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Scholarship with VDP STUDIO
. . . AKA Visionary Dance Productions
4128 Fremont Ave North, Wa 98103
Main Office 206 632-2353, Studio and Shipping office 206 632-1906
Belly Dance Stimulus Program
(Offering since Nov 2009)
Here's the deal
The economy has taken it's toll on many of us. We believe fervently that Belly Dance empowers our lives! It builds confidence, self esteem and self reliance. It keeps us together as women body, mind, and soul. It's deep yoga and moves our chi. It recharges our batteries and an opportunity for wordless self expression that is important for our interior world. We know belly dance heals and builds stronger women.
Got a Job ?
If you have a job, FANTASTIC! Come take classes at VDP and pay us for them. We thank you! We are having our own challenges as a small business and our dancers derive their livelihoods through teaching. Most important we all need to stay fit, empowered and in balance during these challenging times. What better than doing something that celebrates being a life in a woman's body! We have lots of wonderful and exciting instructors, classes, music and dance events for you to enjoy!
NO Job or minimally employed?
If you DO NOT have a job or a source of support right now, we feel you need belly dance more than ever! And I bet you have the time now more than ever before!
Come to class!
We'll figure it out with you.
Maybe you can trade something. We actually need many services so please do not feel you are imposing on us. It can be a win win situation for everyone!
Office tasks, distributing flyers, cleaning, sorting the studio stuff, raking leaves, painting, making signs, designing flyers, cooking, answering phones, internet management, costume repair, massage, beauty services, writing, video review . . . Maybe you just remember us when times are better later on up the road.
For now let's belly dance.
Life is too short to postpone that which we need and love.
How it works?
We are reserving spaces in these classes for you.
Please if someone you know is depressed and suffering because of this economy and you can see they need belly dance class then please pass this message on! They need to fill out a form and apply. We have 2-4 positions reserved in each class. We want to fill them by women who really want to belly dance! We are offering classes on every day of the week!
All they do is fill out a simple application.
Privacy observed.
Other opportunities:
We want to encourage documentation. We have a standing offer. If our dancers in our community write an article with photos about their experience at VDP studio, or sponsored event, class series, performance experience, personal growth experience with belly dance, retreat, Egypt tour, video review, interview of instructors or musicians. . . and it gets printed in any of the magazines we will gift them a workshop or class series, or if they are far away some sort of valuable perk.
Retreat Scholarships:
We have over the years been able to offer scholarships because persons who know how valuable belly dance is in women's lives have stepped forward to put up the funding. So Awesome! It warms all out hearts to have such positive demonstrations in out society. True Patrons of the Arts!
2010 year we had 2 full Hawaii Retreat scholarships.
INTENSIVE STUDY or INTERN RETREATS
Our internship programs are where dancers come to Seattle and live and under goes intensive study are not free or an exchange for labor. We offer our expertise and take you under our wing. This is avery valuable opportunity to women of any age. Each situation is a personally designed contract. The cost depends on budget and other factors like time of year, live in, goals, hours, . . . . We try to be reasonable and worthy.
Reasons: Some want to grow as professional dancers or instructors, some just want to increase their life's adventure and the process is therapeutic and retreat oriented. Lots of options.
see more in the next blog entry

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PhyloWiki was originally developed for use in IB200B: Principles of Phylogenetics, a course offered by the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology. The owner/admin is Nicholas J. Matzke.
PhyloWiki is now a general-purpose phylogenetics/biogeography help wiki, where Nick can upload code updates, tutorials, slides, etc., as well as FAQ pages on R projects like BioGeoBEARS, BEASTmasteR, TNTR, etc. The IB200b pages will be maintained as a resource (but probably not updated further).
R packages
BioGeoBEARS — inference and model choice in historical/phylogenetic biogeography. See also Publications using BioGeoBEARS.
rexpokit — accessory package for BioGeoBEARS, does fast matrix exponentiation with the FORTRAN package EXPOKIT (Sidje 1998)
cladoRcpp — accessory package for BioGeoBEARS, does fast calculation of biogeographic change probabilities for triplets of ancestor, left- descendant, and right-descendant geographic range states at cladogenesis events on a phylogeny. Makes use of Rcpp for this purpose.
TNTR — functions and scripts for converting data and trees from R into TNT format, running TNT analyses, and parsing the results back into R (and then conversion to standard formats and graphics).
BEASTmasteR — Converting NEXUS data files into Beast2 XML for phylogenetic dating analyses using fossils as tips.
modiscloud — a package for processing MODIS Cloud Product data. For the paper on Costa Rican cloud forests, by Goldsmith, Matzke, & Dawson (2013), Ecology Letters.
mod09nrt — Extraction of Bands from MODIS Surface Reflectance Product MOD09 NRT. This package uses some code from modiscloud, so they made me a co-author.
Rloose — Loose scripts that I don't want to lose.
Links to pages in use
Berkeley Biogeography 2020 — BioGeoBEARS lab for a U.C. Berkeley biogeography course on November 6, 2020
Quantitative Biology — A new course at the University of Auckland in 2020
Introduction to R & PCMs — For BIOINF702 at the University of Auckland
Tree-thinking with R — A lab exercise for the University of Auckland's BioSci 109 course introducing Ecology & Evolution
Explore genome size data — Part of a lab exercise for the University of Auckland's BioSci 210: Evolution course
BioGeoBEARS Workshops — dates, times, and abstracts of BioGeoBEARS workshops, past and future
BEASTmasteR Workshops — dates, times, and abstracts of workshops involving BEASTmasteR (they may include other topics as well), past and future
Matzke 2015 Science Paper On The Evolution Of Antievolution — This paper in Science, published online on December 17, 2015, contains a tip-dated, sampled-ancestors phylogenetic analysis of U.S. creationist/antievolution bills from 2004-2015. (Tracing how creationism involves!) The PhyloWiki page archives bonus material, including a free preprint, figures under Creative Commons license, and supplemental data and code.
TNTwiki — The old help wiki (original / Wayback Machine partial archive) for the (very fast!) cladistic parsimony program TNT has apparently permanently died. This is something of a crisis for people as the TNT command structure is very obscure, and the wiki was almost the only help. I will attempt to re-create the basic of the help at TNTwiki. Feel free to add to it (you may have to email me to get access to PhyloWiki).
2014 Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Animations — example animations
PhyloBasics — PhyloBasics is a page for accumulating basic mini-scripts in R for phylogenetics
Abstracts for presentations by Nicholas J. Matzke — annoyingly, in meeting websites, the abstracts are usually (a) hard to find, (b) hard to google, and (c) disappear at some point. This is a huge pain when even the author tries to find them later. So, I will archive mine here.
International Biogeography Society poster on results from biogeographic model testing in my R package BioGeoBEARS.
Phylogenetics help
Sometimes, it is useful to archive phylogenetics tips, tricks, and help. An organizational page for this is phyloHelp. Current example: TNT (Tree analysis using New Technologies), a parsimony program that is famous for being very fast, but for having a very obscure command syntax.
Methodological Workshop on Biodiversity Dynamics — for: "Evolution of Life on Pacific Islands and Reefs: Past, present, and future", May 26, 2011
mb notes — Notes on usage, quirks, misunderstandings etc. I have noticed with MrBayes 3.2.5 analyses. Mostly for my own memory. YMMV (your mileage may vary) by setup, dataset, MrBayes version, etc.
Dependency hell — When I figure out a successful install of something that gave problems, I'll put it here.
Fun with hominin cranial capacity through time
Frequency of phylogenetics and SDMs in the literature, via SCOPUS (updated)
Matzke 2015 Science paper on The Evolution of Antievolution Policies
Peter Foster's "Idiot's Guide to the Zen of Likelihood"
Main point
Initially the site will be used to post tutorials on how to use R, and how to run various common phylogenetics programs.
However, the wiki may also be used for purposes like:
- instructions and notes on installing phylogenetics software
- posting solutions (code) for various tasks in e.g. R, Python, etc.
- other collaborative projects involving research or education in evolutionary biology
My hope is that the site will become a general resource for the community of researchers and students in phylogenetics and evolution.
Basic rules to help this happen:
- Users must register with wikidot to add or edit pages, so that we know who is doing what. Registration is open, I will not manually check registrants.
- I do strongly recommend that users make their username resemble their real name or email. This
- (a) allows you to get credit for the work you do;
- (b) allows readers to check the authority of the authors;
- (c) hopefully, will cut down on the kinds of juvenile activity that tend to arise in anonymous situations, e.g. blog comments
- This wiki uses a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. This means that contributors are releasing their content for creative re-use, but they also retain copyright to anything they write. Thus, for example, it is appropriate to gradually develop a paper on a topic here, making it available to students and other readers while it is in progress (and perhaps attracting co-authors — main authors should use page permissions, explicit instructions, etc., if they don't want this to happen), and then take their own text and work it up into a final paper for submission to e.g. a journal.
- Spam, ranting and raving, vandalism, etc., will result in instant banning.
Animation of the geographical history of the Hawaiian Islands / Emperor Seamounts Chain. Produced via an R script, relying on data provided by Clague 1996.
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395lab.zip | Zip archive data | 54.26 MB | Info |
BioGeoBEARS_1.1.3.tar.gz | gzip compressed data | 17.33 MB | Info |
foster01-idiotslikelihood.pdf | PDF document | 179.52 kB | Info |
Foster_2001_Idiots_guide_to_likelihood.pdf | PDF document | 179.52 kB | Info |


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Did Taylor Swift Steal From Beyonce's 'Lemonade'?
Could a new feud be brewing?
The Internet has lost its mind because some people (okay, a lot of people) think Taylor Swift's teaser video for her new single, "Look What You Made Me Do," bears a strong resemblance to Beyonce's work, especially her video for "Formation," which came from her now-legendary Lemonade album.
The visuals are strikingly alike in certain parts, especially when you compare Swift sporting a black outfit from head to toe with what Beyonce wears in "Formation," as well as in her 2016 Super Bowl performance.
So, is this outright theft, an homage, a total coincidence or a publicity stunt? A healthy chunk of the Twittersphere had its mind made up and pounced on Swift. And just think: this is all based on a 20-second clip. Imagine the uproar that may ensue after the entire video comes out during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday!
See some reactions (and, quite frankly, a dragging spree) below:
10 Singers Who Allegedly Ripped Off Other Artists: