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Nuo 2016 m. EUROFOUND atidžiai stebėjo nacionalinių socialinių partnerių dalyvavimą formuojant politiką pagal Europos semestro ciklą. 2020 m. daugiausia dėmesio skirta jų dalyvavimui pirmaisiais COVID-19 protrūkio mėnesiais. Nors dėl pandemijos kilo didelių sunkumų įgyvendinant socialinį dialogą, analizės rezultatai rodo, kaip socialinis dialogas gali veiksmingai padėti formuoti politikos iniciatyvas ir rasti sprendimus esant nepaprastajai padėčiai, kuri daro poveikį įmonėms, darbuotojams, ekonomikai ir visuomenei.
This year's theme to mark International Women's Day on 8 March is Choose to Challenge (or #ChooseToChallenge, if you prefer). The idea is to highlight that 'from challenge comes change' and that 'we can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality'.[1]
Šioje pavyzdinėje ataskaitoje apibendrinamos pagrindinės EUROFOUND darbo sąlygų tyrimo, atlikto 2017–2020 m., išvados. Joje aprašoma darbo sąlygų gerinimo pažanga, padaryta nuo 2000 m., ir tiriama, ar teigiami pokyčiai buvo vienodai naudingi visiems darbuotojams. Ataskaitoje nurodoma, kurioms darbuotojų grupėms pavojus dirbti blogomis darbo sąlygomis ir atsilikti didžiausias. Atsižvelgiant į darbo pokyčius pasaulyje, nurodomi nauji uždaviniai, padėsiantys gerinti darbo kokybę.Psychosocial risks, Darbo laikas, Darbo sąlygos ir tvarus darbas, Working conditions, Sustainable work, Undeclared work, Profesinio ir asmeninio gyvenimo pusiausvyra, Work organisation, Employment relationship, Health and well-being at work, Lyčių lygybė, COVID-19, Darbo vietos kokybė, Senėjanti darbo jėga
While 2020 may come to be seen as the year platform work gathered pace and started to go mainstream – thanks in large part to COVID-19 containment measures sparking an increase in food and grocery delivery – 2021 could be the year that regulation of platform work is set in motion. The well-known taxi and delivery platforms, like Deliveroo and Free Now, have been criticised from their inception for applying conditions of employment that simultaneously deny their workers the entitlements of an employee and the autonomy enjoyed by the self-employed. But platform work need not be the job of last resort. It is fundamentally a new means of matching supply and demand for paid labour, and it could be an engine for innovation and employment growth. It's time for policymakers to steer it along a path that better balances the interests of platforms and workers.
To date, close to six million workers in the EU have lost their jobs due to COVID-19. Many businesses have closed their doors forever or been pushed to the brink, bringing severe financial and psychological hardship to the individuals and families affected. However, the toll of the pandemic could have been even greater had it not been for the adoption of unprecedented assistance measures in all Member States, supported by the European Union, including through the SURE (Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency) initiative in 18 countries. But have these policies benefited different groups in the labour market equally, or have they cemented existing inequalities in access to support, effectively creating two worlds of income support during the pandemic?
The Eurofound style guide is designed to be used by all Eurofound authors – both internal and external – and those who are involved in the process of editing the different products. Use of the style guide will help Eurofound to deliver high-quality information products and so increase our visibility and influence as part of the overall strategic objective 'to provide scientifically sound, unbiased, timely and policy relevant knowledge that contributes to better informed polices to improve living and working conditions and strengthen cohesion in a changing Europe'.
Despite the unusually tough economic and labour market conditions, most EU Member States made nominal and real increases to their minimum wages in 2020. This is what a first overview of recent minimum wage developments reveals. Some countries lived up to earlier promises or pre-agreements, while other countries strayed somewhat off their original path but still maintained the overall trend of increasing minimum wages in line with other wages. Although most countries were cautious in the level of increase granted, low inflation rates meant that the value of minimum wages still went up beyond rises in consumer prices. For the time being, at least, it can be concluded that the policy response in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is distinct from the approach taken during the global financial crisis, when a greater number of countries moved quickly to freeze nominal minimum wages.
The employment fallout of COVID-19 has been a story of two types of service work. Office-based knowledge workers have largely kept their jobs and incomes while participating in the huge and apparently successful ad hoc social experiment in working from home. Client-facing service workers have borne the brunt of the lockdowns and the steep declines in demand for in-person services in restaurants, hotels, leisure and the arts. The upshot is that, unlike the 'mancession' following the global financial crisis, the first impacts of the pandemic have fallen disproportionately on low-paid female workers. But to see this in the statistics, we must start by looking beyond the unemployment rate.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the accessibility of health, education and care services for all Europeans. This is also the case for children, who in several countries have seen their schools closed and replaced with remote learning. They have been affected, too, by the pandemic's negative impact on their families' access to healthcare and their mental health. Many families have also experienced rising housing insecurity. The Child Guarantee aims to ensure access to these resources for children in need.
Healthcare providers have been overwhelmed by the demand for COVID-19-related care. Medical appointments and treatments for other conditions have often been delayed, potentially leading to escalating health problems and greater future care needs among those who have missed out. If the pandemic leads to an economic crash, this rise in unmet medical needs could spiral, as happened during the last economic crisis – policymakers should take heed.
European Restructuring Monitor
The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) has reported on the employment impact of large-scale business restructuring since 2002. This publication series include the ERM reports, as well as blogs, articles and working papers on restructuring-related events in the EU27 and Norway.
European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021
Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. This series consists of findings from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021, an extraordinary edition conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was first carried out in 1990.
Developments in working life, industrial relations and working conditions in the EU
This publication series gathers all overview reports on developments in working life, annual reviews in industrial relations and working conditions produced by Eurofound on the basis of national contributions from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents (NEC). Since 1997, these reports have provided overviews of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the EU and Norway. The series may include recent ad hoc articles written by members of the NEC.
Eurofound's work on COVID-19 examines the far-reaching socioeconomic implications of the pandemic across Europe as they continue to impact living and working conditions. A key element of the research is the e-survey, launched in April 2020, with five rounds completed at different stages during 2020, 2021 and 2022. This is complemented by the inclusion of research into the ongoing effects of the pandemic in much of Eurofound's other areas of work.
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Minimum wages in the EU
This series reports on developments in minimum wage rates across the EU, including how they are set and how they have developed over time in nominal and real terms. The series explores where there are statutory minimum wages or collectively agreed minimum wages in the Member States, as well as minimum wage coverage rates by gender.
European Working Conditions Surveys
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) launched in 1990 and is carried out every five years, with the latest edition in 2015. It provides an overview of trends in working conditions and quality of employment for the last 30 years. It covers issues such as employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, work and health, and most recently also the future of work.
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European Company Survey 2019
Eurofound's European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2019, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.
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This series reports on and updates latest information on the involvement of national social partners in policymaking. The series analyses the involvement of national social partners in the implementation of policy reforms within the framework of social dialogue practices, including their involvement in elaborating the National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
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Military Status: Veteran
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PetSmart is a retailer unlike any other; we don't just sell products, we provide solutions that foster happy and healthy homes for pets and pet parents. Our Assistant Store Manager lead the operations through that lens and oversee all aspects of our retail store-from head to tail!
In a store as big as ours, we need all hands (and paws, wings and fins!) on deck to ensure we are operating efficiently. So, as an Assistant Store Manager, you'll help lead the team in the following areas:
- Associate Leadership: As a leader in the store, you'll help to hire and train new associates on all things PetSmart! You'll engage with and motivate them to continue to grow their skills and knowledge throughout their career.
- Pet Parent Engagement: You'll work with your teams to build strong relationships with our pet parents and pets and ensure their safety and well-being within the store. This also includes taking care of our live pets and ensuring our store is stocked with merchandise.
- Overall Retail Initiatives: In partnership with your Store Manager, you'll execute on all strategic merchandising initiatives, drive sales, and set standards of success within our retail store.
Just like we're there for pets at every stage of their lives, we'll be with you at every stage of your career, too. With PetSmart, you will have opportunities to:
- Gain experience in a different business unit-from the store to the salon or the Pets Hotel
- Develop your leadership skills as a Store Manager then a District Manager
- Tackle the challenge of a new store opening or turning around a struggling store
- Transfer to any one of our 1600 stores nationwide
We've highlighted job responsibilities as best as we could above-but the best parts of working at PetSmart can't be fully described in the job description.
- It's the excitement you feel when you help a little one pick out his very first fish. And not just any goldfish, but that one, right there, no not that one, this one, yea!
- It's the relief Rosie feels when you help her mom select the best food for her upset tummy and her delight when it turns out to be chicken flavored!!
- It's the pride of the giving Mickey a makeover in our salons watching him strut his stuff on the way out. Paws off, ladies, he's taken!
- It's the joy of reuniting Frankie with her family after a fun stay in our Pets Hotel.
- It's the celebration of Bella's birthday, Gizmo's graduation from puppy classes or Ace's adoption.
- It's the little things we do that add up to really big things that pets need.
Working at PetSmart is not a job, it's a community of those who work together for the love of pets.
Apply now to experience a career that loves you back.
We look forward to seeing your application to join our Management team!
This job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work associates/leaders assigned to this job perform. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. You will be provided a copy of a job description for the actual position you are hired in to.
PetSmart is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We offer reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout our application process, upon request and as required by law


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Students might get their wish of more holiday time from school off under proposals catching on around the country to lengthen the school year calendar. But there's a catch: a much shorter summer vacation.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a chief proponent of the longer school year, says American students have fallen behind the world academically.
"Whether educators have more time to enrich instruction or students have more time to learn how to play an instrument and write computer code, adding meaningful in-school hours is a critical investment that better prepares children to be successful in the 21st century," he said in December when five states announced they would add at least 300 hours to the school year calendar in some schools beginning this year.
The three-year pilot project will affect about 20,000 students in 40 schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee.
Proponents argue that too much knowledge is lost while American kids wile away the summer months apart from their lessons. The National Summer Learning Association cites decades of research that shows students' test scores are higher in the same subjects at the beginning of the summer than at the end.
"The research is very clear about that," said Charles Ballinger, executive director emeritus of the National Association for Year-Round School in San Diego. "The only ones who don't lose are the upper 10 to 15 percent of the student body. Those tend to be gifted, college-bound, they're natural learners who will learn wherever they are."
Supporters also say a longer school year would give poor children more access to school-provided healthy meals.
Yet the movement has plenty of detractors—so many that Ballinger sometimes feels like the Grinch trying to steal Christmas.
(Next page: Exploring both sides of the debate in more detail)
"I had a parent at one meeting say, 'I want my child to lie on his back in the grass watching the clouds in the sky during the day and the moon and stars at night,'" Ballinger recalled. "I thought, 'Oh, my. Most kids do that for two, three, maybe four days, then say, 'What's next?""
But opponents aren't simply dreamy romantics.
Besides the outdoor opportunities for pent up youngsters, they say families already are beholden to the school year calendar for three seasons out of four. Summer breaks, they say, are needed to provide an academic respite for students' overwrought minds, and to provide time with family and the flexibility to travel and study favorite subjects in more depth. They note that advocates of year-round school cannot point to any evidence that it brings appreciable academic benefits.
"I do believe that if children have not mastered a subject that, within a week, personally, I see a slide in my own child," said Tina Bruno, executive director of the Coalition for a Traditional School Year. "That's where the idea of parental involvement and parental responsibility in education comes in, because our children cannot and should not be in school seven days a week, 365 days a year."
Bruno is part of a "Save Our Summers" alliance of parents, grandparents, educational professionals, and some summer-time recreation providers fighting a year-round school year calendar. Local chapters carry names such as Georgians Need Summers, Texans for a Traditional School Year, and Save Alabama Summers.
Camps, hotel operators, and other summer-specific industries also raise red flags about the potential economic effect.
The debate has divided parents and educators.
School days shorter than work days and summer breaks that extend to as many as 12 weeks in some areas run up against increasing political pressure from working households—30 percent of which are headed by women. These families must fill the gaps with afterschool programs, day care, babysitters, and camps.
For more school reform news, see:
Teachers union calls for certification exam
Education chief wants textbooks to go digital
"Particularly where there are single parents or where both parents are working, they prefer to provide care for three weeks at a time rather than three months at a time," Ballinger said.
The National Center on Time & Learning has estimated that about 1,000 districts have adopted longer school days or years.
Some places that have tried the year-round calendar, including Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and parts of California, have returned to the traditional approach. Strapped budgets and parental dissatisfaction were among reasons.
School years typically are extended based on three basic models:
• Stretching the traditional 180 days of school across the whole calendar year by lengthening spring and winter breaks and shortening the one in the summer.
• Adding 20 to 30 actual days of instruction to the 180-day school year calendar.
• Dividing students and staff into groups, typically four, and rotating three through at a time, with one on vacation, throughout the calendar year.
At the heart of the debate is nothing less than the ability of America's workforce to compete globally.
(Next page: What other countries are doing)
The U.S. remains in the top dozen or so countries in all tested subjects. But even where U.S. student scores have improved, many other nations have improved much faster, leaving American students far behind peers in Asia and Europe.
Still, data are far from clear that more hours behind a desk can help.
A Center for Public Education review found that students in India and China—countries Duncan has pointed to as giving children more classroom time than the U.S.—don't actually spend more time in school than American kids, when disparate data are converted to apples-to-apples comparisons.
The center, an initiative of the National School Boards Association, found 42 U.S. states require more than 800 instructional hours a year for their youngest students, and that's more than India does.
Opponents of a longer school year point out that states such as Minnesota and Massachusetts steadily shine on standardized achievement tests while preserving their summer break with a post-Labor Day school start.
"It makes sense that more time is going to equate to more learning, but then you have to equate that to more professional development for teachers—will that get more bang for the buck?" said Patte Barth, the center's director. "I look at it, and teachers and instruction are still the most important factor—more so than time."
The center's study also found that some nations that outperform the U.S. academically, such as Finland, require less school.
Many schools are experimenting with the less controversial, less costly interim step of lengthening the school day instead of adding days to the school year.
For more school reform news, see:
Teachers union calls for certification exam
Education chief wants textbooks to go digital
Chicago's public schools extended the school day from 5 hours and 45 minutes to 7 hours last year after a heated offensive by unionized teachers and some parents. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to Duncan's boss, President Barack Obama, initially pushed for an even longer school day—a major sticking point in this year's seven-day teachers' strike. He and other proponents argued that having the shortest school day among the nation's 50 largest districts and one of the shortest school years had put Chicago's children at a competitive disadvantage.
Wendy Katten, executive director of Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education, said opponents held back a push for a 7.5-hour school day, and got an extra staff person assigned to each school to handle the additional hour and 15 minutes of school time.
In San Diego, year-round school has been a reality since the 1970s.
District spokesman Jack Brandais said the concept initially was intended to relieve crowding, not improve performance test scores. The student body and staff were divided into four groups, with three attending school at any given time.
Through decades of fine-tuning, Brandais said the district now runs both traditional and year-round tracks simultaneously.
A 2007 study by Ohio State University sociologist Paul von Hippel found virtually no difference in the academic gains of students who followed a traditional nine-month school calendar and those educated the same number of days spread across the entire year.
Amid budget cuts and teacher layoffs, San Diego has cut five instructional days from both year-round and traditional schedules since last year.
- 'Buyer's remorse' dogging Common Core rollout - October 30, 2014
- Calif. law targets social media monitoring of students - October 2, 2014
- Elementary world language instruction - September 25, 2014


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Clayton Kershaw (11-7, 3.03) vs. Bronson Arroyo (13-7, 3.87).
COMMENTS: Sure, there's a game today, but what's really on our minds is Vin Scully's announcement that he will be back next year. Every year, every game with Vinny at the helm is a gift. And I (Sax, pitching in here with a late edit) selfishly am stoked to have my kids listen to Vinny next year--further extending four generations of Saxes who have followed games and even fallen asleep listening to Vinny's dulcet tones. Welcome back, Vin!
Also: Dodgers acquire catcher Rod Barajas (Dodger Thoughts)


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The report is likely to fuel an online campaign against Ortiz... An online petition asking President Obama to remove from office Ortiz — a politically ambitious prosecutor who was talked about as Massachusetts' next governor as recently as last month.There's a hot campaign to destroy Ortiz. Note that there's also this other case where she's accused of "bullying" a motel owner, in what she calls "strictly a law-enforcement effort to crack down on what was seen as a pattern of using the motel to further the commission of drug crimes for nearly three decades." Ortiz is considering appealing in that case, and the Boston Herald has the headline: "Ortiz to motel owner: We're not done yet." It's not like she said we're not done yet. That's the newspaper's paraphrase of "We are weighing our options with respect to appeal."
Is the prosecutor getting bullied? If she were to commit suicide — Swartz-style — would everyone feel ashamed of what they did to her?
No one cries for a prosecutor.


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Andrea - African Mudcloth Pillow
The front of this pillow is made from handwoven and hand dyed rust/copper and off-white mudcloth from Mali. This form of textile is handwoven; the cotton cloth is then sewn together in strips and dyed with fermented mud. No two pieces of mudcloth are exactly the same, which makes each piece unique! The backing is a natural-coloured cotton/poly twill and has an envelope enclosure.
INSERT SIZE: 12 x 18" (cover is slightly smaller)
COLOURS: rust/copper/orange, off-white
PILLOW INSERT IS INCLUDED (fluffy down insert). This means it will be ready to add colour to your home straight from the box!
Made with love on the westcoast of Canada :)
*Due to the handmade nature of the textile, there might be slight imperfections. All textiles/pillows have been carefully inspected and any major issues will have been noted in the description/photos.


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Chadli Bendjedid's Funeral: The Hypocrite's Ball
"Ils sont tous venus, aujourd'hui, célébrer celui qu'ils brocardaient hier. Il a été traîné dans la boue pendant 20 ans. C'est le bal des hypocrites" (1)
(Translation: Yes, today they all showed up to honor the person they had savaged yesterday and whose reputation they had dragged through the mud for twenty years. It was a hypocrite's ball)
1.In Algeria, presidents come and go; only the military and the security establishment remain, a platitude reflected by recent events. A state funeral was held for former Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid. He died of cancer in Algiers on October 6.
In contrast with the death of neighboring Tunisia's founding president, Habib Bourguiba similarly removed from office in 1987, whose passing in 2000 provoked a genuine outpouring of national grief, the response to Bendjedid's death in Algeria was, at best, muted.
If the broad masses of Algerians shed few tears still, much of the Algerian elite, past and present were in attendance at the funeral, including:
• Those who had essentially `drafted' Chadli Bendjedid for the presidency at the outset in 1979 (and then ran him from the shadows);
• Those who, like Khaled Nezzar, in 1992 Algeria's Defense Minister, (now facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a Swiss Court) threatened Bendjedid's life to pressure him to resign the presidency;
• Those who, like Abdulaziz Bouteflika, (since 1999 Algeria's president) somehow wiggled out of a corruption scandal during Bendjedid's time in power.
• Some of the ministers who served in his administration, among them the economic reformer, Mouloud Hamrouche, whose late 1980s market-oriented reforms threatened the Algeria's military junta's hold on power (and so they dumped him along with Bendjedid).
• High level delegations from Tunisia, Mauritania Egypt and Palestine were present as were a number of key figures from the Algerian trade union movement, political parties.
It was all rather formal – drum roll, kind words, burial with honors – feigned respect and an attempt to polish his image, to lend Bendjedid the dignity in death that often had been previously denied him. For in life, at least as president, he was used, abused and then basically discarded when his services were no longer needed. Now the crocodile tears flowed. Perhaps they were present to confirm that Bendjedid really was dead and gone, taking his secrets on all of them with him to the grave? Were they jittery about Bendjedid's soon to be released memoires?
The eulogies contrasted with how he was viewed during his lifetime. Described by his associates in the military as `a trilingual illiterate' ('analphabète trilingue'), a bit of an exaggeration, Bendjedid was akin to `Algeria's Ronald Reagan'; he was considered quite incompetent, a man whose main skill consisted of reading other people's scripts. According to some, it was in fact hisabsence of credentials which `qualified' him for the job making him a fine cover and fall guy for those manipulating the body politic ! (2)
When late in his presidency, Bendjedid began to function under the illusion that as president he actually could wield some power, he was rather rudely reminded of the limits of his mandate…and in short order, unceremoniously dumped. Not unusual by the way for an Algerian president! It had happened a number of times in the past.
The Algerian military and security forces, that had stolen power early in the country's post 1962 independence – and have clung to it until today – prefer to manage affairs and milk the country's rich energy resources from behind the scenes, giving a democratic gloss to what for half a century has been little other than a military dictatorship. Such arrangements play well in Paris and Washington.
The years that Bendjedid presided – or thought he did – over the Algerian nation, 1979 – 1992 saw the country plunge into an economic and social tailspin that triggered an all-out political crisis in 1988. That was only the beginning of the country's crisis. On January 11, 1992, just weeks before the second round of scheduled national elections, Bendjedid, now expendable, was pressured to resign `with honor' by a military delegation headed by Minister of Defense, General Khaled Nezzar.
The elections were immediately suspended by the self-appointed military junta led by General Larbi Belkheir (d. 2007), who had spent the Bendjedid years consolidating his power behind the scenes, and with it control of the country's rich oil and natural gas resources. A full scale domestic armed conflict erupted, lasting until 1999, that is today referred to as `the dirty war' (la sale guerre).
It was during the decade of the 1980s when Bendjedid was present that Algeria's relationship with the United States, which had been strained since the early 1960s, slightly improved. Bendjedid and the U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush exchanged visits. U.S. investments into Algeria's energy sector rose. Exchanges of military personnel were established with the presence of high level Algerian military officers at U.S. embassy parties in Algiers becoming a normal occurrence (although closet security relationships between the two countries' military and security agencies would not fully blossom until after September 11, 2011).
Having quietly improved ties with Algiers in the 1980s probably helps explain why, in the 1990s, when the Algerian Civil War was in full swing, the mainstream media in the United States barely covered it – and when they did, it was almost always with the spin shaped by the Algerian generals – that the war was against a rising, almost unstoppable Islamic fundamentalism that had to be crushed.
Chadli Bendjedid was in fact part and parcel of a long-standing post-independence tradition that placed a purposefully ineffectual people in the presidency to give cover to the country's behind-the-scenes political masters: the military and the security apparatus.
So it was in 1965 with Ben Bella, removed from power in a naked coup d'etat, when Boumedienne no longer needed his guerilla image to rule. In 1992, Bendjedid was followed by Mohammed Boudiaf, a genuine hero and guerilla leader of the country's 1954-1962 revolution against French colonialism, who tragically, was under the illusion he was being offered executive powers. Boudiaf was coaxed back from his Moroccan exile and promised by the military-security complex that he would be given executive powers.
Boudiaf appeared serious about curtailing rampant high level corruption, reigning in the power of the military-security `clans' (3) and bringing Algeria's rampant violence to an end through some sort of negotiated settlement, all of which threatened the status of the powers that be. After two unsuccessful attempts to poison him, Boudiaf was `publicly' assassinated (ie – it was shown on Algeria television), most probably by the same people who `offered' him the presidency in the first place.
Similarly, not long after assuming power, Liamine Zeroual, who followed Boudiaf to the presidency in 1994, made serious efforts to bring an end to Algeria's cruel civil war of the 1990s by trying to negotiate with moderate Islamicists; this rankled his military-security handlers. Soon he too was discarded. Like Boudiaf, Zeroual's problem was he took his job too seriously. In turn, in 1999, Zeroual was replaced by Abdulaziz Bouteflika, the current president, who has been more pliable.
Bendjedid served as Algeria's president 1979 through the beginning of 1992 when he was forced from office by the country's ruling military clique. Bendjedid returned briefly to the public eye in 2008 when he gave a controversial speech at a conference in el-Tarif suggesting that 16 years after his dismissal, or `resignation', he remained bitter for how he was summarily dismissed. Bendjedid became Algeria's president in 1979, just after the death of Houari Boumedienne. The latter had seized power from the country's first post-independence president, Ahmad Ben Bella in 1965 in what amounted to a military coup.
(1) El Watan, 9 octobre 2012. "Obsèques nationales pour Chadli Bendjedid : L'adieu"
(2) Lounis Aggoun and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire. http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Francalgerie__crimes_et_mensonges_d__tats-9782707147479.html. La Découverte. 2004-5. p.72
(3) The term is something of a misnomer as it does not refer to people who share blood relations as much as certain tightknit groupings vying for power within the military-security complex.
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- Carmen (timn, makghosh), Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit
- Pyrobot (makghosh), Python-based robotics simulation environment
- CMU IPC Library (rmattes), CMU's Inter-Process Communication Library (used in Carmen)
- Orca (rmattes), A component-based robotic framework
- OpenJaus (rmattes), An open BSD licensed implementation of the JAUS protocols
- Paparazzi (timn) Open-source autopilot system for model aircraft
- ROS Robot Operating System (Status)
Pending review requests
The Robotics SIG uses this Tracker Bug for package review requests and other tasks. For packages that are still under review, feel free to help test and review them for inclusion in Fedora!
Accepted packages
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- player - Cross-platform robot device interface and server
- rcssserver3d - RoboCup Soccer Simulation Server 3D
- rcssbase - Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation Base Library
- rcssmonitor - RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulator Monitor
- rcssserver - Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation Server
- rcsslogplayer - RoboCup Soccer Simulator LogPlayer
- MRPT - The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit.
- libkni3 - C++ library für the Katana robot arm
- urg - Library to access Hokuyo URG laser range finders
- stage - A 2.5D multi-robot simulator
- gearbox - A collection of usable peer-reviewed robotics-related libraries
- libphidget - Drivers and API for Phidget device
- fawkes - Robot Software Framework
- openni - Library for human-machine Natural Interaction
- openni-primesense - PrimeSensor/Kinect Modules for OpenNI
- eigen3 - A lightweight C++ template library for vector and matrix math
- nbc - Simple language and compiler to program the LEGO NXT brick
- ompl - The Open Motion Planning Library
- cminpack - Solver for nonlinear equations and nonlinear least squares problems
- flann - Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors
- pcl - Library for point cloud processing
- assimp - Library to import various 3D model formats into applications
- python-vcstools - Version Control System tools for Python
- flexiport - Flexible communications library
- libfreenect - Open device driver for the Kinect
- gazebo - 3D multiple robot simulator with dynamics
- libccd - Library for collision detection between convex shapes
- python-rosinstall - ROS installation utilities
- python-rosdep - ROS System Dependency Installer
- python-rospkg - Utilities for ROS package, stack, and distribution information
Software we will not package
If you want to get involved you could start investigating the code and maybe revive the upstream project! The postponed packages could be packaged later but the have a lower priority as decided by the SIG. (Probably) Won't package:
- RobotFlow (makghosh), Mobile robotics toolkit based on FlowDesign
- (timn): upstream looks dead for several years, probably not a good idea
- (makghosh): +1, so it goes down the list and maybe moved out if there is no further upstream
- (rmattes): Last commit January 2006, Dead Project?
- MARIE (makghosh), Component-based robotics framework
- (timn): no upstream release for a long time, wiki page vandalized, had commits this year though
- (rmattes): Last commit Jan 2008, Dead Project?
- Simbad (makghosh) Java-based 3-D robotics simulator
- (rmattes): Last commit July 2007, Dead Project?
- Julius Speech recognition engine
- (rmattes): Non-free: license prohibits commercial use
- (voxadam): The license for Julius was changed starting with 4.2.2 in such a way that according to Red Hat Legal renders it "Free", but not GPL compatible.
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- 2015/05/27 rmattes: Add tracker bug, update the task and package review lists
- 2012/01/11 rmattes: Took nbc/nxt off of the tasks list, updated pending and completed reviews
- 2011/07/27 rmattes: Updated mailing list address and meeting time, moved reviewed packages to done list.
- 2011/03/23 rmattes: Updated package review lists
- 2010/11/16 Hedayat: Added SickToolbox in wishlist
- 2010/11/08 rmattes: Removed already-packaged software, moved meeting agenda to Meetings page, updated mission statement.
- 2010/11/05 Hedayat: Added ROS to the list of interesting software pending for someone to take over
- 2010/11/01 rmattes: Libphidget accepted, Fawkes under review, added preliminary agenda for next meeting
- 2010/09/20 rmattes: Added new packages under review, removed packaged software from Interesting Software list
- 2010/03/12, rmattes: Updated status of Stage and Gearbox packages
- 2010/02/11, rmattes: Added Demos page to Tasks list
- 2010/02/04, rmattes: Updated review pending and accepted packages lists, added next meeting time
- 2009/11/10, rmattes: Added some more projects to the proposed package list, removed Myro
- 2009/10/17, timn: Added meeting minutes for 2009-10-15
- 2009/10/12, timn: Scheduled next meeting, added link to Fawkes.
- 2009/10/07, rmattes: Added IPC and Myro to list of interesting packages.
- 2009/07/11, jlblanco: Added mrpt to list of robotics packages already accepted in Fedora.
- 2008/10/04, Hedayat: Updating packages' status (rcssserver and rcsslogplayer)
- 2008/09/12, Hedayat: Updating packages' status (as I know!)
- 2008/06/18, timn: Third meeting, more packages up for review
- 2008/05/22, timn: Second meeting. Decided that we focus on Player/Stage/Gazebo to get a demo up and running to attract more people, see for details
- 2008/05/16, Hedayat: Added myself to the page and picked up Robocup Soccer Server packaging, added mailing list link
- 2008/05/07, timn: First IRC meeting, player/stage/gazebo will be the first package project, see for log
- 2008/05/03, timn: After discussion with JefSpaleta found the Fedora Robotics SIG.


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FRANKFORT, FRANKLIN COUNTY, KY – Every once in a while at nearly every large distillery, a barrel warehouse employee will run across a barrel or two that has seemed to be in hiding for a number of years. They're like little gems, concealed within the dark corners in the back of a rick just waiting to be rediscovered and sampled to see what treasures lie within.
Such is the case at Buffalo Trace Distillery, where a batch of barrels, some as old as 21 years, were rediscovered, tasted, and now bottled under the highly acclaimed Experimental Collection moniker.
"In 1998 we acquired the Old Charter brand, along with a large inventory of barrels, approximately 150,000. In a recent audit of our barrel inventory, we found some barrels from this lot. One was empty, one tasted horrible, and the others tasted very nice. Of course we bottled the very nice barrels and are offering these rare finds under our Experimental Collection label," said Kris Comstock, bourbon brand manager.
There are three different offerings, distilled back in 1989, 1991 and 1993. Details are as follows:
• 1989 Barrels, Rediscovered: These seven barrels were filled on Nov. 17, 1989. The still proof and entry proof are unknown. After more than 21 years of aging, the wood is very prominent, but it still doesn't conquer the rich vanilla and caramel flavors that bring to mind handmade holiday candy.
• 1991 Barrels, Rediscovered: These 8 barrels were filled on Oct. 29, 1991 and the still proof and entry proof are unknown. After a little more than 19 years, the warm and spicy aroma of this bourbon is overtaken by a robust black walnut character on the palette that finishes as thick candied fruits. The flavor lasts an eternity.
• 1993 Barrels, Rediscovered: These 8 barrels were filled on May 13, 1993 and like the other two offerings in this collection, the still proof and entry proof are unknown. After 17 years and 7 months in the barrel, this bourbon has a nice rich and creamy texture, like a whiskey latte with extra foam and a shot of vanilla. A great sipper for long cold nights.
There are more than 1,500 experimental barrels of whiskey now aging in the warehouses of Buffalo Trace Distillery. Each of these barrels has unique characteristics that differentiate it from all others. Some examples of these experiments include unique mash bills, type of wood and barrel toasts. In order to further increase the scope, flexibility and range of the experimental program, an entire micro distillery complete with cookers, fermenting tanks and a state-of-the-art micro still has been constructed within Buffalo Trace Distillery.
The Experimental Collection will be packaged in 375ml bottles. Each label will include all the pertinent information unique to that barrel of whiskey. These whiskeys will be released in February 2011 and retail for approximately $46.35 each. Each experiment is very rare and very limited.
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