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Email: robert@gslookout.com
The Rev. Robert Childers, Rector
A native of Selma, Alabama and a lifelong Episcopalian, Robert was a lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama prior to his ordination as a priest. He graduated in 1991 from the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea, New York City. Before his call to Good Shepherd in 2008, Robert served as rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Anniston, Alabama for 13 years. He is married to Terry and they have two adult children, Rob and Liz. Robert loves being a parish priest. When he is not at the church, he enjoys spending time with his wife, yoga, jogging and walking with George, the wonder dog, gardening and, when time allows, brewing beer.
Email: mac@gslookout.com
The Rev. Mac Brown, Assistant to the Rector
Mac joined the staff as Assistant to the Rector of Good Shepherd in July of 2013. He is an alumnus of The University of the South, Sewanee, TN where he received his BA majoring in Cultural Anthropology and The General Theological Seminary, New York, NY, where he received his Masters of Divinity. Prior to entering seminary he served Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC as Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. He also served as the Lay Chaplain, History and Religion teacher for the Middle School of The Episcopal School of Knoxville. He is an avid outdoorsman with a specific love of the Appalachian Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, and the Tennessee River Valley. Mac and Aloyse have two young children.
As the Assistant to the Rector, Mac's main responsibilities are for Young Family Ministries, Good Shepherd School Chaplaincy, and teaching Bible Studies and Sunday Morning Formation, as well as preaching and participating in all of Good Shepherd's worship services.
The Rev. Janice Robbins, Deacon
Email: janice@gslookout.com
The Rev. Janice Robbins has been at Good Shepherd since 2008. She was ordained to the Diaconate of the Episcopal Church in 2001. She currently serves as Assistant Head of School and chaplain at St. Nicholas School, an elementary Episcopal school in East Brainerd. Her BA is in History/English and a Masters in Education, Administration and Supervision. She and her husband the Rev. Buckley Robbins have four daughters and 8 grandchildren.
BA. History / English, 1967, University of Chattanooga
Masters in Education, Administration and Supervision, Trevecca University
Ordained to the Diaconate of the Episcopal Church, 2001
Janice has been with St. Nicholas School since 1974.
Email: kathleen@gslookout.com
Kathleen Crevasse, Director of Christian Formation
Kathleen has served at Good Shepherd since 2001, coordinating education and formation efforts for children and adults. Kathleen graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in humanities and also holds a masters degree in religious studies from Stanford University, but her most prized academic training is her Godly Play Teacher accreditation and the ongoing education she gets from children, sitting on the floor in Godly Play sessions.
Kathleen is very grateful for the myriad volunteers who brighten her day and make formation programs successful at Good Shepherd. She is especially grateful to her most constant supporters and volunteers (in ways they never could have imagined): husband, Chris, and adult daughters, Tess and Isabel.
Kathleen enjoys reading, walking, drinking good wine and spending time (in person, online, over phone lines) with the people she loves. She also admits to a small addiction to word games.
Email: matt@gslookout.com
Matt Harbison, Director of Youth Programs
Matt has worked in churches from Texas to Tennessee while also being active on community boards and ecumenical ministries in the region for twenty years. For the last fifteen years, he has been the Director of Youth and College at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where he led youth programs that served both the church and community. Matt helped facilitate the creation of Project Canterbury on the campus of UTC, while also serving on the board for Project Canterbury and Grace Point, the Episcopal Camp and Conference Center of the Diocese of East Tennessee. Matt says, "I am accustomed to rolled yards, camp pranks, and learning new words yearly from teenagers. I love youth trips and watching teenagers seek and serve the divine."
In his spare time Matt is an astrophotographer and avid amateur astronomer. He is on the board of the Barnard Astronomical Society of Chattanooga as the program chair and get out as often as possible to observe and photograph distant galaxies, nebula and stars.
Email: jwigal@gslookout.com
John Wigal, Director of Music/Organist
John has served as Director of Music/Organist at Good Shepherd since 2002. About Good Shepherd John says, "Good Shepherd is an energetic congregation with a variety of interests and artistic skills and this is reflected in our music program and the worship it supports. The music program welcomes all those interested and has opportunities for all ages."
Prior to coming to Good Shepherd, John served churches of several denominations in Illinois and here in Chattanooga, and taught at the middle/high school and college levels. He earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Wittenberg University and the Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. He has published with Morningstar Music and is an active member of the American Guild of Organists at both the local and national levels.
John is married to Dr. Cecelia Wigal and they have one daughter, Janelle. You can often tell when John is at Good Shepherd by the bright yellow 1971 Karmann Ghia convertible in the parking lot – you are invited in for a ride!
Email: sandy@gslookout.com
Sandy Skorput, Director of Good Shepherd School
Sandy Skorput is the Director of Good Shepherd School. She graduated from the College of Natural Resources with a BS in Resource Management from the University of Vermont. She spent most of her career working with children in many different environments, both indoor and out and primarily in informal education. Her love developing and implementing pre-school programming and camps in NJ, VT, SC, GA and TN led her to Good Shepherd School. Sandy came to Chattanooga in 1992. After eight years as the Director of Education at the Tennessee Aquarium, she joined the Good Shepherd Staff. Her experiences in programming, various licensing protocols and management have proven valuable and have integrated well with the similar responsibilities of running a preschool.
Sandy has a daughter, Casey and enjoys spending time with friends, reading and running.
Email: becki@gslookout.com
Becki Pineda, Parish Administrator/Financial Secretary
In her position here at Good Shepherd, Becki is responsible not only for the maintenance and upkeep of this beautiful church and the Rectory but she also oversees the sextons and she is the Financial Secretary. Becki is also a Notary and is happy to notarize documents if you need her.
Becki has four sons, one incredible daughter-in-law, four grandsons and one granddaughter.
Sandra Alagona, Parish Engagement Coordinator
Email: sandra@gslookout.com
Sandra is our communications maven and the central point of contact between the church office and guild/ministry leaders. She is responsible for our weekly and monthly print publications, marketing, and website maintenance. She holds degrees in English and sometimes works as an adjunct faculty member at local and online colleges. Prior to Good Shepherd she served as the communications director at Church of the Good Shepherd in Hemet, CA and served on the diocesan communications committee in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego.
Sandra enjoys spending time with her family, knitting, reading, and creating content for online communities.
Email: harry@gslookout.com
Harry Brigham, Head Sexton
Harry came to Good Shepherd in 2011, from St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga. He is our Grounds and weekend Sexton. Harry was born in Massachusetts, he and his wife Patty lived in Florida for over 20 years where they both worked for Good Shepherd, in Jupiter, Florida before moving to Chattanooga in 2008. Harry and Patty have three children: Stephen, Jennifer, Ryan and five grandchildren. Harry enjoys fishing and golfing.
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This morning, I took off to head to Ozark (about 15 miles from the house) in the '37. About a mile or two from my destination, it's very obvious that I have an exhaust pipe coming loose from a header.
I picked up my customer, and we headed back to Springfield, for lunch. On the way back, the noise is getting louder, and now it's to the point where I am pretty much just running an open header on one side. I tell him that we're going to run by the house and swap cars!
We drop the '37 off at the house, jump in the '40 and take off back to his office. He asks if I can run him up to a place in Springfield on the way back to his place in Ozark, but it's not anywhere close to on the way. "What the heck, I'm driving a hot rod and having fun" is my thought, so we make that stop and I finally get him back to his business.
I realized that I was just about out of gas, so I decided to run over to the QT station and fill up. Jump back in the car and hit the start button to hear crank, crank, CLUNK! What the heck??? Starter won't budge now.
I get out and look at the starter, and it's stuck, and lying below it is what is left of one of the bolts that holds it to the block, sheared off. Guess there's a reason that they sell "Starter bolts" versus the grade 8's that I used when I put that together 9 years ago!
I called Doug, told him what happened, and he jumped in his car, stopped by his shop and grabbed a box of tools and a floor jack, and came up to help me out. We raised the car up, moved the starter around, got the car to start, and I drove it home.
The '37 is fixed for tomorrow, but the '40 is going to have to wait until probably Saturday, before I can drop the starter, extract the portion of the bolt that's still in the block, and get it back together.
Little stupid things, but two in one day???


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Rene Preval, who served twice as Haiti's president, dies at 74
Haitian President Rene Preval is seen during a visit to Washington, D.C., in 2010.
(Haraz N. Ghanbari / Associated Press)
By Evens Sanson
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti —
Rene Preval, the only democratically elected president of Haiti to win and complete two terms, has died at age 74.
President Jovenel Moise confirmed Preval's death in a tweet on Friday.
"I learned with sadness the death of former President Rene Preval," Moise said on his Twitter account. "I prostrate myself before the remains of this worthy son of Haiti."
The cause of death was not given. Preval had been treated for prostate cancer in Cuba in 2001.
Preval was elected by a landslide in 1995 as the chosen successor of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and turned power back to Aristide when he left office five years later after a term marked by political infighting.
Then-President Rene Preval visits Corail-Cesselesse in 2010, when the first group of residents from Petionville Club were bused to the camp.
(Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
His second term, which started in 2006, was marred by the disastrous earthquake of Jan, 12, 2010, which killed more than 300,000 people and displaced more than 1 million, according to estimates. Many Haitians accused him of a fumbling response to the tragedy.
Preval was born on Jan. 17, 1943, in the town of Marmelade in rural northern Haiti. His father, Claude, was an agronomist who served under President Paul Magloire and fled during the early years of the dictatorship of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Preval earned an agronomy degree from Gembloux Agricultural University in Belgium and later studied geothermal sciences at the University of Pisa in Italy. In 1970, he moved to New York, where he worked as a waiter and a messenger. Five years later, he returned to Haiti and worked at the National Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography.
In 1988, two years after a popular uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Preval returned to Haiti and opened a bakery in the capital, Port-au-Prince. He supplied bread to an orphanage run by Aristide, a Roman Catholic priest who led a movement to oust the younger Duvalier and later became the country's first democratically elected president.
Preval became a leading figure in Aristide's Lavalas political movement, which enjoyed a huge following among the poor and was feared and hated by the tiny community of elites who long dominated the country's economy and government.
Aristide, by now no longer a priest, was elected president in 1990 and appointed Preval to be his prime minister. A military coup ousted Aristide seven months into his term and the two leaders went into exile.
A U.S.-led invasion restored Aristide to power in 1994 and he was allowed to serve the year-plus remaining in his term. Running as Aristide's successor, and with his backing, Preval won 80% of the vote in 1995, though only a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots.
Preval's first term was marked by political infighting, with Aristide seen as the power behind the throne. When Preval completed his term in 2001 and transferred power to Aristide, he became Haiti's first democratically elected president to leave office after a full term.
Preval then withdrew from politics and spent his time in Marmelade during Aristide's second term, which ended when he was forced to flee the country following a violent rebellion in 2004. An interim government backed by the United States then took power.
Preval won a second term in 2006 in an election that nearly headed to a runoff. As his supporters demonstrated in the streets, the electoral council recounted ballots and found him to have an outright majority.
A young Haitian holds a rock and a poster of presidential candidate Rene Preval in front of a burning barricade. Violence broke out after a delay in election results.
Preval's second term was marked by a dramatic increase in kidnappings, gang warfare, riots over soaring food prices and a series of tropical storms that caused widespread flooding and death, particularly around Gonaives in the north.
Still, Haiti enjoyed a rare political stability and its economy started improving.
But the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the capital, including the National Palace and many other government buildings. The government estimated 314,000 people were killed and more than 1.3 million were displaced.
There was widespread public anger at Preval, who made few public appearances after the disaster and was blamed for much of the chaos engulfing the capital. His chosen successor, Jude Celestin, lost in the first round of the 2010 presidential election, which was won later by popular musician Michel Martelly, a former Aristide opponent.
On May 14, 2011, Preval handed over power to Martelly, marking the first transfer of power from a Haitian president to a member of the opposition.
Preval then left politics and lived quietly at his estate in the mountains above Port-au-Prince and in the Miami area, where many Haitian expatriates live.
His survivors include his third wife, Elisabeth "Babette" Delatour, and two adult daughters.

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Q: Why didn't the Bond of Blood charm break when Harry fled from the Dursleys after inflating aunt Marge? In Prisoner of Azkaban Harry flees from the Dursleys after inflating his aunt. He quite literally LEAVES the house, apparently with no intent to come back but to live as an outcast in the Wizarding World.
Now the Bond of Blood charm which protects Harry breaks only under 2 conditions:

*

*He should become 17 years of age,

*He should leave the house and call it home no more.
In the situation I mentioned above, condition 2 has been breached. So why didn't the Bond of Blood charm break?

A: As soon as he reaches Diagon Alley he is greeted by Fudge who tells him that his Aunt as been deflated and her memory has been modified and also that his aunt and uncle have agreed to take him back next year. This is why the bond didn't break.
Here is the passage from PoA, chapter 3: The Knight Bus

Fudge smiled at Harry over the rim of his teacup, rather like an uncle surveying a favorite nephew. Harry, who couldn't believe his ears, opened his mouth to speak, couldn't think of anything to say,and closed it again.
"Ah, you're worrying about the reaction of your aunt and uncle?" said Fudge.
"Well, I won't deny that they are extremely angry, Harry, but they are prepared to take you back next summer as long as you stay at Hogwarts for the Christmas and Easter holidays."

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require "spec_helper"

describe Beer do
  it { should belong_to(:brewery) }
  it { should belong_to(:user) }

  it { should validate_presence_of(:brewery_id) }
  it { should_not allow_mass_assignment_of(:brewery_id) }

  it { should validate_presence_of(:name) }
  it { should ensure_length_of(:name).is_at_most(255) }
  it { should allow_mass_assignment_of(:name) }

  it { should validate_presence_of(:description) }
  it { should ensure_length_of(:description).is_at_most(4096) }
  it { should allow_mass_assignment_of(:description) }

  it { should validate_presence_of(:abv) }
  it { should validate_numericality_of(:abv) }
  it { should allow_mass_assignment_of(:abv) }

  it "includes SearchableModel" do
    Beer.included_modules.should include(SearchableModel)
  end
end

describe Beer, ".filter_by_brewery_id" do
  let(:ale)     { create(:beer, brewery: brewery, name: "Ale") }
  let(:ipa)     { create(:beer, name: "IPA") }
  let(:stout)   { create(:beer, brewery: brewery, name: "Stout") }
  let(:brewery) { create(:brewery) }
  let!(:beers)  { [ale, ipa, stout] }

  it "filters resutls" do
    Beer.filter_by_brewery_id(brewery.id).should == [ale, stout]
  end

  it "does not filter results if no brewery ID is provided" do
    Beer.filter_by_brewery_id("").should  == beers
    Beer.filter_by_brewery_id(" ").should == beers
    Beer.filter_by_brewery_id(nil).should == beers
  end
end

describe Beer, ".filter_by_name" do
  let(:ale)    { create(:beer, name: "Ale") }
  let(:ipa)    { create(:beer, name: "IPA") }
  let!(:beers) { [ale, ipa] }

  it "filters resutls" do
    Beer.filter_by_name("Ale").should == [ale]
  end

  it "filters results, ignoring case" do
    Beer.filter_by_name("iPa").should == [ipa]
  end

  it "filters results, with wildcard matches" do
    Beer.filter_by_name("a").should == beers
  end

  it "does not filter results if no name is provided" do
    Beer.filter_by_name("").should  == beers
    Beer.filter_by_name(" ").should == beers
    Beer.filter_by_name(nil).should == beers
  end
end

describe Beer, ".for_token" do
  let!(:user) { create(:user) }
  let!(:ale)  { create(:beer, user: nil) }
  let!(:ipa)  { create(:beer, user: user) }

  before do
    User.stubs(:find_by_public_or_private_token)
  end

  it "includes public and private beers, provided a valid token" do
    User.stubs(find_by_public_or_private_token: user)
    Beer.for_token("valid").should == [ale, ipa]
    User.should have_received(:find_by_public_or_private_token).with("valid")
  end

  it "includes public beers, provided an invalid token" do
    Beer.for_token("invalid").should == [ale]
    User.should have_received(:find_by_public_or_private_token).with("invalid")
  end

  it "includes public beers, provided no token" do
    Beer.for_token(nil).should == [ale]
    User.should have_received(:find_by_public_or_private_token).never
  end
end

describe Beer, ".search" do
  let(:scope) { stub }

  before do
    Beer.stubs(includes: scope)
    scope.stubs(page:                 scope,
                order_by:             scope,
                per_page:             scope,
                for_token:            scope,
                filter_by_name:       scope,
                filter_by_brewery_id: scope)
  end

  it "includes the brewery assocation" do
    Beer.search
    Beer.should have_received(:includes).with(:brewery)
  end

  it "includes records for the token" do
    Beer.search(token: "token")
    scope.should have_received(:for_token).with("token")
  end

  it "filters by name using the query" do
    Beer.search(query: "query")
    scope.should have_received(:filter_by_name).with("query")
  end

  it "filters by brewery ID using the brewery_id" do
    Beer.search(brewery_id: "123")
    scope.should have_received(:filter_by_brewery_id).with("123")
  end

  it "limits the query to a specific page" do
    Beer.search
    scope.should have_received(:page).with(nil)
    Beer.search(page: 2)
    scope.should have_received(:page).with(2)
  end

  it "limits the number of records per page" do
    Beer.search
    scope.should have_received(:per_page).with(50)
    Beer.search(per_page: 1)
    scope.should have_received(:per_page).with(1)
  end

  it "sorts the results" do
    Beer.search(order: "order")
    scope.should have_received(:order_by).with("order")
  end

  it "returns the scope" do
    Beer.search({}).should == scope
  end
end

describe Beer, ".order_by" do
  let(:ale)        { create(:beer, name: "Ale") }
  let(:ipa)        { create(:beer, name: "IPA") }
  let!(:name_asc)  { [ale, ipa] }
  let!(:name_desc) { [ipa, ale] }

  it "orders beers" do
    Beer.order_by("name asc").should == name_asc
    Beer.order_by("name desc").should == name_desc
  end

  it "cleans the order string" do
    Beer.stubs(clean_order: "id ASC")
    Beer.order_by("fake desc").should == name_asc
    Beer.should have_received(:clean_order).with("fake desc")
  end
end

describe Beer, "public?" do
  it "returns true when no user is present" do
    create(:beer, user: nil).should be_public
  end

  it "returns false when a user is present" do
    create(:beer, user: build(:user)).should_not be_public
  end
end

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Don't neglect face-to-face networking: Hays
While many advisers have embraced social media and networking technology, recruitment company Hays has warned face-to-face communication should not be forgotten.
by Aleks Vickovich - February 21, 2013 1 comments
"The technology boom has opened up many networks online and created real, focused, commercial opportunities," said Hays regional director of accountancy and finance Susan Drew.
"Businesses are exploiting these new networks, such as web-based crowdsourcing sites that allow new ideas to be shared with user communities, many of them specialists in a given field," she said.
However, despite these benefits, Ms Drew says it is a "high risk strategy" to neglect person-to-person business connections.
"Some believe a static workforce has been created, one that is losing confidence, dynamism and the tangential benefits of real human contact," a Hays statement read.
In order to ensure staff are improving both digital and person-to-person communications, employers should provide specific training, Ms Drew advised.
"Staff who are isolated by email can become a threat to an employers' competitiveness, so offering formal training in networking skills would benefit both companies and the individuals concerned," she said.
"If you want your business to succeed, sooner or later you'll need to meet the people you would like to turn into clients or staff."
Last Updated: 03 May 2013 Published: 21 February 2013
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MLC sees adviser mobile device use spike


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The Monstrous Genocide of the Uighur People
Gulmire Zunun had been living in Australia for nine years and was looking forward to her father visiting from China. He was in his late 70s so he didn't want to delay.
Australia gave her dad a visa and he headed for the airport. But China's immigration authorities blocked him. After turning him back, China's authorities questioned the former school teacher.
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They kept him under close scrutiny in his home city of Urumchi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in far northwestern China. Yes, his crime was to be a member of the Uighur ethnic minority.
Two years later, Beijing launched its mass round-up of Uighurs to send them into its vast complex of detention centres, part of a system The Economist magazine calls "Apartheid with Chinese characteristics". The authorities picked up the old man, then aged 81.
He was told that he was being sent to live in an aged care facility, according to Gulmire, who lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.
But her dad was healthy and wanted to stay in his home. He explained that he had relatives who were happy to visit to give him any care he might need in future. To no avail. He disappeared into a so-called aged care facility where no visitors were allowed.
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He was released after two years, near death. Zunun Niyazi died 20 days later, on August 26. "People are released before they die so they don't become statistics in the camps," Gulmire explains.
She dared not visit China to see him before he died. Her chances of returning to China and keeping her liberty were negligible. Any Uighur with contacts in the outside world is at the top of Beijing's detention list.
Gulmire did have a final conversation with her father on WeChat. But only because they borrowed someone else's phone and used fake names in addressing each other to avoid being shut down.
She says that her father was locked up "as a way to send a message to us here in Australia", she tells me through an interpreter, her husband, Mehmet Celepci.
The couple has been defying Beijing's intimidation tactics, speaking out for the Uighurs' plight. "Every Uighur family in Australia has a relative who has either died or is in a concentration camp at the moment, but cannot talk about it," says Mehmet of the 2000 or so Uighurs who call Australia home.
Beijing, it turned out, has set up a fake taxi service to disguise police cars.
"For the Uighur people, this is the end of the world," he says. This has been the living reality of the Uighurs for the last two years, a reality that China did its best to suppress and the outside world did its best to ignore.
As evidence mounted and governments around the world started to find their voices, the Chinese Communist Party stopped denying the existence of the camps. Instead, this year it launched a sanitation and propaganda campaign to present the camps as cheerful vocational education centres where Uighur people could choose to go to study useful skills.
But a Singaporean reporter who'd been on a "Potemkin Village" tour of one of the centres said that while the cover-up was impressive, tell-tale signs remained. "I noticed that the dormitory doors had no handles on the inside," she told me.
A Jordanian reporter who travelled to Xinjiang on a tourist visa in July at first thought that the reports of repression were all lies. "That's the most dangerous thing about this issue for a tourist or a first-time visitor … life seems so normal, and even happy … The streets are so wide and so clean, and people are always well dressed, and that was so refreshing," said Nihad Jariri.
Then she went into a mosque and tried to pray. Entry was fine but prayer forbidden. When the police realised that she wanted to nose around, they said they'd put her in a taxi back to her hotel. Or at least it was painted like one.
"From the outside looked like a taxi, but on the inside was nothing like one — there was no meter, no [payment system], no ID for the driver and no cameras," she said. "The driver drove … very fast and did not stop at any checkpoint until he dropped me off at the hotel."
Beijing, it turned out, has set up a fake taxi service to disguise police cars. She soon realised that the entire province is under heavy surveillance and repression: "There is one gigantic prison that is called Xinjiang," Jariri said in September.
CCP INFLUENCE
'Organised cruelty': who are the Uighurs and why does China want to 'round them up'?
In July, 22 countries including Australia issued a letter demanding that China close the camps and end the repression. Beijing quickly countered by getting 37 client states to put out a letter in praise of the "education centres".
But now incontrovertible evidence of China's program has emerged in the form of some 400 pages of Chinese government documents leaked to The New York Times.
The documents mainly just confirm that the crushing of the Uighur people is a systematic and ruthless repression designed to remove a "virus" from their thinking. Brainwashing and cultural genocide, in other words.
But they also reveal that China's president himself, Xi Jinping, personally led the program that today has perhaps a million, perhaps more Uighurs locked up and forced to forgo their Muslim religious practices and their ethnic culture, forced to drink alcohol, eat pork and speak only in Chinese.
The picture is much bigger, of course. Beijing's authoritarian impulse is limited only by its reach. Where it comes in contact with the world outside, there is attempted repression and liberty is at threat. It was an effort to bring Hong Kong within the reach of the Communist Party's judicial system that provoked the resistance that now spirals way out of control.
Paul Keating says that the Australia media is "hysterical" in its reporting of China.
But Beijing even demands that two Australian members of parliament surrender their free speech and freedom of thought if they want to visit China.
We know from The New York Times' documents that it was Xi Jinping himself who urged his officials to show "absolutely no mercy" to the civilian population of one of his own provinces, no matter how old or young they may be. Who, exactly, is being hysterical?
Peter Hartcher is international editor.
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text:
package probes

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"sync"
)

// Prober is the interface for probes.
type Prober interface {
	// Probe implements a probing method.
	//
	// The returned float64 value will be interpreted by the monitor
	// who run the probe.  Errors occurring within the probe should
	// produce a float64 value indicating the error.
	//
	// ctx.Deadline() is always set.
	// Probe must return immediately when the ctx.Done() is closed.
	// The return value will not be used in such cases.
	Probe(ctx context.Context) float64

	// String returns a descriptive string for this probe.
	String() string
}

// Constructor is a function to create a probe.
//
// params are configuration options for the probe.
type Constructor func(params map[string]interface{}) (Prober, error)

// Errors for probes.
var (
	ErrNotFound = errors.New("probe not found")
)

var (
	registryLock = new(sync.Mutex)
	registry     = make(map[string]Constructor)
)

// Register registers a constructor of a kind of probes.
func Register(name string, ctor Constructor) {
	registryLock.Lock()
	defer registryLock.Unlock()

	if _, ok := registry[name]; ok {
		panic("duplicate probe entry: " + name)
	}

	registry[name] = ctor
}

// Construct constructs a named probe.
// This function is used internally in goma.
func Construct(name string, params map[string]interface{}) (Prober, error) {
	registryLock.Lock()
	ctor, ok := registry[name]
	registryLock.Unlock()

	if !ok {
		return nil, ErrNotFound
	}

	return ctor(params)
}


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text:
import random
import heapq

CPU_POLICY, CPU_QUANTUM = 'fcfs', 3
MEMORY_POLICY, MEMORY_FRAMES = 'fifo', 10
PROCESS_SEQ, PAGE_SEQ = [], []

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# The newseq() and newproc() functions generate a sequence of
# processes and associated page requests
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

def newproc(pid, clock, category):
  working_sets = [[0, 9, 2, 5], [10, 19, 1, 3], [20, 29, 1, 3], [30, 39, 1, 3], [40, 79, 2, 5], [80, 99, 4, 15]]

  # calculate the duration and page requests for this process
  pages = working_sets[category]
  duration = random.randint(pages[2], pages[3])
  anchor = random.randint(pages[0], pages[1] - duration)

  # format: [process identifier, arrival time, [page requests]]
  return [pid, clock, list(range(anchor, anchor + duration))]

def newseq(size):
  categories = [[6, 3, 3, 3, 4, 2], [5, 2, 2, 2, 8, 5], [4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 1]]
  transitions = [3, 5, 8]
  clock, pid, state, result = 0, 0, 0, []

  # generate 0 or more new processes for each time slot
  for i in range(size):
    cycle = categories[state]

    # generate process types: OS, user, web & database
    for j, proc_check in enumerate(cycle):
      if random.randint(0, 9) <= proc_check:
        result.append(newproc(pid, clock, j))
        pid = pid + 1

    # determine whether to advance process cycle
    if random.randint(0, 9) <= transitions[state]:
      state = (state + 1) % 3

    # advance the clock for the next cycle of processes
    clock = clock + 1

  # return the process sequence
  return result

def generate(size):
  global PROCESS_SEQ
  PROCESS_SEQ = newseq(size)

def run():
  global PROCESS_SEQ, PAGE_SEQ

  (PAGE_SEQ, responses, waits, count) = cpu_mechanism(PROCESS_SEQ)
  faults = memory_mechanism(PAGE_SEQ)

  # return the comprehensive statistics for this sequence
  return responses, waits, count, faults

def cpu_mechanism(processes):
  active, arrivals, waiting, clock = [], [], processes[:], 0
  total_procs, total_wait, total_response, page_sequence = 0, 0, 0, []

  # iterate through the process sequence
  while active or waiting:
    # identify the new processes based on the current clock
    arrivals = [proc for proc in waiting if proc[1] <= clock]
    waiting = [proc for proc in waiting if proc[1] > clock]

    # insert arrivals to the active queue
    for proc in arrivals:
      pid, arrived, pages = proc
      priority = cpu_prioritize(arrived, pages, active)
      heapq.heappush(active, [priority, pid, arrived, None, pages])

    # select the next process to be executed
    if active:
      selected = heapq.heappop(active)
      priority, pid, arrived, started, pages = selected
      if not started:
        started = clock
    else:
      clock = min([proc[2] for proc in waiting])
      continue

    # determine duration for the selected process
    duration, remainder = cpu_schedule(pages)

    # assemble the page request sequence
    page_sequence.extend(duration)

    # collect the performance statistics iff the process finished
    if not remainder:
      total_procs, stopped = total_procs + 1, clock + len(duration)
      total_wait = total_wait + (started - arrived)
      total_response = total_response + (stopped - arrived)

    # re-insert the remining process iff necessary
    if remainder:
      priority = cpu_prioritize(arrived, remainder, active)
      heapq.heappush(active, [priority, pid, arrived, started, remainder])

    # advance the clock
    clock = clock + len(duration)

  # return the sequence of page requests and cpu statistics
  return (page_sequence, total_response, total_wait, total_procs)

def cpu_prioritize(arrived, pages, active):
  global CPU_POLICY

  if CPU_POLICY == 'fcfs':
    return arrived
  elif CPU_POLICY == 'sjf':
    return len(pages)
  elif CPU_POLICY == 'rr':
    if active:
      return max([proc[0] for proc in active]) + 1
    else:
      return 0
  elif CPU_POLICY == 'rand':
    return random.randint(0, 1000)
  else: # default of 'fcfs'
    return arrived

def cpu_schedule(pages):
  global CPU_POLICY, CPU_QUANTUM

  pages_copy = pages[:]
  if CPU_POLICY in ['fcfs', 'sjf', 'rand']:
    return pages_copy, []
  elif CPU_POLICY == 'rr':
    return pages_copy[:CPU_QUANTUM], pages_copy[CPU_QUANTUM:]
  else: # default of 'fcfs'
    return pages_copy, []

def memory_mechanism(page_requests):
  global MEMORY_FRAMES

  frames, page_stream = dict(), page_requests[:]
  capacity, faults, clock, victim_ptr = 0, 0, 0, 0

  # iterate through the page request sequence
  for page in page_stream:

    # bring pages not in memory into a free frame
    if page not in frames:
      if capacity < MEMORY_FRAMES:
        frames[page] = [clock, clock, capacity, False]
        capacity = capacity + 1
      else:
        faults = faults + 1
        victim, victim_ptr = memory_target(frames, victim_ptr)
        frames[page] = [clock, clock, victim_ptr, True]
        del frames[victim]

    # update the statistics for pages already in memory
    else:
      frames[page][1], frames[page][2] = clock, True

    # advance the clock
    clock = clock + 1

  # return the memory statistics
  return faults

def memory_target(frames, victim_ptr):
  global MEMORY_POLICY, MEMORY_FRAMES

  candidates = []
  if MEMORY_POLICY == 'lru':
    for key, value in frames.items():
      candidates.append([value[1], key])
    candidates.sort()
    return candidates[0][1], 0
  elif MEMORY_POLICY == 'mru':
    for key, value in frames.items():
      candidates.append([value[1], key])
    candidates.sort()
    candidates.reverse()
    return candidates[0][1], 0
  elif MEMORY_POLICY == 'clock':
    for key, value in frames.items():
      candidates.append([value[2], value[3], key])
    candidates.sort()
    while candidates[victim_ptr][1]:
      candidates[victim_ptr][1] = False
      victim_ptr = (victim_ptr + 1) % len(candidates)
    return candidates[victim_ptr][2], victim_ptr
  elif MEMORY_POLICY == 'rand':
    for key, value in frames.items():
      candidates.append([random.randint(0, 1000), key])
    candidates.sort()
    return candidates[0][1], 0
  else: # default is 'fifo'
    for key, value in frames.items():
      candidates.append([value[0], key])
    candidates.sort()
    return candidates[0][1], 0


In a nutshell, it was ugly. But, for the Boston Celtics, it was an ugly win and that makes all the difference. Sure, you could say that they should never have been so far behind the lowly Atlanta Hawks like they were early on. You could say it was scary that Antoine Walker was the only player who could hit a three-point shot last night. You could say that they looked out-of-sync on offense and defense last night. But you can't say that they lost.
Antoine, made the "jump up out of your chair and pump your fist" play of the game with the Celtics clinging to a small lead as he stole the ball from Al Harrington, pushed it up court, drove the lane, drew the defender, and then dished it to Ricky Davis for an uncontested lay-up. Two points: 1) Two years ago Antoine wouldn't have made it down the court this late in the game with those extra 25 pounds he was carrying around, and 2) I was most impressed that he had the wherewithal to make the pass to Davis when I could just picture him taking it to the rim and getting called for the offensive foul.
I missed Paul Pierce's first-quarter sulk fest, but I was glad to see him pick up his game in the fourth quarter. Ricky Davis looked good as well. I was hoping to see more of Delonte West, especially at the end of the game. Gary Payton may be the veteran point guard, but West is easily the most impressive and sure-handed player when he's on the court.
The real test for the Celtics comes on Friday night against the defending world champion Detroit Pistons. Alas, I will likely miss most of the game due to the fact we're taking the kids to see Robots. Imagine a month ago being concerned with missing a Celtics game? What is this crazy world? Who could have predicted the Celtics would someday outdraw celebrity poker?
It was another classic Boston College choke-job. Following up on the football team's inexplicable melt-down versus Syracuse that cost the school over $12 million by not securing a BCS berth with a win over a .500 team, the men's basketball team came out lethargic, fell behind by 22 at the half and fell short in the second-half comeback. Yes, I did predict this. No need for congratulatory notes, just click the links to the ads and support the sponsors, or at least click through and visit the site. It's all good.
So now BC should be a three seed, and inevitably lose to a fourteen seed. Hooray. Way to go out on top when heading off to the ACC. In a way I feel bad for BC, because their coach, Al Skinner, is a class act and the players are likable guys who were passed over by bigger schools and are playing with a chip on their shoulder. Unfortunately, the magic ride has ended as the 20-0 start has now become 4-4 in their last 8 games.
Looks like Plexico Burress priced himself out of the New York Giants plans. Maybe if he does the same in Minnesota we will be able to grab him on the cheap, if only on a one year deal, later on in free agency if he lasts past the draft.
Wade Miller, according to reports is out for at least April. I say, GOOD! No need to rush him back and that goes double for Curt Schilling and David Wells. It's easier to dig out of an uneven April than to have three pitchers out for the second half of the season because they were rushed in March. Let Matt Clement, Bronson Arroyo, Tim Wakefield, and John Halama handle the load early on. Don't rush anyone!


The loneliness in itself is depressing, and my body is shivering with a doubt.
And at the precipice, I will have the courage to dare.
So it could believe more on what it already knows from the start.
To let me know that I haven't done anything wrong.
As then I wouldn't need to ask you why?
As you promised you would when I ask for it.
And can drape my soul with your golden fleece.
That I was right, and my God is always near.
Be willing to write, and I will not let anybody steal your slate.


text:
namespace gfx {

class ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf : public gfx::ClientNativePixmap {
 public:
  static GFX_EXPORT bool IsConfigurationSupported(gfx::BufferFormat format,
                                                  gfx::BufferUsage usage);

  static std::unique_ptr<gfx::ClientNativePixmap> ImportFromDmabuf(
      gfx::NativePixmapHandle handle,
      const gfx::Size& size,
      gfx::BufferFormat format);

  ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf(const ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf&) = delete;
  ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf& operator=(const ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf&) = delete;

  ~ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf() override;

  // Overridden from ClientNativePixmap.
  bool Map() override;
  void Unmap() override;

  size_t GetNumberOfPlanes() const override;
  void* GetMemoryAddress(size_t plane) const override;
  int GetStride(size_t plane) const override;
  NativePixmapHandle CloneHandleForIPC() const override;

 private:
  static constexpr size_t kMaxPlanes = 4;

  struct PlaneInfo {
    PlaneInfo();
    PlaneInfo(PlaneInfo&& plane_info);
    ~PlaneInfo();

    void* data = nullptr;
    size_t offset = 0;
    size_t size = 0;
  };
  ClientNativePixmapDmaBuf(gfx::NativePixmapHandle handle,
                           const gfx::Size& size,
                           std::array<PlaneInfo, kMaxPlanes> plane_info);

  const gfx::NativePixmapHandle pixmap_handle_;
  const gfx::Size size_;
  const std::array<PlaneInfo, kMaxPlanes> plane_info_;
};

}  // namespace gfx

#endif  // UI_GFX_LINUX_CLIENT_NATIVE_PIXMAP_DMABUF_H_


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Ian Clayton: It's The Beer Talking
by Akeem Balogun
in 132, March 2019
Ian Clayton is an author hailing from Featherstone, West Yorkshire, who has written over 50 books, including the best selling Bringing It All Back Home. His latest book, It's The Beer Talking, is a memoir about his lifelong affection for pubs and includes his accounts of supping ale in local Sheffield public houses to drinking beer in pubs as far away as China.
What made you want to write It's The Beer Talking?
Twelve years ago, I was commissioned to write a book about music by Ian Daley from Route publishing. I decided to write it entirely from memory and it became Bringing It All Back Home. I enjoyed writing it so much that I thought I would like to write about pubs using that same approach. I recalled pubs I have known - some have closed, others are in danger of going. I wanted to preserve a memory of them, so it's a book about my adventures in pubs over 40-odd years.
In the book you've managed to recall the countless pubs you've visited and the drinks you've tasted despite...
Drinking destroying brain cells.
I'm blessed with a really good photographic memory, but I have lots of moleskin diaries, and I keep one with me wherever I go. Especially when I travel, so that I can tell people I meet a bit about where I'm from. This is also something a pub can be, a place for cultural exchange.
Localness can be anywhere you feel at home
As well as writing about pubs that are no longer here, you write about friends that have passed. Was that challenging?
It was, but whenever I write about loved ones who have passed I try to make them a metaphor for something as we go through life. They become a meaning.
The closing of pubs is a national scandal. Think about where people get together, pubs, community centres, libraries, these are the places we're losing. This country has no problem spending countless amounts on wars but will close libraries or not attempt to keep pubs open. It's almost as if the places and people who want to keep us together are the ones to blame for the country not having enough.
Why do you make the distinction between community and localness in the book?
Because I don't like the way the word 'community' has been hijacked. It's now used to lump us all together. My community in Featherstone is different to the community in let's say Milton Keynes, but it seems like the powers that be don't want different communities to have different ideas, to be positively independent. A community should have its own pub, library, baker and so on, not be a collective term for a group that has the same monetary or political interest. What I think we ought to be talking about when we now mention community is locality. I can go to a mining town in Poland and feel more at home than at a pub that is only a few miles away from me, which shows localness can be anywhere you feel at home, whether it's in any part of this country or beyond.
What Sheffield pub and ale do you like most?
Sheffield is blessed with great pubs, but what's been done with the Fat Cat is tremendous. They brew incredible beers, such as Pale Rider, which is superb.
If you could recommend one pub, which would it be?
Anyone's best pub will be the one closest to them, their local. My favourite pub is always my local, wherever local may be, but if I were pushed to pick one, it would be The Greyhound in Saxton. It has tiny rooms, low ceiling beams, only one beer to choose from and it's only toilet is outside and has a swallow's nest in it. Whenever I go to The Greyhound and see the swallows in their nest, I know that no matter what, all is right in the world.
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Q: Integration variables in path integral The path integral kernel for a one-dimensional system is given by
$$K(x_a,x_b,t_a,t_b) = \sqrt{\frac{m}{2\pi \hbar i \epsilon}}^N
\int_{-\infty}^\infty \cdots \int_{-\infty}^\infty
\exp \left( \frac{i}{\hbar} S[x] \right) dx_1 \ldots dx_{N-1}$$
where
$$S[x] = \int_{t_a}^{t_b} L(x,\dot{x}) dt$$
See formulas (2.27) and (2.26) in the PhD thesis of I. Ruokosenmäki.
How does the action $S[x]$ depend on the integration variables $x_i$?


Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, has always been a favorite destination for Big Game anglers. Some years ago the Baja Anglers company started an agency as an outfitter for light tackle & fly fishing. Baja Anglers use sea - worthy fast Catamaran Hull Glacier boats. Species available: Blue, Striped, Blue & Black Marlin, Sailfish, Dorado, Yellowfin & Blackfin Tuna, Wahoo and Roosterfish . November - April is considered as a great time to catch Striped Marlin on the fly.
Grant Hartman owner of Baja Anglers and his captains have fly fishing experience and know exactly how to tease the fish at casting distance. All packages are tailor – made and all types of accommodation are available. Cabo San Lucas is a great place for non–fishermen.
"Jos Arets from Holland caught a huge roosterfish. My boat broke down that day and Jos graciously gave the day to my other client, and then Jos and I took off on one of my beach trips. We put around 150 miles on my truck that day, only to catch that fish 20 miles from Cabo. We fished hard all day in a 25-mile hour cold north wind. Late in the day Jos caught a 1 lb. roosterfish. Then we really fished hard as BIG roosterfish love to eat small baby roosterfish. A few minutes later Jos missed a fish that was at least a foot and half longer than the one he caught. 80 lbs. plus. Then this monster hit one of my roosterfish no name flies. The fight was around 15 to 20 minutes long.


What is the change? China has lifted visa requirements for nationals of the United Arab Emirates.
What does the change mean? UAE nationals are now able to travel to China for short-stay business, tourism or to visit family without first obtaining a visa. Visa-free entry will be valid for stays of up to 30 days.
Implementation time frame: Ongoing. The change took effect in January.
Who is affected: UAE nationals traveling to China.
Business impact: Business travelers are among those covered by the arrangement.
Background: Even before the change, the UAE allowed Chinese nationals to visit the UAE for 30 days without first obtaining a visa. Chinese officials have now lifted visa requirements for UAE nationals, saying it will help boost business and tourism between the two countries.
BAL Analysis: The visa arrangement will ease travel for UAE nationals traveling to China for business, tourism or to visit families. Travelers should note that work activities require work authorization.


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Vygotsky, Education and Revolution
Palestinian Cultures of Resistance
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Doming...
Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain
Breaking Up The British State: Scotland, Independence and So...
32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a Uni...
A Rebel's Guide to George Orwell
Orwell & 1984: A Talk by Paul Foot
The Pilgrims of Hope
Rebellious Daughters of History
The Hammer And The Anvil
Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the...
Transgender Resistance: Socialism And The Fight For Trans Li...
Anthropology & Sociology
Cultural & Literary Theory
Film, TV and Theatre
As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
Slorach's groundbreaking and accessible book will demonstrate the relevance of a Marxist understanding of disability to a whole new generation of disability activists
This book seeks to challenge the idea that racism is inevitable by taking a critical look at the origins and history of racism in Britain and abroad.
Martin Empson draws on a Marxist understanding of history to grapple with the contradictory potential of our relationship with our environment.
The remarkable memoir by Marek Edelman, member of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance five-person command team
Marx's Capital is back where it belongs, at the centre of debate about Marxism and its purchase on the contemporary world.
As Dave Sherry shows in this accessible history, working class people suffered during WWI, but also began to fight back in the Russian and German revolutions.
The general strike of 1842, the first of its kind, involved up to half a million workers from Dundee to South Wales to Cornwall.


Ken Dorsey was a quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes during their 2001 and 2002 back to back national championship appearances. He was one of the most successful Miami quarterbacks of all time twice winning the Archie Manning Award and NCAA Quarterback of the Year Award. In spite of the fact that his college football career had been so successful he still fell all the way to the 7th round of the NFL draft. Dorsey spent five years in the league with the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns but never as more than a backup. His Wonderlic Test Score of 25 places him one point above average for quarterbacks and one point below average for offensive linemen.


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Simultaneous onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus and silent thyroiditis under durvalumab treatment
Jose León Mengíbar, Ismael Capel, Teresa Bonfill, Isabel Mazarico, Laia Casamitjana Espuña, Assumpta Caixàs and Mercedes Rigla
Durvalumab, a human immunoglobulin G1 kappa monoclonal antibody that blocks the interaction of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) with the PD-1 and CD80 (B7.1) molecules, is increasingly used in advanced neoplasias. Durvalumab use is associated with increased immune-related adverse events. We report a case of a 55-year-old man who presented to our emergency room with hyperglycaemia after receiving durvalumab for urothelial high-grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. On presentation, he had polyuria, polyphagia, nausea and vomiting, and laboratory test revealed diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Other than durvalumab, no precipitating factors were identified. Pre-durvalumab blood glucose was normal. The patient responded to treatment with intravenous fluids, insulin and electrolyte replacement. Simultaneously, he presented a thyroid hormone pattern that evolved in 10 weeks from subclinical hyperthyroidism (initially attributed to iodinated contrast used in a previous computerised tomography) to overt hyperthyroidism and then to severe primary hypothyroidism (TSH: 34.40 µU/mL, free thyroxine (FT4): <0.23 ng/dL and free tri-iodothyronine (FT3): 0.57 pg/mL). Replacement therapy with levothyroxine was initiated. Finally, he was tested positive for anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), anti-thyroglobulin (Tg) and antithyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies (Abs) and diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and silent thyroiditis caused by durvalumab. When durvalumab was stopped, he maintained the treatment of multiple daily insulin doses and levothyroxine. Clinicians need to be alerted about the development of endocrinopathies, such as DM, DKA and primary hypothyroidism in the patients receiving durvalumab.
Patients treated with anti-PD-L1 should be screened for the most common immune-related adverse events (irAEs).
Glucose levels and thyroid function should be monitored before and during the treatment.
Durvalumab is mainly associated with thyroid and endocrine pancreas dysfunction.
In the patients with significant autoimmune background, risk–benefit balance of antineoplastic immunotherapy should be accurately assessed.
Plurihormonal Pit-1 lineage adenoma presenting as meningitis with recurrence after somatostatin analogue
Yoko Olmedilla, Shoaib Khan, Victoria Young, Robin Joseph, Simon Cudlip, Olaf Ansgorge, Ashley Grossman and Aparna Pal
A 21 year-old woman was found to have a pituitary macroadenoma following an episode of haemophilus meningitis. Biochemical TSH and GH excess was noted, although with no clear clinical correlates. She was treated with a somatostatin analogue (SSA), which restored the euthyroid state and controlled GH hypersecretion, but she re-presented with a further episode of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak and recurrent meningitis. Histology following transsphenoidal adenomectomy revealed a Pit-1 lineage plurihormonal adenoma expressing GH, TSH and PRL. Such plurihormonal pituitary tumours are uncommon and even more unusual to present with spontaneous bacterial meningitis. The second episode of CSF leak and meningitis appears to have been due to SSA therapy-induced tumour shrinkage, which is not a well-described phenomenon in the literature for this type of tumour.
Pit-1 lineage GH/TSH/PRL-expressing plurihormonal pituitary adenomas are uncommon. Moreover, this case is unique as the patient first presented with bacterial meningitis.
Inmunohistochemical plurihormonality of pituitary adenomas does not necessarily correlate with biochemical and clinical features of hormonal hypersecretion.
Given that plurihormonal Pit-1 lineage adenomas may behave more aggressively than classical pituitary adenomas, accurate pathological characterization of these tumours has an increasing prognostic relevance.
Although unusual, a CSF leak and meningitis may be precipitated by SSA therapy of a pituitary macroadenoma via tumour shrinkage.
Rapid-onset diabetic ketoacidosis secondary to nivolumab therapy
Senhong Lee, Aparna Morgan, Sonali Shah and Peter R Ebeling
We report a case of a 67-year-old man with type 2 diabetes presented with diabetic ketoacidosis, two weeks after his first dose of nivolumab therapy for non–small-cell lung carcinoma. He was started on empagliflozin two days prior in the setting of hyperglycaemia after the initiation of nivolumab therapy. Laboratory evaluation revealed an undetectable C-peptide and a positive anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody. He was treated with intravenous fluids and insulin infusion and was subsequently transitioned to subcutaneous insulin and discharged home. He subsequently has developed likely autoimmune thyroiditis and autoimmune encephalitis.
Glycemic surveillance in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors is recommended.
Early glycemic surveillance after commencement of anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors may be indicated in selected populations, including patients with underlying type 2 diabetes mellitus and positive anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody.
Sodium-glucose co transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors should be used with caution in patients on immunotherapy.
Persistent hyperthyroidism and de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy after total thyroidectomy
Wei Lin Tay, Wann Jia Loh, Lianne Ai Ling Lee and Chiaw Ling Chng
We report a patient with Graves' disease who remained persistently hyperthyroid after a total thyroidectomy and also developed de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy 5 months after surgery. She was subsequently found to have a mature cystic teratoma containing struma ovarii after undergoing a total hysterectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy for an incidental ovarian lesion.
It is important to investigate for other causes of primary hyperthyroidism when thyrotoxicosis persists after total thyroidectomy.
TSH receptor antibody may persist after total thyroidectomy and may potentially contribute to the development of de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy.
Thyroidectomy for the treatment of Graves' thyrotoxicosis in thioamide-induced agranulocytosis and sepsis
Colin L Knight, Shamil D Cooray, Jaideep Kulkarni, Michael Borschmann and Mark Kotowicz
A 51 year old man presented with sepsis in the setting of thioamide-induced agranulocytosis. Empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics was followed by directed narrow-spectrum antibiotics, and his neutrophil count recovered with support from granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) analogue transfusions. After a brief period of multi-modal therapy for nine days including potassium iodide (Lugol's iodine), cholestyramine, propanolol and lithium to temper his persisting hyperthyroidism, a total thyroidectomy was performed while thyroid hormone levels remained at thyrotoxic levels. Postoperative recovery was uncomplicated and he was discharged home on thyroxine. There is limited available evidence to guide treatment in this unique cohort of patients who require prompt management to avert impending clinical deterioration. This case report summarises the successful emergent control of thyrotoxicosis in the setting of thioamide-induced agranulocytosis complicated by sepsis, and demonstrates the safe use of multi-modal pharmacological therapies in preparation for total thyroidectomy.
Thioamide-induced agranulocytosis is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of which all prescribers and patients need to be aware.
A multi-modal preoperative pharmacological approach can be successful, even when thioamides are contraindicated, when needing to prepare a thyrotoxic patient for semi-urgent total thyroidectomy.
There is not enough evidence to confidently predict the safe timing when considering total thyroidectomy in this patient cohort, and therefore it should be undertaken when attempts have first been made to safely reduce thyroid hormone levels.
Thyroid storm is frequently cited as a potentially severe complication of thyroid surgery undertaken in thyrotoxic patients, although the evidence does not demonstrate this as a common occurrence.
An FSH and TSH pituitary adenoma, presenting with precocious puberty and central hyperthyroidism
Guadalupe Vargas, Lourdes-Josefina Balcazar-Hernandez, Virgilio Melgar, Roser-Montserrat Magriña-Mercado, Baldomero Gonzalez, Javier Baquera and Moisés Mercado
A 19-year-old woman with a history of isosexual precocious puberty and bilateral oophorectomy at age 10 years because of giant ovarian cysts, presents with headaches and mild symptoms and signs of hyperthyroidism. Hormonal evaluation revealed elevated FSH and LH levels in the postmenopausal range and free hyperthyroxinemia with an inappropriately normal TSH. Pituitary MRI showed a 2-cm macroadenoma with suprasellar extension. She underwent successful surgical resection of the pituitary tumor, which proved to be composed of two distinct populations of cells, each of them strongly immunoreactive for FSH and TSH, respectively. This mixed adenoma resulted in two different hormonal hypersecretion syndromes: the first one during childhood and consisting of central precocious puberty and ovarian hyperstimulation due to the excessive secretion of biologically active FSH and which was not investigated in detail and 10 years later, central hyperthyroidism due to inappropriate secretion of biologically active TSH. Although infrequent, two cases of isosexual central precocious puberty in girls due to biologically active FSH secreted by a pituitary adenoma have been previously reported in the literature. However, this is the first reported case of a mixed adenoma capable of secreting both, biologically active FSH and TSH.
Although functioning gonadotrophinomas are infrequent, they should be included in the differential diagnosis of isosexual central precocious puberty.
Some functioning gonadotrophinomas are mixed adenomas, secreting other biologically active hormones besides FSH, such as TSH.
Early recognition and appropriate treatment of these tumors by transsphenoidal surgery is crucial in order to avoid unnecessary therapeutic interventions that may irreversibly compromise gonadal function.
Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 affect the severity of Graves' disease
Alfredo Di Cerbo, Federica Pezzuto and Alessandro Di Cerbo
Graves' disease, the most common form of hyperthyroidism in iodine-replete countries, is associated with the presence of immunoglobulins G (IgGs) that are responsible for thyroid growth and hyperfunction. In this article, we report the unusual case of a patient with acromegaly and a severe form of Graves' disease. Here, we address the issue concerning the role of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) in influencing thyroid function. Severity of Graves' disease is exacerbated by coexistent acromegaly and both activity indexes and symptoms and signs of Graves' disease improve after the surgical remission of acromegaly. We also discuss by which signaling pathways GH and IGF1 may play an integrating role in regulating the function of the immune system in Graves' disease and synergize the stimulatory activity of Graves' IgGs.
Clinical observations have demonstrated an increased prevalence of euthyroid and hyperthyroid goiters in patients with acromegaly.
The coexistence of acromegaly and Graves' disease is a very unusual event, the prevalence being <1%.
Previous in vitro studies have showed that IGF1 synergizes the TSH-induced thyroid cell growth-activating pathways independent of TSH/cAMP/PKA cascade.
We report the first case of a severe form of Graves' disease associated with acromegaly and show that surgical remission of acromegaly leads to a better control of symptoms of Graves' disease.
Fatal outcome in a Hispanic woman with moyamoya syndrome and Graves' disease
Julian Choi, Perin Suthakar and Farbod Farmand
We describe the case of a young Hispanic female who presented with thyrotoxicosis with seizures and ischemic stroke. She was diagnosed with a rare vasculopathy – moyamoya syndrome. After starting antithyroid therapy, her neurologic symptoms did not improve. Acute neurosurgical intervention had relieved her symptoms in the immediate post-operative period after re-anastomosis surgery. However, 2 post-operative days later, she was found to be in status epilepticus and in hyperthyroid state. She quickly deteriorated clinically and had expired a few days afterward. This is the second case in literature of a fatality in a patient with moyamoya syndrome and Graves' disease. However, unlike the other case report, our patient had undergone successful revascularization surgery. We believe her underlying non-euthyroid state had potentiated her clinical deterioration. Case studies have shown positive correlation between uncontrolled hyperthyroidism and stroke-like symptoms in moyamoya syndrome. Mostly all patients with these two disease processes become symptomatic in marked hyperthyroid states. Thus, it may be either fluctuations in baseline thyroid function or thyrotoxicosis that potentiate otherwise asymptomatic moyamoya vasculopathy.
Awareness of the association between Graves' disease and moyamoya syndrome in younger patients presenting with stroke-like symptoms.
Obtaining euthyroid states before undergoing revascularization surgery may protect the patient from perioperative mortality and morbidity.
Although moyamoya disease is usually thought to be genetically associated, there are reports that thyroid antibodies may play a role in its pathogenesis and have an autoimmune link.
Fluctuations in baseline thyroid function for patients with known Graves' disease may be a potentiating factor in exacerbating moyamoya vasculopathy.
Association of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes and autoimmune pancreatitis
Laila Ennazk, Ghizlane El Mghari and Nawal El Ansari
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a new nosological entity in which a lymphocytic infiltration of the exocrine pancreas is involved. The concomitant onset of autoimmune pancreatitis and type 1 diabetes has been recently described suggesting a unique immune disturbance that compromises the pancreatic endocrine and exocrine functions. We report a case of type1 diabetes onset associated with an autoimmune pancreatitis in a young patient who seemed to present a type 2 autoimmune polyglandular syndrome. This rare association offers the opportunity to better understand pancreatic autoimmune disorders in type 1 diabetes.
The case makes it possible to understand the possibility of a simultaneous disturbance of the endocrine and exocrine function of the same organ by one autoimmune process.
The diagnosis of type 1 diabetes should make practitioner seek other autoimmune diseases. It is recommended to screen for autoimmune thyroiditis and celiac diseases. We draw attention to consider the autoimmune origin of a pancreatitis associated to type1 diabetes.
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a novel rare entity that should be known as it is part of the IgG4-related disease spectrum.


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1. In the WP 2.0 admin, go to Options, Writing. Under Formatting at the top, uncheck "Users should use the visual rich editor by default." Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Update Options." This will change the default setting, which can still be altered for individual users (see method #2).
If you are the only user on your blog, either method is fine. If you're not, use method #1 to apply the change to all users, and method #2 to apply it to just yourself.
You can use a program like Wenlin to generate the tone-marked pinyin, then copy and paste, but online tools like Mark's Pinyin Tone Tool are just as quick and easy to use. Adsotrans can give you the pinyin straight from the characters (choose "Pinyin" under Style).
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Changi Airport handled 51,181,804 passengers in 2012. That's MORE THAN TWICE Australia's population! That's also roughly 10 times of Sing...
Total air freight handled...
More than 1.8 million tonnes of freight was handled, equivalent to the weight of 14,500 blue whales.
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Total number of awards wo...
Having won more than 420 awards and accolades since 1981, Changi Airport is the world's most awarded airport.
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Changi Airport's busiest day in history (22 December 2012) saw 180,400 passengers passing through. That's about 2 passengers every second...
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La daïra de Souk El Ténine est une circonscription administrative algérienne située dans la wilaya de Béjaïa et la région de Petite Kabylie. Son chef-lieu est situé sur la commune éponyme de Souk El Ténine.

La daïra regroupe les trois communes de  Souk El Ténine, Melbou et Tamridjet.

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A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set of distributions. The family of source distribution sets (source sets) is categorized into three classes, based on different levels of prior knowledge they capture. For source sets whose convex hull includes the uniform distribution, symmetric DP mechanisms are optimal. For source sets whose probability values have a fixed monotonic ordering, asymmetric DP mechanisms are optimal. For all other source sets, general upper and lower bounds on the optimal privacy leakage are developed and necessary and sufficient conditions for tightness are established. Differentially private leakage is an upper bound on mutual information leakage: the two criteria are compared analytically and numerically to illustrate the effect of adopting a stronger privacy criterion.
© 2018 IEEE. Manuscript received July 21, 2017; revised January 22, 2018 and April 5, 2018; accepted April 6, 2018. Date of publication April 30, 2018; date of current version May 23, 2018. The work of K. Kalantari and L. Sankar was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CIF-1422358. The work of A. D. Sarwate was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCF-1453432 and Grant SaTC-1617849, in part by DARPA, and in part by SSC Pacific under Grant N66001-15-C-4070. This paper was presented in part at the 52nd Annual Allerton Conference  and in part at the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory . The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Tobias Oechtering.


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Q: Components to navigate to another page with React Router is it proper to write components like this? I want to redirect user to another page after click on button in my menu? What should i change here? Maybe use Link instead of button?
import React from 'react';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';
import './MyAccountButton.scss';

const MyAccountButton = ({ path }) => {
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  const handleButtonClick = () => {
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  return (
    <div className="my-account-button">
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};

export default MyAccountButton;

PS. Any advices how to unit test this component with jest and enzyme??


Everyone has food cravings from time to time. If you have them a lot, this can be extremely frustrating, especially if you are trying to lose weight. When most people have cravings, they think they are hungry. However, most of the time when you have cravings, there is more of a reason to it than that. Figuring out why you are having cravings can help to make sure you keep eating healthy and stick to your weight loss plan.
If you crave chocolate, you are not alone. Many men crave chocolate at random times throughout the day. When you crave chocolate what you need is to get more magnesium. What are you supposed to do about this? Instead of eating chocolate, you should eat nuts, fruits, vegetables or seeds.
If you have cravings for sugary foods, this is very normal. It happens to just about everyone. However, you don't want those sugary foods; you may need Tryptophan, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Carbon or Chromium. If you need Tryptophan you should eat raisins, cheese, spinach or sweet potatoes. If you need Sulphur you should eat horseradish, cauliflower, cabbage or cranberries. If you need Phosphorus you should eat beef, chicken, eggs, fatty fish, vegetables, nuts, dairy or grains. If you need Carbon you should eat fresh fruits. Finally, if you need Chromium you should eat grapes, broccoli, chicken and cheese.
If you have cravings for carbs such as pasta, bread and other types of carbs you should do something about it. The truth is you don't want those foods; your body needs Nitrogen. When you need Nitrogen, you should be eating fatty fish, high protein foods, beans, nuts and even chia seeds.
When you crave oily foods, what your body needs is Calcium. Calcium can be found in many foods but you don't need to get it from oily foods. In fact, you can get Calcium from cheese, organic milk and even green leafy type vegetables as well.
It can be difficult to fight off cravings for salty foods. However, if you know what your body needs instead that can help. Your body needs Silicon or Chloride. If you need Silicon you should eat seeds, nuts or cashews. If you need Chloride you should have goat milk, cheese or organic milk.
Cravings can be a real pain, especially if you are trying to lose weight. People believe that when they have cravings, it is for the foods they are craving. However, the reason for this is because you think that is the way to get what you want or need. Your body doesn't need the chocolate, sugary foods, carbs, oily foods or salty foods. Your body needs other things as mentioned above.