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Carolina Müller
Dr. Carolina Müller
Malteserstrasse 74-100 - Haus D - Raum D.021
caromue@zedat.fu-berlin.de
2006, Gymnasium an der Hamburger Straße, Bremen. Grade: 1.4 (in a range of 1.0-4.0)
2006-2007 Chinese language classes, Tongji University Shanghai, China; HSK Level 6 (former system)
2007-2010 Bachelor Biology; Focus: Botany and Ecology, Göttingen University
2008-2011 Attendance at Ba.A. Programme "East Asian Studies"; Göttingen University/Nanjing University
2011-2013 Master Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Free University Berlin
Scientific examinations
Bachelor Thesis - 08/2010, Göttingen University, Prof. Dr. H. Behling, Prof. Dr. F. Schlütz (title:Studien zur Beziehung von Vegetation und Pollenniederschlag verschiedener Höhenlagen aus einer subtropischen Bergregion der Provinz Zhejiang, Südost China). Grade: 1.3
Master Thesis – 08/2013, Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. H. Kürschner, Prof. Dr. P. Tarasov (Title: Pflanzensoziologische, palynologische und quartärwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen der Hochgebirgsvegetation auf dem Qinghai-Tibetplateau, Qinghai Provinz, China). Grade: 1.0
Previous research employments
02/2011-05/2011 – Student assistant at NICE Centre, Nanjing University. Sediment analysis for the palaeoclimate history of Hala Lake.
02/2012-10/2012 – Student assistant at Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam (supervisor: Bernhard Diekmann; Microscopic pollen analysis for the palaeoclimate history of Heihai Lake.)
04/2013-06/2013 – Student assistant at FreieUniversität Berlin, pollen laboratory work.
Scientific activities abroad
02/2011 – 2 weeks: Hala Lake (Qinghai Province, China), field work, including core drilling and measuring of different water parameters.
08/2011 – 3 weeks: Lake Heihai(Qinghai Province, China), phytosociological studies, plant and data collection.
08/2012 – 4 weeks: Lake Heihai(Qinghai Province, China), phytosociological studies, plant and data collection (continued).
03/2013 – 3 weeks: Yunnan, collecting Radix sp. for phylogeographic investigations, spread and radiation in relation to the uprising of the Tibetan Plateau.
11/2013 – 2 weeks: Hainan (Hainan Island, China), collecting Radix sp. for phylogeographic investigations.
03/2014 – 5 weeks: Kunming / Xingyun Lake (Yunnan Province, China), lecturer at student excursion; Nanjing (Jiangsu Province, China), organising a workshop with an International Research Training Group, preparations for establishing a graduate school.
10/2014 – 3 weeks: Nanjing (Jiangsu Province, China), Laboratory work (NICE Centre, Nanjing University).
09/2015 – 4 weeks: Southern Tanzania; Screening landscape and river systems for the existence and diversity of limnic gastropods (preparatory works).
Conference / Workshop attendance:
Open PAGES Focus 4 Workshop: "Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past." - University of Leuven, Belgium February 3-7, 2014
Bolin Centre for Climate Research: "Summer School: Isotopes in Climate and the Earth System." Stockholm University, 23–29 August, 2015.
Conference contributions:
Müller C., Tarasov P., Wünnemann B., Riedel F.: "High-resolution climate reconstruction derived from a 1200-year long pollen record from the NE Qinghai Tibetan Plateau and its implications for discussion of the late Holocene environmental dynamics." - INQUA Conference, Nagoya. 26. July – 02. August, 2015
09/2010 – 02/2011 – DAAD stipend for Chinese language class at Nanjing University.
08/2012 – Travel grant from the DAAD. Plant collection for the master thesis in Heihai Lake region, China.
2013/2014 Lecturer "Introduction to Palynology and Archaeobotany"
04/2014 Supervision / Lecturer at a field excursion: "Hydromorphology and Limnology of Yunnan Plateau lakes".
2015/2016 Lecturer "Angewandte Palynologie" (Applied Palynology)
My research focusses on environmental and climate change studies based on botanical approaches, palynology and environmental biologyas well as stable isotope cycles in the environment. I am especially interested in Holoceneclimate- and human-induced vegetation cover fluctuations in central and southern China, and, additionally, have an all-embracinginterest inEast Asian culture and history.
Since September 2013 I am employed at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Palaeontology at FreieUniversität Berlin. Mainly,I support the establishment of an International Graduate School between Germany (Berlin and Potsdam) and the Nanjing University which focusses on research about extreme weather events in the past on the Yunnan Plateau, southeastern China. Within this project, some field work has already been carried out on several plateau lakes on the Yunnan Plateau. In this context, one of my PhD research topics is the evaluation of human impact on vegetation and environment in the area of Xingyun Lake. For this, classical palynology and geochemistry approaches were applied. I am also working on a Late Holocene high resolution palynological record from the Erhai Wetland, which liesclose to Lake Qinghai on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau in central China. The main research question here is, whether human induced landscape changes in the steppe/meadow environment are congruent to known Late Holocene warm and cold periods and,additionally, in which amplitude the changes are displayed in the pollen record. Furthermore, I am interested in isotope cycles in several environmental and climatological processes and am working on a pilot project calibrating stable δ18O and δ13C isotopes in modern and fossil pollen grains from selected European plant taxa.
"High-resolution climate reconstruction derived from a 1200-year long pollen record from the NE Qinghai Tibetan Plateau and its implications for discussion of the late Holocene environmental and human dynamics." With Frank Riedel (FU Berlin), Pavel Tarasov (FU Berlin) and Bernd Wünnemann (Nanjing University)
"Exploring the potential of δ 18O and δ 13C in pollen spectra for reconstruction of Quaternary palaeo-climate focussing averaged seasonal temperature variation and seasonality shifts: Calibration study on modern pollen from selected European plant taxa." With Gerhard Helle (GFZ Potsdam) and Frank Riedel (FU Berlin)
"Asian monsoon weather, climate and vegetation cover changes on the Yunnan Plateau during the late Holocene inferred from a high-resolution pollen record and the assessment of historical documents and the human history from Xingyun and Fuxian lake area (Yunnan, China)." With Frank Riedel (FU Berlin) and Bernd Wünnemann (Nanjing University)
Müller, Carolina. "Bi-decadal climate reconstruction derived from a 1200-year long pollen record from the NE Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its implications for discussion of the late Holocene environmental dynamics." Quaternary International 444 (2017): 1-10.
Stauch, G., Schulte, P., Ramisch, A., Hartmann, K., Hülle, D., Lockot, G., Diekmann, B., Nottebaum, V., Müller, C., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D. Lehmkuhl, F.(2017). "Landscape and climate on the northern Tibetan Plateau during the late Quaternary". Geomorphology, 286, 78-92.
Müller, C., &Kürschner, H. (2014). Phytosociological and palynological studies of alpine steppe communities on the northern Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Province, China. Feddes Repertorium, 124(4), 122-138.

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Even before the issuance of presidential directive prohibiting the promotion of real estate projects with completion rates of less than 30 percent, Capriole Group outstripped rivals, as it was the first developer to put up for sale a project in the New Administrative Capital upon the completion of 35% of construction works.
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Image-Based Maritime Obstacle Detection Using Global Sparsity Potentials
DOI : 10.6109/jicce.2016.14.2.129
Author: Mou Xiaozheng, Wang Han
Publish: Journal of information and communication convergence engineering Volume 14, Issue2, p129~135, 30 June 2016
In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for image-based maritime obstacle detection using global sparsity potentials (GSPs), in which "global" refers to the entire sea area. The horizon line is detected first to segment the sea area as the region of interest (ROI). Considering the geometric relationship between the camera and the sea surface, variable-size image windows are adopted to sample patches in the ROI. Then, each patch is represented by its texture feature, and its average distance to all the other patches is taken as the value of its GSP. Thereafter, patches with a smaller GSP are clustered as the sea surface, and patches with a higher GSP are taken as the obstacle candidates. Finally, the candidates far from the mean feature of the sea surface are selected and aggregated as the obstacles. Experimental results verify that the proposed approach is highly accurate as compared to other methods, such as the traditional feature space reclustering method and a state-of-the-art saliency detection method.
Global sparsity potentials , Horizon detection , Maritime images , Obstacle detection
Obstacles in a maritime scenario can be big cargo ships, vessels, yachts, and/or small buoys. Successful detection of these obstacles provides important information for either navigation or object detection and the tracking of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) [1-3]. The methods for obstacle detection in maritime images can be roughly categorized into two-dimensional (2D) image-based and three-dimensional (3D) stereo vision-based methods. The 3D methods [4,5] use two stereo images to obtain a 3D point cloud of the scene, which is then applied to fit the sea surface plane and cluster the points above this plane as obstacles. The 2D methods can either use graphic models to separate the sky, horizon, and sea areas and then segment the obstacles from the sea area [6], or apply saliency detection to estimate the obstacles [7]. In this work, we use a 2D image-based method because of the low camera budget and the relatively small computational burden.
Sparsity potential (SP), originally proposed in [8] for object detection, is a measure that captures the sparseness or similarity of an image patch with respect to its neighborhood. In [8], image patches with a high value of SP are considered to be more discriminative and chosen for training and testing with Hough Forests. However, there are some limitations of applying such a local SP to maritime images because of the unique properties of a sea surface. For example, the neighboring patches of an image patch of the top of a sea wave may contain the bottom of the sea wave; thus, the image patch in the center would be highly distinct from its neighbors and have a low self-similarity or SP value, which would lead to a high probability of being classified as a patch of obstacles. In contrast, if the image patch is sampled from a big cargo ship, it may have a very similar appearance to its neighboring patches; this may lead to a high SP value, and the image patch may be wrongly classified as the background. Therefore, to reduce the abovementioned detection error in maritime images, we propose "global sparsity potential (GSP)", which computes the self-similarity of an image patch within the entire sea surface area. By taking into account the entire sea surface area, we find that the image patch on the sea has more similar patches in the entire set of patches, while the image patch on the obstacles has the opposite. Thereafter, the discriminative power of image patches increases, and it becomes easier to separate the foreground (obstacles) patches from the background (sea) ones. As illustrated in Fig. 1, one can see that compared to the patch of obstacles, which only has three similar patches in the patch set, the patch of the sea is considerably less sparse and more similar to most of the patches.
[Fig. 1.] Each image patch exhibits a different global sparsity potential. The top image shows two image patches from the sea surface (green) and the obstacle (red), After they go through the entire patch set (middle image) for similarity searching, patches similar to them can be retrieved as shown in the two bottom images.
In [9], the researchers proposed the use of variable-size image windows and feature space reclustering for detecting obstacles in maritime images. In their work, an iterative reclustering method is proposed to determine the centroid of the main cluster (sea), whose outliers are considered obstacles. Nevertheless, the clustering process in this method is sensitive to the outliers in the computation of the mean or the median of the feature set, thus leading to poor performance when there are a larger number of obstacles or more white wake outliers in the image. To solve this problem, in this study, we omitted the reclustering process and used GSP for estimating the mean feature of the sea. Then, as in [9], the outliers were considered obstacles.
In summary, two contributions are made in this paper. One is that we introduce a new measure, GSP, to represent the sparseness of an image patch with respect to the entire sea surface area. The other is a novel image-based obstacle detection algorithm using GSP for USVs; this algorithm has been experimentally proven to be more accurate and robust than the traditional method [9] and the state-of-the-art saliency detection method [10].
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section II introduces the proposed GSP measure and the proposed algorithm for obstacle detection in maritime images. Section III presents the experimental results with our own dataset and a comparison with other related work. Finally, Section IV concludes this work and discusses the future work in this area of study.
II. PROPOSED ALGORITHM
To ensure that only the sea surface area is processed and the sea surface is the dominating cluster, the proposed algorithm for maritime obstacle detection is based on two assumptions:
Therefore, only the obstacles below the horizon line in the images are considered the detection targets. In general, the proposed algorithm can be divided into three procedures: horizon detection, sampling and representation of image patches, and obstacle detection using GSP.
> A. Horizon Detection
In [11], four different horizon detection methods were compared and analyzed, and it was concluded that the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) method provides the best results with high accuracy. Therefore, in this work, we apply the RANSAC method for horizon detection. To reduce the computational expense and the noise effect, it is usually better to set a region of interest (ROI) that contains the horizon. However, rather than predefine a fixed ROI for every frame as in [11], we propose a more general method to adaptively estimate the ROI.
We first resize the original image to a smaller size (e.g., 64×64 in this work), because downsampling eliminates a considerable amount of noise, and the horizon can still be roughly estimated without significantly biasing the ground truth. In the downsized image, shown in Fig. 2, first, the gradient map is computed using a Sobel operator, and then, locations with the maximum gradient values along each sampled column are selected as the candidate points; RANSAC is used by randomly selecting two candidate points at each iteration to fit the horizon line. Finally, after reprojecting the estimated horizon in the small image onto the original image, we can define the ROI in the original image by moving the horizon vertically up and down for the same distance to form the upper and lower boundaries, respectively. Thereafter, RANSAC is used again as in [11] in the ROI for estimating a more accurate horizon in the original image.
[Fig. 2.] ROI (area between the two blue lines) estimation for horizon detection. For visual purposes, the size ratio between the small size gradient map and the original image is enlarged.
As shown in Fig. 3, after the detection of the horizon line, the ROI for obstacle detection can be obtained via affine transformation and cropping. Then, further processing is performed on the ROI.
[Fig. 3.] ROI for obstacle detection. Affine transformation is applied on the left image to horizontalize the horizon line (red), and then, a rectangle area without artificial pixels is cropped as the ROI (white rectangular area in the right image).
> B. Patch Sampling and Representation
In 2D images, considering the geometric relation between the camera and the sea surface, the resolution of the observation that is close to the horizon is smaller than that of the observation close to the image bottom. Similar to [9], here, square image patches are sampled from the ROI by using variable-size image windows with an overlap rate of α and an expansion rate of β; the minimum window size is ω × ω pixels. An example of this image patch sampling method can be seen in the middle image of Fig. 1, in which the white rectangles denote the sample patches from the whole image.
To represent the abovementioned sample patches, we adopt a gray-level co-occurrence matrix-based texture analysis [12] as in [9]. In this method, all patches are first resized to the same size (ω × ω) and then, each image patch f is represented by a four-dimensional vector: f = [Energy, Entropy, Contrast, Homogeneity]. Here,
where i and j denote the row and column indices of the image patch, respectively, and I(i, j) represents the intensity value at pixel location (i, j).
> C. Obstacle Detection Using GSP
Here, we denote an image patch with a feature vector expression as fk, and the entire image patch set as F = {fk, k = 1, 2, … , N}, where N represents the total number of patches sampled in the ROI of an image.
1) Measure of GSP
In this work, the GSP of an image patch is measured by its global self-similarity, which computes the similarity of a query patch to the entire patch set. Different from [13], which extracts the global self-similarity descriptors by performing a cross correlation of the patches in the entire image for object classification and detection, we measure the texture similarity of a query patch to the entire patch set by respectively computing their Mahalanobis distances. The smaller the distance between two patches, the higher is the similarity between them. Then, all the computed distances to the patch set are summed and their average is taken as the global self-similarity measure of this query patch. Eq. (5) formulates the global self-similarity Gk of patch fk in an image.
where C denotes the covariance matrix of the feature set. Then, Gk is normalized to be in [0, 1] with 0 representing the most similar and 1 the most dissimilar.
2) Clustering of Features
In [9], the centroid of the main cluster (sea) is estimated using an iterative procedure. However, this method may be sensitive to the outliers, because at each iteration, it treats all image patches equally in order to compute the mean or median feature. Therefore, including these outliers in the estimation of the centroid of the sea may decrease the accuracy. In this work, to overcome the abovementioned drawback, we propose to select image patches with a high probability to be a sea surface, i.e., having a relatively low GSP value, to estimate the centroid (mean feature) of the sea. Thereafter, the procedure for feature clustering can be summarized as follows:
III. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
Since there are few available public datasets for maritime obstacle detection, we built our own dataset, the details of which are described in Section III-A. Using this new dataset, we evaluated the accuracy of the proposed algorithm and compared its performance with that of the traditional method [9] and that of a state-of-the-art saliency detection approach [10] in Section III-B.
> A. Dataset
Our maritime obstacle detection dataset consists of four sequences (S_#1, S_#2, S_#3, and S_#4), which were captured by a Point Grey grasshopper CCD camera mounted on a moving USV on the sea. Each sequence contains 600 RGB frames (size: 684×548 pixels). The obstacle in this dataset is a moving target boat, which varies its distance (approximately from 50 m to 500 m) to the USV (camera boat). The different sequences present different challenges:
S_#1 characterizes the detection ability for a short distance, in which the target boat moves close to the USV (within 100 m);
S_#2 contains many white wake outliers generated by the fast moving target boat, and the distance is around 100 m to 200 m.
S_#3 has a majority of the frames without the obstacle shown, and the target boat quickly moves 200 m away from the USV, and from the left to the right of the image in a few frames at the middle of the sequence; this also provides some white wake outliers.
S_#4 renders the challenge of distant obstacle detection, and the target boat moves a distance of 200 m to 500 m away.
> B. Performance Evaluation
Since the proposed algorithm is based on the prior knowledge of the horizon line, only images whose horizons are detected can be processed for the obstacle detection. Thus, images without a detected horizon are discarded, and not considered in the accuracy or the false rate calculation of the obstacle detection.
The parameters for variable-size windows in the image patch sampling part are set as follows: overlap rate α = 33% expansion rate β = 6%, and the minimum window size is 16×16. In Section II-C-2), the thresholds τ1 and τ2 are set to 0.1 and 0.9, respectively.
Similar to [14], the accuracy evaluation is performed visually as follows:
Integrating the two above-discussed cases, we can express the score assigned to b as follows:
Finally, as formulated in (7), the detection accuracy ξ and the false detection rate η can be calculated using all assigned values ρ(b) in each sequence.
where n+ denotes the sum of the total number of ground-truth obstacles and the total number of frames without an obstacle in each sequence, and n_ represents the total number of frames in each sequence.
Table 1 summarizes the performance of obstacle detection using the proposed algorithm and two comparative algorithms.
[Table 1.] Comparison of accuracy (Acc) and false rate (FR) for maritime obstacle detection using different methods
> C. Comparisons and Analysis
The main difference between the proposed algorithm and the feature space reclustering method [9] is the computation of the centroid of the sea features. In [9], the authors proposed the use of all the features of the sampled image patches to estimate the centroid iteratively, while our method involves the selection of image patches with small values of GSP and the calculation of their mean to estimate the centroid. Theoretically, the proposed algorithm is more insensitive to the outliers of the sea features, because rather than taking all the features, which may contain many outliers, to compute the mean or median feature, we just use features with high probabilities to be the sea to compute the mean feature. We reimplemented the method of [9] with the same parameter settings for variable-size window sampling and feature extraction on our maritime obstacle detection dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more accurate than that proposed in [9].
As shown in Table 1, the accuracy of the proposed algorithm is more than 10% compared to that proposed in [9] in the first three sequences, which contain many outliers caused by the white wake. Nevertheless, in sequence S_#4, our method performs only slightly better than that proposed in [9]. This could be attributed to the fact that the obstacles in most frames of S_#4 are far away from the camera, so there are very few outliers, such as white wake, in the images. Fewer outliers lead to more accurate estimation of the centroid of the sea; thus, only a small accuracy gap exists between our method and that proposed in [9]. In addition, our method exhibits a smaller false detecting rate than that proposed in [9].
Some advantages of the proposed algorithm over the method proposed in [9] can be seen in Fig. 4. In Fig. 4(a) and (c), false detection caused by white wake happens in the case of the method proposed in [9]. In Fig. 4(f), the method proposed in [9] has two detections, in which one is correct and the other is false and is caused by a sea wave; the same false detection is also observed in the scenario of Fig. 4(d). Only a small portion of the boat is detected by the method proposed in [9] in Fig. 4(e), and this situation is classified as false in Eq. (6). Fig. 4(b) shows the missed detection for the method proposed in [9], which wrongly detects nothing for this frame.
[Fig. 4.] Superior performance for maritime obstacle detection of the proposed algorithm (red) compared to that of the method of feature space reclustering [9] (green) and that of saliency detection VOCUS2 [10]. The yellow bounding box in (f) means that the red and the green bounding boxes are overlaid. (a) and (b) are from S_#1; (c) is from S_#2; (d) and (e) are from S_#3; and (f) is from S_#4. One can see that the performances of these three methods can be easily evaluated by human eyes.
To test the saliency detection method for our task, we implemented the work of [10] with our own dataset. As shown in Table 1, however, this state-of-the-art method for saliency detection does not perform well for our dataset. However, intuitively, it seems that the obstacles on the sea are more distinct and salient than the sea water. In fact, the saliency-based methods, which usually use the image local contrast information to detect distinct regions, are sensitive to the sea wave. For example, it can be seen in Fig. 4(a), (b), (c), and (f) that the white wake generated by the boat causes a big problem for this saliency detection method, which results in many false detections. Similarly, in Fig. 4(d), the dark region between the wave top and the wave bottom is detected as the saliency, but this region is not an obstacle. Although the detected saliency in Fig. 4(e) contains the obstacle, the bounding box is very big and is not well-fitted to the obstacle. Therefore, we can conclude that it may not be a wise choice to only apply saliency detection to solve the maritime obstacle detection task.
In this paper, we introduced a new measure, "global sparsity potential (GSP)", to capture the sparseness of an image patch throughout the sea area. Using GSP, we developed an accurate and robust approach for moving camera-based obstacle detection in maritime images. In this approach, image patches with a relatively small GSP value are considered the main cluster (i.e., sea surface), while their outliers, which have a relatively large GSP value and a relatively large Mahalanobis distance with respect to the mean feature of the sea surface), are considered the obstacles.
Although the proposed algorithm exhibits good performance, only the intensity image and the texture feature are explored. Further improvements can be expected by combining the color information and other discriminative features in a future work.
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"The DNA of adaptive leadership comprises learning, unlearning, and relearning." This was one of the key points highlighted by TomorrowToday consultants, Mr. Keith Coats and Ms. Tamryn Batcheller-Adams, at our adaptive leadership workshop on July 28. To develop our adaptability, we also learned that we have to understand our context, accept change, and allow space for curiosity and creativity. "Things are shifting rapidly and we won't be able to just apply the old context to the new," said Keith. "We need to ask ourselves what we should keep from the past that has worked well, what we need to discard, and what we need to create."
Based on live responses from participants
2:08-3:10 Introduction of speakers
3:25-5:10 Workshop preview
5:11-6:16 The 'New Normal'
6:17-10:00 What words would you use to describe the current global context?
10:14-11:50 Thinking like a futurist
11:51-15:40 The importance of context
15:41-21:06 Visual intelligence
21:07-25:13 Principles of adaptive leadership
25:14-26:10 4 key components of developing adaptive intelligence
26:11-35:45 Accept change and uncertainty
35:46-42:00 Invite learning
42:01-47:01 Curiosity
47:02-51:28 As a leader: 3 keys for your consideration
51:29-52:32 Being a 'Broker of Hope'
52:33-1:11:40 Q&A
Download the presentation slides here.
How can we become an adaptive leader in today's fast-changing, ever-evolving world? Check out Chan Wai's visual recap of the illuminating adaptive leadership workshop led by Keith and Tamryn!
Book Recommendations from Keith and Tamryn
During the session, Keith and Tamryn shared about the four components of adaptive intelligence and focused their time expanding on two of them: (1) accept change and uncertainty and (2) invite learning. To find out more about (3) give control and (4) embrace differences, check out some of their recommended books below! "If you look at the four areas and ask yourself, 'What can I do in each of them?', you start to build adaptive intelligence. Have fun and play until it starts to become part of your own DNA," Keith advises.
Keith's Recommendations:
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
It's an unusual take on our ability to own wrongness or error. We always talk about experimentation, embracing failure, and being open to learning, but Schulz shows our orientation to wrongness is fundamental to learning how to embrace change and be a learner. As we embrace change, we can unpack our worldview and our view of ourselves.
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
This book goes into how people think depending on where in the world they are. If you work cross-culturally or travel extensively, you want to start building the awareness that people don't see the world as you see it.
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
Like The Geography of Thought, this book goes into how people think. If we understand that, we will understand how they act.
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald A. Heifetz
Like a handbook on adaptive leadership, this book comprises theories, practical ideas, questions and exercises.
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
This book talks about the difference between a world that is complicated and one that is complex. In a world that is complex, we need to think differently because the rules that govern a complicated world are not the same as the rules governing complexity.
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by David Marquet
Marquet was a US navy nuclear submarine commander. He was given command of a nuclear submarine that was badly underperforming, but was told to get it operational in six months. He decided that the only way to do that was to give away control.
Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life by Amy Herman
Herman unpacks and explains why we need to build the capacity to see what we don't see. She talks about the need to assess correctly, the need for correct analysis and the ability to articulate accurately what we're seeing, and the need to adapt.
Tamryn's Recommendations:
Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Emotional intelligence is an important component of leadership. This book gives you lots of practical tips into understanding your emotions and triggers – why something triggers you and how you can start to learn that really difficult lifelong skill of self-regulation.
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
In Grazer's book, there is an idea of building curious conversations. What he did was that he mocked people in certain industries, such as prominent politicians and senior business people, and then sought them out intentionally. He thought specifically about the types of questions he wanted to ask or things he wanted to learn from them, and then went on to have these curious conversations with them where he came out feeling like he had really learned something.
Recommended Article from TomorrowToday
Six Enemies of Adaptability – And What To Do About Them
In Memoriam of Mr. Fumiaki WATARI January 11, 2021
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Broome County officials say the 911 emergency dispatch center received dozens of calls related to the reported disappearance of a six-and-a-half long pet snake in Binghamton.
The Office of Emergency Services Tuesday night issued a statement after word spread that the owner of the boa constrictor discovered it was missing.
According to the statement, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation "has been notified and is investigating" the case.
County officials indicated state agency representatives said the snake is "not a danger to adult humans."
The statement said if the boa constrictor is found, people should "exercise caution and keep small children and small animals away."
Anyone who locates the snake was advised to notify the Emergency Services office immediately at 607.778.1911.
The boa constrictor had been kept in an enclosure in a large apartment building a short distance from Binghamton High School on the city's West Side.
The snake's owner said on Sunday he discovered his pet named "Bella" was missing from the enclosure. He estimated the weight of the boa constrictor at about 20 pounds.
The owner said he's "very sorry" about the situation. He said he believes it's likely the snake had not made it out of his apartment building.
The man estimated the snake was about three or four years old, although he had only had the pet for about two weeks. He described the boa constrictor as "very friendly" and said she's "not going to attack" anyone.
The owner notified the Broome County Humane Society on Tuesday about the snake's disappearance. The agency then reported the lost pet on its Facebook page.


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Man charged with throwing hot grease on his black Labrador
Updated: 3:17 PM CST Dec 22, 2015
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http://www.kcci.com/news/owner-says-dog-burned-with-hot-grease/36843584The Webster County attorney reports an arrest warrant has been issued Tuesday for a man accused of burning his dog by throwing hot grease on him.Gary A. Wilson, 52, of Fort Dodge, is charged in the animal torture case.Authorities said the dog named Bob suffered second- and third-degree burns to his head and face.The incident is alleged to have happened on Nov. 18. A criminal complaint in the case was filed on Tuesday.Authorities said the dog is being cared for by his other owner who doesn't live with Wilson.Animal torture is an aggravated misdemeanor under Iowa law. The case remains under investigation.
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http://www.kcci.com/news/owner-says-dog-burned-with-hot-grease/36843584The Webster County attorney reports an arrest warrant has been issued Tuesday for a man accused of burning his dog by throwing hot grease on him.
Gary A. Wilson, 52, of Fort Dodge, is charged in the animal torture case.
Authorities said the dog named Bob suffered second- and third-degree burns to his head and face.
The incident is alleged to have happened on Nov. 18. A criminal complaint in the case was filed on Tuesday.
Authorities said the dog is being cared for by his other owner who doesn't live with Wilson.
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Q: Using a docker command as an variable in a Jenkins sh script? I am working on a CI/DC Pipeline where I have a DEV, TEST and Prod Server. With a Jenkins Pipeline i deploy my newest Image onto my DEV-Server. Now i want to take the image of my DEV-Server by reading out the sha256 id and put it on my TEST-Server.
I have a Jenkins Pipeline for that:
    pipeline {

        agent any
        tools {
            dockerTool 'docker-19.03.9'
        }

        environment {

        }

        stages {
            stage('DeployToTEST-Angular') {
                steps {
                    script {
                        echo 'Deploying image...'
                        sh 'docker stop mycontainertest'
                        sh 'docker rm mycontainertest'
                        sh 'docker run -d --name mycontainertest [cant show the envirmoments i give with] --restart always angular:latest'
                    }
                }

            }
    }

As you see i currently use the :latest tag, but i want something like this:
pipeline {

    agent any
    tools {
        dockerTool 'docker-19.03.9'
    }

    environment {

    }

    stages {
        stage('DeployToTEST-Angular') {
            steps {
                script {
                    echo 'Deploying image...'
                    sh 'docker stop mycontainertest'
                    sh 'docker rm mycontainertest'
                    sh 'docker run -d --name mycontainertest [cant show the envirmoments i give with] --restart always \$imageofDev'
                }
            }

        }
}

$imageofDev = docker inspect mycontainerdev | grep -o 'sha256:[^"]*' // this command works and give my back the raw sha256 number
So that it uses the actuall sha256 number of my dev image
I dont know how i can define this variable and later use the value of it in this Jenkins Pipeline. How can i do this?

A: When you build the image, choose an image name and tag that you can remember later.  Jenkins provides several environment variables that you can use to construct this, such as BUILD_NUMBER; in a multibranch pipeline you also have access to BRANCH_NAME and CHANGE_ID; or you can directly run git in your pipeline code.
def shortCommitID = sh script: 'git rev-parse --short HEAD', returnStdout: true
def dockerImage = "project:${shortCommitID.trim()}"
def registry = 'registry.example.com'
def fullDockerImage "${registry}/${dockerImage}"

Now that you know the Docker image name you're going to use everywhere you can just use it; you never need to go off and look up the image ID.  Using the scripted pipeline Docker integration, for example:
docker.withRegistry("https://${registry}") {
  def image = docker.build(dockerImage)
  image.push
}

Since you know the registry/image:tag name, you can just use it in other Jenkins directives too
def containerName = 'container'

// stop an old container, if any
sh "docker stop ${containerName} || true"
sh "docker rm ${containerName} || true"

// start a new container that outlives this pipeline
sh "docker run -d --name ${containerName} ${fullDockerImage}"

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Welcome to my monthly series…Herbs and Children! I have been learning so much about herbs and how to treat a variety of illnesses, infections, skin conditions, emotions, and other issues in children. While I am far from an expert, I do feel as though I have a lot of great information to share with you that can then use to do your own further research. Each month, I will share a specific "condition" or health concern and the specific herbs that are generally considered safe and effective to use on and in your children to address these conditions. Be sure to read to the end of each post where I link up the previous posts in the series. Please note – I am not a licensed medical professional so do not take this as medical advice. Please use it as a launching point to do your own research. Product links are likely to be affiliate links.
It's that time of year again! Children are returning to the classroom, sports, and other activities where they are exposed to one germ after another. Yes, cold and flu season is knocking at the door! So what is a natural minded parent to do?
Support your child's immune system with immune boosting herbs!
I firmly believe in the power of herbs to help support your child's immune system. While you might not stave off every single illness that your child is exposed to, you certainly give them a better chance of having more mild symptoms as well as a shorter duration of the actual illness.
There are quite a few immune boosting herbs that are considered immune modulators. This means that they go into the body and restore, enhance, and improve the body's immune function and response. Some are more potent than others so it is important to work closely with someone trained in herbalism, especially if you are giving these herbs to very young children.
What are my go-to immune strengtheners to support your child's immune system you ask? Well, I have five favorite immune boosting herbs along with one very powerful tea blend!
My #1 go-to for support your child's immune system is elderberry! Elderberry can be turned into a tea, tincture, or syrup and is pretty well liked by children. I give this to my own daughter daily from August until May. Elderberry and elder flowers are great when working to support the upper respiratory system. Traditionally, they have been used to support and strengthen the mucous membranes.
I adore nettles for so many reasons. These bad babies are a very versatile and powerful herb. I like to describe nettles as "life giving" as they are super restorative. Tiny has been drinking nettle infusions for years, almost daily. She loves it and I love that it gives her such a huge boost!
Nettles work to cleanse the body, keeping things moving during healthy times, and moving illness and toxins out during sick times. Nettles really stimulate the lymph system while providing a hearty dose of many minerals the body needs, especially when it is ill. I have also found that it helps my daughter when she has digestive upset.
This is another immune boosting herb that I use and love when Tiny needs some extra support. I specifically use it in tincture form although it makes a great tea or infusion.
Burdock is very cleansing and acts as a stimulate to the immune system. Specifically, it targets the liver and gall bladder. This can be very important during illness as toxins may get trapped in the liver. Another benefit to Burdock is that it also fortifies the blood, something you want to do in the case of a bacterial infection.
Oddly, I don't use this all that much, at least not as a standalone herb. However, Echinacea has been used for ages to support and boost the immune system.
Echinacea contains antimicrobial, antiviral, and immune stimulating compounds. It is well known for its ability to fight both bacterial and viral infections, particularly colds and flues. It is also known to increase production of white blood cells which is important as white blood cells are the ones that eat up foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses.
You probably have no clue what this is right? I didn't either until I took a course on little known herbs and learned about this bad baby! Now I am in love with it.
Osha root has been shown to contain compounds that promote immunity but more importantly break up infection. This makes it an herb that is especially useful to take at the very first sign of illness because it can work wonders in reducing the severity of the illness as well as shortening the duration.
I need to give you a HUGE word of warning on this one. Don't go out and get some Osha Root and turn it into a tea or tincture or whatever. This is NOT an herb to administer to children under ten unless you are under the guidance and care of a professional herbalist. It can cause stomach distress to the umpeeth degree if the proper dosage is not used. There are some tinctures available in health foods stores and online that have osha root in them. Don't be afraid to use those. They have been properly compounded.
This is the Osha Root tincture that we have and use.
I typically like to make up my own tea blends and was inspired to make this particular one when I stumbled on a tea that looked incredible. I tried it and it has become a staple in my home.
This tea tastes divine and Tiny has enjoyed it for several years with just a bit of honey. It works to support and strengthen the immune system and is a daily situation from August-May. I give Tiny 6 ounces per day and when illness strikes, I pump her full of it, to the tune of 16 ounces or more!
I have used the tea myself and I swear it has kept me from getting almost everything Tiny comes down with or that I am exposed to. So I am a firm believer in this tea! You can make your own blend by grabbing the herbs listed and playing around with the amounts until you get a blend that you love. While I make a large batch, you can make single servings by just grabbing a pinch of each herb.
Looking for other ways to support your child's immune system with immune boosting herbs?
Be sure to check out a few of my favorite (and popular) immune related posts.
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This is a great topic! I've always wondered about the herbs that can naturally boost our immune system. And i've read that elderberry is a great immune-booster!
Good morning! I was wanting to know your thoughts on the burdock root for my daughter , she's two years old and has congenital lymphedema , I've read that it could help with the drainage . Any thoughts?


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Flowers on the Razorwire: Episode One, Chance Meeting
30 mins and a whole bunch of extras
I have to hand it to Joe Monks of Chanting Monks Press. If you're looking for an all new standard of disturbing, you need look no farther than the first five minutes of Flowers on the Razorwire.
The first five minutes of Flowers on the Razorwire makes the entire Hellraiser series look like a Ken Burns documentary.
Produced as the pilot episode for a Japanese horror series, and NOT as the lead-in to a larger feature as I had previously thought,it involves a lonely fellow who gets him a little sadomasochism action and finds it goes a lot farther than he'd care for it to go. Lying on a table, bound at wrists and ankles, and with about thirty giant needles embedded in his stomach, the overzealous mistress he'd hired gives our boy his marching orders: tell her a scary story or she'll find out just how far she can go before he stops making noise.
So probably scared out of his mind and hurting like a son of a bitch from having a series of giant needles embedded in his stomach, our boy improvises us a scary tale. A young Japanese girl is doing her laundry in an apartment building when, getting on the elevator, she slights a blind man by closing the elevator doors on her in a bit of a panic. This is, of course, when all hell breaks loose. She gets stuck on the elevator with the building's boiler maintenance man, who carries on about the methodology of the town's newest serial killer, frequently menacing our slight, unassuming little Japanese girl. Leading up to a twist that's surprising, assuming you haven't seen very many horror movies before. Noobs will be amazed...veterans will give an audible shrug.
But this is where the amazing part starts.
It's over.
That's right, folks...you just watched a half-hour video. For all we know, our boy in the beginning is STILL tied to that table, and the mistress is keeping him alive through a series of transfusions with blood donated by local rodents. He could be hosting a kiddie show in Vancouver with her for all we know, because the show's OVER! It's DONE!
Like me, you're probably staring at the credit roll and saying in one loud, unified voice, "Huh?"
I just sat through a half hour of sadomasochism and endless conversations about the intricate mechanics of forcibly removing a human nipple, and I don't even know what happened to the poor dumb schmuck with the needles in his stomach. Where is the ending?
Disappointed? Sure am. But even through the dark haze of my half-hour disappointment, dammit, I CAN'T completely pan Flowers on the Razorwire. I just CAN'T. You know why? Because Joe Monks has gone all freaking out to make sure the DVD extras are a real surprise. Let's go over them. Okay, there are no subtitles, or audio options, but we DO get a music video of one of the movie's songs, a blooper reel which is surprisingly funny, and a behind-the-scenes featurette. We also get a downright chilling trailer for the movie "Garbage Man" that features more love letters than "You've Got Mail".
There's also something called the "HDF Director's Reel" which is apparently a series of trailers. Like trailers for the movie "Garbage Man" that gives us a little more insight into what it's about. It features many, many killings and Zach De La Rocha screaming about bullets for several seconds. Oh, wait...that's a Rage Against the Machine song. We also get footage of guys beating each other senseless with sticks. This makes Backyard Wrestling look like a sensible pastime.
Plus, in a move that will make me sing the brilliance of Monks for years to come, Flowers on the Razorwire includes a comic book in the DVD package. A black-and-white multiple story comic book featuring a story that basically takes Watership Down and injects it with bunnies that make Bun-Bun look socially responsible.
So, God help me, I finally can't decide just what to make of Flowers on the Razorwire. While the main story is disturbing and ultimately disappointing, the extras are so varied, numerous, and utterly original that I can't help but come away satisfied. It's like I bought a lemon on the used car lot, but the dealer gave me a free balloon, hot dog, can of soda, air freshener, large pizza, key chain, floor mats, rust proofing, instant rebate and no payments for fifty years financing.
All in all, I'm only slightly less than satisfied with Flowers on the Razorwire...only slightly.
Ghosts of Edendale
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Old Hollywood decides that it's not going out without a gunfight in Ghosts of Edendale, and when Old Hollywood wants to defend its turf, it doesn't fool around.
Now, let me preface by stating that I'm personally very excited about this week's column. You'll notice that, regardless of WHAT video store you go to, you won't find it on the shelves. It's not on Netflix, either. The reason is, it hasn't been released yet. That's right...Reel Advice readers are getting an advance look at an UPCOMING RELEASE. It won't even be on the shelves until mid-October, and you'll know about it in advance.
NOW aren't you glad you stuck around?
How'd I get it?
Simple...the director, Stefan Avalos, is a Reel Advice reader himself!
But now, on to the movie.
The DVD menu is a real thrill--easily one of the best out there. Figures move in the background and fade from color to black and white, as though the picture is aging and moving all on its own. In the background, a discordant piano solo crashes its way through the sequence of movement, lending a truly eerie touch to the tableau. Meanwhile, the options sit nondescript below the picture, almost an afterthought. It's subtle without being too obtuse, and a truly refreshing touch to an often ignored feature of DVDs.
Even the individual option menus have their own ominous backgrounds. I haven't seen a DVD menu this involved since Jeepers Creepers 2, and I love it.
A couple, Kevin and Rachel by name, moves into an old house in California, setting up residence on a fairly run down street, Edendale Place. Apparently, Edendale was the center of some serious goings-on in Hollywood, including whatever happened to the previous owners of the house our hapless couple just bought. Something so bizarre that they left food to rot in the unpowered refrigerator, left furniture abandoned behind them, and even rushed out so fast they knocked the back porch's wind chime.
They discover some very pleasant neighbors, like Julian and Alex, who not only help Kevin and Rachel move in, but also bring beer.
This should be Kevin and Rachel's first warning sign--strangers bearing beer in the middle of Los Angeles is not exactly normal--but if they used logical thought processes we wouldn't have a movie, now would we?
The neighborhood has this whole "pod person" feel to it--everyone in the neighborhood is in "the business" in one way or another; actors, writers, musicians are all well represented with a near fanaticism. For instance, Julian and Alex discuss Andrew, an actor who apparently botched a show they had recommended him for, and the neighborhood reacted with a systematic ostracism. They visibly hate to discuss Andrew, and refuse to invite him to parties.
I keep waiting for Julian to stand stock-still, arm stretched out, finger pointing, screaming "Anna Nicole! Anna Nicole!"
Andrew, meanwhile, is wandering around the neighborhood like a junkie looking for a crack house, desperate for Rachel to tell him when the next party will be.
Things don't get much better from there for Kevin and Rachel. Weird events plague them, both natural and paranormal. And Kevin's changing, too...not necessarily for the better. Kevin's working out! Quitting smoking! Watching what he eats! Getting weepy and obsessive over spurs his wife found in...the...garden? Oooookay. Something is definitely not right in Kevin's head-meat.
The events keep rolling right along until the inexorable conclusion, which is presented terribly well in the truly unsettling ending as Rachel discovers that the stories of Edendale aren't just stories after all....
Creepy moments abound in "Ghosts of Edendale"--there are all kinds of scenes that'll have you working the rewind and frame advance buttons on your remotes as you ask "What was THAT?" For instance, keep your eyes on Rachel's bedroom closet for a moment that got ME nervous, and that's saying something. Check out the fence a little later, too.
Extra features are also very involved. We have a handful of audio and commentary options, behind the scenes featurettes, production artwork, a trailer, deleted scenes, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Ghosts of Edendale uses music and atmosphere to a maximum effectiveness, creating a film that is at once cerebral and unsettling. It refuses to rely on trite horror gimmicks like buckets of blood and mock Satanic rituals, and instead relies on its environment and excellent cinematography to produce its shocks.
All in all, Ghosts of Edendale is a highly effective horror film, for what it uses and what it REFUSES. Stefan Avalos needs to be putting out more movies like this--it's head and shoulders above the crap that's hitting shelves these days.
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29 farmers arrested for stubble burning in UP's Pilibhit, over 800 FIRs filed
Stubble burning has become a major issue in Uttar Pradesh and over the last few days an increasing number of farmers have been arrested and fined for the same.
Farmers burn straw stubble after harvesting paddy crops in a field
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On Wednesday, around 29 farmers were arrested and imprisoned, allegedly for stubble burning. According to a CNN News18 report, the incident took place in Pilibhit, with FIRs having been filed against more than 800 other people. Fines totalling Rs. 8 lakhs have so far been imposed. Local officers have also been served show cause notices for being unable to curb the problem.
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Earlier today, an IANS report mentioned that in Mathura, the district administration has so far imposed fines totalling Rs 13.5 lakh on 300 farmers.
Mathura District Magistrate Sarvagya Ram Mishra said that farmers were arrested for violating Section 15 of the Environment Protection Act. He said that the administration had been keeping continuous track on such cases and if farmers continued to violate rules, punitive action was to be taken against them.
SSP Mathura Shalabh Mathur added that those who were arrested for burning crop residue in their farms were booked under section 278 (making atmosphere noxious to health) of IPC and those who had collected stubble at the corner of their farms or some secluded place for burning were booked under section 151 (arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offence) of the CrPC. He said that some farmers, who tried to prevent government officials from discharging their duties, were booked under section 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of IPC.
Similar to Pilibhit, show cause notices have been issued to five village heads of Nandgaon and Chhata block under the Panchayat Raj Act section, which provides for removal of village heads for having higher number of cases of stubble burning in their respective villages.
Five village heads from Deh, Pulwana, Hathana, Kharaut, and Phalain had been issued show cause notices as large number of stubble burning cases were reported there.
"If they fail to give an appropriate reply, they will be removed from their post," the district magistrate said.
According to an earlier report, over 2,000 cases of stubble-burning have been observed in ten districts of UP. This includes 455 cases from Mathura and 321 from Pilibhit.
(With inputs from IANS)
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he/him | mfbarber[at]uoregon.edu
Matt grew up in Maryland and Japan before heading to New York to pursue his undergraduate degree at Colgate University. He completed his Ph.D. in the labs of Or Gozani and Katrin Chua at Stanford University studying the biochemistry and cellular functions of mammalian protein deacetylases. After developing an interest in evolutionary biology, Matt went on to investigate host-pathogen genetic conflicts in Nels Elde's lab at the University of Utah. He joined the University of Oregon as an assistant professor in September 2016. Outside of lab Matt enjoys spending time with his family and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
Kristin Kohler
Research Associate & Lab Manager
she/her | kkohler[at]uoregon.edu
Kristin grew up in the small town of Jackson in Northern California and obtained her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of the Pacific. During her time at Pacific she worked in the laboratory of Craig Vierra where she identified silk genes of the Black Widow spider. She completed her Ph.D. in the lab of David Schatz at Yale University studying the targeting of Somatic Hypermutation in activated B cells. In the Barber lab Kristin applies her knowledge of immunology to study several projects at the interface of evolution and bacterial-host interactions. Outside of work Kristin enjoys hiking with her dog, trail running and baking.
EmilyClare Baker
NIH F32 award recipient
she/her | ebaker6[at]uoregon.edu
Mary Darby Jackson
she/her | mdj6[at]uoregon.edu
Mary Darby, a native of Mississippi, grew up in Oxford, MS and attended Mississippi State University. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences, she joined the lab of Brian Akerley at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Mary Darby studied immune evasion mechanisms and sialic acid-mediated resistance in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and was awarded her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in May 2020. As a new member of the Barber lab, Mary Darby is excited to extend her knowledge in bacteriology to study how host-microbe interactions shape immunity and bacterial adaptation. In her free time, she enjoys running and exploring the area with her husband and dog.
Caitlin Kowalski
she/her | ckowalsk[at]uoregon.edu
Caitlin is a northeast native and grew up in New Hampshire. After receiving her BS in Biology from Stonehill College in Massachusetts, Caitlin returned to New Hampshire for graduate school at Dartmouth. While at Dartmouth, she joined Robert Cramer's lab where she investigated the influence of hypoxia on filamentous fungal biofilms and pathogenesis utilizing the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. She was awarded her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in April 2020. Caitlin's graduate work leveraging natural strain heterogeneity and experimental evolution got her interested in the adaptation of host-associated microbes. In the Barber lab, Caitlin is excited to investigate how host-microbe and micro-microbe interactions shape microbial adaptation. Outside of lab, Caitlin can be found exploring in the mountains, trail running, or enjoying a local sour beer.
Omoshola Aleru
NIH T32 training grant recipient
she/her & they/them | oaleru[at]uoregon.edu
Omoshola (Shola) grew up in Fresno, California and obtained her bachelor's degree in biology at California State University Fresno in 2017. She is a current Biology Ph.D. student in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution and is excited to integrate her knowledge of microbiology in studying the evolution of host-microbe associations.
Nicole Paterson
she/her | npm[at]uoregon.edu
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Nicole did her undergraduate research in the lab of Kenneth Stedman on a NASA-funded project on acidophilic thermo-stable archaeal proteins. Subsequently she worked in the lab of Curt Machida at OHSU testing the bactericidal properties of bioactive resins on S. mutans biofilms, and then in the lab of Jason Taylor at the Portland VA studying immunological defects in a mouse model of Fanconi anemia. She also has a Master's degree from work done on spindle orientation in the lab of Ken Prehoda at UO. Nicole is excited to combine her research on the immune system with her early experience in evolutionary ecology to study how immune receptors evolve new functions in primates. She loves animals and almost became a veterinarian, in her spare time she serves the public on the City Council Toxics Advisory Board and hikes mountains with her dog.
Killian Campbell
he/him | ccampbe4[at]uoregon.edu
Killian is originally from Spokane, WA and obtained his undergraduate degree from Eastern Washington University, where he worked with Dr. Andrea Castillo. After that, Killian went on to work at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as an NIH-PREP post-baccalaureate student in the lab of Harmit Malik. There he worked alongside Tera Levin studying host-pathogen interactions between Legionella and amoeba. Killian is currently a graduate student in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and is interested in the evolution of host-pathogen interactions. In his free time, Killian enjoys listening to rap music, running, and cooking.
Ryan Sayegh
he/him | rsayegh[at]uoregon.edu
Ryan grew up in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and his family is originally from Lebanon. He is a recent graduate of the University of Oregon, where he attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Theatre Arts. During his undergraduate degree, he worked in Annie Zemper's laboratory where he studied the roles of proteins in the colonic epithelium of mice. Ryan is incredibly excited to learn about the evolutionary processes shaping host-microbe interactions. Ryan enjoys drawing, going on hikes, and cooking.
Clara Rehmann
Clara grew up in Portland, Oregon and attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied the effects of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase editing deficiency on Escherichia coli viability, before earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at University of Oregon in 2020, where she researched 3D genome organization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. She is currently a research assistant in the Barber and Kern-Ralph labs, and is interested in spatial population genetics, coevolution, and host-pathogen interactions (and hopes to combine all three someday!) In her spare time, she's usually in the wilderness, drawing, or spending quality time with her bearded dragon.
Wyatt Borman
Hussein Al-Zubieri, undergraduate student (2019-2020)
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Jasmine Garcia, undergraduate student (2020)
Currently: research assistant, Guldberg lab, University of Oregon
Dimitra Fellman, undergraduate student (2018-2020)
Currently: public health honors student, University of Oregon
Eden Brush, undergraduate student (2017-2019)
Currently: genetic counselor assistant, Lineagen
Jacob Laser, research assistant (2017-2018)
Currently: medical student, University of New England
Maddy Griffin, undergraduate student (2017-2018)
Currently: graduate student, Bastyr University
Hanna Buechi, research assistant (2016-2017)
Currently: sustainability consulting program manager, Measure to Improve


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LUovo di lapislazzuli è un uovo di Pasqua gioiello che fu fabbricato a San Pietroburgo, per conto del gioielliere russo Peter Carl Fabergé.

Proprietari

La storia di quest'uovo non è nota, non si sa quando è stato acquistato da India Early Minshall, che negli anni '30 era uno dei cinque importanti collezionisti americani di Fabergé, proprietaria anche dell'Uovo della Croce Rossa del 1915.

Nel 1965 India lasciò l'uovo in eredità al Cleveland Museum of Art.

Descrizione

L'uovo è fatto di lapislazzuli, oro, smalto blu, bianco e giallo, perle, rubini e diamanti; non ha marchi di
Fabergé visibili.

Il guscio in lapislazzuli giace su un fianco e si apre orizzontalmente in due metà incernierate, rivelando l'interno smaltato di bianco a rappresentare l'albume ed un tuorlo smaltato di giallo opaco.

Le due metà dell'uovo sono chiuse da un fermaglio e decorate da una fila di perline sul bordo.

Sorpresa

Il tuorlo è incernierato e al suo interno è celata una corona imperiale in miniatura in platino, tempestata di diamanti, con all'interno un pendente di rubino.

Ispirazione

L'Uovo di lapislazzuli è pressoché identico all'Uovo con gallina per Kelch, realizzato da Michael Perkhin tra il 1899 e il 1903, ed è molto simile all'Uovo scandinavo.

Anche l'Uovo con gallina del 1885, il primo della serie imperiale, ha la stessa ispirazione naturalistica.

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* Karl Kröger (Landrat) (1824–1897), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist
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Rapper Mystical Accused Of Rape!!!!! New Orleans Rapper Mystical has been accused of rape, after once being in jail for the same thing.
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Secondly, as we all know, this is not the first time Mystical has been arrested for rape. Back in 2019, he was released from prison after posting a $3 million bond.
In 2004, the rapper was sentenced to 6 years behind bars after pleading guilty to sexual battery. According to various reports at that time, Mystical and his two bodyguards allegedly forced his hairstylist to perform oral sex on them in return for not turning her into police for cashing $80,000 worth of unauthorized checks from his bank account
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Google adds Esperanto to Google Translate, making it the 64th supported language. Neniel!
by Matthew Panzarino — in Google
Google has today announced that it is adding the artificial language Esperanto to its Google Translate product. The language was crafted by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof and published in his 1887 book Unia Libro.
It was designed as a common language that all people could share and, 125 years later, has hundreds of thousands of active users, some few hundred of which learned it from birth via their parents.
Google implies that addition of the language a largely symbolic measure, designed to emphasize the fact that both Google Translate and the Esperanto language were created to further the goal of helping people understand one another. Google says that the team was actually stunned by how well the machine engine handled the language.
For Esperanto, the number of existing translations is comparatively small. German or Spanish, for example, have more than 100 times the data; other languages on which we focus our research efforts have similar amounts of data as Esperanto but don't achieve comparable quality yet.
Google attributes the ease of translation of the language to the fact that it was constructed in a way that was easy for humans to learn and therefore is easy for machines to translate. You can try out the new language on the Google Translate site now.
With that, I leave you with this clip of the film Incubus, starring William Shatner and shot entirely in Esperanto. Sadly skipped over by the 1965 Academy Awards committee.
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Find out about the bankruptcy filing of rapper DMX.
Rapper DMX filed for bankruptcy on December 6, 2016. It wasn't the first time the artist had filed: A court dismissed his last bankruptcy case in 2013 after instructing him not to file again until 2015. So why did he file this time? His decision likely had something to do with a $950,000 loan and a whopping family law obligation totaling $2,028,142.
The bankruptcy process starts when a debtor files official bankruptcy forms with the court—and DMX did just that in late 2016. However, he didn't submit all required forms—just a few in a process known as a "skeleton filing." (Typically, a debtor who needs to file fast will use this approach.) The bankruptcy court gave DMX 45 days from December 6, 2016, to submit the remaining paperwork. A filer who fails to comply risks a dismissal of the case.
Bankruptcy filers must disclose every aspect of their financial situation. Here's what we can glean from DMX's skeleton filing (as of January 5, 2016).
Personal and household items. None.
Farm- and fishing-related property. None.
How Much Does DMX Make?
All debtors—including DMX—must disclose how much they've earned year-to-date, as well as during the last two full years before the filing. In his initial filing, DMX didn't file Schedule I: Your Income—the form used to report current earnings—or any other form that might provide such information.
In his 2013 case, though, DMX indicated that he was bringing in approximately $5,000 per month.
Whom Does DMX Owe Money?
DMX listed only nine creditors in his December 6, 2016, filing—a modest number when compared to other debtors. Two large debts comprised the majority of the reported debt. The remaining seven bills totaled only $2,828 (medical bills and fees).
a $2,028,142 family law debt from a settlement or divorce.
DMX didn't submit his repayment plan (all Chapter 13 filers must prepare one) with his initial paperwork. A filer must include a proposed monthly payment amount in the repayment plan, and begin making the payment 30 days after the bankruptcy filing. A filer's plan isn't final until creditors have an opportunity to object at a hearing, and the filer receives plan approval from the bankruptcy court.


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The landings in Normandy on June 6th 1944, often referred to as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Part of Operation Overlord and codenamed Operation Neptune, it began the liberation of German-occupied France and laid the foundations for Allied victory on the Western Front.
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The target 80 km stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. American divisions were assigned to Utah and Omaha, British divisions to Gold and Sword, and the 3rd Canadian Division to Juno. Simultaneous airborne and naval operations were conducted, as well as coordination with the French Resistance and an assault at Pointe du Hoc by the United States 2nd Ranger Battalion.
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The attack was intended by the Japanese military as a preventative action to stop the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Starting at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time, the base at Pearl Harbour was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. Of the eight U.S. Navy battleships present, four were sunk and all were damaged. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. A total of 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed.
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Over 750,000 men and women served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Canadian units were stationed not only in the UK, but also to defend Newfoundland, the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, and Jamaica.
Canadian troops were part of operations on the Norwegian coastline from 1940 to 1942. They took part in the defence of Hong Kong in December of 1941 and on August 19, 1942, the Canadian Army was a key part of the Raid on Dieppe. The 1st Canadian Army joined British and American units to invade Sicily in July of 1943, then met up with the 5th Canadian Armoured Division to fight throughout Italy.
On D-Day, June 6th 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, alongside the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed at Juno beach on the Normandy Coastline. Along with other allied troops, the Canadians went on to liberate France, Belgium and the Netherlands. When the German Army finally fell on May 8th 1945, the Canadian Army had sustained a total of 17,682 fatal casualties.
Royal Canadian Navy
Through the course of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) enlisted 99,688 men and 6,500 women, to become the third largest navy in the world. The fleet contained 471 warships including aircraft carriers, cruisers, armed merchant cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, motor torpedo boats, minesweepers, landing craft, armed yachts and auxiliary ships.
The Canadian Navy had a large hand in the Battle of the Atlantic, which involved the protection of troop and supply ships running between North America and the United Kingdom. In November 1942, the RCN was involved in the Allied landings in North Africa, and in June 1944, it provided 110 and 10,000 men to support D-Day; the invasion of Europe. Later, HMCS Uganda took part in operations against Japan as part of the British Pacific Fleet.
By the end of the war, the Royal Canadian Navy lost a total of 24 ships to enemy action, and suffered 2,024 fatal casualties.
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) grew rapidly during World War Two, starting with only 4,061 Officers and men on September 1, 1939, and ending up as the fourth-largest allied air force by the end of the war, with more than 263,000 men and women. The RCAF officially managed the British Commonwealth Air Training Program, through which it trained 131,553 pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators, air gunners and flight engineers in Canadian schools.
Between North America, Great Britain, North Africa, Italy, Northwest Europe and Southeast Asia, Seventy-Eight RCAF squadrons would carry out combat operations, including air-to-air combat, strategic bombing, photo-reconnaissance, anti-submarine patrols, anti-shipping strikes, close air support and tactical air supply. By the time the war was over, the RCAF sustained 13,498 fatal battle casualties, 9,191 if which were Canadians flying with the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command.
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