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PA to hold local elections in West Bank only, excluding Hamas-ruled Gaza
March 1, 2017 MEO Staff Palestine Latest News
The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to hold local elections in the occupied West Bank on May 13 as scheduled, while excluding Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from taking part.
During the PA's weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday in Bethlehem, it was decided that elections in Gaza would be postponed "indefinitely." It remained unclear whether occupied East Jerusalem would be included in the municipal electoral process.
After the PA announced at the end of last month that local elections would be scheduled in both the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas, the de facto ruling party of Gaza, along with the Islamic Jihad movement, promptly rejected the plan, saying that elections should only take place after the more than decade-long rivalry between Hamas and Fatah comes to an end and reconciliation is achieved.
Spokesperson of Hamas Abd al-Latif al-Qanu reacted to the outcome of the PA's cabinet meeting, saying the decision to carry on with elections without the Gaza Strip "entrenches political divisions and asserts Fatah's supremacy in decision making."
Al-Qanu argued that the decision worked counter to building foundations for social partnerships, explaining that "when it became clear that there was no longer a goal toward establishing national unity, the Hamas movement decided not to take part in elections in this context of persisting divisions."
He added that the consensus government should have considered the interests of all the Palestinian people instead, saying he held the Fatah movement responsible for the failure to hold elections in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qanu pointed out that Hamas had informed Hanna Nasser, the head of the Central Elections Commission (CEC), of its stance.
The PA said in its statement that it would continue to seek dialogue with Hamas in hopes that the movement would agree to allow elections in Gaza.
Meanwhile, a PA statement released at the conclusion of the cabinet meeting quoted Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah as applauding the decision to hold the meeting near Solomon's Pools in Bethlehem, "in defiance of the repeated attempts by Israeli settlers to storm the site under Israeli military protection," giving a detailed description of the historical significance of the water system that was established in the Roman era.
The end of his statement did mention that his government decided to uphold the Jan. 31 cabinet decision to hold elections on May 13, adding that elections in the Gaza Strip "won't be doable" as a result of Hamas' refusal.
Hamdallah had previously said that if Hamas objected to the elections, they would carry on exclusively in the West Bank.
The PA statement added that the CEC had met with Hamas officials and failed to convince the movement to allow elections in the besieged coastal enclave.
Hamdallah has reportedly encouraged Hamas to participate in the elections, and urged Hamas to accept PA President Mahmoud Abbas' initiative to form a national unity government in order to pave the way toward future presidential and legislative elections.
Municipal elections set to be held last October were postponed with the intent of holding them in the entire occupied Palestinian territory, following backlash over a PA Supreme Court ruling to exclude the Gaza Strip from the elections altogether.
Prior to their cancellation, the municipal elections were set to be the first in the Gaza Strip in a decade, after Hamas' victory in the 2006 vote erupted into a violent conflict between Hamas and Fatah, as both groups attempted to take control of the besieged coastal enclave.
A poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) at the time found that 61 percent of respondents were displeased by the Supreme Court's initial decision to postpone the municipal elections, with 60 percent believing that the decision was politically motivated.
Fatah and Hamas have been embroiled in conflict since Hamas' election victory in 2006 elections in the Gaza Strip, which erupted into a violent conflict between the two movements as both attempted to consolidate control over the territory.
Despite numerous attempts at reconciling the groups, Palestinian leadership has repeatedly failed to follow through on promises of reconciliation and holding long-overdue elections, as both movements have frequently blamed each other for numerous political failures.
Officials from the Fatah-led PA have criticized Hamas for creating a shadow government in the Gaza Strip and blocking efforts to reach political unity.
Hamas has in turn accused the PA of executing a plan to "eradicate" the movement from the West Bank, accusing Fatah of "escalating security collaboration" with the Israeli authorities through politically-motivated arrests and "adopting a revolving door policy" funneling Palestinians from PA jails into Israeli prisons.
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with the NaCl-type structure (space group Fm 3 m). The XRD results (the fractions of the additional phase in ceramics, the lattice and atomic parameters of both present phases), as well as the electrical properties of ceramics (the conductivity 025 and the values of constant B25/85) are considered in dependence on the technological regimes of their preparation.
Key words: ceramics, thermoelectic materials, crystal structure.
The 3d transition-metal manganites for negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor applications have found wide use in diverse fields, as consumer electronics, biomedicine, industrial process control, environment monitoring [1-3]. In the previous publication we reported the sintering behaviour of Cu01Ni08Co02Mn19O4 manganite electroceramics at different sintering temperatures Ts . Particularly, the single-phase cubic spinel ceramics was obtained at low Ts = 920 °C, and the decomposed ceramics, which contained the residual tetragonal spinel phase with modified composition and the separated additional phase - solid solution (SS) based on NiO, was formed at high Ts = 1170°C. The present work was performed to study in details the possibilities of thermal modification of high-temperature ceramics by changing technological regimes of their preparation. Preliminary results are given in .
The traditional ceramics technique was used for the preparation of the samples of CutuNia8Coch2MnL9O4 composition from the mixture of CuCO3Cu(OH)2 and MCO3x xmM(OH)2nH2O (M=Ni, Co and Mn) reagents. After calcinations at 700 °C, the products were wet-milled, dried, blended with an organic binder and pressed into discs (11.5 mm in diameter) under -100 MPa pressure. The seven batches of experimental samples were fabricated using different regimes of isothermal sintering at Ts = 1200 °C with variable dwell times (1, 2 or 3 h), heating rates up to Ts and cooling rates down from Ts (Table 1). In details, for batch No. 1 ceramics: pressed blanks were heated with a temperature gradient of +100 °/h up to 600 °C (the same heating rate up to 600 °C was applied for all the prepared batches), heated with a rate of +200 °/h up to Ts (1200 °C), isothermally sintered for 1 h at Ts, cooled with a rate of -100 °/h down to 850 °C, finally cooled with a rate of - -750 °C/h down to 100 °C and removed from the furnace (the same cooling procedure from 850 °C was applied for all batches).
The thermally modified ceramics were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The powder patterns were recorded at room temperature using a powder diffractometer of type HZG-4a with FeKa radiation. The measurements were carried out in 29 steps of 0.02°-0.05° with variable scanning rate, depending on the sample quality. The profile analysis was performed using pseudo-Voigt profile function. The lattice parameters and crystal structures of the phases were refined using the Rietveld method with the program FULLPROF.2k (version 3.70)  from the WinPLOTR software . Micro-structural analysis, i.e. determination of the average apparent size and average max strain of grains, was performed using the profile fitting procedure with Voigt approximation maintained in the WinPLOTR software .
As expected, a pattern characteristic of a two-phase sample is obtained for all the investigated batches of ceramics. Reflections of the additional NiO phase besides the reflections of the main spinel phase are observed. The fractions of the additional phase in ceramics, the lattice and atomic parameters of both present phases were determined from the Rietveld refinements. The summarized results of XRD analysis for the investigated ceramics are given in Table 1. The results of refinement of the composition for spinel phase, microstructural parameters and electrical properties for the ceramics are given in Table 2. The full data of the crystal structure refinement are given on example of batch No 4 ceramics (Tables 3-4, Fig. 1). During the refinement of the crystal structures it was empirically established that Co and Cu cations tend to occupy the tetrahedral sites, Ni cations the octahedral sites, while Mn cations occupy both tetrahedral and octahedral sites in the cubic spinel structure. So, the investigated ceramics consist of a mixture of the main cubic spinel phase (space group Fd 3 m) and the additional phase - SS based on NiO phase with the NaCl-type structure (space group Fm 3 m). The unexpected result is the existence of cubic modification of spinel phase in ceramics. Our preceding data indicated the tetragonal spinel phase (space group I41/amd) at Ts = 1170 °C . In fact, slight variations of synthesis conditions essentially modify ceramics structure. The refinements of spinel crystal structure according to tetragonal model were less satisfactory in view of higher agreement factors, thermal parameters, standard deviations, etc.
c fraction (in weight %) of the separated additional phase.
Analysis of the obtained values of the lattice parameter of the additional phase a - 4.195 A leads to the conclusion, that the additional phase is a Ni1-xMnxO (NiO-MnO) solid solution as the a value is intermediate between the values of the lattice parameters for the NiO and MnO binary phases (a = 4.177 A and a = 4.488 A, respectively) [8-9]. The lowest value of lattice parameter of additional phase is observed for slowly cooled batch No 7 ceramics. This suggests the lowest content of Mn in Ni1-xMnxO SS, however, according to the composition refinement, the lowest content was observed for the batch No 5. Fraction of the additional phase in ceramics, as well as lattice parameters of both present phases exhibit rising tendency (taking into account the precision of experiments) with the increase of dwell times at Ts (Table 1, ceramic batches No 1—No 2—No 3, No 4—No 5 —No 6). Effect of dwell times can be explained by the enhancement of spinel decomposition (de-oxidation) reactions at Ts, leading to separation of additional phase [2, 4]. The correspondent cr25 values of decomposed ceramics, which depend on intrinsic conductivity of each phase and their ratio, show evidence of decrease (Fig. 2). This is mainly due to an increase of the fraction of additional phase with lower intrinsic conductivity, compared with the spinel phase . The lowest content of the additional phase and the highest cr25 value is obtained for slowly cooled after Ts batch No 7 ceramics, most probably is a result of reversal (re-oxidation) reactions in ceramics . The investigated ceramics show typical for thermistor materials semiconductor behavior with high values of constant B25/85 > 3300 K.
Refined composition of the spinel phase"
a The proposed composition is empirical in view of small difference of scattering amplitudes for the Ni and Mn.
a The proposed distribution of the transition metals is hypothetical in view of small difference of their scattering amplitudes.


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Think you don't have time to walk? It's easier than you think to add some steps into your daily routine - and the more often you do it, the more likely it is to become a habit.
One 10 minute car journey could equate to a 20 minute walk - in that time, you could burn up to 100 calories, as well as adding many other benefits to your health and wellbeing. Walking can also get you to your destination quicker than driving can – there's no need to worry about road traffic or finding somewhere to park!
What journeys do you already do? 1/3 of our journeys are less than a mile on average - whether it's going to the shop for milk, dropping the children at school or visiting a friend, Walking these journeys instead of taking the car can help to relieve stress, increase your energy, reduce pollution and save you time and money in car parking and fuel.
School run? Try making a rule for yourself to walk to and from school, college or university every non-wet day. Walking can really help to aid concentration - and you can help to make it a regular commitment by walking with your hoursemates, a group of friends or your family.
Work? If you work in an office or spend most of your day at a computer, it's really important to take some time to get away from your desk. Fitting a walk into your lunchbreak or choosing to walk as your commute can lessen stress, lift your mood give some extra 'you' time. Why not find a new podcast or radio station to listen to, download an audio book or make a playlist to enjoy in your day.
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Based at home? Break up your routine by taking a short walk twice a day; such as after lunch or before dinner. It could help to keep you active, re-balance your mind and even help you get more things done.
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For more tips and ideas on how to get more walking into your daily life, visit the 'Want to Walk More?' page to discover new ways to fit the recommended 150 minutes of moderate exercise into your week.


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After the share issue, Zimbrine Holdings ownership corresponds to 8,67% of the votes and 8,67% of the capital in Venue Retail Group AB.
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away to find its body.
Kashmir, in Agha Shahid Ali's poetry, is in the saturated colours of a postcard; it is also the monochromatic desolation of mourners, sentries in bunkers, the coal of burning leaves. To read the cluster of poems that belongs to The Country Without a Post Office, first published in 1997, is to walk through the "rubble of downtown Srinagar" in a stupor, and witness its devastation in extravagant verse, swollen with grief.
Several of his poems are dingily lit, quite literally, with candles, kerosene lamps, the dim lights of army trucks, "stillborn suns". His landscapes, strewn with bodies and canvas bags of undelivered mail, also blaze withchinar leaves, and suddenly erupt in the songs of Mahjoor, on Radio Kashmir. "His poems – like his conversation, for that matter – sounded like no one else's, no doubt because of the remarkable range and variety of his sources: the literature of several continents; Bollywood, Hollywood, and art-house cinema; classical Indian and classical European music; and American pop", wrote Daniel Hall, in the Foreword to the 2009 compilation, The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems.
There are eighteen variations of the word "Kashmir" in the Roman script, mutations of the Sanskrit kásmira. The French cauchemar or nightmare, also included in this enumeration, raises the pitch of the poet's lament. His homeland, desiccated water, is a desolation, a country of ash and anonymous graves, a recurrent nightmare. He returns to it, compulsively, in memory, to delineate its tragedies.
Shahid Ali, who was born on February 4, 1949 in New Delhi, but spent most of his childhood in Kashmir before migrating to the United States in 1976 when he was in his early twenties, brings these geographical shifts and spatial ruptures to his poetic aesthetics. The poets and historians who appear in the epigraphs and quotations that prefix many of his poems – Osip Mandelstam, Taticus, WB Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Laurence Hope, Zbigniew Herbert, Gerald Manley Hopkins – pervade his elegiac reminiscing. Although geographically distant from Kashmir, his muse, his melancholic yearnings are no less intense for that reason.
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FERO Royale X2 Launched in Nigeria
Fero Mobile, the fastest growing mobile phone brands in Nigeria, launched the Royale X2 Smartphone device into the Nigerian Market.
The Royale X2 is a classic High-End Smart Phone that runs on the Android Nougat 7.0 operating system. The device comes with a high definition 5.2-inch display screen which has a multi-touch feature and a 2.5D Front Dragon Trail Glass that makes it rugged and durable. It also comes with a 3GB RAM and 32GB internal memory powered by a 1.25 GHz 64 bits Quad-Core processor. It has a Fingerprint scanner for enhanced security, and different fingers can be linked to open different apps quickly – literally at the touch of a button. It boasts a 4,000 mAh Li-Polymer Battery with fast charging capability.
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Speaking at the launch, Mr. Phiroze Seth, Director, Nigeria and Emerging Markets at Fero Mobile, said "The Royale X2 is a device that will excite smartphone enthusiasts in Nigeria. Our products are designed to meet the unique needs of Nigeria. A lot of research has gone into understanding the market and we are proud to say that this device will surpass the expectations of Nigerians in terms of design and performance".
"We all know that smartphones are more than just tools for communication. They express our personalities, support our businesses and help maintain relationships. The Royale X2 is sleek with cool features that support the smart and active lifestyle. We always strive to give more value to our customers at every price point", he added.
In just over a year of entering Nigeria, the Fero brand has made great in-roads into the Nigerian market. The brand's visibility has greatly helped its popularity amongst consumers. The Fero range of smartphones also includes the A series, the Pace series and many more options for their consumer base.
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Announcements / Call for Papers
Crisis, Temporality, and Governance
January 19, 2020 - Leave a Comment
Co-organizers: André Vereta-Nahoum (Sociology, University of São Paulo)
Simone Polillo (Sociology, University of Virginia)
The idea of crisis may be as old as modernity (Koselleck, 2015), but, over the past decade, as crisis texts have become a "veritable industry" (to paraphrase Roitman, 2013: 3), scholars have joined public debate by drawing attention to the conditions of possibility of crisis, its uses and effects (e.g. Appadurai, 2015; Bear, 2015; Mounk, 2018; Przeworski, 2019; Streeck 2017). Following up on this emerging interdisciplinary work on the multiple conceptualizations and practices of crisis, we are interested in two broad and interconnected themes: the relationship between crisis and governance, and the relationship between crisis and time.
The first theme encompasses how crisis works as a political strategy and as a way of governing. Crisis is often associated with critique (Koselleck, 2015), when those who declare a state of affairs to be in crisis do so in the hope of summoning support towards changing the status quo. However, crisis makes it possible to associate a present state of affairs with previous choices, and so it serves to justify the implementation of significant reforms that are presented as exceptional but unavoidable measures – the only solutions to the emergencies. As a result, as Roitman (2013) argues, crisis can also blind critics to the assumptions behind declaring a state of affairs in crisis, to the effects of unexamined questions about what an enacted crisis refers to, and of policy options and shifts that are presented as necessary consequences of the enactment.
The relationship between the practice of crisis, and narratives about what makes a state of affairs normal, conventional, or settled, also hinges on particular assumptions about time and temporality, which is the second theme we want to explore. A crisis declared to be temporary requires different interpretative work and temporal narratives and does different work than a crisis perceived to be more secular or structural; a past crisis can affect interpretations about the present and responses in the form of future developments, but so can the threat of crisis in some more or less distant future. Particular local, regional, and national historical trajectories may also affect how crises are enacted and perceived, and how responses to the crisis are debated and translated into policy. The exceptionality or normalcy associated with a state of affairs considered to be a crisis must be analyzed and critically assessed. Conflicts between different and potentially incompatible time horizons may generate crisis, but also open opportunities for the strategic deployment of crisis in order to shift the balance of power and shape the range of available policy choices.
Within the broader themes of crisis and governance, and crisis and time, exemplary questions we invite participants to consider include the following:
Who has the authority to declare a crisis, and what happens when other powerful agents (whether experts or publics) reject this characterization?
Which material and ideational devices are employed to enact crises, and how does the temporal orientation of crisis vary as a result?
How do particular historical trajectories—punctuated by crises or not—influence the enactment of crises?
Deadline for New Submissions: Friday, January 24, 2020


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Not Immune to Bias
HPV Vaccines Can Save People's Lives. Why Is Awareness, Access Still So Low?
By Saumya Kalia
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Zeisha was 29 when her gynecologist told her about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. She paid Rs. 10,480 for one dose of Gardasil 9, the only vaccine available in a private hospital near her house. "And I'm so naive I thought that was the collective overall cost. Only after getting the medicine, I was like, oh shit!" By September 2022, she has one dose remaining. "I'm mentally preparing because it is three months away, so I need to save accordingly."
Little did she know that three months later, a cheaper alternative will be available to her. India's first indigenous HPV vaccine, announced by the Serum Institute of India recently, will reportedly protect against four strains of HPV. Importantly, it will be priced between Rs. 200 and 400 per dose – almost 95% less than what people are currently paying – and will begin production in November this year.
The launch of this vaccine has suddenly propelled cervical cancer into the public eye. Many have eagerly termed this development a "game-changer." But does this mean the HPV battle is won? Not quite. The immunization challenges with cervical cancer have always reflected deep-seated systemic anxiety around women's sexual and menstrual health.
The vaccination's long-awaited introduction is, then, a sobering moment. It shows how a social disregard for women's health decides what life-saving cures are developed, and who has access to them. And without a radical reimagining of how we view women's health, an indigenous vaccine may not be enough to hold ground – let alone claim victory – against challenges in the system.
We lose one woman every eight minutes to cervical cancer in India. And more than 95% of these cases are caused by HPV. What is more astonishing than the prevalence of HPV-related cervical cancer is the fact that it is one of the two cancers against which immunization actually works. Despite this, HPV vaccines in India are a cure that "one can often not find out about — until it's quite late," notes Kirti, 23.
"The disease burden in India is really high," says Mridu Gupta, co-founder of CAPED India, an advocacy group raising awareness about diagnosis and prevention. India contributes one-fourth of the world's total cases of cervical cancer – all preventable deaths.
"But we still don't talk about it."
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This may be in large part due to the misconception "that cervical cancer only affects the women population," says Mridu. And while women represent the majority of cases, HPV can cause cancers of the vulva, vagina, penis, anus, the back of the mouth, and upper part of the throat across the gender spectrum. The infection is commonly transmitted through unprotected sexual interaction, and nearly everyone will get HPV at some point in their lives.
However, the misconception prevails and leads to cervical cancer not being given importance in patriarchal Indian households, where women's health is already most likely to be deprioritized.
This bias also exists on the state level: there is a lack of political will to address cervical cancer, which manufactures further invisibilization.
In 2018, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare decided not to include the HPV vaccine as part of its National Immunization Schedule. This is despite the fact that almost 71 countries had included the HPV vaccine in their routine vaccination programs upon recommendation by the World Health Organization in 2017.
The National Immunization Schedule is a list of necessary vaccines for infants, children, and pregnant women – like tetanus and hepatitis – which are all funded by the government and are offered to the public for free. "How many people have actually seen somebody dying because of tetanus, but everyone still goes and gets a tetanus vaccine because it has been promoted. Everyone has heard about tetanus and they know when they need a shot" notes Mridu. "If HPV was there in our immunization program, you automatically would assume it is necessary."
The exclusion of HPV vaccines from the schedule, and by extension its universal immunization program (UIP), is a decision determined due to budgetary constraints, experts say. The two available vaccines before the new Serum one cost somewhere around Rs. 3,000 – 6,000 – making HPV an expensive vaccine to put under the public healthcare machinery. The cost analysis goes something like this: does a disease that is more prevalent among adolescents and women warrant an investment of this kind?
"There is a whole section of people who believe that there are other diseases that are more important, and it is an added cost in the family budget," says Mridu, explaining the cost-benefit analysis. It remains unclear whether the vaccine will be included in government policy despite its lower cost.
Sexual Stigma
Besides cost, "there is also that taboo that [HPV] is a sexually transmitted infection," remarks Swati Saxena, Ph.D., an expert in public health, gender, and immunization. That HPV is transmitted through unprotected oral, vaginal, and anal sex makes cervical cancer seems like a provocative discourse.
The stigma around women's sexual health is rooted in the premise that a woman has a sexual identity. "People think that, does it lead to promiscuity? If I give this vaccine to my daughter, is it in a way giving her sort of a hint that she can become sexually active? It can mean all sorts of things," explains Saxena.
This was Kirti's experience too when she consulted her family doctor some six years ago about the vaccination. He volunteered little information – "probably because he's very stigmatized with respect to sex and hence didn't want to have this conversation." She was told she was just "hearing things" at school and "didn't know best."
If HPV vaccines help prevent sexually-transmitted infections, which are erroneously linked only to multiple sexual partners, then a monogamous, married woman shouldn't ideally need it.
In villages and Tier 2 and 3 cities, this means that women's sexuality, and any malady related to it, retreat into collective silence. "Cervical cancer, much less vaccine, rarely ever comes out from people's mouths (in rural areas)," notes Ravi Sisodia, a program officer working with rural communities on cancer awareness. "This is a topic they don't share, they don't talk about." Ravi recalls that even when women are talking to community health workers, like ASHAs or ANMs, about cancer, their husbands would reprimand them.
Recently, CAPED conducted a survey across 20 Indian cities to gauge how the prevalence of the illness was perceived outside clinical trials and case studies. About 47% of women surveyed had never heard about cervical cancer. Out of the 53% who did, 23% of women thought it was a cancer of the neck. "The fact is we have barely [any] women across the strata who even heard about cervical cancer, and even fewer people than that know that there is a vaccine," says Mridu.
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Jaishree Kumar, 23, has known about the vaccine ever since 2006 when Gardasil was launched in India. It was essential for her to get the vaccine; there was a family history of cervical cancer that could be traced back to her great-grandmother. But the lack of information from public health sources discouraged her from getting the vaccine earlier.
Zeisha too encountered multiple myths while researching the vaccine – it works only if one takes it before they are sexually active, or it's too late if you've crossed the age of 25. That's not the case, Dr. Somya Gupta, a Delhi-based gynecologist, clarifies. While the vaccine may be most effective in the adolescent age, the age is erroneously capped to the early 20s in many medical consultations because the assumption is women aren't sexually active before marriage. Anyone between the ages of 12 and 45 are eligible to get it, and vaccination is important because one can contract the virus multiple times.
Repeated exposure to HPV through multiple sexual partners and condomless sex can lead to the virus remaining in the cervix, and then causing cancer 10-15 years later. "Almost all HPV infection is acquired through unsafe sex but more than 90% of HPV infections resolve on their own in one year," notes Dr. Gupta. "There is no harm in getting the vaccine and it might offer some protection even if a woman has already been exposed to the virus through intercourse. It might be beneficial."
Many women note it was an Instagram story they viewed in passing that prompted them to enquire about the vaccine. Kajal Singh lives in a village some 40 kilometers from Allahabad, and was 21 when she found out about it from a social media influencer who is also a doctor. Last month, she woke up with plantar warts on her feet – grainy blisters that had begun to peel. She was told by a practitioner that it is because of a non-cancerous HPV virus, but she struggled to find someone to discuss the modalities of the vaccine with. "I still don't know when is the right time to get vaccinated or if I'm even going to get any benefit since I already have the virus."
Ultimately, it was an Instagram reel that helped answer some questions. "I wouldn't have known about it unless I watched a reel."
Social media awareness can in many ways bridge the gap between women and their access to health knowledge – to an extent. But these are band-aid solutions over festering wounds.
"We definitely need more explicit messaging at all clinics and hospitals, with pointers on its efficacy, the right time to get it, etc. Just like other kinds of nutritional posters that we often find in these health institutions," says Shikha, 33.
Why the vaccine is critical in India
Cancer prevention is a fight waged on two fronts: early diagnosis through screening measures (like pap smears for women) and prevention through vaccinations. One of the reasons health experts in India rally for a robust vaccination strategy rather than screening is because of the lack of resources. There are not enough doctors, state-run clinics, or resources to effectively reach millions of women living in pockets outside the reach of the internet. Screening programs – such as pap smear testing – require quality health infrastructure, with gynecologists, clinics, and health workers, all of which are notably wanting in India's public health ecosystem.
Anecdotally, experts note how many women are unaware of even the need to get a pap smear, a procedure to test for cervical cancer. "Women have to be 30+ to get screened now in India. She may be sexually active at any age, but 30+ is where they will start the screening, whether she is married or not married, if they are sexually active," explains Mridu.
Pap smears also become the bogeyman of promiscuity: women often fear the judgment of results and the stigma of getting tested in the first place. The test is also markedly painful, making screening for cervical cancer neither affordable nor practical.
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The barriers to pap smear testing are direr in government-run hospitals, Dr. Gupta notes. "A person has to be relaxed and has to be examined in a calm environment, which is not at all the case in government hospitals where there are 100 women standing in line to be seen by the doctor in the next two-three hours. It's not an environment conducive to conducting such invasive examinations." She paints a picture of scarce logistical resources: there are not enough speculums (a duck-bill-shaped tool that doctors use for vaginal examination), lubricants, and knocking jelly that help numb the pain. Moreover, many women are also wary of the speculum as a device that exposes their body parts – the vaginal hair, in particular – to others.
The deprioritization of cervical cancer is a result of money, stigma, and lack of knowledge. But it signals a blind spot in medicine: women are never seen in terms of their personhood, but always as maternal bodies meant for the explicit purpose of reproduction. This not only means that their sexual and menstrual health is systemically disregarded but that women's health as a whole is reduced to the idea of "need." If there are no symptoms that are visible to the naked, untrained eye, then the woman doesn't need medical assistance – much less a vaccination. Many women, particularly in rural areas, mention how they have to "justify" going to a clinic in the first place.
But protection against HPV is critical not only for women's health but also for gender equity. "We need to really think of a way to raise awareness to remove the stigma around sexuality so that women can access this vaccine," Dr. Gupta says.
A 2013 study that analyzed the barriers to the acceptance of HPV vaccination in India found that "addressing parental concerns, health worker training and policies, and efforts to minimize cost will be central to successful HPV vaccine implementation."
One way is through sensitization workshops, for doctors and rural health workers who interact with the women the most. Dr. Gupta notes how misogyny, reproductive bias, and personal beliefs become intangible obstacles. "We need to stick to the science, to the evidence-based medicine, and not let judgment come in the way."
The other, more visible aspect is through state-run awareness campaigns that have a greater outreach. As of 2022, two states have begun with promotional campaigns. Mohalla clinics in New Delhi – community-run clinics in local districts – are counseling women about cervical cancer and how vaccination can help with prevention. Sikkim introduced the vaccination through school-based drives in 2015, encouraging female students to take the vaccine. Experts say this model can be replicated across other states in the country.
Arguably, the matter of accessibility is even more grating in an Indian context, given our repute as the vaccine powerhouse. India has successfully run immunization drives for tuberculosis and remains a case study in polio eradication. "We have such a robust vaccination program," notes Dr. Gupta. "The vaccine uptake in India is not bad; in fact, it is very good, as long as it is incorporated in the national immunization schedule." That is the end goal, because screening and other diagnostic infrastructure require more investment in women's healthcare.
Detection for HPV-related cervical cancer is a slow battle, which makes early prevention the only reasonable cure. Ultimately, according to Dr. Gupta, including the vaccination in the national immunization schedule is what will be "the game changer."
It brings to mind author Sun Tzu's famous treatise on war: "Perhaps, the greatest victory is one that requires no battle."
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Alexej Fried (13. října 1922 Brno – 19. června 2011 Praha) byl český hudební skladatel a dirigent.

Život
Po absolvování reálného gymnázia v Brně studoval na brněnské konzervatoři klavír. Již na gymnáziu založil studentský orchestr Alex' Boys, který řídil a hrál v něm na trubku. V letech 1942–1944 hrál v různých tanečních orchestrech. V roce 1944 byl nacisty jako tzv. židovský míšenec uvězněn a zbytek války strávil v pracovním táboře pro židovské míšence a manžele židovek v Postoloprtech u Loun.

Po roce 1945 pokračoval na brněnské konzervatoři studiem skladby u Theodora Schäfera. V roce 1947 vstoupil na Pražskou konzervatoř. Studoval skladbu u Pavla Bořkovce a později na Akademii múzických umění v Praze u Emila Hlobila.

Ihned po skončení války založil a řídil v Brně zábavní orchestr. V době svých pražských studií řídil Lidový soubor pražské konzervatoře (1949–50), Orchestr Jaroslava Ježka (1950–51) a Velký estrádní soubor Právnické fakulty Karlovy univerzity. V roce 1953 se toto těleso pod názvem Velký taneční orchestr Alexeje Frieda stalo součástí Československého rozhlasu. Alexej Fried pak působil v rozhlase jako hudební redaktor.

Od roku 1955 zastával různé vedoucí funkce. Byl tvůrčím tajemníkem Svazu československých skladatelů, uměleckým ředitelem Mezinárodního jazzového festivalu v Praze a v letech 1964–1967 byl uměleckým ředitelem Armádního uměleckého souboru.

Ve svém skladatelském díle se Alexej Fried kromě komponování populárních skladeb snažil o syntézu jazzové a vážné hudby. Tento skladatelský směr se označuje jako třetí proud. Jeho skladby byly uváděny jak symfonickými orchestry, tak špičkovými jazzovými a tanečními orchestry. Z našich orchestrů to byly zejména orchestry Karla Vlacha a Gustava Broma.

Četné Friedovy skladby byly hrány v zahraničí na jazzových festivalech a na koncertech v USA, Německu, Švýcarsku, Španělsku a dalších evropských zemích, nahrávány na gramofonové desky, vydávány tiskem. V roce 2002 udělil Český rozhlas Brno Alexeji Friedovi Cenu Gustava Broma za mimořádný vklad k vývoji a úrovni českého jazzu.

Dílo

Muzikály
 Ďábel prošel městem (původně rozhlasová komedie Legenda o ďáblu, 1960);
 Slavnost v Harlemu (1971);
 Divoká řeka (1966);
 Karneval v San Catarině (1974).

Orchestrální skladby
 Akt pro trubku, flétnu a big band (1968);
 Jazzový koncert pro klarinet a big band (1970);
 Jazzové baletní etudy pro klarinet (střídá sopránsaxofon a altsaxofon) a big band (1970);
 Souvenir pro big band (1970);
 Sidonia pro trubku a big band (1971);
 Trojkoncert pro flétnu, klarinet, lesní roh a orchestr (1971);
 Moravská svatba, jazzová symfonietta (1972);
 Slunovrat, koncert pro dva big bandy (1973);
 Dialog pro dva altsaxofony a big band (1974);
 Koncertino pro klarinet a big band (1974);
 Koncert pro symfonický orchestr (1974);
 Parafráze na motivy Blue Skies pro sopránsaxofon nebo flétnu a big band (1975);
 Koncert pro big band (1976);
 Koncert č. 2 pro klarinet a symfonický orchestr (1976);
 Polyfon pro big band (1978);
 Hry pro sólo bicí, tenorsaxofon a big band (1980);
 Panem et circenses (Chléb a hry), hudební obraz pro flétnu, sopránsaxofon, lesní roh a symfonický orchestr (1982);
 Pohlednice z Moravy pro barytonsaxofon a big band (1985);
 Salut pro sopránsaxofon (střídá se s flétnou) a big band (1987);
 Siluety pro sopránsaxofon a big band (1987).

Komorní skladby
 Trojkoncert pro flétnu, klarinet, lesní roh a orchestr (1971);
 Sonatina drammatica pro housle a klavír (1975);
 Moravské trio pro flétnu, marimbu a harfu (1978);
 Gotický (Freiburský) koncert pro komorní orchestr s klavírem (1977, revidovaná verze 1982);
 Koncert pro lesní roh a komorní orchestr s klavírem (1977);
 Quintetto per flauto, violino, viola, violoncello e pianoforte "Ze života hmyzu" (1979);
 Trojkoncertino pro hoboj, klarinet, fagot, dva hráče bicích nástrojů a smyčce (1981);
 Guernica, kvintet pro sopránsaxofon a smyčcové kvarteto (1981);
 Concertino per flauto,chittara, quartetto d'archi ed 2 percossa (1982);
 Tympanon, trio pro housle, sopránsaxofon a klavír (1982);
 Sextet (původně Kvintet pro Barok jazz kvintet) pro flétnu, klarinet (sopránsaxofon), basklarinet, klavír, kontrabas a bicí nástroje (1984);
 Kasace pro komorní orchestr (1985);
 Koncertino pro sopránsaxofon, klavír, syntetizér, baskytaru a bicí nástroje (1987);
 Smyčcové okteto se sólovou flétnou a s doprovodem syntezátoru, baskytary a bicích nástrojů (1987);
 Sonáta pro saxofonové kvarteto (1987);
 Hrátky pro čtyři saxofony, baskytaru nebo kontrabas a bicí nástroje (1990).

Dále komponoval hudbu pro film, scénickou hudbu, ale i hudbu ke spartakiádním cvičením, estrádní skladby a populární písně.

Literatura
 Československý hudební slovník I (A–L), 1963, SHV, Praha
 Dorůžka, Lubomír: Jazzový skladatel – utopie nebo realita? (Melodie 10, 1972, č. 8, s. 245).
 Zapletal, Petar: Friedův Trojkoncert (Melodie 10, 1972, s. 380).
 Fiala, Jan: Moravská svatba (Gramorevue 11, 1975, č. 5, s. 8–9).
 Čort, Antonín: Lákala mne dramatičnost jazzu (Mladá fronta 18. 12. 1976, s. 4).
 Heřmanský, Miroslav: Slunovrat – Moravská svatba (Melodie 16, 1978, č. 6, s. 190).
 Dorůžka, Lubomír: Náš jazz anglickýma očima (Melodie 17, 1979, č. 1, s. 10).
 Dorůžka, Lubomír: Alexej Fried (Hudební rozhledy 17, 1979, č. 9, s. 419–420).

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Priya Raman (born 18 June 1974) is an Indian actress and television producer. She has appeared in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada cinema and in television serials of Malayalam and Tamil languages. Her first film was the Rajnikanth-produced film Valli, in 1993. Her second film, Arthana, directed by I. V. Sasi and released in 1993, was her debut in Malayalam film industry.

Film career
Malayalam director Joshiy cast her as an airforce pilot in 1993 in Sainyam with Mammootty.

Besides films, she has also appeared in a number of Tamil and Malayalam television serials like the Tamil serial Durga, Malayalam T.V serial Kavyanjali produced by of Balaji Telefilms (as "Anjali"), Swarnamayooram, Pavakoothu and Orma (as "Girly"). She have acted in Zee Tamil serial, Sembaruthi. She also hosts a celebrity reality game show called Genes in the same channel.

Filmography

Film

TV serials

Other shows

Web series

Award and nominations

Cinema Express Awards Best Newface Actress -Valli
Zee Tamil Family Awards

2018 -Won - Most Popular Mom - Sembaruthi

2019 -Nominated - Best Anchor - Genes Season 3

2020-Won- Best Anchor - Genes Season 3
2020- Nominated - Most Popular Mom- Sembaruthi
2020- Nominated- Most Popular Mamiyar- Sembaruthi

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Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Living people
Actresses from Kochi
20th-century Indian actresses
People from Aluva
Malayalam film producers
Indian women film producers
Film producers from Kochi
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Tamil television
Actresses in Telugu television
Indian television actresses
Actresses in Malayalam television
21st-century Indian actresses
Businesswomen from Kerala
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Actresses in Hindi cinema
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The St. Paul Saints and Winnipeg Goldeyes have a storied rivalry that dates back to the old Northern League days. They have had some epic battles, but Thursday night at CHS Field in front of 8,314 was not one of those games. The Saints gave up 11 runs in the first three innings and gave up a season tying high 16 runs in a 16-5 loss to the Goldeyes. The loss drops the Saints to 19-13 on the season.
The big blow came in the second, with the Saints already down 1-0, the Goldeyes sent 13 men to the plate and scored eight runs to blow the game wide open. Tucker Nathans got the scoring started with an RBI single off of pitcher Jake Esche's leg to make it 2-0. Dave Sappelt made it 3-0 with an RBI double. Reggie Abercrombie reached on a fielder's choice, with a fielding error charged to shortstop Anthony Phillips, that allowed a run to score making it 4-0. With the bases loaded Eric Aguilera made it 6-0 with a two-run double. A sacrifice fly by Andrew Sohn made it 7-0 and that was the night for Esch. He would go 1.2 innings allowing eight runs, five earned, on six hits while walking three and striking out one. Ryan Boelter came on in relief and gave up an RBI double to Grant Heyman that gave the Goldeyes an 8-0 lead. Two batters later Kevin Garcia made it 9-0 with an RBI single.
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In the eighth Connor Olson led off with a double and, with one out, moved to third on an infield single by Shoemaker. He finished the night 4-4 with a double and two runs scored. Perio Jr. knocked home Olson with a double to make it 11-3. Dante Bichette Jr. made it 11-4 with an RBI single to left. Two batters later Jake Smith continued his hot ways since joining the Saints with an RBI single to right-center to make it 11-5.
The Goldeyes would tack on five runs in the ninth for the final margin.
The Saints got a couple of solid relief appearances as Ryan Schlosser tossed 3.0 shutout innings while giving up one hit and striking out four. Ken Frosch ran his consecutive scoreless streak to 16.1 innings tossing a shutout inning of relief.
The same two teams meet in game two of the four game series on Friday night at 7:05 p.m. The Saints send RHP Matt Solter (1-2, 3.00) to the mound against Goldeyes LHP Mitchell Lambson (1-0, 0.82). It is Xcel Energy Friday Night Fireworks featuring the music of Grease. The game can be seen on the Saints Cable Network, cable access channels in and around the Twin Cities area, and heard on Alt 93.3 FM.


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Eristena longibursa is een vlinder uit de familie van de grasmotten (Crambidae), uit de onderfamilie van de Acentropinae. De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 2006 door Fuqiang Chen, Shimei Song en Chunsheng Wu.

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Horses don't like living alone. Many will tolerate it, but all prefer to be with other horses. Like humans, horses are very social animals. In fact, in a way, horses are more social than humans, because for them, the company of their own kind is perceived as an issue of life or death. In the wild, a horse living alone is more vulnerable to predators. There is safety in numbers, and horses know it.
Horses also get very lonely without other horses around. Some experts have observed that among wild horses, young stallions driven from their family herds by older, more dominant stallions were visibly depressed and forlorn. These solo young stallions wander aimlessly, as if life isn't worth living. Rather than go on alone, some of them join up with other outcasts to form "bachelor bands." While the goal of every stallion is to have a herd of mares to call his own, stallions would rather live with other stallions . . . their potential rivals . . . than be by themselves.


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Maldives tourism is bouncing back strong
The sunny side of life is thriving after re-opening its borders, and according to the Minister of Tourism, the sector is expected to exceed forecasts.
by Ahmed Munawar 7th October 2021
In a special interview to MFR to mark World Tourism Day on 27 September 2021, Minister of Tourism, Dr. Abdulla Mausoom, said that he anticipates a steep recovery in the last quarter of 2021, after the negative impacts felt with the COVID-19 pandemic. He further stated that growth is expected to continue in 2022, when the Maldives will mark 50 years to tourism, and will reach new heights.
Almost 115,000 tourists has arrived in the Maldives in September 2021, which is 12 times more than the number of arrivals over the same period last year. This is almost at the same level as pre-pandemic levels — when arrivals were 118,000 in September 2019. Arrivals in September followed a strong growth of 3 percent in August 2021, compared to pre-COVID 2019 levels and a total of over 870,000 tourists has arrive by the end of September 2021.
As such, despite the setback in April/June when arrivals dropped by 20 percent on a monthly basis when the country temporarily closed its borders to South Asian countries due to Delta variants of COVID-19, the country is now projected to surpass the initial estimate of 1 million arrivals and to reach a total of 1.3 million tourists by the end of 2021. With over 90 percent of the total 55,000 beds now in operation in resorts, hotels and guesthouses, and live-aboards and safaris, Dr. Mausoom believes the Maldives is doing much better now in terms of bed nights. He expects bed nights to reach 10 million by the end of 2021, which is almost the same as levesl in 2019, since the average stay has increased from six in 2019 to nine days in 2021.
India and Russia leading the way
As per source markets, after a record level of arrivals of over 54,000 from India in August 2021, largely due to transit Indian tourists, the minister believes that the Indian market will continue to grow and will be the number one market in 2021 with a market share of about 22 percent. He stressed the importance of the Indian market for the sector's recovery due to its large size and since it has the advantage of being close to the Maldives, which has enabled the industry to fill up shortages in the demand gap quickly.
It is very important we keep the Indian market attracted to the Maldives with different price ranges and products, especially since the Chinese market is not in the picture at the moment due to travel restrictions.
Dr. Abdulla Mausoom, Minister of Tourism.
The second major market which is driving recovery is the Russian market, which has a share of about 20 percent as of end-September 2021. Dr. Mausoom is very confident it may increase further if there are more flights from Russia to the Maldives. As to why the Russian market is doing so well, the minister explained that "in Russia, there is no travel restriction and Russian tourists have confidence in the Maldives." As such, he thinks the key to recovery is "our loyal tourist base who have visited the Maldives repeatedly and who give a strong message that the Maldives is safe and that they are very comfortable to be in the Maldives."
Data Source: Ministry of Tourism
As for the traditional markets in Europe, Germany has a six percent market share and is also expected to improve in the last quarter. In addition, since the Maldives has been removed from the UK's red list on 22 September, a strong growth from this traditional market is also expected in the last quarter of the year. Last year, after the Maldives re-opened its border, there was an average 3,300 tourists visiting the Maldives from the UK per month. However, this year the average has dropped to about 2,100, especially in May when it dropped to 580 while the Maldives languished on the UK's red list. The minister is positive that this removal would also help with more travellers from other European countries.
UK removing Maldives from the red list and placing us on the green list will give confidence to the governments of other countries to consider placing the Maldives on their green lists.
One of the key measures which has enabled this positive result was the success in the Maldives' vaccine rollouts, especially in the tourist industry. Almost 99 percent of industry staff have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 93 percent are fully vaccinated — 85 percent of all eligible residents in the Maldives are also vaccinated.
"Maldives is much safer now than before and there is no reason to put in us in any restricted list."
As such, in additional to over 450,000 tourists from European markets, the Minister expects to see growth from France and Italy in the last quarter of 2021 as well. Further, he is hopeful numbers from important markets such as China, Japan, Australia, Korea and New Zealand will also show strong recovery in 2022.
Expectations and risks for 2022
In 2022, the Maldives will be marking its 50th anniversary since the beginning of tourism in the country, with the opening of its first resort in 1972. From 1987 to 2019, the tourism sector registered an average growth of 9.4 percent and during this period, the Maldives experienced an annual negative growth only in three occasions prior — in 2001, following the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, in 2005 on the heels of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and in 2009 during the Global Recession — however the industy decline, at 67 percent in annual growth, was largest during the current COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The most recent arrivals forecast prepared by the Ministry of Finance in July 2021 estimates tourists arrivals to reach 1.6 million in the best case scenario, and 1.4 million in the worst. The Maldives Monetary Authority projects a much lower best case scenario, at 1.4 million arrivals and 10 million bed nights in 2022. However, with new products such as 'home stay' and 'real estate' tourism to be introduced in 2022, the Minister expects tourist arrivals to recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, with estimates putting the number close to 1.7 million. According to Dr. Mausoom, the key to realising this growth will be marketing.
The marketing work we do today is not for today, it is for next year and the year after, now we are embarking upon huge expansion plans and to take tourism to the islands.
Dr. Mausoom is pleased with the joint marketing effort by the industry and the government's marketing company, Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) — they are using multiple platforms to market the Maldives brand with a limited budget of USD10 million. According to the Minister, the Maldives has a very good product and has something for everyone from "lifestyle, honeymooners, divers, ultra-luxurious and mid-range" tourists. As such the Maldives is well positioned as the global market leader.
The biggest challenge faced by the industry will be the physical constraints in the main Velana International Airport (VIA) due to COVID-19 safety measures and renovation, and development, of the new terminal development. In August 2021, there were 24 scheduled and two chartered flights operating to the Maldives and there were over 7,500 flight movements by the end of the month, compared to a total of about 5,800 flights in 2020. More than 3,000 flight movements are expected in the last quarter of 2021.
With increased frequency of flights and the commencement of new flights, the international airport will be over-stretched during the peak season in December 2021 — Maldives Immigration and Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) are working to make arrangements to ensure speedier service delivery during the coming peak festive season. In addition, the government is also in dialogue with some airlines to explore the possibility of landing at Gan International Airport and Maafaru Airport during the peak period to manage the additional workload.
Nevertheless, Dr. Mausoom is optimistic these constraints will be handled with the development of additional domestic airports such as Hanimaadhoo, and with the completion of the new terminal in VIA and that 2022 to be a memorable year. According to Dr. Mausoom, "2022 will be celebrated as a year which brings happiness for the whole country" by expanding tourism to every corner of the Maldives and by promoting 'Tourism for Inclusive Growth,' in line with this year's World Tourism Day theme.
14 uninhabited islands up for bid for resort development
China back at top ten for Maldives arrivals
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Q: Empty arc in Datamaps When attempting to draw arcs on a map from Datamaps, as shown here: https://datamaps.github.io/
I get an empty arc, using the following code and shown here: http://jsfiddle.net/yausern/qbgewhss/1/
var map = new Datamap(
    {
        element: document.getElementById('container'),
        fills: {
            defaultFill: "#ABDDA4",
            win: '#0fa0fa'
        },
        data: {
            'CHN': { fillKey: 'win' },
            'SWE': { fillKey: 'win' },

        }
    }
);
map.arc(
    [
        {
            origin: 'CHN',
            destination: 'SWE',
            options: {
                strokeWidth: 2,
                strokeColor: 'rgba(100, 10, 200, 0.4)',
                greatArc: true
            }

        }
    ],
    {
        strokeWidth: 1, arcSharpness: 1.4
    }

)

What am I missing here?

A: It works when using the high resolution version found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markmarkoh/datamaps/master/dist/datamaps.world.hires.min.js
I do not get this to work in JSFiddle though, getting the following error message in the console:
Refused to execute script from 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markmarkoh/datamaps/master/dist/datamaps.world.hires.min.js' because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.
When I download the script and refer to it locally, it works when using Python 3's http.server

A: According to the API, it seems that the arcs plugin accepts the country name. I tried several things, from using scope:'world' to referencing the plugin, but no success.
Anyway, this may not sound as a solution to you, but you can always use latitude and longitude:
{
  origin: {
      latitude: 60.1282,
      longitude: 18.6435
  },
  destination: {
      latitude: 35.8617,
      longitude: 104.1954
}

Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gerardofurtado/59seachL/

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This tutorial page explains how to calculate the electronic band structure based on Density Functional Theory. We will be studying crystalline Silicon in the standard cubic-diamond crystal structure, and we will use Quantum ESPRESSO as our simulation engine.
We discuss in the present tutorial those aspects of the band structure calculation which are specific to the implementation of the HSE (Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof) exchange-correlation functional, a special class of Hybrid Functionals.
The instructions presented herein complement the general discussion introduced in a separate tutorial. The reader is referred to this latter page for an outline of the general procedure for band structure computations using DFT as performed on our platform, whereas only HSE-specific aspects will be reviewed throughout the remainder of the present page.
A Quantum ESPRESSO Workflow to compute the band structure of materials using HSE is composed of the following subworkflow steps.
The first subworkflow step involves a standard self-consistent field (scf) calculation of the ground-state energy eigenvalues and wave functions. This is necessary for defining the grid of k-points, which will later be extracted manually in the subsequent step.
The traditional approach for computing the band structure in Quantum ESPRESSO, outlined in this separate tutorial, would have proceeded via a non self-consistent calculation using the wave functions and charge density of the previous scf calculation. However, within the HSE approach towards achieving the same objective, in order to get the Fock operator 1 2 at a certain k-point, one requires the wavefunctions on a grid that is commensurate with it, and this can only be done self-consistently.
A way around this problem is to manually extract the k-points generated automatically in the preceding step, together with their respective weights, and insert them individually as an explicit list inside the input script for the final HSE calculation described next.
The procedure to manually extract the k-points from the output of the previous scf calculation is performed automatically in the present subworkflow step via a Python script. This script extracts the list of k-points with their corresponding weights within the list under consideration, with the help of Regular Expressions (commonly referred to as "regex"). The resulting output is finally printed out as a JSON file.
The final subworkflow step in the HSE band structure computation workflow is composed of two units. The main HSE calculation is performed in the first one of these units. Apart from the specific elements described in what follows, the remainder of the main HSE input script conforms to the general standard conventions of an scf ground-state total energy calculation performed with Quantum ESPRESSO via its "pw_scf" flavor, as implemented on our platform. The HSE-specific aspects and parameters of the scf calculation described below can be triggered by including the HSE Refiner, as set under the Subworkflow Editor Interface.
The HSE method is activated via the addition of the input_dft = 'hse' input parameter within the main Quantum ESPRESSO input script, for explicitly selecting the HSE Exchange-correlation functional.
A second set of important input parameters in the context of HSE consists in the "nqx1, nqx2, nqx3" keywords. These parameters define the three-dimensional mesh for the q (k1-k2) sampling of the Fock operator. For basic bandstructure calculations such as those being considered in the present tutorial, these three mesh parameters can all be left to a size of one. However for an accurate estimate of the size of the band gap, such as narrated in a separate tutorial, a higher value for this q-mesh size should be considered and tested, which drastically improves the precision of the band structure computation at the price of a significantly higher computational cost.
Another aspect of the main HSE calculation unit worth noticing is how the grid of special k-points is not generated automatically, as customarily done in ground state scf computations, but rather is defined manually in crystal coordinates by importing the list of k-points extracted in the preceding subworkflow.
In addition to this list of k-points for sampling the Brillouin Zone of the crystal over a regular grid, a second list of k-points needs to be provided and inserted manually at the bottom of the Quantum ESPRESSO input script, consisting in the path of k-points to be followed across the Brillouin Zone for plotting the final band structure dispersion curves. This k-path can be customized by the user under the "Important Settings" tab of the Subworkflow Editor interface.
It should be noticed that the reciprocal coordinates of these k-points along the path under consideration are inserted with a very small weight (less than 1e-7), as opposed to the k-grid points which are instead entered with their normal weights. This is done to ensure that the k-path points do not interfere with the HSE electronic structure computation itself, since they are only needed for defining and plotting the final band structure dispersion curve. Such weights are not set to exactly zero in order for them to be applied correctly by Quantum ESPRESSO.
The final band structure calculation based upon the results of the preceding steps is performed through the customary "bands.x" executable, a component of the Quantum ESPRESSO package distribution.
Workflows for calculating the band structure of materials with Quantum ESPRESSO via the HSE approach being presently described can readily be imported from the Workflows Bank into the account-owned collection.
This workflow can later be selected and added to the Job being created. The same procedure as in the general band-structure computation tutorial based on Quantum ESPRESSO can otherwise be followed.
The computational cost of HSE calculations is significantly higher than for more basic methods in DFT such as the Generalized Gradient Approximation. We thus recommend to allow for more CPU cores and/or walltime as appropriate for the material system under investigation.
We demonstrate the steps involved in the creation and execution of a HSE Band Structure computation workflow on silicon, using the Quantum ESPRESSO simulation engine, in the following animation. We conclude by inspecting the final band structure dispersion plot under the "Results" Tab of Job Viewer.


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Texas Game Warden Training Center Groundbreaking Set for April 9, 2009
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 8, 2009 April 8, 2009 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief
Major Donations to be Announced, Cadets Actively Training.
HAMILTON, Texas — -(AmmoLand.com)- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials and partners from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, the Police Activities League and the Texas Game Warden Association will break ground April 9 on the first phase of a planned $20 million training complex in Hamilton County.
Major donors will be recognized at the April 9 groundbreaking, and cadets from the 54th Texas Game Warden Academy class will be participating in scheduled field training exercises at the site.
For more than 30 years, game warden cadets trained in a converted warehouse on 6.2 acres in downtown Austin, along with a patchwork of borrowed facilities around the state.
That changed when the 54th Texas Game Warden Academy cadet class began training in fall 2008 at existing facilities on a 220-acre property in Hamilton County. Envisioned from the beginning as a public-private partnership, the property was donated by the nonprofit Police Activities League.
The Texas Legislature authorized an initial infusion of $3.6 million from the sale of the Austin property to begin construction on 39,000 square feet of instructional, administrative and residential facilities. Along with the state's initial investment, private donors have so far given about $6.4 million, altogether providing about half the estimated $20 million that will be required to complete construction of facilities that will be home to 48 cadets and 16 instructors at a time. With the first phase of the project underway, project partners are launching a broader public fundraising campaign and encourage Texans to support Texas Game Wardens with a donation.
The Game Warden Training Center eventually will include a water rescue training facility, a firing range, an emergency vehicle operations course and more (see complete plans online) — specialized training facilities that add dozens of hours in travel time and thousands of dollars to the training schedule now. The goal is a world-class training environment for a world-class law enforcement agency.
"Every day, every night, for more than a century, Texas game wardens have epitomized community-based conservation law enforcement across our state," said Peter Holt, chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. "They put their lives on the line, take educational messages to schools, save lives during hurricanes and floods, and do it all with a positive, can-do outlook. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price. Now, with this training center, game wardens could use some help. We hope the people of Texas will respond with donations to help us meet our fundraising goal."
Since 1895, Texas game wardens have built a reputation as "off-the-pavement" peace officers with a heritage second only to the legendary Texas Rangers. Sixteen have died in the line of duty.
That proud tradition of service is carried on today by more than 500 men and women who reflect the diversity of the people of Texas. They come from small towns and some of the nation's largest urban areas. Many have degrees in criminal justice or wildlife management or biology. Others studied the humanities, and worked as bankers and graphic designers, city cops and schoolteachers, before gaining entrance to the Game Warden Academy.
Something they all have in common is their dedication and desire to serve the people of Texas, and to help conserve the state's natural and cultural resources.
Only about 10 percent of applicants to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's law enforcement training program make the cut each year. Those who are accepted undergo the most rigorous training of any peace officer in Texas, and are widely acclaimed as the best-trained and best-educated conservation law enforcement officers in the nation. It's a program with an international reputation.
In the most recent cadet class, two trainees hailed from the nascent conservation agency of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Conservation organizations hope to send officers from as far away as Africa to attend future courses.
Applications are being accepted through April 30 for the 55th Texas Game Warden Academy class.
Major donors to the Texas Game Warden Training Center include William P. Clements, Lee M. Bass, TXU, T.D. Friedkin, T.L.L. Temple Foundation, Edwin L. Cox, Walter Umphrey and the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation.
For more information about how to make a tax-deductible donation to support construction of the training center, please visit the Texas Parks and Wildlife Web site.


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Is there anybody that would know how to tell what age these Bladez scooters are. Found a XRT Transport, I figure it's got to be about 10 or 15 years, unless I'm really wrong! Anybody?
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A Record of Fear | 2005
A Record of Fear (2005)
A Record of Fear was a commission for Contemporary Art in Historic Places, a partnership between the National Trust, English Heritage and Commissions East in which three artists were invited to create new work inspired by historic properties.
Once a secret military testing site and now a nature reserve, Orford Ness temporarily played host to a series of audio and video works exploring aspects of broadcast and transmission.
The viewing gallery of the Black Beacon building - used to develop an experimental navigation device - was the location for an audio work, which used manipulated sound recordings from the Ness. Visitors were invited to listen carefully to what is already there as well as what is generally inaudible to the human ear. An array of contact mics, hydrophones, ultrasonic recorders and regular microphones had been used to capture the subtle ambient sounds of the site.
The Exmoor Choir were invited to perform madrigals in some of the remaining military buildings, once used for environmental testing of the atomic bomb. The human presence singing songs of love and an awareness of the passing of time provided a poignant counterpoint to the stark and disturbing interiors. A specially commissioned piece by Yannis Kyriakides entitled �U� provided a meditation on the passing of time.
For one-day only, visitors were allowed to enter some normally inaccessible test laboratories that become locations for sound installations, including the sited recording of a working centrifuge at AWE Aldermaston which was formerly in use at AWRE Orfordness.
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Q: Simple arithmetic calculus that should be 0 returns infinity So...I have to check some values if they are equal. But they never were and I knew that they should be, I debugged my application and reached the following conclusion
-2.5f - Mathf.Round(1.1f) * 0.6f - (-3.1f) doest not equal to 0 but instead it's value is -1.192093E-07
Is there a reasonable explanation for this and is there a workaround? I really need the equation in this format.
PS: all values are here hardcoded but they are variables and they have other values too. The problem is when the result should be 0
Here is a line of code:
Debug.Log(string.Format("{0} ", -2.5f - Mathf.Round(1.1f) * 0.6f - (-3.1f)));
Using Unity 4.5.1f3 with Monodevelop 4.0.1 on OS X 10.9.5.

A: Like said in the comments -1.192093E-07 is not infinity it is very close to zero. Notice the minus sign after the "E". The value is .0000001192093.
When you are comparing floating point numbers you should never use ==, because floating point arithmetic is causing that kind of small errors. Instead you can use something like this:
float diff = aValue - bValue;
if(diff < 0.000001f && diff > -0.000001f){

}

It might be good idea to read "What every programmer should know about floating-point arithmetic" for example here.


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Report: Apple's next iPhones to have Force Touch
In Phones by Ramon Lopez June 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
We're just months away from seeing the next iPhone models — if history is any indication, Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone duo in September — which means the rumor mill is spinning wildly once again with iPhone-related news.
With Force Touch, iPhone owners would be able to perform different functions just by applying more force to their screen touches.
Case in point: A recent report from Bloomberg says that this year's iPhone sequels will make use of pressure-sensitive displays that will incorporate Force Touch input, similar to the Apple Watch and the new line of MacBooks.
If that is indeed the case, then next-gen iPhone owners would be able to perform different functions just by applying more force to their screen touches. Imagine using Force Touch to see the dictionary definition of a word, scrub through videos, or preview a photo. That sounds like the kind of feature that smartphone novices and power users alike can appreciate.
Bloomberg's tipsters also claim that the upcoming iPhones — in typical S model fashion — will retain the same design as currently available variants and will have 4.7- and 5.5-inch displays.
Ramon Lopez
Reviews editor: Ramon "Monch" Lopez has 13 years of professional experience creating and editing content for print and digital publications such as Yahoo. He headed the gadgets-merchandising division of one of the Philippines' largest retail operators somewhere in between. His latest addiction is the comments section of viral Facebook posts.


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import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import crawler.mapping.yomou.syosetu.com.NovelChapterModifiedDate;
import crawler.mapping.yomou.syosetu.com.NovelChapterSource;
import crawler.mapping.yomou.syosetu.com.NovelIndexElement;
import crawler.service.NovelChapterInfoManager;

/**
 * 小説の章の付随情報を管理する.
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public class NovelChapterInfoManagerImpl extends BaseManagerImpl implements NovelChapterInfoManager {

    /**
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    @Override
    public void saveNovelChapterInfo(final NovelIndexElement novelIndexElement, final NovelChapterSource novelChapterSource) {
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        novelChapterSource.getNovelChapter().setNovelChapterInfo(novelChapterModifiedDate.getNovelChapterInfo());
    }
}