Morning drive to Pushkar (250 km).
Upon arrival in Pushkar - check into the hotel.
Pushkar - is famous for its colourful annual fair during kartik poornima (full moon) in the November each year. At this time, this otherwise peaceful and gentle village on the banks of holy Pushkar take is thrown into colourful confusion when the desert tribes and camel caravans meet to trade cattle, camels, goat, sheep, clothes, jewellery and spices. Upto 200000 traders and 50000 cattle pour into town, along with numerous festooned camels and colourful pilgrims. After 10 hectic days of livestock dealing, camel racing and colourful festivities, on the night of the full moon (Kartik Purnima), everybody goes for a big holy dip in the lake and performs religious rituals in its waters, to the accompaniment of temple & folk music.
Late morning drive to Jaipur (150 km). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.
Afternoon city tour of Jaipur - "The Pink City" is spectacularly set within surrounding rugged hills, dotted with ancient ruined fortresses. Your tour will include the imposing City Palace, still home to the Maharaja although several of the rooms are now open to the public. Many antiques and artefacts belonging to the ruling family are housed here, including a collection of weaponry. You will also visit the Hawa Mahal "Palace of the Winds", and the open-air Jantar Mantar Observatory to see the vast astronomical instruments. Enjoy a stroll through the colourful bazaar before returning to your hotel.
Morning tour of the impressive Amber Fort, situated on a ridge just outside Jaipur City. At the foot of the hill you will mount your caparisoned elephant for the slow but steady climb up to the main gate, making your entrance in the time honoured fashion. The Fort, completed in the early 18th century, took over 100 years to build and now, although deserted, offers a fascinating insight into the lifestyle of the Moghul ruling families.
Morning drive to Ranthambore (156 kms). Upon arrival in Ranthambore – check into the hotel.
Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary - Rajasthan's most renowned wildlife sanctuary, it is 400 sq kms of dry deciduous forest, perfect natural habitat for tigers, and is set in the Aravalli and Vindhya hills, dotted with pavillions and dominated by a hilltop fort. Ranthambore was one of the hunting preserves of the former rulers of Jaipur and because of this the Maharajas ensured the environment was preserved and the forest and their inhabitants well protected. It has a good population of tiger and their prey species, and has been declared a "Project Tiger" reserve. Wildlife includes blue bull, black buck, spotted deer or cheetal, wild boar, a large variety of bird species and, if very lucky, the rarely seen leopard. Afternoon game viewing in the sanctuary by jeeps.
Early morning and late afternoon you will be escorted on a game viewing in the sanctuary by jeeps. Overnight at hotel.
Morning transfer to the railway station for train to Bharatpur.
Leave: Ranthambore at: 0716 hrs by: Shatabdi Express Arrive: Bharatpur at: 0920 hrs Upon arrival in Bharatpur, you will be met and proceed to Agra (56 kms) enroute visit Fatehpur Sikri.
Continue drive to Agra and check into the hotel. Afternoon visit the Red Fort & Taj Mahal.
Visit Red Fort - lies on the bend of the river Yamuna, almost in the heart of the town. It was built by Akbar as his citadel over the years 1563-73 in the finest architectural style. It has imposing gates and walls of red sandstone and a moat.
Visit the famous Taj Mahal - This most famous Moghul monument was constructed by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal "the lady of the Taj". It has been described as the most extravagant monument ever built for love, for the emperor was heartbroken when Mumtaz died after 17 years of marriage, during the birth of her 14th child.The central structure has four small domes surrounding the huge, central dome. Above the tombs of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan are false tombs, a common practice in Indian mausoleums. (Taj Mahal is closed on Friday).
Morning drive to Corbett (295 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.
Corbett National Park - It is India's oldest and one of her best parks covering 1318 sq. kms situated in the Himalayan foothills with open grasslands & river Ramganga flowing through its entire length. It is named after the famous hunter‑naturalist Corbett who, between 1907 & 1939 tracked down and killed man-eaters, which had claimed an aggregate of 1300 human lives. It is India's first & biggest Tiger reserve sponsored by 'World Wildlife Fund' supporting 50 mammals, 580 bird & 25 r eptile species. Overnight at hotel.
Early morning & afternoon, Jeep safari into the park for wildlife viewing.
PARK POPULATION: Corbett has the highest density of Tiger in the country-- approximately one every 10 sq km and it was here that the prestigious "Project Tiger" was launched in 1973. Four species of deer -- hog deer, sambar, chital and barking deer and other prey like the wild boar, are fodder for the tiger.
Besides the tiger, Corbett is a haven for 50 mammals, 580 kinds of birds and 25 reptile species. The park has elephants, the Himalayan black bear in the higher elevations, sloth bear, varieties of lesser cats, dhole the wild dog and an entire spectrum of colourful birds including water birds, pheasants, jungle fowl and the Indian hornbill.
Basking along the banks of the Ramganga are the slender snouted Gharial and the mugger or marsh crocodile. The river is rich in the magnificent mahaseer-- a fine sporting fish prized by anglers, though angling is not permitted inside the national park. Other variety of fish found here are the goonch and the brown trout.
Rest of the day at leisure for own activities.
Morning drive to Delhi (260 kms). Upon arrival, check-in at hotel.
This morning you will be taken to visit Old Delhi - Former centre of Moghul Power, Old Delhi offers ancient monuments, narrow streets and bustling bazaars. Drive past the Red Fort, built in 1648 and board the 'rickshaw ride' for a unique experience from the Red Fort, through "Chandni Chowk" or Silver Street, experiencing the sights and sounds of this very busy avenue heading west from the Fort. Later visit the Jama Masjid, the greatest mosque in India and completed in 1658 by Shah Jahan who also built the Taj Mahal, and the Raj Ghat, the simple memorial to Mahatma Gandhi.
This afternoon you will be taken to visit New Delhi - drive past the stately government buildings of the British Era designed by Lutyens, including the India Gate & the Presidential Palace. End the tour at the towering minaret of Qutab Minar.
Late evening transfer to International airport to board flight.
Accommodation on double/twin sharing basis for Ten nights + Two nights in Train.
Based on room plus Breakfast basis at all the cities except Ranthambore, Kanha & Bandhavgarh which are on full board basis.


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Dr Montoya became the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in 2015. The UIS is the official UN repository for statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communications.
Dr Montoya brings to the institute extensive experience in a wide range of national and international initiatives to improve the quality, management and use of education statistics, with a specific focus on learning assessment. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Dr Montoya is working closely with the international education community to build consensus around a core set of indicators to measure progress towards education targets. This work entails a complete review of existing sources of information as well as an evaluation of statistical capacity-building services needed to help Member States produce and use the resulting data. In particular, she is representing UNESCO as the co-leader of SDG 4 (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all) and the chair of the Technical Advisory Group on thematic indicators for the Education for All Steering Committee.
Prior to joining the UIS, Ms Montoya was the Director-General of Assessment and Evaluation of Education Quality at the Ministry of Education, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among her many responsibilities, she oversaw the creation of the first comprehensive education quality index produced in Argentina. During the course of her career at the Ministry, she introduced a series of institutional changes and capacity-building initiatives to strengthen independence and objectivity in the production of education statistics and the measurement of learning outcomes.
Ms Montoya has also coordinated Argentina's participation in several international assessment programmes, including: the Latin American Program of Educational Quality of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI); IEA's International Computer and Information Literacy Study; the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study; Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study; and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies.
Ms Montoya was also professor and researcher at the Catholic University of Argentina. She holds a Master's and PhD in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Ms Montoya is the author of many publications on education, vocational training and labour market issues. She has extensive experience as a researcher and consultant for major national and global organizations.

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'Oh, the hell with the money,' Ed said. He was thinking what a disgusting city New York really was. You had to rub elbows, you did rub elbows with creeps like this one every day of the week, every time you rode a bus or a subway. They looked like ordinary people but they were creeps.
This is the premise of many a good Highsmith thriller, and it really is what is so scary about them – this could be true.
I looked forward to reading A Dog's Ransom, not just because buddy reads with Lillelara are always fun but also because I knew absolutely nothing of the book, which is generally a great way to experience Highsmith – just go with the story and see where the mess becomes so entangled that you can't but keep reading.
And it was the same with A Dog's Ransom – we learn from the very first page that something is not right when a nice New York couple receives threatening letters.
Shortly after, the story escalates when their dog goes missing and the story swings into full action.
We meet several other characters, and it actually takes a while to figure out which characters will be the reliable ones and which will be completely bonkers.
With this one, there was more of a sad and creepy edge to the story than with some other Highsmith books, and I cannot put my finger on it, but the characters and story just didn't work as well. Yes, the main characters were complete psychopaths, but the dark, sad, and terrifying aspect in this story was that they – even when open about their deeds – were not held accountable by the other characters. It was hugely disturbing, and yet the story moved at a pace that did not support the character development, and in the end I just wanted the book to be finished.
I still feel raw about the dog.
Not one of Highsmith's best.


"He used to visit the scientists almost every day. He would often come by very late at night," said Merardo Pujol Ferrer, business development director for Heber Biotec, the marketing company for Cuban biotech products.
Surprisingly, the six scientists quickly succeeded in producing their first batch of leukocyte interferon. The Cuban interferon got its first test under fire in 1981, when an epidemic of dengue fever, which killed more than 100 children, gripped the country. Although it had never been done before, the decision was made to test interferon's effects on hemorrhagic dengue.
A study of 300 patients concluded that alpha interferon used early to treat children could prevent hemorrhagic complications.
From the modest experiment in the protocol house, Cuba's Center for Biological Research was established in 1982. It later became part of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), which was created in 1986 with around 300 employees.
"This center is big, but I hope the scientific results that are obtained will also be great," said Castro at the CIGB opening. Since then it has become far larger, and now employs more than 1,700 workers.
A scientific nucleus that includes several other research institutes has grown up around it in Havana. Across the country there are now 21 research centers and 70 factories under the umbrella of BioCubaFarma, the enterprise that groups together Cuban biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
"We were talking about creating a true revolution in science with cutting-edge products," said Manuel R. Raíces Pérez-Castañeda, a biologist and CIGB business development director.
Cuban scientists were sent aboard to study in Germany, France, Japan, the Soviet Union and other countries.
The interferon research became something of an obsession for Castro, who often took a personal interest in scientific and agricultural endeavors, including a dairy cow named White Udder whose daily milk production earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, and a so-called miracle plant called moringa.
To see how Cuba was doing, Castro invited Cantell to Cuba in 1982 and Castro himself briefed him on the scientists' work, said Pujol. "He was here with us just that once," he added.
In later years, interferon didn't turn out to be quite the miracle drug it was initially thought to be, but it is still used in the treatment of some cancers.
However, the center made other breakthroughs. In 1988-89, when a diagnostic kit for HIV was developed, it was immediately pushed out to Cuban hospitals and blood banks to prevent HIV transmissions via blood transfusions. A third milestone came when the center developed a vaccine to combat hepatitis B and Cuba began a vaccination campaign in mid-1990.
In 1991, Cuban scientists said, there were 230,000 acute cases of hepatitis B in the country. That had fallen to 100 in 2007, and it's less than 100 now, said Pujol. "The children in Cuba are the most vaccinated in the world," he said.
The entire Cuban population under the age of 25 is immunized against hepatitis B, and the vaccine is registered in some three dozen countries. The World Health Organization certified it in 2001.
The center also has developed vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, meningitis B and C, and influenza Type B, as well as products that fight animal and plant diseases, transgenic animals, enzymes for industrial use and medical software. It also is working on engineering more drought-resistant plants, the creation of self-fertilizing crops and the use of enzymes to produce less-fattening sugar.
With limited resources, Pujol said, the Cuban health system had to put an emphasis on prevention and introducing new products as soon as they were developed. "We had to be part of the solution, not the problem," he said.
And Cuba also has been forced to take a different approach with its medicines and vaccines. Cuba, Pujol said, realized early on that it couldn't develop a market-directed approach for its products because it couldn't compete with pharmaceutical giants with huge marketing budgets. So, rather than trying to advance in the world market by promoting its products, he said, it promotes its results.


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The track to Witts Lookout from McClelland's Lookout is well defined and sign-posted and passes through upland rainforest into a totally different vegetation type at the Lookout. Along the track are six National Parks interpretive signs describing the rainforest, some of its features and the reasons for the dramatic change in the vegetation. On a clear day, Witts Lookout provides spectacular views of the Crystal Creek valley and coastal views out to the Halifax Bay and the Palm Island group to the north-east.
To eliminate a car shuttle, I suggest that you up either Cloudy Creek or Ethel Creek and down Nolans Gully (From Witt's Lookout) - This is possible in a day but it's a long day and you need to be fit and experienced in rock hopping and rock scrambling. I recommend postponing your trip if it's going to rain and rock become very slippery.
Here's an interactive route of the area.


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Q: Posting a message in weechat starting with a slash In irssi, if someone was asking how do I register my nickname?, I could respond with / /msg nickserv help register (and have the first /<space> be stripped from the message sent.
In weechat, this syntax doesn't work - is there a way to send out a message that starts with a slash?

A: Turns out you can do /say /msg nickserv help register, and it would do the right thing. say is, by default, aliased to /msg *.

A: use double slash
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A Padre's Presence: CAF padres and their role during the holidays
Captain David Gallas, Canadian Padre with the enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia reads "In Flanders Fields" during a commemorative ceremony at the Riga Brethren Cemetery, Latvia, on 11 November 2018. Photo: eFP BG ROTO 3 LATVIA Imagery ©2018 DND-MDN Canada RP18-2018-0108-014
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By Dawnieca Palma, Canadian Joint Operations Command Public Affairs
To Canadians, this time of year marks the beginning of family dinners and holiday traditions. However, for many deployed Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) soldiers, this reality is out of reach.
The geographical challenges are vast and varied, ranging from scorching sands of Mali, to course waters of the Atlantic Ocean, to snow-covered roofs in Latvia. Wherever deployed CAF soldiers find themselves this holiday season, there is a lingering feeling of missing home. The next few weeks can be especially tough. Nevertheless, there are support systems for CAF soldiers, like their deployed padre or chaplain.
Born in Middleton, Nova Scotia, Captain Michel Gagné grew up in an Air Force family. After a spiritual calling led him to become an ordained priest in the Anglican Church, Capt Gagné combined this calling with his prior military experience serving with three different armoured regiments in the Regular Force to become a military chaplain.
Now serving as the CAF chaplain on Operation PRESENCE in Mali, Captain Gagné finds himself reflecting on his role. "The military chaplains have, at the tactical level, the primary responsibilities to advise the commanding officers of ethics and morale while, at the same time, providing a pastoral presence in the CAF," he says. "By that I mean, seeing the troops in their workplace, being there to support them during their difficulties, being there to celebrate with them and to provide a safe, confidential, outlet for expressing themselves and in some cases to act on their behalf."
For the first time unaccompanied by his family, he finds himself in the same position as the soldiers with whom he serves. On the other hand, his deployment has allowed him the opportunity to interact with international soldiers also braving the extreme heat of the UN mission. "In our role here, conducting medical evacuations, we do transport other partner nations. I try to get up in the morning and interact with the troops; Germans, Dutch, Bangladeshis, for example. I'll meet with them and encourage them just to let them know, in addition to normal command, there are also chaplains to support them."
With the upcoming holiday season, the soldiers deployed on Operation PRESENCE will not have a typical experience. "They don't have their families surrounding them; they don't have the time off to enjoy their family. There's a little bit higher sense of isolation, loneliness, homesickness. I'd just like to underscore the importance for deployed units to make sure they have their chaplain and social workers to ensure the spiritual and mental health of the troops."
Further, Captain Gagné assures that CAF soldiers are adapting their holidays to the smouldering sun. "We're doing a lot of planning for Christmas holidays, both within the Canadian contingent and also within the CAF, there are also a lot of activities planned: a Christmas market, a Santa Claus parade and of course Christmas eve services and stuff like that. We organize a lot of activities to make sure that Christmas is still enjoyable, despite not being home. The second thing is to make sure the troops have connections to their families. They can phone home and maintain that connection through the holidays."
Meanwhile, crewmembers of Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Ville de Quebec find themselves in an opposite environment. Not a spec of dessert sand in sight. Instead, they are sea bound for sometimes 15 to 20 days at a time.
"Being on a warship is not like anything I've ever experienced in my career," describes Major Derrick Marshall, the chaplain on Operation REASSURANCE – Maritime Task Force. "There's an intensity to it, an excitement, but also stress. The time away from home, working, eating, socialising, sleeping, you can imagine, it builds an intensity. I call it an 'intense incubator' in the sense that it can cause friendships to grow quickly. But sometimes it can also cause stresses."
To Major Marshall, the experience is truly like no other. After almost 21 years in the CAF, he has served in all three environments of the Regular Force. Similar to his experiences in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army, he understands the importance of having a chaplain on this Royal Canadian Navy deployment. "Having a chaplain on board the ship allows people to have a safe space and a safe person to talk to because confidentiality is important in our context. It gives them a chance to gather perspective, to blow off steam if they just want to vent."
One of the ways he takes advantage of the proximity of the crew is by being involved. Conducting regular walkabouts, weekly bible studies, participating in casual conversation, and serving meals in the gallery at noontime to junior ranks. His presence enhances his role in such a unique environment.
When asked about his holiday plans, Major Marshall is just as involved. "I'm looking forward to focusing on the spiritual meaning of Christmas, to having a Christmas service, carols, and festivities. I'm planning some special music. I'm putting together a choir and some musicians for some Christmas carols, special songs. I'm quite excited about that, music is a way of bolstering morale."
December is an important time for several religions. "We do have a Jewish member on board the ship and he wants to celebrate lighting the Menorah and Hanukkah so he, myself and the Commanding Officer of the ship will light the Menorah in early December. I'll be supporting a member with a religion different than my own as an act of solidarity to that member."
Major Marshall extends himself with a note of gratitude to the families of deployed CAF soldiers. "I'd just like to say how proud I am of the Royal Canadian Navy and being on Operation REASSURANCE, and how hard they work. Their families back home are a hugely important part of that because without that support back home we couldn't focus on the mission."
For Captain David Gallas, the padre on Operation REASSURANCE – enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia, proximity is a prominent challenge in his environment. He notes, "The big difference is that you sort of balance your time to do the best you can and try to be there for all the troops. It's basically myself and the Polish chaplain. There are about a thousand troops here in the battle group. Primarily, I serve Canadian members, but I'm happy to serve members from different nations and help them in any way I can."
Yet, this challenge turns itself into a strength. With all the exercises and activities taking place, transportation from one site to the other leads him to be creative. It forces him to communicate with the soldiers from the seven NATO nations to find a way around. "It can be challenging at times, but on the other hand, it turns out to be good because I have to be able to find out what everyone's doing."
Once a full-time pastor, Captain Gallas became interested in joining the CAF through clergy who were in the Reserves and the Regular Forces. His goal as padre is to support CAF soldiers and their families while helping them become more resilient in both their own lives and the context of the mission.
"There are challenges at work, challenges in the mission. My purpose is to help them be more resilient and that's also a goal for myself as well. I also need to practice what I preach. When morale is good, it's great on a personal level and for operational effectiveness. If morale is good, it'll help, contribute to having a good, strong, healthy resiliency to overcome those challenges," he says.
Being on his first international deployment, Captain Gallas is excited to see what this holiday season will bring. "I think the biggest thing would be with some of the soldiers missing home. What I'm looking forward to is all of us coming together because we're all away from our families. The only other option is for us to come together."
Although not a complete cure, Captain Gallas emphasizes the importance of communication. "I definitely am trying to encourage them to communicate well and have good quality communication. I want them to know that they matter and they're important. It's definitely hard for us and it's definitely hard for the families. It's hard for everybody. My job as a padre is to encourage people to talk a lot to their loved ones, and have good quality conversations. I think that's going to be a change during the holiday season, putting an emphasis on that."
No doubt, deployed CAF soldiers are facing a difficult time. As unique as each deployment is, there is a common struggle this holiday season. It is important, however, to remember that deployed padres are there for support.
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For the second year in a row, a group of Indianapolis photographers have provided senior portraits for homeless students. The story was covered by WTHR Channel 13 Indianapolis.
The annual photo sessions are put together by Studio 57 and Outreach, a group that works with homeless youth. The kids get makeup and hair stylists, plus lunch and a presentation celebrating the students' accomplishments.
"Sometimes I feel like it's just me, but then man… you get to hear everybody's stories and it's like wow… and it brings you closer because you know what they've been through and you know you have similar stories," said Britney Long, a senior at Arsenal Tech.
It's an event that touches everyone involved.


The reason that we call it debt is that you need to pay it back at some point. The longer you wait to pay it, the more interest it has accrued and compounded. Not only are you not paying the compounding interest back, you are continuing to add to the debt by adding complexity onto complexity and sloppy code onto sloppy code increasing the already compounded debt. The longer you leave the debt unpaid, the more effort and time it takes to fix the mess. This is what agile looks like without any discipline around cleaning up the code during each sprint and being vigilant to improve the architecture as it evolves. This is agile done wrong - which I see all too often in scrum implementations, and has been called "flaccid scrum" 2. To dig yourself out of this debt, it is going to cost you - a lot.
In a legacy system, the rate of adding new features decreases and the cost of adding features increases. You will not necessarily notice a drop in velocity however as the size of the stories starts to increase (to account for the complexity of working in a legacy system). Velocity will stay the same but the rate of adding new features decreases. (Which is one reason you should not use velocity as an indication of team's performance.) You will also notice the bug count going up and much more time spent on fixing bugs. At this point a business knows that things are going slow but it can't work out why and starts to lean harder on the engineering department to produce more, which only results in them cutting more corners, writing more bad code and compounding the mess.
Scrum is a framework and its implementation is left up to you. Much of the implementation of today's corporate scrum has come from XP. This includes: Stories, Story Points, Velocity, Continuous Integration and Release Planning.
Side Note - I came to these conclusion independently, but in writing this blog and researching references, I discovered that some of the content isn't particularly new. The thoughts of Bob Martin, Martin Fowler, Michael Feathers and other thought leaders, in many cases, match my own observations. I find that encouraging.
"the Scrum framework for software development was designed to get a team started in two or three days, whereas engineering practices often take many months to implement. Therefore, it left the question of when (and whether) to implement specific practices up to each team. Scrum co-creators Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber recommend that Scrum teams get started immediately and create a list of impediments and a process improvement plan. As engineering practices are identified as impediments, teams should look to XP practices as a way to improve. The best teams run Scrum supplemented with XP practices. Scrum helps XP to scale, and XP helps Scrum to work well."
"What's happened is that they haven't paid enough attention to the internal quality of their software. If you make that mistake you'll soon find your productivity dragged down because it's much harder to add new features than you'd like. You've taken on a crippling Technical Debt and your scrum has gone weak at the knees."
"Ken Schwaber convinced me that Scrum would be easier to adopt and work anywhere if we didn't mandate specific software practices"
"It is one thing to get to a reasonable functionality in a short time, and another one entirely to build a piece of software that can be maintained or worked with in a team over an extended period of time. It is all too tempting to leave working code as-is, without refining it or improving it in a timely fashion. And before you know it, someone else has picked it up, or you yourself have picked it up again, copy-pasted it (god forbid!) or increased its complexity where there would have been a simpler solution would you have given it some more thought."
Ron Quartel is the founder of FAST Agile (http://fast-agile.com) and FAST Forecasting. FAST Agile is an experiment in using Open Space Technology and Code Craftsmanship for cross-team collaboration in large scaled Agile projects. In his day job, Ron is an Extreme Programming Coach (XP Coach) and Agile software developer. Ron describes his calling as "creating harmony between business and development". Read Ron's twitter feed under the handle @agileAgitator and blog articles at http://blog.agileagitator.com.


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OpEdNews Op Eds 11/6/2013 at 5:46 PM EST
The Coming Age of Coal
By Thomas Magstadt (Page 1 of 5 pages) 4 comments
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In an aggressive move to impose President Obama's environmental policies overseas, the Treasury Department on Tuesday largely declared an end to United States support for new coal-fired power plants around the world. The decision means that Mr. Obama's administration will no longer contribute to coal projects financed by the World Bank and other international development banks. Michael D. Shear, The New York Times, October 29, 2013
Coal is pervasive in our society and economy. It has a huge impact on our lives. As a nation and a species, we will either wean ourselves away from coal-dependence in time to ameliorate the consequences of human follies past and present or we will bring upon ourselves far greater suffering in the future.
Planet Earth's most plentiful fossil fuel, coal has been used for heating since the cave man. Coal powered the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. In the mid-20th century, many homes were still heated with coal-burning stoves and furnaces.
Anybody who remembers that time, who has ever had a close encounter with coal, knows that there's no such thing as clean coal. All coal is dirty -- the only question is, how dirty.
Most people today have never used coal directly, never had a coal truck empty its contents into a corner of the basement. Out of sight, out of mind.
Like the military, it's big and ubiquitous, but largely invisible. Hence, the illusion that coal is on the way out.
Here are a few historical facts and stats that provide a framework for deciding what is to be done. The facts are self-explanatory; the implications are self-evident.
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Honore Mercier (ur. 15 października 1840 w Saint-Athanase, zm. 30 października 1894 w Montrealu) – kanadyjski prawnik, publicysta i polityk, premier prowincji Quebec z ramienia Liberalnej Partii Quebecu. Inicjator współczesnego nacjonalizmu frankofońskiego w Kanadzie.

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Urodził się w rodzinie farmerskiej. Już w szkole podstawowej wykazywał olbrzymie zdolności i nieprzeciętną inteligencję. Ukończył studia na wydziale prawa uniwersytetu o profilu klasycznym College Ste-Marie de Montreal. W 1865 dopuszczony do palestry. Był wziętym prawnikiem.

Na początku lat siedemdziesiątych XIX w. wszedł w świat polityki. Wstąpił do partii liberalnej, a w 1883 został jej przywódcą w Quebecu. W 1885 był motorem poparcia frankofonów dla metyskiego przywódcy rebelii nad Rzeką Czerwoną Louisa Riela. Choć rebelia nie miała zasadniczo podłoża narodowego, a Riel i Metysi byli raczej luźno związani z frankofonią w Quebecu, to w dużej części za sprawą działalności Merciera, sprawę tę podniesiono do rangi konfliktu pomiędzy Quebekiem a anglosaską resztą Kanady. Frankofoni walkę o uratowanie Riela przegrali. Został on powieszony na mocy wyroku sądu w 1885. To skonsolidowało jeszcze bardziej frankofońską opinię publiczną i wyrobiło w niej poczucie krzywdy.

Tego samego roku Mercier założył Partię Narodową, w której skupili się liberałowie oraz nacjonalistycznie nastawieni konserwatyści. W wyborach 1887 odniósł zdecydowane zwycięstwo i utworzył rząd. Rząd Merciera charakteryzował się wielką energią działania, lecz postrzegany był jako autorytarny i nieliczący się z nastrojami społecznymi. Jedną z pierwszych decyzji Merciera było uznanie zakonu jezuitów oraz regulacja praw jego własności. Walczył także o autonomię polityczną i kulturową swej prowincji. Mimo bardzo radykalnego traktowania tych problemów oraz agresywnego sposobu wyrażania opinii, nigdy nie kwestionował nadrzędności rządu federalnego i nigdy nie przeszedł na pozycje separatystyczne. Mercier dbał także o harmonijny rozwój ekonomiczny prowincji. Wspierał rozwój kolejnictwa i budowy dróg bitych. Utworzył ministerstwo rolnictwa i kolonizacji. Kierował energię kolonizacyjną w kierunku terenów północnych, powodując rozszerzenie granic prowincji w tym kierunku. Wspierał edukację. Powołał wieczorowe szkoły dla pracujących. Rozwijał sieć bibliotek publicznych. Po łatwej wygranej w wyborach 1891 kontynuował politykę rozwoju i samodzielności. W 1891 udał się w triumfalną podróż po Europie, gdzie obsypany zaszczytami dał się poznać jako przywódca wielkiego formatu. Rządy Merciera doszły do niesławnego końca u schyłku 1891, kiedy to została ujawniona afera korupcyjna związana z budową linii kolejowej Baie des Chaleurs, w którą byli zaangażowani czołowi politycy liberalni. Choć sam Mercier później został oczyszczony z zarzutów, utracił popularność i władzę nad prowincją. Po zakończeniu dochodzenia, zrujnowany finansowo, lecz z uratowaną reputacją zainicjował kampanię na rzecz suwerenności Kanady od Wielkiej Brytanii. Tę działalność przerwała śmierć Merciera 30 października 1894.

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Welcome to Congregation Beth Israel!
Whether you are a life-long member or just new to the community, I want to welcome you to our wonderful community and wish you a Shanah Tovah.
It's hard to believe that the High Holy Days are are right around the corner. If you are searching for a place to experience the beauty and awe of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I'd like to invite you to join us this year. I am excited and honored to be leading Beth Israel for the seventh year in a row. And I am also very pleased that I will be sharing the bima with our very talented cantorial soloist, Andrea Shupack. This is also the very first year that we will get to experience all of our services in our new building on San Juan Boulevard.
I hope that you and your loved ones have a very sweet year ahead, filled with blessings and peace.


Numerous animal models have been used to study diet effects on cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism. However, most of those models differ from humans in the plasma distribution of cholesterol and in the processing of lipoproteins in the plasma compartment. Although transgenic or knock-out mice have been used to study a specific pathway involved in cholesterol metabolism, these data are of limited use because other metabolic pathways and responses to interventions may differ from the human condition.Carbohydrate restricted diets have been shown to reduce plasma triglycerides, increase HDL cholesterol and promote the formation of larger, less atherogenic LDL. However, the mechanisms behind these responses and the relation to atherosclerotic events in the aorta have not been explored in detail due to the lack of an appropriate animal model. Guinea pigs carry the majority of the cholesterol in LDL and possess cholesterol ester transfer protein and lipoprotein lipase activities, which results in reverse cholesterol transport and delipidation cascades equivalent to the human situation. Further, carbohydrate restriction has been shown to alter the distribution of LDL subfractions, to decrease cholesterol accumulation in aortas and to decrease aortic cytokine expression. It is the purpose of this review to discuss the use of guinea pigs as useful models to evaluate diet effects on lipoprotein metabolism, atherosclerosis and inflammation with an emphasis on carbohydrate restricted diets.
Fernandez, Maria Luz and Volek, Jeff S, "Guinea Pigs: A Suitable Animal Model to Study Lipoprotein Metabolism, Atherosclerosis and Inflammation" (2006). Nutrition Articles. 2.


Britain's most popular potato variety Maris Piper is back on the rise with plantings up this season after seven years of decline.
The variety accounts for 16% of plantings this season with the rise reflecting its versatility as it can be use in the pre-packing, chipping and processing sectors.
The area to the variety rose 6% in England, Scotland and Wales to 19,220ha from 18,231ha in 2013, well ahead of second variety Markies at 7,527ha, according to figures from the AHDB and Potato Council .
The ranking of the top five varieties, which also include Maris Peer, Lady Rosetta and Estima, are unchanged, with these five varieties accounting for 34% of plantings.
In Scotland, the top five varieties are Maris Piper, Hermes, Rooster, Cultra and Osprey.
Overall, the area in Britain planted to potatoes is now estimated at 121,900ha up from an end-June provisional figure of 119,900ha and compared with a 2013 area of 122,400ha.
This current estimate of 121,900ha puts the area just above the 2012 planted crop of 121,823ha. The end-June provisional figure had initially pointed to the lowest crop since 1960.


The directory summarizes opportunities in "environmental law" education at American law schools. The term "environmental law" typically embraces pollution control law (e.g., air, water, and hazardous waste), which falls within the scope of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulatory power. As used in this book, however, "environmental law" also encompasses areas outside of the EPA's regulatory domain, such as natural resources law, energy law, and land use law. This book is an essential resource for career services offices at U.S. colleges and universities to assist students who are considering degree programs, concentrations, or careers in environmental law. The book is also a valuable reference tool for law faculty and students involved in environmental law education.


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Иван Тимофеев сын Семёнов (Иван Тимофеевич Семёнов; прозвище — Кол; ок. 1555 — март ) — русский дьяк, государственный деятель, писатель, религиозно-философский мыслитель.

Иван Тимофеев был крупным политическим и государственным деятелем конца XVI — начала XVII веков. В 1598—1599 годах занимал 17-е место среди приказных дьяков. Принимал активное участие во всех политических событиях этого времени.

Уже среди современников Иван Тимофеев почитался как «книгочтец и временных книг писец». Считается автором сочинения под названием «Временник по седмой тысящи от сотворения света во осмой в первые лета» — один из крупнейших литературно-философских памятников начала XVII века, в котором содержатся интересные оценочные суждения автора, позволяющие судить о представлениях о целевых и смысловых установках существования России.

Биография
«Историк В. И. Корецкий установил, что Тимофеев — это отчество дьяка, а настоящая его фамилия Семёнов, но в литературе, так сложилось, его называют Тимофеевым».

По В. И. Корецкому происходил из среды подмосковных служилых людей. В источниках упоминается с 1584/85 года, когда приобрёл вотчину в Верейском уезде.

В 1598 году Иван Тимофеев в качестве дьяка одного из московских приказов подписал грамоту об избрании на царство Бориса Годунова. В 1604—1605 годах он состоял дьяком Приказа Большого прихода. В 1605 году участвовал в походе против Лжедмитрия I, а после его воцарения производил в Туле верстанье епифанских новиков.

В царствование Василия Шуйского, во время подступа Ивана Болотникова к Москве, Тимофеев находился там в осаде. Затем он участвовал в походе против Болотникова к Калуге и Туле. В 1607 году Иван Тимофеев получил назначение в качестве дьяка в Новгород. В конце 1608 года там произошло восстание, в результате которого был убит воевода Михаил Татищев. По поручению Михаила Скопина-Шуйского Иван Тимофеев участвовал в описи и оценке имущества Татищева. К началу 1610 года Иван Тимофеев отбыл срок своей службы в Новгороде, но не смог сразу выехать в Москву, а в июле 1611 года Новгород был захвачен шведскими войсками. В Новгороде Иван Тимофеев оставался до конца шведской интервенции.

В 1618—1620 годах он был дьяком в Астрахани, в 1622—1626 годах — в Ярославле, в 1626—1628 годах — в Нижнем Новгороде. Умер в начале марта 1631 года.

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Литература

 Рыбаков Д. А. «Временник Ивана Тимофеева» — несостоявшийся историографический проект начала XVII в. // Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики. 2007. № 2 (28). С. 60-65.
 Туфанова О. А. Символ «Инорога» во «Временнике» Ивана Тимофеева // Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики. 2008. № 2 (32). С. 118—128.

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Seven-year switch? Formycon bets on third wave biosimilars with Stelara candidate
11-May-2017 - Last updated on 12-May-2017 at 12:46 GMT
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Related tags Monoclonal antibodies
Formycon says it is aiming to bring the first biosimilar of J&J's immunology best-seller Stelara (ustekinumab) to market as early as 2023 in the US.
As the US market opens up and billion-dollar biologics come off patent, so-called second wave biosimilars have grabbed a lot of attention. A number of companies are already competing against J&J's Remicade (infliximab), for example, and there are over 30 companies developing versions of AbbVie's $16bn (€14.7bn) a year Humira (adalimumab).
But less attention has been made of third wave biosimilars: versions of more complex mAbs or antibody fragment drugs coming off patent after 2020.
Germany's Formycon, however, has chosen to focus in this third wave space and announced yesterday it is targeting Stelara (ustekinumab) – an immunology biologic which clocked in revenues of $3.2bn for J&J last year and still has a remaining patent life of up to seven years.
Riding the waves...
First wave products are generally versions of cytokines, growth factors and hormones already off patent - such as filgrastim and epoetin alfa.
Second wave biosimilars are generally monoclonal antibodies which come off patent before 2020, for example Pfizer/Celltrion's recently US approved infliximab.
Third wave biosimilars are biologics coming off patent after 2020 which are generally more complex mAbs or antibody fragments
"Our general aim is to be first on the market with a biosimilar after the relevant legal protection of the reference product expired," Formycon spokesman Thorsten Schüller told Biopharma-Reporter. "We expect that it should be possible to launch a biosimilar for Stelara in the US in 2023 and in Europe in 2024."
He added while some other companies have said they might aim to develop a biosimilar for Stelara, the "attention within the biosimilars industry still lies on the second wave," biosimilars.
But "given an approximate development time of 7-8 years, we think it is the right time for developing 'third wave' assets – especially if you aim for a day one launch of the biosimilar, as we do."
Along with the Stelara candidate FYB202, the Munich-headquartered firm is also developing versions of Roche/Genentech's Lucentis (ranibizumab), Regeneron's Eylea (aflibercept), and a fourth undisclosed third wave biosimilar.
"We generally see great business opportunities in the third wave. As an example and with regard to our Lucentis biosimilar, we believe that we are in an extraordinary positive competitive position," said Schüller.
Last August, Formycon's share price jumped 16% after Pfizer abandoned its Lucentis biosimilar programme, handing the rights for the molecule back to partner Pfenex.
Formycon's financials
Formycon announced its end of fiscal year 2016 financials earlier this month, reporting a 15% year-on-year increase in revenues to €19.5m ($21.2m), though saw a net loss of €4m.
"Our financial situation is very solid. Due to our two out-licensed biosimilars we generate a steady flow of revenues from our partners for the development of these products," Schüller told us.
"Furthermore we have a cash position of around €17 million, which is, in consideration of our current strategic approach, quite comfortable. The loss in 2016 was planned as we invested significantly in the development of the products which are not out-licensed yet and therefore into the future of the company."
Related topics Markets & Regulations Biosimilars Pipelines
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Analysis: Facebook says objections to Apple feature that affects apps are bid to defend small businesses – but do we believe it?
Apple wants to make it harder for developers to track users across multiple apps without consent. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
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Never afraid of a challenge, Facebook appears to have embarked on a campaign to convince the world to hate Apple, love targeted advertising, and believe the social network when it says it is doing it all out of a desire to defend small businesses.
On Wednesday, the company launched a series of full-page newspaper adverts and a press conference where the company put forward small businesses who said they relied on app-tracking to find customers. It also announced it would be siding with the Fortnite developer Epic Games in the latter's lawsuit over control of the iOS App Store.
The point of contention is a feature coming to iPhones in the new year that will require developers to ask for permission before they can track what users do across apps. Apple says the feature, which was originally slated for launch in October before being delayed in order to allow advertisers time to cope, is necessary to protect user privacy; it comes alongside a number of similar changes in new versions of iOS, such as a requirement that app developers provide a "nutritional label" for their software to explain what they do with user data.
Apple accuses Facebook of 'disregard for user privacy'
Facebook objects – but seems keen to stress it is not doing so because it is defending its bottom line. According to its pitch, the real victims are "your neighbourhood coffee brewery, your friend who owns their own retail business, your cousin who started an event planning service and the game developers who build the apps you use for free".
"Yes, there will be an impact to Facebook's diversified ads business," said Dan Levy, the company's head of ads and business products, "but it will be much less than what will befall small businesses, and we've already been factoring this into our expectations for the business."
On Wednesday, the company held a press conference with two such businesses: a burger company in Charleston, South Carolina, and a coffee shop in San Francisco. "Covid has wreaked havoc on not only my small business but millions of small businesses around the world," Monique Wilsondebriano from Charleston told the event. "I would say to Apple, 'Give us a chance. If this happens, I will not have a business. It will be very hard to survive.'"
Facebook was vague on how the specific change proposed by Apple would affect businesses like Wilsondebriano's. The iPhone manufacturer is specifically seeking to make it harder for developers to track users across multiple apps without consent: it has no proposal, yet, to prevent Facebook from selling targeted advertising relying on demographic data harvested from its own social network.
However, Levy argued that the point was to defend all such advertising. "Folks should go study Apple policies, because this is about control of the entire internet," he said. "This is about a long-term view that is about anti-personalised advertising, and we think is trying to take the world back 10 or 20 years."
Beyond its bold public statement, Facebook seems to have a slim plan for action. Levy said the company would side with Epic Games in a separate lawsuit against Apple, "providing relevant information … regarding how Apple's policies have adversely impacted Facebook and the people and businesses who use our services. It is critical for the court to understand the broader implications of the unfair policies that Apple imposes on iOS developers, among many other businesses."
But ultimately Levy admits Facebook is planning to show Apple's prompt that asks for tracking permission. "We have no choice if we want our app to be available in the App Store. But it doesn't have to be this way."


Assembly plant in New Jersey and distribution center in Ohio will be idled.
DaimlerChrysler said on Feb. 14 it planned to axe 13,000 jobs at its loss-making Chrysler subsidiary as part of a broad restructuring plan aimed at returning the U.S. unit to profitability by 2009. The cuts represent 16% of the group's current global workforce of 82,500 people and come just six years after another turn around plan eliminated 26,000 jobs and 16 plants. When the layoffs are complete, the Chrysler group will be nearly half the size it was at its peak after it was purchased by Daimler Benz in 1998.
The current plan also calls for the idling of two plants -- an assembly plant in New Jersey and a distribution center in Ohio -- and the elimination of shifts at two others for a total reduction in production capacity of 400,000 units per year.
The bulk of the job losses will affect union workers, with 9,000 hourly jobs eliminated in the U.S. and 2,000 in Canada.
Chairman Dieter Zetsche said the automaker was examining other options and did not rule out the sale of Chrysler, a move shareholders in Germany have been pressing for. "In order to optimize and accelerate the presented plan, we are looking into further strategic options with partners beyond the business cooperation partners mentioned," he said in a statement.
The announcement came as DaimlerChrysler reported bottom-line net profit of 3.2 billion euros (US$4.2 billion) in 2006, up 14% from the figure a year earlier, thanks largely to the strong performance of its up-market Mercedes-Benz brand and the trucks business. Operating profit grew by 6.4% to 5.52 billion euros.
The Chrysler group was hard-hit by high fuel prices which accelerated a shift away from highly profitable but gasoline guzzling trucks and large sports utility vehicles. Chrysler Group president Tom LaSorda said the unit can no longer rely on its historic strengths in the minivan, truck and sports utility vehicle market and must expand beyond North America which represents some 90% of the group's business. "The Chrysler Group will add a more robust customer and brand focus while continuing to stress product leadership," he said. "In addition, we must achieve better global balance and rely more heavily on leveraging partnerships to manage costs while finding growth opportunities."


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Summit Drive Virtual Teacher Angelica Childes Named State Teacher of the Year Finalist
State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman surprised Greenville County Schools Virtual Program teacher Angelica Childes today with news that she has been selected as one of five finalists for the South Carolina Teacher of the Year award.
"Angelica is a determined educator who strives to ensure her students are successful no matter their circumstances," said State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman. "Her commitment to meeting the individual needs of her students inspires her peers and positions her as an education leader across our state."
Angelica Childes is a fourth grade teacher with the GCS Virtual Program. Prior to that, she taught third grade students at Summit Drive Elementary School. Childes received a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from Clemson University, and a master's degree in Educational Administration from Lamar University.
"Mrs. Childes enjoys sharing with her students that her first year as a teacher was a disaster, but instead of becoming discouraged, it caused her to strengthen her commitment and effort focusing on her goal to one day be Teacher of the Year. That focus and resolve are hallmarks of her dedication to students and the profession," said GCS Superintendent Dr. W. Burke Royster.
While in school, Angelica spent her summers volunteer teaching in Uganda. This experience gave her a worldwide perspective of the spectrum of educational inequality, and she gained a conviction that through teaching she could become a catalyst for change. Her mission began in New Orleans, Louisiana where she taught with Teach For America. At her school, Angelica created an initiative that connected every classroom with an international class, a partnership that improved the climate and culture at her school. In addition to teaching, Angelica contributes to the profession as a curriculum writer, cooperating teacher for pre-service teachers, mentor for new teachers, peer evaluator for second year teachers, and by leading district-wide professional development sessions.
As one of five finalists, Angelica received $10,000 and go on to the next stage of competition which involves an interview with a team of expert judges. The winner will be announced at the South Carolina Teacher of the Year Gala on May 5 in Columbia.
The winner receives a total of $25,000 and is provided with a brand new BMW to use while serving for one year as a roving ambassador providing mentoring, attending speaking engagements, working with teacher cadets and teaching fellows, leading the State Teacher Forum, and serving as the state spokesperson for over 50,000 educators.
Angelica Childes, Fourth Grade Teacher
Angelica Childes receives $10,000 as a finalist
The Teacher of the Year program celebrates excellence and strengthens the teaching force by honoring and recognizing exceptional teachers on the district, state, and national level. The Teacher of the Year Awards not only assist in retention efforts but serve as a powerful recruitment tool to the educator profession.


The above report lists the top 1 - 25 H1B Visa sponsors(General And Operations Managers) in fiscal year 2015. For Example, the first record on this report means that Epam Systems filed 19 Labor Condition Applications(LCA) for H1B Visa in fiscal year 2015. The average salary of those job offerss is $125,553. The number and average salary are not for all H1B Visa jobs filed by Epam Systems in fiscal year 2015. They are for General And Operations Managers jobs only.


Unintentional injuries cause much of the global mortality burden, with the workplace being a common accident setting. Even in high-income economies, occupational injury figures remain remarkably high. Because risk factors for occupational injuries are prone to confounding, the present research takes a comprehensive approach. To better understand the occurrence of occupational injuries, sociodemographic factors and work- and health-related factors are tested simultaneously. Thus, the present analysis aims to develop a comprehensive epidemiological model that facilitates the explanation of varying injury rates in the workplace. The representative phone survey German Health Update 2010 provides information on medically treated occupational injuries sustained in the year prior to the interview. Data were collected on sociodemographics, occupation, working conditions, health-related behaviors, and chronic diseases. For the economically active population (18–70 years, n = 14,041), the 12-month prevalence of occupational injuries was calculated with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Blockwise multiple logistic regression was applied to successively include different groups of variables. Overall, 2.8% (95% CI 2.4–3.2) of the gainfully employed population report at least one occupational injury (women: 0.9%; 95% CI 0.7–1.2; men: 4.3%; 95% CI 3.7–5.0). In the fully adjusted model, male gender (OR 3.16) and age 18–29 (OR 1.54), as well as agricultural (OR 5.40), technical (OR 3.41), skilled service (OR 4.24) or manual (OR 5.12), and unskilled service (OR 3.13) or manual (OR 4.97) occupations are associated with higher chances of occupational injuries. The same holds for frequent stressors such as heavy carrying (OR 1.78), working in awkward postures (OR 1.46), environmental stress (OR 1.48), and working under pressure (OR 1.41). Among health-related variables, physical inactivity (OR 1.47) and obesity (OR 1.73) present a significantly higher chance of occupational injuries. While the odds for most work-related factors were as expected, the associations for health-related factors such as smoking, drinking, and chronic diseases were rather weak. In part, this may be due to context-specific factors such as safety and workplace regulations in high-income countries like Germany. This assumption could guide further research, taking a multi-level approach to international comparisons.


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Lightning strikes tree near Caylee Anthony memorial site
Hours after Casey Anthony learned on Thursday that she will leave jail next week, lightning apparently struck a tree next to a makeshift memorial in honor of her slain daughter, Caylee.
No one saw lightning strike the pine tree on Suburban Drive in Orange County, Florida, where teddy bears and flowers mark the spot where 2-year-old Caylee's remains were found on December 11, 2008.
But long, diagonal strips of exposed wood scarred the tall pine tree, WESH reported, and bits of bark lay scattered across the road.
"It could be a sign from the angels that they aren't happy with what's happened," a visitor to the site told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. "The rain, the lightning, the storm - it's the heavens indicating they aren't happy."
There are more lightning strikes in Florida per square mile than in any other state, according to weather.com.
A Pinellas County jury acquitted Anthony, 24, of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in the death of her daughter. The same jury convicted her of four charges of obstruction of justice for lying to police during the search for Caylee.
Judge Belvin Perry sentenced Anthony to four years in jail - one year for each of her four convictions - but with credit for nearly three years already served and good behavior, her release date was set for Wednesday, July 13, a court spokeswoman said.
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May God come and do his work! May he clean the earth that people have destroyed with filth!
July 8, 2011 at 4:53 am | Report abuse |
Clean the earth? Apparently he just destroyed a tree.
Alot of people are afraid to speak about God and that is nuts! God is Great! For he is our heavenly father!
The fact that lightning is a naturally-occuring phenomenon governed by the laws of physics doesn't mean that this event couldn't have also been a message. You can call it a coincidence if you want to, and maybe it was. Still, the timing is rather interesting.
byne
@jojo- which one?
Yes, of course God would only strike trees with lightning if an adorable white girl gets killed. :/
Do you idiots have any idea how many children die everyday? And not even to murder...but something as mundane as not getting enough food...starvation. 10s of thousands is the answer.
Right.. but Nancy disGrace doesn't care about any of that.. its not glamorous enough.. and what would she call the moms of those starving kids because they can't feed their children? "Tater Tot Moms" ?
Grumpster
sign from the angels...more like a sign of bad weather.
Eh, Casey did her a favor. Growing up in that family would've been a real pain in the a**
CNNer
Nunya, the world was watching this story.
Sorry...this isn't news at all.
Wow. Cutting edge, hard hitting news. Great job CNN! You even beat National Enquirer to it.
Interesting development in this very devastating case.. I believe God is speaking quite clearly here.
All Powerful God
Hi God here, you idiots I did not strike the tree with lightning. I am an impotent God, do you think I would allow all of the terrible things that go on in the world if I could do anything about it? I am weak, a myth, a figment of imagination and can do nothing to help.
Thanks for admitting what a lie you are..
If it was a sign...why did it miss?
Dillan
Seriously CNN, you're embarrassing yourself with this crap.
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Moreover, De Silva said the abandonment of the event has hindered Sri Lanka's World Cup chances.


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FAQ: When Did Christianity Become State Religion In Armenia?
1 Where was Christianity founded Armenia?
2 When was Christianity first proclaimed as the religion of state?
3 Why did Armenia first adopt Christianity?
4 When did the religion of Christianity emerge?
5 Is Armenia an Arab country?
6 What was Armenia called in biblical times?
7 Who is the founder of Christianity?
8 Which religion came first in the world?
9 What were they called before they were called Christians?
10 What religion is in Armenia?
11 Which country accepted Islam first?
12 Which country brought Christianity to Africa?
13 Why did Romans adopt Christianity?
14 Is Sunday a pagan day of worship?
15 What does Christianity believe in?
Where was Christianity founded Armenia?
Armenian Apostolic Church
Headquarters Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Vagharshapat, Armenia
Founder St. Gregory the Illuminator Apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus of Edessa
Origin c. 1st century Kingdom of Armenia
Separated from Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Second Council of Dvin (554)
When was Christianity first proclaimed as the religion of state?
On February 27, 380, in Thessaloniki, the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I (347 – 395) signed a decree in the presence of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian II (371 – 392) that made Christianity the religion of the state and punished the practice of pagan rituals.
Why did Armenia first adopt Christianity?
Armenia is considered the first nation to have adopted Christianity as the state religion, a fact of which Armenians are justifiably proud. The Armenian claim rests on the history of Agathangelos, who states that in 301 A.D., King Trdat III (Tiridates) was baptized and officially Christianized his people.
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When did the religion of Christianity emerge?
Christianity began in the 1st century AD after Jesus died and was claimed to be resurrected, as a small group of Jewish people in Judea, but quickly spread throughout the Roman empire. Despite early persecution of Christians, it later became the state religion.
Is Armenia an Arab country?
Armenia has, at times, constituted a Christian "island" in a mostly Muslim region. There are, however, a minority of ethnic Armenian Muslims, known as Hamshenis and Crypto- Armenians, although the former are often regarded as a distinct group or subgroup. The history of the Jews in Armenia dates back over 2,000 years.
What was Armenia called in biblical times?
The original Armenian name for the country is Hayk, which was later called Hayastan (land of Hayk). This comes from an ancient legend of Hayk and Bel where Hayk defeats his historical enemy Bel. The word Bel is named in the bible at Isaiah 46:1 and Jeremiah 50:20 and 51:44.
Who is the founder of Christianity?
Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea.
Which religion came first in the world?
Hinduism is the world's oldest religion, according to many scholars, with roots and customs dating back more than 4,000 years. Today, with about 900 million followers, Hinduism is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam.
What were they called before they were called Christians?
The disciples, whose origins began in the dispersion resulting from persecution in Jerusalem, were "first called Christians at Antioch." Known by a variety of names, including "Followers of the Way." Later recognized by the Apostles in Jerusalem, one of its leading members was Barnabas, who was sent to organize the new
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What religion is in Armenia?
Religious demography About 97% of citizens belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Eastern Christian denomination in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches. The Armenian Apostolic Church has its spiritual center at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral.
Which country accepted Islam first?
Ethiopia was the first foreign country to accept Islam when it was unknown in most parts of the world. Ethiopia also favored its expansion and making Islam present in the country since the times of Muhammad(571-632).
Which country brought Christianity to Africa?
In the 15th century Christianity came to Sub-Saharan Africa with the arrival of the Portuguese. In the South of the continent the Dutch founded the beginnings of the Dutch Reform Church in 1652. In the interior of the continent most people continued to practice their own religions undisturbed until the 19th century.
Why did Romans adopt Christianity?
Some scholars allege that his main objective was to gain unanimous approval and submission to his authority from all classes, and therefore chose Christianity to conduct his political propaganda, believing that it was the most appropriate religion that could fit with the Imperial cult (see also Sol Invictus).
Is Sunday a pagan day of worship?
Pagan correspondence In Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the Sun god. In pagan theology, the Sun was the source of life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as they prayed.
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What does Christianity believe in?
Followers of the Christian religion base their beliefs on the life, teachings and death of Jesus Christ. Christians believe in one God that created heaven, earth and the universe. The belief in one God originated with the Jewish religion. Christians believe Jesus is the "Messiah" or savior of the world.


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Żupca – w średniowieczu zastępca i pomocnik urzędnika mającego funkcje sądowe (sędziego, wojewody, starosty, podkomorzego, podsędka).

Żupca był powoływany i odwoływany przez urzędnika, którego zastępował. Jego kompetencje zależały od zleconych mu przez powołującego go urzędnika zadań i oprócz czynności pomocniczych brał również udział w rozsądzaniu spraw w zastępstwie urzędnika, np. żupca mianowany przez podkomorzego dokonywał najczęściej faktycznego wytyczania granic nieruchomości.

Żupcy w takim znaczeniu pojawiają się w początkach XIV w. na Mazowszu i w Wielkopolsce. Później w innych dzielnicach.

Wcześniej żupcą określano (czasami zamiennie z żupanem) urzędnika pomocniczego komesów grodowych i kasztelanów.

Nazwa wywodzi się od żupy, które to słowo oznaczało w Polsce piastowskiej również urząd z uposażeniem lub samo uposażenie.

Bibliografia
 Juliusz Bardach, Historia państwa i prawa Polski. Tom I do połowy XV wieku, PWN, Warszawa 1964
 Zygmunt Gloger, Encyklopedia staropolska, Warszawa 1900-1903

Urzędy staropolskie
Sądownictwo Polski średniowiecznej


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So you want to publish an Italian work of art?
Angelo Ripamonti, Interior of the Pinacoteca di Brera, 1880-90 – © Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Whether you write about XIV century sculpture or about the history of measures, there may come a time when you need an image of an Italian work of art for your publication.
Let's pretend for a moment that you want to avoid picture libraries – a wise choice, if I may say so – or that the work you need is not so famous as to be in every commercial archive, that is extremely plausible.
There are a few important things you need to know before entering the realm of Italian bureaucracy.
Firstly, there is a huge difference between works that belong to the state and works that belong to the Catholic church, no way to escape from this fateful legacy of the past.
In this article, I'll give you a little background and useful information to deal with Italian museums. More to come on archives and libraries.
Please bear in mind that not all the collections are state-run, some institutions are run by municipalities, others by universities and others by foundations.
The first attempt to provide guidelines and a price list for the use of artworks' reproductions or, like some say, to generate revenues from licensing images, was a 1993 law on services for museums, archives and libraries.
It stated that no fee was due for personal (or study) use of the pictures – except for a reimbursement for the providing institution – and for the reproduction in scientific publications with less than 2000 copies and a price not over 150.000 lire.
It also set a difference between b/w and color images. The last ones were costlier, due to the higher price of color films.
Speaking with an elderly archivist, a while ago, she explained to me that the color images were regarded as a luxury, while the b/w ones could suffice for academic discourses. Absurd as this reasoning is, it seems that it still permeates the field, as color prints are still costlier for publishers. Thus, in this time of digital photography, ebooks and online journals, some institutions still maintain the difference between b/w and color images and not just with respect to the price of the pictures, but for publication rights as well.
Federico Barocci, Portrait of a Young Lady, 1600 c. – Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen – CC0
A major change happened in 2014 when the new law on cultural heritage granted permission to take photographs inside museums and use them even on personal social media accounts or on the internet for the promotion of Italian cultural heritage. All commercial uses of the pictures taken, however, are forbidden and you still need the authorization from the museum to publish them.
Libraries and archives were not interested from the new law until some years later. Thanks to the efforts of a group of scholars, finally, in 2017 the permission to freely take photographs was extended to libraries and archives too. Therefore, today anyone can take pictures of works of art, documents or books without having to pay the institutions which host them. Reproduction services are still available for students and scholars who cannot visit in person.
As for reproduction rights, the majority of the institutions still follow the basic rules established in 1993. In order not to pay fees, a publication must have a print run of fewer than 2000 copies and a price not exceeding 70 (or 77) euros, an almost exact change of the old price in lire.
There are some exceptions, though. The 2014 law has given a "special autonomy" to some of the biggest and most important Italian state-run museums, such as the Uffizi, Pompeii's archeological area, the Galleria Borghese and the Pinacoteca di Brera among others. The autonomy is scientific as well as financial and organisational and it can reflect itself on the licensing of images of the collections, leading to opposing choices and practices.
The Uffizi, one of my clients' most required source of images, decided that a publication must have a circulation of fewer than 1000 copies in order to be exempt from paying fees. A condition that many academic publications, with print-runs between 1000 and 2000 copies, don't meet.
It's impossible to know the revenue of image licensing for the Uffizi, as there isn't a specific voice in their yearly financial report. An unofficial estimate, provided during a conference on artworks reproduction rights at the Law Faculty of Roma Tre University in 2018, was about 500.000 euros per year.
Given the nature of this figure, it is also impossible to know how much the contribution of publishing, and more specifically, of academic publishing amounts to. A look at the prices on their Rights and Reproductions page shows that advertising should get the lion's share.
On the other hand, the Pinacoteca di Brera, another autonomous institution, home to masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, Bellini brothers, Francesco Hayez and Caravaggio, chose to make high-resolution images of the works in their collection in the public domain freely available on their website. They explicitly invite scholars and presses to use their pictures, retaining the right to ask payments only for certain types of commercial uses, such as producing merchandising or advertisements with their images.
Carlo Crivelli, Mary Magdalene, 1480 c. – Rijksmuseum – CC0
The autonomous museums usually have a website in English, and though not all the websites show information about reproductions on the homepage, or feature images of the collection, you should be able to find a page addressing the matter.
Smaller, and not autonomous, state-run museums are grouped in 17 Direzioni territoriali (formerly Poli museali) one for each Italian region, except for Sicily, Trentino Alto Adige and Valle d'Aosta whose cultural institutions do not depend on the Cultural Heritage ministry. Most of the times, the Direzioni territoriali are the competent institution to supply and license images.
Museums run by municipalities, foundations or universities follow their own rules with respect to image supply and reproduction rights. Thus it is difficult to draw a complete picture or to give indications about the prices. Some institutions apply discounts or do not charge rights for scholarly publications anyway.
Due to this administrative fragmentation, Italy doesn't have a national image library which can supply and license images of state-run museums. As France does, for example. And even if such a solution has sometimes been suggested or wished for, it would entail such a large and complex work that no one actually believes it to be feasible.
So, over the years, the Italian Cultural Heritage ministry appointed commercial picture libraries as exclusive agents for providing and licensing reproductions of its artworks. Like Scala Archives, which began the collaboration with the ministry in 2002.
The last ones of these agreements was signed with Bridgeman Images in 2018.
In an open letter, CISL Funzione Pubblica MIBACT, one of the ministry's employees unions, criticized the agreement, although the leadership of the ministry presented it as the best ever achieved because of the 50/50 split of the profits. (And one's left to wonder how much the ministry had earned from the previous ones).
The union pointed out that Bridgeman, an international business, would be the beneficiary of the revenues of licensing images of the artworks kept in 439 Italian museums and sites. So basically of a remarkable part of the country's cultural heritage.
That the agreement lacks of transparency, since the version published on the website of the ministry doesn't disclose any details about the necessary arrangements to make it operative.
And that having as a partner a firm that has its headquarters in the UK seems a bit risky with Brexit on the way and the possibility that the two countries will end up with different, and not harmonizable, copyright laws.
What I really would like to highlight here, with respect to this agreement, is that is very unlikely that Bridgeman (or any other picture library) would grant the prices and the benefits for scholarly publications that the museums usually grant.
Some Italian legal scholars too are critical of the ministry's choice of having private agents for licensing images. And not only because of the loss of potential revenues. Though they're well aware that Italian copyright law protects strictly cultural heritage, so much so that the state can claim moral rights over artworks, they're sympathetic towards open access and the opportunities that a greater spread of the Italian cultural heritage can bring to the country.
Marina Cotugno


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Eduardo León y Serralvo (1866-1936) fue un topógrafo, periodista y político español.

Biografía
Miembro del Cuerpo de Topógrafos, se instaló en Málaga en 1889. En 1895 fundó el diario El Cronista, del cual sería director y propietario. Durante algún tiempo también dirigió el Diario de Málaga y el semanario satírico El Manati. Se convirtió en uno de los periodistas más conocidos de Málaga. Militante del Partido Conservador, llegó a ser vicepresidente de la comisión provincial del partido. Fue diputado provincial y presidente de la Diputación provincial de Málaga entre 1919 y 1923.

En septiembre de 1936, tras el estallido de la Guerra civil, fue apresado y asesinado.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Topógrafos de España
Periodistas de España del siglo XX
Políticos del Partido Liberal-Conservador de España
Víctimas de la represión en la zona republicana


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Q: A uses 100nlog(n) operations while B uses n^(1.5) operations. Determine the value n0 such that A is better than B for n ≥ n0 assuming log base 2 I've tried a few different approaches but I'm not getting anywhere with this.
100log(n) = n^(0.5) ==> log(n) = n/100 ==> n = 2^(n/100) Stuck at this dead end.
100log(n) = n^(0.5) ==> log(n^(100)) = n ==> n^(100) = 2^(n) Stuck again.
I also looked at this post: $4\log_2(n)=n$ How to Solve for $n$?. However, none of the answers there helped me out much.  The first answer suggests using, "the Lambert W-function, which can't be solved with elementary functions (but can be expressed as an infinite sum using the Lagrange inversion forumula)."  But then it continues to say, "However just by trying random powers of 2 you can get an integer solution of n=16, probably the easiest way."  Trying random powers of 2 won't work in this case unless I have a lot of time to spare and I've never heard of the Lambert W-function or Lagrange inversion formula.  Has anybody had success with the Lambert W-function or Lagrange inversion formula in this case? Open to any other suggestions as well.
In the same post I tried playing around with the 3rd answer from the top but that didn't help me out either.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

A: I would just solve it numerically.  I like fixed point iteration, so would write your equation as $$n=10,000 (\log(n))^2$$
Now guess a value for $n$, plug it in on the right, get a value on the left and iterate to convergence.  I find $n \approx 4,945,093$  I picked this version because the log varies so slowly.  Starting with $100$ it was quite close in seven iterations.