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Sea-faring Robin finds new niche
GOLF: Robin Mann, for years Suffolk's most successful golfer, has found a new niche in the game. Since he left Waldringfield Heath in October, Robin has been cruising around some of the hot spots of the world teaching the game aboard ship.
ROBIN Mann, for years Suffolk's most successful golfer, has found a new niche in the game.
Since he left Waldringfield Heath in October, Robin has been cruising around some of the hot spots of the world teaching the game aboard ship.
In the last three months Robin has been to the Caribbean, the Canaries and Capetown in South Africa for a fortnight at a time, and yesterday he set sail for Mombassa in Africa on a cruise that will go on to Jordan in the Middle East.
Robin teaches golf aboard the Black Watch, a cruise ship owned by Fred Olsen. Robin has, in fact, had a tie-up with Fred Olsen for the last eight years, but since leaving Waldringfield has devoted much more time to this side of the golf business.
Starting in March, six more cruises are planned for this year known as Golf Special Interest Cruises – four to the Canaries, and one each to the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
For anybody that books a cruise and takes up the extra option of the golf, there is a special programme.
Robin said: "I give five 30-minute lessons, there is a welcoming party, four rounds of golf, a couple of lectures, competitions and a prize-giving and reception.
"On the top deck of the Black Watch there are three 12-metre bays."
Playing golf in some of the more exotic places in the world seems idyllic and Robin said: "I call it the perfect golf holiday. When you're not on the golf course or having lessons, the ship has got all the amenities with entertainment and other sports.
"I reckon cruising and golf are the perfect match."
On June 2, Robin – a member of the European Tour between 1975 and 1996 – celebrates 30 years as professional.
Now Robin, 46, plans to concentrate on cruises in the future.
"I thoroughly enjoy it," he said. "Fourteen days at sea is ideal, and in any case I like to keep busy.
"On the last cruise I gave more than 100 lessons and when we go out on the golf courses, I make sure I play a few holes with everybody."
In between cruises, Robin spends two days a week developing golf at Copleston Sports Centre, and when he's away Kelvin Vince (Fynn Valley) takes charge.
As far as his own game is concerned, Robin said: "It is in tick-over mode. I keep it in shape and on the cruises I have the opportunity of practising in the evenings because the bays are floodlit.
"I haven't made any plans for the summer. My game's not tournament sharp at the moment and I play when I feel like it."
When he's at home Robin takes a keen interest in the golfing progress of 12-year-old son Curtis, whose handicap is 15.6 at Rushmere and appears to be following in his father's footsteps.
If anybody fancies what Robin describes as the perfect golf holiday, they should ring the Fred Olsen Cruise Line reservations on 01473 742424.


Scrambled eggs were never something I wanted hanging around at brunch. I think I had them too often in college and they eventually grew to nauseate me (which is also the case with SoCo and raspberry-flavored vodka).
I recently learned the French technique to silky, soft scrambled eggs, and I'm gradually warming up to them again. Not to the point of eating them in my underwear, but close.
Heat a non-stick pan over low heat. Add the beaten eggs to the pan, along with a healthy glug of cream, milk or water. (Obviously, cream or milk will give you a richer flavor. I had neither in the apartment so I settled for water, which worked just fine. Happens to be a healthier option, as well.) Season with S & P and a generous dose of hot sauce. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until the eggs just begin to thicken.
What's next? Well, I guess you could eat 'em.


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I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to a great ambassador for the fantastic sport of basketball, NBL great—and one of Wollongong's favourites—Oscar Forman, who announced a week and a half ago that he was stepping down from his professional career as a basketballer.
He wasn't born in Wollongong. In fact, he started his basketball career shooting hoops in the driveway in suburban Adelaide. He started his professional career in 2001, a career which extended over 17 years. He played over those 17 years for the Adelaide 36ers, the New Zealand Breakers, and, most recently, for my team, the Illawarra Hawks.
He won a championship with the 36ers in his first season and when he came to Wollongong, in his first season with the Hawks, he was named the NBL's most improved player. He played two grand finals for the Hawks and, on his retirement, his 511 games ranked him 11th of all time. He was fantastic from outside the boundary. His field goal record will be famous for a long time in the NBL. His 904 three-pointers rank him 13th of all time. He's a great human being. We wish him well in his future life. He's recently become a dad. We wish him, his partner and his family all the very best for the future.


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Is this how Muhyiddin responds to a constitutional crisis?
The Prime Minister Should Not Precipitate A Constitutional Crisis By Subverting The Royal Decree From The King And State Rulers To Convene Parliament As Soon As Possible Through Delays And Meaningless Professions Of "Taken Note".
Prime Minister Mahiaddin Md Yasin should not precipitate a constitutional crisis by subverting the royal decree from the King and State Rulers to convene Parliament as soon as possible, through delays and meaningless professions of "taken note". Responding to the royal decree through the Prime Minister Office(PMO) is unusual, when it is normal for the Prime Minister to reply personally to such an important pronouncement.
Whether the Prime Minister is demonstrating his dissatisfaction is only known to him, but the PMO statement yesterday is long on meaningless generalities and devoid of practical details. No mention was made by PMO as to how the government will engage in follow-up measures based on the Federal Constitution and laws of the country.
Neither was there any clarity when Parliament will be allowed to convene to fulfil the required condition of the King to convene "as soon as possible".
Is Takiyuddin more interested in playing semantics?
Is it three or four months later in September or October, as stated by the Prime Minister before the Royal decree and repeated by de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan yesterday?
Malaysians had expected the Prime Minister to demonstrate his loyalty to the Royal decree by immediately implementing the King's wish for Parliament to be reconvened as soon as possible. The King wants to see MPs perform their elected role to debate the National Recovery Plan(NRP), the financial aid needed to mitigate the economic suffering of the rakyat losing their jobs, businesses and economic livelihoods, National Immunisation Programme and the country's Covid-19 response.
Similarly, the Prime Minister should give effect to the wishes of the State Rulers that the state of emergency should not be extended beyond the scheduled August 1 expiry date and that Putrajaya permit both Parliament and State Assemblies to be reconvened. All three PH state governments in Penang, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan have publicly declared their readiness to comply with the Royal decree to hold state assembly meetings as soon as possible.
UMNO state governments are expected to follow suit. Only the PAS state governments adopt an ostrich in the sand approach by pretending that nothing is happening.
"There is therefore a real risk of a constitutional crisis if the Prime Minister stubbornly refuses to adhere to the royal decree either through delaying tactics or just inaction in the form of taken note." – Lim Guan Eng
Parliament is suspended through the exercise of emergency powers issued in the name of the King. If the King wishes for Parliament to be convened and the Prime Minister refuses to give effect to this, then this disputes the legality and legitimacy of the exercise of this emergency power suspending Parliament.
For the Prime Minister to refuse to comply with the wishes of the King to revoke the suspension of Parliament that is issued under the King's name, is analogous to the Prime Minister illegally using his glamour name Muhyiddin Yassin instead of his real name Mahiaddin Md Yasin. Further, Parliament complies with the 3 criteria for reopening under the NRP.
Mahiaddin had announced that Parliament is scheduled to reopen only if the new daily Covid-19 case count falls below 2,000 and the vaccination rate has reached 40 percent, "sufficient" beds at Intensive Care Units (ICU) available to Covid-19 patients. There are zero daily COVID-19 cases involving MPs, no MPs are receiving treatment under ICU and all MPs are fully vaccinated. Mahiaddin has no rationale or excuse not to reopen Parliament.
Lim Guan Eng
DAP Secretary General
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Bilateral relations exist between Bangladesh and Austria. Relations between the two countries have been considered cordial with both the countries working towards further strengthen it.

History
Because of the roughly 7000 km long distance, historical contacts between the two countries have been rather small. Following the establishment of the Ostend Company, Austrian ships began to travel to Bengal where they opened factories. The early history of ties between Austria and Bangladesh can be seen when a number of Bangladeshis travelled to the Austria for further educational purposes starting in the 20th century; namely Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy.

Large quantities of jute used to be transported from Bengal to Austria due to the efforts of the Ralli Brothers in the early 1800s. The two countries fought the two World Wars against each other, with Austria (as Austria-Hungary) being one of the dominant Central Powers in World War I and part of Adolf Hitler's national socialist Third Reich in World War II and Bangladesh being a part of the British Raj, a colony of the United Kingdom, which fought Austria (respectively Germany, which Austria was a part of from 1938 to 1945) on both occasions. Abdul Motaleb Malik, a notable Bengali politician, was the Pakistani ambassador to Austria in the 50s, long before the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971.

Prior to the security printing press's commissioning in 1989, the Bangla Post got some of their stamps printed in Austria.

High level visits
Former foreign minister of Bangladesh Dipu Moni paid a visit to Vienna in 2013.

Areas for cooperation
Bangladesh and Austria have identified power and energy, health, education, tourism, human resource development and waste management as promising sectors for bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Educational cooperation
The education sector have been seen as a potential area for bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Bangladesh and Austria have put emphasis on educational exchange programs between the two countries. Bangladesh has sought Austria's cooperation to increase the number of Austrian scholarship for Bangladeshi students.

Economic cooperation
Bangladesh and Austria have shown their deep interest to expand the bilateral economic activities between the two countries and have been taking necessary steps in this regard. As of 2013, the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries stands at €400 million. About 30 Austria based multinational firms are operating in Bangladesh.

See also
 Foreign relations of Austria
 Foreign relations of Bangladesh
 Embassy of Bangladesh, Vienna

References

Bilateral relations of Bangladesh
Bangladesh

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And it's a wrap…nearly 3 years in the works, here is the Halls Gap Art Wall in full. "The Six Seasons of Gariwerd (Grampians)". Strata Art Collective has thanked the most amazing community for their support to make this happen!! What a project. What a team!


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from tools.docco.rl_doc_utils import *

Appendix1("ReportLab Demos")
disc("""In the subdirectories of $reportlab/demos$ there are a number of working examples showing
almost all aspects of reportlab in use.""")

heading2("""Odyssey""")
disc("""
The three scripts odyssey.py, dodyssey.py and fodyssey.py all take the file odyssey.txt
and produce PDF documents. The included odyssey.txt is short; a longer and more testing version
can be found at ftp://ftp.reportlab.com/odyssey.full.zip.
""")
eg("""
Windows
cd reportlab\\demos\\odyssey
python odyssey.py
start odyssey.pdf

Linux
cd reportlab/demos/odyssey
python odyssey.py
acrord odyssey.pdf
""")
disc("""Simple formatting is shown by the odyssey.py script. It runs quite fast,
but all it does is gather the text and force it onto the canvas pages. It does no paragraph
manipulation at all so you get to see the XML < & > tags.
""")
disc("""The scripts fodyssey.py and dodyssey.py handle paragraph formatting so you get
to see colour changes etc. Both scripts
use the document template class and the dodyssey.py script shows the ability to do dual column
layout and uses multiple page templates.
""")

heading2("""Standard Fonts and Colors""")
disc("""In $reportlab/demos/stdfonts$ the script stdfonts.py can be used to illustrate
ReportLab's standard fonts. Run the script using""")
eg("""
cd reportlab\\demos\\stdfonts
python stdfonts.py
""")
disc("""
to produce two PDF documents, StandardFonts_MacRoman.pdf &
StandardFonts_WinAnsi.pdf which show the two most common built in
font encodings.
""")
disc("""The colortest.py script in $reportlab/demos/colors$ demonstrates the different ways in which
reportlab can set up and use colors.""")
disc("""Try running the script and viewing the output document, colortest.pdf. This shows
different color spaces and a large selection of the colors which are named
in the $reportlab.lib.colors$ module.
""")
heading2("""Py2pdf""")
disc("""Dinu Gherman contributed this useful script
which uses reportlab to produce nicely colorized PDF documents from Python
scripts including bookmarks for classes, methods and functions.
To get a nice version of the main script try""")
eg("""
cd reportlab/demos/py2pdf
python py2pdf.py py2pdf.py
acrord py2pdf.pdf
""")
disc("""i.e. we used py2pdf to produce a nice version of py2pdf.py in
the document with the same rootname and a .pdf extension.
""")
disc("""
The py2pdf.py script has many options which are beyond the scope of this
simple introduction; consult the comments at the start of the script.
""")
heading2("Gadflypaper")
disc("""
The Python script, gfe.py, in $reportlab/demos/gadflypaper$ uses an inline style of
document preparation. The script almost entirely produced by Aaron Watters produces a document
describing Aaron's $gadfly$ in memory database for Python. To generate the document use
""")
eg("""
cd reportlab\\gadflypaper
python gfe.py
start gfe.pdf
""")
disc("""
everything in the PDF document was produced by the script which is why this is an inline style
of document production. So, to produce a header followed by some text the script uses functions
$header$ and $p$ which take some text and append to a global story list.
""")
eg('''
header("Conclusion")

p("""The revamped query engine design in Gadfly 2 supports
..........
and integration.""")
''')
heading2("""Pythonpoint""")
disc("""Andy Robinson has refined the pythonpoint.py script (in $reportlab\\demos\\pythonpoint$)
until it is a really useful script. It takes an input file containing an XML markup
and uses an xmllib style parser to map the tags into PDF slides. When run in its own directory
pythonpoint.py takes as a default input the file pythonpoint.xml and produces pythonpoint.pdf
which is documentation for Pythonpoint! You can also see it in action with an older paper
""")
eg("""
cd reportlab\\demos\\pythonpoint
python pythonpoint.py monterey.xml
start monterey.pdf
""")
disc("""
Not only is pythonpoint self documenting, but it also demonstrates reportlab and PDF. It uses
many features of reportlab (document templates, tables etc).
Exotic features of PDF such as fadeins and bookmarks are also shown to good effect. The use of
an XML document can be contrasted with the <i>inline</i> style of the gadflypaper demo; the
content is completely separate from the formatting
""")

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$SPON, The Token That'll Revolutionize Influencer Marketing Is Going Public
Place/Date: Singapore - November 10th, 2021 at 2:33 pm UTC · 2 min read
Contact: Audrey Wong , Source: Sponsee
Photo: Sponsee
Singapore's rising influencer marketing app Sponsee launched its own $SPON token that's about to be listed on Pinksale finance.
Sponsee is the world's first fee-free marketplace for influencers and businesses. Launched on 1st October 2021, the Sponsee app has ranked 8th on the App Store in Singapore and has a user base of 1000+ sponsors and sponsees.
$SPON is the token that governs Sponsee and is the bridge that enables app functions like smart contracts, proprietary dispute resolution services and peer reviews. Building a fully transparent, integrated and smart ecosystem for influencer marketing.
Joel Lo, CEO and co-founder of Sponsee, said:
"I believe that as the world moves towards web 3.0, blockchain technology can offer value beyond cryptocurrencies. Influencer marketing is one such field where smart contracts can easily facilitate agreements between parties. Coupled with the increasing interest in micro and nano-influencers, I am convinced Sponsee is in a strong position to scale and revolutionize the industry."
The $SPON token will go public on 12th November 2021 and will be listed on Pinksale finance.
About Sponsee
Sponsee is the world's first fee-free marketplace for influencers and businesses. We are a free-to-use platform for influencers and businesses to connect without additional fees or third-party agencies.
How? By using a proprietary digital contract system that is securely integrated into the chat interface. Users can build and deploy binding digital agreements, as well as assess potential partners by ratings and reviews from past collaborations.
Sponsee's taking influencer marketing to the next level.
For more updates, follow Sponsee on Telegram, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.


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Child struck by minivan while crossing street to get to school in Greenville County
A child is hospitalized after being struck by a minivan near Monaview Elementary School Monday morning.
Child struck by minivan while crossing street to get to school in Greenville County A child is hospitalized after being struck by a minivan near Monaview Elementary School Monday morning. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/01/07/child-struck-minivan-while-crossing-street-greenville-county/2500579002/
Daniel J. Gross, The Greenville News Published 9:55 a.m. ET Jan. 7, 2019 | Updated 11:08 a.m. ET Jan. 7, 2019
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A fourth grade student was hospitalized Monday morning after being struck by a minivan near Monaview Elementary School.
The wreck occurred at East Marion Road and Monaview Circle around 7:30 a.m., said Trooper Joe Hovis, a spokesman for the state Highway Patrol.
The child is 11 years old, Hovis said.
He said the child was transported to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
The child was not using a crosswalk and no charges are being filed against the driver of the vehicle, Hovis said.
The child was attempting to cross the road at a four-way stop, said Beth Brotherton, a spokeswoman for Greenville County Schools.
"We are thankful that first responders arrived quickly to provide medical treatment," Brotherton said in an email. "The student told firefighters he was excited to come back to school after the holiday break. The student is bruised, but otherwise not seriously injured."
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Pittsfield Cultural Force Leaving City Post
WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Jim Levulis
Facebook: Megan Whilden
A cultural force in Pittsfield is leaving her post within city government.
Megan Whilden, the city's first director of cultural development, will be leaving the position she's held for the past nine years. She will step down on May 16, the day after this year's first 3rd Thursdays street festival, an event she helped create in 2007 that has since grown into an attraction for thousands.
"Having created an atmosphere where people want to actively participate, want to work together and want to make wonderful things happen, that's a legacy that I'm very proud of," Whilden said.
Her work has brought large events like Shakespeare in the Park and the Berkshire Fringe Festival coming to the city this summer. Whilden says she is moved by the personal connections she's helped facilitate and experienced herself. She recalls a community book event one month in 2010 featuring local veterans reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a collection of short stories about American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
"That was very, very powerful month to me," she said. "I probably cried a dozen times because it was so intense. It was so wonderful to be able to give the Vietnam veterans an opportunity to share their experiences in a way that wasn't political or judgmental whatsoever and to really honor them for what they did."
A native of Monterey, California, Whilden moved to the Berkshires just over a decade ago and quickly got involved helping local artists fill empty storefronts in Pittsfield.
"Part of my job has been to take Pittsfield and kind of dust it off and shine it up and say look at what a wonderful place we all live in," Whilden said. "Helping people to come back to that and be proud and appreciate what we have here."
Pittsfield Mayor Dan Bianchi says Whilden's creative spark has allowed her to be successful through two mayoral administrations. Now searching for her replacement, Bianchi says Whilden helped expose the area's cultural potential to others in city government.
"She really made us realize that cultural development and the tourist economy is important to this area," Bianchi. "Although we knew it intuitively I think she made it much more realistic."
Whilden takes pride in knowing her office played a significant role in driving Pittsfield's ongoing cultural and economic transformation, despite initial skepticism when her position was created.
"People would come up to me on the street during 3rd Thursdays and say 'You know Megan I opposed hiring you when it came up, but now I understand and I am so grateful to you for bringing back the ethnic fair, for starting Third Thursdays and for all you're doing," Whilden recalled. "So I think that people could see the results and feel the results."
Starting in June, Whilden will begin her new role as executive director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College. OLLI's first executive director Barbara Hochberg will retire at the end of May. OLLI at BCC president Sandy Rubin says the roughly 1,000-member organization has been very fortunate to have Hochberg as its leader and believes Whilden will help it grow even further.
"We feel that Megan is very creative, she has wonderful ideas and lots of energy," Rubin said. "We are thrilled to have her on board and we believe that she will help us move forward in a very strong way."
Whilden, whose mother teaches an OLLI course in California, says she will continue her role as president of Berkshire Creative's board of directors and her service with the development agency 1Berkshire.
"One of my real strong mottos is 'arts are for everyone," Whilden said. "That's very much what I've tried to live up to here."
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Grade School Teacher & American Ninja Warrior Competitor Jen Burdis Makes Exercise Approachable
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Sometimes a spark of inspiration from the right person is all you need to take the first step toward a goal. And if you're lucky, that person might be Jen Burdis.
The 43-year-old Rancho Santa Fe, California, fourth-grade teacher and former competitor on NBC's American Ninja Warrior has been active her entire life. Whether she was slugging it out in Little League as a young girl, charging through high school as a three-sport student or playing volleyball at Penn State, Burdis is a natural athlete.
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And these days, she's channeling her knack for action into a mission for success, helping friends, fellow teachers, students and families of all fitness levels cultivate healthy habits and happier lives.
That means leading before-school or lunchtime workouts for her co-workers at R. Roger Rowe School, getting her students out of their seats and moving throughout the day, offering free bootcamps at a local workout apparel store and facilitating fitness challenges via social media (find her @Jennifer_Burdis on Twitter) for people across the country. It's all part of what she calls the "EduNinja mindset" she's aiming to instill in others—habits that lead to stronger minds and bodies.
Related: 50 Inspiring Quotes About Teachers
"Ninja Warrior felt like the perfect platform for me to get people excited about being healthier," says Burdis, who grew up in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, a tiny Appalachian coal-mining town where her coaches and teachers nurtured her athletic talent and encouraged her to excel despite a struggle with dyslexia.
"When I think of the most influential mentors in my life, they've always been educators or coaches," she says. "So when it came time to pick a major in college, teaching just made sense. I wanted to help people of all abilities do their very best."
She's got (ninja) moves
(Courtesy of Jen Burdis)
At the urging of several friends, Burdis submitted a tryout video in 2014 for the hit TV show, famous for sending its competitors tearing through nearly gravity-defying hurdles designed to test their speed, strength and metal focus. Obstacles with names like Jumping Spider and Spinning Bridge were the perfect match for Burdis's volleyball-honed agility.
After being selected for the show, she was determined to be well-prepared for what she calls the "biggest obstacle course in the world." So she cranked her routine from once- to twice-daily workouts and added rock climbing to the mix.
Related: Jillian Michaels Spills Her Fitness, Weight Loss and Beauty Secrets
While Burdis was ultimately eliminated in both seasons 6 and 7 of the show, she was thrilled with the opportunity to connect with the other competitors and put her years of training to work.
"Meeting all the other athletes there and hearing their stories was just as inspirational as it is when you're watching at home on TV," she says. "There are circus performers, hair stylists, plumbers—just a nice range of different people, and there's so much you can learn from all of them."
Fit bodies & brains
Burdis's stint in the spotlight spurred her to build a bridge between fitness and her other great passion—learning. And she knew if she connected the two, her school community could thrive. She slowly began developing principles designed to increase physical activity, mental flexibility and improved nutrition.
She started building one-minute "brain breaks" into her students' routines throughout the day, halting her lessons to lead quick workouts, breathing exercises and activity challenges. Eventually, she added inflatable fitness balls to the classroom as an alternative to regular desk chairs, allowing students to strengthen core muscles while plugging away at assignments. And along the way, she emphasized the need to fuel properly with healthy food.
"We would just train a little bit here and there in the classroom and on the playground," she says. "By the end of the year, there was such a difference. The students were stronger, more confident, more engaged, more focused. They were fidgeting less and not falling asleep. Some were doing one-armed pullups on the monkey bars. They blew me away with how strong they became."
Tanya Baumgardner, one of Burdis's longtime teaching colleagues, says the enthusiasm has been contagious at school and she credits Burdis's encouragement and workout sessions with helping her maintain an 80-pound weight loss.
"I don't have the same balance or agility as Jen, but that doesn't matter to her—she's so great at giving people the confidence they need to do their best, no matter where they're starting," says Baumgardner. "It's not about competition with her; it's about camaraderie. That's what she builds in her classroom and among her colleagues."
Katrina Stainton, whose daughter Kate was in Burdis's classroom, likes that she tailors her teaching to fit each student's learning style and links physical activity with the day's lessons.
"She was a great inspiration for Kate, who is active but can be a little shy sometimes," says Stainton. "I like that Kate can have this role model in a person who isn't boisterous and loud but is accomplishing big things."
Motivating & mentoring
Burdis understands that not everyone is Ninja Warrior material. But by modeling healthy habits, she makes exercise approachable for people who have long avoided it.
"I don't preach at people or tell them what they should be doing," she says. "I just like to share what I'm doing and show them what they can do, too. I like to show a range of workouts and physical activities that give everyone a chance to be successful."
Baumgardner insists that's why Burdis is able to get people excited about healthy living.
"Sometimes when you see people like Jen, who may seem larger than life, they can be overwhelming," she says. "But people really respond to her. She just knows instinctively how to build connections and motivate people to do better."
Burdis has begun sharing her EduNinja ways with other educators across the country, visiting schools to motivate other teachers and administrators by sharing the strategies that have worked in her classroom.
"I just want to get everybody to move a little bit more," says Burdis. "I've found my purpose and my passion. I want my community to be healthier."
Ninja Tales
Get the whole story in Burdis's book The EduNinja Mindset: 11 Habits for Building a Stronger Mind and Body.
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Q: Sending pointers to another process using GVariant I am currently developing a simple browser using webkit2gtk. In webkit2gtk, all DOM related operations are done in separate process called WebProcess.
I have created a GTKWidget in UI Process. I need to pass GTKWidget structure to WebProcess. Can we use GVariant for it?
I have read GVariant apis. I am able to send string, integer and other basic types using GVariant. But can we send objects using GVariant?

A: So, we have to distinguish between your title and your question.
First your title:

Sending pointers to another process

yes, you can do that (pointers are usually convertible to an integer type), but pointers are always specific to one's process memory – the receiver process doesn't have access to that, so the pointer shows into nothingness (you get a segmentation fault), or worse, to something else (your program runs with wrong data).

But can we send objects using GVariant?

Generally, no. You can't look inside objects, so they might contain pointers. See my comment above.
However, many objects in fact work without pointers, so the type information and the memory that belongs to an object is sufficient to "recreate" it on the receiver side, just by casting the received memory into the shape of the object you know it is. However, that is very object-specific.
You will probably like to read about serialization.

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The 10 Best Regina Spektor Songs
From classical roots to wide-ranging sweeps of punk, beatboxing, jazz and pop.
By Katherine Logan | July 26, 2017 | 3:39pm
Photo by Reva May Music Lists Regina Spektor
Although she began as a classically trained pianist, singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Regina Spektor has earned both critical acclaim and commercial attention with her take on the anti-folk genre. Born in Moscow, Spektor emigrated to the United States at age nine. The rest of her formative years were spent absorbing all of the culture that residing in the Bronx had to offer. After studying at the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory, playing everywhere she could throughout the city in her spare time, Spektor kickstarted her career by opening up for The Strokes, an experience she describes in Lizzy Goodman's recently published Meet Me In The Bathroom.
Over the course of her career, Spektor has evolved from her classical roots to wide-ranging sweeps of experimentation throughout punk, beatboxing, jazz and pop. Spektor's first effort, 11:11 was an independently-released effort from 2001 originally only available at her shows. Since then, however, Spektor has crafted six other LPs, with albums like 2006's Begin to Hope and 2012's What We Saw from the Cheap Seats hitting particular high marks.
Since 2016's lauded Remember Us to Life, Spektor has been touring throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada in support of her newest record. This Thursday, July 27, she return to New York City to perform at Central Park as part of their Summerstage Concert Series, symbolizing a personal homecoming and a hallmark of what she's achieved in her career thus far. Here then are Spektor's 10 best songs.
10. "Bleeding Heart"
This song off Spektor's latest album, Remember Us to Life, is for those occasions when all of the feels of adolescence come rushing back to you. They can be triggered by something as little as spying a book you read in English class or as big as catching up with an old friend. Listening to Spektor reflecting back on the awkwardness of those days while knowing the success she's achieved in the current day is reassuring in and of itself; if only we'd known that "someday you'll grow up, and then you'll forget all of the pain you endured."
9. "Hero"
"Hero" paints a near picture perfect image of the gut-wrenching aftermath of unexpected heartache. The simplicity of the arrangement—just Spektor's voice accompanied by piano—makes this song all the more powerful and allows the lyrics to shine. Her repetition of the simple refrain, "it's all right," is a universal sentiment of authentic (or at least attempted) reassurance. And because we're all at the center of our own universes, the heroes of our own stories, sometimes complete denial is the only salvation.
8. "Small Bill$"
Listening to "Small Bill$," another song off of Remember Us to Life, feels a bit like taking a journey into Spektor's subconscious. The lyrics sound a little like something out of an Allen Ginsberg poem. They don't exactly make sense, but they have an irresistible sense of urgency that'll have you singing along before you realize it. After years of writing piano ballads, it's easy to understand why Spektor might be aching to switch things up a bit. This song is her most creative attempt to do just that, having fun and venturing away from her roots without worrying what her fans and critics alike will say.
7. "Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)"
One of Spektor's more playful tracks, "Don't Leave Me (Ne me quite pas)" from What We Saw from the Cheap Seats is an ode to two of the greatest cities in the world, New York and Paris. While "Don't Leave Me (Ne me quite pas)" celebrates these locales, Spektor also acknowledges the loneliness that often accompanies dwelling in either, pleading with the listener not to leave her behind. Her first real foray into a more experimental sound and surreal lyrics, the synth-based beat and incorporation of horns combine to make "Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)" one of her catchiest, easiest to sing along with hits.
6. "On the Radio"
"On the Radio" is a masterpiece that manages to weave together another classic piano-led beat, images of death and decay, a Guns N' Roses reference and a near perfect portrayal of the human condition. This song is one of Spektor's most engaging to hear live, as you can count on everyone else in the audience to hum along. In the second verse she sings, "This is how it works, you peer inside yourself / you take the things you like / then try to love the things you took / and then you take that love you made / and stick it into someone else's heart / pumping someone else's blood / Walking arm and arm / you hope it won't get harmed / but even if it does / you'll just do it all again." If that's now what love is, we're not sure what else it could be.
5. "You've Got Time"
Best known as the theme-song to Netflix's Orange Is The New Black, "You've Got Time" is Spektor's most heavily rock-influenced track with its heavy drum beat and electric guitar riff. Chock full of prison metaphors, it perfectly sets the mood for a binge-watching session, yet, don't let that lead you to assume that it can't stand alone as a strong track. As evidenced by tracks like "Older and Taller" and "Time Is All Around," Spektor is no stranger to playing with notions of the speed at which times passes, and the sense of angst and entrapment that features prominently in "You've Got Time" helps it translate to a variety of contexts.
4. "Samson"
Another track off of Begin to Hope, "Samson" showcases Spektor's full vocal range; her clear falsetto calls out, "I loved you first," to devastating effect. Meanwhile, it effortlessly evokes the sense of futility one feels in the face of a withering relationship and their nostalgia for what once was. As Spektor sings, "We couldn't bring the columns down / We couldn't destroy a single one / and the history books forgot about us / and the Bible didn't mention us / not even once," you have to wonder if all of the heartbreak and struggle is worth it for her. Yet, Spektor's recollections of being "kissed 'til the morning light" seem to hint that there's something beautiful even in the downfall.
3. "Laughing With"
One of Spektor's heaviest tracks, "Laughing With" off of 2009's Far is a solemn take on the dichotomy between rejecting the notion of God only to become desperately faithful in the next moment of crisis. Spektor's use of rhyme in this song is especially noteworthy; her usual singsongy, almost childlike structures only emphasize the sense of irony pervading the track. Near the end of the final verse, just when Spektor has you feeling ready to repent for your blasphemy, she turns the tables on the listener, reminding us that, just maybe, God is in on the joke.
2. "Fidelity"
The lead single off Begin to Hope, "Fidelity" is the song that established her as a singer-songwriter to look out for in 2006. Maybe it was her way of melding classical and indie elements that helped the track gain traction, but perhaps the universal fear of rejection encapsulated in her lyrics was even more vital. Listening to Spektor croon, "I've never loved nobody fully / always one foot on the ground / and by protecting my heart truly / I got lost in the sounds," you simultaneously sympathize with her hesitations and want to take action in your own love life before it's too late.
1. "Us"
The song at the helm of the indie soundtrack for 500 Days of Summer, "Us" is one of Spektor's catchiest and most instantly recognizable songs. From the instant it begins, the grandiose piano riff and string instrumentation capture the listener's attention. This sound perfectly melds with the imagery of the larger-than-life romance at the heart of the song's narrative. The highlight of the song is undoubtedly its chorus, which features Spektor's best wordplay; the repetition of final syllable of the word "contagious" neatly tying in with the title of the track. Simply put, this is Spektor at her best.
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The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in weekly staff was also the day I ignored Blair all morning. Although she was pissed off and cannily antagonistic toward me for allegedly having sex with my wife, I pretended to be pissed off and cannily antagonistic toward her for no apparent reason. The more seemingly indignant I pretended to become, the more malleable and compliant she became while also being utterly confused as to why I was so pissed off and cannily antagonistic toward her. I don't profess to understand it; I just know that this counterattack always worked.
Whenever I ignored Blair, it always freed up my time considerably. Blair exhausted a great deal of my time at work. This was another reason there was no time to do my job at the office. Not that I did anything anyway. And neither did any of the other executives at my corporation. Don't get me wrong, I was no executive. But I acted like one, so most everyone on the business side believed that I was one. In reality, I was just a manager everyone thought was a director who was about to be promoted to vice president. Nothing was further from the truth.
It all started when my direct boss was kicked out of the Company for not being difficult enough. If an executive is not oppressive and troublesome to everyone, including those above, something is unequivocally out of whack. In this case, the man was as pliable as Play Dough. Even I got everything I asked of him. When subordinates get what they ask for, you know you've got a serious breach in executive conduct. So, they got rid of him. One day he was there, the next he was "pursuing other opportunities." Upper management planned on a long and thorough executive search, since this was a pivotal role, and they had no intention of making the same mistake twice. And although it was a pivotal role, they felt the company would operate simply fine for many months with nobody in the position.
Finding a difficult person is a difficult thing to do. In the interview, everyone always seems so pleasant and jocular; the kind of person you'd like to pal around with, not hire. It takes months and months of rigorous interrogation to get an executive candidate to show his or her true colors. And then, once a truly precarious candidate is identified, there will be subsequent months of negotiation on a contract and compensation package. A difficult executive candidate could draw deal negotiation out until the end of time.
In the meantime, I took over the role of IT Director without the actual title since someone had to do the job in the interim. It was quite easy to do what my former boss did, since he, like all the other executives in the Company, did nothing. I didn't realize how little he did until I had to do his job. And although I had more responsibility, I did less. And although I did less, I got credit for more.
"Looks like you get a couch in your office now," Katie Loveshak from Facilities said with a coy grin as she slouched buoyantly in the doorway to my office.
I looked up and raised my eyebrows moderately as I awaited the punchline or at least further glib chatter on the subject, but there was none. She just continued to oscillate at my door and swell like a baking muffin top. That's when I realized what was happening here. My boss was gone, and I was suddenly doing the things he used to do which was as little as possible, so Loveshak from Facilities, and probably many others, assumed I was promoted to the newly vacated position. Formal announcements didn't happen at my Company, at least not in Technology. Mulhausen never enjoyed promoting anyone under him because it would put that person one step closer to his position. So if he found himself in the perilous situation of promoting someone out of sheer necessity, he would drape the title change in murky, nefarious secrecy and instruct the newly promoted to let the dissemination of their jubilant advancement happen organically. And this is why Loveshak was so giddy at my door. I was not going to lie about it, but I certainly wasn't going to deny it. Especially if it got me a couch in my office. Sex on my desk after office hours during a volley of initial reckless passion was fine the first couple of times, but ongoing, an overly stimulated pair of coworkers really needed some semblance of comfort during the lurid act of adultery. A couch would work fine, even if it were just a love seat—which is what Directors got. VP's and above got a choice between a table with chairs or a full-length couch. But who wants to sit at a table and talk when you could be fucking on a full-length couch?
"Great," I said, slapping on friendly face. "When will that arrive?"
"Already ordered," she said. "Should be here in a week."
Loveshak typically made no concerted effort to socialize at work because she was too busy mandating compliance with everything even remotely related to Facilities. There was a friendly little sign everywhere that reminded us all our communal responsibilities. Clean the microwave after use, make another pot of coffee if you finish the pot, keep what you want, but all food and drink in the refrigerator will be thrown out the first day of each month, and other rules of compliance. She even posted in the men's bathroom above the urinals a sign that read, "Pay attention to your aim; the urinals don't clean themselves." I was surprised she didn't mandate sit-down pissing for men like McKinney's wife requires.
"I understand why a woman would try to emasculate her man that way," I told McKinney. "But I don't understand why a man would comply."
McKinney shamelessly shrugged his lithesome shoulders. "My two boys do it too. It's messy otherwise. Who wants to clean piss off the toilet? Sitting down is more relaxing. I don't mind at all."
"It's our right as men," I said patriotically, "to pee on everything. You are raising your kids to be earthy. Is that what you want? Earthy children?"
"What's wrong with Earthy?"
"Earthy gets beat up at school, that's what's wrong with Earthy. Earthy doesn't get the girl. The hot girl. Earthy pines for the hot girl but never gets the hot girl. Earthy writes poems. Poems expressing melancholy, morose, despondent, and depressing thoughts. Earthy becomes a serial killer. That's what's wrong with Earthy."
"You're out of your mind."
"Not even Conklin's wife makes him piss sitting down, and she makes him do everything—including the laundry, dishes, and cleaning the entire house. Meanwhile, she works an hour a day and fucks everyone in the neighborhood."
"Conklin also cleans the toilets. So, what does she care?"
"Do you piss sitting down at work?"
"No, not here," McKinney said as if the notion were utterly ridiculous. "You think I'm cleaning these toilets?"
"Of course not," I said. "Loveshak cleans the toilets. Or so we're led to believe. She might very well like to have a conversation with your wife, and then look at the trouble you'd be in."
Loveshak worked for Bloom, Skeffington's Office Manager. Skeffington was the CEO of the Division and had a predisposition for hiring either older or very, very plain women on the administrative side with the exception of Charmaine, his executive assistant, who penguined Kessler because Skeffington was too demanding. Loveshak fell in the very, very plain category and smiled only occasionally with listless eyes and a plunging posture. She was not unhappy; she was just mechanical and indifferent. Once in a while, I'd be caught in the elevator alone with her and feel the need to make conversation. There was never a need from her point of view, but instinctively I'd initiate social interaction and regret it immediately. The discussion was always bone dry and lacking any real sense of humanism. She was a drone. Whenever this happened, with acute peripheral vision, I'd glare at the passing digitized floor numbers as if that would make them pass quicker. The express elevator was never quick during a conversation with Loveshak. But we all had our little challenges to overcome.
"You'll probably get a bigger office," she said in a conspicuous timbre. "You only have 248 ceiling tiles now. That doesn't seem fitting. You should have at least 270."
I never subscribed to counting ceiling tiles. Not my own, not in other offices. I was glad just to have an office. And now, I was elated to get a couch.


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Q: Display & Add Grandchildren in Django Admin We have 3 tables defined in models.py:

class country(models.Model):
    country_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    country_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class region(models.Model):
    country = models.ForeignKey(country)
    region_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    region_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class school(models.Model):
    region = models.ForeignKey(region)
    school_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    school_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

We would like to be able to add a country, then in the same admin screen, add a region, then add a school within that new region. All fairly basic stuff and doing the first step of adding a country then a region can be done by adding these lines to admin.py:

class RegionInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = region
    extra = 1
class CountryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = [RegionInline]
admin.site.register(country, CountryAdmin)

Unfortunately we cannot work out how to even display schools in the same screen as adding/editing a country.
We have also considered looking at it from the perspective of the schools and having the country and region inline, but have the same basic problem of not being able to display the country because it is not directly linked to the school.
So, in a nutshell, our question is:
Using the Django admin process how are records displayed & added that are not directly linked to the current model?
We very much suspect that the answer to this question is explained somewhere in the great Django documentation but we are new to Python/Django and can't find it, so if anyone can point us in the right direction then that would be great and save re-inventing the wheel.
Python v2.7, Django v1.7.5

A: Current version of django doesn't support third level of inlines in admin.
You have to use the django-nested-inline app.


WASHINGTON D.C., US, August 29, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ — RI International CEO and President David W. Covington, LPC, MBA, will participate in the inaugural meeting of the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) on Thursday, August 31, 2017. David was selected as one of 14 targeted appointments to serve alongside leaders from 10 federal agencies (representing a leading research, advocacy, or service organization for adults with a serious mental illness). The Department of Health & Human Services formally announced the non-federal members on August 16, 2017.
The ISMICC is focused on the heart of the matter; on the outcomes experienced by those with serious mental illnesses. It's time for us to begin taking strong actions to achieve measured success.


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package monitoring

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"reflect"
	"time"

	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	clientset "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
	e2epod "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/pod"
	e2eskipper "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/skipper"
	instrumentation "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/instrumentation/common"

	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	"golang.org/x/oauth2/google"
)

const (
	// Time to wait after a pod creation for it's metadata to be exported
	metadataWaitTime = 120 * time.Second

	// MonitoringScope is the scope for Stackdriver Metadata API
	MonitoringScope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring"
)

var _ = instrumentation.SIGDescribe("Stackdriver Monitoring", func() {
	ginkgo.BeforeEach(func() {
		e2eskipper.SkipUnlessProviderIs("gce", "gke")
	})

	f := framework.NewDefaultFramework("stackdriver-monitoring")
	var kubeClient clientset.Interface

	ginkgo.It("should run Stackdriver Metadata Agent [Feature:StackdriverMetadataAgent]", func() {
		kubeClient = f.ClientSet
		testAgent(f, kubeClient)
	})
})

func testAgent(f *framework.Framework, kubeClient clientset.Interface) {
	projectID := framework.TestContext.CloudConfig.ProjectID
	resourceType := "k8s_container"
	uniqueContainerName := fmt.Sprintf("test-container-%v", time.Now().Unix())
	endpoint := fmt.Sprintf(
		"https://stackdriver.googleapis.com/v1beta2/projects/%v/resourceMetadata?filter=resource.type%%3D%v+AND+resource.label.container_name%%3D%v",
		projectID,
		resourceType,
		uniqueContainerName)

	oauthClient, err := google.DefaultClient(context.Background(), MonitoringScope)
	if err != nil {
		framework.Failf("Failed to create oauth client: %s", err)
	}

	// Create test pod with unique name.
	_ = e2epod.CreateExecPodOrFail(kubeClient, f.Namespace.Name, uniqueContainerName, func(pod *v1.Pod) {
		pod.Spec.Containers[0].Name = uniqueContainerName
	})
	defer kubeClient.CoreV1().Pods(f.Namespace.Name).Delete(uniqueContainerName, &metav1.DeleteOptions{})

	// Wait a short amount of time for Metadata Agent to be created and metadata to be exported
	time.Sleep(metadataWaitTime)

	resp, err := oauthClient.Get(endpoint)
	if err != nil {
		framework.Failf("Failed to call Stackdriver Metadata API %s", err)
	}
	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
		framework.Failf("Stackdriver Metadata API returned error status: %s", resp.Status)
	}
	metadataAPIResponse, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if err != nil {
		framework.Failf("Failed to read response from Stackdriver Metadata API: %s", err)
	}

	exists, err := verifyPodExists(metadataAPIResponse, uniqueContainerName)
	if err != nil {
		framework.Failf("Failed to process response from Stackdriver Metadata API: %s", err)
	}
	if !exists {
		framework.Failf("Missing Metadata for container %q", uniqueContainerName)
	}
}

// Metadata has the information fetched from Stackdriver metadata API.
type Metadata struct {
	Results []map[string]interface{}
}

// Resource contains the resource type and labels from Stackdriver metadata API.
type Resource struct {
	resourceType   string
	resourceLabels map[string]string
}

func verifyPodExists(response []byte, containerName string) (bool, error) {
	var metadata Metadata
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		return false, fmt.Errorf("Failed to unmarshall: %s", err)
	}

	for _, result := range metadata.Results {
		rawResource, ok := result["resource"]
		if !ok {
			return false, fmt.Errorf("No resource entry in response from Stackdriver Metadata API")
		}
		resource, err := parseResource(rawResource)
		if err != nil {
			return false, fmt.Errorf("No 'resource' label: %s", err)
		}
		if resource.resourceType == "k8s_container" &&
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			return true, nil
		}
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	}
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		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Resource entry doesn't have a type specified")
	}
	resourceTypeName, ok := resourceType.(string)
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Resource type is of type %s, expected string", reflect.TypeOf(resourceType))
	}
	resourceLabels, ok := resourceMap["labels"]
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Resource entry doesn't have any labels specified")
	}
	resourceLabelMap, ok := resourceLabels.(map[string]interface{})
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Resource labels entry is of type %s, expected map[string]interface{}", reflect.TypeOf(resourceLabels))
	}
	for label, val := range resourceLabelMap {
		labels[label], ok = val.(string)
		if !ok {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Resource label %q is of type %s, expected string", label, reflect.TypeOf(val))
		}
	}
	return &Resource{
		resourceType:   resourceTypeName,
		resourceLabels: labels,
	}, nil
}


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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by impaired cortisol synthesis. It results from the deficiency of one of the five enzymes required for the synthesis of cortisol in the adrenal cortex. Most of these disorders involve excessive or deficient production of hormones such as glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, or sex steroids, and can alter development of primary or secondary sex characteristics in some affected infants, children, or adults. It is one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders in humans.

Types
CAH can occur in various forms. The clinical presentation of each form is different and depends to a large extent on the underlying enzyme defect, its precursor retention, and deficient products. Classical forms appear in infancy, and nonclassical forms appear in late childhood. The presentation in patients with classic CAH can be further subdivided into two forms: salt-wasting and simple-virilizing, depending on whether mineralocorticoid deficiency presents or absents, respectively. This subtyping is often not clinically meaningful, though, because all patients lose salt to some degree, and clinical presentations may overlap.

Classic

Salt-wasting
In 75% of cases of severe enzyme deficiency, insufficient aldosterone production can lead to salt wasting, failure to thrive, and potentially fatal hypovolemia and shock. A missed diagnosis of salt-loss CAH is related to the increased risk of early neonatal morbidity and death.

Simple-virilizing
The main feature of CAH in newborn females is the abnormal development of the external genitalia, which has varying degrees of virilization. According to clinical practice guidelines, for newborns found to have bilateral inaccessible gonads, CAH evaluation should be considered. If virilizing CAH cannot be identified and treated, both boys and girls may undergo rapid postnatal growth and virilization.

Nonclassic
In addition to the salt-wasting and simple-virilizing forms of CAH diagnosed in infancy,  a mild or "nonclassic" form exists, which is characterized by varying degrees of postnatal androgen excess, but is sometimes asymptomatic. The nonclassic form may be noticed in late childhood and may lead to accelerated growth, premature sexual maturation, acne, and secondary polycystic ovary syndrome. In adult males, early balding and infertility may suggest the diagnosis. The nonclassic form is characterized by mild subclinical impairment of cortisol synthesis; serum cortisol concentration is usually normal.

Signs and symptoms
The symptoms of CAH vary depending upon the form of CAH and the sex of the patient. Symptoms can include:

Due to inadequate mineralocorticoids:
 Vomiting due to salt-wasting, leading to dehydration and death

Due to excess androgens:
 In extreme virilization, an elongated clitoris with a phallic-like structure is seen.
 Ambiguous genitalia, in some infants, occurs such that initially identifying  external genitalia as "male" or "female" is difficult.
 Early pubic hair and rapid growth occurs in childhood.
 Precocious puberty or failure of puberty to occur (sexual infantilism: absent or delayed puberty)
 Excessive facial hair, virilization, and/or menstrual irregularity in adolescence
 Infertility due to anovulation
 Clitoromegaly, enlarged clitoris and shallow vagina

Due to insufficient androgens and estrogens:
 Undervirilization in XY males can result in apparently female external genitalia.
 In females, hypogonadism can cause sexual infantilism or abnormal pubertal development, infertility, and other reproductive system abnormalities.

Genetics
CAH results from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, or sex steroids from cholesterol by the adrenal glands (steroidogenesis).

Each form of CAH is associated with a specific defective gene. The most common type (95% of cases) involves the gene for 21-hydroxylase, which is found on 6p21.3 as part of the HLA complex; 21-hydroxylase deficiency results from a unique mutation with two highly homologous near-copies in series consisting of an active gene (CYP21A2) and an inactive pseudogene (CYP21A1P). Mutant alleles result from recombination between the active and pseudogenes (gene conversion). About 5% of cases of CAH are due to defects in the gene encoding 11β-hydroxylase and consequent 11β-hydroxylase deficiency. Other, more rare forms of CAH are caused by mutations in genes, including HSD3B2 (3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2), CYP17A1 (17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase), CYP11A1 (P450scc; cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme), STAR (steroidogenic acute regulatory protein; StAR), CYB5A (cytochrome b5), and CYPOR (cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase; POR).

Expressivity
Further variability is introduced by the degree of enzyme inefficiency produced by the specific alleles each patient has. Some alleles result in more severe degrees of enzyme inefficiency. In general, severe degrees of inefficiency produce changes in the fetus and problems in prenatal or perinatal life. Milder degrees of inefficiency are usually associated with excessive or deficient sex hormone effects in childhood or adolescence, while the mildest forms of CAH interfere with ovulation and fertility in adults.

Diagnosis

Clinical evaluation
Female infants with classic CAH have ambiguous genitalia due to exposure to high concentrations of androgens in utero. CAH due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is the most common cause of ambiguous genitalia in genotypically normal female infants (46XX). Less severely affected females may present with early pubarche. Young women may present with symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome (oligomenorrhea, polycystic ovaries, hirsutism).

Males with classic CAH generally have no signs of CAH at birth. Some may present with hyperpigmentation, due to co-secretion with melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and possible penile enlargement. Age of diagnosis of males with CAH varies and depends on the severity of aldosterone deficiency. Boys with salt-wasting disease present early with symptoms of hyponatremia and hypovolemia. Boys with non-salt-wasting disease present later with signs of virilization.

In rarer forms of CAH, males are undermasculinized  and females generally have no signs or symptoms at birth.

Laboratory studies
Genetic analysis can be helpful to confirm a diagnosis of CAH, but it is not necessary if classic clinical and laboratory findings are present.

In classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency, laboratory studies will show:

Hypoglycemia (due to hypocortisolism) - One of cortisol's many functions is to increase blood glucose levels. This occurs via a combination of several mechanisms, including (a) the stimulation of gluconeogesis (i.e. the creation of new glucose) in the liver, (b) the promotion of glycogenolysis (i.e. the breakdown of glycogen into glucose), and (c) the prevention of glucose leaving the bloodstream via the downregulation of GLUT-4 receptors (which normally promote movement of glucose from the bloodstream into adipose and muscle tissues). Therefore, when cortisol is deficient, these processes (effectively) occur in the reverse direction. Although there are compensatory mechanisms that mitigate the impact of hypocortisolism, they are limited in their extent and the net effect is still hypoglycemia.
Hyponatremia (due to hypoaldosteronism) - Aldosterone is the end product of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system that regulates blood pressure via blood pressure surveillance in the Kidney Juxtaglomerular apparatus. Aldosterone normally functions to increase sodium retention (which brings water as well) in exchange for potassium. Thus, lack of aldosterone causes hyperkalemia and hyponatremia. In fact, this is a distinguishing point from 11-hydroxylase deficiency, in which one of the increased products is 11-deoxycorticosterone that has weak mineralocorticoid activity. In 11-hydroxylase deficiency, 11-deoxycorticosterone is produced in such excess that it acts to retain sodium at the expense of potassium. It is this reason that patients with 11-hydroxylase deficiency do not show salt wasting (although sometimes they do in infancy), and instead have hypertension/water retention and sometimes hypokalemia.
Hyperkalemia (due to hypoaldosteronism)
 Elevated 17α-hydroxyprogesterone

Classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency typically causes 17α-hydroxyprogesterone blood levels >242 nmol/L. (For comparison, a full-term infant at three days of age should have <3 nmol/L. Many neonatal screening programs have specific reference ranges by weight and gestational age because high levels may be seen in premature infants without CAH.) Salt-wasting patients tend to have higher 17α-hydroxyprogesterone levels than non-salt-wasting patients. In mild cases, 17α-hydroxyprogesterone may not be elevated in a particular random blood sample, but it will rise during a corticotropin stimulation test.

Classification
Cortisol is an adrenal steroid hormone required for normal endocrine function. Production begins in the second month of fetal life. Poor cortisol production is a hallmark of most forms of CAH. Inefficient cortisol production results in rising levels of ACTH, because cortisol feeds back to inhibit ACTH production, so loss of cortisol results in increased ACTH. This increased ACTH stimulation induces overgrowth (hyperplasia) and overactivity of the steroid-producing cells of the adrenal cortex. The defects causing adrenal hyperplasia are congenital (i.e. present at birth).

Cortisol deficiency in CAH is usually partial, and not the most serious problem for an affected person. Synthesis of cortisol shares steps with synthesis of mineralocorticoids such as aldosterone, androgens such as testosterone, and estrogens such as estradiol. The resulting excessive or deficient production of these three classes of hormones produce the most important problems for people with CAH. Specific enzyme inefficiencies are associated with characteristic patterns of over- or underproduction of mineralocorticoids or sex steroids.

Since the 1960s, most endocrinologists have referred to the forms of CAH by the traditional names in the left column, which generally correspond to the deficient enzyme activity. As exact structures and genes for the enzymes were identified in the 1980s, most of the enzymes were found to be cytochrome P450 oxidases and were renamed to reflect this. In some cases, more than one enzyme was found to participate in a reaction, and in other cases, a single enzyme mediated in more than one reaction. Variation in different tissues and mammalian species also was found.

In all its forms, congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency accounts for about 95% of diagnosed cases of CAH. Unless another specific enzyme is mentioned, "CAH" in nearly all contexts refers to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. (The terms "salt-wasting CAH", and "simple virilizing CAH" usually refer to subtypes of this condition.) CAH due to deficiencies of enzymes other than 21-hydroxylase present many of the same management challenges, as 21-hydroxylase deficiency, but some involve mineralocorticoid excess or sex steroid deficiency.

Screening
Currently, in the United States and over 40 other countries, every child born is screened for 21-hydroxylase CAH at birth. This test  detects elevated levels of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP). Detecting high levels of 17-OHP enables early detection of CAH. Newborns detected early enough can be placed on medication and live  relatively normal lives.

The screening process, however, is characterized by a high false-positive rate. In one study, CAH screening had the lowest positive predictive value (111 true-positive cases among 20,647 abnormal screening results in a 2-year period, or 0.53%, compared with 6.36% for biotinidase deficiency, 1.84% for congenital hypo-thyroidism, 0.56% for classic galactosemia, and 2.9% for phenylketonuria). According to this estimate, 200 unaffected newborns required clinical and laboratory follow-up for every true case of CAH.

In 2020, Wael AbdAlmageed from USC Information Sciences Institute and Mimi Kim from USC Keck School Of Medicine led a joint study in which they used deep learning technology to analyze the facial morphology and features of CAH patients compared to control. In this cross-sectional study  of 102 patients with CAH and 144 control participants, deep learning methods achieved a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 92% for predicting CAH from facial images. Facial features distinguished patients with CAH from controls, and analyses of facial regions found that the nose and upper face were most contributory. The findings suggest that facial morphologic features, as analyzed by deep neural network techniques, can be used as a phenotypic biomarker to predict CAH.

Treatment
Since the clinical manifestations of each form of CAH are unique and depend to a large extent on the underlying enzyme defects, their precursor retention and defective products, the therapeutic goal of CAH is to replenish insufficient adrenal hormones and suppress excess of precursors.

Treatment of all forms of CAH may include any of:

 Supplying enough glucocorticoid to reduce hyperplasia and overproduction of androgens or mineralocorticoids
 Providing replacement mineralocorticoid and extra salt if the person is deficient
 Providing replacement testosterone or estrogens at puberty if the person is deficient
 Additional treatments to optimize growth by delaying puberty or delaying bone maturation

If CAH is caused by the deficiency of the 21-hydroxylase enzyme, then treatment aims to normalize levels of main substrate of the enzyme - 17α-hydroxyprogesterone.

Epidemiology
The incidence varies ethnically. In the United States, congenital adrenal hyperplasia in its classic form is particularly common in Native Americans and Yupik Inuit (incidence ). Among American Caucasians, the incidence of the classic form is about ).

Continued treatment and wellness are enhanced by education and follow up.

History

Before 20th century
An Italian anatomist, Luigi De Crecchio (1832-1894) provided the earliest known description of a case of probable CAH.

De Crecchio then described the internal organs, which included a normal vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.

He interviewed many people and satisfied himself that Joseph Marzo "conducted himself within the sexual area exclusively as a male", even to the point of contracting the "French disease" on two occasions. The cause of death was another in a series of episodes of vomiting and diarrhea.

This account was translated by Alfred Bongiovanni from De Crecchio ("Sopra un caso di apparenzi virili in una donna. Morgagni 7:154–188, 1865) in 1963 for an article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

20th and 21st centuries
The association of excessive sex steroid effects with diseases of the adrenal cortex have been recognized for over a century. The term "adrenogenital syndrome" was applied to both sex-steroid producing tumors and severe forms of CAH for much of the 20th century, before some of the forms of CAH were understood. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which also dates to the first half of the century, has become the preferred term to reduce ambiguity and to emphasize the underlying pathophysiology of the disorders.

Much modern understanding and treatment of CAH comes from research conducted at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore in the middle of the 20th century. Lawson Wilkins, "founder" of pediatric endocrinology, worked out the apparently paradoxical pathophysiology: that hyperplasia and overproduction of adrenal androgens resulted from impaired capacity for making cortisol. He reported use of adrenal cortical extracts to treat children with CAH in 1950. Genital reconstructive surgery was also pioneered at Hopkins. After application of karyotyping to CAH and other intersex disorders in the 1950s, John Money, JL Hampson, and JG Hampson persuaded both the scientific community and the public  that sex assignment should not be based on any single biological criterion, and gender identity was largely learned and has no simple relationship with chromosomes or hormones. See Intersex for a fuller history, including recent controversies over reconstructive surgery.

Hydrocortisone, fludrocortisone, and prednisone were available by the late 1950s. By 1980, all of the relevant steroids could be measured in blood by reference laboratories for patient care. By 1990, nearly all specific genes and enzymes had been identified. The last decade, though, has seen a number of new developments, discussed more extensively in congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency:

 Debate over the value of genital reconstructive surgery and changing standards
 Debate over sex assignment of severely virilized XX infants
 New treatments to improve height outcomes
 Newborn screening programs to detect CAH at birth
 Increasing attempts to treat CAH before birth

Society and culture

People with CAH
Notable people with CAH include:
 Jeff Cagandahan is a Filipino who successfully appealed for a change of name and gender on his birth certificate.
 Lisa Lee Dark
 Betsy Driver
 Casimir Pulaski, hypothesized based on examination of remains

See also

 Disorders of sex development
 Inborn errors of steroid metabolism
 Intersex
 List of vaginal anomalies
 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency
 Androgen insensitivity syndrome

References

Further reading

External links

Autosomal recessive disorders
Congenital disorders of endocrine system
Endocrine-related cutaneous conditions
Intersex variations


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Ken Montera campaigns in Lamar for CU Board of…
Ken Montera campaigns in Lamar for CU Board of Regents at-large seat
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CU Board of Regents candidate Ken Montera stops for a photo with Prowers County Commissioner, Wendy Buxton-Andrade (at left), her son, Rylan and Prowers County Clerk and Recorder, Jana Coen (at right).
By Mike Bowen |
Ken Montera made a stop in Lamar on Tuesday, July 31 as he campaigns for CU Regent at-large.
Montera will be on the November 2018 ballot for University of Colorado Board of Regents and is running as a Republican.
He grew up in the Southeast Colorado area, in Pueblo and is a University of Colorado alum.
He would actually grow up going fishing often at John Martin Reservoir, noted the candidate for CU Regent at-large.
"My grandparents immigrated to Pueblo from Italy in the early 1900's, half my family on my mom's side were farmers," said Montera. "My dad's father never got past the seventh grade; left his family in Italy and went to work as a laborer at the steel mill."
Ken's father also went to work at the steel mill after serving in World War II and Ken's mother worked in a lab at Parkview Hospital for 24 years. He also has an older brother and sister and they both attended what now known as CSU-Pueblo.
"I was the first in my family to go away to college thanks to a high school guidance counselor who was a CU alum," said Montera. He further commented the counselor had him apply for the President's Leadership Class Scholarship, which he received. While at CU he would earn a business degree in marketing and international business and a minor in communications.
"That started about a 33-year corporate career," said Montera. He started with Johnson & Johnson in manufacturing. He would then move into a position at Baxter Healthcare as a sales representative and in the 10 years there, he would move up to the director of corporate accounts and would negotiate multi-hospital system agreements.
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"I started getting involved in the university," said Montera. "I wanted to give something back; the university made a huge difference for me."
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"One of the things that I hear more than anything else is I can't afford to go to CU," commented Montera. "And being our flagship state school, it's hard for me to hear that." He further noted that one things that is driving the price of tuition is the amount of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) degrees. "They're the fastest growing segment of degrees within the university system."
"It's just hard for me to believe that within a four and a half billion dollar budget there's not an opportunity to evaluate the cost of education," commented Montera. "I did that most of my career, I've managed large decentralized organizations that have some pretty significant complexities and I just feel like I've got an experience level that might be able to help understand that a little bit better."
Progress has been made in helping with tuition, said Montera. He noted that two years ago, a program was started where if a student entered as a freshman, they would be frozen at that tuition for four years and this year is the first year the Regents were able to create a tuition decrease.
"I know it's on the minds of the university and regents specifically," said Montera. "I think running a large business, you can never walk away from that mentality."
He also emphasizes helping students understand the value of a degree, rather than just obtaining any degree and wants students to understand what doors can be opened with specific degrees.
It was also discussed by the candidate that he wants students to know how to think, not what to think.
"That was probably the best part of my education was having professors that fostered debate," said Montera. "There was so many times I went in to a classroom with an opinion of something and because of a discussion I had with another student or professor, I walked away with a little bit different opinion."
He further noted that those discussions, "foster critical thinking skills." Montera commented that in a real world scenario, "You've got to figure out based on the facts that you have, what's the best decision for what you're going to do."
"I'm getting a little bit concerned that a lot of students are being told what they should think and therefore, they don't get into those debates," said Montera. "We're trying to create this whole notion of safe spaces which I don't quite get; I don't think we should ever take away someone's dignity or respect in a discussion, but that doesn't mean that we can't have a healthy debate without being derogatory to each other."
He further commented that is an important aspect of education, "that I'm wondering if it's taking place as much as it should be."
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"One of the most important responsibilities that the Board of Regents has is electing and/or terminating the president of the university system," said Montera. If elected to the board, Montera would help elect the next University of Colorado President, as Bruce Benson announced his retirement, which will take effect next year.
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The board is made up of nine regents with seven of them elected by a congressional district and two of them are at-large of state candidates. Montera is running for an at-large position on the board and a board of regent member is an unpaid position.
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