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Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 200
fax: +49 (0)341 3550 - 299
Linda Vigilant
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Primatology
Deutscher Platz 6
D - 04103 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 341 3550 222
fax: +49 341 3550 299
e-mail: vigilant@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Background and interests
I use genetic analyses to address questions on the evolution of humans and other primates, particularly the great apes. I began my career working on the evolution of mitochondrial DNA in human populations. At the MPI-EVA, I have had the opportunity to work collaboratively with field researchers studying primate social behavior.
Topics we work on in my lab may focus on the level of individual social groups, such as examining the affects of kinship on the social behavior of pairs of individuals. Other studies use genotyping of entire primate populations to infer dispersal behavior and group social dynamics.
Recently I have become interested in using large-scale sequencing approaches for understanding the long-term histories of primate populations and seeing the effects of high variance in male reproductive success on patterns of genomic variation.


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Either this Merit Badge or Sustainability MB
is required to earn the Eagle Scout Rank
Prior to July 15, 2013, this Merit Badge was required to earn the Eagle Scout Rank
- Make a timeline of the history of environmental science in America. Identify the contribution made by the Boy Scouts of America to environmental science. Include dates, names of people or organizations, and important events.
- Define the following terms: population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, symbiosis, niche, habitat, conservation, threatened species, endangered species, extinction, pollution prevention, brownfield, ozone, watershed, airshed, nonpoint source, hybrid vehicle, fuel cell.
- Do ONE activity from EACH of the following categories (using the activities
in this {the merit badge} pamphlet as the basis for planning and projects):
- Ecology
- Conduct an experiment to find out how living things respond to changes in their environments. Discuss your observations with your counselor.
- Conduct an experiment illustrating the greenhouse effect. Keep a journal of your data and observations. Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.
- Discuss what is an ecosystem. Tell how it is maintained in nature and how it survives.
- Air Pollution
- Perform an experiment to test for particulates that contribute to air pollution. Discuss your findings with your counselor.
- Record the trips taken, mileage, and fuel consumption of a family car for seven days, and calculate how many miles per gallon the car gets. Determine whether any trips could have been combined ("chained") rather than taken out and back. Using the idea of trip chaining, determine how many miles and gallons of gas could have been saved in those seven days.
- Explain what is acid rain. In your explanation, tell how it affects plants and the environment and the steps society can take to help reduce its effects.
- Water Pollution
- Conduct an experiment to show how living things react to thermal pollution. Discuss your observations with your counselor.
- Conduct an experiment to identify the methods that could be used to mediate (reduce) the effects of an oil spill on waterfowl. Discuss your results with your counselor.
- Describe the impact of a waterborne pollutant on an aquatic community. Write a 100-word report on how that pollutant affected aquatic life, what the effect was, and whether the effect is linked to biomagnification.
- Land Pollution
- Conduct an experiment to illustrate soil erosion by water. Take photographs or make a drawing of the soil before and after your experiment, and make a poster showing your results. Present your poster to your counselor.
- Perform an experiment to determine the effect of an oil spill on land. Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.
- Photograph an area affected by erosion. Share your photographs with your counselor and discuss why the area has eroded and what might be done to help alleviate the erosion.
- Endangered Species
- Do research on one endangered species found in your state. Find out what its natural habitat is, why it is endangered, what is being done to preserve it, and how many individual organisms are left in the wild. Prepare a 100-word report about the organism, including a drawing. Present your report to your patrol or troop.
- Do research on one species that was endangered, threatened, or of special concern but that has now recovered. Find out how the organism recovered, and what its new status is. Write a 100-word report on the species and discuss it with your counselor.
- With your parent's and counselor's approval, work with a natural resource professional to identify two projects that have been approved to improve the habitat for a threatened or endangered species in your area. Visit the site of one of these projects and report on what you saw.
- Pollution Prevention, Resource Recovery, and Conservation
- Look around your home and determine 10 ways your family can help reduce pollution. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
- Determine 10 ways to conserve resources or use resources more efficiently in your home, at school, or at camp. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
- Perform an experiment on packaging materials to find out which ones are biodegradable. Discuss your conclusion with your counselor.
- Ecology
- Choose two outdoor study areas that are very different from one
another (e.g., hilltop vs. bottom of a hill; field vs. forest; swamp
vs. dry land). For BOTH study areas, do ONE of the following:
- Mark off a plot of 4 square yards in each study area, and count the number of species found there. Estimate how much space is occupied by each plant species and the type and number of nonplant species you find. Write a report that adequately discusses the biodiversity and population density of these study areas. Discuss your report with your counselor.
- Make at least three visits to each of the two study areas (for a total of six visits), staying for at least 20 minutes each time, to observe the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Space each visit far enough apart that there are readily apparent differences in the observations. Keep a journal that includes the differences you observe. Then, write a short report that adequately addresses your observations, including how the differences of the study areas might relate to the differences noted, and discuss this with your counselor.
- Using the construction project provided or a plan you create on your own, identify the items that would need to be included in an environmental impact statement for the project planned.
- Find out about three career opportunities in environmental science. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
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After posting the first 3 days of this trip, I realized that I didn't put any photos in the blog entries. With the help of my Christmas present, the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner, I'll make up for that. I'll include pictures going forward.
Not only do I have the Journal for this trip, but pictures that are labeled. Can you believe that? (I can). I need to take lessons from my mother. Actually I have, but need to get back to doing that.
Here are some pictures from the first three days.
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MongoDB is a widely used open-source NoSQL database (by some surveys, the most widely used). It offers a flexible, dynamic, document-oriented storage model that provides the high throughput and easy scalability required for projects with big data loads. MongoDB provides drivers and client libraries for the most popular programming languages, including C#. In this first article in a three-part series dedicated to developing a MongoDB application in C#, I explain what you need to know to set up and start working with MongoDB databases. In the next installment, I'll begin looking at access with C#.
Installing MongoDB on Windows
MongoDB supports the most popular platforms. However, as I want to cover a typical .NET development environment, I'll focus on using it on 64-bit Windows. You can make use of everything I'll explain the about the MongoDB C# driver when working with the database on other platforms, such as Linux.
If you still have doubts about why NoSQL databases have become popular in data centers in recent years, I suggest you read "Why NoSQL Is Here To Stay" or browse through "NoSQL Options Compared". This short article is a brief overview of the advantages of MongoDB over relational databases for big data loads. If you've been working for many years with traditional relational DBMSs, when you start working with NoSQL databases, you'll need to shift paradigms. In addition, you need to work with different tools to access and manipulate data. Thus, you have to forget a bit about the familiar world of SQL queries.
You can download the latest stable MongoDB version for 64-bit Windows. At the time of writing, the latest stable MongoDB production release is 2.2.3 (see Figure 1). Both the source code and the binaries are available for download. You will notice that the Windows 64-bit column includes two hyperlinks:
download and
*2008R2+. If you want to install MongoDB on 64-bit Windows 7 or 8, you must click on
download and the browser will start downloading a zip file with the binaries. If you are working with Windows 2008 R2, you must click on
*2008R2+. I will use 64-bit Windows 8 for my example of the installation process.
Figure 1: The different MongoDB distributions by platform and version for the latest production release: 2.2.3.
Once you've downloaded the zip file with the binaries, there is no need to execute any installation to launch MongoDB in your development environment. You just need to unzip the downloaded file to your desired folder and create additional folders to hold the data files. For example, you can create a new
mongodb folder and unzip the contents of the mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.3.zip file within that folder, without creating a mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.3 sub-folder. This way, you will then need to access
mongodb\bin to find the main
mongodb executable (
mongod.exe) and the different tools.
By default, MongoDB uses
C:\data\db as the data folder. Thus, if you want to use MongoDB without specifying additional configuration options, you have to create two folders:
C:\data and
C:\data\db. Then, you can launch a command prompt, go to the
mongodb\bin folder and execute
mongod.exe. In Windows 8, you just need to press Windows + X and select Command Prompt in the context menu that appears.
The first time you execute
mongod.exe, a firewall alert dialog box will appear because
mongod.exe works with two ports: 27017 and 28017. If you're using Windows Firewall, you just need to activate the "Private networks, such as my home or work network" checkbox and click "Allow access." Other firewall products will display different dialog boxes. The following lines show the information provided by
mongod.exe after it starts:
mongod --help for help and startup options
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=800 port=27017
dbpath=\data\db\ 64-bit host=WIN8X64
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] db version v2.2.3, pdfile version 4.5
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] git version:
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] build info: windows sys.getwindowsversion
(major=6, minor=1, build=7601, platform=2, service_pack='Service Pack 1')
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] options: {}
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] journal dir=/data/db/journal
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [websvr] admin web console waiting for connections on port 28017
Thu Feb 28 14:41:12 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017
When you see the
waiting for connections messages, it means that MongoDB has started successfully. If you take a look at the last two log lines, you will notice MongoDB will wait for connections on port 27017 and the administration Web console will do the same on port 28017. Go to
http://localhost:28017 in a browser and you can view the administration Web console with hyperlinks for many commands (on top), statistics, and the log displayed when you initialized MongoDB (at the bottom); see Figure 2. For example, one of the commands is
Figure 2: The MongoDB administration Web console.
However, to make these commands work, it is necessary to stop MongoDB and then run
mongod.exe again with the
--rest command-line option that turns on the simple REST API:
mongod --rest.
After following these steps, you can go back to
http://localhost:28017 in a Web browser and click
listDatabases. The browser will display the JSON result returned by the REST API that executed the
listDatabses command,
http://localhost:28017/listDatabases?text=1 (Figure 3).
Figure 3: The MongoDB administration Web console listing the databases.
All the commands generate a JSON result displayed in the Web browser. The following is the JSON result for an empty local database
{ "databases" : [ { "name" : "local", "sizeOnDisk" : 1, "empty" : true } ], "totalSize" : 0 }
It is also possible to setup MongoDB as a Windows service in the event you don't want to run it from the command line. While this deployment is local, MongoDB is frequently deployed in the cloud and you can even find MongoDB deployments on Windows Azure.
Some Basic Concepts
Most modern RDMBS provide a shell that allows you to execute SQL statements and see the results of their execution. MongoDB provides an interactive JavaScript shell that supports tab completion. To start the MongoDB shell, you can launch a command prompt, go to the
mongodb\bin folder and execute
mongo.exe (Figure 4).
Figure 4: The MongoDB JavaScript shell.
The MongoDB shell establishes a connection to a default test database (which still does not exist). MongoDB creates things only when necessary, therefore, the test database will be created if you add and save elements to it. As soon as you establish a connection, you will see a new line in the log for the database server (
mongod), such as the following:
Before creating applications that interact with a MongoDB database, it is worthwhile to spend some time working with the MongoDB shell because it allows you to have a better understanding of the way MongoDB works. In fact, you will apply everything you learn working with the MongoDB shell in your future work through the usage of the C# driver. Because the MongoDB shell is a JavaScript interpreter, you can write code that performs complex tasks. For example, you can easily write
for loops that add test data by taking advantage of your existing JavaScript knowledge.
MongoDB is document-oriented and uses the BSON (short for Binary JSON) format to represent documents. BSON is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents that includes the same document and array embedding capabilities found in JSON. BSON includes additional data types that aren't part of the JSON specification and are very important for MongoDB, such as
Date and
BinData (binary data).
BinData is equivalent to a
BLOB (short for Binary Large OBject) type in RDBMSs. If you want to dive deeper on the BSON spec, you can read its details at BSON website.
Each MongoDB document is a group of field and value pairs. A value might be any of the following:
- A BSON type.
- A document.
- An array of any BSON type.
- An array of documents.
Thus, a document can have nested documents (when the value is a document or an array of documents). These embedded documents are extremely powerful and provide great flexibility for the schemas, but they have to be used with care. In fact, the maximum document size (without using a special API called GridFS) is 16 MB.
MongoDB works with collections instead of tables, and each row in a collection is known as a document. Because documents contain a group of field and value pairs, the appropriate name to identify each document's property is obviously field, instead of the popular column name used when working with RDBMSs schemas. Every document includes a primary key that is automatically set to the
_id field (an object ID).
Collections are document containers that don't impose any sort of schema (an important difference from traditional relational tables); therefore, each document might have different fields. It would be possible to have documents with completely different structures within a single collection. However, in real-life applications, the documents generally will have a basic common structure.
Redesigning a Relational Schema to Create a Document-Oriented Schema
When working with MongoDB, there is no need to design a structured schema from scratch. Each document can add the necessary information as needed. However, at minimum, you need to have an idea of the initial contents for the different collections that your database requires before you begin coding. I do believe one of the easiest ways to understand how MongoDB works is by taking an existing relational schema and redesigning it while taking advantage of MongoDB's exclusive features. This way, you start making the paradigm shift from something you know (a relational database) to something new (a document-oriented database).
I'll borrow a RDBMS schema with the entities and the relationships of a Retrogames database from the recent Dr. Dobb's article "Information-Rich Programming With F# 3.0." The database has the following entities (see Figure 5):
Figure 5: Entities and their relationships for the Retrogames relational database.


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Street architecture and local Medina life, Asilah, Morocco
Street architecture and local life, Asilah, Northern Morocco, 2015-08-10.
Asilah is a sleepy fishing town in the North of Morocco, just one hour south of Tangier. While not completely off Morocco's well-beaten path, it's often missed by travellers bound inland for Fez or Chefchaouen, yet has a uniquely alluring charm. With an immaculately restored medina that's re-painted vivid shades of blue & white each summer, Asilah has the feel of being Morocco's own Santorini - a great spot to see the more chilled out, seaside town life in Morocco.
The town lies in the middle of a fascinating history in historical, architectural and artistic terms. It's 3,600 year old history that includes a varied range of occupiers, involving Roman, Arab Portuguese, Spanish and French colonisation. Many famous writers and artists have spent time here; in ancient times is it reported Herecules did a tour of the area and, more recently; Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Jean Genet (who is buried in the nearby town of Larache), William Burroughs, Jimi Hendrix and Henri Matisse have all found the area inspiring. The Portuguese ramparts remain fully intact and a full day can be spent wandering through its old gates and the ever narrowing medina streets inside the walls.
The architecture in Asilah has been heavily influenced by these different periods of occupation, which is one of the main reasons for its unique and characterful feel. Evidence of Mediterranean design can be seen in the rampart walls and gates themselves, reflecting the Spanish & Portuguese influence on the Asilah's development, Roman ruins can be found in the nearby town of Larache and Arab influences are more subtly found in the decorative window shutters and the labyrinth like medina layout to the streets.
If a lover of the quirkier details found in the medinas of Morocco, then Asilah won't disappoint, with hundreds of creatively designed doorways, decorative window shutters and retro, old e
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