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THERESA May, the British Home Secretary, risked diplomatic tensions with the US yesterday when she invoked human rights to halt the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
Mrs May delighted Tory backbenchers with Britain's first refusal to extradite a suspect to the US since 2003. Her decision was greeted with dismay in Washington but was praised by those who have campaigned against the allegedly one-sided nature of the extradition agreement.
A US State Department spokeswoman said: "The United States is disappointed by the decision to deny Gary McKinnon's extradition to face long overdue justice in the United States." And a former White House counsel dismissed the reasons as "laughable".
The computer hacker's mother said that she was "overwhelmed" at the outcome of the 10-year fight to prevent her son from being sent to the US to face charges of hacking, which carry a 60-year jail term. Janis Sharp said that Mrs May had been "incredibly brave" to "stand up" to the US.
"I'm overwhelmed, incredibly happy," Ms Sharp said. "It's been awful watching Gary go downhill so badly but such a relief to watch him smile for the first time in many years."
Her son could not speak when he heard the news because he was so emotional, she said.
Mr McKinnon, 46, from Wood Green, North London, was accused by US prosecutors of the "biggest military hack of all time" when he accessed 97 government computers in 2001. He claimed that he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
The Home Secretary told MPs that Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, was "seriously ill".
Only days after telling the Conservative Party conference that she wanted to scrap the Human Rights Act, Mrs May invoked the same law to stop the extradition. She told MPs that his was a "difficult and exceptional case" and that if Mr McKinnon were sent to America the medical evidence showed that he would be very likely to kill himself.
"I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr McKinnon's human rights," she said.
It would have breached article 3 of the act, which says that no one shall be subject to degrading treatment or punishment, she said.
Edward Fitzgerald QC, who represented Mr McKinnon, said: "It was only thanks to the Human Rights Act that she had the power to stop this extradition."
It will now be for Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, to decide whether Mr McKinnon should be tried in Britain.
Mrs May announced a number of changes to the extradition laws after campaigns by supporters of the NatWest Three, Giles Darby, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew, who were extradited to the US in 2006. A so-called forum bar will be introduced to proceedings to enable British courts to decide whether a person should stand trial here or abroad. She is also to abolish the Home Secretary's discretion to intervene in cases - the very power she used to halt the extradition.
The Home Office is also to consider ending automatic rights of appeal on extradition decisions, imposing a strict timetable on deportation proceedings and stopping legal aid for foreign terrorism suspects fighting attempts to remove them from Britain.
David Burrowes, Mr McKinnon's MP, said: "It's a life that's been given back to Gary in a long dark tunnel."
Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights pressure group Liberty, said: "It is a great day for compassion and common sense."
Alan Johnson, a Labour former Home Secretary, claimed that Mrs May had made a decision that was "in her own party's best interests but it's not in the best interests of this country".
"Gary McKinnon is accused of very serious offences," he said. "The US was perfectly within its rights and it was extremely reasonable of them to seek his extradition."
David Rivkin, former White House counsel to George Bush Sr, said the decision would go down "very badly" in the US.
"It's really deplorable," he told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme. "The justification by the Home Secretary is laughable. You have an individual who says he is going to commit suicide - American penal institutions have an excellent record of stopping people who are trying to commit suicide. Under this logic, all a person needs to say to not get extradited is 'I'm going to kill myself'. Under that argument, why do you even arrest anybody?"
In a statement, the family of Babar Ahmad, a terrorism suspect who was extradited with Abu Hamza and Syed Talha Ahsan this month, criticised "blatant old-fashioned racism under which all British citizens are equal but some are more equal than others".
The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, yesterday defied American authorities by halting the extradition of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a decision criticised by the US State Department but welcomed with delight by campaigners and politicians across parties in the UK.
In a dramatic House of Commons statement, May told MPs she had taken the quasi-judicial decision on human rights grounds because of medical reports warning that McKinnon, 46, who has Asperger syndrome and suffers from depressive illness, could kill himself if sent to stand trial in the US.
The irony that May's most popular decision as Home Secretary was taken because of the Human Rights Act, which she has pledged to scrap, was not lost on her critics. But in a promised overhaul of the extradition laws that accompanied the decision, May indicated that future home secretaries would be stripped of the very power that she had used to save the computer hacker.
Janis Sharp, mother of hacker Gary McKinnon, becomes emotional at a press conference following a decision by British Home Secretary Theresa May not to extradite McKinnon. Photo: Oli Scarff
McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, said May had been "incredibly brave" to "stand up" to the Americans. She said she was overwhelmed after the "emotional roller-coaster" the family had been through in the past 10 years.
McKinnon could not speak when he first heard the decision but then cried and hugged his mother.
"He felt like he was a dead person," Sharp said. "He had no job, he didn't go on holiday ... he felt worthless ... Thank you, Theresa May, from the bottom of my heart - I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thing."
McKinnon's MP, David Burrowes, who had threatened to resign from the government if the extradition went ahead, said May had saved McKinnon's life: "Today is a victory for compassion and the keeping of pre-election promises."
McKinnon was first indicted by an American grand jury in November 2002 for hacking into US military computers, including the Pentagon and NASA, from his north London bedroom while he was looking for UFOs. He could have faced a prison sentence of up 70 years under US law.
The extradition order against McKinnon has been withdrawn and it will now be for the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide whether he should be prosecuted in Britain.
Gary McKinnon will not be extradited because he is suicide risk, says May.
A spokeswoman for the State Department, Victoria Nuland, said: "The United States is disappointed by the decision to deny Gary McKinnon's extradition to face long overdue justice in the United States. We are examining the details of the decision."
The US authorities have described McKinnon's actions as the "biggest military computer hack of all time". The Washington Post observed that the decision "could ignite tensions in an otherwise close transatlantic relationship", while the former White House counsel Douglas McNabb said the United States Attorney would be furious.
The decision, which is the first time an extradition has been halted under the 2003 US-UK treaty, prompted immediate delight from those who campaigned to prevent McKinnon's removal, and politicians from all parties.
Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he wanted to pay tribute to Sharp's determination to speak up for her son over 10 years. "I've long argued that I think it would have been wrong to send someone as vulnerable as Gary McKinnon to the United States and also I'm delighted that the Home Secretary has set out some plans about how we rebalance the extradition arrangements between the UK and the USA," he said.
The only discordant note came from the former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson, who said the hacker's human rights case had been rejected by judges in 2009 and claimed May had made the decision "in her party's best interest; it is not in the best interests of the country". He disclosed that the US authorities had been prepared to allow McKinnon to serve his sentence in a British prison when Johnson rejected McKinnon's earlier appeals.
May confirmed to MPs her intention to scrap the home secretary's discretion under the Human Rights Act that enabled her to prevent McKinnon's extradition. "Matters such as representations on human rights grounds should, in future, be considered by the High Court rather than the home secretary.
"This change, which will significantly reduce delays in certain cases, will require primary legislation."
She opened the door for more wide-ranging reform of the extradition process to reduce delays of up to 14 years by looking again at the provision of legal aid for terror suspects in national security cases and introducing a permission stage for appeals to UK courts.
The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell told May the treaty still needed reform, in particular the standard of proof required. He hoped that no British citizen would be sent to the US unless there was "probable cause".
The Liberty director, Shami Chakrabarti, welcomed the McKinnon decision. "This is a great day for rights, freedoms and justice in the United Kingdom," she said. "The Home Secretary has spared this vulnerable man the cruelty of being sent to the US and accepted Liberty's longstanding argument for change to our rotten extradition laws."
But the family of Babar Ahmad, who along with Talha Ahsan was deported two weeks ago to the US on terrorism charges, accused the legal system of double standards. "We strongly welcome the decision not to extradite Gary McKinnon. We would not want his family to experience the pain and suffering we have all been enduring since Babar was extradited," they said.
"However, questions do need to be asked as to why, within two weeks, a British citizen with Asperger's accused of computer-related activity is not extradited, while two other British citizens, one with Asperger's, engaged in computer-related activity are extradited. A clear demonstration of double standards."
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We were all warned. It is going to be a super typhoon. It is expected to be the strongest in recorded history. Everything from the amount of rainfall, possible flood areas, storm surges, wind direction, paths but the colour of raindrops were predicted. It's been classified as a Category 5 Hurricane if it was in the Atlantic. All extremes. Beyond the scales. It was called Haiyan. Local name Yolanda (I still don't understand why we have to have a local name for typhoons).
Truth be told this is the most prepared we have been. Everyone was tuned in to news alerts. Schools were suspended as early as two days before it arrived in the Philippine area of responsibility. Evacuations were done in advance. Government sectors prepped for rescue missions. Local television were all about warnings and reminders on survival methods. Prayers were called. The international media started sending their correspondents in areas suspected to be hardest hit.
Friday came. It made landfall into areas as predicted. Manila only experienced rains. All sighs of relief. We get intermittent news tidbits on the areas hit while it was going on. Roaring winds. Floods rising. All expected results. All we could hope is they hang on until it goes away and then we can start sending in the help.
Saturday morning, I started calling and sending messages to my friends in Boracay Island, Cebu, Bohol and honestly anywhere the typhoon has passed that I have friends. All can not be reached. You can feel the eerie quietness around. Well, at least until satellite phones starting ringing the news headquarters. Then and only then it slowly dawned on us the magnitude of what happened.
Power lines were down. Mobile phone networks which is the main form of communication these days were down. Roads and bridges were all destroyed. Then the photos started coming in… Trees uprooted, houses and buildings collapsed, towns were leveled, communities were washed away and scores of people walking around dazed and confused. It was all too shocking. News organizations around the world hit the jackpot – this will be massive news.
It was evident that the situation is worse than expected.. Many areas are not accessible at all. Many of those who survived were without food and potable water for days now. Relatives were missing. Dead bodies lying all over the place. Panic has set in. Looting of food, water, clothing, medicine, and what have you has began out of desperation. All you need to do is turn on the TV on any channel and we are the news. Every reporter and their bad pronunciation of locations has turned up in the country. You have to be living under a rock not to be aware of what has happened. Or in the case of some people here, no power, no mobile signal and no internet.
Images of helpless victims, anguished relatives trying to find their love ones, hungry survivors with their dead nearby started flooding the news, the internet and social media. It was a hurricane and tsunami that hit the Philippines in a single blow. It was beyond what we prepared for. Those who anticipated the strong winds for example ended up getting washed away when waters gushed into the ground floors of houses, buildings and even evacuation centers.
By Sunday, all concerned government agencies started mobilizing. Well, everyone started mobilizing – private entities, international and local aid groups, foreign governments, heck the whole planet was trying to do their best to send help to those who survived. The need was immediate, difficult and massive.
Me and my friends ran to the grocery store and brought boxes of bottled water and dumped it to the Philippine Red Cross headquarters. Then we started pooling money out of our pockets.
At the moment, all help is concentrated in keeping the living alive, burying the dead and cleaning up the debris. Then it becomes a massive effort to resurrect the local seats of government, basic necessities and infrastructure and well, a semblance of normalcy. It will take years to rebuild. We may be a strong and resilient nation but we need all the help that we can.
My friends and I have started an online fund raising campaign. The initial wave is for helping out in giving much needed supplies.
Outlying communities surrounding Boracay that were heavily affected.
Why these areas? It is something close to our hearts. If you're a regular reader of this blog you would know that I always talk about the island of Boracay. We love Boracay. It has given us much happiness and sunshine and friendship. Luckily while Boracay was heavily hit, the damage is sustainable. It is still without power, internet and phone signals mind you but the people there are coping. In fact even without power and internet my friends are organizing their own fund raising campaigns.
Another reason is that it is not in the news. Most news coverage are focused in Tacloban, other places in Leyte, Bohol, Samar and Cebu. We don't get much coverage from Palawan, Panay and Negros and northern Mindanao. Based on reports from friends, the areas I've listed have sustained heavy damages and there are communities that need help as well.
I don't do emotional blackmail. I also chose not to post heartbreaking photos because I want to give some dignity to the victims. CNN, BBC and other major news networks will take care of that. However I am pleading to anyone who will stumble into this article to check out the sites HERE and HERE and donate whatever you can.
We are in a position to help. We are asking for your help too because the faster we can pool a large amount, the faster we can get it to the most helpless. As we have declared in both sites all 100% of the collected money will go directly to the victims – not to gov't agencies or dodgy charities. We will provide accounting if needed be. The people who will distribute the supplies have paid for their own airfares; food and accommodation expenses will not be taken from the collected money.
As of this writing we have a combined $1300 (roughly 52,907 pesos) of donations from friends and strangers (or at least some individuals we can't identify). We originally intended for $1000. We have underestimated the generosity of people so we have upped it to $3000. Please share this to anyone who might be interested to help us help them.
And you have my gratitude in advance. Know that your share in donations are going to matter. Salamat po (thank you).
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3 Top Mobile Gaming Stocks to Buy Now
These three stocks could be your vehicles for riding momentum in mobile video games.
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Mobile gaming already accounts for the greatest share of video game industry revenue, and it's expected to be the industry's biggest growth driver going forward. With so many games already available and a relatively low barrier to entry for newcomer developers, the space is highly competitive, but companies that manage to consistently get hit titles onto smartphone and tablet devices are on track to realize impressive profits.
Read on to see why Tencent Holdings (OTC:TCEHY), Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI), and Changyou.com (NASDAQ:CYOU) are some of the top mobile gaming stocks on the market.
Tencent isn't a pure-play gaming company, with roughly 41% of its sales last quarter coming from games, and the remainder from businesses including online advertising, social networks, and payment processing. However, it's got a diversified multimedia empire with some great synergies and is operating in a Chinese market that's poised to create major growth catalysts. For these reasons, Tencent stands out as one of the top stocks for investing in mobile gaming.
League of Legends is probably the company's best-known game outside of China and is currently only available on the PC platform, but Tencent has some monster hits in the mobile space as well. One of these games actually got be so popular as to be a potential liability. Honor of Kings, a mobile take on League's action-strategy gameplay concept, is China's most popular mobile game -- and perhaps the most-played video game in the world.
The title was the biggest factor in Tencent's video game revenues increasing 48% year over year in its September-ended quarter, and it will likely be a significant revenue contributor for years to come. Somewhere around 200 million Chinese play the game on a monthly basis, and more than 50 million users play it daily. Honor of Kings actually built up such a following among young users that the country's government came to view it as a problem, prompting the state-run newspaper People's Daily to publish articles that were critical of the game and likened it to a drug.
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In addition to having strong franchises and game-development assets, Tencent Holdings is also a great play in the mobile gaming space because of its leading position in social networks and payment processing. The company's WeChat is China's most popular messaging app and is connected to a leading payment service. Due to the popularity of the platform, even third-party games feature WeChat integration -- giving Tencent access to valuable user data and payment processing revenues from in-game transactions.
Activision Blizzard closed its $5.9 billion purchase of King Digital in 2016, bringing hit franchises like Candy Crush Saga into the corporate fold and instantly making the combined company one of the leaders in mobile gaming. Some investors and analysts were initially concerned that Activision may have overpaid for King, but the acquisition has been a big part of the company's stellar earnings performance in subsequent quarters and opened up a range of new growth opportunities. The December-ended fiscal year saw mobile business increase 28% year over year to comprise roughly 30% of the company's $7 billion in annual sales, and the unit is on track to continue being a performance driver.
In the fourth quarter, King Digital was once again the top U.S. mobile publisher by revenue and has now had two of America's top-10-grossing mobiles games for 17 quarters straight. King's Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush Soda Saga claimed the first-and-second-place sales spots for the first time ever, a particularly impressive feat given that these titles launched in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
Total monthly active users for Activision's mobile games have actually been trending down as legacy hits continue to age, but increased customer spending has enabled the company to expand sales and profits. In fact, fiscal 2017 saw the company deliver double-digit revenue growth per paying user, and the publisher could be on the verge of a major breakthrough in how it monetizes mobile titles. Activision Blizzard is just beginning to introduce advertising as a sales pillar in mobile -- a move that could kick the segment's performance into overdrive. As it stands, the vast majority of the company's mobile revenue comes from in-game purchases, but these sales spring from a relatively small pool of players. Introducing ads should dramatically increase the company's average revenue per user.
Activision has also yet to make a big push for some of its most successful franchises in the mobile space. Hearthstone, a card-based game built around the World of Warcraft franchise, has been a big hit and looks to have ongoing staying power, but there's still plenty of untapped potential in bringing other big series to smartphones and tablets. King Digital is currently working on a mobile version of Call of Duty, and other properties including Overwatch, StarCraft, and Diablo could also be huge hits on mobile platforms.
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Changyou.com
While Tencent Holdings and Activision Blizzard are well-known names in the gaming space, Changyou.com is a more obscure play. That said, I think it's one that could turn into a big winner for investors staking a position in mobile games. Changyou is a smaller operation compared to leading industry competitors, which means the success or failure of a given release will have a larger impact on its stock performance.
Its roughly $1.5 billion market cap and reasonable forward price to earnings multiple of 11 set up the potential for big stock gains if the company can continue its growth in the mobile space. In May, the company released Legacy TLBB Mobile, a game that has since solidified its status as a hit even if sales haven't held up as well as Changyou hoped. The title helped push the developer's full-year 2017 revenue up 10% year over year and net income up 22% compared to the prior-year period. On the other hand, the company appears to have been a bit over-aggressive with targets for the title, and the stock has experienced a double-digit sell-off after its recently released fourth-quarter earnings fell short of guidance.
According to its most recent earnings call, Changyou has roughly 20 games in development. If even a few of those games wind up being hits on the level of Legacy TLBB Mobile, the company's stock would likely see a huge upswing. I think the long-term outlook for the company is promising as well. As with Tencent, and Activision Blizzard to a lesser extent, Changyou is in position to benefit from macroeconomic and industry-specific trends in China. The smaller developer hasn't seen the stock-price gains enjoyed by leading game companies in recent years, but it's got a solid track record that makes it an appealing low-risk, high-reward investment in the future of mobile gaming.
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Evenimente

Arte, știință, literatură și filozofie

 Începe construcția Spitalului municipal din Timișoara.

Nașteri

 11 februarie: Tadataka Inō, cartograf japonez (d. 1818)
 18 februarie: Alessandro Volta, fizician italian (d. 1827)
 24 noiembrie: Maria Louisa a Spaniei, soția lui Leopold al II-lea, Împărat Roman (d. 1792)

Decese

 18 martie: Robert Walpole, 68 ani, prim-ministru al Regatului Unit al Marii Britanii (n. 1676)
 13 august: Ernest Frederic al II-lea, Duce de Saxa-Hildburghausen, 37 ani (n. 1707)

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Date of Acceptance 05-Aug-2020
Keywords: neurodevelopment disorders, pregnancy, prenatal hyperthyroidism, thyroid hormones
Chen MH, Huang KL, Hsu JW, Bai YM, Chen TJ, Tsai SJ. Maternal hyperthyroidism during pregnancy and offspring risks of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: A nationwide study. Taiwan J Psychiatry 2020;34:115-20
Chen MH, Huang KL, Hsu JW, Bai YM, Chen TJ, Tsai SJ. Maternal hyperthyroidism during pregnancy and offspring risks of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: A nationwide study. Taiwan J Psychiatry [serial online] 2020 [cited 2023 Jan 28];34:115-20. Available from: http://www.e-tjp.org/text.asp?2020/34/3/115/296463
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. Both increases in prevalence and economic burden justify vigorous research to uncover its pathogenesis. Most plausible neurodevelopmental theories of ASD and ADHD focus predominantly on genetic factors[1]. But studies of monozygotic twins suggest the presence of nonheritable, prenatal, and perinatal risk factors for both disorders [2],[3]. For example, a case–control study using 190 ethnic Han children with and without autism has shown seven prenatal and seven perinatal risk factors associated with autism, such as maternal secondhand smoke exposure and maternal unhappy emotional state[4]. Some studies demonstrated that prenatal environments (e.g., prenatal exposure to acetaminophen, maternal gestational diabetes mellitus, and maternal alcohol use during pregnancy) are implicated in developing ADHD. But those issues remain to have insufficient evidence to support a definite causal relationship [5],[6].[7].
Thyroid hormones play an important rôle in many fundamental processes underlying brain development and maturation[8]. The developing fetus/embryo depends on the maternal supply of thyroid hormones. Their synthesis through the fetal thyroid gland commences at mid-gestation, and the establishment of adverse consequences of severe maternal thyroid hormone deficiency on the neurodevelopment of offspring is well-understood[8]. A study by Fetene et al. examined the rôle of maternal thyroid function during pregnancy on offspring ADHD in 2,912 mother–child pairs[9]. The investigators found that levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine, and thyroid peroxidase antibodies are not associated with ADHD in children aged 7.5 and 15 years. Similarly, meta-analyses of eligible studies revealed that maternal subclinical hypothyroidism and hypothyroxinemia are not associated with ADHD and that their effect on the risk of ASD in offspring is unclear[10]. But study examined ASD and TSH levels measured in mid-pregnancy maternal serum, have demonstrated inverse associations between ASD and log-transformed TSH levels in maternal serum samples[11]. A retrospective cohort study using records from 397,201 children demonstrated that children of hypothyroid women had higher ASD rates than children of women without the diagnosis (adjusted hazard ratios [HR] = 1.31; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.13–1.53)[12]. Furthermore, compared with white children, prenatal hypothyroidism was associated with an increased risk of ASD in children of women of other/mixed race–ethnicity, suggesting that maternal hypothyroidism is associated with offspring ASD in a manner dependent on race[12].
Exposure to excessive amounts of circulating thyroid hormones is a pathological syndrome called hyperthyroidism. Toxic multinodular goiter and solitary hyperfunctioning nodules are the major causes of this syndrome, with Graves' disease being the most common factor[13]. About 1–2 cases of gestational hyperthyroidism occur per 1,000 pregnancies[14]. The extent to which maternal hyperthyroidism during pregnancy affects offspring neurodevelopment outcomes is unclear. Relative to the above association of maternal hypothyroidism and offspring ADHD/ASD risks, the relationship between maternal hyperthyroidism and offspring ADHD and ASD risks has much less studied. As mentioned, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children failed to support the association of maternal hyperthyroidism with offspring ADHD and ASD risks[9]. But Andersen et al. demonstrated that maternal overt hyperthyroidism (HR = 2.2, 95% CI = 1.1–4.4]) is associated with ASD in the child[15]. Assessing the association between neonatal TSH and subsequent neurodevelopmental disorders, Villanger et al. found a U-shaped pattern with elevated likelihoods of ADHD diagnosis at lower and higher TSH levels, indicating that ADHD risk is elevated among newborns with hyperthyroid status[16]. Increasing evidence has suggested a significant relationship between maternal and neonatal hyperthyroidism [17,] [18]. The logic of maternal hyperthyroidism increasing offspring ADHD and ASD risks needs further investigation.
In this study, we intended to retrospectively evaluate the effects of women with hyperthyroidism during pregnancy on the offspring risk of ADHD and ASD. We hypothesized that maternal hyperthyroidism would be related to increased risks of offspring ADHD and ASD.
We used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), namely the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2010, in the current study. NHIRD is audited and released by the National Health Research Institute for scientific and study purposes. Claims data of subjects included in the NHIRD are anonymous to maintain individual privacy. Using a unique personal identification number assigned to each resident in Taiwan, all of the information was linked together. Following Chen et al.'s and Cheng et al.'s methods [19],[20], the recorded family kinships in the NHIRD were used for genealogy reconstruction. Only blood relatives or spouses were qualified to be dependents of the insured patients. With unique personal identifiers, we identified the following family relationship groups: parents, offspring, siblings, and twins. The sibling relationship was confirmed if subjects had the same father or mother. Siblings were identified as twins if they shared a birth date. Comprehensive information on insured subjects is included in the database, including demographic data, dates of clinical visits, and disease diagnoses. The used diagnostic codes were based on the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The NHIRD has been used extensively in many epidemiologic studies in Taiwan [19].[20],[21],[22]. The institutional review board at Taipei Veterans General Hospital approved this study (IRB protocol number = 2018-07-016AC, and the date of approval = May 27, 2018) without the stipulation of obtaining any informed consent.
Inclusion criteria of mothers with hyperthyroidism before childbirth and their offspring
We enrolled two mother–child cohorts, namely prenatal hyperthyroid mother–child (case) cohort and nonprenatal hyperthyroid mother–child (control) cohort, in this study between 1998 and 2008 for the investigation of the association between prenatal hyperthyroidism and offspring risk of major neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD and ASD, in the follow-up period (from childbirth to end of 2011). Hyperthyroidism was diagnosed by board-certified internal medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, and endocrinologists at least twice based on ICD-9-CM code of 242 before the childbirth. A control cohort (1: 4) was randomly identified based on ages (± 1 year) (mothers and children), sexes (mothers and children), residence, income, and familial relationship after the exclusions of case cohort and mothers who had any thyroid disease (ICD-9-CM codes: 240–246) at any time. For example, a 40-year-old mother with hyperthyroidism before childbirth having an eight-year-old son would be matched with four 40-year-old mothers without any thyroid disease having an eight-year-old son.
Disease classification and assessment of covariates
Maternal mental disorders included schizophrenia (ICD-9-CM code: 295), bipolar disorder (ICD-9-CM codes: 296, except for 296.2, 296.3, 296.9, and 296.82), and major depressive disorder (ICD-9-CM codes: 296.2 and 296.3). Offspring neurodevelopmental disorders included ASD (ICD-9-CM code: 299) and ADHD (ICD-9-CM code: 314). These disorders were diagnosed at least twice by board-certified psychiatrists on the basis of their clinical judgment and diagnostic interviews. Demographic data, including age, sex, place of residence, and income status, in 2010 were displayed in the table and were adjusted in our study. The place of residence was classified into five categories according to the level of urbanization[23].
Chi-square statistics and F-tests were used to compare categorical and continuous variables, respectively, between prenatal hyperthyroid mother–child (case) and nonprenatal hyperthyroid mother–child (control) cohorts. Two logistic regression models were done to investigate the prenatal hyperthyroidism with the offspring risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. Model 1 was adjusted for the demographic data, including ages of parents and children, sexes of parents and children, level of urbanization, and income. Model 2 was additionally adjusted for mental disorders of mothers, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. We did not adjust for maternal ADHD (n = 1) and ASD (n = 0) in the regression model because of rare cases in our sample.
All data were computed and statistical analyses were done using the Statistical Package for the Social Science software version 17 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA) and Statistical Analysis System software version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA). The differences between groups were considered significant if two-tailed p-values were smaller than 0.05.
As shown in [Table 1], 330 mother–child case pairs and 1,320 matched control pairs were included in our study. Children of mothers having prenatal hyperthyroidism were more significant to develop ADHD (4.8% vs. 2.5%, p < 0.05) but not in developing ASD (0.9% vs. 0.2%, nonsignificant difference) than those of mothers without any thyroid disease.
Table 1: Demographic data and prevalence of mental disorders among the offspring of mothers with or without hyperthyroidism
As shown in [Table 2], the results of logistic regression with adjustment of age, sex, level of urbanization, and income showed that children of mothers having prenatal hyperthyroidism significantly increased in developing ADHD (odds ratio [OR] = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.15–4.02, p < 0.05) and ASD (OR = 6.49, 95% CI = 1.06–39.72, p < 0.05) compared with those of mothers having no any thyroid disease. Logistic regression showed the consistent results that prenatal hyperthyroidism was significantly associated with the offspring ADHD (OR = 2.23, 95% CI = 1.19–4.18, p < 0.05) and ASD (OR = 6.62, 95% CI = 1.08–40.47, p < 0.05) risks after additionally adjusting for maternal mental disorders [Table 2].
Table 2: Logistic regression models of maternal hyperthyroidism and mental disorders of their children
Based on a thorough study, this is the first large nationwide population-based cohort study to investigate the risk of ASD and ADHD in the offspring of pregnant women with hyperthyroidism. The main finding of our study [Table 2] is that, adjustments for demographic data and maternal mental health disorders, hyperthyroidism in pregnant mothers significantly increased the risk of both ADHD (OR = 2.23; 95% CI = 1.19–4.18, p < 0.05) and ASD (OR = 6.62; 95% CI = 1.08–40.47, p < 0.05) in offspring. The findings mean that maternal thyroid hormones are required for the neurodevelopment of progeny. A previous study has been found to be associated between maternal hypothyroidism and ASD/ADHD in children[12],[24],[25] but not others [9],[10]. But the case numbers of ASD were few in the current study, which may confound the robustness of our findings in the association between maternal hyperthyroidism and offspring ASD.
There are four possible explanations for the increased risk of ADHD and ASD in the offspring of mothers with hyperthyroidism during pregnancy. First, thyroid hormones are crucial regulators of early development and play an important rôle in the maintenance of a normal pregnancy and in the development of the fetus, particularly the fetal brain[8]. In addition to cell migration, thyroid hormones regulate the differentiation of neurons, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and microglia[8]. Researchers showed that a direct toxic effect on the fetus is caused by an excess of thyroid hormones during pregnancy, where the risk of miscarriage is tripled, with an average birth weight reduction in surviving infants[26]. Expression of astrocytic and neuronal cytoskeletal proteins is compromised by increased thyroid hormones in studies of an animal maternal hyperthyroidism model, indicating that neuronal differentiation is accelerated[27]. Crucial influences on neurodevelopment may be exerted by the aberrant timing of brain development which leads to irreversible yet subtle changes in the synaptic wiring[27]. Untreated or inadequately treated hyperthyroidism is also associated with pregnancy complications and may even program the fetus to long-term neurodevelopment disorders such as ASD and ADHD [8],[29]. Second, hyperthyroidism in women who are of childbearing age is mainly of autoimmune origin and caused by Graves' disease [14],[30]. The physiological changes in the maternal immune system during a pregnancy may influence the brain development in the fetus. It is likely that the autoimmune processes that produce common forms of hyperthyroidism may exert additional effects on fetal neurodevelopment over and beyond those of maternal thyroid dysfunction[31]. Third, maternal thyrotoxicosis during pregnancy is associated with a higher prevalence of low birth weight infants when compared to those with controlled thyroid status [32],[33]. In the 2011–2012 National Survey of Children's Health (n = 95,677), very low birth weight children have 3.2 times higher odds of ASD and 1.7 times higher odds of ADHD[34]. Thus, maternal hyperthyroidism may indirectly increase neurodevelopment disorders through low birth weight in the child. Finally, we cannot exclude that medications used to treat maternal hyperthyroidism may have an adverse effect on neurodevelopment, which warrant further investigation.
Hyperthyroidism is rare in pregnant women and often underdiagnosed[35]. In addition of our study findings, an animal study in the adulthood of the offspring of maternal hyperthyroidism suggests that this delicate prenatal endocrine modification could alter the neuronal structure of specific brain areas and influence the cognition and emotionality of offspring in adulthood[36]. Thus, the management of maternal hyperthyroidism can improve the offspring risk of ASD and ADHD. Actually, a clinical study has shown improved neonatal and obstetric outcomes for hyperthyroidism during pregnancy, when managed in a specialized antenatal endocrine clinic[29].
Study limitations
The readers are warned not to overinterpret the results in this study because six limitations to our findings should be considered.
The NHIRD does not provide detailed information on patients, such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption, body mass index data, and family history of psychiatric illness. They are potential risk factors for neurodevelopment disorders in the children [37],[38].
The exact levels of thyroid hormones were not available in the NHIRD. Thus, we could not control for those potentially confounding factors.
The diagnoses in NHI claims are primarily for administrative billing and do not receive verification for scientific purposes although the data on mothers with hyperthyroidism and the diagnoses of ASD and ADHD in the offspring were highly reliable.
Hyperthyroidism is frequently underdiagnosed in pregnancy[39] and may have also been in our study because only subjects seeking a medical evaluation can be identified.
We included only 330 prenatal hyperthyroid mother–child pairs and 1,320 nonprenatal hyperthyroid mother–child matched pairs in the current study. They may confound the subanalysis for which specific trimester exposed to maternal hyperthyroidism was related to offspring ADHD and ASD. Further studies are necessary to elucidate it.
The age of diagnosis for offspring ADHD and ASD did not differ between case and control cohorts in the current study. A Danish nationwide study reported that children born to mothers with thyroid dysfunction are diagnosed with ASD at a median of 5.3 years of age and initiated medical treatment for ADHD at a median of 8.4 years of age[36]. Whether maternal hyperthyroidism is related to an earlier age of diagnosis for offspring ADHD and ASD, a possible index of greater disease severity needs further investigation.
In summary, our nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study provides evidence for an increased risk of ASD and ADHD in the offspring of pregnant women with hyperthyroidism. The management of maternal hyperthyroidism may ameliorate the risk of these common neurodevelopmental disorders.
The authors thank Emily Ting for English editing.
This work was supported by grant MOST 107-2634-F-075-002 from the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology and grant V109C-196 from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest in writing this report.
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Q: Varnish cache - cannot handle 4000 concurrent users Experiencing the issue when loading ~ 4000 concurrent users on a WP site.
Here is the configuration I have:
F5 loadbalancer ---> Varnish 4 with 8 cores, 32 Gb RAM ---> 9 backends with 4 cores, 16 RAM each, running WP site.
While the load is ~ 2500-3000 users all is going fine, without any errors, but when users reaching 4k, varnish stops responding until it compute all queued requests, plus we see many 502 errors.
Have 2 pools, 5000 threads each; malloc=30G
Additionaly added SOMAXCONN and TCP_MAX_SYN_Backlog into sysctl
Here is the VCL:
  vcl 4.0;
import directors;
import std;
backend qa2 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa3 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa4 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa5 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa6 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa7 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa8 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa9 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }
backend qa10 { .host = "xxx"; .port = "80"; }

# .connect_timeout = 2s; .first_byte_timeout = 10m; .between_bytes_timeout = 10m;

acl purge_list {
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
    "xxx";
}
sub vcl_init {
    new rr = directors.round_robin();
    rr.add_backend(qa2);
    rr.add_backend(qa3);
    rr.add_backend(qa4);
    rr.add_backend(qa5);
    rr.add_backend(qa6);
    rr.add_backend(qa7);
    rr.add_backend(qa8);
    rr.add_backend(qa9);
    rr.add_backend(qa10);
}

sub vcl_recv {
  set req.backend_hint = rr.backend();
 if (req.method == "PURGE") {
        if (!client.ip ~ purge_list) {
            return(synth(405, "not allowed."));
        }
        ban("req.url ~ .css");
        return(synth(200, "CSS Files Cleared from Cache!"));
  }
  # Don't check cache for POSTs and various other HTTP request types
  if (req.method != "GET" && req.method != "HEAD") {
    #ban("req.http.host == " + req.http.host);
    return(pass);

  }
  # Don't check cache for POSTs and various other HTTP request types
   if (req.http.Cookie ~ "SESS[a-f|0-9]+" ||
    req.http.Authorization ||
    req.url ~ "login" ||
    req.method == "POST" ||
    req.http.Cookie ||
    req.url ~ "/wp-(login|admin)") {
    return (pass);
   }
  if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
    if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg)$") {
          unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
      } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
          set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
      } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
          set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
      } else {
          unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
      }
  }

  if (req.url ~ "\.(aif|aiff|au|avi|bin|bmp|cab|carb|cct|cdf|class|css)$"  ||
      req.url ~ "\.(dcr|doc|dtd|eps|exe|flv|gcf|gff|gif|grv|hdml|hqx)$"    ||
      req.url ~ "\.(ico|ini|jpeg|jpg|js|mov|mp3|nc|pct|pdf|png|ppc|pws)$"  ||
      req.url ~ "\.(swa|swf|tif|txt|vbs|w32|wav|wbmp|wml|wmlc|wmls|wmlsc)$"||
      req.url ~ "\.(xml|xsd|xsl|zip|woff)($|\?)") {
      unset req.http.Cookie;
      #unset req.http.Authorization;
      #unset req.http.Authenticate;
      return (hash);
  }

  return(hash);
}

# Cache hit: the object was found in cache
sub vcl_hit {
    if (req.method == "PURGE") {
        return (synth(200, "Purged!"));
    }
}
# Cache miss: request is about to be sent to the backend
sub vcl_miss {
    if (req.method == "PURGE") {
        return (synth(200, "Purged (Not in cache)"));
    }
}
sub vcl_backend_response {
  if (bereq.url ~ "\.(aif|aiff|au|avi|bin|bmp|cab|carb|cct|cdf|class|css)$"  ||
      bereq.url ~ "\.(dcr|doc|dtd|eps|exe|flv|gcf|gff|gif|grv|hdml|hqx)$"    ||
      bereq.url ~ "\.(ico|ini|jpeg|jpg|js|mov|mp3|nc|pct|pdf|png|ppc|pws)$"  ||
      bereq.url ~ "\.(swa|swf|tif|txt|vbs|w32|wav|wbmp|wml|wmlc|wmls|wmlsc)$"||
      bereq.url ~ "\.(xml|xsd|xsl|zip|woff)($|\?)") {
    set beresp.grace = 30s;
    set beresp.ttl = 1d;
    set beresp.http.Cache-Control = "public, max-age=600";
    set beresp.http.expires = beresp.ttl;
    return (deliver);
  }
}
# Deliver the response to the client
sub vcl_deliver {
  # Add an X-Cache diagnostic header
  if (obj.hits > 0) {
    set resp.http.X-Cache = "HIT";
    set resp.http.X-Cache-Hits = obj.hits;
    # Don't echo cached Set-Cookie headers
    unset resp.http.Set-Cookie;
  } else {
    set resp.http.X-Cache = "MISS";
  }
  # Remove some headers not needed on production systems
  #  unset resp.http.Via;
  #  unset resp.http.X-Generator;
  #  return(deliver);
}*

And here are the results of last test:

Actually response time is good, but throughput is poor and as i already wrote, Varnish freezes until it finish resolving all previous requests.
So the questions are - is there a theoretical limit for varnish concurrent users? How can i tune it up to work with more than 4k concurrent connections?
PS. Also extended MaxClients on each of Apache server.

A: Varnish will never produce a 502 return code, which means that you're most likely not caching responses.
You may very well be benchmarking your backend instead.
There are no built in limits on number of concurrent users. Your thread count looks fine. For only 4000 sessions you shouldn't need to do any kernel/OS tuning, the defaults should be fine. If you hit somaxconn, that is most likely an artifact of your benchmarking tools, and probably won't be the case on real traffic.
Summing up: Check the hit rates and look at varnishlog to figure out why things aren't being cached.

A: 502 Bad Gateway means your backend is failing in some manner, and Varnish isn't able to connect, which is probably why its freezing up with a huge queue.
I notice here you're passing anything with a set cookie in vcl_recv:
  # Don't check cache for POSTs and various other HTTP request types
   if (req.http.Cookie ~ "SESS[a-f|0-9]+" ||
    req.http.Authorization ||
    req.url ~ "login" ||
    req.method == "POST" ||
*** req.http.Cookie ||
    req.url ~ "/wp-(login|admin)") {
    return (pass);
   }

Especially with Wordpress this is going to kill your hitrate, and cause a ton of backend connections since varnish won't cache cookies.
Here's some sample code we use vcl_recv to handle cookies:
# Pass if the page is login, admin, preview, search or xmlrpc
if (req.url ~ "wp-(login|admin|json)" || req.url ~ "preview=true" || req.url ~ "\?s=" || req.url ~ "xmlrpc.php" || req.http.Cookie ~ "wordpress_logged_in_") {
    return (pass);
}

# Some wordpress URL manipulation
if (req.url ~ "\?(utm_(campaign|medium|source|term)|adParams|client|cx|eid|fbid|feed|ref(id|src)?|v(er|iew))=") {
    set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\?.*$", "");
}

# Some generic URL manipulation, useful for all templates that follow
# First remove the Google Analytics added parameters, useless for our backend
if (req.url ~ "(\?|&)(utm_source|utm_medium|utm_campaign|utm_content|gclid|cx|ie|cof|siteurl)=") {
    set req.url = regsuball(req.url, "&(utm_source|utm_medium|utm_campaign|utm_content|gclid|cx|ie|cof|siteurl)=([A-z0-9_\-\.%25]+)", "");
    set req.url = regsuball(req.url, "\?(utm_source|utm_medium|utm_campaign|utm_content|gclid|cx|ie|cof|siteurl)=([A-z0-9_\-\.%25]+)", "?");
    set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\?&", "?");
    set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\?$", "");
}

# Strip hash, server doesn't need it.
if (req.url ~ "\#") {
    set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\#.*$", "");
}

# Strip a trailing ? if it exists
if (req.url ~ "\?$") {
    set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\?$", "");
}

# Remove the wp-settings-1 cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wp-settings-1=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the wp-settings-time-1 cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wp-settings-time-1=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the wp test cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wordpress_test_cookie=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the cloudflare cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__cfduid=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the PHPSESSID in members area cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "PHPSESSID=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the Quant Capital cookies (added by some plugin, all __qca)
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__qc.=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Are there cookies left with only spaces or that are empty?
if (req.http.cookie ~ "^\s*$") {
    unset req.http.cookie;
}

# Unset Cookies except for WordPress admin and WooCommerce pages
if (!(req.url ~ "(wp-login|wp-admin|cart|my-account/*|checkout|addons|wordpress-social-login|wp-login\.php|forumPM|members|logout|lost-password|product/*)")) {
    unset req.http.cookie;
}

This should be sufficient to add to vcl_backend_response:
# Unset Cookies except for WordPress admin and WooCommerce pages
if ( (!(bereq.url ~ "(wp-(login|admin)|login|cart|my-account/*|checkout|addons|logout|lost-password|product/*)")) ) {
    unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
}


Albert George Haynesworth III was born on the 17th June 1981, in Hartsville, South Carolina USA, of African and American descent. He is best known to the world for being a retired American National Football League (NFL) player, who played for the Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His professional career was active from 2002 to 2012.
Have you ever wondered how rich is Albert Haynesworth? It has been estimated by sources that Haynesworth's net worth is over $45 million; his annual salary topped $12 million. The main source of this amount has been his career as a professional football player. Although he is in retirement, there is no doubt that his net worth will become higher as he successfully continues his career in other sporting activities.
Albert Haynesworth was raised in Hartsville where he attended the Hartsville High School, during which he participated in many sports activities, and he started training for football with his head coach Lewis Lineberger. As a senior, Haynesworth was named a Rivalnet All-American and SuperPrep. Beside that, the ESPN ranked him in the 14th place overall of football player, while National Recruiting Advisor named him the No. 1 defensive tackle in the country. He enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where his football skills came to the fore while he played for the college team. Soon after, his career as a professional football player started with the 2002 NFL Draft, in which he was selected by the Tennessee Titans as the 15th overall pick. He assumed the position of a defensive tackle, and soon proved to be one of the best defenders in the league. However, his career was soon marked by negative incidents, the first one being stomping on the head of Andre Gurode, after which Haynesworth was penalised 30 yards, and ejected from the game..
His contract expired in 2009, and as a free agent he signed a lucrative contract with the Washington Redskins, worth $100 million over in seven years. Haynesworth received just over $30 million in the first year, which significantly increased his net worth. However, Haynesworth played with the Redskins for only two seasons, as a result of numerous conflicts with other players and Coach Greg Blache, and also as a result of his poor performances.
Subsequently Albert Haynesworth was traded to the New England Patriots in 2010, which included fifth-round draft pick of the 2013 Draft, but his career didn't take a turn for the better, and he was waived by the Patriots only four months after he signed with the team. Before his retirement, Haynesworth was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but was released in the February 2012.
Although his professional career wasn't as successful as expected, Albert Haynesworth managed to pick up a few awards; he participated in two Pro Bowls, in 2007, and 2008, and was also named for the First Team All-Pro in 2007 and 2008. Furthermore, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the Sporting News in 2008.
When it comes to his personal life, he was married to Stephanie Haynesworth(2003-10), with whom he has two sons and a daughter. Currently, he is in a relationship with Brittany Jackson; they are expecting their first child.
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Kaitlin & Chris
October 1, 2021 • The Reading Public Museum • Photos by Life Story Photography
Kaitlin and Chris were invited to join friends on a cruise in January of 2019, and Chris knew it would be the perfect opportunity to pop the question. He recalls, "I took a day off work and went to every jewelry store in Berks County. I ended up finding the ring at Wm. H Diller Jewelers in West Reading, and everything was set." But on the drive to the airport, Kaitlin told Chris she didn't want to get married as long as they could continue to go on adventures like the one planned. Chris took to heart that he knew that she would be surprised when he asked. He says, "While at port in Grand Cayman, my plan was to propose on the beach. We ended up separated from our friends, who were supposed to take pictures, and I called it off. By the time we got back on the ship, we did not have the greatest day, and I thought the proposal was a bust. We reconnected with our friends and went to the top deck. As I held her and looked out over the moonlit island, I figured it was now or never. My friend handed me the ring, and I got down on one knee. The first words out of her mouth were ʻoh, sh*t.' But she ultimately said ʻyes.' The proposal was not what I had envisioned, but I would not change a single thing about it."
In attendance were Kaitlin's parents, Robert and Melissa Specht, and Matt's parents, Jeffrey and Kim Young. The Man of Honor was Kaitlin's best friend, Mike Cagagis. Ian Donohue, Chris's best friend, was Best Man. The ceremony was performed in The Museum's perennial gardens, and the reception was in The Stone Terrace Tent. Guests enjoyed eats by Russo's Gourmet Foods Market, Wyomissing, including assorted meats, tomato pie, ham and cheese wrapped asparagus, pasta with spinach and tomato in a cream sauce, chicken sauteed in white wine and sausage with peppers, onions and potatoes. The beer served at the bar was purchased from Sly Fox, Wyomissing. Music was provided by DJ Menace, Danny Cole, and the couple's first dance was to Then, by Brad Paisley. The decorating was by Leo Design Gallery, West Reading.
Chris: What did you first think when you saw your bride on your wedding day? I had been incredibly anxious all day up until the first look. When I finally got to see her, I remember finally feeling a sense of peace. I thought that she looked beautiful, and that feeling of peace made everything come together and become real.
Kaitlin: What would you say the highlight of your Big Day was? Having the first look with Chris. I was way too excited for him to see what kind of dress I picked out and to see me all dressed up. His face was lit up like a house decorated in Christmas lights. He just looked so happy seeing me. It was such a great idea for us to see each other before the ceremony so we could have some time together before being in front of our friends and family.
How did you feel the day before your wedding? And the day after? Says Kaitlin, "My stomach was doing back flips the entire time. The day before everything dawned on me that there was just one more day to be in front of everyone during our most intimate moments together. The day after, all of that anxiety was gone. The day went by so fast that I just wish we had more time to dance and enjoy more time with everyone." Says Chris, "The day before, I was nervous but it helped that I was able to keep busy working on final preparations. It also helped that we had family over before the rehearsal, so we spent the day talking and catching up. The day after was a huge relief. Everything came together perfectly, and it was nice to spend time relaxing with my wife."
How was the Honeymoon? Due to COVID-19, the couple has postponed their honeymoon but plans to visit San Souci Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamacia, next month.
What are your Future Plans? Kaitlin, a coordinator, and Chris, a data center manager, hope to buy a house and are expecting their first child in June of 2022.
Dress & Tuxes: L&H Bridal Rack, Sinking Spring
Hair & Makeup: I DO…. Event Hair & Makeup, Pottstown
Cake: Always More Cake, Reading


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The recent government deal with a number of international companies to commence medicinal cultivation of marijuana in Uganda and exporting to Canada, Germany and other countries has hit a dead end in Kasese.
By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni This morning, First Lady Janet and I led Ugandans to receive the first two of the CRJ900 Bombardier planes which will form part of the fleet for our revived national flag carrier, the Uganda Airlines.
Vehicles registration will shift from Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to Ministry of Works and Transport State Minister of Works Aggrey Bagiire has revealed.
Government of Uganda is seeking for at least Shs620.7 billion to save the under capitalised Bank of Uganda and five other commercial banks.


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Home » General » Unravelling universalism in the Budget; Plus vote for the world's worst boss.
Unravelling universalism in the Budget; Plus vote for the world's worst boss.
Posted by Admin on May 15, 2014 in General, Online Digest
By Frank Barbaro
Treasurer Joe Hockey's 2014 Budget delivery on Tuesday 12 May was an earnest public display befitting a solemn and grave task.
When announcing government decisions, that widen and deepen misery, anything else would have been unfitting.
The privileged are always good at expressing feeling about the pain they cause for others.
Budget night's mood matched the preceding earnest rhetoric about a national debt emergency.
However, despite the Treasurer's public virtue there was evidence that notwithstanding the burdens of State he is a jocular Joe.
Channel Nine's political reporter Laurie Oakes suggested that Hockey danced in his office to the hit song Best Day Of My Life before delivering his budget speech. Hockey denied this.
He couldn't deny though the contentment and satisfaction on display a few days earlier smoking a cigar with his brother in arms the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann.
That image, broadcast widely, reeked of smugness and insensitivity and was at odds with what should have been difficult deliberations about the fate of a nation and its people.
It was a private image to Hockey's demeanour on Budget night and one that strongly suggested that the two key people in drafting the Budget did not know or did not care about the added burdens they would place on the poorest Australians.
That Tony Abbott lied about what he would or would not do in government is almost expected given the paucity of political morality.
What are abhorrent are the lies about the state of government finances and the nature of the economy and the role of government.
The Abbott Government created a Budget emergency with an artificially high deficit to justify its claim of a Budget emergency.
The lie is revealed in the Budget's glaringly contradictory tax give-aways, such as mining and carbon taxes, that some economists estimate to be worth about $20 billion.
The meanness is revealed in the attack on low income earners, the pensioners and the unemployed who will offset the tax give-aways and pay the most for the doubtful strategy of balancing the national books.
I say doubtful because the Budget is strong on taking the axe on benefits to the poorest but has no plan on optimistic revenue side with most of the stimulus expected from its infrastructure expenditure.
The other unnerving aspect of the Abbott Government's first Budget is that it has begun to seriously unravel the universality in Australia's welfare, education and health system.
If this is allowed to pass the ethos of the fair go will become a distant memory. This remarkable acknowledgement is being made by conservative figures including the following.
I was surprised by a couple of things, the inequity that's still there in this Budget. The fact that they got a tax on high income earners, the deficit levy, which raises about $3 billion at the same time they're taking about $12 billion out of pensioners, youths and families. So the heavy lifting is unevenly distributed. John Hewson, former Liberal leader, ABC The Drum 14/5/14
The World's Worst Boss?
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding a vote to name the word's worst boss.
The winner of the world's worst boss will be unveiled during the ITUC World Congress in Berlin 18 – 24 May 2014 with the theme Building Worker's Power.
There are nine candidates including two - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore Xstrata and Rubert Murdoch of Newscorp with close links to Australia. At the time of posting, Rubert was just in the lead.
To read and vote go to Vote for the worst boss in the world and click on one of the candidates to vote.
It will not change the Budget but it one feels a little better afterwards.
A sub-tropical substitute for the social democratic rose.
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