William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded a number of hits such as "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands". His life was recently the subject of the documentary film Still Bill.


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By Gary McKechnie
Historic DeLand "just seems to embody everything that's good about Florida," says VISIT FLORIDA Insider Gary McKechnie. "It's a quiet town — there's just a sense of Americana here that you can't find in a lot of places." There are no chain stores here. Browse LPs at Groovy Records, or stroll through the Florida Museum for Women Artists. It's a perfect slice of pure Florida, and a wonderful place to spend an afternoon.

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Daniella Perkins was born on June 13 2000 at Anaheim Memorial Hospital in California. She also has a younger sister named Devenity Perkins. Perkins is a Musical.ly phenomenon who featured with her younger sister Devenity Perkins on the account PerkinsSisters.
They have amassed over 2.2 million followers on the Musical.ly app. Besides Internet activities, she is a good actress and made her acting debut with 2014's comedy short film Senior Slasher.
She came into limelight with her role as Sophia on the Nickelodeon Production's teen based comedy TV series Legendary Dudas. Same year, she acted in the popular comedy TV series Girl Meets World, which aired on Disney channel.
She landed in the co-lead role of Ciara on the 2018's fantasy and comedy TV series Knight Squad. Daniella also appeared in the 2018's TV film Inside Voice as Milley.
In 2008, Daniella and Devenity began WzTheBuzz, a website where they review restaurants, places, fashion and more, and made it a business in 2011. They also have a YouTube channel called PerkinsSisters, where they two posts sketches, skits, vlogs, all kinds of stuff. Perkins earns about $25k per episode along with her sponserships she has a pretty nice net worth of 1MM.


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Q: How to change VBA one-dimensional array output from horizontal to vertical? In the below VBA subroutine I generate an array ("ArrSim") of random numbers, such array measuring 10 rows x 3 columns. This array is pasted into cells A1:C10 of the active worksheet when running the sub. I then generate another array ("ArrRowAvg") where an average is calculated for each row of the ArrSim array. This works fine. The results of this 2nd array, ArrRowAvg, is pasted horizontally into the worksheet in cells E1:N1.
How do I change the code so that ArrRowAvg is instead pasted vertically, always two columns to the right of the ArrSim array? The below code is abbreviated & some of the input variables hard-coded for sake of simplicity; in the full code the user inputs the desired size of ArrSim. I just need to know how to make ArrRowAvg paste vertically. I´ve fiddled with the transpose and index functions with no luck.
Sub Testing()

'   Clear contents of active worksheet and move cursor to Cell A1
    Cells.Clear
    Range("A1").Select

'   Declarations of variables and arrays
    Dim i As Long, j As Integer
    Dim ArrSim() As Double
    Dim OutputSim As Range

'   Redimension array
    ReDim ArrSim(1 To 10, 1 To 3)

'   Set worksheet range
    Set OutputSim = ActiveCell.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 3))

'   Fill ArrSim with random values
    For i = 1 To 10
        For j = 1 To 3
            ArrSim(i, j) = Application.RandBetween(0, 100)
        Next j
    Next i

'   Transfer ArrSim to Worksheet
    OutputSim.Value = ArrSim

'   Generate 1-dimensional array to store the row averages
    Dim ArrRowAvg, ArrRow
    ReDim ArrRowAvg(10 - 1)

'   Loop to calculate row averages from above ArrSim and feed into new array
    For i = 0 To UBound(ArrSim, 1) - 1
        ArrRow = Application.Index(ArrSim, i + 1, 0)
        ArrRowAvg(i) = WorksheetFunction.Average(ArrRow)
    Next i

'   Paste the array ArrRowAvg values starting one column to the right of OutputSim
    OutputSim.Offset(0, 1 + OutputSim.Columns.Count).Resize(1, UBound(ArrRowAvg) + 1).Value = ArrRowAvg

End Sub

A: Please, use this code line:
OutputSim.Offset(0, 1 + OutputSim.Columns.count).Resize(UBound(ArrRowAvg) + 1, 1).Value = Application.Transpose(ArrRowAvg)

instead of:
OutputSim.Offset(0, 1 + OutputSim.Columns.Count).Resize(1, UBound(ArrRowAvg) + 1).Value = ArrRowAvg

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A Quick Fix
Option Explicit

Sub Testing()

    Const FirstCell As String = "A1"
    Const rCount As Long = 10
    Const cCount As Long = 3

'   Clear contents of active worksheet and move cursor to Cell A1
    Cells.Clear
    Dim cel As Range: Set cel = Range(FirstCell)
    cel.Select

'   Declarations of variables and arrays
    Dim i As Long, j As Long
    Dim ArrSim() As Long
    Dim OutputSim As Range

'   Redimension array
    ReDim ArrSim(1 To rCount, 1 To cCount)

'   Fill ArrSim with random values
    For i = 1 To rCount
        For j = 1 To cCount
            ArrSim(i, j) = Application.RandBetween(0, 100)
        Next j
    Next i

'   Set worksheet range
    Set OutputSim = cel.Resize(rCount, cCount)

'   Transfer ArrSim to Worksheet
    OutputSim.Value = ArrSim

'   Generate 2-dimensional array to store the row averages
    Dim ArrRowAvg() As Double
    Dim ArrRow As Variant
    ReDim ArrRowAvg(1 To rCount, 1 To 1)

'   Loop to calculate row averages from above ArrSim and feed into new array
    For i = 1 To rCount
        ArrRow = Application.Index(ArrSim, i, 0)
        ArrRowAvg(i, 1) = Application.Average(ArrRow)
    Next i

'   Paste the array ArrRowAvg values starting one column to the right of OutputSim
    OutputSim.Columns(1).Offset(, cCount).Value = ArrRowAvg

End Sub

My Choice
Sub myChoice()

    ' Constants
    Const FirstCell As String = "A1"
    Const rCount As Long = 10
    Const cCount As Long = 3

    ' Arrays
    Dim tcCount As Long: tcCount = cCount + 1
    Dim Data() As Double: ReDim Data(1 To rCount, 1 To tcCount)
    Dim DataRow As Variant
    Dim i As Long, j As Long
    For i = 1 To rCount
        For j = 1 To cCount
            Data(i, j) = Application.RandBetween(0, 100)
        Next j
        DataRow = Application.Index(Data, i, 0)
        Data(i, tcCount) = Application.Sum(DataRow) / cCount
    Next I

    ' Worksheet
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Cells.Clear
    With Range(FirstCell)
        .Select
        .Resize(rCount, tcCount).Value = Data
    End With
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

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The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) reaffirms its biblical stance concerning refugees, vulnerable people who are oftentimes victimized for their faith.
In light of this resolution passed a little more than six months ago and previous resolutions in 2011 and 2013, the BWA decries recent actions by the United States Government to issue a blanket travel ban on seven countries that specifically targets refugees and that seems to especially affect Muslims.
These actions are already having a negative impact on the lives of families. It has adversely affected service providers who work directly with refugees and has created unexpected difficulties for Baptist institutions in the United States, such as universities and seminaries, with students enrolled from the seven named countries.
While the BWA recognizes that a government has a right to create and maintain conditions that provide for the safety of its citizens, there is a temptation to give in to fear and to hastily pursue misguided policies that will have deleterious long-term effects and that undermine freedom of religion.
We accept this is not a situation that has emerged quickly and is in part a response to longstanding problems in these seven countries. We decry unjust actions that are too often left unaddressed and conditions that are allowed to deteriorate.
We note that in Iraq, Christians, Yazidis and others face genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. Over the last decade, the Christian population in Iraq has shrunk from 1.5 million to less than 200,000.
In Yemen, a Global Alert from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network indicates that Yemen is at risk of the highest level of food insecurity.
Syria is one of the most complex conflicts and humanitarian situations in our world that has devastated the country, which faces a future of trauma and rebuilding.
Baptists, fellow Christians and all people of goodwill should work to reverse conditions that lead to displacement in these and other countries and for peace, harmony and justice to prevail.
The BWA commends Baptists in countries such as Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Serbia and elsewhere, who have embodied the biblical mandate to stand with the vulnerable and to extend Christian hospitality. We support Baptists in the United States who offer welcome and provide assistance.


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The Parliamentary Secretary
Dr Keith Azzopardi
Keith Azzopardi Tanti was born on the 17th of March, 1984 and grew up in a working class family. He is now married, has two sons and a degree in Economics and Management from the University of Malta. He also obtained an ACCA qualification and practiced his profession as an Accountant, before being elected into Parliament.
Keith started his political career at an early age and in 2013, he accepted the Labour Party's invitation to run for the Local Council election in Tal-Pieta. He later on contested and was elected as a mayor in this first election and was again confirmed mayor after the 2019 election.
Keith Azzopardi Tanti looks forward to implementing his experience, young energy and academic work in his role as a Parliamentary Secretary for Youth, Research and Innovation.


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Don't Dismiss Pinterest Just Yet
Posted by Digitalmktgguru in Data Analytics / Social Media on June 1, 2017Tags: digital / e-commerce / facebook / internet / pinterest / social media updates
Perhaps you may not know it, but Pinterest remains the second largest social channel driver of traffic to websites, next only to Facebook. However, for e-commerce sales overall, the online bulletin board still trails Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
But don't dismiss Pinterest just yet. In fact, that's the last thing you should do. You know why Facebook dominates all metrics right now? It's largely because of its sheer size, it has 1.94 billion users versus Pinterest that has only 175 million. Indeed, on the business side, nearly 9 in 10 e-commerce sites use Facebook for traffic and sales, while only 4 in 10 have a presence on the online pin board. But when you match the numbers, without taking into account each platform's size, they pretty much have equal conversion rates.
In fact, Sean O'Neal, president of Adaptly, an online platform for social buying, thinks that Pinterest is the future of social e-commerce – while Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter represent the present.
Multiplying Website Visits
Data shows that an average of two website visits and six page views are generated when an e-commerce site pins a product. And the gift keeps on giving as the pin typically is "repinned" for about a week. Compare that to Facebook, for instance, where your post will stay on average for 90 minutes before interest wanes.
How Does Pinterest Maintain High Retail Conversion?
Here's something to mull over: Pinterest users spend an average of $50 per order on the site, more than any other platforms.
But how does the site manage to keep the high conversion from visit to purchase?
It all boils down to intent.
Ben Silbermann, CEO, and co-founder of Pinterest shares that people don't visit the site to know what their friends are doing, or share their latest selfies. "Instead, they come to Pinterest to find ideas to try, figure out which ones they love, and learn a little bit about themselves in the process," he said.
Between Facebook and Pinterest, the online bulletin board has an edge on consumer intent. To put it simply, people don't usually go to Facebook with the intent of making a purchase. For instance, 9 in 10 active users of Pinterest claim they are there with every intention to buy.
Plus, according to data, Pinterest is growing 18 times more than Facebook.
This is why your e-commerce site will benefit by linking it to the online bulletin board.
Additionally, Pinterest has introduced features that make targeting the right audiences easier. For instance, Customer List Targeting allows you to target potential customers through the mobile ad IDs (an identifier that links a customer to a device), or through email addresses. Visitor Targeting, meanwhile, allows you remarket to previous website visitors; and lastly Lookalike Targeting, which lets you reach other potential customers that look like your current ones.
Pinterest as E-Commerce Hub
Meanwhile, the social platform is transitioning more and more every day from an online bulletin board to an e-commerce hub. Its current e-commerce integration lets pinners add items to their cart and check-out – right on the app. This means they don't have to be driven to a third-party website in order to complete the transaction.
Another innovation announced this year by Pinterest is the ability for pinners to snap a photo of the product in real time, pin it on Pinterest and immediately receive related recommendations. These new changes will no doubt drive even more traffic and social e-commerce sales.
What does this mean for you? Make sure your Pinterest strategy is sound right now because having a good strategy is important given the user's intent, the platform's growth rate and the innovations from Pinterest support social commerce.
If you have any questions or need help with your Pinterest Strategy, let us know.


The Linked In Photo Editor, Creative Director and Art Buyer Network have a hot debate on this very topic at present, with strong views on whether to go digital or cherish the analogue in portfolio presentation. Photographer Lee Love argues that, "the great thing about the iPad is it has given me the opportunity to show my work quickly and in situations where I would not normally bring my book." While agent Anne Albrecht Juliusson likes the adaptablity of the iPad, "I put together specialty galleries on my iPad for portfolio shows with images selected targeted to the agency I'm visiting. Its nice to be able to customize whenever I like." Others use both, preferring to start with the iPad then move to a printed portfolio believing that the printed piece creates a stronger connection. And Rhoni Epstein argues that the backlit iPad can make images look better than they really are.
So the options seem open based on that forum, but a random sample of agents, art buyers and photographers that we spoke to suggested the portfolio was increasingly marginalised by the omnipresence of the website.
Of course, you may well look at the website on an iPad, so ensuring that the world's biggest brand, Apple, continues to do nicely.


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Ending the Death Penalty in Africa
Just One More Step: Ratifying Protocols on Abolition
Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions
20th World Day Against the Death Penalty
Preventing the return of the death penalty
The Death Penalty Worldwide
What is the Risk that the Death Penalty Will Return in Your Country?
NGO report
Pakistan, a long march for democracy and the rule of law
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Fatma Cosadia / Odette Lou Bouvier, on 1 January 2009
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Regularly denounced by human rights associations, violations of the right to a fair trial and inequality before the law for prisoners who face the death penalty are flagrant. Most prisoners belong to the most disadvantaged social classes or to ethnic or religious minorities. Involved in often questionable circumstances, with confessions extracted under frequent beatings and torture, many litigants are not given an adequate defence. To defend these cases, lawyers appointed ex officio receive 200 rupees per hearing (less than 5 U.S. dollars). Often young and inexperienced to deal with procedures not respecting the minimum fair trial guarantees, these lawyers are not in a position to ensure the mandate entrusted to them.
Document type NGO report
Themes list Due Process , Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,
Available languages Pakistan, une longue marche pour la démocratie et l'etat de droit
In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]
20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture
As the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked around the world, now is a time to consider and celebrate the gains the abolitionist movement has made over the past 20 years. Now, more than ever, abolitionist actors need to continue working towards the complete abolition of the death penalty worldwide, for all […]


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Design, develop, and test data processes per business requirements, following the development standards and best practices as well as participate in code peer reviews to ensure our applications comply with best practices.
Work with business analysts to gather business requirements from end users and translate them into technical specifications.
Gather requirements to define data definitions, transformation logic, and data model logical and physical designs, data flow, and process.
Perform data analysis and data profiling against source systems and data warehouse.
Design data marts to support Business Intelligence reporting.
Design ETL processes using Informatica Power Center.
Assist developers with difficult Oracle PL/SQL code needed for queries, triggers, and stored procedures.
Design, develop, implement and maintain custom oracle applications written in PL/SQL.
Conduct reviews of developed code.
Test solutions to validate whether requirements have been met; develop test plans, test scripts, and test conditions based on the business and system requirements.
Provide end-user support in post-deployment phases; assess and evaluate all feedback to ensure that the requirements necessary to correct issues are addressed.
1. Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is required.
2. Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
Only those with first and last names will be considered. Resumes should include links to LinkedIn profile.
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Social media data is one of the recent and prominent sources of georefrenced social information. It allows in-situ insights into the everyday lifes of ordinary people. For all that, social media data also confronts us with considerable analytical challenges. One of these challenges is the mingling of different user habits, functions of geographic space and, more generally, semantic inaccuracies caused by the informal nature of the data. Taken together with an autonomous data collection procedure, the result is a mixed point pattern, subsuming different subpopulations in a spatially intermixed manner. In a recent study we investigated the topological consequences of some of these issues. We thereby focused on topological aspects and show how these affect spatial analysis outcomes. Our analysis is conducted at the level of spatial autocorrelation estimation. The latter is the underlying data characteristic which is driving patterning, and therefore the basis of a great deal of spatial methodology. Our focus thus guarantees a broad relevance of our results.
We first demonstrate how established spatial methodology responds to the characteristics of social media data. We therefore use a semantically perprocessed London-based Twitter dataset, which was crawled over a period of one year. This dataset is spatially analyzed by estimating an empirical semivariogram. To further allow disaggregated insight into covariation patterns, we additionally compiled a heatmap of the single estimated covariance terms, plotted against distance. For the rest of the paper a synthetic dataset is used. This allows investigations without external disturbances, and thus clearly pointing out the effects of interest. In a first step the eigenvalues of local spatial weight matrices are employed to analyse the topological influence of single points and whole regions onto the overall analysis. This step allows the identification of topological outliers. We also analyze the respective effect of these on the distribution of Moran's I, a popular spatial autocorrelation estimator. Moran scatterplots are then used to highlight how topological outliers influence conclusions drawn from spatial analyses. Finally, serial autocorrelation measurements across scale differences are used to show interactions with scale.
The eigenvalue analysis of the spatial layout has shown that topological outliers emerge in regions where different point pattern populations mix up. Further, these outliers have the tendency to being much stronger than outliers at the boundaries of patterns or other more conventional outlier types. They thus massively control analysis results. The subsequent analysis of Moran scatterplots has shown that these outliers cause additional components that might either reinforce or contradict the actual spatial pattern of data. These components do reflect the spatial effects associated with the interaction between the overlapping patterns. We are therefore in fact investigating not just one but multiple spatial phenomena in a single analysis. Spatial effects might thus be under- or overestimated erroneously. The spatial scale of the mixed patterns thereby plays an important role. While the real pattern (i.e., the one an analyst is actually interested in) behaves tractable when scales become increasingly dissimilar, the disturbing components seem to become increasingly chaotic. This shows that the disturbing and misleading effects identified by the Moran scatterplots become even more problematic when the scales of the comingled patterns are very different.
Our results show that most established spatial analysis methodology does not behave well with the autonomous and highly diverse character of social media data. Analyses should thus be undertaken with care and increased levels of type I and type II errors should be expected. The design of the pairwise spatial relationships (i.e., the spatial weights matrix, or any adjacency model) thereby deserves keen attention, because it massively controls the impact of topological outliers. The most important conclusion is to advice spatial researchers to take care in separating different phenomena from social media data previous to any actual analysis. This, however, is only possible to some degree (e.g., because spatial perception is an active field of research and accurate modeling still intractable). Thus, the highlighted issues persist and require rethinking spatial analysis methods.
Westerholt, R., Steiger, E., Resch, B. and Zipf, A. (2016): Abundant Topological Outliers in Social Media Data and Their Effect on Spatial Analysis. PLOS ONE, 11(9), e0162360. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162360.


Telecoms Operators in Central America and the Caribbean Now Have Their Very Own CEM Event!
LONDON, Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — If words such as 'Customer Experience', ' Customer Journey', 'CEM', 'CRM' and 'silos' are in your day to day vocabulary, you are strongly advised to keep an eye on this event: Customer Experience Management in Telecoms Central America Summit – the event is taking place in Mexico, D.F from 2nd – 4th December 2014.
Hot off the back of its South American launch in May this year, Telecoms IQ is pleased to announce that the acclaimed & unique CEM in Telecoms Summit series is now crossing the continent and arrives to Mexico City this December.
The CEM in Telecoms Central America Summit will bring together senior experts from leading operators across Central America and the Caribbean to discuss how to reduce costs across businesses by engaging with customers via self-serve channels and social media, and proactively identifying and resolving network problems timely.
A true spectrum of seasoned industry experts will be attending the CEM in Telecoms Central America Summit. The event has assembled a world-class speaker line-up that includes the likes of Nextel Mexico, Tuenti, Porsche, Cablecom, Aeromexico, Telmex, Digicel, DirectTV Panamerica and many others.


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'Completely legitimate': Aus Open boss defends Novak Djokovic exemption
Craig Tiley
4 January 2022, 6:48 pm ·3-min read
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Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley says Novak Djokovic was not given preferential treatment to compete at the Australian Open in 2022. Pic: Getty
Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley has brushed aside criticism of Novak Djokovic's medical exemption after insisting the World No.1 was not given preferential treatment to compete at Melbourne Park.
After months of uncertainty, the nine-time champion finally confirmed his participation in the year's first grand slam, all but confirming the long-standing rumours that he is unvaccinated.
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The Serbian superstar had repeatedly refused to disclose his vaccination status after the Victorian government mandated only fully vaccinated players, fans and staff would be allowed into Melbourne Park.
Officials said a very small percentage of players would be granted an exemption to compete without being vaccinated, provided they had valid medical grounds as determined by an independent panel of medical experts.
Taking to social media on Tuesday night, Djokovic confirmed that he had been granted "permission" to compete at Melbourne Park, without going into details about what grounds he qualified for an exemption.
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The news sparked angry backlash on social media, with many criticising TA and the Victorian government for jumping through hoops to accomodate the premier player in men's tennis - despite Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews repeatedly insisting that would not be the case.
Defending the decision to grant the 34-year-old an exemption, TA boss Tiley said the nine-time title-holder met the strict guidelines set by the federal government advisory group ATAGI (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation) with Open organisers not involved in the process.
Novak Djokovic cleared by medical experts
Tiley told 3AW there were 26 anonymous applications made by players or their support staff for an exemption with only a "handful" granted.
"Most haven't, 75 to 80 per cent of those that apply for medical exemption, it was not granted," Tiley said on Wednesday morning.
Tiley said Djokovic was assessed by two separate independent panels of medical experts and was granted the exemption due to a legitimate medical condition, which the player hasn't made public.
Novak Djokovic's medical exemption to compete at the Australian Open has sparked plenty of backlash. Pic: Getty
"If I want to come as an international visitor and I'm not vaccinated, and I meet those guidelines, any medical practitioner can can grant me an exemption and add my name to the immunisation register," Tiley said.
"And then I'm able to come in as an unvaccinated individual, so it's not just Novak.
"He went through that process and it's completely legitimate application and process."
Tiley said the process was more rigorous for players, who had their anonymous application assessed by an independent panel and if that initial panel felt it required further review there was a separate medical panel to do so.
"Every application was reviewed anonymously, no one knew whose application was received by whom they looked at purely on the grounds of the conditions that were set medically by the government," Tiley said.
The Open boss said he wasn't aware of Djokovic's grounds for exemption from vaccination.
One possibility is that Djokovic has contracted Covid-19 within the past six months which would make him exempt.
"The only way we could access that information is if an individual decides to share it," Tiley said.
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Barbara Karel (Kampen, 12 maart 1976) is een Nederlands presentatrice, diskjockey, voice-over, en stemactrice.

Ze is bekend geworden op MTV en ook was ze te horen als dj op NPO 3FM. Karel heeft op de Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht gezeten en is producent voor reclame- en modefotografie geweest. Tegenwoordig is ze samen met NPO Radio 2-dj Paul Rabbering te horen als voice-over op de televisiezender NPO 3 en in radio- en televisiereclamespotjes.

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Tijdens Lowlands 2002 stapte ze op de MTV Crew af om een praatje te maken. Daarna werd ze meteen gevraagd voor een screentest. Op MTV presenteerde Barbara verschillende programma's, zoals Making The Movie en MTV News. Ze presenteerde ook regelmatig verschillende festivals.

Van 23 april 2006 tot 1 september 2009 was Karel dj op 3FM. Ze was daar elke zondag van 18.00 tot 20.00 uur te beluisteren in het programma Bring It On! bij de NCRV. Daarnaast presenteerde ze in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag (01.00 - 04.00 uur) het programma Barbara. Er is regelmatig livemuziek te horen van diverse onbekende bandjes. Op 16 juni 2009 kondigde zij aan per 1 september dat jaar te stoppen met het maken van radio.
Ze is nu fulltime voice-over voor radio en televisie.

Privéleven
Karel heeft sinds 2005 een relatie met vj en dj Amir Charles. Ze hebben twee zoons en een dochter.

Trivia
 Karel heeft de serie Ten Oorlog gepresenteerd. Dit is een onderdeel van het nationaal schoolexamen.

Externe link
 Officiële website

Nederlands radio-dj
Nederlands videojockey

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HMD Global launches Nokia 6 Android phone in China for 1699 CNY
The good old Nokia is back with a new handset which they have named Nokia 6. Running Android 7.0 Nougat, the Nokia 6 will, however, be available only in China right now as it charts out its revival plans in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
Also, the Nokia bit about the smartphone is limited to just the brand name as the handset, in reality, is manufactured by the Finnish company, HMD Global, which in turn has acquired the right to the use of Nokia brand for a decade. HMD Global meanwhile has on its rolls several ex-Nokian. For instance, the company CEO used to be in-charge of sales and product development at Nokia.
Coming to the handset itself, the Nokia 6 comes with a 1920 x 1080 pixel 5.5-inch 2.5D Gorilla Glass 3 display on the front. Powering the device is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chip that works in conjugation with an Adreno 505 GPU. The smartphone has a 4 GB LPDDR3 RAM and has a 64 GB storage. The latter can further be expanded to 128 GB using microSD cards.
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The Nokia 6 also appeals with its 16 mp rear cam that boasts of a 4/2.0 aperture and a 1.0u sensor. Then there is a dual tone flash as well, all of which promises to carry forward the good showing that Nokia branded handsets with their excellent cameras have always been known for. For selfie fanatics, there also is an 8 mp front cam with an 84-degree wide-angle lens together with 1.12um sensor and f/2.0 aperture.
The rest of the details include dual sim slots, dual speakers with Dolby Atmos along with a fingerprint sensor hiding beneath the home button. The Nokia 6 also continues with the 3.5 mm audio jack that several manufacturers like Apple seems to have abandoned.
As for its price, the Nokia 6 carries a sticker price of 1,699 yuan, which comes to a quite decent $246. HMD also stated they will be launching in India next but declined to offer any definitive launch schedule.
Processor Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor
Main Memory 4GB of RAM
Display 5.50-inch Full-HD (1080×1920 pixels with 403 PPI)
Storage 64GB expandable upto 128GB via microSD
Camera 16MP rear and 8MP front-facing sensor
Dimensions 154.00 x 75.80 x 7.85
Battery 3000mAh
OS Android 7.0


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy, terrorism and healthcare ranked as the top three concerns facing Americans casting ballots in Tuesday's presidential election, according to an early reading from the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll.
The poll of about 35,000 people found that 25 percent of voters picked the economy as the "most important problem.". Another 14 percent named "terrorism/terrorist attacks" and 13 percent picked healthcare.
By contrast, the economy was the No. 1 concern for 46 percent of American voters in 2012, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll four years ago. Almost nobody listed terrorism as a top concern in 2012, and 8 percent listed healthcare as the top worry.
A signature Trump issue, immigration, was chosen by 7 percent of voters as the most important issue in Tuesday's poll.
The poll reading will be updated as more poll responses are tallied and more votes are counted across the country.


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Houston is the Best City to Start a Career
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NEW YORK – May 25, 2017 – Houston is the best city to launch a career, according to a new report by Bankrate.com. The study reviewed the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. based on several factors a young person should consider when starting their career including: the job market, potential for long-term career-building, affordability and lifestyle for recent college graduates. Click here for more information: www.bankrate.com/cashlorette/best-cities-to-start-your-career/
Houston made the top spot on the list due to high scores earned for career potential, job market and affordability for new graduates. The metro area's drawback is its lower score for lifestyle, particularly in arts, entertainment and recreation. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas complete the top five metro areas.
"Many eager new grads think they have to head to New York or Silicon Valley to make it big," said Sarah Berger, The Cashlorette at Bankrate.com. "There are plenty of cities that offer solid job markets and long-term career growth, without breaking the bank or sacrificing a good quality of life."
The Riverside-San Bernardino, CA metro area is lacking when it comes to job prospects and career potential, making it the worst place to start a career. The metro areas of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, Florida; Sacramento, California; Memphis, Tennessee and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida make up the rest of the bottom five.
Methodology:
We ranked the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. by population on a 50-point scale based on a comparative analysis across 11 factors in 4 major categories, including the job market, potential for long-term career-building, affordability and lifestyle for recent college graduates. The job market for recent college graduates was given more weight than the other factors based on interviews with experts in the field of employment and career development.
The data we used to make those rankings came from a variety of sources, including the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, The Council for Community and Economic Research, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the 2015 American Community Survey, and Gallup-Healthways.
All data used was most current available. In cases where data did not exactly conform to Census geographic categories, data for the closest available geographies was used.
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Bankrate.com provides consumers with the expert advice and tools needed to succeed throughout life's financial journey. For over two decades, Bankrate.com has been a leading personal finance destination. The company offers award-winning editorial content, competitive rate information, and calculators and tools across multiple categories, including mortgages, deposits, credit cards, retirement, automobile loans, and taxes. Bankrate aggregates rate information from over 4,800 institutions on more than 300 financial products. With coverage of over 600 local markets, Bankrate generates rate tables in all 50 U.S. states. Bankrate develops and provides web services to more than 100 cobranded websites with online partners, including some of the most trusted and frequently visited personal finance sites on the internet, such as Comcast, Yahoo!, CNBC and Bloomberg. In addition,
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Q: How do I run a Kubernetes Job once in N hours? The Kubernetes documentation mentions that a CronJob supports the use case of:

Once at a specified point in time

But, I don't see any examples of how this would be possible. Specifically, I'm looking to kick off a job to run once in N hours.

A: According to documentation, CronJob uses the common Cron format of schedule:
Here are some examples:
  schedule: "1 2-14 * * 0-1,5-6" (first minute of every hour from 2am to 2pm UTC on Sun,Mon,Fri,Sat)
  schedule: "*/1 * * * *" (every minute)

CronJobs also have some limitations:

A cron job creates a job object about once per execution time of its
  schedule. We say "about" because there are certain circumstances where
  two jobs might be created, or no job might be created. We attempt to
  make these rare, but do not completely prevent them. Therefore, jobs
  should be idempotent.
If startingDeadlineSeconds is set to a large value or left unset (the
  default) and if concurrencyPolicy is set to Allow, the jobs will
  always run at least once.
Jobs may fail to run if the CronJob controller is not running or
  broken for a span of time from before the start time of the CronJob to
  start time plus startingDeadlineSeconds, or if the span covers
  multiple start times and concurrencyPolicy does not allow concurrency.
  For example, suppose a cron job is set to start at exactly 08:30:00
  and its startingDeadlineSeconds is set to 10, if the CronJob
  controller happens to be down from 08:29:00 to 08:42:00, the job will
  not start. Set a longer startingDeadlineSeconds if starting later is
  better than not starting at all.
The Cronjob is only responsible for creating Jobs that match its
  schedule, and the Job in turn is responsible for the management of the
  Pods it represents.

The other important thing is that Kubernetes uses UTC exclusively. Make sure you take that into account when you're creating your schedule.
To run a job just once, you can use kubectl create -f job.yaml started by at command on the admin machine or on the master node.
echo "kubectl create -f job.yaml" | at midnight

A: It is just as a regular CronJob object but using a format for the cronjob expression to run at a specific point in time:
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-cronjob
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  schedule: "7 7 7 7 6"
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
  jobTemplate:
    ...

for example this will run "At 07:07, Saturday 7th of July 2018."
Next occurrence will be in 2029 so you have plenty of time to delete the cronJob object. That is, it will create a new job if you don't delete it as far and as I am aware there are no ways to avoid this.


Whether it is limited pipeline infrastructure, price volatility or regulatory pressures, Canadian oil and gas companies continue to face a number of challenges that make it more difficult to operate in today's environment.
Transportation bottlenecks are top of mind given recent news. But even with Canada stepping in to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline, Canada's oil and gas industry continues to face many unknowns.
As more capital floats down to the U.S. and bigger organizations begin moving assets to other parts of the world, the Canadian oil and gas industry must work to overcome the false perception that it can't do business.
It's not time to get comfortable. Pipelines aside, oil and gas companies should be taking stock of ways to improve resilience to help them fight through any boom or bust situation.
Amid the recession, the nation saw 18 Canadian oil and gas companies file for bankruptcy from 2015 to 2017, 45,200 jobs lost in Alberta between 2014 and 2017 and a back-to-back quarterly GDP decline in 2015.
Now, as the economy recovers, Canada's oil and gas industry is on the hunt for talent. While it's natural for organizations to want to boost human capital when they can, companies should learn from the past. Focusing on a rational and more purposeful headcount will allow oil and gas companies to be far better equipped to manage the unexpected.
Executives are starting to take note of this, with 85 per cent of respondents in an EY and Haskayne School of Business market study indicating that "active headcount management" was either important or very important for their organizations.
A top priority for Canadian oil and gas companies is to reallocate capital in order to optimize returns, and invest in disruptive technology and assets that drive the highest return.
The study found that thriving companies in good cash positions traditionally turn to building and acquiring to reach economies of scale — a recent theme with increasing industry consolidation among fewer large organizations.
Many oil and gas companies have been active with portfolio resilience, too, but tend to look at divesting of non-core assets as a way to free up funds to cover operating costs.
Investment in disruptive technologies such as intelligent automation, data-driven decisions and blockchain — to name a few — will help support the oil and gas industry's focus on capital and operational efficiency to reduce short-term costs, and equip businesses with the agility and sophistication required to succeed in an uncertain future.
It's important to also remember that these technologies are not job terminators, but enhancers. They drive performance and reduce risks with human errors, freeing up time so people can focus on more strategic and value-added tasks — allowing companies to make the best use of their talent so they can remain nimble and flexible in the event of another downturn.
Oil and gas organizations need to be able to absorb those moments in time when business is tough. These absorbers include maintaining a strong balance sheet, having access to debt financing to support cash flow, a diversified portfolio, along with the right mix of products and customers. By incorporating shock absorbers into operating activities, companies will be better positioned to regain capital and cover their current liabilities, while adapting to changing market conditions.
Many oil and gas organizations have navigated through the financial, regulatory and political pressures of the last few years, and will continue to show resiliency as the industry evolves. One thing is certain, however, those who are left have to learn from the past if they want to thrive in an uncertain future.
Lance Mortlock is an oil and gas leader with EY Canada.


A new feature in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service enables organizations to grant outside partners access to their internal network resources.
Announced as a preview on Monday, the "one-time passcodes" feature works like this: An invitee gets an invitation containing a "Send Code" link from an organization. After the invitee clicks on that link, he or she will get a second e-mail containing a code for gaining network access, which can be used for up to 30 minutes, according to Microsoft's documentation.
Each authentication session only lasts 24 hours, after which guests have to re-authenticate with a new email OTP. This means your guests have to prove they still have access to their work email inboxes and have not left the partner company every 24 hours.
Organizations can optionally add multifactor authentication requirements onto the one-time passcodes scheme, if wanted. Multifactor authentication is another scheme for verifying user identities, which typically happens via responses to a cell phone call or messaging service.
Microsoft's announcement depicted the one-time passcodes preview as permitting network resource sharing with "anyone in the world with an email account." There's one technical restriction to the scheme. Organizations must send a link that includes the organization's "tenant context" (or tenant ID) within the link, Microsoft's documentation explained.
One-time passcodes are deemed handy when Azure AD B2B invitees lack other authentication options -- such as an Azure AD account, a Microsoft account or a Google account -- to gain guest network access privileges. Microsoft has been gradually expanding the identity provider options that can be used with this service.
According to Microsoft's documentation, "when the guest user signs in, one-time passcode authentication will be the fallback method if no other authentication methods can be used."
While the one-time passcode feature is currently at the preview stage, Microsoft is planning to turn it on later for all organizations using this service.
"After preview, this feature will be turned on by default for all tenants," Microsoft's documentation bluntly stated, although no timeline was described.


It's the most wonderful time of the year! And, if you are a business owner, one of the busiest times of the year too. Christmas provides incredible revenue opportunity, and Christmas signage can help you get into the swing of things while showing eager shoppers what you're offering over the festive period. Here are a few reasons why you should change your business signage around Christmas time and how your business will benefit.
As Christmas shoppers start doing their rounds at the shops, they'll be more likely to step into a shop that's decorated in the holiday spirit and has Christmas signage, as they'll want to see what seasonal products or services you might be offering. You could advertise special gift wrapping, Santa photos or free gift with purchases in store to attract more customers.
Having festive signage complete with supporting decorations creates photo opportunities and in today's age of social media and sharing, it's basically free advertising. Entice people to stop by or enter your store with an attractive or unusual storefront display that they can pose with or interact with. You could even create a Christmas competition for the best-themed photo taken by customers, using your product or referencing the service you provide.
If your business goes above and beyond with their Christmas signage and decorations, it can make your business seem more inviting during the holiday season and become a must-see destination, just like the Christmas lights do for certain streets.
Through effective Christmas signage and complimentary decorations, you can spread the joy of Christmas, attract more business and give your customers a memorable experience.
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2. Navigate to Evolution, and choose "Remove".
What you see: The "To remove Evolution Mail and Calendar, these items must be removed as well:" dialog has lots of weird vertical padding.
What you should see: Standard dialog layout.
It may save time to fix bug 825959 and/or bug 844025 at the same time as this bug.
Matthew's branch is an improvement, but not a complete fix.
dialog-improvements contains further improvements which correct the issue mpt highlighted.
lp:~mmcg069/software-center/dialog-improvements r2443 fixes this bug. Thanks Matthew.


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Buckhaven is a town on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil.  Buckhaven is on the Fife Coastal Path, and near to Wemyss Caves and Largo Bay.

History

The name Buckhaven is probably from the Scots terms buck or bukk "to gush out" and haven or "harbour".

Once a thriving weaving village and fishing port, in 1831 it was reported as having the second-largest fishing fleet in Scotland with a total of 198 boats. Fishing declined during the 19th century, but in the 1860s Buckhaven developed more into a mining town. Although coal waste blackened its beaches and silted up its now non-existent harbour, it later became a Fife coast holiday resort and recreation area for locals. Nowadays, it is classed as one of Fife's 'Regeneration areas' in need of regeneration both socially and economically.

The first element is probably related to the Sc verb buck, bukk, 'to pour forth, gush out' (DSL), perhaps describing the coastal waters at Buckhaven, which is situated at a point where the Fife coastline swings a little further out into the North Sea. A related element occurs also in Buckie Burn DFL q.v. The second element is certainly Sc haven 'harbour', and the 'fishers of Buckhaven' are mentioned in the earliest known record from 1527 (Fraser, Wemyss ii no. 187).

In 1778, the minister of Wemyss Parish, Rev. Dr Harry Spens, wrote of his own flock at Buckhaven, '... the original inhabitants of Buckhaven were from the Netherlands about the time of Philip II of Spain (died 1598). Their vessel had been stranded on the shore. They proposed to settle and remain. The family of Wemyss gave them permission. They accordingly settled at Buckhaven. By degrees they acquired our language and adopted our dress, and for these threescore years past have had the character of a sober and sensible, an industrious and honest people. The only singularity in their ancient customs that I remember to have heard of was that of a richly ornamented girdle or belt, wore by the brides of good condition and character at their marriage, and then laid aside and given in like manner to the next bride that should be deemed worthy of such an honour. The village consists at present of about 140 families, 60 of which are fishers, the rest land-labourers, weavers and other mechanics.' (OSA 790–1).

There is no doubt that the people of Buckhaven were regarded as different in speech and manners from surrounding communities, and it is probably in this context that such stories grew up (Millar 1895 ii, 50). One Paul Buk, a Dane, is recommended by the Synod to the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy in 1652 (Stevenson 1900, 384); such local encounters might have confirmed folk in their belief that Buckhaven was foreign.

/bʌkˈhevən/, locally /bʌkˈhain/. This latter pronunciation has given rise to the name of a Buckhaven public house, the Buck and Hind.

According to online sources and authors, the fishing community of Buckhaven is said to have been largely the descendants of Norsemen who settled in the district in the 9th century. Centuries later, Buckhaven's fisherfolk bought an Episcopal Church in St Andrews in 1869 and transported it stone by stone to Buckhaven, using fishing boats. The church was restored in the 1980s and converted into a theatre. Many years before, St Andrews had been combined with the other local Church of Scotland churches into one parish. The building continued to be owned by Buckhaven Parish Church after the conversion.

Buckhaven Museum has displays on the history of the fishing industry.

Census
According to estimates in 2006, the population including Methil stood at around 16,240: however, the Levenmouth area including Kennoway, Leven, the Wemyss villages, Largo Bay and Windygates has a combined population of around 37,410. The population of Buckhaven, Methil, Leven is 24,474, according to the 2011 Census.

Notable people
James Ireland Craig FRSE, meteorologist
Robert Dunsire, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Frank O'Donnell, professional footballer
Hugh O'Donnell, also a professional footballer and brother of Frank O'Donnell
John Houston, artist
William Gear, artist

See also
List of places in Fife

References

External links

Gazetteer for Scotland entry for Buckhaven
Fife Council
Information website on Buckhaven
CLEAR Buckhaven - Actions and local issues of local environmental-civic voluntary association

Towns in Fife
Levenmouth
Fishing communities in Scotland
Port cities and towns in Scotland
Mining communities in Fife


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Nancy Ajram's Husband Arrested! Did He Manipulate the Video of the Robbery?
Published January 12th, 2020 - 09:12 GMT
Ajram will be called in the coming hours
Nancy Ajjram's husband arrested after it was proven that he had rigged videos of killing the thief
By Alexandra Abumuhor
It was revealed by the Lebanese security investigations that Nancy Ajram's husband Fadi Al-Hashem has rigged the surveillance videos of him killing an intruder who tried to rob his villa last week.
Lebanese media reported that Fadi Al-Hashem was arrested on Saturday night a second time for questioning over the incident and allegedly forging a video clip of footage from his security cameras, after new evidence emerged.
Nancy Ajram is also scheduled to be called in by the prosecution in the coming hours in order to re-interrogate her about the incident as well.
Al-Hashem was referred to investigations last Sunday morning for shooting and killing 33-year-old Mohammed Hassan Al-Mousa in his house in Lebanon after an exchange of fire, following his claim that Al-Mousa broke into the house in an attempted robbery.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Al-Mousa's family denied the entire matter and accused Al-Hashem of killing Al-Mousa after he went to claim outstanding payments that they owed him.
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Vaccine Program Credited with Decrease in HPV Linked to Cervical Cancer
Written by Roz Plater on February 25, 2019
Researchers say the vaccine given in the United States from 2006 to 2015 reduced two common HPV strains.
Experts say the HPV vaccine reduces the risk of cervical cancer. Getty Images
There is some encouraging news in the fight to eliminate cervical cancer in the United States.
According to a new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer have declined thanks to the vaccine developed to combat the disease.
"This study is really important because it shows the HPV vaccine is working to prevent cervical disease in young women in the United States," Nancy McClung, PhD, an epidemic intelligence officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Healthline.
The data comes from an ongoing CDC surveillance system called the HPV Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project.
Dr. McClung and her colleagues analyzed more than 10,000 cases collected between 2008 and 2014. The women, ages 18 to 39, had been diagnosed with precancerous conditions that can come from HPV infection, and can lead to cervical cancer.
The researchers wanted to know whether HPV types 16 and 18, responsible for approximately 70 percent of cervical cancers worldwide, were decreasing.
Those two types had been targeted by the HPV vaccine given in the United States from 2006 to 2015.
"We saw a decrease from 53 percent in 2008 to 44 percent in 2014 among all women," McClung said. "Among women who were vaccinated, the proportion decreased from 55 percent to 33 percent in 2014."
What accounts for the decline in unvaccinated women?
McClung said it may be due to a phenomenon called "herd protection." This is when a significant proportion of a population develops immunity to an infectious disease either through vaccination or prior infection. That overall immunity lowers the risk for unvaccinated people.
But researchers didn't see that decline among women ages 35 to 39. That's because most of those women at the time weren't eligible for the vaccine.
The researchers also didn't see a decline among Hispanic and Asian women. McClung said these two groups may have been less likely to be vaccinated once they reached adulthood.
"Vaccination rates in adolescents across all race ethnicities are high and actually highest in Hispanic and Asian women," she said. "We wouldn't expect to see these differences decline in the future."
Tamika Felder is the founder of Cervivor, an advocacy, support, and educational online community for cervical cancer survivors.
"As a 17-year cervical cancer survivor, I'm thrilled at the results of this study," Felder told Healthline. "It proves what we already know, that the HPV vaccine prevents cancer."
"Far too many women die from cervical cancer, and those of us lucky to survive it deal with many secondary health issues as well as the emotional trauma of having cancer itself," she said. "Why not prevent this with a safe, effective vaccine."
Global efforts
The results of the U.S. study come as scientists are learning new information about what it will likely take to eliminate cervical cancer around the world.
A recent modeling study published in the journal Lancet showed HPV vaccines and cervical cancer screenings are being used in most high-income countries.
However, researchers noted that low-income and middle-income countries are falling short.
Without further intervention, more than 44 million women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer in the next 50 years if prevention programs aren't implemented in those countries, researchers said.
Australia, one of the first countries to introduce the HPV vaccine, has a high vaccine rate. Experts told Healthline in October that cervical cancer could be considered eliminated as a public health threat in that country in the next few years.
United States lagging behind
The success rate in the United States isn't as high.
"It's true that our coverage isn't as high as in some other countries. But what this study specifically shows is that we're seeing an impact from the vaccine," McClung said. "Our coverage levels will hopefully continue to increase."
She said vaccination coverage with HPV is still lower than that of other routine adolescent vaccines, but the rate is increasing every year.
"The most recent statistics show that 49 percent of girls and 37 percent of boys ages 13 to 17 are up to date on their recommended doses," McClung said. "And those that have received at least one dose are higher than that."
"This study has shown that the vaccine is working to prevent cervical disease. This can be important for doctors when talking with parents who may have questions," McClung said.
"It's important to know that in the future, we can expect an even greater decline in cervical precancers," she said. "This will happen as more women are immunized at routine ages."
Researchers say two strains of HPV linked to cervical cancer have declined since a vaccine against the disease was introduced.
The researchers focused on HPV types 16 and 18, responsible for approximately 70 percent of cervical cancers worldwide and targeted by the HPV vaccine, which was given in the United States from 2006 to 2015.
Researchers reported a decrease from 53 percent in 2008 to 44 percent in 2014 among all women, and from 55 percent to 33 percent in women who were vaccinated.
Adults 27 to 45 Can Now Get HPV Vaccination. Will Infection Rate Drop?
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Today's Most Popular Logos: Their Evolution, Triumphs and Failures
Readers:
I came across an interesting article about logo evolution in Business Insider written by Jason Nazar (photo, right). Mr. Nazar is the co-founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, one of the premier online website for small businesses that provides the best quality and largest selection of documents and resources to help start, grow and manage your small business and professional life.
Mr. Nazar states that a logo is the visual representation of your company's identity. Consumers are exposed to a lot of logos throughout the day, and they tend to treat logos the same way they would human faces. They will pass many logos they are unfamiliar with on the street or down the grocery aisle, but if they recognize the face of a dear old friend in the crowd, they are more likely to approach that person and engage with them.
Jason points out this is the reaction every brand hopes to elicit from its logo: fondness and comfort with a touch of excitement. Every logo must walk the fine line between nostalgia and modernity; you want to remain your lovable self, while staying current.
Many of the largest brands iterate on their logos regularly, and some of their changes are more drastic than others. Some of history's biggest logo evolutions were a step forward for their companies, but others prompted a negative response from customers. Let's take a look at the best (and the worst) logo progressions of all time, and see what we can learn from them.
Radical but Effective Changes
Most corporate logos go through rather natural evolutions that adapt with changes in consumer tastes. Companies design new logos in order to embrace new cultural design aesthetics, but still make a point to maintain recognizable elements of their brand. Starbucks provides a good example of a logo progression that eases customers into a new style while preserving the essence of their old logo:
Some changes, however, are not quite as gradual. These are some of the more extreme logo shifts throughout history that took a leap and succeeded. These monumental brand shifts were the result of company name changes, rebranding efforts, tackling new markets, or significant business pivots.
Canon was originally called Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (translated to Precision Optical Industry Co.), and they were responsible for producing Japan's first 35mm camera, which was called the "Kwanon." This early 1934 logo depicts Kwanon (an enlightened female being who is revered in East Asian Buddhism) sitting on a lotus flower with thousands of arms. Soon Canon dropped the visual depiction of Kwanon, and in 1947 decided to change its name to Canon instead. This name and logo change opened Canon up to a more international market and has served them well for decades.
We're all familiar with the famous bitten apple, but few are aware of the quaint, vintage-style logo originally used by the now multi-billion-dollar company. Apple's first logo, designed by then co-founder Ron Wayne in 1976, featured a pastoral scene of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. Later that year Steve Jobs hired graphic designer Rob Janoff, who simplified the logo to just an apple and included a bite so that it wouldn't be confused with a cherry. Steve Jobs insisted that Janoff also make it colorful, to humanize the company and make it seem more welcoming (this "colorful" approach was also successful with their first generation of iMac desktops, which were meant to appeal to the average, non-tech-savvy user). Today, Apple has adopted a much sleeker look to match its smooth and glossy gadgetry, but their logo maintains the original apple silhouette that brought them so much fame.
The pixelated, 90s-style red logo you see above was used very briefly during the early days of the internet. Yahoo! quickly went on to design the logo style that most of us are familiar with, the playful (but much cleaner) font that lasted all the way through this year. In August of 2013 Yahoo! announced that a new version of their logo would be released in a month, and Marissa Mayer used the 30-day countdown to promote the logo creation process as well as their newly revamped "My Yahoo" homepage product. Click here to learn more about how the public has reacted to their logo change.
When Jim Casey merged his American Messenger Company with a competitor and created the United Parcel Service in 1917, he designed his first logo with an eagle carrying a parcel and the words "Safe, Swift, Sure" written on the side. They used their black-and-white parcel logo from 1961 to 2003, and interestingly returned to their old brown-and-gold color scheme in their 2003 redesign after over 40 years of a colorless logo.
NBC has gone through some sweeping changes since their first design. NBC began as a radio station broadcast network as early as the 1920s, and used a microphone logo from the 20s until 1942. Their timeless rainbow peacock design emerged in 1956 to celebrate and encourage the ubiquity of color televisions. This peacock logo experienced many permutations throughout the decades, and today some people don't even realize that the NBC logo is supposed to be evocative of a bird.
This aquatic Nokia logo from 1865 may seem fishy, but that's because Nokia has gone through some serious pivots since its launch. It started as a Finnish paper mill, and opened a second mill near the town of Nokia on the Nokianvirta river (hence the logo's water theme). Since then, Nokia has changed focus a lot, creating everything from rubber goods to electronics.
Bold yet Ineffective Redesigns
Almost all logos need to evolve, but when companies move forward they occasionally take a step in the wrong direction. In an attempt to keep up with the more simple and modern design trends, a brand sometimes misses the mark and ends up alienating and confusing their loyal customers.
Here are a few logo modifications that have been generally regarded as "mistakes," and which their companies ended up retracting. Let's see what we can learn from their blunders. (Tip: Before letting your logo hit the market, learn how to do logo research and get feedback on your designs).
The logo change seen above was generally considered a PR disaster for the Gap, who decided in 2010 to stray from their famous blue and white box and try something more "contemporary." The new logo received a lot of extremely negative reactions, and it was dropped after less than a week. Their president, Marka Hansen, resigned not long after the debacle. The reality was that the Gap's original logo was well-liked by customers and it already had a rather modern edge to it; many fans felt the new logo looked a little too much like basic clipart—moving towards a clean-looking logo is popular, but remember that there's a fine line between minimalism and too simple.
Kraft has been around for a long time, and many of its brands have been in production for well over 100 years. Kraft's logo has always had a familiar blue font surrounded by a red oval, but in a 2009 press release Kraft announced that they were giving their "logo a facelift to more clearly deliver 'delicious'" through a colorful burst and a blue line reminiscent of a smile. It would be a little presumptuous to dismiss this redesign as a "failure," since some fans ended up being receptive to it, but many customers felt the logo was a little too different and not reminiscent of Kraft at all. No red oval, lowercase instead of capitalized letters and a whole new color scheme. This is perhaps why Kraft has held off using this new logo on their actual packaging; when customers are walking down the aisle, you want them to immediately recognize your products.
In 2009, Tropicana eliminated their old straw-in-orange look for more modern-looking cartons. On the surface, Tropicana did everything right; they'd been using the same imagery for decades, and wanted a cleaner look while maintaining the same colors and theme. However, President Neil Campbell admitted that they "underestimated the deep emotional bond" that loyal customers had with that red-and-white straw protruding from a juicy orange. Many customers also complained that the new design looked too similar to other brands, and they confused Tropicana with other generic options when shopping. Tropicana quickly returned to using their original logo, and probably will do so for years to come. The lesson? Sometimes what you believe is holding your company back is actually what sets you apart from your competitors.
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Akiko Mitsui (94) passed away peacefully on September 5, 2016 in Mar Vista, California.
She is survived by her family: daughter Janet Mitsui Brown (Roger); son Jeff Mitsui (Kathy); grandsons Kelvin Mitsui (Page), Jon Mitsui, Marcus Mitsui; granddaughters Mika Mitsui, Tani Mitsui Brown; sisters Betty Masuda and Millie Okai. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and other relatives.
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Q: Is Instagram Content Publishing API available in a test environment without being a partner? I'm looking at setting up an Instagram app so I can push content from my app directly to Instagram. I'm already doing this for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
I know that Instagram is in the middle of moving to the Facebook Graph API, and it seems like there are several barriers to even start developing an app.
At the top of the Getting Started link there's a blurb stating that I need to undergo "Business Verification" to use the Instagram Graph API. Do I need to do this in order to use these endpoints in sandbox mode? (Edit: I believe this must be done in order to test the non-beta aspects of the API) In addition, the Content Publishing API seems to be locked down even further, requiring parternship with either Facebook or Instagram, and neither are accepting new applications.
Is there some way to test this in sandox mode without becoming a partner?
(Edit: Testing your app Suggests that I must do business validation in order to use the non-beta aspects, and there's no permission for publish_content, leading me to believe that I must be a business partner to even test this feature. Can anyone confirm?)

A: Januray 26, 2021
The Content Publishing beta has ended and all developers can now publish media on Instagram Professional accounts. Refer to the Content Publishing guide for usage details.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/content-publishing


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The US is invading oil-rich Iraq, and much of the world thinks — rightly or wrongly — that it's doing it because Bush & Co. want the country's oil. The Bushies deny this vehemently (as do their British allies). Yet when US troops name their "forward operating bases," they choose the names Exxon and Shell.
"I'm not making this up", says Scott. "Those are the names of the 101st Airborne's helicopter bases in Iraq, according to this New York Times report.
The Pentagon is apparently explaining that these camps are refueling bases, and that justifies the naming. I dunno. This may be true. But it doesn't help us. The Bush administration has been given lots of points for its handling of this war's PR, but this looks like a ludicrously stupid blunder."


Tokyo has again topped the global rankings for the Economist's 2017 Safe Cities Index.
The 2017 index ranked 60 major cities, scoring 49 indicators throughout four sub-indexes including digital, health, infrastructure and physical security giving each city a score out of 100.
Two Australian cities made it to the top ten, with Melbourne ranked at number five and Sydney ranked at seven.
The Japanese capital's strongest performance came in the digital security category ranking number one with a score of 88.40. Tokyo has climbed seven points since 2015 in health security finishing second on 85.63, while in personal security, Tokyo has finished fourth with a score of 91.57.
In many cities, security is falling rather than rising compared with the 2015 index. New York fell 11 points and Jakarta was down 13. Some cities have made improvements with Madrid gaining 13 points along with Seoul, which is up six.
Security remains closely linked to wealth with cities in developed economies dominating the top half of the index, however the scores of high-income cities are falling. Of the 14 cities in high-income countries, the security scores of ten of these countries have fallen since 2015.
European along with Asian cities remain at the top of the index with four of the top ten cities belonging to East Asia (Tokyo, Singapore, Osaka and Hong Kong) and three of the top ten are European (Amsterdam, Stockholm and Zurich).
Dominating at the bottom of the index include countries from Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Dhaka Yangon and Karachi are at the bottom of the list while three out of the bottom ten come from South-East Asia (Manila, Ho Chi Minh and Jakarta) and two are in the Middle East and Africa (Cairo and Tehran).
America's failing infrastructure is reflected in its cities rankings with no US city making the top ten of this category and only one city (San Francisco) appears in the top 20.
Tokyo topped the 2017 index with a score of 89.90 with Singapore a close second on 89.64. Osaka came in third with 88.87.


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Tlaib: With COVID-19, 'hot spots' means African American spots
Neal Rubin
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Saturday night that when she sees the statistics on COVID-19 in minority communities, she sees systemic racism — and when she hears a common term for heavily affected areas, she hears evasion.
"They call it hot spots," she said during an online forum whose panelists included author and Harvard professor Dr. Cornel West and U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley. "You mean the African American communities. I want them to call it that."
The Zoom gathering hosted by Tlaib, D-Detroit, was titled "How COVID19 Disproportionately Impacts the Black Community," with national and local speakers also speaking on policing, incarceration, Detroit property taxes, lack of access to healthy food and the armed protesters in Lansing.
"A lot of folks are acting so surprised" about the high death rates, West said, but "it's true in Detroit, it's true in Wisconsin, it's true in Chicago, across the board."
"Black folks have been slowly dying for a long time because of ecosystems that don't support us surviving and thriving," said Pressley, D-Ma. "Now it's just happening more bluntly, in a more acute way."
In Michigan, where African Americans represent 14.1% of the population, 32% of all confirmed coronavirus patients have been black as of Saturday. The figure is even higher — 40% — for fatalities.
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Tlaib, whose district includes parts of Detroit along with multiple western and Downriver suburbs, noted that cities with large black populations, among them Ecorse, River Rouge, Romulus and Redford Township, have roughly double the rate of infection as the rest of Wayne County.
At the outset of the pandemic in Michigan, it was feared that the virus could lead to higher incidence of death in Detroit, where the population is afflicted with higher rates of pre-existing conditions known to worsen the outcomes for those with COVID-19. Among them: high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and even diabetes. Some pre-existing conditions are known to impact blacks at higher rates.
Also, Detroiters are less likely to have health insurance, to have seen a health professional recently and are more likely to rely on public transportation, which is a suspected transmission point of the disease.
Detroit is the most impoverished big city in the nation; it also has the most concentrated population of African-Americans of any major U.S. city.
According to state data, Wayne County's COVID-19 death rate of 19.6%, which doesn't include deaths in Detroit, is more than four times higher than the state average.
Tlaib noted that some contributing factors have gone unnoticed, with attention diverted to things like "these white men (who) show up with guns" in the State Capitol.
Meantime, the first-term congresswoman said, some residents in Detroit and Highland Park have no access to water: "They can't wash their hands in the middle of a pandemic."
Bernadette Atuahene, a senior research scholar at the University of Michigan law school, tied the armed protesters to the need for African Americans to "take back the narrative."
"In the black community," she said, "it's a double death — a mortal death and a financial death."
Poor people, Atuahene said, don't have the sorts of jobs that can be done remotely. The protesters "think they are carrying the burden of the shutdown, when in fact we are."
While the standard narrative wants to "make this a moment of, 'We're all in this together,'" said television host and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, that ignores "a deeper structural issue.
"We are all vulnerable. But the people who were already vulnerable are now even more vulnerable."
Nationally, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans constitute 27.2% of COVID-19 cases, though they represent 13.4% of the population.
The disparities in Michigan have been severe enough that on April 9, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer put Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II in charge of a task force to find ways to address them. That was only a week after the first statewide release of mortality rates by race.
The executive order creating the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities was signed April 20. Among other things, the committee's two dozen members have been asked to suggest ways to reduce the impact of medical bias in testing and treatment, and mitigate environmental and infrastructure factors that contribute to excessive exposure during pandemics.
"A lot of this is structural," Devita Davison said Saturday. The executive director of FoodLab Detroit tied the high casualty rate to such enduring problems as poor air quality in minority-heavy areas, limited access to health care, and the issues with access to healthy food that she called "food apartheid."
"We have to realize that it does not have to be this way," she said. "But it is."
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