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require 'nn'

local model = nn.Sequential()
local inputs = 2
local outputs = 1
local HUs = 20
model:add(nn.Linear(inputs, HUs))
model:add(nn.Tanh())
model:add(nn.Linear(HUs, outputs))

local criterion = nn.MSECriterion()

local batchSize = 128
local batchInputs = torch.Tensor(batchSize, inputs)
local batchLabels = torch.DoubleTensor(batchSize)

for i=1,batchSize do
  local input = torch.randn(2)
  local label = 1
  if input[1]*input[2]>0 then
    label = -1;
  end
  batchInputs[i]:copy(input)
  batchLabels[i] = label
end

local params, gradParams = model:getParameters()

for epoch=1,2000 do
  model:zeroGradParameters()
  local outputs = model:forward(batchInputs)
  local loss = criterion:forward(outputs, batchLabels)
  local dloss_doutput = criterion:backward(outputs, batchLabels)
  model:backward(batchInputs, dloss_doutput)
  model:updateParameters(0.01)
end

local x = torch.Tensor({
  {0.5, 0.5},
  {0.5, -0.5},
  {-0.5, 0.5},
  {-0.5, -0.5}
})
print(model:forward(x))

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WASHINGTON – As part of its commitment to encourage and develop quality Christian scholarship that impacts the broader academic community, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities has awarded several grants and research opportunities to CCCU faculty across North America.
Thanks to a partnership with the Issachar Fund, CCCU faculty scholars from any discipline have an opportunity to spend an extended period of study and reflection at a peaceful, fully furnished cottage in Holland, Michigan. The grant provides recipients funding for their stay at the retreat as well as funds for a recipient's home institution to help defray institutional costs associated with providing a sabbatical opportunity.
This fall, Peter Hill, professor of psychology at Biola University (La Mirada, CA), will complete his book on developing humility in leaders.
In the spring of 2019, Helen Rhee, professor of history of Christianity at Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA), will continue her research project on early Christian health care and Greco-Roman medicine.
Applications for the 2019-2020 academic year will open in June.
Networking Grants for Christian Scholars, made possible through generous funding provided by the Hansen family, encourage collaborative scholarship among professors serving at CCCU member institutions and connect these professors with broader scholarly networks. The goal is to create and disseminate high-quality scholarship that brings Christian voices into contemporary academic conversations.
This year, the selection committee awarded five grants totaling more than $40,000. The scholarly teams selected represent seven CCCU campuses across North America, and also include members from three other universities and organizations.
Applications for the 2019 grants will open in June.


Ever since we are born, all of us have gone on countless trips and have explored numerous places with our family and relatives, but the jaunt organized by the ZealousWeb on its 12th birthday was certainly very special for the entire ZealousWeb Family. Considering the fact that ZealousWeb has come a long way since its inception in November 2003, the management had decided to hold an event where employees stay connected for the whole day on ZealousWeb's Birthday and enjoy on voyage to Udaipur - the city of lakes located in the state of Rajasthan. Employees were quite excited to explore the serene beauty of lakes and historic palaces of kings in the city of Udaipur. A special punch to the socializing was made with the addition of the family members of the employees. This special enhancement to trip doubled the enjoyment for Zealouscians and we celebrated the great event with the families of the employees.
On the eve of this occasion, Employees gathered outside the company premises with their shoes pulled up and packed with energy and fun-filled moods to inaugurate the celebrations time. Employees have spent the whole day working and enjoying the in-house anniversary celebrations. The clock has ticked to 12 now and here begins the most-awaited journey with enthusiastic team of zealouscians. All of them were looking happy and enjoying the atmosphere created in four chambers of bus. The zest and eagerness of the employees was enhanced with the chit-chats and games engaging the employees organised by HR Team.The employees started cracking jokes and singing songs spreading the joy on the roads to the destination.
After travelling for a while on the way to Udaipur, the buses halted for a quick refreshment at Himatnagar. The employees quickly got down from the buses and packed their bags with edibles and cold drinks to get fueled for the rest of the journey. The best part of the bus journey was that everybody stayed awake the entire night till the buses reached the Venice of the east - Udaipur.
The lake city welcomed us with a beautiful orange ball of sun rising from the east with its sparkling rays saying hello to Zealouscians in the midst of dew drops and fog. We have arrived to our destination of accommodation stay, the Subime hotel, the Valley View Udaipur. As soon as the team members landed up in the hotel, they rushed to the rooms to take a nap to vitalize for rest of entertainment.
As the excursion was arranged a little before Diwali, the meals at the hotel including the breakfast were no less than festive feasts to the team members. Numerous dishes were served in the breakfast including fresh fruits and fruit juices, tea & coffee, idly, dosa & sambar, bread butter & cutlets, chola puri, freshly baked cookies and chocolate muffins etc.
From the breakfast tables, the team members landed up straight to the swimming pool with their sunscreens and swimming suits on. Some were enjoying the chilled waters and some were warming themselves with the sun bath. All enjoyed the dives of swimming champions and with the pushing the aquaphobics into the waters.
The swimming pool enjoyment made the rats to turn the zealouscians tummies into racecourse.A variety of mouth-watering Indian Cuisines were waiting for them on lunch table to munch at and all enjoyed the food and calm down their hungry stomach.
Corporate games were organized to entertain the employees to jollify their moods in the leisure time before the award ceremony. This event was hosted by Mr. Vishal Bhatt (one of the founding members of the company) which was like icing on the cake and received an outstanding participation from the teammates. The time flew really fast during this session, and the event ended with a whoopee feeling on their faces.
The ZealousWeb Award Function, which started around 6 PM was the most awaiting function of the evening. It was hosted by none other than Mr. Kandarp Bhatt (one of the owners) himself, whereas Mr. Vishal Bhatt was busy in giving away the trophies to the winners, the heroes of ZealousWeb to appreciate their dedication, sincerity and hard work. They were delighted to find high respect in the eyes of their colleagues and proud feeling in the hearts of their families.
Its time to get crazy and shake your body on the music beats.Dance the way you love because who cares, everyone is busy swaying on their feet.
The next day morning after having the breakfast, we have to say goodbye to the lake city, our lovely excursion point and hope we again meet soon with reloaded fun and excitement.


The story about how i met Anne is very worth telling but i keep it for myself a little bit longer. On the same day we did this portrait, we also did an outdoor-shooting with some very great results and i'll write a bit more about everything when i'll release this series. The second photo here is already one from that series.


Use Foreshadowing in "Bad Neighbors" by Edward P. Jones Make notes on when and where foreshadowing takes place.
2) Mark when and where the place the event or item is mentioned later in the story. Your essay should identify where you find foreshadowing and give the reader an idea of your opinion about how it is used. Does it engage your interest in the story, the characters, the outcome.


Perfume Shrine: Do Genes Determine our Perfume Preferences?
Do Genes Determine our Perfume Preferences?
New studies seem to imply that not only our sexual attraction to different mates with different body scents is related to biological reasons hidden in our genes, but that our general fragrance preferences and likes are also embedded in our hardwired immune system.
"Previous research has found that a set of genes called MHC genes (short for major histocompatibility complex) is related to whether someone is sexually attracted to someone else's scent. People are most likely to be attracted to the scent of someone who has different MHC genes than they do. [...] Hämmerli and his colleagues hypothesized that our MHC genes may also dictate our preferences for other smells. [...] Hämmerli's team recruited 116 study participants — both male and female — and asked them to smell 10 different scents, including cedar, rose, cinnamon and moss.
Some smells were clear winners and losers — the highest rated was tolu, a scent that comes from a South American balsam tree and resembles vanilla. The lowest rated was vetiver, which originates from a grass in India and is said to have a "woody" or "earthy" scent. But for each scent, the strength of the participants' preferences varied depending on each person's particular set of MHC genes .[...]Biologist Leslie Knapp at the University of Cambridge said the new study could be expanded to test whether the perfume preferences hold true when the perfumes are worn by others, as opposed to sprayed on one's own body.
Interesting. My MHC (HLA-A 02,33, -B 51, etc) are then clearly incompatible with: calone, ozonic, and especially swampy florals.
On a large part, I think we might have had an accomodating MHC set to begin with (at least able to tolerate), but the saturation in faceless calon-ics and ozonics (and some swampy florals) has ruined it for good.
It's a totally different experience wearing a perfume against smelling it on someone else. So, the new study they plan to conduct would be mush more enlightening.
You are right about the concentration.
If we narrow everything down to gene dictation, it leaves very little room for personal choice, environmental factors, creativity and/or physical factors--among other variables. While interesting to know how genes effect preferences, I think we will find out things are far more complicated, nuanced and not easily quantified.
and oh,Happy sniffing and Merry Christmas everyone!
yeah, I think they were quick with the results, weren't they?
as you say, there's a lot of conditioning going on, just like with colour preferences or specific styles of architecture prefered etc. It would be sad to think it's all predetermined.
But I guess the current direction in science is to think "it's all nature" rather than nurture, nowadays, what with the complete decoding of the DNA and everything. (It was bound to happen since so much emphasis has been given to biology).
Happy sniffing to you too and happy new year!


"Here we have something a bit unusual: A stunning Jaguar XE 3.0 petrol V6 Supercharged S, which can sprint to 60mph in just 5.1 seconds! Certainly no slouch then it is finished in optional Bluefire metallic paint with upgraded 19" Venom Twin Spoke alloy wheels in gloss Black, this car certainly stands out from the crowd. This example has had one private owner and comes with £6000 worth of extras including the following: Full Black Pack - This is the cosmetic styling kit that helps give the car a more pronounced look. Heads up display, Adaptive cruise control with forward alert, queue assist and emergency braking, Blind spot monitor with closing vehicle sensing with reverse traffic detection, incontrol (latest Jaguar infotainment system). These personal options increased the price by over £6000. It has had one private owner from new and benefits from a full Jaguar main dealer service history. It was last serviced on the 25/05/2018 at 32061 miles. If you have any questions regarding the specification please don't hesitate tom ring our sales department who will assist with your enquiry. Honda Nottingham is based on Lenton Lane, just off the A52 and within easy reach of both the M1 and A1."


Casa San José has 6 large bedroom suites, each featuring its own well developed sense of character and individuality. Exceptionally well sized, these rooms have the feel of grand private suites. Each bedroom has its own en-suite bathroom and lounge area with fireplace.
The bedrooms within Casa San José display gorgeous historic design elements throughout. Items include antique furniture, a variety of local and national Mexican artwork, religious nichos with featured saints, and four-poster beds with traditional embroidered Otomi pie de camas or bed scarves.
The en-suite bathrooms have some dramatic architectural features, including Gothic stone archways encasing Romanesque-style soaking tubs. Casa San José has elegant fixtures and fittings throughout, including double vanities and walk-in showers.
Colorado is decorated in soothing, neutral tones with a subtle introduction of a deep red that brings the room to life. The bedroom's nicho features a statue of Mary, undoubtedly Mexico's favorite saint. This is just one of three Marys that can be found in Casa San José. An antique huipil from Guatemala hangs above the bed, while a colorful painting of a market scene in Oaxaca sets the tone in the lounge area.
Colorado has direct access to the central courtyard. The bathroom features a large alcove with frosted privacy glass, which hosts a walk-in shower and a sunken bathtub.
Verde features warm shades of green as its overall color scheme. The bedroom is decorated with an antique Mexican wedding trunk and a variety of traditional pottery collected by the owners from Oaxaca, Tlaquepaque, and San Miguel de Allende.
The bedroom has comfortable oversized leather chairs set around a welcoming fireplace. The nicho above the fire is from Guerrero and features Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico.
Naranja is decorated in wonderful tones of soft oranges and vibrant turquoises. This large bedroom has a tranquil painting by local San Miguel artist, Lola Picó, and an Ernest Lacy piece depicting the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca. The nicho features one of San Miguel's favorite saints, Saint Benedict. San Benito medals are thought to ward off evil. The little santo on Naranja's mantle protects the room from any bad spirits.
Naranja is decorated with some charming pieces of antique furniture, including a Mexican wedding trunk. The bathroom has a large double vanity and a separate bathing alcove with a soaking tub and shower.
Siena boasts an impressive Canterra entryway. It dates back to Casa San José's original colonial-era construction and is a good representation of the historic stonework on display throughout the house. This inviting bedroom has warm tones of gold and brown, which contrast wonderfully with the king-sized wrought-iron four-poster bed.
An impressive painting by San Miguel artist A Von Z, Árbol en Armonía de Paz, hangs on the wall. The theme is also extended to the Oaxacan "tree of life" rug in the dressing area. Siena's nicho features another image of the patron saint of Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The bathroom has a large walk-in shower.
Sol was aptly named for the generous morning light that brightens the room. Guests can enjoy waking to views of the sun rising over San Miguel, including sight of early morning flyovers from floating hot air balloons.
Sol's color scheme marries striking gold tones with stark black accents. The room is decorated with a lovely woodblock print by young Oaxacan artist, Irving Herrera, rare ceremonial bear masks from southern Mexico, and a nicho featuring San Francisco, the patron saint of animals and nature.
The bedroom has an iron four-poster bed and the bathroom has a large soaking tub within an impressive stone cove.
Designed in shades of cream and blue, Cielo is as heavenly as its name would suggest. This sixth bedroom is furnished with two twin beds, which can be reordered as a king-sized bed upon request. The room has a TV and a private patio that overlooks the pool.
This bedroom has an eye-catching antique dressing table, a painting of El Charco by part-time San Miguel resident, Richard Trumbull, and features whimsical folk art puppets and fun art pieces inspired by the Mexican game, Lotería. On the mantle you'll find a nicho with San Pedro, who as the name of the room suggests, holds the keys to heaven!


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GETTING METAPHYSICAL
Reza Aslan and Rainn Wilson's new podcast "Metaphysical Milkshake" stirs up existential conversation.
By Jessica Weber
What happens after we die? Do we truly have free will? Such mysteries have plagued history's greatest minds for millennia. Reza Aslan, a professor of creative writing and bestselling author; and actor Rainn Wilson, best known for his portrayal of Dwight Schrute in the hit NBC series "The Office"; are gathering some of the world's foremost thinkers to delve into these and other of life's biggest questions on their new podcast "Metaphysical Milkshake." The show, which debuted June 15 from podcast producer Kast Media, sees the scholar and actor tackle weighty topics with contemporary thought leaders, bringing humor and insight to a new subject each week. Here, Aslan and Wilson discuss how they formed what may seem like an unlikely duo, and what drives their unending search for meaning.
Reza Aslan
Can you explain the concept of "Metaphysical Milkshake"?
Reza Aslan (RA): "Metaphysical Milkshake" is a podcast in which Rainn and I get to ask some of life's biggest, most existential questions like: Why are we here? How many universes are there? We're kind of armchair philosophers, so these are the kinds of questions that rattle around our heads all the time. So, we talk to each other about it a little bit, but we also recognize that we have limited minds when it comes to some of these bigger questions, but we have access to some of the greatest thinkers that are out there. People like Malcolm Gladwell or Adam Grant or Elizabeth Kolbert or Krista Tippett. They use their expertise to help us make sense of some of these big questions.
Where did the name "Metaphysical Milkshake" come from?
Rainn Wilson (RW): I started a digital media company called SoulPancake that has been around now for over 10 years. The original name for SoulPancake was Metaphysical Milkshake. I just liked the name because I love the idea. I love metaphysical conversations, just like Reza said. And I really liked something that had to do with, like, a food item, mixing something together.
RA: Food and existentialism.
RW: Exactly. I think it's a memorable name. It's serious, but also kind of silly at the same time, and that's just how we want to do this podcast.
What is the format of the podcast?
RW: We try and have a theme to every episode, so we'll start an episode joking around and talking about our ideas around these themes, then we'll bring in the guest. We ask the guests — kind of on the spot — life's big questions. We also love to hear from our listeners, and people will call in with their questions or their thoughts, and sometimes we'll even bring them on the show.
Rainn Wilson
Watch the full interview with Aslan and Wilson.
How did the two of you meet?
RA: Rainn and I have been friends for a while. We're big fans of each other. We met through an event that was meant to bring attention to the plight of the Baha'i in Iran, which is an almost 200-year-old religion that is essentially illegal in Iran, where the religion was founded. Rainn is a devout Baha'i, so he has taken the plight of the Baha'i in Iran very seriously. The two of us did an event together, and we just kind of hit it off.
What made you decide to do this podcast together?
RA: We just kind of loved to get together and talk about some of these big ideas. We really understood that we very much see the world through the same kind of lens. We're both spiritual people, but we are both also very rational and scientific people, and we like to break down walls or barriers that often arise between science and religion or faith and reason. And we were having breakfast one day in some dive restaurant when suddenly it occurred to us, we should maybe start recording these conversations. We started sharing that idea with some of our reps, everybody loved the idea, and it just kind of happened from there.
Is this podcast an extension of the former "Metaphysical Milkshake" web series?
RW: Yes and no. This podcast is its own separate project, and it is also a continuation of that show. I did a short-lived show on SoulPancake called "Metaphysical Milkshake" that took place in the back of my van, where I would interview celebrities and try and touch on life's big questions. But this was really the show that I've been wanting to do the whole time. And this is super exciting for me. This is my dream show. I have a brilliant co-host — a brilliant assistant to the regional podcaster in Dr. Reza Aslan — and at the same time we get to interview some of the greatest minds and thinkers of the century, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and we have a lot of fun along the way.
Where did your interest in life's biggest questions stem from?
RA: I've always been really interested in religion and spirituality, mythology, folklore. I didn't come from a very religious family, but I was born in Iran, and when we left Iran during the Iranian revolution, I had firsthand experience of the power that religion has to transform societies for good and for bad. It's just kind of always been a part of my identity. I've always thought of myself as a spiritual being inhabiting a material body long before I even understood what that phrase meant. These kinds of questions animate me and have always been a part of how I've defined my very sense of self and my place in the world.
RW: As a Baha'i, I've always been interested in our spiritual search. Baha'is also believe in the harmony of science and religion, so this idea that science and religion are not separate silos, but they're both expressions of one reality. And I was always the kid, like at the "Dungeons and Dragons" game, who was like, "Hey, what do you think happens when we die?" I was the kid wanting to talk about God on a first date with a girl, which will clear a room fast. I've just always been interested in these questions, and I don't really understand why more people aren't.
Given your unique backgrounds, does each of you bring something different to the table?
RW: Reza and I have a shared perspective that we are deeply curious about all of these questions — sociological, psychological, personal, artistic, spiritual, intellectual, scientific — all the different ways one can study reality. We're in agreement on a lot. There are some things we don't agree on, but that's not really the point. It's about the asking of the questions and the exploration. I think we have slightly different skill sets, but we're on the same mission, and that's what's important. It's kind of like a marriage, isn't it Reza?
RA: I do feel like sometimes we are married, yes.
RW: I'm your man and wife.
New episodes of "Metaphysical Milkshake" are available every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts. Video recordings of each episode are also available on YouTube.
Have there been any particularly enlightening conversations?
RW: Dr. Gabor Maté is a real hero of mine. He's a thinker about addiction and has done incredible work over the course of his life. The question there was, "Why are we addicted to everything?" His whole philosophy is that addiction stems from trauma, so when you have trauma, you start to use whatever it is — drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating — to escape the pain of that trauma as a coping mechanism. As we continued along the conversation, we realized that, societally, we're in trauma, like our culture is in trauma. So what does our culture do to kind of soothe, escape, quell its trauma? Addiction is a compulsive activity that makes your life worse and worse, and this is something our culture is doing. This is something that 300 million Americans are doing. It's much broader than just on the personal individual level. That was a really eye-opening episode.
A lot of the questions addressed in the podcast are, by nature, unanswerable. What do you think we gain from asking them anyway?
RA: I would say most of them don't have an answer, but Rainn and I both believe the path is more important than the destination, and the question is more important than the answer. Simply the act of asking the question and pursuing the answer, in and of itself, I think, is enough to really experience the fullness of what life is supposed to be.
RW: These are the universal human questions that have been around since the dawn of time. These are the same questions that our caveman ancestors were thinking about, the questions we were thinking about when we lived in villages, when we were first forming nation states, and then on college campuses. They're questions that are distinctly human. The question that underlies all of this is, "What does it mean to be a human being?"
Living or dead, who would your dream podcast guest be and why?
RW: To me, Bob Dylan typifies pure artistry and creativity, and he's been doing it since 1962. Every decade, he has made great music that seems oddly relevant to the times. It's not dated and old fashioned. Who better to discuss the artistic process, the imagination, than Robert Zimmerman?
RA: I'm going to say Jesus, just so I can be like, "Hey, how did I do? I do OK?"
What question do you think about most in your own life?
RA: Mine is how to be good — how can I be good? I think that's probably my life's biggest question.
RW: Hand in hand for me, it's like, how do I know I'm doing the right thing? How do I know I'm going down the right path? How do I know the choices I'm making are the best choices for my God-given talents?
What do you hope listeners come away with from the podcast?
RW: I hope that people come away entertained, but also really thinking about maybe a topic they hadn't considered on a whole, altogether different level.
RA: It's a podcast for people who just know deep, deep in their soul that there's more to the world than just this kind of material experience we have every day. There's got to be something else out there. There's got to be a deeper level of experiencing life. It gives you an opportunity to kind of really think about some things that you don't normally get to think about in your day-to-day life. And we do it in a funny and lighthearted way, so that we make sure you're having a good time while you're contemplating the meaning of life.
Photos by Dennys IIic

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Q: Why should a program return a value? I just wanna know what happens internally when we return a value. If we dont return a value what are the consequences?
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  printf("Hello world");
  return 0; //what is use of this?
}

A: it can be evaluated by the system to determine if a program failed to run (and why it failed)

A: I think perhaps you have two questions:
Why does main() return int and not void?
This question has already been answered in many forms. Basically: for the program that called it (a shell, perhaps, or your IDE), so that it can distinguish between success and various modes of failure.
What happens if you forget to return a value from main()?
In the first standardized version of C (C89) there was nothing special about main() in this respect. If you forgot to return a value, the behavior was undefined. In practice, most compilers will act as if you had put return 0;.
Since C99, if you do not return a value from main() explicitly, then main() is defined to return 0. main() is special in this way; other functions do not implicitly return anything.
As Weather Vane said in the comments, your program can't not return a value (on platforms where "return value" is a meaningful concept). On Linux, execve() and similar functions return an int that is the return value of the program. If a program were ill-behaved and did not intend to return a value, the return value would probably just be some arbitrary value (but it's possible that on another platform such a program would crash).

A: Not every program or function returns a value. In c, we use return 0 in order to give back control to the operating system when the program is finished running and also to make sure that the program runs smoothly.
Hope that helps. Cheers

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I don't know why but Aloo Posta (Potatoes steamed and stir-fried with a paste of poppy seeds) has been my most favourite dish ever since I understood the meaning of taste. I still get flashbacks of my childhood days when mummy would have kept this dish ready for lunch as a prize on days when our exam results were to be declared. It was her way of rewarding me but more as a token of love. I still cherish those days. It will be next to impossible for me to replicate Mummy's Aloo Posta, but I gave my best today and this is how it turned out.


The Berkman Klein Center and affiliated researchers are collecting a great deal of information and unique knowledge about Web sites around the world, including where they are located, if they are filtered or blocked, if they are connected to oppositional political parties in authoritarian regimes, as well as demographic and other data on bloggers. For example the Internet & Democracy Project has created social network maps of Persian, Arabic, Russian, and US blogospheres, and had humans tell us what type of sites political bloggers prefer, the YouTube videos they preferentially link to, as well as a wealth of data on who bloggers are in various foreign countries and what type issues they care about. The OpenNet initative has data on what Web sites are filtered around the world, and in many cases what content they host that might lead them to be filtered (such as prohibited sexual, religious, or political content or affiliation). And Berkman spinoffs like Stopbadware.org have data on what Web sites are affiliated with badware, as well as location and other data. Currently, this information is stored within project silos, in different formats, and effectively (but unintentionally) walled off from other researchers. There is a tremendous and long overdue need for a central data repository for Berkman collected data that uses best-practices for metadata representation and cross referencing. The ultimate goal of this effort is to allow researchers from various Berkman Klein Center projects to gain insights that they would not have seen before, and to fully utilize the tremendous amount of (largely untapped) knowledge we are collecting about the global Internet and its users. We also would like to allow researchers outside of Berkman to gain access to as much data as we can safely release, so others can build on the work we have started. This effort will ultimately help the Berkman Klein Center to make meaningful connections between sets of data, and to make discoveries that are essentially right in front of us, but invisible due to project silos.
creation of a relational database for storing various types of information about given URLs including (but are not limited to): location, language, if the site is blocked/filtered, blogger demographics (male, female, etc.), connected to badware, political orientation, if it is an oppositional news sites, etc.
conformity with common metadata standards, such as Dublin Core.
security—encryption, limiting access, granular permissions, etc.
methods for entering datasets from various formats (e.g. csv, xml).
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Q: How to make a html page pick a random title on load? I'm new to web development and can't seem to find this specific task anywhere on this site, only things related to dynamic changes while using a page. Basically, I want the contents of the  tag in my  part of my html document to always be different when loading/refreshing the page; I want to store some kind of array of strings in JS, and have the page, upon loading the html, pick one of these strings to insert into the  tag.
This will result in every time I refresh the page, the title on the tab is different, and will not change unless I refresh again.
Can anyone point me to how I might do this? Completely stuck, and out of ideas after my window.onload didn't work.
EDIT: I have tried this code based on what I found on this site, but the title didn't change; and I'm not sure why.
var titles = ['rainy skies == best', 'now with more bugs!', 'c > java'];

window.onload = function() {
    document.title = titles[(Math.random() * 10) % 2];
    $('meta[name="description"]').attr("content", 'My website!');
};

(This is then linked into the html page as per usual)

A: You can add a little piece of Javascript. It will be executed each time the page loads and can change the page title dynamically.

The usage of a backend language like PHP can solve the issue too, but this is much simpler.

A: Server-side example. Define a list of titles, pick a random one, and output it in the title attribute.
Get random item from array
PHP
<?php
    $titles = ['title1', 'title2', 'title3'];
?>

        <title><?php echo $titles[array_rand($titles)]; ?></title>

    ...

A: You should use document.title to change the title in the tab of the website.

const strings = ["bar", "foo", "banana", "apple", "orange", "red", "green", "blue", "brown", "gray"];

window.onload = () => {
  let random = Math.floor(Math.random() * strings.length);

  // example with a div
  document.getElementById("my-span").innerHTML = strings[random];

  // example with page title
  // document.title = strings[random];
};

A: HTML:

    <title id="title"></title>

Javascript:
window.onload = function() {
    var titles = ['rainy skies == best', 'now with more bugs!', 'c > java'];
    var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * titles.length);
    var titleElement = document.getElementById('title')
    titleElement.innerHTML = titles[random];
}

EDIT: innerHTML instead of html


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You are here: Home / News / The Hollywood Reporter Reviews Eclipse
The Hollywood Reporter Reviews Eclipse
The Hollywood Reporter has their Eclipse review up. It's not too spoilery as reviews go, but the movie is discussed. One interesting facet is that THR points out that in their opinion the major flaws of previous movies were not writing flaws per say, but what one is left to assume were acting, directorial and/or editing flaws.
It's an interesting critique especially when movie critics are coming out loving this movie and Melissa Rosenberg has written all three, food for thought on whether fans who critique understand the difference between words on written page, words delivered by actors, words coached and shot by directors, and where the artistic license and interpretation for good or for bad lies. It makes for interesting discussion if nothing else as to if the flaws in any given scenes were lack of insight on the writer's, actor's or director's part or a combo of all three. In short, it may not be obvious to the untrained eye where the fault lies.
'It took three films, but "The Twilight Saga" finally nails just the right tone in "Eclipse," a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings.
Where the first film leaned heavily on camp and the second faltered through caution and slickness, "Eclipse" moves confidently into the heart of the matter — a love triangle that causes a young woman to realize choices lead to consequences that cannot be reversed.
With the momentum of a movie series that sees installments arriving like clockwork every year, "Eclipse" looks primed to be the most successful film yet in Summit Entertainment's franchise. The action is pretty much relegated to the climax, but it's nifty enough that young men may get into the series too even if "Eclipse" isn't their first choice on a Friday night."
Read more on THR.
TY to James for the heads up.


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Queensrÿche Release A New Video For "Hellfire"
American heavy metal band Queensrÿche has released their latest album "Condition Hüman" in 2015. The album sold only 14,000 copies in the first week in USA.
Today, the band have released a new video for "Hellfire," which song taken from their latest album "Condition Hüman". You can watch it from below.
Vocalist Todd La Torre told the story of this song as follows:
"'Hellfire' is a depiction primarily based on the tragic events surrounding the Malaysian airline flight MH17. Despite the storyline's foundation, the lyrical and visual narrative transcends into other pertinent, global subject matters.
Civil unrest, guerrilla warfare, media propaganda, and social inequalities are just some examples of the multifaceted issues marbled throughout 'Hellfire'. A poignant illustration of an unfortunate yet timeless reality."
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Q: "Can not" vs. "cannot" Is there a difference in meaning and/or connotation between "can not" and "cannot"?
I have read and seen both used interchangeably, but I know people who argue for a slight difference in meaning. That is, cannot indicates that there is an incapability whereas can not indicates the possibility of absence. Is this a real difference?

A: Both are acceptable, but cannot is now more common. OED has this much to say about cannot:

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  the ordinary modern way of writing can not: see CAN v.

Notwithstanding, in some situations ambiguity may arise if you write can not, and the difference might not be a minor one. Compare:

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*I cannot make love to you. (Something is stopping me from it, be it objective or subjective. Put differently: I am not able to make love to you.)

*I can not make love to you. (Same as above. But also: Reckon with the possibility of my refusing to make love to you. Put differently: I am able to not make love to you.)


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ZC Rubber Adds Two European Directors
ZC Appoints Mark Turner (L) and John Ruddy (R) as European directors for Ag and OTR
ZC Rubber has appointed Mr. John Ruddy as European OTR Tyre Sales Director and Mr. Mark Turner as European Agriculture Tyre Sales Director
ZC Rubber Appoints John Ruddy and Mark Turner as European OTR Sales Directors
Ruddy has decades of experience working in the European OTR tyre industry. Ruddy joined ZC Rubber as European OTR Sales Manager in 2019. When asked about his appointment, Ruddy said; "I am very proud to see we have set up a great network cross every corner of Europe market. The one stop supply of premium quality off the road tyres brings great benefits to our European partners."
Mark Turner has been involved in the agricultural tyre business for more than 25 years. He has served as Vice Chairman of the ETRTO Agricultural Sub-committee, Coordinator of the experimental standards group within the ETRTO Agricultural Sub-committee, and the Farm & Industrial Tyre Representative at the ETRMA. Additionally, he participated actively in both committees, contributing to the process to restructure the Europool categories in 2011 and 2012 as well as framing new standards in the ETRTO categories such as IF CFO and VF NRO.
Turner said; "Tianli started its first radial Agriculture tyre in 2006; they are always an important player in the European Agriculture tyre market. Zhongce Rubber Group acquired Tianli tyres in early 2022. That was very smart decision and will reinforce Tianli's unique brand awareness in the off highway segment."
Ge Guorong, the Senior Vice President of Zhongce Rubber Group added; "Zhongce has relocated its OTR factory to Tianjin after the acquisition of the Tianli brand. We are now one of the very few tyre companies that can offer more than 2000 SKUs of off-highway products from one central factory, and we have promised to invest much more in the coming years, aiming to be among the global top 3 players in the off-highway tyre business in future.
"The value to our customers is enormous. In 2022, we reached the historical sales records in off-highway tyre business, and our capacity is still not enough for the increasing demand from partners across the world, especially from our international partners. Our commitment to all of our customers is to provide both local service and global supply through our local team working with local partners."
ZC Rubber, with a history of more than 60 years, has been ranked as one of the Top 8 in 2022 global tyre companies in terms of sales revenue.


The wind farm will generate around 500GWh of clean electricity.
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has approved a $1.05 million grant to support a feasibility study for Zambia's first wind power plant.
The funding was awarded to renewable power project developer, Access Power and its strategic partner, EREN Renewable Energy (EREN RE), Constructionreviewonline reported on Tuesday.
"The $275 million wind farm will generate around 500GWh of clean electricity. This will make it one of the largest renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa and the first independent wind power plant in Zambia," a joint press release stated.
USTDA's acting director, Thomas R. Hardy, said the project will help diversify Zambia's energy generation mix.
"Zambia relies on hydropower for its energy needs. This accounts for 96 percent of the country's electricity production," he further stated.
However, last year the country experienced a serious energy shortage. This was due to the poor 2014-2015 rain season, which resulted in a steep drop in electricity production. The country is now seeking to diversify its generation mix to hedge itself against variations in rain levels.
"The support from USTDA combined with our expertise and the favourable policy environment set by Zambia will deliver a landmark project for the country," said Christophe Fleurence, the vice-president, business development Africa, at EREN RE.


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Opening a Beer Hall in the Bronx: Lessons in Trial and Error
by Victor Wong
The following entry is part of The Small Business Corner, a collaboration between Gotham Gazette and GoBizNYC:
Recently, GoBizNYC met with Bronxites Anthony Ramirez II, Paul Ramirez, and John Martin to discuss their experience starting up The Bronx Beer Hall. Located in the historic Arthur Avenue Retail Market, The Bronx Beer Hall was founded in February 2013 and has since become an indelible part of the community. Anthony and John are serial entrepreneurs — in 2006, they founded Mainland Media, a company that sells Bronx-themed merchandise designed by local artists.
The team's ongoing mission is to find success while promoting the Bronx and it has earned tremendous local support. In the early stages of starting their business, however, the three had a tough time identifying information about what was required of New York small business owners to satisfy government regulations. To its credit, the City does provide resources about business regulations through the NYC Business internet portal as well as the NYC Business Solutions and NYC Business Acceleration services. New Small Business Services Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer has outlined her vision for helping small business owners and budding entrepreneurs.
The Bronx Beer Hall founders discovered, though, that every business faces unique challenges and becoming a fully compliant owner and employer can be a process of trial and error. Their experience is informative of what many small business owners go through in attempting to realize their goals. The following are excerpts from our conversation.
Why a beer hall? Why the Bronx?
Beer halls are inherently communal spaces. There are about 130 beer halls across the five boroughs now, but just one in the Bronx when we opened. But this is not just a beer hall. It's not just a bar. It's a celebration of the community. Everything we sell is locally brewed within New York State, if not in the Bronx. And our food is sourced from within the market or within the neighborhood, so we're supportive of other local businesses as well.
What were the biggest challenges of starting up your business? How did you overcome these challenges?
It's not as easy as saying you're a business and that's it. It's not just shaking hands. You have to do your research. There are government regulations to comply with. There are taxes to pay. There is paperwork to file and legal entities to form.
When it came down to the beer hall itself, we had to learn all the little intricate things you never think about. We've all gone to bars. I know how to order a drink very well. But I didn't know anything about health codes, inspections, or liquor licenses. None of us had actually owned a bar before. I know for a fact that if we opened a bar again, we'd do things differently.
Did you have any guidance during this process?
We hired a lawyer who claimed he had experience in helping restaurants and bars open and had been doing this forever. Turns out we should've hired a different lawyer. He was very quick to make promises, saying: "I can get you this, easy!" or "Yeah, I'll get you a liquor license in two weeks!" No one can get a liquor license in two weeks. It's going to take several months. Don't tell me two weeks. If I plan on opening a bar in November, I now have to wait until February. You're paying for these kinds of things and there's just no way of knowing if you're working with someone who really knows what they're doing.
We've since learned that there are many things we could've easily done on our own without having to pay somebody else to do it. Lots of people try to take advantage of you because you don't know what you're doing. But in this day and age, often you can just go online and file a form. You don't need to pay somebody $400 to do it. We just didn't know it at the time.
What has been your experience in dealing with government regulations? What could the government do to better support businesses like yours?
At the beginning, we had no idea we had to pay our taxes quarterly, which was a problem. Reminder notifications definitely would've been nice. The only notifications we ever got were late ones saying: 'You didn't pay your sales tax. Now we're going to fine you and you have to pay your sales tax.' And we're like, 'Our company only has $1,000. I hope we still have a company after we pay the fine.' But the thing is, we were collecting the sales tax. We just didn't know when to pay it.
And it wasn't clear what we were required to do when we had staff. Now we know more, but at the time, we were writing out checks by hand. I remember, for the first two or three weeks, we weren't taking out enough taxes. Our staff was getting overpaid and we owed the government X amount of money.
Those were the early days. Those sorts of things were trial and error for us. But we got better at all of it. I know it's easy to say and hard to do, but if there was a "You're starting a restaurant or bar in New York City! This is what you need to be aware of" guide, that would've been very helpful.
Have you worked with the City's Department of Small Business Services (SBS) at all? They provide such a guide along with other resources.
When we were starting Mainland Media, we reached out to SBS, but it was too difficult for us to meet with them. So we ended up doing everything on our own, which is what we're used to doing. Honestly, I didn't even think to go back to SBS when we were starting up the beer hall more recently. It didn't even occur to us that those services were around.
Any final reflections on your experience of starting up The Bronx Beer Hall?
We've been active in the Bronx and in the community for awhile, so we had a lot of people we could reach out to for help. But if we didn't already have a strong support system and experience building a business with Mainland Media, we would've been lost. So, if you're someone with a great idea in the Bronx or New York without that kind of support system, I don't see how you would be able to cut it.
Victor Wong is the Director of Business Outreach & GoBizNYC at the Partnership for New York City
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To make or discuss a submission for The Small Business Corner:
Reach GoBizNYC Director Victor Wong at vwong@pfnyc.org
Reach Gotham Gazette Executive Editor Ben Max at bmax@gothamgazette.com
The Small Business Corner is a bi-weekly column featuring the opinions and perspectives of small business owners and advocates from the GoBizNYC network on the range of issues that concern the city's small businesses.
To all New York City small business owners and advocates: we hope this new platform, The Small Business Corner, will better enable you to engage in the local policy conversation and we look to you to support us in this endeavor by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and voices. To learn more about how you can be a part of GoBizNYC and participate in this effort, visit GoBizNYC.org.
Source: http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/opinions/5329-opening-beer-hall-bronx-lessons-trial-error-wong
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AARP Is Fighting to Protect State Flexibility on Retirement Plans
By Elaine Ryan, February 13, 2017 09:01 AM
Innovative state solutions to America's savings crisis are in danger. Federal overreach threatens an important Department of Labor rule that gives states flexibility to help workers save for retirement.
Nearly 1 Million More Workers Can Save for Retirement … Millions More to Go!
By Elaine Ryan, May 16, 2016 11:36 AM
May is proving to be a historic month for both workers and employers across the country! Since I last wrote on this topic in February, we at AARP have continued to fight hard to establish Work and Save plans in the states, a convenient way for millions of workers to save for retirement through an easy payroll deduction. And we have great news to report!
One Caregiver's Regret: How the CARE Act Could Have Helped
By Elaine Ryan, April 18, 2016 10:16 AM
In August of 2014, Mary's mother Eartha was discharged from the hospital after a short stay — an event that would have lasting consequences. When Mary arrived at the hospital that day, Eartha was ready to go, dressed and sitting in a wheelchair with a list of medications on her lap. Never given instructions on her mother's new prescriptions, Mary missed out on a key piece of information — one of the medications was only meant to be given for a very short time. This was discovered months later, but it was too late. Eartha's kidneys had been damaged irreversibly by the medication and were only working at 10 percent. Mary was given the choice to start her mother on dialysis or begin hospice care.
Could Your Electric Bill Go Up Before You Flip a Switch?
Meet John, a 62-year-old disabled veteran and Maryland resident. Each month after he pays for medications, food, transportation and housing, there isn't much money left over. What's more, John's utility bill is already $130 a month, but some legislators are trying to raise it even higher — even before he flips a single light switch.
The CARE Act: Helping Family Caregivers From Hospital to Home
By Elaine Ryan, March 07, 2016 01:15 PM
In preparing Mom's medication, my 90-year-old Pop would fill a syringe using the light of the kitchen window to see if the dosage was correct. He set up the nebulizer on a table with handwritten step-by-step instructions to remind him how to operate it. Today, millions of family caregivers like Pop perform complex medical tasks that at one time would have been administered only by medical professionals.
Thank You, Nurses, for ALL You Do
As National Nurses Week concludes, I want to take a moment and thank all nurses — past, present, and future — for all that you do. I know firsthand the importance of nurses not only to patients, but to their families. During the 15 years I cared for my parents, nurses made a huge difference in our lives. There's no doubt, caregiving takes a team, and so often nurses were a part of my family's team.
Conoce los estados que ofrecen mejores oportunidades a las mujeres
By Álvaro Valderrama, April 16, 2015 01:46 PM
Las mujeres del estado de Maryland están mejor económicamente que sus contrapartes en cualquier otro estado, según un informe que busca evaluar el acceso a oportunidades y seguridad económica de las mujeres en Estados Unidos.
States Cut Red Tape to Give Nurse Practitioners More Authority
By Elaine Ryan, March 23, 2015 10:18 AM
This month, Gov. Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska state legislature made a smart move to remove the barrier that had prevented nurse practitioners from providing complete primary care for their patients. By cutting through the red tape, these elected officials have made more primary care clinicians available for Nebraskans in a variety of settings such as at home and in the community, medical offices, businesses like Walgreens, Target and CVS, and some workplaces. Nineteen other states have similar laws in place.
Could You Retire From Your Job in Debt?
Think about retiring from your job with no savings — not even a little bit — just debt. Unfortunately this is the case for one in five Utahans, according to a new study released recently by Notalys LLC. This news is troubling, to say the least. To make matters worse, with 45 percent of working-age households having nothing — zero dollars — saved toward retirement, what's playing out in Utah could have significance nationwide.
Caring for Papa
By Elaine Ryan, December 01, 2014 01:18 PM
When their grandfather's health declined, Christina and her brother, Michael, stepped in to care for their "Papa." Together they did everything he needed to stay at home, where he wanted to be. Christina shared:


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Got the game on PS4 on release day and really enjoying it. I just have a query on the replays as at the end of the final lap when approaching the finishing line the replay just fades out and you hardly see yourself finishing. A little annoying when you make that photo-finish win but don't really get to see it.
Was just wondering what the thinking was behind this or whether it may get changed in a future patch so you can see yourself cross the line?


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Dylan Taylor is a global business leader and philanthropist. He is an active pioneer in the space exploration industry as a CEO, investor, thought leader and futurist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, a multi-national space holding firm that acquires and integrates leading space exploration enterprises globally.
Dylan has been cited by Harvard University, SpaceNews, the BBC, Pitchbook, CNBC and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging ventures, including Accion, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, Made in Space, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.
Dylan's technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. He regularly speaks and writes about the future of the space economy and is sought after by the media for his expertise in the financial aspects of space investing as well as industry dynamics. As a writer and columnist, he has written several widely read pieces on the future of the space industry for SpaceNews, ROOM and Apogeo Spatial. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.
Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017 he became the first private citizen to manufacturer an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Dylan has also had an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world's most intractable problems. Additionally, Dylan is the Co-Founding Patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which seeks to promote the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program. Dylan is also the founder of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian styled dinner series featuring some of the world's leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space.
For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2014.
Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. In 2013, he attended the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.
In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. He is married to author Gabrielle V. Taylor and has two teenage daughters.


This has got to be the most annoying use of effects I have ever seen. And how can you say you got "Nothing" when you pull a Johnny Cueto refractor? Does Tom know anything?
Did I just watch the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Bay Rat: for the price he paid for that box, anything less than a Tom Seaver rookie IS nothing.
nothing against Cueto (I'm a Reds fan and he's my boy, YO) but compared to most of the other things you can pull he was a "nothing".
there's actually less FX then I normally do in this vid, all four walls you see are just the same video thats playing in the center scaled up a bit and repeated down through "Z" space with mirrored edges.
try watching it,,, ON WEED!
Cards that will be in '09 UD.
Tom the Ripper is a video genius.
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A man who escaped from jail in the 90s and evaded capture for nearly 30 years has handed himself back into police custody, after being left homeless due to COVID-19.
Darko Desic, who was 35-years-old at the time, escaped Grafton Correctional Centre between 7pm on July 31 and 7am on August 1, 1992. After extensive searches, was never located by police.
Desic was 13 months into his three-and-a-half year sentence for growing marijuana, the ABC reports, when police allege he used a hacksaw blade and bolt cutters to free himself.
Sources close to the investigation told ABC he fled to Sydney's northern beaches, where he worked cash-in-hand as a builder.
Nearly 30 years later, Desic (who is now 64-years-old) surrendered himself to police at Dee Why Police Station on Sunday.
Desic was living in a home in Avalon, but work was scarce because of the pandemic, and he was unable to pay rent, leading to being evicted.
A police source said he was sleeping on the beach until he decided that life in jail would be "much easier" than being "homeless", as per the ABC.
Detectives from the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad's Corrective Services Investigation Unit have since charged Desic with escape from lawful custody.
Appearing from his cell at Surry Hills, he was refused bail when he appeared before Central Local Court yesterday.
Darko Desic is due to appear before the same court on Tuesday, 28 September.
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Histopathologic findings from 2-year protocol biopsies from a U.S. multicenter kidney transplant trial comparing tarolimus versus cyclosporine: a report of the FK506 Kidney Transplant Study Group
Transplantation. 1998 Dec 27;66(12):1736-40. doi: 10.1097/00007890-199812270-00029.
K Solez 1 , F Vincenti, R S Filo
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DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199812270-00029
Background: This paper reports the histopathologic results of 2-year protocol biopsies from patients who were enrolled in the U.S. FK506 kidney transplant study .
Methods: Recipients of cadaveric kidney transplants were randomized to tacrolimus or cyclosporine therapy. Patients active in the trial at 2 years after transplantation were approached for a protocol biopsy. Biopsies were scored by the Banff classification in a blinded fashion by one pathologist.
Results: A total of 144 patients (41.3% of those active at 2 years) had a 2-year protocol biopsy performed; 79 patients were treated with tacrolimus and 65 patients were treated with cyclosporine. Evidence of acute rejection was found in seven (8.9%) of the 2-year biopsies in tacrolimus-treated patients and six (9.2%) cyclosporine-treated patients. Chronic allograft nephropathy was found in 49 (62.0%) tacrolimus biopsies and 47 (72.3%) cyclosporine biopsies (P=0.155). There were no apparent histopathologic differences between the tacrolimus and cyclosporine biopsies. The occurrence of chronic allograft nephropathy was significantly higher in patients who received a graft from an older donor (P<0.01), who experienced presumed cyclosporine or tacrolimus nephrotoxicity (P<0.001), who developed a cytomegalovirus infection (P=0.038), or who experienced acute rejection in the first year after transplantation (P=0.045). A multivariate analysis showed that nephrotoxicity and acute rejection were the most significant predictors for chronic allograft nephropathy.
Conclusions: The occurrence of histologic acute rejection was rare at 2 years, confirming the absence of subclinical acute rejection in these late biopsies. A majority of the biopsies showed features consistent with chronic allograft nephropathy that was associated with acute rejection (particularly in cyclosporine-treated patients), nephrotoxicity, and cytomegalovirus infection in the first year. This suggests that nonimmunologic factors, such as drug-induced toxicity, may play an important role in chronic allograft nephropathy.
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Syd Barrett Book Available as Paperback
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Syd Barrett, The Definitive Visual Companion now in paperback
If you wind your mind back all the way to March 2011 you will recall that an exceptional book called Barrett was released. It featured an incredible range of rare photographs that told the life story of Syd Barrett and his early Pink Floyd.
You might also recall it was rather expensive – £300 for the signature edition! It was a premium hardback book, printed on luxurious paper and was constructed like a work of art in itself. The signature edition was truly exceptional and worth every penny.
The great news is that a more accessible paperback edition will be available so more fans can enjoy what is an amazing book! The paperback costs £40, has 272 pages and 250 photos. It also has 60,000 words.
The officially authorised book is split into sections covering Pink Floyd, Solo career, Letters and Art. It was created in conjunction with the Barrett family and features lots of goodies the authors having unprecedented access to the family. It had, at that point in 2011, unseen photos, artworks and memorabilia.
Barrett Book Paperback 2020
When and How can I get it?
The book is published by Rocket 88 and will be available November 2020.
For the specific date keep an eye on our website. Don't miss Pink Floyd news, make sure you get on our mailing list with the tens of thousands of other fans!
Also, take a look at the books website and the Official Syd Barrett website
This first official book to explore and display Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett's life and work, and which the TLS called ,"a salutary corrective to previous Barrett studies" will debut in paperback format in November. Previously published as a slip-cased hardback and deluxe, two-volume collector's edition, the book, described by Floyd fanzine Brain Damage as 'mesmerizing' contains the largest collection of Syd Barrett-related images ever assembled. This new edition adds to the catalogue two recently discovered works by Syd.
This is more than a biography of Syd Barrett; while it does trace his life and career, Barrett is an extensive, exhaustive and unique illustrated journey though the man's art. Compiled with the assistance and cooperation of Syd's family and Pink Floyd, there are family photographs, love letters, notes and postcards alongside all known drawings and paintings by Syd from his teenage years and throughout his life. There are also rare photographs of Syd with Pink Floyd in concert, rehearsal and at home.
Barrett: The Definitive Visual Companion is unique among books about Pink Floyd in the depth of detail and collection of illustrative material. As one Pink Floyd biographer, Mark Blake, explained when writing in Mojo magazine, "the authors, with the help of the Barrett family and friends, have unearthed a remarkable haul of personal correspondence, previously unpublished photographs and images of all Syd's known artwork. It's an extraordinary achievement… Barrett feels like the ultimate work of art."
More information can be found at www.barrettbook.com, where people are invited to pre-order at a special discount.
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Polly Samson and David Gilmour Discussion at Irish Book Festival
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The Kindness by Polly Samson
Writer Polly Samson, who is married to the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd David Gilmour, has a new book out in the UK next week called The Kindness. This is her fourth book following the successful Perfect Lives book of short stories in 2010.
The Independent described the new book as a "gorgeously chilling novel about grief and betrayal."
Your humble narrator is looking forward to both reading this new book, but also one particular discussion with David and Polly in Ireland this June where they will be discussing their work together.
Polly Samson & David Gilmour Discussion
To support the launch of the book, Polly Samson and David Gilmour will be at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas 2015 where the pair, in their first joint artistic event together, will discuss their songwriting partnership for Pink Floyd and David Gilmour's solo work.
Borris House Ireland Book Festival
The event takes place in Ireland at a beautiful property, Borris House, which is one of the most spectacular houses in Ireland, and sits at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, on the banks of the River Barrow, in the small village of Borris in the hinterland of South County Carlow.
Polly Samson and Husband David Gilmour
Polly Samson wrote lyrics for Pink Floyd's The Division Bell and the song Louder than Words from Pink Floyd's final studio album The Endless River.
She also wrote on David Gilmour's 2006 solo album On an Island and is working on David's 2015 new album which is currently untitled.
David will of course be touring the new album starting in Croatia in September 2015.
Polly's new book has been written during some pretty hard times over the past few years including the death of her father who was given an incorrect dosage of medication in hospital, she lost her journalist friend Cassandra Jardine to lung cancer and her son Charlie Gilmour, whose father is English poet Heathcote Williams, was imprisoned for going on the rampage in London which included him being on the bonnet of Prince Charles' car and climbing up the Cenotaph war memorial in central London. Youth! Amongst all of this, she has written her book and you can read more about it on her website.
A Busy Gilmour Household
David Gilmour playing a saw with a bow [Pic: Polly Samson 2015]
Polly has her own artistic events going on this year and there will be much discussion in the Gilmour household in Brighton about it I am sure – she is not letting David Gilmour dominate discussions at the dining room table about his new album and tour!
That said, she appears to have ceded a little and bought David a saw and a bow for his 69th birthday! She's good, Polly. I wonder if it will make an appearance on the tour later this year?
Get A Signed Copy of The Kindness
Polly Samson [Pic: Linda Nylind]
The Kindness is published in hardback on 12th March in the UK and on 5th May in Australia. Publication date in the USA is 21st July.
You can get a copy of the book signed by Polly Samson with a dedication too.
You can get tickets for the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas – currently on sale are three day passes.
Read more about the Festival of Writing.
Read excellent interview in The Guardian about the new book with lots of background story.
The Independent have a great list of books to look out for in 2015 including Polly's new one.
Look at the literary events Polly Samson will be attending over the coming months (RHS of David Gilmour's website).
Polly is active on her Twitter feed; see her website also.
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We like to imagine that our mom's generation — women who came of age in the '50s — were curvier than they are today. At least, that's the impression we get when we leaf through fashion magazines and come across the vintage photos of models in the 1950s. Talk about a different kind of body image!
But models aren't average women, and a British lingerie company has released some interesting figures (no pun intended) on the body measurements of the average woman in 1957 vs. the one today, in 2017.
Their findings when they looked at then and now: In 1957, women had smaller waists and their breasts were much smaller. The average woman in the 50s had a 27.5-inch waist and her bra size was 34B; in 2017, women's waists are 34 inches and they wear a 36DD bra. Other differences: Women in 2017 are almost 20 pounds heavier (154 vs. 136 pounds) and wear larger-size clothing (size 14 today vs. size 10 in 1957). The average woman today is also taller than she was in 1957--5'5" vs. 5'2".
All this suggests that our moms were more petite than we were. But the lingerie company did find that we are healthier than our moms despite our larger waists. That's thanks to the exercise we do twice a week!
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'Ad Astra' space advisor doesn't want to see an Applebee's on the moon
By Passant Rabie
Filed Under Entertainment, Mars, Moon, NASA, Science Fiction, Space Travel & SpaceX
Moon pirates, $125 for a blanket on a commercial flight to the moon, and restaurant franchises popping up on the lunar surface — those were some of the predictions incorporated in James Gray's science fiction drama Ad Astra.
Aside from taking viewers on a daunting mission through deep space, the newly released film paints a bleak picture of where we may be headed in the uncharted territories of the cosmos.
The movie's advisor on all things related to space travel is more hopeful about humankind's future decisions, though.
Retired NASA astronaut-turned-consultant for private aerospace company SpaceX, Garrett Reisman tells Inverse what it was like teaching actor Brad Pitt how to fly a spacecraft and pretend he's in space.
"We aren't that commercial in the way you see in the movie," Reisman says of his science-focused work.
He also admits that the vision of commercial space travel as depicted in Ad Astra is not exactly the future he would like to see.
When asked whether this is where we're headed, he laughs and says, "I hope not, I saw the Applebee's on the moon."
Ad Astra's depiction of a future colony on the moon.
In the past couple of years, we have gotten closer to commercial space travel and the possibility of inhabiting other worlds than ever before. And the film is one of the first to explore that in a realistic, toned-down approach. But what it lacks in extraterrestrial drama, it makes up for in interplanetary gloominess.
Set in the not-so-distant future, Ad Astra warns of what would happen if humanity packed in a strong dose of capitalism on its way to colonize outer space. The movie follows astronaut Roy McBride (Pitt) as he journeys into the depths of space to reach out to his father, whom he thought had died during an ill-fated mission to Neptune. On his way to Neptune, McBride gets on a commercial flight to the moon, fends off pirates fighting over lunar resources, and lands on a dystopian Mars that's divided up in different colonies.
It all seems a little too real, as venture capitalists continue to pour their billions into investments in commercial space travel.
Reisman, however, suspects that rather than becoming a future cosmic tourist trap, space travel will evolve the same way air travel has. When it was first introduced, air travel was quite exclusive, reserved only for the movie stars and elites. But today, booking a commercial flight is no longer that special.
"That will happen someday in space too, it will be a sign of progress," Reisman says. "[Space travel] is going to be more mundane."
Brad Pitt in 'Ad Astra'.
Reisman joined NASA in 1998 and was part of the International Space Station crew for a total of 95 days in space. He left the agency in 2011 and joined the commercial side of spaceflight as part of Elon Musk's SpaceX.
"In some ways it's very different, and in other ways it's pretty much the same," Reisman says of working for both NASA and SpaceX.
And while the same physics and technology apply to both sectors of space travel, and oftentimes the two entities collaborate on partnerships, decision making is a lot faster and more agile on the private side.
But it's those public-private interactions that contribute to Reisman's hopeful outlook on the future of space travel.
"All the private-public partnerships, all these other companies and people getting involved and interested in space, that's really heartening to me," he says.
If anything, Reisman is looking forward to the future additions to spacecrafts. The space engineer had his eye on the spaceship that McBride was piloting on his quest to Neptune, which he describes as "really neat" and hopes to get to fly one day.
For now, though, Reisman did teach Pitt how to fly a spaceship, which he says was an easy task since Pitt already has experience as a pilot. "The coolest day for me on this project," Reisman says, was when he imparted Pitt with his wisdom. "We sat in the cockpit…he looked very natural."
Aside from lending his space engineer experience, Reisman also contributed his expertise dealing with interpersonal issues in space.
"Two things I mentioned while talking to Gray," Reisman says. "During a long duration expedition, the worst things to have are ego and incompetence…two things that would break apart crew cohesion."
And of course, these factors make an appearance in the movie.
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Scholarship for a high school senior or already attending an accredited college or university. Applicants may have to members of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association for two years. Address as above.
Partial scholarships in graduate degree programs leading to Master's degrees at the Yale School of Management, at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and in the departments of International Relations and in International Economics and Developmental Economics. Applicants must be Ukrainian citizens and be first admitted to the appropriate faculties at Yale. Graduate school application deadlines at Yale are usually January 1.
The Scholarship for the coming (1999/2000) academic year are sponsored by the International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine, the Relief Board for Ukrainian Students in Gt Britain, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the University of North London.
Applications are invited for a one year scholarship to study towards a Masters degree in Public Policy (Аналіз державної політики) at the University of North London. The deadline for receipt of applications is 29 October 1999. This scholarship pays full costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence, as well as tuition fees. Detailed information about the MA in Public Policy is available in the UNL Postgraduate Prospectus.
25 vouchers per year given to students to take the official GRE exam. Awards based upon a competitive exam given September, November and February. Applicant needs to have taken the official TOEFL previously. Applicants must be applying to graduate school. For application requirements: International Renaissance Foundation OSVITA, vul. Volodymyrska 60, room 223, 252033 Kyiv, Ukraine. Phone: 044-225-7182.
Undoubtedly your friends and relatives in Ukraine expect you to be an expert on obtaining scholarships to the United States, Canada, and the rest of the English speaking world. These addresses might help you to look good. The book Scholarship Opportunities was published by USA/USA 1994 seminar alumni/ae in Zaporizhzhia. It is available free of charge.
Soros Education Information Center OSVITA (Lviv): 380-32-297-1206 or 227-1206?
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Extensive materials on how to apply for higher education in the USA.
http://www.finaid.org contains a page for international students. It is discouraging to international students. It does contain information on student loans for international students and some other useful information but it does not represent a goldmine of funding.
http://www.usnews.com has information about TOEFL test score requirements for most colleges under the international heading for each college.
http://www.petersons.com has information about scholarships available to international students in the online college directory.
Scholarship Opportunities, Kyiv 1997 Vipol Publishers, available from ZRRCO, 330006 Zaporozhye, ul. Zhukovskoho 55A, kv 408. cser@cser.zaporizhzhe.ua A book about scholarship opportunities from high school to advanced study. Published in Ukraine by USA/USA alumni who are studying in Ukraine it is surprisingly good and well put together. It shows what we can do if we put our minds together. It includes scholarships all over the world and is free.
Funding for US Study is a paper book published by the CIEE and available at http://www.ciee.org. This book is about $40.00 and contains information a whole range of scholarship available to international students. It deals primarily with graduate school programs.
Petersons's Summer Jobs for Students (Annual), Princeton 1998, Petersons's.
This has an excellent section about summer job opportunities for international applicants. Students do not have to be students in the USA and can obtain temporary summer visas for employment and travel in the USA. If you have a friend or young relative in Ukraine whom you would want to help visit you in the USA (for free) then this is the book for you.
Please bring any errors to our attention. Sources on Ukraine may contain discrepancies that are beyond our control and our ability to verify at this time. I would welcome any suggestions that would make this information more useful to you.
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