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We Cannot Be Equal Until We Are People
This blog was originally published by AVPN.
By Beth Roberts (Director, Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights) and Nitya Rao (Professor of Gender and Development at University of East Anglia)
Women's rights to land and property are foundational to realize gender equality.
Do rights to land and property define a human being's actual level of citizenship? This is not absolute, but has held true throughout history and across societies. And unequal rights to land are a strangling limit for realizing human rights worldwide, particularly for women and girls.
In the United States, ownership of land and property determined citizenship from the founding of the country. But this was limited to white, male settlers. This type of limit on both ownership and citizenship exists currently, globally.
In most countries of the world, land ownership is intimately connected to social identity, even if not formal citizenship. It is owners of land who can enter into production or sale contracts, secure credit from banks and other financial institutions, be admitted as members of cooperatives, and engage in many other key forms of economic activity. Land ownership imparts social status and dignity.
While youth globally appear to be moving away from farming, we find lower caste ("dalit") youth in India, who belong to traditionally landless households, aspiring to own a plot of land to gain greater status. And like land, and the status that comes with it, citizenship in many countries today can be purchased if one has enough wealth.
For women, this status and citizenship is all too often far out of reach. There's a famous — or rather infamous — quote in the women's land rights world: "My wife is my property. Why should my property own property?" This is the starkest expression of this view of women, but we hear and see the same thinking in many forms. We hear it in the way it is assumed girls don't belong in the home where they were born, because they will marry; they will be transferred from their father's home to their husband's. "A thief has arrived," is the saying in several Indian states, upon the birth of a daughter, a reference to the price of dowry.
Or in China, "a girl is like spilled out water," a resource that will be wasted, because she will leave the family upon marriage. Inheritance practices in India (and in many places globally) result in women ceding their inheritance rights to their brothers. Cultural norms most often overcome the legal requirement for equal inheritance in the Hindu Succession Act. Where land is expropriated, compensation is often only paid to men. "It is men in the family who receive the compensation – either as a job or money or land," said Narima, an elected tribal leader in Jharkhand, India. Women experience the effects of displacement disproportionately, but they are only compensated as dependents of men.
This view and treatment of women as a commodity, as secondary to men, as men's possessions, is at the very root of patriarchy and gender inequality. It is used to justify violence against women when women challenge these norms, and to justify violence against women generally. And this view is not limited to rural areas in the Global South. Women in the US could not get a credit card without their husband's permission until 1974, a leftover from the concept of coverture—when women did not have a legal identity apart from a father or husband. Fathers at weddings in the US still walk their daughters down the aisle to "give them away," very similar to the concept of "kanyadan," (the "gift of the daughter") in Hindu marriages.
Our societies bear deep assumptions: both land and women belong to men. The citizenship of women and girls is not primary and independent. It is secondary to and dependent on their status as daughters, wives, sisters, mothers. And patriarchal control of the world's most primary resource—land—has put the fate of humanity on our one shared planet—"Mother Earth"—in grave danger. Indigenous activists, human rights defenders, climate activists, and feminists around the globe for decades (even centuries) have pointed to the links between an extractive relationship with the earth and oppressive treatment of women.
Article 15 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) enshrines the concept of "equal legal personhood" – the standard that women and men should be on par in law and in its implementation and enforcement. This is the international standard that includes women's rights to citizenship. It is at the other end of the spectrum from "my wife is my property." This clear framing of equal legal entitlement creates a global standard, but we must work to change practice on the ground.
Land is more than a material asset. It is a marker of social identity, and so rights to land must have social legitimacy. This can take time, as we see from the example of rural Colombia, where land rights for women increased their decision-making power and shifted gender norms, but took a generation to achieve. But this investment of time and resources to secure women's land rights does not have to take a generation, and it is crucial. It is foundational for gender justice. This investment is also needed immediately and globally for the survival of humanity in the face of the climate emergency, because of women's role in land and natural resource management.
Our strongest evidence for women's land rights, and what we have seen over and over in our work, is that land rights for women shift household dynamics and increase women's ability to make decisions within their households, strengthening women's agency and voice. Land rights change the way women are viewed, and the way they view themselves. Land rights change women's status – it begins to bridge the great distance between "my wife is my property" and "equal legal personhood."
Securing land rights for women digs down to the root of gender inequality; radically, quietly uprooting it, overturning it, elevating women toward equal legal personhood at household, community and societal levels. Secure land rights establish for women what they have always achieved for men: full citizenship. Recognition as human beings with power—personal, economic, and social.
We also have evidence that holding wealth, including land, increases women's political engagement. In Uttar Pradesh, an increase in access to land and income helped women contest in local elections and claim their space in the political sphere. This is one more link—and an incredibly powerful one—between women's land rights and the realization of full citizenship for women.
In the struggle for human rights and sustainable development, we seek to strengthen democracy and gender equality. Strengthening land rights for women increases women's leadership at all levels, driving transformational change toward gender justice in the process.
Women cannot be equal until we are people. This is the standard set by CEDAW, and the basic human right of half the world's population. Land rights for women is the path to fulfill it.
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This week, politics in the United States and in Europe dominated the markets. In the UK, Theresa May's government entered into a conflict with Russia following the poisoning of a former Russian spy. Theresa and the West believe that Russia's government is responsible for the assassination. As a result, the country expelled Russian diplomats and in response, Putin expelled UK officials. At the same time, the United States issued its sanctions against Russia.
In the United States, the Trump administration continued to experience challenges. This week, after a trip from Africa, the Secretary of the State, Rex Tillerson was fired through Twitter, a platform the president uses to share his thoughts. His place will now be taken by Mike Pompeo, who has developed a close relationship with the president. More such chaos is expected as reports indicate that several senior officials including Ben Carson and H.R. McMaster would soon be next. Recently, he has lost many senior professionals such as Hope Hicks and his former executive assistant McEntee.
At the same time, Trump appointed Larry Kudlow, a television personality as his senior economic advisor. Larry will replace Gary Cohn, who served in that capacity for 14 months. Larry is a dollar hawk who believes that the country is much better with a stronger currency. At the same time, he differs with the president on various issues such as trade where he is opposed to mass tariffs.
From the data side, this was the week of inflation. On Tuesday, the US released its inflation data that showed unmoved inflation. The core CPI dropped to 0.2% from last month's 0.3% in line with the expectations. On an annual basis, the core CPI remained unchanged at 1.8%. In general, the CPI reduced from last month's 0.5% to 0.1%. However, this will not change the views from the Fed about raising interest rates.
In the United Kingdom, Chancellor Hammond released his spring statement. In the statement, he signaled that the country will ease its austerity measures, reduce the budget deficit, and the debt to GDP ratio. This will happen as the country's economy continues to grow, even with the challenges of Brexit.
In China, the country released its industrial data that beat analysts' forecasts. The data showed that the industrial production grew at an annualized rate of 7.3%. This was higher than last month's data and what analysts were expecting. Last month, the industrial data showed a growth of 6.2% while analysts were expecting a growth of 6.4%.
In New Zealand, the country announced Q4 GDP numbers that disappointed. The data from the statistics office showed that the GDP grew at 0.6% and at an annualized rate of 2.9%. Analysts were expecting growth of 0.8% and 3.1% respectively. The downward revision was as a result of the drought that affected the dairy industry.
The Eu released inflation data today. The MoM general and core CPI were unchanged at 0.2% and 0.4% respectively. On an annualized basis, the EU core inflation data was at 1% while the CPI fell slightly to 1.1%.


Nearly two-thirds of American 3- to 5-year-olds were enrolled in preschool in 2012, and 60 percent of them were in full-day programs, according to an annual report that tracks developments and trends in the U.S. education system.
A Pennsylvania district has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights to provide more equitable educational opportunities for its English-language-learner population.
A new report cites inaccurate assessments of the needs of students entering the system, poor coordination between teaching and learning, and inconsistency in curricula as significant problems.


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Who are the Council of Electoral Specialists of Latin America (CEELA)?
By Victoria Gaytan / VickyGO / October 17, 2017
On Sunday, citizens of Venezuela chose 23 new governors. It was the 22nd gubernatorial election in the 18 years since the start of the Bolivarian Revolution. President Nicolas Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 17 governorships to the opposition's five, leading to questions from the opposition, observation groups and the United States—among other actors—on the legitimacy and transparency of the election. But the Latin American Council on Electoral Experts (CEELA)—a body allegedly created to monitor, observe and legitimize elections across Latin America—declared the electoral exercise as successful, free and respectful. But, who are these guys and should we take their word?
Public information on CEELA and its structure is scarce. So scarce that there is not even an official website nor an organizational charter. But what we do know is that CEELA has observed elections in Venezuela for the past 18 years and in each and every electoral exercise, the body has declared the authenticity and the manifestation of citizen's will as the true winner every time.
According to an article by El Nuevo Diario, CEELA was officially born in 2007 as a "leftist counterpart to electoral observation agencies sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS)." In the words of Jose Luis Villavicencio—Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council Justice back then—the idea was to create an international body that would allow support for Latin American leftist political parties in their struggle to gain power democratically.
But according to this same article, the organization of CEELA began as early as 2004—by former magistrates of the electoral institutions across the region and presumably receiving funding from the Venezuelan government—as an electoral observation body to legitimize the late Hugo Chávez's mandate.
By 2010, CEELA and the OAS signed a Cooperation Framework Agreement to "promote the development of joint initiatives on electoral matters." Through this agreement, CEELA joined other regional electoral institutions—such as Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE); the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil (TSE); the National Electoral Chamber of Argentina (CNE); and the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC)—and gained institutional recognition to audit electoral processes and outcomes across the region, especially those pertaining to Venezuela.
But still, there is no real information on the group's structure, the process used to elect CEELA members and experts, operational or technical guidelines for monitoring elections, or even an explicit mission statement. It isn't even clear what they have done under all those cooperative agreements they've signed.
So, we have compiled a list of council members who participated as election observers authorized by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE). These members also appeared at a press conference on Sunday to deem the election "respectful and successful." It is also worth nothing that five of these members also participated in CEELA's observing mission on the election of Venezuela's National Assembly this past July.
Nicanor Moscoso
Since 2005, Nicolas Moscoso has served as President of the Council of Electoral Specialists of Latin America (CEELA), an organization he co-founded. Moscoso has also participated in international observation missions for Colombia and El Salvador in 2014, among others.
Prior to leading CEELA, Moscoso was president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, a Congressman for the Guayas coastal province and Finance and Public Credit Viceminister in Ecuador. Moscoso is also a founding member of the Democratic Center Movement.
Guillermo Reyes
Guillermo Reyes, elections expert and CEELA co-founder, was the former president of Colombia's National Electoral Council. Reyes has been observing elections in Venezuela since 2003. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Deputy Minister of Justice and an auxiliary justice at Colombia's Constitutional Court.
In 2015, when aspiring to lead Colombia's Civilian National Registry, Reyes was involved in a plagiarism scandal regarding his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Law in Madrid's Complutense University (UCM). The thesis allegedly contained over twenty plagiarized texts.
Walter Rene Araujo
Walter Araujo, also a CEELA founding member, served for more than 20 years in El Salvador's political system as Chief Justice for the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), President of the Legislative Assembly, Congressman and Head of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party.
In 2015 he ran as a mayor for San Salvador with the "Great Alliance for National Unity" (GANA) party.
In 1992 Araujo was a member of the Unit for the Execution of the Peace Accords (UDAPAZ), Executive Secretary of the Government Dialogue Committee of El Salvador from 1990 to 1992, and Chief Operations Officer in the Data Processing department of the Central Elections Council from 1986 to 1988. Walter Araujo was also an advisor to former President Alfredo Cristiani.
Eugenio Chicas Martinez
CEELA member Eugenio Chicas is the current Communications Secretary at the Office of the President of El Salvador. According to public records, besides serving as a an international elections consultant, Chicas is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Exchange and Solidarity; a member of the FMLN Party at the National Directorate level; a columnist for El Diario de Hoy newspaper—yeah, the same one that wrote about the group mentioned above; and a Congressman elected to the Central American Parliament for the 2016-2021 term.
Prior to serving as Chief Communications Officer, Chicas was Chief Justice of El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) from 2009 to 2014.
Alfredo Arévalo
Ecuadorian CEELA representative Alfredo Arevalo is the former President of Ecuador's Constitutional Electoral Tribunal. On Venezuela's Sunday poll, Arévalo declared the election was one of the best electoral processes ever held, audited many times by all parties and political actors. Arévalo is the current Dean at the Industrial Engineering Faculty at the University of Guayaquil.
Among other observing participants of the Sunday poll were Victor Soto, former President of Peru's National Election Jury; Augusto Aguilar, CEELA Director for Central America; Gastón Soto, former member of Peru's National Election Jury and former adviser and president of the National Judicial Council of Peru; and Silvia Cartagena, former Justice at El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
Why they were there and how they observed the process, though, we may never know. Without mentions of quick counts, voting sites monitored, and whether they were able to observe the vote tabulation process on site or in the national electoral council, it's hard to know how they reached such a confident conclusion.
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A composite product is defined in European Union legislation as a 'foodstuff intended for human consumption that contains both processed products of animal origin and products of plant origin.
The EU's definition of composite products includes those products, where the processing of primary product is an integral part of the production of the final product'.
Commission Decision 2007/275/EC and Regulation No. 28/2012 (as amended by Regulation No. 468/2012) set out import conditions for importing composite products from non-EU countries.
Requirements include that the composite product must come from a third country listed in EU legislation as approved for the product of animal origin contained in the composite product.
The meat product, milk product, egg product and fishery product content of the composite product must also have come from an approved country and where appropriate from an approved establishment listed on the European Commission website.
The composite product must be accompanied by the relevant health certificate in Regulation 468/2012 if they contain processed meat, milk, egg or fishery product.
Composite products containing any other animal product must be accompanied by the relevant health certificate required for the particular animal content or in other cases by a commercial document.
Composite products where less than half their content is processed milk product are also subject to these requirements except where the conditions in Article 6 of Decision 2007/275/EC are met.
Composite products referred to above are subject to veterinary checks at EU Border Inspection Posts (BIPs).
A composite product that contains no processed meat product and less than half its substance of other processed product of animal origin is also subject to veterinary checks at BIPs except where they meet the requirements of Article 6 of Decision 2007/275/EC. The milk content must only come from a country approved by the EU for milk.
Food business operators are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure any foodstuffs they want to import comply with EU and national rules in place to protect public and animal health. Importers should satisfy themselves that any composite products coming to the UK comply with the import conditions as set out in Decision 2007/275/EC and Regulation No 28/2012. It is worth remembering that where a safeguard control applies, for instance Indian aquaculture, to the processed products of animal origin, it would also apply to the finished composite product.


Libraries are diverse in role, use and space and the scope of our profession is equally diverse, spanning public, academic, national, corporate and a variety of other types. As such it can be challenging to see conclusive patterns and make definitive professional statements. That said, it is telling that, across the span of most libraries and beyond, the humble print book has proven to be remarkably resilient in a way that might not have been as recently as 2010 when various technology evangelists were hailing the death of the printed book1 and Amazon sold more books for its kindle than print.


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Эдвард Мейрик (1854—1938) — английский учитель и энтомолог-любитель, увлекавшийся лепидоптерологией. Специализировался по Microlepidoptera и рассматривается некоторыми как отец систематики для этой группы.

Биография
Образование получил в Мальборо-колледже и Тринити-Колледже в Кембридже.
Публиковаться начал с 1875 года. Десять лет прожил в Австралии. Написал множество научных статей, а также работы Handbook of British Lepidoptera (1895) и Exotic Microlepidoptera (многотомная, выходила в марте 1912 — ноябре 1937).

Мейрик состоял членом Королевского энтомологического общества Лондона и Королевского общества. Его коллекция экземпляров видов (более 100 000) находится в Музее естественной истории в Лондоне. Есть мнение, что он собрал больше видов, чем кто-либо другой в истории.

Примечания

Лепидоптерологи
Выпускники Кембриджского университета
Выпускники Тринити-колледжа (Кембридж)

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The History and Topography of Ireland
by Gerald of Wales
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Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts the history of Ireland's rulers; and tells fantastical stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. Written from the point of view of an invader and reformer, this work has been rightly criticized for its portrait of a primitive land, yet it is also one of the most important sources for what is known of Ireland during the Middle Ages.


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Владимир Никитич Бузаев (, 27 октября 1940, Чирчик) — советский и украинский тренер по волейболу.

Главный тренер национальной женской сборной Украины (1992—1995, 2009—2011) и ВК «Северодончанка» (Северодонецк, Луганская область) — чемпиона Украины по волейболу 2009 года среди женских команд суперлиги.

Тренерская работа
С 1971 года работал главным тренером команды третьего дивизиона чемпионата Украинской ССР «Орбита» (Запорожье), которую вывел в высшую лигу чемпионата СССР.

С запорожской «Орбитой» выиграл два Кубка СССР (1985, 1988), бронзу чемпионата СССР (1988/89), Кубок ЕКВ (1989/90), Кубок и чемпионат Украины (1992/93).

В 1992—1995 годах — главный тренер национальной и молодёжной женских сборных Украины. В 1993 году сборная Украины под его руководством достигла лучшего результата в своей истории, став бронзовым призёром чемпионата Европы.

В 1995 году уходит с поста главного тренера и уезжает работать в Турцию. С 2000 по 2007 годы — главный тренер турецкой команды «Гюнеш Сигорта». Во время его руководства клубом «Гюнеш Сигорта» постоянно играл в еврокубках. В 2004 году клуб выиграл Кубок вызова ЕКВ.

В 2008 году вернулся на Украину, где возглавил команду «Северодончанка», а в 2009—2011 годах также работал главным тренером сборной Украины.

В сезоне-2008/09 «Северодончанка» стала чемпионом страны и завоевала Кубок Украины среди женских команд.

Ссылки
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Волейбольные тренеры Украины
Заслуженные тренеры Украины


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Bling takes first career Tour de France stage win
Michael Better July 13, 2016
Australian Michael Matthews (Orica-BikeExchange) took his first career stage win at the Tour de France out of a breakaway on stage 10 in Revel Tuesday. The finish saw the top two finishers at the world championships in 2015, Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and Matthews, battle it out for the stage victory. And though there was no rainbow jersey on the line, Matthews got a bit of redemption against his Slovakian rival.
Matthews was aided by numerical advantage; Orica teammates Daryl Impey and Luke Durbridge also rode in the day's breakaway, giving the Australian team three out of 15 in the break. The three riders made the select group of seven after Sagan split the breakaway in crosswinds with 25km remaining.
"It's unbelievable," Matthews said. "I was close to giving in at this race after I had two bad crashes [in 2014 and 2015]. I thought maybe this race is not for me but today my dream comes true. It was never the plan to go for a breakaway today. We wanted a bunch sprint finish but we're such a strong group of guys. Durbridge and Impey gave me everything to win today. I have no words to describe what they did for me."
0 KM à parcourir / to go - Étape 10 / Stage 10... by tourdefrance
Durbridge and Impey sacrificed themselves for their teammate, with the latter attacking multiple times on the short Category 3 climb before the finish.
Matthews shadowed Sagan the entire time and came through for all his teammates hard work. His Tour win gives him stage wins in all three of the Grand Tours.
The peloton rolled across the line 9:39 behind the stage winner. Chris Froome (Team Sky) pulled on the maillot jaune for another stage, as no changes occurred in the general classification. Froome leads the leader of the Best Young Rider Classification, Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange), by 16 seconds, with Dan Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) in third at 19 seconds.
The 10th stage of the 2016 Tour took the riders along a 197km (122.4mi) route from Escaldes-Engordany in Andorra to the French town of Revel. A Category 1 climb right from the start made sure the riders were wide awake, but then a long descent and a mostly flat ride to Revel made for a less stressful day than the hail storm on Stage 9. The Category 3 Côte de Saint-Ferréol (1.8km at 6.6%) threw a wrench into the finale, peaking with just 7km to the finish.
The Category 1 Port d'Envalira (22.6km at 5.5%) began a mere 2 kilometres into the stage and the Souvenir Henri Desgrange awaited the first rider over the top, as the climb was the highest point of this year's Tour at 2,408m (7900ft).
Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) crested the climb first, and on the descent and into the valley the front of the race reshuffled on multiple occasions with aggressive racing.
After 73km of racing, Sagan and Samuel Dumoulin (Ag2r-La Mondiale) got a gap and the duo was soon joined by 13 riders. Mikel Landa (Sky), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Damiano Caruso and Greg van Avermaet (BMC Racing), Edvald Boasson Hagen and Stephen Cummings (Dimension Data), Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal), Costa, Durbridge, Impey, Matthews, and Sylvain Chavanel (Direct Energie) joined the leaders and the peloton was more than three minutes behind.
117 KM à parcourir / to go - Étape 10 / Stage... by tourdefrance
Shortly thereafter, Sebastian Langeveld (Cannondale-Drapac) became the sixth rider to abandon the 2016 Tour.
Sagan took the intermediate sprint point uncontested with 74.5km to the finish, as Katusha and IAM Cycling led the peloton more than six minutes behind. The world champion moved into the virtual lead in the points classification.
As intermittent rain fell on the riders, Thomas Voeckler (Direct Energie) came to the front of the peloton to assist in the pacemaking; an interesting tactic considering Direct Energie had Chavanel, a previous stage winner at the Tour, in the breakaway.
With 25km to go, the riders entered a crosswind section and the breakaway split. Sagan, Dumoulin, Boasson Hagen, Van Avemaet, and the three riders from Orica-BikeExchange formed the leading group. When the peloton rode into the crosswind less than four minutes later, riders began being shelled off the back.
A slowing in the peloton allowed the riders who were trailed off to rejoin the group, as those at the front of the race continued to power on. The leaders were able to stretch their advantage to over five minutes.
Durbridge drove the breakaway to the bottom of the Category 3 Côte de Saint-Ferréol (1.8km at 6.6%), which peaked with 7km to go. Orica-BikeExchange had the numerical advantage with three of seven riders in the leading group and looked to put Matthews in a position to win.
Impey made multiple attacks on the climb with Sagan forced to bring back the move every time. Over the top of the climb, six riders remained in front with Durbridge dropping off, his job done for the day.
Boasson Hagen tried an attack on the descent, but Sagan quickly shut down the move.
Under the Flamme Rouge with 1k to go, Impey drove the pace followed by Sagan, Matthews, Boasson Hagen, Dumoulin, and Van Avermaet. The BMC rider opened the sprint from rear of the group, a long way out from the line.
"I wanted to surprise them and go from far, as most of the time it's my strongest point, but a few guys came over me," Van Avermaet said. "It was a hard day on the climb and I knew if a big break goes then it would go to the finish, and that's why I tried to stay as long as possible. I climbed with the peloton, did a good descent and then bridged with Sylvain Chavanel to the breakaway. But I think Sagan was really strong so it was hard to beat him."
Matthews proved to be the quickest of the group and took his first career stage win at the Tour. Sagan finished second, with Boasson Hagen in third. The world champion was notably slow to react in the sprint after chasing down attacks and leading the group for most of the final kilometres.
"It's always possible to win, but they let me close all the gaps," Sagan said. "Matthews had the best position before the sprint while I had lost a lot of energy before the sprint. It didn't go very well at the end but it could have been worse as well."
After the stage, Sagan pulled on the maillot vert as leader of the points classification and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) kept his lead in the King of the Mountains classification.
"I have a bit of a cold. We have to make a medical check tonight," Pinot said. "In the climb to Port d'Envalira, I tried a few times. We marked each other quite a lot. The only time I didn't go with the move, it was the decisive one to get the points at the top but it was more important for me to mark Majka. Our next appointment is at the Mont Ventoux."
No changes occurred in the fight for the overall title and thus Froome pulled on another maillot jaune after stage 10.
On Wednesday the Tour travels from Carcassonne to Montpellier. The 162.5km (101mi) flat stage should see the sprinters battle it out for the stage win, though anything is possible with Mont Ventoux looming on Thursday. The last two stage finishes in Montpellier, in 2011 and 2013, saw Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) and Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) take the win, respectively.
ORICA-BikeExchange update
ORICA-BikeExchange rode the perfect race on stage 10 to set-up Michael Matthews for his first Tour de France stage win. Teammates Luke Durbridge and Daryl Impey sacrificed themselves to put Matthews in an ideal position for the win, and he didn't disappoint. Matthews was full of praise for his teammates after their selfless work helped the Australian rider banish some painful memories of the Tour.
"It's unbelievable," said Matthews. "The emotion at the moment is just sinking in. I've just won a stage of the Tour de France after two really bad years in this race."
"I was really close to giving up on this race, I just thought this race is not for me and I'd focus on other races, but today my dreams came true."
"It was never the plan to get into the breakaway, we thought it was going to come down to a bunch sprint. We have such a strong group of guys here and the way we work as a team is that everyone gives everything for their teammates.
"As you could see Daryl (Impey) and Luke (Durbridge) gave their all for me today and were both amazing all the way to the end.
Durbridge himself proudly added, "When you close out like that you could call it a technical masterpiece. We are pretty happy with that."
"It took full commitment from everyone from kilometre zero to the finish. It doesn't always come together like that but when it does it's pretty special."
Sport director Matt White was pleased with the win and the concentrated performance from the team.
"The boys rode incredibly well today," said White. "It was a very elite group of riders in that breakaway including world champions and a Grand Tour winner and it was hard for us because we had three guys in there and everyone was looking to us to control it."
"Our level of concentration was very high and Luke, Daryl and Michael all played their roles to perfection.
"Luke set a really hard tempo going onto the two short climbs before the end which was very important before Daryl forced the hands of the other riders the final few kilometres.
"Michael finished it off very well and proved that he was the fastest the guy in the sprint and we are all very happy with the stage win."
This article is a modified version of that originally published on cyclingtips.com
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When Stella is dumped at summer camp while her mum goes off on a posh honeymoon, things start badly. In the first few minutes she's mistaken for a boy and put in a room with snobby Louise and nasty Karen. Then she finds out she'll have to take dreaded swimming lessons, the one thing mum promised she wouldn't have to do. Can things get any worse?


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Complete with gold metal, pink glitter lips and a glistening green body, this girl is worth that bit of extra.


As companies contemplate putting self-driving cars on our city streets, driverless trucks on our freeways and autonomous delivery drones overhead, UC Berkeley engineers are embarking on a major project to improve the safety of these vehicles and how they interact with humans.
Gearing up for an exciting Bridge SF 2016 conference, ITS Berkeley and TSRC teamed up to host a Disrupting Mobility Hackathon at the ITS Library Sept. 3-4, 2016 to explore how Shared Automated Electric and Connected (SECA) vehicles will impact the way people and goods move within a city.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why UC Berkeley has designated parking areas for Nobel Laureates: if there's one thing harder to snag than a Nobel prize, it's a parking space on a UC campus. Car sharing programs on campus could be a part of the solution.
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council has awarded ME Professor Francesco Borrelli the 2017 Industrial Achievement Award.
Zipcar, the world's leading car sharing network, and the University of California, Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), today released the findings of a first-of-its kind study of Zipcar car sharing on North American college and university campuses.
Cathy Wu, an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate, is among 60 top female graduates in the fields of electrical and computer engineering and computer science chosen to participate in Carnegie Melon University's Rising Stars workshop.
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Check out who we have on deck for the 2016 Fall Transportation Seminar. See the full schedule.
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The solution is to explicitly pass flush_on_reconnect as an optional argument. A concern with this model is that the memcached servers may be utilized by other tooling and may lose cache state (in the case the oslo.cache connection is the only thing affected by the network partitioning).
This similarly needs to be addressed in pymemcache when it is utilized in lieu of python-memcached.
"A concern with this model is that the memcached servers may be utilized by other tooling and may lose cache state (in the case the oslo.cache connection is the only thing affected by the network partitioning)."
That may be, but I'd rather have an empty but consistent cache than a full but incorrect one. Hopefully network partitions aren't a particularly common occurrence anyway.
So I guess +1 on setting this option.


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Das Immigrantmuseet ist ein dänisches Migrationsmuseum in der Kommune Furesø bei Kopenhagen.

Das Museum wurde im Januar 2012 eröffnet und zeigt 500 Jahre Migrationsgeschichte in Dänemark. Gezeigt wird die Vielfalt der Migrationsprozesse anhand von chinesischen Restaurants in Kopenhagen, der Ansiedlung von Deutschen in Jütland, der Burkazählung oder der Einführung des Christbaums durch Einwanderer.

Literatur
 Cathrine Kyø Hermansen, Thomas Abel Møller: The Danish Immigration Museum of Furesø: the history of immigration and the collecting of memories. Museum, Mai 2007, Vol 59, 1–2, S. 137–144. (nicht eingesehen)

Einzelnachweise

Migrationsmuseum
Museum in Dänemark
Migration (Dänemark)
Furesø Kommune
Gegründet 2012


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UK police investigating Suzy Lamplugh cold case in new body search 32 years on
2:49pm Oct 31, 2018
UK police investigating the unsolved 32-year-old murder of Suzy Lamplugh have started digging up a garden linked to the prime suspect.
Real estate agent Lamplugh went missing in July 1986 after leaving her London offices to meet a mystery client known only as Mr Kipper.
She was later declared dead, presumed murdered. A body has never been discovered.
Her disappearance is one of the UK's most notorious cold cases.
UK police investigating the murder of Suzy Lamplugh, right, are searching a house in Birmingham, central England. (PA/AAP)
Police are concentrating their search for Suzy Lamplugh's body around a concrete floor in the rear of the property. (PA/AAP)
John Cannan, who is currently in jail for rape and murder, was named as the prime suspect by police in 2002.
Yesterday, investigators were searching a house in Birmingham, central England, that was previously owned by Cannan's mother, reports the BBC.
The current owner of the home, Philip Carey, told the BBC he purchased the house from Cannan's mother Sheila 26 years ago.
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"We knew who she was, we became aware who she was as we went through the relationship, and obviously it was high profile at the time."
He said police forensic experts arrived on Monday and were concentrated in the rear of the garden at the site of a former garage built on a concrete base.
Suzy Lamplugh, left, and a police reconstruction of her 1986 disappearance. (Getty)
Police forensic experts search for clues in the garden of a house linked to the prime suspect in the Lamplugh case. (PA/AAP)
Carey told the BBC he believed there was a "50-50 chance" Lamplugh's remains would be found.
MYSTERY MEETING
Lamplugh disappeared on July 28, 1986 after going to meet a client – known only as Mr Kipper – who was never traced by police.
She took her keys and a purse containing $30 to the appointment in south west London, but left her handbag at work.
Witnesses reported seeing her arguing with a man – thought to be Mr Kipper - outside a property later that day.
His description provided to police bore a strong resemblance to Cannan.
Prime suspect John Cannan, left, and a police image of Mr Kipper - who estate agent Suzy Lamplugh met the last time she was seen. (PA/AAP)
When she didn't attend another appointment, her boss reported Lamplugh missing.
Police recovered her car outside a property for sale about three kilometres from her original appointment.
Detectives also traced the address given by Mr Kipper – but found no one of that name.
In November 2002, police named John Cannan as the prime suspect in Lamplugh's murder.
Three days before her disappearance, he was released from a London prison where he had been serving a sentence for rape.
Cannan bore a strong resemblance to the man seen by witnesses with Lamplugh.
A file photo of Suzy Lamplugh's parents Paul and Diana Lamplugh. Both died without the killer of their daughter brought to justice. (PA/AAP)
He was also reportedly nicknamed Kipper while in prison.
In 1989, he was jailed for life for the abduction and murder of a woman and two further rapes.
He was ordered to serve a minimum of 35 years in prison, making him eligible for parole from 2024.
But the then Lord Chief Justice of the UK said he would "probably never be safe to release".
Cannan has never been prosecuted over Lamplugh's murder due to insufficient evidence.
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Q: Java AssertEquals in catch     @Test
  void testSomething() {
    try {
      //something that would throw an exception.
  } catch (Exception e) {
    assertEquals(true, false);
  }

If I have something like this in my j unit test, would the test still fail?
EDIT: Sorry should've stated earlier, I'm not trying to achieve anything here this is part of my midterm and someone told me any assertEquals in catch will always pass and I was confused about that.

A: It would still fail, because you're trying to assert a condition that will never be true:
assertEquals(true, false);

That will, by itself, throw an AssertionError, which is not being caught, so the overall unit test will fail.

A: The preferred way of asserting exception is by using expected like this:
for example, you expect the test should throw ArithmeticException
@Test(expected = ArithmeticException.class)
public void div_shouldThrowArithmeticExceptionWhenDivisorIsZero() {
    int a = 10, b = 0;
    div(a,b);
}

if you specify @Test(expected = SomeExpectedException.class), then the test will pass when the test code block generate the expected Exception.

A: Whenever exception throws from try block your assertequals in catch block will execute but I'm not sure about your intention of doing that. If you want to assert about your exception you can do that by assert Throws.
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Q: Show values from a MySQL database table inside a HTML table on a webpage I want to retrieve the values from a database table and show them in a html table in a page.
I already searched for this but I couldn't find the answer, although this surely is something easy (this should be the basics of databases lol). I guess the terms I've searched are misleading.
The database table name is tickets, it has 6 fields right now (submission_id, formID, IP, name, email and message) but should have another field called ticket_number.
How can I get it to show all the values from the db in a html table like this:

    Submission ID
    Form ID
    IP
    Name
    E-mail
    Message

    123456789
    12345
    123.555.789
    John Johnny
    johnny@example.com
    This is the message John sent you

And then all the other values below 'john'.

A: Example taken from W3Schools: PHP Select Data from MySQL
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("example.com","peter","abc123","my_db");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM Persons");

echo "

Firstname
Lastname

";

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "
";
echo "" . $row['FirstName'] . "	";
echo "" . $row['LastName'] . "	";
echo "
";
}
echo "
";

mysqli_close($con);
?>

It's a good place to learn from!

A: Here is an easy way to fetch data from a MySQL database using PDO.
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");    // Using Constants
define("DB_USER", "YourUsername");
define("DB_PASS", "YourPassword");
define("DB_NAME", "Yourdbname");

$dbc = new PDO("mysql:host=".DB_HOST.";dbname=".DB_NAME.";charset-utf8mb4", DB_USER, DB_PASS);

$print = ""; // assign an empty string

$stmt = $dbc->query("SELECT * FROM tableName"); // fetch data
$stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

$print .= '
';
$print .= '
First name	';
$print .= 'Last name
';

while ($names = $stmt->fetch()) { // loop and display data
    $print .= '
';
    $print .= "{$names->firstname}	";
    $print .= "{$names->lastname}	";
    $print .= '
';
}

$print .= "
";
echo $print;

A: Learn more about PHP and the MySQLi Library at PHP.net.
First, start a connection to the database. Do this by making all the string variables needed in order to connect, adjusting them to fit your environment, then creating a new connection object with new mysqli() and initializing it with the previously made variables as its parameters. Now, check the connection for errors and display a message whether any were found or not. Like this:
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "yourPassword";
$database = "world";
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);
echo "Connected successfully
";
?>

Next, make a variable that will hold the query as a string, in this case its a select statement with a limit of 100 records to keep the list small. Then, we can execute it by calling the mysqli::query() function from our connection object. Now, it's time to display some data. Start by opening up a
 tag through echo, then fetch one row at a time in the form of a numerical array with mysqli::fetch_row() which can then be displayed with a simple for loop. mysqli::field_count should be self explanatory. Don't forget to use 	 for each value, and also to open and close each row with echo"
" and echo"
. Finally we close the table, and the connection as well with mysqli::close().
<?php
$query = "select * from city limit 100;";
$queryResult = $conn->query($query);
echo "
";
while ($queryRow = $queryResult->fetch_row()) {
    echo "
";
    for($i = 0; $i < $queryResult->field_count; $i++){
        echo "$queryRow[$i]	";
    }
    echo "
";
}
echo "
";
$conn->close();
?>

A: First, connect to the database:
$conn=mysql_connect("hostname","username","password");
mysql_select_db("databasename",$conn);

You can use this to display a single record:
For example, if the URL was /index.php?sequence=123, the code below would select from the table, where the sequence = 123.
<?php
$sql="SELECT * from table where sequence = '".$_GET["sequence"]."' ";
$rs=mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
$result=mysql_fetch_array($rs);

echo '

Forename
Surname

'.$result["forename"].'
'.$result["surname"].'

';
?>

Or, if you want to list all values that match the criteria in a table:
<?php
echo '

Forename
Surname

';
$sql="SELECT * from table where sequence = '".$_GET["sequence"]."' ";
$rs=mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
while($result=mysql_fetch_array($rs))
{
echo '

'.$result["forename"].'
'.$result["surname"].'

';
}
echo '
';
?>

A: Surely a better solution would by dynamic so that it would work for any query without having to know the column names?
If so, try this (obviously the query should match your database):
// You'll need to put your db connection details in here.
$conn = new mysqli($server_hostname, $server_username, $server_password, $server_database);

// Run the query.
$result = $conn->query("SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10");

// Get the result in to a more usable format.
$query = array();
while($query[] = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result));
array_pop($query);

// Output a dynamic table of the results with column headings.
echo '
';
echo '
';
foreach($query[0] as $key => $value) {
    echo '';
    echo $key;
    echo '	';
}
echo '
';
foreach($query as $row) {
    echo '
';
    foreach($row as $column) {
        echo '';
        echo $column;
        echo '	';
    }
    echo '
';
}
echo '
';

Taken from here: https://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/handy-php-snippets/

A: Try this: (Completely Dynamic...)
<?php
$host    = "localhost";
$user    = "username_here";
$pass    = "password_here";
$db_name = "database_name_here";

//create connection
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db_name);

//get results from database
$result = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT * FROM products");
$all_property = array();  //declare an array for saving property

//showing property
echo '

';  //initialize table tag
while ($property = mysqli_fetch_field($result)) {
    echo '' . $property->name . '	';  //get field name for header
    $all_property[] = $property->name;  //save those to array
}
echo '
'; //end tr tag

//showing all data
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "
";
    foreach ($all_property as $item) {
        echo '' . $row[$item] . '	'; //get items using property value
    }
    echo '
';
}
echo "
";

A: mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("database");
$query=mysql_query("select * from studenti");
$x=@mysql_num_rows($query);

echo "back";
echo "
";
$y=mysql_num_fields($query);
echo "
";

for($i=0 ,$i<$y,$i++)
{
  $values=mysql_field_name($query,$i);
  echo "$values	";
}

echo "
";

while(list($p ,$n $your_table_list)=mysql_fetch_row($query))
{
  print("
\n".
  "$p	".
  "
/n");
}
?>

A: <?php
$mysql_hostname = "localhost";
$mysql_user     = "ram";
$mysql_password = "ram";
$mysql_database = "mydb";
$bd             = mysql_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_user, $mysql_password) or die("Oops some thing went wrong");
mysql_select_db($mysql_database, $bd) or die("Oops some thing went wrong");// we are now connected to database

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users"); // selecting data through mysql_query()

echo '
';  // opening table tag
echo'No	Username	Password	Email	'; //table headers

while($data = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
// we are running a while loop to print all the rows in a table
echo'
'; // printing table row
echo ''.$data['id'].'	'.$data['username'].'	'.$data['password'].'	'.$data['email'].'	'; // we are looping all data to be printed till last row in the table
echo'
'; // closing table row
}

echo '
';  //closing table tag
?>

it would print the table like this
just read line by line so that you can understand it easily..

A: OOP Style :
 At first connection with database.
<?php
class database
{

 public $host = "localhost";
 public $user = "root";
 public $pass = "";
 public $db   = "db";
 public $link;

 public function __construct()
 {
    $this->connect();
 }

 private function connect()
 {
   $this->link = new mysqli($this->host, $this->user, $this->pass, $this->db);
    return $this->link;
 }

 public function select($query)
 {
    $result = $this->link->query($query) or die($this->link->error.__LINE__);

    if($result->num_rows>0)
    {
      return $result;
    }
    else
    {
      return false;
    }
}
?>

Then :
    <?php
        $db = new database();

        $query = "select * from data";
        $result = $db->select($query);

        echo "
";
         echo "
";
            echo "Name 	";
            echo "Roll 	";
         echo "
";
         while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
         {
            echo "
";
            echo " $row[name]	";
            echo " $row[roll]	";
            echo "
";
         }
       echo "
";
 ?>