We invite you to join us to gather with the Kontomble, Amazonian plant medicine Ayahuasca and the great teacher of all trees, Noya Rao, for a profound portal of healing, transformation, and connection to the ancient ways and wise, ancient beings.
In this journey we will be safely learning and healing directly from the Shipibo tribe. We are receiving the medicine how it has been practiced in ceremonial use for thousands of years, through the Mahua Shipibo family linage. This is one of the oldest strongest living shamanism linages in the Amazon. We will also be learning and healing with the Kontomble, a nation of 'Little People' from Burkina Faso West Africa, the spirit-being of Ayahausca, and the Tree of Life, Noya Rao.
Liv recently decided to share a little more deeply about the journey, via audio recording, now that she can sense more deeply into the energies of the gathering.
The Shipibo, are a native tribe to the Amazon of Peru. They're one of the largest tribes with a population of around 45,000 people, mostly living in small communities along the Ucayali River. They are a shamanic-ally based people, deeply influenced by the power of the plants, animals and natural elements. A unique aspect of the Shipibo culture is their woven song tradition.
Teacher plants are master plants that teach us, about ourselves, the world and the spirit world. The concept of plants as 'teachers', 'spirits' and 'doctors' is of paramount importance in Shipibo Shamanism. Each plant contains a powerful spirit that through the diet process you will be in total receptivity of: learning, working and receiving ancient and other worldly knowledge from.
Ayahuasca is the web which holds all the knowledge of the plants together. The Ayahuasca ceremonies are a vital aspect of the studies and journey into Shipibo shamanism and our gathering together. Issues that have tormented the soul, body and mind can be dissolved in a single song and what remains is visions of yourself in your highest health, potential and happiness.
The tree we will be studying alongside Ayahuasca is called Noya Rao. In the Shipibo language Noya translates to flying, and Rao is remedy, which means flying remedy. The Noya Rao is the Shipibo totem tree, the tree of light and life. It is a symbol deeply woven into the cosmology of the Shipibo people. They call it 'camino de la verded' (way of truth) and 'camino de la luz' (way of light). Studying this tree is the royal road to becoming a healer. Also to heal medical, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical conditions.
We will also sit in ceremony with the Kontomble. The many nations of the 'little people' around the world hear our prayers and lovingly tend our soul's paths and the health of the earth. These spirit-beings have unfailingly carried tradition, art, music, medicine, memory, and hope across the ages as our relatives, teachers, and allies. We will hear from these wise starry beings as they transmit their medicine, wisdom, and messages through from the interdimensional realms.
Throughout the gathering we are opened to the spirit world, the veils between realities can be lifted. We will attune to the subtle energies of other worlds and learn and heal with their profound and wise beings.
The Sui Sui Center, your home for the duration of our journey, is located deep within the Shipibo homeland of the Peruvian Amazon. Sui Sui is fueled completely by solar power and is situated on fifty acres of thriving Amazonian forest land. Within Sui Sui's labyrinth like gardens you will find an astonishing selection of various medicinal plants including the mother Ayahuasca and native Amazonian plant life. While at Sui Sui you will sleep in a jungle bungalow (or Tambo). Each Tambo is protected from mosquitos by a special screen surrounding the doors and windows and has double bed.
This is a profound initiation entering into a whole different world and way of life. The conditions are basic, traditional and real; this is not a fancy retreat style setting but it is a retreat from the outside world and external influences. Here we will enter into a journey together, it is also a deep individual experience and communion with ourselves, with the Shipibo cosmology, teacher plant spirits, and the Kontomble.
For more information and photos of this beautiful location and the accommodations you can visit: http://www.ayahealingretreats.com/ayahuasca-retreat-center/.
As there is only space for 12 people in this gathering and it will entail ingesting medicines, each participant will need to apply for a space. After an application is received and approved, the nonrefundable deposit will be required to reserve your space. You would then receive a registration form, liability and medical waivers, a healing agreement, and more information on how to prepare for our time together.
To receive an application, please email Sylvie at ancestorbridgeteam@gmail.com.
To reserve your space, a nonrefundable deposit of 500 USD will be required. The remaining payment will be due before the gathering takes place.
Monthly payment plans are available. Please reach out to ancestorbridgeteam@gmail.com to set up a monthly payment plan.
More information on Noya Rao, Ayahuasca, Kontomble, the plant dieta, the Shipibo people, or the gathering itself please feel free to reach out to ancestorbridgeteam@gmail.com.


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State, Pan Am Railways to modernize line through Central Maine
The $35 million project will upgrade 75 miles of track between Waterville and North Yarmouth, but is not related to a recent passenger rail study in Lewiston-Auburn.
By Andrew RiceSun Journal
Traffic flows under the rusting railroad overpass on Turner Street in Auburn on Wednesday afternoon. Maine is receiving a $17 million federal grant that will go toward modernizing 75 miles of a Pam Am Railways line in Central Maine that runs through Lewiston and Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
LEWISTON — State transportation officials and Pan Am Railways are teaming up on a $35 million project to upgrade a large section of freight rail line between Waterville and North Yarmouth, which passes through Lewiston and Auburn.
The project is the result of a $17 million federal grant, which Pan Am agreed to match, that will modernize 75 miles of track.
According to Nathan Moulton, director of the Office of Freight and Business Services for the Maine Department of Transportation, the project is focused on freight rail and is not related to any passenger rail proposals, including a recently-completed passenger rail study in Lewiston-Auburn.
A project outline by the Maine Department of Transportation from Moulton states the upgrades are designed to improve safety, efficiency and reliability, and will benefit local industries by alleviating higher trucking costs.
According to the project summary, the work will replace 37 miles of rail, upgrade 25 switches, upgrade 47 rail crossings, extend and upgrade existing siding, replace signal systems and replace bridge deck timbers on eight rail bridges.
About 25 percent of the project funding will be spent on upgrades to Lewiston sections of the line, according to the summary.
The grant is part of $326 million in Federal Railroad Administration grants awarded last month to support railroad infrastructure, funding 45 projects in 29 states. More than one-third of the funds were awarded to rural projects, including those in Maine.
The section of rail runs from Waterville through Oakland, Belgrade, Monmouth, Greene, Lewiston, Auburn, New Gloucester and North Yarmouth.
Moulton said Wednesday that MDOT is finalizing the grant documents with the Federal Railroad Administration, and the goal is to begin ordering materials over the winter with construction starting next spring.
The estimated construction budget is $35.5 million, split evenly between the Federal Railroad Administration and and Pan Am Railways.
According to the MDOT grant application, the revitalization work along the Pan Am mainline "will provide this region with increased employment opportunities for local citizens and over time will bring in new customers that invest money into the local economy."
The application specifically points to industries such as paper mills and Poland Spring Water Co., which are, among other products, major freight customers of Pan Am.
The MDOT application states that pulp and paper products, lumber, wood and water are the primary commodities originating in Central Maine. They combine for more than 30% of Maine's exports overall and 96% of originating rail traffic in Maine.
A van crosses railroad tracks on Spring Street in Auburn on Wednesday afternoon. Maine is receiving $17 million in federal grants that will go toward modernizing 75 miles of a Pam Am Railways line in Central Maine that runs through Lewiston and Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Pan Am is projecting 2.4% growth annually in the paper business and 9% growth annually in the water business, according to the application. The higher volumes projected as a result of the project will lead to the addition of 13 full-time equivalent employees by 2025, it states.
"This rail project supports the economic vitality of Maine by ensuring that the paper mills and Poland Spring Water have reliable rail transportation to move out of Maine either to other parts of the United States or to Canada," the application states.
This section of Pan Am line was also used as the basis of the recent passenger rail study in Lewiston-Auburn, which looked at the feasibility of connecting Lewiston-Auburn to the Amtrak Downeaster in Portland.
Of the proposals laid out in the study, the least expensive route would be the Pan Am rail alignment, which would result in a 50-minute ride to the Portland Transportation Center and could cost between $189 million and $230 million to construct.
Bob Stone, a member of the Lewiston/Auburn Passenger Rail Service Plan Committee, which disbanded after it released a final report this spring, said the federal grant to upgrade the Pan Am line was not on the committee's radar.
He said establishing passenger rail on the corridor would be a completely different undertaking, and that the freight upgrades, while beneficial, are still a long way from making the line ready for passenger rail.
"It's a separate issue at this point," he said.
However, he said part of the proposal that will expand track siding could lower the costs for passenger rail "to some degree."
The MDOT project will extend an existing siding in New Gloucester by 4,800 feet and modernize the remainder of the siding so longer trains can meet and pass in the corridor.
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Last week I was lucky enough to be taken to the Chelsea Flower Show by the lovely folks over at OKA. We spent such a fun couple of hours playing in store with their amazing faux flowers (more on that in another post) and then headed off to the show, which I was very excited about as I've never been. It is beyond me how they manage to create such beautiful gardens ready to be shown at exactly the right point; everything looked and smelled amazing.
Having limited outdoor space of my own, I get very jealous of beautiful gardens and the potential for growing flowers, although I try my best on my balcony in pots. I would die for a cutting garden for a couple of reasons: firstly, I wouldn't have to spend so much on flowers and secondly, the type of posies you can make from your own garden are so much prettier than shop bought flowers that can be a bit too structured for my tastes (simply because they usually last a long time once they are cut).
Whilst at Chelsea I was on the look out for inspiration for flowers to plant next year up on our roof terrace where there is a lot more space. I think I have managed to come up with a list of some of my favourite garden flowers, that aren't too difficult to grow and are perfect to be cut for floral arrangements.
Foxgloves – provide good height in a garden and look wonderful cut to give height to a floral arrangement. I love the peachy coloured ones that I spotted at Chelsea.
Delphiniums – these are also good for height (you don't want everything to be at the same level in your garden) and I love how delicate the individual flowers are. When cut they are very striking and look wonderful in a tall vase (pop over to my living room makeover to see how I styled them in that room). The pale blue ones are my favourites and we saw lots of them in the Chelsea gardens.
Scabious – I grow these in a pot of my balcony and they are just so pretty and cut really well as they last for a good amount of time. They are also very easy to care for and add a beautiful 'wispy' feel to a posy.
Hydrangeas – you can't beat a couple of Hydrangea stems in a vase and these couldn't be easier to grow or care for.
Sweet peas – I love growing these each year and they provide masses of flowers throughout the summer that look and smell amazing. They add the most glorious soft texture and scent to a floral arrangement.
Bleeding Hearts – these add a perfect amount of drama and definition to a floral arrangement and it's the type of flower you never find in a florist so give the perfect 'just cut from my garden' feel to any vase of flowers.
What are your favourite flowers to cut from your garden?
*Thank you to OKA for the lovely day – all photos taken at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Love love love Hydrangeas and roses from the garden, looking forward to cutting our home grown blooms soon!


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Home Science The Mysterious Radioactive Atomic Nuclei That Will Be in Tomorrow's Technology
The Mysterious Radioactive Atomic Nuclei That Will Be in Tomorrow's Technology
28 December 2018 20 December 2020 Science
When you hear the term "radioactive" you likely think "bad news," maybe along the lines of fallout from an atomic bomb.
But radioactive materials are actually used in a wide range of beneficial applications. In medicine, they routinely help diagnose and treat disease. Irradiation helps keep a number of foods free from insects and invasive pests. Archaeologists use them to figure out how old an artifact might be. And the list goes on.
So what is radioactivity?
It's the spontaneous emission of radiation when an atom's dense center – called its nucleus – transforms into a different one. Whether in the form of particles or electromagnetic waves called gamma rays, radiation transfers energy away from the atomic nucleus.
The nuclear chart showing the 250 or so stable isotopes in pink, the around 3,000 known rare isotopes in green and the approximately 4,000 predicted isotopes in grey.
Erin O'Donnell, Michigan State University, CC BY-ND
Through experiments, nuclear physicists have seen about 3,000 different kinds of atomic nuclei to date. Current theories, though, predict the existence of about 4,000 more that have never yet been observed. Around the world, thousands of scientists, including me, continue to study these tiny constituents of matter, while governments spend billions of dollars on building powerful new machines that will produce more and more exotic atomic nuclei – and maybe eventually more technologies that will further improve modern life.
The birth of nuclear physics
French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered natural radioactivity in 1896. He was trying to study how uranium salts phosphoresce – that is, emit light – when they're exposed to sunlight. Becquerel placed a uranium sample on a photographic plate covered with opaque paper and left it in direct sunlight. The plate got foggy, which he concluded was due to sun exposure.
Thanks to a few days of cloudy weather, though, Becquerel left his whole setup in a dark drawer. Surprisingly, the photographic plate still fogged up, even in the absence of light. Sunlight had nothing to do with his previous observation. It was the natural radioactivity of the uranium samples that had this effect. As the uranium nuclei decayed – that is, transformed into different atomic nuclei – they spontaneously emitted lightwaves that registered on the photographic plates.
Becquerel's discovery ushered in a new era of physics and launched the field of nuclear science. For this work, he won the Nobel Prize in 1903.
Since then, nuclear scientists have unraveled a lot of the inner workings of the atomic nucleus, and have harnessed its amazing energy both for good and unfortunately not so good uses. Nuclear physics discoveries have given us ways to look inside our bodies noninvasively, ways to create energy without air pollution, and ways to study our history and our environment.
On the atomic level
The known atomic nuclei belong to 118 different elements, some of them naturally occurring and some of them human-made. For every element on the periodic table there are many different "isotopes," from the Greek word "ισότοπο," which means "same place," implying the same place on the periodic table of the elements.
To be the same element, two isotopes must have the same number of protons – the positively charged subatomic particle. It's their number of neutrons – subatomic particles with no charge at all – that can vary significantly.
The periodic table lists all the elements based on their number of protons. Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons – for Beryllium it's four – but various numbers of neutrons.
Artemis Spyrou, CC BY-ND
For example, gold is element 79 on the periodic table, and all isotopes of gold will have the same metallic, yellowish appearance. However, there are 40 known isotopes of gold that have been discovered, and another roughly 20 are theorized to exist. Only one of these isotopes is the "stable," or naturally occurring, form of gold you might be wearing on your ring finger right now. The rest are radioactive isotopes, also known as "rare isotopes."
Rare isotopes each have unique properties: They live for different amounts of time, from a fraction of a second to a few billion years, and they release different types of radiation and different amounts of energy.
For example, modern smoke detectors use the isotope Americium-241, which emits a type of radiation called alpha particles that have a very short range. The radioactivity can't travel more than a couple of inches in air. Americium-241 lives for a few hundred years.
On the other hand, the isotope Fluorine-18, which is commonly used in medical PET scans, lives for only about 100 minutes – long enough to complete the scan, but short enough to avoid irradiating the healthy body unnecessarily for an extended period. The secondary electromagnetic radiation that comes from Fluorine-18 is in the form of long-range gamma rays, which allows it to travel out of the body and into the PET cameras.
These different nuclear properties make each rare isotope unique, and nuclear physicists have to design specialized experiments to study each one of them separately.
Hunting for more atomic nuclei
Current nuclear science research strives to develop new techniques for discovering new isotopes, understanding their properties, and eventually producing and harvesting them efficiently.
Producing rare isotopes is not an easy task; it requires large machines that will make atomic nuclei travel, and collide with each other, at speeds close to the speed of light. During these collisions nuclei can fuse together, or they can break each other apart, producing new nuclei, potentially with previously unseen combinations of protons and neutrons.
Nuclear physicists have dedicated equipment – detectors – that can observe these newly formed nuclei and the radiation they emit, and study their properties. For example, at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory where I work, my group has developed an extremely efficient gamma ray detector we called SuN.
The SuN detector at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory measures gamma rays and helps researchers study the properties of rare isotopes.
The majority of the known isotopes emit gamma radiation when they decay. We want to know how much energy is released in this process, how many different gamma rays are emitted and how the energy is shared between them, and how long it takes for the decay to take place. SuN can answer these questions about whichever isotope we are investigating.
In a typical experiment, we implant a beam of rare isotopes at the center of SuN. The rare isotopes will decay of their own accord after a short amount of time, roughly one second or less, and emit their characteristic radiation. SuN detects these emitted gamma rays. It's our job as nuclear experimentalists to put together the puzzle of how those gamma rays were emitted and what they tell us about the properties of the new isotope.
These kinds of production and detection techniques are complex and costly, and therefore there are only a handful of rare isotope laboratories in the world that can produce and study the most exotic nuclear species.
It's impossible to predict which new discoveries in basic research will have an impact on people's lives. Who could have known 100 years ago, when the electron was discovered, that for a few decades almost every house in the developed world would have an electron machine – otherwise known as a cathode-ray tube – to watch television? And who could have guessed that the discovery of radioactivity would eventually lead to space exploration powered by radioactive decays?
In the same way, we cannot predict which rare isotope discoveries will be the game-changers, but with more than half of the predicted isotopes still unexplored, to me the possibilities feel endless.
Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University
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Q: How do i make this jQuery animation reverse/toggle/play backwards on second click? right now i have this
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        $("#beau").click(function(){
        $("#beau").animate({"margin-Top": "738px"}, "fast");
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and it works fine to drop the div down by changing "margin-Top" but what i want to do is when the user clicks it again it goes back up to a "margin-Top" of 700px and for it to repeat that over and over again. i think it's pretty simple but I've only be doing bits of jQuery for about 5 days :) so the heck if i know. but if you understand my question thank you for you're replies :).

A: You can use .toggle():
$("#beau").toggle(function(){
    $(this).stop().animate({marginTop: 738}, "fast");
}, function() {
    $(this).stop().animate({marginTop: 700}, "fast");
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I added a stop() just to make sure it doesn't break the animation cycle if you click fast many times.

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For the first time in Season 10, the MSPT is headed to Black Hawk, Colorado for a series of events April 3-14 which includes both a $360 buy-in Regional Event and a $1,100 buy-in Main Event. What's more, the guarantees are up for both with the former offering up a $150K GTD and the latter $300K GTD.
Golden Gates Casino resides in Black Hawk, which is about an hour west of Denver, will play host to a series of cash tournaments, satellites as well as two headliner events.
The first, the MSPT Golden Gates $360 Regional, will feature four starting flights at Noon each day from Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6. The surviving players from each flight will then combine for Day 2 on Sunday, April 7 at 11:00 AM to play down to a winner.
The last time the MSPT visited the property for a Regional Event was back in November when Adam Wilbur defeated a field of 757 entrants to earn the title and $45,426. Prior to that, last April, Barry Faecher navigated a field of 878 runners to earn the trophy.
The weekend after the Regional Event, the highly-anticipated $1,100 buy-in MSPT Main Event will kick off. That event will feature three starting flights beginning with Day 1A at Noon local time on Thursday, April 11. Days 1B and 1C will then be held at the same time on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 respectively. The remaining players from each flight will combine on Sunday, November 11 at 11:00 a.m. and play until a champion is crowned.
At the same time one year ago, the MSPT Golden Gates Main Event – the ninth ever held at the venue – drew 469 runners and saw Max Young steamroll the final table to win $97,810.
The final table will be broadcast LIVE (15-minute delay) worldwide on msptpoker.com using RFID technology allowing all viewers to see the hole cards. In addition, the entire Main Event will be live reported in the MSPT live blog.


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End Greek Blasphemy Laws campaign continues
The campaign to abolish blasphemy laws in Greece continues in 2017. A very promising development is the fact that Ms. Maria Yannakaki was appointed as the Secretary-General for Transparency and Human Rights at the Ministry of Justice of Greece.
M. Yannakaki spoke at the EHF's General Assemble in 2015 and where she clearly supported the organization's call to abolish blasphemy laws in the country. Since then, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also called on Greece to repeal the two articles in its penal code, namely article 198 and 199.
It is therefore with great interest that both the European Humanist Federation as well as the International Humanist and Ethical Union follow these developments and issued the below letter addressed to Ms. Yannakaki to encourage and support her in her endeavor.
This is all the more important as blogger Philippos Louizos ( a.k.a. "Elder Pastitsios"), who was convicted in January 2014 at first instance to a suspended sentence of ten months in prison for the violation of the blasphemy Article 199 of the Greek Criminal Code will have his trial on appeal on 2 March 2017. It would be of utmost importance that the blasphemy articles are repealed before this date so as to allow Elder Pastitsios to benefit from this modernization of Greek Law.
Stay tuned for more!
Read the letter here.
The EHF welcomes the withdrawal of the bill reintroducing the crime of blasphemy in Greece
Earlier in November this year, the Greek Minister of Justice announced a project to reintroduce criminal sanctions for blasphemy. However, on 12 November...
European humanists welcome the Irish vote for freedom of expression.
The European Humanist Federation (EHF) rejoices at the results of the Irish referendum on repealing the clause penalizing blasphemy in the country's...


San Pedro Ballet School has a class for every dancer! Students are placed in classes based on age, maturity, and skill level. Need help picking the best class for your dancer? Please call us at 310.732.1861.
All students have the opportunity to perform in the school's annual summer recital every June. This exciting production features costumes, music, and professional lighting, and is held at the Warner Grande Theater in San Pedro. Most rehearsals are held during regular classes (starting at the intermediate level, dancers may need to attend additional rehearsals).
Students age five and up are invited to participate in the San Pedro City Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker. This magical production has been a staple of the South Bay community for over 20 years, and features lavish costumes and set design as well as guest appearances by professional dancers. Auditions are held in September and dancers must attend weekly rehearsals in addition to regular classes.
This ballet class teaches foundational techniques for dance and choreography in a fun environment. Ages: returning 4 year old and beginning 5 year olds.
Beginning/Intermediate ballet students with the permission of the instructor.
All pointe classes are for advanced ballet students and require permission from their instructor.
Partnering class. Advanced ballet students with permission of the instructor.
Modern dance focuses on natural body movement, use of body weight, efficiency of muscle use and safe body alignmentas well as an increased focus on personal interpretation, self-expression, awareness of space and a strong use of established Modern Dance technique. Classes start with a comprehensive warm-up and gradually build up to more elaborate movement sequences.
This class teaches basic modern dance techniques in a fun environment. Ages: 5 and up.
Intermediate modern students with permission of the instructor.
Advanced modern students with permission of the instructor.
Contemporary dance borrows from jazz, ballet, funk, social dance styles and many modern dance styles of the 20th century. Contemporary dance encourages natural, spontaneous movement and personal interpretation. It focuses on self-expression, awareness of space and body movement, use of body weight, efficiency of muscle use and safe body alignment. Classes start with a comprehensive warm-up and gradually build up to more elaborate dance routines.
Advanced students with permission of the instructor.
Jazz is a form of dance that showcases a dancer's individual style and originality. Every jazz dancer interprets and executes moves and steps in their own way. This type of dancing is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves, fancy footwork, big leaps and quick turns. To excel in jazz, dancers need a strong background in ballet, as it encourages grace and balance.
In Tap, dancers use specialized steps to create rhythmic beats and sounds with their feet. Special plates on the bottom of the shoes amplify the footfalls and create the distinctive sounds associated with tap dancing. At the same time, tap dancers use overall body movement to create a dance that is both a visual and an auditory experience for the audience.
This upbeat class combines basic hip-hop technique and choreography with no suggestive lyrics/movements. In this fast-paced and fun class students will use hip-hop to develop their coordination, rhythm, flexibility and self-expression. Teenagers and adults alike will love building stamina and getting a great cardio workout in this high energy dance class. Dress code: comfortable clothes and sneakers.
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Home » NewsRoom Articles » New Exploration Developments to Ensure QMC Quantum Minerals Corp.'s (OTC: QMCQF) (TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) Position as a Leading Lithium Producer
New Exploration Developments to Ensure QMC Quantum Minerals Corp.'s (OTC: QMCQF) (TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) Position as a Leading Lithium Producer
Latest Quantum Minerals exploration project will enhance Canada's lithium production potential
Additional significant spodumene mineralization identified
Demand for lithium to outgrow supply
Canada has a viable opportunity to rank among leading lithium producers as local mining companies step up lithium exploration activities. While continuing the ongoing forward momentum to bring the Irgon Dike into production, QMC Quantum Minerals Corp. (OTC: QMCQF) (TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) is also exploring for additional spodumene-bearing pegmatite dikes that occur within the Irgon Lithium Mine Project. As recently as October 30, Canada-based QMC announced the identification of additional spodumene mineralization in pegmatite dikes located north of Cat Lake and immediately west of the Irgon Dike, within its Irgon Lithium Mine Project (http://nnw.fm/F9knM).
The first announcement on the project's potential was released earlier in October, when significant visual spodumene mineralization was confirmed within the Mapetre Pegmatite Dike, a separate spodumene-bearing dike, located south of the Irgon Dike. This discovery will lead to extensive exploration and channel sampling in spring 2019 (http://nnw.fm/U3rNg).
Quantum Minerals' assets are considered to be of particularly high importance in the process of developing Canada as a leading lithium producer. Currently, China and Chile have almost an exclusive monopoly over this market. China controls nearly 30 percent of the market, and further industrial acquisitions are expected to increase its share.
Quantum Minerals is benefiting from exploration and development previously undertaken at the Canadian Irgon Lithium Mine Site. The Irgon Dike was established as a lithium resource nearly 65 years ago. Drilling and underground development within the dike during that period resulted in an historic in situ resource that exceeded 1.2 million tons of lithium oxide and graded at 1.51 percent over a strike length of 365 meters (1,200 feet).
A 1950s development program at Irgon Lithium Mine saw the dike's 74-meter deep (241 feet), three-compartment shaft excavated. At the 61-meter (200-feet) level, 341 meters (1,120 feet) of lateral drifting parallel to the dike was extended from the shaft, and seven crosscuts totaling 110 meters (361 feet) were cut. At surface, a 500 ton per day mill was also constructed on site. Work ceased due to the unfavorable economic climate at the time, and, in 1961, the mill was removed. Today, the massive global demand for lithium has contributed to the rediscovery of the mine and the continuation of exploration and development work there.
Global lithium production is currently at a level of 600,000 tons per year. In the coming decade, this demand is expected to grow to anywhere between 600,000 and 800,000 tons. The extensive adoption of lithium-ion batteries is one of the driving forces for this market expansion.
The demand for lithium is predicted to triple by 2025, driven primarily by the growth in popularity of electric vehicles (http://nnw.fm/Ru6mV). Developing a steady supply of lithium is expected to remain a major concern in the battery production supply chain, which experts indicate will continue to maintain upward pressure on future lithium prices.
According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, lithium is now entering a second price run, because demand is continuing to increase faster than supply (http://nnw.fm/C8K7i).
Quantum Minerals Corp. is a Vancouver-based company that's engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of lithium resources. All of the company's properties are located in Manitoba. They include not only the Irgon Lithium Mine Project, but also two very prospective volcanic massive sulphide properties – the Rocky Lake and the Rocky Namew – both of which are located within the prolific Flin Flon greenstone belt of northern Manitoba.
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\section{Introduction}
It is a common observation that marriage or dating partners strongly resemble one another in terms of age, education, physical attractiveness, attitudes, and a host of other characteristics~\cite{schwartz2013}. One possible explanation for this is the \textit{matching} hypothesis, which suggests that men and women pursue partners who resemble themselves. This in turn implies that people differ in their opinions about what constitutes a desirable partner or at least about who is worth pursuing.  At the other extreme, and more in line with biological studies of mate selection~\cite{andersson1994,darwin1874,wong2005}, lies the \textit{competition} hypothesis, which assumes that there is consensus about what constitutes a desirable partner and that mate seekers, regardless of their own qualifications, pursue those partners who are universally recognized as most desirable~\cite{becker1973,mortensen1988,gale1962,laumann2004}.  Paradoxically this can also produce couples who resemble one another in terms of desirability, as the most desirable partners pair off with one another, followed by the next most desirable, and so on.  To the extent that desirability correlates with attributes like age, physical attractiveness, and education, the matching and competition hypotheses can, as a result, produce similar equilibrium patterns of mixing~\cite{becker1973,Kalick1986,Xie2015}.

However, while the two hypotheses may produce similar outcomes, they carry very different implications about the processes by which people identify and attract partners.  If there is consensus about who is desirable, it creates a hierarchy of desirability~\cite{walster1966,taylor2011,HHA10} such that individuals can, at least in principle, be ranked from least to most desirable and their ranking will predict how and to what extent they are pursued by others.  Historically, however, such hierarchies have been difficult to quantify.  Since they reflect which partners people pursue, and not just who people end up with, one would need a way to observe unrequited overtures as well as requited ones in order to determine who people find desirable.  Online dating provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to observe both requited and unrequited overtures at the scale of entire populations.

As data from online dating web sites have become available, a number of studies have explored the ways in which mate choice observed online can inform the debate about matching versus competition.  These studies typically focus on how specific attributes of individuals shape their browsing and messaging behavior.  The results indicate that with respect to attributes such as physical attractiveness and income, people tend to pursue the most attractive partners~\cite{HHA10,lee2008,walster1966}, while for other attributes, such as race/ethnicity or education, the overwhelming tendency is to seek out someone similar~\cite{lewis2013,anderson2014}. Thus, people compete on some attributes and match on others.  While these studies provide valuable insights about matching and competition on an attribute-by-attribute basis, however, they do not capture the overall dating hierarchy that reflects total demand for each person in the market.

In this paper we report results from a quantitative study of aspirational mate pursuit in adult heterosexual romantic relationship markets in the United States, using large-scale messaging data from a popular online dating site (\textit{Materials and Methods}, Data).  We provide a crisp, operational definition of desirability that allows us to quantify the dating hierarchy and measure, for instance, how far up that hierarchy men and women reach for partners and how reach is associated with the likelihood of getting a response.  We also explore the ways in which people tailor their messaging strategies and message content based on the desirability of potential partners, and how desirability and dating strategy vary across demographic groups.

\section{Results}

To study individual desirability we focus on messages between users of the web site over a 1-month period in four cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle.  At the simplest level, one can quantify desirability by the number of messages a user receives, and specifically the number of \emph{initial} messages, since it is the first contact between a pair of individuals that most reliably indicates who finds whom attractive.  Figure~\ref{fig:hierarchy} shows the distribution of this quantity separately for men and women in each of the cities.  The distribution is roughly consistent across cities and, though women receive more messages than men overall, the distributions for both display a classic ``long-tailed'' form---most people receive a handful of messages at most, but a small fraction of the population receive far more.  The most popular individual in our four cities, a 30-year-old woman living in New York, received 1504 messages during the period of observation, equivalent to one message every 30 minutes, day and night, for the entire month.

However, desirability is not just about how many people contact you but also about who those people are.  If you are contacted by people who are themselves desirable, then you are presumptively more desirable yourself.  A standard measure of such reflected desirability is PageRank~\cite{BP98}.  Here we calculate PageRank scores for the populations within each of our four cities (\emph{Materials and Methods}, Network analysis), then rank men and women separately from least to most desirable.  A scaled rank of 1 denotes the most desirable man or woman in a city by our measure and 0 denotes the least desirable. It is important to emphasize that, while we use PageRank as an operational measure of desirability, we do not assume that users of the web site themselves use PageRank, or anything like it, to identify attractive mates.  In reality, a person might choose to message another based on an attractive profile picture, an interesting description, a good demographic match, an impressive income, or any of many other qualities.  PageRank scores simply give us, \emph{a posteriori,} a glimpse of who is desirable on aggregate, by identifying those people who receive the largest number of messages from desirable others.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{indegree.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Histograms of the number of first messages received by men and women in each of our four cities.}
\label{fig:hierarchy}
\end{figure}

Once we have our desirability scores, we can use them to identify characteristics of desirable users by comparing scores against various user attributes.  As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:desirability}, for instance, average desirability varies with age for both men and women, though it varies more strongly for women and the effects run in opposite directions: older women are less desirable while older men are more so~\cite{rudder2015,england2009}.  For women this pattern holds over the full range of ages on the site: the average woman's desirability drops from the time she is 18 until she is 60.  For men desirability peaks around 50, then declines.  In keeping with prior work, there is also a clear and consistent dependence on ethnicity~\cite{lewis2013,Lin2013}, with Asian women and white men being the most desirable potential mates by our measures across all four cities.  The final panels in the figure show how desirability varies with educational level.  Desirability is associated with education most strongly for men, for whom more education is always more desirable. For women, an undergraduate degree is most desirable~\cite{HHA10}; postgraduate education is associated with decreased desirability among women.  These measurements control for age, so the latter observation is not a result of women with postgraduate degrees being older (\emph{Supplemental Information}, Table~\ref{tab:supplement2}).

\begin{figure*}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{desirability.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Desirability, quantified using the measures defined here, as a function of demographic variables of the user population.  Leftmost panels show desirability as a function of age in years for women and men.  Middle panels show desirability by ethnicity.  Rightmost panels show desirability by highest educational level completed.  Error bars are $\pm1$ standard error. }
\label{fig:desirability}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Reaching up the desirability ladder}

We now turn to the central results of our study.  First, we use our desirability scores to explore whether people engage in aspirational mate pursuit (i.e., messaging potential partners who are more desirable than they are) and how the probability of receiving a reply varies with the difference in desirability between senders and receivers.  In Fig.~\ref{fig:sent_rec_iqr} we show statistics for messages sent and replies received as a function of ``desirability gap,'' the difference in desirability ranking between the senders and receivers of messages.  If the least desirable man in a city were to send a message to the most desirable woman, the desirability gap would be~$+1$; if the most desirable man sent a message to the least desirable woman, the gap would be~$-1$.

The upper curves in the top panels of Fig.~\ref{fig:sent_rec_iqr} show the distribution of desirability gaps in our four cities.  For each individual we compute the median desirability gap over all initial messages they send and then plot the probability density of these numbers for men and women separately.  The most common (modal) behavior for both men and women is to contact members of the opposite sex who on average have roughly the same ranking as themselves, suggesting that people are relatively good judges of their own place in the desirability hierarchy.  The distributions about this modal value, however, are noticeably skewed to the right, meaning that a majority of both sexes tend to contact partners who are more desirable than themselves on average---and hardly any users contact partners who are significantly less desirable. The curves are remarkably consistent across all four cities, with men and women on average sending messages to potential partners who are 26\% and 23\% further up the rankings than themselves, respectively~\cite{note1}.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{gap.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Top panels: Upper curves show probability density for women and men of the median ``desirability gap,'' the difference in desirability rank of receiver and sender of an initial contact.  Both women and men tend to contact others who are ranked somewhat---but not excessively---higher than themselves.  The lower curves show the probability of receiving a reply to an initial message given the desirability gap between sender and receiver.  Women have higher overall probability of receiving replies, but both women and men have substantially lower probability of replies from more desirable partners.  Bottom panels: Lower curves show the average number of people contacted by individuals as a function of their average desirability gap.  Upper curves show the inter-quartile range of desirability of the people contacted, controlling for number of people contacted. Neither set of curves extends all the way to the left of the figure, because there is insufficient data to make reliable estimates in this regime.}
\label{fig:sent_rec_iqr}
\end{figure}

The lower set of curves in the top panels shows the probability of receiving a reply to an initial message.  The curves are higher for messages sent by women than for those sent by men---women are more likely than men to receive replies---but among both women and men the probability of a reply is a decreasing function of desirability gap, more desirable partners replying at lower rates than less desirable ones.  The differences are stark: men are more than twice as likely to receive a reply from women less desirable than themselves than from more desirable ones, and for messages sent to more desirable women the reply rate never rises above 21\%.  And yet the vast majority of men send messages to women who are more desirable than themselves on average.  Messaging potential partners who are more desirable than oneself is not just an occasional act of wishful thinking; it is the norm.

The bottom panels of Fig.~\ref{fig:sent_rec_iqr} show two further statistics that shed light on the mate seeking strategies adopted by users of the site.  The upper set of curves show the variation of desirability gaps across the potential partners a person contacts, quantified by inter-quartile range (the distance between the 25th and 75th percentiles in the distribution of desirability gaps).  Conditioned on the number of messages sent, men and especially women who reach higher up the desirability ladder tend to write to a less diverse set of potential matches, in terms of desirability gap. This behavior, consistent across all four cities, indicates that mate seekers, and particularly those setting their sights on the most desirable partners, do not adopt a diversified strategy to reduce the risk of being rejected, as one might for instance when applying to universities~\cite{bound2009}.

The lower set of curves in the bottom panels shows the average number of messages sent by a woman or a man as a function of average desirability gap.  Women initiate far fewer contacts than men, but both sets of curves fall off with increasing desirability gap in all four cities.  One might imagine that individuals who make a habit of contacting potential partners significantly more desirable than themselves (large positive desirability gap) would also initiate more contacts overall, to increase their chances of getting a reply, but in fact they do the opposite: the number of initial contacts an individual makes falls off rapidly with increasing gap and it is the people approaching the least desirable partners who send the largest number of messages.  A possible explanation is that those who approach more desirable partners are adopting a ``quality over quantity'' approach, more precisely identifying people they see as an attractive match or spending more time writing personalized messages, at the expense of a smaller number of messages sent.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{strategy.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Top panels: Upper curves show the total number of words in initial messages, which increases with desirability gap.  Lower curves show the fraction of positive words in messages, which increases slightly for messages sent by women but decreases for messages sent by men. Bottom panels: Expected payoffs to writing longer and more positive messages, holding desirability gap at its city-specific mean. We see that longer messages are positively associated with response rates only for women and for men in Seattle. Positive messages are somewhat negatively associated with response rates for men; women have mixed success with more positive messages, depending on the city.}
\label{fig:strategy}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Messaging strategies vary with mate seekers' aspirations}
Do mate seekers put more effort into attracting more desirable partners?  Based on message content, there is some evidence that they do.  In the top two panels of Fig.~\ref{fig:strategy} the upper set of curves show how the total length in words of initial messages sent varies by desirability gap.  Both men and women tend to write substantially longer messages to more desirable partners, up to twice as long in some cases.  The effect is larger for messages sent by women than by men, though there are exceptions.  Among the groups we study, for instance, it is men in Seattle who have the most pronounced increase in message length (see also \emph{Supplemental Information}, Table~\ref{tab:supplement3})~\cite{note2}.

The lower set of curves in the same panels shows a simple measure of the emotional content of messages, the fraction of positive words (based on the LIWC2001 database~\cite{PFB01,kahn2007}).  Here we see an interesting difference between women and men, the women showing an increase in their use of positive words when communicating with more desirable partners, while men show a decrease.  The effect size is modest but consistent across all four cities and statistically significant ($p<0.001$, \emph{Supplemental Information}, Table~\ref{tab:supplement4}).

The bottom panels of Fig.~\ref{fig:strategy} quantify the payoffs to writing longer or more positive messages, controlling for the desirability gap between senders and receivers (\emph{Supplemental Information}, Section~\ref{sec:replyprob}). The expected payoffs for both men and women show a remarkably close match to the messaging behavior depicted in the upper panels. For example, in all four cities men experience slightly lower reply rates when they write more positively worded messages. Though our analysis cannot reveal the underlying process that gives rise to these behaviors (e.g., reinforcement learning), this result may offer a hint about why men tend to write somewhat less positive messages to more desirable partners~\cite{note3}.  Similarly, only Seattle men experience a payoff to writing longer messages---and Seattle is the only city where men write longer messages to more desirable mates. Overall, however, the variation in payoff for different strategies is fairly small, suggesting that, all else being equal, effort put into writing longer or more positive messages may be wasted.

\section{Discussion}

The results presented here provide a picture of the aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating and its implications for the likelihood of success. We present a network measure of desirability in dating that is based on mate seeking behavior rather than subjective personal qualities like attractiveness. We find that while some mate seekers do pursue partners of similar average desirability to themselves, the vast majority of the online dating population we study tend to reach up the hierarchy toward more desirable partners.  At the same time, this aspirational mate pursuit is calibrated to one's own desirability: on average, people pursue partners who are roughly 25\% more desirable than they themselves are.  In the language of matching and competition introduced at the start of this article people are, it appears, pursuing a hybrid strategy with elements of both---they are aware of their own position in the hierarchy and adjust their behavior accordingly, while at the same time competing modestly for more desirable mates.

We find that all but the most extreme mate seekers exhibit heterogeneity in their mate pursuit, initiating contact with partners across a range of desirabilities.  This suggests that both men and women combine aspirational mate pursuit with less risky prospects.  Additionally, there appears to be a ``quality over quantity'' strategy such that men and women who pursue more desirable partners send fewer messages, each with a higher word count on average.  Message strategies also become less diversified (in terms of range of desirability gaps) as people reach higher up the desirability ladder.

Our results on aspirational mate pursuit are consistent with the popular concept of dating ``leagues,'' as reflected in the idea that someone can be ``out of your league,'' meaning that attractive matches are desirable for but unavailable to less attractive others.  Provided leagues are envisaged as a single continuous hierarchy rather than as distinct strata, our results suggest that, contrary to popular belief, attracting the attention of someone out of one's league is entirely possible. The chances of receiving a reply from a highly desirable partner may be low but they remain well above zero, although one will have to work harder, and perhaps also wait longer~\cite{Kalick1986}, to make progress.  Compared to the extraordinary effort male rats are willing to go through to mate with a desirable female~\cite{Everitt1990}, however, messaging 2 or 3 times as many potential partners to get a date seems quite a modest investment.

One might wonder how the patterns we observe online might inform our understanding of offline mate pursuit and dating markets. Online dating differs from offline dating in several important ways~\cite{finkel2012}.  Because of the high volume of partners and low threshold for sending a message, competition for potential partners' attention is likely fiercer online than offline. This may increase the extent to which there exists a hierarchy of desirability online, and reduce people's willingness to respond to less desirable mates: when there are plenty of fish in the sea one can afford to throw a few back.  It has also been suggested that consensus about what makes an attractive partner is strongest in the early stages of courtship, when partners do not know as much about one another~\cite{eastwick2014,hunt2015}. While it is difficult to study early courtship offline---our method requires unrequited overtures, which are hard to observe in offline interactions---these differences suggest that hierarchies of desirability may be more pronounced online than off.

\section{Materials and Methods}

\subsection{Data}
Online dating has grown greatly in popularity in recent years and has become an increasingly common way for people to find romantic partners, edging out more traditional means such as meeting through coworkers or through family. By 2013, the Pew Research Center~\cite{smith2013} found that 11\% of all American adults, and 38\% of those who were currently single and searching for a partner, had used online dating sites or mobile apps.  Two-thirds of online daters had gone on a date with someone they met through a site and almost a quarter (23\%) had entered into a marriage or long-term relationship with someone they met through a site.  Thus, online dating now plays a substantial role in the organization of sexual and romantic relationships in the United States---it is currently the third most common way partners meet after meeting through friends or in bars~\cite{rosenfeld2011,note4}.

The data used as the starting point for our study consist of demographics and messaging patterns for active users of a popular online dating site during a one month period of observation from January 1 to 31, 2014.  The site does not market itself to any particular demographic group and attracts a diverse population of users whose makeup, in most locales, corresponds loosely to that of the general population. The population of users is concentrated in coastal areas, although there are significant numbers of users in major midwestern cities such as Chicago. Upon joining the site, users specify a login handle and enter their age, sexual orientation, relationship status, and a 5-digit ZIP code identifying their location.  All but the ZIP code are visible to other users, while geographic location is publicly listed at the city level.  Optionally, users can also give additional demographic information (e.g.,~height, religion, body type) and answer a set of open-ended essay questions that ask them to describe who they are and what they are looking for.  After creating a profile, users can then view the profiles of others, as well as send and receive messages.

In addition to demographics our data include complete messaging patterns---who sends messages to whom on the site.  It is these messages that we use to assess individuals' desirability.  We restrict our analysis to active users, which we define to mean users who sent or received at least one message during the observation period.  This eliminates a significant number of users who sign up and use the site but then become inactive, or who sign up and never use it.  For the purposes of the present study we also remove from the data all users who identify as gay or bisexual (about 14\% of the overall user base of the site) and those who indicate that they are not looking for romantic relationships.  (People can indicate, for example, that they are only looking for friendship or activity partners.)  Details about the demographic makeup of users in each city are shown in Section~\ref{sec:statistics} of the \emph{Supplemental Information}.

We report results for four large metropolitan areas---New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle.  One reason for restricting our study to individual cities is to reduce the effects of spatial distance in mate selection behavior: we choose areas large enough to give good demographic statistics but small enough geographically that distance will not be a significant deterrent to conversation between interested users.  In the case of Boston, Chicago, and Seattle, we find a good choice to be the standard Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) established by the Office of Management and Budget.  A CBSA is defined to be an urban center of at least $10\,000$ people plus adjacent areas that are socioeconomically tied to the urban center by commuting.  For New York City the standard CBSA proves too large: the data clearly indicate multiple geographic dating markets within the larger metro area.  Instead, therefore, we choose a narrower set of geographic boundaries for New York, the five boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Some descriptive statistics for the user populations in the four cities are reported in the \emph{Supplemental Information}, Table~\ref{tab:data}. Restricting our study to metropolitan areas inevitably eliminates some messaging activity to and from outlying regions, but the areas chosen here capture a large majority of the messaging activity of the users who live in them.

\subsection{Network analysis}

We construct a network for each city studied in which the nodes represent users, and connections between nodes---directed edges in network nomenclature---represent the first message sent in the corresponding direction between any two users.  That is, there is a directed edge in the direction of the initial contact between two users and, optionally, a second edge in the opposite direction if that initial contact received a reply.  Our analyses are based on the largest weakly connected component of the network in each city, although in practice this restriction has little effect since nearly everyone belongs to the largest component.  In the network for New York City, for example, the largest weakly connected component contains 99.8\% of all users.

Given that our focus here is on who is interested in whom, one approach might be to restrict ourselves to a network with edges representing only the first direction of contact between individuals and excluding any reply.  A defining feature of heterosexual online dating, however, is that in the vast majority of cases it is men who establish first contact---over 80\% of first messages are from men in our data set.  As a result there is little information about women's aspirations contained in first messages.  On the other hand, women reply very selectively to the messages they receive from men---their average reply rate is less than 20\%---so women's replies (along with the small fraction of first messages sent by women) can give us significant insight about who they are interested in.  To create a picture of both men's and women's aspirations, therefore, we include both first messages and replies in our network.

A related challenge is how to choose which users should be included in the network.  One approach might be to restrict our list of active users to those who sent at least one message during the observation period.  However, because, again, men send most messages, this would exclude a large number of women from the sample.  To avoid this we choose to include in our networks all users who either sent or received at least one message during the period of observation.

\subsubsection{Desirability rankings}
The directed network of initial contacts is used as the starting point for our PageRank-based measure of desirability.  In this calculation, network nodes are first numbered, in arbitrary order, from 1 to $n$, where $n$ is the total number of nodes in the network, and then we assign each node~$i$ (i.e.,~each person) a positive desirability score~$x_i$.  The structure of the network itself is represented by the directed adjacency matrix~$A$ having elements~$a_{ij}=1$ if there is a directed edge from node~$j$ to node~$i$ and zero otherwise.  Then the scores obey the standard PageRank equation~\cite{BP98}
\begin{equation}
x_i = 1 + \alpha \sum_{j=1}^n {a_{ij} x_j\over\sum_{k=1}^n a_{kj}},
\label{eq:pagerank}
\end{equation}
where $\alpha$ is a parameter whose value we choose.  There is no formal theory specifying the best value of this parameter, but the inventors of the PageRank method~\cite{BP98} recommend a value of $\alpha=0.85$ and we use that value here.  (Our results are not particularly sensitive to the value of~$\alpha$---calculations with other values lead to qualitatively similar conclusions.)  The numerical solution of equation~\eqref{eq:pagerank} is straightforward: one starts with any set of nonnegative values~$x_i$, such as $x_i=0$ for example, and uses them to evaluate the right-hand side of~\eqref{eq:pagerank}, giving a new set of values~$x_i'$.  Then one substitutes these into the equation again to calculate another new set, and repeats the process until the values converge within a desired accuracy.  For networks of the size studied here the calculation takes less than a second on a standard desktop computer.

There is an extensive literature on network measures of social rank. However, only a small handful of studies have used network measures to explore how social rank is associated with mating success~\cite{Ryder2009, Page2017,Place2010}.  These studies all employ eigenvector centrality, a matrix-based measure similar in some respects to PageRank but designed for use with undirected networks. These studies have focused primarily on small populations (two hunter-gatherer societies, leks of birds, men and women in a speed dating experiment). Our study is the first we know of to apply PageRank scores as a measure of desirability in large-scale online dating populations.

Further details about the statistical models used in the analysis, as well as estimated coefficients, can be found in the \emph{Supplementary Information}.

\begin{acknowledgments}
This work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health under grant K01--HD--079554 (EEB) and the National Science Foundation under grants DMS--1107796 and DMS--1407207 (MEJN).
\end{acknowledgments}

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2001 Barney's Pajama Party (Video) (originally developed by)
2001 Barney: Let's Go to the Zoo (Video) (originally developed by)
2001 Barney's Musical Castle (Video) (originally developed by)
2000 Be My Valentine, Love Barney (Video) (originally developed by)
2000 Barney's Dino Dancin' Tunes (Video short) (originally developed by)
2000 Come on Over to Barney's House (Video) (originally developed by)
2000 Barney's Super Singing Circus (Video) (originally developed by)
2000 Barney: Rhyme Time Rhythm (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 Barney: Let's Play School! (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 More Barney Songs (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 Walk Around the Block with Barney (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 Barney's Night Before Christmas (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 Barney: What a World We Share (Video) (originally developed by)
1999 Sing and Dance with Barney (Video) (creator)
1998 Barney's Halloween Party (Video) (originally developed by)
1998 My Party with Barney (Video short) (originally developed by)
1998 Barney's Great Adventure ("Barney and the Backyard Gang" and "Barney & Friends" developed by) / (creator - uncredited)
1998 Barney's First Adventures (TV Movie) (originally developed by)
1998 Barney in Outer Space (Video) (creator)
1998 It's Time for Counting (Video) (originally developed by)
1997 Good Day, Good Night (Video short) (creator)
1997 Barney's Stu-u-upendous Puzzle Fun! (Video) (originally developed by)
1997 Barney's Adventure Bus (Video) (originally developed by)
1997 Barney's Camp WannaRunnaRound (Video) (originally developed by)
1997 Barney's Musical Scrapbook (Video) (originally developed by)
1997 Barney's Sense-Sational Day (Video) (originally developed by)
1996 Barney's Once Upon a Time (Video) (originally developed by)
1996 Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons (Video) (creator)
1996 Barney's Fun & Games (Video) (creator)
1996 Barney's Talent Show (Video short) (creator)
1995 Barney Songs (Video) (creator - uncredited) / (creator)
1995 Barney Safety (Video short) (creator - uncredited) / (originally developed by)
1994 Barney Live! In New York City (Video) (creator - uncredited) / (creator)
1994 Bedtime with Barney: Imagination Island (TV Movie) (story - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
1992 Barney's Magical Musical Adventure (Video short) (creator - uncredited)
1991 Barney in Concert (Video) (as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker) / (concept - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1990 Barney Goes to School (Video short) (story - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1990 Waiting for Santa (Video short) (creator - uncredited)
1989 A Day at the Beach (Video short) (creator)
1989 Three Wishes (Video short) (creator)
1988 The Backyard Show (Video short) (creator)
1994 Bedtime with Barney: Imagination Island (TV Movie) (co-executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
1993 Love to Read, with Barney (Video short) (executive producer: original television series - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
1992-1993 Barney & Friends (TV Series) (executive producer - 21 episodes)
- A Very Special Delivery! (1993) ... (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
- An Adventure in Make Believe (1993) ... (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
- Stop, Look and Be Safe! (1993) ... (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
- The Dentist Makes Me Smile (1993) ... (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
- My Favorite Things (1993) ... (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
1992 Barney's Magical Musical Adventure (Video short) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke Parker)
1991 Rock with Barney (Video short) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1991 Barney in Concert (Video) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1990 Barney Goes to School (Video short) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1990 Campfire Sing-Along (Video short) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
1990 Waiting for Santa (Video short) (executive producer - as Kathy O'Rourke-Parker)
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1970 A World Apart (TV Series)
Sarah Sims (1970) (original cast)
2013 We Love Soaps TV (TV Series)
- Daytime TV at the Smithsonian (2013) ... Herself - Guest
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Biografia
Nato a Londra nel 1952, vive e lavora in Thailandia.

Dopo gli studi accademici, ha insegnato in varie parti del mondo (Israele, Australia, Stati Uniti, Giappone) soffermandosi nel Sud-est asiatico in particolare in Thailandia e nel Laos.

Ha esordito nel 2004 con il romanzo Intrigo a Oriente, primo capitolo della serie mystery ambientata in Laos e avente per protagonista il detective Dr. Siri Paiboun, giunta al 2018 alla tredicesima indagine.

Tra i riconoscimenti ottenuti, si segnala il Premio Dilys del 2006 per Thirty-Three Teeth.

Opere

Serie Dr. Siri Paiboun
 Intrigo a Oriente (The Coroner's Lunch, 2004), Roma, Fanucci, 2007 traduzione di Matteo Diari ISBN 978-88-347-1333-4.
 Thirty-Three Teeth (2005)
 Disco For the Departed (2006)
 Anarchy and Old Dogs (2007)
 Curse of the Pogo Stick (2008)
 The Merry Misogynist (2009)
 Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (2010)
 Slash and Burn (2011)
 The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (2013)
 Six and a Half Deadly Sins (2015)
 I Shot the Buddha (2016)
 The Rat Catchers' Olympics (2017)
 Don't Eat Me (2018)

Serie Jimm Juree
 Killed at the Whim of a Hat (2011)
 Granddad, There's a Head on the Beach (2012)
 The Axe Factor (2013)
 Hidden Genders (2012)

Altri romanzi
 Pool and its Role in Asian Communism (2005)
 Ageing Disgracefully: Short Stories about Atrocious Old People (2009)
 Average Alan (2013)

Alcuni riconoscimenti
 Premio Dilys: 2006 vincitore con Thirty-Three Teeth
 Premio SNCF du polar: 2007 vincitore con Intrigo a Oriente
 Gold Dagger: 2008 finalista con Intrigo a Oriente

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Collegamenti esterni

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The Colleyville Heritage Panthers (31-5) won the first two Quarterfinals playoff games against the Denison Yellowjackets (21-15) at Prosper HS on May 17 and May 18 to win the 5A Region 1 Quarterfinals Championship. The final score May 17 was Panthers 5 Yellowjackets 2. The final score May 18 was Panthers 4 Yellowjackets 2. The Panthers now head to the 5A Region 1 Regional Semi-Final round of the playoffs scheduled for next week against either Lubbock Coronado or Amarillo.


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John Falke
Anika Agarwal
Hayley Cook
Kevin Helgren
Published on March 2, 2015 at 9:55 pm Last update on March 3, 2015 at 4:47 pm
Editor's Note: There are eight University-wide representative positions, for which 15 candidates are running. Eighty percent of University-wide representative candidates responded to the Daily Texan Candidate Questionnaire, and we judged the candidates based on the quality of their written responses as well as their performance at Monday's candidate debate. All photos were provided by the candidates. Voting takes place Wednesday and Thursday at utexasvote.org.
Kallen Dimitroff, history and government junior
Kallen Dimitroff has been involved in numerous school organizations in her three years at UT. She previously worked as a first-year representative and a Liberal Arts representative in Student Government. With this experience, she is inspired to create a yearly conference sponsored by SG in which leaders from every major student group discuss issues of importance. She's devoted to increasing unity on campus and helping students get connected. We strongly recommend Dimitroff.
John Falke, BHP, finance and government sophomore
John Falke is committed to student participation in the University. With ideas involving larger and more involved student organization fairs and an increased emphasis on student organizations at freshman orientation, Falke wants students to recognize all their options. As a current member of the Assembly, Falke has the experience needed to be an effective representative of all UT students and a desire to improve the internal culture of SG. We strongly recommend Falke.
Anika Agarwal, biomedical engineering freshman
Anika Agarwal does not believe that Student Government cannot effect real change. By "getting the student body more involved in the process of student government and by making the process of enacting legislation more transparent, SG can effectively mitigate this misconception," Agarwal believes. This freshman's solutions to campus issues like hours of operation in dining halls and bus route timing are practical and appeal to all ages and types of students. We endorse Agarwal.
Hayley Cook, advertising junior
Hayley Cook believes firmly in a "commitment to excellence" and strives to be a good leader. We were impressed to see that she has a specific goal targeting the availability of online recording of lectures to students on campus, and using technology to document SG progress. We liked her idea that by engaging and informing students, SG has an opportunity to empower the student population at UT. We recommend Cook.
Alejandrina Guzman, psychology sophomore
Alejandrina Guzman is dedicated to improving handicap accessibility around campus because she does not believe the amenities in place are enough. Guzman displays an initiative to speak on behalf of a group not always represented in Student Government. For her interests in student safety and updated accessibility, we recommend Guzman.
Kevin Helgren, psychology and neuroscience senior
As a newcomer to SG, Kevin Helgren makes up for his lack of experience with passion. Helgren believes in transparency and plans to implement an open-door policy — complete with monthly assemblies open to the student body — if elected. Helgren has the drive and unique perspective to turn this campus around. We recommend Helgren.
Santiago Rosales, finance and economics freshman
Santiago Rosales is well aware of the necessary improvements that need to be made within SG and the University as whole. A first-year representative, he cited outreach as a major source of improvement, as well as internal communication. His long term goal is to "see a stronger UT challenge the Ivy League and lead the nation in research and alumni notoriety. That begins with a firm investment in the student life of my peers and a dedication to opening more doors for all students at UT." We recommend Rosales.
Spencer Schredder, economics and international relations & global studies junior
Spencer Schredder understands the problems that exist within Student Government. For him, accountability and ethics play a large role in his life and will surely transfer over if elected. He plans on opening clear lines of communication between SG and the student population as well as increasing cross-cultural understanding and eliminating wasteful spending that could easily be more responsibly allocated to deserving groups and causes. We recommend Schredder.
Ruben Cardenas
Published on February 25, 2014 at 1:07 am Last update on February 25, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Editor's Note: The college-specific representatives were judged based on their responses to the Daily Texan Candidate Questionnaire. The response rate for each college is included below. We have not endorsed contests in which the candidates were uncontested.
Architecture — Uncontested
Business — 3 spots, 100 percent responded
Business sophomore Sapan Patel demonstrated an impressive and in-depth understanding of the issues affecting campus, including the University's Shared Services plan. His interest in serving on the Legislative Affairs committee demonstrates that he knows his own strengths and is interested in doing the best by the assembly. Strongly recommended.
Business honors freshman John Falke has experience both in UBC and internal Senate, indicating that he can serve as an effective bridge between the two organizations. His legislative ideas are not terribly exciting, but his resume is impressive and indicative of his ability to do the job.
Business sophomore Jackson Clifford is attuned to the needs of the business school and has innovative ideas for involving minority students in Student Government, including the creation of an external position in black student groups. His answers demonstrated a clear grasp of SG's jurisdiction and mentioned concerns about late-night dining options and parking availability, both of which have appeal beyond the business school.
Communication — 2 spots, 66 percent responded
Public relations freshman Ruben Cardenas demonstrated an understanding of Student Government's jurisdiction and mentioned several pressing student issues, including pedestrian safety, stealth dorms and the need for a longer Thanksgiving break.
Education — Uncontested
Engineering — 3 spots, 50 percent responded
Architectural engineering senior Jamie Nalley has been involved in more than four engineering student organizations, making him a strong representative of his college. His answers were well-reasoned, eloquent and specific. Issues he is interested in pursuing include Campus Climate and the Urban Rail. Strongly recommended.
Fine arts — Uncontested
Geoscience — 1 spot, 50 percent responded
Geological sciences senior Jessica Sherman was well spoken and seemed to understand the issues affecting her college.
Liberal Arts — 4 spots, 66 percent responded
Government junior Tanner Long has the experience with on-campus organizations, including Hook the Vote and University Democrats, to serve as a student leader. His idea for a "civics week" on campus, which would highlight civic engagement, was particularly engaging.
Natural Science — 5 spots, 50 percent responded
Biology junior Anish Patel is involved in several Natural Science student groups, including Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Health Honor Society and SURGE (Science Undergraduate Research Group). His answers were well-phrased and demonstrated an understanding of and an interest in Student Government.
Social Work — Uncontested
School of Undergraduate Studies — 1 spot, 50 percent responded
Undeclared sophomore Sachin Chandiramani, the only candidate for this position to respond to the Texan, understands that the primary goal of UGS students is to transfer into another college and will work to ease that transition.
Co-op Board of Directors — 2 spots, 50 percent responded
Accounting senior Alex Bryan shows an impressive understanding of the problems facing the Co-op today and hopes to increase funding for student organizations from its current allocation of just $20,000. He brings key experience to the position, having served as the scholarship chair of the Inter-Fraternity Council.
Business sophomore Garrett Neville wants to make the most of the UT relationship with the Co-op by looking for ways to increase the student rebate program a well as pushing for more affordable course materials.
University Unions — 2 spots, 33 percent responded
Communication studies junior Vicky Nguyen, although the only University Union candidate to respond to the Texan, is interested in better utilizing the union spaces as well making it an appealing place for student to spend their study time.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly used feminine pronouns to refer to Jamie Nalley. Nalley is actually a male.


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Anthony Hamilton's Kids | TG Time
Anthony Hamilton's melodies would clearly make your head gesture and faucet your ft. The R&B artist, report maker, and lyricist turned out to be well-known together with his platinum-selling studio assortment in 2003 named "Comin' from The place I'm From," highlighting its observe title "Comin' from The place I'm From" and the followers' untouched #1 "Charlene."
His skill in music had him designated for 17 Grammy Grants and received one among them in 2009 together with his melody "You Have The Affection I Need" with Al Inexperienced. He was moreover chosen for various honors, together with the BET Grants, Pundits' Resolution Movie Grants, NAACP Image Grants, MOBO Grants, and Soul Practice Music Grants. As well as, he confirmed up in his kindred melodic specialists' music recordings and, surprisingly, assisted them with creating tunes, for instance, the "Kwah/House" of The RH Aspect's 2003 assortment and the 2004 hit "Why" by Jadakiss. He was likewise a melodic customer in a couple of exhibits like Dave Chapelle's present, the "Chapelle's Present," and an look within the movie American Felony as a spirit vocalist.
Certainly one of his different excellent works was his soundtrack "Alternative" in Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino movie, together with Indie soul vocalist Elayna Boynton. His most up-to-date assortment was delivered final 12 months named "Love A significant development Darkish."
Anthony Hamilton continues to be a number of dynamic within the music enterprise. He has beforehand delivered seven collections altogether and has a complete property of $8 million, basically attributable to his tunes. Is Anthony Hamilton wedded to Partner? Or however Relationship a Sweetheart? Tasha McMillan was Anthony Hamilton's vital different for greater than 10 years previous to petitioning for a separation on the 20th of June 2015. Tragically, the couple had not delivered the justification for his or her partition to the press. In any case, their alternative is by all accounts widespread, they usually have consented to in any case cooperate within the music enterprise. Moreover, they really understand one another because the guardian of their teen and would assist one another elevate them.
Tasha McMillan turned Anthony Hamilton's vital different in 2005. She was his reinforcement vocalist, but they later created affections for each other till they selected to seal the deal. The couple would reward their tenth 12 months collectively however their partition. At this level, it's as but unsure within the occasion that there's yet one more woman in his life that will earlier than lengthy be marked as Anthony Hamilton's vital different.
Anthony Hamilton's Memoir Anthony Cornelius Hamilton is a person of selection born on the twenty eighth of January 1971. Little is had some vital consciousness of his people and kin. Moreover, at 17, he started singing within the ensemble at his congregation and his faculty, South Mecklenburg Secondary Faculty. On the level when he met maker Mark Flashes in 1992, he was persuaded to maneuver to New York and endorsed with Andre Harrell's Uptown Information.
Can't Let Go – Anthony Hamilton
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This was the start of his reputation and the ship off of his vocation.
Anthony Hamilton's Kids Anthony Hamilton and his ex Tasha McMillan have 4 children: Aaron Michael, Romeiro, Princeton Harris, and Tristen. The whereabouts and any non-public subtleties of those children stayed non-public and secret.
No matter Anthony Hamilton's partition from his ex, they expressed that they don't maintain hatred in opposition to each other and selected to co-parent their youngsters.
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Several famous actors, actresses, athletes, and musicians have furthered their education by earning Master's Degrees. Some of these celebrities earned Masters of Fine Arts while others pursued scientific degrees. This list of famous people with Master's Degrees has been loosely ranked by fame and popularity.
Who is the most famous person with a Masters Degree? James Franco tops our list. The Spring Breakers actor earned his M.F.A. from Columbia University in New York. He is also studying for a Ph.D. in English at Yale University. Ashley Judd earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2010.
Adult film star Ron Jeremy has a Master's Degree in Special Education from Queens College in New York. Singer Art Garfunkel earned a M.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1967.
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