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The Office for Students and in turn HESA, the Student Loan Company and UKRI, continue to place enormous emphasis on the accuracy of data and data returns.
This is a highly complex and continually evolving area. Past emphasis has been on data that drives funding, now we are also seeing a greater weighting given to data that helps potential students make informed choices. The Key Information Set is one example of this but we are also seeing added importance for data that may influence league table positions. In addition to meeting the needs of external stakeholders strong data and innovative use of that data can be an important source of competitive advantage.
We offer audits of data management systems and process, of the preparation and accuracy of individual data returns and of the use of institutional and sector data.
Graduated in 2011 with a 1st class degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Liverpool and joined Uniac as a trainee auditor.
Tom is studying for the CIMA qualification.
They have an enthusiasm and appetite for their work that we have not seen in previous internal audit providers.


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One Hour Of Extra Screen Time Drags Down Teenagers' Grades
Kate Kelland
Sep 4, 2015, 09:05 AM EDT
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Teenagers who spend an extra hour a day surfing the internet, watching TV or playing computer games risk performing two grades worse in exams than their peers who don't, according to research by British scientists.
In a study of more than 800 students aged 14 and 15, researchers from Cambridge University also found that physical activity had no effect on academic performance.
Since this was a prospective study, in which the researchers followed the pupils over time to see how different behaviors affected performance, the scientists said it was reasonable to conclude that too much screen time reduced academic achievement.
"We only measured this.. in Year 10, but this is likely to be a reliable snapshot of participants' usual behavior, so we can reasonably suggest that screen time may be damaging to a teenager's grades," said Kirsten Corder of Cambridge's Centre for Diet and Activity Research, who co-led the work.
The study, published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, found the average amount of screen time per day was four hours.
An extra hour in front of the TV or online at age 14-and-a-half was linked with 9.3 fewer exam points at age 16 -- equivalent to two grades, for example from a B to a D. Two extra hours was linked to 18 fewer points.
Unsurprisingly, the results also showed that pupils doing an extra hour of daily homework and reading scored better - getting on average 23.1 more points than their peers.
The scientists said further research was needed to confirm the effect conclusively, but advised parents worried about their children's grades to consider limiting screen time.
In a breakdown analysis of different screen activities, the researchers found that TV came out as the most detrimental in terms of exam performance.
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Abdalah Mokssit
Mr Abdalah Mokssit is the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has a long experience with the IPCC and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is a former Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, which deals with the physical science basis of climate change. He is also a former Third Vice-President of the World Meteorological Congress of WMO and was member of several WMO commissions including the Commission on Climatology and the Commission for Basic Systems.
Mr Mokssit, born in Azrou, Morocco in 1961, obtained his Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of Rabat in 1983, his graduate degree in Meteorology from the National School of Meteorology of Toulouse, Météo-France in 1985 and second graduate degree in Telematics and Information Systems from SUPELEC in France in 1987. He also has a diploma of High Management Course of the Ministry of the Public Works of Morocco.
Mr Mokssit has an extensive experience in strategic management. In July 1987, he joined the Centre of Studies and Information Processing in Morocco and became the Chief of dynamic meteorology service of Morocco in 1991. In July 1992, he became the Head of a Division in the National Centre for Climate and Meteorological Research (CNCRM) in Morocco and in January 2005 was appointed as the Deputy Director of the National Meteorological Department of Morocco and Head of the CNCRM. In February 2009, Mr Mokssit was appointed as the Director of the National Meteorological Department of Morocco.
At the National Meteorological Service of Morocco, he has focused on upgrading forecasting, from nowcasting to long-range forecasting; improving warning and crisis management for extreme events; and generating regional models of climate change scenarios, climate change sector impact studies and services for end users. In May 1996, His Majesty, the late King Hassan II of Morocco awarded the «National Order of Merit, Excellent Class» to Mr Mokssit for his contribution to the modernization of the National Meteorology. He was also awarded the medals "Chevalier" and "Commandeur" personallyby His Majesty King Mohamed VI.
Mr Mokksit has been active in international cooperation with regional and international centres such as the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, the African. Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) and the ALADIN, a European group of countries working on numerical weather prediction. Mr Mokssit has received the medal Le Verrier in recognition of his work achieved on expanding the use of the PERIDOT model to North Africa and Eastern Europe and the initiation of the international project ALADIN.
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Connie Mack Wood Bat Baseball League abruptly canceled
The long-standing Connie Mack Wood Bat Baseball League was not held this summer due to a lack of interest.
Connie Mack Wood Bat Baseball League abruptly canceled The long-standing Connie Mack Wood Bat Baseball League was not held this summer due to a lack of interest. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/2wjAB8S
Joseph Hayes, Times Herald Published 6:57 p.m. ET Aug. 1, 2017 | Updated 9:11 p.m. ET Aug. 1, 2017
Marysville's Trent Carlson swings while at bat during a Connie Mack league baseball game Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at Sanborn Park in Port Huron.(Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH, TIMES HERALD)Buy Photo
It was over in a flash.
For the past 19 years, the Connie Mack Wood Bat Baseball League has become a top developmental league for local high school teams hoping to improve in the summer months.
But for the first time in nearly two decades, the league did not return in 2017. Organizer Larry Mosurak said several factors were involved, but it boiled down to not having enough teams available to field a six-week league.
"The kids have more things to do than they used to, and there are a few more kids being involved in the higher levels of travel ball," Mosurak said. "In the end, I don't want to blame anyone. But in the past, the coaches took on a major role in getting kids going.
"They got the kids signed up and started getting the process going. The past couple of years I have really noticed a decline in responsibility and enthusiasm to do those things. There was a point where we had as many as 16 teams. This year we only had a Sarnia team signed up and one local team interested."
Players from the Blue Team are introduced before the Gold Team Monday, June 19, during the SC4 Blue Water Area All-Star Game at Sanborn Park. (Photo: ANDREW JOWETT, TIMES HERALD)
This weekend would have marked the end of the season as the league always concluded with the annual Woodwacker Tournament. It has been a quiet summer overall at Sanborn Park without the league. The league normally features around eight teams that each pay $1,200 for the six-week schedule.
"At first I was really upset, because I felt like I had done so much," Mosurak said. "I felt angry and hurt. But in the end, when you do everything for someone, they don't do anything for themselves.
"It got to the point where I was doing everything. I stopped doing this and that and things fell apart."
Mosurak said the league was set up to allow local baseball players to develop without joining a metro area travel team. In the past, it became so popular that a fall league was also created. But that concluded a couple of years ago and the situation has now reached a breaking point.
"When we found out that we didn't have any Port Huron teams involved, we pulled it," Mosurak said. "Then I started getting messages from players and parents, at least 40 or 50 messages asking what happened and what's going on. I didn't want to turn to them and say it's your coach that didn't do what he needed to do.
"When the league started, the emphasis was bringing all of next year's potential team to it. Anyone who didn't graduate was welcome to play on the summer team and it gave the coach a whole summer to work with the kids."
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As for the future, Mosurak hopes someone will step up to help fill the void and help restart the league. But he knows it won't be easy.
"I honestly hope another person like me who loves the game will want to give back to the community," Mosurak said. "I will always be around to make sure there is a field for them. I'm always here for that. But the other side of it, someone else has to do it.
"It's sad that we went from turning phone calls down to not even playing. I don't think it's a trend toward baseball, I think it's moreso a trend of our area."
Contact Joseph Hayes at (810) 989-6268 or at jahayes@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @Joseph_Hayes11.
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The art of tea, or chanoyu, developed in the urban areas of 16th-century Japan. The tea room in which it is practiced came to be known as a "mountain dwelling within the city."
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Muzaffarpur (en hindi: मुज़फ़्फ़रपुर ) es una ciudad de la India, centro administrativo del distrito de Muzaffarpur, en el estado de Bihar.

Geografía
Se encuentra a una altitud de 58 msnm a 74 km de la capital estatal, Patna, en la zona horaria UTC +5:30.

Demografía
Según estimación 2011 contaba con una población de 368 021 habitantes.

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Localidades de Bihar

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Vanya is a treehouse experience very different from the run of the mill Kerala treehouse that one comes across. It is more than just a treehouse, Vanya is a way of living. It is a lesson on the ways and means by which Mother Nature keeps us nourished and self-sufficient. We have tried to replicate the indigenous ways of living and habitation of those who lived in such a treehouse in Kerala through Vanya. It is through such an experience that we believe that true nature lovers like you will find a deeper connect and a sense of belonging to this earth that we live in.


Police are searching for those responsible for a home made bomb which has been discovered in Domodedovo, in the Moscow Region.
The device was similar to one which detonated at a church in the region on Sunday which injured 2 people.
According to a police statement, a package containing wiring, attached to a cell phone and three batteries, was found by a roadside on December 2. Bomb disposal experts came immediately to the site and determined that it contained explosives, before neutralizing it.


The 20th Anniversary edition of A GAME OF THRONES, with all of its gorgeous art, is now on sale everywhere, I'm pleased to say.
You should be able to find it at your local bookstore, if you're one of the folks who is lucky enough to have a local bookstore.
If not, it is of course available from all the usual online booksellers.
Or any one of hundreds of independent bookstores or B&N outlets. Just find your favorite.
I had a look inside the book the other day, it was fantastic! What are you doing to celebrate George?
Got mine in the mail yesterday and I love the art. Jon, Ghost, and Tyrion up on the Wall and Dany hatching her eggs are my favorites so far. Much appreciated, keep em coming!
It's to be delivered tomorrow. I cannot wait!
I pre ordered it a few weeks ago, I can't wait ! Thank you for this treat !
I'm excited about adding this to the collection. I was curious: have you entertained the possibility of doing more anthology/novella work in the future -- maybe a new DUNK AND EGG, a previously-unpublished chapter from FIRE AND BLOOD or something that hasn't been previously released for THE WINDS OF WINTER?
Hey, George. I know this is pretty off-topic, but I was curious to hear what you think of the news that Tolkien's Tale of Beren and Luthien will be getting a new edit/release? I know you have great respect for Tolkien.
I personally am very excited.
What a beautiful way to celebrate this epic journey's 20th birthday!
Hello Mr. Martin, I just recieve my illustrated book, page 648, Joffrey is miscut. I was wondering if it was a printing error or I was just unlucky???
I think you were just unlucky. We have not received any other reports of a problem. Take the book back to wherever you bought it, and you should be able to exchange it for a good copy.
there have been idiotic rumors on the internet during the last week claiming that you have lost your manuscript for TWOW, and that due to this the book will either hit the shelves in no less than two years from now or that it will never be published at all.
Since this is first and foremost bad advertising with respect to your great talent, could you reassure us that your work is going on as usual?
Such web pages should be banned!
It does get wearisome having to endlessly deny this stuff.
Take your time George. The length and content deseve it. You are a master. I will only be disappointed when the last word is read. But then I get to do it again!
I bought my copy two days ago. I was going to wait until it trickled down to the used book stores. But was persuaded to get it once I saw the art work (and the 40% off the cover helped as well). Some of the artwork is from the art books/gaming cards as well as the calendars, but other work is completely new.
For some reason I actually find the images very complimentary to the story and it doesn't feel like a money grab. I also like the fact that they used a new type setting or font, and I like the feel of the paper. The book has a nice heft to it and feels nice in my hand.


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The raison d'etre of creative marketing: Minimum effort for maximum impact?
PRmoment recently hosted an event on the theme of Contagious Creativity. Mark Perkins, Creative Director at MHP took part in a panel session at the event and here discusseds in more details the role of creativity in why a park bench short of a few slats remains a constant source of inspiration for him!
'Why would anyone actually want to share that?' That's the Emperor's new clothes question of marcoms that many are too afraid or too dazzled to ask during all-agency meetings.
That particularly applies to campaigns and tactics intended to be 'disruptive'. But what defines disruption in the sense that people will be stop to like and share your creative idea?
As anyone who has ever experienced a flash mob knows all too well there's a fine line, no actually, there's a very thick line between being disruptive and being annoying. As a general rule if an activation – whether in the physical space or on social - looks and feels like a PR stunt, all about itself rather than the intended viewer, then the game is up.
The best campaigns, the ones likely to make a measurable impact always put the audience first, provoke an emotional reaction and have a human truth. Ultimately we need people's affirmation and good will in order to generate share.
All too often, the disruptive idea focuses on doing or making something on a giant scale or with a cast of thousands in a public place; something that it is literally disrupting the target audience as they attempt to go about their business (normally in Potters Fields - the elephants' graveyard of many a PR activation).
For me disruption is not about enforced wackiness or epic scale, it's more subtle than that because it is about disruption of the mind.
Most people have expectations and rules about the way things are which seem set in stone. This includes their understanding of surroundings, traditions, nostalgia, culture, behaviours and objects. Things that people have a strong emotional as well as rational connection to.
It's these expectations and connections and the place they hold in the mind of the audience that is a broad canvas to work with. When we created Christmas Tinner – Christmas dinner in a tin – for GAME it didn't even have to exist as a tangible object, it was all about the power of suggestion.
All we need do is to make subtle tweaks, nuanced changes, removing or adding elements or bringing opposites together to create something new which provokes a response; minimum effort for maximum impact.
The purest example of this approach was done by Nike to promote its association with the New York Marathon in 2012. It blew my mind then and it still does every time I look at it. It turns me into Marlon Brando (without the weight gain) as Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now talking about a simple yet effective guerrilla tactic of the Viet Cong enemy: "The genius! The will to do that: perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure."
By removing four slats from a public bench Nike completely, confidently communicated the essence and attitude of its brand. It needed no explanation. Only a handful of people would have seen the bench close-up but it was an image that travelled around the world and made people think.
It's playful, clever and engaging without feeling the need to float a giant running shoe down the Hudson. There are numerous other brand examples, but creative twists can also be applied to address serious issues.
This approach of subtly removing component parts to well-known names was the disruptive essence of our Missing Type campaign aimed at raising awareness of declining numbers of new blood donors. Over the course of a week the letters of the blood groups - A, O and B - were withdrawn from familiar logos and signs. Triggered by a handful of activations in the physical world it created an inclusive movement that anyone could join on social media from individuals to global brands. The result was a record 30,000 new registrations in the UK in one week.
When UNICEF wanted to highlight the appalling infant mortality rates in hospital in Paraguay, perhaps the obvious response would have been a petition, people marching with placards and maybe even images of children whose lives had been lost. Not so.
Instead they looked more deeply at the consequence of the problem with a simple insight. If so many children under the age of three are dying what are the implications of that? For example these children would never get to play with toys.
We all have a deep sense of nostalgia about childhood toys. We associate toys with innocence, happiness and joy. Toy shops and their windows are magical portals into a mini-wonderland. And so UNICEF did something very simple and brilliant.
For one day toy shops in Asuncion closed in protest and the toys went into mourning. A black curtain was drawn across each toy shop window and the toys we know and love stood before it wearing black. The effect was profound, turning grim statistics into a powerful heart-breaking story that made national and global news. Within 48 hours a shamed national government pledged to increase the budget to its underfunded children's hospitals.
An equally ingenious approach was adopted to take the sting out of a far right demonstration in Germany. For decades neo-Nazis gathered to stage an annual 10km march in the town of Wunsedial, causing immense distress to those who live there. Protests and legal challenges had failed to prevent the march. So if the march was going ahead why not turn it into a positive? Protesters used signs and stencilled road markings to turn what was a menacing political rally into an involuntary sponsored walk.
When the Nazis turned up they found a 'Start' line on the road, motivational banners and points along the way thanking them for marching. There was even a refuelling banana station named Mein Mampf (My Munch) to give them energy. When the bemused Nazis had completed their march they'd inadvertently raised 10,000 Euros for anti-extremist charity EXIT-Germany. The idea was adopted as a tactic at other marches in Germany and picked up six Cannes Lions in 2015.
In summary, great outcomes don't need to cost a fortune if they include insight, wit, guile, empathy, artfulness, ambition, and imagination. These are all human traits critical to building an emotional response from your audience, whether that may be 'banter' or behaviour change.
The key thing that money can't buy no matter how big you build it, which celebrity endorses it or how much you pay for promoted spend is affirmation. The people will be the ultimate judge whether your creative content is any good. It has to reflect theior own attitudes and aspirations. If it's obvious, self-serving or lacking a compelling narrative why would they want to share someone else's content with their peers?


Ten countries with substantial mining sectors will be included in the grant-supported programming: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The regional coordinating mechanism had applied for a $60-million grant over three years but was instead granted $30 million for a two-year period.
Miners in Southern Africa's gold mines have the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection in the world. Every year, half a million men travel from across the Southern African region to work in South Africa's mines and, in doing so, contract TB as well as HIV and silicosis: a degenerative lung disease linked to exposure to silica dust in gold mines. This pattern of migration -- men arriving at the mines to work, becoming infected with TB and returning home again -- has created an enormous public health crisis throughout the region.
The rate of TB infection among miners is between 3,000 and 7,000 per 100,000 people: between four and seven times higher than the general population of South Africa, the country with the second highest TB rates in the world.
As grant making begins, affected communities are also mobilizing to engage in the regional program.
On 3-4 August, the Southern Africa Mining Association (SAMA) in partnership with Stop TB and Southern Africa Trust, brought together its affiliates from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland for a workshop in Johannesburg.
Members of the regional and national associations, including ex-mineworkers, widows, migrant labor organizations and other key stakeholders, learned about the recently-approved program and developed a road map for their own inclusion. Of the interventions recommended for funding by the Technical Review Panel (TRP), the associations identified three core priorities: the strengthening of one-stop-shop centers through linkages to compensation funds; improved understanding of the epidemiology of TB in the mining sector through a baseline study; and community systems strengthening through small grants to civil society for human rights and gender activities.
The green light comes 28 months after the Fund committed to spending $102 million in new funding to TB programs in Southern African Development Community Member States (SADC).
According to RCM's 'TB in Mine' concept, between 25 and 30% of Southern African miners are living with HIV which, due to their weakened immune system, makes them up to five times more likely to develop TB.
It is estimated that one in three miners will become infected with HIV within 18 months of working at a mine. Miners suffering from silicosis face an almost three-fold risk of developing active TB compared to miners free from the disease.
HIV and silicosis together have dramatic consequences for the health of miners: HIV positive miners suffering from silicosis are 15 times more likely to develop TB than HIV negative miners free from silicosis.
A recent tracking survey in Swaziland conducted by the Ministry of Health and URC Swaziland also found that of 251 ex-mineworkers, 38 showed symptoms of TB and 12 were found to have active TB. The study also showed ex-mineworkers to have high rates of MDR- and XDR-TB.
A mapping of three countries (South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) estimates that a total 498,384 mineworkers are currently employed in the mines in South Africa, of which 30% are contract workers and 40% are migrant workers from Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique, while there are about two million ex-mineworkers. The percentage of migrant mineworkers from these countries in the past could have been higher than 40%.


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Q: Linking System.Windows.Form.Screen to the monitor's serial code I am trying to find a way to store data pertaining to a specific monitor. Using System.Windows.Forms.Screen, the DeviceName property only contains a string like \\.\DISPLAY1, which is based only on the index of the monitor. I need a unique ID for that monitor, not its order in the display setup.
I need to link this monitor ID to its working area.
I am not tied to using System.Windows.Forms.Screen if that is not necessary.

A: I had similar requirements. I am parsing the EDIDs in the Windows Registry to get the monitor specific id and couple of other information. The EDID information are stored in following key:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY\{DevideId}\Device Parameters"

I use an additional WMI query to get the {DeviceId}. The EDID contains the monitor model as well as the serial number and the screen size. Have a look at the EDID data format as well. I hope that will help you.
Here is my code snippet to parse the EDID information:
var bytes = (byte[]) key.GetValue("EDID");

if (bytes == null) return;

/* Read model number */
var buffer = new byte[4];
for (var i = 54; i < 109; i += 18)
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder();

    Buffer.BlockCopy(bytes, i, buffer, 0, 4);

    Array.Reverse(buffer);

    if (BitConverter.ToInt32(buffer, 0).Equals(0xFF))
    {
        for (var j = i + 5; (bytes[j] != 10) && (j < i + 18); j++)
        {
            sb.Append((char) bytes[j]);
        }

        this.ModelNo = sb.ToString();
        sb.Clear();
    }

    if (BitConverter.ToInt32(buffer, 0).Equals(0xFC))
    {
        for (var j = i + 5; (bytes[j] != 10) && (j  b.ToString("X2")));

/* Read screen size */
var x = (int) bytes[21];
var y = (int) bytes[22];

this.Size = Math.Round(Math.Sqrt(x * x + y * y) / 2.54).ToString();

A: I took a slightly different approach from hofmeister; I'm using P/Invoke to get the display name of the Form's monitor using MonitorFromWindow + GetMonitorInfo (this can be turned into a handy extension method), and then use EnumDisplayDevices to get a list of displays to see which one that is, followed by emitting the PnP device ID:
   public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    private static extern IntPtr MonitorFromWindow(IntPtr hwnd, uint dwFlags);

    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    static extern bool GetMonitorInfo(IntPtr hMonitor, ref MonitorInfoEx lpmi);

    // size of a device name string
    private const int CCHDEVICENAME = 32;

    ///
    /// The MONITORINFOEX structure contains information about a display monitor.
    /// The GetMonitorInfo function stores information into a MONITORINFOEX structure or a MONITORINFO structure.
    /// The MONITORINFOEX structure is a superset of the MONITORINFO structure. The MONITORINFOEX structure adds a string member to contain a name
    /// for the display monitor.
    ///
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    internal struct MonitorInfoEx
    {
        ///
        /// The size, in bytes, of the structure. Set this member to sizeof(MONITORINFOEX) (72) before calling the GetMonitorInfo function.
        /// Doing so lets the function determine the type of structure you are passing to it.
        ///
        public int Size;

        ///
        /// A RECT structure that specifies the display monitor rectangle, expressed in virtual-screen coordinates.
        /// Note that if the monitor is not the primary display monitor, some of the rectangle's coordinates may be negative values.
        ///
        public RectStruct Monitor;

        ///
        /// A RECT structure that specifies the work area rectangle of the display monitor that can be used by applications,
        /// expressed in virtual-screen coordinates. Windows uses this rectangle to maximize an application on the monitor.
        /// The rest of the area in rcMonitor contains system windows such as the task bar and side bars.
        /// Note that if the monitor is not the primary display monitor, some of the rectangle's coordinates may be negative values.
        ///
        public RectStruct WorkArea;

        ///
        /// The attributes of the display monitor.
        ///
        /// This member can be the following value:
        ///   1 : MONITORINFOF_PRIMARY
        ///
        public uint Flags;

        ///
        /// A string that specifies the device name of the monitor being used. Most applications have no use for a display monitor name,
        /// and so can save some bytes by using a MONITORINFO structure.
        ///
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = CCHDEVICENAME)]
        public string DeviceName;

        public void Init()
        {
            this.Size = 40 + 2 * CCHDEVICENAME;
            this.DeviceName = string.Empty;
        }
    }

    ///
    /// The RECT structure defines the coordinates of the upper-left and lower-right corners of a rectangle.
    ///
    /// <see cref="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162897%28VS.85%29.aspx"/>
    /// <remarks>
    /// By convention, the right and bottom edges of the rectangle are normally considered exclusive.
    /// In other words, the pixel whose coordinates are ( right, bottom ) lies immediately outside of the the rectangle.
    /// For example, when RECT is passed to the FillRect function, the rectangle is filled up to, but not including,
    /// the right column and bottom row of pixels. This structure is identical to the RECTL structure.
    /// </remarks>
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct RectStruct
    {
        ///
        /// The x-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the rectangle.
        ///
        public int Left;

        ///
        /// The y-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the rectangle.
        ///
        public int Top;

        ///
        /// The x-coordinate of the lower-right corner of the rectangle.
        ///
        public int Right;

        ///
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Norwegian-American author writes about self-determination
At 16, Helen M. Ryan told a Norwegian magazine that she wanted to write a book. Thirty years and 82 pounds later, Ryan shows her audience that dreams do come true.
"It is never too late to follow your dreams," Ryan says. The 46-year-old grew up in Gjøvik in Norway, and works as a fitness instructor, personal trainer, speaker and journalist in California.
She tells the story of how she moved to the U.S to go to journalism school, but left college to pursue a full-time job. "Writing took a back seat," she explains.
She had a husband and two kids, a successful career as a graphic artists with her own studio, but the job and everyday stress took its toll, and Ryan reached 90 kilos on her tiny 150 cm frame before she decided to take charge of her own health and life.
Her book, 21 days to Change Your Body and Your Life," tells the story of how she found back to her mental and physical well being, and ignited her passion for writing - and for living.
"Finally," she says, "I saw that I was eating away my own life waiting for the day I would die." It was through facing her father's death that she realized that she wanted to change.
Her book is in English (Ryan admits her Norwegian is a little "rusty" after many years abroad), and can be found on amazon.com.
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Julian "Digger" Laine (* 1907 in New Orleans; † 10. September 1957 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzposaunist.

Laine, der nicht mit Papa Jack Laine verwandt ist, spielte 1928 mit den Melody Masters von Louis Prima und Sharkey Bonano und danach Ende der 1920er Jahre in der Band von Johnny Bertucci in Biloxi (Mississippi). Zurück in New Orleans spielte er in der Band von Tony Almerico auf Flussdampfern. 1936 spielte er mit Sharkey Bonano und danach mit Red Bolman und Jules Bauduc. Nach einer Unterbrechung aufgrund eines Autounfalls spielte er bei Louis Prima in Chicago und mit Joe Venuti, bevor er nach New Orleans zurückkehrte und wieder mit Almerico spielte. 1940 gründete er eine eigene Band, war von 1942 bis 1944 in der US-Armee und spielte dann wieder bei Almerico, mit Leon Prima und Bonano. Ab 1946 gehörte er für 18 Monate mit Johnny Wiggs, Bujie Centobie, Armand Hug, Chink Martin und Monk Hazel zu einer All-Star-Band, die wöchentlich für den Sender WSMB arbeitete. 1949 spielte er mit eigener Band im Three Deuces in New Orleans und 1950 mit Muggsy Spanier in Chicago und San Francisco. Im selben Jahr nahm er mit Irving Fazola auf. Er tourte mit Bonano und spielte in New Orleans gelegentlich mit Johnny Wiggs (Anfang der 1950er Jahre), bevor er aus Gesundheitsgründen seine Musikerlaufbahn aufgab.

1941 nahm er mit George Hartman auf.

Literatur
John Chilton: Who's Who in Jazz, Macmillan 1985, S. 191

Weblinks
Chadbourne, Allmusic

Einzelnachweise

Jazz-Posaunist
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1907
Gestorben 1957
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National Semiconductor, a power management technology and analog integrated circuits provider, has released DS100BR410, DS100BR111 and DS100BR120 multi-channel PowerWise 10 Gbps repeaters.
The company said the repeaters provide an equalisation gain of 36 dB, consume 55 mW/channel of power and deliver 20 meters over 24-AWG cable reach of current industry offerings.
According to the company, the new 10 Gbps repeater family runs on National's third-generation SiGe BiCMOS process that extends interconnect reach and enables higher data bandwidth up to 10.3125 Gbps by performing both receive equalisation and transmit de-emphasis to compensate for channel loss in data center and high-performance communication systems.
Target applications include high-speed active cable assemblies and FR-4 backplanes using serial protocols such as 10 GbE, Fibre Channel, XAUI, CPRI and Infiniband. The repeaters also support SAS/SATA out of band (OOB) signaling for storage applications, the company said.
National Semiconductor claims that its signal conditioners embedded inside the active copper cable assemblies and backplane boards ensure signal integrity, reduce system power consumption and lower interconnect cost compared to optical alternatives.
The company said, quad DS100BR410 is ideal for high density connectors such as QSFP and CXP, while the DS100BR111 is designed for single lane SFP+ connectors.
The DS100BR410 includes four unidirectional channels and delivers 55 mW/channel typical power consumption, while supporting a 2.5V single-supply voltage, said the company.
The DS100BR210 with two unidirectional channels and the DS100BR111 with one bidirectional lane feature 65mW per channel typical power consumption and support 3.3V and 2.5V supplies.
Both devices perform receive equalisation up to 36 dB gain and transmit de-emphasis of -12dB. All three repeaters enable powering down of unused channels, and apply signal conditioning settings via pin setting or SMBus (I2C compliant), said the company.


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Williams FW38 – samochód Formuły 1, skonstruowany przez Williams na sezon 2016. Kierowcami bolidu zostali: Felipe Massa, oraz Valtteri Bottas.

Prezentacja
2 lutego 2016 roku zespół po raz pierwszy uruchomił bolid. Pomimo planowanej prezentacji na 22 lutego w Barcelonie, bolid został zaprezentowany 19 lutego.

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Dr Scott Pereira qualified with a Medical degree from Cambridge University Medical School (Oxford Clinical) in 1972, and his PhD from University College London. He has over thirty years of senior academic experience in treating and teaching allergy, which makes him one of the most highly qualified and experienced specialists anywhere.
He was Senior Lecturer in Immunology at St George's Hospital, and then Imperial College, London. He has fifteen years of allergy out -patient clinical experience and is an Investigator in UK clinical trials of desensitisation immunotherapy by injection and by sublingual administration of allergen.
In a field where there are literally hundreds of so-called complementary practitioners, Scott is one of the very few mainstream, evidence-based allergy specialists in the UK. He takes a straightforward, traditional view incorporating the latest technology and is motivated by seeing patients respond to his highly individualised approach.


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Buffalo's Cherry Blossom Festival replaced with special digital program
Due to social distancing and restrictions on public events, the 2020 festival was cancelled and will be replaced with a digital lineup on May 2.
Author: Heather Ly
Published: 5:14 AM EDT May 1, 2020
Updated: 6:41 AM EDT May 1, 2020
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Organizers of the annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival still want you to celebrate spring and admire the blooms — just from a distance.
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Buffalo History Museum and Friends of the Japanese Garden will host a special digital program on Saturday, May 2 in place of the traditional annual festival.
A digital blooming and virtual lineup will allow people to enjoy the peak blooms from the safety of their own homes.
"The 'Hanami' or 'flower-viewing' season has assuredly arrived," said Melissa Brown, Executive Director of The Buffalo History Museum. "And community safety requires imaginative, alternate ways to soak in these long-awaited pops of pink. From participating in a fully virtual silent auction, to viewing videos of the beautiful blossoms, and posting blossom-inspired crafts from the comfort of home, I encourage you to get creative and engage in this flower-viewing season with us."
"Buffalo Cherry Blossoms Reimagined" will feature behind-the-scenes videos of blooms in the garden, a cocktail-making demonstration, traditional Japanese music, a silent auction to support the garden and more.
The full schedule can be found on the Facebook event page.
The Olmsted Parks Conservancy is asking the public not to visit the Japanese gardens in person due to concerns about overcrowding and lack of social distancing.
RELATED: Forestry equipment stolen from Olmsted Parks Conservancy
RELATED: Olmsted Parks Conservancy spring prep, virtual giving campaign underway
RELATED: Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy hiring seasonal workers


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Q: How to avoid multiple for loop I have a dataframe "nsd" that has 175180 rows and 301 columns. My first 6 columns are filled with data and after that columns in (2k+1) [k>=5] are filled and rest are null. The null columns will be filled based on the values in columns that will get filled with the for loop running.
Since, it will be an element wise comparison for each column, I am using two for loops, the inner one to run through all the columns and the outer one to run through all the rows. This is taking like infinite time to run. How can I optimise this?
I tried removing the outer for loop and the j elements from my code, but then it just compares vector of length 1 and I am not able to do element wise comparison. Following is my code :
for (j in 1:175180) {
    for (i in 6:(ncol(nsd)-2)) {
       if ((i-1)%%5==0) {nsd[j,i]<-nsd[j,i]}
       else if ((i-2)%%5==0) {nsd[j,i]<-nsd[j,i-1]}
       else if ( (i-3)%%5==0 & nsd[j,i-1]>0  &  nsd[j,i-1] >= nsd[j,i-3] ) {nsd[j,i] <- nsd[j,i-1] - nsd[j,i-3]}
       else if ((i-3)%%5==0 & nsd[j,i-1]>=0  &  nsd[j,i-1]<nsd[j,i-3]) {nsd[j,i]<- 0}
       else if ((i-4)%%5==0 & nsd[j,i+2]>=(nsd[j,i-1]+nsd[j,i-4])) {nsd[j,i]<- nsd[j,i-1]+nsd[j,i-4]}
       else if ((i-4)%%5==0 & nsd[j,i+2]<(nsd[j,i-1]+nsd[j,i-4])) {nsd[j,i]<- nsd[j,i+2]}
       else if ((i-5)%%5==0 & (nsd[j,i-2] + nsd[j,i-5]) > nsd[j, i-1]) {nsd[j,i]<- nsd[j,i-2] + nsd[j,i-5] - nsd[j, i-1] }
       else if ((i-5)%%5==0 & (nsd[j,i-2] + nsd[j,i-5]) <= nsd[j, i-1]) {nsd[j,i]<- 0 }
   }}

A: I would first make an identifier of the columns like so:
cols <- seq(6 ,(ncol(nsd)-2))
set1 <- which(cols %% 5 == 0)

Then use this to index your data.frame and perform the operations:
nsd[,cols[set1]] <- nsd[,cols[set1]-1]

etc...
Using this concept you should be able to vectorize all of your operations.


Many books in the public domain may be accessed and read on lone. However copyrighted titles unless the publisher or copyright owner has so permitted may not be used. Copyrighted books may be accessed on line through many online book stores.
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Vin Diesel Announces Final Two 'Fast & Furious' Flicks!
Celebrities, TV Shows/Movies
The Fast and the Furious franchise is giving it a go for another two films. We already knew Fast 8 was on the horizon but now it's just been announced that the franchise will continue for two more films with the series ending in 2021. Vin Diesel made the announcement today on Instagram in a series of posts. "The studio has asked me to release some very big Fast news. As most of you know I like to stay in character for the most part when given the opportunity to make magic. However, it was Toretto Tuesday and the studio gave me big news to share… So I will share it." Fast 8 will be out April 14, 2017; the ninth installment on April 19, 2019 and the tenth installment will hit theaters on April 2, 2021.
We'll miss Paul for all of it!
A photo posted by Vin Diesel (@vindiesel) on Feb 2, 2016 at 10:51pm PST
Alicia Vikander Cast In 'Tomb Raider' Reboot
Did you know model, Selita Ebanks is on the new "Celebrity Apprentice"?
Michael Bay Walks Off CES Stage When Telepromter Malfunctioned
Beautelicious January 7, 2014
Zayn Malik Says He Had An Eating Disorder During One Direction Days
Jon Hamm Still Dissing Kim Kardashian!
WTF: Kristin Cavallari and Audrina Patridge do lunch…possibly to take down the "Jersey Shore"


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Unbelievable? 27 Nov 2010 - Mike Behe & Michael Reiss audience debate on ID
This last week saw US Intelligent Deisgn proponent Michael Behe on the "Darwin or Design?" speaking tour of the UK. As well as hosting an evening event, "Unbelievable?" invited him to discuss ID with theistic evolutionist Prof Michael Reiss in front of an invited audience.
Michael Behe is professor of Biochemistry at LeHigh University, Pennsylvania. His book "Darwin's Black Box" launched the modern Intelligent Design movement which claims that aspects of biology are too compelx to have arisen by blind Darwinian processes but entail the guidance of an intelligent mind.
Michael Reiss is Professor of Science Education at the Institute of Education. Ordained in the Church of England, he was formerly director of education at the Royal Society before stepping down amid controversy over statements he made about engaging with ID and creationism in the classroom.
They engage the topic of ID and evolution in front of an audience of scientists, church and secular leaders at Charles Darwin house in London.
They discuss the limits of science, whether ID is a religious movement, the place of ID in the classroom and take questions from the audience.
For Michael Behe's visual presentation http://www.premier.org.uk/~/media/87809B06C34444DDB31D8B016F711D4A.ashx
For Michael Behe see http://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/faculty/behe.html
For Michael Reiss see http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/GEMS/GEMS_71.html
If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy:
Unbelievable? 23 Oct 2010 "Darwin's Black Box - Has modern Biochemistry shown that life was intelligently designed?" Michael Behe vs. Keith Fox
Unbelievable? 20 Mar 2010 - "Expelled" live audience debate at Imperial College London - Susan Blackmore, Steve Fuller, Keith Fox & Alastair Noble
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Erik Strandness reflects on the radical commitment of a god who shares in our suffering


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it aligns as such and im trying to get all the cards to line up.
Alignment of the Html
How do I get all my cards to line up on the right and my maps to be on the left?
I am trying to split screen with the maps covering the left side and the cards be on the right
The project is using bootstrap4 and I tried using containers but its not working for me

A: You need another grid with in the main grid.
Example:

[ Contents Here ]

So your code will be as this: https://codepen.io/StudioKonKon/pen/YRRgLQ
Hope this is useful.
(You can ignore the CSS here. It's only so the example shows something visible for the map in the "Run code snippet".)

#map,
.embed-responsive-item
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   background-color: #777;
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   margin-bottom: 20px;
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A: You want to set the map by itself col-8 and the boxes together col-4. By setting col-12 col-md-8 so the map would take 100% by default then 8 cols when over the screen size is medium or larger (up to you).

.map{
  width: 100%;
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Show Racism the Red Card - School Competition 2016 - Winners announced!
School Competition 2016 - Winners announced!
Earlier this week, (Tuesday 5th April) a panel of judges met at SRtRC's North Tyneside Headquarters to select the winners of the 2016 School Competition.
All of the young people who created winning entries will be invited to an awards ceremony at the Boleyn Ground, home of West Ham United FC on April 28th, where they will be presented with their prizes by a host of special guests.


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Mamadou Coulibaly may refer to:

Mamadou Coulibaly (footballer, born 1980), Ivory Coast international football left-back
Mamadou Coulibaly (footballer, born 1985), Mali international football forward
Mamadou Coulibaly (footballer, born 1999), Senegalese football midfielder
Mamadou Coulibaly (footballer, born 2003), Ivory Coast football midfielder
Mamadou Coulibaly (judoka), Malian judoka

See also
Mamadou Koulibaly (born 1957), Ivorian politician


Simon Coulson climbed the corporate ladder with BT PLC for 14 years before quitting the city life. He started a series of internet businesses and has now built five separate 7-figure online businesses. Simon has generated over £20 million pounds in sales from his combined businesses. The first £2 million were from the spare room in his house!
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X10loupe
100,000 miles around the world by any means for Multiple Sclerosis
The loupe
Maps & Stats
Glasgow to Rabat 2014
New Zealand and Australia 2015
Cono sur 2015-2016
North America 2016
My name is Alex and I really quite like to go places on two wheels.
I was born in Italy in 1969 but I have lived in Britain for nearly half of my life. First in Scotland, where I met my late wife Tarn, and where I enjoyed the easy going life of a law student. Then London, and finally Warwickshire, working all along, quite remotely, for the University of Westminster. In the age of portfolio careers and "no job for life" it turns out this might prove to be my first and last job.
During my life I have owned: two child bikes, four generic city bikes, four mountain bikes, two street racing bike, two mopeds, one Vespa scooter and five motorbikes. In that time I have racked up a good total of stitches and broken bones, as well as the occasional brush with the law. It is safe to say that I feel more at home on two wheels than on anything else. Now I have added a touring bike to the count and the plan is to take it on a trip zig zagging the continents and going, in a fashion, around the world.
It is difficult to say where the idea of cycling around the world came from, it's easier to say when it cropped into my mind. The beginning of 2013 changed my life and that change called for something different. This project might just be it, certainly different, and as "something else" as it gets.
A bout Tarn
On the 17 of February 1992 I met Tarn, a beautiful young student of art and literature at the University of Edinburgh. We were meant to be together, and so we were. Ten years later she became my wife, and we had a life together that can only be described as "the stuff dreams are made of". In 2006 Tarn was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and, tragically, on the 23 of Aril 2013, our time together came to an end. She was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me and, probably, that ever will. My life is never going to be as complete as it was when she was in it.
Tarn had a great career as a silver and jewellery specialist for Bonhams. Her job is where the connection with the loupe comes from. She used the ten times magnifying lens pictured in the front page in her job on a daily basis, the loupe was her companion, and now it shall be mine in my wondering around the world.
About the ride
When I first wrote this part of the page, back in 2013, my plan was simple, pack my life into six bags, fit them to my touring bike and pedal my way through Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and America (both north and south) to produce a 90+ countries and 100,000+ miles loop around the world.
I thought it would take a bit more than ten years and also that I'd be doing it in a very sequential manner, occasionally parking the bicycle and returning to Europe to see friends and family. The map below gives a very rough outline of what I was planning to do.
It all started more or less as scheduled and I managed to cycle my way from Scotland to Morocco before I hit a series of problems (Plan B) that forced me to change my plan.
As Von Clausewitz said, "No campaign survives first contact with the enemy", so revisions are and will always be likely in a long endeavour like this. What is now looking more probable is that I will continue with the same objective of going to all the places I initially identified but to achieve it in a less sequential manner.
On top of that I have now realised that there are areas that are not suitable for cycling and to address that I will add a yacht and a motorbike to the toolbox in the next few years, and a whole continent that I had not planned to visit but that recently has been opened to the brave cyclists that want to try their luck there.
As it goes theses days, I will make this trip into an opportunity to help you part with some of your money. Not for me that is, but for research in the cure and support of all the people that, like Tarn, have to live with multiple sclerosis. Your help will change lives so, if you want, just go to the fundraising page and follow the instructions from there.
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SHF Canada
Liability-Free Products Put Our Children at Risk
The pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture vaccines lobbied for and obtained almost complete liability protection for injury and death following administration of childhood vaccines recommended by the federal government.
In the US today, all 50 states mandate near liability-free vaccines with no legal recourse afforded to those who sustain injury and death.
The special administrative "Vaccine Court" has paid out approximately 4 billion dollars for vaccine injury and death to thousands of individuals and their families.
Only 1% of vaccine injuries and deaths are reported according to a Health and Human Services' study.
The number of vaccines and doses on the CDC's recommended childhood schedule tripled after the 1986 Act.
Rates of chronic, autoimmune, and neurodevelopmental disorders in US children more than quadrupled during the same time period.
The sections of the 1986 Act that shield vaccine manufacturers and health care workers from liability must be repealed to realign corporate and consumer interests and keep children safe. If vaccines are safe, there is nothing to fear. If vaccines cause harm, the opportunity for legal recourse and punitive damages creates appropriate incentives to make and administer safer vaccines.
Your home address information is required from the legislative offices to ensure you are reaching out to your designated representatives. Your email and your phone number are used to establish connection with your designated representatives. Messages from non-constituents don't have the same impact on a legislator as messages from verified constituents, who can vote for that officeholder. We do not share your name and contact information with any third parties unless legally required to do so.
Stand to Shield US Children from Harm
Sign the petition to tell U.S. lawmakers that it is time to shield U.S. Children from harm and hold pharma accountable for vaccine injury and death.
The multinational pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture and distribute vaccines in the US benefit from extraordinary market access and almost complete legal protections. The federal government recommends a specific childhood vaccine schedule of over 70 doses of 16 vaccines and, guided by this schedule, all 50 states mandate vaccines for daycare and school admission. Primary care physicians administer vaccines to children according to the federal schedule as standard of care medicine, starting in hospitals on the day of birth. Health insurance plans and government entitlement programs cover the cost of vaccines.
Most notably, this streamlined and subsidized reach to 72 million American [1] that vaccine makers enjoy is nearly liability-free. After years of industry lobbying, President Regan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 ("1986 Act") into law. Vaccine makers had threatened to stop manufacturing vaccines because they were tired of paying brand-damaging, multi-million dollar payments to settle lawsuits for injuries and death caused by vaccines. Following passage of the 1986 Act, if an American child is injured or dies following the proper administration of a federally-recommended childhood vaccine, the family is barred from suing either the manufacturer of the vaccine or the health care professional who administered it.[2]
In 2011, the Supreme Court upheld that parents whose children were catastrophically injured or died from vaccines could not sue for design defect liability. In other words, while the federal government acknowledges that vaccines are "unavoidably unsafe",[3] and cause irreversible harm and death to some who receive them, the financial responsibility for the injured children's care belongs to the parents. The sole recourse for families is the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ("Vaccine Court"), established as part of the 1986 Act.[4] Parents describe Vaccine Court as an unwieldy and burdensome administrative program that does not afford due process. There is no judge, jury of peers, or discovery,all important, Constitutionally-protected legal provisions. Absent very specific circumstances of injury or death following a narrowly defined set of criteria, no compensation is awarded. The no-liability childhood vaccine program is a threat to individual and public health. It further incentivizes the pharmaceutical industry to lobby for inflation of the vaccine schedule (new vaccines and extra doses of existing vaccines) without the need to invest resources into making the safest and most effective vaccines possible. Drug companies paid over 13 billion dollars between 2009 and 2014 to resolve U.S. Department of Justice allegations of fraudulent marketing practices[5]. There has been more than a three-fold increase in the number of vaccines on the US childhood vaccine schedule — representing a dramatic departure from most of our First World peers[6] — following passage of the 1986 Act.
Parents and advocates argued strongly for the 1986 Act to include language that protects a consumer's right to sue the drug manufacturer when the Vaccine Court denied federal compensation, or the company had access to the technology to make a safer product but declined to do so.[7] All stakeholders understood the vital role of tort liability as the pivotal assurance safeguarding the safety of American children. Parents wanted it and industry didn't. Industry prevailed. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the 1986 Act, however, closed the doors to design defect liability and left the pharmaceutical companies near liability-free access to the market of 72 million American children.[8]
Before the 1986 Act was passed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ("CDC") childhood vaccine schedule recommended 23 doses of vaccines between 2 months and 16 years of age,[9] with the pharmaceutical industry profiting about 750 million dollars annually. After 30+ years of no liability, the schedule has grown to over 70 recommended doses between pregnancy and 18 years of age,[10]. The global vaccine market reached $38 billion in 2018 and is poised to exceed $70 billion by 2025, representing a robust compound annual growth rate approaching 10%.[11] The US market accounts for over ⅓ of total market share and US pharmaceutical corporations rely on a robust and growing domestic market to sell vaccines overseas. If you have children today, and choose to follow the CDC's recommended schedule, your babies will receive more doses of vaccines by the time they are six months old than most baby boomers received by the time they went to college. Over half of these 70+ doses are given by 15 months of age.
To date, the Vaccine Court has paid out approximately $4 billion in compensation for harm and death caused by vaccines,[12] representing an estimated one percent of the actual damages.[13] The Vaccine Court is an obligatory administrative program (in lieu of legal recourse) to give families an avenue for potential compensation and a level of justice for government-mandated vaccinations. The existence of the Vaccine Court, however, does not justify the indemnification of the pharmaceutical industry nor is it adequate protection for the health of our children and future generations. During the same time period, following the dramatic increase in the number of vaccines and doses on the CDC's recommended childhood schedule, the rates of chronic, autoimmune, and neurodevelopmental disorders in US children more than quadrupled.[14][15]
American parents must make it a top priority to see certain sections of the 1986 Act repealed so that pharmaceutical companies can be held accountable for the safety of their products. Vaccine hesitancy is one of the top health concerns facing not just the citizens of America but of the world, according to organizations such as the World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control, the National Health Institute, the Institute of Medicine and U.S. Congress.[16] Leaders of these organizations are looking for solutions to vaccine hesitancy by enforcing stricter vaccine mandates and the eroding of constitutional rights such as parental choice and religious freedoms. Will American parents tolerate the violation of human rights? Citizens are rising up and asking the hard questions about vaccine safety. We have lived the ramifications of the liability protections implemented as part of the 1986 Act. It's now time to shield US children. Let's keep vaccine manufacturers honest and our children safe.
Tell the President of the United States and Congress that vaccine hesitancy will continue to grow so long as there is no incentive for vaccine manufacturers to make the safest product possible. We uphold the preservation of human rights, legal due process, and alignment of interests through free market forces, especially when it comes to products mandated for American children.
Sign the petition and share it with your friends today to stand for the health of our children and future generations!
[1] "Trends in the Number of Children in the United States." https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/number-of-children
[2] 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-22(b)(1); Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, LLC, 131 S. Ct. 1068, 1082 (2011).
[3] 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-22.
[4] "About the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program," https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compen- sation/about/index.html.
[5] "Big Pharma's Big Fines," https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma
[6] "Vaccination Schedule Recommended by the Japan Pediatric Society," https://www.jpeds.or.jp/uploads/files/20180801_JPS%20Schedule%20English.pdf (Japan recommends 34 routine, childhood vaccines) (August 1, 2018).
[7] National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (PL99-660).
[8] See Breusewitz, 131 S. Ct. at 1082.
[9] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/images/schedule1983s.jpg
[10] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/past/2018-child.pdf
[11] "Vaccines Market worth over $70bn by 2025: Global Market Insights, Inc.," https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/07/1749613/0/en/Vaccines-Market-worth-over-70bn-by-2025-Global-Market-Insights-Inc.html (accessed August 18, 2019).
[12] "Vaccine injury compensation data," https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data/index.html ("Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $4.2 billion.").
[13] Health and Human Services engaged Harvard to do a study on reports of vaccine injuries in the U.S. Harvard found that less than 1% of all injury and death from vaccinations are reported. In 2016 alone, there were 59,117 injuries reported through VAERS with 432 reported deaths. Ross L, Klompas M. Electronic Support for Public Health—Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS). Rockville, MD: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Grant Final Report, R18 HS 017045.
[14] Bethel et. al, 2011, A National and State Profile of Leading Health Problems and Health Care Quality for US Children: Key Insurance Disparities and Across-State Variations, Academic Pediatrics; "CDC's Work on Developmental Disabilities," https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/about.html (April 21, 2017).
[15] McDonald and Paul, Environ. Sci. Technol. "Timing of Increased Autisitic Disorder Cumulative Incidence," Vol. 44, 2112-2118 (2010).
[16] "Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019," https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019 (2019).
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Home » ADHD » Blogs » ADHD Millennial » ADHD or Normal Procrastination?
In fact, that's the thing about ADHD symptoms: if you look at one single behavior associated with ADHD, in isolation, in many cases it's something that could happen to anyone. Where ADHD comes in is when multiple types of these behaviors occur over and over, causing serious problems for someone.
Yes, everyone procrastinates sometimes. But ADHD procrastination is different.
It's different, first, because it's more extreme. For people with ADHD, procrastination is often something that occurs over and over, causing real problems at work, at school, at home, or in personal relationships. And even if the person recognizes that procrastination is causing these problems, they tend to find that actually breaking the pattern is out of their control.
Many ADHDers find that they need the pressure of doing things at the last minute. When they try to start earlier, the ability to sustain attention or self-motivate is simply lacking.
The other way ADHD procrastination is different is in its wider context. People with ADHD have other symptoms, such as trouble sustaining concentration or sitting still for extended periods of time, missing out on critical information or making "careless" mistakes due to inattention, a lack of impulse control and a focus on short-term rewards in other areas of their life, and so on. Procrastination by itself doesn't have to suggest ADHD, but in combination with other ADHD-related behaviors it does raise questions.
To be clear, this post isn't supposed to provide any guidelines for self-diagnosis. The only way you can really know whether your own procrastination is part of something bigger (like ADHD) is to talk to a mental health professional.
My point is simply that, yes, people with ADHD procrastinate and people without ADHD procrastinate – but for people with ADHD, that procrastination is more regular, more extreme, harder to control, more damaging, and paired with other symptoms.


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USS DULUTH (CL 87)
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Bravo - Papa
CLASS - CLEVELAND
Displacement 10,000 Tons, Dimensions, 610' 1" (oa) x 66' 4" x 25' (Max)
Armament 12 x 6"/47, 12 x 5"/38AA, 28 x 40mm, 10 x 20mm, 4 Aircraft
Armor, 5" Belt, 6" Turrets, 2" Deck, 5" Conning Tower.
Speed, 32.5 Knots, Crew 1255.
Keel laid on 09 NOV 1942 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA
Launched 13 JAN 1944
Commissioned 18 SEP 1944
Decommissioned 25 JUN 1949
Stricken 01 JAN 1960
Fate: Sold for scrap on 14 NOV 1960.
Top Row - Navy Combat Action Ribbon - China Service Medal - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - WWII Victory Medal - Navy World War II Occupation Medal w/JAPAN Clasp
0408714 480k Duluth (CL 87) Duluth, a few days before her launching at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (press photo). Dale Hargrave
0408706 153k Caption from photo "NEWPORT NEWS, VA., Jan. 12 - CRUISER DULUTH POISED FOR LAUNCHING - Scaffolding is today being removed by workmen from the sleek hull of the new cruiser Duluth which will be launched at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company yard here tomorrow after christening by Mrs. Edward H. Hatch, wife of the Mayor of Duluth, Minn. (AP WIREPHOTO)(F41200PJC44)" Tommy Trampp
0408709 489k Christening of the USS Duluth (CL 87) by Mrs. Edward H. Hatch, wife of the Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota. Dale Hargrave
0408708 58k Photo caption "NEWPORT NEWS, VA.-CRUISER DULUDH LAUNCHED--The new cruiser Duluth, is shown as she slides down the ways at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., today. (ap wirephoto)..." Ron Reeves
0408707 97k Duluth sliding down the ways on 13 January 1944. Ron Reeves
0408705 97k Starboard side view, date and location unknown. David Buell
110k Undated WWII era photo. David G. Medland
USS Duluth (CL 87) Underway in the Hampton Roads area, Virginia, 10 October 1944, while en route to the southern Chesapeake Bay for sea training. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 11a. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98363.
USS Duluth (CL 87) Underway in the vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia, 11 December 1944. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia.
USS Duluth (CL 87) Underway off the U.S. East Coast, circa late 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 11a.
Because of structural twisting damage from the 5 June 1945 typhoon, USS Duluth was diverted to Guam for repairs with Pittsburgh, Blue, and Stockham from TF38.1. Duluth is seen in this set in drydock ABSD 6 between 14 June and 5 July. She was able to rejoin the carrier forces in mid-July.
Photos by J R Eyerman, Life Magazine. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.
Starboard bow view of the USS Duluth (CL 87), with the USS Pittsburgh (CA 72) in the foreground. The ships are moored at Guam, here in June, 1945. Off Okinawa, TG 38.1 and TG 30.8, off Okinawa were overtaken by a typhoon. During this storm, the Pittsburgh lost 104 feet of her bow and the Duluth suffered twisted structural damage.
Life Magazine Archives, Carl Mydans photographer, shared by Peter DeForest.
Bow view of the USS Duluth (CL 87), with the USS Pittsburgh (CA 72) outboard, moored at Guam, here in June, 1945.
USS Duluth entering and being worked on in advance base drydock ABSD 6. Views are at the Guam fleet anchorage between 2 and 4 July 1945. Duluth had had hull twisting damage in the 5 June typhoon in TG38.1. She returned to active operations later in July.
USS Duluth entering and being worked on in advance base drydock ABSD 6. Views are at the Guam fleet anchorage between 2 and 4 July 1945. Duluth had had hull twisting damage in the 5 June typhoon in TG38.1. She returned to active operations later in July. Here an LCM is towing the Duluth.
Port bow view of the USS Duluth (CL 87) approaching Melbourne, Australia on 17 May 1947.
State Library of Victoria, Photo #H91.108/2425.
Stern view of the USS Duluth (CL 87) moored at the Port of Melbourne in May, 1947.
State Library of Victoria, Photo #H83.307/188.
10090620 54k USS Duluth (LPD 6) ship's bell on display at the Duluth Depot St Louis County Heritage & Arts Center. This bell may have originally been from the Light Cruiser Duluth (CL 87). Chin Yu Chu
Osborn Jr., Donald Roderick, CAPT 1920 09/18/1944 - 09/21/1945
DuBois, Samuel Walter, CAPT 1921-A 09/21/1945 - 02/21/1948
Hyland Jr., John Joseph, CDR 1934 ADM 02/21/1948 - 06/25/1949
USS DULUTH (CL 87) History
Contact Name: Mr. Wayne Gilly
Address: 3622 Cerro Vista Street Huntsville, AL 35805-4953
Phone: None
E-mail: wdwiggly@knology.net


My Wednesday morning routine includes a brief newspaper delivery route – about an hour and a half to two hours.
I've made a few observations from my weekly ride on Highway 7 South to Abbeville and back and then out Highway 4 West to Chulahoma and back.
First, Highway 7 South from Holly Springs to Oxford might be the fastest stretch of two-lane in the state.
I write this, and I could be the next one to get a ticket, but I can be driving along at between 55 and 60 miles per hour, and other drivers go around me like my Ford truck is sitting still.
I've been passed several times when I should not have been passed – a speeding vehicle coming up quickly on my rear bumper, darting around me and just squeezing back in front of me with vehicles coming from the other direction.
Not when delivering newspapers, but I was almost hit by a passing car once on Highway 7. I had to leave the road myself to avoid it.
I'm usually making the Wednesday ride between 7:30 and 9 a.m. I guess folks are late for work or classes at the University of Mississippi.
Be careful on our highways.
And by the way, I do appreciate the presence of the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Highway 7. I've see them regularly, including the past couple of weeks. They're there for our safety.
On a recent Wednesday, after my first stop at Friendly Grocery, I drove on toward the Waterford Post Office and noticed garbage bags filled with trash on the side of Old Highway 7 South. Then deep down in the ditch along the road I saw a man picking up litter.
His clean-up efforts and those of all citizens of Marshall County are appreciated.
Many groups have adopted roadways in the county, helping keep our communities clean.
They shouldn't have to do it. Please, don't litter.
I turn on to Highway 310 and go to Keel's Grocery and then end up at the Abbeville Quick Stop (just inside Lafayette County) before returning north on 7 and stopping at Marion's.
Highway 310 seems to attract its share of litter. Last Wednesday it looked like someone had pretty much dumped their weekly garbage alongside a portion of 310.
I travel out Highway 4 West, stopping at Dot's Convenience Store and Chulahoma Grocery.
I have noticed recently that construction work on Highway 4 just past Chulahoma Grocery is moving along at what seems to be a rapid pace. Any improvements to that crooked stretch are welcome. It's only one of several Mississippi Department of Transportation projects progressing well in Marshall County – like Highway 72 and I-269.
The vendors who sell The South Reporter on my route and others throughout Marshall and Benton counties are always welcoming and accommodating.
They look for us at a certain time because their customers (who in turn are our customers) look for their newspapers at a certain time. And it's our goal to deliver on time.
I enjoy getting out of the office and delivering papers. I enjoy seeing and visiting with folks along the way.
Thanks for reading your community newspaper.


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Vitamin C history - timeline
A diet lacking in vitamin C leads to the development of a disease known as scurvy. This timeline traces the history of scurvy, the discovery of a cure for the disease and the isolation and identification of ascorbic acid known also as vitamin C.
1550 BC - Ebers Papyrus
The Ebers Papyrus of about 1550 BC gives an account of a disease likely to be scurvy. The suggested treatment of this disease is to eat onions, which we now know contain small amounts of vitamin C.
400 BC - Hippocrates describes symptoms
Hippocrates of Cos, an ancient Greek physician considered to be the 'father' of Western medicine, writes extensively on medical matters and describes the symptoms associated with scurvy: "They have foetid breath, lax gums and haemorrhage from the nose."
1535 - Native Indian scurvy remedy
In winter, the frozen St Lawrence River in Canada strands French explorer Jacques Cartier's ship. With limited food, scurvy breaks out amongst his men. The native Indians suggest a remedy – a drink made by soaking the bark of a local tree. The remedy works.
1747 - Scurvy and citrus link
British naval surgeon James Lind selects 12 men from HMS Salisbury, all suffering from scurvy. He divides them into 6 pairs, giving each group different additions to their basic diet. Those fed citrus fruits experience a remarkable recovery.
1795 - Citrus daily ration
British navy physician Gilbert Blane influences the Admiralty to issue regulations for the universal use of citrus juice as a daily ration on board British naval vessels. The scourge of scurvy is forever banished from the British navy.
1880 - Limeys
British influence in the Caribbean leads to the use of limes over lemons and oranges, since limes are more available. British sailors are known as 'limeys', which refers to the practice of supplying rations of lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy.
1907 - Guinea pigs and cabbage
Norwegian biochemists Axel Holst and Alfred Fröhlich demonstrate that a scurvy-like condition could be produced in guinea pigs by restricting certain foods. When fed cabbage, the symptoms disappear. An intensive search begins to find the specific nutrient responsible.
1928 - Hexuronic acid
Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi isolates an organic reducing agent from plant juices and animal tissues and chooses the name 'hexuronic acid'. Four years later, he helps prove this compound is the antiscorbutic factor discovered in 1907 by Holst and Fröhlich.
1932 - Ascorbic acid
British chemist Walter Haworth determines the molecular structure of hexuronic acid and renames it ascorbic acid. This substance is also known today as vitamin C. The following year, Haworth leads a team of scientists that are able to make ascorbic acid synthetically.
1937 - Nobel Prizes
Albert Szent-Györgyi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of vitamin C, and Walter Haworth is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with carbohydrates and vitamin C.
1970 - The common cold
Chemist Linus Pauling's book Vitamin C and the common cold is published. It proves to be a bestseller and leads many people to believe in the value of the vitamin for cold prevention and treatment.
2007 - Finding the missing step
Scientists at Plant & Food Research report the missing step in how plants produce vitamin C. Working with various kiwifruit varieties and the world's largest kiwifruit DNA database, the team isolate the last undiscovered enzyme in the vitamin C production pathway.
Published 18 March 2011 Referencing Hub articles


May | 2007 | Dan Moore!
I work on my own most of the time, out of my house. This means that I have regular email and phone contact with other people, typically clients, but only occasional face to face time. This style of work suits me, though I have friends who say it drives them batty. I enjoy the short commute and the freedom to order my day as I see fit (as long as I deliver).
However, sometimes it's nice to have contact with people who aren't paying you money. Users groups (such as BJUG) and meetups (such as the New Tech Meetup) can be informative and through provoking, but the presentation focus makes it hard for me to connect with other people. What I've found works best is a small regular lunch group with other consultants.
At lunch, you can discuss business problems, sometimes related to people who aren't paying you money, but should be. You can get referrals for professional services that you may need–accountants, lawyers, etc. The group can be a source of business for you, as well as a place you can find someone to refer clients to for projects beyond your expertise. I always find it interesting to hear what other people are doing: one of my favorite lunchtime activities is the 'new project go around', where everyone talks about what new project he or she is working on.
In short, gathering on a regular basis with a set of consultants who you know and trust can be very useful. I have found once a month works just right for me–we always have plenty to talk about. We have also met semi monthly, and that was alright too–a bit harder on the schedule. A group of 4-8 people is about the right size–less and you don't get as much cross pollination, more and you start to lose track of people. If you can, try to have people from different parts of the technology world in the lunch. The group I belong to has development managers, UI folks, project managers, developers and designers. This means that if I have a problem to discuss, I can get a lot of different viewpoints.
How do you start such a consulting support group? I think the best way to do it is to pick a restaurant and time, and invite 10 colleagues that would find this type of networking both useful and geographically convenient. At the restaurant the first time, see if people are interested. If so, set up an email list, and pick future dates. Don't try to pick a time to meet that always works for everyone–part of the reason to invite 10 or so people to start the group is so you have enough people for a good conversation when someone inevitably can't make it.
My group wrote up some bylaws–the most important of which was that no clients would be invited, except with prior notice to the email list. The reason for that was to allow the sometimes frank discussion of issues. Other than that, just set up a recurring event in your calendars and ping the email list when the lunch is near. And let the discussion commence!
Have you ever had a project written primarily in PHP, but there were some java systems that you wanted to connect to? Perhaps there was a third party library or a java API that you really want (or are required) to use, but PHP had been chosen for other reasons.
The php java bridge is your solution. The documentation is good, and the performance is pretty darn good (if you're looking for benchmarks, search for 'How fast is it?'). You can use the bridge over sockets, a xml based protocol via servlets, or over a mono application. The mailing list is active, and it looks like the primary developer actually answers questions on said list (as of May 2007).
I've always been a bit hesitant regarding cross language programming: "Great, now I get to debug in two languages that communicate via sockets! Yahoo!". But for a certain set of circumstances, using this bridge can be the right answer.
AWStats is a powerful, free web log analysis tool. I had a client that had some specific reporting needs–parsing urls retrieved and reporting how many times any document in a specific set of directories (but no other ones) had been viewed.
Luckily, AWStats is configurable enough to do this using the Extra Sections feature; in fact, there is an example in the documentation showing how to do exactly what the client needed. In fact, you can do a ton with regular expressions and AWStats. Basically, if the data is in the web logs, you can build a custom report for it.


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Thu, May 18, 2006 page5
Gruesome warnings put Singaporeans off their cigarettes
CONTROL Research on Singapore's latest social engineering campaign reveals the government has made inroads into the nation's smoking habit
Images of diseased gums and cancerous lungs along with anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packages have had an effect on smokers in Singapore, a survey said yesterday.
Twenty-eight percent of the 650 smokers queried said they smoked fewer cigarettes and seven in 10 said they knew more about the effects of smoking on health, according to the Health Promotion Board findings.
The participants in the survey, which also included 650 non-smokers, were aged between 18 and 69.
The warnings, introduced in August 2004, carry six images: Diseased gums, a cancerous lung, a dying baby, a brain oozing blood, a patient on his deathbed and a family suffering from second-hand smoke.
They come with such warnings as, "Smoking causes strokes," and "Smoking causes lung cancer."
The average number of callers to the board's Quitline increased from 100 prior to the warnings and images to 300 a month since they were introduced.
Half of the 650 non-smokers said the warnings prompted them to try and get smokers to kick the habit.
A new set of warnings is currently being tested with a panel of smokers.
Singapore has tough anti-smoking laws. Smoking and tobacco advertising are banned in enclosed areas and tobacco is heavily taxed.
Starting in July, coffee shops and hawker centers will only be allowed small smoking zones.
By next year, entertainment outlets, including bars and clubs, will also have to limit smoking to designated spaces.
Singapore has an international reputation for social engineering, and keeps a close check on an array of public activities.