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Peter Odili denies receiving money from Dasuki or Yuguda; ...admits receiving N100m from PDP for election campaign
A former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, has denied receiving N100 million from either the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, or former Minister of State Finance, Bashir Yuguda.
Mr. Yuguda had reportedly confessed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to giving Mr. Odili N100 million for election campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The former minister allegedly claimed he got the money from Mr. Dasuki for onward transfer to Mr. Odili.
The money was part of the $2.1 billion arms procurement funds allegedly diverted and misappropriated by Mr. Dasuki.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Odili said he never had any transaction with the duo of Messrs Dasuki and Yuguda.
He however admitted receiving N100 million from the PDP.
"As part of preparations towards the 2015 election, the PDP set up contact and mobilisation committees across the six geo- political zones and I was appointed the chairman of the South-South mobilisation committee," he said.
"Consequent upon this, the party, not the former NSA or Yuguda, gave the South-South Committee, through me, the sum of N100 million along with other zonal Chairmen, at the house of the National Chairman, Dr. Adamu Mu'azu, for the assignment."
Mr. Odili said he utilised the money for the purpose for which it was meant for.
He said, "This amount was subsequently disbursed to the relevant party members from the zone for the assignment given by the party.
"I have the appointment letter and terms of reference, minutes of all the meetings, signatures of all the members and the report of the zonal committee, which was duly submitted to the Party Leader."
The former governor said for the "purpose of emphasis" he had "no dealings with the former NSA, neither did I collect any money from Yuguda. I challenge anyone who has any contrary evidence to produce it".
He stressed, "I decided to personally sign this rebuttal because over the years, I had ignored various spurious and patently false reports against me because I knew that at the fullness of time, the truth would surely prevail.
"I would have similarly ignored this recent falsehood attributed to Mr Yuguda but for the fact that the uninformed are beginning to latch on this long-held false and tendentious narrative, hence my decision to rebut this with all vehemence."
Credit: Premium Times


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About 100 people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds gathered with the Sammamish Muslim community on June 16 to celebrate an Iftar dinner for Ramadan. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
Celebrating unity and love | Sammamish residents gather for traditional Ramadan dinner
by Nicole Jennings
Saturday, June 24, 2017 1:30am
Throughout history, religious differences have torn people and entire nations apart.
Even in recent months, headlines have been full of hate crimes and acts of terrorism, both across the ocean and here in Washington.
But on the evening of June 16, about 100 people of many different faiths gathered at the Pine Lake Community Center in Sammamish to celebrate a traditional Ramadan Iftar dinner with the local Muslim community. Although half the people at the dinner were not practicers of Islam, they came together in a show of unity to demonstrate that the bonds of love and friendship are stronger than any differences between people.
Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims throughout the world for one month every year to honor the revelation of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. Every day during Ramadan, Muslims are expected to fast during daylight hours (including abstaining from water), until the sun goes down.
After sundown, Muslims gather together to share a meal known as Iftar. It is this special, communal meal that was celebrated at the community center.
Yasmine Abeldayem, who helped organize the dinner, said that the local Muslim community had been wanting to share an Iftar dinner with the non-Muslim community for years to share their cultures with one another, but she never knew how to organize such an event.
"We thought it would be amazing to break those boundaries while breaking bread," Abeldayem said.
It was the creation of a local peace and tolerance activist group, Plateaupians for Peace, that provided Abeldayem and her friends with an outlet through which to organize an Iftar gathering.
Abeldayem co-chairs a sub-committee of Plateaupians called "Neighbours Without Borders" (spelled with a u because some of its members come from British commonwealth countries that use this spelling). The committee's mission is to unite people from all of the different cultures in Sammamish and help people learn about one another's backgrounds.
"We all come from different places, but we have the same heart," said Neighbours Without Borders Co-Chair Hayley Gudgin, who emigrated to the Seattle area from the U.K.
As the sun went down, the 40 or so Muslim attendees conducted their evening Maghrib prayer, facing in the direction of Mecca. The non-Muslims in attendance watched quietly and respectfully, fascinated to learn about the practices of another faith in such an up-close way.
Abeldayem said in the past, if she has been in public when it is time for one of the five daily prayers, she has found a private place to pray, such as a dressing room in a store. Being able to pray openly in front of the members of the community on June 16, she said, "made me feel at peace."
"I was so happy," she said. "I felt blessed."
When the prayers were completed, the group sat down to eat a feast of traditional Middle Eastern foods, which had been prepared by a local Syrian refugee family that started a catering business after moving to the Seattle area.
Abeldayem, whose family moved to Sammamish from Egypt 10 years ago, said that thankfully, she has never experienced any hate speech or threats here. However, she did note that coming from so far away, it can be a little harder to make friends "in such a fast-paced community," and observed that "it's easier to make friends if you have the same background."
This was why Neighbours Without Borders felt it was so important to have an event like the June 16 dinner. The Iftar gathering brought together people born in a variety of countries besides the U.S., including Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Iraq, India, the U.K., Germany, Colombia and Spain.
"We have a lot of differences between us, and we wanted to do some events that would help us get to know each other and understand each other's cultures better," said Gudgin, who is a Christian.
Abeldayem said she loves the chance to learn about other faiths and cultures, and, in turn, welcomes it when anyone asks her about her own practices, such as why she chooses to wear a hijab ("It makes me feel complete; it's part of my identity"), or the significance of the five daily prayers ("You put everything that's worldly behind you and focus on something that's bigger than you").
"It gets you to know each other more," Abeldayem said of these conversations. "We're made to be different, that's what makes us interesting."
Gudgin said that the committee hopes to grow and increase its events over time. The group is "happy to do an event with any religion or culture," and welcomes anyone who would like to step forward and help organize an event around their heritage.
"It doesn't matter that we have different faiths, it's that we can connect with each other and listen to each other … it doesn't have to be a threat," Gudgin said.
From left, Reham Shehata, Ghada Madkour and Yasmine Abeldayem all helped to organize the Iftar dinner. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
The idea of the dinner was for people with different heritages to get to know one another and share their cultural traditions. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
The event saw a variety of locals, including members of the Sammamish City Council and Mayor Don Gerend, in attendance. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
Organizers shared their traditional Ramadan recipes and decorations for the celebration. As with Christmas, there are certain decorations that are brought out every year just for Ramadan. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
Abeldayem brought her Ramadan decorations all the way from Egypt and shared them for the Iftar dinner at the Pine Lake Community Center. Nicole Jennings/staff photo
Roger Chapanis drops out of Sammamish City Council Position 7 race
School District looking to demolish Central Administration Building, put new school in its place
Proposed law adds a fee to plastic bags at checkout
Senate passes bill to ban single-use plastic bags, place 8-cent fee on reusable plastic bags.
King County files lawsuit to finish East Lake Sammamish Trail
Homeowners have until September to remove buildings and other property from the right of way.
Chamber hosts annual address for community stakeholders
Mayor, administrator, schools superintendent speak at luncheon.
Issaquah deals with first snow of the season
Schools closed Monday through Wednesday due to weather concerns.
Forum Social House opens in Bellevue
Eastside gets new nightclub, mini golf, swing suites.
The film tracks the 'all hands on deck' effort to save the little red fish from extinction.
Meet Zach Hall, the council's youthful perspective
Issaquah's new 25-year-old councilmember talks policies and plans.
IHS moves forward with graduation honors recognition
After student sessions, the committee should have decisions formalized by March.
Olde Town walking tour and workshop
Observe and preserve neighborhood housing styles.

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Indianapolis Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Underdogs, Bad Luck, and Goin' For It
Steve Luvender NASCAR.com July 25, 2017 at 11:05 AM
Ah, the Brantley Gilbert Big Machine Brickyard 400 — one of the most iconic races on the NASCAR schedule, on one of the most historic stages in all of motorsports. From yellow-shirts to yellow flags, this year's trip to Indianapolis had it all.
Thumbs Up: Underdogs!
A lot of cars got torn up at the Brickyard this year. Seventeen did not finish with the official cause as "crash," to be exact.
Attrition in a race often means underdogs get a chance to shine. After all, racing on a shoestring budget means keeping the car clean is an essential skill. So, when, like in this year's race at Indianapolis, the leaders wipe each other out, and a lot of faster cars crash, the finishing order looks different than usual.
Matt DiBenedetto, driving the No. 32 for Go Fas Racing, finished eighth.
Chris Buescher came home in ninth for just his fourth-career top 10.
Timmy Hill, making his 200th NASCAR national series start, finished a career-best 14th in Carl Long's Chevrolet.
Thumbs up for the small teams and lesser-known drivers making the most of a tough race on a giant, historic stage.
Thumbs Down: Red Flags
You know what's good? Racing. Lots of racing. Like, specifically, when cars are moving at full speed past each other. For 400 miles at a time.
The inverse of that — when cars are not moving — is not very fun.
This year's Brantley Gilbert Big Machine Brickyard 400 was halted three times: once for weather, and twice for crash cleanups. That means three race stoppages — three times where (most of) the cars stopped racing!
NASCAR has confirmed this is the 6,438th red flag of the day
— Elijah Burke (@ElijahWhosoever) July 24, 2017
I get it. Red flags are necessary for fan and competitor safety. But, by golly, I like to watch cars go. Thumbs down for when cars are not racing.
I suppose, though, that by this logic, the checkered flag should also receive a thumbs-down, since it signifies the end of racing …
Thumbs Up: Goin' For It
You've got to hand it to Jimmie Johnson for giving it his best effort.
While the No. 48 car experienced engine woes, sending smoke out of the back of his Chevrolet, it didn't stop Johnson from attempting a daring three-wide pass for the lead. We'd be using the word "YOLO" if it were 2012.
WATCH: Jimmie Johnson hits wall in three-wide racing
The scientific term in the racing community here is "goin' for it," and it's worthy of a thumbs up, despite the maneuver ending Johnson's day early.
Thumbs Down: Crashing When You're Leading
It was looking like a battle between Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. for most of the race — the pair finished 1-2 for the first two stages, until that fateful restart, when, well …
WATCH: Big wreck yields flames, ended days for Truex Jr., Kyle Busch
Truex took total responsibility for causing the accident that took out the two fastest cars (and, in doing so, also ended Busch's hopes at at an Indy three-peat), but it still earns a thumbs down because it's kind of a bummer to destroy — and thoroughly char, in Truex's case — two dominant race cars.
A bonus thumbs-down for the word "three-peat." Yeah, it's a clever word, but it's a little too clever.
Biggest Thumbs Up of the Week: Kasey Kahne Returns to Victory Lane
Kasey Kahne's summer of bad luck has seemingly reached an end after he claimed his first victory in more than 100 races.
After five unlucky crashes in the prior eight races, and slumping to a disappointing 22nd in points standings, things hadn't been looking great for Kahne. The past doesn't mean much now, as Kahne now suddenly finds himself in playoff contention.
WATCH: Kahne puts winless drought in Rearview Mirror
The explanation for Kahne's bad luck spell seems pretty obvious: clearly, he broke a mirror on July 23, 2010 — he'd only won six races in the following seven years. His seven years of bad luck ended Sunday when the overtime yellow flag ended the race just before sunset Sunday.
A big thumbs up for the No. 5 car appearing in Victory Lane once again.
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I have published my first article for the Milwaukee Examiner titled "Do we have options in the religion verses science debate?".
If a single entity created the stars, planets, time, space, and life itself then science is the very study of that wonderful and potentially divine creation. Scientists of all sorts have the job of trying to understand the very things that the hand of the creator has created – from geologists, biologists, and psychologists to geneticists and quantum physicists. For some their scientific study and exploration can be an awe inspiring and faith affirming exercise. For others it can be a source and angst and internal conflict.
If science is the study of all that has been divinely created then why is it all too often at odds with religion? Throughout history scientists and visionaries such a s Copernicus and Galileo were afraid to speak their 'heretical' idea of (heliocentrism vs the predominant and church accepted geocentrism) or were even demanded to recant their views under threat of being burned at the stake. Even today's modern evolutionary and geological scientist are under a similar, though less harmful, assault by a religious front.
Take evolution vs creation as a specific example of a modern science vs religion battleground. Evolutionary sciences has modern humanity (homo sapiens) as being approximately 40 thousand years old and the earth at several billion years old, while the counter religious movements have both at less than 10 thousand years. This is quite the significant disparity in age between the two views, and, in this enlightened age there is still much bitterness and vehemence in arguments against each other.
I wonder why this has to be. Why are some religions so afraid of scientific advancement and the furthering our understanding of this wonderful and potentially divine creation that has given us the miracle of life and free will?
For me, such bridge theories such as evolutionary creationism and biblical to geological correlations via Day-Age Creationism help to make sense of things and to bring science and religion together in a non-aggressive and logical manner.
Why could not the creator have created all of life with evolution as its impetus for change and existence? What exactly is a biblical day to a potentially omniscient and omnipotent creator who created time and matter itself? Does the creator live by our Earth centric view of time at 24 hours per day, which may be horribly arrogant of and presumptuous of us, or does this entity who created time itself have a more fluid day in the billions or hundreds of millions of years as geological evidence would have us believe? This is for you to decide with evolutionary creationism and Age-Day Creationism as a good middle ground.


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Wind Energy Biography: A Review of Wind Turbine Technology and Economics
Marc (Jensen) Melaina
Wind energy is widely acknowledged as one of the most sustainable sources of electricity: environmental impacts are relatively low, further reductions in production costs are expected, the distribution of global wind resources is diverse, and the potential for market expansion is large. Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions per unit of wind energy are approximately ninety percent less than emissions from conventional fossil fuel power sources, and bird population impacts and of noise pollution have been reduced significantly in recent years. For these and other reasons, a range of policies have been adopted in various countries to promote wind energy development.
A combination of technological improvements, cost reductions, and economic incentives has made wind energy the fastest growing source of electricity, with installed global capacity doubling approximately every three years over the last decade. The state of the art turbine in 1989 was a 300 kW unit with a rotor diameter of 30 meters. By 1999, 1.5 MW wind turbines with 70 meter rotor diameters were available, and today 4 to 5 MW turbines are under development. Total installed global wind capacity was 4,844 MW by the end of 1995, and had increased over threefold to 17,706 MW by the end of 2000 (Ackerman and Söder 2002). Today's production costs are one-sixth the costs seen in the early 1980's, averaging around $0.04 to $0.06 per kWh, and production costs are projected to drop to $0.027 to $0.045 per kWh by 2030 (this report).
A variety of technological and economic issues underlie these impressive developments in wind energy. Several extensive reviews of wind energy technology have recently been published and cover these developments from various perspectives. Ackerman and Söder (2002) review recent global developments and major wind power characteristics. A recent book by Manwell, McGowan and Rogers (2002) provides detailed information on the theory and analysis of wind turbine design and operation. An updated version of Hau's book on wind technology (2000) provides a detailed account of a range of issues, including turbine design, manufacturing and economics.
This report is intended as a general primer on wind energy technology, with a focus on technological characteristics and how they relate to the economics of wind energy. It draws upon the three major sources mentioned above, as well as a variety of additional sources, to provide a concise survey of four wind energy topics: 1) characteristics and extent of wind resources, 2) fundamentals of wind turbine technology, 3) intermittency of wind energy and the roles of transmission and storage, and 4) the economics of wind energy. Within these topics, there is an emphasis on the theoretical aspects of converting wind energy into electricity, was well as subsequent conversion of electricity into hydrogen.
Melaina, Marc. 2004. Wind Energy Biography: A Review of Wind Turbine Technology and Economics. University of Michigan: Ann Arbor: 1-46.
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    operations = [
        migrations.DeleteModel(
            name='EmployeeAppointment',
        ),
        migrations.DeleteModel(
            name='UwBridgeUser',
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As explained earlier, our Player object extends a Square object. I could have called it "Pawn"… maybe.
When a player is moving to a new position on the board, we need to update its accesses with .setAccesses().
If no path is found .setPath() returns false, so we can make sure that an access to the goal line is always left open.
These functions will be called for tests as well.
The getter for the accesses actually return the access with the shortest path, considering a potential jump over a neighbouring pawn.
// Do we get the access as a neighbouring pawn ? Is the jumping allowed ?
// If this access is a neighbouring pawn and we can jump it : we call the access from it (disabling jump).
// Is that square our smartest move so far ? Oh, and if a jump, is it a valid one ?
// Yep, let's set it up.
// This now must be the smartest move.
Here we check if the given Square Object parameter is either one of our valid accesses, or one of our neighbour's ones.
The game.rule property is here to record which rule we should remind the player of in the "alert" part of the interface. Mostly in case of an error, but not necessarily.
// Our destination is recorded in this player's valid accesses !
// #rule-6 : When two pawns face each other on neighbouring squares which are not separated by a fence, the player whose turn it is can jump the opponent's pawn (and place himself behind him), thus advancing an extra square.
// This player has access to another Pawn : he has a neighbour.
// And if this neighbour has access to our destination, is it a valid one ?
// rule-8 : It is forbidden to jump more than one pawn.
// #rule-7 : If there is a fence behind the said pawn, the player can place his pawn to the left or the right of the other pawn.
// #rule-2 : The pawns are moved one square at a time, horizontally or vertically, forwards or backwards.
// #rule-3 : The pawns must get around the fences.
We have two possible actions: moving the player's pawn, or putting up a fence.
Both .move() and .putUp() are actually firing requestAnimationFrame, and it's only when the animation is completed that our action is recorded.
// Set the "fenceAnim" global to the fence we want to put up.
// And it's now the next player's turn !
Now we need a function to tell us if the player is winning. Too easy.
// Is the player now on his goal line ?
And here, a little function to update the "fences left" indicator in this player's caption div.


Buy artwork. Pick up a raffle ticket. Send promising young students to the United States. Not bad for a night's work. It all goes down at the Costa Rican-North American Center in San Pedro on Wednesday night.
For many young Ticos, no dream is more enticing than a chance to study in the U.S. There are plenty of prestigious schools in Costa Rica, but the U.S. offers a variety of schools and specialty majors that do not exist here. Yet the U.S. is expensive – according to the National Center for Education Statistics, undergraduates at public schools spend an average of $13,564 per academic year, never mind Ivy League students.
You can help these dreams come true thanks to the Opportunity Fund, a collaboration between the Costa Rican-North American Center and Education USA, a study-abroad organization. Started in 2006, the fund distributes money to promising Costa Rican students who hope to enroll in a U.S. school. While the fund doesn't pay the student's full tuition or living expenses, it greases the wheels, covering visa applications, document translation, placement exams and transportation to the school, among other things.
To raise money for the fund, the Center will host a benefit on Wednesday,Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m., in its San Pedro headquarters. The soiree will include raffles and an art auction, among other activities. Patrons can peruse and purchase the work of Costa Rican artists, who will donate a percentage of their revenue to the Opportunity Fund.
More than 100 academic institutions in the U.S. have admitted Costa Rican students through the program. Last year's recipients were Jimmy Rojas, who is now studying at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and José Ángel Rodriguez, who is attending Virginia Tech. This year's selections are Jorge Isaac Sandoval and Joselina Chacón, who are still applying to schools. Stay in the loop to find out where they go.


After the success of my first session at JPMC, Karachi on 24 May 2017, I was asked to visit JPMC again to speak to more students and doctors who wish to work in the UK. The event was open to medical students and doctors from all institutes.
The event was organized at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Karachi on Thursday, 06 July 2017 about PLAB and training in the UK.


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Canada's top university-based business incubator turns five!
Canada's top university-based business incubator turns five!
The DMZ at Toronto Metropolitan University celebrates over $70 million in funding for startups
The DMZ started in 2010 as a small working space occupied by a handful of Toronto Metropolitan University-based startups that were developing digital media products. Five years on, it is the leading business incubator for technology startups in Canada, proudly based at Ryerson, Canada's preeminent comprehensive innovation university, with the reach to forge powerful connections across a global ecosystem.
"Five years ago Toronto Metropolitan University had a lofty goal to help grow Canada's digital economy by empowering young people and giving them the tools to realize their dreams," said Valerie Fox, Executive Director of the DMZ. "The result has surpassed every expectation. The DMZ is fueling the success of entrepreneurs at home and abroad at an unprecedented pace."
The DMZ by the Numbers:
#1 ranked in Canada and #5 in the world for university business incubators by University Business Incubator (UBI) Index
More than 1,605 jobs created and fostered by the DMZ and its incubating companies
Over 180 startups incubated
Nearly 900 innovators supported
Over $70 million in funding raised by present and past incubated startups
7 new Ryerson zones inspired by the DMZ which serve as hubs for student entrepreneurship and innovation.
20 international partnerships with incubators, universities and organizations such as the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand and MasterCard
More than 80 industry-leading advisors counselling startups in funding, finance, law and more
Hosted over 1,400 DMZ tours, including industry giants, top government officials and royalty
Moving forward, the DMZ has a number of exciting developments on the horizon including a newly unveiled brand reflecting its evolution—including changing its name from the Digital Media Zone to the DMZ—representing a more inclusive mandate to help grow technology startups of all stripes. The DMZ has also updated its look, logo and language to better convey the maturity of the startups it serves, its impact on Canadian business and the unparalleled opportunities offered to its entrepreneurs.
Click here to view or download an infographic associated with this release.
The DMZ is one of Canada's largest business incubators and co-working spaces for entrepreneurs. The top-ranked university incubator in Canada and fifth in the world, the DMZ is a hub of innovation, collaboration and commercialization. Since opening in April 2010, the DMZ and Ryerson Futures Inc.—its affiliated accelerator program—have incubated and accelerated 180 startups which have collectively raised more than $70 million in funding and fostered more than 1,605 jobs. For more information about the DMZ, visit www.ryerson.ca/dmz.
Toronto Metropolitan University is Canada's leader in innovative, career-oriented education and a university clearly on the move. With a mission to serve societal need, and a long-standing commitment to engaging its community, Ryerson offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs. Distinctly urban, culturally diverse and inclusive, the university is home to more than 38,000 students, including 2,300 master's and PhD students, nearly 2,700 faculty and staff, and more than 155,000 alumni worldwide. Research at Ryerson is on a trajectory of success and growth: externally funded research has doubled in the past four years. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is Canada's leading provider of university-based adult education. For more information, visit www.ryerson.ca.
By the DMZ,
Tech Incubator
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FALLS CHURCH, VA, 26 March 2018—NGS has extended the submission deadline for speakers—as well as organizations interested in sponsoring lectures—to submit lecture proposals for the National Genealogical Society (NGS) 2019 Family History Conference. All proposals must be submitted electronically at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/call_for_proposals 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, 6 April 2018.
The conference, Journey of Discovery, will be held in St. Charles, Missouri, 8-11 May 2019. Typically, this annual conference attracts between 1,800 to 2,000 family historians and genealogists as well as more than eighty exhibitors and sponsors. NGS promotes its conferences nationally and in regional markets as well as through online social media.
The conference program for the Journey of Discovery will focus on our ancestors' records and the knowledge, skill, and tools family historians and genealogists need when they embark on a new journey of discover with each family they research.
Our American pioneers experienced their own journey of discovery as they migrated to the Louisiana Purchase and the Northwest Territory, thus opening the Midwest and the Plains states to migration and new settlements. Over time, the rivers, trails west, and the railroads were vital to this expansion. Bounty land warrants, the Homestead Act, and the land grants provided many opportunities for settling the Midwest and points west. Native Americans, French fur traders, and Spanish soldiers preceded these settlers, discovering the beauty of the geysers, mountains, and plains years earlier.
Migration from the east and south included Americans formerly from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, often traveling with those enslaved or indentured. The end of the Civil War provided opportunities for African Americans to leave the plantations and travel north. The Germans and Irish as well as Eastern Europeans, all seeking new opportunities, poured into the country, establishing new towns and cities, schools, and businesses while maintaining their own customs and religions.
NGS invites proposals on all aspects of the journey of discovery. Conference tracks under consideration will address a wide range of topics and include: courts and laws, DNA, emigration, ethnic records, government documents, heirlooms, immigration, maps, migration, military, organizing, regional, repositories, technology, and transportation.
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On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide to resampling from a large data set in Hadoop. Resampling is an important step in fitting ensemble models (including random forests and other bagging techniques), and Uri provides a step-by-step guide to implementing resampling methods using RHadoop. He provides the complete map-reduce code in the R language, as well as a useful script for installing RHadoop on a Cloudera instance.
By the way, if you're new to RHadoop, here's RHadoop creator and project leader Antonio Piccolboni introducting RHadoop at last year's Strata CA conference.


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Ministry for the University and Scientific Research – Italy; University of Padova; Telethon – Italy; National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service (USA); AIRC (Italian Association on Cancer Research); Association Française contre les Myopathies; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo.
As of May, 2013 Prof. Bernardi has published 189 peer-reviewed articles which have received 17,678 citations with an h index (n of publications with at least n citations) of 67. His most quoted paper [Bernardi P (1999) Mitochondrial transport of cations: Channels, exchangers and permeability transition. Physiol Rev 79, 1127-1155] has 1,121 citations; his most quoted experimental paper [Costantini, P., Chernyak, B.V., Petronilli, V. and Bernardi, P. (1996) Modulation of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore by Pyridine Nucleotides and Dithiol Oxidation at Two Separate Sites. J. Biol. Chem. 271, 6746-6751] ranks 4th with 471 quotes. His "top ten" list gathers 5,400 quotes.
Paolo Bernardi began his studies on mitochondrial physiology and ion transport under the guidance of Giovanni Felice Azzone, one of the founding Fathers of Bioenergetics. His education in Cellular and Molecular Biology was completed with a long-term stay at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked under the supervision of Harvey F. Lodish. He pioneered the field of mitochondrial channels and their role in cellular pathophysiology. In particular, he focused on the permeability transition pore (PTP), a high conductance channel that is increasingly recognized as a key player in cell death. During the early 1990s he defined key points of regulation of the PTP in isolated mitochondria (membrane potential, matrix pH, Me2+-binding sites, specific redox-sensitive sites). He then developed tools to reliably monitor mitochondrial function in situ, and addressed mechanistic questions on the PTP as a target in degenerative diseases and cancer cells. His studies have been extended to in vivo models, and culminated with the demonstration that early mitochondrial adaptation plays a key role in hepatocarcinogenesis by 2-acetylaminofluorene [Klöhn et al. (2013) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100, 10014-10019] and that muscular dystrophy caused by collagen VI deficiency has an unexpected mitochondrial pathogenesis due to increased PTP opening that can be counteracted by cyclosporin A [Irwin et al (2003) Nat Genet 35, 367-371; Angelin et al. (2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104, 991-996; Merlini et al. (2008) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105, 5225-5229]. Recent key discoveries have been the molecular definition of the PTP, which forms from dimers of the FOF1 ATP synthase in the presence of Ca2+ in a process controlled by cyclophilin D binding to the OSCP subunit [Giorgio et al. (2013) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110, 5887-5892]; and that TRAP1 inhibits respiration of cancer cells by decreasing the activity of succinate dehydrogenase, a finding that provides a molecular explanation to the Warburg effect and holds great promise for the selective killing of cancer cells [Sciacovelli et al., Cell Metab (2013) in press].
Paolo Bernardi was a major actor in the Mitochondrial Renaissance of the 1990s. As early as 1992 he was one of the few to realise the importance of mitochondria in cell death well before the role of cytochrome c release was shown to be a key event in apoptosis. He pioneered the field rapidly reaching international recognition, as testified by 159 invited lectures at meetings and 116 seminars at prestigious Institutions worldwide. He has organized or coorganized key meetings on mitochondrial pathophysiology that significantly contributed to the continuing success of the field (2 meetings on New Perspectives in Mitochondrial Research, Padova, Italy 1993 and 1997; Colloquium Mitochondria in Cell Death, 8th European Bioenergetics Conference, Valencia, Spain 1994; Colloquium The Mitochondrial Permeability Transition in Accidental and Programmed Cell Death, 9th European Bioenergetics Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1996; 1st (1996), 2nd (1998) and 3rd (2000) Conference Frontiers in Mitochondrial Research, Albany, NY; Symposium New Frontiers in Mitochondrial Research – from Bioenergetics to Dynamics, Bertinoro, Italy 2007; 52nd and 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society USA, Bioenergetics Subgroup Meetings Mitochondria Bioenergetics in Disease and Therapeutics, Long Beach 2008 and Mitochondria in Disease, San Francisco 2010). His achievements were possible through the work and training of junior personnel (from 1991 Prof. Bernardi has supervised the work of 20 Graduate Students from the University of Padova, 4 visiting Graduate Students from other Universities and 11 postdoctoral Fellows).


There are always about a million excuses for blogging, but the truth is, it's always just sheer laziness. And maybe I simply have too many platforms to share my stuff on ? I have Facebook, juliadoan.com's Facebook, two personal Instagram accounts, two personal tumblr blogs and twitter. And everything is more convenient than blogging, I swear. Maybe because I changed back to blogspot and blogspot doesn't even have an app for blogging. Or not a very good one. Just now I also realized that I'm sooo fickle with my blog layout. I really liked it before and now I don't like it anymore, wtf is wrong with me haha. So I think my blog has to undergo some changes again. Or maybe I should switch to wordpress after all ? I dont know : ( so so so fickle.
I've been back home in Germany for almost two weeks after three months in Vietnam and everything really feels absolutely the same. It's like nothing ever changes and I love that. It gives you a feeling of security, like everything is going to be alright and everything is going to stay the same, no matter what happens. Unfortunately this feeling sometimes prevents me from developing quicker. Being at home is being in your comfort zone, so you don't feel the urge to push yourself as hard, because no matter what, you still have a bed to return to. In Vietnam I always feel like I'm fighting for my existence, because so many people do the same thing, and people copy you so fast, so you have to be smarter, wiser and quicker in order to make it. Pretty tiresome and demanding but also challenging, which is good for me, the natural procrastinator.
I have a lot of photos and entries to post so I better get started nowww. Had a couple shootings in Vietnam : D I also bought a new lens two days ago in the middle of the night. I'm always too lazy to carry around a large lens, and actually I really want to the 35mm lens but I got a 40mm one instead. Pancake lens, oh so cute !


We have a fabulous opening weekend planned for Uptown Unplugged this year! Be sure to check out Jeff and Heidi this weekend at Westminster Centre on Saturday, and Royal City Centre on Sunday.
At the heart of the music Jeff Neufeld performs is the sound of an acoustic guitar & voice. Playing a high energy mix of classic Roots music styles, Jeff has performed well over 250 solo shows in over 40 different venues over the past 10 years to a suprisingly diverse range of audiences. Whatever the venue or event, Jeff has just the right group of songs for the occasion.
Heidi McCurdy is an award-winning singer & songwriter. Her unique "Global Soul" is inspired by a diverse tapestry of influences. She has toured in Canada and Europe with numerous bands, performing at jazz and world music festivals. Her CD "Fickle Mind" received songwriting awards and national airplay, and her lyrics resonate with the beauty of dreams, the depths of the soul's passions and our collective power to create positive change. In solo performances, she explores the threshold between composition and improvisation, sharing original songs and spontaneous creations that incorporate vocal looping, guitar, drums, singing bowls and spoken word.


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"The chances of a global pandemic are growing and we are all dangerously underprepared." — World Health Organization in a September 18, 2019 statement mere months before the COVID-19 outbreak.
"There's a glaring hole in President Trump's budget proposal for 2019, global health researchers say. A U.S. program to help other countries beef up their ability to detect pathogens around the world will lose a significant portion of its funding." — From a 2018 NPR news report.
During recent years the world has swelled with new and re-emerging infectious illnesses. Ebola, HIV, and SARS were among the worst. And many were accelerated, worsened or enabled through various harmful interactions with the living world to include deforestation, the bush meat trade and the climate crisis. But these illnesses were not the only ones. Between 2011 and 2018, the World Health Organization had tracked 1,483 epidemics worldwide including SARS and Ebola. These illnesses had forced human migration, lost jobs, increased mortality, and major disruption to the regions impacted. In total 53 billion dollars in epidemic related damages were reported.
Comparison of lungs of a Wuhan patient who survived COVID-19 — image A-C — to those of a patient who suffered death from the illness — image D-F. Both image sets show the tell-tale ground glass like opacities of COVID-19 in lungs. Image source: Association of Radiologic Findings.
By late 2019, before the present pandemic, a sense of unease had appeared to settle upon the global health, threat analysis, and infectious disease response community. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) convened a joint World Bank and WHO meeting during September. The meeting brought with it a kind of air of dread. At the time, various climate change related crises were raging around the world and the general sense was that the human system had become far more fragile in the face of an increasingly perturbed natural world. At the conference, members spoke uneasily about past major disease outbreaks like the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people. About how we were vulnerable to that kind of potential outbreak in the present day.
"While disease has always been part of the human experience, a combination of global trends, including insecurity and extreme weather, has heightened the risk… The world is not prepared," GPMB members warned. "For too long, we have allowed a cycle of panic and neglect when it comes to pandemics: we ramp up efforts when there is a serious threat, then quickly forget about them when the threat subsides. It is well past time to act."
And they had reason to be uneasy, for even as global illnesses were on the rise in the larger setting of a world wracked by rising climate crisis, reactionary political forces in key nations such as the United States had rolled back disease monitoring and response capabilities. It basically amounted to a withdrawal from the field of battle against illness at a time when those particular threats were rising and multiplying. And the responding statements of increasingly loud concern coming from health experts and scientists, ignored or even muzzled by the brutally reactionary Trump Administration, would end up being devastatingly prophetic.
Live Animal Markets Again Suspect
"We do not know the exact source of the current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The first infections were linked to a live animal market, but the virus is now primarily spreading from person to person." — CDC.
If the story of how SARS first broke out in 2002-2003 is not fully understood, then we know even less today about how the second strain of SARS (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) made its way into the human population. What we do know is that the disease is closely associated to a coronavirus found in bats, that the disease transferred from bats or animals ecologically associated with bats and the virus (such as pangolins or civets) to humans through some vector, and that live animal markets remain high on the suspect list. According to recent scientific reports, an intermediate host such as a pangolin, a civet, a ferret, or some other animal like the ones sold in wet markets probably played a role. Chinese health experts also identified a seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan as the original source of the new illness in January.
Regardless of its zoonotic genesis, COVID-19 made its leap into the human population sometime during late November or early December of 2019 in Wuhan, China where it began to spread. At first the spread was relatively slow. Or it seemed slow, due to the fact that the initial source of the infection was small — possibly just one person. But viral spread operates on an exponentiation expansion function. And like its cousin SARS-CoV, COVID-19 was quite transmissible — generating about 2.2 persons infected for each additional new illness.
Wuhan Suffers First Outbreak
At the time, no-one really knew how rapidly the illness spread. Some early reports of the disease seemed to indicate that it was easy to contain. That it wasn't very transmissible. These accounts would prove dramatically wrong in later weeks. But this early confusion about the risk posed by COVID-19 did hint at its nasty, sneaky, back and forth nature. About how it lulled the unprepared and the overconfident into a sense of false security early on. It also would later show that slower responses to the illness in its ramp-up phase would prove devastating.
By December through mid-January, Wuhan was dealing with an uptick in pneumonia-like infections. Having experienced SARS illness before, the region was put on alert after getting days of indicators that all was not right. These response efforts have been criticized as slow. How it happened is also opaque. One reason is that China was rather close-lipped about the outbreak's rise on its soil at first. But another reason (an arguably much greater one) for this lack of clarity is due to the fact that many U.S. disease monitors charged with providing reports about the infectious disease situation on the ground in China and various other countries were removed by the Trump Administration in the years and months leading up to the outbreak.
Despite not providing a clear early picture of the outbreak, China did start to rapidly and effectively respond during December and January. In December, researchers received samples of the disease which they identified as a new coronavirus infection — naming it SARS-CoV-2. Once samples were available, both China and the World Health Organization (WHO) swiftly and dutifully produced tests to detect the illness. As of late January of 2020, China had 5 tests for COVID-19. At the same time, WHO began deploying tests to countries and by February the global health agency had shipped easily produce-able tests to 57 countries. This early availability of testing capability provided by WHO would prove crucial to the effective infectious disease responses of many countries in the follow-on to China's disease outbreak.
Viral Glass Like Nodules in Lungs
Back in Wuhan and in larger China, it was becoming apparent both how deadly and how transmissible the new SARS was. From mid January 23 through February 18 — over a mere 26 days — the number of reported cases rocketed from around a hundred to more than 75,000. About ten times the total cases of the first SARS outbreak in 2002-2003. This even as China shut down large regions of the country, putting the whole Wuhan region on lock-down, and setting up dedicated COVID-19 testing and treatment centers. Notably, the new SARS-CoV-2 had become not only a serious threat to China. It was now a significant threat to the globe — one unprecedented in the past 100 years. A threat on a scale that disease experts had warned of during late 2019. One that if it broke out fully was more than capable of mimicking the 1918 flu pandemic's impact and death tally.
After rapid growth in COVID-19 cases in China, a strong national response has limited the first wave of outbreak in that highly populous country to just over 80,000. Image source: WorldoMeters.
The disease, which had first been seen by some as mild and easy to contain, had taken hold to great and grim effect. It produced direct and serious damage to people's lungs. China's dedicated mass testing centers quickly adapted to look for the tell-tale and devastating signature of COVID-19's progress in the human body. A kind of viral glass like set of nodules that appeared plainly in scans of victims lungs.
As devastating as the disease was to individual bodies, it hit community bodies hard as well, producing mass casualties as about 15 percent of all people infected ended up in the hospital. A large number of these hospitalized cases required intensive care support (ICU) with ventilators and intubation to assist breathing. This put healthcare workers at great risk of infection themselves — because as with SARS — COVID-19 was not containable in the hospital setting without protective gear and masks (PPE). Early indications were that the lethality rate in China was around 2-3 percent or 20 to 30 times worse than the seasonal flu. Present closed reported case mortality for China now stands at 4 percent with 3,333 souls lost.
The progress of COVID-19 in an infected person was itself rather terrifying. Its 'milder' expression resulting in severe flu and pneumonia like symptoms with a number of other bodily responses to include serious spikes in blood pressure along with a manic variance in symptom severity. In hospital cases, victims often struggled to breathe to the point that they required oxygen. If the disease progressed, it produced serious inflammation — filling up lungs with fluid requiring support with machines for breathing. Late stage COVID-19 also attacked the body's organs with inflammation, resulting in a need for multi-organ support in the worst cases.
Massive Outbreak of a Terrifying Illness
It was a nasty, terrible thing. It brought China to its knees — despite what ended up being a strong overall response by the country. At present, China is still recovering, still going slow with certain sectors of its economy despite limiting new cases to less than 100 per day.
The first outbreak in China was extraordinary in number of persons infected. So large as to be extremely difficult to contain through a well managed global response. But the response from key nations like the U.S. was not well managed. So through various contacts and travel vectors within the human system, this serious illness made its way out to the rest of the world. For the diligent contacts tracing and isolation, the early detection and response by international disease experts that had contained Ebola and the first SARS outbreak had been both hobbled and overwhelmed.
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Tagged China Outbreak, Climate of Pandemic, COVID-19, Experts Warnings, First Outbreak, Glass Like Nodules, GPMB, Pandemic, Trump Leadership Failure, WHO, Wuhan
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Trump's OWN words on The Corona virus:
January: I know more about viruses than anyone."
January 22: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine."
February 2: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
February 24: "The Corona virus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
February 25: "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Corona virus."
February 25: "I think that's a problem that's going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we're very close to a vaccine."
February 26: "The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."
February 26: "We're going very substantially down, not up."
February 27: "One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."
February 28: "We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical."
March 2: "You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?"
March 2: "A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they're happening very rapidly."
March 4: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better."
March 5: "I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work."
March 5: "The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!"
March 6: "I think we're doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down."
March 6: "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They're there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect.
Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good."
March 6: "I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this?' Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."
March 6: "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."
March 8: "We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus."
March 9: "This blindsided the world."
March 13: "National emergency, two big words."
March 17: "I was using the word Pandemic from the start before anyone else"
And we wonder why things are so bad….
Yep. Working on this chapter now. It's crazy.
Record-Thin Sea Ice Faces Big Predicted Arctic Warm-up This Week


Sinclair Broadcast Group is close to a ideal to acquire the American TV station operator Tribune Media Co., Reuters reported on Sunday.
Chicago-based Tribune Media operates 42 TV stations and WGN radio, and reaches more than 43 percent of the nation including major markets like New York, Chicago and Miami. Sinclair currently operates 171 TV stations in 81 markets, mostly in the South and Midwest.
According to Reuters, Sinclair offered $45 per share for the company, or roughly $4 billion. Tribune Media's publicly traded shares closed at $40.29 on Friday.
The deal would be the first major acquisition of a TV broadcasting group announced since the Federal Communications Commission voted last month to overturn a 2016 decision limiting the number of television stations some broadcasters can own.
According to Bloomberg, Sinclair beat out Fox News owner 21st Century Fox and the New York investment firm Blackstone for Tribune Media, as well an expected bid from Nextar.
A rep for Sinclair did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment.


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Posted April 25, 2020 by hscpupil Hampton's Greatest Sporting Moments
Hampton's Greatest Sporting Moments: HSC launches new series
"It's impossible to rank Hampton's greatest sporting moments"
Mr Barry Martin, Hampton Sports Chronicle, Spring 2013
So said former Headmaster, Mr Barry Martin, in an interview with HSC before he left the school in 2013. What Mr Martin didn't foresee, however, was the context of a crippling global pandemic, amidst which the HSC's editorial team were granted more time than ever before to undertake such a prodigious task.
So, armed with numerous past editions of the HSC and extensive digital archives, Mr Smith and I have compiled what we think is an exhaustive list of Hampton's greatest sporting successes. While it is impossible to come up with a logarithmic, formulaic scale for assessing the magnitude of a sporting success, we have attempted to cover a variety of different bases.
For example, there are numerous Olympic rowing medals (to the Boat House's immense credit, of course), but we tried to limit it to one moment and opted for the Searle brothers' success at the 1992 Olympic Games. Similarly, while there were three ISFA triumphs to choose from, we went for 2012, where the 1st XI's glory was combined with an U15A Cup win too.
We have, therefore, compiled a list of various sports and various moments – both by individuals and teams – spanning the many decades for which Hampton has been a dominant sporting force. The group is by no means entirely exhaustive, but we've endeavoured to cover a broad range of successes.
Over the next two weeks, we'll be releasing three reports a day, and asking you – our readership – to vote on Twitter. There are 24 moments, all split into groups of three, and the winner of each group will progress to the knock-out stage.
Eventually, we hope, after three knockout rounds, we'll have come to some sort of judgement over the identity of Hampton's greatest contemporary sporting success.
Josh Bartholomew, Hampton Sports Chronicle Editor
Mr Peter Smith, Teacher i/c, Hampton Sports Chronicle
Hampton's Greatest Sporting Moments
Alumni, Josh Bartholomew
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The Scrubby Bugs for Grubby Kids soap evolved as my baby boy grew up and discovered mud and soccer and horses and dirtbikes!
A bit of experimenting and a few fabulous batches later I knew we had something special. Add in the fun shapes and most children enjoy making themselves clean!
Subtlety scented for children and embedded with black poppy seeds.
Ingredients Olive Oil, Spring Water, Coconut Oil, Macadamia Nut Oil, Tallow, Rice Bran Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Sweet Orange Essential Oil, Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil, Black Poppy Seeds.


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A pulsar timing array (PTA) is a set of pulsars which is analysed to search for correlated signatures in the pulse arrival times. There are many applications for pulsar timing arrays. The best known is the use of an array of millisecond pulsars to detect and analyse gravitational waves. Such a detection would result from a detailed investigation of the correlation between arrival times of pulses emitted by the millisecond pulsars as a function of the pulsars' angular separations.

Overview
Millisecond pulsars are used because they are not prone to the starquakes and accretion events which can affect the period of classical pulsars.

One influence on these propagation properties are low-frequency gravitational waves, with a frequency of 10−9 to 10−6 hertz; the expected astrophysical sources of such gravitational waves are massive black hole binaries in the centres of merging galaxies, where tens of millions of solar masses are in orbit with a period between months and a few years.

The gravitational waves cause the time of arrival of the pulses to vary by a few tens of nanoseconds over their wavelength (so, for a frequency of 3 x 10 −8 Hz, one cycle per year, one would find that pulses arrive 20 ns early in July and 20 ns late in January). This is a delicate experiment, although millisecond pulsars are stable enough clocks that the time of arrival of the pulses can be predicted to the required accuracy; the experiments use collections of 20 to 50 pulsars to account for dispersion effects in the atmosphere and in the space between the observer and the pulsar. It is necessary to monitor each pulsar roughly once a week; a higher cadence of observation would allow the detection of higher-frequency gravitational waves, but it is unclear whether there would be loud enough astrophysical sources at such frequencies.

It is not possible to get accurate sky locations for the sources by this method, as analysing timings for twenty pulsars would produce a region of uncertainty of 100 square degreesa patch of sky about the size of the constellation Scutum which would contain at least thousands of merging galaxies.

The main goal of PTAs is measuring the amplitude of background gravitational waves caused by a history of supermassive black hole mergers. The amplitudes can describe the history of how galaxies were formed. The bound on the amplitude of the background waves is called an upper limit. The amplitude of the gravitational wave background is less than the upper limit.

Some supermassive black holes binaries may form a stable binary and only merge after many times the current age of the universe. This is called the final parsec problem. It is unclear how supermassive black holes approach each other at this distance.

While supermassive black hole binaries are the main source of very low frequency gravitational waves, other sources could generate the waves, such as cosmic strings, which may have formed early in the history of the universe. When cosmic strings interact, they can form loops that decay by radiating gravitational waves.

Active and proposed PTAs

Globally there are five active pulsar timing array projects. The first three projects (PPTA, EPTA, and NANOGrav) have begun collaborating under the title of the International Pulsar Timing Array project, China also became an active part, later InPTA also became an active part.
 The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) at the Parkes radio-telescope has been collecting data since March 2005.
 The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) uses data from the four largest radio telescopes in Europe:
 Lovell Telescope
 Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
 Effelsberg Telescope
 Nancay Radio Telescope.
 Upon completion the Sardinia Radio Telescope will be added to the EPTA also.
 The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) uses data collected by the Arecibo and Green Bank radio telescopes.
 The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array uses the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).
 The Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) uses the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

References

External links
Pulsar timing array simulator SimPTA
European Pulsar Timing Array
North American Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Observatory (NANOGrav)

Gravitational-wave astronomy

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Hwang, S.W.; Lee, T.W.; Hwang S.D.; Lee, E.K., and Yoo, J.M. 2015. Habitat use patterns of Chelon haematocheilus, as revealed by Sr:Ca ratios in otoliths.
We measured Sr:Ca ratios in otoliths to examine the habitat use patterns of 50 Chelon haematocheilus collected from two estuaries of the Geum River and the Mangyeong River on the midwest coast of South Korea. The average ratio was 5 × 10−3 ± 0.6 × 10−3 (mean ± SD) in the core of the otolith and ranged from 3 × 10−3 to 7 × 10−3 in the opaque zone surrounding the core. We applied the criteria used to analyze otoliths in the closely related species Mugil cephalus in a previous study and concluded from the otolith Sr:Ca ratios that C. haematocheilus spawns and grows in brackish water during the early part of its life cycle. Most fish showed otolith Sr:Ca ratios ranging from 3 × 10−3 to 7 × 10−3, indicating that they primarily live in brackish water. Some fish had ratios outside that range, indicating that they had potentially spent time in the upper, less-saline or lower, more-saline parts of the estuaries. Of C. haematocheilus in the Mangyeong River estuary, 34.8% had inhabited freshwater, but of those in the Geum River estuary, where a dike causes the water to be more saline, only 22.2% had inhabited freshwater. The findings of our study offer useful new information on the habitat choice of C. haematocheilus, allowing more sustainable use of the species.


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The Great Gatsby è un film muto del 1926 diretto da Herbert Brenon. Fu prodotto da Adolph Zukor e Jesse L. Lasky per la Famous Players-Lasky Corporation e distribuito dalla Paramount Pictures. È un famoso esempio di film perduto.

Questa è stata la prima versione cinematografica dell'omonimo romanzo.
Ne sono seguiti tre altri adattamenti: nel 1949, 1974 e 2013 e un adattamento televisivo nel 2000.

Trama

Produzione
La sceneggiatura, scritta da Becky Gardiner ed Elizabeth Meehan, si basa sull'adattamento teatrale di Owen Davis. Lo spettacolo, diretto da George Cukor, debuttò a Broadway nel Teatro Ambassador il 2 febbraio 1926 e, subito dopo ne furono acquistati i diritti cinematografici, fruttando allo scrittore F. Scott Fitzgerald 45.000 dollari.

La regia fu affidata ad Herbert Brenon che ha progettato il film come intrattenimento popolare, puntando sulle festose  scene nella villa di Gatsby e soffermandosi su elementi scandalosi.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla Paramount Pictures, il film fu presentato negli Stati Uniti in prima a New York il 21 novembre 1926, dopo essere già stato proiettato il 27 agosto in Portogallo con il titolo O Grande Senhor Gatsby. In Brasile uscì come Tudo Pelo Dinheiro il 1º gennaio 1927. Non risulta sopravvissuta alcuna copia del film, di cui esiste solo un trailer.

Film perduto
Il professore Wheeler Winston Dixon dell'Università del Nebraska di Lincoln, fece ampi tentativi per trovare una pellicola superstite, ma senza successo. Inoltre sostenne che girassero voci di una copia sopravvissuta in un archivio sconosciuto a Mosca, ipotesi successivamente respinta perché infondata.

Il trailer della durata di un minuto sopravvissuto è disponibile in una raccolta DVD della National Film Preservation Foundation.

Note

Bibliografia
 Richard B. Jewell, Vernon Harbin: The RKO Story, Arlington House, 1982 Octopus Books Limited - ISBN 0-517-546566 pag. 24
 Jerry Vermilye, The Films of the Twenties, Citadel Press, 1985 - ISBN 0-8065-0960-0 pagg. 150-151

Voci correlate
Film perduto
Filmografia della Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film basati su Il grande Gatsby
Film basati su opere teatrali
Film drammatici
Film diretti da Herbert Brenon


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Il Friuli Latisana Refosco dal peduncolo rosso superiore è un vino DOC la cui produzione è consentita nella provincia di Udine.

Caratteristiche organolettiche
colore: rosso rubino con riflessi violacei.
odore: erbaceo, gradevole, intenso.
sapore: caratteristico, leggermente erbaceo, fine.

Storia

Abbinamenti consigliati

Produzione
Provincia, stagione, volume in ettolitri
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Vini DOC della provincia di Udine
Vini DOC e DOCG prodotti con uva Refosco dal peduncolo rosso


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Evwind, Other renewables, Wind Energy
Asia's first hybrid solar-wind power system to Nepal
June 9, 2014 reve
Asia's first wind-solar hybrid energy system was handed over to Nepal on Monday by the Asian Development Bank, demonstrating the viability to provide reliable clean energy options to rural areas.
The project, completed under ABD'S $3.8 million regional technical assistance (RETA), was part of the bank's "Energy for All" initiative that supports increasing access to energy in remote rural areas.
Installed in Dhaubadi village of western Nepal in 2011, the project was today handed over to the Ministry of Environment.
Designed and funded by the ADB, bank's first hybrid alternate power system, the pilot project will electrify 55 rural households in Dhuabadi. Along with Nepal, RETA covers Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives.
"The project is now providing electricity services to 55 rural households of Dhuabadi. This was the pilot for the hybrid wind and solar system in Nepal," said Kenichi Yokoyama, ADB's Country Director for Nepal.
"The success of this project has demonstrated that it is indeed viable to provide reliable energy access to rural Nepal through solar wind hybrid systems as one of the lean energy options," he said.
He also said that the lessons learnt from this project will be very useful in scaling up the systems across Nepal, as well as in other developing member countries of ADB.
The electricity from the mini-grid has helped the villagers in Dhaubadi save time and money spent on their search for firewood, ADB said. The project will come into operation from June 13, the ADB said.
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For all the high-flying showmanship and unexpected brilliance of Florida Gulf Coast's NCAA Tournament run, and the commensurately growing coaching legend of Eagles head man Andy Enfield, there were skeptics, and most of those skeptics brought forth the same boring but altogether legitimate grievance. Are we really supposed to believe a one-week wonder from Fort Myers, Florida has all of a sudden, by virtue of a fluky Cinderella run, morphed into a prime candidate for a high-profile power conference job? Who made Enfield the next great on-court tactician, something more than a laissez faire personality who unleashed a group of young and brash and under-recruited athletes on an unsuspecting NCAA Tournament? Wasn't Dunk City more about Brett Comer and company than Enfield himself?
If there are any misgivings about USC hiring Enfield, he's on the right track toward proving why the Trojans made the right choice (Getty Images).
It is easy to see how Enfield could get tabbed with the "one-week wonder" label. The NCAA Tournament can accomplish many things. One of the most timelessly pervasive is the elevation of otherwise lesser-known coaches into consideration for more prominent jobs. Steve Alford's No. 3 seed New Mexico lost to Harvard in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament; UCLA paved the way (forcing Alford to renege on his 10-year contract extension almost immediately) for his arrival. Florida Gulf Coast beat Georgetown and San Diego State; Enfield got a pay raise, a basketball program with promise (if not actual historical success) and a new California lifestyle to boot. March is a magical time.
So it was always going to be interesting to see how Enfield would take to his new position, especially in these first few months. Well, the early returns are in, and so far Enfield has doubters doubting their own doubts – as in, "well, well, looks like this Dunk City thing is legit." How right you are. Enfield may have won two NCAA Tournament games with lesser talent, but to build a truly sustainable winner he'll need to penetrate the West Coast recruiting scene with the same vigor as Ben Howland during the Bruins' recent thrice-returning Final Four heyday. After less than a month on the job, Enfield has already considerably helped his chances.
News came down last week that Enfield hired local assistants Tony Bland and Jason Hart, two young and active prospect-hunting presences on the West Coast with strong ties to the area's top high school talent. Bland in particular was the recruiting brains behind San Diego State's recent talent surge under Steve Fisher, and Hart has a nine-year NBA pedigree along with coaching experience at the high school, college and AAU levels. CBS Sports' Gary Parrish reported Enfield is likely to round out his staff with Kevin Norris, one of Enfield's assistants at FGCU.
The players are what matters in the operational calculus of any hoops program, obviously, but before Enfield can start butting heads with Steve Alford and the Bruins on the recruiting trail, picking up experienced and localized assistant firepower is a prudent and timely way to kick things off. Enfield hasn't proven anything at this stage of the game; for all we know, he's a just-OK coach who piloted a super-hot 15-seed through a magical two-game run in the NCAA Tournament.
Landing two top assistants, and rapidly so, is a reassuring sign that maybe Florida Gulf Coast was just a little more than a free-flowing offense and an upset-vulnerable Georgetown team — with the Wall Street and supermodel narratives artificially imposed on top. Enfield is giving every indication he can succeed at a historically tough job with a historically agnostic fan base and a historically second-rate batch of West Coast Talent (O.J. Mayo sold separately…). Better yet, he's doing it the only way any powerhouse program of lasting import can build and prolong high-win seasons and NCAA Tournament wins – he's building from the ground up.
The implications of this move may not come into clear focus until later this year, when the 2014 commitment cycle hits full bloom. In today's world, Enfield's hires are symbolic, but the future they portend is an extremely bright one. Enfield has Tournament-crafted stardom, a mediocre but potentially brimming program and a playing style that basically recruits itself. Add two of the West Coast's best recruiters to the checklist. One-week wonder? I think not.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at 10:30 am by Chris Johnson	and is filed under coaching carousel, commentary. Tagged: andy enfield, coaching carousel, florida gulf coast, jason hart, tony bland, usc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


Harvard University calls Tai Chi medication in motion, for all of the health benefits it can provide. Read their article here.
The National Institute of Health also recommends Tai Chi and Qi Gong for health, read more here.
Studies have been done all around the world and have shown conclusively that Tai Chi and Qi Gong have many health benefits, for helping with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, neck pain, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, fall prevention, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, need I go on? Try it for yourself, talk to other practitioners and find out for yourself why Tai Chi and Qi Gong exercises are becoming more popular.


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Q: Wordpress installation in subfolder backend not accessable I have a Wordpress installation in the root folder of my server and another Wordpress installation in a subfolder called "neueseite".
I can access the frontend of the page in the subfolder but not the admin area (backend). When I try to access it, it shows me a 404 error: https://paarkultur.ch/neueseite/wp-login.php
All URLs in the database contain the URL with the subfolder. I also tried different things with the .htaccess file. Nothing helped.
Here is the code inside the root directory's .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

# Include in the next line all folders to exclude
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !(neueseite) [NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

And this is the code in the subfolders .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /neueseite/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /neueseite/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Can someone help me figure out what the problem could be?

A: I checked your nginx server and the below file is not located in the directory listed below:

https://paarkultur.ch/neueseite/wp-login.php

I can see that you have various core files such as wp-config.php, readme.html, etc but you do not have wp-login.php in that directory.
Anyway if you are trying to serve multiple sites from a single server then you are going the wrong way about it

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Q: Use putexcel to insert a string in Excel I am trying to make an easy to use do file where the user inserts the names of the towns s/he wants to summarize and then Stata:

*

*summarizes the towns

*saves the results in an Excel file

*exports the names of the towns summarized

I am using a list saved in a local macro since it works well with the inlist() function:
clear
input Date AskingRent str10 Town
2019 12 Boston
2019 13 Cambridge
2018 14 Boston
2018 15 Cambridge
end

local towns `" "Billerica", "Boston" "'
keep if inlist(City, `towns')
***some analysis

putexcel set "results.xlsx", modify
putexcel A1 = `towns'

I want the Excel file to have "Billerica, Boston" in cell A1.
However, I get an error in the last line of code that says:

nothing found where expression expected

A: The following works for me:
clear
input foo1 str20 foo2
5 "Billerica"
6 "Boston"
7 "London"
8 "New York"
end

. local towns `" "Billerica", "Boston" "'
. keep if inlist(foo2, `towns')

. putexcel set "results.xlsx", modify
. putexcel A1 = `"`towns'"'
file results.xlsx saved


In this article, a connection is made between loving to spend time to read and know the Word of God as well as being able to do it. In the process it is also shown that even the moral law is part of the law of God, and to be loved and obeyed.
According to this author, God saves us from the pleasure or love of sin before he delivers us from the punishment of sin. In the rest of the article, the explanation covers the state of a person before and after he has been saved from the love of sin.
In this article the subject of saving faith is investigated. The aim is to be able to identify and distinguish between faith that is genuine and leads to salvation and those kinds of faith that do not lead to salvation. By references to various texts in Scripture, the article deals with many of the faiths that do not lead to salvation.
The author of this article investigates what he calls the miracle of conversion, considering the process, the various individual experiences of conversion, and the true nature of the fall of man.
This article focuses on the coming together of the two natures of Christ, the human nature and the divine nature, for the purposes of mediation between God and man. The author says that the constitution of the person of Christ is of such a fundamental and vital concern that without believing it, one cannot be a Christian.
In detail, the author discusses the subject of repentance and includes in the discussion the necessity, nature, implications, and fruits of repentance.
The author discusses in detail the teachings around the subject of regeneration. Included are discussions on its necessity, what it is and means to the believer, and the results of the process of regeneration. The author dutifully addresses many terms to do with regeneration, including spirit, flesh, illumination, degeneration, and fallen nature.


Ford Mustang represents one of the most appreciated models in the muscle car segment, a vehicle manufactured by Ford starting 1964 along five generations. The first Mustang entered production in mid-April 1964 being designed at the Lincoln-Mercury Division studios by Joe Oros. At that time, Ford Mustang benefited from a variety of engine choices ranging from a 2.8-liter engine with 105 horses to a more powerful 4.7-liter V8 able to produce 271 horsepower and 423 Nm of torque.
Ten years later, in 1974, Ford introduced the second generation Mustang which has been offered as two-door coupe and three-door hatchback.
The new model also known as Mustang II benefited from three units, an entry-level 2.3-liter I4 engine, a more powerful 2.8-liter V6 and also a 4.9-liter V8 with 140 horsepower, a unit introduced in 1975.
In 1979 Ford revealed the third generation Mustang in three different variants, namely coupe, hatchback and convertible and a variety of trim levels ranging from L, GL, GLX to the Cobra R introduced in 1993.
Also known as "SN-95", the fourth-generation Mustang entered the market in 1994 with a radically new design and two body styles, two-door coupe and convertible. The 2004 NAIAS was the place where Ford unveiled the newest Mustang, a model also known as "S-917" which regained its muscle car look being offered in the same two variants as the previous generation.


I'm always on the hunt for cute projects to make with fat quarters! I seem to pick them up so often when I'm out at the fabric store – it's a little like how kids feel in those those candy aisles in the Target checkout line. I can't walk by them without picking up one or five.
And don't even get me started on the fat quarter bundles – those just make my heart go pitter patter. I can have just a little bit of all these darling prints? Well ok then. If I must.
There now – I'm a total enabler. 🙂 Happy fat quarter shopping and sewing!