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In March 2016, workers for one of the nation's largest natural gas pipeline companies cut down a large swath of maple trees in Susquehanna County–a rural patch of northeastern Pennsylvania. A video shot by an activist shows the trees crashing down as chainsaws buzz.
Cathy Holleran was powerless to stop it. At the time, she was tapping the trees for her family's maple syrup business, but the pipeline company condemned her land using the power of eminent domain.
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Driving around a year-and-a half later, she's still in disbelief. A court order had prevented her from interfering, and law enforcement officers came to protect the pipeline workers.
"We had to stay completely away. They brought armed U.S. Marshals with assault rifles and Pennsylvania State Police, and had guys walking all over property in bullet proof vests," Holleran recalls. "I mean, really! We're making syrup. What are we going to do? Are we going to go attack these guys?"
Walking through her property on a recent soggy September afternoon, Holleran finds tree stumps hidden beneath shoulder-high weeds.
"This used to all be woods– as thick as that," she says, gesturing to a cluster of remaining trees.
By her count, she lost more than 550 maples, "I went through with my camera and took pictures from every angle and counted them by hand to make sure I was accurate."
She says her family's maple syrup business has been cut in half. But the real shame of it all, Holleran adds, is this may all have been for nothing.


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A loving father inadvertently leaves his toddler son in a pickup truck during a typically scorching Florida summer's day. The child dies.
His father will undoubtedly face a lifetime of questions about what some may call an incomprehensible act of inattention and carelessness. He may be judged by his family and ultimately by his own conscience.
But should he be judged in a court of law?
READ MORE: Baby dies after being left in hot car in Hialeah
The death Friday of a 23-month-old boy left in a sweltering truck by his father, a Hillsborough County firefighter, and the decision to criminally charge the dad, sets up a potentially divisive court case that will examine whether the father's act rises to a level of actual negligence and not just a tragic accident.
The father, Troy Whitaker, 41, was charged with aggravated manslaughter late Friday in the death of his son, Lawson, after the Pinellas County sheriff said he left the boy in the family's Chevrolet Silverado for about eight hours after dropping off his 5-year-old daughter at school. The boy's body temperature reached 108 degrees.
READ MORE: Miami mom who left tot to die in hot car headed to rehab
Whitaker left jail early Saturday on $50,000 bail. When TV reporters asked if he had anything to say, Whitaker said, "Are you kidding me?"
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said there was no evidence the father deliberately left Lawson in the truck.
"This is one of the toughest of all circumstances because of what it involves," Gualtieri said. "It involves a father who left his kid in the car for eight hours with no explanation."
Even so, the sheriff said, in the eyes of the law, the situation amounts to criminal neglect.
But that call was already drawing fire Saturday as friends and neighbors questioned how a loving father and public servant could face prison when he already faces the unfathomable burden of having caused his son's death. A GoFundMe page had been set up late Saturday afternoon to help Whitaker with legal fees and collected nearly $3,000 after just two hours.
"Despite the credibility of being a public servant who gladly risks his life every time the tones go off, the Sheriff ... felt it appropriate to have Troy taken into custody and criminally charged," an introduction on the page said. "Nothing could be a greater reach."
Lawson Whitaker is the 29th child to have died of heat-related causes from being left inside vehicles in 2016, according to the website noheatstroke.org.
Whether a parent or someone else is charged at all in the death of a child left in a hot car is highly variable, even in Florida. Some law enforcement agencies have treated similar cases as tragic accidents that do not warrant charges. In a 2009 report, the Washington Post said 40 percent of all cases lead to no criminal charges.
In July, Florida prosecutors decided against charging a Deltona middle school teacher in the death of her cousin, who she left in the back of a sports utility vehicle. Though prosecutors said in a memorandum that the case "was both tragic and avoidable," they decided against charges because the woman had not acted recklessly.
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Most of my publications on Ktunaxa employ the older name Kutenai. The language and people are now normally called Ktunaxa.
Dryer, Matthew S. 2007. Kutenai, Algonquian, and the Pacific Northwest from an areal perspective. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Algonquian Conference, edited by H. C. Wolfart, pp. 155-206. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 2002. A Comparison of Preverbs in Kutenai and Algonquian. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Algonquian Conference, edited by David Pentland, pp. 63-94. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. DOWNLOAD [The downloadable version differs in pagination and possibly other minor details from the published version]
Dryer, Matthew S. 2001 (unpublished). Notes on Demonstratives in Kutenai.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 2004 (unpublished). Kutenai imperatives.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1998. Obviation Across Clause Boundaries in Kutenai.Studies in Native American Linguistics IX, John Kytle, Hangyoo Khym, and Supath Kookiattikoon, eds. University of Kansas Working Papers 22 : 2: 33 - 51.DOWNLOAD [The version downloadable here is different in pagination and possibly other minor details from the published version]
Dryer, Matthew S. 1996. Grammatical Relations in Ktunaxa (Kutenai): The Belcourt Lecture Delivered Before the University of Manitoba on 24 February 1995. Voices of Rupert's Land: Winnipeg, Canada.DOWNLOAD
Dryer, Matthew S. 1994 "The Discourse Function of the Kutenai Inverse". In Voice and Inversion, edited by T. Givon, pp. 65-99. John Benjamins.DOWNLOAD
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Dear All, I'm running GAP3 under Windows 95.
Frequently GAP terminates in the middle of a
memory hungry operation with a message such as:
DPMI: not enough memory (0x01f60000 bytes).
My PC has 32 MB of RAM, and 1f60000 is
31,850,496 in decimal. Is this indeed a problem
with my RAM? I thought that if a programme
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Harper is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 114 at the 2010 census.
|Harper, Iowa
Location of Harper, Iowa
Harper's longitude and latitude coordinates
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Final Year Project
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Inspired by a verse from the Quran
"...your wives are garment to you, and you are garment to them" (2:187)
I actually did this for a competition. Didn't even make it to the finalist. Haha. NO! The guy are not some Navi people from avatar. It was supposed to be black or gray, or black and white. But it didn't look good that way. So I decide to use blue instead.
You know, sometimes I wonder why a lot of artists always do stuff that hard for the people to interpret. And even if they did, it's quite hard to get it right because at the end of the day, who the fuck know what the artist was thinking. And I always wonder why the artist never put any effort to reveal it. Since I start this blog, I realize why.
Most of the time, we do art based on emotion, based on what we feel, sometimes about things that we wanna scream about, yet we just couldn't. Sometimes revealing the meaning of one artwork is like revealing the artist himself and sometimes it gets too personal. A portfolio is like a diary, though it's not always the case. Yup, I found really hard for me to talk about every single thing. Too public. :P
Yes this was inspired by the verse mention above, and it is about that. But there's more meaning to it. Remember people, any complicated and intense artwork hardly goes without meanings.
hari tu kater nak tulis pasal vocab, sampai la tak buat. -___-"
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This is my very first facebook art, I guess. I'm not sure what people call it. But I did this specifically for my time line on facebook. Tried my best to match my profile picture with the cover picture, haha (but I already change my profile picture by now). Not a serious work really. If you look closely, few of the lines are not black in colour. That's because I used coloured pens. Quite disappointed with how it appear on the screen after I scan it and I tried to fix it with photoshop, but it was too much work and I was in a rush to finish it. So I just leave it like that. Basically I used coloured pen to differentiate the subjects. Once the I put too much lines, the thing gets too complicated and it's gonna be hard to tell apart the subjects. So yeah, fish is one of my favourite subjects.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Character Design
Character Design!!! YAY!!!! I should have more of them! I really should! And I should have colored all of them!!! aaarrrggghhhaslkddgkdflhkjsafjhsadgaklejgahsdhgkil!!!
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Drawing with emotion
These are not the only drawings that I've drawn base on emotion. I have more, but most of them are a little bit too personal. HAHA. haaaiiihhh.... so these are the only few that I can publish to the public. uurrgghhh... This is so hard for me.
|I couldn't remember why, but I was in a lot of pain. haha. Something went wrong I guess and I couldn't take it. I'm not sure! I just couldn't remember.
|Stress doing my assignment. duuuh
|aaarrrrghhhh!! kantoi penah heart broken!! askjasgjklasdgdfuck!
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I believe, each and every person that like to draw at some point in their life will end up drawing their own avatar. Yup. These are mine. All of them. Obviously were drawn at different time.
|to tell you the truth, this
I drawn in front of a
mirror. Yup, dont look a
damn like me.
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viniciusvancouver posted a topic in General DiscussionHi , first of all i am new to evolve, when i decided to open the shortcut window inside help, I noticed evolve detects letters on the keyboard but not buttons on the mouse. How can i add shortcut using left mouse button ? this is so weird. :(( this is so important to me in order to keep moving, anyone can help ? I click with left mouse and nothing happens. when i try using my wacom pen, I cant assign middle mouse button functions either. I also see in grey that the left mouse button is already being used and it seems i cant change ? why ? when i learn a new software i dont want to start from ground zero learning to walk again, why can i just assign commands ?? i am doing something wrong ?? thank you v.
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We've seen no shortage of big blowers this year. Indeed, around 5 inches has quickly become the standard size for a flagship phone.
Even Apple is said to be going big for the iPhone 6. But there's still plenty of interest at the smaller end of the market.
Until recently, companies' 'mini me' handsets were poor relations to their flagship models.
Then Sony launched the Xperia Z1 Compact, which crammed in almost the same specs as the full-size Z1, and everyone sat up and took notice.
Suddenly mini mobiles weren't pale imitations of the 'proper' size ones.
Instead, they could be decent phones in their own right, and could be used with one hand to boot. After all, not everyone wants a massive mobile.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is the latest device to get the shrink-ray treatment, and the result is this, the Galaxy S5 Mini.
Like the HTC One Mini 2, it boasts an impressive spec list and similar build quality to its bigger brother. But is it worth considering?
First impressions and design
As we say, the S5 Mini has the same design as the S5. But that's not entirely a good thing.
The back is the same tacky perforated plastic we derided on the S5. It feels cheap enough when it's on, but take it off and you'll see how flimsy it is.
We wouldn't expect this from a phone costing £100, let alone one costing nearly four times that.
It's so flimsy you can feel it vibrate when playing something through the speaker.
It's not a massive issue, but it's a bit annoying. And it's hard to imagine Apple or HTC making the same mistake.
The design isn't all bad though. 4.5 inches is a much more manageable size than the S5's 5.1 inches.
We could reach the top left portion of the screen with our thumb without too much of a stretch, for example.
It also retains the S5's IP67 rating, which means it's waterproof and dustproof.
And unlike the S5, it doesn't need a flap to cover the miniUSB port. So that's progress.
It has the same fingerprint sensor and heart rate monitor as the S5, and comes in the same four colours: black, white, gold and blue.
Android KitKat comes as standard, which is par for the course nowadays, even for budget blowers.
On top of that, you get Samsung's TouchWiz UI, which we're still not sold on. It's less intrusive than previous incarnations, but still looks a bit cheap.
Thankfully, the S5 Mini comes preloaded with less bloatware than previous Samsung Galaxy handsets.
Some of the features are actually quite useful too. Such as Ultra Power Saving Mode, which saves power while still giving you access to basic features.
Samsung is going in the right direction with TouchWiz, but it's still a lot more unsightly and bloated than pure Android.
The S5 Mini certainly isn't short of features.
It has the same heart rate monitor and fingerprint sensor as the S5, and also works with Samsung's smartwatches, so you can use certain functions from your timepiece without taking out your phone.
There's the aforementioned Ultra Power Saving Mode, as well as Samsung's own roster of apps like S Health, S Planner and S Voice.
Admittedly the spec sheet is less impressive than the S5. Inside is a 1.4GHz quad-core chip, compared to the S5's monster 2.5GHz.
It also has 1.5GB of RAM, compared to the S5's 2GB.
But the real question is how does this impact on performance?
We're happy to report you won't notice a massive difference between the S5 Mini and S5 in terms of performance.
It whips through menus as fast as you could want, and handles basic tasks like web surfing and emailing with ease.
All the games we tried ran without a hitch too.
While not the most graphically demanding title around, Swing Copters was just as fiendishly difficult as we'd been led to believe, while Shadow Fight 2 ran smoothly with no let up in the punching and kicking action.
While only 4.5 inches large, the screen is an absolute beaut.
Its 1,280x720-pixel resolution is a step down from the S5's, but at this size, it gives it a pixel per inch count of 326ppi, which is on a par with the iPhone 5S's retina display. (And let's not forget it's half an inch bigger.) Which is certainly not to be sniffed at.
Colours are vivid and bright, and it has nice wide viewing angles too.
Sure, it's not a patch on the LG G3's 4K effort, but then what is?
OK, you can find the same screen size and resolution on the Motorola Moto G, which costs a lot less than the Galaxy S5 Mini.
But for our money, the S5 Mini's display has richer, more vivid colours.
The eight-megapixel camera does a good job, but it's no match for the S5's 16-megapixel jobby.
Snaps have less detail, the difference between light and dark is less stark, and it can't shoot in 4K video.
Nevertheless, it's fine for everyday snaps, and puts the likes of the Moto G and Nexus 5 to shame.
The fingerprint sensor and heart rate monitor are also a bit gimmicky, as on the S5. The fingerprint scanner is very hit and miss, and the heart rate sensor isn't as accurate as some rivals.
Finally, battery life isn't bad at all. In our time testing it, it lasted more than a full day on more than one occasion, which is more than a lot of handsets.
If you like the S5 but want something smaller, chances are you'll love the S5 Mini. But it's not without its faults.
There are plenty of compromises, its build quality isn't going to win any awards, and some features still feel a bit 'me too'.
But it's a decent handset, and worth a look. We'd say the Xperia Z1 Compact is still king of the small smarties though, especially now it's getting on a bit, and the price is coming down.
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Basic First Aid with Barn Manager, Megan Piermarini: Especially recommended for barn coordinators or those who are interested in generally increasing their knowledge of horses. Learn the basic signs of a healthy horse and when to call the vet, as well as general wound care and common illnesses. Megan will be offering this clinic on Thursday Feb. 7, Thursday Feb. 14, Thursday Feb. 21, and Thursday Feb. 28 from 11:00am to noon each day. (Minimum of 3, maximum of 5 participants per training due to hands on nature of this clinic. $25 per participant.)
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Games on the Ground with Horses: Want to increase your knowledge of horsemanship in a new fun way? Join Joyce Copland, Instructor, for an hour of play with our very own Windrush horses! Learn how you can use non-verbal cues to improve your communication with horses through a series of games for you and a Windrush horse. Come gain a whole new perspective on the possibilities of interacting with horses! This clinic is being held on Tuesday February 19th from 10:45am to 11:45am, and a second time from 1-2pm. (Minimum of 3 participants, maximum of 5 participants due to hands on nature of this clinic. $25 per participant.)
Free volunteer training on horse-handling and side-walking — open to past and current volunteers (no horse experience necessary!): Want to brush up on your horse-handling skills or take a first try at horse-handling? Have questions about side-walking that you would like answered? Join Gina Armano, Volunteer Coordinator, for this free volunteer continuing education refresher course on Wednesday Feb. 20th from 9:30am-10:30am. This is also a great lead-in to the Ins and Out of Turn-out clinic the same day at 11:00am. (Minimum of 3 participants.)
The Ins and Outs of Turnout: Learn more about turnout, not just how to handle the horse, but also about turnout safety and herd dynamics. You will have an opportunity to help with turnout during this class, as well as learn much more about managing turnout on a 40 acre farm with 25 horses. Workshop is taught by Jessica Barry, who is a Volunteer Coordinator and a Weekend Supervisor at Windrush Farm. This clinic is being held on Wednesday Feb. 20th from 11:00am to noon. (Minimum of 3 participants per training, maximum of 8 participants. $25 per participant.)
Lunging and Long-lining with Mandy Hogan: Learn how to ground drive a horse using long lines! Long lining is an excellent method for training horses, helping to improve their flexibility and conditioning. It allows the horse to learn without a rider, and gives a rider the opportunity to develop a feel for the horse from the ground. Historically, many hippotherapy programs use long lining as an alternative method of leading a horse. You will improve your horse handling skills and learn more about horse training. This workshop is taught by Mandy Hogan, executive director and master therapeutic riding instructor. This clinic is being held on Friday Feb. 22nd from 11:00am to noon. (Minimum of 3 participants per training, maximum of 5 participants. $25 per participant.)


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THE CULTURE OF DISBELIEF: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. By Stephen L. Carter. Basic Books. 328 pages. $25.
JUST published in September, "The Culture of Disbelief," a study of religion in America by Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, has already become one of those books discussed at dinner parties by people who haven't read them.
Mr. Carter has been interviewed at length on "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour," his ideas have been debated by political columnists and his book even garnered a recommendation from President Clinton at a recent prayer breakfast.


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H2-Receptor Antagonists Market - Growth, Size, Share, Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis 2018
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There is something new brewing this full moon! This is a time of discovering something new about how you survive, and in turn, your identify in the world. A total 180* of sorts and it benefits you.
The old patterns are getting destroyed. There is no need for running, hiding, or being a robot just to get by safely in this life.
This full moon is shedding a light on creativity as a new form of survival. How do you want to break to mold? How do you want to create in this world? How will you make your life like poetry and a great piece of art?
You are reconstructing the ideals of your life and who you are - with creativity! You are also learning that creativity and destruction are one and the same. That is huge!
New plans, lessons, and experiences are on the horizon.
Sure, the comets of hell may have recently descended but - you see - you are so safe. You are further away from that world than you imagine. The voice telling you otherwise won't last long....
The switch to creativity is becoming more prominent. It is a switch at a survival level that makes such a powerful impact. Trust, your mind will catch up as you show it what you can do.
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When Bob Medlock of West Palm Beach was a Marine sergeant, he frequently was in the position of ordering the 50 men in his command to clean the barracks. After a white-gloves test, he jokingly would tell the men, ``You guys get out of the Corps, you can start a cleaning service.``
``Lo and behold, I started my own cleaning service,`` Medlock said. Medlock, 35, left a job as a state trooper in April and started Bob`s Cleaning Service.
So far, the young company has obtained contracts from the city of Riviera Beach and a construction firm and nursing agency in West Palm Beach. But Medlock hopes to land a few more contracts through the Florida Regional Minority Purchasing Council.
The council, a non-profit group that aims at introducing minority business suppliers to purchasers, is seeking to expand its presence from Dade County to Broward and Palm Beach counties and to make up for some lost sources of federal funding.
The Florida Regional Minority Purchasing Council, a dozen years old, holds trade fairs, keeps reference files on minority suppliers and tries to let firms know when contracts are being put out to bid.
The council has 244 South Florida minority vendors registered as suppliers and 45 corporate members, including companies such as Florida Power & Light, IBM, Southern Bell and Burdines.
In October, it held its first ``Matchmaker Day`` in Broward County, and it hopes to make the trade fair an annual event. It holds 12-week sales training seminars for business people who want to learn more about bidding for and obtaining bigger contracts. It also holds a national trade fair each year in Miami.
In 1984, its efforts generated $11 million in business for its vendors; in 1985, $24 million; and this year, about $30 million, Foster said.


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What are the German Shepherd and Huskies?
A German shepherd is a very famous breed of dogs but when it comes to Siberian husky breeds they are same as a German shepherd, a German shepherd are recognized with their sensitivity and huskies are known for beauty with a wolf.
German shepherd dogs have aggressive attitude whenever you look at them you will always see ear up, that's the first sign of German shepherd being active, but looking at the Siberian huskies you may not be able to find the difference between these two breeds.
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What is a Shepherd Mix Dog?
German shepherd were recognized with their best abilities good performance by captain-max in the 1890s after that this breed was introduced further in army/police, as the time passed Huskies also came into being, all pet lovers decided to mix these two breeds by letting these breeds to meet each other, from that day German shepherd and Huskies were mixed.
Before that, you should know about huskies and German shepherd.
Siberian Huskies:
This breed is originated from Siberia it is well known of its beauty and multi-colored eyes, with thick coat breed, becomes charming and heart touching this breed looks similar to wolfs, for some time when Siberian Huskies were used to understood as a wolf but as the time pass with incredible sensitivity Siberians Huskies steal the hearts of pet keeper.
You may have so many breeds with different shapes, styles, skin, colors, eyes, weight, height, but this breed is unique from all in Siberian Huskies these all qualities are included and their sensitivity level is more than normal dogs,
Affectionate with family:
This also makes Siberian husky to attract towards the human because of every dog keeper very aware of dog breeds that which is affectionate towards family and which is not but Siberian totally loves his/her owner and even whole family, this what we call? A bond between owner and dog.
Friendly with children:
Going gently with children this is what which makes huskies polite and intelligent we have assumed that there are some dogs that they do not behave well with children this is why children also like to play with huskies and children too much force their elders to buy Huskies.
How Smart is a German shepherd Dog?
There are so many breeds of dogs are available in the worlds but police and army mostly prefer this breed, you might be thinking why? There is a reason behind this.
From its look you will also notice this breed as something to adopt that's his erect ears and dark, with intelligent eyes he has obtained legendary status, this breed is also well skilled, powerful and fearless working dog.
If German shepherd is used in police/army its job always remained good in every job like detecting illegal drugs and weapon and bringing down escaped criminals with huge amount of energy this breed can be loyal and devoted for their companion.
That's why this breed is also identified as herding dog, search, and rescue, detector dog, guide, and assistance dog, these all abilities helps military men in every field where a common human may not be able to do anything.
It takes sometimes to train German shepherd it's up to you, how you want to train your shepherd then you can use it according to your purpose its protective and loving animal for tycoon family this breed would be good enough, for thieves are so many other problems.
Best Qualities of German Shepherd:
German shepherd needs active person which can handle him all the time this is because shepherd is made for actions that's why people call it he is a dog of action.
If you let your German shepherd live alone, he/she will become totally lazy, and you may not be able to train him very well.
Why do people call German shepherd and husky Gerberian Shepsky?
As you are well known for husky and shepherd what are they and what are the qualities of these breeds these all are included in shepsky.
As we know that German and husky looks similar to each other by physically not mentally for that some pet lovers decided to merge them by exchange the pairs like the bitch of a German shepherd with Siberian husky dog/bitch of the Siberian husky with German shepherd dog.
According to some medical experts, this was recognized that exchanging the partners brings the difference between any breeds of dog, this makes perfect and intelligent both breeds.
Changes in Gerberian Shepsky:
When the cross is made between shepherd and husky their grow well and become medium sized dog their height increase up to 20 to 25 inches and average weight becomes 45 to 87 lbs. but it depends on you how much take care of your dog, according to care their weight increases.
This mix brings changes in color light brown, gray, blue, red, golden shades.
Makes straight fur and double coat this can be short or long even dense some people say that their lifespan is not more than 13 years, but it depends on your care and how much you are close to him.
Dual colored eyes makes them charming and aggressive when it is mix of two breeds of dog.
These all changes make your family and friends happy and this type of mixture brings beauty in pets that's why most of the families are attracted towards German shepherd, Siberian Huskies or cross of these two breeds.


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Air pollution has been a long-standing issue in Hong Kong and will remain one of our biggest sustainability challenges in the years to come. We all breathe, rich or poor, young or old, and Hong Kong people deserve clean and safe air. Unfortunately, poor air quality has been undermining people's health, causing premature deaths, and imposing direct and indirect costs on society.
Civic Exchange is dedicated to research and engagement, with the goal of influencing government policy on air quality. Over the years, we have conducted numerous local and regional research studies on topics such as emissions inventories, health impact assessments, health risk communication, international practices, regional air quality management models, and emission reduction strategies. We also regularly engage with key stakeholders, such as the business sector and university partners, to exchange knowledge, advance policy discussions and plan further actions.
Air Pollution and Health Studies in China: A literature Review
The objectives of this review are: to identify the nature and types of studies on air pollution and health in Greater China, excluding Taiwan, including publications in both local and international journals on medicine and health.
A Price Too High: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Southern China
This report provides groundbreaking new insights into the regional air pollution discussion and fills in key knowledge gaps – with the aim of informing the public, business, and government about the true scale of the problem.
Lessons for Hong Kong: Air Quality Management in London and Los Angeles
The report looks at the air quality management of London an Los Angeles.
Idling Engine: Hong Kong's Environmental Policy in a Ten-Year Stall (1997-2007)
This book provides a thorough critique of Hong Kong's problematic environmental policy since 1997.
Still Holding Our Breath: A Review of Air Quality Policy in Hong Kong, 1997 – 2007
This book examines Hong Kong's air quality policy in the ten years since 1997. Despite some progress, regulation is often either inadequate and set goals, even when met, do not meaningfully address the most important issues.
Relative Significance of Local vs. Regional Sources: Hong Kong's Air Pollution
Study on relative significance of local and regional air pollution sources in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: Vehicle-Related Air Pollution
Reprint with permission by Ir Iain Seymour-Hart, head of Department of Automotive Engineering, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education.
An Air Management Plan for Hong Kong
The government has an opportunity to end decades of pollution, dangerous air and filthy skies, leaving a legacy of healthier, cleaner air. Reducing pollution must become a central part of the government's policies that are within an on overall sustainable development context.
Hong Kong's Air Quality
This report shows the different sources and factors of air pollution in Hong Kong.
'Measuring' the Tamar-Central Controversy
This report shows the total size and use of the government proposed Tamar-Central side, as calculated by the author.


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InsideView adds prospecting, engagement tools with Insight Enterprise for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and CRM
published April 25, 2017
Sales productivity and intelligence vendor InsideView has launched a new offering for the Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM space, Insights Enterprise. The offering builds on Insights for Dynamics 365, the embedded solution that has been available since about 2012.
Insights Enterprise adds new features that include:
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Lei Lei
Aritist / Filmmaker,
In 2009 He got a master's degree from Tsinghua University.
In 2010, his film < This is LOVE> was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film < Recycled > was selected by Annecy festival and was the Winner Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival.
In 2014 he is the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival. and he was the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant.


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In the crazy competitive world of real estate, you need to be sure you're accessing the best resources out there to stay ahead of the game.
In this post, you will learn specific websites and resources to visit, as well as more general ways to educate yourself and streamline your real estate business.
1. The Digital World
Here's some serious industry news: 80% of all homebuyers are looking for their dream homes online.
Especially first-time homebuyers and younger buyers are taking their searches to the Internet. Connect with them by getting active on social media and creating a website that's accessible on both mobile and desktop browsers.
Also, using a cloud-based system is a huge resource for real estate agents. This will allow you to save your records and files, and pull up documents no matter where you are – like in a lunch meeting with a potential client!
Also, use digital transaction management to make the billing and contract processes go faster.
2. Hardbacks and Paperbacks
There are tons of Real Estate Blogs and Resources out there, but don't forget about the old fashioned book!
Even better, reading up can help you to refine a specific part of the real estate biz that you've always struggled with.
Check out our Real Estate Reading List 101:
- Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Agent
- Dirk Zeller's Your First Year In Real Estate
- Jennifer Allan's Sell With Soul
- Brendon DeSimone's Next Generation Real Estate
3. Use Better Phone Systems
You know that in the fast-paced world of real estate, anything can change on a dime. Sometimes, deals are so close that you don't even have time to wait for a phone to ring to go to voicemail.
Using systems like Slydial that let you go straight to a client's voicemail are super helpful.
If you're running late or had to cancel an appointment, you can leave a message instead of playing phone tag. Also, it's a great way to get around awkward, tense conversations.
4. Join The National Association of Realtors
If you haven't checked out Realtor.org, you're missing out! You'll get access to the housing market in real time, be able to check out local asking and sale prices, and check out industry forecasts.
It's a great resource for those that need to get all their information in one place.
5. Realty Times
If you think this site sounds a bit like a reality TV show title, you're half right.
Not only is this the ultimate resource for industry news (seriously, everyone's reading it) but it also is the home of Realty Times TV.
This is the first news-based show about real estate and home buying. It talks about mortgages and market conditions. The new channel even tours homes in both the United States and in Canada.
Watch it while you're getting ready for a showing!
Take Your Real Estate Business To The Next Level
Thanks to these five, rapid-fire resource tips, you're ready to close the deal and beat out your competitors.
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Deli Attendant (DSF) - $13/hr
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- Prior Lake, MN
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Days: TBD - based on business needs
Hiring rate or hiring range: $13.00 / hr
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Job Summary:
The purpose of this position is to contribute to membership sales and retention, to promote Deli sales and prepare simple hot and cold food, to operate the Deli equipment, to maintain cleanliness of work area and Deli equipment, to conduct weekly inventories and to provide service enhancements.
Job Duties:
- Assists in membership sales and recruits members and guests into club functions.
- Knowledgeable regarding the various functions of each department within the facility and the services or programs offered. Initiates member and guest conversations with promotional purpose.
- Ensures membership retention, repeat daily guest usage, and referrals through a high level of member and guest service delivery and response.
- Ensures friendly and courteous operation of the Deli. Operates equipment necessary for the sale of Deli items. Acts as sales person to the general public and up sells. Performs point of sale functions for change and cash sales. Completes procedures for balancing receipts to cash.
- Prepares hot and cold food according to standards and food safety and sanitation guidelines. Ensures adequate supply of food and beverages for sale.
- Monitors daily inventory of food and beverage supplies. Conducts weekly product inventories for reorders.
- Ensures the cleanliness and equipment operation of the Deli. Maintains neat, clean and organized counter and work area. Advises the Manager of any Deli/food to order. Advises the Manager of any Deli equipment that is not working properly. Monitors opening and closing procedures.
Schedule: 4pm-8pm -days vary
- Must be at least 16 years old
- Ability to pass basic math test
- C.P.R. / First Aid Certifications and Blood borne Pathogen or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment
- Basic knowledge of sanitation practices.
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Guys, did you read about DxO acquiring Nik Collection from Google? Very exciting news.
Very cool. The new version of DxO Optics Pro, now called DxO PhotoLab, implements local corrections and uses the Nik U-Point approach to auto masking:
As a beta-tester for DxO I have been able to test DxO's early implementation of this feature and I am encouraged and impressed at how the devs have incorporated it into the raw conversion workflow.
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Jokes aside, the Philippines also has its fair share of conventionally horrific elements. If you pay a visit to any of the places below, there's a good chance you'll sense/see/hear something from the world beyond. Let's take a peek at some of them, shall we?
The Manila Film Center
Location: Atang Dela Rama, CCP Complex, Pasay City
Before the Manila Film Center, the Philippines didn't have an official venue for screenings of films from around the country. Hence, then-First Lady Imelda Marcos commissioned the Film Center, which was designed by architect Froilan Hong. Unfortunately, tragedy struck.
Around 3:00 A.M. on November 17, 1981, the building's ceiling scaffolding collapsed, burying 169 workers under several layers of rubble. In spite of the accident, Mrs. Marcos insisted that the first Manila Film Festival go on. And so, the festival managed to showcase 17 movies from around the world.
But the dead workers refused to rest in their graves. In 1990, an earthquake struck Metro Manila and parts of Luzon, forcing the authorities to leave the Manila Film Center to rot. Those who visit the place reported hearing screams of anguish, and the Center eventually inspired the horror movie "Tragic Theater."
Fort Santiago
Location: Intramuros, City of Manila
Fort Santiago is best known as the place where Dr. Jose Rizal spent his final days before his execution on December 30, 1896, though it's taken countless other prisoners' lives as well. It's no surprise, then, that within the fort's walls, the dead continue to seek justice to this day.
On its own, the façade of Fort Santiago is already quite forboding. But visit it during the night, with only a few street lamps to light your way, and you'll instantly understand why the fort is such a horrific place for both the living and the dead.
Hear the screams of the tortured prisoners echoing off the walls. Listen to the shouts of their Spanish overlords telling them to shut up (or keep talking, if they have valuable secrets to tell). Keep your eyes peeled in this place, lest a shadow take a turn in a corner near you and disappear forever.
Clark Air Base Hospital
Location: Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City, Pampanga
At the height of World War II, Clark Air Base Hospital served as a refuge for wounded or dying American soldiers. That refuge would turn into a trap on December 24, 1941, when the Japanese mercilessly bombed the area, killing all who considered the place their home.
Needless to say, the souls of the bomb victims linger, perhaps still hoping that their war-induced injuries would be treated. The former hospital frightened the locals so much, that it was featured on shows like "I Wouldn't Go In There" and was named one of the most haunted places in the world by Ghost Hunters International.
If you dare visit this tragedy-worn place for yourself, know that while some spirits are harmless, others are much less receptive to visitors. People have reported objects being thrown at them by unseen forces, indicating that the former are not welcome at all. It's better to have a local or expert guide with you, so you'll stay safe while reflecting on the historical significance of this particular hospital.
Diplomat Hotel
Location: Dominican Hill, Baguio City
Considered one of the most haunted places in Baguio, the Diplomat Hotel didn't always have a fearsome reputation. In fact, it was originally a seminary-slash-vacation house for Dominican priests in the early 20th century.
But, as is usually the case for haunted dwellings in the Philippines, it became what it is now due to World War II. Refugees fleeing from Japanese soldiers hid themselves in the hotel, only to be found out and summarily executed. Today, visitors say that they can hear doors banging at night, even though the hotel doesn't have doors at all!
Ozone Disco
(Former) Location: Timog Avenue, Quezon City
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), you can no longer find this place today, as it's been demolished to make way for a branch of "GoodAh!!!," a local food chain. Still, the Ozone Disco fire remains as one of the most horrific tragedies in recent memory.
Ozone Disco was a relatively new place, opening only in 1991 under the ownership of Segio Orgaoow. Five years later, a fire broke out around 11:30 P.M. on March 18, 1996, causing the deaths of at least 162 people. To date, the Ozone Disco incident is considered the worst fire in Philippine history.
And, judging by the strength of the hauntings, the fire's victims agree. Prior to the disco's demolition, people claimed to see faint disco lights around the area, and sometimes the spirits of the dead dancing.
For now, we leave you with five of the creepiest places in the Philippines. Tomorrow, we'll cover the most haunted houses in the country, so stay tuned!


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Home » Random News , Science-Technology » Cloak Of Invisibility To Microwaves Unveiled At University Of Texas
Cloak Of Invisibility To Microwaves Unveiled At University Of Texas
The cloak, described in a new paper in the New Journal of Physics, hides objects from microwave radiation, but co-author Professor Andrea Alu is confident that "in principle, this technique could be used to cloak [visible] light."
What will they do with their creation?
The first application they're looking into doesn't involve spies or aliens. The researchers, including Alu, want to cloak the tips of microscopes so that they don't get in the way of precise measurements.
The device works because of its use of a metamaterial—man-made materials engineered to have properties not found in natural substances—that doesn't reflect light the way ordinary objects do. According to InnovationNewsDaily,
Alu's cloak works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in a way that cancels out the waves that the object reflects. "It's kind of an interference between the two...The combination of the two becomes invisible."
The paper is optimistic for the development of even more practical cloaks: the authors say "We believe that our results pave the way to realistic, practical applications of 3D stand-alone cloaks for radar evasion and non-invasive radio frequency probing."


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As summer moves on, we are eagerly preparing for another great year as Centennial Knights! Please see the information below for all our Varsity Head Coaches at Centennial. If you are interested in participating with Centennial, please reach out to the coaches below for summer programs, pre-season workouts, and schedules. *Rising 9th graders can reach


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Nomz Kitchen & Pastry is shedding its hippie vibe for a more upscale image. From the most elegant Australian food with a little touch of Asian Influence to the most fancy Indonesian food, here's how to discover your guilty pleasure. People from all ages are welcomed to this. Because they still emphasized the idea of simplicity at its best.
The chic locale of Grand Indonesia Shopping Town is leading their path into more hipster and trendy. And to escalade their game, Nomz Kitchen & Pastry has put so many good accessories within the area to create the rustic and warmth ambience. Featuring cake gallery in front of their main entrance followed by open-kitchen on side and huge dining area would be their ultimate attributes to be stand out.
If you feel so much hungry, then just go straightly with the heavy one called Pull Pork Sandwich (IDR 95K). When a very common food has been modified into more interesting and delicious. So far this burger has caught me addicted into it. It's tasty, juicy, and rich of flavour. A unique combination between ultra-juicy pulled pork with homemade Kimchi slaw is surprisingly works really well in your mouth. One of the best seller menu in Nomz Kitchen & Pastry.
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Many real-world networks contain highly connected nodes called hubs. Hubs are often crucial for network function and spreading dynamics. However, classical models of how hubs originate during network development unrealistically assume that new nodes attain information about the connectivity (for example the degree) of existing nodes. Here, we introduce hub formation through nonlinear growth where the number of nodes generated at each stage increases over time and new nodes form connections independent of target node features. Our model reproduces variation in number of connections, hub occurrence time, and rich-club organization of networks ranging from protein–protein, neuronal and fibre tract brain networks to airline networks. Moreover, nonlinear growth gives a more generic representation of these networks compared with previous preferential attachment or duplication–divergence models. Overall, hub creation through nonlinear network expansion can serve as a benchmark model for studying the development of many real-world networks.
1. Introduction
1.1. Background
One of the most commonly used network growth models that generate hubs [1,2], which often are essential for network function [3,4] and spreading dynamics [5], is the preferential attachment model ('rich gets richer') [6]. However, it assumes that connections of a new node form depending on how well connected a potential target node is compared to all other existing nodes. The knowledge of such global information is often difficult to justify in a biological context; for example, axonal growth cones in neuronal networks can only sense their local environment. It is unclear whether and how the preferential attachment model can be applied to such network growth dynamics, as it often cannot provide a mechanistic explanation. The duplication–divergence model [7], which is inspired by the evolution of protein–protein interaction (PPI) networks, on the other hand, needs a duplication of previously existing connection patterns that is unlikely for many non-biological networks (e.g. flight connections between airports). Moreover, the divergence step entails a non-trivial coordination between duplicated nodes (i.e. a new connection is pruned with a pre-specified probability, but only if its counterpart is not). Such communication is difficult to justify in many biological networks, where the information exchange between maturing connections is limited.
1.2. The principle of nonlinear growth
We propose a novel model that is based on exponential network growth. It assumes that the number of new nodes increases nonlinearly with time, which is a general principle of growth and development: systems ranging from the worldwide web to neural networks in the brain experience episodes of exponential growth where the number of new nodes at one time will be larger than the number of new nodes at a previous time. As an example for growth in biological systems, the number of cells per unit volume (c) in the growth phase of bacterial cultures can be described by an exponential function: c(n)=c1⋅2n, where c1 is the initial unit volume of the culture, and n is the number of divisions a cell has undergone [8]. For brain evolution, it was proposed that new neural structures form by separation of already existing areas [9], with the number of brain areas then increasing exponentially. The early growth of the Internet [10] would be an example for non-biological systems.
2. Material and methods
2.1. Data analysis
Analysis and implementation of growth models were conducted using Matlab R2014b (Mathworks Inc.). Visualization of the hub occurrences and node degrees across development (figure 1; electronic supplementary material, figure S4) was done by binning the maturation times, i.e. the times of nodes formation during network development. For the Caenorhabditis elegans and AIR datasets, three maturation bins (columns) were computed such that the number of nodes in each bin were approximately the same. For the PPI and macaque datasets, three age categories were assigned, and so the number of maturation bins is matched accordingly.
The results shown in figure 2 and the electronic supplementary material, figure S2A are computed based on 200 networks for each of the parameter sets. Random, regular networks of equal size were created as follows: first, the mean edge density of these nonlinearly grown networks was computed. Then, the corresponding probability of edge formation in random, regular network growth was computed (this regular growth corresponds to the NLP model with parameter d=1). Using this probability, 200 regular, linearly grown networks were generated for each parameter set. Finally, the corresponding coefficient of variation (CV) and hub-rich-club coefficient (HRCC) values were computed, which served as the comparative values for the shown relative deviations. Owing to high demands in computer resources, the results shown in the electronic supplementary material, figure S2B are based on 20 networks.
For the assessment of the model performances, 1000 network samples were generated for each analysed network measure (CV value, HRCC measure and the maturational pattern of hub occurrence). Network samples where the number of edges deviated by more than 10% from the target number were replaced by newly generated samples matching this criterion. For the CV and HRCC values, a model was classified as explanatory if a statistical test is passed for the experimental value to stem from the model-generated distribution, using the z-statistic with a significance of 1%, or if the value derived from the respective dataset was within the model-generated interval. For the maturational trajectories, the same approach was taken for the percentage of hubs in each maturation bin. A model was classified as explanatory if at least one of the model-generated numbers of hubs matched the observed value, or if the model-generated distribution passed the z-test for the observed value.
Rich-club coefficients and complementary network measures (clustering coefficient C, modularity index Q and characteristic path length L) were computed using the Matlab scripts obtained from the Brain Connectivity Toolbox [11] (https://sites.google.com/site/bctnet/measures/list). Degree preserving reference networks were computed using the randmio_und.m function (also from the Brain Connectivity Toolbox).
2.2. Parameter optimization
We conducted parameter optimization using simulated annealing, such that the model-generated networks exhibit measures as close as possible to the empirical values. The Matlab function simulannealbnd.m was used for conducting simulated annealing. The cost function was defined as: A⋅r1+r2. r1 and r2 are the relative errors of the number of edges and the CV or HRCC values, respectively. A is a penalty factor, and was manually adjusted in case the generated mean number of edges deviated largely from the empirical value (electronic supplementary material, figure S3). For the assessment of the models' performance, model-generated networks where the number of edges was beyond 10% of the dataset's edges were discarded. The resulting distribution of the number of edges had to pass a test using the z-statistic on the 1% significance level. In total, 1000 networks were generated for the visualizations of the CV values, the HRCC measures and the percentage of hub nodes.
Simulated annealing was also used for optimizing model parameters to yield the percentages of hubs in the three maturation bins. This was done under the null hypothesis that the observed percentage of hubs in a particular maturation bin stems from the model-generated distribution. The probability for observing the measured percentage under this null-hypothesis, as obtained from a z-test, was maximized in order to obtain the model parameters.
As the PPI and AIR datasets are bidirectional, we implemented that the formation of a connection in one direction also entails the connection into the other. Therefore, the target number of edges used in the optimization process was half the actual edges. The model-generated connectivity matrices were added to their transposed form, such that the resulting matrix was symmetrical and ideally matched the actual number of edges of the two datasets. For the assessments with regard to the macaque and C. elegans datasets, the model-generated networks were generated by probabilistically adding bidirectional connections, in order to match the proportion of unidirectional versus bidirectional connections derived from the datasets.
3. Results
3.1. Datasets
In order to compare the explanatory power of the nonlinear growth model with other models of network growth, we analysed four datasets including longitudinal information (figure 3a). The collected datasets of evolving networks include (i) the protein–protein interaction network in yeast [12], (ii) axonal connections between brain regions in the rhesus monkey (macaque) [13], (iii) the network between neurons in the nematode C. elegans [2,14] and (iv) the network of flights between international airports worldwide [15]. The maturation time of a node (i.e. the time when the node is added to the growing network) is defined as (i) the time during evolution when a protein first occurs, (ii) the maturation time of a brain region during development, (iii) the birth time of a neuron and (iv) the year when an airport was established, respectively (cf. table 2). The datasets (ii) and (iv) were collected by us and are therefore novel. All the used datasets are described in more detail in the electronic supplementary material.
3.2. The nonlinear growth model
The nonlinear growth model (NL) assumes that the network size increases nonlinearly/exponentially with time. At each developmental stage t, the network expands by dt nodes (d is a parameter of the model) until a given network size is reached (figure 3b). The (rounded) number of newly formed nodes project to the already present nodes. Importantly, in our model the formation of connections does not rely on any properties of the nodes. Hence, a newly developed node does not need to check whether its target node fulfils specific conditions, but forms connections dependent upon a model parameter that is initially specified. NL substantially differs from the well-known Erdös–Rényi model (ER) [16], where the number of connections increases linearly, but the nodes are initially present already. As demonstrated in [17], linear network growth (i.e. addition of one node at a time), in addition to ER-like formation of connections, can yield complex network features such as small-worldness and scale-free degree distribution. Hence, the addition of new nodes is a crucial factor in network growth models. In this study, we show that also the dynamical nature of node addition strongly shapes the resulting network structures.
We distinguish two different scenarios of nonlinear growth. In the first case (NLA), the number of target nodes that a new node projects to is computed as follows: a random value is drawn from a normal distribution with mean a and standard deviation a/2, where a indicates a model parameter. This value is rounded and limited by the cut-off points 0 and the current number of nodes in the network. Hence, the number of projections that a new node makes stays approximately the same throughout development. In a second scenario (NLP), new nodes connect to any existing node with probability p, so that the number of a new node's outgoing projections is proportional to the number of existing nodes. In this scenario, the number of outgoing connections per node will increase during development, which is in contrast with the NLA scenario. A simplified, algorithmic description of nonlinear growth and its two versions is shown in algorithm 1. As the NL model does not require any knowledge of a global variable, both scenarios are based solely on local information.
3.3. Alternative models
We have compared the NL model with the extended preferential attachment (PA) and the duplication–divergence (DD) models (figure 3b). For the classical preferential attachment model [6], at each time step a single node is added to the network and forms connections with existing nodes following a preference for highly connected nodes (i.e. hubs). For simplicity, our PA growth model starts from a single node (we confirmed that this initial condition yields scale-free degree distributions). The first parameter p1 of the PA model determines to how many nodes the newly added node connects on average. A second parameter p2 of this extended version specifies a baseline probability to connect to any of the nodes in the network, independent of their degree. The probability that a newly added node connects to node i of the network is then computed as . The PA model can be understood as an extension of a linear network growth model, where newly added nodes have knowledge about target nodes.
The DD model is implemented as described in [7]. Each time step consists of a duplication and a divergence step. In the duplication step, a random node is duplicated, i.e. it projects to the same connection partners as the original node. The connection between the two duplicated nodes prevails with probability p. In the subsequent divergence step, one of the two connections of the partners with the duplicated nodes is pruned with probability q. Maximally one of the two connections can be pruned, and so this model is based upon non-trivial coordination between the two connections. To allow for a fair comparison, both the alternative and the nonlinear growth models are based on two parameters.
3.4. Analysis of model-generated networks
We have assessed the networks' range of degrees through the coefficient of degree variation (CV), which is the standard deviation divided by the mean. For a linearly growing network with random formation of connections, all degrees are relatively close to the average degree, while for networks that contain highly connected nodes, the standard deviation of the node degree is larger due to such outlier nodes (figure 3c; electronic supplementary material, figure S1). We find that CV value distributions of model-generated networks are sufficiently narrow to allow to differentiate the models from each other, and so are well suited for a comparison of the different models. Moreover, because this study focuses on the development of hub-related network organization, we did not investigate other metrics of the degree distribution that are not directly related to hubs.
Complementary to the degree distribution, we also investigated the rich-club organization, which captures the tendency for hubs to interconnect with one another, rather than with low-degree nodes [18]. In many real-world networks, such as the neuronal connectivity of C. elegans [19] and the inter-areal projections in cat [20], macaque [21] or human [22], hub nodes connect with each other more strongly than with nodes of lower degree. Conversely, it has been shown that protein interaction networks do not contain rich clubs [18]. To quantify this tendency for connectivity among hubs, we used the rich-club coefficient [18] defined as ϕ(k)=2E>k/N>k(N>k−1), where E>k is the number of edges among the N>k nodes that have a higher degree than k. Essentially, this coefficient measures the ratio of existing connections to the potential number of connections among a given set of nodes. Hence, the rich-club coefficient is a vector of values (different coefficients for different values of k). In order to simplify the comparison between different complex networks, we summarize the rich-club organization as the mean of the rich-club coefficients for all degrees k that qualify a node as being a hub. We define this so-called HRCC as: , where Γ is the set of the degrees of all hub nodes in a given network and |Γ| is the number of elements in this set. We classify a node as a hub if the number of its connections k is at least one standard deviation above the average number of connections of a node (k≥μ+σ). Notably, rich-club organization is different from the assortativity property [18], and is a particularly well-esteemed measure in many biological networks.
Figure 2 and the electronic supplementary material, figure S2 visualize that nonlinear growth can indeed produce networks with CV and HRCC values that are much larger than those of regular, random networks across different parameter values. As expected, these hub-related network measures are very dependent on the two model parameters: the nonlinear growth exponent d strongly affects CV values, by increasing the spread of the degree distribution. The NLP model yields, due to equal probability of connections among all nodes, no rich-club organization. However, for d>1 it produces hubs across a wide spectrum of parameters. For the NLA model, the CV values and the rich-club organization express themselves much beyond what is expected based on comparable, regular networks (note also the sudden increase of HRCC values for d>1). Detailed and asymptotic behaviour of the network measures for the NLP model are consistent across different network sizes (electronic supplementary material, figure S2). In addition to the CV and HRCC measures, the hub nodes were additionally analysed for their developmental time, and the models were assessed for their explanatory power with regard to this temporal aspect (figure 1).
We find that the analysed models reproduce many properties of the collected networks; preferential attachment matches some of the network measures (figure 4) but, for example, fails to generate the same number of connections when producing the CV value of the airline network (electronic supplementary material, figure S3). DD and NL models match both CV and number of connections. While the NLP can account for all the CV values and the maturational trajectories, it cannot yield the HRCC values. Hub nodes are predominantly established early on [2,23] and show a distinct pattern of creation over time (electronic supplementary material, figure S4). Other relevant developmental properties are shown in the electronic supplementary material, figure S5.
Our results demonstrate that only the NLA model can account for all the datasets' CV and HRCC values. It provides an intuitive explanation for the origins of rich-club connectivity; during early network development, there are not many nodes to project to, therefore most early born nodes project to each other. As early developing nodes are likely to become highly connected, hubs are predominantly connected among each other. Note, however, that nonlinear growth is also crucial: even a modified PA model, where the number of outgoing connections is also limited, cannot reproduce CV and HRCC features (electronic supplementary material, table S1; see electronic supplementary material, figures S6 and S7 for other features).
In summary, only nonlinear growth can reproduce the analysed features of real-world networks (table 1). The NLA model can account for CV and HRCC measures, while the DD and NLP models can explain CV values and hub occurrence times.
3.5. Case study: are alterations of connectivity in preterm-birth related to nonlinear growth?
Finally, we have investigated the explanatory power of the NL model with regard to a recent study [24], where the brain structural connectome in very preterm-born adults was analysed. Counterintuitively, the very preterm brain exhibits a stronger rich-club architecture than the control brain, despite a decrease of white matter resources.
Interestingly, our model can account for this difference. We demonstrate this by simulating the growth of weighted networks exhibiting the rich-club property. Our simulations evolve according to two scenarios. In the control scenario, the network expands nonlinearly as proposed above. Moreover, the connections are weighted, i.e. connections are attributed a scalar value instead of a binary value. This weight (or connection strength) reflects the thickness of fibre tracts in brain networks (i.e. fibre tracts comprising many more fibres than others have higher weights). In our model, we assume that the weight of newly formed connections decreases linearly with developmental time, i.e. the early connections are the strongest. In the pathological scenario, the scalar is additionally decreased when 75% of the network size has been reached (i.e. referring to the time-point of premature birth). Hence, the number of connections is the same in both scenarios; however, the weights of connections developing after preterm birth are decreased in the second scenario (in accordance with the analysis results of Karolis et al. [24]).
For a valid comparison of the two scenarios, the normalized rich-club indices are computed by dividing the rich-club coefficient by the mean rich-club coefficient of 100 reference networks: , where ϕ(k) and ϕr(k) denote rich-club coefficients for grown and reference networks, respectively, for a given rich-club degree k. As shown in figure 5, the pathological networks indeed exhibit a stronger rich-club organization than control networks. The reason is that the simulated premature brain networks have comparably enhanced strength within rich clubs, as the weight factor is decreased for the connections that are formed late during development (i.e. connections of the last 25% nodes). Hence, our model is in agreement with the finding of Karolis et al. [24] that there are no topological connectivity differences between the two groups. More information on the growth model for the weighted networks is available in the electronic supplementary material.
4. Discussion
We hypothesize that nonlinear growth explains hubs in many networks where nodes do not require detailed knowledge about nodes to which new nodes connect to (e.g. the degree of a node), and where information exchange is local. This is for instance the case for spatial networks where transmitting information over long distances can be prohibitively expensive. For example, during neural development the secretion and detection of diffusable substances are widely utilized processes for conveying critical information. However, the amount and detail of information that can be reliably transmitted in this way is limited. Our model solely requires that a newly added node can potentially form connections with the other nodes, and relies on less information than previous local models [7,25]. Along those lines, axons from one brain area can project to potential target areas based on guidance cues and/or genetically encoded growth mechanisms [26,27]. Hence, our model provides a framework where axonal connections do not need to rely on specific information about these targets, other than the well-established mechanisms required to connect with them. Crucially, the nonlinear growth model does not include space and is complementary to spatial models. As the model's requirements for the formation of connections are minimal, it is compatible with other models that include Euclidian distance [28] or properties of network connectivity [7].
Our work suggests that real-world networks substantially differ in terms of their hub-related network properties, depending on whether the principle of locality is a determinant of their development. Analyses of other real-world networks could support this hypothesis. Indeed, our model is unable to reproduce hub birth times in citation networks where links to spatially distant researchers nowadays do not involve extra costs (electronic supplementary material, figure S8).
In addition to biological and man-made networks, we particularly propose that nonlinear growth can account for the structural dynamics of neural networks during early (exponential) phases of brain development. In the mammalian brain, a single node could be a region of interest that comprises a large number (e.g. millions) of neurons. In more simple species, such as C. elegans or Drosophila, a node would correspond to only a few or single neurons. Indeed, studies on brain evolution and development support an exponential increase in the number of brain regions [9] and neurons [29–32]. Interestingly, in contrast with the model in Vértes et al. [33], nonlinear growth explains how rich-club organization arises without any access to non-local information. Moreover, our model is in agreement with observations of brain structure following neurodevelopmental disruption after very preterm birth; counterintuitively, rich-club organization is increased in such atypical scenarios [24]. Hence, the nonlinear growth model provides a general and mechanistic understanding of these findings.
The assessment of the growth models is conducted on a topological basis, hence functional differences between individual nodes are not accounted for. Also, we have focused on the development of hub-related network features. In the future, additional growth mechanisms involving secondary mechanisms (removal of connections or node-specific connection formation) could be incorporated to establish small-worldness and modularity [28]. Such additional model complexity could be incorporated to generate networks matching the degree distribution itself, rather than the specific hub-related network measures which were assessed in this work. In addition, we only tested for accelerated growth where the number of new nodes at each step increases: it will be interesting to also test the effects of reductions in the growth rate, meaning scenarios where each step produces fewer nodes than for the previous steps. This aspect highlights that nonlinear growth, as linear growth, is limited by the maximum size of the network that can or should be sustained.
Our model for hub formation does not imply a scale-free degree distribution (electronic supplementary material, figure S9), which is an independent feature for some networks [17,34]. Hence, our model is well suited for scenarios where such scale-freeness is not established but hubs are nonetheless known to exist [35]. We emphasize that the nonlinear growth principle is complementary to many mechanistic explanations for how neural connectivity arises during development [17,36] and evolution [37].
Overall, nonlinear growth relies solely on locally available information (e.g. nodes do not require knowledge about the degree of connection partners), and so can provide a baseline benchmark for modelling network evolution that contains phases of exponential growth. We have demonstrated its explanatory power with respect to hub-related network features, in comparison with well-established classical models. Not all growth models that can generate hubs have been investigated in this study, because such an extensive study would entail an extremely high number of parameter optimizations. However, to the best of our knowledge, all alternative models assume that connecting nodes have access to more information than the nonlinear growth model relies upon (e.g. [38–40]). Therefore, the nonlinear growth model, either using relative or absolute numbers of edges from each new node, provides a general principle for hub development in certain spatially embedded and/or biological networks. Furthermore, we propose that the nonlinear growth model could be applied for the efficient design of spatial networks (e.g. power grids and supply networks), where robustness and information integration are crucial properties for network function [22].
Data accessibility
Our data are deposited at the Dryad Digital Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6h8pm [41].
Authors' contributions
R.B. conducted the computational work and produced the figures. M.K. aided in the design of the approach and in the data analysis. Both wrote the text.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom (EP/K026992/1) as part of the Human Brain Development Project (http://www.greenbrainproject.org/). R.B. was also supported by the Medical Research Council of the UK (MR/N015037/1).
The authors wish to thank Sol Lim, Michael Pfeiffer, Peter Taylor, Yujiang Wang and Frédéric Zubler for stimulating discussions and helpful comments.
Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3711967.
- Received September 12, 2016.
- Accepted February 21, 2017.
- © 2017 The Authors.
Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.


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