candidate will declare they refuse to bomb Iran.
Neither candidate is refusing to take huge campaign contributions from people and organizations.
Neither candidate proposes any significant specific steps to reverse global warming.
Neither candidate is talking about the over 2 million people in jails and prisons in the US.
Neither candidate proposes to create public jobs so everyone who wants to work can.
Neither candidate opposes the nuclear power industry. In fact both support expansion.
Bill Quigley teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans and is Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, published by AK Press. You can reach him by email at Quigley@loyno.edu
dodgy CIA websites? no thanks!
by serf Wed Sep 26, 2012 03:22
fuck facebook. I'm not going on there only to be spied on and followed all around wherever I surf afterwards on the internet wherever there is one of those sinister facebook "like" buttons.
Why not get a non corporate / CIA webpage? All you are doing is making it easy for the powers that be to make nice lists of irish anti war activists complete with photos, facial recognition biometrics (from any photos) and profiles etc if they happen to be silly enough to be on facebook too.
Plus you run the risk of having your whole webpage blocked under "terms of service" if you REALLY get up the nose of the US in shannon.
Activists need to stop becoming so dependent on these spying websites who do not have their interests at heart


The Royal College of General Practitioners is organizing an exhibition focusing on general practitioners from South Asia who worked in Britain during the 1940s to 1980s.
The role played by South Asian doctors in British general practice and the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom is being hailed through an exhibition in London. The exhibition, titled Migrants who made the NHS, has been organized by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), and was inaugurated on April 25.
The show focuses on general practitioners (GPs) from India and other countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, who served the public by working in some of the most deprived areas of Britain from the 1940s to '80s, the RCGP said in a statement. It draws on archival research, photographs and oral history interviews with 40 general practitioners who moved to Britain from South Asia during that period – including some who are still practicing today.
The exhibition, being held at the RCGP college in London, coincides with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the NHS. Based on the book Migrant architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s) written by Dr. Julian M. Simpson, the exhibition will be on until December. "Doctors from the Indian subcontinent were, therefore, not just contributing to the NHS, they were its very lifeblood. We should acknowledge they were amongst the architects of the NHS," Simpson said in the statement.
About 16 per cent of GPs working in the NHS by the 1980s were born in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, according to the RCGP, They were responsible for delivering patient care to around a sixth of the population in the United Kingdom. In some areas they made up more than half of the GP population.
The RCGP also took to the social media to announce the launch of the exhibition.
"The wider impact and influence of migration from the Indian subcontinent on British medicine cannot be over-estimated. There are today 1724 doctors with the common Indian surname Patel on the General Medical Council's list of registered medical practitioners – only slightly fewer than doctors with the surname Smith—1750," the statement said.
The exhibition will show how these doctors kept the family doctor service thriving, particularly for patients in working-class and inner-city areas. They filled the void largely created by UK doctors choosing to work overseas, and before general practice gained its rightful recognition as a medical specialty on par with hospital medicine, as per the statement.
"General practice in the United Kingdom would not be what it is today without the hard work, innovation, and courage of our predecessors, and their dedication to delivering high-quality patient care. Indeed, without them, our profession and the NHS might not even exist at all," Professor Mayur Lakhani, the president of the Royal College of GPs, said in the statement.
NHS, which has been struggling with a shortage of medical staff, announced earlier this year that it is planning to recruit over 600 nurses from the Philippines and India in Northern Ireland.


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AEROSMITH's JOE PERRY On His Health Status: 'I'll Be Around For A While'
AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry has provided an update on his health status, eight months after he was hospitalized following a guest performance with Billy Joel on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City. More than two years earlier, Perry collapsed during a HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES gig at Brooklyn, New York's Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk.
"I'm doing really good," Joe told StarTribune in a new interview. "I don't have any problem now."
Perry said his 2016 collapse was caused by "over-the-top fatigue," while his hospitalization after the Billy Joel concert happened because he "couldn't get my breath and I had to sit down. The next thing I know I'm getting oxygen. They call it COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]. It's caused from smoking for years.
"I quit smoking," he added. "I haven't had a drink since that night. I'll be around for a while."
Perry's VAMPIRES bandmate Alice Cooper told Rolling Stone that Joe was exhausted when he fell ill at the 2016 gig, and had not eaten in two days.
AEROSMITH kicked off its "Deuces Are Wild" Las Vegas residency in April. The band is scheduled to play 17 more shows in Las Vegas dates before the end of the year — four in September, four in October, seven in November, and two in December. The band also has multiple-night "Deuces Are Wild" engagements booked at MGM properties in National Harbor, Maryland; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Springfield, Massachusetts.
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When I was overseas in Asia I had an opportunity to observe some "undisciplined software development".
I think it is a cultural issue. The project is driven top-down by money (as it is with western software development), but by the time it gets to the project manager, the project is pretty much "results-driven". The faster the developers can produce results, the better.
This leads to basically hacks. Hack this and hack that to create results. Don't worry too much about bugs - create results first and fix bugs later.
When a new customer wants something that is somewhat similar to your old product for an existing customer, copy and paste the entire source code branch and make your changes in the new folder hierarchy. It all sounds incredibly to me, but I think I view it as a problem with the project management. The project team doesn't understand values in terms of zero-defect programming, test-driven programming, maintainability.
I believe they would do well to migrate to an agile-based development, but it must be driven top down from the project management and preached to the developers. Some of the ideas are so foreign that I'd even imagine resistance from the developers.


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John thanks for the heads up on the shipping. Who did you talk to on the phone? I'm going to try to arrange to pick up the order.
Last edited by walter; 03-08-2010 at 10:34 PM.
Last fall I talked to Mike or Dustin. Lately I've been talking to Rachel. She knows about the DIYC discount, also.
Walter,please increase my quantity of CG-1500 from 3 to 7.
Sign me up for 4 of the CG-1500. Get the 1500-A if you can, since it may be slightly cheaper than original boxes.
Has anyone contacted them to see if we can do local pickup in Cary?
I had forgotten that the last time I ordered, it did come from Cary, and rather quick, too!
Dog gone it Walter. I forgot to get enclosures for the ServoDogs. May I please increase my order of the CG-1500 from 7 to 9? And I really should stock up on more pre-made Cat5s. I have a hard time making them for $3.50. Let's kick that quantity up to 10.
We might be approaching the point of quantity discounts too. When you call ask about a quantity discount too. It might be better than the 10% DIYC discount for the CG-1500s. Thank you again Buddy.
P.S. I appreciate you buying me another drill holster. I really needed two but couldn't afford it. You are a pal. Could I borrow your 18V drill until I get acquire one to put in the second holster?
Dumb question, but why did the CG-1500 change into a CG-2000-A in Walter's last message?
just checking, cause I want the right box.
I will place my own order. Never mind. I am sorry for the confusion.
You should order the CG1500a box and you should phone your order in. The CG1500a is a clearance box that has a logo embossed on the cover, but you cannot read it from two feet away. i ordered 17 for a group of us in Atlanta and paid just $8.19 per box. Also be sure to ask for the DIY Christmas discounted pricing. YOU MUST PHONE THE ORDER IN to buy the CG1500a and to get the discount. All of the order takers know about the pricing.
hmmmm, same info as in post 35. That's how I did the order I placed last fall, and both of my orders so far this year.
I want boxes with Al-O-Rama on them not some cable company. Make it happen Walter.
I'm not picky (like Al). I'll take a box with or without a logo. Just be sure to get me some.


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Good unit - but there's better RAM mount options.
I'm a fond user of RAM mounts both in the car and on the motorbike. I have found their quality to be nothing short of excellent and beyond expectations. Maybe I'm rating this a bit hash because I'm used to the high quality of product that RAM mounts give - but I was a little disappointed when I received this product - as it's the first unit that has met expectation, but not exceeded it like others I've purchased. This unit isn't fully modular like previous RAM mount units I've purchased. It doesn't have the same feel or quality as other RAM mount units, and seems to be a little more restrictive with angles compared to other units I've purchased. Don't misunderstand - there's nothing wrong with this unit, and it's still a quality piece of equipment but the next time I purchase this I'd go for the RAM-HOL-UN7BU-PLA package which contains the RAP-B-104-224U and the RAM-HOL-UN7BU as a modular unit. (And feels a little better quality again and gives me more options to add to it if it doesn't suit when I change vehicles, etc).
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Cons: Not modular. Doesn't have the same feel as other Ram mount products.
Perfect grip to window that will absolutely not fall off like every onther one I've had. It was facing the phone too far downwards on install however, so we had to purchase an additional piece to give it more reach to be able to seen properly. Since doing that, product is great. I think it should come with the grip though.
Tried this mount in 4 different vehicles but all vehicles had the phone pointed at a downward angle which made it unusable. Mount probably has other uses, just not suitable for vehicle windscreens.
Very sturdy piece of kit but not particularly suitable for mounting a SatNav device on a vehicle with a sloping windscreen (in my case a SAAB). The result is that the face of the SatNav is angled downwards and is therefore difficult to read, which defeats the purpose. Spring mechanism requires a bit of strength to operate but means your device is held securely. Probably perfect for a 4WD or similar..


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The Convergence of Public & Private Schools
Chronicle of Higher Education: "Taken together, privatizing public institutions and publicizing private institutions suggest nothing less than a convergence of these once very different institutions. This convergence has taken a number of forms. For instance, one of the traditional calling cards of a public university has been its affordability. But the decline in state funding has forced public universities to lean far more heavily on tuition revenue."
"Another of the once-distinctive traits of public research universities is accessibility, or their capacity to open their doors to a broad and diverse group of students. Here, too, budget cuts have taken a serious toll … At the same time, private research universities have been in the vanguard of accessibility in a new domain — online mass education."
"Finally, convergence has been apparent in the civic-mindedness of private universities. Public universities have long been regarded as anchored in their local or regional communities, while private universities have been seen as more standoffish. Yet, in recent years, there has been a sea change among private research universities in their connectedness to their surrounding communities … the leaders of a number of private universities are now harnessing their resources to invest in community development, job training, local schools, and other opportunities."
State Schools Reverse 'Brain Drain'
The New York Times: "State-funded universities have always striven to keep their states' brightest students at home, knowing that many of those who leave their communities will never return. Now, as t
California System May Go Test-Blind
The Washington Post: "University of California President Janet Napolitano is urging a suspension of admission testing requirements until 2024, setting up a showdown vote this month for the system's go
Prestigious Universities Flex Their Offers
The Washington Post: "The imperative to fill seats is urgent for almost all colleges during the economic downturn. But for public universities, it is especially vital to secure out-of-state students b


Last Friday, a Wheel of Fortune contestant solved a prize puzzle with only one letter on the board. The internet exploded with astonishment and conspiracy theories. Esquire's Chris Jones—who's written about phenomenal game-show performances before—broke it down on his blog.
Here's the video if you haven't seen it yet.
It's pretty amazing, but as Jones points out, the woman, a magazine editor named Caitlin Burke, is a bit of a Wheel of Fortune junkie who understands that the game is a process of elimination, one designed to make "the basic and routine seem chaotic and unpredictable." Burke saw the apostrophe and the single letter on the board and worked her way from there. It's certainly impressive, but as you learn, not unfathomable or impossible. Charles Van Doren gets to stay at the top of the list of great game show cheaters.


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Football Manager 14 to officially support Linux!
Posted by liamdawe, 26 May 2013 at 9:40 am UTC | Views: 15,573
Great news Football/Soccer fans! Football Manager 14 will be officially supporting Linux as stated by the developers!
For the more technically minded, the flavour of Linux we'll be supporting it Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)
Miles Jacobson (@milesSI) May 25, 2013
That is a tweet from the Studio Director of the Football Manager game studio!
Pretty big news as it's one of the most popular games on Steam and it's latest version that will now be heading to Linux, no word of a release date yet though.
For reference Football Manager 13 is on Steam so check it out their if you don't know what they are like.
This will be the first game officially made by Sega (The developers studio is owned directly by Sega!) to hit Linux! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
L4Linux 26 May 2013 at 9:46 am UTC
Fuck yeah!!!!!
Kristian 26 May 2013 at 10:16 am UTC
For those that don't know: This is published by Sega and developed by its subisidiary Sports Interactive.
So now we can add another major publisher to the list of those supporting Linux.
toor 26 May 2013 at 10:45 am UTC
Sega was involved in The cave as well
toor Sega was involved in The cave as well
Sure they published that but that was down to the development studio, Double Fine Productions, supporting Linux.
Rustybolts 26 May 2013 at 4:12 pm UTC
That's great news! Currently playing 2013 on android.
Punisher 26 May 2013 at 5:00 pm UTC
Good guy Sega
mongrol 26 May 2013 at 9:56 pm UTC
FM is easily the greatest game ever made IMO, but unfortunately SiGames is a big proponent of DRM and no doubt this will be on Steam only with DRM.
Kristian 26 May 2013 at 10:51 pm UTC
mongrol FM is easily the greatest game ever made IMO, but unfortunately SiGames is a big proponent of DRM and no doubt this will be on Steam only with DRM.
Big proponent of DRM by that do you mean 3rd party DRM on top of Steam? Limited installs/authentications? Constant online DRM? Anything like that? or are you only talking about Steam DRM it self?
mongrol 27 May 2013 at 10:09 am UTC
3rd Party DRM. Last version I played was 2010 on the Mac so it may have changed but they were very insistant that they had to use it (I think it was SecureRom at the time) in order to protect their game. It may have changed.
Incidentally I just mailed SIGame support asking for alternative payment options (I just want a paypal address to give them money and I can get the game data anywhere) but they fobbed me off (expected) saying it was Steam and Googleplay only.
I WANT to give them money, but they don't want to let me. People are weird.
Dis 27 May 2013 at 6:04 pm UTC
They've switched to Steamworks 2 releases ago.


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By Pat Malach February 27, 2013 11:02pm
Updated: February 27, 2013 11:08pm
Big Bear time trial spices up Redlands Classic
New funding, community support bolsters California event
John Bennett (California Giant-Specialized) holds onto the climber's jersey, Francisco Mancebo (Realcyclist.com) the yellow and Roman Van Uden (Pure Black) the sprint jersey.
(Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Phil Gaimon (Kenda/5 Hour Energy) passes another rider on the way up.
(Jonathan Devich)
The scene on the way to Big Bear Lake
The Redlands Bicycle Classic in Southern California is shaking things up for its 29th edition, which will run April 4-7 with four stages over four days, including a new opening time trial course at elevation.
Big Bear time trial shakes up Redlands format
Redlands keeps Big Bear time trial in 2014 route
The longer, flatter time trial at Big Bear Lake about 64 km northeast of downtown Redlands will replace the 4.9 km uphill Highland Avenue prologue course that has marked the start of USA Cycling's National Race Calendar for the past several years. The stage race will also move for the first time from the end of March to the first week in April.
The 12.7 km opening salvo, which will be a stage rather than a prologue, will take place in the relatively thin air of Big Bear's 2,060 meters of elevation. The out-and-back course will start at the East Boat Ramp on the lake's north shore and head west toward the turnaround in Fawnskin. From there it will head back to the start/finish after taking a brief deviation onto a side road.
"It's a little technical, and there's a little bit of up and down on it," Redlands race director Eric Reiser told Cyclingnews. "There are some corners there that you have to slow down for, there's no ifs, ands or buts about it, there's no way to take them at speed. But I don't think it's long enough that it will give a huge advantage to anybody."
The change from prologue to stage will also shake things up for some of the teams and their support riders.
"As it's not a prologue, it will also count for other things like team classification," Reiser said. "That changes the dynamics for some of those teams that are totally backing one guy, but the team needs to show what they can do, too. And as a stage, there will be a time cut."
The start at Big Bear is the result of the race organizers' desire for change combined with the local organizing committee's desire to have another cycling event after missing out on hosting a stage of the Amgen Tour of California this year.
"We were contacted by the Big Bear local organizing committee that helped bring the Tour of California there last year," Reiser said. "They were interested in bringing some kind of cycling event to the community this year, just to keep awareness alive. So that was a good fit. We were looking for something different, and they have a venue up there."
The remaining Redlands stages will mirror last year's event, won by Kenda/5-Hour Energy's Phil Gaimon and TIBCO-To the Top's Megan Guarnier. The Beaumont Road Race will follow the opening time trial on Friday, April 5, backed by the Downtown Redlands Criterium on Saturday and the traditional Sunset Road Race to close things out on Sunday.
The recent announcement of a newly signed presenting sponsor, the Manuel Band of Mission Indians, also helped put to rest rumors that the race was in danger of being downsized or canceled this year. Redlands Bicycle Classic President Dan Rendler told the Redlands Press-Enterprise that the sponsorship deal is allowing the race to continue.
"It's allowing us to have the race, quite candidly," he told the Press-Enterprise. "Their sponsorship is quite critical for us to put on the event."
Earlier this month, the City of Redlands also announced it would waive fees for providing services to the race, including emergency workers, traffic-marking devices and and the use of a parking structure. The amount of the waiver is about $39,500, according to a report in the Press-Enterprise.
Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar told Cyclingnews that the city views itself as a partner of the non-profit Redlands Bicycle Classic committee and considers the in-kind contributions a sponsorship.
"We're telling them that we're comfortable as a community picking up those costs for the activity because we feel we derive cultural as well as financial benefits from those visitors and participants who come here," Aguilar said.
The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the second-oldest stage race in the US; only the 31-year-old Cascade Cycling Classic in Oregon has been around longer. Thurlow Rogers won the first Redlands Bicycle Classic in 1985 when the city initiated and owned the event. Linda Brenneman won the first women's race in 1993.
Pure climbers suffer in flat, windy test
Four stages planned for April


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Bethany considers fee exemption for churches, non-profits
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 10:15am
By M. Patricia Titus
With its history firmly rooted in the presence of church groups in the resort town, modern-day Bethany Beach is now having to consider how much of a break it wants to give to religious groups when it comes to town fees.
Bethany Beach Town Council members on Monday discussed creating a formal policy on exemptions from town license fees — specifically building permit fees — for non-profit groups, including churches. The issue has come to the fore as preparation is under way for a major expansion and renovation of St. Martha's Episcopal Church in downtown Bethany. The building permit fee alone for the project could total $21,000 if it is assessed at the full rate of 3 percent of project cost.
Town Manager Cliff Graviet noted at a council workshop on Monday that exemptions from fees had been made in the past for major projects at Bethany Beach Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and St. Ann's Catholic Church, as well as for prior work at St. Martha's.
"What's been done for the last 15 to 20 years has been done consistently," he told the council on March 11.
But, he said, for some repair projects done on the churches in the last 10 to 12 years, sometimes the churches were not exempted from permit fees.
Council members on Monday said the wished to only discuss building permit fees at this time, as a slate of other fees — including the significant cost of water connection and re-connection charges — assessed on religious and other non-profit groups could come into play if the exemptions issue was expanded for discussion.
Some council members said they felt the Christian Church had particularly earned a break on fees.
"They have been such a good neighbor," said Councilman Joseph Healy. "They cooperate with use for the parking for the Fourth of July parade," as well as offering some church property for municipal parking under an agreement with the Town. "We couldn't have a better or more cooperative neighbor," he said. "This is an appropriate recompense."
Graviet said such an arrangement could be directly tied to the church's agreement permitting the Town's playground to remain on church property off Garfield Parkway, with the waiving of fees directly reflected in the contract the Town has for its low-cost lease of the park property.
Councilman Jerry Dorfman remarked on the "special relationship" the town has had with the Christian Church.
"You're right that, if it weren't for that church, we probably wouldn't have a town here," acknowledged Mayor Tony McClenny. "But that was years ago. We are paying for the parking. It is not free. We're paying $28,000 a year for that privilege. There are compensations made for the playground. We can address whether that's adequate at a future meeting."
Councilwoman Carol Olmstead said she was concerned about equity in the fee waivers.
"St. Ann's built a whole new church and apparently didn't have to pay any permit fees," she noted. "The Christian Church benefits our town and has over the years. But that means St. Martha's would be the only church in town we would be making pay the entire amount. My sense of fairness says that we should give them a bye on this and then we should have a policy in place."
McClenny, notably, is himself a member of the Christian Church, but he said he didn't necessarily feel that his church, or others, should be entirely exempted from the fees.
"I don't feel that our church, which is getting ready to build a large dormitory, should be exempt from paying fees or building permit fees," he said. "Whatever are the appropriate fees should be paid to the Town. We have made amendments to the fee structure over years," he noted of the Town. "We're not trying to make a profit, but we are trying to recover our costs."
Several council members said they would favor waiving the fees, aside from actual town costs, while others said they would favor a reduced rate that would at least cover the Town's costs.
"I have no difficulty with the engineering fees, but I don't think we should charge permit fees," said Olmstead.
"I don't know that it should be waived, but minimal costs to the Town should be recovered," said Dorfman. "We've tried to address that over and over," he said of prior work on the Town's schedule of fees.
"Any expenses that the Town incurs, [the applicant] should pay," said Councilwoman Margaret Young, who noted she thought there should be some kind of cap on building fees, "before we get to $100,000."
Council members were divided on the larger issue of which groups, and which projects, should get reduced fees or have them waived.
McClenny said that even projects within a church property might be something the Town wouldn't want to waive fees on, such as a dining and administrative building versus a church structure.
"We have an ongoing relationship with the fire company," he noted. "We have a partnership with them because they serve the entire community. Should we stop at that point or carry it to any 501(c)(3)?"
"I think everybody should pay them," said Councilman Jack Gordon. "If we give it to a religious organization, it helps out a certain number of people who live here. With the fire company and the library — everybody goes there, but not everybody attends the same church."
Dorfman said providing the exemption or reduced fees to religious organizations across the board might resolve that issue.
"I understand we don't have a Muslim mosque here, or a Jewish synagogue here now, but in 20 years, who knows what we'll have here? This could be something that benefits everyone," he said.
Dorfman also noted that the Town donates money to certain organizations every year, which he said put them in a different category from some other non-profits. McClenny said he agreed that those were in a separate category.
"If we go to 501(c)(3)s, you're going to have quite a few," he pointed out. Already, Bethany Beach is home to Justin's Beach House, which had its fees waived. There is a "community house" next door to St. Ann's rectory, while there is also a group home located in Bethany West. "It could just mushroom," he added.
Healy noted that the designation of 501(c)(3) organizations for such a benefit could be problematic, because the different 501 non-profit designations indicate different statuses for the organizations that have qualified for them. He said the council should consider just waiving the fees for St. Martha's.
"I was hoping for a standard moving forward," Graviet clarified, noting the instances in which repair projects for the churches had involved a fee. "I'm looking for direction across the board."
He said he felt that whatever the council decided to do, it should be secular in nature, pulling in the library and fire company. "It wouldn't be treating religious organizations differently from others. It will create some issues if it is. It needs to be consistent."
Councilman Lew Killmer said the Town should treat all of the organizations "exactly the same, whether they're religious or not. I don't think we should waive the fees. We should give them a discount, across the board."
McClenny posited a situation in which any property owner could establish a 501(c)3 organization based at their Bethany Beach property.
"If I wanted to have a 501(c)(3) on my property, I could then get a reduced fee when I build there?" he asked, to council consensus that that would be the case.
"A lesser fee would at least make up for the time and effort of town staff," Olmstead said.
Graviet said there was no effective way to calculate what the Town's costs would be on an average project, but he said he would recommend that they make sure that any fee that comes to the Town from an outside entity be paid by the applicant and that a percentage of the project cost could also be assessed.
Killmer noted that the International Building Code, which the Town has largely adopted, uses a standard of 3 percent of project costs for building permit fees.
"If we start quoting what our true costs are, we're doing ourselves a disservice," he said. "We're not in it to make money, but we're not in it to lose it either. Any time there is money the Town has to put out, I don't think we should waive that."
Killmer referenced the Town's $750 cost for water meters. "I'm all for a goodwill gesture, but they still have to pay for those things."
Graviet noted a potential concern over how clear the Town's intent might be.
"The Town makes a significant donation to the fire company and library every year," he pointed out. "Now we're going to assess a fee that we normally would have waived and then give you a donation. What is our intent?"
"If we have to treat everybody the same, we have to charge it to everyone," replied Dorfman. "They provide a public services to the community, so they're in a different category. They're not a religious order and not a charity. They perform duties and services for the community. I don't see a problem," he said of charging a fee and giving a donation to the same organization.
Gordon said he didn't see a problem with separating the library and fire company from other organizations, as they provide services to the whole community, rather than niche services to the community. Graviet said he, too, thought the Town would be on solid ground with treating the library and fire company differently from other groups.
Council members reiterated a desire to keep other fees as a separate issue for now, but with water connection fees running around $7,500 on some projects, McClenny noted that applicants can't get a building permit without paying the water fees, suggesting the issues may be somewhat intertwined.
Graviet also pointed out that the council was under something of a time crunch on the issue, as they were due to approve the 2014-fiscal-year budget on Friday, March 15, and St. Martha's was expected to be moving ahead with construction in the near future.
"Those fees are in the budget," he said of the permit fees for St. Martha's project. "We can change the fees in the future. I believe the fire company and library can continue to be exempt. If you're going to expand it to churches and other groups, we have to put them all together for that purpose."
Olmstead and Healy said they would both support charging a 1 percent building permit fee to exempted organizations. Graviet said that might best be put into place as a 1 percent fee, plus any other costs incurred by the Town. He also suggested the council look at creating two categories for the reduced fees or exemptions.
Council members rejected the idea of taking action on the issue at this month's council meeting. Their consensus was to get this year's budget process completed first and then make adjustments later, if needed.
Council looks at update to building code
Also on March 11, the council discussed updates to the town's building code, updating its basis from the 2003 edition of the International Building Code to the 2012 version. Building Inspector Susan Frederick said the 2003 code was too old for the Town to remain in compliance with the Community Rating System regulations that allow property owners to get a 10 percent discount on their insurance.
Frederick noted that Sussex County is also currently using the 2003 code but is also in the process of updating to the 2012 code. She said the council might want to opt out of some elements of the code, as it has done in the past.
Notably, she said, the new code would take the town out of a high-wind district designation where top winds expected might reach more than 110 mph and where wind-proofing elements, such as strapping, continual load paths and impact glazing, are required. Instead, at 90 to 100 mph, the top wind designation would not require those types of elements. Frederick said she would recommend the council keep their high-wind designation, at 110 mph top speeds.
Additionally, she noted changes to "freeboard" regulations involving the permitted elevation for construction. She said that, under new flood-zone maps being implemented, the amount of the town in the flood plain was increasing from 50 percent to 80 percent, with changes mostly on the west side of town. Taken with the freeboard changes, that might require some adaptation to the code to ensure that all buildings constructed in the town are insurable, she said.
Finally, Frederick said the council would most likely want to omit the requirement for residential fire suppression systems, which is now standard under the IBC. Council members described the requirement as "ridiculous," with McClenny noting that he now pays several hundred dollars per year as an additional fee to the water company at a rental property he owns, just because a fire suppression system is installed there.
With primarily one- and two-unit dwellings in the town, Frederick said she thought the Town could opt out of that requirement.
Killmer said he felt the update would otherwise be of "benefit to everybody in town. It's keeping what we have, not dropping regulations 'because we can,'" he said.
Council members supported taking the changes to their April council meeting for introduction. Two readings and a vote would be required for adoption.
Council prepares for public hearing Friday
Finally, council members reviewed the agenda for their March 15 council meeting and for the public hearing scheduled for 4 p.m. that day on proposed changes to town code regarding requirements for commercial lodging properties in general and, specifically, the proposed redevelopment of the Bethany Arms Motel.
McClenny said his plan for the public hearing was to take each one of the seven items one item at a time and allow adequate time for discussion before moving on to the next item.
Gordon said he was concerned that "People think this is just about the Burbage project."
Graviet said Frederick could open the hearing with a presentation expanding on the information recently sent out by the Town, reviewing the issues in plainer language as to what the proposed changes actually mean.
"We can get people on the same page and have a better understanding of what we're discussing," Graviet said.
Killmer also noted recent requests from some citizens to provide additional information on agenda items.
"I think it could eliminate a lot of misconceptions," he said. "Once I explain just a little bit about what the issue is or isn't, they write back, 'Thank you. That's all I needed to know.'"
Council members noted that the council's entire briefing book is available to the public on the Town's Web site (under the Government section) and as a print-out placed outside the upstairs offices at town hall.
"All the information that we have is online for the public," emphasized McClenny.
"Some of the things can't be explained in a paragraph or two," added Graviet.
"For the person who wants to look and know everything, it's right on the Web site. They can click and read, click and print," said McClenny.