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Monitoring potential drug interactions and reactions via network analysis of Instagram user timeliness
Rion Brattig Correia1,2, Lang Li3, and Luis M. Rocha1,4,*
1School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA
2CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil
3Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine, USA
4FLAD Computational Biology Collaboratorium, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal
Citation: R.B. Correia, L. Li, L.M. Rocha [2016]. "Monitoring potential drug interactions and reactions via network analysis of Instagram user timeliness". Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 21:492-503. doi: 10.1142/9789814749411_0045
PMID: 26776212. The full text is available in pdf. The preprint arXiv:1510.01006 and Supporting Information Available. An alpha demo of the web version of our Instagram Drug Explorer and a media release viedo are also available
Much recent research aims to identify evidence for Drug-Drug Interactions (DDI) and Adverse Drug reactions (ADR) from the biomedical scientific literature. In addition to this "Bibliome", the universe of social media provides a very promising source of large-scale data that can help identify DDI and ADR in ways that have not been hitherto possible. Given the large number of users, analysis of social media data may be useful to identify under-reported, population-level pathology associated with DDI, thus further contributing to improvements in population health. Moreover, tapping into this data allows us to infer drug interactions with natural products---including cannabis---which constitute an array of DDI very poorly explored by biomedical research thus far. Our goal is to determine the potential of Instagram for public health monitoring and surveillance for DDI, ADR, and behavioral pathology at large. Most social media analysis focuses on Twitter and Facebook, but Instagram is an increasingly important platform, especially among teens, with unrestricted access of public posts, high availability of posts with geolocation coordinates, and images to supplement textual analysis. Using drug, symptom, and natural product dictionaries for identification of the various types of DDI and ADR evidence, we have collected close to 7000 user timelines spanning from October 2010 to June 2015.We report on 1) the development of a monitoring tool to easily observe user-level timelines associated with drug and symptom terms of interest, and 2) population-level behavior via the analysis of co-occurrence networks computed from user timelines at three different scales: monthly, weekly, and daily occurrences. Analysis of these networks further reveals 3) drug and symptom direct and indirect associations with greater support in user timelines, as well as 4) clusters of symptoms and drugs revealed by the collective behavior of the observed population. This demonstrates that Instagram contains much drug- and pathology specific data for public health monitoring of DDI and ADR, and that complex network analysis provides an important toolbox to extract health-related associations and their support from large-scale social media data.
Keywords: Luis M. Rocha, Complex Network Analysis, Social Media, Drug Interaction, Public Health, Instagram, relational inference.
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Luis Rocha, Director of the Complex Systems Program in the School of Information and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington, explains the new software-driven approach to medical research. Big data generated through social media such as Twitter and Instragram provides a far deeper and fuller examination of the impact of medicines and diseases, leading to greater actionable insights to improve the efficacy of prevention and treatment.
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Prospects of Regulation of Initial Coin Offerings by SEBI
[Aishwarya Singh is a 5th year law student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had, by way of a circular, ring-fenced banks from dealing with cryptocurrencies. However, the status of cryptocurrencies in India is far from decided. The RBI circular has been recently challenged in the Supreme Court. On the other hand, the Government had also constituted an Inter-Disciplinary Committee in 2017 with various stakeholders, including the RBI and the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to evaluate the existing legal regime on cryptocurrencies and to propose measures for dealing with them. This post discusses the application of the existing securities law to initial coin offerings (ICO) in India. Further, it compares the treatment of securities in India and United States. Finally, the post proposes certain measures SEBI can adopt to regulate ICOs that offer coins analogous to securities.
Initial coin offering is a method of fundraising driven by cryptocurrency. The entity wishing to raise funds or the issuer makes available for purchase a coin or a token, which is a virtual currency or a cryptocurrency in exchange for cryptocurrency (e.g. Bitcoin or Ether) or fiat currency. These coins are maintained on a blockchain or through smart contract on a pre-existing blockchain.
Treatment of Coins as a Security
SEBI regulations may apply to ICOs if the coins offered satisfy the definition of "securities" under section 2(h) of Securities Contract (Regulation) Act, 1956 (SCRA). The SCRA provides an inclusive definition of security. The term securities includes:
i. shares, scrips, stocks, bonds, debentures, debenture stock or other marketable securities of a like nature in or of any incorporated company or other body corporate;
a. derivative;
b. units or any other instrument issued by any collective investment scheme to the investors in such schemes;
c. security receipt as defined in clause (zg) of section 2 of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002;
d. units or any other such instrument issued to the investors under any mutual fund scheme;
ii. Government securities;
iii. such other instruments as may be declared by the Central Government to be securities;
iv. rights or interest in securities.
The instruments mentioned in the definition above have an underlying capital asset. Although not all coin offerings are accompanied by an underlying asset, there are certain 'asset coins' that provide a debt or equity claim against the issuing entity. These asset coins are analogous to the instruments mentioned above. Even if the coins or tokens do not strictly fall under the terms "shares" or "debentures", they may fall under the expression "other marketable securities of a like nature in or of any incorporated company or other body corporate". The Supreme Court has held in Bhagwati Developers Pvt. Ltd. v. Peerless General Finance That "marketable securities of a like nature" means that the securities should be freely transferrable. The same was upheld in the case of Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Limited v. Securities and Exchange Board of India wherein the Court held that a marketable security will clearly fall under the ambit of section 2(h) of SCRA and that marketable means "capable of being sold". Hence, there should be no restriction on the transfer of these asset coins offered through the ICOs for SEBI to have jurisdiction over the same.
Further, these coins should be issued by an incorporated company or a body corporate to come within the ambit of securities under section 2(h) of SCRA. A body corporate has been defined inclusively under section 2(11) of the Companies Act, 2013 and includes company incorporated outside India. However, there are instances where coins are issued by unincorporated entities, and coins issued by such entities may fall outside the purview of securities under SCRA.
The definition of securities is quite restrictive in India. As a result, most ICOs will fall outside the ambit of the SEBI regulation. It will be interesting to compare the treatment of securities in India with that of United States. In the United States, security is defined as an "investment in a common venture premised on a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others" (SEC v. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293, 301 (1946)). Further, the "issuer" under section 2 of the Securities Act, 1933 has been defined as "any person who issues or proposes to issue any security….". The definition of "person" under section 2 of the Securities Act, 1933 includes unincorporated organisation. Hence, securities can be issued by even unincorporated entities in United States.
The United States Securities Exchange Commission in its Report 21(a) concluded that coins or tokens offered by a certain organisation DAO are securities. DAO refers to Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which is a virtual organization borne out of a computer code and executed on a blockchain protocol. Hence, such organisations are not incorporated in any jurisdiction. DAO was a creation of Slock.it and its co-founders. DAO would hold a corpus of assets through the sale of tokens to investors. These assets would then be used to fund certain "projects". These investors would also get dividends from the anticipated earnings from the projects. The investors also had limited voting rights. They could vote on whether funds should be spent on a specific project. Slock.it and its co-founders, and the DAO Curators monitored the operations of the organisation and decided which proposed projects should be put up for a vote. DAO tokens are an interesting example because the token holders could re-sell the tokens on online platforms, hence allowing secondary trading of the tokens. DAO tokens satisfied the definition of securities under the United States law. The tokens represented an investment in DAO, a common enterprise, with reasonable expectation of a dividend. Further, a significant managerial effort of DAO's Curators, Slock.it and its cofounders, was essential for running the enterprise. However, it is likely that the DAO tokens will not be treated as a security within the Indian laws and regulations. Though the DAO tokens are marketable and have an underlying asset, section 2(h) of SCRA requires the issuer to be an incorporated company or a body corporate.
Future Possibilities
As discussed, the current legal framework will not cover most ICOs leaving investors at a risk of fraud and manipulation, often associated with ICO markets. There is a need to expand the definition of securities under section 2(h) of SCRA to account for the new ways in which entities are issuing securities to raise funds. Further, the securities regulators over different jurisdictions have adopted two approaches to regulate security offerings through ICOs. Jurisdiction like United States apply federal securities laws to ICOs. However, start-ups may find it challenging to navigate these extensive regulatory requirements with their limited legal and financial resources. The second approach is to create a regulatory sandbox as it has been done in Singapore and United Kingdom, where certain regulatory requirements are relaxed and the entity is allowed to experiment and scale its business model subject to certain conditions. The second approach facilitates the usage of ICOs by small businesses to raise the much-needed funds and allows the regulator to keep a track on the activities of the issuer. India will benefit from following the second approach as it will give impetus to the entrepreneurship and innovation in India, otherwise Indian entrepreneurs may start choosing foreign jurisdictions for ICOs.
– Aishwarya Singh
Banking Financial Markets Securities Regulation

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The Precipice Manifesto
(Originally published on November 28th, 2010 via my author website.)
Over the last couple of months, I've made allusions and hints to "something" that I promised would be announced "soon." It's something that came about alongside the ALT 2.0 project on Kickstarter, something that I've long dreamed about giving a shot.
Well, I think I'm at a point where I'm ready to pull the trigger and let everyone know what I've been up to. I'm going to go ahead and warn you now: this is a long one. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this story I have to tell you.
Crawl.
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I'm a devout follower of Trent Reznor. I make no secret about it. Everyone has their idols, and I have my own, in various areas. Specifically, everyone has their particular band. My sister-in-law follows Creed (for reasons that confound me). My best friend idolizes KISS (again, for reasons that confound me).
For me, it's Trent Reznor, for reasons that confound others. Say that name in a crowd and there's a 50/50 chance someone will know who you're talking about. The name will also fall on deaf ears. Say Nine Inch Nails, however, and most people will acknowledge the band. They've heard the name. Most of them have seen the logo. Some probably even know that "Fuck you like an animal" song.
Reznor is synonymous with Nails, and rightfully so, but more recognize the band than they do its founder.
In 1989, TVT Records released Pretty Hate Machine, an album written, performed, and recorded by Trent Reznor. It was released under the name Nine Inch Nails. The liner notes state "Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor." It resonated with a lot of people, became an underground hit, and rocketed NIN to success. Last week a re-mastered version of the album was released, about a year late for its 20th anniversary. I'm listening to it right now.
Reznor successfully created a mask for himself, allowing him to toil behind the curtain like a mad scientist and release his works under the moniker of an entity much larger than himself. When I was a kid, and specifically, a teenager, I marveled at the fact that he did most of it himself. Sure, there were others who helped him—his manager, his producer, his band mates whenever they went on tour—but when it came to actual creation, the presentation, and the driving focus, he was the one who led the charge. None of it would exist if he hadn't put pen to paper and fingers to synthesizer.
This isn't about Nine Inch Nails. It's not about Trent Reznor, even. I wrote the last five paragraphs to provide a little insight. I'll come back to it shortly.
Walk.
I finished my first novel on March 3rd, 2001. I was seventeen years old. The night I finished, I went online to look up ways to publish it. What I found was daunting. There was this thing called an agent, and this person would solicit your work to publishers for a modest 15% of the final take (20% for international rights). I remember thinking what a bullshit process that was, a system facilitating a middle man, but if I wanted to play the game, I had to play by the rules, right?
I don't remember how many queries I sent out in the following months. It was at least five or six. I heard back from three, and all rejected me. That was fine. I kept writing. When I enrolled in college, my counselor told me about a writing contest the university held every year. It was called the Oswald Research and Creativity Project, and it covered a number of areas, including fiction. I submitted that first novel. It won second place, and I walked away with $200. It was the first time I earned money from something I wrote.
When I told my best friend that I won, he remarked, "I guess that's it, then. You'll be doing this forever."
He was right. That summer I wrote a number of stories and a second novel (don't ask—it was terrible). I kept submitting my stories and collecting my rejections. I had my first official "publication" in an online zine called Art Underground. It was established by a classmate, and it lasted approximately one issue before vanishing forever under a tidal wave of electrons and apathy.
I kept writing. I submitted my stories and collected my rejections. I developed grand dreams about revolutionizing the publishing industry, changing the game, creating a new option for people stuck in the same rut as myself. The temptation of vanity publishing was always there, but the idea of paying a company like AuthorHouse over a thousand dollars to do what a traditional publisher would do for a percentage just seemed crappy.
At the same time, the more I tried, the more it seemed the cards weren't in my favor. Agents wanted the next big thing. They didn't want new, experimental work; they wanted derivatives that would sell, make money, and so on. You know the rest of this story. If you've paid any attention to the publishing landscape (or your bookstore's top ten list) over the last five years, you know how things turned out.
Regarding queries, I started to give up. The more I played, the more it seemed like a rigged game. To be published, I needed to write what they wanted me to write—not what I wanted to write, and to me, that just defeated the purpose.
In late 2004 I was accepted into an internship for my university's literary journal, Limestone. It was there that I gained vital insight into the publishing process, from submissions, to layout work, to choosing a printer and binding. A seed was planted in those late months, and it sprouted over the holiday that year. In early 2005, I decided I would follow in the footsteps of the wonderful Limestone staff, and publish something myself.
Run.
The result was a collection of short fiction titled Written in Red. Only 101 copies exist, and all but four or five were sold. It has no ISBN and you won't find it on any bookshelf. They were printed by a small offset printer just outside of Philadelphia, and the venture was funded by several generous donors. In return, their names appeared in the book, and they received free, signed copies. Chris Vrenna, ex-drummer and co-founder of Nine Inch Nails, has a copy. He emailed to say so.
The process of getting that book to print within a three-month time period was stressful, intimidating, exhilarating, and—most importantly—liberating. It gave me a taste, a bug, whatever you want to call it—it put me in touch with the very thing I wanted to do. Writing, yes, that's what I live for, but what is the point of writing if no one will read it? And what is the use of publishing if not to make what's written available for inquisitive pairs of eyes?
I envisioned a publishing landscape much different than the one I know. One in which writers are given a chance to explore the depths of talent, are encouraged to try new things. A "publishing utopia," if you will. It was 2005. I was 22 years old, with big dreams, and not the slightest idea of what the real world had to offer.
A year later I did it again, this time through Lulu, with a book called A Life Transparent. It was initially offered through Lulu; later, with the help of a friend, I purchased an ISBN and made the book available across the globe. For the last three years, until I took it out of circulation this past summer, the first edition of that book read "Published by R. Todd Keisling."
I never liked that. Maybe it's an inherent throwback to the stigma of "self-publishing." It's the idea that you're cheating the game. You aren't playing by their rules. Even now, looking at an old copy of it, I can't help but cringe. It's enough that people know I wrote the thing—but to know I published it? Please.
On the other hand, though, why should I feel such shame? I'm damn proud of the book. Sure, some people hated it (and were vocal), but a lot of people genuinely liked it, too. Never mind that I published it myself. So what? Why not let the work stand on its own merits?
I say these things now, but in 2008, I walked away from it. It's a rigged game, after all. The book didn't sell. People didn't read it. I felt like I'd jumped the gun, that if I'd given this book a chance with the submission game, it would've had its day. Embarrassed and defeated, I put a PDF of the novel on my website as a free download, and walked away to live my life. Then, in early 2009, I discovered that over 3000 people had downloaded my little book in a year's time. Zero advertising.
I started writing a sequel around the same time. I discovered that a vast community of independently-minded writers had taken charge in my year-long absence. Self-publishing had transformed into indie publishing. The ebook revolution of 2007 had paved a way for the indies, and they were back with a vengeance. I was surprised. I was thrilled. I was a year behind everyone else.
So, in 2009 and half of 2010, I started doing my homework, preparing for something I wasn't quite ready to admit just yet.
Soon, I told myself. Soon.
In the last year or so, it's become apparent that what we know as the traditional publishing industry is slowly going the way of the music industry, but in a much different way. Whereas the music industry died by way of its inability to adapt to changing technology and treating its customers like criminals, the publishing industry is changing due to its alienation of the very ones who have kept its gears turning: namely, the writers. When successful mid-list writers are dropping (or are being dropped by) their publishers and releasing their work independently by their own means, it signals a change in the waters. It's not that the rules of the game are changing; it's that the game itself is changing. What it changes into is now in the hands of writers. We are free to shape our own futures, our own careers.
It's a matter of control. Some writers would prefer to leave 90% of the decisions concerning their book in the hands of others. All they do is write, you see. They don't want to be bothered with the details. Personally, if it's my name going on the cover, I want my hands in every part of the process. As an independent author, I intend to make use of my freedom, and control my own destiny.
In recent days, with the re-release of Pretty Hate Machine, I find myself reflecting on Trent Reznor as an artist and a businessman. Through Nine Inch Nails, he established a front for himself, an umbrella under which he was free to create whatever he pleased. Any number of collaborators were welcome to join him under a single banner, ready to wage sonic war against the conventions of the music industry. In 2007, Reznor announced that his contract with Interscope was fulfilled, and that he would not be renewing. He struck out on his own, forming the Null Corporation, a parent label to serve as a home for his various projects.
Thinking on it now, I realize that even if I'd kept querying, if I'd kept searching for that agent, it would've only delayed the inevitable point at which I find myself. I think that, had I achieved that coveted publishing contract, I would not be happy. It's not in my nature to give up creative control—not even in the name of money. In my eyes, that's cheating. Doing it yourself is the only real legitimate way to play.
Precipice.
Earlier this year, after a mishap with a re-release of ALT in preparation for its sequel's publication, I struck upon the idea of using Kickstarter as a means of facilitating its release. Much like I'd done with Written In Red years before, I would seek donors to fund the project, providing them with rewards for their support.
There was still something else, though. When I put together the initial re-release, I was faced with the decision of publishing under a different name. The thought of publishing my own name did not sit well with me. Someone like Alfred A. Knopf can get away with it, but Todd Keisling? No, not happening.
I took several weeks to think about it. It wasn't something I could approach lightly. After all, this name I chose, this entity, this mask, it would become a front for my work. A home, a house, a place for my things—and maybe, if I could find the right model, the right balance, it could become a home for others as well. A place for creative freedom, with a focus on digital publication and the potential for limited, special edition print runs. A place where the author is nurtured and encouraged. A place where an agent is not the way through the door.
My wife and I spent weeks thinking of a name. We came up with a lot of possibilities, all of which were already claimed by other companies. Domain name availability was a large factor. It also needed to symbolize what I'm about, what my work is about. A writer's mantra, of sorts, or maybe even a manifesto. It needed to sing.
At the time I was in the home stretch of finishing ALT's sequel, and as I neared the end, a theme crept into the narrative. In the book, Donovan Candle must make a pivotal decision. The scenario reminded me of something I read during my college days. Soren Kierkegaard wrote about a "leap of faith." In his specific case, he referred to the leap a man must take in order to accept Christianity despite its many contradictions. I exercised my artistic license, twisting that into a metaphor to suit the story.
So, like Donovan, I found myself at the edge of something. I had an idea of where I wanted to go, what I had to achieve, but there was a very, very large gap between the two points. To get there, I would have to leap.
The name came to me one morning while contemplating the possibility of taking that leap. I was at the precipice of decision. Do I stay, or do I leap? The name came to me, then. I liked it. I could see it on a copyright page, on a book's spine, and it would make a great, ominous logo that's easily recognizable. And, thankfully, the domain name was available.
Back in August, I stepped back a few feet, took a breath, and ran full speed toward the edge. I took my leap.
And this is how Precipice Books came to be:
Leap.
So that's the big reveal. I have established a publishing company, with a focus on digital releases. Print editions will be made available in limited quantities, as very special editions. My work will be the litmus test for the business model. ALT 2.0 is the flagship title, and TLM will follow later in 2011.
It may not go anywhere, but if it does—if the model proves it can turn some sort of sustainable profit—the doors to submissions will be opened to the public. I hope it comes to that. I don't want to be the only one under the Precipice name.
There are a couple of folks who've helped me along to this point. Generous collaborators, supporters–my wife, Erica, and my dear friend (and editor!) Amelia Snow. They believe in this project as much as I do, and I have to say that, with them, it's not as scary looking into the abyss.
For now, Precipice Books is Todd Keisling. Come watch me take my leap. Let's hope I don't fall flat on my face.
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Mars Hill Church launches new music label
June 6, 2012 By Doug Van Pelt
LAUNCHES NEW MUSIC LABEL
Worship Leaders Seek To
Expand the Reach of Worship Music
MARS HILL CHURCH is excited to announce the launch of the MARS HILL MUSIC label. This new venture is made up of a variety of musicians and worship leaders who serve throughout the 14 Mars Hill churches.
Mars Hill Church is known for innovation. From its early beginnings in 1996, Mars Hill has been committed to the philosophy that each local Mars Hill Church would engage the culture in its local surroundings and point people to Jesus. With each of the bands and artists, listeners can quickly get a sense of the community where the songs and the artists were established.
"What makes our bands and music distinct is that it is a natural expression and outgrowth of what God is doing in our cities through our musicians. Our records are a means to capture and share what is happening at our churches. That makes them unique and different, the same way our cities and communities are unique and different," explains Jonathan Dunn, label manager for Mars Hill Music.
"The first thing people often think of when they hear Mars Hill Music is that we're a group of punk rock Calvinists who hate the modern worship movement. Mars Hill Music is setting out to change that perception. Our music is not an expression against anything but instead an outgrowth of our theology, who we are, and the communities our churches are in. We love Jesus and are expressing that love in our own way," continues Dunn.
Currently, Mars Hill Churches are established throughout the west, including eleven churches in the greater Puget Sound region, as well as in Albuquerque, NM, Portland, OR and in Orange County, CA. Musically, all are diverse, as the church is committed to raising up a community of artists who write music and adapt hymns that are fitting for the individual needs of their own church body.
"We believe God desires our churches to be creative," continues Dunn, "but not to sacrifice the truth of the gospel or theology for the sake of art. We make a conscious effort to include the theologically-rich music of traditional hymns, mixed with original songs unique to each church body, both lyrically and musically."
Mark Driscoll, Preaching Pastor of Mars Hill, agrees, "We are happy to trust our leadership as artists…their doctrine is solid, their character is Godly, and they are involved in the community; artists who are creating music that is a reflection of who we are and what we believe as a church community."
Mars Hill Music's latest EP, Already/Not Yet from the band CITIZENS reached #3 in the Christian category on iTunes when it debuted, and reached #1 on BandCamp.com. Other artists EPs available for download at MarsHill.com/music are:
· KING'S KALEIDOSCOPE
· GHOST SHIP
· KENOSIS
· THE SING TEAM
About Mars Hill:
Founded in 1996, Mars Hill Church is one of the largest and most-innovative churches in the US, with upwards of 14,000 people meeting weekly across 14 locations in four states each week. Mars Hill has been recognized as the 54th largest, 30th fastest-growing, and second most-innovative church in the country by Outreach magazine. Pastor Mark's sermons receive more than 10 million downloads per year, consistently rank #1 on iTunes, and he has over 300,000 combined followers on Facebook and Twitter.
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The Top 25 Albums of 2020
When the going gets tough, artists create art. Despite a world reckoning outside our quarantined doors, musicians relentlessly created new music giving birth to genre-defining releases and, despite a year spent indoors, a marked 2020 full of passion and fervor. Here are our Top 25 albums of 2020.
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"Gee, I sure wish I could find some . . . " That's how Kitty Keller, founder of KL Keller Foodways, started her business. Craving tiptop ingredients, sussing them out, playing in the pantry, dreaming up new combos . . . et voilà! KL Keller in her kitchen. Now in yours.
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Work I do
What I teach
Nashville's Own
Creating is holy. And don't you and I know it…we feel it when we fear to sit down at the desk and take up the pen, when we tremble at the easel's threshold. We know…we're treading in something sacred; walking into an art that far precedes us.
Even at the moment of our birth as a human race, God put His hands in the dust to sculpt, and then breathed in His very own breath, lip to lip, to bring life to an otherwise lifeless form. We do it all over again in miniature when we take up the brush and make a visual home for a Truth that blew the walls off words; every time we pen a narrative that made our souls shiver; every time we wet our own hands in the clay. The work is hard, and it's daring, and it requires something of us… it's holy. It's also indigenous to being human. People create. Made in the image of God, we can't help but do it. As if by magnetic charge, we're led to the clay, to the paper, to the pen, to the word, and to the work. We till the field, and we sow the seed for reasons beyond those of sustenance. It's something contained in our souls and bones that's not complete until it's moved the metal of earth's material to forge something brand new; something all our own. Something that led us into the dance of creator and creation; to put our hands in the dirt and then whisper it alive with a blow of our own breath- mouth to mouth. Life (with a capital L) is like that; like a torch that has to be kindled by touching. And so we touch things alive; words and art and crops and cars and whatever our creative medium is.
Nashville is a creative place. There's something in the soul of this city that calls it forth in people. Shy little ambitions tend to come out roaring like lions when they're kept in company, and that's the wonderful zeitgeist of living in a creative town. More gets done. Better work gets done because the soldiers feed off one another's resolve.
My friend, Andrew Yontz, is a creative whirlwind, an endless magician who works in the art of what-if-we's that really do get done…and done with excellence. He's a storyteller and a lover of beauty; an artful observer and a daring creator…and someone I deeply respect. About a year ago, Shayne and I were privileged to work with Andrew on a video shoot in which he filmed us creating several pieces for a Christian summer camp. But out of that experience, more was made than a video- an idea caught fire in Andrew. Today he's unveiling his creation: a site that sets about the holy work of telling the stories of some of "Nashville's Own"- it's creators across a variety of media- art, photography, craft, even baking. It's a series of very short documentary films. (about 5 minutes in length). They're brilliant, beautiful, and inspiring. People are so interesting, and Andrew has managed to focus the lens in such a way that we see the soul. It's breathtaking.
Shayne and I were extremely privileged to get the inaugural berth on Andrew's new adventure. We're so proud of our friend, and grateful to have had the experience of sharing in his story as he so beautifully and graciously told ours.
Here's the site and video: http://nashvillesown.com
photo by Nashville photographer: Susan Hudson
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Berlingske (till och med 2011: Berlingske Tidende) är den äldsta ännu utgivna dagstidningen i Danmark.

Berlingske grundades 1749 av Ernst Henrich Berling under namnet Kjøbenhavnske danske Post-Tidender, och den första utgåvan av tidningen kom den 3 januari 1749. Tidningen bildade epok i danska pressens historia genom att vara den första att utkomma regelbundet och vara uppställd efter moderna principer med överskådliga rubriker. Grundläggaren hade privilegium på en mängd rättsliga kungörelser, vilket gav den en prägel av officiellt regeringstroget organ. Sedan dess privilegier 1903 upphört fick tidningen en mer självständig politisk hållning, men förblev länge konservativ. Efter att flera gånger bytt namn hette tidningen från 1833 Berlingske politiske og Avertissements Tidende. 1935 ändrades namnet till Berlingske Tidende.

Från början gavs tidningen ut två gånger i veckan, men från och med 1844 blev den sexdagarstidning och har sedan 1913 kommit ut dagligen. Tidningen betecknas i dag som "oberoende borgerlig" (tidigare konservativ). Den räknas som en av de "stora tre" danska kvalitetsdagstidningarna, tillsammans med Jyllands-Posten och Politiken.

Tidningen ägdes fram till 1981 var familjen Berling, varpå aktierna övertogs av Den Berlingske fond.

Tidningen ges ut av Berlingske Media, som sedan 2015 ägs av den Hollendska koncernen De Persgroep.

Den 28 augusti 2006 övergick tidningen från broadsheet- till tabloidformat.

Tidningens chefredaktör är Lisbeth Knudsen.

Bland historiska redaktörer märks J. P. Knudsen (1821-1828), Mendel Levin Nathanson (1838-1858 och 1865-1866), Emil Manicus (1873-1897), Christian Blangstrup (1902-1913) och Christian Gulmann (1913-1934).

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As part of my series of interviews with Triple Point clients, I recently had the chance to sit down with Thomas Harvey, CIO and VP of Information Technology at The Energy Authority, to discuss industry changes and how they use technology to operate effectively in the energy marketplace.
Q: What are some of the major trends driving your industry and how do you see it changing in the next few years?
Thomas: The Dodd-Frank Act and what's happening with the CFTC is the hot topic. We're looking at our business policies and technical systems across several areas--transaction and position reporting; audit-ability; credit management; and documentation--to ensure we're ready to meet additional reporting requirements.
From an IT perspective, we see technology becoming less about automating routine tasks and processing data; it's more about mining data for information we can act on. Some of what's driving this is the world in which we live and our reliance on immediate information exchange. Technology enables us to capture and access huge amounts of data, and the ubiquitous presence of it in our lives means our workforce is increasingly more technically savvy and astute to analyzing the information available to them. Service providers that quickly provide actionable information to move businesses forward will be market leaders.
Q: What are some of the business issues that keep you up at night?
Thomas: Technology is an underpinning of TEA's ability to operate effectively in the energy marketplace...so we're always questioning where we should be investing our efforts and resources in terms of improving business processes. We are cognizant of how we can provide reliable, cost-effective competitive advantages to our traders, power managers, schedulers, and analysts.
Q: What were the major business drivers in moving to Triple Point's Enterprise Solution?
Thomas: Having trading, scheduling, and risk management functionality on a common platform was key. Triple Point enables us to manage both transaction and decision-making information in one solution: physical and financial transactions for power, gas, and oil; scheduling; and credit risk management.
Q: In addition to your current business, how do you see Triple Point supporting TEA's future expansion?
Thomas: TEA represents 46 Public Power Utilities throughout the United States, and we wear multiple hats to support our partners. Triple Point truly understand the complexities of our business, and this provides great peace-of-mind. With Triple Point, we have the infrastructures in place to support our business strategically, now and in the future. If you really look at what TEA offers, a cornerstone of our business is risk management. The value that Triple Point provides in our risk management practice will continue to be a contributor to our success.
Q: What have been the biggest benefits of implementing the Triple Point Solution?
Thomas: I'd be remiss in not mentioning the exceptional Triple Point staff we work with. Our success with the implementation of Triple Point's commodity management and credit risk platform is built upon the dedication of some very smart, hard-working individuals. Triple Point provides an outstanding implementation team and superior customer support. They've been invaluable in educating our team on the inner working of the Commodity XL product and have been fully engaged in helping craft solutions for our unique requests. It's really the whole package, Triple Point's software and people, which brings benefit.


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Great beginning at Jambughoda
Manoj Sharma, the GM of Bhanu The Fern Forest Resort & Spa, on the response his property got when they opened.
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Caption: Manoj Sharma, the general manager of the recently opened Bhanu The Fern Forest Resort & Spa, Jambughoda in Gujarat.
Manoj Sharma, the general manager of the recently opened Bhanu The Fern Forest Resort & Spa, Jambughoda in Gujarat is enthused by the potential of his property. He spoke to ET HospitalityWorld on the hotel situated on 16 acres in Jambughoda which has been declared a sanctuary by the state government and around 60 kilometres from Vadodara and 35 kilometres from the industrial zone in Halol.
"We are on 16 acres of land, but the entire land has been used. The hotel has been divided into parts. There are blocks for F&B, for landscaping, an admin block, a block containing the gym and spa, a block with 84 rooms and suites which face the forest as well as a block of eight villas which are three bedroom independent units with individual plunge pools, adding up to 24 rooms," he said about the lay of the land in his property adding that there was also an activity zone which would be managed by an agency.
The hotel partially opened on October 25, 2022 with around 35 rooms and were currently operating only 80 rooms with the rest of the facilities up and running, he added.
"Initially we were also sceptical about the response of the people because for this area this is the largest property which also happens to be in the luxury space. We didn't know how the clientele would respond to our price band. But then we sold out for Diwali and then again for Christmas and New Year. We literally had to turn people away. The corporations too have given us good business. Starting with some FMCG companies doing small meetings to now fully sell out team building events. But then to this to our surprise Diwali. We were sold out and Christmas newer we were sold out. We've literally had to refuse customers. If you see the last three months, we've achieved around 30 percent occupancy which I feel is a good number," Sharma said, adding that they were doing a net ADR of INR 6300.
Built on 16 acres of land he Fern Forest Resort & Spa, Jambughoda is around 60 kilometres from Vadodara and 35 kilometres from the industrial zone in Halol.
One of the big surprises was the kind of F&B business that the hotel has been doing—in the three months they have opened, they have done two weddings, with two more lined up for this month. The hotel is proving to be a huge hub for destination weddings, he said.
The fact that Halol is so close by also has seen large firms doing rate contracts with the hotel for rooms, he added.
Regarding whether weddings and large functions would be disruptive for the sanctuary, Sharma said they had met with the RFO and gotten the guidelines from them. He added that all permissions were obtained for individual functions and their indoor banquet facilities which could hold around 600 people were also soundproof.
The entire property including 108 rooms should be fully functional within six to eight months, Sharma added.
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From Pavullo, heading for approximately 4km in the direction of Lama Mocogno, we arrive at the village of Montecuccolo. This was the centre of the Montecuccoli family's fiefdom and it is here that we can still find the most important reminders of them, starting from the castle itself where their centuries-long history as feudatories and lords of the Frignano region began.
At the top of the steep ramp after crossing through the entrance portal, we find ourselves in the fortress's large internal courtyard, dominated by the tower which was probably built somewhere round the XII century, when the Montecuccoli Ghibellines, battling the Guelph families for dominion of Frignano, were consolidating their power. The tower was defended by a first circle of walls, while an underground cistern at the foot guaranteed its water supply.
The arch we see today to enter the small courtyard was opened later on, as explained in writing on the arch's keystone: GALEOTUS MC alias Montecuccoli 1549. In the north-western part, along the steepest part of the mountain, the Montecuccoli gradually built their residence in successive phases between the XII and the XVI centuries. In reality this was a complex of buildings from different ages superimposed on one another. The oldest nucleus is the so-called "old palace", which collapsed during the XIX century and was never rebuilt except for the outside wall. To this was added the "new palace", consisting of two wings, one towards the north, the other towards the south, encircled by the second wall.
The XVI century also saw the construction of the small round tower with its stone spiral staircase to facilitate access to the various storeys, while much work was done to transform the austere fortress into a stylish palace with its rooms frescoed according to contemporary taste.
The fortress was devastated by French soldiers in 1799 and left to its own devices for decades. As a result, nowadays nothing remains of the furniture, the pictures, or even the original structure, which was heavily altered at the end of the XIX century when it was purchased by Monsignor Gaetano Bonvicini to turn into rooms to let.
The palace is entered from the door that gives onto the larger courtyard. After the small entrance hall access to the three upstairs floors is via a magnificent spiral staircase whose steps are single blocks of stone. The walls are perforated by loopholes to keep an eye on various points of the fortress.
On the piano nobile lived the feudatory with his family. Of note in one of the rooms is the imposing stone fireplace whose architrave is richly decorated with the Este symbol of a Diamond in the centre, with the Montecuccoli crest to the left of this, and a spiral decoration portraying a stylized sun. On the left, the mysterious initials RA with the date 1488.
On the same floor, inside the piazza tower, is the General's room, where, according to legend, General Raimondo Montecuccoli saw the light. This memory, handed down to our own days, saved the room from destruction, and today we can admire it as it was in 1545, decorated according to prevailing Renaissance taste.
The decorations that run around the top of the walls are interspersed with numerous Latin mottos and Montecuccoli family crests, often accompanied by those of the wives belonging to the noble families, the Molza from Modena, the Pico from Mirandola, the Pio from Carpi, and the Landi from Ferrara.
Other characteristic elements of the room are the four round loopholes a metre above floor level which betray the tower's original military function.
It is unknown where the kitchen was exactly, however contemporary documents refer to a housewife with three assistants.
Upstairs is Frignano's "Ferruccio Minghelli" Natural History Museum, with displays of material on Earth Sciences.
On its shelves are samples of rocks, fossils and minerals which constitute a priceless lithological and mineralogical testimony of the Frignano region. Also the paleontological section contains local finds, with rooms devoted to flora and fauna. Of particular scientific interest is the precious herbarium which preserves 6,000 samples from the collection of the botanists Mori, Lunardi and Riva.
From the museum's first room we can go outside onto the battlements, protected by merlons, to admire an arresting panorama of the whole of the Frignano.
The castle is also home to two interesting art collections, one of the painter Gino Covili, the other of the sculptor, Raffaele Biolchini, both eminent local artists.
We now descend to the lowest part of the courtyard, at the main entrance to the upper village. On the left is the door to the guard room, on the right a narrow splayed loophole to check on the outside access ramp. Again on the right, a narrow passageway leads down to a small prison, in the basement of the piazza tower.
The plastered walls are covered in graffiti and writings left by the prisoners who served out their sentence here.
The massive building backing onto the south-eastern wall was the Podesteria, a set of constructions including the Podestà's palace, the law court, the torture room, the prisons, and even the Podestà's residence with a stable and a small building for drying chestnuts.
All these buildings date back to the 1400s when the Duke established the Podesteria.
By now completely restored, the former Podestà palace is home to a modern hostel.


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Citing the WHO report about growing resistance of the human body to antibiotics, Dhillon said: "But cranberry is the nature's way to give you natural antibiotics and prevent infections."
With Indians reporting high rate of urinary tract infections, one of the world's top cranberry producer Ocean Spray is eyeing the huge Indian market for its products.
The move by Ocean Spray to enter India now assumes significance after a recent World Health Organization report that increasing resistance to antibiotics could become a major threat to people's health.
Indo-Canadian Peter Povitar Dhillon, the Ocean Spray chairman, said, "We went India to explore opportunities of doing business there. As a global company, we recognise the huge potential of the Indian marketplace. India has the fastest growing middle class and it is the world's youngest country in terms of the age of its people."
According to Dhillon, considering that young people and pregnant women in India report higher incidents of urinary tract infections, cranberry products can be the best natural remedy to prevent bladder problems.
He said, "We went there to understand the marketplace because the culture of doing business in India is very different. It was a very positive trip. Now we are thinking about the best ways to educate Indians about the unique benefits of cranberry. India's growing middle class is very affluent and they are becoming very health conscious."
Dhillon, said he has personal reasons to see Ocean Spray enter India as early as possible.
He added, "My parents came to Canada from Punjab and they started growing cranberry here. Now I have the unique opportunity to take this fruit to India. So in a way, things are coming full circle. We have some people from Ocean Spray going to India next month. It is a marketplace that we must understand first before we take steps to enter it."


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Alex: Your product has a number of software development kits [SDKs] supporting multiple languages. In your opinion, are there any inherent advantages of writing web services in one language versus another?
Craig: Our SDKs, which SOAP-enable Perl, Java, and COM applications, were implemented before there were good SOAP toolkits available. Today, we encourage developers to just use their favorite SOAP toolkit, which Grand Central will support out of the box.
Alex: A lot of companies have a lot of investments in legacy applications. How would they identify what processes they should convert to web services to share with outside partners? Should they try to convert some of these processes to a profit center? If so, what challenges would that pose?
Craig: Web services enable you to create a machine interface to an application such that you can broaden its ability to be consumed. Companies therefore need to find applications that would benefit from broadened consumption by other applications—by other internal applications or by your partners.
This is very similar to what happened with web interfaces. Companies put web interfaces in front of applications so they could be more broadly consumed. Web services simply extend this value proposition to make APIs more broadly consumable by other applications.
In terms of making a profit center, I think that's a much higher bar that I wouldn't necessarily want to hold all web services efforts up to. I believe that most web services efforts will be about providing a new way to consume something. And perhaps if I'm already paying for a service, I may be willing to pay to more efficiently consume via a web services interface. To this end, we enable the metering data that's tracked in Grand Central to be fed to billing systems.
Alex: So they can integrate directly through something like a Metratech [an XML-based billing system] or something like that.
Craig: We haven't done that specifically yet, but it shouldn't be difficult. As I mentioned, all of the web services that we've seen deployed are to known partners and customers, and it's more about deepening the relationship than creating a new profit center.
Alex: Your technology uses a hub model to route messages. How would that scale as the number of client messages grow?
Craig: This is probably a more detailed conversation than we can effectively cover in this interview. We have deployed a two-tiered architecture in which there are a few data centers coordinating with a large number of lightweight POPs [points of presences]. We feel that this architecture will scale very effectively and while doing so allows us to maintain appropriate levels of security and reliability. By taking this approach, we can ensure the integrity and reliability of messages, but do so in a way that's extremely easy and flexible to deploy by our customers. All of our POPs, which manage the proxies that I was talking about earlier, are hosted in 24x7 network operations centers with fully redundant capabilities such that we can guarantee the security, reliability, and the integrity of the data. Because they're hosted, they're incredibly easy to deploy in front of any web service. We can swing them in front of everything from an IBM mainframe to an Excel spreadsheet, providing these services with enterprise-class security and reliability without having to install any software.
Alex: How does your firm work with some of the existing authentication initiatives such as Microsoft Passport and the Liberty Alliance spearheaded by Sun?
Craig: Well, those authentications are for user authentication. Mainly we deal with machine-to-machine communication. So our focus is more on working with folks like VeriSign. To the extent that Passport and the Liberty Alliance extend their models to include machine authentication, we would certainly embrace them as part of our framework, but it probably won't happen for quite some time.
Alex: Currently the UDDI directories are being controlled by the technology vendors, including IBM, Microsoft, and others. Do you see directories for vertical industries formed by the market leaders in those particular industries—for example, a Baby Bell creating a UDDI directory solely for the telecommunications industry?
Craig: My stance is probably more radical than most on this issue. I think everyone's going to have a UDDI directory. You're going to use it to maintain your list of services that you regularly interact with. As such, I think UDDI will look increasingly more like LDAP than Yahoo!. I also believe that there will be public directories that will emphasize discovery and, as you've suggested, I think they will map to specific vertical industries.
Alex: One technology that has been around for a while but has gotten a lot more attention recently is enterprise portals. There are a lot of conversations around how that's going to be the first contact for most people with web services, even though the user is probably not even aware of it. Is that what you're seeing right now?
Craig: Web services are just architecture; as such, it can be applied to a variety of problems. This includes enterprise information portals [EIP] as well as application development and integration.
Within the context of integration, you're using web services to tie applications together into business processes. Within the context of application development, you're tying components together to create applications. Within the context of EIP, you're tying modules into portals. As to whether the EIP use case is going to happen first, I really can't say.
Alex: Earlier you touched on metering for billing purposes. Is it really feasible for a web services producer to charge for usage on a transaction basis? eBay is the only company that comes to mind as having been successful at this.
Craig: I guess the analogy I would use is a web site, where using the web was just a different way of producing your interface. So if you're Dun & Bradstreet and you make credit card authorizations into a web service, could you charge for it? Sure. It's just a different distribution channel or packaging. If you currently charge for tariff calculations or tax calculations, and you put a web service interface in front of it, could you charge for that? Sure. It's simply about allowing you to be more broadly consumed. So I think to the extent that people have existing service-level interfaces that they currently charge for, it's almost a no-brainer to create an opportunity for a billing interface.
Alex: The recent announcement about SAP adopting the web services initiative took a lot of people by surprise. Do you see other companies announcing? What's the broad implication of a company when it's that large, with an application that big, going to a web services model, as opposed to traditional ABAP [the traditional way of interfacing with SAP]?
Craig: I think this is a huge opportunity for all independent software vendors [ISVs]. A company like SAP or PeopleSoft may have viewed their application in the past in terms of their GUI interface [or] their human interface, but really what they've created is an application that runs a business process or multiple business processes. And just as important as creating a human interface to those business processes is creating a machine interface, especially since that enables it to interact with other business processes. By more deeply integrating within an enterprise it creates switching costs, which are very valuable to those vendors.
The big transition that I've seen in the last six months is that many ISVs assumed that web services were about delivering their software as a service. But people are starting to come around to the notion that it's not about that—although that's an interesting opportunity with services. The real opportunity lies in how I create a machine interface or a service interface to my application, and view my application more as the process itself, not just in terms of the human interface.
Alex: Where do you see this technology going in the next year? What major initiatives or assumptions do you make in your strategic plans, based around one year or five years?
Craig: By the end of 2002, I think you're going to see web services being deployed by early adopters to do both B2B integration and internal integration, as well as EIP-oriented deployments. Web services are an interesting model for internal application development and code reuse, but there are a lot of issues around configuration and change management that have a long way to go before this notion of dynamically assembling billions and billions of components in the network into applications. I previously worked at a company that marketed an application development platform for object-oriented components. I have a hard time imagining that having a standard protocol and data format solves a lot of the problems that you have with using external components, specifically issues around reliability and change management. If you used a component to build your application and a thousand other people also used it, how does that component ever get upgraded? What happens if there's an Internet problem? I've lived through that. I used to be a real optimist about it and now I'm a cynic, but I still believe that it will eventually happen. I just think there are a lot of issues that people have to think through. It's not just about the protocol.


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Four-year safety with polyacrylamide hydrogel to correct antiretroviral-related facial lipoatrophy
Eugenia Negredo, Jordi Puig, David Aldea, Manuel Medina, Carla Estany, Núria Pérez-Alvarez, Carmina Rodríguez-Fumaz, Jose A. Muñoz-Moreno, Carmen Higueras, Vicente Gonzalez-Mestre, Bonaventura Clotet
Infiltrations with synthetic substances are effective strategies for repairing facial lipoatrophy. However, few data are available on long-term safety. We describe the safety of polyacrylamide hydrogel in 145 patients who received facial infiltrations with Aquamid from September 2002 to April 2004. Epidemiological, clinical (mainly complications), and psychological data (patient satisfaction) were collected. We also recorded all patients who presented with a local infection at any time after receiving an infiltration. Sixty-two percent of patients presented with severe facial lipoatrophy before infiltration. The cumulative volume of Aquamid injected was 5.5ml (4-18) per patient. During a mean (SD) of 50.2 (4.3) months after infiltration, only one patient presented with a local infection. Small palpable, nonvisible nodules or indurations were the most frequent complications (19.3% and 6.2%, respectively). If we include the remaining patients from our center (n=294) who also received Aquamid (although less than 4 years ago), a further three patients presented with a local infection (incidence of 0.9%). Most patients (88.9%) were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the results; patients with mild to moderate baseline facial lipoatrophy were more satisfied than those with severe lipoatrophy ("very satisfied": 92.7% versus 86.5%, respectively). Only 17.4% reported mild impairment of lipoatrophy and only 9.2% required new infiltrations; however, 76% would have preferred more infiltrations. The high patient satisfaction and the low number of severe complications after at least 4 years of facial infiltrations with Aquamid reflect the long-term safety of this product for the repair of facial lipoatrophy. However, prolonged follow-up of these patients is recommended to detect unexpected long-term adverse reactions. © Copyright 2009, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2009.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
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Negredo, E., Puig, J., Aldea, D., Medina, M., Estany, C., Pérez-Alvarez, N., Rodríguez-Fumaz, C., Muñoz-Moreno, J. A., Higueras, C., Gonzalez-Mestre, V., & Clotet, B. (2009). Four-year safety with polyacrylamide hydrogel to correct antiretroviral-related facial lipoatrophy. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 25(4), 451-455. https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2008.0230
Negredo, Eugenia ; Puig, Jordi ; Aldea, David ; Medina, Manuel ; Estany, Carla ; Pérez-Alvarez, Núria ; Rodríguez-Fumaz, Carmina ; Muñoz-Moreno, Jose A. ; Higueras, Carmen ; Gonzalez-Mestre, Vicente ; Clotet, Bonaventura. / Four-year safety with polyacrylamide hydrogel to correct antiretroviral-related facial lipoatrophy. In: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 2009 ; Vol. 25, No. 4. pp. 451-455.
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Q: How to deal with changing folder names when your header guards and #includes use exact paths? I am coding in C++ using the Visual Studio 2019 IDE.
I have followed the convention that every file #includes project files using the exact path. For example:
#include "ProjectName/FolderName2/HeaderName2.h"
#include "ProjectName/FolderName/src/HeaderName1.h"

I have also followed the convention of including the path in my #ifndef header guards:
#ifndef PROJECTNAME_FOLDERNAME_FILENAME_H
#define PROJECTNAME_FOLDERNAME_FILENAME_H

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This is the style suggest by the Google Style Guide.
However, as I am coding, I may want to change folder names. For example, I may decide that ProjectName is not a correct description of the contents of the folder and that I should change the name to ProjectName2. This change, however, requires correcting header guards and each #include that uses ProjectName in the path description. This problem becomes significantly worse if I totally reorganize my code.
Are there (automatic) tools to  make this easier? Is #includeing the exact path (from the solution folder) the way to go?

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Last week we started getting into the Halloween spirit and took a trip to Blackpool Tower Dungeon. The Blackpool Tower Dungeon brings together an amazing cast of theatrical actors, special effects, stages, scenes and a ride in a truly unique and exciting walk through experience that you see, hear, touch, smell and feel. It's hilarious fun and it's sometimes a bit scary.
The Feisty Pets have been dishing out some rough justice!
The fun started just after picking up our tickets with a spooky jester running around, scaring people and telling jokes. Shortly afterwards, everyone was shown into a room where we were taken down in a dark lift to start our journey.
Visits to the dungeons are done in time slots, so we had a bit of a wait before it was our turn, though the entertainment made it feel like only a short time before we were on our way. The experience takes around an hour, during which visitors move between a series of rooms containing interactive shows which cover topics such as The Plague, a Viking Invasion and The Pendle Witches. Staff employ a series of tactics to get you squirming in your seat or jumping out of your skin – it really isn't for the faint hearted! The actors are brilliant and really get everyone joining in, especially those they pull from the crowd for a bit of audience participation – much to the amusement of their respective families! The shows are amusing, educational and scary and everyone on our tour seemed to really enjoy it. Even the walks between the rooms caused a few jumps!
Once you've made your way through the majority of the tour (and almost pulled yourself back together), there is a short ride at the end which is a 'drop ride' (i.e. they strapped you in, raised you up and then dropped you down.) That makes a great finish to an already eventful tour.
There is an opportunity to purchase photos from the ride, as well as those that are staged as you enter the tour, once you reach the gift shop (in a bar – nice touch!). Photography is not permitted during the tour but here is a video from The Dungeons website to whet your appetite!
The Blackpool Tower Dungeon Halloween special is on now until 4th November and you can get discounted tickets through the website here… but are you brave enough?!
We were guests of Blackpool Tower Dungeons and thank them for our complimentary visit in order to produce this review.


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Passage of three data bills is hailed by FSC
With the passage of the so-called three data bills on Thursday, the use of personal data will be easier in Korea, which is expected to bring significant improvements to the nation's finance industry.
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) welcomed the passage of the bills, saying it will "accelerate the finance industry's digital transformation."
"It made a legal base for the finance industry's utilization of big data, and it also made a suitable environment for new industry players like MyData," the FSC said Thursday in a statement.
The National Assembly passed revised versions of three data-related bills - the Personal Information Protection Act, Information and Communications Network Act and Protection of Credit Information Act - relaxing regulations on the use of personal data including credit ratings. The bills have been pending in the Assembly for more than a year.
With the revisions, a business entity is now allowed to utilize pseudonymized personal data without getting the permission from the subject for commercial statistics, study and for public goods purposes. Before, a complicated process was required to use personal data.
Pseudonymized personal data removes information that can trace data back to an individual. It contains enough information to contribute to big data algorithms.
The changes to the laws are also expected to allow new players into Korea such as MyData-type companies. MyData companies are third-party entities that collect and analyze personal financial data that is scattered around diverse financial institutions upon a client's order. Previously, each financial entity claimed exclusive rights to the pieces of information obtained from the client. "MyData operators can help clients better manage their personal data and thus recommend better customized finance products and consultations," the FSC said.
The financial authority said the entry barrier for MyData businesses would be lowered.
Shinhan Financial Group predicted fintech companies like Kakao Pay, NHN Payco, Bank Salad and Toss will be among the first applicants for such new business opportunities.
"MyData operators can collect one's data into one place and recommend more customized services based on its algorithm," said Kim Soo-hyun, a researcher at Shinhan Financial Group.
The changes in the law will even help people with low credit ratings.
Before, people without regular incomes or savings had low credit ratings. Now, with the FSC's plan to implement what's called a "non-financial credit bureau," their credit ratings are likely to increase because their history of paying phone bills, electricity and water bills will be taken into consideration.
"With enough accumulation of data, some 11 million young men and housewives and some 6.6 million self-employed people will receive higher credit ratings," the FSC said.
The new data-related laws will go into effect as early as July.
Intentional re-identification of pseudonymized personal data is prohibited and can lead to a fine of a maximum 3 percent of the business entity's yearly revenue. Korea's bio industry, which has chafed at the strict regulations on the use of personal medical data, welcomed the changes. "The three data bills are the basis of the bio industry's future," said the Korea Biotechnology Industry Organization in a statement Friday. "The utilization of big data will ultimately elevate the people's health and welfare through more personalized care."
BY JIN EUN-SOO [jin.eunsoo@joongang.co.kr]
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Rave Porochista Khakpour,
...there is no end to the horrors that rattle in and out of this ferocious, magnificently death-affirming novel ... Han's glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable.
Rave Daniel Hahn,
This is Han Kang's first novel to appear in English, and it's a bracing, visceral, system-shocking addition to the Anglophone reader's diet. It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colours and disturbing questions ... The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience.
Rave Sun Yung Shin,
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Han's striking language has a purity, especially when it touches into the deep melancholia that is part of South Korea's modern inheritance, in its explorations of the psyche in flux ... a remarkable novel with universal themes about isolation, obsession, duty and desire.
Positive Thrity Umrigar,
...this is a deceptive novel, its canvas much larger than the mild social satire that one initially imagines. Kang has bigger issues to raise — the effects of childhood abuse, the damage caused by loveless unions, the patriarchy that victimizes both men and women, and finally, the question of whether women have claim to their own bodies.
Pan Tim Parks,
Looked at closely, the prose is far from an epitome of elegance, the drama itself neither understated nor beguiling, the translation frequently in trouble with register and idiom. Studying the thirty-four endorsements again, and the praise after the book won the prize, it occurs to me there is a shared vision of what critics would like a work of 'global fiction' to be and that The Vegetarian has managed to present itself as a candidate that can be praised in those terms. Ideologically, it champions the individual (woman) against an oppressive society (about which we know nothing, except that it seems 'worse' than our own). Emotionally, it allows us to feel intense sympathy for a helpless victim, which is always encouraging for our self-esteem. Aesthetically, it offers moments of surrealism—typically in the wife's heated and unhappy imaginings, or the brother-in-law's fantasies of vegetable couplings—which we can see as excitingly exotic and a guarantee of a lively imagination. In this regard, the slightly disorienting effect of the translation can actually reinforce our belief that we are coming up against something new and different.
Rave Gregory Leon Miller,
To some degree, The Vegetarian may be read as a feminist allegory, a tale of what might befall a woman who rebels against patriarchal oppression. Beyond gender, Yeong-hye's story extends to anyone who would say no to the order of things, anyone who senses that such order is maintained by the blood of others ... an existential nightmare, as evocative a portrayal of the irrational as I've come across in some time.
Rave Laura Miller,
The effect of Kang's prose is difficult to convey. I've scoured The Vegetarian in vain for a passage to quote that will illustrate how the novel transmits a feeling of great stillness even as its characters undergo convulsions of rage, sorrow, and lust .... it has an eerie universality that gets under your skin and stays put irrespective of nation or gender.
Rave Lesley Trites,
The Los Angeles Review of Books
The Vegetarian probes the boundaries between sanity and madness, passion and obsession, desire and violence. Elegantly told and chillingly rendered, it is a dark book, unexpected and even shocking.
Positive Claire Fallon,
The treatment of her harmful behavior as idealistic can be somewhat troubling, even as it slowly becomes clear there's far more behind her slow gravitation toward vegetal life; the nuance is literary, but slightly romanticized. And yet, by the end of the book, it's clear that we're wrong to romanticize, as The Vegetarian paints a confounding portrait of not one woman, but two damaged sisters seeking desperately to deal with the violence of living in their world.
Rave Lisa Zeidner,
Kang presents her heroine's metamorphosis crisply and dispassionately, although there are lapses into mood-shattering melodrama ... It's easy to imagine that in a society as restrictive as Kang's South Korea, this novel could seem especially daring. For Western readers, what's more shocking is the unapologetic sexism against which the heroine rebels.
Rave Leah Greenblatt,
...in dreamlike passages punctuated by bursts of startling physical and sexual violence, Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.
Rave John Yargo,
The Vegetarian is a sharply written allegory that extends far beyond its surreal premise to unexpected depths. The translation by Deborah Smith is by turns elegant and coarse. The narrators are perfectly pitched to their individual voices; they are looking for answers, or perhaps else.
Rave Graham Oliver,
By simultaneously staying out of her perspective (for the most part) and triangulating the events of the story through the lens of three separate people, the book's tension becomes powerfully tantalizing. Additionally, the reader's sympathy and understanding are built up, challenged, and sometimes smashed ... Han Kang has created a multi-leveled, well-crafted story that does what all great stories do: immediately connects the unique situation within these pages to the often painful experience of living.
Marshlands
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Depend…
My Brilliant Life
Ae-Ran Kim
Slash and Burn
Claudia Hernández, trans. by Julia Sanches