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Southeast Horticulture Student to Get Slice of Future at St. Louis Area Golf Courses
A Southeast Missouri State University agribusiness major will be hitting the links this summer in an internship he earned for performing above par.
Matthew Ridings of Maryland Heights, Missouri, and a graduate of Pattonville High School, has been awarded the 2019 Roger Null Internship by the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association in cooperation with the Mississippi Valley Golf Course Superintendents Association (MVGCSA). Ridings was selected for the internship after being awarded a MVGCSA scholarship last year. Over the past year, the organization became acquainted with him and his abilities, he said.
"Matt is a great candidate, and we are confident he will succeed in this internship," said John Briggs, golf course superintendent at Fox Run Golf Club.
Ridings, a junior pursuing an agribusiness-horticulture degree at Southeast, will spend his summer, beginning in late May, learning about turf-grass management and assisting with conducting championship tournaments at several St. Louis-area golf courses. As part of the internship, he will work closely with Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association and MVGCSA staff and volunteers.
Ridings will assist Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association staff with course setup and administration of select championships and USGA qualifying rounds in the St. Louis area. He also will participate in specific facets of golf course management and maintenance at select private and public St. Louis area courses, including Old Warson Country Club, Algonquin Golf Club and The Quarry at Crystal Springs.
The internship also offers him the opportunity to learn about cultural practices – mowing, watering, aerating and topdressing — at several golf facilities. Additionally, Ridings will be involved with proper and timely turf fertilization, calibrating both granular and liquids applications; proper and timely spraying for weeds, insects and diseases; and basic irrigation system scheduling and operation.
"I'm very excited about the internship," Ridings said. "This is something I really want to do. It will be great for both the experience and meeting people in the industry."
His ultimate goal, he says, is to become a golf course superintendent, preferably in the St. Louis area, after completing his degree at Southeast.
During the summer, Ridings also plans to meet the scholarship's namesake, Roger Null, an accomplished golfer in the St. Louis area. Null was born in Le Mars, Iowa, in a golfing family. He attended Iowa State University, after which he completed stints as golf course superintendent at The Arsenal Club in Rock Island, Illinois; Cedar Rapids Country Club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Old Warson and Norwood Hills country clubs, both in St. Louis. Null performed consulting work for many golf courses in St. Louis and the Midwest, including Boone Valley Golf Club near St. Louis, where he also served as general manager.
Null competed in local and national amateur events throughout his career, captured the GCSAA National championship three times and qualified for several USGA championships, including four U.S. Amateurs. He continues to remain action in all facets of the industry and has been instrumental in bringing some of St. Louis' finest superintendents to the area and placing them in assistant and superintendent positions across the country.
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No party affiliation is required at registration to participate in primary. Voters are asked to take an oath stating they did not participate in another primary when voting. See South Carolina Republican Party or Democratic Party sites for more details.
You can vote in person at your county election office from October 8th to November 5th at 5 pm before the election, using an absentee ballot. Excuse required.
To vote absentee by mail, first you'll need to apply for an absentee ballot (click here) no later than November 2nd. Then, when you complete your absentee ballot, it must be received by election day.


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Home > Spanish > Pronouncing Vowel Sounds in Spanish
Pronouncing Vowel Sounds in Spanish
In English, we have 12 different vowel sounds, but they don't always match up with the 5 vowel letters. For example, "hey" has the same vowel sound as "bay" even though they are different letters. On the other hand, "hey" and "the" have the same letter but different vowel sounds. English learners have to memorize the correct pronunciation when they learn a new word because the letters you see don't always match the sounds you hear.
Luckily, in Spanish, vowel sounds are almost entirely regular! That means that the letters you see will almost always be pronounced the same way. We say "almost" because there are always exceptions, but as a beginner you don't need to worry about that.
Here is how the five vowels are pronounced in Spanish:
Vowel sound
English sound example
Spanish word example
/a/ = "ah" law, father mama, agua, mañana
/e/ = "eh" date, met, café* enero, cereza, bébé
/i/ = "ee" see, meat, pizza sí, difícil, iglesia
/o/ = "ow" phone, so otoño, no, loco
/u/ = "oo" new, loot** fútbol, tú, mucho
*Note: the /e/ sound varies a little bit. At its most pure, it is like the "a" in date. At the beginning of a word, it is closer to the /e/ in met. At the end of the word, it is more like the /e/ in café.
**Note: When the /u/ comes between g/q and e/i, it is silent. For example:qué [what], quién [who], guerrero [warrior]. If the letter "u" should be pronounced, an umlaut it placed above. For example: vergüenza [shame].
If two or three vowels are next to each other in a word, their sounds can blend together to create a dipthong or a tripthong. It is easy to figure out what a dipthong (2 vowels) or a tripthong ( vowels) sounds like because the sound is basically just made up of each vowel pronounced quickly. So, when /u/ comes before /a/, the two sounds (oo+ah) combine to sound something like in the English word water. For example: cuaderno [notebook]. And, when the /i/ comes before /o/, they form a sound similar to "yo," for example in radio and Acunción.
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Q: Sum with index as derivative order I want to define a sum that contains derivatives of a function, where the summation index is the derivative order.
Simple example:
x, i = symbols("x i")
f = Function("f")(x)
Sum(diff(f,x,i), [i,1,3])

However, this only returns a sum of zeros. I assume this is because it tries to differentiate f wrt x first, and then wrt i. Since f is not a function of i, it evaluates to zero before it is processed by the Sum function. What I want to happen is
diff(f,x,1)
diff(f,x,2)
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etc.
Is there a way to make this work?

A: sympy.diff(f,x,i) is equivalent to i'th order derivative of f only if i is an integer. In your case it is a symbol.
Use instead the builtin sum() along with a generator expression:
>>> sum(diff(f,x,j) for j in range(1,4))
Derivative(f(x), x) + Derivative(f(x), x, x) + Derivative(f(x), x, x, x)

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Home > UCF Community Veterans History Project > Oral Histories > 119
Breton, Joseph John interview
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Oral History interview of Joseph Breton. Interview conducted by Wilt, Ashley at the Bunker, the Vietnam War Memorial, Orlando, FL.
0:01-0:25 Interviewer Introduction; 0:26-1:16 Childhood in Winthrop, Maine; 1:17-1:51 Joining the U.S. Air Force and Basic Training; 1:52-3:45 Serving in the Azores Islands; 3:46-4:59 Stationed in Montgomery, Alabama; 4:46-4:59 Cross-training to Diesel Mechanics; 5:00-5:15 McConnell Air Force Base; 5:15-6:01 Phone Call-Mr. Breton answers; 6:03-6:31 Marries 1st wife, 'Drinking and Drugging'; 6:32-7:03 Divorces 1st wife, moves back to Maine, marries 2nd wife; 7:04-7:55 Moves to Massachusetts in Sept. 1981, married 3rd wife. Now married 29 years. Got sober February of 1982; 7:56-9:54 Vietnam Vet Center, PTSD, guilt associated with not serving country in Vietnam. Other veterans tell him they are proud of him and that he should not feel guilty; 9:55-10:35 Best friend from military-Wally Brewer; 10:37-12:09 Married 29 years. Moves to Orlando, joins the Bunker, the Vietnam Veteran Memorial; 12:10-13:10 Concern about 'kids'-soldiers serving in present conflicts-in Afghanistan, Iraq; son-serving- parents' apprehension; 13:11-15:06 Motivating factors to join the military (USAF); 15:07-15:41 Father passes away; 15:42-16:29 How military changed him and appreciation for American flag and veterans; 16:30-17:23 Getting shot; 17:24-25:38 Ways the military changes you and life post military service; 25:39-28:59 Any additional reasons for volunteering; 29:00 Conclusion.
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Vietnam Era
Begin/End date of Service - 1st
Entrance into Service
Unit of Service
1650 Cams Squadron, 3880 Supply Squadron
Service Related Injury
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Wilt, Ashley
Location of Interview
Vietnam War Memorial, Orlando, FL.
Breton, Joseph J.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal Narratives; United States. Air Force
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The bells of a church in northern Switzerland have been switched off indefinitely so as not to disturb a pair of mating storks.
The birds recently took up residence in a custom-built nest on the top of the Swiss reformed church in the town of Aesch in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.
The arrival of the birds is good news for the community. The stork nest was built in 2013 for 18,000 Swiss francs (€15,600), with most of the money coming from donations.
The pricey nest features a special door that allows direct access from the interior of the church tower to the nest itself. This makes tasks such as bird banding much easier.
However, despite the costs, the nest has basically stood empty for five years.
In 2016, the church decided to turn off its church bells during the during the February–March stork breeding period – a move that now appears to have paid off with the new arrivals.
The church bells will now remain silent indefinitely so that the birds are not disturbed.
Bruno Gardelli of the organization Stork Switzerland welcomed the decision to turn off the bells. But he also told Swiss news site 20 Minuten that the birds did not appear to be particularly sensitive to noise.
Storks are regular summer visitors to Switzerland. They return to the country in early spring after wintering in southern Europe and northern Africa.


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Le fichier de Traitement d'antécédents judiciaires (TAJ), nommé au départ fichier de l'Application de rapprochement, d'identification et d'analyse pour les enquêteurs (ARIANE), est un fichier du ministère de l'Intérieur alimenté par les données saisies par les personnels de la gendarmerie et de la police nationale dûment habilités à cet effet. Le fichier TAJ est né de la fusion de deux fichiers, le STIC et le JUDEX. Le TAJ a été créé par l'article 11 de la loi LOPPSI 2 du 14 mars 2011 et codifié aux articles 230-6 à 230-11 du code de procédure pénale. Les dispositions réglementaires faisant application de l'article 11 sont le décret n° 2012-652 du  relatif au traitement des antécédents judiciaires. Ce dernier texte fut codifié aux articles R40-23 à R40-34 du code de procédure pénale.

Les informations enregistrées proviennent des procédures rédigées avec le logiciel LRPGN pour la gendarmerie et le LRP-PN (anciennement Ardoise) pour la police.

Données à caractère personnel

Ces fichiers contiennent des données à caractère personnel concernant les victimes et les personnes (physiques et morales) mises en cause, mineures ou majeures, à l'encontre desquelles sont réunis des indices graves ou concordants rendant  qu'elles aient pu participer comme auteurs ou complices à la commission d'un crime, d'un délit ou de certaines contraventions de cinquième classe (violences volontaires avec ITT inférieure ou égale à huit jours, provocations à la discrimination, à la haine ou à la violence, dégradations légères, etc.). Sous le contrôle de l'autorité judiciaire, cette simple condition de vraisemblance est laissée à l'appréciation des agents habilités à exercer des missions de police judiciaire. À la différence du casier judiciaire qui rend compte des condamnations, le STIC, depuis la loi du , comporte également des données portant sur des procédures judiciaires ou en cours ou des faits amnistiés.

Le fichier TAJ est consulté non seulement dans le cadre des enquêtes judiciaires, mais également dans le cadre d'enquêtes administratives afin de vérifier le respect de la condition de moralité requise par l'exercice de certains emplois sensibles (casinos, sécurité privée, aéroports, VTC, etc.) et public (administration, etc.).

Le traitement de ces données à caractère personnel s'effectue sous le contrôle du procureur de la République territorialement compétent. En cas de relaxe et d'acquittement, les fiches concernées doivent être effacées, sauf si le procureur de la République en prescrit le maintien. En revanche, les décisions de non-lieu et de classement sans suite font l'objet d'une mention au sein du fichier TAJ, à moins que le procureur de la République ordonne l'effacement des données personnelles.

L'accès au fichier TAJ
Les personnes dont le nom figurent au sein de ce fichier ne peuvent pas avoir un accès directement à ces informations.

L'article R 40-23 du Code de procédure pénale permet à toute personne d'exercer son droit d'accès au fichier TAJ directement auprès du responsable du traitement, à savoir le ministère de l'Intérieur.

À défaut de réponse dans le délai de 2 mois, ou en cas de refus, toute personne fichée peut saisir la CNIL afin d'avoir accès à son fichier TAJ. Il s'agit de l'accès indirect prévu par l'article 41 de la Loi Informatique et Libertés.

Durée et volume

La durée de conservation des données pour les majeurs est en principe de 20 ans, mais peut varier, en fonction du type d'infraction, entre 5 et 40 ans. Pour les mineurs, elle est de 5 ans mais peut atteindre 10 ou 20 ans pour certaines infractions.

En 2007, le STIC contenait des informations sur 35 millions de procédures et 38 millions d'infractions. La même année, le JUDEX a été consulté 12 millions de fois et contenait  fiches.

Avec la multiplication des contraventions de cinquième classe et l'ajout de données en provenance de l'étranger, le nombre de personnes fichées a considérablement augmenté.

Dans son rapport de  sur la police technique et scientifique, la Cour des comptes relève que, fin , le TAJ intégrait 15,6 millions de fiches de personnes mises en cause, dont 3,4 millions présentant au moins une photographie de la personne. En date du , plus de 18,9 millions de personnes faisaient l'objet d'une fiche.

Procédure d'effacement du fichier TAJ

L'article 230-8 du code de procédure pénale permet de demander l'effacement des mentions inscrites sur le fichier TAJ.

La loi a imposé, comme condition, que le bulletin n°2 du casier judiciaire du demandeur soit vierge de toute mention. À défaut, la demande sera déclarée irrecevable par le procureur de la République ou le magistrat référent TAJ.

La demande se fait par voie de requête.

Cette procédure n'impose pas la représentation obligatoire par voie d'avocat, mais un accompagnement par un professionnel du droit permet d'augmenter les chances d'effacement.

En cas de refus d'effacement, le justiciable dispose d'un recours devant le président de la chambre de l'instruction.

Technologie

Le TAJ permet le rapprochement des images, avec un système de reconnaissance faciale.

Le TAJ utilise également des technologies de moteur de recherche permettant la conservation de la structure des contenus.

Budget

Le projet Ariane est doté en 2010 d'une enveloppe de 1,5 million d'euros.

Source et ressources
 Revue de la FARAPEJ , Annick Dorléans.
 Fichiers de police et de gendarmerie. Comment améliorer leur contrôle et leur gestion ? Alain Bauer et Christophe Soullez, Rapport édité à la Documentation Française, 2007.
 Fiche synthétique de la CNIL présentant le TAJ
 Décision de la CNIL 2005-005 du  de mise en demeure du ministère de l'Intérieur et du ministère de la Justice

Notes et références

Justice en France
Police nationale (France)
Fichier de police
Système informatique destiné aux enquêtes
Base de données du gouvernement français

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by Janusz Marszałek · Published 16/04/2016 · Updated 14/06/2016
EUROPEAN SENIORS' UNION (ESU)
Newsletter "SENIOR INTERNATIONAL" (SI") No. 132 (English edition) 16th April 2016
War-crimes tribunal demanded
The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), with its headquarters in Frankfurt (Main), and the Human Rights Centre in Cottbus (MRZ) request the Security Council of the United Nations to establish "an ad-hoc tribunal on the genocide offences committed by IS against religious and ethnic minorities". The basis for this is Chapter VII of the UN Charter, according to the MRZ press release of 11th April.
It continued: "also, the ad-hoc tribunal for Yugoslavia, as well as the emergence of the International Criminal Court, have arisen from an initiative and massive pressure from civil society. Therefore, our voice is louder than we think. Please join our appeal as individual citizens as well as organisations." The original text of the petition is available from: tel.:+ 49- 355 -290 -133 – 0 (or -129).
Internet: www.menschenrechtszentrum-cottbus.de
sylvia-waehling@menschenrechtszentrum-cottbus.de
For its contribution to international understanding, the Human Rights Center was presented with the Cross of Nails from Coventry. 2nd from right: Sylvia Wähling, director of the MRZ and the "Memorial Prison of Cottbus".
The signed petitions will be presented to the UN in Geneva on 1st September, the International Anti-War Day. Mrs Wähling has visited camps twice in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq to deliver aid, while learning about the victims among the Yazidis and other groups in the population. She points out that criminal law in neither Iraq nor Syria, where most crimes against ethnic minorities are committed, has the possibility to track IS criminals. Moreover, none of these countries has joined the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) was founded in 1972 by a Russian. Its members include more than 30,000 citizens in 26 national branches worldwide. Its annual conference in early April had the topic "combating causes of refugee flight/our engagement in Syria, in Iraq and in Turkey".
EUROPEAN Parliament:
Steps toward more security …
…were undertaken by the plenary assembly recently. It agreed the worldwide collection of airline passenger data and other anti-terrorism measures. The parliament called for a stronger commitment to cope with the migrant crisis. Manfred Weber, chairman of the EPP Group, addressed President Erdogan, in connection with the EU/Turkey co-operation, to respect civil liberties in his own country as in Europe.
POLAND:
Honorary presidency for fighters against Nazi dictatorship
In Warsaw, Zbigniew Zielinski (born 1927) has been appointed as Honorary President of the provincial association of Warsaw/Mazovia, a part of the Polish Seniors' Union (PUS). With that, the life work of a passionate fighter against the Nazi regime and for the recognition of its victims was appreciated. Colonel Zielinski belonged to the opposition "Home Army" (Armia Krajowa) in the 1940s, and after the liberation he founded the Association of Combatants and Oppressed, of which he was also the chairman. He was a state secretary in the governments of Bielecki, Olszewski and Pawlak.
Care Allowance law demanded
In Kraków during the last few days, at the first Congress of Seniors' Councils of the whole of Poland, the PUS President and ESU Vice-president, Janusz Marszalek will compare the social situation of pensioners in Poland with other European countries. From this event shall come an initiative to create a Care Allowance law on the German model, so fulfilling the proposal by the then ESU President, Dr. Bernhard Worms (DE), four years ago in Warsaw.
The congress participants want the parliament and the government to fulfil their duty because regulation of a care allowance payment is long overdue. In August last year, the Polish Seniors' Union (PUS) was among the founders of a Seniors' Council for the whole of Poland, which made itself public in Kraków recently.
The candidate receives support in his own country also from the magazine "Senioren Aktuell" in Lower Austria Wallsee-Sindelburg, that adds a photo of the candidate (centre) with this statement: "Khol combines experience with vision, is legally highly competent and recognised as a constitutional judge. He would therefore be a statesman-like and courageous Federal President who does not have to learn the necessary trade once in office." (Info: Peter Krupholz, SB honorary chairman).
AUSTRIA:
Support for Andreas Khol
Heinz K. Becker MEP, ESU Vice President and Secretary General of the Austrian Seniors' Association, addressed a very personally held message to his fellow countrymen. On 24th April, Prof. Andreas Khol should receive the votes of all those entitled to vote, he writes, because he is the most experienced and most competent candidate for election to the federal presidency. The long-standing Federal Chairman of the Seniors' Association stands for security, a strong country, a willingness to reform and social prosperity; as President of the Parliament he has acted convincingly in a non-partisan way, according to Becker. The ESU values his friend, who belongs to the Executive Committee, as the host of the Vienna Summer Academies and president of the election congress.
BELARUS:
"Cancelled and invited again"
On 11th April, the government announced an increase in the retirement age by three years – to be 63 years for men and 58 years for women. The ESU partner organization "Our Generation/Nasha Pakalenne," based in Minsk, will take action against these plans, especially as the average life expectancy of the rural population is only 60 years, and the price index has increased by 2.9 percent again in February. A parliamentary decision is expected in the summer.
"Our Generation" wants to engage itself more strongly for a common approach with interested organizations – also for more jobs and alternatives to social security in old age. The chairman of the Pensioners' Association, Tatjana Zelko, was denied renewed participation in a social forum of the Republic of Belarus, which is taking place now in Minsk. In contrast, she received an invitation to Pulheim-Brauweiler (DE), where she will give a lecture about the contacts of the elderly in the context of the "Eastern Partnership" (EaP) on the occasion of the ceremony for the opening of the "Youth and Seniors' for Europe" Foundation.
For the reception and integration of refugees …
…the Government will make an additional 5.6 billion EURO available in 2015/2016. For the current year, an estimated 4.2 billion EURO will be used for integration into the labour market, language courses and vocational training. For the year 2016, the participation of 300,000 people in integration courses is expected, for which more than half a million EURO is provided.
As is apparent from the report of the parliamentarian, Michael Stübgen (CDU), currently 66 percent (and so far an increase of 6 per cent more than expected) of the 55- to 64 years-old citizens got a job. Against the current child poverty and that of (future) pensioners, a number of measures have been decided and/or changes are being discussed.
Controversy over the limits of satire
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated her position on 15th April with her opinion on the admissibility of a criminal prosecution of the satirist Böhmermann. After controversial discussions in the Federal Cabinet, she stated that no prejudgement has been made with her decision. Preceding this was a programme broadcast by the Second German Television channel, in which the Turkish President was heavily attacked. Opinion remains divided among the German population. It ranges from the unconditional right of freedom of speech, art and freedom of the press up to an inadmissible violation of human rights – regardless of the character, position and nationality of the affected person.
The image of humanity in the religions …
…is the topic of a discussion to which the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin, Tiergartenstr. 35, invites. On 25th April, an Islamic scholar as well as a rabbi is expected. The strong influx of Muslims into central Europe, and the current debate on how to deal with political satire (see previous news), means that this question is becoming important again. The "position of the individual and his dignity in the community of faith" of Jews, Christians and Islam will be addressed.
Guide for older citizens
An advice centre for future pensioners ("The First Pension Guidance Centre") has been established by the All-Ukrainian Pensioner Association UARP (an ESU partner) at its premises in Kiev, announced its International Secretary, Roman Oliinyk. The address: 47 G Khoryv Str.; tel. +38 (0) 44 425 -03-57. With this new service, growing needs will be met to inform oneself competently about the timely and on-going yearly provision for a sufficient pension in retirement.
According to further reports from Kiev, the UARP chairman, Volodymyr Dzjobak plans to use the occasion of an official trip to Lithuania to re-establish contact with the local ESU members' organization and its chairman, Zibartas Jackūnas.
Forthcoming ESU Dates
29th – 30th April: On the occasion of the EU Day of Solidarity between the Generations: ceremony for the introduction of the charitable "Youth and Seniors for Europe" Foundation (Benedictine abbey in Pulheim-Brauweiler, near Cologne, with Dr. Bernhard Worms, Chairman of the administrative board, and Prof. An Hermans, ESU President and Chairman of the board of trustees).
26th – 27th May: Regional Seniors' meeting in Budapest. Topic: "Seniors in changing societies/active ageing and the participation of seniors in public and political life". In cooperation with the Robert – Schuman – Institute, based in Budapest.
1St – 3rd July: Summer Leadership Academy in Vienna. Topic: "Europe must not fail." In cooperation with the EPP, the Martens Centre, the Austrian Seniors' Association and its Political Academy.
Praesidium meetings: 1st July in Vienna; 4th November in Leuven (prior to the election congress).
Executive committee meetings: 27th May in Budapest; 1st July in Vienna.
Editor: ulrich.winz@web.de
Translated by Margit Hawkes
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Q: ERROR: Error installing jquery-rails: activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3. in Ubuntu 10.04 I'm trying to install the latest ruby and latest rails in latest gem version
I have rvm  installed and created a new gemset named hotel
~$ rvm use ruby-2.0.0-p247@hotel
Using /home/circar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247 with gemset hotel

~$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (4.0.0)
actionpack (4.0.0)
activemodel (4.0.0)
activerecord (4.0.0)
activerecord-deprecated_finders (1.0.3)
activesupport (4.0.0)
arel (4.0.0)
atomic (1.1.14)
builder (3.1.4)
bundler (1.3.5)
coffee-rails (4.0.0)
coffee-script (2.2.0)
coffee-script-source (1.6.3)
erubis (2.7.0)
execjs (2.0.1)
hike (1.2.3)
i18n (0.6.5)
jbuilder (1.5.1)
mail (2.5.4)
mime-types (1.25)
minitest (4.7.5)
multi_json (1.8.0)
polyglot (0.3.3)
rack (1.5.2)
rack-test (0.6.2)
rails (4.0.0)
railties (4.0.0)
rake (10.1.0)
rubygems-update (2.1.1)
rvm (1.11.3.8)
sprockets (2.10.0)
sprockets-rails (2.0.0)
thor (0.18.1)
thread_safe (0.1.3)
tilt (1.4.1)
treetop (1.4.15)
tzinfo (0.3.37)

~$ ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [i686-linux]
~$ rails -v
Rails 4.0.0
~$ gem -v
2.1.1

But when  I'm trying to install

jquery-rails

as
~$ sudo gem install jquery-rails

It shows Error as
ERROR:  Error installing jquery-rails:
    activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3.

Anyone please help me to install the jquery-rails gem with the latest update environment.
The gem is also pointing the current rvm
$ which gem
/home/circar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/gem

I googled it, but i dont know why i stumble in  this place? I am unable to find any problem in my process, as stated everywhere.
Any help highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: sudo gem install jquery-rails is probably using your system's built-in Ruby (which is likely 1.8, or 1.9.2). This is because you're using sudo.
With RVM, get rid of the sudo and it'll use RVM instead:
gem install jquery-rails


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Toy Story of Terror (2013 TV Short)
Rushed, but still amazing
Toy Story of TERROR, the TV special from Pixar, is, in short, amazing. It manages to stick to the production value of the full length films from the series and it's a more than welcome addition.
As far as writing goes, I cannot complain. I mean, it's very well written and deals not only with fun and entertaining stuff but also with serious matters like personal growth. The new characters were a great addition to the film.
The only problem the film has is its runtime. The pacing was way too fast and some parts felt very rushed, resulting on things like lack of depth to some of the new characters, and lack of build up to some major moments.
Long story short, Toy Story of TERROR is quite a pleasure to watch, but would heavily benefit from a longer cut.
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La Unión del Cambio Nacional (UCN) fue un partido político en Guatemala. Fue constituido en el año 2006 y formalmente inscrito en 2007.

El Tribunal Supremo Electoral declaró en octubre de 2018 que están analizando la cancelación del partido por posibles delitos electorales.

El 10 de diciembre de 2019, el ente electoral ordenó la cancelación del partido por anomalías en su financiamiento electoral.

Luego de varias apelaciones, el 17 de octubre de 2022, el Tribunal Supremo Electoral optó por rechazar los procesos y formalizar la cancelación del partido.

Historia

En las elecciones legislativas celebradas el 9 de septiembre de 2007, ganó 4,06% de los votos en la carrera por la lista de diputados nacionales y obtuvo cinco escaños en el Congreso de la República de Guatemala de 2008-12. En las elecciones presidenciales de ese mismo día, su candidato Mario Estrada ganó 3,16% del voto popular.

En las Elecciones generales de 2011, el partido obtuvo 14 escaños en el Congreso.

Candidatos a la Presidencia de Guatemala

Referencias

Partidos liberales
Partidos políticos fundados en 2006
Partidos políticos disueltos en 2022
Partidos políticos desaparecidos de Guatemala


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Pieces like the original ones, maintaining the used materials and ancient processes.


The theatre has a small car park with 2 disabled parking spaces, however a public car park is opposite the theatre in Grosvenor's Yard.
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Choose to Challenge: International Women's Day 2021
A power hour panel discussion with Objective women leaders on their careers and learnings from 2020
To celebrate International Women's Day 2021, Objective held a power hour panel discussion with three women leaders across different departments to discuss their careers and experiences throughout the past year.
The event began with IWD themed cupcakes in every Objective office and staff attended in person and on Teams. Objective CEO, Tony Walls, opened the event.
"From my perspective, we've had another big year of change, and I'd also like to say how wonderful it's been to see all the women on the team who have made fantastic contributions to the Objective that we have today," Tony remarked.
I'd like to say how wonderful it's been to see all the women on the team who have made fantastic contributions to the Objective that we have today.
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CEO, Objective
Rebecca Finbow, Global Head of Customer at Objective, led the event. The panel included:
Andrea Breen - Director of Content Solutions, Melbourne
Kirsty Dusting – Head of Customer Solutions for Objective RegWorks, Wollongong
Pratikshya Kuinkel – Product Manager, Sydney
"The theme for this year's International Women's Day is Choose to Challenge. I personally cannot think of a better theme, given the journey that we've all been on over the last 12 months. I'm really proud to stand here today and to say that somebody once said to me, 'Never waste a crisis!' and I don't think that we've wasted a crisis at all," Rebecca said.
"I think what we've done with the last 12 months is we've chosen to challenge the situation that we are in and we've brought about fundamental changes, such as working remotely and supporting our people through it," she continued.
"Most importantly, we're moving to a very fundamental and very exciting time in history. The world now expects equality, diversity, and inclusion. I'm really proud to work for an organisation and to work for a CEO who very much backs that 100 percent."
Rebecca Finbow
Global Head of Customer at Objective
Here's what the panel had to say about their careers and the past year:
Q. Tell us about your career journeys
Andrea: "I had a diverse journey from a land surveyor to tech. I'm in a fortunate position to work for a company like Objective that's so inclusive because, certainly along my journey, I've seen evidence of companies that are not quite along the lines."
Kirsty: "I have been in the RegTech industry for eight years and when I joined Objective RegWorks, formerly Itree, I saw lots of opportunities for improvement. I've had the chance to have a really diverse range of roles here, including product, quality, testing, business analysis, project management, and service delivery. It's been quite fun that it's been so varied. I think, as long as you're always learning new things, then that's what keeps me happy."
Pratikshya: "I had mixed experience with corporate as well as academics. When I moved to Sydney, I entered the job market as a developer. I always say I didn't choose product management; product management chose me. That was the challenge that was presented to me, and I just opted for that challenge, and never regretted it. I feel like product management is home for me."
Q. How have you challenged yourself in the last 12 months with communication style to the team and customers?
Kirsty: "I think, in a way, leader or non-leader, I think it has been a real challenge for everyone. In a way, it's been a big leveller – we've all had to develop new skills and new ways of doing things at the same time. The biggest challenge, to myself and to my team, has been to keep going. I think it could have been easy to say, 'This is too hard now!' or 'Maybe we won't do this,' but we kept going, and that's been a really great success."
"The past year has also required myself and everyone to be flexible – both with ourselves and with each other – and to try and be understanding about the context. Someone may have just come online straight away from another stressful meeting with only two minutes in-between time. They may have just walked away from a screaming child to sign into a Teams meeting. Just having a bit of understanding that the context someone is in might not be the same as what you are in at that time, and just giving people a bit of flexibility and friendliness to make that ok."
The past year has also required myself and everyone to be flexible – both with ourselves and with each other – and to try and be understanding about the context.
Kirsty Dusting
Head of Customer Solutions RegTech at Objective
Andrea: "From my perspective being in sales, when you walk into a room physically, you read a lot of the situation from being in the room. You go into a negotiation meeting and you can read someone's body language. When you get onto a Teams call, you don't have any of that information generally. I think you need to work on different techniques to try and tease out some of that information and see where things are at. I give people a chance to relax and get into the groove of their communication style."
"Once I was in a tense Teams meeting and all of a sudden everyone started laughing. I turned around to find my son crawling behind me to get something off the printer. It was great timing as my son's behaviour broke the ice, and I think it made people realise that everyone is human and they do have family there at home with them."
Pratikshya: "With the development team, we would have held planning sessions in person, writing the sticky notes, sticking them all over the walls. When this pandemic happened, we suddenly lost that interaction, and we had to switch to a digitised version of doing things. Again, technology came to our rescue. Meetings were all on Teams and we used Micro boards in order to do some of those crucial planning workshops."
"A big positive was that Teams meetings started and ended on time and you didn't have to wait for someone to arrive or leave the meeting room. However, I would have to say that you really have to segregate between your professional and personal life. Otherwise, it gets difficult to draw the line and say when work finishes and your personal life begins."
Q. Share your journey to leadership, how you've challenged barriers and how you've approached driving change?
Andrea: "I'm a bit fortunate in this respect – that I've had people who helped me on my journey to leadership. A former boss of mine reached out to place me in leader position while I was working part-time three days per week and had two small children at the time. He said we will work around that and so I ended up going into the leadership position. The business and I made it work, and I'll never look back from that point on. "
"I think one thing there is to look at people's circumstances. If they've got the right capability and the right qualities, then work around the things that might be inhibitors to drive a successful outcome."
For me, as a leader, I like to be approachable. Nothing is off limits. I like to be able to give my time to my staff and my people when they need it – on anything they need it for. I like to be available to them. I think that makes a difference."
Andrea Breen
Director of Content Solutions at Objective
"I think you learn something from every leader that you work for, and it can be qualities that you want to see in the way you lead, and it can also be things that you wouldn't consider useful in the way you would shine through to manage people. For me, as a leader, I like to be approachable. Nothing is off limits. I like to be able to give my time to my staff and my people when they need it – on anything they need it for. I like to be available to them. I think that makes a difference."
"I just think you never throw out a trick, I like to say in life. You know, I think a warm empathetic style works well, and just open communication."
Pratikshya: "I believe that, in order to be a driver of the change, first you need to be very receptive of the change yourself. Whenever you are presented with an opportunity, don't shy away from it."
"I believe that, in order to be a driver of the change, first you need to be very receptive of the change yourself. Whenever you are presented with an opportunity, don't shy away from it."
Pratikshya Kuinkel
Product Manager at Objective
"From the tech journey perspective for the tech leadership role, I have had a wonderful mentor who has always believed in me and given me room to experiment which is very important. You know, you should have that space to experiment without having that fear of failure. I think you need to establish that trust and that helps a lot."
"It's really good to have that shared respect for each other as well. I think the people that you work with, it's a team effort. Even if you are in that leadership position, it does not come just from you. It's about the people that surround you. I think everyone is so inspiring over here."
Kirsty: "I once worked with a woman who was the program manager of a large data project and who then went on to be the chief operating officer of a large company. She was like the hired gun that they'd bring into any project that looked like it was on a track to failure. She would come in and help to break it down really quickly. The way she managed to help people to see what others necessarily couldn't see but did it in a way that meant everyone felt like they were part of solving the problem was pretty impressive."
"In terms of advice and in terms of my own career progression, I would say don't be afraid to put your hand up and to ask what might feel like a stupid question. In my experience, I often find you're actually voicing what nine out of ten people in the room are thinking, and everyone else is perhaps afraid to say it."
"Most times, when things go wrong, I always point back to that quote. It's a quote from George Bernard Shaw who is a playwright. It's that "the biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has occurred. If you feel like things might not be quite clear, just ask or point out something."
"Also, I think giving feedback to others – both positive and negative – and encouraging is well-received. Most people actually do like to hear feedback because they feel that they can learn more when they hear it. Feedback is direct and it is real and genuine."
Q. Share the challenges that you faced managing work and home life and how you manage expectations
Pratikshya: "For me, when the pandemic started, that's where the struggle was a little bit more in terms of setting up your workspace. My partner and I had to set a rule that even though we are not going to the office, we pretended to be in the office, so that we were not stepping in each other's zone that much and had separate workspaces."
"Because I live a little bit far, my time used to be wasted in commute a lot, and I felt like during the pandemic I was able to pay attention to myself and dedicate that time which I would be spending in commute for things that I ought to do – like exercise or go for a walk. You have to make conscious choices in order to have more balance."
Kirsty: "In my experience, it is both men and women who face these challenges. There's a book called Lean In and what I took away from it is that you need to lean out at home, and that means not being the catch-all, and being open to things not going right at home sometimes. Maybe a child doesn't go to their music lesson because someone forgot and actually just being okay with that. You don't have to be the supermum as well."
"To get to that executive level, it's very hard without someone bearing more of the burden of managing the home life. I think that is a reality just because of how much headspace executive-level positions take up. I think you can't just focus on what you need of the women. You need to make the space for the women to succeed by giving the men the option, too."
Andrea: "I think too that trying to achieve balance comes in many different guises but I gave up on the idea of balance many years ago. I just try not to tip the scales too far in one direction rather than try and get them in some sort of equilibrium that I've never seemed to be able to achieve."
"What dawned on me – probably later than it should have – was I'm really good at delegating in my role as far as getting other people to do the things I need them to do. I wasn't so good at that at home. I recently decided it was time to delegate some challenges and some tasks across the family. There's a bit of a schedule on the fridge, and people are asked to do their tasks. Really, they're quite happy to do them and it's been quite successful."
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Brooding Over Revolution and Bending Realities: Sci Fi as Social Movement. A Review of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (2015, AK Press/IAS) and Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015, PM Press), by Kim Smith
This book review appears in the current issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (N. 29, on anarcha-feminisms) available here, from AK Press.
Too often I find myself giving into the urgency of organizing, of how this struggle now takes priority over pausing, imagining, reorganizing, reorienting, creating and recreating new worlds, new ways of relating. Of course organizers everywhere are also, everyday, creating many other worlds within this one, but too often it feels as though what takes center-stage in our struggles are the analyses, critiques, and (of course) the too many, too long meetings that stand in for building something different. Spaces for risky, non-utilitarian creativity and inspiration are too often sidelined as inessential. Maybe the appearance of two sci fi books (both from radical presses whose mainstays are political non-fiction) suggests that sci fi is resurfacing as a relevant touchstone for contemporary political movements, signaling perhaps a bit more recognition of creative expression in explicitly political spaces. What exactly is the connection between sci-fi and radical movements and organizing? This question (and some ideas about how to answer it) emerged for me while reading these two humbling anthologies, which I'll get to in a moment, but first, a little more about these books.
While Octavia's Brood (2015, AK Press/IAS) and Sisters of the Revolution (2015, PM Press) appear initially as similar offerings from similar presses, their differences are quite profound. While both are compilations of overtly politically-engaged sci fi, the only near-overlap of content is that Sisters of the Revolution includes a brilliant story (one of the strongest in the collection) from the other book's namesake, Octavia Butler. Beyond this, they both specifically include writers 'on the margins' of mainstream science fiction; in this way, many of the stories in each could be included in the other. The likening of one to the other is otherwise quite superficial, however, as the spirits that animate each anthology as a whole are clearly very different. Sisters is an historical compilation of pieces identified as "feminist speculative fiction" by its editors, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and seeks to bolster a feminist archive of science fiction, whereas Brood is "visionary fiction," highly cultural production emerging from and meant to feedback into contemporary social justice struggles. Taken each as collections, they each task science fiction with a different function in contemporary politics, and in doing so fill very different niches, and leave the reader with different orientations towards social change and how it happens.
Sisters is an anthology of previously-published, short feminist speculative fiction, including works as old as Anne Richter's 1967 "The Sleep of Plants," and as recent as Rose Lemberg's 2012 "Seven Losses of na Re." The collection is well-stocked with award-winning pieces and authors, mostly published in the last thirty-five years. In quite a different spirit, Brood is a collection—gathered and edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha—of "social-justice" oriented work, mostly specifically written for this book: a grassroots project that eventually made its way to the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) and AK Press. With a few exceptions the authors are first-time writers who brown and Imarisha requested contribute to the collection. That the book includes a short non-fiction piece by death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and an essay by Tananarive Due on the theme of change in Butler's work helps ground the political commitments of this collection.
Octavia's Brood offers Octavia Butler as its namesake and "north star." The late Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, was a firebrand independent Black feminist science fiction writer. She, while incredibly prolific, was among few mainstream-recognized Black women writers in this genre until recently. As Due outlines in her contribution to this volume, Butler not only wrote to help usher new worlds into this one, but also actively sought to have this world be one in which there were more Black sci-fi writers, more specifically Black women sci fi writers. This book project is testimony to this legacy and inheritance.
While it is clear that the editors revere Octavia Butler for her work, it is equally clear that she is not the sole progenitor of this book's inspiration. As Imarisha convincingly insists in the Introduction, "all organizing is science fiction," (3) and most of the pieces in this book were written by organizers. Clearly there are talented, creative people behind these stories, but more centrally, the spirit expressed in this collection is one of social engagement and collective change.
So Butler is a progenitor for this book, but so is struggle. As Imarisha notes, "for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us."(5) This book emerges as small yet rich evidence of Imarisha and brown's larger life projects of helping communities dream and bend realities themselves, together.
What stands out most prominently about the book, though, is that the worlds created in it are not dystopian dead-ends – or at least the characters won't let them be that. Between the falling of the eponymous "Black Angel" created by Imarisha in her own contribution and the impossible choices faced by characters in Kalamu Ya Salaam's "Manhunters" and Dani McCalin's "Homing Instinct," the heart of so many of these stories lies in the ways the characters struggle, and their choices to do so.
The stories in this book do not emerge as scathing critiques of contemporary society through tales of dystopian near-futures (though elements of that are certainly there) and they do not ask us to invest in a particular path towards utopia. Rather, the feeling I have after reading this compilation is that there are many ways to struggle, and it is perhaps in this that both meaningful lives and radical social change emerges. It avoids the traps that much politically-engaged science fiction falls into: diagnosing the ills of contemporary society to the degree that it becomes a trap without movement, with no way out. This trap, I think, is what the editors are creating an alternative to when they describe their project as not just science fiction but visionary fiction.
Certainly, this collection is not the most polished. The few excerpts from longer pieces are quite hard to follow, but – I must say – creatively and tantalizingly so: it is clear that they were not included to be comprehensive but instead be tastes of the larger works; regardless, they don't flow easily alongside the rest of the collection. Beyond this, some of these works could be honed a little: we are often welcomed into elaborate worlds with different social structures and cultural norms without enough context to make them quite work in such a short space; additionally, as is the risk in science fiction, some of these stories come off as didactic. These shortcomings don't take away from the strength of this work, which is not about perfect polish, but about ongoing processes and growth. It reminds me that these are written by people with stories bursting out of them, where there is never a final product, but always experiences, always processes, always another contribution to be made to create something different, something else, which in turn, will continue to change.
If Octavia's Brood is the contemporary expression of the struggle to create new worlds from this one, Sisters of the Revolution is an anthology that asks us to remember some of the contexts from which sci fi, more broadly, has come.
This collection of already-published writing includes the tried and true Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree, Jr., and Octavia Butler, but also creates space for the more contemporary and (as yet) less canonical Hiromi Goto, Nalo Hopkinson, and Vandana Singh. Under the broad umbrella of 'feminist speculative fiction,' this is a formidable and important archive of polished work, and is a solid introduction to some creative stories that engage the broad problematic of gender and patriarchy.
A feminist archive, however, will never be uncontroversial. From the perspective of mainstream science fiction, this compilation highlights voices and perspectives at its margins: it includes feminist voices spanning over fifty years. This creates a bit of a challenge for the collection: feminist movements of all stripes have radically changed how gender and sexuality is conceptualized (and lived) over this period – and whose experiences are reflected in those movements – but these changes are not tracked in this collection. If speculative fiction always has something to say about the present moment, but the work was written forty years ago, how do we read it now? And how do we read a collection of works written at different historical moments, in relation to different feminisms?
If there is, indeed, a singular feminism that emerges in this book, it is one very much in response to white-hetero-patriarchy. Many stories in Sisters of the Revolution reflect the bleakness of the potential future: the worst of this contemporary patriarchal society taken to an extreme. The stories that do this are sobering, angering, clarifying, and accurate in many ways. Critically, though, in creating bleak worlds with no way out, and without credible resistance, these stories often leave an aftertaste of despair that I personally read sci fi to avoid. There are other feminisms in here, however, from Nalo Hopkinson's imaginatively and ambiguously resistant "The Glass Bottle Trick" to the enticingly geeky and happily-ever-after-esque "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" by Eleanor Arnason, to Nnedi Okorafor's inspiring "The Palm Tree Bandit," in which movement and change is possible, creative and fun.
More critically, the feminism in many of these stories is one that conflates body parts, gender, and sexuality, especially in relation to men, but also for women in many stories. The most play happens at the level of gender, with women subverting femininity (LeGuin's "Sur") or sometimes just surviving in patriarchal societies taken to the allegorical extreme (Pamela Sargent's all too prognostic 1984 "Fears"). Rather than drawing upon the diversity of experiences of gender in contemporary society, or using the wiggle room between binaries and norms as prying points for new ways of being in the world – and bringing on new ones – these stories too often fall back on essentialized notions of gender, and the ways out of dystopia are often about individual survival and womanhood. Given contemporary gender politics, this trajectory certainly makes this collection feel dated, and the archival anthology that it, well, is.
Seeing it as such an anthology allows for the older pieces to stand out for their historical significance in pushing the envelop of mainstream science fiction, and also for their lasting creativity and inspiration; Butler's stellar 1987 "The Evening, the Morning, and the Night," which plays with genetics and inherited traits in a somewhat deterministic yet allegorical way, is an excellent example of this. Additionally, the more recent pieces are clearly in this lineage: challenging what emerges as the mainstream in the book into a still different future for speculative fiction. Rachel Swirsky's magical "Detours on the Way to Nothing," and Vandana Singh's innovative "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" are some of the most creative contributions to the volume. In this new trajectory of feminist speculative fiction that the VanderMeers trace here, it is important to note that a significant number of the collected authors are women of color.
Read next to each other, Octavia's Brood and Sisters of the Revolution make very different contributions. Brood builds momentum and inspiration for social justice movements that take the arts seriously – and vice versa – whereas Sisters contributes to a much needed archive of feminist struggles and visions, though many of these stories do feel narrow and dated in the age of Idle No More, Black Lives Matter, and radical queer & trans politics. It is also important to note the stark absence of Indigenous writers in both these compilations; it would have been nice to see the work of Zainab Amadahy, among others, highlighted here.
adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, editors of Octavia's Brood (2015, AK Press/IAS)
While reading these collections, what kept coming to mind is something that Indigenous folks, people of color, and disabled folks often remind others of us about with respect to mainstream (post-) apocalyptic fictions: some people have already lived and are currently living through the apocalypse, yet the worlds created in science fiction so often don't include Indigenous folks, people of colour, people with disabilities. While again, Sisters is not absent women of colour, their contributions do not feel central to the feminism that emerges, in Brood this type of critique feels nearly implicit at its core: in fact, the radically subversive and clever "Hollow" by Mia Mingus does this with creative ease that does not feel like critique at all, but instead a welcoming. Brood feels like a welcoming, and opening to experiment and create new worlds not out of critique or shame, but desire to be a part of something more beautiful. What Imarisha notes in the Introduction to Brood, however, may help contextualize Sisters in this; she says, "changes will occur that we cannot even begin to imagine, and the next generation will be both utterly familiar and wholly alien to their parents."(3) These books are odd relatives, indeed, though certainly not of the parent-child relation. Perhaps they are so alien to each other in many ways, but both necessary for the different roles they play.
Kim Smith is a cat-bicycle-book-resonance-machine. Trembling aspens and magpies speak to her from Edmonton/Papaschase Cree land in Victoria/Lekwungen Territories where she is holed up attempting to finish a Master's degree.
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Marine Heatwave Attracts Invasive Fish in the Mediterranean
Tasos Kokkinidis - August 3, 2022
A marine heatwave has hit the Mediterranean, including the Ionian and Aegean seas, posing a threat to the entire marine ecosystem, experts have warned. The marine heatwave is leading to a proliferation of invasive fish species and jellyfish. As the...
Global Warming Brings Venomous Sea Urchin to the Aegean
Tasos Kokkinidis - March 28, 2022
Global warming has brought a venomous sea urchin into the Aegean with scientists saying that it has been spotted in the waters off at least 12 Greek islands. The particular sea urchin, whose scientific name is Diadema setosum, has extremely...
Greek Scientists Launch Study of Alien Fish Invasion in the Aegean
Tasos Kokkinidis - October 14, 2019
Greek scientists have recently launched an attempt to record the actual number of alien fish species from the Red Sea which have "invaded" the Aegean, especially in the north. They also hope to assess the impact these unwelcome species has...
Venomous Lionfish Spotted in Waters off Crete
Tasos Kokkinidis - July 31, 2019
Lionfish, a species of ray-finned fish which are native to the region of the western Indo-Pacific, have been recently spotted in the waters off Crete. Scientists say that the fish, which can grow up to 35 cm (14 inches) in...
Lionfish Invades Crete for the First Time
Mary Harris - July 26, 2016
The poisonous lionfish was located for the first time in the sea region of Agios Panteleimonas in Crete, Lassithi. The Cretan Aquarium of the Greek Center for Marine Research announced the appearance of the tropical fish, otherwise known as...
Alert! Rhodes Invaded by Alien Fish Species From Suez Canal
Mary Harris - May 27, 2016
The lionfish, found in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, South Africa and east of Sumatra, has now made its way to the Aegean Sea, particularly in the sea region of Rhodes. It first appeared in the summer of...


Date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) not only produce edible dates but add value to the landscape with their textured trunks and fronds. The date palm's grayish trunk sports diamond-shaped marks from old fronds and creates lines in the landscape with its vertical height. The bluish green fronds may reach lengths of 18 to 20 feet. Occasionally, fronds will die and require removal to keep the date palm looking clean. Date palms grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11, where pruning is suitable any time of the year.
Put on a long-sleeved shirt, gloves, hat and safety glasses to protect your skin and head from injury. Remove debris, rocks and other obstacles from around the base of the date palm.
Pour 1 part water and 1 part bleach into a bucket. Stir the solution briefly with a stick to combine the liquids. Submerge the blade of a pruning saw in the liquid for 5 minutes. Pull the saw out and hold it over the bucket to allow excess solution to drip back into the bucket. Set the saw on a flat, clean work surface to air-dry.
Place an A-frame ladder next to the date palm if needed to reach the base of the fronds. Position the ladder to the side of a dead, brown, dry or yellowing frond.
Bring the saw to the tree. Climb the A-frame ladder to a point where your torso rises above the stems of the fronds selected for pruning.
Grasp the frond in one hand, holding its stem just below the leaves. Lift the frond upward if it is drooping to better expose its stem. Hold the saw in the opposite hand. Cut horizontally through the frond's stem, 1/2 to 1 inch out from the trunk to avoid damaging the bark. Ensure that no one is standing below the frond. Drop the frond to the ground.
Repeat the pruning process to remove all dead or dying fronds. Dip the saw in the bleach solution after removing each frond to kill any pathogens on the blade. Pick up the cut fronds and stems, depositing them in a trash bin. Leave the frond stubs, also called boots, on the tree to dry for two to four weeks.
Climb the ladder to reach the frond stubs. Grasp the end of a stub in one hand. Pull the stub repeatedly back and forth to loosen it from the tree. Do not use excessive force to make the stub loose as this may cause the trunk's bark to tear, creating a wound that disease and insects may enter. Continue to pull on the stub until it comes free from the trunk. Drop the stub to the ground. Leave stubborn stubs that do not loosen on the tree for an additional two weeks to dry further.
Do not cut of fronds with less than 50 percent yellow tissue as the date palm is still receiving nutrients and energy from these leaves.
Only prune off fronds growing or hanging at an angle less than 90 degrees to the trunk. This will ensure that the date palm retains sufficient foliage and an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
Do not prune date palms that cannot easily be reached with or without a standard sized A-frame ladder. Hire a professional to prune overly tall date palms.


The Haiku Damascus 10.25" Bread Knife is another nod to the Western market from an otherwise traditional Japanese Series. The aggressive serrated pattern on a thin, gently back-curved blade simply glides through hard, crusty loaves and tender crumb without tearing, pinching or crushing the foods. Its longer-than-usual size also lends very well to cutting thick rinds from large melons, pineapples and other tough-skinned items.


This custom style door features a full raised panel that runs a majority length of the door. As shown in the picture on the right, we added a V-groove going down the center of the panel to give it the look of a dual planks. Another addition to the door was the adze/distress carving on the panel along with the 12 round (RC6) clavos to give it that finished Mediterranean style look. This custom interior door was fabricated to fit the existing opening/frame and was made in solid Knotty Pine wood.


Chiltern Distribution can transport anything that requires a temperature-controlled service between -25 degrees and +25 degrees, and their main industries include the pharmaceutical and food sectors.
Paul said the European-wide company has seen a sharp rise in the number of 'just in time' requests.
"People want their goods yesterday. The generation of people we are dealing with grew up with Amazon. Businesses nowadays don't carry as much stock because buying and storing products cost money.
Paul's team have recently taken delivery of two new Mercedes Sprinter refrigerated vans from CoolKit after being impressed with their build quality. This brings their fleet to 40 articulated 44-tonne trucks and 8 Mercedes Sprinter vans.
"There's a lot of vehicle builders out there and what I'm interested in is the quality of the build. I need a converted vehicle that will do 350,000 miles over three years.
"I have been doing this for 25-years so I know what I need and what does and doesn't work. I have tried other vehicles, but the Sprinters offer reliability and service and come with a three-year unlimited mileage warranty.
He said: "The CoolKit vans give us slightly larger cubic capacity, but it's the 70kg weight advantage that makes a big difference to us compared to the older vehicles.
"A pallet of goods is usually sold by the tonne, and the weight may be slightly over the weight threshold for the older vehicles so without the newer CoolKit vehicles I would have to send a HGV, which is more costly.
"CoolKit products are good value. They're not always the cheapest but a great quality build is worth spending a little extra. You have to ask yourself if the product will stand the test of time. You can't cut corners with converting temperature-controlled vehicles.
"I'm looking to order more vehicles with CoolKit in the next 12 months and that's the biggest testament I can give. Everything they do, they do it right. The staff have been very helpful.
"CoolKit has been concentrating on quality of build, value for money and product reliability. Continuous improvements have seen us become the largest convertor of panel vans in the temperature-controlled industry.
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What happens to a body of artistic work when its presiding genius dies? It's hard to imagine anyone finds it hard to hold in mind the cumulative effect of the works of J G Ballard, say, or even Dame Barbara Cartland. Mythomanes are, above all else, consistent.
But it's consistency that matters – not personality. While he lived, the writer-artist-filmmaker Derek Jarman practically personified British metropolitan intellectual life. But it was his living personality that held his wildly varied (and variable) world together. Within a couple of months of his death, those of us who'd rated him were beginning to avoid making eye contact: day by day, the pleasures we had shared were ceasing to make any sense.
Time will heal Jarman's reputation, but very slowly – and I think the work of Chris Marker – the videos, the writings, the photographs, the documentaries, the films, the CD-ROMs, the installations and all the rest of it – is likely to require as long a recuperation.
The Whitechapel Gallery in the East End of London has put together a tremendous retrospective of the life and work of the French artist and documentary maker, who died in 2012. But the experience, as you move dumbfounded from screen to glass case to screen to keyboard, is neither one of pleasure, nor even admiration. In fact it's cumulatively disturbing.
How can none of this mean anything any more? Is it the gallery, or is it you? (It's you.) Even Marker's filmed photo roman La Jetee (the easy one, the entry text, the one that got turned into Twelve Monkeys) slithers over your eyes as slick and as cold as an eel. Are you having some sort of stroke?
Alain Resnais called Marker "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man" and he wasn't kidding. Marker was Mr Media Saturation, the living incarnation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. His video mash-ups didn't just capture the future. They somehow made it inevitable.
And that, of course, is the trouble. We are living in Marker's world now, just as surely as we are living in Jarman's. It's damned hard to map a forest when you've been dropped slap-bang in the middle of it.
For now, at least, Marker, the unwitting and posthumous author of his own explanatory texts, lives more fully and more vividly than his work, his subjects, his photographs of 1968, and students demonstrating against "a largely imaginary fascism".
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Ubuntu comes to the phone, with a beautifully distilled interface and a unique full PC capability when docked
Tags: Canonical
Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabqvn
Leading open PC platform with huge global following announces mobile version for network operators, OEMs and silicon vendors
Fast, beautiful interface for entry level smartphones
Unique PC experience on superphones when docked with a monitor, keyboard and mouse
Ubuntu raises the bar for mobile UI design, for richer and more immersive apps
A single OS for phone, PC and TV
London, UK, 2 January, 2013: Canonical today announced a distinctive smartphone interface for its popular operating system,Ubuntu, using all four edges of the screen for a more immersive experience. Ubuntu uniquely gives handset OEMs and mobile operators the ability to converge phone, PC and thin client into a single enterprise superphone.
"We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop, with customers in a wide range of sectors focused on security, cost and manageability" said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "We also see an opportunity in basicsmartphones that are used for the phone, SMS, web and email, where Ubuntu outperforms thanks to its native core apps and stylish presentation."
Ubuntu is aimed at two core mobile segments: the high-end superphone, and the entry-level basic smartphone, helping operators grow the use of data amongst consumers who typically use only the phone and messaging but who might embrace the use of web and email on their phone. Ubuntu also appeals to aspirational prosumers who want a fresh experience with faster, richer performance on a lower bill-of-materials device.
The handset interface for Ubuntu introduces distinctive new user experiences to the mobile market, including:
Edge magic: thumb gestures from all four edges of the screen enable users to find content and switch between apps faster than other phones.
Deep content immersion - controls appear only when the user wants them.
A beautiful global search for apps, content and products.
Voice and text commands in any application for faster access to rich capabilities.
Both native and web or HTML5 apps.
Evolving personalised art on the welcome screen.
Ubuntu offers compelling customisation options for partner apps, content and services. Operators and OEMs can easily add their own branded offerings. Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
Canonical makes it easy to build phones with Ubuntu. The company provides engineering services to offload the complexity of maintaining multiple code bases which has proven to be a common issue for smartphone manufacturers, freeing the manufacturer to focus on hardware design and integration. For silicon vendors, Ubuntu is compatible with a typical Android Board Support Package (BSP). This means Ubuntu is ready to run on the most cost-efficient chipset designs.
In bringing Ubuntu to the phone, Canonical is uniquely placed with a single operating system for client, server and cloud, and a unified family of interfaces for the phone, the PC and the TV. "We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
Canonical currently serves the leading PC OEMs: ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all certify the majority of their PCs on Ubuntu and pre-install it in global markets. Over 20 million desktop PCs run the OS today, and Canonical estimates that close to 10% of the world's new desktops and laptops will ship with Ubuntu in 2014. Ubuntu is also wildly popular as a server platform, the number one server OS on the key major public clouds and the leading host OS for OpenStack, the open source IAAS.
For more visit us at CES: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Upper Level South Hall 3, Booth #30659
Ian Drew, executive vice president, Marketing and Business Development, ARM: "This announcement is good news for consumers who are already living in a mobile-centric world. Ubuntu will hand users the ability to enjoy a unified experience across the multiple platforms on which they lead their digital lives. It will also help to deliver the highly personalized interface, operating system, content and applications that are central to the creation of compelling new digital experiences."
Peter Winston, CEO at Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS): "Almost all modern phones have a lot of open source components, it was only a matter of time before someone created a pure open source phone, without the strings attached. A true open source player has the opportunity to be a significant player in the emerging markets, as well as with people already committed to open source. It's really exciting to see Ubuntu entering into the phone market."
Lars Knoll, CTO and chief maintainer of Qt at Digia: "Applications are one of the key drivers for the continued growth of the mobile industry. Qt, the de facto standard for native cross-platform application and UI development, has played an important role in this development for more than a decade. We are delighted to see Canonical go mobile, allowing developers to combine the industry proven quality and flexibility of Ubuntu with Qt to deliver superior experiences for end users on exciting new devices and form factor configurations. Ubuntu has been a long supporter of Qt and soon developers will be able to rapidly expand their portfolio to include Ubuntu for mobile, further supporting Digia's vision of truly bringing Qt to all platforms and form factors."
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical: "We're shaping the future of personal computing. Ubuntu is proven on the desktop, and uniquely positioned to be at the heart of the next wave of consumer electronics, combining a beautiful hand-held touch interface with a full PC experience when docked."
Chris Kenyon, VP Sales and Marketing at Canonical: "Ubuntu presents a single platform for all kinds of personal and enterprise computing, a unique opportunity to simplify operations for industry and end-users alike. We are delighted to extend our service offerings from the PC industry into the mobile sector".
About Canonical
Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project and the leading provider of support services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing. Since its launch in 2004, it has become a natural choice for users of all kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and individual technologists.
With developers, support staff and engineering centres all over the world, Canonical is uniquely positioned to help its partners and enterprise customers make the most of Ubuntu. It also operates Ubuntu One, a cross-platform personal cloud service for consumers.
Canonical is a privately held company.
8 Intel graphics patch "wrecks" Gen7 iGPU Linux performance
Ivy Bridge and Haswell iGPU performance is crushed by mitigations for CVE-2019-14615.
7 Chromium-based Microsoft Edge leaves preview
Revamped browser available to download now on Windows and macOS in 90 languages.
2 Vulkan 1.2 specification released by Khronos
AMD and Nvidia have released driver updates to support the new Vulkan 1.2 graphics API.
Windows Terminal updated with Retro-style CRT effects and more Windows 7 support ends today Ubuntu Edge smartphone breaks crowdfunding records Dell launches Alienware X51 Ubuntu gaming PCs Ubuntu arrives on tablets, it's "tastefully tactile".
5 Fujitsu Happy Hacking Keyboard gets USB-C and Bluetooth 3
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It`s not radical Islam that worries the US – it`s independence
Noam Chomsky--February 4, 2011--http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence
`The Arab world is on fire,` al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies `are quickly losing their influence`. The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator`s brutal police.
Observers compared it to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences. Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators. Rather, Washington and its allies keep to the well-established principle that democracy is acceptable only insofar as it conforms to strategic and economic objectives: fine in enemy territory (up to a point), but not in our backyard, please, unless properly tamed.
One 1989 comparison has some validity: Romania, where Washington maintained its support for Nicolae Ceausescu, the most vicious of the east European dictators, until the allegiance became untenable. Then Washington hailed his overthrow while the past was erased. That is a standard pattern: Ferdinand Marcos, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Chun Doo-hwan, Suharto and many other useful gangsters. It may be under way in the case of Hosni Mubarak, along with routine efforts to try to ensure a successor regime will not veer far from the approved path. The current hope appears to be Mubarak loyalist General Omar Suleiman, just named Egypt`s vice-president. Suleiman, the longtime head of the intelligence services, is despised by the rebelling public almost as much as the dictator himself.
A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.
A familiar example is Saudi Arabia, the ideological centre of radical Islam (and of Islamic terror). Another in a long list is Zia ul-Haq, the most brutal of Pakistan`s dictators and President Reagan`s favorite, who carried out a programme of radical Islamisation (with Saudi funding).
`The traditional argument put forward in and out of the Arab world is that there is nothing wrong, everything is under control,` says Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian official and now director of Middle East research for the Carnegie Endowment. `With this line of thinking, entrenched forces argue that opponents and outsiders calling for reform are exaggerating the conditions on the ground.`
Therefore the public can be dismissed. The doctrine traces far back and generalises worldwide, to US home territory as well. In the event of unrest, tactical shifts may be necessary, but always with an eye to reasserting control.
The vibrant democracy movement in Tunisia was directed against `a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human rights problems`, ruled by a dictator whose family was hated for their venality. So said US ambassador Robert Godec in a July 2009 cable released by WikiLeaks.
Therefore to some observers the WikiLeaks `documents should create a comforting feeling among the American public that officials aren`t asleep at the switch` – indeed, that the cables are so supportive of US policies that it is almost as if Obama is leaking them himself (or so Jacob Heilbrunn writes in The National Interest.)
`America should give Assange a medal,` says a headline in the Financial Times, where Gideon Rachman writes: `America`s foreign policy comes across as principled, intelligent and pragmatic … the public position taken by the US on any given issue is usually the private position as well.`
In this view, WikiLeaks undermines `conspiracy theorists` who question the noble motives Washington proclaims.
Godec`s cable supports these judgments – at least if we look no further. If we do,, as foreign policy analyst Stephen Zunes reports in Foreign Policy in Focus, we find that, with Godec`s information in hand, Washington provided $12m in military aid to Tunisia. As it happens, Tunisia was one of only five foreign beneficiaries: Israel (routinely); the two Middle East dictatorships Egypt and Jordan; and Colombia, which has long had the worst human-rights record and the most US military aid in the hemisphere.
Heilbrunn`s exhibit A is Arab support for US policies targeting Iran, revealed by leaked cables. Rachman too seizes on this example, as did the media generally, hailing these encouraging revelations. The reactions illustrate how profound is the contempt for democracy in the educated culture.
Unmentioned is what the population thinks – easily discovered. According to polls released by the Brookings Institution in August, some Arabs agree with Washington and western commentators that Iran is a threat: 10%. In contrast, they regard the US and Israel as the major threats (77%; 88%).
Arab opinion is so hostile to Washington`s policies that a majority (57%) think regional security would be enhanced if Iran had nuclear weapons. Still, `there is nothing wrong, everything is under control` (as Muasher describes the prevailing fantasy). The dictators support us. Their subjects can be ignored – unless they break their chains, and then policy must be adjusted.
Other leaks also appear to lend support to the enthusiastic judgments about Washington`s nobility. In July 2009, Hugo Llorens, U.S. ambassador to Honduras, informed Washington of an embassy investigation of `legal and constitutional issues surrounding the 28 June forced removal of President Manuel `Mel` Zelaya.`
The embassy concluded that `there is no doubt that the military, supreme court and national congress conspired on 28 June in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup against the executive branch`. Very admirable, except that President Obama proceeded to break with almost all of Latin America and Europe by supporting the coup regime and dismissing subsequent atrocities.
Perhaps the most remarkable WikiLeaks revelations have to do with Pakistan, reviewed by foreign policy analyst Fred Branfman in Truthdig.
The cables reveal that the US embassy is well aware that Washington`s war in Afghanistan and Pakistan not only intensifies rampant anti-Americanism but also `risks destabilising the Pakistani state` and even raises a threat of the ultimate nightmare: that nuclear weapons might fall into the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Again, the revelations `should create a comforting feeling … that officials are not asleep at the switch` (Heilbrunn`s words) – while Washington marches stalwartly toward disaster.


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Joe DiMaggio opens in Wellington
The Joe DiMaggio Children's Health Specialty Center in Wellington is scheduled to open Monday, February 18, with medical professionals in six specialties—endocrinology, pulmonology, otolaryngology, orthopedics, general surgery, and neurology. Comprehensive imaging (MRI and ultrasound), outpatient surgery, and rehabilitation services are also available at the more than 30,000 square foot, freestanding facility.
The Joe DiMaggio Children's Health Specialty Center in Wellington is one of three locations in Palm Beach County that provide specialized pediatric care. The other two are Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital physician offices in Boca Raton. The new center is at 3377 N. State Road 7 and the phone number is(561) 341-7000. An open house is set for Saturday, March 16.
"We're proud to have earned a reputation for high quality, patient and family-centered care and we'll bring that same level of service to families in Wellington," said Caitlin Beck Stella, CEO of Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, who was SFBW's January cover subject. "At the Joe DiMaggio Children's Health Specialty Center in Wellington, we'll be an extension of the care area pediatricians provide, often working in collaboration with them to improve the health of local children."
Stella says the specialty center features online scheduling and the same kid-friendly décor and "Power of Play" philosophy as Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, the 226-bed hospital in Hollywood. The children's hospital was the first pediatric facility in the world to receive Planetree's Person-Centered Organization designation.
Creative flair enlivens what could have been a typical drab medical environment at the center. It has touches such as an MRI that looks like an underwater wonder world and surfaces with touches of bright red and yellow plus an abundance of calming blue.
Exterior of the Joe DiMaggio center in Wellington
Urgent care area
An MRI in a an underwater theme
A rehab area
Surgical suite