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A new avalanche slide path seen below Mount Victoria, on March 7, 2019, in Frisco, Colo. At least 4 feet of snow fell onto the Tenmile Range in early March, causing new avalanches in the area. Photo by Hugh Carey / Summit Daily News via AP Images
The Science Behind Colorado's Historic Avalanche Activity
Colorado has seen an unprecedented number of large avalanches this winter. Is this a product of climate change, abnormal weather, or both?
By Jay Bouchard | March 13, 2019
Over the past two weeks, we've witnessed one of the most intense avalanche cycles in Colorado history. According to leading experts, recent avalanches—there have been more than 600 recorded in March alone—are running longer and larger than they have in decades, and in some cases, the slides are more intense than they've been in hundreds of years. The carnage has been well-documented across the state: cars have been buried on I-70 and elsewhere; homes have been destroyed; and already seven skiers have been killed by avalanches in the backcountry this year.
To better understand the strength and scope of snow barreling down mountainsides in Colorado, we set out to learn what exactly has led to this intense avalanche cycle. Is it merely a lot of damn snow? Another catastrophic by-product of a warming climate? According to snow scientists and forecasters with whom we spoke, the answer is not nearly so simple. Yes, Colorado is experiencing a banner snow year. Yes, the climate is changing. But neither of those factors, they say, are solely responsible for the intensity of avalanches we've seen this month. Instead, it's been a mixture of weather events over the past five months—a "perfect storm" of sorts—that created unstable snowpack across the state.
"It's a combination of events," says Karl Birkeland, director of the U.S. Forest Service National Avalanche Center. "You get your biggest avalanches not just when you get a big storm, but when you get a big storm that's on top of a series of events that set up over your season."
In Colorado's case, according to Birkeland, that series of events involved early snowfall in October followed by dry weather in November, creating a weak base layer of snow. Colorado then saw consistent snowfall throughout the winter on top of that layer—but not too much in any given storm—which loaded snow in the mountains but didn't "tip the bucket," he says. These conditions ultimately created a snowpack that is extremely unsteady, and thus, when major storms arrived in early March, it triggered massive avalanches.
"You had a very deep snowpack with a very weak layer down at the bottom of it," he says. "And then you just added a load really quickly and that was enough to push it over the edge."
Moreover, wind throughout Colorado's high country made vulnerable conditions even more likely to slide, according to Spencer Logan, lead avalanche scientist at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). Wind drifts snow around, he explains, and in some cases wind can move snow from one place to another at rates far greater than it is falling from the sky.
"If you imagine the snowpack being like an old man, it doesn't like change," Logan says. "Rapid change makes snow unstable. Wind is a really good way of creating that rapid change."
Because of all of these factors, we are seeing avalanches "unlike anything anyone can remember," Logan says. "Professionals who have been doing this for 40 years have never seen these kinds of avalanches."
When such extreme weather conditions like this develop, it's natural to ask whether or not this is the most recent manifestation of climate change. In the case of avalanches, while global warming likely has an indirect influence, experts caution against conflating weather and climate too broadly.
"I don't think we can directly tie this event to climate change. This is really tied to a particular sequence of events—a sequence of weather events over the course of a season," Birkeland says. "I'd be reluctant to tie it to climate change necessarily. It's more kind of the perfect storm in terms of these different things coming together to give you a snowpack that's deep and has a weakness at the bottom with big storms on top of that."
Dr. Kelly Elder, a research hydrologist at the U.S. Forest Service and an avalanche science instructor at Colorado Mountain College, agrees that the number and intensity of avalanches this month is largely do to abnormal weather. However, he says, one of the impacts of global warming is unpredictability.
"This is a weather issue, but climate change predictions suggest increased variability in weather," he wrote in an email to 5280. "We should expect more seasons like this one, as well as more drought seasons where we are begging for more snow. Increased variability means greater extremes and greater uncertainty in predicting them. Climate change is real; how it will manifest remains to be seen."
As a "bomb cyclone" ripped across the state on Wednesday, it seems the abnormal winter weather will continue in Colorado—at least for now. But how many more avalanches will break loose is hard to know: Logan says that his team at CAIC has recorded 609 slides in March so far, but that's probably only a fraction—maybe 25 percent—of the total over that period.
As droves of skiers head for the hills again this weekend, it's important that we all keep in mind the significant avalanche risk, both on the roads and on the slopes.
Jay Bouchard, Digital Assistant Editor
Jay writes and edits stories for 5280.com and assists the digital team with social media and online strategy.

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Matt Denn Makes His Move
Delaware's Lt. Governor Matthew Denn has only further muddied the political waters for the election cycle of 2014 and also for 2016 here in Delaware.
Just last Thursday Delaware's current Attorney General Beau Biden announced that he would not be seeking another term as the state's AG in 2014, but he would be seeking the office of governor in 2016. Many political insiders have been questioning the reasoning behind such a move, most coming to the conclusion that it has a lot to do with Mr. Biden's health concerning the recent removal of a "small lesion" from his brain last August.
Prior to last weeks announcement from Mr. Biden, these same political insiders would have told you that Lt. Gov. Matt Denn was the front-runner for the Democrat nomination in 2016, after all he has been patiently waiting "his turn" behind current Democrat Governor Jack Markell.
Now in what is a clear example of a career politician's calculation, Matt Denn has announced that he will be seeking the office of the Attorney General in 2014, which if he were to win would mean abandoning the last two years of his Lt. Governor's term of office. I will address the complications that this may lead to later in this post.
So has Matt Denn suddenly had a revelation about his desire to run for the office of the AG? Or is this just another career politician making a political calculation?
In my view it is the latter. Let's look at this. Matt Denn was the front-runner for the Democrat nomination for governor in 2016, that is until Delaware's golden boy Democrat, Beau Biden, announced his intentions. Now Matt Denn suddenly feels the need to be AG? This has a couple of benefits for Denn.
First of all if he runs for AG and losses he is still Lt. Governor until 2016. If he wins the AG office he stays in the political spot light until the next door opens. But wait, there could be even more curveballs here. If he loses the AG race he can still primary Biden in 2016, and renege on any backroom deals that have been made. But wait, if he wins the AG race, but Beau Biden's health fails even more, say in the next year, Matt Denn could then run for governor after all. Of course these moves would be very dangerous for a career politician since it would expose to what lengths Denn would go to, to remain in office at any cost.
Now another question that has arisen is how do we replace a Lt. Governor that resigns, if Matt Denn were to win the AG race? Some have said that the Delaware state constitution is silent on this matter, however in my reading of the document I believe while it is not spelled out specifically for the office of the Lt. Governor, I do believe that the order of succession is clear, if we read the document as a whole, and not simply look for one specific Article or section to address the issue.
Here is my understanding of the issue from the Delaware Constitution concerning the Executive Branch;
In Article III, sec. 19 it is stated,
A Lieutenant-Governor shall be chosen at the same time, in the same manner, for the same term, and subject to the same provisions as the Governor; he or she shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility for office as the Governor; he or she shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided.
So, my understanding is that if the Lt. Governor is unable to finish his term, then the same rules apply as do for the governor. Or as this section states, "subject to the same provisions as the Governor".
So what are those provisions?
Well for that we need to look at Article III, sec. 20, sub section a., which says,
In case the person elected Governor shall die or become disqualified before the commencement of his or her term of office, or shall refuse to take the same, or in case of the removal of the Governor from office, or of his or her death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Lieutenant-Governor; and in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, or in case of his or her removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Attorney-General, or if there be none, or in case of his or her removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the President pro tempore of the Senate or if there be none, or in case of his or her removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall act as Governor until the disability of the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor is removed, or a Governor shall be duly elected and qualified.
The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply only to such persons as are eligible to the office of Governor under this Constitution at the time the powers and duties of the office of Governor shall devolve upon them respectively.
Whenever the powers and duties of the office of Governor shall devolve upon the Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, or Attorney-General, his or her office shall become vacant; and whenever the powers and duties of the office of Governor shall devolve upon the President pro tempore of the Senate, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, his or her seat as a member of the General Assembly shall become vacant; and any such vacancy shall be filled as directed by this Constitution; provided, however, that such vacancy shall not be created in case either of the said persons shall be acting as Governor during a temporary disability of the Governor.
So as you can see the line of succession is clearly laid out in this section, and since the previous section states that the Lt. Governor is "subject to the same provisions as the governor", it is clear in my view that the Secretary of State would move to the position of Lt. Governor, if Matt Denn were to win the office of the AG, and thus be forced to resign. Our current Secretary of State is Jeffery W. Bullock.
And since the position of Secretary of state is an appointed position, Gov. Markell would then appoint a new Secretary of state. Not complicated after all, though some out there will attempt to make it so for political reasons. Add to that the fact that if an elected AG resigns, the Governor can appoint someone to finish out the current term, and this becomes a political shell game, and while this type of politics is not limited to just Democrats, here in Delaware they have taken it to a high art form.
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Frank, I'm no legal scholar but I don't think "same provisions as the Governor" mean what you think in this case. I think it means the same rules and guidelines to follow (parameters of the office). Not the line of succession.
The line of succession starts when the Governor has to leave office. The Governor is staying put.
Also this.
He or she shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen in elective offices, except in the offices of Lieutenant-Governor and members of the General Assembly, by granting Commissions which shall expire when their successors shall be duly qualified.
Anonymous, I am no legal scholar myself, but here is the definition of provision, "a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso."
So if sec. 19 states that the Lt. Governor is subject to all the same provisions as the Governor, then the next section, which is a clause in a legal instrument, sets forth the line of succession, my view is that it relates to both offices. It is only a matter of where the line begins, either at the governor, or the lt. governor.
I t starts with the Governor. It's only put in place when the Governor can't fulfill his duties. The General Assembly could amend the Constitution and have a way to elect/appoint an Lt. Gov by this January just 2 months after the general election.
It starts with the Governor. It's only put in place when the Governor can't fulfill his duties. The General Assembly could amend the Constitution and have a way to elect/appoint an Lt. Gov by this January just 2 months after the general election.
Did not mean to duplicate my comment but there is something wrong and slow with your sight comments. You can delete this and one of my duplicate comments if you want.
Anonymous, I believe it is clear that Article III sections 19 and 20 define how succession is to be handled. Some will attempt to make this more complicated than need be for political reasons.
radef16 says:
The rules of succession will only apply if he wins.
The objective needs to be making sure that he doesn't.
Given Biden's abysmal record fighting violent crime it may be time for a drastic change in Dover.
IMO many Democrats would cross party lines to vote for a candidate that runs on a stop crime
in Wilmington platform. There certainly is enough data to wage such a campaign.
Denn doesn't seem like the type who would take this approach.
The rules of succession does NOT apply if he wins. It only is put in motion when the Governor can't fulfill his duties.
Anonymous, you are looking at the constitution only in sections, you have to read it as a complete document, Article III sec. 19 has bearing on Article II sec 20. You are trying to compartmentalize each section as if they are stand alone documents, they are not, they are part of a whole and must be read and interpreted as such.
Mark Delmerico says:
I live at Ingleside, 10th and Franklin St., Wilm City.
I moved from Korman Brandywine Hundred on Foulk Rd, 1 1/2 years ago.
The WPD has told me not to walk south on Harrison Street….. drugs.
My friend, Brittany found a bullet in the street near West Side Health, 4th and Scott.
Now Wilm City is rated # 5 "most violent cities (for its size) in the US"
What has Joe Biden's son done for the City of Wilmington ????
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Chrissy Teigen spilled too much tea about Joe Biden's inauguration!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Cravings cookbook author, Chrissy Teigen has gotten herself into a little pickle after spilling too much tea about new President Joe Biden's inauguration.
On Tuesday (Jan 19), Teigen shared her behind-the-scenes experience and adventure on Instagram Stories during her husband, John Legend's rehearsal in preparation for the Prime Time special 'Celebrating America' which aired on Wednesday (Jan 20).
Upon arriving at Washington with Legend, Teigen began documenting her experience on social media – starting with how the couple struggled to locate the singer's rehearsal location.
Teigen captioned on her Instagram post: "We got lost on the way to soundcheck but stumbled across these literal f–king heroes!!"
Soon after the couple had found their way around, Teigen shared a video on Twitter showing the stage arrangements in front of the Lincoln Memorial until the Washington Monument. "What in the … wow. This is amazing. This is crazy, beautiful," said Teigen.
It wasn't long until Teigen revealed on Twitter that she had gotten into some trouble for sharing too much about the event.
Aside from teasing her husband's performance for President Joe Biden's inauguration, Teigen decided to take one last shot at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday by tweeting the following:
This was in reference to her famous social media feud with Trump between 2017 to 2019. At the time, Teigen was very vocal about not supporting his controversial statements and policies leading.
Eventually, Trump blocked her on Twitter after she replied to his post saying that nobody likes him in 2017. In 2019, Trump called Teigen a "filthy-mouthed wife" after complaining about Legend's support towards criminal justice reformation.
Now that the United States of America has officially welcomed their new President Joe Biden – it seems that he has welcomed her too:
It's official, everyone! Chrissy Teigen is one of the eleven people that President Joe Biden follows on Twitter! /TISG
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Awards / Music
1975 Grammy Award Winners
Posted by Joe Hummel IIIPosted 48 years ago March 1, 1975
Winners Announced: March 1, 1975
Held at: Uris Theatre, New York, New York
Host: Andy Williams
Eligibility Year: October 16, 1973 – October 15, 1974
1975 Grammy Winners
Record of the Year:
I Honestly Love You – Olivia Newton-John
Album of the Year:
Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown)
The Way We Were – Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, songwriters
Best New Artist of the Year:
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male:
Fulfillingness' First Finale, Stevie Wonder
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female:
Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
Band on the Run – Paul McCartney and Wings
Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
The Entertainer – Marvin Hamlisch
Best Rhythm and Blues Song:
Living for the City – Stevie Wonder, songwriter
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male:
Boogie on Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing – Aretha Franklin
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus:
Tell Me Something Good – Rufus
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance:
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia), MFSB
Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist:
First Recordings!, Charlie Parker
Best Jazz Performance By a Group:
The Trio, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Niels Pedersen
Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band:
Thundering Herd, Woody Herman
Best Country Song:
A Very Special Love Song – Norris Wilson and Billy Sherrill, songwriters
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends – Ronnie Milsap
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
Love Song, Anne Murray
Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group:
Fairytale – Pointer Sisters
Best Country Instrumental Performance:
The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show, Chet Atkins and Merle Travis
Best Gospel Performance:
The Baptism of Jesse Taylor – Oak Ridge Boys
Best Soul Gospel Performance:
In the Ghetto, James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir
Best Inspirational Performance:
How Great Thou Art – Elvis Presley
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording:
Two Days in November, Doc and Merle Watson
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Threshold – Pat Williams, arranger
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists:
Down to You – Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott, arrangers
Best Instrumental Composition:
Tubular Bells (Theme From The Exorcist), Mike Oldfield, composer
Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album:
Raisin, Judd Woldin and Robert Britten, composers (Columbia)
Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
The Way We Were, Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, composers (Columbia)
Album of the Year, Classical:
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony (London)
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra:
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Brahms and Schumann Trios, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1, David Oistrakh
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
Albeniz, Iberia, Alicia de Larrocha
Best Opera Recording:
Puccini, La Bohème, Sir Georg Solti conducting London Philharmonic; solos: Caballé, Domingo, Milnes, Blegen and Raimondi (RCA)
Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera):
Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Colin Davis conducting London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Ambrosian Singers and Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; solos: Gedda, Bastin, Veasey and Van Allen
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance:
Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss, Leontyne Price
Best Comedy Recording:
That Nigger's Crazy, Richard Pryor (Partee/Stax)
Best Spoken Word Recording:
Good Evening, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Island)
Best Recording for Children:
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell (Disneyland)
Best Album Package:
Come and Gone, Ed Thrasher and Christopher Whorf, art directors (Warner Bros.)
Best Album Notes (tie):
For the Last Time, Charles R. Townsend, annotator (United Artists)
The Hawk Flies, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Milestone)
Best Album Notes, Classical:
The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Rory Guy, annotator (Angel)
Best Producer of the Year:
Thom Bell
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Are Drunk Drivers 16 to 80 Times More Dangerous Than Stoned Drivers?
A screen capture from a stoned-driving test conducted by KIRO-TV.
Since the legalization of limited marijuana sales in Colorado launched in January 2014, there's been lots of debate among experts about the risks of stoned driving, as well as dueling statistics aplenty. Note that one report that claimed legalization hadn't caused an increase in highway fatalities, while another maintained that pot-impaired driving fatalities were up 100 percent over the past five years.
Now come new studies from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which argue that while drivers with marijuana in their system are more unsafe than those who remain entirely sober, they're far less dangerous than those who drive while drunk.
Driving Stoned: Are Field Sobriety Tests and Drug Recognition Experts the Next Big Step?
The results in Table 6 show that alcohol (?0.05 BrAC),together with no drug presence, has the greatest effect on crash risk (shaded), raising the risk 6.75 times over that for drivers with no alcohol and no drugs. The adjusted odds ratios for alcohol levels ? 0.05 BrAC with drugs, and for alcohol levels ? 0.05 BrAC without drugs, are both significantly increased (more than 5 times higher). The relatively small difference between the odds ratio associated with alcohol levels at or above 0.05 BrAC, with and without drugs, was not statistically significant.
How to interpret these numbers? 9News puts them in laymen's terms: "Drivers with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 are 400 percent more likely to get into a car accident than a sober driver" —while "drivers testing positive for THC are about 25 percent more likely to crash." However, "when you factor in demographic information like age and gender, that number drops to about five percent."
Those digits appear to suggest that drunk drivers are between sixteen and eighty times more likely to crash than stoned drivers. But you can bet the findings will be disputed soon, despite them having been assembled by a federal agency.
Look below to see a KIRO-TV investigation into stoned driving, followed by the NHTSA document.


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Essex County Environmental Commission - The Essex County Environmental Commission provides advice, outreach and education to the office of the Essex County Executive, Board of Chosen Freeholders and the municipal Environmental Commissions in order to protect, restore and renew Essex County's natural resources and to increase environmental awareness, ensuring that all Essex County citizens can enjoy a healthy environment and an enhanced quality of life within a sustainable regional community. Jennifer is serving as a member.
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Twiss 1775. Swinburne 1779: 177, 330, 304. Peyron 1782. Galera Andreu 1996. Viñes 1999.
Fig. 1. Title page from Swinburne's "Travels through Spain" (Swinburne 1779).
Fig. 2. Picturesque view of the Alhambra fortress taken from the Albaicín (Twiss 1775, Pl. 6).
Fig. 3. Idealized view of the East front of the Mesquita in Cordoba (Swinburne 1779, facing p. 300).


Well, it's better to host events and parties in the city premises, but better than that is the neighborhood to host such parties in case of any difficulties. Most of the things are under wraps for the very last moment and the excitement of these ventures are just out of the imagination. So, people strive to do much when it comes to taking care of the interest of the audience and making things more memorable and fun. What about this and what about that, comes to your mind too?Well, you might wonder what a wedding photo booth hire Melbourne is and how do they become useful? For that, you have to go 40 to 50 years down the memory lane. Being a teenager and looking for a birthday party, you must ask your parents. Numerous filters, stickers, and gallery making apps, built into bigger social media platforms, the current generation is into "an all-digital" affair. The things were real for once and all. At a time that back in memory lane, perhaps you would see fairs that were a one-time affair in the city, real sets like in the movies and real-everything. These were used for taking wonderful mouth-boggling and mind-watering pictures in those days. Those days were the days of films and not CCD sensors where you can take millions of pics in just a minute.
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NEW ALBUM FOR K VIBES ROSE AMONG THORNS ON THE WAY
After many years of quality singles with Studio One, Randy's Impact, Digital English and now King Jammy's, K Vibes/Brick Rose has completed her first album ROSE AMONG THORNS with Flynn and Flynn music's Chain Gang label. This album is a long time coming for many of her fans who have followed her career over the years. The album is set for release this June 2014. There is a combination song with General Trees which K Vibes says is her favorite DJ on the Reggae Scene. She also has a combination with Screechy Dan who also greatly inspired and encouraged her throughout the years in her musical career. There will be a few previously released songs on the album such as, PULL UP and REGGAE MUSIC. The album has a variety of Reggae, Ska, R&B, Dancehall, Lovers Rock and Roots and Culture. She does it all while giving a little history about herself in the first and last track, Long Way and Brooklyn Story. Most of the tracks are live instrumentation and very well put together lyrically. The Brick Rose now lives between Jamaica and NY. Most of the album was done in Jamaica, mixed and mastered by veteran producer Barry O'hare. She has started touring her single REGGAE MUSIC (I AM) with great reviews. So much more to come. whttp://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/Positive-Vibes-expected-for-Rose-Among-Thorns_16601971


MPlayerX is quite a new product in this niche and already has a rapid rise beyond expectation. In the beginning, it was a new simple video player (not to be confused with the old MPlayer OS X or other variants with similar names), handsome but immature. Behold now passed MPlayerX with its 1.0.3 version and is available in the Mac App Store, with some very good reviews in the Mac App Store.
I've tried it and I can say it has become my new favorite video player, taking the place of the rather dusty old VLC. Every format VLC managed to play, so did MPlayerX. It's not a perfect movie player, but MPlayerX looks like a real program made for Mac OS X and has some nice features. Those who use a trackpad will be happy to find that they can use some gestures to control the playback (forward and backward), or the volume and size of the window (the pinch). The good thing about MPlayerX is that when idle it uses less resources than VLC.
For those who use subtitles with accents: the program tries to detect automatically the encoding of the file, and if it has any doubts, the program will ask us what we want to use for the encryption. I also found some image controls, grouped in a window called Video Tuner: brightness, contrast, color adjustment, noise reduction and sharpness. MPlayerX also supports Apple Remote and dual-monitor configurations, you can put the movie on a monitor and on the other one you are free to do something else.
MPlayerX also plays almost any format of file or stream, has a multi-touch interface, you can control the player with your fingers and one of the great feature is that this program won't forget when you've stopped playing the movie last time and can start right from there.
The coolest feature is the opportunity to automatically switch MPlayerX from one episode to another, if you look at a TV Show. Practically, you start the first episode and then you may watch until you get bored.
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has transformed an ageing Shanghai office block into a business incubator, featuring a new translucent aluminium skin (+ slideshow).
The Scandinavian firm was tasked with overhauling an office block at the CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park – an office campus just outside the city centre – to create a new hub for startup tech companies.
The main change is the addition of the corrugated aluminium skin, which completely covers the old rendered concrete to give the building a new identity.
The metal is coated with white polyester powder to give it a cleaner finish, and is perforated to make it translucent. Because of this, Schmidt Hammer Lassen could use it cover some of the existing windows, creating shade and privacy where required.
The material also screens a new layer of insulation, as well as some repaired and replaced service ducts.
Called the CaoHeJing Innovation Incubator, the facility is the pilot project for a wider overhaul of the business park. The owners wanted to create workplaces that reflect current trends such as co-working, but to avoid demolishing the existing buildings.
"The client expressed a desire to deal with their dilapidated building stock," said architect Chris Hardie, who leads the firm's Shanghai office.
"Many of their existing buildings had been built quickly, and without much thought on basic detailing and quality, and they wanted to rectify this, to breathe life into these existing buildings," he continued.
"Our proposal was all about how to get the most bang for your buck by dealing with technical issues, yet creating a bold and vibrant symbol for the young startup community on the campus."
Inside, the architects removed some of the existing partition walls to create a new atrium for the three-storey building.
This space helps more natural light filter into each level. It also creates a social space for staff, incorporating a cafe, informal hangout areas and suspended meeting rooms.
Most surfaces are white, helping to give the space a sense of lightness. But there are some injections of colour from select pieces of furniture as well as from a mural by local graffiti artist The Orange Blowfish.
The next step will be to apply the same design concepts to other buildings on the campus.
Hardie sees the project as indicative of a growing trend for renovation in Shanghai, demonstrated by projects like Neri&Hu's conversion of a colonial police station into a design centre, and the ceramicist's atelier created by Archi-Union in an abandoned warehouse.
"This is definitely a trend we are witnessing in China, where we have similar projects in other parts of Shanghai and Beijing," he said.
"The client, in particular, is actively entering into partnerships with incubators around the globe, many from Silicon Valley," he continued. "In order to solidify their position, they understand that they need good, sustainable workspace from which they can build their own tech community".
Schmidt Hammer Lassen now has offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Shanghai and London. Other recent projects in China include a pavilion with a cloud-shaped centre and a proposal for the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant.
Photography is by Peter Dixie, unless otherwise indicated.


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Iowa high school boys' cross country 2021: Gazette area teams, runners to watch
Solon (3A), Tipton (2A) were state runners-up last year
Aug. 24, 2021 10:34 am, Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 11:10 am
Center Point-Urbana's Eli Larson was the fourth-place finisher at the Class 3A state cross country meet last year. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
A 2021 watch list for top area boys' cross country teams and individuals:
8 area teams to watch
Top area boys' cross country teams for the 2021 season:
IOWA CITY HIGH
2020 state finish: 8th in Class 4A
Returners (6): Ford Washburn, jr., 6th; Truman Thompson, jr., 19th; Noah Carey, jr., 60th; Elliot Dunnwald, sr., 81st; Parker Max, sr., 98th; Ammon Smith, jr., 108th
IOWA CITY LIBERTY
Returners (4): Aiden Decker, soph., 36th; Christian Montover, sr., 52nd; Jordan Robinson, sr., 78th; Gavin Keeney, sr., 94th
MAQUOKETA VALLEY
Returners (7): Cy Huber, sr., 28th; Nolan Ries, sr., 30th; Michael Schaul, sr., 55th; Mitch Heims, sr., 75th; Landin Frasher, jr., 124th; Brock Trenkamp, sr., 125th; Toby Grimm, soph., 138th
Returners (6): Shane Erb, sr., 13th; Jedidiah Osgood, jr., 18th; Blake Roling, sr., 56th; Jakob Regennitter, jr., 87th; Jordan Fischer, soph., 108th; Chris Oberbrockling, jr., 124th
2020 state finish: Class 3A runner-up
Returners (4): Gabe Hinman, sr., 24th; Brick Kabela, soph., 26th; Mike Yeomans, soph., 33rd; Nate Ferguson, sr., 114th
SOUTH WINNESHIEK
2020 state finish: 3rd in Class 1A
Returners (5): Omar Flores, jr., 33rd; Isaiah Kruckman, sr., 59th; Chance Adam, sr., 70th; Ethan Maldanado, sr., 117th; Hunter Wagner, jr., 144th
2020 state finish: Class 2A state runner-up
Returners (6): Ty Nichols, jr., 15th; Cody Bohlmann, sr., 17th; Troy Butler, sr., 36th; A.J. Thumma, sr., 56th; Bob Ryan, sr., 107th; Brody Deerberg, jr., 119th
Returners (6): Harrison Gerber, sr., 12th; Sam Rich, jr., 37th; Bryson Mumm, sr., 83rd; Trey O'Neil, jr., 86th; Braeden Brown, jr., 108th; Kadince Milder, sr., 125th
The top 12 returning area individuals
Based on times and places at the 2020 state meet.
Eli Larson, sr., Center Point-Urbana — Placed 4th in Class 3A, 16:05
Ford Washburn, sr., Iowa City High — Placed 6th in Class 4A, 16:11
Alex McKane, sr., Iowa City West — Placed 11th in 4A, 16:15
Truman Thompson, jr., Iowa City High — Placed 19th in 4A, 16:26
Shane Erb, sr., Marion — Placed 13th in 3A, 16:44
Aiden Decker, soph., Iowa City Liberty — Placed 36th in 4A, 16:44
Anthony Lee, sr., Cedar Rapids Prairie — Placed 39th in 4A, 16:45
Caden Noeller, sr., Iowa City West — Placed 40th in 4A, 16:45
Jedidiah Osgood, jr., Marion — Placed 18th in 3A, 16:50
Christian Montover, sr., Iowa City Liberty — Placed 52nd in 4A, 16:52
Gavin Zillyette, sr., Clear Creek Amana — Placed 22nd in 3A, 16:58
Noah Carey, jr., Iowa City High — Placed 60th in 4A, 17:01
Comments: jeff.linder@thegazette.com
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What protesters need to set their minds and hearts against is the continuing dominating influence of a financial juggernaut that is, at its core, led by a small elite of extraordinarily powerful, corrupt and self-serving oligarchs. Think it through, be clear about this and explain to everybody you meet. Our system is not democratic, it is oligarchical and….. WE ARE, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ANTI-OLIGARCHY.
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In The Surf: The Moons Matter
September 2022 by Dave Anderson
The new and full moons bring with them increased striper action, but do you really understand why?
Striper fishermen, as a group, have to be one of the most moon-centric segments of the angling community. It is true, that the moons play a role in many fisheries, fresh and salt, and it is definitely worthy and useful to track your fishing success and plot it within the cycles of the moon. In most cases, you're going to find spikes around the new and/or full moon periods. An exception might be deep water groundfishing where moon currents force anglers to fish tight windows of slower water, so that their rigs can reach bottom without scoping out. But if you're a striped bass fisherman, and especially if you're a surfcaster, fishing success and lunar phase are very likely to be closely linked.
There are many reasons why moons ignite striper action. I've even heard some wild-eyed anglers claim that the cosmic forces of a full or new moon make the bass do crazy things, in the same way that emergency rooms tend to see a steep spike in admissions during these periods. I can't claim to know much about cosmic forces or striper astrology, but I can tell you that the moons matter; in light and dark and in the strength of the tides they produce.
Tides For Laymen
The concept of a moving tide is actually a bit of a misnomer, you may know that the moon drives the tides, and you have likely observed that full and new moons produce the greatest changes in water depth between high and low tide. This fact has nothing to do with how much of the moon is or isn't hidden beneath the shadow of the earth. It also has nothing to do with the moon's alignment within the sphere or shadow of the earth. The moon is about 27% of the size of our planet, and therefore its influence on things down here can only be affected by its distance from us. The moon is captured by earth's gravity and therefore it can't race ahead of us or fall behind. But that's not even the chief factor in why the full and new moon tides move so much more water, although supermoons (full or new moons that coincide with perigee) will produce some amazingly high and low tides.
The moon's orbit, just like nearly all natural orbits, is elliptical and even its orbit slowly rotates on an 18 year cycle around the earth like a giant hula hoop—this is why supermoons seem to have no discernable pattern to those of us who don't have a master's degree in astronomy. The gravitational forces of the earth and the moon are traded back and forth in a constant flow of magnetic attraction. But there's a third player in this equation: the sun. It's easy to forget that the earth is captured within the gravitational pull of the sun and twice during each 28 day trip the moon takes around the earth, the sun and moon work together to create stronger tides.
The tide is a product of the gravitational forces of the moon (and sun) pulling the liquid ocean out and away from the solid earth. If you can picture the ocean as an elastic substance, the moon attracts the ocean with its gravity, creating a bulge which creates one high tide, the moon also pulls the earth closer, leaving a bulge on the other side of the earth—this is why there are two high tides per day. When the sun and moon oppose each other or align, the tides are even greater because the bulges are augmented by the multiplied forces of each celestial body. Neap tides occur when the moon and sun are roughly 90 degrees from each other, the moons influence on the water is negated to some degree by the smaller bulge being created by the sun—this is why the heights of the low and high tides are much closer together during the quarter moons. The lunar and solar bulges are working against each other.
Tidal currents are a product of the earth rotating 'underneath' these gravity bulges along with the bottom and shoreline contours. How cool is that?! The ocean is static and it's the movement of the earth that creates what we perceive as tidal current!
This 46-pounder took an eel on the night of the September new moon a few years back. The increased tide height may have contributed to this fish, and other large stripers, feeling comfortable enough to feed in just 4-feet of water.
Light & Dark
Another component of the moons that striper fishermen key in on is the amount of available natural light. Surfcasters in particular, are often fixated on the periods surrounding the new moons because they promise a stretch of very dark nights. There are a whole set of accepted reasons why this is better for a surfcaster, the most widely touted being that a dark night makes a big fish feel safer because she feels hidden from larger predators thanks to the darkness. I won't say that I don't prefer new moons, because I absolutely do. But I struggle with the reasoning because I have had some good luck with large fish in daylight from the surf, albeit mostly on cloudy days. By the same token, my success on clear nights with a big, bright moon, has been varied at best. This has left me wondering if it's light penetration that's the true culprit. Many hardcore boat anglers that I have spoken with about this subject say they love the full moons for fishing deep rips or eeling ledges in 40-plus feet of water. Could it be that a clear sky with a bright sun or a bright moon makes it harder for stripers to ambush prey in shallow water?
We know that striped bass have some understanding of light and shadow because they are known to exploit bridge shadows as an artificial ambush point. As bright as the noonday sun may seem, there's just something about the 'black hole' darkness of a shadow in the silvery light of a full moon, which would lead me to believe that the shadows cast by predatory fish moving through shallow water during a bright moon period might forewarn their prey, making ambush very difficult or even impossible. One big 'eureka' moment came to me thanks to a conversation with field editor John Hanecak, he said that he focuses on areas with big boulders or ledges during the full moons because the shadows cast by these underwater obstructions give the stripers a place to hide from the light. An image of a shadowy boulder field manifested in my mind and it all made such beautiful and perfect sense.
The gravitational forces of the sun and moon work together and against each other, creating the variations in tide height during the various phases of the moon. Notice how the effects of each celestial body are magnified when they work together on the new and full moons.
Moon Mathematics
Not every full and new moon is created equal either, the best tide charts will list numbers next to each tide timing, these are their forecasted heights. Up here in southern New England where I fish, high tides typically range between 2.8 and 4.5 feet—the 2.8 would be around quarter moon and the 4.5 would fall on the new or full moon. But sometimes we see tide heights as high as 5 feet. Low tides are usually listed between 0.8 and 0.1 this is their deviation from the average low water mark, but you will sometimes see them dropping into the negative, these periods of stronger celestial influence are called minus tides.
This is where my excitement for moon periods stems from. A higher tide excites me for two reasons, there will be more water covering any spot that I think of as a high water spot, which typically means the fish will stay in there longer (and sometimes means bigger fish will venture in as well). If we have an especially big tide, then it's quite likely that there will be a corresponding minus tide six hours later. When more water than normal is moving in and less water that normal will be left when the tide is all the way out, all that means to me is more water movement has to happen in between. More water moving means currents are running harder, more baitfish are being flushed out, translating to more opportunities for predatory fish and striped bass are going to take advantage. Harder-running currents also mean that your plug will be moving through a more tumultuous feeding zone which increases the chances that a large, wary fish will make a mistake and eat it, simply because they have less time to decide whether or not to strike.
Many surfcasters blame a bright moon for poor fishing, but targeting shadowy structure might put you back on the fish. Photo by @moronesaxatilus
If 6 Was 9
Luckily for us, the tide levels run on a curve, not unlike an ocean wave. So we don't only get one day of increased tidal activity right on the moon. I look at each moon cycle as a nine day opportunity; four days before, the day of the moon itself and four days after. These days can be roughly graded by their proximity to the biggest tide of the cycle. But don't fall too hard for grading each of these nine days for their 'on paper' potential. Each of these nine days has a higher probability than the five on either end, instead grade them by the forecast or just fish them all!
It's not uncommon to hear surfcasters talking about 'tide windows', these are segments within a tide cycle when certain locations are more likely to produce fish. There are many factors that contribute to these windows and I have spots that produce their best results at all different stages and on the ebb and flood. I say this because many novice casters assume that their spots are going to fish best around tide changes, but this is not always the case. There are ways to read a spot and make educated guesses, but if you want to actually know the facts about a given location, you have to fish it hard over a period of years.
Some spots require a high moon tide because they are shallow and expansive and a higher tide basically 'opens the gate' giving fish the comfort to enter a spot that might otherwise be too shallow. Another reason a high moon tide might be the correct timing is that weaker tides don't move hard enough to set up a rip that attracts fish for a few nights in each tide cycle. But not all shallow spots fish best at high tide, sometimes you need that tide to come down enough that the longshore current is going to be squeezed through that shallow zone, setting up a two hour opportunity before the tide empties out and pushes the fish beyond casting range. But even the bottom portions of a minus tide have their positives, maybe providing access to a hole or reef that you can't reach at other times, or a bottomed out tide may force fish to 'spill off' into the deepest spots making them easier to target. Many anglers exploit this phenomenon on sand beaches with pronounced bars and troughs—lower tides make it easier to discern where the fish are most likely to be.
I always find that I have my best success when I apply logic to the way I fish and how I choose where to fish. Logic requires something we can rely on to make baseline decisions, and the moons and tides are really the only reliable variables in striped bass fishing. If you can get yourself to think of the tides as water depth as well as water movement, you'll be making huge steps in the right direction. Layer in the strength and power of the moons and you'll leave your former self in the dust.
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He was the creator of The Illuminati, a political party aimed at uniting apathetic citizens. The party hosted party members including Benn Dover, Dishmcds, and Korbin King over time. He helped to draft an early version of the U.S. Constitution. He also ran for the presidency.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were there.
HUMAN EVENTS (H/T Rob E) A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, "vote Brown all the way down." Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.
Another source who also wishes to remain anonymous has seen Democrat interpreters show the non-English speaking Somalis how to vote the Democrat slate that they were handed outside. According to this second source, there are not any Republican Somali interpreters available.
The logical follow-up question is whether a non-English speaking person is an American citizen. Although Republican leadership in Ohio passed a voting reform law, it was repealed by the legislature itself after the Democrats threatened a referendum. According to the Ohio Secretary of State's web site, someone wanting to vote early in Ohio must supply one of the following in writing on the absentee ballot form, whether voting early by mail or in person: an Ohio driver's license number; the last four digits of the social security number; or a copy of a current and valid photo identification, military identification, or a current — within the last 12 months — utility bill, including cell phone bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the person's name and address in addition to the voter registration acknowledgement.
The voter is not required to show the driver's license or social security card, but must merely write it on the absentee ballot request form. While the individual would be required to show a utility bill, bank statement or other printed document if he or she chooses that option, this is in lieu of writing the driver's license or social security number. Therefore, the information cannot be checked against the Bureau of Motor Vehicles or other state databases.
Essentially, a person is asked to check a box stating that they are a citizen, and the poll worker is to trust that they are the person who is listed on the item being shown or the information being written. In other words, someone can be an illegal resident of the state of Ohio and the United States, get an apartment, turn on the heat, bring in the Columbia Gas bill, register to vote by the deadline, and vote by showing that same bill. There is then no verification that this individual is a citizen of the United States.


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This engine has TEC-3r engine management, PMO throttle body kit, our newley updated 2.0-3.3 serpentine fan belt kit and many other goodies.
After my first race weekend at Laguna Seca in a real race car, I still have a car to drive next weekend!
On Saturday basically I stayed in the same position; none gained and none lost. After qualifying at a lousy 1:50.3, I had a better best lap time than the car ahead of me with 1:48.175. The shocks were a little too stiff. So I turned the bounce setting down for the Sunday race.
On Sunday I know that I was hitting the apexes better. I qualified much better with a best lap of 1:47.414. On the second lap of the race I skidded off in the entry to lap 9 and into the gravel trap. I steered into the skid, but only enough to stop the rotation. When the car settled down, I was still moving downhill; so I kept the car moving toward the track. I got out of the gravel, but the damage was done. I had flat spotted the tires. After that I wasn't able to keep race speed. So I pulled in after only 3 laps for a DNF for my second race. Well, the car's still in one piece and with a change of tires I'll be ready for Willow Springs this weekend.
I'd like to thank Kevin MacDonald and Dan Pacheco for getting the car ready and track support, Richard Clewett for his expertise at motor tuning, Mike Haddad for the Dyno time, and Rick Kirchner for his encouragement on the grid. It was a fun weekend. I felt that I learned how to go faster all weekend long.
Just had Deven at Hi-Tec Auto in San Rafael, Ca. install a new Dual-plug system in my car a couple of weeks ago. It replaced an old model HPV-1 from Electromotive. Ran the Porsche at Buttonwillow PCA Time Trial that weekend and just returned from a weekend at Atwater autocrossing with American AX group. The Porsche ran great all weekend.
I just wanted to let you know how impressed I am with the build quality of the Clewett spark plug wires that I received!!! They are ALMOST too pretty to use! The fit and finish is first rate. I'm using them in conjunction with an Electromotive XDi twin plug ignition kit for my 1987 Porsche 930. I've had Magnecors before, but I prefer these. They seem to have a better fit (a positive "click") on the plug end than my Magnecors did. I'll also mention how beautifully machined the crank pulley and mag sensor bracket are!!! Many thanks for supporting these cars with such high quality parts and service!!!!
Just wanted to share my excitement with you. Had an AX in San Diego Sunday. I race in an index class there. Basically, there's a nationally developed index called "PAX" (I have no idea what it stands for) where they've pretty well figured out how one car/class would do against another (it presumes the best driver in the country racing the best prepped car in that class).
Anyway, this PAX class in S.D. is where the best drivers compete. A rough counting of Sunday's field of 17 (out of 204 all together) had 5 National champs (some multiple), 5-7 more Nationals trophy winners, and included the not-so-arguably #1 or #2 driver in SoCal, Tom Berry, who finished 2nd on Sunday; I finished 1st! The field was tightly bunched behind me (as it always is) but I was 0.6 sec. clear of the field (on a 58 sec. course).
Thanks again for all the help (the throttle cable works great now!) in making the car run!
The Nissan worked fine. I modified your starting MAP slightly in the beginning, did three data logging runs down the street (literally) and raced it. Two slight changes at the track and no one in class could touch it. It made much more power across the range and a lot more down lower than ever before. Had an obnoxious hesitation at 5000 after floating the throttle into/thru a corner and then getting back on it hard. Other than that, it used less than half the fuel it used before and ran better than ever before. Looking forward to dialing it in this Summer.
Thanks greatly for the help. This performance may entice others to go this way, more business for you and me.
We send our condolences to Bryan's family and friends in his passing. I'm sure St Peter will enjoy working with Bryan as much as we did.
These are the cars that Bryan Doughty and I have been working on for years. It has a 1.8 liter turbo charged VW water-cooled 16valve engine with TEC-3. The 510 is still running great.


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Nigerian Celebrities With The Nicest/Most Expensive Houses
The Nigerian entertainment industry has grown and become highly profitable as we can see in the net worth of Nigerian musicians, actors, actresses, and many others in several sectors of the industry.
Celebrities now not only wear expensive designer clothes and drive flashy cars, but they now own houses in some of the most expensive areas in the country and they are neighbors to big business moguls in Nigeria.
Here are the top Nigerian celebrities with the most expensive houses in Nigeria.
(1) Davido
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It is no surprise to find Davido on the number one spot on the list as he is the richest Nigerian musician.
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The DMW boss who owns a multi-million dollar house in Lekki where he was previously residing stepped up his game in May 2020 after he acquired a new house in Banana Island, Lagos state, a place where many Nigerians refer to as a Billionaire paradise.
The house is said to be worth $1.5 million, approximately 5 billion Naira which makes him the Nigerian Celebrity with the most expensive house in the country. According to a Tweet by the singer, he was able to acquire the mansion from the revenue his hit song 'Fall' generated.
Here are some videos and photos of Davido's house in Banana Island.
(2) Mr P
Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr P holds on the number 2 spot on the list of celebrities with the most expensive houses in Nigeria.
The singer & entrepreneur who was a member of the defunct P-Square group collectively owned a mansion known as Square Ville with his brothers while they were still together.
The house was reportedly put up for sale but Mr. P still owns a home in Banana Island, a place where the likes of Dangote, Mike Adenuga, and many other wealthy Nigerians reside.
Here are photos & videos of Mr P's house in Banana Island.
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(3) Rudeboy
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Paul Okoye who is well known as Rudeboy follows up his brother, Mr P on the list of Nigerian celebrities with the nicest/most expensive houses.
The 'Reason With Me' crooner's house in Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, is so big that it can accommodate not just his family alone but probably serve as a building too for another institution like a hospital, school, or so.
Here are some images of his house.
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(4) Linda Ikeji
Nigeria's most influential blogger, Linda Ikeji, with her luxurious mansion in Banana Island holds a spot in the list of Nigerian celebrities with the most expensive houses.
The mother of one bought the house in 2015 for the sum of N450 million from money generated from her blog.
See photos of her mansion below.
(5) Timaya
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In an industry as highly competitive and financially rewarding as the Nigerian music industry, Timaya has been able to remain relevant and be on top of the game for over a decade and that has also reflected in his lifestyle as the ordinary boy from Port Harcourt has amassed so much wealth and now live the type of life we see only on TV.
He is currently the 7th richest Nigerian musician with a net worth of over 3 billion Naira. Timaya owns a mansion in Lekki which he purchased in 2018 for a whooping sum of N500 million.
Here are some photos and videos if the house.
(6) D'banj
With his numerous ambassadorial deals and hit songs, the DB Record boss can comfortably acquire a mansion in his choice location in Nigeria and he has done just that after acquiring a 3 billion Naira worth house in Ikoyi.
See photos of the singer's Ikoyi house below.
(7) E-Money
The Five Star Music record label boss and serial entrepreneur who is well known for his admirable and luxury lifestyle online snagged a spot on our list of celebrities with the most-expensive/luxurious houses.
Emeka Okonkwo who is well known as E-Money owns a house in his hometown Uli, Anambra State, and also owns a 600 million Naira mansion in Omole Estate, Ikeja, and another in Lekki.
The house uses a theme of gold and white principally. See photos of E Money's house below.
(8) Don Jazzy
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The Mavin Record boss, award-winning music producer, singer, and songwriter who owns one of the biggest record labels in Nigeria and holds the 2nd position on the list of richest Nigerian musician also has one of the nicest houses amongst his peers.
Micheal Collins Ajereh who is well known as Don Jazzy is a proud owner of a 160 million Naira worth house in Lekki and also owns a house in Banana Island.
Don Jazzy hardly shares his private life online so there aren't many photos of his house.
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Q: Dataframe sort future warning - trying to sort by sort_values() I have a dataframe called OutputDf that looks like:
            Date  Last Price           Type
1928  02/07/2010        0.00  missing value
1952  31/05/2010         NaN  missing value
1972  03/05/2010         NaN  missing value
2048  13/01/2010        0.00  missing value
659   10/06/2015      402.70        outlier
1020  13/01/2014      471.15        outlier
1309  23/11/2012      492.14        outlier
1698  26/05/2011      404.99        outlier
2057  30/12/2009      476.86        outlier

I am sorting the dataframe by the Date field using:
OutputDf = OutputDf.ix[pd.to_datetime(OutputDf.Date).order().index]

However I am getting future warning:
FutureWarning: order is deprecated, use sort_values(...)

I have tried to change to using sort_values() as suggested by implementing:
OutputDf = OutputDf.sort_values("Date", ascending = True,
                 inplace = True)

but I get None returned.
The desired output will be sorted by date (ascending) and would look like:
              Date  Last Price            Type
2057    30/12/2009      476.86         outlier
2048    13/01/2010           0  missing values
1972    03/05/2010         NaN  missing values
1952    31/05/2010         NaN  missing values
1928    02/07/2010           0  missing values
1698    26/05/2011      404.99         outlier
1309    23/11/2012      492.14         outlier
1020    13/01/2014      471.15         outlier
659     10/06/2015       402.7         outlier

How can I implement sort_values correctly?

A: Your problem is here:
OutputDf = OutputDf.sort_values("Date", ascending = True,
             inplace = True)

When you're setting the parameter inplace=True, it's making the changes on the actual object that's calling the function, and it returns None.
So basically what you're doing is, you're sorting your dataframe, and then initializing the return value of None back to itself.
You can fix this by removing inplace=True


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