So just how Can you create your WordPress website faster? Well, if you are still using a generic shared hosting company, among the best options will, naturally, be to just switch to a higher performance web host. But what if you simply have not got the money or time to make the switch?
Today, I'll be taking an comprehensive look at one of the primary caching plugins around. WP Rocket. In the following review, I will show you by just how much — and how readily — it can speed up your site (using real-life tests and real data).
Caching Involves creating — and storing — a ready-made static (i.e. unchanging) version of your site in your server ready to show to visitors at a minute's notice. This decreases the need for your site (and/or the consumer's browser) to communicate back and forth with the host to assemble the behind-the-scenes information that creates your site's web pages.
You might Be wondering what happens in the event that you publish a new blog article on a cached site, because, presumably, an unchanging cached version of your site wouldn't take this recently created data into consideration.
It's worth Pointing out that, in terms of features independently, WP Rocket contrasts fairly favourably with its rivals. Granted, you're probably more interested in how much faster your website will probably be following installing WP Rocket (and rightfully so), however it is wonderful to know you're not missing out on some important attributes.
If you do Choose to learn more about the additional settings and choices WP Rocket supplies, you'll see it's a few tricks up its sleeve for possibly improving speed even further, such as the choice to only load media files (like pictures ) when the visitor reaches them onto a page (a feature called Lazy Loading).
In fact, When the plugin was uploaded and activated on your website, the cache will be automatically generated when someone visits the site. Everybody visiting your site then should instantly start experiencing significantly quicker loading times. Simple!
WP Rocket Aims to eliminate all such confusion by being mechanically up-and-running right from the box — without being so rigid that it is not able to deliver great results. After activating WP Rocket, you will see just a few tabs around the admin panel, each with only a few easy-to-understand settings.
You can See the rest of the basic settings display here. When there are a few more choices to work with, the plugin works just fine without any of these empowered. This truly is plug'n' play with caching for WordPress!
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· Eliminate query strings out of static resources (this you will not have a big effect, but it might improve your GTmetrix score, should you really care about that).
I urge Enabling as many of these configurations as you can. I state as possible because a number of the settings for CSS or JS might cause issues with your site (this isn't WP Rocket's error — it is always a possible problem with minification/concatenation).
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· Sitemap preloading — Reload your cache based on all the pages in your sitemap.xml file. It has low impact, however the disadvantage is that it does not cache freshly edited or published articles.
Personally, I find this to be The least exciting area of WP Rocket since there are loads of free plugins which do a great job cleaning your database. However, I guess the key advantage here is that WP Rocket eliminates the need for you to put in another plugin.
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Rituxan May Be Effective in Treating Refractory AAV Patients, Study Says
by Jose Marques Lopes PhD | January 22, 2018
Rituxan (rituximab) treatment is effective in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) who failed to respond to standard immunosuppressors, results from a Turkish study suggest.
But the team at Istanbul University noted that key data on its use — especially long-term data — is still lacking.
The research, "Rituximab for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis: experience of a single center and systematic review of non-randomized studies," appeared in the journal Rheumatology International.
Cyclophosphamide, an immunosuppressant, and glucocorticoids have been the standard treatment for remission in AAV. This combination, along with other medications such as anti-hypertensive and renal replacement therapies, are seen to greatly improve outcomes at one year. But troubling side effects can accompany therapies that suppress the immune system, and not all patients respond well to these standard treatments.
Research has shown that Rituxan is comparable to cyclophosphamide in inducing AAV remission, and can be superior in patients who have had a severe disease relapse. However, these studies have some significant limitations, including a large percentage of newly diagnosed patients, and they excluded people with refractory disease and those with co-existing diseases and poor prognosis.
The research team reported its experience in using Rituxan in AAV patients refractory (unresponsive) to conventional therapy. It also conducted a systematic literature review of studies of Rituxan in remission induction in AAV.
This analysis comprised a review of medical records of 25 AAV patients — 21 with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) — treated with Rituxan following insufficient response to immunosuppressive medications between 2011 and 2015. (Rituxan, by Genentech, was approved to treat GPA by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011.)
Intravenous Rituxan (two weekly doses of 1,000 mg or 375 mg/m2 per week for four weeks) was given for a median of two courses, with 24 months of follow-up. All 25 patients received concurrent treatment with steroids, 19 with intravenous methylprednisolone and oral prednisolone, and six with oral prednisolone only. Treatment cycles were repeated every six months.
At six months, 72 percent of patients receiving Rituxan had achieved a complete remission. At one year, the rate was 88 percent. Only three patients experienced minor relapses.
Infections were the most common adverse events. Two patients died due to refractory disease.
The literature review of Rituxan use included studies published until June 2017. A total of 56 studies involving 1,422 patients, most with refractory or relapsing AAV, were analyzed.
Concomitant immunosuppressives were given to 50 percent of these patients. This finding highlights the uncertain benefit of adding immunosuppressives, the team observed. The studies also had a large variability regarding AAV characteristics, endpoints, and Rituxan treatment protocol, which hampered generalization of findings.
Importantly, most reports showed complete or partial remission rates higher than 80 percent. The worst response – 37.5 percent – was in patients with granulomatous lesions (chronic inflammation). Although this result matches previous findings, other studies reported conflicting results.
"These conflicting results indicate the need for further studies to better understand the value of [Rituxan] in treating granulomatous lesions especially in refractory patients," the researchers wrote.
The relapse rate was 30 percent. The most frequent adverse events were infections and infusion reactions.
Overall, "our experience with [Rituxan] in refractory AAV is in line with the literature in terms of efficacy and safety," the team wrote.
"We still have few data on the long-term outcome of this treatment and on its efficacy on individual organ manifestations. In addition, more data on different patient populations are needed that would lead to the development of consensus on endpoints, outcome measures and treatment strategies," the researchers concluded.
Jose Marques Lopes PhD José is a science news writer with a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidade of Porto, in Portugal. He has also studied Biochemistry at Universidade do Porto and was a postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has ranged from the association of central cardiovascular and pain control to the neurobiological basis of hypertension, and the molecular pathways driving Alzheimer's disease.
Genentech, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), refractory AAV, Rituxan, rituximab, systemic vasculitis

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I've always been one to plan ahead (sometimes far too ahead), but I prefer to have tried and tested rather than be done and dusted! So while I know Little Man won't start school till September, I can't help thinking about all the boxes he we have to tick to get school-ready (be able to dress themselves, eat an entire meal by themselves etc etc). And of course the big to-do list for me. One of which is labelling uniforms, jackets, lunch boxes and water bottles. So I thought I'll get ahead of the game and test some name tags and stickers (Little Man anyways needs his uniform and snack box labelled at nursery), so come September I'm not scuttling around finding the perfect name tag!
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Heartbreak Is a Team Effort in The BreakUp
An emotional two-part dance film from songwriter Luis Gamarra and choreographer Holly Wilder shows what can happen when College and Conservatory alumni join forces.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee alumni Tanner Huseman and Shelby Claire in <i>The BreakUp</i>
If you wanted to design a project to demonstrate what Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee can do when their forces combine, you couldn't do much better than The BreakUp. The two-part video collaboration between Boston-based singer Luis Gamarra B.M. '16 and New York dance film company Wilder Project features original music by Gamarra, audio production by Pepe Portilla B.M. '15, choreography by Wilder Project founder Holly Wilder (B.F.A. '15, contemporary dance), and dance performances by Shelby Claire (B.F.A. '17, contemporary dance) and Tanner Huseman (B.F.A. '17, contemporary dance). The second and final part of the collaboration premiered on September 6.
Together, the two videos follow a single story about the end of a relationship. Each features a dance piece set to a single from Gamarra's forthcoming EP, Libre ("Free" in Spanish): "No Siento Más" ("I Don't Feel It Anymore") is part one and "En Paz" ("In Peace") is part two.
Gamarra had long admired Wilder Project. He still remembers the deep personal impression made by one of their videos from years earlier: "I had never watched a dance video with so many tears in my eyes," he said. "They not only danced: they showed a story. Every move had a purpose and they made me believe every second of it." This sort of emotional storytelling through movement was exactly what he wanted for The BreakUp—so he reached out to Holly Wilder.
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"From the moment Luis approached me about collaborating on these videos, the focus was always on embodying the feeling and story of the two songs," says Wilder. "I really value his commitment to the integrity of the work and appreciate how much trust I received from him to let my vision for the films lead us."
Wilder also credits dancers Claire and Huseman for the success of the project, and for the satisfaction she took in the process: "Working with two of my dearest collaborators and fellow Conservatory alumni who performed in the films was such a joy because of their creative, generous minds and deep commitment to the work."
"From the audio production to the music video, our team was full of College and Conservatory alumni," says Gamarra, who sees this collaboration as a reflection of the College and Conservatory communities coming together.
The result is an arresting pair of videos, both emotionally powerful and visually striking. "I can't be happier with...how Wilder Project brought the story of my songs to life," says Gamarra.
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Ooh la la! There'll be a French holiday atmosphere in Castle Ashby town centre on Sunday July 12 when a group of traditional French market traders and some continental friends return to set up their stalls for one day only.
Summer has finally arrived, and for Castle Ashby locals, so have the intoxicating colours, scents and sights of a traditional French market. On Sunday July 12, Castle Ashby town centre will host some of the best French and continental market traders around. For any locals who've never experienced a vibrant French market before – this is the perfect opportunity to do so on right on their own doorsteps!
The market also features traders from other countries, including Italy, Spain and the UK (the 'friends' in the event title!), all of whom are handpicked for their experience and professionalism and the quality and popularity of their merchandise.
The market will feature a French delicatessen with a range of exquisite artisanal terrines, patés, charcuterie and cured meats. There'll be freshly baked French bread and the finest French cheeses. There'll be fresh olives and pasta, and for those who get irrresistibly peckish whilst looking around there'll be Spanish paella, chicken fajitas, Moroccan couscous and a juicy hog roast!
There'll also be a colourful assortment of sweet and sugary temptations, including croissants and crépes (both sweet and savoury), Italian confectionery, candy, fudge, pastries, viennoiserie, baklava, nougat, Turkish Delight and fruit & nuts.
The sights, sounds and scents are bound to entice town centre shoppers, and the stalls will be packed with authentic, top quality, mouth-watering continental delicacies to satisfy their curiosity.
Organised by international market event operators Savoir Fayre Ltd, this colourful travelling market arrives in Castle Ashby as part of its annual tour of the Home Counties, London, the Midlands, East Anglia and the South Coast.
All attending traders are fully checked and accredited by The Market People - a new system of booking, business management and accreditation for market professionals - and can be easily contacted before or after any purchase via The Market People website (themarketpeople.com).
Castle Ashby Summer French Market & Friends will be operating in The Rural Shopping Yard, The Old Farm Yard, Castle Ashby, NN71LF on Sunday July 12, 2015 between 9am and 5pm.


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Zwierżany – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie podlaskim, w powiecie sokólskim, w gminie Sidra.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa białostockiego.

Wierni kościoła rzymskokatolickiego należą do parafii Przemienienia Pańskiego w Sokolanach.

Historia
Wchodzącą w 1680 roku w skład klucza nowodworskiego (którego centrum był dwór ekonomiczny) wieś Zwirdzany (Zwierzany) otrzymał w dożywocie pamiętnikarz Aleksander Dionizy Skorobohaty herbu Radwan, horodniczy grodzieński. We wspomnianym roku zapłacił z 12 włók tej wsi i przyległych 36 morgów czynsz w wysokości 65 zł i 12 gr. Żonaty był z Konstancją z Wolskich. Przed ślubem, który odbył się w 1670 roku, uzyskał dwie wsie wchodzące w skład ekonomii grodzieńskiej: Zwierzany i Chodakowszczyznę (niezidentyfikowana). Zwierzany posiadały 12 włók a Chodakowszczyzna 2,5 włóki i 2,5 morga. Opłacał z nich czynsz w wysokości 2,5 złotych od włóki. Dobra te odstąpił Skorobohatemu za konsensem króla Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego wydanym w 1669 roku - Jan Politalski, wcześniejszy ich posiadacz. Dzierżawione były one tylko zasłużonym ludziom królewskim.

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Genesis Chapter 45 narrates a wonderful passage on the life of Joseph who finally reveals himself to his brothers after loudly weeping before them, not in sorrow or in self pity, but probably with relief, love and joy at the sight of his beloved brothers and most especially his nearest sibling Benjamin.
It seems also that Joseph is overwhelmed with the wondrous works of God in his life over the years from his childhood dreams to his being thrown into the pit, onward to his being sold as a slave, working under Potiphar, wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.
And then he thinks of the moment when just when he may have possibly given up all hope of ever being released he is instead wondrously released from prison and elevated to a very high position as the right hand man of Pharaoh. A position that even he would never ever have thought of or imagined in his wildest of dreams.
The Lord God of Heaven had planned out every stage of every event that took place in his life, every single twist and turn even those moments which may have tempted him to feel that God had forsaken him. In all the varying scenes of life the Lord was working out His perfect will for Joseph.
Lets look at the scene again as he reveals himself to his brothers. Their reaction to his revelation is understandable considering that to their mind they have all along being dealing not with their brother, whom they probably presumed dead, but the second most important man in all of Egypt.
They have bowed down to this man, a man whom they perceived to be so high above them that they considered themselves as well as their father Jacob to be nothing but mere servants to this powerful leader of Egypt, with much fear mingled with uncertainty as to whether he would spare their lives.
And now this awesome powerful man states that he is their brother Joseph whom they sold to slavery. Joseph that seemingly worthless dreamer has become this great man feared by all of Egypt and the nations. What a mixture of emotions they must have felt as they dreaded their fate.
In their palpable vulnerability they find themselves now at the mercy of him whom they had desired to be rid of . Their guilty conscience now awakens as they ponder over their sins against him wondering whether he is now out to score old scores considering their shameful treatment of him.
But Joseph is not out for revenge as this is the last thing on his mind, rather he is overwhelmed by a multiplicity of emotions one of them being a great love for his brethren especially Benjamin. He probably has not ceased to pray for his brothers praying that God may touch their hearts and that perhaps one day he may be blessed of the Lord to see the faces of his family members once again.
Joseph does not even gloat over his brothers to remind them of the dreams that he had in childhood concerning his reigning supreme over them and the fulfillment of that dream in his current role as Prime Minister of Egypt and provider of all in the prevailing famine that has inflicted everyone.
Joseph has come to the understanding that his life has ever always been in the hand of an almighty loving God who would not let Joseph go through anything in life that has not been permitted by Father, Son and Holy Spirit from the courts of heaven. He tells them that they sold but God Sent.
The account of Joseph's life is one that should not only fascinate or interest all especially of the household of faith but more importantly should give us a sense of perspective regarding God's ultimate purpose in history among His people, whom He has called from among the large mass of men as well as nations in any generation, that through them His mighty works might be displayed.
In essence Joseph's life story could be the story of every child of God as they travel along life's pathway experiencing and going through the various changes of life's scenes while receiving encouragements as well as submitting to the Lord disciplines along their pilgrim journey through this brief earthly sojourn as they pray, worship, work and wait till their earthly travelling comes to an end.
Like Joseph we are all born into some sort of family whatever that family arrangement might be and like him we experience the sibling rivalry which gets worse when we among our family members are convicted of our sin upon hearing the Word of God, maybe for the umpteenth time, bow the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ confessing our sin before Him and pledging our allegiance to Him.
And as we embark on this new journey we begin to encounter the resistance of the world towards us first from our immediate family members, then that from distant members as well as neighbours and close friends who begin to consider us as oddities or antisocial killjoys with a morbid view of life.
Soon this hostility breaks forth not just from without but even our own flesh is opposed to our new state and we feel "fightings and fears within without" at every turn often seeming to overwhelm our spirits at every opportunity perhaps when we are assailed with doubts as well as temptations.
We like Joseph experience the major highs and lows of living in the world and may sometimes be overwhelmed either by the high station or office we may attain to or else be depressed by the very trying trials we may undergo, some of which may very well be life changing or even threatening for us.
In the midst of all these however we need always remember that our God and Father has in eternity planned and worked out every stage of our lives as well as every daily step that we take all for the sake that He might display His glorious purposes both in our lives as well as in the Church of Christ.
Ultimately we were called out of this world in due time by the Godhead to be pilgrims as well as strangers upon earth for the sake not of our earthly enjoyments or otherwise but that Christ Jesus our God and Saviour may yet be glorified in the salvation of sinners having made a public spectacle of all the powers of hell in His great redemptive work from His incarnation to His ascension.
May we like Joseph know the Lord's presence when we undergo the ups and downs of life because of the faith seeing this as nothing but part and parcel of our pilgrim journey ordered by the Lord in His wisdom for each individual member of His invisible Church that at the last day all His trophies of Grace may be displayed and all may cry "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain forever and ever".


The use of active acoustic instruments to measure interactions of marine animals and seabirds around marine energy devices can be difficult due to high water flows around the energy generating devices. In particular, turbulence may destabilize data streams or result in loss of data; determining the level of interference from these effects is challenging. Researchers in several nations are experimenting with removing the turbulence and other background sounds from acoustic data from multibeam, single beam, split beam sonar, and acoustic cameras. Others believe the data can be processed along with the turbulence measurements, providing valuable outputs.
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Beauty and the Beast brings the magic to life
Illustration by Kristina Stuntebeck
Jackie Bussjaeger, Editor in Chief
The set looks like a cartoon: the shops in the village pop with vibrant color and unusual angles, and quiet candlelight glimmers in the gloomy depths of the castle. The characters are classic, dressed in their bright and instantly recognizable costumes from the animated film. Belle (Jillian Butterfield) displays the same reserved intelligence and exasperation, Maurice (Thomas Mothershed) retains the same kooky-but-lovable quirks and Gaston (Cameron Bond) embodies the same robust swagger that lovers of the movie already expect. While this touring production isn't exactly a theatrical revolution, it accomplishes its purpose: re-envisioning the magic of the screen for live theater.
The audience was teeming with little girls in their fanciest princess dresses (split almost equally between Belle and Elsa) for last Sunday's matinee, as well as plenty of older fans. A group of nearly 30 Hamline students attended as part of a HU Programming Board event. As a group who grew up watching the film, the stage adaptation was greatly appreciated for its nostalgic value.
Each scene is timed precisely; each line handed off almost before the viewer can comprehend the change of focus. Some of the dialogue feels a bit too quick, often relying on audience familiarity with the story. However, this also allows the actors to embellish with palpable comedic impact–the Beast's wailing tantrum as his servants guide him through how to say "please" is a chuckleworthy sidetrack. The production sometimes sacrifices the underlying darkness of the tale for opportunities to milk laughs from the audience.
The usual showstopper, "Be Our Guest," delivers an impossibly colorful, lavish routine that literally finishes with a bang as glittering streamers explode from cannons on either side of the stage. Although this is the classically "big" number, there are a few other songs that surprisingly embody the same spirited momentum, including the joyous "Human Again" sung by the enchanted objects as their hope of ending the spell bubbles over, and the Beast's "If I Can't Love Her," which features the stunning baritone of Ryan Everett Wood in a highly emotional first-act finale.
The production stayed fairly true to the original Disney feature and to its Broadway run, but there were a few variations. One of the most critical changes was the absence of the Battle of the Castle scene, when the villagers storm the Beast's castle and face off against an army of cheeky enchanted household appliances. Although this somewhat neutralizes the buildup from "Kill the Beast," the transition into the pivotal fight between Gaston and the Beast covers the gap smoothly. The visual effects also warrant applause: the transformation scene alone provides an entire kaleidoscopic light show that leaves the mind whirling.
Though this production of Beauty and the Beast offers no real deviations from the Disney original, the classic and beloved story provides infectious fun and revisits the memories of childhood that we adore.
HUPB hosts student trips to the Orpheum every year, with a $20 student price. To find the details of these trips and other HUPB events, visit www.facebook.com/hupb11


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You can choose a ticket cost using the + and – buttons on the Ticket Cost display. After buying your ticket, pick 1 cell at a time with your cursor or press the Reveal All tab to reveal all of them in one click. Line up a minimum of 3 similar symbols horizontally, vertically or diagonally to trigger a payout.
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Watch these videos to get an idea of how to make whatever style press you want mine was pretty thrown together. These are pretty simple to make and to come up with your own design.
Now your ready to use your jig and hack saw so get cutting and the. Start sanding the edges, I recommend you take a short length of PVC pipe and cut it in half longways the. Take a piece of sandpaper and put it in the tube. This will make a slightly rounded rail and make your board look way more professional. You will also need to drill the holes at this point, you can do it after stain and clear coat if you want but it is not recommended. Here is a link to a truck hole template, the new school pattern is off so only use the old school one for this template.
You will need one or two costs of stain then about the same amount of coats of clear coat or polyurethane.
I don't know I haven't ridden it because I'm selling it but I have stood in it and it has good deck tip and soft bushings.
Does it have good turns?
Nice board. I love that old style look!


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Saint-Guidon (fr) ou Sint-Guido (nl) é uma estação da linha 5 (antiga 1B) do Metro de Bruxelas.
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The National Toxicology Programm (NTP), USA, has released two draft reports on studies on cell phone radiofrequency radiation in rats and mice. The main result is that high exposure to radiofrequency radiation resulted in tumors in tissues surrounding nerves in the hearts of male rats, but not female rats or any mice. The exposure levels used in the studies were equal to and higher than the highest level permitted for local tissue exposure in cell phone emissions today. Cell phones typically emit lower levels of radiation than the maximum level allowed. NTP will hold an external expert review of its complete findings from these rodent studies on March 26-28.
Here you can read the official statement and download the draft reports from the NTP homepage for free.


This work was executed for an exhibition at the Olana Estate, caretakers of the Hudson River School painter Frederick Church's Olana Estate in the Hudson River Valley. The prompt provided to the invited architects by the foundation was to imagine an architectural folly on an unbuilt site prescribed as a "summer house" in the original plan for the estate.
We chose to situate our proposal on a slope between two walking paths below the main house. The concentric platforms at two levels tie the diverging paths together with a loosely programmed space designed to activate the outdoor character of Church's estate year round while being modest enough to preserve the views that Church himself painted at the estate.
In summer the upper level can be used as a wading pool, while the lower space functions as a shady outdoor reading nook. In winter the wading pond can be frozen into a skating rink while the lower space can become a sheltered hearth.
We chose to represent the proposal within a pair of Church's existing paintings of the site, using painted figures from other Hudson River School painters as scale figures.


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Middle Class Jobs: All Things Old Are New Again
By Michael Bernick
Former California Employment Development Department Director & Milken Institute Fellow
All things old are new again in summer 2015 when it comes to strategies for expanding middle class jobs in California and nationwide. The policy concerns being debated today (income inequality, technology eliminating jobs, expanding middle class jobs) have all been here before, as have been the strategies put forward (apprenticeships, sector-based training, community college collaboration).
Let's get in our DeLorean and travel back to Governor Jerry Brown's jobs efforts in early 1982.
On January 22, 1982, Governor Jerry Brown declared that "countless jobs are being radically changed through the new information technologies" (sound familiar). He added that "millions of working people will be left standing in unemployment lines unless we take prompt action now" (sound familiar). He went on to call for continued funding of the California Worksite Education and Training Act (CWETA), which he had established as a pilot program in 1979, focused on retraining of laid-off workers.
Regarding training approaches, Governor Brown praised the apprenticeship , as an earn and learn model. He also emphasized the need to craft training around the changing skills needs of each employment sector, and the collaboration with the community college system. Fast forward to today, where the employment initiatives being put forward on the national and state levels include similarly the apprenticeship, the sector-based training, the community college as workforce partner.
The experiences in California during the 1980s and 1990s with these training approaches was positive enough. The apprenticeship, in particular, was effective, and continues to be. Diane Ravnik, the head of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for the State, has been involved with apprenticeship programs for decades. She notes that the main challenge has been and continues to be expanding the model to new fields, such as Information Technology.
Yet, the experiences also show the limits of training approaches in influencing middle class jobs, against the broader economic forces of technology, globalization and international immigration. California journalist and author Mickey Kaus (below) has been making this point for some time, including in several posts over the past week (www.kausfiles.com).
One of Mickey's best-known book is The End of Equality, published in 1992, and focused on the increasing concerns through the 1980s and early 1990s about income inequality. The book has proved to be prescient about the limited impacts of strategies being put forward at that time to reduce inequality—including strategies of vocational training, "flexible production", profit sharing, and redistributive taxation.
The book is worth reading (or re-reading)in summer 2015, not only as income inequality remains on the political agenda, but also as a number of these same strategies continue to pop up. Some of the book's analysis is dated, especially the Japanese economy as a model for sustainable growth and an expanded middle class. Most of the analysis remains fresh, and as challenging to conventional wisdom today as it was in 1992.
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/07/middle-class-jobs-all-things-old-are-new-again/


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Q: Excel pivot table, difference between fields in the same column I have table that has the same account names but for different years (sample below). I want to create a pivot item field that calculates the difference between the years for the same account name

Account Name    Year    Amount
Account 1   2014    15000
Account 1   2015    20000
Account 2   2014    30000
Account 2   2015    60000

So for Account 1 the difference is 5K and coount 2 the difference is 30K. How do i get the difference for the two fields when the amounts belong to the same column and can only be differentiated by year?
Sum of Amount   Column Labels

Row Labels  2014        2015          Grand Total
Account 1     15000   20000      35000
Account 2     30000   60000      90000
Grand Total 45000     80000      125000

The output I would like to show is below:

I need the change to be part of the pivot table because I want to then get the top 40 base on change column.
Sum of Amount   Column Labels

Account.        2014       2015   Change
Account 2        30000  60000   30000
Account 1        15000  20000   5000
Grand Total   45000 80000   35000

A: The closest pivot table I can get is as follows:
ROWS: Account Name
COLS: Year
VALUES: Amount

Then right-click on one of the values and choose "Show values as". Change that from the default "No calculation" to "Difference From" with a Base Field of "Year" and Base Item of (previous)
Now you are close but if you also want to see the original data, you need to add amount back into the VALUES a second time. Tweak the headings and you are done.
UPDATE: An alternative approach would be to add another column to the source data with the following formula (assumes you've formatted the source data as an Excel Table and sorted by Account/Year):
=IF([@Account]=R[-1]C1, IF(ISNUMBER(R[-1]C), [@Amount]-R[-1]C3, 0), 0)

That only works if you don't have any missing years in your data. However, you could then apply a top-10 filter to that column which would change the pivot table display accordingly.

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*Click in the row area first; this is very important, not realising this cost me 5 years of pivot table ease.

*Click fields items and sets and select 'items'.  It will come up as 'formula 1' and then an expression underneath.  In the boxes below, there should be a field name, and then a box to the right with the values 2014 and 2015.

*In the expression field simply click on the base year and add a '-' then click on the movement year ( ie 2015 - 2014 ).

*It will then add the row to the bottom of the row labels, and can be selected on its own.

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NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg made a surprise visit to the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, expected to meet with the government officials including President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
NATO said in a statement that Stoltenberg is being accompanied by the Chairman of the Military Committee, Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti.
According to the statement, NATO Secretary General will also meet with the Resolute Support Commander, General Austin Scott Miller, NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Cornelius Zimmermann; and with troops contributing to the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission.
Meanwhile, Stoltenberg is expected to hold a Joint press conference with President Ashraf Ghani in the Presidential Palace today.
The Secretary General of NATO visits Kabul amid concerns over the series of "green-on-blue" attacks in which members of the Afghan forces have killed the U.S. or coalition advisers this year.


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In a written reply to the Parliament, the minister informed that the government was reviving five closed fertilizer plants of Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd.
Matix Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (Matix) has set up a Coal Bed Methane (CBM) based greenfield ammonia- urea complex at Panagarh, West Bengal with the installed capacity of 1.3 million tons per annum.
The Union government is expecting an increase in urea production by 72.14 lakh tons on the back of revival of several sick urea units and is looking at drastic reduction at imports, informed Inderjit Singh, minister of state for planning (IC) and chemicals and fertilizers in the Parliament on Tuesday.
In a written reply to the Parliament, the minister informed that the government was reviving five closed fertilizer plants of Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd (FCIL) and Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) namely Talcher, Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri plants of FCIL and Barauni plant of HFCL by setting up new ammonia-urea plants of 12.7 lakh tons a year capacity.
"The commercial production from Ramagundam unit is likely to start by 2018 while from other four units, it is likely to start by 2020," said Singh.
India is the world's second largest consumer of urea, according to Urvisha H. Jagasheth, research analyst with Care Ratings. "India produced nearly 241.9 lakh tons of urea in FY17 while it imported 54.81 lakh tons. However, with increasing domestic production, the imports have been declining on a quarter–on-quarter basis," she said.
Further, the Parliament was informed that under the provisions of New Investment Policy (NIP) -2012, dated January 2, 2013, Matix Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (Matix) has set up a Coal Bed Methane (CBM) based greenfield ammonia- urea complex at Panagarh, West Bengal with the installed capacity of 1.3 million tons per annum.
"The commercial production of Matix has started on October 1, 2017. Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (CFCL) has also proposed to set up a Brownfield project with capacity of 1.34 million tons per annum at Gadepan, Rajasthan, which is likely to start commercial production in January, 2019," the minister said in a written reply.


Written by Irene Anton on December 12, 2018 . Posted in General News.
6th of December 2018 the first edition of the book entitled "Nanomaterials for Magnetic and Optical Hyperthermia Applications" was published by Elsevier. This book focuses on the design, fabrication and characterization of nanomaterials for in vitro and in applications. Anna Laromaine, researcher at the N&N group, and Laura González-Moragas, graduated PhD student at the N&N group, are coauthors of the chapter nine included in this book: Invertebrate Models for Hyperthermia: What We Learned From Caenorhabditis elegans and Hydra vulgaris.
Congratulations girls for your nice work!


Etsy Call Out (the Duplicate): Super Talented or Reseller??!
This is one seller from Bangkok/St Louis – nowhere in her profiles does she actually say she makes any of her items – frankly, if she could sew leather purses, make fine jewelry & sew clothes she would quite the woman.
So, she's a metalsmith that works with 18k gold, silver and rhodium. She's a seamstress. Sews leather purses, and she's a geologist too by the looks of it. Yea, I got the impression she was the designer, not the creator. Still..how to prove it?
Yea, there is not one mention of her making any of her pieces. She has no design background. Whatever. BIG faker and liar.
Check out the Tulip ring. What jewelry maker would leave all those scratches in the gold?
She may design the purses but they are definitely mass produced.
I could see the pieces as being 'handmade' if she were putting loose stones into pre-made settings, but if she's trying to pass herself off as an actual goldsmith, I don't really feel it. Even the finest handmade pieces I've seen have an organic feel to them by virtue of the fact that it's almost impossible to create something by hand with absolutely no imperfections.
I've had the pleasure of working with some very talented goldsmiths, and while their work was exquisite and near perfection, every piece was absolutely unique. Even in a matched pair of earrings, one could be distinguished from the other if you looked very carefully. Here, all her prongs are exactly even, every line in the setting is an absolute perfect match with the next (and I personally don't know any goldsmiths who hand-make those particular styles of settings), each earring is a mirror image of its twin. I'm not feeling it.
I can't attest to any of the jewelry, but I found this about her handbags.
To me, she is obviously the designer, and most likely the crafter/sewer.
I don't buy the handmade spiel at all. Either someone else is making pieces to her specs, or she is reselling, or "she" is "they".
Location: St. Louis AND Bangkok? What does that indicate to you? To me it indicates drop shipping reseller.
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You thought we wouldn't notice..


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Watch the spread of million-dollar homes consume a city
By Emily Badger
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Nearly two-thirds of the homes in the city of San Francisco today are worth more than a million dollars, according to the real estate site Trulia that tracks home values. That dizzying number speaks to the city's affordable housing crisis — a crisis that has officials fretting about housing even for families making $140,000 a year — and the breakneck pace at which it's getting worse. The number of million-dollar properties, according to Trulia economist Ralph McLaughlin, has more than doubled in the city since just 2010.
These numbers, though, don't convey the rise and spread of out-of-reach real estate quite like the below animation does. This map from Trulia tracks the methodical advance of million-dollar homes from the San Francisco neighborhoods where they've long been common to parts of the city that are newly becoming inaccessible. In some neighborhoods where a small fraction of homes five years ago were worth a million, a majority are today. These red dots represent homes that Trulia has valued at seven figures or more, not necessarily homes that have sold at that price:
That picture captures what long-time residents no doubt experience as an advancing threat with its own front lines (the blood-red visual certainly aids the impression of a contagion). And in the next five years? There's not a lot of city left, especially in this city that has long struggled to expand as the demand to live there has.
Emily Badger Emily Badger was a reporter for Wonkblog covering urban policy. She left The Washington Post in September 2016. Follow


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A Manhattan political club that supported the "Ground Zero Mosque" is now sponsoring a resolution to rename a city street for Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was gunned down 43 years ago in the Muslim cultural center, sources said.
The Downtown Independent Democratic Club is expected to pass a resolution Tuesday to honor Cardillo, who was killed on April 14, 1972, inside Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7 after cops were lured to the scene by a phony call to 911.
Nobody was ever convicted in the slaying, and city officials refused to attend Cardillo's funeral.
Several years ago, the club supported a controversial project, Park51, a sprawling Muslim community and prayer center that was ultimately built on a reduced scale, just blocks from the WTC site.
"The posture of the club right now is, 'If we can support the building of a mosque in the shadows of the World Trade Center, we can support the renaming of a street for a patrolman who was slain in a mosque,'" said Peter Gleason, an attorney who is on the club's executive board.


Aaron made the golden calf at Israel's request because the people rebelled against God.
This was while Moses was forty days with God.
He had gone get the two tables of stone on which God wrote the Ten Commandments.
In Egypt people made molten idols to worship their gods.
So the people of Israel asked Aaron to make one of them.


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Why knowledge matters in early literacy
An established body of cognitive science research, including the Science of Reading, now shows that early literacy skills are best built deliberately, on a foundation of knowledge. Knowledge-building is not a result of reading and comprehension; it's a vital prerequisite and a fundamental part of the process. In other words: The more you know, the faster you learn. If knowledge is essential to literacy and learning, it's also essential to reading success and equity—in early childhood education, and beyond.
By Amplify Staff | November 21, 2022
Part of the magic of reading is that it opens up endless knowledge.
This seems to suggest a logic of first learning to read, then reading to learn.
But experts in education and the Science of Reading have actually turned that logic on its head. They say that knowledge matters first.
That's why our elementary literacy curriculum Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) delivers literacy skills grounded in knowledge. In fact, it's one of only a few such programs recently recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign for excelling at building knowledge.
Background knowledge is essential to literacy and equity
Reading depends on both decoding and comprehension. Many years of classroom observation and received wisdom have supported the supposition that comprehension must be taught as a discrete set of skills, while decoding arises more naturally.
But an established body of cognitive science research now shows that early literacy skills are best built deliberately, on a foundation of knowledge. In fact, knowledge-building is not a result of reading and comprehension; it's a vital prerequisite and a fundamental part of the process. In other words: The more you know, the faster you learn.
If knowledge is essential to literacy and learning, it's also essential to equity—in early childhood education and beyond.
But typically, literacy instruction focuses on decontextualized skills—finding the main idea, making inferences—rather than the content of texts and resources that students engage with.
Teachers often put the skills and strategies in the foreground, like a skill of the week, then they bring in texts that they find well suited for demonstrating the skill or strategy. So instead of harnessing skills and strategies to content, they've got the cart before the horse,
Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap told host Susan Lambert on Amplify's Science of Reading: The Podcast. "What we're doing in elementary school can plant the seeds of failure in high school."
When students lack access to the same sources of knowledge, they also lack equal access to reading success. That's what experts call the knowledge gap, and it needs to be narrowed, or even eliminated, in order to achieve equity.
Wexler adds that a skills-first approach may also—despite educators' best intentions—challenge kids' self-esteem. "We are telling kids, 'Just do this and you'll become a better reader and better student.' They do it diligently, but then if it doesn't seem to work, they may blame themselves."
A closer look at the knowledge gap theory
Let's say you're handed a passage of text describing part of a baseball game. You read the text, and then you're asked to reenact that part of the game. Which is most likely to help you do so?
Your ability to read
Your knowledge of baseball
It makes no difference
If you answered "2," you're batting 1,000. This example summarizes an influential 1988 study that concluded that the strongest predictor of comprehension was knowledge of baseball. Even the weak readers did as well as strong readers—as long as they had knowledge of baseball.
Not all students arrive at school with the same prior knowledge. That's where the equity gap comes into focus.
If a student who's never heard the word "yacht" is asked to read and analyze a text passage about the Henley Royal Regatta, it's a good bet that they won't do as well as a student who has. Not all students visit museums, have a library of books at home, or travel outside the country or even city where they live.
Wexler cites cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham in her powerful Atlantic article "Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years." He says,
"The failure to build children's knowledge in elementary school helps explain the gap between the reading scores of students from wealthier families and those of their lower-income peers…a gap that has been expanding—[w]ealthy children are far more likely to acquire knowledge outside of school. Poorer kids with less-educated parents tend to rely on school to acquire the kind of knowledge that is needed to succeed academically—and because their schools often focus exclusively on reading and math, in an effort to raise low test scores, they're less likely to acquire it there."
How we can support teachers
Change can be challenging, says Wexler: "When you've been doing something for years in the belief that you're helping kids, it can be difficult when somebody comes along and says, actually, you may be holding them back."
We can support educators by increasing awareness of the Science of Reading, the role of knowledge in literacy, and access to tools that support educators in delivering knowledge with literacy. We can also show them what learning looks like in classrooms where students acquire knowledge and literacy equitably.
We can, for example:
Challenge the assumption (which predates Google) that when kids encounter an unfamiliar word or topic, they can just look it up. Doing so can impose a cognitive load that can actually interfere with learning.
Seek out high-quality products and programs that intertwine literacy and knowledge.
Remind educators and decision-makers that—as Wexler puts it—"the students who blossom the most with a knowledge-building curriculum are the students who, in a skills-focused system, would be the kids in the lowest reading group. They are able to offer valuable insights and feel like full members of a classroom community."
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Mexico, Afghanistan, India lead as 45 journalists killed globally in 2021 – IPI
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VIENNA— In 2021, a total of 45 journalists were killed in connection with their work, an International Press Institute (IPI) research revealed.
Mexico, Afghanistan and India are currently the three deadliest countries for journalists to work in.
Of the number, nine journalists were killed in Sub-Saharan Africa, most of whom were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Burkina Faso and Somalia.
A press release issued by IPI said the sombre tally "reflects the continued risks of doing journalism and reaffirms journalist safety as a global challenge".
IPI called on the authorities to end impunity for these crimes and to ensure the protection of journalists, who must be able to do their work freely and safely.
The IPI global network published its yearly Death Watch on Wednesday.
IPI's research showed that since the beginning of 2021, "a total of 45 journalists were killed in connection with their work, or lost their lives on assignment".
Of these 45 journalists, 40 were male and five were female, it said.
A total of 28 were targeted due to their work, while three were killed while covering conflict, two lost their lives covering civil unrest, and one journalist was killed while on assignment.
Eleven cases are still under investigation.
The Death Watch includes names of journalists who were deliberately targeted because of their profession – either because of their reporting or simply because they were journalists – as well as those who lost their lives while covering conflict or while on assignment.
IPI's list includes journalists, editors, and reporters, as well as media workers who directly contribute to news content, such as camerapersons.
Since 1997, IPI has tracked cases of journalists killed because of their work – either murdered or killed while doing their job.
The list includes independent Somali journalist Jamal Farah Adan, who was shot by gunmen on March 1. The extremist group Al-Shabaab later claimed responsibility.
In July, Mexican journalist Ricardo Dominguez López, owner of news website InfoGuaymas, was shot to death in the parking lot of a supermarket on his 47th birthday.
Some – but not all – journalists had received death threats before they were murdered. For instance, Shannaz Roafi, Sadia Sadat, and Mursal Wahidi worked for the independent radio and TV station Enikass in Afghanistan, which had received threats from extremist groups for broadcasting television shows.
Rasha Abdullah Al-Harazi, a journalist from Yemen who died in a targeted car bomb attack while she was nine months pregnant, had received many threats in the months before her death, Khalid Ibrahim of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights told IPI.
"By phone, she was told to stop doing journalism", he said. "But we didn't know it would be this serious."
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Carol (Jones) Cleaver
Class of 1975 - Inducted 2017
Carol was inducted into the SHSAA Hall of Fame in 2017.
Carol is the Director of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, the statewide pro bono program of the Nebraska State Bar Association. Carol has dedicated her career to ensure that low-income persons who cannot afford a lawyer get equal access to justice. She is admitted to practice law in Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri.
Carol did not attend college until 25 years after high school. In 2000, at her 25th reunion, Carol and other classmates pledged they would be college graduates by the next reunion. Carol received a BA in History in 2002, summa cum laude, and completed her graduate coursework in 2003. She received a Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law in 2006. Among her honors and awards, Carol was student commencement speaker at UNO and recipient of Creighton's Award for Outstanding Service to Creighton Law School.
Since 2005, Carol has connected lawyers and legal organizations with SHS students to help them prepare for legal careers. She mentors students who need assistance with academic planning, testing, and preparations for law school and legal studies programs. An adjunct professor at several colleges, Carol offers students the advice she received from one of her SHS teachers. "Success isn't always measured by a title, position, or an award." Rather, "Success is measured by the obstacles a person overcomes while trying to succeed." (paraphrasing Booker T. Washington).
Carol has been a member of the SHS Alumni Association Board for six years. She also serves on several nonprofit boards, advisory committees, and legal services committees. Carol has two children, twelve grandchildren, and one great granddaughter.


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The Minnesota Twins were quiet buyers at the trade deadline and wound up sending a pair of lottery ticket pitching prospects to the Tampa Bay Rays for veteran relief pitcher Kevin Jepsen.
Minnesota wasn't getting any help from their bullpen heading into the deadline and the unit was especially having issues with getting right handed hitters out. While Jepsen isn't one of these All-Star stoppers in the late innings, he definitely filled a need and helped stretch out the Twins bullpen.
But this wasn't the case in his first outing with Minnesota as Jepsen took the loss in an 11-inning battle with the Seattle Mariners on August 2nd. The 31-year-old walked two hitters and only managed to get one batter out as he was charged with two earned runs. This wasn't an ideal debut but it was quickly put behind him as Jepsen and the Twins both moved on.
The veteran righty has been nearly perfect for the Twins since his forgettable outing against the Mariners, allowing no earned runs over seven outings; spanning 6.1 innings. First year manager finds himself Paul Molitor handing Jepsen the ball in high leverage situations, including the eighth inning in both of Minnesota's back-to-back wins against the Cleveland Indians this weekend.
His success against the Indians is just an example of Jepsen going above and beyond what Minnesota expected of him after the pitching staff was suddenly bit by the injury bug. Trevor May, a starter turned relief man, has been the Twins eighth inning guy in recent weeks but was forced to make a spot start on Friday night because of an injury to Phil Hughes, making him unavailable in each of the team's last two games. Fellow right-handed reliever Blaine Boyer, who leads the staff in appearances, was placed on the disabled list with elbow inflammation last week, which opens up a lot of out that Molitor needs to hand off to other guys in his bullpen.
While the move wasn't flashy, it's paying off for the Twins, who are just a game and a half behind the Baltimore Orioles for the second wild card spot in the American League. Jepsen has been great for the past month and a half, dating back to his days in Tampa Bay. He hasn't allowed an earned run in 16 of his last 17 total appearances, allowing just seven hits over 14 innings.
Minnesota's bullpen was once a weakness, but in time it will be turned into a strength. May will re-assume his role as a relief pitcher and be available to pitch as soon as tomorrow night and Boyer is expected to return next week when the team is in Tampa Bay. With Jepsen pitching as well as he is, it suddenly won't be that hard for the bullpen to get a few big outs before handing the ball off to American League saves leader Glen Perkins in the ninth inning.
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Q: how can the the tensor matmul shape error be removed? I am playing with pytorch ZOO AAE. I replaced the MNIST dataset with my own. However, getting an error which says :  mat1 dim 1 must match mat2 dim 0 eventhough I am resizing the image in my dataloader. Here is my code. I am using ImageFolder to read my custom dataset. I made sure I am using opt.shape and opt.batch_size. There is also a resize on the dataloader.
import argparse
import os
import numpy as np
import math
import itertools

import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torchvision.utils import save_image

from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from torchvision import datasets
from torch.autograd import Variable

import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torch

os.makedirs("images", exist_ok=True)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--n_epochs", type=int, default=200, help="number of epochs of training")
parser.add_argument("--batch_size", type=int, default=64, help="size of the batches")
parser.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=0.0002, help="adam: learning rate")
parser.add_argument("--b1", type=float, default=0.5, help="adam: decay of first order momentum of gradient")
parser.add_argument("--b2", type=float, default=0.999, help="adam: decay of first order momentum of gradient")
parser.add_argument("--n_cpu", type=int, default=8, help="number of cpu threads to use during batch generation")
parser.add_argument("--latent_dim", type=int, default=10, help="dimensionality of the latent code")
parser.add_argument("--img_size", type=int, default=32, help="size of each image dimension")
parser.add_argument("--channels", type=int, default=1, help="number of image channels")
parser.add_argument("--sample_interval", type=int, default=400, help="interval between image sampling")
opt = parser.parse_args()
print(opt)

img_shape = (opt.channels, opt.img_size, opt.img_size)

cuda = True if torch.cuda.is_available() else False

def reparameterization(mu, logvar):
    std = torch.exp(logvar / 2)
    sampled_z = Variable(Tensor(np.random.normal(0, 1, (mu.size(0), opt.latent_dim))))
    z = sampled_z * std + mu
    return z

class Encoder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Encoder, self).__init__()

        self.model = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(int(np.prod(img_shape)), 512),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
            nn.Linear(512, 512),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(512),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
        )

        self.mu = nn.Linear(512, opt.latent_dim)
        self.logvar = nn.Linear(512, opt.latent_dim)

    def forward(self, img):
        img_flat = img.view(img.shape[0], -1)
        x = self.model(img_flat)
        mu = self.mu(x)
        logvar = self.logvar(x)
        z = reparameterization(mu, logvar)
        return z

class Decoder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Decoder, self).__init__()

        self.model = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(opt.latent_dim, 512),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
            nn.Linear(512, 512),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(512),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
            nn.Linear(512, int(np.prod(img_shape))),
            nn.Tanh(),
        )

    def forward(self, z):
        img_flat = self.model(z)
        img = img_flat.view(img_flat.shape[0], *img_shape)
        return img

class Discriminator(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Discriminator, self).__init__()

        self.model = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(opt.latent_dim, 512),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
            nn.Linear(512, 256),
            nn.LeakyReLU(0.2, inplace=True),
            nn.Linear(256, 1),
            nn.Sigmoid(),
        )

    def forward(self, z):
        validity = self.model(z)
        return validity

# Use binary cross-entropy loss
adversarial_loss = torch.nn.BCELoss()
pixelwise_loss = torch.nn.L1Loss()

# Initialize generator and discriminator
encoder = Encoder()
decoder = Decoder()
discriminator = Discriminator()

if cuda:
    encoder.cuda()
    decoder.cuda()
    discriminator.cuda()
    adversarial_loss.cuda()
    pixelwise_loss.cuda()
from torchvision.datasets import ImageFolder

# Configure data loader
os.makedirs("../../data/mnist", exist_ok=True)
import torchvision
import PIL
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(

    ImageFolder('./content', transform=transforms.Compose([
    transforms.Resize(opt.img_size),
    transforms.ToTensor(),
    transforms.Normalize([0.5], [0.5])]))
    ,
    batch_size=opt.batch_size,
    shuffle=True,
)

# Optimizers
optimizer_G = torch.optim.Adam(
    itertools.chain(encoder.parameters(), decoder.parameters()), lr=opt.lr, betas=(opt.b1, opt.b2)
)
optimizer_D = torch.optim.Adam(discriminator.parameters(), lr=opt.lr, betas=(opt.b1, opt.b2))

Tensor = torch.cuda.FloatTensor if cuda else torch.FloatTensor

def sample_image(n_row, batches_done):
    """Saves a grid of generated digits"""
    # Sample noise
    z = Variable(Tensor(np.random.normal(0, 1, (n_row ** 2, opt.latent_dim))))
    gen_imgs = decoder(z)
    save_image(gen_imgs.data, "images/%d.png" % batches_done, nrow=n_row, normalize=True)

# ----------
#  Training
# ----------

for epoch in range(opt.n_epochs):
    for i, (imgs, _) in enumerate(dataloader):

        # Adversarial ground truths
        valid = Variable(Tensor(imgs.shape[0], 1).fill_(1.0), requires_grad=False)
        fake = Variable(Tensor(imgs.shape[0], 1).fill_(0.0), requires_grad=False)

        # Configure input
        real_imgs = Variable(imgs.type(Tensor))

        # -----------------
        #  Train Generator
        # -----------------

        optimizer_G.zero_grad()

        encoded_imgs = encoder(real_imgs)
        decoded_imgs = decoder(encoded_imgs)

        # Loss measures generator's ability to fool the discriminator
        g_loss = 0.001 * adversarial_loss(discriminator(encoded_imgs), valid) + 0.999 * pixelwise_loss(
            decoded_imgs, real_imgs
        )

        g_loss.backward()
        optimizer_G.step()

        # ---------------------
        #  Train Discriminator
        # ---------------------

        optimizer_D.zero_grad()

        # Sample noise as discriminator ground truth
        z = Variable(Tensor(np.random.normal(0, 1, (imgs.shape[0], opt.latent_dim))))

        # Measure discriminator's ability to classify real from generated samples
        real_loss = adversarial_loss(discriminator(z), valid)
        fake_loss = adversarial_loss(discriminator(encoded_imgs.detach()), fake)
        d_loss = 0.5 * (real_loss + fake_loss)

        d_loss.backward()
        optimizer_D.step()

        print(
            "[Epoch %d/%d] [Batch %d/%d] [D loss: %f] [G loss: %f]"
            % (epoch, opt.n_epochs, i, len(dataloader), d_loss.item(), g_loss.item())
        )

        batches_done = epoch * len(dataloader) + i
        if batches_done % opt.sample_interval == 0:
            sample_image(n_row=10, batches_done=batches_done)

A: Its because you are loading 3 channels.You have to use single channel.
add this method as well transforms.Grayscale()  like i have added below
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(

    ImageFolder('./content', transform=transforms.Compose([transforms.Grayscale(),
    transforms.Resize(opt.img_size),
    transforms.ToTensor(),
    transforms.Normalize([0.5], [0.5])]))
    ,
    batch_size=opt.batch_size,
    shuffle=True,
)


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