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Huawei Technologies is an instrument of the Chinese government: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo that Huawei Technologies' ties to the Chinese Communist Party pose the greatest threat to America's economic and national security. "Huawei is an instrument of the Chinese government. They're deeply connected. It's something that hard for Americans to understand,..."
Trump signs order aimed at protecting US networks from Chinese tech
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order declaring a "national emergency" that would empower his administration to block foreign tech companies from doing business in the U.S. if they are deemed a national security threat. The order does not name any countries or companies, but the administration has launched a global campaign to keep the Chinese telecom Huawei from helping U.S. allies develop next-generation wireless infrastructures.
Senate bill restricts U.S. tech exports to China
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pushed legislation Tuesday that would make it more difficult for American tech companies to export their technology to China. Hawley's bill, which has few details. would require President Donald Trump to restrict any technology to China that would contribute to the communist country's military. The Republican's legislature would also place heavy restrictions on technology that influences artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and robots. It also would restrict any kind of tech that China might use to violate human rights.
US scrambles to keep F-35's secrets safe from Russia and China
The U.S. and Japan have deployed an unprecedented amount of resources to search for the wreckage of a Japanese fighter jet with advanced technology that could potentially tip the balance of air supremacy if Russian or Chinese forces find it first. Ever since the Aichi Prefecture-made F-35A stealth fighter disappeared from radar off the Japanese coast Tuesday, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and U.S. military have scrambled planes and ships in a frantic search in the Pacific Ocean for the wreckage and the jet's pilot, Major Akinori Hosomi, who is still missing.
FBI: Company Faked White-Collar Jobs for 1,900 Chinese Migrants
The March 28 FBI document alleges that a Chinese migrant named Weiyun Huang took money to issue fraudulent claims of employment to Chinese students who were seeking to get "Optional Practical Training" work permits. Huang was arrested March 26, the document says. Huang's firm helped roughly 1,900 Chinese migrants get OPT work permits for various white-collar jobs in the United States, the document said. Other federal data shows the company got 732 OPT workers in 2017.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London, facing possible U.S. extradition
The Justice Department's unsealed indictment shows that Assange has been charged with computer hacking crimes for trying to illegally access "secret" materials on a U.S. government computer. The charge is officially listed as "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion." The indictment accuses Assange of trying to access the secret material "with reason to believe that such information so obtained could be used to the injury of the United States and the advantage of any foreign nation."
Former NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty After Stealing 300 Times as Much Data as Snowden
The severity of the breach is measured in terms of how much information Martin looted from the systems he had access to. Fortunately, he does not appear to have done anything with the data he took. His defense lawyers characterized him as a data hoarder, a victim of compulsive mental illness who piled up classified files and sensitive documents the way other hoarders accumulate newspapers or clothes.
Trump signs executive order on protecting US from potential EMP attacks
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to identify the threats posed by potential electromagnetic pulses (EMP), which are believed to be potentially dangerous to critical infrastructure like the electric grid, and find ways to guard against them.
GOP bill would limit foreign student involvement in sensitive research projects
A House GOP lawmaker on Tuesday introduced a bill that aims to clamp down on intellectual property theft at U.S. universities by limiting the involvement of certain foreign students in sensitive research projects. The legislation sponsored by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, comes amid concern that China and other countries are seeking to steal technology and information tied to U.S. national security.
The US government just made clear it's going after more types of Chinese tech than we thought
The brewing technology battle between the U.S. and China isn't just about 5G telecom equipment Chinese companies want to bring to the U.S. It's already starting to bleed into other tech categories, as shown in a new letter posted Monday from 11 senators and top officials from the departments of Energy and Homeland Security that called for a ban of Huawei-made solar technology.


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Statistics for Complex Networks: Theory and Applications
Jan 30, 2013 - Feb 1, 2013
« YES VI: "Statistics for Complex and High Dimensional Systems"
YES VII: "Stochastic Optimization and Online Learning" »
The dramatic improvement in data collection and acquisition technologies in the last decades has allowed for the monitoring and study of complex systems, such as biological, social and computer networks. The extremely complex and high-dimensional nature of these systems, and the growth in dataset sizes give rise to important research questions: how to perform meaningful statistical inference from very large and potentially corrupted complex data sets? Which properties of these complex systems can be inferred from such data? Can sound inference methodologies be also made computationally feasible? These and other questions have recently attracted the attention of a large number of researchers worldwide and, although important progress has been made in recent years, there are still many open and emerging problems in the general area of statistical inference in complex and high-dimensional systems.
The workshop will include a sequence of talks that illustrate advances in the theory and application of stochastic network models and statistical tools motivated by the study of complex networked systems. To promote strong and lasting collaboration between the workshop participants there will be ample time in the program for informal discussions.
This workshop is immediately preceded by the YES workshop on Statistics for Complex Networks and High Dimensional Systems. The YES workshop consists of tutorial courses and provides a solid introduction for this workshop on Statistics for Complex Networks.
Fetsje Bijma VU Amsterdam
Rui Castro TU Eindhoven
Mathisca de Gunst VU Amsterdam
Peter Buehlman ETH Zurich
Venkat Chandrasekaran California Institute of Technology
Geert Geven Hubrecht Institute
Alfred Hero University of Michigan
Eric Kolaczyk Boston University
Marloes Maathuis ETH Zurich
Karl Rohe University of Wisconsin - Madison
Kees Stam Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam
Tom Thorne Imperial College London
Martin Wainwright University of California
Lourens Waldorp Uninversity of Amsterdam
Ernst Wit University of Groningen
Wednesday (January 30th)
10:30 – 10:40 Opening & Welcome
10:40 – 11:30 Kolaczyk
11:50 – 12:40 Wainwright
14:00 – 14:50 Waldorp
14:50 – 15:20 Leger
15:20 – 15:50 Channarond
15:50 – 16:20 Tea break
16:20 – 16:50 Wieringen
16:50 – 17:40 Thorne
19:00 – ????? Workshop Dinner
Thursday (January 31th)
09:15 – 09:30 Coffee
09:30 – 10:20 Maathuis
10:20 – 11:10 Bühlmann
11:40 – 12:10 Pircalabelu
12:10 – 12:40 Celisse
14:00 – 14:50 Chandrasekaran
14:50 – 15:20 Peters
15:20 – 16:00 Tea & Posters
16:00 – 16:50 Geeven
Friday (February 1st)
09:30 – 10:20 Rohe
10:20 – 11:10 Stam
11:40 – 12:30 Wit
12:30 – 13:00 Hauser
14:00 – 14:30 Lotsi
14:30 – 15:20 Hero
15:20 – 15:30 Final & Closing
Peter Bühlmann and Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich)
High-dimensional Graphical Models and Causal Inference
Understanding cause-effect relationships between variables is of great interest in many fields of science. An ambitious but highly desirable goal is to infer causal effects from observational data obtained by observing a system of interest without subjecting it to interventions. This would allow to circumvent severe experimental constraints or to substantially lower experimental costs. Our main motivation to study this goal comes from applications in biology.
We present recent progress for prediction of causal effects with direct implications on designing new intervention experiments, particularly for high-dimensional, sparse settings with thousands of variables but based on only a few dozens of observations. In particular, we present the IDA algorithm to estimate bounds on causal effects. An important step in the IDA algorithm consists of learning the underlying causal graph, and we pay special attention to this step. First, we discuss the PC algorithm and its assumptions, as well as modifications of this algorithm that are more stable in high-dimensional settings and/or allow for unmeasured variables. Second, we discuss penalized likelihood approaches. We point out that the latter framework requires different assumptions than the PC algorithm, and can be used to learn graphs from a combination of observational and interventional data.
Our talks will highlight exciting possibilities and fundamental limitations. In view of the latter, statistical modeling should be complemented with experimental validations: we discuss this in the context of molecular biology for yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) and the model plant Arabidopsis Thaliana.
Venkat Chandrasekaran (California Institute of Technology)
Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection via Convex Optimization
Suppose we have a Gaussian graphical model with sample observations of only a subset of the variables. Can we separate the extra correlations induced due to marginalization over the unobserved, hidden variables from the structure among the observed variables? In other words is it still possible to consistently perform model selection despite the unobserved, latent variables? As we shall see the key problem that arises is one of decomposing the concentration matrix of the observed variables into a sparse matrix (representing graphical model structure among the observed variables) and a low rank matrix (representing the effects of marginalization over the hidden variables). Such a decomposition can be accomplished by an estimator that is given by a tractable convex program. This estimator performs consistent model selection in the high-dimensional scaling regime in which the number of observed/hidden variables grows with the number of samples of the observed variables. The geometric aspects of our approach are highlighted, with the algebraic varieties of sparse matrices and of low-rank matrices playing an important role.
(joint work with Pablo Parrilo and Alan Willsky)
Geert Geeven (Hubrecht Institute)
Nuclear organization in the 3D space - systematic mapping of networks of intra-chromosomal and inter-chromosomal interactions
The spatial organization of chromosomes in the nucleus is considered to play an important role in nuclear processes. Over the past 10 years, the development of chromosome conformation capture (3C) technology and the subsequent genomic variants thereof have enabled the analysis of nuclear organization at an unprecedented resolution and throughput. We routinely use 3C based techniques in our lab to systematically map long-range intra-chromosomal and inter-chromosomal interactions, which allows us to identify functional events like promoter-enhancer interactions. I willl explain some of the data analysis problems involved and try to make a link between 3D nuclear organization and transcriptional gene networks.
Alfred Hero (University of Michigan)
High dimensional dependency network analysis with limited data
Dependency networks arise in many areas of engineering, social sciences, and natural sciences. For example, when rows of a random matrix are successive samples of a multivariate response, the sample correlation between the columns can reveal important dependency structure in the multivariate response, e.g., stars, hubs and triangles of co-dependency. However, when the number of samples is finite and the number p of columns increases such exploration becomes futile due to a phase transition phenomenon: spurious discoveries will eventually dominate. In this presentation I will present theory for predicting these phase transitions and present Poisson limit theorems that can be used to predict finite sample behavior of such correlation and partial correlation structure. I will also present extensions of this theory to multi-stage regression over a sparse network of dependencies.
(joint work with Bala Rajaratnam)
Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)
Network-based Statistical Models and Methods for Identification of Cellular Mechanisms of Action
Identifying biological mechanisms of action (e.g. biological pathways) that control disease states, drug response, and altered cellular function is a multifaceted problem involving a dynamic system of biological variables that culminate in an altered cellular state. The challenge is in deciphering the factors that play key roles in determining the cell's fate. In this talk I will describe some of the efforts by our group to develop statistical models and methods for identification of cellular mechanisms of action. More specifically, we assume gene expression data and treat the problem of determining mechanisms of action under perturbation (e.g., drug treatment, gene knockout, etc.) as a type of inverse problem. I will describe three approaches to solving this inverse problem. The first attempts to use only the gene expression data and to `filter' that data by an inferred network of gene regulatory interactions. The other two -- one testing-based and the other regression-based -- use gene expression data in conjunction with information from biological databases. More specifically, gene expression is modeled as deriving from a perturbed latent network of pathways, where the inter-connections among pathways is informed by shared biological function. Illustrations are given in the context of yeast experiments and human cancer.
Karl Rohe (University of Wisconsin)
Highest dimensional models; for transitivity in the asymptote
The Stochastic Blockmodel provides a statistical framework to study network clustering algorithms as statistical estimators. Extant literature has studied several estimators under an asymptotic
setting where the number of clusters (k) is fixed, or grows much more slowly than the number of nodes (n). This talk will 1) discuss why this asymptotic setting fails to align with most empirical networks, 2) propose a "highest dimensional Stochastic Blockmodel," where the number of clusters grows proportionally to the number of nodes and 3)propose a regularized version of the MLE that it is weakly consistent. Time permitting, algorithmic considerations will be addressed.
(joint work with Tai Qin, Haoyang Fan)
Kees Stam (VU Amsterdam)
The brain: a complex networks perspective
The human brain is one of the most complex objects known to man. One of the most challenging scientific problems is how the 1010 neurons interact in such a way that they can bring about normal brain function, and how this process becomes disrupted in neurological and psychiatric disease. With the introduction of models of small-world and scale-free networks graph theory has become a very promising tool for the study of structural and functional networks in the brain (Stam and van Straaten, 2012). In less than a decade of research it has become clear that normal brain networks are characterized by small-world and scale-free structure, the presence of hubs and hierarchical modularity, rich club backbones and assortative mixing. These topological features of brain networks arise during development under strong genetic control and are strongly correlated with cognitive measures such as IQ. In neurological and psychiatric disorders a loss of the optimal balance between local connectivity and global integration has been demonstrated. For instance, in Alzheimer's disease network topology becomes more random and hub structures are preferentially destructed. Some of these phenomena can now be explained at the level of exact models of large-scale structural and functional brain networks (De Haan et al., 2012). Very likely, similar explanations will also be found for other conditions such as epilepsy, brain tumours, neuropsychiatric conditions and Parkinson's disease. These results underscore the value of a complex networks perspective for neuroscience.
Stam CJ, van Straaten EC. The organization of physiological brain networks.
Clin Neurophysiol. 2012 Jun;123(6):1067-87.
de Haan W, Mott K, van Straaten EC, Scheltens P, Stam CJ. Activity dependent
degeneration explains hub vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease. PLoS Comput Biol.
2012;8(8):e1002582.
Tom Thorne (Imperial College London)
Going beyond static networks
In the field of Systems Biology we are often faced with the task of performing inference that involves network structures, one particular example being the inference of gene regulatory network structures. We might be interested in changes to the network structure in a single time series, between differing conditions or even on an evolutionary time scale. To this end we employ Bayesian nonparametrics to provide the flexibility to allow for such changes in the network structure. By doing so we can infer these changes from the data, whilst also combining information from multiple sources to derive more accurate predictions. We use graphical models to represent the regulatory network structure, and consider different graphical modeling schemes, comparing their relative merits from a computational and modeling point of view.
Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley)
Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses
We investigate a curious relationship between the structure of a discrete graphical model and the support of the inverse of a generalized covariance matrix. We show that for certain graph structures, the support of the inverse covariance matrix of indicator variables on the vertices of a graph reflects the conditional independence structure of the graph. Our work extends results that have previously been established only in the context of multivariate Gaussian graphical models, thereby addressing an open question about the significance of the inverse covariance matrix of a non-Gaussian distribution. The proof exploits a combination of ideas from the geometry of exponential families, junction tree theory, and convex analysis. These population-level results have various consequences for graph selection methods, both known and novel, including a novel method for structure estimation for missing or corrupted observations.
(joint work with Po-Ling Loh: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0478)
Lourens Waldrop (University of Amsterdam)
Networks in psychology and neuroscience
Regarding networks as fundamental blocks of analysis has only recently found its way to psychology and neuroscience. This has proved successful in explaining, for instance, why the disorders of depression and anxiety often coincide, and that efficient brains can lead to higher intelligence scores. However, many of these results are based on large-scale networks obtained from simple correlation measures to determine connectivity between symptoms or brain regions. Especially in neuroscience the use of simple or pairwise correlations is pervasive. Using pairwise correlations to estimate a large-scale network (> 1000 nodes) from functional magnetic resonance imaging data generally results in a poor representation of the true underlying network. The reason is that pairwise correlations cannot distinguish between direct and indirect connectivity. As a result pairwise correlation networks can lead to fallacious conclusions; for example, one may conclude that a network is a small-world when it is not. We have compared the performance of pairwise correlations in large-scale networks (2000 nodes) against three other methods that are designed to filter out indirect connections in a simulation study and resting-state data. Recovery methods were evaluated in four simulated network structures (small world or not, scale-free or not) in scenarios where the number of observations is very small compared to the number of parameters. Simulations clearly show that pairwise correlation networks are fragmented into separate unconnected components with excessive connectedness within components. This often leads to erroneous estimates of network metrics, like small-world structures or low betweenness, and produces too many low-degree nodes. We conclude that using partial correlations, informed by a sparseness penalty, results in more accurate networks and corresponding metrics than pairwise correlation networks. Additionally, we show for resting-state fMRI that partial correlations are more robust to different parcellation sets and to different lengths of time-series.
Ernst Wit (University of Groningen)
Sparse Graphs (from noisy data, obviously)
From genetics to finance, from home-land security to epidemiology the objective of several data-intensive studies is to infer the relationships between various actors under scrutiny. A graph is one possible way to describe these relationships. In many cases, the data comes from large monotoring systems with no prior screening. The actual set of relationships, therefore, tends to be sparse.
When data is obtained from noisy measurements of (some of) the nodes in the graph, then graphical models present an appealing and insightful way to describe graph-based dependencies between the random variables. Although potentially still interesting, the main aim of inference is not the precise estimation of the parameters in the graphical model, but the underlying structure of the graph.
Graphical lasso and related methods opened up the field of sparse graphical model inference in high-dimensions. We show how extensions of such methods in more structured settings can improve interpretation. Moreover, in this presentation, we show how novel model selection criteria can deal with the determining the underlying graph in an efficient way.
J.-B. Leger, J.-J. Daudin (1,2), C. Vacher
Comparison of clustering methods for graph analysis
Unsupervised classification of graph nodes is a growing topic with applications
in many areas.
Two definitions of clusters are possible.
The first definition, called community, is the most commonly used. It defines a
cluster as a set of nodes strongly linked inside the set, and poorly outside the
The second definition, named structurally homogeneous subsets, defines a cluster
as a set of nodes which have a similar role in the graph structure. With this
definition two unconnected nodes may pertain to the same cluster if their
connectivity behavior with the other nodes are similar.
The structurally homogeneous definition includes the community definition as a
particular case and allows to recover other graph structures such as hubs or
bipartite organization.
The methods for community detection have recently been reviewed by Fortunato (Physics Reports, 2010). We extend his work in this communication with a review of methods for clustering graphs using the definition of structurally homogeneous subsets. The review includes the Markov Cluster Algorithm, different spectral clustering algorithms, modularity maximization, edge-betweeness and
statistical models such as the stochastic block model. This review underlines the difference between communities and structurally homogeneous subsets. A benchmark has been made for comparing the clustering methods. It is based on an ecological model of simulation generating binary graphs. The results of the benchmark is presented. The efficiency of clustering is measured by the Rand index between the true and the estimated clusters and some elements are given about the computing efficiencies of the algorithms which is important for dealing with large graphs.
Antoine Channarond, Jean-Jacques Daudin, Stéphane Robin
Clustering in a random graph model with a latent space
One way to add heterogeneity to networks consists in allocating positions $Z$ to the nodes in an unobserved latent space. In our approach the edge between nodes $i$ and $j$ has a probability $f_n(d(Z_i,Z_j))$ to appear, where $n$ is the graph size, $d$ is a distance of the latent space and $f_n$ is a decreasing probability function. Thus an edge is even more likely when the nodes are close in the latent space.
Hoff, Raftery and Handcock (2002) provide methods of unsupervised node classification and parameter estimation. While they assume the density of the positions to be distributed according to a finite Gaussian mixture, we are interested in a non-parametric framework, so that there is no predefined constraint on the density shape or clustering structure. In this setting, the clusters are defined as connected components of a level set of the density (Hartigan, 1975). The question is to test whether the density is clustered, and more generally, what can be inferred from the observed graph about the clustering structure of the position density in the latent space.
We propose a simple algorithm for the estimation of the number of such clusters, which generalizes the procedure of Biau, Cadre and Pelletier (2007). It extracts a graph induced by the observed graph, which is proved to have as many connected components as the density has clusters, with probability tending to one when n goes to infinity. The algorithm is linear with respect to the number of edges and hence can process large graphs. A simulation study is carried out to illustrate the behavior of the algorithm as a function of n. In addition to that, theoretical arguments are provided to prove the consistency.
Wessel van Wieringen, Mark van de Wiel
Penalized differential pathway analysis of integrative oncogenomics studies
Through integration of genomic data from multiple sources, we may obtain a more accurate and complete picture of the molecular mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis. We discuss the integration of DNA copy number and mRNA gene expression data from an observational integrative genomics study involving cancer patients. The two molecular levels involved are linked through the central dogma of molecular biology.
DNA copy number aberrations abound in the cancer cell. Here we investigate how these aberrations affect gene expression levels within a pathway using observational integrative genomics data of cancer patients. In particular, we aim to identify differential edges between regulatory networks of two groups involving these molecular levels.
Motivated by the rate equations, the interplay between DNA copy number aberrations and gene expression levels within a pathway is modeled by a simultaneous-equations model. This is introduced for the one-sample case. The model is fitted by means of penalized least squares using the lasso to achieve a sparse network topology. The simultaneous-equations model is extended to the two-sample situation. In the two-sample case the topology of the regulatory network is allowed to differ between the two groups, as such facilitating the discovery of differential interactions. In the estimation of this extended model, the fused lasso penalty is included to regulate the number of differential interactions.
In the application to real data from integrative oncogenomic studies we show that inclusion of prior information on the regulatory network architecture benefits the reproducibility of all edges. Furthermore, analysis of the TP53 signalling pathway between ER+ and ER- samples from an integrative genomics breast cancer study identifies a.o. differential regulation of the IGF complex. This corroborates with existing literature: the IGF complex is known to crosstalk with ER.
Eugen Pircalabelu, Gerda Claeskens, Lourens Waldorp
Model selection for Graphs using the Focused Information Criterion
A new method for model selection for Gaussian directed acyclic graphs (DAG) and Markov networks, with extensions towards ancestral graphs, is constructed to have good mean squared error properties.
The method is based on the focused information criterion (FIC) and unlike the traditional AIC or BIC, the FIC allows for selecting individual models, tailored to a specific purpose (the focus), as opposed to attempting an identification of a single model that should be used for all purposes.
For any particular node in a graph we start by defining a focus parameter μ as a function of the parameters of the model density, and potentially of a user-specified vector of covariate values. The focus is intended to be estimated as precisely (in the MSE sense) as possible. The FIC estimates MSE(μˆS) for each of a collection of models S, and selects the model with the smallest such value.
The focus of the research, that is, the purpose of the model, directs the selection and different focuses may thus lead to different selected models. In this way, one can obtain better selected models in terms of MSE than obtained from a global model search. For this particular application of FIC for structure learning in graphs, one example of focus is the expected value of a variable, reflecting interest in discovering a topology of the graph that produces a low MSE for this expected value.
An analysis on real and simulated data suggests that the FIC scoring approach is able to identify graphical models with better MSE and mean squared prediction values than obtained from existing methods, such hill-climbing using AIC and BIC, PC, SIN and the GLasso algorithm.
Alain Celisse, Jean-Jacques Daudin, Laurent Pierre
Consistency of maximum-likelihood and variational estimators in the stochastic block model
Networks and graphs have become a more and more popular tool in many scientific communities to describe objects and their relationships. For instance in biology, networks with hundreds or thousands of nodes are commonly used to describe regulatory pathways of genes. Moreover network complexity as well as large scale data have strengthened the need for (i) flexible and meaningful models, and for (ii) computationally efficient algorithms for making inference.
The stochastic block model (SBM) is a probabilistic model on graphs designed to allow heterogeneity in the between-edge connectivity unlike the famous Erdos-Renyi graph. Although SBM turns out to be powerful in describing the complex structure of real networks and providing some insight, inferring its parameters requires the use of variational approximation. However only too few theoretical results quantify the true performance of resulting variational estimators.
In the present work, we address the asymptotic inference in SBM by use of maximum-likelihood and variational approaches. The identifiability of SBM parameters is proved while asymptotic properties of maximum-likelihood and variational estimators are derived. In particular, the consistency of these estimators is settled for the probability of an edge between two vertices (and for the group proportions at the price of an additional assumption).
Jonas Peters
Recovering the Graph Structure of Restricted Structural Equation Models
Causal inference tackles the following problem: given iid observational data from a joint distribution, one tries to infer the underlying causal graph. This graph contains a directed arrow from each variable to its direct effects and is assumed to be acyclic.
Independence-based methods like the PC algorithm assume the Markov condition and faithfulness. These two conditions relate conditional independences and the graph structure; they allow us to infer properties of the graph by testing for conditional independences in the joint distribution. Those methods, however, can discover causal structures only up to Markov equivalence classes. Furthermore, conditional independence testing is very difficult in practice.
In structural equation models (SEMs) each variable is assumed to be a deterministic function of its direct causes and some noise variable (e.g. Z=f(X,Y,N)), and the noise variables are assumed to be jointly independent. SEMs display their full strength when making constraints on the function class. In additive noise models the structural equations are of the form Z=f(X,Y)+N. The subclass of linear functions and additive Gaussian noise does not lead to identifiability. This, however, constitutes an exceptional setting. If one assumes either (i) non-Gaussian noise, (ii) non-linear functions in the SEM or (iii) all noise variables to have the same variance, one can show that additive noise models are identifiable, i.e. given an observational distribution P, we can recover the underlying causal graph.
Based on these theoretical findings, we develop a causal inference method that does not require faithfulness and can identify causal relationships even within an equivalence class. One can further reason that this procedure allows for a model check. Therefore, the method may remain undecided. We present results on both synthetic and real data sets.
Alain Hauser
Learning causal models from interventions: inference and active learning
Causal relationships between random variables are commonly modeled using
DAGs, directed acyclic graphs. Causal models based on DAGs can provide
statements about
(1) conditional independence relations among the involved random
variables; and
(2) effects of interventions, that is, perturbations of the system in
which one or several random variables are forced to specific values.
DAGs can only be inferred up to Markov equivalence from observational data, that is, data produced by the undisturbed system. On the other hand, intervention effects in general differ between different DAGs, even if they are (observationally) Markov equivalent. This fact is the
motivation for estimating causal models from interventional data, that is, data produced under one or several interventions. We show to which extent interventional data arising from different interventions improves the identifiability of causal models. For this aim, we extend the notion of Markov equivalence of DAGs to the interventional case and present a graph theoretic characterization of the corresponding equivalence classes.
Furthermore, we consider Gaussian causal models and address the problem of calculating the maximum likelihood estimator from interventional data. We present a generalization of Chickering's Greedy Equivalence Search algorithm to interventional data that makes regularized maximum likelihood estimation computationally feasible. We demonstrate the performance of this algorithm in a simulation study. Finally, we address the question of active learning, that is, the question of finding interventions that lead to "optimal" identifiability of causal models.
Both the greedy search algorithm and the active learning approaches are based on the graph theoretic characterization of interventional Markov equivalence classes.
A. Lotsi
High dimensional Sparse Gaussian Graphical Mixture Model
We consider the problem of variable selection in Gaussian Graphical Mixture Model (GGMM) in high dimensional clustering set up. However, parameter estimation for this set- up can be challenging due to large number of parameters that need to be estimated. We propose a penalized maximum likelihood technique by imposing an $l_{1}$ penalty on the precision matrix. Our approach shrinks the covariance matrices thereby resulting in better clustering and variable selection. We adopt an Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm through the graphical least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (GLASSO) to estimate the mixing coefficients and the precision matrices. Models are compared with Extended Bayesian Information Criteria (EBIC). We demonstrate the performance of our work on a simulated data and we show the utility of our method for high dimensional data analysis.

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Sandra Bullock Guys Choice Awards Sexy Surprise Appearance
Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock thrilled fans on Saturday night with a surprise appearance at the Spike TV Guy's Choice Awards. Bullock was given the Troops Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year, an honor chosen by votes from military service members.
Sandra Bullock at Guy's Choice Awards (SpikeTV)
Wearing an extremely hot black leather dress, Bullock joked with the audience as she received her award to a standing ovation. "Let's be honest here, just for a moment," Bullock said. "Did I win this for being entertainer of the year, or did I win this because of the spectacular I.E.D. [improvised explosive device] explosion that became my personal life?"
Either way, you deserve it Sandra! The Blind Side actress looked positively radiant, which is largely due to her status as a new mother of baby Louis, we're sure!
Up next for Bullock is an appearance at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night to receive the Generation Award. The Guy's Choice Awards will air on Spike TV on June 20.
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RSPB Handbook of British Birds
https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/rspb-handbook-of-british-birds-4th-edition.html
The bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds is the ideal reference for birdwatchers of all levels of interest and experience.
Released to coincide with the RSPB's 125th anniversary, this new edition includes a history of the Society and a timeline of its key events.
All colour distribution maps now fully revised using data from the recently published Bird Atlas 2007-11, with information on breeding, wintering and migration.
Includes over 1,200 superb colour illustrations, as well as a new visual index to bird families on the inside covers.
Detailed text covers identification, moult patterns, habitat, range, voice, food and distribution, seasonal movements and conservation.
The 270 commonest birds in Britain and Ireland are covered in detail, followed by shorter accounts of 26 rarer species sometimes seen in Britain. Concise and up-to-date text offers a 'biography' of each species in simple, non-technical language, enhanced throughout with colour illustrations by some of the world's leading bird artists; Hilary Burn, Martin Elliott, Alan Harris, Peter Hayman, Laurel Tucker and Dan Zetterstrom.
By Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves
320 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781472906472 21.6 x 13.4 cm
05/Jan/2018
This book is very useful for identifying birds.
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New Year's Eve | Eating well, with creative recipes, to follow the Fasting Lifestyle according to Michael Mosley's "Fast Diet."
Vegetable Omelette 283 K 9.5 g. fat 19.5 g. protein 30 g. carb PB [GF if you eliminate the piece of bread or substitute a GF bread] Take advantage of the goodness of vegetables and use up some left-overs at the same time! Win-win.
Spritz a fry pan with olive oil or non-stick spray and stir the onions until they are soft. Dice the cooked vegetables and add to the pan to warm. Whisk the eggs and pour them into the pan, stirring to mix with the vegetables. As bottom of eggs begins to set, put the cheese, salt and pepper on the eggs. Cook to your liking, fold and plate with the fruit and toasted bread. Pour your beverages and have a great day.
Now make sure that you drink lots of water today or tea to avoid being hungry or dehydrated. SKIP LUNCH, just as you would on any Fast Day.
AT THE PARTY: Stick to the shrimp cocktail. Fill half your plate with the shrimp and half your plate with vegetables from the veggie platter. Do not eat the veggie dip! Cocktail sauce is OK, and try dipping the veggies in it too. About drinking: Sparkling wine has 88 calories per small glass, so have some. Avoid the mixed drinks, the hard alcohol, and the punch — too many calories. Are your hosts considerate enough to provide sparkling water? Good for them! Alternate your glass of bubbly with glasses of water. [You do know that a hang-over is mostly due to dehydration, don't you?] Less booze means more will power. Just saying.
NEXT DAY BREAKFAST: try the Nordic Breakfast, September 20, 2015. Easy to prepare and very filling.
http://mashable.com/2015/12/28/body-positive-new-year/#g5OgjZ7ptkqd With a new year comes the all-too-familiar pressure to lose weight. As the ball drops at midnight, the diet industry gears up to welcome women who mark Jan. 1 as the day they will begin restricting and training their bodies into the slim ideal. It's all a part of the "New Year, New You" mantra we have been taught to value as gospel.
While the pressure to shrink your body is a constant for women year-round, the value of thinness is especially emphasized when New Year's resolutions are thrown into the mix. It's a time of year when hating yourself is made easy, packaged and sold by the diet industry as flaws in need of fixing. Many of us buy into it — but we don't have to.
Body positive activists are constantly advocating for radical body love, but that work takes on undeniable significance this time of year. These women shout above the negative noise, working to build up collective body confidence and self-love in a world where women are constantly marked as needing improvement.
"It's time for us to stop setting New Year's resolutions altogether and to start setting revolutions instead — to, rather than resolving ourselves to 'self-improvement' defined by systems set up to oppress us, revolt against them. Set goals in terms of treating yourself with more compassion, take more fashion risks, enjoy more time at the beach, go out for brunch more — do all the things that you keep promising yourself you'll do when you lose 'X' number of pounds.
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Police: Report of tiger near Northville school a hoax
"It turned out to be just a stuffed animal," the police chief said. "Now, we can all have a little laugh about it."
Police: Report of tiger near Northville school a hoax "It turned out to be just a stuffed animal," the police chief said. "Now, we can all have a little laugh about it." Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1iSDbvU
George Hunter, The Detroit News Published 3:25 p.m. ET Sept. 17, 2015
Northville Township — To the frightened woman who called police, the orange, white and black striped figure lying motionless near a fence behind her condo unit looked like a slumbering tiger.
Officers arrived and, concerned that a nearby elementary school was about to let children out for the day, began the process of locking down the neighborhood. A sergeant then gingerly approached the beast. As he got closer, he saw it wasn't breathing.
That's because it was a stuffed animal.
Police officials believe someone planted the stuffed tiger to pull off a hoax similar to recent pranks, including those in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
"You train for crucial situations, and we responded quickly and did what we were supposed to do — but thank God it turned out to be just a stuffed animal," Northville Township Public Safety Director John Werth said. "Now, we can all have a little laugh about it."
Werth said a woman called police at about 3 p.m. Wednesday to report the "tiger" behind the Highland Lakes Condominium complex, which is just south of 8 Mile Road, and about a mile west of I-275.
"There's a wooded area behind the condos, and a fence; the woman said the tiger was lying near the fence," Werth said. "The woman was terrified."
Police arrived within minutes and began enacting emergency procedures, including going door-to-door to warn residents to say inside their homes, Werth said.
"Within about 20 minutes, we'd set up a perimeter," Werth said. "Looking through binoculars, it looked like a real tiger, although it wasn't moving at all. A sergeant walked up to it, and as he got closer, he saw that it was just a stuffed animal.
"That was pretty gutsy by the sergeant," Werth said. "If it had been real, you're talking about a dangerous situation — especially with elementary students about to be let out of school.
"The stuffed animal was near the fence line, covered up with brush," Werth said. "Someone went to extremes to pull this off."
Werth said there were similar incidents that turned out to be pranks, including a homeowner's May 31 call to Grand Rapids Police about a tiger that turned out to also be a stuffed animal.
Police have to take such calls seriously, Werth said, because people often keep dangerous wild animals — alligators, poisonous snakes, and, sometimes, real tigers — as pets.
It's not only illegal to keep wild animals as pets; it poses a danger to neighbors, and it's not good for the animals, experts say.
Had the tiger been real, Werth said he would have tried to find it a home at the Detroit Zoo.
Instead, he said, everyone got a good laugh — although Werth wasn't laughing about wasting his officers' time.
"Pranks like this can drain a lot of resources," he said. "In California, they actually deployed a helicopter after getting a report about a loose tiger. That's a lot of waste to respond to a prank. But you can't assume they're pranks; you have to take these things seriously.
"Now, we're making light of it," Werth said. "I'm calling the sergeant 'Tony the Tiger.' We're happy there wasn't any real danger."
GHunter@detroitnews.com
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A holiday on the farm in St. Johann in Tirol is romantic, natural and very family-friendly. There's plenty in store for families with children here. In St. Johann in Tirol, a wide range of farms await you. No matter if rustic farms on the mountain or organic or equestrian farms in the valley - there's a wide range of options. On this page you'll find many farms in the Region St. Johann in Tirol and more information about them. Enquire now without obligation!


The owner families and staff of the Engel Group mourn the loss of their senior directors. Irene and Georg Schwarz both passed away within only a few days of each other in late March and early April at ages 86 and 88. For decades, they jointly managed the business and followed the development of the company with great interest until the end.
Irene Schwarz had dedicated her life to the company already as a child and shaped ENGEL for more than 70 years. Born in 1929 in Neu-Werbaß (today called Vrbas) in Serbia, Irene Engel came with her family to Austria in 1944, where one year later her father Ludwig Engel founded a machinery construction company in Schwertberg. She worked in the company from the very beginning. Over many years she was bookkeeper, financial director, controller and director of human resources all at the same time.
In 1951, Irene Engel married Georg Schwarz, who also joined the staff at his father-in-law's company. Georg Schwarz was born in 1928 in Essegg (today called Osijek) in Croatia. In 1945, the Schwarz family found a new home in Upper Austria. Georg Schwarz attended the technical school for mechanical engineering in Linz, and completed an apprenticeship as a machinist parallel to these studies.
After the sudden death of Ludwig Engel in 1965, Irene and Georg Schwarz took over the management of the company that had 380 employees at the time. With entrepreneurial courage and a special intuition concerning industry trends and growing markets, they guided the company onto a path of growth that continues today. Early on they decided to establish foreign subsidiaries, opened two production plants in North America and already set the course for the system solutions business in the 1980s with the development and production of the company's own robots.
In 1997, they turned over the operational management to the third generation. Currently, Engel is implementing the next generational transition. Irene and Georg Schwarz were actively involved in the business well beyond their 80th birthdays. At the start of the new millennium, they oversaw the step into Asia with the founding of the production plants in Korea and China, and when flooding destroyed the production facilities at the headquarters in Schwertberg in 2002, they also joined in actively tackling the task of rebuilding.
In 1978, Georg Schwarz was appointed Honorary Senator of the University of Leoben and in 1992 Honorary Senator of the Vienna University of Technology. In 2009, his name was added to the Plastics Hall of Fame. This has its headquarters at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, USA, and represents the highest honour awarded in the international plastics industry. Georg Schwarz was a member of the board of the Federation of Austrian Industries for many years, and also represented the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Irene Schwarz was appointed Honorary Senator of the University of Leoben in 2006, the first woman in the history of the university.


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Six Nations tournament: an emotional XV of France
" Unbelievable ! " Hot, he keeps repeating, Fabien Galthié. The coach of the XV of France can not find other words to describe what his players have just made him experience, this Saturday, March 20 to mark a milestone at the Stade de France. So he remains breathless, at the microphone of France 2, and repeats it again: "This scenario is incredible. Unbelievable ! ". With a newfound energy, a pride undoubtedly too tickled, an unexpected lucidity, the Blues actually went to seek an improbable, insane victory, on a test snatched in the last seconds from the Welsh suddenly all dazed. Who could believe such a reversal of the situation?
Red dragons all on fire
There are matches that are impossible to lose. There are others that are impossible to win. This France-Wales seems for a long time to belong to this second category. Even if the first twenty minutes of the game augur a common level of excellence, the two teams surrendering blow for blow (two tries each), it appears quickly enough that the debates will not necessarily remain balanced. Flaming red dragons indeed light fires everywhere on the blue ramparts, creating breaches with insane regularity.
→ ANALYSIS. Rugby: despite the defeat against England, nothing is lost for the XV of France
One wave after another, they approach the tricolor in-goal, and the punishment seems inevitable. The Blues certainly arrive at half-time with a score of parity (17-17), but by retreating most often, and deprived of balls. Difficult to express oneself in these conditions. On resumption, these Welsh devils resume their assaults with the same ardor, rolling the blue defense, this same defense which seemed so aggressive and solid in previous meetings, but which there must suffer until necessarily breaking. At 30-20 per hour of play, the case seems over.
Especially since the Blues first take a yellow card (to the pillar Mohamed Haouas), thus forced to play 14. Worse: nine minutes later, when they have just scored the try of the resurgent hope, they must cash the refusal of the referee and the sanction for a dangerous clearing at the start of the action of Paul Willemse, punished by a red card. Double trouble, and morale in the socks. To recover from such a stroke of fate? The Blues were hardly used to it in recent years. But these Blues seem decidedly of a different caliber.
The last ten minutes are therefore completely implausible. The Blues do not abdicate. Quite the contrary. They're putting the pressure on. And the Welsh, until then very in control furious, suddenly lose their nerves. In turn, they take a yellow card, then another. They are playing 13. It is time: the French captain Charles Ollivon sounds the charge and succeeds in testing, re-inflating the sails of the France boat that was seen running aground. There are three minutes left, and that would be too good. It becomes. The Blues do not get carried away, do not mess up, and the back Brice Dulin after a long movement crosses the line. General issuance.
The Welsh are leaving Paris without their Grand Slam. To win this 2021 Tournament, the Blues must still win Friday March 26 against Scotland, by obtaining the offensive bonus, and by winning with more than 20 points in advance to overtake the Welsh.
Nothing is done. But the Blues hold their reference match after this whirlwind against the Welsh. They know it and fully intended Saturday night to savor it fully. "I am overcome with happiness. It's a pool of happiness ", Fabien Galthié let go again in a post-match press conference. "We left everything on the ground, summarized Charles Ollivon, it allows emotions like that ". Strong, very strong.
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Children born of celebrity parents are without a doubt very lucky. Most enjoy the luxurious life that many of their age mates only dream about.
Take for instance Ugandan musician Eddy Kenzo's daughter, Baby Amaal. The little girl recently turned a year older and to mark the occasion, her parents decided to throw one of the biggest parties Ugandans have ever seen.
In attendance were invited friends and family who came to celebrate the colourful party that had been organized by the little girl's mum.


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Q: Formula to Move the object in Circular Path I want to move one object (dot) in circular path.
By using x and y position of that object.
Thanks.

A: x and y should satisfy $x^2+y^2=r^2$, where r is radius of the circle.
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How to move the point in circular path by adding value of x and y? I want to create a circular path by looping the formula. –  Ganapathy
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let

x=rcos(t), y=rsin(t)

loop over t

A: Is this part of a piece of software? Clarification on what you need would be very helpful.
If the object each frame has a velocity vector which it follows, just rotate the velocity vector through some fixed angle each frame. The easiest way would be to build a rotation matrix and multiply by the matrix. In a very naive implementation, you would then add the velocity to the position vector each frame. In most applications, this is insufficient, and it is preferable to use Verlet integration, mainly in the presence of acceleration.
Or you can parameterize the points on the circle as a function of time using the relations $x = c_x + r\cos(t), y = c_y + r\sin(t)$ for $(c_x,c_y)$ the circle's center, $r$ its radius, and $t$ the time.

A: There are a few ways to choose from, but a nice one that doesn't require per-step trig functions (so can be calculated by a computer very quickly) is the midpoint circle algorithm.
Otherwise, you can use x=cos(theta)*radius, y=sin(theta)*radius for 0 < theta < 360.

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Mattias Sammer: Bayern Munich made mistake to let Toni Kroos join Real Madrid
Former sporting director Mattias Sammer has told Sport Bild that Bayern Munich made a "very bad" decision to allow Toni Kroos to leave for Real Madrid.
Sammer joined Bayern in 2012 and won the Bundesliga title every season during his four years at the club, also carrying off the Treble in 2013 — including the Champions League — when he worked closely with coach Jupp Heynckes and Kroos.
Pep Guardiola: Spanish police searched my jet looking for Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont
The Football Association has charged Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola for wearing a yellow ribbon during games.
Guardiola, who has supported calls for a referendum over Catalonia's independence from Spain, has worn the ribbon in a show of support for Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, two members of the Catalan government who were imprisoned in October.
Arsenal drawn against AC Milan in Europa League last 16
Arsenal will play AC Milan in the last 16 of the Europa League after their scare against Ostersunds.
The Gunners beat their Swedish opponents 4-2 on aggregate but came close to giving up the three-goal advantage they had built during Thursday's second leg at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsene Wenger backs Arsenal's Jack Wilshere after Roy Keane rant
Arsene Wenger defended Jack Wilshere after Roy Keane labelled the Arsenal midfield "probably the most over-rated player on the planet."
Arsenal slumped to an embarrassing 2-1 defeat at home to Ostersunds in the Europa League on Thursday, advancing to the last 16 by virtue of a 3-0 win in the away leg.
Aaron Samuel: I must play regularly to justify my pay
Aaron Samuel has said he can only justify his pay by playing regularly and that is why he is excited to have secured a loan move to Russian club Amkar Perm.
Samuel has completed a loan move from CSKA Moscow to Amkar Perm as he has struggled for game time at the top Russian army club.
Chinese billionaire Li Shufu buys biggest single stake in Daimler
Chinese billionaire Li Shufu has bought a near 10-percent stake in Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler, making him the German group's largest single shareholder, a stock market filing showed Friday.
Li, who chairs auto giant Geely Automobile Holdings, bought a 9.69-percent stake in the car maker, worth around 7.2 billion euros ($8.9 billion), according to the filing.
FIFA says it trusts Russia to ensure safe World Cup despite clashes
The world football governing body FIFA expressed "complete trust" Friday in Russia's ability to ensure a safe World Cup despite fan violence in Spain during which a policeman died.
A Basque officer died Thursday as hundreds of security forces clashed with supporters of Russian club Spartak Moscow in Bilbao before the start of a Europa League match.
#BBNaija: Tobi reveals how he contracted gonorrhoea at 17
Big Brother housemate, Tobi Bakare, on Friday revealed how he contracted a sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea, at 17.
Tobi opened up on his sexual experience while presenting a topic on 'the practice safe sex using condom.'
According to him, he was sexually active at the age of 12; and after a while, he stopped having safe sex as he assumed he was clean.
Driver who caused death of Professor Festus Iyayi jailed seven years
The dangerous driver, Danladi Baba, who drove recklessly and thereafter sniffed life out of the former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Festus Iyayi, in a road traffic crash on the Lokoja-Abuja Highway has been sentenced to seven (7) years imprisonment without an option of fine.
According to a press statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi kazeem, the ruling took place today at a Chief Magistrate Court 11 seating in Lokoja where the case was originally instituted in Cop v Danladi Baba SMCM/CR76/2014 case file.
EFCC amends corruption charges against Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday amended the 30-count charge against Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, a federal judge, by adding an additional count.
Rotimi Oyedepo, the EFCC counsel, said the amendment became imperative due to new evidence uncovered during investigations.
At the last court sitting, Abdullahi Lawal, an EFCC investigator, while giving evidence said a Customs official paid N12 million into Mrs. Ofili-Ajumogobia's bank account. The judge had sustained an objection to the witness's statement on the grounds that it was unrelated to the charges before the court.
Court affirms Henry Okah's prison sentence
South Africa's top court on Friday reinstated a 24 year prison sentence for Henry Okah convicted of a series of terror attacks in Nigeria eight years ago.
Okah was jailed in 2013 for masterminding a number of attacks, including twin bombings which killed 12 people in the Nigerian capital Abuja during independence day celebrations in 2010.
I'm sorry that Dapchi School Attack Happened - Buhari
Pesident Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he was sorry that the attack which led to the abduction of pupils from the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, happened.
He described the incident as "national disaster."
Buhari stated this in a release made available to journalists by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
NDLEA Destroys Drugs Worth N10b In Edo
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ) Edo Command on Friday destroyed illicit drugs valued at more than N10 billion in Benin.
Retired Col. Mohammad Abdallah, the Chairman of NDLEA who supervised the exercise, said that the quantum of drugs being destroyed clearly called for state of emergency over drug situation in the country.
Australia's Scandal-Hit Deputy PM To Resign
Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer.
Mr Joyce said he would step down on Monday as leader of the Nationals, the junior government partner.
Oyegun replies Tinubu: You have my full support
John Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Bola Tinubu, national leader, has his "fullest" support on his reconciliation assignment.
TheCable had reported how Tinubu wrote a scathing letter to the national chairman of the party accusing him of sabotage.
Banks get two weeks to settle complaints
Banks and other financial institutions must settle customers' complaints on overcharge, unauthorised deductions and other matters within two weeks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed.
Mr Tajudeen Ahmed, the CBN Head of Complaints Management Division, broke the news yesterday.
N650m fraud: EFCC rejects ex-FCT minister Akinjide's settlement terms
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday opened its case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N650m.
The anti-graft agency called its first witness in the case, after rejecting the proposal by the ex-minister and her co-defendants to settle the case out of court.
Yobe govt apologises for false news on missing Dapchi girls
The Yobe State Government has apologised for a false report it released stating that some of the missing schoolgirls from the state had been rescued.
At least 30 girls of the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi, were still missing as at Wednesday evening, three days after their school was attacked by suspected Boko Haram members.
Transparency International report erroneous - Sagay
Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) yesterday described the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) as erroneous.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
"I Slept With 230 Nigerian Girls, 1170 Others From 5 Other Countries" – French Tourist
Many Nigerian and African women see all westerners as very wealthy people who can change their lives, hence a man has revealed his escapades with hundreds of women.
While speaking to an online news site, Africa24, a 40-year-old French tourist, Jean Michel, admitted that he impregnated more than 600 women in six African countries including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana and Guinea, within two years.
His confession has been translated from French to English by Simon Ateba in Washington, District of Columbia and it reads:
Former UNILAG VC named Ibadan Technical University Pro-Chancellor
The governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has appointed a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Oye Ibidapo-Obe, as the pioneer pro-chancellor and chairman of the Governing Council of the Technical University, Ibadan.
The appointment was announced through a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Olalekan Alli, in Ibadan, on Thursday.
Tinubu: APC govs, members, stand with Oyegun, says Bello
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has said that state governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the majority of the party members have confidence in the party's National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
Bello said this in an interview with State House correspondents on Thursday evening after a meeting the governors had with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
BREAKING: Benue court jails three herdsmen
A magistrates' court in Makurdi, Benue state, on Friday handed a one-year jail sentence to three herders – Iliya Garba, Hassan Abdullahi, and Lanshak Lonfalk – for violating the law enacted in 2017.
The convicts were charged with criminal conspiracy and open nomadic livestock rearing and grazing.
Dangote Refinery: Hyundai wins $58m contract to construct LPG tanks
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., one of the world's largest shipbuilders and industrial equipment manufacturers, said yesterday that it has received a $58 million order to build 15 bullet tanks for storing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for Dangote Oil Refining Company, Africa's largest refinery, beginning in April 2019.
Dangote Oil Refinery Company (Dangote) is constructing an integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos. The refinery is expected to be the world's biggest single-train facility, upon completion in 2019.
Allocation drops by N20bn, FG, states, LGs share N635.55bn
The Federation Account Allocation Committee on Thursday approved the sum of N635.55bn to be shared to the three tires of government from the Federation Account as statutory allocation for the month of January.
The figure was announced by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Idris Ahmed, shortly after the FAAC meeting, which was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance in Abuja.
We'll beam searchlight on Dana Air, others – FG
The Federal Government has said that it will beam its searchlight on Dana Air and other airlines operating in the country to ensure that Nigerians travelling by air are safe.
The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, made this known when he visited the scene of the incident involving a Dana Air plane at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State.
Woman files for divorce 40 days after wedding because husband refused to buy her shawarma
A 30-year-old woman filed for divorce from her 32-year-old husband after only 40 days of marriage on grounds that he is "so stingy" that he refused to buy her a shawarma sandwich on their first and only outing as a married couple.
Speaking before a Family Court in Zananiri, Egypt, the young woman, known only as Sameeha, said the shawarma incident was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Residents of Kwara Local Government Denounce Nigeria,claims Benin Republic
Residents of Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State have denounced their Nigerian citizenship.
According to reports gathered, they now to belong to Republic of Benin.The residents attributed their decision to long neglect of the local government in terms of basic infrastructure by the Kwara State government.
In a statement made available to journalists, Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat of Kwara Must Change, accused Kwara politicians of deceiving residents of the local government with promises during electioneering campaign.
'Send your child to school or risk imprisonment' – Bayelsa State Government
The Bayelsa State Government has vowed to arrest and prosecute any parent who refuses to allow his child to acquire formal education. The decision came on the heels of the signing into law of the Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education Law by Governor Seriake Dickson.
Addressing journalists on Thursday after a meeting by the State Executive Council, the Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite, said that with the signing of the bill into law, every child of school age must be enrolled in any of the various model schools in the state.
Barber bags 42 years in jail for robbery
An apprentice barber has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for robbery.
Samuel Edet was sentenced at a Lagos High Court in Igbosere. Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya convicted Edet of robbing an aluminium technician Adewale Elelo of his Nissan Pathfinder on February 21, 2012. She sentenced him to 21 years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit robbery and another 21 years for robbery. The sentences, which were without an option of a fine, will run concurrently, meaning Edet will spend only 21 years in jail, The Nation reports.
Argentine Police find $62m worth of cocaine in Russian embassy
Police in Argentina have seized nearly 400 kilos of cocaine from the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires and arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang.
Patricia Bullrich told a press conference that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a street value of around 50 million euros (about $62 million). "A gang of narco-criminals was trying to use the diplomatic courier service of the Russian embassy" to ship the drugs to Europe, she said.
Explained: The Unexplained Wealth Order and how it affects rich Nigerians
On 27 April 2017, the UK Parliament passed the Criminal Finance Act 2017 (Act) into law amending the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. The Act, amongst other things, introduces the Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) effective from 31 January 2018.
Lady Explains How Electrician She Brought To Her House Almost Raped Her Children's Nanny
A Nigerian lady has taken to social media to narrate how an electrician she brought into her house to fix a thing almost raped her children's nanny. She said she didn't have cash at hand and had to rush to the ATM in other to be able to pay him, but before she returned the unthinkable almost happened. Here's what she said;
Imo Zenith Bank robbery: Police nab fleeing suspect one year after
One year after an armed robbery gang invaded a branch of Zenith Bank in Owerri, Imo State, killed two policemen and wounded another, the Police have arrested the last member of the gang.
His name is given as Chinonso Gift Onwuegbuchulam, aka, Ogolo, from Obazu Mbieri in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State.
Missing Girls: Angry Dapchi Residents Stone Governor Gaidem's Cars (Photos)
Some aggrieved residents of Dapchi, headquarters of Busari local government area of Yobe state, attacked Ibrahim Gaidam, governor of the state, on Thursday.
They not only booed the number one citizen of the state but threw stones and dangerous objects at his convoy, resulting in the destruction of some vehicles.
Gaidam had gone to the community to inform the people that the students kidnapped from Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, have not been rescued.
Thousands Of Teens Walk Out Of Classes To Protest Gun Laws Across The U.S.(Photos)
Thousands of studentshave walked out of their classrooms in protest over gun laws as they showed support for the teen survivors of Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting who are rallying in the state's Capitol.
Students from across the country participated in the mass walk out on Wednesday to honor the 17 people killed in the deadly massacre in Parkland, Florida a week ago.
11,000-car traffic jam in China causes commuters to spend the entire night and the next morning in traffic
If you think traffic in Lagos is bad, wait till you hear of the one that happened in China on February 21.
Due to extremely heavy fog causing low visibility on Wednesday night, ferry services on the Qiongzhou Strait were canceled. This meant that the thousands of cars, coaches, buses and lorries that needed to use the service were stuck. And the number of people waiting in or outside of the three Haikou ports just built up until there was heavy traffic.
Photo: ICPC declares woman wanted in Lagos for fraud
Mrs. Gladys Aginwa and one Mr. Dennis Ale, have been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with issues bordering on fraud.
Mrs. Aginwa is currently the Managing Director of Smiles & Light Ltd, and her last known address is 13A, Adediran Street, Magodo Phase II, Lagos.
Meet 15 year old Anthony Borges who saved his school amtes by using his body as a shield during Florida school gun attack
15-year-old Anthony Borges is pictured in the hospital where he's receiving treatment after he was shot five times in last week's Florida high school shooting. Borges is being hailed a hero after saving 20 of his classmates by using his own body as a shield. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel visited him and shared the photo on IG...
Controversial Northern leader, Ango Abdullahi appointed NEF BoT chairman
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has appointed Prof. Ango Abdullahi as its Chairman Board of Trustee (BOT), with a promise to work with the Federal Government to ensure peace in the country.
The forum made the promise in a statement signed by Alhaji Mahammed Kirfi, its implementation committee chairman on Thursday in Abuja.
INEC will cancel election in any troublesome ward – REC
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will cancel elections in wards with irregularities.
Prof. Francis Ezeonu, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, said elections in areas where ballot boxes were seized or where voting was marred by any violence would be voided.
Buhari to address the nation on second term
The Chairman of the APC Governors' Forum, Rochas Okorocha of Imo, said President Muhammadu Buhari would soon address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019.
Okorocha stated this when he briefed State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting between the President and the APC governors held on Thursday night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Yobe governor visits Dapchi, says no girl has been rescued
Yobe state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, has faulted claims that the Nigerian military has rescued 48 out of the 94 girls that have been declared missing from Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state.
The girls went missing after an attack on their school by Boko Haram members on Monday February 19th. There were reports that 48 of the girls have been rescued.
Hot water bath dangerous for babies, expert warns
Hellen Bulu, community health technician, says giving babies hot water bath and stretching their arms in an attempt to massage them is dangerous for them.
NAN reports that Bulu of Family Health Clinic, gave the advice in a lecture to mothers at an immunisation programme on Thursday in Abuja.
Pogba feels harshly treated by Mourinho
Manchester United midfielder, Paul Pogba, feels he is being harshly treated by manager Jose Mourinho and wants the Portuguese to show him more support as he endures a difficult spell.
United's record £89million signing has fallen out of favour and was left on the bench for their 0-0 draw with Sevilla in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
Dangote to build sugar plants in six states, targets N100,000 jobs
Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Group, says there are plans to commence the building of integrated sugar plants in six states in Nigeria.
He made the announcement at a forum in Lagos to honour major distributors of Dangote Foods.
He said the plants, expected to generate up to 100,000 jobs, would be built in Adamawa, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi and Niger.
Meet The Porn Star Who Claimed To Have Slept With 36 police Officers.
A woman who claims to have bedded 36 Irish police officers has posted a video on a porn site of herself apparently having sex at the side of the road.Filmed with a man in Garda uniform, the woman – dubbed "Carla 4 Garda" – says she took part in the sex act by an Irish motorway.
The amateur porn star has claimed online that she has a fetish for officers and only has sex with members of the force.
Heroic husband jumps in front of car to save pregnant wife
Catastrophe was averted as a father of three from Fresno, Calif might just have proved himself to be a hero as he jumps in front of a car to save his pregnant wife.
The accident involved his mother,pregnant wife and kids as it came at the end of a joyous day celebrating his son's sixth birthday at a local restaurant.
Dragon flew away with our newly worldbank loaned money $486 million, Lai Mohammad, presidency
Another information is coming in that a dragon have made away with $486 million, a loan given to Nigeria by world bank
This was revealed to newsmen by Lai Muhammad minutes after the money was received from world bank, on landing the Nigerian soil, the money was made away by unknown dragon.
Father Chains Twin Daughters, Repeatedly Rapes Them With One Giving Birth To Two Children
A man has been charged for allegedly raping, starving and beating his twin daughters in their Minneapolis home.
Charges were filed against Jerry Lee Curry, 51, who has been accused of 'torturing' his twin girls, whom he subjected to long periods of captivity in chains.
A protective order against Curry also revealed that he fathered two children by one of the twins.
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These will be short posts about my training sessions for the Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon. I'm raising funds for Cuso International.
The training session was the familiar Yonge Street route. I started from Yonge and St. Clair headed down to the Lake and came back. I have to do the 12.2 KMs in less than 1 hour and 45 minutes.
The way down was quite slow but I managed to get back home in 1 hour and 43 minutes, so a success! I'll be posting more of these, so keep posted!
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