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Fall has some stiff competition. The Holidays and New Year's make winter a special time. The gorgeous sunny days of summer are always admired. The budding flowers of spring are welcomed by almost all. Fall is often unappreciated but is truly a magical time of year that is worth enjoying.
A very mystical part of fall comes from the cool breezy weather that starts to blow in. It has been said that wind is a sign of change. Once that wind begins to blow, all bets are off! Anything can happen. That being said, fall is the season of new beginnings.
With the start of a new school year, everyone is given a clean slate. Whether or not you decide to use it depends on you. Either way, new beginnings bring new opportunities to be had. Try out for that team you never thought you'd try before, learn something new and continue to grow.
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The Lewis County "Walk and Knock" will take place this Saturday, December 1 beginning at 10:00 a.m. This is the largest food drive in our area and an important part of our local food banks.
Winlock, Toledo, and Vader will have their volunteers out in full force in the morning, collecting bags of canned food to keep the food banks open throughout the year. The bags will be delivered in your local community paper, and filled bags should be placed on your front porch by 10:00 a.m. If you have a no trespassing sign, bags can still be placed in front of your gate or you can drop them off at one of the drop off locations.
Drop off locations in the area are Winlock IGA, Winlock Umpqua Bank, and Toledo Market Fresh Grocery Store. If you are a resident of Ryderwood and would like to participate, Shelly Westby said individuals can drop their items off at Vader Assembly of God.
There are 21 routes in Winlock, 5 routes in Vader, and 25 in Toledo. Volunteers include individuals who drive and many students who do the running to get the bags from the porches.
This is a very important event for our community as so many rely on this drive to feed their family throughout the year. They are still in need of volunteers for this weekend so if you have available time, please contact Shelly Westby (360) 749-0275.
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The post combined ideological oversight at home as well acting as a kind of agent provocateur, especially in the Ottoman territories. In due course the power of the Qezilbash was further checked, and eventually subdued, as the shah tilted further toward a succession of Persian officials.
The paradigm shift from a messianic crusade to a bureaucratic state appeared inevitable. He was obliged to assign provincial and district governorships to them as tenured fiefdoms soyurghal. In these fiefdoms the tent-dwelling Turkmen warriors roamed at the expense of the settled rural and urban populations.
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The death of Sultan Hosain Bayqara r. By already a large Uzbek contingent under the leadership of Shayban or Shaybani Khan, a descendant of Changiz Khan and founder of the Uzbek seminomadic kingdom, captured Samarkand, the capital of the eastern Timurids.
The arrival of the Uzbeks, the latest wave of Turkic-Mongolian incursions into the interiors of Central Asia, posed a grave challenge to the security of the region. Shayban Khan, who saw himself as the legitimate heir to Changiz Khan, eventually managed to capture the prized city of Herat in , putting an end to the last of the Timurid kingdoms. Whether it was an old ploy—luring the enemy into the interior before waging battle or the inferiority of Uzbek forces to those of the Qezilbash, the Uzbeks were routed and Shayban himself was trampled to death on the battlefield see map 1.
The defeat of the Uzbeks was an important turning point. The capture of both Marv and Herat set limits on the eastern expansion of Safavid Iran, frontiers that remained essentially in place until the mid-nineteenth century, despite many later Uzbek incursions. He turned the skull of Shayban Khan, his ideological adversary, into a gold-plated wine cup, witness to his long hours of heavy drinking. It was a symbolic reminder of Safavid reach. The reflective Timurid prince took heed and for a while collaborated with the Safavids against their common Uzbek enemy. Later he headed south to the less formidable tranquility of northern Hindustan.
The heinous act, though not entirely outside the norms of the time, generated outrage in the Ottoman capital, reaffirming the perceptions of the Safavids as fierce heretics. The Persian Tajik officials were no less merciful. He felt consoled having retaliated for the massacres centuries earlier in his hometown Isfahan by Mongol and later by Timurid invaders.
The Safavid movement had become a rallying point for the restive population of Anatolia and upper Mesopotamia whose territories were disputed among three powers. The situation, however, changed dramatically in In stark contrast to his father, Salim I r. Second, my respect for that warrior house [i.
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Why should we? Animosity among the kings is an old practice. Attributed to Kamal al-Din Behzad. After first preparing a meticulous register of the Turkmens of Anatolia, he carried out a systematic massacre of these presumed Safavid sympathizers throughout the region.
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The Ottoman forces reportedly killed forty thousand of the local inhabitants. The Ottoman Sunni jurists considered the massacre legitimate, and even furnished the necessary license for an anti-Safavid campaign. The Ottoman forces, the most advanced war machine of the time, consisted of , cavalry and infantry troops, of which 12, were the elite Janissary regiments see map 1. The multiethnic Ottoman army brought with it two hundred cannon, one hundred field guns, and well-maintained land and sea logistical lines via the Black Sea , including eight thousand camels and other beasts of burden.
Salim, his grand vizier, and his commanders those, at least, who survived his fits of rage and the many executions encountered in Chaldiran a meager Safavid cavalry force of less than twenty thousand. The Ottoman campaign came at a time when the Safavids faced a renewed Uzbek incursion in Khorasan, a coordinated effort with the Ottomans, perhaps, to overwhelm the Safavids by forcing them to fight in two fronts.
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His scorched-earth tactics and refusal to give battle were well-tested methods of warfare designed to persuade the enemy to give up and return, a possibility surely enhanced by the inhospitable terrain of northwestern Iran. His record of past victories might have made him overly confident about the superiority of the Qezilbash cavalry and its spirit of sacrifice on the battlefield, a fact that explains his lax preparation despite the glaring disparity in troop numbers.
Whether to overcome combat fright or out of sheer self-confidence, he and his Qezilbash chiefs spent the night before the battle drinking until dawn. Even when he joined his loyal Qezilbash troops, his sorties were a mix of valor and vagary rather than studied moves with clear strategic objectives.
Even by the Safavids did not seem to have appreciated the decisive effectiveness of firepower, even though cannon had been employed in eastern Iran a quarter of a century earlier under the Timurids. The Safavid reluctance to use firearms may have been, as has been often noted, because they considered them unmanly and contrary to the chivalrous code of war pl.
Even when they did see the Ottoman cumbersome muzzle-loading harquebuses, the standard weapon of the Janissaries, and the heavy field guns, with their short range and inaccurate targeting, they did not seem to have been impressed. In fact, the effectiveness of the Ottoman artillery, perhaps the most advanced in the early s, was mostly in siege warfare rather than on the battlefield, which may have encouraged the Safavids to face the enemy on the open plain rather than from within a walled fortress.
At the outset the Safavid hope for victory did not seem wholly misplaced. The advances on the right were also impressive—until the Ottoman cannon finally found the chance to fire. By the end of the day, the dual effects of the cannon thunder and shelling, perhaps more the former than the latter, shattered the Safavid defenses.
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A favorite woman of his harem, Behruzeh Khanum, was captured and taken to Istanbul. Remarkably, a number of women fought on the Iranian side, and a few were among the casualties, a reflection, perhaps, of the revolutionary perspective of the early Safavids that allowed the women to fight alongside the men. A number of Ottoman officials were also killed. The total number of casualties on both sides probably was no more than five thousand, of which more than two-fifths were the Turks.
The capture of Tabriz shortly thereafter completed the humiliation and brought Safavid power to the verge of collapse. The prospect of a Janissary mutiny, however, saved the Safavid capital. Salim was obliged to abandon his original plan to winter in Tabriz, and contrary to earlier Ottoman practice, he departed a week after his arrival in late summer of without leaving behind a single Ottoman contingent.
He nevertheless stayed long enough to allow the city to be looted and then rounded up and took to Istanbul a considerable number of artists, artisans, and merchants from Tabriz and elsewhere in the Safavid domains including more than twelve painters, book illuminators, and calligraphers. They later established in Istanbul a Persian community of artists who would have a lasting influence on Ottoman fine arts. The consequences of the Battle of Chaldiran were far reaching. It is from this point that the charismatic Safavid leadership gradually transformed into a traditional Persian kingship, a process that took several generations of Safavids to be completed.
The Ottomans continued to consolidate in central and eastern Anatolia. At the obvious expense of the Safavids, they captured the key fortress of Kumakh in central Anatolia in It is quite possible that the Ottoman sultan, despite his hasty departure from Tabriz, intended to revisit Iran and put an end to the Safavid heresy, perhaps with the ambition to at least partition Iran. Although such an offensive never materialized, the dual Sunni threat on opposite flanks of Iran proper remained in place throughout the Safavid and post-Safavid periods.
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The exposure of the Guarded Domains of Iran to repeated aggressions on both sides and the stretching limited military resources did not subside before the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ottoman consolidation in Anatolia not only cost the Safavids direct loss of territory but also removed their hopes for unhindered access to the Black Sea through an Anatolian enclave. For at least four centuries the Safavids, and their successors, faced an Ottoman barrier that deprived them of direct political and commercial access to the Mediterranean world. Although Alawite communities in Anatolia periodically revolted against the Ottomans during the Jelali revolts of the mid to late sixteenth century, for all intents and purposes the war of eliminated any potential replication of a Safavid-like revolution there.
Significantly, however, under Salim, and later under his son Suleiman—whose reign marked the zenith of Ottoman expansion—the Ottomans never succeeded in subordinating their Safavid neighbor. In part this was because of obstacles in maintaining secure logistical lines through Anatolia to Iran, to establish effective control over hostile terrain.
Their reluctance to fight inside Iran became evident in a serious mutiny during the siege of Tabriz and later. For the most part, however, it was the religio-political synergy of the Safavids that helped them to resist Ottoman expansion and, in due course, that fashioned Iran into a territorial empire with a distinct identity.
Within the three years after Chaldiran, Salim secured eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia but also successfully shifted the direction of Turkish conquest toward the Mamluk lands. Such an enterprise proved easier to achieve and more materially beneficial. No phenomenon similar to the Safavids barred him from taking Damascus, or even Cairo. By he had conquered the entire Mamluk territory in the Levantine Mediterranean as well as Egypt and coastal North Africa. The Battle of Chaldiran revealed the utter superiority of Ottoman firearms and the organization of a well-equipped slave army over the traditional means and tactics of warfare waged by a tribal army such as the Qezilbash.
The age of the Gunpowder Empires came to Iran with an experience of defeat even though its memory predictably toned down in the Safavid official narrative.


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From offices, to factories to residential apartment blocks and villas, sustainable building practices are more important now than ever before. But what about our other public buildings, such as hospitals? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in the US, for example, hospitals generate 6,000 tons of waste daily – 15 per cent of that being hazardous waste that requires costly disposal methods.
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Did you know the Tucson Community Food Bank relies on about 120 employees?
It takes a lot more than employees to run a food bank!
Doug Ruopp was my guide at the food bank, and Cindy Montano assigned us into jobs.
My job was to put two boxes of raisins and a box of walnuts into a bag. Outside, Ruopp told me that the Community Food Bank helped people get their own gardens. They bring dirt, soil, seeds and even worms to get gardens started.
Ruopp also tells me that the Community Food Bank teaches people how to cook. About half of these people get real jobs cooking at different places!
Do you want to volunteer at the food bank? Well guess what? You can!
If you have extra fresh fruit or vegetables, you can call the food bank and they will come to pick the food up. Their number is 622-0525. If you have more questions or you want to volunteer, their website is www.communityfoodbank.org.
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We are on the road today so I am sharing a Friday Funny.
A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and it did make me laugh out loud. It seldom happens with me but when it does, Watch Out. Be careful out there today as it is Friday the 13th!! See you all tomorrow for Stitching Saturday.
Friday, October 13, 2017
Friday Funny
4 comments:
- Karen said...
I've had that happen to me, too! lol
- October 13, 2017 at 7:27 AM
- Terri D said...
Very funny....I think it is probably true of northern girls too! LOL
- October 13, 2017 at 8:54 AM
- Visits With Mary said...
I know about those 'good ol' country girls.' Hope you have safe travels and a good weekend.
- October 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM
- RJ said...
LOL!!! Have a fun trip. RJ@stitchingfriendsforever
- October 13, 2017 at 7:55 PM
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The Department for Education (DfE) recently launched a strategy for recruiting and retaining school teachers in state-funded schools, which is based around four key priorities:
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Helping to address some of these issues, Herts for Learning (HfL) hosted its fifth annual Teach in Herts Teacher Recruitment Fair on behalf of Hertfordshire schools.
The award-winning Teach in Herts Teacher Recruitment Fair was held at Fearnhill School in Letchworth Garden City on Saturday 23rd March.
With 24 Hertfordshire schools in attendance representing many more schools within their district clusters, visitors had the opportunity to speak face-to-face with schools and educational representatives from across the county about current teaching vacancies.
In addition to this, representatives from the DfE were able to offer advice on all routes into teaching, recent trainees spoke about their personal journeys and all were available to answer specific questions raised by attendees. The universities of Cambridge and Hertfordshire as well as Hertfordshire Teaching School Alliances were available and all have training places available for September.
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Herts for Learning also held two dedicated 'Get into Teaching' fairs this year.
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Tonight, I heard Ryan telling Earl about the Painting's Edge and I joined in on the conversation. After Earl returned to his apartment, Ryan and I continued talking about painting, mediated visual thinking, and painter's block.
As our conversation progressed, I encouraged him to stop the over thinking and to get fast and furious. To that end, I remembered my Wacom tablet, I invited Ryan in, set up the pen & tablet and showed him how to make digital drawings with Flash and the tablet.
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Linking to Good Fences hosted by TexWisGirl.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Rural and Rustic.
Linking to Good Fences hosted by TexWisGirl.
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such beautiful countryside! love the natural, rugged fence in the first, but the beauties in the last shot steal the show. :)ReplyDelete
I know fences are practical but I do sometimes wish that hedges were put in place instead.ReplyDelete
Good for wildlife and so beautiful.
Often I see new fencing go up and then the next year hedging is being planted, now that makes me smile :)
Love the unkempt meadow....all those thistle heads just waiting for the finches and other birds........
Luuved the dragonflyReplyDelete
Terrific photos, Frank! I always favor those wooden/board fences.ReplyDelete
Boa tarde, Frank! fotos perfeitas, lindas cores naturais com qualidade, as mesmas são bem representativas do seu gosto pela natureza, que é a única perfeição existente no nosso planeta.ReplyDelete
You got a lot of nice shots from that walk! And super shot of the dragonfly.ReplyDelete
Rural and rustic, and the lovely addition of the ever important insect, and adorable animals too. What could be better than all that. Your photos are always so lovely.ReplyDelete
Stunning images! Love the fence shots and those horses are beautiful!ReplyDelete
Lovely fences in the countryside. So beautiful and relaxing.ReplyDelete
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I enjoyed all your fences and scenery. Beautiful!ReplyDelete
You have a nice day!
Great post. Loving the wavy curves of boards in the 1st fence shot.ReplyDelete
Neat shot of the Dragonfly.
Pretty horse and butterfly shots.
- Anonymous18 September 2014 at 21:22
Such lovely countryside. Nice shot of the darter on the fence rail.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 September 2014 at 22:09
Wonderful photography!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful place!ReplyDelete
Great series! I love the dragonfly and the pretty horses.. Great fence shots.ReplyDelete
thanks for letting us tag along on this wonderful stroll.ReplyDelete
love the dragonfly and the horses!ReplyDelete
A lovely walk through more beautiful countryside, Frank. Great capture of the Common Darter. Have a good weekend!ReplyDelete
Nothing quite like a walk through natural, unspoilt countryside.ReplyDelete
Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers have been really numerous in my part of the world this summerReplyDelete
Great pix Frank...another great walk!...:)JPReplyDelete
Wow, what GREAT collections of fence with dragonfly,butterfly,horses♬♬♬ Beautiful pictures and scenes I cannot enjoy in my area.ReplyDelete
Sincerely from Japan, xoxo Miyako*
Frank, I love old farms and fences and I particularly like the photo with the horses. It looks a bit strange to me to see a pinto and an appaloosa in England, though! I think of them as western horses, though with our international society nowadays, any breed of anything can be seen just about anywhere! Nice post!ReplyDelete
Beautiful country! Wooden fences are among my favorites.ReplyDelete


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AT 814 pages, this critically important constitutional court decision was never going to be easy to digest. Five judges, headed by the deputy chief justice, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, contributed to its length and they all had a lot to say.
AT 814 pages, this critically important constitutional court decision was never going to be easy to digest. Five judges, headed by the deputy chief justice, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, contributed to its length and they all had a lot to say.
Like the deputy chief justice, the other four who heard the matter, Judges Cheborion Barishaki, Elizabeth Musoke, Kenneth Kakuru and Remmy Kasule, were concerned to explain precisely where they stood on each of the many, difficult matters before them. This is understandable. The petitions had proved more than usually divisive in parliament and in the larger community. While some MPs backed the idea of a seven year term rather than the constitutionally-mandated five years, others rejected it strongly. While some supported scrapping presidential age restrictions to allow the president, Yoweri Museveni, to continue in office despite his age, others argued this was contrary to essential elements of the constitution. Arguments over these issues and how they were handled led to violent confrontations in parliament and the involvement of security forces. Violence related to the proposed constitutional changed was not limited to the parliamentary floor however, with violence in the streets, and students and others arrested.
Against this background, the deputy chief justice spoke solemnly about the "sanctity" of the constitution and that it should be given "utmost deference and veneration". It should have a proper degree of "permanence and stability", he added.
Its adoption marked a clear break with the politics of the past, he said. But while the 1995 constitution was still in its infancy, "most unfortunately" it had already been "subjected to as many as five amendments".
The frequency with which it had been amended was "disturbing" and a cause for "serious and genuine concern". "The people" were concerned by this trend since they wanted a durable constitution that would ensure a just social and political order.
But while he and others among the judges were prepared to find some of the changes proposed by MPs were constitutional, their colleague, Judge Kenneth Kakuru, was having none of it. In a lengthy decision – it runs to 244 pages – he considered in great detail Uganda's constitutional history, at each appropriate point noting how the changes now being considered contradicted what the people of the country said they wanted when they had a chance to express their views fully in the period before the current constitution was finalized.
By the end of his judgment it came as no surprise that he rejected all the proposed constitutional changes. But he went further, recommending that the attorney general propose a constitutional review commission that would consider all the proposals for amendment that were apparently waiting in the wings pending the outcome of this case.
He said that in line with Uganda's constitutional history, this commission should seek the views of the people of Uganda on all the proposed amendments and then translate those views into proposals that parliament could consider.
He also proposed a government-funded commission of inquiry to investigate "the apparent brutality of the police against the citizens of this country". In his judgment he found that MPs had accepted money from parliament to spend on consulting widely with ordinary people about the proposed constitutional amendment, but had failed to do so. He therefore said the money should be repaid and, in his recommendations, urged a forensic audit of parliament's accounts with a copy to be given to the court and to the minister of justice and constitutional affairs.
Predictably, the complex group of judgments has caused widely varying reactions, from those who felt the five judges did not go far enough in protecting the constitution, to those, like Museveni, who say the judges had no right to prevent any of the amendments from becoming law.
But the entire judgment might soon be irrelevant to the country's political classes: various parties have indicated they will be taking it on appeal to the supreme court, the last forum available. Meanwhile, however, the judgment as a whole, and the different elements that make it up, have already begun to provide a great deal of interest to academics.
For example, in a recent article on the outcome, Gabrielle Lynch of the University of Warwick and Justin Willis of Durham University, outline what they believe lies behind the push to increase parliamentary terms from five to seven years.
Supporters of extension had motivated it on the grounds that five years was too short since "a lot of time is spent on electioneering and less time on development". Musveni himself, in his official reaction to the five-part judgment, said that his "freedom fighter's sense of justice" told him that seven years was more convenient than five. He warned that "in the end, the judges are not the ones in charge of the country", and added that the "necessary constitutional reforms" could be made, "judges or no judges".
Why was Museveni so keen to extend parliament's terms, the two academic asked, and suggested the answer lay in an "obvious truth" that he did not mention: elections cost a great deal of money.
He had managed to stay in power since 1986, and had done so based "partly on the memory, and the practice of violence". But in addition to the threat of violence and instability, he was also adept in the "expensive politics of reward and promise". In their view, so great was the demand of voters and influential blocs for gifts and rewards that elections campaigns had become extremely expensive.
One way to reduce those rapidly increasing costs was simply to reduce the number of opportunities for election, they argue.
"The cost of campaigns means that most members of parliament come into office already heavily in debt. That was why Uganda's members of parliament were to keen to extend their term: they want time to recoup their losses and to build up resources for the next campaign."
For these and other commentators, however, the real news will be the ultimate supreme court decision, and the reaction of the president, MPs – and the people – to that outcome. Given that in the wake of the constitutional court decision, battle-lines are already being drawn by the president against the judiciary, this is a tense and exceptionally difficult time for judicial independence and the rule of law in Uganda.
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Mabirizi & Ors v Attorney General (Consolidated Constitutional Petitions Nos. 49 of 2017, 3 of 2018, 5 of 2018, 10 of 2018, and 13 of 2018.) [2018] UGCC 4 (26 July 2018);


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Horizons: Photographs by Donald Woodman at Agora Gallery April 5-25, 2018
Horizons: Photographs by Donald Woodman at Agora Gallery April 5-25, 2018
Agora Gallery is pleased to present Horizons: Photographs by Donald Woodman, a focused exhibition featuring recent works by internationally recognized artist and longtime Duggal client Donald Woodman. With a career spanning over forty-five years, Woodman is an established large format photographer and has collaborated with and assisted artists such as architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, American photographer Minor White, and abstract painter Agnes Martin. Moving adeptly between commercial and fine arts photography, Woodman's unique combination of traditional and digital methods lends his work technical proficiency, formal refinement, and conceptual weight. His diverse subject matter, ranging from portraits and landscapes to probing examinations of masculinity and personal identity, remains consistently intimate, characterized by a subversive perspective and eccentric wit.
Though Woodman has been an engrained figure in the international art world for decades, the artist has chosen to remain at the margins, living and working primarily in the American Southwest. Regarding this tendency, Woodman says, "For most of my career, New Mexico has provided me with a respite from some of the unbearable excesses of civilization. I have chosen to stay out of the limelight in order to preserve the freedom to pursue my personal vision."
Aptly, Horizons is an exhibition of large-scale photographic prints capturing the vastness of the American Southwestern landscape. Focusing on the dramatic play of light on the horizon, Woodman's recent works posit the desert as a sanctuary. His reverence for the landscape is evidenced in these rich, lush photographs that highlight the unique and fragile ecology and question notions of limitless natural resources and boundless frontiers.
Woodman's works are in the permanent collections of dozens of institutions including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, as well as various private collections. His photographs have also been published in Time Magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Art in America, and ARTnews, amongst many others. Woodman has frequently collaborated with his partner, the iconic feminist artist Judy Chicago, to realize significant projects at institutions including Getty Research Institute and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as transdisciplinary projects at universities including Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA/ Pomona Arts Colony/Pitzer College Claremont CA. In 2016, Woodman published a memoir titled Agnes Martin and Me recounting his time working closely with the renowned artist.
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What do you get when you cross the Doctor Who Expanded Universe with Rugrats and/or Muppet Babies? You get this comic! Created by spastasmagoria and jigglykat and originally appearing on LiveJournal in late 2007, "Torchwood Babiez'' soon became a popular webcomic among Whovians and Torchwood fans.
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The second video of The Garden Buzz series is out! For this episode, I went to The Funny Farm (a small farm in Petrolia, Ontario). There, Jeff and Michelle Glass showed me some weed control methods that don't involve pulling.
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New Delhi, Dec 15: The Supreme Court has dismissed the Congress party's plea seeking its intervention in the counting of votes for Gujarat Assembly election. Congress, raising doubts over the veracity of EVMs, had asked for an apex court order directing the Election Commission to tally at least 25 percent of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPAT) with the EVM votes.
The court, however, refusing to intervene, told the party that it can file a "proper plea" seeking reforms in the polling process. Congress leaders and senior lawyers Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi were arguing the case for their party in the top court.
The top court had dismissed a similar plea earlier in November too.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused pass any order on a writ petition challenging the discretionary power of a returning officer, who is entitled to refuse counting of the paper trail from VVPAT machines. The apex court said no "advance ruling" can be given in the matter and in case of any dispute over the result of the poll, the challenge can be made by way of a poll petition.
The Gujarat Congress plea had come after it raised concerns over allegations of EVM tampering but the Election Commission had rejected the charges. According to several reports, there were complaints of Bluetooth devices being connected to EVMs. Senior Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia had complained that three EVMs were seen connected to Bluetooth devices and he sent the complaint to the ECI along with screenshots backing his complaint.
The party had earlier too demanded that the counting process in the Gujarat Assembly election should be overseen by a retired Supreme Court judge. Latching on to the reports of EVMs malfunctioning in the Uttar Pradesh civic polls, the party had said that only an independent review of EVMs can ensure fair conduct of elections in Gujarat, adding that the use of VVPAT would not be enough to ensure free and fair poll if the EVMs were "rigged".
Responding to the allegations, the Election Commission had said that an inquiry found that the apprehension about possible EVM tampering through Bluetooth technology, raised by Congress, was baseless.
The device which the complainant's mobile phone detected after putting on Bluetooth was not an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) but a mobile phone, carried by a polling agent, the commission said.
"A polling agent named Manoj Singrakhiya was carrying the mobile phone. He was in the close vicinity of the phone of the complainant…The complainant might have thought that 'EC' in ECO stands for Election Commission," Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) BB Swain said.
A senior poll panel official also said that the attachment of a second line of verification through VVPATs to the EVM has "left no rooms for doubts" since voters can physically verify who they vote for.
"With the introduction of VVPAT, nothing is left to doubt because the printed paper slip is like a ballot paper slip," Kumar said.
The BJP also maintained that the allegations by Congress showed they were in "search for an excuse" as it knew that it would bite the dust in the election.
Meanwhile, the talks about EVM tampering also had several voters, especially from the Muslim community. According to reports, EVM — described as the "devil" by one worried voter — was the hot topic of discussion among the people.
With the circulation of messages on social media sites about EVMs being tampered with, many in the border district of Chhota Udaipur feared their votes might be transferred to other candidates.
"Our vote is the only power we have and if somebody changes it, what are we left with in a democracy?" asked 57-year-old Sayed Mala, a small-time construction contractor.
Educated sections of the people, with access to social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook, were more worried about EVMs than the others. "I know who I will vote for. But I am not assured if it will be counted in his favour. But with a ballot paper, my vote can't be changed," said Kalol college student Sultan Hussain.
Another constituent said he was not convinced about the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), a process to verify that the vote cast had gone to the candidate concerned. Farooq Sayeed from Timla village in Chhota Udaipur compared EVMs with the "devil". "There are so many videos of EVMs being tampered with on social media. My vote can be changed," he said.


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Caledonian Hall, Royal Botanic Gardens
November 12, 2010
The Edinburgh Convention Bureau, responsible for marketing and organising Scotland's capital city as a premier conference, incentive and event destination, held their annual event in the Caledonian Hall in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
A wow factor was asked for, so that's exactly what they got! We really enjoyed designing and putting this event together. It was great to put together something a little bit different and it's been lovely for us to receive all the positive feedback.
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There can be a multitude of reasons people battling depression may wish to keep it hidden, most prominently:
- Fear of ridicule or stigmatization
- Fear of sharing their innermost thoughts and feelings/trust
- Feeling that no one else can understand (or wants to try)
- Thinking they are beyond help.
Depression is a mental state in which someone feels unmotivated, irritable, sad, disinterested, discouraged, and/or hopeless for an extended period, to where these feelings interfere with routine daily function.
Some may have thoughts of suicide. If we know what to look for, we may see behind the facade to help someone in need.
Loss of Interest in Favorite Activities
Depressed people can distance themselves from the things they most love. They may suddenly discontinue activities that used to bring them joy.
Change of Eating Habits
Some people overeat when they're under a great amount of stress while the opposite is true for others. A noticeable change in eating habits is an obvious sign that something is wrong. Further, someone who used to enjoy a social meal with others and now prefers to eat alone is showing signs of isolation—a red flag for depression.
Abnormal Sleeping Habits
Like eating habits, sudden and persistent change in sleep habits can be a sign of depression. Whether it's an escape of excessive sleeping at one extreme or the inability to sleep at the other, sleep is an activity that a depressed person can control when s/he may feel out of control.
Knowledge of Mind-Altering Substances
Someone who is trying to hide something acutely knows of anything taken into the body that can cause loss of control. Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, recreational and pharmaceutical drugs and their interactions can all affect mood and behaviour, causing difficulties. The depressed person knows this and will be very careful with these and similar substances.
Being Affable and Expressive
While some people become quiet and withdrawn if depressed, some who hides it can be especially outgoing and boisterous. They may express themselves outwardly through music, writing, comedy, and other forms of art. Self-deprecating humour is often a sign of depression. Depressed people understand more fully the dark and light sides of their inner selves and let out only what they want others to see.
Being a Perfectionist Who Seeks Love and Attention
Fear of being discovered or losing love and respect can lead people hiding depression to become almost obsessed with appearing perfect.
They know very well their own talents and faults but want others only to see successes while hiding failings. They may fear that if others see their imperfections, the care they so need will be withheld or withdrawn.
Having Abandonment Issues
"People who conceal their depression often take extra care to appear all right or even over-the-top upbeat. They stick to the positive parts of their public persona and hide what's going on inside.
This secrecy can be caused in part by extreme fears of abandonment. People experiencing depression may be afraid of rejection if they confess their true feelings. This can lead to 'cover-ups' so that friends will not notice signs of pain."
Cover-ups and Alibis
Hiding true emotion means you have to lie. Plausible excuses and alibis are ever at-the-ready for someone who wants to avoid particular situations.
If someone is constantly coming up with reasons can't do or take part in something/he used to, avoids certain people or social circumstances or becomes overly secretive, it can be a sign of inner struggle.
Obsessive Habits
Everyone develops her/his own ways of coping with stress and anxiety. We all have habits, both good and bad. A depressed person relies on them. Whether it's something seemingly healthy such as exercise or other routines like long drives, walks, cleaning, or smoking, if the routine is disrupted, a depressed person may become unreasonably upset. Habits offer a feeling of comfort and control; the loss of control—even if a minor thing—can devastate for a depressed person.
Outward Positivity and Denial
Posts on social media that reflect the fun and going out of one's way to say how great everything is can reflect the denial of a sad truth.
"So, why would anyone deny depression? There may be several reasons, the most obvious of which relate to work, self-esteem and self-image. Denying that your emotional state isn't all it might be is a good way of pressing ahead.
You may not be firing on all cylinders, but you're hoping it's just a virus or a bit of pressure that will pass. This is common. It's the psychological equivalent of running a car on reserve fuel and hoping it won't shudder to a halt.
Denying depression is caught up with all sorts of things. Men stand as a good example because depression doesn't fit with their sense of self. They may view depression as something that affects women, or they may struggle with admitting their symptoms to themselves…On the one hand, people with symptoms of depression are less objective about their own situation than they may be in assessing others.
Equally, denial of depression is a major hurdle in seeking treatment. Denial is a powerful mechanism and one that, if confronted, can lead to angry and upsetting scenes," explains Health Central.
Deepened Awareness of Life and Death
Having gone through an extensive consideration of life and perhaps ideation of death, a depressed person keenly knows of both. It may come in a purely personal form or in the larger view of society or the universe. The meanings of mortality, life, and death can be subjects for which the depressed person has strong opinions and perceptions.
Experiencing an Existential Crisis
The search for life's meaning for a depressed person can cause frequent changes: switching jobs, homes, cars, areas of study, relationships, and other major life decisions can show the constant quest to find what's "right" with a constant feeling that something(s) is wrong.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011Posted in GAP ,| Validiction |
|Beautiful Ricki
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Ricki has heaps of character and is very people orientated (dependent?). We think he'd do well where he was very much 'it', not to say he couldn't share the stage, but a family/person where there was lots of 'together' time, is I think, very Ricki. :)
He is a real clown and has us in stitches with his squeaky toys - especially when he thinks it's food time - which is most of the time! He's again had us in stitches as we watch some (useless) video clips - but he can hear my voice and his toy - he cocks his ears in a "what's that all about" question! Needless to say he does not get to sleep with his squeaky toys at night!
Ricki is very affectionate, he knows his name and quite good at 'come' (within the boundaries of the property) - and when it suits him! No idea about 'sit' - just an immovable object; learning stay/wait - but we're not challenging him too much with that.
He also has a liking for paper back books - ripped up three thus far, and has twice stolen Tony's work pad off his desk! Attention seeking tactics we think, after all it's all about 'me me me'. :)
I loved the description of a dog recently on the site - popcorn - that's Ricki too - when we come home and food time - so funny!
The photos with Ricki with his GAP coat on are from a charity walk we did and the photos from Tracey Finlay(www.tracephotography.co.nz). There were a group of GAP dogs there and you can see others on her facebook page too :)


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In a world where employment is becoming more difficult to come by, Miranda snagged the coolest job! She is the seating hostess at The Sassy Onion Grill, a place where they tout, "Food with an Attitude!" It is so nice to see her becoming more comfortable with her responsibilities and making friends with the other staff. The Sassy Onion is down on State Street, just across the street from Willamette University and all the State buildings so there is always a good breakfast and lunch crowd. And they are famous for their french toast, made with cinnamon rolls and dipped in cornflake crumbs. Yum!
We are so thankful that she found a job in such a nice environment and she has fun putting that paycheck straight into the bank, saving up for her next big adventure, BYU-I in January!


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black forest carved wood cuckoo and quail clock with deer head
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a great detailled handcarved wooden cuckoo clock, decorated with oak leaves, hare, pheasant and a deer head on top. black forest, germany ca. 1900. with cuckoo and quail clockwork where the quail appears every quarter houre. clockwork in working condition, overworked by a clockmaker.
width: 20.47" (52cm)
height: 27.56" (70cm)
depth: 12.6" (32cm)
height: 27.56" (70cm)
depth: 12.6" (32cm)


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creator: dernst

name: Lifelong Learning of Visual Scene Understanding

ista: Kolesnikov A. 2018. Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images, IST Austria, 113p.

chicago: Kolesnikov, Alexander. Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images. IST Austria, 2018. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_1021.

short: A. Kolesnikov, Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images, IST Austria, 2018.

ieee: A. Kolesnikov, Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images. IST Austria, 2018.

mla: Kolesnikov, Alexander. Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images. IST Austria, 2018, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_1021.

ama: Kolesnikov A. Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images. IST Austria; 2018. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_1021

apa: Kolesnikov, A. (2018). Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_1021

publisher: IST Austria

status: public

oa_version: Published Version

full_name: Lampert, Christoph

first_name: Christoph

last_name: Lampert

iso: eng

acknowledgement: I also gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the GPUs used for this research.

publication_status: published

text: Modern computer vision systems heavily rely on statistical machine learning models, which typically require large amounts of labeled data to be learned reliably. Moreover, very recently computer vision research widely adopted techniques for representation learning, which further increase the demand for labeled data. However, for many important practical problems there is relatively small amount of labeled data available, so it is problematic to leverage full potential of the representation learning methods. One way to overcome this obstacle is to invest substantial resources into producing large labelled datasets. Unfortunately, this can be prohibitively expensive in practice. In this thesis we focus on the alternative way of tackling the aforementioned issue. We concentrate on methods, which make use of weakly-labeled or even unlabeled data. Specifically, the first half of the thesis is dedicated to the semantic image segmentation task. We develop a technique, which achieves competitive segmentation performance and only requires annotations in a form of global image-level labels instead of dense segmentation masks. Subsequently, we present a new methodology, which further improves segmentation performance by leveraging tiny additional feedback from a human annotator. By using our methods practitioners can greatly reduce the amount of data annotation effort, which is required to learn modern image segmentation models. In the second half of the thesis we focus on methods for learning from unlabeled visual data. We study a family of autoregressive models for modeling structure of natural images and discuss potential applications of these models. Moreover, we conduct in-depth study of one of these applications, where we develop the state-of-the-art model for the probabilistic image colorization task.

full_name: Kolesnikov, Alexander

first_name: Alexander

last_name: Kolesnikov

ama: Zimin A. Learning from Dependent Data. IST Austria; 2018. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH1048

apa: Zimin, A. (2018). Learning from dependent data. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH1048

chicago: Zimin, Alexander. Learning from Dependent Data. IST Austria, 2018. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH1048.

short: A. Zimin, Learning from Dependent Data, IST Austria, 2018.

ista: Zimin A. 2018. Learning from dependent data, IST Austria, 92p.

ieee: A. Zimin, Learning from dependent data. IST Austria, 2018.

mla: Zimin, Alexander. Learning from Dependent Data. IST Austria, 2018, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH1048.

full_name: Zimin, Alexander

last_name: Zimin

text: The most common assumption made in statistical learning theory is the assumption of the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. While being very convenient mathematically, it is often very clearly violated in practice. This disparity between the machine learning theory and applications underlies a growing demand in the development of algorithms that learn from dependent data and theory that can provide generalization guarantees similar to the independent situations. This thesis is dedicated to two variants of dependencies that can arise in practice. One is a dependence on the level of samples in a single learning task. Another dependency type arises in the multi-task setting when the tasks are dependent on each other even though the data for them can be i.i.d. In both cases we model the data (samples or tasks) as stochastic processes and introduce new algorithms for both settings that take into account and exploit the resulting dependencies. We prove the theoretical guarantees on the performance of the introduced algorithms under different evaluation criteria and, in addition, we compliment the theoretical study by the empirical one, where we evaluate some of the algorithms on two real world datasets to highlight their practical applicability.

title: Learning from dependent data

ama: Pentina A. Theoretical Foundations of Multi-Task Lifelong Learning. IST Austria; 2016. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH_776

apa: Pentina, A. (2016). Theoretical foundations of multi-task lifelong learning. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH_776

ista: Pentina A. 2016. Theoretical foundations of multi-task lifelong learning, IST Austria, 127p.

short: A. Pentina, Theoretical Foundations of Multi-Task Lifelong Learning, IST Austria, 2016.

chicago: Pentina, Anastasia. Theoretical Foundations of Multi-Task Lifelong Learning. IST Austria, 2016. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH_776.

ieee: A. Pentina, Theoretical foundations of multi-task lifelong learning. IST Austria, 2016.

mla: Pentina, Anastasia. Theoretical Foundations of Multi-Task Lifelong Learning. IST Austria, 2016, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:TH_776.

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Traditionally machine learning has been focusing on the problem of solving a single
task in isolation. While being quite well understood, this approach disregards an
important aspect of human learning: when facing a new problem, humans are able to
exploit knowledge acquired from previously learned tasks. Intuitively, access to several
problems simultaneously or sequentially could also be advantageous for a machine
learning system, especially if these tasks are closely related. Indeed, results of many
empirical studies have provided justification for this intuition. However, theoretical
justifications of this idea are rather limited.
The focus of this thesis is to expand the understanding of potential benefits of information
transfer between several related learning problems. We provide theoretical
analysis for three scenarios of multi-task learning - multiple kernel learning, sequential
learning and active task selection. We also provide a PAC-Bayesian perspective on
lifelong learning and investigate how the task generation process influences the generalization
guarantees in this scenario. In addition, we show how some of the obtained
theoretical results can be used to derive principled multi-task and lifelong learning
algorithms and illustrate their performance on various synthetic and real-world datasets.

last_name: Pentina

first_name: Anastasia

full_name: Pentina, Anastasia

acknowledgement:
First and foremost I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Christoph
Lampert. Thank you for your patience in teaching me all aspects of doing research
(including English grammar), for your trust in my capabilities and endless support. Thank
you for granting me freedom in my research and, at the same time, having time and
helping me cope with the consequences whenever I needed it. Thank you for creating
an excellent atmosphere in the group, it was a great pleasure and honor to be a part of
it. There could not have been a better and more inspiring adviser and mentor.
I thank Shai Ben-David for welcoming me into his group at the University of Waterloo,
for inspiring discussions and support. It was a great pleasure to work together. I am
also thankful to Ruth Urner for hosting me at the Max-Planck Institute Tübingen, for the
fruitful collaboration and for taking care of me during that not-so-sunny month of May.
I thank Jan Maas for kindly joining my thesis committee despite the short notice and
providing me with insightful comments.
I would like to thank my colleagues for their support, entertaining conversations and
endless table soccer games we shared together: Georg, Jan, Amelie and Emilie, Michal
and Alex, Alex K. and Alex Z., Thomas, Sameh, Vlad, Mayu, Nathaniel, Silvester, Neel,
Csaba, Vladimir, Morten. Thank you, Mabel and Ram, for the wonderful time we spent
together. I am thankful to Shrinu and Samira for taking care of me during my stay at the
University of Waterloo. Special thanks to Viktoriia for her never-ending optimism and for
being so inspiring and supportive, especially at the beginning of my PhD journey.
Thanks to IST administration, in particular, Vlad and Elisabeth for shielding me from
most of the bureaucratic paperwork.

This dissertation would not have been possible without funding from the European
Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 308036.

text: The human ability to recognize objects in complex scenes has driven research in the computer vision field over couple of decades. This thesis focuses on the object recognition task in images. That is, given the image, we want the computer system to be able to predict the class of the object that appears in the image. A recent succesful attempt to bridge semantic understanding of the image perceived by humans and by computers uses attribute-based models. Attributes are semantic properties of the objects shared across different categories, which humans and computers can decide on. To explore the attribute-based models we take a statistical machine learning approach, and address two key learning challenges in view of object recognition task: learning augmented attributes as mid-level discriminative feature representation, and learning with attributes as privileged information. Our main contributions are parametric and non-parametric models and algorithms to solve these frameworks. In the parametric approach, we explore an autoencoder model combined with the large margin nearest neighbor principle for mid-level feature learning, and linear support vector machines for learning with privileged information. In the non-parametric approach, we propose a supervised Indian Buffet Process for automatic augmentation of semantic attributes, and explore the Gaussian Processes classification framework for learning with privileged information. A thorough experimental analysis shows the effectiveness of the proposed models in both parametric and non-parametric views.

first_name: Viktoriia

full_name: Sharmanska, Viktoriia

last_name: Sharmanska

acknowledgement:
I would like to thank my supervisor, Christoph Lampert, for guidance throughout my studies and for patience in transforming me into a scientist, and my thesis committee, Chris Wojtan and Horst Bischof, for their help and advice.

I would like to thank Elisabeth Hacker who perfectly assisted all my administrative needs and was always nice and friendly to me, and the campus team for making the IST Austria campus my second home.
I was honored to collaborate with brilliant researchers and to learn from their experience. Undoubtedly, I learned most of all from Novi Quadrianto: brainstorming our projects and getting exciting results was the most enjoyable part of my work – thank you! I am also grateful to David Knowles, Zoubin Ghahramani, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Kristian Kersting and Anastasia Pentina for the fantastic projects we worked on together, and to Kristen Grauman and Adriana Kovashka for the exceptional experience working with user studies. I would like to thank my colleagues at IST Austria and my office mates who shared their happy moods, scientific breakthroughs and thought-provoking conversations with me: Chao, Filip, Rustem, Asya, Sameh, Alex, Vlad, Mayu, Neel, Csaba, Thomas, Vladimir, Cristina, Alex Z., Avro, Amelie and Emilie, Andreas H. and Andreas E., Chris, Lena, Michael, Ali and Ipek, Vera, Igor, Katia. Special thanks to Morten for the countless games of table soccer we played together and the tournaments we teamed up for: we will definitely win next time:) A very warm hug to Asya for always being so inspiring and supportive to me, and for helping me to increase the proportion of female computer scientists in our group.

short: V. Sharmanska, Learning with Attributes for Object Recognition: Parametric and Non-Parametrics Views, IST Austria, 2015.

chicago: Sharmanska, Viktoriia. Learning with Attributes for Object Recognition: Parametric and Non-Parametrics Views. IST Austria, 2015.

ista: Sharmanska V. 2015. Learning with attributes for object recognition: Parametric and non-parametrics views, IST Austria, 144p.

ieee: V. Sharmanska, Learning with attributes for object recognition: Parametric and non-parametrics views. IST Austria, 2015.

ama: Sharmanska V. Learning with Attributes for Object Recognition: Parametric and Non-Parametrics Views. IST Austria; 2015.

apa: Sharmanska, V. (2015). Learning with attributes for object recognition: Parametric and non-parametrics views. IST Austria.