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Gandi at Rustconf 2019
Sep 6, 2019 - written by Gandi News in The Gandi Bar
by Arthur
On August 23 in Portland, I was fortunate enough to attend Rustconf, a conference for Rust developers from around the world. Rust is a newish programming language that focuses on low-level programming, performance, and provides safety benefits.
At Gandi, we've been running Rust in production for over 3 years now. Whenever our servers reply to DNS queries, for example, it's being served using Rust Code.
I attended several talks at Rustconf by core Rust developers, innovators, and those working on improving Rust. A common theme across the talks and the conference as a whole was the importance of the Rust community, and the necessity to make sure that community is a welcoming space for people of all identities, where people are friendly and ready to help.
My personal journey in Rust has been excellent. While the language is certainly not an easy one to learn, since it shifts the usual paradigms a lot, the community that gravitates around it certainly makes up for it. While trying to learn the language, I've experienced welcoming IRC channels with tons of experienced people willing to spend time to share knowledge and help solve problems or explain concepts further.
And from what I could tell from speakers and other people I've met at rustconf, it's a shared feeling.
The keynote was delivered by two veterans of the community, Steve Klabnik and Florian Gilcher, both former Ruby developers who have been involved in the community since 2012. They walked us through the history of the Rust language and syntaxes I've never seen. But they spent some time going through recent changes happening in the Rust language (edition 2018 syntax) and exciting changes (async/await) still to come.
After a couple of years in the making, Rust finally settled on a stable syntax to describe async behavior. This syntax is important for Rust because the borrow checker did not previously know how to handle those concepts and would get in the way. To work around those limitations, Rust previously required heavier syntaxes, and sometimes locks which made an async-aware program harder to develop in Rust. This is certainly the most exciting change that's coming for Rust (expected for 1.39, in October according to release schedule).
Steve and Florian, two Rust core developers and observers, shared how they rely on community feedback through working groups, blog posts, and informal discussions. And they described how that feedback is especially helpful for them to decide how to shape the future of the language.
Because the Rust language is still growing, it also faces new challenges, some are legal (crates.io), but most are organizational. They will be scaling up the number of working groups, trying to onboard more people, but also trying new organizational patterns (orbit).
A Rust-embedded working group is coming soon and embedded is certainly a field where I would love to see Rust used more.
I think the overall message of the keynote was to show that the core team cares about quality a lot, does not intend to rush features but requires a lot of feedback to do this job.
Class Fixes
The next session I attended was the "Class fixes; or, you become the Rust compiler" by Isobel Redelmeier.
As a developer, there are three kinds of bugs you might introduce: logic errors, runtime errors, and compile-time errors. Isobell shared how to leverage the Rust compiler and the type system to transform the first two class of bugs into the third kind. Those compile-time errors are the most desirable kind of bug because, if present, your program won't compile, and you would have the chance to catch bugs during development, not later when your program is already deployed, and running in production with sensitive and live data.
One example of runtime errors is the infamous java null pointer exception. This class of bug happens because you would be passing a null-pointer instead of data, and java requires a developer to check for the sanity of input before acting on it. Leveraging a type system and the monadic Option can help a developer declaring intention and rustc will make sure the null is taken care of.
To paraphrase a former colleague of mine: "A compiler will happily take any sequence of instruction, and transform them into machine code. A type system is not helpful to a computer. It is a tool to help a developer to declare intention and have a compiler check intention is kept." I think Isobell would agree.
Next on the stage was Gargi Sharma for "Syscalls for rustaceans". Because Rust is a system programming oriented language, Gargi walked us through some bit of operating system history to explain how systems have been split to reduce size and complexity, and how syscalls are used for that purpose.
Whenever a program needs to trigger a syscall, it will setup register, then context-switch into the kernel which will be dispatched by the OS onto the syscall handler. The OS will do its job, then context-switch back to the program.
Gargi walked us through the strace utility and ptrace subsystem, and showed how to leverage that from Rust programs.
Then it was time to hear from Eliza Weisman about her tracing project. Tracing is an instrumentation framework that bridges between logs and distributed tracing frameworks (Zipkin, Jaeger, …).
We need such a framework because collecting logs is not enough when trying to debug problems in async code. Having a continuous stream of logs with little to no link between them is of no help for a developer to find bugs. We need to collect context and causality, and provide some structure. Tracing is an elegant solution for that.
It is exposed as a drop-in replacement for log crate but also provides span (distributed tracing -like) APIs which allows you to group and contextualize output.
Eliza made a demo of a medium traffic web server and demonstrated how she could leverage the tracing ecosystem to reconfigure log collection live, and add a filter based on request parameters to highlight the problems, and limit noise.
It is a very promising project, I particularly like the fact that it provides a simple log-like interface that makes it easy to deploy, and lets you add context incrementally. It is an elegant solution to a very complex problem. I can't wait for more developers to embrace that ecosystem (and it's mostly free from a performance standpoint to do), and I can't wait for more specialized tracing collectors (Zipkin, flame graph tracing, …) to come around.
Constant Evaluation
Oliver Schneider then shared ongoing work about constant evaluation in Rust. Like many compiled languages, Rust allows developers to built in variables in the binary, like many languages you can generate those values (macros in C) but options are limited.
This is a problem for many languages, it happens to also be an ongoing discussion in the C++ language too.
How do you generate type that allocates heap at compile-time and makes it available to the binary? Which limitations this type has to comply with to be eligible to compile-time generation?
Oliver shared how Rust is trying to push the envelope of what's possible and what limitations are to be enforced (no unsafe code, enforce soundness, …). The compiler team has some thoughts about adding a trait similar to Send + Sync. This is already available in nighly.
Again, the compiler team is willing to get more types in but they rely on the community to get feedback about which to get first as well as use-cases.
Then we heard Shoumik Palkar speak about weld. Weld is a language, compiler, and runtime for data pipelines. It started from the observation that data-processing pipelines could gain performance by chaining operations instead of going back and forth between CPU and RAM. For example, a simple map reduce job, you may just rewrite the code to scan the data only once and not store the intermediary values from the map function.
So weld started with a compiler in Scala that transforms their language into an IR for the runtime to transform into code-machine (GPU or CPU) and run. Scala and Rust, being both strongly typed language, are particularly effective solutions to transform AST into an optimized IR.
They had issues with hooking scala (being based on the JVM) into their runtime and ended up rewriting the compiler in Rust (All the necessary libraries to hook into LLVM are already provided by the cargo ecosystem).
Shoumik walked us through some of the challenges rewriting scala to Rust. For example, they had to learn to develop without clone (which copies objects in RAM) which was a performance killer for compilation jobs and use `mem::swap` instead.
Next was Isabella Muerte—a C++ veteran with a massive amount of experience in both C++ (she holds the record for most proposal submitted to a single ISO C++ meeting, https://github.com/slurps-mad-rips/papers) and Rust —to share her experience with C++.
She pointed out how similar C++ and Rust were and how they have two different takes on problems.
But what struck me the most was her feedback about communities, how the Rust communities took a stand for inclusion early on and how they worked for a code of conduct. She also made an argument about how the form of organization matters for a project like Rust. C++ is regulated by ISO, which means it is regulated by international laws so everyone may join, but money is always required to get a voice.
ECMA (the organization that owns the javascript standard), is similar to the ISO, but corporations have the same voice as the national bodies.
Unlike C++ and Javascript, Rust is still owned and managed by Mozilla, which is a US-based corporation. This means intellectual property laws still apply, and they may be used in court by Mozilla to threaten another actor.
The last talk before the keynote I saw was given by Josh Triplett from the lang team. He walked us through the new syntax introduced in the Rust edition-2018 changes but focused on the path resolution algorithm.
Back in 2017, Rust had some inconsistencies regarding the object lookup algorithm. So the lang team worked to come up with a more consistent algorithm. They came up with a very consistent first version but was to break most of the code in place. While the solution looked nice, breaking the current code was not. They talked a lot about this solution, some members published blog posts about it, and they finally settled on a more stable solution, that both fixed the inconsistencies and allowed a smooth transition.
The overall experience took time, and it takes a lot of effort, discussions, and back and forth to find a satisfying solution for everyone. I'm certainly grateful for the lang team for their hard work. The experience as a simple user is great!
The closing keynote was given by Lin Clark. Lin shared her story of being a woman in tech, attesting she was about to leave the Tech industry, because of known inclusivity problems. She'd been curious about Rust, its community and leaders, and she finally joined Mozilla and the wasm team there.
It looks like she's been thriving there, at least so far, along with the whole wasm team. Wasm is a first-class citizen for Rust, and it makes it a very good platform to play with wasm. Lin walked us through her experiments around wasm, how she's has been able to build a bridge between a ton of languages (rust, go, PHP, python, … you name it) and wasm back and forth. The result is so impressive that she has been able to write Rust, compile it down to wasm, then interact with it seamlessly in python and PHP unmodified. The extension to wasm that she talked about is a booklet attached to the wasm byte-code that describes the types and entry points to the binary, which allows each language to translate their native types to the wasm equivalent.
This opens up a lot of interesting ideas on how to wire different libraries amongst languages and platforms.
That's pretty much a wrap on this report of the Rustconf. One more thing I'd like to talk about is that it feels like a ton of speakers were thankful for the community being so inclusive and so welcoming for newcomers. I, most certainly, am because the help I received when I first learned the language was invaluable, but I have to say this is the first time I've been to a computer-related conference with so many women and LGBTQ people speaking or attending, and it looks like the Rust community is doing something right here.
Overall, many thanks to everyone involved in organizing, speaking and joining this Rustconf, this has been a blast, and I can't wait for next year.
Arthur is a system engineer at Gandi based in our San Francisco office. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out on Twitter @baloose.
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Q: adding a background image in flex 4.6 Doing a Flex 4.6 mobile app I am trying to add an asset .png file to be displayed as the background to the application across all the different views and orientations. Has anyone worked out a way to do this yet?
Any help would be appreciated :)

A: I've been in this hole and I know the way out.
You'll need to create a skin class for your application. It doesn't have to be too complex here's what my file (appSkin.mxml) looks like.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><s:Skin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
<fx:Metadata>
    [HostComponent("spark.components.View")]
</fx:Metadata>

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<s:states>
    <s:State name="disabled" />
    <s:State name="normal" />
</s:states>

<s:BitmapImage  source="@Embed('assets/bg.png')" width="100%" height="100%" />

<s:Group id="contentGroup" width="100%" height="100%" minWidth="0" minHeight="0" />

<!-- SkinParts
name=contentGroup, type=spark.components.Group, required=false
-->

Then you'll need to declare that file as your application's skinClass in your application's opening tag…
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
           xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" applicationDPI="320"
           creationComplete="creationCompleteHandler()" xmlns:views="views.*" skinClass="skins.appSkin">

Then you'll have to do one final step. Each of your View components are carrying an opaque background layer so in each of them you'll want to explicitly set that backgroundAlpha value to 0.
<s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="Start" backgroundAlpha="0">

And that should accomplish your mission of maintaining a common background image for your application across multiple views.

A: Try something like this:
<s:View>
 <fx:Script>
    [Embed(source="myImage.gif")]
    public var myImage :Class;
  </fx:Script>
  <s:Image source="myImage" width="100%" height="100%"/>
</s:View>

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However, I don't expect perfect results.  A PNG is a pre-rendered bitmap.  Most likely it will not look right across all views and orientations [and resolutions] because elements of the PNG may be skewed, stretched, or compressed, with it is resized on the fly; for example when switching from portrait to landscape.

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#HindiTama: Rodrigo Duterte vs the Philippine Daily Inquirer
GMA News recently introduced the #HindTama project, which purportedly "aims to put in check some of the viral hoaxes that spread on social media [GMA]." However, I cannot help but wonder they needlessly limited their scope when they could have covered mainstream media itself, especially those cases when mainstream media men engage in unethical practices,
I am not sure of GMA knows how to do this, so let me teach them how.
In "An Analysis of Rappler's 'Rodrigo Duterte's 386 P. Guevarra Property", I showed how failing to get the other side of the story results in cataclysmic levels of misinformation. In this article, I explained how the sorority blog Rappler came up with a conspiracy theory based solely on a document from an unidentified source, when it could've easily been counter-checked with a simple phone call to the Duterte camp. But that's Rappler: my expectations are not very high.
But I did not expect the three-decade-old Philippine Daily Inquirer to do the same thing.
Nikko Dizon and the Chinese Companies
On 25 October 2016, the Inquirer's Nikko Dizon published the controversial article "Chinese company banned by World Bank bags PH infrastructure project [Inq]", where it accused the government of two things:
The Duterte Government awarded contracts to companies blacklisted by the World Bank
The Duterte Government awarded contracts without following procurement laws.
The article, at face value, is pretty damning for the Duterte-led National Government. Why would someone who won on an anti-corruption platform award contracts to companies with dubious reputations and in contravention with procurement laws?
But there's a catch: the Inquirer did not contact the government before they published this article. That is, the Inquirer did not bother to ask anyone from the government about this prior to the article's publication. This is confusing for regular Filipinos like me, considering that they have correspondents in the Malacañang Press Corps.
The Inquirer even has direct access to Presidential Communication Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar, who writes a column for them.
That's really odd.
Government Rebuttal
As it turns out, the article fell flat on its face after the government commented about the issues.
Two days later on 27 October 2016, Inquirer's Dizon published a follow-up article entitled "Just memos, contract, with Chinese firm, says BCDA [Inq]", where BCDA said the documents signed in Beijing were just MoU's, or Memorandums of Understanding between the Chinese Companies and their Philippine counterparts.
BCDA Chief Vince Dizon (no relation to the Inquirer reporter) even castigated the Inquirer for neglecting to counter-check its October 25 story. He also said that MoUs are by no means an award of contract.
According to the The Law Society of Singapore, "an MoU is generally considered 'an agreement to agree' or an agreement to enter into a more specific and comprehensive contract or agreement at a later time after further negotiations". Furthermore, "MOUs are expressed to be not contractually binding. This is because the courts will generally not recognize agreements to enter into contracts, as contracts in their own right [LSSG]".
In short, MoU do not violate procurement laws because they simply are generic agreements to cooperate. MoU's do not set up the specific terms of a project contract (e.g. specific project cost), terms that are necessary for the government to award project contract.
Nikko Dizon's article would have had a drastically less accusatory tone had the reporter bothered to ask the government about it... but she didn't.
In short, iyong sinulat ni Nikko na October 25 article ay pambalot lang ng tinapa and nothing more.
The BCDA chief threw a sarcasm bomb at Nikko Dizon when the former said he admired the "diligence of the Philippine Daily Inquirer" then suggested that "the same diligence should have been exercised in simply reading the MOU that was signed."
Fair enough, I think. But then, if Nikko Dizon was so good at research, why did she miss reading the actual MoU's? Surely, an organization as well-funded as hers should be able to get hold of such.
It appears that her secret may be Facebook.
Luis Abad on October 23
On 23 October 2016 or two days prior to Dizon's first article, a certain "Luis Abad" published three consecutive publicly-visible Facebook status posts [FB1, FB2, FB3] that listed issues regarding the Chinese companies involved in the $24 billion worth of investment pledges that the Duterte Government helped snag in its recent State Visit to Beijing China.
One of Abad's Facebook posts
Starting with the statement "And the wheeling and dealing begins? The China List raises more concerns," Abad asked several rhetorical questions that can be summed up into the following points:
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) may have awarded a contract to China Harbour Engineering Co (CHEC) despite the latter's involvement in bribery and corruption controversies in 10 countries, and its being blacklisted by the World Bank.
Romero-owned Manila Harbour may have been allowed to do further reclamation work on Manila Bay despite lack of NEDA and DENR approval.
Romero-owned Mega Harbour Port and Development Inc may have flouted procurement laws when it was allowed to develop the Davao and Cebu ports.
Cavitex and ICTSI may have been illegally allowed to develop Sangley Point, which is still AFP property.
Two Chinese companies – China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC) and Yangtse Motor Group – may have been awarded transportation-related contracts without proper bidding, and that CRBC was involved in bribery and corruption controversies in four countries.
Sinotech has also been involved in bribery and corruption issues.
Zonar Systems was also cited, but only in light of the absence of readily-available information regarding the bidding processes.
This is pretty long list. But to sum it all up, Abad's questions revolve around two things: (1) regulatory compliance on the bidding process and (2) dubious company reputations.
This sounds awfully similar to the Dizons's article, which revolves around the same two core issues.
Nikko Dizon's failure to ask for BCDA's position might be a classic case of journalistic incompetence, i.e. it was an honest accident. However, Dizon is an experienced reporter who must be very aware of allegations of bias against the Inquirer so she should've taken every step to dispel that notion.
But she didn't.
Was the issue an accident, or is Nikko Dizon biased herself?A closer look at the Inquirer's article's content shows that it raised EVERY point that Abad raised. Let's list down items in the October 25 Inquirer article that correspond to the Abad's seven points:
CHEC's partnership with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA)
The Manila Harbour Center reclamation
CCCC Dredging's contract with Cebu's Mega Harbour Port
Cavitex in Sangley Point
CRBC's contract with BCDA
SinoHydro's bribery and corruption issues (SinoHydro is a SinoTech subsidiary [Sino])
For a Pasig River Project, Zonar Systems was mentioned along with Sinohydro.
CAMC engineering was the only company mentioned in the Inquirer article that did not appear in any of Abad's three posts.
Such a detailed Inquirer article could not have matched those posts by pure coincidence.
I am not accusing Dizon of plagiarism but I am confused as to why Dizon would pick up such leads without counter-checking when her likely source is a Liberal Party Stalwart.
Luis Abad's father is former Aquino Budget Secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad, his mother is Liberal Party Vice President for Policy Henedina Abad, and he also was the former chief of staff of Aquino's Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima [OGP].
But there's something more confusing here: The Philippine Daily Inquirer is a member of the Philippine Press Institute, whose Code of Ethics states [PPI]:
"All efforts must be exerted to make stories fair, accurate and balanced. Getting the other side is a must, especially for the most sensitive and critical stories. The other side must run on the first take of the story and not any day later."
So why didn't the Inquirer's Dizon get the other side? Is she a Liberal Party loyalist herself?
Inquirer's Editorial Team
Truth be told, I am disturbed about how such a story can get past the lower-tier Inquirer editors, but I am not surprised that it got past Inquirer.net Editor-in-Chief John Nery [Nery].
Why? Because Nery appears to have actively defended Senator Leila de Lima of the Liberal Party [LATimes], and because he allowed the creation, publication, and the continuous expansion of the journalistic travesty that is the Inquirer's "Kill List"[TP: Kill List].
The PPI's Code of Ethics also advises against conflicts of interests, which " occur when individuals face competing loyalties: to a source or to their own self-interest, or to their organization's economic needs, as opposed to the information needs of the public [PPI]."
I think the conflict of interest here is economic in nature, as the Inquirer's owners have a score to settle with President Duterte.
First, Benjamin Philip Romualdez, husband of Inquirer heiress Sandy Prieto [TV5], is the president of the Chamber of Mines [CoM], and we all know Duterte's crackdown on illegal mining operators [Inq].
Second, Dennis Valdes, husband of another Inquirer heiress Tessa Prieto [Pep], was the president of PhilWeb when Duterte's refusal to renew Philweb's contract resulted into its closure [Star].
Yes, we are talking about billions of pesos' worth of potential (or realized) economic losses for the Rufino-Prietos as a result of Duterte's pro-people policies.
Conflicts of interest: this is what GMA News can call #HindiTama. [ThinkingPinoy]
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Today we mark the days in which Ibrahim (as), the father of the prophets, completed the rituals of Hajj. Rituals which symbolise what our Ummah are about, what makes us who we are – people who sacrifice for Allah (ﷻ) and fight the Shaytan.
Eid is a happy occasion and a cause for celebration. Let's take a few moments to remind ourselves of what makes us who we are and what we should be proud of.
It's not our skin colour or the country we were born in, nor is it our social status or any other superficial characteristic.
We aren't just sure of the existence of Allah(ﷻ). We also hold the conviction that He knows what's best for us and that if we live our lives correctly according to His guidance, we will enjoy eternal pleasure in the Akhirah.
Anyone who takes some time to think, will realise that the universe we live in is sophisticated and systematic. It's not down to chance – it's designed and built, yet not all people are willing to submit to Allah (swt).
We aren't deluded into thinking this life is all there is. We will definitely die, then rise again and gather the fruits of what we did in this life.
If Allah (ﷻ) approves of you and the way you lived your life, then you don't need to worry about anything else. We don't make our personal pleasure or happiness the ultimate life goal. That is unachievable – pleasure always finishes, as you can't always feel like that.
When you're jumping from one pleasure to another, you'll eventually get depressed when you don't feel that buzz anymore. Instead, live for Allah – when it's easy, like having a nice munch on Eid and when it's hard, like fasting on a midsummer's day in Ramadan. When it's easy, like learning some commonly recited Du'as, or when it's hard, like standing up for your Ummah and Deen when they're attacked. If you live for Allah, then both this life and the next will be fulfilling.
Our measure for what's good and what's bad is that which Allah (ﷻ) has made Halal and Haram. We're not animals that do whatever they feel like. We know that we may like some things, but Allah made them Haram so we understand that they're bad for us and wrong to do.
Likewise, there are things which we don't like but Allah (ﷻ) has made them obligatory upon us, and so we understand that they're good for us and right to do. The Halal and Haram give us a path to Jannah unlike the society we live in that is destroying itself by telling people they are free to do what they like – after which they complain about crime, diseases and much more!
Our loyalty is not to any land, nation or race. We're Muslims – the Shahadah is our only flag and soon, we will be united again under one leadership. One Khilafah that protects our Ummah from attack and carries Islam to the rest of the world, countering all the lies about Islam that are spread by governments and the media that we see today.
So, let's not forget who we are. Living in the west isn't as comfortable as some may think – it's very easy to get influenced by the society and become like them.
But together, we can keep reinforcing our unique Islamic identity and carry it to the wider society. Remember – don't forget our Ummah that's suffering worldwide and Eid Mubarak.
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BERLIN (AP)Edin Terzić guided Borussia Dortmund to a 2-1 win at Werder Bremen in his coaching debut Tuesday to snap a three-game winless run in the Bundesliga.
Dortmund captain Marco Reus scored the winner from close range on a rebound in the 79th minute after Bremen goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka saved his penalty attempt.
"I'm happy, relieved and tired," Terzić said after his debut
. "But I don't think I'm the only one. I'm sure one or two others will be sleeping on the bus back to Dortmund."
Terzić hadn't much time to settle in following his appointment Sunday, when his predecessor Lucien Favre was fired following Dortmund's 5-1 loss to Stuttgart the day before.
Terzić made only one change to the lineup that faced Stuttgart on Saturday, handing the 16-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko his first start.
But it was Raphaël Guerreiro who broke the deadlock in the 12th minute, lifting the ball over Pavlenka after Jadon Sancho's shot came back off Ömer Toprak's thigh.
Kevin Möhwald equalized by shooting inside the right post in the 28th – a score preceded by Manuel Akanji losing the ball as he brought it out of defense.
Bremen defender Christian Groß was relieved when his attempted clearance out for a corner came back off the post in the 32nd, before Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Bürki produced a brilliant flying save to deny Ludwig Augustinsson in the 42nd.
Sancho had a goal ruled out for offside in the second half, when the visitors kept pushing until Pavlenka conceded the penalty for bringing down Akanji while attempting to reach a rebound. He saved Reus' effort from the spot, but the ball fell kindly for the Dortmund captain to tap in from close range.
DRAMA IN FRANKFURT
Lars Stindl completed a hat trick in injury time to salvage a 3-3 draw for Borussia Mönchengladbach at Eintracht Frankfurt.
The Gladbach captain opened the scoring in the 14th minute, pulled one back with a penalty in the last minute when 10-man Frankfurt was ahead 3-1, and then equalized with a header in the fifth minute of injury time on his second attempt after Kevin Trapp saved his first.
André Silva scored two goals and set up another for Frankfurt, but the home side was to rue captain David Abraham's sending off in the 81st as it failed to hold on and extended its winless run to nine games.
Stuttgart substitute Sasa Kalajdzic scored two late goals in a 2-2 draw with Union Berlin.
"The first half was ours, the second half Stuttgart's. So I'm not disappointed. It's another point that'll help us in the account," said Union coach Urs Fischer, whose team next hosts Dortmund on Friday.
Also, Hertha Berlin drew with visiting Mainz 0-0.
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After their success in Europe, Huni and his teammate Reignover both left for North America, joining Immortals along with new Echo Fox support, Adrian. Once again, Huni dominated the top lane. Immortals became one of the most successful regular season teams in NA LCS history but was unable to find postseason success. After a disappointing end to 2016, Huni left for Korea to join newly crowned champions, SK Telecom T1. Huni fit in perfectly and assisted the team in winning the LCK Spring Split, Mid-Season Invitational, and earning a second place finish at the 2017 World Championship.
Now, Huni is headed back to North America to reclaim his top lane throne. Only this time, he will be accompanied by a new team at Echo Fox.
Utilizing a highly aggressive playstyle, Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett has become one of the strongest junglers in North America. After playing for multiple challenger teams in 2014 and 2015, Dardoch made his LCS debut with Team Liquid during the 2016 season. Dardoch and Team Liquid produced a strong Spring Split, finishing in fourth place, with Dardoch receiving Outstanding Rookie honors.
Dardoch helped Team Liquid have an equally successful Summer Split, but the team fell short in the first round of the summer playoffs.
In need of a new team for the 2017 season, Dardoch joined Immortals. However, the team was unable to replicate its 2016 success even with new players. Dardoch then moved to Counter Logic Gaming for the 2017 Summer Split. After a strong first half of the split, Dardoch was acquired by his former team, Team Liquid, where he fought to help the team avoid relegation.
Now, Dardoch hopes to bring his aggressive style and jungle dominance to Echo Fox for the new season.
Jae Hun "FeniX" Kim was the first confirmed member of the 2018 Echo Fox roster. A native of South Korea, Fenix has been a veteran of the North American League of Legends scene. Fenix has secured multiple teams including, Team Dragon Knights, Team Liquid, and Gold Coin United under his mid lane belt.
FeniX made his professional debut with the Jin Air Green Wings Falcons in July of 2013. The next year, FeniX moved to North America to play for Team Dragon Knights, role-swapping to the mid lane. FeniX joined Team Liquid for the 2015 season. He played with Liquid for two seasons, earning multiple strong finishes with the team.
FeniX left Team Liquid after the 2016 season and joined Gold Coin United. Throughout 2017, FeniX dominated the Challenger scene with GCU. Using his competitive experience and synergy with his old teammates, FeniX will return to the LCS as a mid lane FOX monster.
Johnny "Altec" Ru brings years of experience in the AD Carry position to the new Echo Fox roster. Altec began his competitive career in 2012 playing for vVv Gaming. Soon after, Altec joined Curse Academy before moving to Team SoloMid as a substitute ADC in 2014. While he did not receive playing time, this helped Altec gain experience in the competitive scene.
His first major starting role was with Evil Geniuses during the 2014 Summer Split. Over the next few splits, Altec would spend time with Winterfox, Gravity, NRG Esports, and Cloud9.
When FlyQuest purchased Cloud9 Challenger's LCS spot, Altec was announced to be their starting ADC. The team surprised many analysts and fans with creative strategies and explosive play. Altec later moved to a substitute role for the Summer Split.
Later he would join Team Dignitas along with Echo Fox's new support, Adrian. The two became a force to be reckoned with. Altec's history as an explosive player, including three competitive pentakills, is a fantastic addition to Echo Fox's 2018 roster.
Adrian "Adrian" Ma has been playing League since season one and been playing support for the majority of that time. A product of the Challenger Series and the collegiate League of Legends scene, Adrian made his LCS debut with Team Impulse (formerly known as LMQ) during the 2015 season. He helped the team secure a fourth-place finish, narrowly missing qualifying for worlds.
Adrian joined new team Immortals in preparation for the 2016 season. The team exceeded all expectations by placing first in both splits of the regular season. Unfortunately, Immortals were unable to win either splits' championship and were unable to secure a seed for the World Championships.
2017 was a tumultuous year for Adrian as he moved among multiple teams including Phoenix1, Team Liquid, and Team Dignitas. When he finally settled at Dignitas, Adrian and Altec became a dominant force in the bot lane. They hope to maintain their synergy in the bot lane for Echo Fox in 2018.
Kieran "Allorim" Logue has spent the past two seasons serving as a substitute for LCS teams and playing on Challenger teams, including stints with both Echo Fox and Delta Fox. He brings a wide champion pool to the top lane, which makes him adaptable to whatever style of play is needed.
Nathan "TheOddOrange" Ryan is a long-time Challenger jungler who is looking to make his way in the professional scene. He made his professional debut in the Challenger Series with Team Gates in the 2017 Spring Split. After participating in Echo Fox's offseason boot camp, he is looking to make an impact on the LCS stage.
Tanner "Damonte" Damonte has been playing with Echo Fox since the beginning of the 2016 summer split. Initially playing on the challenger team Delta Fox, Damonte made his presence known in the mid lane through a large champion pool and dominant play. Damonte moved up to the main Echo Fox roster working side by side with Froggen after the creation of the Echo Fox 10-man roster in 2017.
Lawrence "Lost" Hui is a young AD Carry talent hailing from New Zealand. He has been playing League of Legends since the age of fourteen and made his Oceanic Challenger Series competitive debut at seventeen with Chiefs Black before moving to Tainted Minds. He spent 2017 playing for Legacy Esports and looks to bring his talent to North America for the upcoming split.
John "Papa Chau" Le has been a long-time competitor in the League of Legends tournament circuit and most recently served as a substitute for Challenger Series squad eUnited. Papa Chau has been playing competitively since 2014 through utilization of his large champion pool and innovative strategies. With Echo Fox, Papa Chau will be looking to make his mark in the bot lane.
Echo Fox will step into 2018 for the NA LCS Spring Split with a strong lineup, ready to face off where it matters most – on the Summoner's Rift. With the help of the new roster and support from its fans, Echo Fox will be gunning for its first playoff appearance and a shot at the NA LCS championship.


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Phil Jackson and the Knicks had hoped that this season's blatant tank job would yield them a top-three pick in the upcoming NBA Draft, but New York was dealt somewhat of a disappointing blow to their rebuild efforts when they were awarded the fourth overall pick during last month's Draft Lottery.
No one has any idea what the Knicks intend to do with the pick, as general manager Steve Mills stated that New York would explore all options, including the possibility of trading the pick. The Knicks have also been linked to Emmanuel Mudiay, Justise Winslow and Willie Cauley-Stein, but according to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, they're intrigued by another Kentucky big man: Trey Lyles.
While Towns and Willie Cauley-Stein have garnered the most attention, the Knicks for months have been enamored with Trey Lyles, according to a team source. Lyles is a 6-foot-10 forward out of Indianapolis who Phil Jackson sees as a good fit for the triangle offense.
Would the Knicks select Lyles with the fourth overall pick? Crazier things have happened and if Jackson truly believes Lyles, the 2014 Indiana Mr. Basketball who was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and has played internationally for the U.S. and Canada, is worth it, perhaps he'll make the move. A more plausible scenario would be for the Knicks to trade down, since most draft experts don't see him as a top 10 pick.
The X-factor is what the Los Angeles Lakers do or don't do with the second pick.
In Basketball Society's latest mock draft, Lyles is slated to go 17th overall to the Milwaukee Bucks, with other mock's having high as 15th or 14th. Whatever the Knicks decide to do with their pick is obviously up to management, but fans just hope it lands them the best player(s) possible.
Whether New York feels as if that occurs via the draft or a trade remains to be seen, but they must make a wise decision. Trying to cheat a rebuild can come back to bite you, and no one knows that better than the Knicks, who have made a countless number of foolish decisions over the past 15 years.
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Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky: Travels in Roman Britain. Jonathan Cape, London, 2013. Reviewed by Charles Freeman.
If I am heading westwards from my home in central Suffolk I go along a stretch of Roman road and eventually reach the village of Stonham Aspal. To the far side there is a ridge overlooking open countryside and it is here that a Roman bathhouse was discovered in 1962, when building work was being done for some bungalows. It was my first dig, with a tolerant Ipswich Museum team interpreting laws against child labour generously enough to allow a fourteen-year-old to shovel out ashes from a Roman hypocaust. The main part of the villa is assumed to have been on the other side of the road and remains unexcavated, but I still tell the story to anyone I am driving that way.
The pottery from the site is of the 3rd and 4th centuries, the greatest period of the British Roman villa. This was the time of prosperity before the collapse of Roman rule in the early 5th century brought a devastating fall in living standards (apparently as a dramatic as anywhere else in the western empire). Looking back, I wonder what the ashes I scraped out could have told of the final fires lit to heat the baths. There was no one on hand to record the last days of the empire in Britain but gradually the cities, already faltering in the 4th century, were abandoned and the great buildings fell in or were buried. One of the most evocative finds has been a luxurious Roman villa on the London waterfront that enjoyed a heyday in the 3rd century but then began to crumble, although 200 coins dated as late as ad 388 talk of a late burst of occupation.
Charlotte Higgins's delightful book is an account of her searches for Roman Britain in the company of her boyfriend Matthew and a venerable and resilient camper van. Higgins read Classics at Oxford so she knows her sources—predominantly those of the finest Roman historian—Tacitus, and she weaves them gently into her itineraries. She has also absorbed those who have been before her: William Camden, the author of Britannia (1586), the first quasi- scientific study of British antiquities, and the polymath William Stukeley (1687–1765), who recorded what stood of Silchester, Hadrian's Wall and other sites. Stukeley, a fan of the Druids, was sadly taken in by a fake history of Roman Britain purporting to have been written by one Richard of Westminster in the 14th century. Stukeley's enthusiastic support for it meant that it was treated as authentic and Roman history distorted until well into the 19th century. The Pennine chain of hills take their name from the pseudo-Richard's description of them.
Gradually out of these forays into a misty past, archaeologists took over. So here is Mortimer Wheeler and his much put-upon wife Tessa, bringing military precision to excavations of St. Albans and later, and most famously, of the Iron Age fort of Maiden Castle. Wheeler revelled in describing the last stand of the British against Roman onslaughts and the mass grave into which the defeated British were thrown. Unfortunately, more recent work queries whether the cemetery was ever a mass grave at all; but the story gripped me as a teenager. By the 1970s, we arrive at more delicate work, especially with the writing 'tablets', actually slivers of wood, from the Roman fort at Vindolanda, miraculously preserved in waterlogged ground. Excavated by Robin Birley and deciphered by Alan Bowman, they provide an astonishingly graphic account of everyday life on the frontiers at the end of the 1st century ad, as invites go out for birthday parties and details of which men are available for outside work are painstakingly extracted from the intricate lettering.
Higgins also ventures further north to discover reminders of the short-lived invasion of Scotland by Agricola in ad 79 or 80 (we know of it because the historian Tacitus was Agricola's son-in-law and left a vivid account) and the little-known Antonine Wall, held only briefly before the frontier was pulled back again to the better-known barrier built by Hadrian. She takes in Bath and York, the latter achieving an empire-wide status when the emperor Septimius Severus established his court here between 208 and 211 and when, a century later Constantine, the first Christian emperor, was proclaimed emperor by his father's troops. In Bath the Romans adopted the local Celtic god Sulis, associated her with their own Minerva, and the temple dedicated to both presided over the hot springs that were to set Bath up as a watering place in later centuries. In Colchester and London, dark layers record the burning of the nascent Roman settlements by the furious Boudica, in a devastating but ultimately crushed campaign (ad 60 or 61) that also survives in Tacitus' account.
I am sorry that the camper van, with 'its many and varied complaints', did not merit an entry in the index. I would have liked to have retraced its valiant hill climbs even if it did collapse in York and thus not quite make it to Hardknott Castle (a 2nd-century fort guarding Hardknott Pass), perhaps the most spectacular of all the Roman sites in Britain. It added character to what is an engaging survey of our Roman past. While Higgins records exhaustive studies of Roman Britain (Roger Wilson's A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain and the mammoth four-volume compilation of every known Roman mosaic by David Neal and Stephen Cosh), she provides a more light-hearted account, a valuable reminder of how the Roman past lies not too far beneath our feet. Indeed a metal detector unearthed a worn Roman coin from our own fields just a year ago, and, this being Suffolk, perhaps another Mildenhall treasure, the hoard of astonishing silver plate unearthed in 1942, is just waiting to be discovered close by.
Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award.
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using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;

using Internal.Runtime;
using Internal.Runtime.Augments;
using Internal.Runtime.CompilerServices;

using Internal.NativeFormat;
using Internal.TypeSystem;
using Internal.TypeSystem.NoMetadata;

namespace Internal.Runtime.TypeLoader
{
    //
    // Wrap state required by the native layout info parsing in a structure, so that it can be conveniently passed around.
    //
    internal class NativeLayoutInfoLoadContext
    {
        public TypeSystemContext _typeSystemContext;
        public NativeFormatModuleInfo _module;
        private ExternalReferencesTable _staticInfoLookup;
        private ExternalReferencesTable _externalReferencesLookup;
        public Instantiation _typeArgumentHandles;
        public Instantiation _methodArgumentHandles;
        public ulong[] _debuggerPreparedExternalReferences;

        private TypeDesc GetInstantiationType(ref NativeParser parser, uint arity)
        {
            DefType typeDefinition = (DefType)GetType(ref parser);

            TypeDesc[] typeArguments = new TypeDesc[arity];
            for (uint i = 0; i < arity; i++)
                typeArguments[i] = GetType(ref parser);

            return _typeSystemContext.ResolveGenericInstantiation(typeDefinition, new Instantiation(typeArguments));
        }

        private TypeDesc GetModifierType(ref NativeParser parser, TypeModifierKind modifier)
        {
            TypeDesc typeParameter = GetType(ref parser);

            switch (modifier)
            {
                case TypeModifierKind.Array:
                    return _typeSystemContext.GetArrayType(typeParameter);

                case TypeModifierKind.ByRef:
                    return _typeSystemContext.GetByRefType(typeParameter);

                case TypeModifierKind.Pointer:
                    return _typeSystemContext.GetPointerType(typeParameter);

                default:
                    parser.ThrowBadImageFormatException();
                    return null;
            }
        }

        private void InitializeExternalReferencesLookup()
        {
            if (!_externalReferencesLookup.IsInitialized())
            {
                if (this._debuggerPreparedExternalReferences == null)
                {
                    bool success = _externalReferencesLookup.InitializeNativeReferences(_module);
                    Debug.Assert(success);
                }
                else
                {
                    _externalReferencesLookup.InitializeDebuggerReference(this._debuggerPreparedExternalReferences);
                }
            }
        }

        private IntPtr GetExternalReferencePointer(uint index)
        {
            InitializeExternalReferencesLookup();
            return _externalReferencesLookup.GetIntPtrFromIndex(index);
        }

        internal TypeDesc GetExternalType(uint index)
        {
            InitializeExternalReferencesLookup();
            RuntimeTypeHandle rtth = _externalReferencesLookup.GetRuntimeTypeHandleFromIndex(index);
            return _typeSystemContext.ResolveRuntimeTypeHandle(rtth);
        }

        internal IntPtr GetGCStaticInfo(uint index)
        {
            if (!_staticInfoLookup.IsInitialized())
            {
                bool success = _staticInfoLookup.InitializeNativeStatics(_module);
                Debug.Assert(success);
            }

            return _staticInfoLookup.GetIntPtrFromIndex(index);
        }

        private unsafe TypeDesc GetLookbackType(ref NativeParser parser, uint lookback)
        {
            var lookbackParser = parser.GetLookbackParser(lookback);
            return GetType(ref lookbackParser);
        }

        internal TypeDesc GetType(ref NativeParser parser)
        {
            uint data;
            var kind = parser.GetTypeSignatureKind(out data);

            switch (kind)
            {
                case TypeSignatureKind.Lookback:
                    return GetLookbackType(ref parser, data);

                case TypeSignatureKind.Variable:
                    uint index = data >> 1;
                    return (((data & 0x1) != 0) ? _methodArgumentHandles : _typeArgumentHandles)[checked((int)index)];

                case TypeSignatureKind.Instantiation:
                    return GetInstantiationType(ref parser, data);

                case TypeSignatureKind.Modifier:
                    return GetModifierType(ref parser, (TypeModifierKind)data);

                case TypeSignatureKind.External:
                    return GetExternalType(data);

                case TypeSignatureKind.MultiDimArray:
                    {
                        DefType elementType = (DefType)GetType(ref parser);
                        int rank = (int)data;

                        // Skip encoded bounds and lobounds
                        uint boundsCount = parser.GetUnsigned();
                        while (boundsCount > 0)
                        {
                            parser.GetUnsigned();
                            boundsCount--;
                        }

                        uint loBoundsCount = parser.GetUnsigned();
                        while (loBoundsCount > 0)
                        {
                            parser.GetUnsigned();
                            loBoundsCount--;
                        }

                        return _typeSystemContext.GetArrayType(elementType, rank);
                    }

                case TypeSignatureKind.BuiltIn:
                    return _typeSystemContext.GetWellKnownType((WellKnownType)data);

                case TypeSignatureKind.FunctionPointer:
                    Debug.Fail("NYI!");
                    parser.ThrowBadImageFormatException();
                    return null;

                default:
                    parser.ThrowBadImageFormatException();
                    return null;
            }
        }

        internal MethodDesc GetMethod(ref NativeParser parser, out RuntimeSignature methodNameSig, out RuntimeSignature methodSig)
        {
            MethodFlags flags = (MethodFlags)parser.GetUnsigned();

            IntPtr functionPointer = IntPtr.Zero;
            if ((flags & MethodFlags.HasFunctionPointer) != 0)
                functionPointer = GetExternalReferencePointer(parser.GetUnsigned());

            DefType containingType = (DefType)GetType(ref parser);
            MethodNameAndSignature nameAndSignature = TypeLoaderEnvironment.Instance.GetMethodNameAndSignature(ref parser, _module.Handle, out methodNameSig, out methodSig);

            bool unboxingStub = (flags & MethodFlags.IsUnboxingStub) != 0;

            MethodDesc retVal = null;
            if ((flags & MethodFlags.HasInstantiation) != 0)
            {
                TypeDesc[] typeArguments = GetTypeSequence(ref parser);
                Debug.Assert(typeArguments.Length > 0);
                retVal = this._typeSystemContext.ResolveGenericMethodInstantiation(unboxingStub, containingType, nameAndSignature, new Instantiation(typeArguments), functionPointer, (flags & MethodFlags.FunctionPointerIsUSG) != 0);
            }
            else
            {
                retVal = this._typeSystemContext.ResolveRuntimeMethod(unboxingStub, containingType, nameAndSignature, functionPointer, (flags & MethodFlags.FunctionPointerIsUSG) != 0);
            }

            if ((flags & MethodFlags.FunctionPointerIsUSG) != 0)
            {
                // TODO, consider a change such that if a USG function pointer is passed in, but we have
                // a way to get a non-usg pointer, that may be preferable
                Debug.Assert(retVal.UsgFunctionPointer != IntPtr.Zero);
            }

            return retVal;
        }

        internal MethodDesc GetMethod(ref NativeParser parser)
        {
            RuntimeSignature methodSig;
            RuntimeSignature methodNameSig;
            return GetMethod(ref parser, out methodNameSig, out methodSig);
        }

        internal TypeDesc[] GetTypeSequence(ref NativeParser parser)
        {
            uint count = parser.GetSequenceCount();

            TypeDesc[] sequence = new TypeDesc[count];

            for (uint i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                sequence[i] = GetType(ref parser);
            }

            return sequence;
        }
    }
}

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The Tennessee Volunteers have added the Georgia State Panthers to their 2019 football schedule, GSU officially announced this afternoon.
Tennessee will host Georgia State at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on Sept. 7, 2019. Georgia State will reportedly receive a $950,000 guarantee for the game.
The 2019 contest will be the second overall meeting between the two schools. In their first meeting in Knoxville in 2012, Tennessee rolled over Georgia State 51-13.
The matchup is the first announced non-conference game for both Tennessee and Georgia State in 2019.
Based on the current SEC scheduling rotation, Tennessee will host Georgia, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Mississippi State and travel to Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, and Alabama in 2019.


A collection of the best hotels for Food Lovers in Moorea.
During your honeymoon, stay at the 62 sqm. King Premium Panoramic Overwater Bungalow featuring, among others, a private sun deck with lounge chairs and a marble bathroom with rain shower!
Arri Vahine is the hotel's main restaurant serving Polynesian and international cuisine, buffets, a la carte dishes and themed menus. The Barbecue Buffet Dinner is a must-see!
Eimeo is the hotel's lounge-style bar where you can enjoy a wide selection of cocktails and delicious snacks including local fresh juices and a fine selection of champagnes and wines!
Don't miss to try one of the hotel's massage rituals including the Signature Moorea Lagoon Ritual, and the Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, the Moorea Volcanic and Ocean Serenity Rituals!
The best type of room is the 159 sqm King Garden Pool Suite, featuring, among others, a large private terrace with swimming pool, wood laminate flooring and a wine cellar!
There are numerous activities to do nearby the hotel including cycling, fishing, jet skiing, scuba diving, sight-seeing tours, snorkeling, water skiing, windsurfing and more!
The hotel is mainly recommended for gay couples and honeymooners since it provides total privacy and seclusion as well as a wide range of activities for couples including massages for two and sports!
Don't miss to try the hotel's Signature Rituals which are the 120 min. Pure White and the 70 min. Black Pearl Radiance facial!


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Here's a story from the ever popular Dr. Dean Edell at KGO (ABC-Disney) in San Francisco, home of the SF 49ers and the Cal Bears (Go Bears knock off the USC Trojans again (this time in tinseltown) just like last season.
New Blood Test For Alzheimer's
Aug. 17 - Currently, the only definitive test for Alzheimer's disease is an autopsy. So to diagnose early Alzheimer's, doctors are stuck using a series of physical and cognitive exams. But as Dr. Dean Edell reports, there's a promising new way to identify Alzheimer's using a simple blood test.
Neurobiologists have developed a blood test they hope will lead to early diagnosis and more effective treatment. The blood test measures levels of two antibodies.
Jerry Bucchafusco, PhD, pharmacologist: "The Alzheimer's individuals have between three and five fold higher levels of these antibodies."
The antibodies develop when the immune system responds to a combination of proteins linked to Alzheimer's. During the study, researchers looked at blood samples in 75 people with the disease and without, and conducted memory tests.
Jerry Bucchafusco, PhD, pharmacologist: "The blood sample was used to determine the levels of these particular antibodies, and the cognitive testing was done to determine how far along their disease was."
A year later, researchers did the same thing. And they found something incredibly significant in those with Alzheimer's - even though their memory had declined, their levels of antibodies were the same. This suggests the antibodies are present well before symptoms are seen. This could be critical for effective treatment.
Jerry Bucchafusco, PhD, pharmacologist: "The earlier you diagnose that patient, the better chance you have of slowing that process. Most of the patients that come in for treatment come in so far advanced for this disease that the drugs that we have right now are not very effective."
The hope is patients can be tested during standard medical visits.
Kathleen Wilson, MD, neurologist: "If it provides a simple blood test for Alzheimer disease and we develop treatment for it, which we are in the process of doing, then you could have this test done at midlife and initiate aggressive treatment to prevent it."
The study also provides promise for new drugs that attack the antibodies. Some are already in clinical trials to see if they delay the onset of Alzheimer's.


How can I find out if my husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating on me? It can be very difficult to catch a cheating spouse.Understandably, most people do not know how to investigate a spouse. However, if you want to catch a cheater, it often helps to understand the nature of the problem at hand. Why is it so difficult to catch a cheating husband or wife? Catching a cheating partner is difficult because cheaters have an unfair advantage when it comes to infidelity. In fact, most infidelity goes undetected, or unproven, because the rules of the game tend to favor those who cheat.
These 12 signs allow you to establish proof of an affair. No matter what your situation may be, there is most likely a way to discover the truth.
Not cool. Date night is a hallmark of marriage, so when your date night with your spouse disappears it might be because they're having date night with someone else. According to Masini, author of "Think Like a Man", more experienced cheaters will keep your date night, but end it early because they have a "work issue" or a "poker game" that runs until after midnight. "Breaking up the night to make time for date night with another lady is one way you'll know you're with someone who's probably cheating," she says. Don't miss these secrets marriage counselors won't tell you for free.
Most women who think their man is having an affair will immediately ask to see their phone to scroll through texts and incoming/outgoing calls. Don't be fooled if he lets you, says psychiatrist Scott Haltzman, MD, author of the book <em>The Secrets of Surviving Infidelity. "If he gives you full access, it's a sign he may have a second phone," Dr. Haltzman says.


The labs of Ive De Smet and Tom Beeckman (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology), together with researchers from the UK, Germany and Denmark identified a novel component that controls the development of root branches supporting plants.
A Belgian team of computational biologists led by Stein Aerts (VIB-KU Leuven) has developed a new bioinformatics method called cisTopic. The results are published in Nature Methods.
Studying the mechanisms of recovery, Leuven researcher Aya Takeoka (NERF) found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor functions.
A research team in the Unit for Structural Biology at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research has unraveled the three-dimensional structure and molecular mechanism of ATP citrate lyase (ACLY).
The antibody technology may have potential uses in various areas, from fighting veterinary and human gut infections, treating inflammatory and metabolic disorders, to the development of microbiome altering food supplements.
What happens inside a cell when it is activated, changing, or responding to variations in its environment? Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research have developed a map of how to best model these cellular dynamics.
An international team based in Ghent and Basel, Switzerland found a link between a class of enzymes and immune signals that is rapidly triggered upon physical damage in plants.
Well-being is a key point of attention at different levels of VIB. As a result, a variety of different VIB centers and institution-wide initiatives were launched with the help of the Well Being Group and the HR-team at VIB headquarters.
VIB is very grateful to the Alzheimer Research Foundation for funding the researchers received, which helps them in their quest for cures. The Foundation has been fighting Alzheimer's disease for years and is working on a future without dementia.
In this edition of VIB Times, you will explore the broad offer of VIB cores, which reach far beyond simply providing technological support. You'll also gain insight into their histories and discover the newest de-risked technologies they make available.


HSQE policy is paramount at ITIS. We firmly believe that striving for quality and safety in testing and preventing damage to the environment are to the benefit of our company.
The HSQE policy we have developed has become an integral part of our system and our daily performance. Every employee who works in the company, as well as the management that runs it, is conscious of his own responsibility when it comes to quality, safety, health and the environment.
ITIS BV is certified according to ISO 9001-2015 & SCC (Safety Health Environment Checklist Contractors).
SHELL has recognized ITIS as an independent preferred partner regarding services related to production testing and (TAT) Type Approval Testing or Design Validation Testing (DVT) of valves.
We are accredited by BBL, SBB & Kenteq as a work placement company to train future professionals.


Tauy Creek: 1240: Is There a Comic Strip Equivalent of an Amber Alert?
1240: Is There a Comic Strip Equivalent of an Amber Alert?
My favorite planet is Uranus but I had always been fascinated with Pluto because of its isolation, desolation and mystery. I never understood why Pluto had to become a dwarf planet but I get it. We should be getting better pictures of Pluto in the near future but I am impressed at how it looks. That's a good looking planetary body.
There are three people living together, Brutus. You forgot, yet again, that you have a child. I am perfectly fine with TV shows basically forgetting that children exist and need to be taken care of by their parental characters but books, movies, comic strips, comic books, don't get that pass. Why do TV shows get a pass? Because I understand that children happen and they can add a layer of additional stories to the show but yet are tailored to not keep the parents from hanging out with their childless friends at a bar, coffee shop or break room. As for the other mediums, if you don't want to have kids around, don't write them into the story.


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Reports from recipients of Fellowships and Studentships
Ecological studies in alpine grasslands of Bhutan
Dr Norbert Maczey (CABI, Egham, Surrey, UK)
The fellowship, which was complementary to a project funded under the UK Darwin initiative, was carried out in liaison with the Council of Renewable Natural Resources Research of the Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture during June-July 2008. The main purpose of the fellowship being to provide particular ecological baseline data for the high montane grasslands in the Jigme Dorji National Park and other protected areas in Bhutan.
An examination of the socio-economic contribution of the equine sector in Sweden and its impact on the sustainability of grass-based agriculture
Georgina K. Crossman (Centre for Rural Policy Research, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK)
Worked with Professor Hans Andersson and colleagues at the Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden, during May-July 2008.
Research on the development of a rapid and accurate system to determine ME concentration in fresh grass, a system similar to that of grass silage currently used in AFBI Hillsborough Feed Information System
Dr Bai Xue (Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan City 625014, Sichuan Province, China)
Worked with Dr Tianhai Yan at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland UK, for six months from August 2008 to January 2009.
Introducing cattle to a sheep-grazed hill: impacts on vegetation height, biomass and cattle performance
Getahun Kebede Yadete (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centre, P.O.Box: 32, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia)
Worked with Dr Tony Waterhouse and colleagues at the SAC Bush Estate in Scotland, UK, during May to November 2008.
Study on the use of markers and in-vitro gas production techniques for measuring nutritional characteristics of grazing animals with particular reference to developing countries
Dr. Abule Ebro Gedda (Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Centre, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia)
Worked with Dr R.W. Mayes and Dr E.R. Ørskov of the Macaulay Institute from June to November 2007.
The effect of diet on beef quality
Tesfaye Lemma Gesese (Livestock Production and Management Research Division, Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Centre, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia)
Worked with Professor Nigel Scollan of IGER from April to September 2007 .
Overall objective: To investigate socio-ecological constraints to the effective functioning of common property regimes for managing the grazing of livestock on natural rangeland, in communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Dr James Bennett (Department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management,Faculty of BES,Coventry University)
Worked with Dr Andrew Ainslie of ARC-Animal Production Institute, Grahamstown Office, South Africa from 26th June 2007 – 31st July 2007.
The Impact of point source nitrogen pollution on prairie grasslands
Carly Stevens (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Worked with Prof. David Tilman at the University of Minnesota, USA from 2nd July – 8th August 2007.
Will climate change cause a surge in UK clover weevil populations?
Dr Scott N Johnson (SCRI, Dundee, UK)
Worked with Dr Pip Gerard at AgResearch, New Zealand during two periods – from 3 December 2006 to 23 January 2007 and from 1 March to 2 May 2007.
Foraging Behaviour of Grazing Livestock in Semi-Natural Pastures
Dr. Katherine Tozer(Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand)
Worked with Dr Andrew Rook and Mr Robert Orr at IGER-North Wyke, UK during two periods – from 26 May to 29 July 2006 and from 11 May to 11 June 2007 .
Research on nutrients in cut grassland receiving long-term manure applications
Wenju Liu (Research Center for Eco-environmental sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Worked with Dr Peter Christie at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, April – September 2006.
The Effect of Polyphenol Oxidase on Lipolysis in Red Clover
Dr Michael Lee (IGER, Aberystwyth, UK)
Worked with Dr M L Sullivan at US Dairy Forage Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 12 June – 1 August 2006.
Assessing the Nutritive Value of Rangeland Feeds
Belete Shenkute Gemeda (Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Adama, Ethiopia)
Worked with Prof E R Ørskov, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, February – July 2006.
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