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B Coy., 3rd Batt., 3rd Tipperary Brigade IRA.
Michael Ryan was born in Ballybrack, Anacarty in 1892. His parents were Tom Ryan, Ballybrack, and Johanna Broderick from Blackstairs, Hollyford. Michael was the third youngest of their nine children, five boys and four girls.
In due course he attended Mohora NS. His first teachers there were Margaret Ryan and Michael Ryan. In 1898 they were replaced by Mary Davern[1] and Patrick McCarthy.
As a member of a nationally-minded family he became involved in the struggle for Independence along with his younger brother, Thomas. His sister, Nance, the baby of the family, was an active member of Cumann na mBan and carried dispatches and smuggled guns for the IRA, including Gen. Liam Lynch. During WW1 he joined the Irish Volunteers and rose to the rank of Lieutenant of the Anacarty Coy. of which James Quinlan of Ballysheedy was Captain and consisted of eighty six Volunteers. His IRA activities became known to the RIC and he had to leave home and go on the run. He found protection and shelter at McGrath's and Ryan's Seanthaidg in Bonarea.
Those houses were raided by the police a number of times but Michael Ryan was well minded and he always managed to escape.
In January 1921 Capt. James Quinlan, O/C B Coy., Anacarty IRA was arrested and interned. Michael became acting Company Captain.
On a visit home he was unfortunate to be sighted by an RIC patrol, which was very likely tipped off about his presence there by a local informer. He and his brother Tom fled from home and ran downhill towards the cover of the bushes along the Bonarea River. Halfway down Ryan Corcoran's field he was shot and mortally wounded. He was removed to hospital in Tipperary where he died the following day, 13th May 1921.
His grand-nephew discovered during a search of the RIC archives in Kew, London, that the reason he was fired on was because he was wearing the Volunteer uniform.
Hansard records the following for 01 June 1921,
Mr. Mosley[2] asked the Chief Secretary whether he will make inquiries into the circumstances under which Michael Ryan of Ballybrack, was shot dead, while crossing one of his father's fields, by armed forces of the Crown on 12th May last?
Sir H. Greenwood,[3] 'The Court of Inquiry in this case found that deceased was shot by members of the Crown forces in the execution of their duty, he having failed to halt when called upon to do so, and that no blame attached to any member of the Crown forces. According to the evidence, Ryan was on the road when challenged by the patrol, but he jumped a hedge and endeavoured to get away. He was called upon to halt three times before he was fired upon'.
Major M. Wood,[4] 'How far was this man away when he was called upon to halt?'
Mr. Mosley, 'How many men, can the right hon. Gentleman say, have been shot in Ireland for this kind of thing?'
Mr. Speaker, 'I think notice should be given of that question.'
Michael Ryan is buried in one of the nine graves in the family plot in Kilpatrick cemetery. In autumn 2016 his grandniece, Nora Mai Ryan (P) of Ballybrack erected a beautiful headstone for many deceased members of her family and recorded his death on it. On the day of his funeral Carew's house in Goldengarden and all its contents were blown up by crown forces.
The following month Michael's sister, ………….., received the following letter of condolence from the HQ of Cumann na mBan,
The Executive desires me to convey to you on their behalf sincerest sympathy on the loss of your brother, while at the same time, they, with you feel proud that Ireland, our country, has so many sons ready and willing to give their lives for her, we cannot be beaten as long as the spirit of the people continue as it is.
(Illegible signature)
Run. Onor.
In the early 1930's the Lieutenant's aged father, Tom, applied for a pension as the parent of an IRA Officer who'd died on active service. In the course of his submission he stated that his son had joined the IRA in 1917. He had joined as a Private. In 1919 he'd been appointed 2nd Lieutenant, and in 1920 he'd been appointed 1st Lt. From January until his death in May 1921 he served as Acting Company Captain. His father asserted that, "(He) was a very dutiful officer and a big loss to the IRA in the district at the time".
His claim for recompense for the death of his son was strongly supported by Tadgh Dwyer of Grovestown, Dundrum, former Commandant of the Third Battalion. When he filled out the claim form he stated,
Deceased, who served as Company Lieutenant and also acting Coy. Captain, was on the run, and was suddenly seen by the British forces one evening near his home. In attempting to evade capture he received fatal wounds from which he died a few hours later. Family of deceased are in poor circumstances, and have suffered losses through the intervening years.
Elsewhere on the form he wrote, "As this family suffered a lot during the troubles this is a most deserving claim."
The Third Battalion's former Intelligence Officer, William F. Quinlan, then resident in Dublin, gave a similar reference.
There were two witnesses to the shooting, Michael Ryan (C) and his own younger brother, Patrick. The latter stated,
On that evening he called home and a raiding party of military dropped in and while trying to escape was shot. I saw him being shot.
Michael's death Certificate stated that he died on the thirteenth of May 1921 in the Military hospital, Tipperary. Under the heading, "Certified cause of Death and Duration of Illness", was recorded,
Loss of blood and shock.
3 hours 8 minutes.
Deceased himself to blame.
In the box headed "Informant", it recorded, "Certificate received from Military Court of Inquiry held 13th May 1921".
Tom Ryan's application for a pension was rejected. However on 21 January 1935 a Gratuity of £75 (c. €99) was awarded to him.
Some years ago in 2014 the Third Tipperary Brigade Old IRA Commemoration Committee erected a fine memorial in his honour outside his birthplace in Ballybrack.
[1] She later married Michael's brother Pat.
[2] Oswald Mosley (1896-1980) MP for Smethwick. Various political parties
[3] Sir Hamar Greenwood, last Chief Secretary for Ireland Oct. 1920-Apr1922.
[4] Sir Murdoch McKenzie Wood (1881-1949) Liberal MP for Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire Central in 1920.
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Join the Q – debiutancki album brytyjskiej grupy muzycznej The Qemists. Został wydany 2 lutego 2009 roku i zdobył w większości pozytywne oceny od recenzentów.

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 "Stompbox" – 4:29
 "Lost Weekend" (feat. Mike Patton) – 4:35
 "On the Run" (feat. Jenna G) – 5:15
 "Dem Na Like Me" (feat. Wiley) – 4:37
 "S.W.A.G." (Intro) – 2:11
 "S.W.A.G." (feat. Devlin Love) – 4:49
 "Drop Audio" (feat. MC ID) – 5:00
 "When Ur Lonely" – 6:02
 "Soundface" (feat. Beardyman) – 1:35
 "Got One Life" (feat. MC Navigator) – 4:05
 "The Perfect High" – 5:21
 Wydanie japońskie:
 "Lost Weekend" (The Qemists Got Your Money Remix) (feat. Mike Patton)
 "Play with Fire" (feat. Jenna G)
 CD2 – Album & Instrumentals:
 "Lost Weekend" (Instrumental) – 4:38
 "On the Run" (Instrumental) – 5:50
 "Dem Na Like Me" (Instrumental) – 4:46
 "S.W.A.G." (Intro) (Instrumental) – 2:13
 "S.W.A.G." (Instrumental) – 4:58
 "Drop Audio" (Instrumental) – 6:13
 "When Ur Lonely" (Instrumental) – 6:19
 "Stompbox" (Spor Remix) – 5:47
 "Dem Na Like Me" (VIP Remix) (feat. Wiley) – 5:13
 "Lost Weekend" (The Qemists Got Your Money Remix) (feat. Mike Patton) – 5:17
 "Dem Na Like Me" (Elektrons Remix) (feat. Wiley) – 3:34
 "Lost Weekend" (Hot Pink Delorean Remix) (feat. Mike Patton) – 6:12
 "Everything is Under Control" (Coldcut) (The Qemists Remix) (feat. Jon Spencer & Mike Ladd) – 5:32
 "Atomic Moog" (Coldcut) (The Qemists Remix) – 6:07

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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Describable visual attributes are any visual and contextual information that can be gleaned from images~\cite{6248021,selfie}. Typically, these attributes can be \emph{automatically} deduced from images and can be broadly classified into demographic, anthropometric, medical, material, and behavioral attributes. Examples of demographic attributes include age, gender, and ethnicity, which can be gleaned from facial images~\cite{bio_iet,8272766}. Anthropometric attributes include body geometry and facial geometry. Body Mass Index, wrinkles, and health conditions are examples of medical attributes, while eyeglasses, scarf, and gait are examples of material and behavioral attributes~\cite{jain04}. Attributes such as age and gender have drawn significant interest in applications such as surveillance, forensics, human-computer interaction, indexing, and targeted advertisement systems~\cite{8272766}.

Recently, body weight and BMI have drawn significant interest in health-monitoring and weight loss applications~\cite{Wen13,8546159,Kocabey}.
 BMI is defined as (body mass in kg)/ (body height in m)$^2$. The BMI within $25.0$ to $30$ and $30$ or higher, falls within the overweight and the obese range, respectively.
This is due to alarming trends related to obesity affecting $93.3$ million adults in the United States alone~\cite{hales}. Obesity is one of the biggest drivers of preventable chronic diseases and healthcare costs in the United States. Severe obesity costs the United States approximately $69$ billion overall, with almost $8$ billion a year being paid for via state Medicaid programs~\cite{Wang}.
Chronic conditions related to obesity include \textit{heart disease, stroke, type $2$ diabetes, and some cancers}, which are the leading causes of preventable death\footnote{https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/}. Since $1975$, the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled\footnote{https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight}.

A goal of Healthy People $2020$\footnote{https://www.healthypeople.gov/} program in the United states is to promote health and reduce chronic disease by maintaining a healthy body weight. This is in order to minimize the chances of chronic disease development and death at an earlier age. The current trend is in the investigation of image-based automated self diagnostic methods\footnote{https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/obesity/news/online/\%7Bd61fdec1-dbbb-4b6f-98e8-825f6d19c9b4\%7D/mobile-apps-may-facilitate-weight-loss-among-adults-with-type-2-diabetes} for healthy weight monitoring. Specific interest is in the development of face-based \emph{non-intrusive health care/ telemedicine solutions} for smartphones~\cite{Mann2020}. This interest has been spurred with wide-scale integration of face recognition technology in smartphones for legitimate access to mobile users such as iPhone X series~\cite{selfie}.

A handful of academic studies~\cite{Wen13, Kocabey,8546159} suggest that BMI can be gleaned from facial images using machine and deep learning methods. \emph{However, current literature lacks in understanding of the efficacy of different deep learning architectures, such as VGG and ResNet, in BMI prediction from facial images}. There is no evaluation and understanding of the efficacy of various deep CNN architectures in BMI prediction. Different CNN architectures are bound to obtain different results due to feature representation differences emerging from their unique architectures. Therefore, the comparison of different CNNs become vital in further advancing knowledge in this domain.

\vspace{0.25 cm} \noindent\textbf{Our Contribution:}
To advance the state-of-the-art in face analysis based automated self-diagnostic methods for maintaining a healthy weight, the contributions of this paper are as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item Investigation and comparative analysis of deep features from different CNN architectures for BMI prediction from facial images. To facilitate this, deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, MobileNet, and DenseNet models, pre-trained on ImageNet dataset, are evaluated in this study.
\item Experimental investigation on three publicly available datasets consisting of facial images from Asian, Caucasian, and African American, including Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities, in social media. These datasets have significant variations in facial images due to factors such as make-up, pose, and varying lighting conditions.
\end{itemize}

\section{Prior Work on BMI Inference from Facial Images}
\label{sec:format}
Wen and Guo~\cite{Wen13} proposed the first study, to the best of our knowledge, on the automated face-based estimation of BMI. The authors used geometry, and ratio-based features (such as cheekbone to jaw width, width to upper facial height ratio,  perimeter to area ratio, and eye size)  obtained using an Active Shape Model along with the Support Vector Regression~(SVR) for BMI prediction. Reported results obtained Mean Absolute Error (MAE) in the range $[2.65, 4.29]$ on MORPH-II face dataset. The BMI-annotation of MORPH-II is not publicly available.

Kocabey et al.~\cite{Kocabey} proposed a BMI prediction method composed of deep feature extraction using VGG in combination with Support Vector Regression. Experiments on the VisualBMI dataset assembled by the authors from the web obtained Pearson correlation of $0.71$, $0.57$, and $0.65$, for Male, Female, and Overall, respectively.

Dantcheva et al.~\cite{8546159} proposed an end-to-end CNN obtained by replacing the last fully connected layer of ResNet from $1000$ channels to $1$ channel and using smooth L$1$ loss to cater regression. Experiments on the VIP attribute dataset consisting of Hollywood celebrities assembled by the authors from the web obtained MAE of $2.32$, $2.30$, and $2.36$ for Male, Female, and Overall, respectively.

\section{Deep Features for BMI Prediction from Facial Images}

\subsection{Deep features from Pretrained CNNs}
The deep learning models evaluated in this study are mostly CNNs pre-trained on large scale datasets comprising of million of training images for large-scale image classification. Deep features are extracted by activating one of the layers of the network and obtaining feature representation. Table~\ref{tab:model_comp} shows the feature size and the number of parameters of the various CNN models used for deep feature extraction in this study. Next, we discuss these CNN models in terms of their architecture, and parameters involved due to the convolutional and fully connected layers.

\begin{enumerate}

\item \textbf{VGG}: The VGG architecture was introduced by Visual Graphics Group research team at Oxford University~\cite{Simonyan14c}. The architecture consists of sequentially stacked $3\times 3$ convolutional layers with intermediate max-pooling layers followed by a couple of fully connected layers for feature extraction. Usually, VGG models have $13$ to $19$ layers. We used VGG-$19$ in this study which has $140M$ number of parameters.

\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{arc1.png}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{arc2.png}
\caption{Architecture of (a) VGG, (b) ResNet, (c) MobileNet, and (d) LightCNN.}
\label{figarc}
\end{figure}

\item \textbf{ResNet}~\cite{7780459} is a short form of residual networks based on the idea of "identity shortcut connection," where input features may skip certain layers. In this study, we used ResNet-50, which has $23.5M$ parameters.

\item \textbf{DenseNet}~\cite{huang2017densely} are inspired by residual networks, where all the previous layers' features are transferred to the current layer. Apart from tackling the vanishing gradients problem, this architecture also strengthens feature propagation and feature reuse while reducing the number of parameters required. In this study, we used DenseNet-121, which has $3.2M$ parameters.

\item \textbf{MobileNet}~\cite{howard2017mobilenets} is one of the most popular mobile-centric deep learning architectures, which is not only small in size but also computationally efficient while achieving high performance. The main idea of MobileNet is that instead of using regular $3\times3$ convolution filters, the operation is split into depth-wise separable $3\times3$ convolution filters followed by $1\times1$ convolutions. In our experiments, we used MobileNet-v2 with $0.5$x channels multiplier with an input size of $224\times 224$ for testing. This model is denoted as~\textit{MobileNet\_V2\_0.5\_224} in Table~\ref{tab:model_comp}.

\item \textbf{lightCNN}~\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/WuHS15}  This model heavily applies Max-Feature-Map (MFM) operation instead of ReLu activation. This acts as feature filter after each convolution layer. The operation takes two feature maps, eliminates the element-wise minimum, and returns element-wise maximum. By doing so across feature channels, only $50\%$ of the information-bearing nodes from each layer reach the next. Consequently, each layer is forced to preserve compact feature maps during training. The architecture is a stack of convolutional and MFM operations. For the purpose of this study, we used lightCNN consisting of $29$ layers and $11$M parameters and trained on ImageNet dataset from scratch.

\end{enumerate}

\begin{table}
\caption{Extracted feature size and number of parameters for each CNN model tested in this study. }
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\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\textbf{Model}} & \textbf{Feature Size} & \textbf{Parameters}  \\ \hline
\textbf{VGG - 19}~\cite{Simonyan14c}                    & 4096                  & 140M                    \\ \hline
\textbf{ResNet - 50}~\cite{7780459}                 & 2048                  & 23.5M                  \\ \hline
\textbf{DenseNet - 121}~\cite{huang2017densely}              & 1024                  & 7M                        \\ \hline
\textbf{MobileNet\_v2\_0.5\_224}~\cite{howard2017mobilenets}      & 1280                  & 688K                       \\ \hline
\textbf{lightCNN}~\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/LiuWYLRS17}               & 512                  & 11M                          \\ \hline
\end{tabular}}
\label{tab:model_comp}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\subsection{End-to-End Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)}
For the sake of completeness and comparison, we also developed custom CNN trained from scratch for the performance evaluation.
Table~\ref{tab:cnn_arch} show the complete architecture of the proposed end-to-end CNN developed from scratch. The proposed CNN accepts input as $224\times 224$ image and consists of three convolutional layers followed by batch normalization and max pooling. These layers are followed by two fully connected layers of 200 channels and one channel for regression. The proposed CNN architecture is selected based on the performance obtained on the validation set. The model is trained using Adam optimizer~\cite{kingma2014adam} at a learning rate of $0.001$ using $150$ epochs and MAE as the loss function.

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Architecture of the custom end-to-end CNN for BMI prediction consisting of three convolutional blocks followed by two dense layers.}
\scalebox{0.9}{
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\textbf{Layer}     & \textbf{Output Shape}  & \textbf{\# Parameters} \\ \hline
conv1(3,3)    & (224, 224, 32) & 896 \\
batch normalization & (224, 224, 32) &     896 \\
max pooling(2,2) &  ( 112, 112, 32)  &    0 \\
conv2(3,3)     &      ( 112, 112, 64)   &   18496  \\

batch normalization & (112, 112, 64)   &   448  \\

max pooling(2,2) & (56, 56, 64)   &     0    \\

conv3(3,3)     &      (56, 56, 128)   &    73856   \\

batch normalization & (56, 56, 128)    &   224   \\

max pooling(2,2) & (28, 28, 128)    &   0     \\

flatten   &      (100352)        &   0      \\

dense      &       (200)        &       20070600   \\

dense         &      (1)          &       201 \\ \hline

\textbf{Total}               & 20,164,833            &                    \\ \hline
\end{tabular}}

\label{tab:cnn_arch}
\end{table}

\section{Experimental Validations}

\subsection{Dataset and Protocol}

\begin{itemize}

\item \textbf{VisualBMI dataset~\cite{Kocabey}:} This dataset comprises of total of $4206$ faces with corresponding gender and BMI information collected from the web. Of these, seven were in the under-weight range ($16$ $<$ BMI $\geq$ $18.5$), $680$ were normal ($18.5$ $<$ BMI $\geq$ $25$), $1151$ were overweight ($25$ $<$ BMI $\geq$ $30$), $941$ were moderately obese ($30$ $<$ BMI $\geq$ $35$), $681$ were severely obese ($35$ $<$ BMI $\geq$ $40$) and $746$ were very severely obese($40$ $<$ BMI). The subset of $2896$ images were used as the training set and the rest $1302$ images ($651$ male and $651$ female) as the test set. Training and testing subsets are selected to ensure equal number of male and females samples in the test set.

\item \textbf{VIP-Attributes~\cite{8546159}:}  Images in the VIP attribute dataset, are obtained in $2017$ from the WWW consisting of $513$ female and $513$ male subjects (mainly actors, singers and athletes). The images include the frontal pose of the subjects. Co-variates include illumination, expression, image quality, and resolution. Further challenging in this dataset are beautification (e.g., photoshop) of the images, as well as the presence of makeup, plastic surgery, beard, and mustache. The annotations related to the subjects' BMI were obtained from websites such as www.celebheights.com, www.howtallis.org, and celebsize.com. The subset of $726$ images was used as the training set and the rest $300$ samples as the test set ($150$ male and $150$ female).

\item \textbf{Bollywood dataset~\cite{bolly}:} The Bollywood data set was obtained from Github and had a total of $236$ images belonging to $231$ males and rest females. This is a small size dataset used for the sole purpose of evaluation of overall error rate.

\end{itemize}

\begin{figure} [!t]
\begin{center}
\label{images}
\includegraphics[scale=0.90]{sample_img.png}
\caption{Example of face images from VisualBMI~\cite{Kocabey}, VIP attribute~\cite{8546159} and bollywood datasets~\cite{bolly} row-wise. The covariates such as make-up, pose, lighting variations and uncontrolled background are available in these datasets.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\noindent Figure 1 shows the sample face images from VisualBMI~\cite{Kocabey}, VIP attribute~\cite{8546159} and Bollywood datasets~\cite{bolly} used in this study. The face detection was performed using Dlib library~\cite{dlib}, which is based on a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) used along with Support Vector Machine (SVM). Only eight face images from the VisualBMI dataset that obtained failure to enroll (FTE) error, caused due to failure in face detection, were discarded.
Mean absolute error (MAE) is used as a measure of the difference between the BMI ($\hat{BMI}$) inferred by the system and the ground truth ($BMI$) averaged over $n$ face images (eq.~\ref{eq:1}).

\begin{align}
MAE = \frac{\sum^{n}_{i=1}|\hat{BMI}_i-BMI_i|}{n}
\label{eq:1}
\end{align}

Using the training set of facial images (cropped face images obtained using face detection) from the VisualBMI and VIP-Attributes datasets, deep features were extracted from the pretrained models listed in Table~\ref{tab:model_comp}. The extracted deep features along with the Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Ridge Regression (RR) were used for training the BMI prediction model. The deep features extracted from the face images in the test set were used for testing the SVR and RR models using MAE. The Support Vector Regression (SVR) uses the same principles as the Support Vector Machine that is used for classification and outputs a real number. Ridge regression minimizes squared error while regularizing the norm of the weights as follows:
\begin{equation}
  J(w) = \lambda{w}^2 + \sum_i (w^T \hat{BMI}_i - {BMI}_i)^2.
\end{equation}

\subsection{Results}
Table~\ref{mae_mit} shows the MAE obtained for deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet, and lightCNN, used along with Support Vector Regression~(SVR) and Ridge Regression~(RR) for training and testing BMI prediction on VisualBMI dataset. It can be seen that all the CNNs obtained equivalent MAE in the range $[5.02, 5.87]$. No significant differences were noted across gender and regression methods (SVR and RR). DenseNet and ResNet obtained better performance overall when used with Ridge Regression. The study by Kocabey et al.~\cite{Kocabey} used the Pearson Correlation coefficient to evaluate the VGG model on the VisualBMI dataset. Therefore our results cannot be compared with this study~\cite{Kocabey}.

\begin{table}[t!]
\caption{MAE of deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet, and lightCNN, used along with support ector regression (SVR) and ridge regression (RR) for BMI inference on VisualBMI dataset.}
\begin{center}
\scalebox{0.99}{
\begin{tabular}{l|ll|ll|ll}
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Overall}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Male}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Female} }\\ \hline
     Model                     & RR          & SVR           & RR         & SVR          & RR          & SVR           \\ \hline
VGG-19~\cite{Simonyan14c}                    & 5.71            & 5.87          & 5.85          & 5.39         & 5.58           & 6.35          \\
ResNet-50~\cite{7780459}                    & 5.08            & 5.16          & 5.00             & 5.18         & 5.16           & 5.15          \\
DenseNet~\cite{huang2017densely}                  & 5.02            & 5.05          & 5.01            & 5.09         & 5.03           & 5.01          \\
MobileNet~\cite{howard2017mobilenets}                 & 5.56            & 5.39          & 5.78          & 5.23         & 6.44           & 6.12           \\
lightCNN~\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/LiuWYLRS17}               & 5.75            & 5.77          & 5.56          & 5.70          & 5.95           & 5.85          \\ \hline

\end{tabular}}
\end{center}
\label{mae_mit}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{mae_holly} shows the MAE obtained for deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet and lightCNN. These features are used along with support vector regression and ridge regression for training and testing BMI prediction on VIP Attribute dataset. It can be seen that all the CNNs obtained equivalent MAE in the range $[1.13, 2.57]$. ResNet and DenseNet obtained lower error when used along with Ridge Regression. No significant differences in error rates were noted across gender. For most of the cases, Ridge Regression obtained lower error rates than Support Vector Regression. Lower errors were obtained on the VIP Attribute dataset in comparison to the VisualBMI dataset. This could be due to low variance in the BMI annotation of the VIP Attribute dataset as it consists of facial images from Hollywood celebrities.

\begin{table}[t!]
\caption{MAE of deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet, and lightCNN used along with support vector regression (SVR) and ridge regression (RR) for BMI inference on VIP Attribute dataset.}
\begin{center}
\scalebox{0.99}{
\begin{tabular}{l|ll|ll|ll}
\multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Overall}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Male}} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Female}} \\ \hline
     Model                     & RR           & SVR           & RR        & SVR          & RR          & SVR           \\ \hline
VGG-19~\cite{Simonyan14c}                    & 2.44             &  2.57          & 2.39         & 2.42         & 2.49            & 2.73          \\
ResNet-50~\cite{7780459}                   & 1.13            & 1.74          & 1.10             & 1.73         & 1.17             & 1.75          \\
DenseNet~\cite{huang2017densely}                  & 1.14            & 1.33          & 1.11             & 1.24         & 1.17             & 1.43          \\
MobileNet~\cite{howard2017mobilenets}                  & 2.24            & 2.21          & 2.16          & 2.25         & 2.32          & 2.18           \\
lightCNN~\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/LiuWYLRS17}               & 2.42             & 2.32          & 2.75          & 2.17         & 2.10           &2.47          \\ \hline

\end{tabular}}
\label{mae_holly}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{mae_bolly} shows the MAE obtained for deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet and
lightCNN for BMI prediction on Bollywood dataset. It can be seen that all the CNNs obtained equivalent MAE in the range $[1.04, 2.98]$. ResNet and DenseNet, when used along with Ridge Regression, obtained the lowest error over other CNNs.

Table~\ref{custom} shows the MAE obtained for end-to-end CNN for BMI prediction on Visual BMI, VIP Attributes, and Bollywood datasets. It can be seen that MAE was obtained in the range $[4.12, 6.65]$. The performance of the custom CNN is lower in comparison to those obtained using pretrained CNNs for all the datasets~\cite{8546159}. This is obviously due to limited training dataset causing over-fitting.  Even for custom CNN, no significant differences have been noted across male and female.

\begin{table}[t!]
\caption{MAE of deep features extracted from VGG, ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet,and lightCNN, used along with support vector regression (SVR) and ridge regression (RR) for BMI inference on bollywood dataset.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
      & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{MAE-Overall}} \\ \hline
   Model        & RR           & SVR           \\ \hline
VGG-19~\cite{Simonyan14c}     & 1.49            & 1.99          \\
ResNet~\cite{7780459}     & 1.04           & 1.85          \\
DenseNet~\cite{huang2017densely}     & 1.39            & 1.65          \\
MobileNet~\cite{howard2017mobilenets}   & 2.10            & 2.98          \\
lightCNN~\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/LiuWYLRS17} & 1.90            & 1.95         \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{mae_bolly}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[t!]
\caption{MAE of custom CNN for BMI inference on Visual BMI, VIP Attributes and Bollywood datasets.}
\begin{center}
\scalebox{0.99}{
\begin{tabular}{cccc} \hline
\textbf{Dataset}        & \textbf{MAE-Overall} & \textbf{MAE- Male} & \textbf{MAE-Female} \\ \hline
VisualBMI~\cite{Kocabey}      & 6.48        & 6.65      & 6.32       \\
VIP Attributes~\cite{8546159} & 4.39        & 4.66      & 4.12       \\
Bollywood~\cite{bolly}      & 4.33        & N/A       & N/A       \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{center}
\label{custom}
\end{table}

For all the experiments, ResNet and DenseNet consistently outperformed other networks. This could be due to the advantages of ResNet and DenseNet such as they alleviate the vanishing-gradient problem, strengthen feature propagation, and encourage feature reuse.

\section{Conclusion and future work}
In this paper, we investigated deep learning-based methods for BMI inference from facial images.
Experimental investigations on three publicly available facial image datasets obtain overall MAE in the range $[1.04, 6.48]$. The results varied across datasets due to variance in the BMI annotation and sample size difference.
No significant differences in error were noted across gender. DenseNet and ResNet obtained superior performance over other nets.
As a part of future work, an extended list of CNNs will be compared on the large face dataset assembled using mobile devices across different ethnicities and age groups for statistical validation of the reported results. Compact size custom CNNs with low latency will be investigated for on-device deployment in smartphones. Further, the impact of facial covariates on BMI prediction will be statistically quantified.

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\bibliographystyle{IEEE}

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Men love their cars more than anything. For women, after children, hair comes next. Similar to the effort put in career, the same time and money goes into their hair. You for one cannot let a week run out without treating and washing your hair. Many have associated women with the kind of hair they maintain.
Women tend to guard their hair so much even more than their health. There are expensive food oil products in the market that ladies go for to keep their hair shining. But what happens when one day, you wake up scratching your scalp endlessly?
The scratching might be due to dandruffs or a more serious skin disorder. Psoriasis is a skin disorder that occurs due to uncontrolled growth of new skin cells. Someone with a proper working immune system is not likely to have psoriasis. This is because the white blood cells are equally produced and help to control the rate at which skins cells grow. That is why it takes 4 weeks and not days for skin to shed off old cells and new ones to be replaced.
In the case of psoriasis, new cells are rapidly developed and do not give time for the old ones to be flaked off. The next thing you notice are bumps and patches on your skin- hands, legs, elbows, underneath the breasts and scalp. The next thing to think about is scalp psoriasis if you experience an itchy feeling in your hair. Today, you will learn how to take control of this disorder, smile again and bring your hair back to its good shape.
Scalp psoriasis is a skin disorder that affects mostly the scalp area. It is common in people whose immune system does not work properly. New skin cells around the scalp area are rapidly produced. They tend to accumulate on the top layer of the skin resulting to patches and bumps on the scalp. Out of the people suffering from psoriasis, half of them tend to have it on their scalp.
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Found from Nepal, Northeast India, mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra to Borneo.
Identification: Nondescript babbler with brownish plumage, bright rufous-buff lower flanks and vent, whitish throat, greyish supercilium, red eyes and rather large bill.
Habitat: Forest, secondary growth and suitable wooded areas.
Behaviour/Ecology: Usually seen singly or in pairs foraging near the ground for insects and small invertebrates.
Location: Central Catchment Forest, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Dairy Farm Nature Park, Pulau Ubin, SBWR, West Coast Park and Sentosa.


Annie glanced at the dashboard clock and sighed.
Christmas shoppers, a couple semis and SUVs cutting in line had jammed the intersection again.
The state highway was the line of demarcation. South of it, the four-lane local road was lined with shopping centers, fuel sellers, chain restaurants and buildings of brick and steel that celebrated the successes of American commerce.
To the north, the local road became a narrow two-lane passage lined with angle parking and the old village huddled in its centuries-old disguise, facades zoned to a turn-of-the-century patina, single story shops that recalled imagined horse carriages, women with parasols and hoops dresses, men in dark suits and, from a modern view, a sense of Hallmark peace and harmony that calmed the seething, disruptive souls who found solace in penny candy, an old-style ice cream shop and hand-made jewelry.
She had often shopped the small, friendly stores during the holiday season, the warmth infused with the aroma of cocoa, cinnamon, peppermint candy and floral sprays; tiny train whistles, sleigh bells and random Santa laughs filled gaps in the silence. It was a push-back against commercialization of the season, she told herself, taking a stand for local business owners and skilled artisans whose goods they displayed.
But in recent years the shopping trek had taken on a dull familiarity, coupled with traffic jams. "If I wanted to sit in traffic…" she thought but lost the idea when she was cut off by a small truck.
The shops seemed staged, the goods less authentic, the mood less cheerful.
But maybe that alone was not just her judgement: Even as the fire department draped red and green banners across the streets and Victorian light poles were dressed in sparkling garland, she noticed a few more "Closed" signs, a couple more "Going Out of Business Sale" signs and dark spaces with windows covered with brown paper.
Come on, cheer up, she argued with her own cynicism, as she sipped coffee in the half-filled diner. Maybe it was too early in the season. Everyone does everything this time of the year at the last minute. Why would this year be different?
The traffic tangled again as a pick-up truck tried to make a left turn into an unyielding line of cars. The driver of a southbound sedan had left a space for the turning truck, but a northbound driver refused to slide forward enough to allow the truck to complete the turn and cars on three streets ground to a halt. Half-a-block away, choosing to wait out the mess before crossing the street, she heard the faint shouts of the drivers and the occasional honking horns.
Maybe it's too much to overcome, she thought as she crossed the street. It had been a year with an angry edge, perhaps too angry so that even the periodically phony cheer of the holidays could not soften it.
Season of goodwill, my eye, she thought. Oh, stop it, she chided herself; quit judging. You really don't want anyone to look too closely at you, do you?
For the first time in years she was alone for the holiday season.
Oh, family was still nearby, though a couple older members had died.
Colleagues changed jobs and friends relocated to other states, shifting as politics and global economies squeezed even local circumstances.
But she had marched on, sewing one small thread daily to close her wounded heart, pushing aside doubt and worry that kept her awake nights, filling herself with the encouragement she heard, yet sometimes dismissed.
I can set my goals, and can meet the challenges, she would tell herself, even as she wondered if that was enough.
Usually those thoughts vanished when she stepped into her favorite holiday shop, Marie's Magic World of Glass. This year, I need this more than ever.
The store invited the outside world in with windows filled with ornaments and decorations, swirling glass wrapped in silver, pendants strung from gold, and on the window sills, music and jewelry boxes, and tiny cases that seemed to glow with light from within.
A passer-by gazing at the window saw rainbows floating on the shelves beyond the glass and in reflection their own slightly blurry face sparkled with reds and yellows and blues and purples released as the light passing through glass fractured; inside the store it was like standing inside one of those boxes, the air and walls glittering with swirling colored spots and smears as sunlight and spotlights shattered through the suspended pieces that slowly danced in the heated air.
She would come into the shop and smile, close her eyes and feel the motion and energy of the transformation of light from heat to color, her worries burned away.
Marie, grey haired, but ageless, small and bent at the shoulders, would be sitting behind the workbench, glasses perched far down her nose, stringing tiny glass beads on stiff cloth strings.
"What does it do, all this glass?" Annie asked.
In her car, Annie arranged the packages on the passenger seat and then opened her checkbook to mark in the ledger the check she had written to Marie's store.
She smiled; she had forgotten the date. Marie's didn't accept credit cards, and Annie had not written a check in weeks.
She had paused over the check and asked Marie for the date.
Annie unwrapped one of the triangular glass ornaments she had purchased and held it up. The inside of the car glowed with amber light.
The magic of glass, Annie thought. It lets you see the future and the past at the same time. The light could not return fast enough.
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Genesis 6: Prophetic Salvation and Redemptive Patterns in Noah? Pitch Within and Pitch Without!
God told Noah to make an ark out of gopher wood. The Ark is a symbolic representation of humanity and the human condition. God uses the Ark to save humanity. This is also symbolic of God's plan of salvation and redemption. God comes to the earth personally and becomes the very thing that He wants to save. By becoming a man, God is now able to save the human race. It is a fascinating concept to consider. But that is not my subject today either. So let's look at the Ark. God told Noah to put pitch on the inside and then to put pitch on the outside of the ark. Let me stop right there and describe the human condition. Humans are spiritual beings that inhabit or dwell in a physical body. The body is the outside part that we see, the inside of a person is their spirit that we do not see. I do hope that you understand spiritual things enough to see what I am telling you is true. So what we have described to us in the form of a symbolic ark are the external vs. the internal parts or dimensions of a man. A man or a woman alive in the world today is in contact with both the natural and the spiritual worlds simultaneously, whether they know it or not. The vast majority of the unsaved people of the world are not aware of the spiritual dimension of things at all. Even a great number of carnal Christians are also oblivious to spiritual things and there lies the problem. Oh well?
So we have man in two separate dimensions simultaneously, one is natural and one is spiritual and God's plan of salvation and redemption must include both of these dimensions in order to be fully effective. Do you understand that concept? Well the story of Noah and the Ark gives us some valuable clues to how God did this and most have never seen it. You see the two words translated as "pitch" in Genesis 6:14 are not the same Hebrew words. Both Hebrew words are related to each other, in fact one word comes from the root word of the other. But one Hebrew word seems to mean something almost completely different than the other one means. So why would translators make them the same word in the English translation? That is a really good question, I guess they couldn't figure out what other words to use so they assumed they both meant pitch. If you look at the base definition of each word the root of each word means "to cover". To cover something implies that you are hiding something or removing something from plain view. This is an intentional act of taking something found in plain view and covering it with something else to not be seen. I personally think that this applies to God's work of salvation. In building a physical Ark, Noah would have had to do something to make it water tight. In boat making this usually involves some coating or a sealant; especially for a wooden boat. If a wooden boat sits in water without a water tight coating, the wood would eventually become water logged with the water that you were hoping to keep out and it would probably soon leak and sink. So a coating of pitch was placed on the inside as well as the outside of the Ark to make it waterproof. But what was this covering and what is the symbolism a representation of with these two different Hebrew words translated as "pitch"?
Let's consider the facts. A human is a spirit being made in the image and likeness of God. God being a spirit being created man to look and resemble Himself. However, God limited man's ability by confining him to a physical body. By confining the man to a physical body, he is limited to a specific three dimensional time and space. In other words, while God can be everywhere at every time all at once, man can only be in a single location at any given point of time. Man is confined to a specific environmental condition range of temperatures and living requirements. Physical man needs oxygen, food, water and other essential elements to survive in this world. By God's intelligent design man was severely limited in a state of specific fragile circumstances in order to learn and to be able to make choices without affecting any other spiritual eternal being or spiritual place or location. While one physical human being can kill another physical human being, one physical being can do nothing to the real spirit man in their body. God created our lives as a series of lessons in a temporary natural environment so that we could choose where we will spend our eternity. Spiritual beings will never die or cease to exist somewhere.
So what is a human body? Your physical body is your earth suit and it is comprised of a multitude of different physical elements and parts. The number of trace elements in the human body is over 50 different types ranging from Oxygen to Tungsten. The human body by weight is 70% water. Oxygen is the most abundant element in both the earth and the human body by weight. The top three elements in the human body are Oxygen, Carbon, and Hydrogen. It is really most interesting to note that the human body can be called a hydrocarbon unit. These are two of the key elements found in bitumen. Bitumen is a waterproofing agent used in asphalt and other areas and surfaces to keep water out. According to the Strong's definition of the Hebrew word H3722 translated as "pitch" for the "within" inward part of the ark this word represents this type of waterproofing agent called bitumen. But if you think of the human spirit as being like the interior of the ark, it is also covered with a waterproofing surface called a body. I just think that is interesting to note.
So let's explore the human body from a different angle other than its physical composition. I personally believe that the physical human body is the only factor that gives you legal access to this planet. To be born here of a woman is the only legal entry or door into this physical world. Your physical body gives you the right to choose your eternal destiny. Jesus said unless a man is born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven (John 3:3). To be born again means you first must be born the first time physically to even qualify to be born again spiritually. That is a very difficult concept for some to consider, but it also means that it severely limits Satan and the other demons from participating in God's plan of salvation.
A primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel: – appease, make (an) atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, to pitch, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile (-liation).
This word has a lot of potential overlapping meanings. First, let's talk about the last meaning found in this definition called "reconciliation". To reconcile one thing to another is to restore it into right relationship. Of course in this lesson we are talking about the condition of the fallen man being restored back into right relationship with the One True Creator God. The word reconciliation is a very important theological concept given to us in the Bible. Here are some definitions for this word reconciliation.
Whether you realize it or not before you were saved, you were an enemy of God. God directly opposed everything that you stood for, even though He died for your right to change and be saved. The human race was separate and directly opposed to God and everything that a Holy God stood for. After sin entered into the world, the human race was in direct opposition to God. After sin, the human nature was no longer God's nature. Knowing this God had to do something to reconcile the situation. We have one spiritual being, God being opposed to another spiritual being, man and God's plan of salvation includes something called "atonement", "forgiveness", "mercy" and "grace". The implied ways of this reconciliation are represented to us as a cleansing process. A cleansing process involves a washing in the blood of Jesus, spiritually speaking of course. Our sins have been purged or annulled by the shed blood of Jesus. Through what Jesus did for us as a man on the cross, God was able to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. What is that? It means to go and tell people, God is not mad at them. God is not opposed to them anymore. They are not God's enemies anymore. God has invited them to be His friend and a part of His family.
From H3722; properly a cover, that is, (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively a redemption price: – bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
You see in these verses, Jesus Christ is said to be the price paid for our redemption. Jesus gave himself for a ransom. A ransom is a sum of money you pay to a kidnapper to get your child back. Apparently the human race belonged to or was taken captive by someone that had to be paid in order to get us back to God. What are we talking about though? We are only talking about the human body. The spirits of the man and women were already forgiven and reconciled to God. What we find is that God had to pay a price for the bodies of the human race.
In this verse God prophecies that man will be redeemed without the payment of cash, gold, silver or monetary value changing hands. God makes a statement that the human race had sold themselves and gotten nothing in return or of value for their stupid act. So God's plan of salvation and redemption did not cost Him any money either, but it was certainly not FREE!.
You see if you look for verses in the Bible, you will see that we are still waiting for the full redemptive work of God to be accomplished. We still have mortal temporary bodies on this planet and according to the Bible we will be transformed on the outside very soon and all get new bodies that our spirits can live in forever. God writes in Roman's 8:23 that we are all awaiting this to happen with anxious anticipation. A groaning is applicable to a birthing process, I believe. God has already paid the price for our redemption, but yet we still await the redemption of our bodies. It is a very complex subject, I know.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson on the pitch within and the pitch without and how it relates to the Word of God for the salvation and redemptive work of Christ. This two part work of God completed the salvation which involved the forgiveness of the human spirit as well as the purchased redemption of our bodies. God has hidden little things like this in the Bible for a reason and they can only be seen if you look for them diligently. I pray that you see them and understand them. Until my next blog, God Bless You.


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Why Is The British Press Ignoring Cameron Norrie? (He is Barely British)
British media typically gets giddy when a British player makes it deep into a tournament – any tournament. Cameron Norrie is knocking on the door of the Top 10 in the world and has become the top- ranked Brit on the men's tour. The response from the British press has been muted.
That's partly because Norrie was born in South Africa, raised in New Zealand, studied in the United States, and is now representing Britain. He was able to get British citizenship because his parents are Scottish (father) and Welsh (mother). His parents still live in New Zealand.
Cameron Norrie represented New Zealand until 2013 when he got his British citizenship. He still speaks with a strong New Zealand accent and his interviews are unlikely to connect with the British public.
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Johanna Konta, who was born in Australia, received a similar reception from the press despite reaching the semifinals at grand slams multiple times.
What about Emma Raducanu, though? She wasn't born in Britain either. Her parents are not from Britain but she moved there when she was 2. She has a strong British accent that cements her British status. She also won a grand slam – a much higher bar than becoming the country's number 1 player or going deep in a tournament.
Being ignored by the British media is not a bad thing. Being scrutinized after every loss and constantly being in the limelight can be tough for any athlete.
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Martin Blank, Ph.D., Leading Bioelectromagnetics Research Scientist, Passes Away
Martin Blank, Ph.D., Columbia University Bioelectromagnetics Researcher, Passes Away (Photo: Business Wire)
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The contact phone number for Elizabeth Kelley should read: 520-912-4878 (instead of: 520-219-4878).
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MARTIN BLANK, PH.D., LEADING BIOELECTROMAGNETICS RESEARCH SCIENTIST, PASSES AWAY
Martin Blank, Ph.D., Retired Associate Professor, Columbia University, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, who made many lasting contributions to science and was beloved within the scientific community, passed away of natural causes in his son's care on June 13, 2018 in Las Vegas, NV. He was 85.
Dr. Blank was one of the strongest voices globally in the quest to better understand and regulate the health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF). He was an ardent advocate for the precautionary principle, using science to create a safer, healthier world.
Dr. Blank was a faculty member at Columbia University for 35 years until his retirement in 2012. Throughout his career, Dr. Blank published over 200 papers and reviews; edited 11 books on the electrical properties of biological systems and held appointments at 11 leading universities around the world, as well as at the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He gave hundreds of lectures and organized or led numerous meetings, including two World Congresses on Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine. He served as President of both the Bioelectrochemical Society and the Bioelectromagnetics Society, as well as on several scientific journal editorial boards.
Dr. Blank completed two PhDs: one in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University, and a second in Colloid Science, an interdisciplinary field involving biology, chemistry, and physics from Cambridge University. His later research focused on EMF effects on the cellular stress response, and on DNA, and he warned vehemently about risks from the proliferation of wireless technologies.
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Martin Blank, Ph.D., Retired Associate Professor, Columbia University, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, passed away on June 13, 2018.


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Our 12th feature is with Masters water polo players Pippa Jones and Brenda Grace who play for the English Roses squad and train together at City of Sheffield.
What is your background in water polo?
PJ: I started playing when I was university in the late 70s. I was very much at the forefront of developing the game for women in this country through university polo and eventually through club polo for City of Coventry in the early days. I played for City of Coventry and was part of the initial British women's water polo team. In 1986, I played at the World Championships and eventually made it to Sheffield and coached City of Sheffield's women for about 10 years. I also coached the national junior side and I'm fully immersed in water polo now to the extent that I'm now playing again as a Masters player, having had 19 years out in the interim period.
BG: I started playing water polo when I was at university and, at that time, women weren't officially allowed to play the game, so it was quite a challenge to try and convince the powers that be that girls should be allowed to play and I was part of a group of women that campaigned very hard to make the game official for women. From university, I then played for City of Coventry. and we won the national championships over a good 10-year period. And then I dropped out of water polo.
I was part of a group of women that campaigned very hard to make the game official for women.
As I grew older I had other commitments so I went on and did other forms of swimming but just for exercise and fitness. In 2010, I came back into the game because I had an opportunity to play in a Masters team with some Australians that were entering the World Masters Championships in Sweden. They were looking to make up numbers so I played with a couple of other English girls and we went along and it just opened my eyes to the possibilities of Masters water polo.
How does the English Roses Masters Water Polo club work?
PJ: It is like a virtual club. We don't actually have a training base. All the players train at different clubs. I train at City of Sheffield two to three times a week and that fits in quite well. It's a way of exercising for me. I don't like exercising on my own. I like to play team games, they're far more fun!
BG: English Roses provide that flexibility for older players. We have players that are from all over the country. Individual players train as and when they can. I'm very lucky because I live near Sheffield so I can train with the club here who are very welcoming and supporting of older players so I just play with the normal club. But others go to the gym and do swimming in their own time, some of them train with other clubs. It's a flexible format of water polo and that enables women to continue with their busy lives, have families and fit in training when they can. We then come together for competitions, both domestic and international.
How successful have the Roses been?
PJ: We entered a team this year in the British Water Polo league so that's the first time a Masters team has done that and we won Division Three. In addition, we have a Masters competition every year, the English Rose Bowl, and we've played in European Masters and World Masters.
We weren't sure people would be up for it but actually they were and it was brilliant!
We took a team to the World Championships in Riccione in 2012 and that was the first time we've taken an English team. It was amazing because it showed we could do it. We weren't sure people would be up for it but actually they were and it was brilliant.
What was it like returning to water polo after time out?
BG: I continued swimming on my own and going to the gym while I wasn't playing so I stayed relatively fit and never stopped doing exercise. But it was interesting coming back. I was quite nervous and thought I'd forgotten all the rules. It all comes back to you of course, it's like riding a bike.
But one of the biggest differences for older athletes is your recovery time after training. It's an intense sport. There's not much rest and you don't touch the sides or the bottom. You're in deep water the whole time and it's a very physical game with lots of pushing and shoving. As an older athlete, it takes you longer to recover so you have to adjust your training accordingly. But the buzz of the team game is there and that's what brings us all back.
PJ: We train at Sheffield two or three times a week for either and hour or two hours.
How do you spend your time away from the pool?
PJ: I'm a senior lecturer in sports development, sport coaching, PE and school sport at Sheffield Hallam University. I live in Derbyshire with my partner Danny and son Joel who plays for City of Sheffield and the GB U19 team.
BG: Working! I have a sport-related job. I work for Steve Wells Associates and we design and build sports facilities. My role in the business is securing funding for sports facilities through funding bids and working with sports clubs on sports development plans and business plans. I also spend a lot of time organising the English Roses Masters Water Polo Club activities. I am the club Treasurer. We have done a lot of development work in 2014 funded by a Sport England grant. We also run an annual Masters Water Polo tournament called the Rose Bowl.
What are your favourite competitions?
PJ: Anything where there is a good quality game. I loved playing in the World Masters in Riccione in 2012. As long as I'm in a team with my mates, I don't really mind what the competition is!
BG: The World and European Masters Championships and the British Water Polo League.
What is the highest accolade you've achieved?
PJ: As a GB international in the 1980s and 90s, I played in the World and three European Championships. As a Masters competitor, a silver medal in the Worlds in Riccione was a great result.
I love being in a team and working together and I love the feeling of being fit.
BG: I played GB Water Polo between 1984 and 1990. As a Masters polo player, I have played for Australian Pink Pointers Team in the FINA World Masters Sweden 2010 (Gold) and for English Roses in the FINA World Masters Championships Italy 2012 (Silver) and the European Masters Championships in Budapest, Hungary in 2013.
What do you love most about water polo?
BG: I love being in the water – especially in an open air pool in the hot sun! I love being in a team and working together and I love the feeling of being fit.
PJ: Coaching City of Sheffield women for 10 years between 1993 and 2003 during which time we became British champions and reached the final rounds of the European Club Championships twice. The best moment was beating Nice in Nice in front of a huge French home crowd.
BG: I'm very proud to have been part of the group who set up English Roses Masters Water Polo in 2012. It was exactly 30 years after the same women persuaded the ASA to officially accept the women's game in 1982. Prior to this there was major opposition to us playing what was perceived to be a men's only game.
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Orthostichella auricularis är en bladmossart som beskrevs av C. Müller 1901. Orthostichella auricularis ingår i släktet Orthostichella och familjen Meteoriaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Repeating observations and analyses at two sampling stations in Kanholmsfjärden during 2010, 2011 and 2012 showed relatively small differences in the bottom fauna distribution. The oxygenation that occurred had obviously not worked long enough to affect the sediments. Observation in other oxygenated coastal regions however, indicated a colonization of benthic invertebrates in previously anoxic bottoms after three years of oxygenation.


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Q: How to choose the starting point in Newton's method?
How to choose the starting point in Newton's method ?
If $p(x)=x^3-11x^2+32x-22$

We only learnt that the algorithm $x_{n+1}:=x_n-\frac{f(x_n)}{f'(x_n)}$ converges only in some $\epsilon$-neighbourhood of a root and that if $z$ is a root then $|z|\le 1+\max\limits_{k=0,...,n-1}\frac{|a_k|}{|a_n|}$
but in this case, $a_n=1\Rightarrow 1+\max\limits_{k=0,...,n-1}\frac{|a_k|}{|a_n|}=1+\frac{32}{1}=33$ this is too large isn't it ?
$\underline{\textbf{My attempt}}$
I think first root can be guessed by plugging in some values $-1,0,1,2$ and at $x=1$ we've a root
then the polynomial can be reduced to $x^3-11x^2+32x-22=(x-1)(x^2-10x+22)$
now the new polynomial to be examined is $g(x)=(x^2-10x+22)$
this is a parabola and $g'(x)=0$ is attained at $x=5$
and the advantage of the parabola is that we can consider any interval $[a,5)$ with $a<5$
any point in this interval as starpoint would converge to the $2^{nd}$ root
the same is valid for $(5,b]$, Hence we obtain our $3$ roots.
BUT in this case we had a bit luck, and if you know a general approach, can you please tell me
Thanks in advance.

A: In practice, you may draw a rough graph of the function. You see approximately where are the roots. This give you for each one an approximate value to start the recurrence process.
The first root obviously is $1$. The second is around $3.25$ and the third around $6.75$ The convergence will be fast in starting from these values.
In fact, the analytic solving leads to first $1$ , second $5-\sqrt3 = 3.267949...$ and third $5+\sqrt3 = 6.732051...$

A: The general case is very complicated. See for instance:

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*Newton fractal

*How to find all roots of complex polynomials by Newton's method  by Hubbard et al.
Invent. Math. 146 (2001), no. 1, 1–33. pdf

A: For polynomials the starting point does not really matter, since Newton's method is contractive for large arguments, but with slow convergence. What that really means that the iteration remains bounded, and converges with high probability to one of the roots. So take any random point inside the computed root radius.
You have to check for cycles in the iteration, some polynomials have stable cycles for certain intervals of initial values. In general, after 5 iterations the method should be in the quadratically convergent phase, so check if the step size ratio falls below 0.5 and if that fails, pick another initial value and repeat.

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home : titles : special event broadcasts
All titles in the 'special event broadcast' category
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The Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge newsreel – 1932
This newsreel footage with on-the-spot commentary contains unique coverage of the official opening ceremony of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Saturday 19 March 1932.
Menzies Speech: Declaration of War radio – 1939
The announcement by Prime Minister Menzies in 1939 that because Great Britain has declared war upon Germany, Australia is also at war.
Dame Enid Lyons: Maiden Speech radio – 1943
Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia's federal parliament, reads her maiden speech for radio broadcast.
Senator Dorothy Tangney: Maiden Speech radio – 1944
A recording of the first woman elected to the Australian Senate reading her maiden speech.
Mabo: An Address to the Nation television program – 1993
In a televised address to the nation, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating outlines the government's response to the High Court Mabo decision on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights.
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