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Subpar shooting sinks basketball against Thunderwolves
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The Gaels kept things close, but dropped their season opener last Friday.
In a low-scoring affair, strong defence by both teams caused the lead to change hands several times before the Lakehead Thunderwolves beat Queen's 54-51.
Head coach Stephan Barrie commended the Gaels' defensive success.
"We just couldn't get enough offence, unfortunately," Barrie said. "I think it was a combination of tough defence and good offence that didn't end up being rewarded."
Queen's struggled to connect on their shots, sinking just 20 of 62 field goal attempts. Still, Barrie said the poor shooting wasn't cause for concern.
"There's going to be nights when you don't shoot as well and the reality is you have to have your defence set on those nights and we did," he said. "We almost pulled off that game."
The first quarter ended with the score knotted at 10-10, and the Gaels kept it close by halftime, trailing by only one point.
Queen's outshot Lakehead in the fourth quarter and very nearly finished ahead, but couldn't come back from the 46-37 deficit they faced heading into that frame.
"We went down nine at some point and in a low scoring game, that's a big deficit," Barrie said. "But we fought back to tie it and then we just weren't able to get over the hump."
Guard Greg Faulkner earned a double-double, putting up 15 points and 10 rebounds in 36 minutes of floor time.
Post Mike Shoveller added 12 points and six rebounds. Guards Dan Thompson and Cy Samuels contributed eight and seven points, respectively.
There was a disparity in free throw opportunities as Lakehead went to the foul line 30 times — 17 more than the Gaels. The Thunderwolves scored 16 points from the line, while Queen's connected on less than 50 per cent of their chances.
"Both teams were aggressive so it's not like we look back and say 'well, we should've tried this to get on the line more,'" Barrie said.
Lakehead was also able to capitalize on second-chance opportunities — they earned 13 second-chance points while the Gaels didn't tally any.
"They had more offensive rebounds than we did. We got some second-possession points but it wasn't a critical factor in terms of our overall offence," Barrie said.
The Gaels host the Waterloo Warriors (0-2) tonight in their home opener at the ARC. The men lost to the Warriors 74-70 during pre-season play. Last year's regular season tilt went to the Gaels, who edged out the Warriors 61-57 in Waterloo.
The Laurier Golden Hawks (1-1) are in town tomorrow. For Queen's to get the win in both contests, Barrie said the team will have to up the game's tempo and, with it, the score.
"We're going to look to push the ball more and get the flow of the game higher so we have more opportunities," Barrie said. "I thought there was too few possessions overall in the game up in Thunder Bay."
Last gasp falls short
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Rossini – The Barber of Seville Overture
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra
Anne Harrigan, conductor, 10-15-1989
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b. Pesaro, Italy, 29 February 1792
d. Passy, France, 13 November 1868
OVERTURE TO THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (1816)
Rossini, who in his time was both cherished and scorned for his love of fun, wrote this opera buffa for the end of Carnival in Rome. He was fiercely competitive in a bluntly commercial market ("Give me a laundry list and I will set it to music"). Pressed against the deadline, Rossini was forced to borrow from other operas of his own in order to finish this treatment of Beaumarchais's comedy, featuring the incomparable Figaro. The overture was lifted from his opera seria Aureliano in Palmira, written three years before. Yet it sets the stage perfectly for this story of ridicule and bungling courtship. The infectious mirth begins at once. A slow introduction brings us an urbane tune amongst the violins. The main these is saucy as the lips of the lovely Rosina. Watch out for an arrogant melody in the winds! All of it rises, mid-way, to a famous Rossini crescendo. Formally the overture is a sonata movement sans development sections, built of a simple harmonic structure, with a spare texture and exquisite balance.
Thus the first scene begins on a street in Seville, where Count Almaviva is serenading the object of his dearest affections. Il Barbiere di Siviglia was perhaps Rossini's greatest masterpiece; it made the 24-year-old composer hysterically famous throughout Europe. Beethoven, welcoming Rossini as a visitor, remarked, "It will be played as long as Italian operas exist."
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The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is the Eight Natural Wonder of the World?
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The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is touted by Sri Lanka's Tourism Board as the Eight Natural Wonder of the World. In its tourism campaigns, Sigiriya Rock (its other name) is a ubiquitous poster attraction – to the extent it's almost becoming synonymous to the country itself. Ask anyone who had been to Sri Lanka about what to see – the usual response would be: climb the Sigiriya Rock. Google Sri Lanka – and guess what image pops up first? That's right – Sigiriya Rock! There's no doubt that this is the country's most-visited tourist destination.
The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is the Eight Natural Wonder of the World? (Sri Lanka)
A Massive Rock. The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is an enormous rock that sprang out in the middle of a jungle. You would really wonder why and how on earth this happened in a middle of a forested flatland. The other towering natural formation you could find in the area is the Pidurangala Rock that stands less than a kilometre away. These two gigantic rocks are the only "skyscrapers" you could find, surrounded by endless plains shielded in tropical trees and vegetation.
The Summit – The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is the Eight Natural Wonder of the World? (Sri Lanka)
The Ancient Palace. The topmost part of the rock is mostly flat. Therefore, it's a brilliant place to build a palace, right? The ancient King did just that in the 5th century. The ruins I saw weren't really that impressive. What remains now look like the terraced outline of the palace that once was. But before the construction of the royal palace, the rocky plateau was a monastery in the 3rd century.
The Climb. It's arduous. It's a rock column, so expect a climb that could test your endurance. Hold on to the rusty rails when climbing the steep stairs. Free your bag from heavy stuff – and eat breakfast before climbing. 😉
The Spiral Stairway – The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is the Eight Natural Wonder of the World? (Sri Lanka)
The Spiral Stairway. Halfway to your climb, you'll be on a perpendicular/spiral stairway that leads you to the rock paintings of women. It is believed that they embody the celestial nymphs or the concubines of the ancient King. Unfortunately, photos aren't allowed here. I saw two guards manning the narrow path.
The Mirror Wall – The Lion Rock of Sigiriya is the Eight Natural Wonder of the World? (Sri Lanka)
The Mirror Wall. Once you're done with the rock paintings, you'll go down again through the other spiral stairway. Reaching the bottom stairs, you're in another narrow path with a 3-meter high concrete wall that protects the Mirror Wall. I was told to look closely to be able to find the ancient graffiti. But, duh, I couldn't even find a speck of it. 😀
The Lion's Paws – (Sri Lanka)
The Lion's Paws. You can't miss this. Most people take a rest here before climbing the remaining narrow steps that would certainly give you vertigo. This is the main entrance to the ancient palace.
The views at the Summit of Lion Rock (Sri Lanka).
The Summit. The terraced peak of the rock gives you a spectacular view of the surrounding forest and tropical vegetation. From here, the nearby Pidurangala Rock is a beauty to espy.
Best Time to Climb. Of course, the morning is the best time to climb Sigiriya Rock. Remember, it's a rock! 😀 Be there when the ticket booth opens at 7:30.
The Gardens. Enjoy the gardens below the rock after the climb. It's relaxing to sit under the trees after a strenuous ascent/descent.
Enjoy the rest of the photos.
The Summit of Sigiriya Rock (aka Lion Rock) (Sri Lanka).
WHERE TO STAY IN SIGIRIYA
Look no further – Darshani Lodge should be your choice. The staff is nice and willing to help you. The rooms are spacious and clean. It's just one kilometre to Sigiriya Rock and accessible to public transport, like the tuktuk. They also serve breakfast and dinner.
Not a solo traveler? Join a tour!
It is, of course, possible to go around the country using public transport. But, you've got to be adventurous and can stand on the heat. And be patient, too. Trains are slow and most of the roads are winding and narrow, especially when you're going to the Hill Country. If you have limited time in the country and want to see / experience more, say, 8-10 days, going a tour is more practical. You don't have to plan for transports and hotel accommodation. Intrepid Travel offers various options for every kind of traveler.
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The next VIWG meeting will Tuesday, April 9th starting at 7:15 pm at Lee Valley Tools in Colwood. Come early and do some shopping.
Our presenter will be Arnt Arntzen. Arnt has been designing and building his furniture in Vancouver since 1986. He is represented by several galleries in Western Canada as well as on his website http://www.arntarntzen.com/. His work is best described as highly refined reclamation. He extensively uses slabs and reclaimed wood as well as previously loved-metal and aviation materials.
There will be a wood sale Sunday, April 7th at 6583 Wallace Drive starting at 10:00 am. We will have good quantity of arbutus (half seasoned) and Garry Oak (milled in fall 2018). We sell in 50 board foot lots and thanks to our amazing wood committee volunteers pricing is a very low $2.50 per board foot.
A special invitation goes to our new members (even if you are not interested in purchasing wood). We hope you will come and meet some members and see how we conduct our lively sales.
I will need six volunteers to assist me beginning at 9am. If you can volunteer (mainly setting out wood in lots before 10am), if you haven't already, please contact Phil Makin at 250.592.4033.
On behalf of the entire Wood Recovery Team, we hope to see you there. If you have any questions, just give me a buzz or email pmakin@shaw.ca.
This year, 2019, the Guild Executive again approved the purchase of wood for eight Greater Victoria schools. Seven pickup trucks went to the mill in Chemainus, Paul Beltgens of Jemico Enterprises Ltd was there to greet us. Paul offered us about 3000 board feet of maple that had knots and cracks at no charge. The 7 pickup trucks delivered that wood to the schools and then six of the same vehicles went back to Chemainus the next week to pick up another 3000 board feet of cabinet grade alder for the same schools.
Each school received from 100 to 500 board feet of lumber. The amount of wood each school received depended on the number of students they were teaching. The schools receiving the wood included Mount Doug, Oak Bay, Victoria High, Claremont, Belmont, Edward Milne, Glanford, John Stubbs and Lighthouse Christian Academy. The schools were extremely thankful for the wood that they received.
Thanks from the Guild for the generosity of Jemico Enterprises and to the drivers who donated their time and costs to deliver the wood to the schools.
The Wood for Schools Program is made possible by the success of the Wood Recovery Program so that the Guild could supply this wood to the schools.
A workshop of cutting dovetails was given by Steve Neil at Lee Valley on Saturday, March 30th. Six Guild Members joined Steve for a day of learning the finer points in cutting dovetails.
By all accounts, the workshop was a huge success. Thanks to Steve for giving up his Saturday. The details on making the dovetail jig can be found by clicking here.
The spring challenge is for any type of "miniature house." The house can be for animals, dolls, fairies, ants, you name it. The only stipulation is it needs to be physically present at the June AGM meeting to be eligible.
Do You Have Some Workshop Items You No Longer Use?
Then bring them along to the Guild meeting and give them to Randy so they can be part of the evening raffle.


Clayton County can be a great place to ride a bike, with hundreds of trails, lots of biking events, and a strong cycling community available to local residents. Sometimes, though, Clayton County can instead be a dangerous place to ride, especially when motorists on the street fail to observe the rules and watch for riders.
When a car or other motorized vehicle collides with a bicycle, the results can be tragic. If you are suffering from a bicycle accident, you first need to focus on getting medical care and working toward a full recovery, but you also need to give some thought to the long-term effects, including added expenses.
Fortunately, there is help available in the form of a dedicated personal injury attorney. An experienced Clayton County bicycle accident lawyer could assist you by helping to determine whether you may be entitled to money for your injuries and arguing on your behalf in discussions with insurance companies, attorneys, and others involved in the aftermath of the accident.
If a bicyclist is involved in a wreck with a motor vehicle, they should first contact the police and get a police report, even if their injuries appear to be minor. While the motorist's insurance company may pay for personal injuries suffered by the bicyclist or damage caused to the bicycle, they will often only pay up to the limit of the driver's liability coverage, which may not be enough to cover the cost of medical bills.
In addition, an insurance company may argue that injuries suffered are based on pre-existing conditions which they should not be required to pay for. It can be helpful to work with a Clayton County bike crash attorney when dealing with the insurance company, especially if you end up having to file a lawsuit because insurance payments are not sufficient.
These types of damages may be sought in a lawsuit. However, if the injured person filing the claim has sufficient evidence to back up the claim, the other party may seek to settle out of court instead. An experienced bicycle accident lawyer in Clayton County could evaluate settlement offers to determine whether they provide enough compensation to meet a victim's future needs.
Although many attorneys in Clayton County handle accident cases, not all of them have experience with lawsuits involving bicycle accidents. Bicycles are unique vehicles with their own set of road rules, and alleged violations of these rules may come up in the defense of a bicycle accident lawsuit.
So, if you are suffering injuries from a bike accident, it may be important to work with a Clayton County bicycle accident lawyer familiar with the best strategies to use in local courts. Any lawsuit filed to seek recovery for the accident usually must be filed within two years of the accident due to Georgia's statute of limitations, so call now to get a free evaluation of your case.


Chadd - Name Meaning, What does Chadd mean?
Chadd as a name for boys has its root in Old English. Chadd is an alternate spelling of Chad (Old English).
The only other popular varying form of Chadd is Chad (#800 FROM RECENT DATA). These forms of Chadd were popular with parents in the 1970s (AVERAGE #467) and have become much less popular since, with the version Chad becoming less in vogue.
Chadd is alike in pronunciation to Chad▼, Shad▼, Shadd and Shade. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Bradd, Cade, Card, Chace, Chaddie, Chai, Chaim▲, Champ, Chan, Chand, Chane, Chang, Chann, Chano, Chany, Chap, Chaps, Chas▼, Chase▲, Chayo, Chaz▼, Chazz, Claud▼, Ladd, Radd and Tadd. These names tend to be more commonly used than Chadd.


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Honestly, though, if it wasn't for my dad's insanely talented cooking skills, I probably would have eaten plain pasta for years.
So whether you're newly adapting to a plant-eating lifestyle, have friends and family that are vegan, or you're just looking to cut out some meat and dairy, I hope this guide helps you get there this holiday season.
I'm so thankful that I'm able to run this blog, share fellow plant-eater's recipes and (hopefully) fill your Thanksgiving with a few more vegetables.
Whole Foods | In hundreds of Whole Foods stores around the country, you can ORDER an entire Thanksgiving dinner (or just a few dishes). Use code VEGAN for $5 off.
Trader Joe's | They have TONS of frozen and fresh vegan-friendly options. Just look for the square with a V for Vegan.
Sticky Fingers | Grab some of their ready-made sides or mains, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to snag one of their crazy popular pies.
Founding Farmers | Order their Thanksgiving To-Go by November 19!
Sweet Earth Foods | A ton of frozen options that are perfect as a back-up or for "just in case." I swear by their artisan bowls. Find in almost any grocery store.
Loving Hut | A vegan vietnamese cafe with 38 locations around the country. Not exactly "Thanksgiving," but still delicious.
Equinox DC | (Not the gym). This amazing, (mostly) plant-based restaurant is open for Thanksgiving this year, and their menu is insanely good.
FOR THE CHEESE PLATE: Kite Hill, Miyoko's Kitchen, Field Roast & Treeline.


For the past several months, Cisco's Talos security group has been researching a new advanced malware system dubbed "VPNFilter" that has compromised nearly 500,000 networking devices worldwide.
Talos has been working with public and private-sector law enforcement and threat intelligence partners to research the threat.
Affected networking devices include those made by Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link vendors in at least 54 countries in the small and home office space. In addition, QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices have also been affected.
According to a Talos blog post on Wednesday, the malware code overlaps with versions of BlackEnergy malware, which was responsible for large scale targeted attacks on devices in the Ukraine.
Talos also writes that the malware is potentially destructive in nature and affects Ukranian devices at alarmingly high rate. The malware further uses a command and control (C2) infrastructure.
"The behavior of this malware on networking equipment is particularly concerning, as components of the VPNFilter malware allows for theft of website credentials and monitoring of Modbus SCADA protocols. Lastly, the malware has a destructive capability that can render an infected device unusable, which can be triggered on individual victim machines or en masse, and has the potential of cutting off internet access for hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide," Talos writes.
Most of the targeted devices are running on older versions, where known public exploits are available and easier to exploit. Thus, the threat has quietly evolved since at least 2016, Talos said.
Users of impacted small or home office routers and/or NAS devices should reset devices to factory defaults and ensure they are updated to the latest firmwre versions to remove any non-persistent stage 2 or 3 malware.


I'm curious if anyone knows how persons, in the U.S., proved their identity at the turn of the 20th century. Specifically about 1895 to 1915. Did people carry, on their person, any kind of proof of who they were? When was it that people were questioned about their citizenship? Could someone basically assume any identify when transacting business: opening a bank account, applying for a job, securing financing, purchasing and/or obtaining a land, etc.
Has anyone come across a well written article (or similar) on the subject of 'personal identity' at the turn of the 20th century?
As one could imagine, the types of materials available to an individual wishing to prove their identity in late 1800's to early 1900's America depended upon whether or not they were an immigrant coming from another country, born in America but with immigrant parents, or were born to a family that had been in America for several generations.
It wasn't until after WW I with the establishment of child labor and compulsory education laws that the birth certificate became a standardized method of proving ones identity in the U.S. As late as 1940 it was estimated that as many as 55 Million Americans did NOT have a birth certificate and the outbreak of WW II served as the inspiration for the U.S. Government to begin a uniform issuance of birth certificates. The Division of Vital Statistics worked with other State and Federal agencies to create a Manual of Uniform Procedures for the Delayed Registration of Births issued by the Bureau of the Census in July 16, 1941.


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Trzciano – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim, w powiecie wąbrzeskim, w gminie Ryńsk. Siedziba sołectwa.

Według podziału administracyjnego Polski obowiązującego w latach 1975–1998, miejscowość należała do województwa toruńskiego. Według Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego (III 2011 r.) liczyła 215 mieszkańców. Jest siedemnastą co do wielkości miejscowością gminy Ryńsk.

W okolicy Trzciana odkryto narzędzia krzemienne pozostałe po ludziach zamieszkujących tę okolicę 10 tysięcy lat temu.

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Sebrus perdentellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Malawi.

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Oramia is een geslacht van spinnen uit de  familie van de Agelenidae (trechterspinnen).

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 Oramia chathamensis (Simon, 1899)
 Oramia frequens (Rainbow, 1920)
 Oramia littoralis Forster & Wilton, 1973
 Oramia mackerrowi (Marples, 1959)
 Oramia marplesi Forster, 1964
 Oramia occidentalis (Marples, 1959)
 Oramia rubrioides (Hogg, 1909)
 Oramia solanderensis Forster & Wilton, 1973

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10 years after Kebbi state government to revives Argungu Fishing Festival
Aliyu Muhammed October 5, 2017 1 min read
Ten years after it last held, Kebbi State government has concluded arrangements to hold Argungu International Fishing Festival next year, Governor Abubakar Bagudu, has disclosed.
He told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi, during an interactive session to mark the nation's 57th Independence anniversary. Governor Bagudu said: "After considering its social and economic values, this administration deems it necessary to organise this festival so that the world will come to Kebbi. The events will most likely come up in its usual month of March." According to him, preparation for the festival has started with clearing of all premises and renovation of structures.
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"I've even prayed to God, to even show me the corpse of my son" Mum who reunite with her son via Facebook Post
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Neurogenetics
•A field of study that attempts to better understand genetic causes of brain disorders
•For diagnosing and possibly treating diseases with a neurogenetic component
•Patients can receive whole exome sequencing
•Involves neurogenetics and neurology
How has neurogenetics developed as a field of medicine?
What is the Yale Medicine Neurogenetics Program?
Which research tools are available to scientists and clinicians at Yale Medicine?
Which neurological disorders will benefit from the new field of neurogenetics?
How does the new field of neurogenetics relate to the concept of "personalized medicine?"
Anna Szekely
Neurology, Genetics, Movement Disorders, Memory Disorders & Cognitive Neurology, Pediatric Genetics, Clinical Genetics
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Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Orthopedic Trauma Surgery, Hip and Knee Orthopedic Surgery
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Microvascular Hand Surgery
Many autoimmune diseases including Alzheimer's disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, and others have genetic underpinnings. What if scientists could figure out which genetic factors are responsible for their illness?
Neurogenetics is a new field of scientific research that uses recent advances in genome sequencing in order to better understand the cause of brain and nerve disorders. The Yale Medicine Neurogenetics Program offers whole exome sequencing, an affordable and efficient technique of pinpointing genetic factors of inherited disease. That can help patients determine the extent to which their genetic material plays a role in their condition.
Neurogenetics is also helping to advance the concept of personalized clinical care. With a comprehensive understanding of a patient's genetic profile and medical history, physicians can create highly tailored treatment programs for each patient. For example, a cancer patient can now receive genome analysis of the specific mutations within a tumor. Based on those results, doctors can then assess whether cancer medications (which can be highly toxic) will even work before administering the drug.
The Human Genome Project—a global effort to map each gene in the human body—represented a major breakthrough when it was completed in 2003. Then scientists developed whole exome sequencing, which looks just at the small portion of DNA that is usually responsible for genetic diseases, which made the tool more affordable and practical.
Today, researchers can study the DNA of hundreds of patients with a given condition to search for patterns that may exist in their genomes. Thanks to those and other advancements, the field of neurogenetics has already successfully identified genes related to the development of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Multiple Sclerosis.
Not every neurological diagnosis is straightforward. For example, some patients might exhibit the characteristic tremors and motor control issues of Parkinson's disease, but they also might have other symptoms, such as memory problems, which are not common in Parkinson's patients.
In these difficult-to-diagnose cases, patients are often referred to Yale Medicine, where they receive a more precise diagnosis.
Physicians at the Neurogenetics Program treat adult and pediatric patients. Among adults, most of the patients treated have some kind of neurodegenerative disease or genetic form of epilepsy. Among children, the most commonly treated patients have some kind of mental development delay or autism spectrum disorder.
Yale Medicine's Center of Genomic Analysis is part of a select group called the Consortium for Mendelian Genomics, which is at the forefront of next-generation genetic sequencing work. Patients treated there will benefit from very sophisticated tools and analysis.
For example, some patients—adults and children—have disease related to their mitochondria, the tiny structures inside cells that function as "energy factories" for the body. Mitochondria have their own DNA, which is completely distinct from the famous "double helix" DNA that makes up each person's chromosomes.
The brain and nervous system require a lot of energy, so any abnormalities in the mitochondria could lead to brain and muscle diseases. Physicians can screen for mitochondrial defects and traditional genetic mutations.
In addition, if genetic abnormalities are not immediately obvious, your doctor can conduct genetic sequencing of family members. For example, by analyzing the genetic profile of a child with autism and both of his parents, physicians can hunt for patterns that might contribute to the disorder.
This information might help young parents decide if they want to have another child. Alternatively, clinicians may be able to refer patients to an appropriate clinical trial, where they can access new treatments that have not yet been approved for the general patient population.
Patients treated will have access to experimental new treatments that might benefit their condition. "My duty is not only to offer the most comprehensive evaluation of the most difficult to treat patients, but also to connect these patients to the latest clinical trials and treatment modalities," says neurologist Anna Szekely, MD. Patients can also volunteer their genetic information for scientific research. Collectively, hundreds of genetic profiles help scientists cross-compare abnormalities and contribute to advancements in drug and treatment research.
Personalized medicine is the idea that each person's treatment should be specifically tailored to his or her medical history and genetic profile.
Now, as researchers continue to search for breakthrough cures for most neurological conditions, genomic sequencing can help physicians choose the best drugs or therapies to address symptoms, and customize a treatment plan based on forecasts about disease progression.
Whole genome sequencing allows doctors to closely analyze a patient's genes for mutations and health indicators. Learn about this procedure.
Genetic Evaluation and Counseling
Genetic evaluation and counseling involves a consultation that provides an individual's risk of acquiring inheritable conditions. Learn more about this service.
Whole exome sequencing is a type of genetic sequencing performed from blood or saliva samples. Learn about this procedure.
Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia, causing confusion and memory loss severe enough to interfere with everyday life.
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 3 (ADNI3) Protocol (ADNI3)
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*FULL MOON* SuperMoon in Gemini is prismatic with information, able to shapeshift into multiple expressions.
Not an easy path to discern. Best not to get swept up with the tides of misinformation, instead ground into your own center and listen deeply to your Soul.
With Mercury just having turned retrograde, there is much to reflect on. This a healing time as well as a time of self-mastery where we have an opportunity to cleanse our perceptions and open up to a new way.
Time to upgrade our thinking and remember that we are free to perceive our experience in what ever way we choose.
We are powerful beyond measure. Trust in your process and trust in your heart.
"Since both Saturn and Mercury are at the same degree as the Galactic Center, this alignment indicates an opportunity for a major reset.
"This Full Moon is also a SuperMoon, which means it occurs when the Moon is at perigee, the point in its orbit when it is closest to the Earth.
"Given that a Full Moon is already associated with heightened emotions, we can expect that a perigee Full Moon will increase our sensitivity on many levels.
"Mercury, as planetary 'ruler' of Gemini, is therefore the ruler of this Full Moon.
"The fact that Mercury goes retrograde just eight hours before the lunation can significantly heighten the level of disorientation that may occur.
"The 'Alice in Wonderland' effect can be very strong, when everything seems to be upside down and backwards.
"This big bright supermoon occurs on a day supercharged with astrological activity….
"Fact and fiction are blended, shaken and stirred and served with a slice of sleight of hand. Tall stories are running wild.
"…There's a suggestion that we've been held captive by the media machine but now we begin to see through the veil.
"Neptune's confusing vibration can sometimes make us feel weak or defeated before we even start but this symbol reminds us that we're strong.
"We have a right to freedom – and freedom of information.
"Consider where your mind has been hobbled by the outside world, trained to think you're not free.
"This feels like a highly challenging Full Moon and yet Jupiter's trine to Neptune reminds us that if we face our fears we can save ourselves.
"There is truth and good and beauty in the world if we're looking in the right direction.
"If you feel confused, stand still, tune into your heart. Neptune also stands for spirituality and meaning.
"Consider what your soul has to say about all this confusion.
"Creatives can tap into this wonderful imaginative energy to create stories of their own through music, art and words – healing stories that take us a step forwards instead of a step back.
"Use your imagination but don't let it dictate your fears. Be at peace with silence. Still your mind for inner reflection.
"Let the distraction of the world fall away until you can hear your own inner dialogue.
"What is said between you and your deity is sacred.
"Saturn and Mercury are traversing a powerful portal – the Galactic Center at 27º Sagittarius with this Full Moon.
"We are assessing our karma, our purpose here on planet Earth, and downloading a new vision of the future.
"The greatest gift of Sagittarius is helping us lift our eyes to the far horizon and using the mutability of elemental fire to forge and coalesce an inspired new dream. We are so ready!
"…To my mind's eye, a considerable amount of tension is focused around Juno, Queen of Heaven… where personal strength and power that comes from within is shown to be so much stronger than seeking status or validation in the changing circumstances of the outer world.
"What will you learn about your personal power, how you partner and where you find disempowerment in your life?
"With Juno as the center of a T-Square with Mars and Uranus, we have some major tension and volatility here.
"There is rebellion and direct action, and unexpected shift in our masculine/feminine alignments.
"This full moon is a DOOZY. With Sun/Moon opposition in the signs of lower mind and Higher Mind, small picture and Big Picture, information and Truth- this Full Moon seeks to bring to Light what is not being looked at.
"Yet both are almost precisely square to Neptune (within 10 minutes of exactness)- so it's very hard to discern the Truth from lies, fantasy from fact, fiction from reality.
"It's easy to see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, spin things or be a deer in the headlights.
"It's so important right now karmically to be honest, direct and clear- with ourselves and with others.
"We are being challenged in a HUGE way to step up our mastery and deepen our healing journey– but it is not coming easy I will tell you!
"…It's interesting to see that the Jupiter/Neptune trine ties right into the Full Moon…with both Jupiter and Neptune tensely aspecting the lunation we need to be really aware of where we are overdoing the Love and Light at the expense of the shadow.
"Both Jupiter and Neptune are spiritual planets- they see the positive, the potential, they are generous and forgiving.
"This is the time to communicate! Gemini Moon gets nurtured by talking and learning and experiencing. Talking about your feelings helps clarify what you're feeling.
"Or go within and communicate with yourself. Go out into nature and commune with Mother Earth and Father Sky. Communicate with your whole Mind: your gut, your heart, your rational brain, your imaginal brain, your mystical brain and your reptilian brain.
"Then journal about your experience and take it deeper until you pop back out on the other side, to the Sagittarius Sun.
"What have you discovered that can change your beliefs about yourself and the world? What new story comes to you as you shed your old story?
"…This is all about the stories we tell ourselves about life. Too often we gather facts that support our point of view so we don't have to change our old story.
"With the square from Neptune we're challenged to listen to our soul's point of view, rather than getting lost in an ego day-dream.
"… when we work consciously with Neptune and the Creative Imagination, we can weave a story that sings to our hearts.
"Don't forget to weave in bravery, because from the 'lower' vibration worldview, you're going to be seen as weird, different, strange because you believe in a different story.
"So find your tribe who shares your story and loves you for it! If you live out your story well, you will attract other people out of that dark, dead-end story into their own heart-stories.
"Meanwhile, Neptune in Pisces sits in an exact t-square to this lunation. This is a perfect storm of spiritual opportunity to catch our awareness mid-stream, to observe how we are deluding or deceiving our self through wrong stories, false perceptions.
"Astrologer Steven Forrest calls this Neptunian process 'cleaning the windows'.
"By becoming aware of what's obscuring our windows (wrong perceptions), we discover clarity, truth, oneness. Then we can co-create a more satisfying reality.
"Feel into the energy of this Full Moon. Notice where your attention, and intention, is. Are you magnifying a 'problem' by aligning your energy with negative stories, and struggle?
"Or are you intentionally choosing to align with the energy of Oneness, flow and co-creativity?
"I was aligning with the negative story of resistance, not flow, so that is what I experienced. But once I aligned with grace, grace happened.
"We have no proof that getting out of our heads — letting go of the habit of push, struggle and inner conflict — will bring us exactly what we most want.
"Speaking from my second house Neptune, moving out of the belief that the Ego must do and solve it all, and into the energy of Neptune- of ease, grace and co-creation- is a risky act of faith in and of itself.
We will get through this. We are 💎 in training.
This is a beautiful summary of the Super Moon, Cosmic Mamma. Thanks, Beloved. I am with my I presence seeing my shadow, believing in my higher connections. Releasing, dancing in gratitude! Intending to fully see myself with compassion and adding the benefit of laughter as a way of being easy on me, perfectly imperfect, imperfectly perfect, all and one. I am ready!!!
I pray we all find the strength and bravery from within to be of service to ourselves, each other, and the Highest. Thank you to all who show up to participate in this platform of creation we call Life.
once I aligned with grace – grace happened.
Lovely. Best wishes in your Journey.
Thank you, I also feel stronger than ever and pray I keep the strength to keep it up and shine…..once I aligned with grace – grace happened….beautiful!
Using this energy to be propelled forward instead of being held back by insecurity, fear of my own power and the pattern of making myself small in the hope to be cared for. Love and light in the comforting and equally scaring darkness. New life is growing in the void and it's cherished!
I agree with Sylvia! However scary, this is much needed change.
Grace is my Mother. Thank you, Mystic Mamma!
wonderful, thank you. I found your intro the most spot on. I'm a gemi through and through and I was looking forward to my big party. Instead, I've gone completely off wine and in fact all my various plans are on track AND I have had to let go of what I call the "final duality" because now that I've figured it all out, my knowledge is not getting me any but into trouble. At the same time "stuff" is coming up and I feel like Neptune is raining on my parade. Quite a bit of wait and see. How very odd. I can't wait for Mercury to get going again. When it hits 27 on it's way out, I bet that will be AMAZING.
grateful for the encouragement of honesty on this full moon, and to not push the river. patience is hard, but don't ever give up.
we are loved by unending love, dear sisters.
Thank you all contributors for these insights, wisdom and guidance.
absolutely amazing and spot on , thank you for the insights , words of wisdom , thoughts of comfort and support.been hanging in limbo , lost orientation and meaning ….. helping me to get back on track , thanks to mystic mamma, thanks to all of you , this amazing community , forward we go, in grace , faith is the word, THANK YOU !!
I have always valued my Shadow, and spend time with It, until it is time to move back into hope and action. I found these insights a reminder that old thought patterns are blocks to being all of yourself; that ridding yourself of destructive patterns takes time, and it's important to let that come and to spend more time with your own lovely Self.
it's not right but it's here.
These post help me learn how to love myself more.


No Swiss-system in Huaian. All our tournaments will be played as round-robin. Also rapid for man.
See updated rules&regulations with more details schedule.
Thank you for the great tournament. See you again in November 2018.
Three tournament, 7 top grandmasters in but the winner was always the same – Matrena Nogovicyna. Amazing. She is absolutely number one of this event.


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City Hall OK With 'Occupy LA'? Mayor Hands Out Rain Ponchos To Protesters
Filed Under:City Hall, Economy, Jobs, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Occupy LA, Protest
Occupy LA activists who have been camped out in front of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles held placards in the rain on Wednesday. (credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Protesters camped out on the lawn outside City Hall said Thursday that — rain or shine — Los Angeles officials are starting to show signs of support for the movement that has spawned demonstrations in multiple U.S. cities.
KNX 1070's Jon Baird reports protesters with "Occupy Los Angeles" may no longer have to move off the property on a daily basis. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14984641/2011/10/occupylajobs1.mp3
An estimated 400 people are spending their sixth day on the streets of downtown voicing their frustration over the direction of the U.S. economy, jobs, and health care.
"For the last five nights, we've been flip-flopping back and forth," said protester Clark Davis. "We were told that if we slept on the sidewalks at night we'd be arrested…we were then told that we could sleep on the sidewalks and that we could not sleep in the parks."
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The group now believes they may be able to stay on the lawn permanently and that sentiment in City Hall for their platform could be growing.
At least one official is expressing support for the movement: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is holding a jobs town hall meeting on Thursday, reportedly has been distributing ponchos to the protesters to stay dry during the recent rain storm.
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"We, quite likely, could have the support of the city in this movement," said Davis.


The Norman C. Jensen Collection spans 1867 to 1968 and contains documents discovered by Norman C. Jensen at Fort Taylor, Florida. The collection includes a photographic copy of the "Report of a Guard Mounted at Fort Jefferson, Florida on 28 May 1867" that describes individuals accused of being John Wilkes Boothe's co-conspirators. The collection also contains an original document entitled "Quarterly Report of Artillery Inspection of Fort Taylor, Florida" dated December 31, 1903 and Lt. Col. Jensen's notes and explanations regarding the document.


Lingerie is so much more then a necessity, a bra fit is so much more then finding good fitting bra.
"In the fits" should be an experience, where women walk in dreading it and they walk out with their shoulders back ready to take on the world. It's the confidence and the empowerment it gives women.
We really want to celebrate that and set a standard that Bra Fitters around the globe can strive towards.
I have collaborated with my international colleagues and we have carefully selected Lingerie Retailers that give a world-class bra fitting experience.
These guys are passionate about lingerie, they give a great fit and an outstanding service. They understand that as Bra Fitters we need to find the bra size, bra shape and their bra personality with no judgments. They fit with love, respect and knowledge that offer women education, entertainment and empowerment.
It is an honour to be able to showcase these amazing businesses. The Bra Fitters Elite members will be posting here and sharing their insights and what's been happening in the fits.
Deb and her team are the pioneers of catering for those hard to find cup sizes. The level of service Debra's offers is really quite amazing. She has really perfected the art of nailing the experience.
The team is wonderful and they all share Deb's passion in having bras for everybody.
For a relatively young business the team here are doing an amazing job. Their approach is direct and honest they understand that it's not always comfortable getting your kit off in front of strangers. There is no intimidation so every woman feels at ease here. The fitting rooms have heaps of room, which makes it much nicer experience.
The Bra Lounge was created by two sisters who have always had a passion for business but were blindsided by the tragic death of their Mother. They realised that life was a gift to be cherished and that nothing happens without hard work and dedication. They believe all women are beautiful, they want every woman to be their own beautiful. Whatever that means to you! Celebrate it, live it, be it. These gorgeous girls have a well thought though consultation so they really understand what their customers want and need. They are true leaders in the service and attention to detail they give their customers.
A Sophisticated Pair is a family owned and operated lingerie shop committed to promoting superior fit, comfort, and quality to our customers. They specialise in broad range of sizes with bands ranging from 28 to 56 and cup sizes up to a P cup. Their goal is to ensure that every woman leaves our shop loving how her bra fits and how she feels wearing it.
"We treat our customers like they are part of the family and pamper them with excellent service and expert fit advice in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere."
For over 12 years Barbara's New Beginnings has been professionally fitting women's lingerie. Their fitters pride themselves on listening to their customers needs needs and recommend options based on their unique body frame and style preferences. This bra-shopping experience is fun and fabulous- much like shopping with a sister or friend who really knows her stuff! With private fittings, with your own professional bra fitter you feel a sense of luxury.
Let the right fit work for you and improve your life- it can be a very uplifting experience!


View of Valetta from Sliema .
Valetta is the capital of Malta where it is good to wandered between her streets bordered with typical architecture, bringing at the luxury shops of the island, and cafés where it is pleasant to refresh yourself. Very lively the day, Valetta beckons at slumber soon enough in the evening, sometime before the sunset. Then it is time to leaving to visit other part of Malta for the night. You will find her the next day vibrant and welcoming.
Located close to each other, approximately 10 minutes in bus, St Julian's and Sliema are two major cities of Malta with a good situation in the seafront, their commercial center and the animation of day and night. St Julian's welcoming within it the no less famous Paceville, the privileged place for the night people, the clubbers. They are situed in the North-West of Valetta. You could admire the beauty of these cities when you walk in the different bays that the sea surrounds such as St George's Bay, Spinola Bay, and Belluta Bay, this last one overhung by a majestic cathedral giving at the bay a spiritual dimension.
We can not talk about Malta without mentionned this port Marsackklok one of the most tipycal of the island. One open market close to the water, boats in bright tone from the blue , green , yellow and red , many colours flits on the water. The splashing of the waves who caress edges of the open market it mixes with the people conversation. Sometimes one wave tickling the feet such the open market is close to the water. Cats stroll hoping one peace of fresh fish fail on the floor , Its also that Marsaxlokk, And occasionally you can see one fisherman repainting this boat between two stalls. Its not only one port with this market and some restaurant , It's also and especially one atmosphere, one place or vibrate your sensations, your emotions, one haven of peaceful , a human dimension.
Malta has two historical cities in this center, Rabat and Mdina. This last one was the capital of the arabian , ( Medina meaning "city" in Arabic ). Its situed in the highest point of the island, like that you have a beatiful view on the north-Estern area.
Like a maze, you walk around some tiny street decorated with flowers at the doors and balconies while soaking up the atmosphere, this history breathes through the walls. The Christian religion is installed for century and confers at this city one spiritual dimension. Noble city has indeed hosted the families of the Maltese nobility, still remains today their footprints. Calm prevails as a call to listen to the stones of the walled city to tell you his story, his life. Colors of the sun turning to honey to the ground in the shadow, accentuateby the decor to its deep mystery and joined by silence. It is in a state of calm and respect the path accompanies you to the wonderful view of part of the island and thus generates in you a call to contemplation..
Malta is not without his three peninsula planted in the sea, the looking towards to Valleta. Senglea, Vittoriosa (Birgu) and Cospicua crossed the time and created the history of Malta. They are the first bastion of the Order of Knights of Malta. Their ports are animated by the regulars who spent time to play bingo or other games. By day or by night, the waves whisper their songs like to tell you the story of the island. The religious processions are also organized every year, big moments of festivities for locals people. Tranquility in these peninsulas invites you to listen to the waves and through them to get into the depths of your imagination, for a relaxing break of your mind.
Paceville, situed in the heart of San Giljan ( San Julian's ), in the nothern part of the island, just few minutes of the capital Valetta and the residential part of Sliema, is the place to make a party in Malta. It is attractive , cosmopolite and full of forty Pubs, bars and nightclubs. It's the location for the party lovers end up the night of the week and the weekend until the sunshine. You will meet university students, tourists, workers and english school student in brief all the nationalities join there. Paceville is the perfect place for those who love nightlife, dancing, escape, meet for young and old, of all universes, immerse yourself in the intoxication of the Maltese night. this magic place that will leave a footprint of joy, freedom and exaltation. Public transport such as buses and taxis are very reassuring. They are accessible at all hours of the night for taxis and buses until midnight ( 2am the week end ).Night clubs attract lovers of nightlife suddenly offering tickets shooters, vodka Redbull pitchers and glasses of all kinds at great prices, sometime free. If you are hungry, there are many street snacks that offer pizza slices, sandwiches, Pastizzi, etc .... The staff of all these institutions is particularly honest, what makes this city so unique in terms of the freedom to have fun, to forget worries and enjoy the evening and the night. We wish you a moment of euphoria in this key location for the party, Paceville in Malta.
Gozo, second Island of the Maltese archipelago, is a resting place for Maltese who like to stay there on a weekend. It has a lot of secrets and its charm can only captivate you. It is a place of peace, fresh and quiet, where trust between 30,000 inhabitants is transmitted from generation to generation. You can easily leave your car keys in the contact or leave the door wide open to your place of residence. Old cars, carriages and tourist buses run there. Tourists often do stop one day while several days are useful to benefit from all its charms. Planted in the center, the capital Victoria invites you to lose yourself in its streets to the soothing atmosphere. These ports and the famous "Blue Window", it offers one of the finest Maltese sunsets.
Comino, the third island of the country, is known for its Blue Lagoon, the most beautiful beach of the archipelago, where only two people staying all year. The hot days, it welcomes many tourists. You can discover while walking beautiful coves and beaches in the back of the island.


Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia, near the boarder of South Africa. Measuring 27km wide, 160km long, and 550m deep, it's Africa's largest, and arguably most scenic canyon. It's remote location has kept it safe from being over commercialized, in fact, it makes the Grand Canyon in the USA feel a little like Disney Land.
Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia, near the boarder of South Africa. Measuring 27km wide, 160km long, and 550m deep, it's Africa's largest, and arguably most scenic canyon. It's remote location has kept it safe from being over commercialized, in fact, it makes the Grand Canyon in the USA feel a little like Disney Land.
The Canyon has an official 4-5 day hiking trail that leads down to the ravine. Starting at Hobas campground, hiking 85km to Ai-Ais hot spring resort. The trail has no amenities, meaning you are 100 percent self reliant.
Back in January when I was covering the Trans Namibia expedition, Ray Zahab and Stefano Gregoretti traversed the canyon from the east viewpoint, to the Fish River Lodge, on the west ledge of the canyon. It's only 10km away as a bird flies, but it took them more than 14 hours, crossing over 40km on foot. Negotiating the rough terrain and route finding was the most challenging part. They spent most of the day following zebra tracks, hoping the tracks would lead out of the canyon.
Fish River Lodge, Namibia, Africa.
The Fish River Lodge sits right on the edge of the canyon, with a spectacular view. It's the only infrastructure around the entire canyon. There's a private airstrip where many of it's guests fly into. After a long trip, and many nights spent in a tent, the lodge is a very welcomed luxury.
It's without a doubt, one of the most wild places I've ever seen. It was special visiting a place as beautiful as this, seeing that it had been spared by tourism and commercialism. There a far too few natural wonders like this on earth, that haven't been exploited by tourism.


Dr Low Sze Chuan is a general surgeon who is currently practicing at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. Dr Low has specialises in breast cancer treatment, and he has vast experience in breast conservation and minimizing the cosmetic effects of breast surgery. He is well-known for his treatment of breast cancer and breast diseases, and performs ultrasound guided surgery and mammotomy, a minimally invasive breast biopsy technique. Dr Low also performs breast screening, diagnostic evaluation and assessment of symptomatic and screen-detected breast lesions, treatment of benign breast diseases and breast tumours, and breast conservation surgery.
Dr Low Sze Chuan received the HMDP Scholarship (Ministry of Health, Singapore) for training in Breast Surgery at the Professorial Unit of Surgery in City Hospital, Nottingham, UK from 1991 to 1992. During that time, Dr Low was awarded the Alan Edwards Prize for the Best Paper at the 43rd Meeting of the British Association of Surgical Oncology in London, UK (November 1991).
Dr Low has since been involved in managing breast disease at the national level, and was a member of the Singapore Breast Screening Project and Singapore Breast Cancer Registry planning committees. He was senior consultant and head of the Breast Service at Changi General Hospital till 2001. Since 2001, Dr Low has been in private practice at Gleneagles Hospital dealing solely in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast disease, including breast cancer.


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Q: Is it possible to update React context via Cypress? I am using Cypress for integration testing (not for unit testing / component testing) and working with application that has authentication logic depending on the presence of a security token in the application state - in one of the context used (created with react-tracked library). Without it - it is impossible to interact with the application. From what I could see Cypress is not suitable for testing of a remote authentication process (like via Azure AD), that's why I need to "pre-authenticate" the application in the beginning of each test by injecting the security token into the context. I saw examples of how to gain direct access to the Redux store:
const store = createStore(reducer)

render(
  <Provider store={store}>
    <App />
  </Provider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
)

// expose store when run in Cypress
if (window.Cypress) {
  window.store = store
}

(https://www.cypress.io/blog/2018/11/14/testing-redux-store/ — actually I'm not too sure if it would be even possible to update the store)
I couldn't find a similar solution for react context. Storing token in a cookie or local storage seems to be too risky. Changing a testing framework (Playwright seems to be a good candidate for us) would be a pain. Another option would be to create a special, hidden input in the application, to enter the token — but isn't there any better way?

A: Cypress.Commands.add("token", () => {
  let access_token = "";
  cy.request({
    method: "POST",
    url: "/auth/realms/cmem/protocol/openid-connect/token",
    form: true,
    body: {
      client_id: Cypress.env("service_account_client_id"),
      client_secret: Cypress.env("service_account_client_secret"),
      grant_type: Cypress.env("service_account_grant_type"),
    },
  }).then((response) => {
    access_token = response.body.access_token;
    window.localStorage.setItem("ACCESS_TOKEN", access_token);
  });
});

function getAccessToken() {
  return window.localStorage.getItem("ACCESS_TOKEN");
}
Cypress.Commands.add("dropAllGraphs", () => {
  cy.request({
    method: "POST",
    url: "https:google.com",
    headers: { authorization: "Bearer " + getAccessToken() },
    failOnStatusCode: false,
  }).then((response) => {
    const status = response.status;
    if (status == 401) {
      cy.token();
      cy.dropAllGraphs();
    } else if (status == 503) {
      cy.dropAllGraphs();
    }
  });
});

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FCG v BFC: Team deserved only one point: Lobera
FC Goa salvaged a point from their tie against Bengaluru FC at the Fatorda Stadium in Goa on Monday. Udanta Singh scored a goal in the 62nd minute of the second half of the game to put the visitors in lead but a late penalty conceded by Ashique was converted by Ferran Corominas to get the Gaurs on level.
FC Goa head coach Sergio Lobera was not happy with a point from the game, but felt it was deserved from the game. "I am not happy because I always want the full three points. One point wasn't good for us going into the match, but if you saw the match, maybe one point is what we deserved."
Lobera also stated that the result was a justified one. "Bengaluru dominated the match in the first-half for sure. My team was working well in the opening minutes of the second period, I felt. But we conceded a goal and had some problems. However, I don't think Bengaluru had many clear chances. We had some chances and got the penalty. I think the result was just. It was a difficult match against a tough opposition," he added.
The Spaniard was asked if the absence of Hugo Boumous and Edu Bedia was a big minus point for the team, to whic


Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood.
Wood chief executive Robin Watson said the group's service offering remained "very focused" despite expanding into more sectors.
Mr Watson said Wood is still predominantly an oil and gas service company, but that being able to choose from a broader industrial market had helped "derisk" the business.
Mr Watson also reiterated Wood's commitment to the North Sea, though only 5% of group revenues are generated by that side of the business.
Wood completed the £2.2billion takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW) last autumn and the integration process is "ahead of schedule".
The company aims to shave more than £120million off annual costs by the end of the third year following completion of the takeover.
Wood's UK footprint has grown as a result of the acquisition. The company employs 13,500 people in the UK, which equates to about a quarter of total headcount.
Mr Watson said Aberdeen was a "net beneficiary" of the deal, which has helped "broaden" the skills set of Wood's north-east workforce.
He said Wood now has "better quality jobs", including more head office positions, in Aberdeen.
The takeover was "never about removing substantial staff numbers", Mr Watson said after the company's annual general meeting in Aberdeen.
Across the group, Wood has cut 400 senior management roles, less than 1% of total headcount.
Wood has also consolidated its property portfolio. Six hundred AFW employees recently moved into Wood's campus in Houston, which is full for the first time since 2014.
Mr Watson said he was excited that industry had come through the worst downturn in 40 years and that he expects Wood to return to growth in 2018.
Wood's 2017 profits before tax, one-offs and discontinued items totalled £126.7million, which was down from £166.6million the year before. Revenue grew by 25% to £4.4billion.
Mr Watson said about 60% of Wood's revenues now come from oil and gas, with a 50/50 split between upstream and downstream work.
Before the downturn, 90% of the group's business came from upstream.
Revenue is also being generated by work in transmission and distribution, environment and infrastructure, and nuclear.
Mr Watson added Wood was "well positioned" to scoop up an increasingly large share of offshore decommissioning work.


At just 1.5km away from the centre of Sedan and with beautiful countryside within 2km, the Campanile Sedan is one of the perfect places to stay to explore the historic region of the Ardennes department in north-eastern France. For guests arriving by air into Charleville airport, it is just a 20km onward journey to the Campanile Sedan, or there is also Sedan's main rail station just 1km away should you be thinking of arriving by train. Guests arriving by car should take the Sedan exit on the A34. Charleville-Mézières lies just 17km to the northwest, and the Belgian border is just 18km to the east.
Fans of sporting activities should check out the horse riding facilities, which are just 2km from the hotel, or there is a swimming pool even closer, at just 1km away. There are also snooker tables within a 1km reach, or an excellent golf resort just 15km away. For those searching for a spot of shopping, the nearest commercial shopping centre is a very easy 600m walk away, or there are gaming facilities a mere 1km away. Guests wishing to stay out late should make the 2km journey to the nearby disco, or to the cinema in the centre of Sedan.
The Campanile Sedan has 47 excellent rooms, 24 of which are smoking and 23 non-smoking. As well as 23 doubles and 10 twins, there are 7 triples with 1 double and 1 single, and 6 triples with 3 singles. 2 of the hotel's rooms are connecting and 2 are disabled-accessible, and all come with a TV, an alarm clock and a direct line. Guests can relax on the hotel terrace or in the 2500m2 garden, and there is also a hotel restaurant with places for 40 guests. Pets are welcomed at no extra charge, and there are communal disabled facilities as well as a minitel in the hall. Guests with cars can also park in the hotel's complimentary car park, and the hotel front desk staff speak English and German for extra convinience. So book your getaway to Sedan today, and make it extra special when you stay at the Campanile Sedan.
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Former Global Village hostel to become innovation hub
The fate of the former Global Village Backpackers building has finally come into focus. The iconic old hostel shut its doors in January 2014 and was on the market six months later, but only recently has the future of the site been revealed. Konrad Group, a digital and technology firm, will open an innovation hub in the 20,000 square foot heritage property at King and Spadina.
The 150 year old building will be home to what the Konrad Group calls BrainStation, an educational organization the company acquired last fall, as well as a shared office concept that will draw tech startups and freelancers to King West. As far as retail goes, 460 King will also play host to a new coffee shop by the name of Quantum Coffee.
The idea with the cafe, as with much of the building, is to make it as tech-forward as possible. So far that involves the promise of an app-足enabled pour over machine, the first in Canada, and "order ahead" mobile payments that will allow customers to avoid waiting in line for their caffeine fix.
Not much has been revealed about the architectural plans for the building, but the rendering currently available shows that the plan is to restore the building with a Tudor-style exterior and a glass addition on the west side of the building. It's a conservative plan for a project that touts innovation as its mantra, but solid restoration work would be most welcome.
What do you think of the plans for the building?
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FIND & DNDi team up to support Malaysian MoH efforts to simplify and decentralise hepatitis C screening & treatment
Initiative in Malaysia to enhance country's public health approach to hepatitis C
Decentralized screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) using pre-qualified rapid diagnostic tests will be initiated in Malaysia in an effort to expand the reach of screening initiatives
People who screen positive and are subsequently confirmed to have HCV can be linked to direct-acting antiviral treatment as part of a DNDi clinical trial or in government hospitals
Work is being conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Malaysia; evidence from these coordinated interventions will be used to support policy change and scale up of HCV diagnosis and treatment in the country and beyond
Amsterdam, Netherlands & Geneva, Switzerland – 23 July 2018 – The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) will partner to generate evidence that will support policy change and scale up of hepatitis C (HCV) diagnosis and treatment. This work, announced at the AIDS 2018 conference in Amsterdam and ahead of World Hepatitis Day 2018, is being conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Malaysia with a view to overcoming barriers to diagnosis and treatment. It forms part of a larger FIND project known as Hepatitis C Elimination through Access to Diagnostics (HEAD-Start), supported by Unitaid.
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified different types of HCV tests, screening and confirmatory diagnosis of hepatitis C are not widely available, and remain largely centralized and siloed where they do exist. This means that identifying those with the disease so they can be linked to care is a huge challenge. FIND will demonstrate the feasibility of using rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in decentralized primary healthcare facilities, and provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in Malaysia to support the project.
"The introduction of RDTs and simpler diagnostic pathways is a critical step in scaling up hepatitis C care," said Catharina Boehme, CEO of FIND. "It will make screening widely accessible and increase the number of people who know their status and can enter the care cascade."
All patients confirmed during the study as having active HCV (viremia) will be linked to care. Treatment will be provided:
either as part of an ongoing DNDi clinical trial. The DNDi clinical trial, which is co-sponsored by the Malaysian Ministry of Health, is designed to assess the efficacy and safety of a new, alternative treatment regimen combining sofosbuvir with the investigational drug ravidasvir. Results from the first stage of the trial published in April 2018 show the combination to be safe and effective, with extremely high cure rates for patients, including hard-to-treat cases;1
or by the Malaysian national HCV programme, which, following an ambitious treatment strategy to overcome the prohibitively high cost of treatments in the country, now offers free hepatitis C treatment (sofosbuvir/daclatasvir) in government hospitals.
"Our ambition is to provide a treatment that is pan-genotypic, simple and affordable in order to facilitate a public health approach to HCV," said Dr Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director of DNDi. "Combined with a simplified diagnostic algorithm, this could make it easier for healthcare providers to scale up treatment to much higher levels than is possible today."
A Memorandum of Understanding is expected to be signed in August 2018 with Clinical Research Malaysia (CRM), a non-profit company owned by the Ministry of Health.
"Our core business in the Ministry of Health is to provide affordable, accessible and equitable healthcare for the citizens of Malaysia," said Dr Hisham Abdullah Director-General of Health Malaysia. "The evidence generated by both the FIND and DNDi projects will be used to update national guidelines that will cover HCV screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring, for an effective HCV public health approach in Malaysia."
About Hepatitis C
HCV is one of the world's most common infectious diseases, usually contracted through unsafe healthcare and injection drug use. Globally, more than 71 million people are chronically infected, over 80% of whom live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) – but only one in five people know they have the disease.2 Around 400,000 people die every year, and the mortality rate is increasing, making it a global health priority: the World Health Organization (WHO) has set an ambitious target of viral hepatitis elimination by 2030.3,4 In Malaysia, HCV disease burden is high and predicted to rise steeply over the coming decades, leading to a projected 63,900 HCV-related deaths by 2039.5
About FIND
FIND was established in 2003 as a global non-profit dedicated to accelerating the development, evaluation and delivery of high-quality, affordable diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases, now including malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, sleeping sickness, hepatitis C, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer, non-malarial fever and diseases with outbreak potential, such as Ebola. FIND has partnered in the delivery of 20 new diagnostic tools and created an enabling environment for numerous others through the provision of specimen banks, reagent development and better market visibility. FIND also supports better access to new diagnostics through implementation, quality assurance and lab strengthening work. FIND has nearly 200 partners globally, including research institutes and laboratories, health ministries and national disease control programmes, commercial partners, bilateral and multilateral organizations, especially WHO, and clinical trial sites.
About DNDi
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a not-for-profit R&D organization working to deliver new treatments for neglected patients, in particular for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, filaria, mycetoma, paediatric HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C virus (HCV). DNDi's ambition is to enable access to HCV treatment, through the development and registration of affordable, safe and efficacious pan-genotypic direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), and by supporting policy change and political will to remove barriers to access to DAAs globally. www.dndi.org
FIND: Sarah-Jane Loveday, Head of Communications
M: +41 (0) 79 431 62 44
media@finddx.org
DNDi: media@dndi.org
At the AIDS 2018 conference: +41 79 432 62 97
In Malaysia: + 60 12 546 8362
1 DNDi press release, 12 April 2018. https://www.dndi.org/2018/media-centre/press-releases/new-affordable-hepatitis-c-combination-treatment-shows-97-cure-rate/ (accessed 18 July 2018)
2 World Health Organization. Global hepatitis report 2017. www.who.int/hepatitis/publications/global-hepatitis-report2017/en/ (accessed 27 June 2018)
3 World Health Organization. Disease burden and mortality estimates, 2000–2015. www.who.int/hepatitis/publications/global-hepatitis-report2017/en/ (accessed 27 June 2018)
4 World Health Organization. Combating hepatitis B and C to reach elimination by 2030, May 2016. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/206453/WHO_HIV_2016.04_eng.pdf;jsessionid=0B0881916BBDF9EB2B47D4B004DB7969?sequence=1 (accessed 5 July 2018)
5 Raihan R, et al. Euroasian J Hepato-Gastroenterol 2017;7(1):65–67


At some point in your web design career you may have felt like it can be really easy to "over-design". How do you know when your design is simple enough not to confuse users, yet creative enough to keep them on the site, and ultimately, convert them into a customer?
Today were going to discuss this and other points related to designing for conversion. We'll pay special attention to landing/squeeze pages since conversion is the core purpose they serve.


Our third U14 South Region match against Western Park Blades was very difficult but an excellent match to watch. The whole team fought hard ending with an amazing draw of 32-32!
The first half started a little bit slow and we were behind a few nets, lacking strength in our passes, but both attack and defence worked hard at turning the ball over and by half time we were down 23-13, however the team did not let this get us down.
The second half was thrilling to watch and the entire team worked incredibly hard. Attack were making space and communicating to get the ball speedily down the court and into the hands of our shooters with a full burst of energy.
The defence let hardly any ball in the circle and managed to intercept most balls coming their way. The teams spirits lifted immensely. There were a few mistakes which were forced as the speed picked up because everyone got overly excited but we managed to score the final goal making the result 32-32!
Well done to all the girls who played for their hard work and their exceptional effort. Also a big congratulations to Melinda for getting voted player of the match by Western Park Blades, it was very well deserved.


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Q: Does rehashing in ConcurrentHashMap in Java increase the number of segments ?  does rehashing increase the number of segments ?  or does concurrency level change at the time of rehashing CHM ?
If not (most probably) , then why is this behaviour given in java, as the number of entries increases in CHM, more threads will be accessing the same segment and may require the higher level of concurrency ?
EDIT: I guess if the functionality of increase in segments were given, lock on all segments would be required. is that the reason ?

A: The number of segments don't change as the ConcurrentHashMap grows in size.  The number of thread which could access a collection are not as important as the number the number of active threads accessing the map.  If you have 4 cores this is at most 4, even if all they do is access the map and do nothing else.  This is an extreme example.
In reality, you tend to have less than one thread accessing a map at once and sometimes 2-4 threads accessing a map which is when using segments helps.