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World Journal of Surgical Oncology
Long-term survival in pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastases from colon cancer
Yosuke Tajima1Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
Hitoshi Kameyama1,
Saki Yamada1,
Ryoma Yagi1,
Masato Nakano1,
Masayuki Nagahashi1,
Yoshifumi Shimada1,
Jun Sakata1,
Takashi Kobayashi1,
Hajime Umezu2 and
Toshifumi Wakai1
World Journal of Surgical Oncology201614:286
Received: 31 August 2016
Accepted: 4 November 2016
Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of benign ovarian fibroma or fibroma-like tumor, ascites, and pleural effusion. In contrast, pseudo-Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of other ovarian or pelvic tumors, ascites, and pleural effusion. In Meigs' and pseudo-Meigs' syndromes, ascites and pleural effusion resolve promptly after the complete resection of the ovarian or pelvic tumor(s). Secondary ovarian tumors from colorectal gastrointestinal metastases rarely cause pseudo-Meigs' syndrome; only 11 cases of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome secondary to colorectal cancers have been reported in the literature. Therefore, the prognosis and etiology of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis from colorectal cancers remain unclear.
We report here a rare case of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastases from sigmoid colon cancer with long-term survival. A 47-year-old woman presented with abdominal distention of 1-month duration. She developed acute dyspnea 2 weeks after the initial presentation. Colonoscopy and computed tomography revealed sigmoid colon cancer with an ovarian metastasis, along with massive ascites and bilateral pleural effusion. Emergency operation, including bilateral oophorectomy and sigmoidectomy, was performed. Subsequently, ascites and bilateral pleural effusion resolved rapidly. Curative hepatic resection was performed for liver metastases 29 months after the first operation, and as of this writing, the patient is alive with no evidence of a disease 78 months after the first operation. In general, colorectal cancer with ovarian metastasis is hard to cure, and long-term survival in patients with colorectal cancer with pseudo-Meigs' syndrome is rare. Our experience suggests that curative resection for pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis from colorectal cancer may offer long-term survival.
Our experience suggests that pseudo-Meigs' syndrome can occur in a patient with colorectal cancer after metastasis to the ovaries, causing massive ascites and pleural effusion. Aggressive treatment, including R0 resection, for this disease if allowed by the patient's general condition may offer long-term survival.
Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome
Ovarian metastasis
Long-term survival
Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of benign ovarian fibroma or fibroma-like tumor, ascites, and pleural effusion [1]. The features of this disease were first described by Meigs and Cass in 1937 [2]. In contrast, pseudo-Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of other ovarian or pelvic tumors, ascites, and pleural effusion [3]. In Meigs' and pseudo-Meigs' syndromes, ascites and pleural effusion resolve promptly after the complete resection of the ovarian or pelvic tumor(s) [1].
Secondary ovarian tumors from colorectal gastrointestinal metastases rarely cause pseudo-Meigs' syndrome; only 11 cases of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome secondary to colorectal cancers have been reported in the literature (Table 1) [4–10]. Therefore, the prognosis and etiology of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis from colorectal cancers remain unclear. Furthermore, differentiating between pseudo-Meigs' syndrome and carcinomatous peritonitis/pleuritis as well as between ovarian metastasis and primary ovarian cancer is often difficult.
Summary of reported cases of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome resulting from ovarian metastasis of colorectal cancer
Onset of syndrome
Synchronous metastasis
Diameter of ovarian tumor (cm)
Site of ovarian tumor
Site of pleural effusion
Curative resection
Long-term outcome
Nagakura et al. [4]
Metachronous
108 months, NED
12 months, NED
52 months, AWD
Feldman et al. [5]
6 months, NED
Ohsawa et al. [6]
9 months, dead
Rubinstein et al. [7]
Okuchi et al. [8]
Liver, lung
12 months, dead
Maeda et al. [9]
Saito et al. [10]
Present case
ND not documented, NED alive with no evidence of disease, AWD alive with disease
We report here a rare case of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis from sigmoid colon cancer, with the patient showing long-term survival following complete tumor resection.
A 47-year-old woman presented to the hospital with a 1-month history of abdominal distention. Physical examination revealed a huge mass in the lower abdomen. The peripheral blood test showed elevated levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA, 335.2 ng/mL [normal, <5 ng/mL]) and carbohydrate antigen (CA) 125 (219 U/mL [normal, <45 U/mL]) but a normal level of CA19-9 (9 U/mL [normal, <37 U/mL]). Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a large, round mass with a maximum diameter of 15 cm in the pelvic cavity without the presence of ascites or pleural effusion (Fig. 1a, b). Colonoscopy identified an elevated lesion with severe stenosis in the sigmoid colon, and histopathological examination of biopsy specimens from the tumor showed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma. Although we scheduled an early operation, the patient developed acute dyspnea and general edema 2 weeks after the first CT scan. The second CT scan examination demonstrated massive bilateral pleural effusion with atelectasis and ascites (Fig. 2a, b). Thoracic drainage and laparotomy were emergently performed. Macroscopically, the tumor in the sigmoid colon had invaded the serosa, and the huge pelvic mass was found to contain a right ovarian tumor. Several small nodules of peritoneal dissemination were distributed over the greater omentum. Perioperatively, 3800 mL of serous ascitic fluid was drained. Cytodiagnosis of the fluid drained from the ascites and pleural effusion revealed no tumor cells. Bilateral oophorectomy, total hysterectomy, omentectomy, and sigmoidectomy with regional node dissection were performed (Fig. 3a). Histopathological examination of the resected specimens showed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma in the tumors of both the ovaries and the sigmoid colon (Fig. 3b). The dissected paracolic nodes showed malignant cells. Immunohistochemically, tumor cells from the ovaries and the colon both showed positive expression of cytokeratin 20 (CK20) but no expression of cytokeratin 7 (CK7), confirming that the ovarian tumors were metastases from primary colon cancer (Fig. 4a, b). The postoperative course was uneventful, and both pleural effusion and ascites rapidly resolved. Postoperatively, a regimen of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), leucovorin, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) was administered every 2 weeks for 5 months. At 29 months after the first operation, the patient required curative hepatic resection for liver metastases. At 78 months after the first operation, the patient remains alive with no evidence of a disease.
Computed tomography demonstrated a large, round mass with a maximum diameter of 15 cm in the pelvic cavity (a) and no acites or pleural effusion (b)
The second computed tomographic scan, obtained 2 weeks after the initial scan, demonstrated massive ascites (a) and bilateral pleural effusion (b)
Gross pathology. a Macroscopic findings showed a right ovarian tumor with cystic and solid portion measuring 18 × 15 × 11 cm. b Microscopic findings showed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma in both ovaries on hematoxylin and eosin staining (magnification ×200)
Immunohistochemical findings. Immunohistochemical staining of the ovarian tumor cells showed a positive reaction for cytokeratin 20 (a) (magnification ×200) but no reaction for cytokeratin 7 (b) (magnification ×200)
Our experience in this case indicated that R0 resection may offer a good prognosis and outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer and pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastases. Among such cases reported thus far, 8 of the 12 reported patients—including ours—underwent R0 resection, and some showed long-term survival [4–10]. In contrast, long-term survival was not observed in any of the patients that did not undergo R0 resection [4–10]. In our case, bilateral oophorectomy, omentectomy, and sigmoidectomy with regional lymph node dissection were performed. Subsequently, hepatic resection was performed for metachronous liver metastases, and at 78 months after the first operation, the patient remains alive with no evidence of a disease. In general, R0 resection can be the first choice in the treatment of colorectal cancer with ovarian metastasis [11]. Therefore, we suggest that R0 resection should be performed for colorectal cancer with pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by ovarian metastasis.
The differential diagnosis between pseudo-Meigs' syndrome due to ovarian metastasis from colorectal cancer and carcinomatous pleuritis/peritonitis is important, because R0 resection can be indicated for the former but not for the latter. However, a confirmed diagnosis based on clinical or imaging findings is rather difficult. Cytodiagnosis of the fluid drained from pleural effusion and ascites is useful in the diagnosis; negative findings tend to imply pseudo-Meigs' syndrome, whereas positive findings imply carcinomatous pleuritis or peritonitis. In our case, the intraoperative cytodiagnosis of the ascitic and pleural effusion fluids showed negative findings. Furthermore, the size and number of the disseminated peritoneal nodules were so small that they did not seem to be the cause of the massive ascites. We therefore diagnosed pseudo-Meigs' syndrome and performed R0 resection.
The differential diagnosis between metastatic ovarian cancer and primary ovarian cancer is also important, because chemotherapy regimens for colorectal cancer differ considerably from those of ovarian cancer. The serum level of CA125 is likely to be elevated in both primary and metastatic ovarian cancer [12]. Immunohistochemical staining of the resected ovarian tumor is useful for diagnosis; the positive expression of CK20 and no expression of CK7 suggest metastases from colorectal cancer, whereas the positive expression of CK7 and no expression of CK20 indicate primary ovarian cancer [13]. In our patient, we diagnosed the ovarian tumors as metastases from colon cancer based on immunohistochemical staining. Accordingly, we administered FOLFOX as an adjuvant chemotherapy.
The details of the mechanism underlying the occurrence of ascites and pleural effusion in pseudo-Meigs' syndrome remain unclear. One hypothesis is that ascites is caused by a disparity between the arterial supply to the ovarian tumor and its venous and lymphatic drainage [1, 14], and the ascites finds its way to the thoracic cavity through intercellular gaps via aortic, esophageal, and vena caval pathways and a number of smaller avenues [15, 16]. Dye test results have shown that the pleural effusion is likely to originate from the peritoneal fluid via transdiaphragmatic transport [17]. This hypothesis supports the fact that both ascites and pleural effusion contain no malignant cells and disappear promptly after the complete resection of the ovarian or pelvic tumors in pseudo-Meigs' syndrome.
5-FU:
Carbohydrate antigen
CEA:
CK:
Cytokeratin
FOLFOX:
A regimen of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin
The datasets obtained and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
YT, MN (Nagahashi), and HK designed the study. YT, HK, SY, RY, MN (Nakano), YS, JS, TK, and HU collected the patient's clinical data. YT, HK, and TW analyzed the data and wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The Institutional Review Board of Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences does not require approval of case reports. Consent of the patient was obtained for the presentation of this report.
Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
Division of Pathology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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Each summer, the banks of the Seine are turned into a beach. Tonnes of sand are brought up the river by barge. It is spread along the little road that runs alongside the Seine, essentially turning it into a mini-beach complete with kayaking and volleyball. A suspended swimming pool over the river provides a safe swimming area. The concept was invented in 2002 to cater for Parisian families who could not afford to get away to the beach and has now become popular with everyone.
François Vatel was a famous chef who worked at the Château de Chantilly. In 1671, 2000 guests were attending a dinner in honour of King Louis XIV. François, known to be a perfectionist, was panicking as it seemed the fish he had ordered for the meal would not arrive on time. Out of shame and to save himself the disgrace of serving a late meal, he ran himself through with a sword. The fishmongers turned up as he was bleeding to death.
In the 1850s, engineers worked hard to modernise Paris and to improve its sewer system. Engineer Emmanuel Bruneseau had the task of mapping out the old system first. During his explorations in the sewers he found many interesting things ranging from expensive jewellery, an orang-utan skeleton, a living crocodile and thousands of thriving rats. In 1867, the first public tour was opened and visitors were taken through the sewers by wagon. In the 1920s, the wagon was replaced by a boat tour and nowadays, visitors tour by foot. (www.parismuseumpass.com/musee-musee-des-egouts-de-paris-23.htm
Notre Dame Cathedral, which was home to the legendary Hunchback and bell-ringer, Quasimodo, gets even more visitors than the Eiffel tower. The main bell in the tower, called Emmanuel, weighs more than 3 Indian Elephants, tipping the scales at 13,000kg.
The Pantheon now houses an exact replica of Foucault's pendulum which has been swinging in constant motion since 1995. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was the French Physicist who created the first practical demonstration to prove that the earth does indeed 'move'.
The Catacombs were created about 200 years ago because the graveyards had become overcrowded and smelly. The bones were all moved by cart at night after being blessed by a priest. They were carefully stacked and arranged in the old limestone mines beneath the city. To visit today, you go down a spiral staircase which takes you 20m (65ft) beneath the City. It is interesting to note that it took over 70 years to move all the bones into the Catacombs.
When the Pompidou Centre first opened in 1977, it was considered an eyesore amongst all the lovely, traditional architecture. All its pipes, service ducts and escalators are all situated on the outside of the building. The amount of visitors it received completely exceeded expectations and due to the amount of wear and tear, the entire building had to be renovated within 20 years.
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By Dom Lawson (Metal Hammer) 08 January 2019
Bruce Dickinson calls the Hall of Fame a "mausoleum". He's right – metal bands don't belong in there
Aside from being fucking awesome, what do Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motörhead have in common? That's right: none of them have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. At best, it's a tricky fact to process. At worst, this is pure insanity. As a result, I do empathise with people that explode in hot pockets of sweaty rage when each new year's Hall Of Fame inductees are announced and, with crushing inevitability, some of the biggest bands of all time – from any genre – have once again been overlooked in favour of, erm, Janet Jackson and The Cure. It's almost enough to make us metal folk a bit paranoid about how our genre is perceived by the mainstream... and yet, don't we know all of this already?
I would argue that getting upset because the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame are ignoring the metal scene is an extraordinary waste of energy, and not just because we should expect nothing more from an organisation that has decreed that N.W.A. (inducted in 2016) and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (2015 - name more than one song, I dare you!) are more deserving of acknowledgement for contributing to rock'n'roll's evolution than Slayer or Megadeth. The most important reason to totally disregard the entire farcical enterprise is that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is a private, profit-making enterprise and in no way reflects the passions of real music fans, let alone metalheads.
Of course, there is always the argument that awards and trophies are basically just nice things and it would be churlish to say no to a bit of innocent praise from a lovely museum in Cleveland, Ohio. It's certainly true that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame organisation is not advocating genocide or selling heroin to children – so far, at least – but it's not a fucking charity and they have never heard of Bathory. This organisation doesn't exist to help struggling musicians or to "support the scene, man". It's about sticking established, routinely-venerated artists behind glass and charging people a fortune to press their noses up against it.
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Why is it dangerous? In addition to inhaling smoke into their lungs, nicotine negatively affects a teenager's brain development, and the craving levels are much more amplified. The earlier an individual begins to smoke, the easier it is to get addicted and more difficult it becomes to quit. And, while cigarette use has steadily decreased over the last decade, the use of e-cigarettes has skyrocketed among teenagers since 2015. This has created a recent epidemic among adolescents, and the long term effects of e-cigarette are still unknown.
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"Tron: Uprising" Pilot Review: A New Series Lights The Way, And Leaves That Godawful Sequel In Its Dust
By TK Burton | TV | May 16, 2012 |
There's a peculiar history to the world of Tron. The original film, released in 1982, is an enjoyable, nostalgic romp featuring technology that isn't only outdated, but also rather nonsensical. Regardless, it's tale of a programmer whisked away into a digital universe of his own creation who must battle alongside the heroic Tron to take down the villainous Master Control Program was an engaging, entertaining one.
Yet oddly, things didn't end there. There were a series of unfortunate and forgettable video games, and then in 2010, director Joseph Kosinski made Tron: Legacy. Despite bringing back the wonderful Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, and adding notables such as Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, and the musical stylings of Daft Punk, the film was a miserable affair. Beautifully rendered with a unique visual flair, it was ultimately as empty and soulless as its antagonists (and not aided by a bland, uninteresting lead in Garrett Hedlund). Despite all of that, it still managed to make an impressive $400 million.
And so inevitably, the world of Tron is being resurrected again, now with the animated television series "Tron: Uprising," which debuts next month on the Disney XD cable network. Taking place between the original film and the events of the 2010 sequel, it features a new protagonist named Beck, who is yet another underdog taking on the massive, oppressive computer overlord Clu and his army of fiery colored shock troops. To whet your appetites, the pilot episode, "Beck's Beginning," is now available online (and embedded at the end of this review).
The series will be directed by Kosinski as well as Sean Bailey and Charlie Bean, and boasts an impressive cast — Elijah Wood plays Beck, a program whose homeland is being subjugated by Clu (Fred Tatasciore), as represented by the nefarious General Tesler (Lance Henrikson). Beck seeks to take up the mantle of Tron to try to inspire the populace and incite a rebellion, and along the way, he encounters the original Tron (Boxleitner, reprising the role). Other actors include Mandy Moore and Nate Corddry as his friends Mara and Zed, and Emmanuelle Chriqui as Paige, General Tesler's chief program hunter/killer.
And you know what? The pilot is damn good. It's far superior to the garish sequel, and while the characters are somewhat stock and obvious, let's remember that this is an animated Disney series. But it's still smart and entertaining. It's helped by an absolutely stunning visual palette, and of course the advantage of using animation to recreate this unusual universe is that now all budgetary constraints are removed, and literally anything can be made a part of the Tron world. The show's creations include the staple lightscycles and bizarre, horseshoe-shaped flying battleships, but also whole new ideas and vehicles, each cleverly designed and sharply rendered. Tron: Legacy was very pretty, yet still felt somewhat sterile and cold. On the other hand, "Uprising" brings a needed sense of warmth and intimacy to its digital world, something that makes the characters more likable and the settings more interesting. The stark contrasts remain, but there's a new life to the set design, and the world seems sleeker with a greater sense of detail.
Even more importantly, the cast seems to work (at least based on this first 30 minutes). Wood is an enjoyable protagonist, full of self-doubt coupled with youthful bluster and naivete. Henrikson could probably play Tesler in his sleep, but his voice work thankfully doesn't mail it in, and instead gives the character a real sense of thoughtful menace, just as Boxleitner imbues Tron with a weary nobility. Most impressive was Emmanuelle Chriqui as Paige. The character's arc is already being somewhat telegraphed as she begins to doubt her masters, but she brings a cocky, self-assured strut to the series, made more fun by the way she casually kicks Beck's ass up and down the digital streets.
It's not a lot to go on, but "Tron: Uprising" is has the makings of becoming the strongest entry in this oddball franchise since its inception. It's a flashy, f ast-paced and well-acted new addition, adding a solid depth to the gaps in between the films. Most importantly, it's fun, something that was sadly missing from the sequel. The pilot is certainly worth checking out, and hopefully the series can continue to maintain its intensity and strange, light-filled techno-charm.
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I have had several emails from constituents who have worked themselves into quite a state over the takeover of the engineering firm GKN by Melrose. Some of my correspondents have got the wrong end of the stick, likening it to the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft back in 2010, they appear not to have spotted that Melrose is a UK enterprise just as much as is GKN.
I have not been able to get excited about it. GKN has been a great British enterprise with an illustrious history, but with respect to the takeover bid, I think it had it coming.
For the last few years the performance at GKN has been less than impressive. The impression was of a company coasting, event slacking, and senior management lacking focus and energy.
Melrose, on the other hand, has performed formidably and has a record of refocusing enterprises on their core business and sharpening the management. As for the fear that parts of the business will be sold off, there is nothing unusual about that, it can often be the sensible thing to do, and apparently GKN was planning to do that itself anyway
One great British enterprise bought-up by another successful British enterprise, is not a great headline, that is why it has been dressed up with all that pejorative stuff about 'asset-strippers' and 'greedy city hedge funds'.
My perspective different: it's one of free markets exercising a discipline that keeps companies and their managements on their toes, performing at the top of their game.
Just suppose however, that Melrose had been a foreign-owned undertaking. Would my attitude be different?
It would not. I believe in free trade and the free movement of capital, from which we prosper more than most: In the UK we own more overseas assets per head of population than almost any other country in the world. The profits from which flow back into UK coffers. It is something we have been doing for generations. As the greatest of 'offenders' we are hardly in a position to complain when somebody else buys-up something British.
I felt that all the angst about Cadbury was rather misplaced. Traditional British chocolate manufacturer, still informed by the social values of its Quaker founders, swallowed-up by multinational giant. Not quite!
Remember, whilst Cadbury was indeed once a traditional Quaker confectioner, it had itself become a voracious and acquisitive predator, it was after all actually Cadbury-Schweppes.
If companies want to fund their expansion and investment in one of the most effective ways available, raising the capital by selling shares, then we must accept that shareholders have a right to realise their own investment and sell the shares when, and to whom they choose. To seek to interfere with that right will drive capital from our shores and kill the goose that is laying the golden eggs.


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 * mm/mm_heap/mm_heapinfo_group.c
 *
 *   Copyright (C) 2007, 2009, 2013-2014 Gregory Nutt. All rights reserved.
 *   Author: Gregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
 *    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
 *    distribution.
 * 3. Neither the name NuttX nor the names of its contributors may be
 *    used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
 *    without specific prior written permission.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
 * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 * COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
 * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
 * BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS
 * OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
 * AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
 * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
 * ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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/****************************************************************************
 * Included Files
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#include <tinyara/config.h>
#include <tinyara/sched.h>
#include <tinyara/mm/mm.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <debug.h>
#include <tinyara/mm/heapinfo_internal.h>

int heapinfo_max_group;
struct heapinfo_group_s heapinfo_group[HEAPINFO_USER_GROUP_NUM];
struct heapinfo_group_info_s group_info[HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM];

/****************************************************************************
 * Name: heapinfo_update_group
 *
 * Description:
 * Update Peak heap size for Group
 ****************************************************************************/
void heapinfo_update_group(mmsize_t size, pid_t pid)
{
	int check_idx;
	int group_num;
	int stack_pid;

	if (pid == HEAPINFO_INIT_INFO) {
		/* Invalid PID */
		mdbg("Invalid PID : %d\n", pid);
		return;
	}
	for (check_idx = 0; check_idx < HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM; check_idx++) {
		if (pid == group_info[check_idx].pid) {
			group_num = group_info[check_idx].group;
			heapinfo_group[group_num].curr_size += size;
			/* Update peak size */
			if (heapinfo_group[group_num].peak_size < heapinfo_group[group_num].curr_size) {
				heapinfo_group[group_num].peak_size = heapinfo_group[group_num].curr_size;
				/* calculate the summation of stacks */
				heapinfo_group[group_num].stack_size = 0;
				for (stack_pid = 0; stack_pid < HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM; stack_pid++) {
					if (group_info[stack_pid].pid != HEAPINFO_INIT_INFO && group_info[stack_pid].group == group_num) {
						heapinfo_group[group_num].stack_size += group_info[stack_pid].stack_size;
					}
				}
				heapinfo_group[group_num].heap_size = heapinfo_group[group_num].peak_size - heapinfo_group[group_num].stack_size;
			}
			break;
		}
	}
}

/****************************************************************************
 * Name: heapinfo_update_group_info
 *
 * Description:
 * when create or release task/thread, check that the task/thread is
 * in group list
 ****************************************************************************/
void heapinfo_update_group_info(pid_t pid, int group, int type)
{
	int info_idx;
	struct tcb_s *tcb;
	switch (type) {
	case HEAPINFO_INIT_INFO:
		for (info_idx = 0; info_idx < HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM; info_idx++) {
			group_info[info_idx].pid = pid;
			group_info[info_idx].group = group;
			group_info[info_idx].stack_size = 0;
		}
		break;
	case HEAPINFO_ADD_INFO:
		if (group > heapinfo_max_group) {
			heapinfo_max_group = group;
		}
		for (info_idx = 0; info_idx < HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM; info_idx++) {
			if (group_info[info_idx].pid <= 0) {
				group_info[info_idx].pid = pid;
				group_info[info_idx].group = group;
				tcb = sched_gettcb(pid);
				if (tcb) {
					group_info[info_idx].stack_size = tcb->adj_stack_size;
					heapinfo_update_group(tcb->adj_stack_size, pid);
				}
				break;
			}
		}
		break;
	case HEAPINFO_DEL_INFO:
		for (info_idx = 0; info_idx < HEAPINFO_THREAD_NUM; info_idx++) {
			if (pid == group_info[info_idx].pid) {
				heapinfo_update_group((-1) * group_info[info_idx].stack_size, pid);

				group_info[info_idx].pid = -1;
				group_info[info_idx].group = -1;
				group_info[info_idx].stack_size = 0;
				break;
			}
		}
		break;
	default:
		break;
	}
}

/****************************************************************************
 * Name: heapinfo_check_group_list
 *
 * Description:
 * check that task/thread is in group list
 ****************************************************************************/
void heapinfo_check_group_list(pid_t pid, char *name)
{
	char *thread_list = CONFIG_HEAPINFO_USER_GROUP_LIST;

	int group_num = 0;

	char *name_start;
	char *name_end;
	int name_length;
	name_start = name_end = thread_list;

	while (*name_start != '\0') {
		if (*name_end == '/' || *name_end == ',' || *name_end == '\0') {
			name_length = name_end - name_start;
			if (name_length == strlen(name)) {
				if (strncmp(name_start, name, name_end - name_start) == 0) {
					heapinfo_update_group_info(pid, group_num, HEAPINFO_ADD_INFO);
					break;
				}
			}
			if (*name_end == '/') {
				group_num++;
			} else if (*name_end == '\0') {
				name_start = name_end;
				continue;
			}
			name_end++;
			name_start = name_end;
		} else {
			name_end++;
		}
	}
}

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Deprive yourself, or indulge? Holiday eating decisions made a little easier
Updated Jan 12, 2019; Posted Nov 23, 2012
By Evelyn Theiss, The Plain Dealer
The holiday eating season is under way. Do you have a survival plan? Butterball
CLEVELAND, Ohio--Thanksgiving has come and gone. But those pounds you gained from the feast wil stick around. And the holiday season has just begun.
Now is the time to plan how you are going to manage the holiday temptations during the weeks to come, say area nutritionists.
Are you going to let loose, then rationalize, "Hey, it's the holidays, they only come once a year," and allow yourself to feel overly sated after every meal and party?
Or are you willing to pay attention to getting through the next few weeks without adding permanent poundage to your waist?
It's not just the holiday meals, but the cookies at work, or the ones your mom makes; the parties with richer-than-usual drinks, the special homemade desserts – Yule logs, pumpkin pie and Christmas stollen. Even the coffee shops are amping it up, with eggnog or peppermint-chocolate lattes topped with whipped cream and sprinkles.
For advice, we turned to three pros for realistic approaches to holiday celebrations that walk the line between deprivation and indulgence.
Here are tips from Meghann Featherstun, a clinical dietitian at University Hospitals; Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services at the Cleveland Clinic; and Dina Boyer, corporate nutritionist at the Parker Hannifin Corporation:
Meghann Featherstun
Follow the "two choices" rule, which means two indulgences at a holiday meal, restaurant night out, or a party. Say, dessert and wine -- but not bread. Or bread and wine, but no dessert. You get the idea, says Featherstun.
"It's a controlled splurge," says Featherstun. "If you said no to everything you liked, you'd feel deprived.
"And when we have too many choices, we get overwhelmed, so narrow it down to choosing two."
• Don't bother with the extra calories in something you can have year-round. Instead, opt for a holiday treat, like your aunt's sweet potato casserole (hopefully without marshmallows -- let the natural sweetness come through.)
• Keep splurge foods out of the house. If you love eggnog, drink a glass at a party or holiday meal, but don't buy a quart to keep at home to swig from all season long. For the same reason, say no to rich leftovers. Eat your holiday meal, but leave the extras with the host if you know you'll overindulge at home.
• Give up the calories that don't matter to you -- or where you can taste little difference. If you don't care what kind of milk is in your coffee, choose skim. If you're making a cheesecake, swapping out some of the cream cheese with a low-fat version won't seriously affect the flavor.
• Remember the actual holiday is one day – not four. "Confine your indulgence to that one day," advises Featherstun. "Not the three days following, too."
Kristin Kirkpatrick
"Think of the '3 Cs: commitment, control and communication,' " says Kirkpatrick.
Commitment: Commit now to eating moderately, don't wait until January 1.
"It takes six weeks to start a habit, so if you start to eat healthfully now, it will be a habit by January," she says. Also, commit to being in control at a special meal or party. Don't act as if you're at the mercy of the treats available there.
Control: This is what you want as you approach a party or special meal. "Studies show that when we eat with a group of people, we tend to eat 44 percent more than we would otherwise," Kirkpatrick says.
"That is just looking at the fact that we are with others -- it's not even taking into account there is more food available."
So eat something before you go, and make a plan for what you'll eat when you are there, or once you get there, she said. "Otherwise, you'll eat mindlessly and you won't even realize how much you've consumed."
Communicate: Mention to a friend, buddy or family member that you'll be striving for moderation. First, if you tell someone, you're more likely to stick with your plan. Second, "If you say, "I'm trying to be healthier, can you not offer me a second slice of pie, or leftovers to take home?" they won't keep pushing it on you. We hope.
• Watch out for sauces and dips. Put some on the side on your plate.
"Don't create a small pond on it," Kirkpatrick says.
• Keep your plate as bright as possible. Orange yams are more nutritious than white potatoes; berries are better than bananas. You get the idea.
• As a general rule, if you bring dessert to a party, buy it, don't bake it.
"If you bake it, you'll have all the ingredients on hand to make it again," Kirkpatrick says. "If you buy it and take it to a party, it's gone."
Dina Boyer
Maintain your daily healthy routine as much as possible during the holidays to discourage cravings, says Boyer.
"Cravings often develop in response to dehydration, nutrient deficiency and exhaustion," she says. "Skimping on breakfast, lunch, water or sleep can make you want to overeat."
• Indulge with moderation. It's easy to drink a lot of calories in mere minutes, and the more we drink, the less we care about eating too much. "If you do imbibe, do so lightly, and drink an extra two glasses of water for every alcoholic drink," says Boyer.
• Watch the coffee drinks. Holiday-flavored coffees can have 500-plus calories and nearly 70 grams of sugar. Same with hot chocolate, depending on how it's made. That's fine if it's a treat, but be conscious of what you're drinking. It adds up.
• Use a small plate whenever you can. Usually, that's what you find at parties anyway. And if something doesn't taste that great to you, don't finish it. Save the calories for what you find spectacular.
• Control temptation. "Food is everywhere, and you can't avoid it, or anticipate all the tempting food," says Boyer. "Instead, spend your time anticipating the celebration with friends and family, instead of the time spent on eating."
Sometimes, catching up with friends can be so much fun that you'll find yourself only mildly interested in the food.
And that's as it should be -- spending time with people you love, whose company you enjoy, rather than sidling up to the buffet.


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Q: How i can add the calculated fields to access_token / id_token I'm using IdentityServer4 and I want to add the calculated fields to access_token / id_token.
An example of such a field can be the user's IP (or token binding hash), to which the token will be attached.
Q: How i can do this?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad english.

A: You can add claims that contain the calculated fields by creating a method in your UserManager implementation.
public class UserManager: IUserManager
{
    ...other code here removed for simplicity

    public List<Claim> GetClaimsAsync(Models.User user)
    {
        var claims = new List<Claim>();

        claims.Add(new Claim(JwtClaimTypes.PreferredUserName, user.USER_ID.ToString().Trim()));

        //This next line is pseudo coded and would need to be coded.
        claims.Add(new Claim("MyCalculatedIP", MyFunctionToGetUserIP().ToString().Trim()));

        return claims;
    }

    ...other code here removed for simplicity
}

Call this from the class that implements the IProfileService. I named mine ProfileService.
/// <summary>
///  implement the interface called "IProfileService", which is used for authorization.
/// </summary>
public class ProfileService : IProfileService
{
    IUserManager _myUserManager;
    private readonly ILogger<ProfileService> _logger;

    public ProfileService(ILogger<ProfileService> logger, IUserManager userManager)
    {
        _logger = logger;
        _myUserManager = userManager;
    }

    public async Task ValidateAsync(ResourceOwnerPasswordValidationContext context)
    {
        var user = await _myUserManager.Find(context.UserName, context.Password);

        if (user != null)
        {
            context.Result = new GrantValidationResult(
                             subject: user.USER_ID,
                             authenticationMethod: "custom",
                             claims: await _myUserManager.GetClaimsAsync(user));
        }
        else
        {
            context.Result = new GrantValidationResult(
                             TokenRequestErrors.InvalidRequest,
                    errorDescription: "UserName or Password Incorrect.");
        }
    }

    public async Task GetProfileDataAsync(ProfileDataRequestContext context)
    {
        _logger.LogDebug("Get profile called for {subject} from {client} with {claimTypes} because {caller}",
            context.Subject.GetSubjectId(),
            context.Client.ClientName,
            context.RequestedClaimTypes,
            context.Caller);

        var sub = context.Subject.FindFirst("sub")?.Value;
        if (sub != null)
        {
            var user = await _myUserManager.FindByNameAsync(sub);
            var cp = getClaims(user);

            var claims = cp.Claims;

            context.IssuedClaims = claims.ToList();
        }
    }

    private ClaimsPrincipal getClaims(User user)
    {
        if (user == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(user));
        }

        var id = new ClaimsIdentity();

        id.AddClaims(_myUserManager.GetClaimsAsync(user));

        return new ClaimsPrincipal(id);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called by IdentityServer Middleware.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public async Task IsActiveAsync(IsActiveContext context)
    {
        var sub = context.Subject.GetSubjectId();
        var user = await _myUserManager.FindByNameAsync(sub);
        context.IsActive = user != null;
        return;
    }
}

In the Startup class add the ProfileService object for Dependency Injection.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
     ...other code here removed for simplicity

     Services.AddTransient<IProfileService, ProfileService>();

     ...other code here removed for simplicity
}

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Repak announces 2017 Pakman Awards nominations shortlist
By Lean Business IrelandSeptember 26, 2017
Aldi Stores Ireland Limited, Clean Ireland Recycling, DAA, Sligo University Hospital and Tipperary County Council and many more have made the shortlist of nominees for the third annual Pakman Awards, powered by Repak.
The Pakman Award, which is the overall winner's prize, will be presented on the night at Dublin's Intercontinental Hotel on Thursday, 26 October. This award is applicable to each winner from the 13 categories and will be judged based on the outstanding contribution made through environmental and sustainability efforts.
The Pakman Award is one of the highest accolades any organisation, company, community group or individual in Ireland can achieve for their environmental and sustainability efforts.
This year is the inaugural year of the 'Innovation in Waste Management' award judged by Dragon's Den star and entrepreneur, Chanelle McCoy. McCoy's extensive experience made her an esteemed choice to judge the new category in which this year's finalists are Body & Soul Event Creations, Conscious Cup Campaign and Waste Matters Ireland.
Commenting on the nominations announcement was CEO of Repak, Séamus Clancy. "The Pakman Awards are going from strength to strength," he said, "and thShis year received the highest number of entries yet. We are thrilled to see businesses, community groups and individuals from all over Ireland putting innovative and inspiring waste management practices into place and are proud to showcase these excellent initiatives on a broader scale.
"The awards promise to be a wonderful night, particularly given that Repak is celebrating 20 years of packaging recycling success this year. Repak members alongside the public and other advocates of recycling have made a real difference, placing Ireland as one of Europe's top performers for packaging recycling. On behalf of our sponsors, we look forward to welcoming all finalists to the awards on 26 October."
Read more: http://www.shelflife.ie/repak-announces-2017-pakman-awards-nominations-shortlist/#ixzz4tlPNKtma
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We take the new Alpine A110 on a drive around the twisting roads of the Lake District, up Hardknott Pass and The Struggle.
The Hardknott Pass is arguably one of the UK's most challenging roads to drive. Slap-bang in the middle of the Lake District, it zigzags up a steep hill like one of those fire escapes on the side of a tower block, with each switchback requiring two full turns of the steering wheel and a very deep breath. After the summit, where your bonnet points briefly skyward as you pray there's nothing coming towards you, the single-track road slaloms down the other side before finally unravelling along the valley floor.
All right, so it's about a thousand miles from the Alps, and you wouldn't want to hear the locals yodelling, but the corkscrewing Hardknott is an appropriately twisty place to bring the first all-new Alpine in over 30 years. The brand – pronounced the French way, naturally – has been brought back to life by Renault, its parent company since 1973. And what you see here is its comeback car, the A110, which like its '60s/'70s namesake is a lightweight, compact coupé made with the mountains in mind. Wherever they may be.
With the tangled tarmac of the Hardknott behind us we drive straight into the adjoining Wrynose Pass, which runs like a stream between hills so enormous they make the Alpine look like a Matchbox model. From here we head east to Ambleside and the Kirkstone Pass, heading up via a steep lane known locally as The Struggle. Years ago, cattle drovers who made it to the top were rewarded with a tankard of something brown and frothy in the Kirkstone Inn. We're driving, so we don't indulge – our reward is two lanes of petrolhead heaven, where finally we can stretch the Alpine's legs a little.
Our next stop: the Newlands Pass. Linking Braithwaite to Buttermere, it begins as a country lane before turning into a three-mile ledge cut into the mountainside. Halfway along it passes the cascading Moss Force waterfall – 100 metres from top to bottom – before spiralling down into Buttermere and around to the Honister Pass, possibly the greatest alpine road this side of the actual Alps.
The A110 really comes alive on a road like this. It's light in your hands. It changes direction quicker than a housefly. It threads neatly between the drystone walls. To change gear in manual mode you pull a cold, sickle-shaped paddle – once you've tried a double-clutch 'box as reactive as this one, you won't miss a gearstick – and each shift kicks you up the road with surprising gusto. It's wonderful.
Other similar lightweights, like the Lotus Exige or even the Alfa Romeo 4C, are stiffly sprung and feel like they'd rather be on a smooth racetrack. The Alpine is different. A lot of this is down to the all-round, double-wishbone suspension, which soaks up the sort of lumps and bumps you find on real roads, yet still provides plenty of support around corners. In other words, the more you lean on it, the firmer it gets. It's proof that a car doesn't have to be stiff to be sporty.
You can trace these routes right back to the Romans. Indeed, you can still see the remains of the dramatically-sited Hardknott Fort at the western end of the Pass.
Links Windermere to Ullswater, where you can take a trip around the lake on one of the old screw-propelled vessels (now powered by diesel rather than steam).
Not the most exciting road, but at least it delivers you to the Whinlatter Forest, with its excellent mountain bike trails and other adventures.
The least famous but most dramatic of all the Lake District's passes. Stop at the top for a good view of Moss Force waterfall.
Done driving? Try climbing the 648-metre Fleetwith Pike on the Via Ferrata with its iron footholds, rope bridges and tightrope walks.
Parkergate Cottages are beautifully situated near Ullock Pike and Skiddaw in the northern Lake District, and beautifully appointed too. A perfect base for exploring the area, Boundless members benefit from discounted rates at each of the seven properties, and it's worth looking out for last-minute deals on the website too.
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Explainer: What is a 'Gonski' anyway?
April 19, 2013 7.07pm EDT
Bronwyn Hinz, University of Melbourne
Bronwyn Hinz
PhD Candidate and Tutor, School of Social and Political Sciences & Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Bronwyn Hinz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU.
Schools funding has been a hot topic this week: here's all you need to know on this important election issue. AAP Image/Alan Porritt
This week you might have heard the word "Gonski" even more than usual.
That's because the Gillard government finally announced how it would pay for its school funding reform in the lead up to its meeting with the states – who it needs to help fund the changes. Yesterday the states failed to sign up to the reforms but what does that really mean?
In order to understand the significance of the reforms, based on the landmark Gonski review on school funding, you need to understand how the current system works, what's wrong with it and what proposals there are to fix it.
The current system
Australia's school funding arrangements are unnecessarily complex, opaque, ineffective and inequitable. It compounds disadvantage and limits the nation's education performance.
It's actually dozens of systems, public and private, state and commonwealth. Each of which is reformed without respect to the others, creating a veritable jungle of policies which limits accountability and contributes to growing resources and performance gaps between rich and poor schools, with disadvantaged students suffering most.
Under the Australian Constitution, schooling is a residual responsibility of the states (that means it isn't listed as a Commonwealth power under section 51).
States and territories provide almost 70% of all government funding for schools, of which 90% is rightly directed to public schools, given the sector's responsibility for universal education access and its disproportionate share of disadvantaged students.
Table 1: Basic school funding facts. ABS 2011 Schools Australia, cat. No. 4221.0, ACARA 2012, analysis of MySchool data from 2010, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2010 national finance data for My School 2012, unpublished, cited in Marilyn Harrington 2013 Australian Government Funding for Schools (Update March 2013), Canberra: Department of the Parliamentary Library 2013.
The states are responsible for running public schools, and for the accountability, regulatory and registration frameworks for all school sectors.
The commonwealth also provides funding for all school sectors, but directs most of its 30% of the funding pie to non-government schools.
Effectively three different formulas are used to allocate this commonwealth funding, of which only one is based on an estimate of a schools' relative need.
This commonwealth funding is then passed on to state and territory governments, who then combine it with their own funding before passing it along to the relevant school system authority, be it a state Department of Education, a state's Catholic Education Commission, or individual independent schools. Each authority then adds its own revenue before distributing it further down the chain.
Finally, individual schools add their own revenue – such as fees and donations – to their little pot.
Figure 1: School funding in Australia: all levels of government, all sectors. (Total $34.1 billion) Author
Each schooling authority and funding model has its own school funding models and separate administrative and accountability procedures, which vary widely.
For example, Victorian public schools have power over most of their own budget – including staff hiring - while other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally, leaving schools with minimal autonomy.
Funding and disadvantage
This wide mix of funding sources allows policy innovation and protects schools from overzealous government budget cuts.
But it makes education funding extremely complex and allows misinformation to flourish, to everyone's detriment.
Until the Rudd-Gillard government's MySchool website, policymakers did not know how much funding each individual school received and thus could not effectively target money and programs to where they were most needed.
While all sectors enrol a mix of students of different backgrounds and educational ability, socio-economic and educational disadvantage is heavily concentrated in the public school sector.
Figure 2: School funding in Australia: all levels of government, all sectors. $bn. Author
In 2010, public schools enrolled 80% of students from the lowest SES quartile, 78% of disabled students, 85% of Indigenous students and 68% of students of non-English speaking backgrounds.
The Gonski Review found that Australia has one of the biggest gaps amongst developed nations between high and low performing students, a gap that is growing. It also found that educational performance is strongly and unacceptably linked to students' backgrounds - the more disadvantaged, the worse the child's outcomes.
Current funding allocations exacerbate this shameful situation.
What Gonski recommended
The Gonski Review made 41 recommendations for a fair, equitable and efficient school funding system.
Front and centre was a A$6.5 billion per year funding increase (about 15% extra) distributed to schools based on a model that gave every student a funding benchmark amount plus extra money, or "loadings", for specific disadvantages.
The Review also recommended fairer and clearer division of responsibilities between governments. Better intergovernmental coordination was needed, as was greater respect and flexibility for states.
School systems – public and private - should continue to make allocation decisions based on their superior local knowledge and administrative capacity, but should be guided by the new model and be fully transparent and accountable.
In other words, enhancing the opportunities offered by our federal system of government, not reducing them with a single, national system.
The government response
In response to these meaty and sophisticated recommendations, the Gillard government developed and equally meaty and complex National Plan for School Improvement.
This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.
These are worthy ideas, but difficult or impossible to implement and manage by a level of government that does not actually, and should not, run schools.
Rather than return greater power and respect to the states, the Gillard government proposed a significant increase in Commonwealth involvement and oversight in public and private education.
Far from respectful diplomacy, intergovernmental relations became a battle couched in military terms as part of a Commonwealth crusade.
A national plan
The funding for this National Plan wasn't announced until last week. Under Gillard's offer to the states and territories the Commonwealth proposed their new funding benchmark. This would be a base rate, or Student Resource Standard (SRS) worth A$9,271 per primary school student and A$12,193 per secondary student before loadings.
This model would commence operation in 2014 and inject an estimated A$14.5 billion dollars over six years, with the Commonwealth contributing two thirds of this new funding, in line with their greater fiscal revenue.
Public schools students would receive the full SRS, private schools a proportion based on their school's estimated ability to rise private income (i.e fees) using census data from students' neighbourhoods.
The loadings would cover six identified forms of disadvantage – low socioeconomic background, indigenous background, limited English, rural or small schools and disability. These would be fully publicly funded for all schools.
This full amount is less than Gonski proposed, and only 17% of the new funding is attached to the six disadvantage-based loadings.
The low-SES loading is to be applied to the lowest 50% of households, not 25% as Gonski recommended, which has led to the moniker "Gonski-lite". Schools operating above the SRS (most independent schools, see table 1 above) would still have their funding increased or maintained (until inflation very slowly caught up).
COAG confusion
Arguably this is not a needs-based system but a politically-based one.
This Commonwealth deal was uniformly rejected at COAG yesterday, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Labor and Coalition Premiers and Chief Ministers alike expressed their commitment to public education and emphasised their openness to further negotiation and a new school funding agreement.
The offer put before them had too many unknowns – for one, the data underpinning the various disadvantage loadings is still being collected – and there was grave, justified concerns about unnecessary and potentially detrimental Commonwealth involvement in their school systems.
Premiers spoke of the difficulty or impossibility of finding their one-third share of additional funding from already over-stretched state budgets, and their fears that even with these loadings, schools, particularly public schools, needed more funding.
COAG was always going to be the start rather than the end of negotiations on intergovernmental school funding reform.
The reported 90 minute discussion on these issues was inadequate, with deeper bilateral negotiations set to continue up until the June 30 deadline.
Judging by the leaders' comments at the COAG press conference, this means individual, flexible agreements more in line with the Gonski recommendations after all. It also gives extra time to get the details right.
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A pensioner who used to walk from Enagh Lough, over the hill to the Foyle, and up along the river to visit his granny in the old 'Railway Cottage,' which was situated close to where the Foyle Bridge spans today, when he was a boy, has lamented the increasing inaccessibility of the waterway to local people.
Jim Boyle, who is now aged 80, and has walked and fished the river a lifetime, says consideration should be given towards providing some form of public crossing of both the Derry to Belfast railway line and the proposed new Waterside to Strathfoyle greenway, which he fears will further detach Derry from the river.
Mr. Boyle, from Beechwood Park, said there's now no way a citizen can legally get down to the banks of the river for an 11-kilometre stretch from Derry to the 'Lough End' in Donnybrewer.
"It's like a jail out here," complained Mr. Boyle.
"From here to Derry, you can't even get near the water.
"We'd like access. We did have some access down here at the port, that used to take you across the railway line, but they closed it for some reason.
While the Derry to Coleraine railway line is punctuated by numerous unmanned rail crossings, these are normally situated on private land.
Translink said: "There are no public crossings on the section of railway line between Foyle Bridge and Lisahally.
Meanwhile, the Strathfoyle section of the greenway has yet to be completed but Mr. Boyle has suggested it might have taken a different route.


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Rotary and Cure Alzheimer's Fund today announced an agreement to co-fund a new, groundbreaking research project to search for female-specific genetic and other factors contributing to women's risk for Alzheimer's disease. In total, the two organizations will provide a grant of $375,000 for this critical research.
The total Alzheimer's patient population is now estimated at 5.6 million in the United States and over 45 million worldwide. Two thirds of those afflicted are women. In the United States, it is estimated that more than 3 million women over the age of 65 are suffering from the disease. A woman at 65 faces almost twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in her lifetime as does a man of the same age and nearly three times at age 75. Yet, very little is known or understood about why women are at such a higher risk. This research will investigate sex-linked and other factors that determine disease risk, age of onset, and rate of disease progression -critical information that can contribute to the pursuit of a cure for both sexes.
"Alzheimer's disease is decimating one out of four families in the United States and is costing the government more than $200 billion per year in medical costs. It must be stopped," said Dee Lander of the Rotary Club of Martha's Vineyard. "Cure Alzheimer's Fund, with its extensive database of Alzheimer's genetics and strong record of scientific achievement, is well-suited to conduct this research."
"As a Rotary Member who is passionate about the important research being done to move towards the prevention and reversal of Alzheimer's, I could not be more pleased that the Cure Alzheimer's Fund and The Rotary Foundation have come together to support this project," said David Clifton, member of the Rotary Club of Sharon, MA and Chair of the Alzheimer's/Dementia Rotary Action Group. "This cutting edge research will be vital in ensuring that we continue to see breakthroughs in the study of a complicated disease that affects so many people around the world."
The research team will be headed by Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., Chairman of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Consortium, Vice Chair of Neurology and Director of the Genetics and Aging Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Kennedy Chair at Harvard Medical School. He has been a leading researcher in the genetics of Alzheimer's disease for over 30 years. He recently received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for his contributions to Alzheimer's research.
"We are delighted to collaborate with Rotary as we tackle one of the most difficult conundrums relating to the disease. Understanding the difference in response of women and men to the disease has been a subject that researchers have been reluctant to take on because of its complexity. The influence of the differences in the XX and XY chromosomes is one issue that has never been explored extensively. Another is the differences in the human biomes of men versus women, and then there are multiple potential causes due to hormonal and life cycle differences. These are all issues we will be addressing in our research," said Jeffrey Morby, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund.
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The group was hit mass distribution problems at the start of the year but in a post-results conference call, Yum! Brands chief executive Greg Creed said he expected the business was now returning to normal performance.
Globally, KFC like-for-like sales in the fourth quarter increased 3% with system sales up 8%.
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Reflecting on the performance, he said: "2018 was a year of significant milestones in bold restaurant development. We now have over 48,000 restaurants in approximately 270 brand country combinations.
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Q: "google play services are updating" in emulator i just installed the google play services SDK yesterday. this is what happens when i start a new google maps application in a new emulator(see screenshot). it stays stuck on this screen for hours. if i shut down the emulator and restart it, the app crashes at startup. the logcats also give me an error about a module failing to load. the error is also in the screenshot.
06-28 16:35:29.101 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Failed to load module:
module com.google.android.gms.maps_dynamite not found
06-28 16:35:29.101 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Attempt 1 failed.
06-28 16:35:29.223 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Failed to load module:
module com.google.android.gms.maps_dynamite not found
06-28 16:35:29.223 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Attempt 2 failed.
06-28 16:35:29.340 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Failed to load module:
module com.google.android.gms.maps_dynamite not found
06-28 16:35:29.340 2956-2956/? W/DynamiteUtils: Attempt 3 failed.

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A: You can use Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X emulators. They have Play Store, and  let you play with play services without headache.


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A record 6.6 million seek U.S. jobless aid as layoffs mount
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week—doubling a record high set just one week earlier—a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the pandemic.
The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of economies in the United States and abroad that have almost certainly sunk into a severe recession as businesses close across the globe.
The figure for last week is much higher than the previous record of 3.3 million, reported one week before. The surging layoffs have led many economists to envision as many as 20 million lost jobs by the end of April. The unemployment rate could spike to as high as 15% this month, above the previous record of 10.8% set during a deep recession in 1982.
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Many employers are slashing their payrolls to try to stay afloat because their revenue has collapsed, especially at restaurants, hotels, gyms, movie theaters and other venues that involve face-to-face interaction. Auto sales have sunk, and factories have closed.
Stay-at-home orders, imposed by most U.S. states, have intensified pressure on businesses, most of which face rent, loans and other bills that must be paid.
Congress significantly expanded the unemployment benefits system in last week's $2.2 trillion economic rescue package. That legislation added $600 per week in jobless aid, on top of what recipients receive from their states. It will enable many lower-income workers to manage their expenses and even increase their purchasing power and support the economy.
It also makes many more people eligible for jobless aid, including the self-employed, contractors and so-called "gig economy" workers such as Uber and Lyft drivers.
Kathryn Lickteig, a cook in Kansas City, Mo., signed up for unemployment compensation last week after the city shut down dine-in restaurants. She is hopeful that the extra $600 will help her ride out the shutdown instead of having to look for an interim job.
"It has eased my mind so much," Lickteig said. "I do not have to actively go out and expose myself to the public and possibly get sick. I can stay home now and do my part in social distancing."
The legislation also will help fund unemployment benefits for workers whose hours have been cut. That would enable those people to replace some of their lost income with unemployment aid even as they keep their job.
About 26 states allow workers with reduced hours to claim benefits. Most economists support doing so because it encourages companies to cut back on hours rather than lay off workers. Any program that encourages companies to maintain connections with their workers can help the economy rebound faster after the virus outbreak is contained.
Typically, people who receive jobless aid are required to actively look for a new job and to document their searches. But Congress has passed other legislation that encourages states to drop that requirement, given that so many businesses are closed, and most Americans have been ordered to stay at home as much as possible.
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Friday the government is set to issue the March jobs report, which economists forecast will show a loss of 145,000 jobs. That report is based on data gathered mostly before the spike in layoffs began two weeks ago. Although relatively small, that loss would still end a record-long 113-month streak of job growth.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A woman who claims to have witnessed the fight near LSU last Friday told police she saw quarterback Jordan Jefferson kick a man in his face during the fight, according to an initial police report released Thursday.
The report by the Baton Rouge Police Department says police responded to a 911 call about a fight in progress outside Shady's Bar on E. Boyd Drive. In the report, the responding officer says no one was fighting when he arrived, but there was a crowd of people standing outside the bar.
According to the report, the officer came into contact with a man named Andrew Lowery. Lowery is enlisted in the Marine Reserves but was not in uniform on the night of the incident.
In the report, Lowery told the officer that while "standing outside the bar, he observed several suspects that he believed were LSU football players (approximately 10-15 people) pull an unknown W/M out of a black Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck." Lowery told police the group attacked the unknown man. The report states Lowery intervened, and managed to pull the man back into the truck. Lowery told police the group then attacked him and that he was "punched and kicked several times by the crowd." In the report, the officer says Lowery's face was swollen and bruised, and that he had blood on his shirt. According to the report, "Lowery states that he believes that Jordan Jefferson and Josh Johns, both LSU football players, were two of the individuals who attacked him."
A female at the scene told the responding officer she witnessed the altercation. WAFB 9NEWS has decided, at this time, not to reveal the name of the female.
In the report, the female witness says the incident began when the unknown male's pick-up was blocked by another vehicle. According to the report, the female saw a group pull the male out of the truck. She told police after Lowery managed to rescue him, he was attacked by the suspects. According to the report, the female told police that "she believes that all were LSU football players because some she recognized as being on the team. The others were wearing official LSU football shirts." The female witness told police she "knows for certain that she observed Jordan Jefferson kick Lowery in the face." She also told police she "observed Josh Johns as being one of the people who attacked Lowery." She indicated to police that while she didn't know all their names, she could identify the others though pictures if needed.
The female also told police she heard the unknown male tell the crowd he had a gun in the pick-up truck. She says she never saw a gun.
The police report says another officer was called to Earl K. Long hospital several hours after the initial call about the fight. Three males told the officer they had been attacked by a group of males, but were unable to give any identifying information about their attackers. The officer concluded that the three had left the scene outside Shady's in the black Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck.
*Note: It has been redacted.
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