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Top Stories of 2022: Sequencing, AI, and Creative Research
December 29, 2022 | Across the Bio-IT space this year, our top stories all focus on the new—new products, new sequencers, new chemistries, new research directions, and AI's role in the future of precision medicine. It's as if the industry as a whole is ready for something different.
New Products; New Efforts: Every year our annual Bio-IT World Innovative Practices Awards earn the community's attention. In 2022, winners were profiled on the site as well as invited to speak at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The winners this year included AstraZeneca's Augmented Drug Design platform; Guardant Health's natural language processing efforts with IQVIA, Merck's big data platform for translational research powered by Genedata, and Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative's automated integration of health records into Electronic Case Report Forms with the help of OpenClinica. (If you have a project of this caliber, enter for 2023! March 3 is the final deadline.)
Groundbreaking Sequencing: Euan Ashley's group at Stanford set a new, astonishingly-high bar for clinical sequencing, sequencing a patient's genome in five hours and two minutes on a PromethION platform from Oxford Nanopore. That was months before ONT joined the fall news cycle announcing its new sequencer (the PromethION 2 Solo sequencer) and a single read partnership with 10X Genomics.
At the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in January 2022, Illumina outlined its vision for long read technologies and new, faster chemistry. In October 2022, the company announced the NovaSeq X series of sequencers and their first FDA-regulated and CE-marked in vitro diagnostic high-throughput sequencer: NovaSeq 6000 Dx.
Finally—but not least of all—Pacific Biosciences launched both long- and short-read platforms. PacBio's Onso short-read desktop system is expected to ship in the first half of 2023; they opened orders for the Revio HiFi long-read sequencing system in late October 2022.
The Truth About AI: Artificial intelligence is a still a broad enough term to fall all over the hype curve, so we're eager to hear about real life examples and firsthand researcher experience. We delivered that in Trends from the Trenches conversations with Kim Branson of GlaxoSmithKline and Sean Liu of Novartis on how both big pharma are using AI in drug discovery. (The Trends from the Trenches podcast also launched in 2022. You can subscribe and catch up to be ready for our 2023 guests!) We also explored the topic at the 2022 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo with practical AI updates from NCI, The Ohio State University, the United Kingdom's National Health Service, and more.
Creative Research: Our focus, though, wasn't limited to new toys. We were also eager to hear about new research advancements shedding more light on human biology. With three years of Covid-19 research under our belts, some interesting parallels have begun to emerge between Covid-19 and chronic fatigue syndrome, spurring new research looking for links. A tumor microenvironment research focus looks to be making an impact on glioblastoma progression. The opportunities for biobatteries—recharged not from an outlet, but from the excess energy of our bodies—are nearly endless, teasing such applications as drug delivery, wound healing, continuous glucose monitoring, and more. And finally, research on the edges of mainstream biology is tackling aging and recruiting citizen scientists to help.


On February 4th and 5th, the annual FOSDEM conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium.
This year, I'll give a talk titled Ceph and Storage management with openATTIC in which I'd like to give an overview and update about our project.
The talk will be a session in the the Software Defined Storage developer room that is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 5th. My talk takes place at 13:30.
FOSDEM is a very popular and intensive conference - I look forward to attending it again!


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On July 24th the longlist of nominations for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction was published. Not, in itself, news of much appeal to me (or to the usual sites I visit), but this year something was different: you could see announcements on the longlist in such places as Vulture and the Comics Beat. The reason being Sabrina. Not the teenage witch, though that would have been an unexpected delight, but rather a new graphic novel by the esteemed Nick Drnaso (whose debut work Beverly I've managed to miss) – the first of its kind to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize.
The result of this decision has seen many of expected "harrumph" responses – that comics are lesser than books, that this is the beginning of slippery slope, and then by 2020 they might nominate Swamp Thing (when everybody knows Man Thing is far superior). And to these responses there has been the expected counter responses – extolling the virtues of sequential art, citing the rich history of the medium stretching all the way back to cave paintings and probably citing both Scott McCloud and Art Spigleman more times than is healthy for any sane individual.
In response to the nomination, a headline from online journal The Conversation read "Graphic Novels are Novels." It seems that comics, once again, have arrived. Except one little thing – graphic novels are not novels. They are comics, comic books, sequential art, cartoon-strip book, etc. They are not novels. Just because Sabrina is a narrative bound between two covers does not make it a novel, no more than a script for a movie would be a novel. This is not to say they are lesser. Simply that they are different.
Now, I am not one of these puritans who seek to define comics in a particular narrow way and exclude everything that doesn't fit their definition. Watchmen is comics, The Far Side is comics, Captain Underpants is (mostly) comics.
Also, there is no clear line separating one medium from another. What do you call something like Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – a novel in which the text interacts with (and is dependent upon) various images, including full pages of older comics? Or how do illustrated novels function without their illustrations? That being said, the recent Man Booker Prize offers no other borderline cases, and Sabrina sticks out. The first graphic novel offered in over fifty years.
I am not expecting the creator of Sabrina, or the publisher, to reject the honor (that would be foolish on their part), but I am hoping comics' critical sphere pulls itself together. This is the space year 2018, and it boggles the mind comics culture still seeks out the respect of the literati in such a manner. "Graphic Novels are novels." They are not. When Will Eisner coined the term, he wasn't even referring to anything approaching a novel. Contract with God was a collection of short stories, it was an obvious swipe at respectability when the medium had none. And anyway, that book was preceded by the likes of It Rhymes with Lust, which was mostly ignored because of its disreputable genre (a down and dirty noir tale), and possibly because the artist was African American. Compared to the "proper" literary fiction aspirations of Eisner, it had no chance.
In many ways, Sabrina is closer to Transformers vs. G.I.Joe than it is to other nominees of the year like Washington Black or The Mars Room. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Transformers vs. G.I.Joe would never be nominated for something like the Man Booker Prize (which is a shame because it is a genuinely superior artistic achievement to just about anything published under the term "graphic novel" over the last five years). It is, after all, only comics. And here's the thing about putting something like Sabrina on the award longlist: it does not elevate comics as a medium, it's a degradation. If there are 13 items on the list and only one of them is a comic book, it means that most comics are not good enough to be considered.
I remember when Time Magazine published its list of the greatest books since 1923 and Watchmen was included. How I crowed about it. How great and good it seemed that comics were getting their due. But in retrospect this was a terrible decision, because if comics are fit to compete with books but only one comic was chosen it means comics are lesser, that they are mostly crap. If the list truly offered equal representation to comics it would include the likes Elektra: Assassin or From Hell or Love and Rockets or many other fine candidates. (Imagine considering both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Stray Toasters and deciding which one with the talking lion was superior.) If the Man Booker Prize truly considered comics as equal we would probably see something like My Favorite Thing is Monsters or The Pervert on the list.
You know what? It's perfectly fine that they are not nominated (though I imagine the creators wouldn't say "no thanks"), because graphic novels are not novels. The things that make a superior novel are not necessarily the things that make a superior graphic novel, just as they are not the things that make a superior script for a film or a computer game. These are different media. Comics are good, very good even. There are many good comics released every year – and many more gems from the past. The acknowledgment of the Man Booker prize is great for that particular book (I am sure it will do wonders for the sales, and considering how hard it is to be a cartoonist, I hope they drown Nick Drnaso in cash like he's Scrooge McDuck), but it should mean nothing for comics as a medium.
Graphic novels are not novels. They are comics.
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Jay Ong is the head of Marvel's console gaming division and he's been making the rounds discussing Insomniac's new Spider-Man game as well as the future of Marvel and console games. One of the most wanted Marvel console games is a new game in the long-running Marvel vs. Capcom titles. When asked about the possibility of a fourth Marvel vs. Capcom happening, Ong didn't rule it out. While he didn't outright confirm a new game is in development, he did state that he knows fans have been asking for it and there are more Marvel games in the pipeline.
At this point both Capcom and Marvel know there's a demand for MvC4. Capcom unfortunately had to pull everything related to Marvel off store and online shelves when the company's contract with Marvel ran out several years ago. Since that time the company hasn't had the best financial success and even partnered with Sony in order to produce Street Fighter 5, which didn't perform up to sales expectations. We'll just have to wait to see if a potentially Marvel vs. Capcom 4 could perform a bit better.
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Some songs displace familiarity with and prior knowledge of singing and songs. Enabling attentive listeners to slip blessedly free of supposition about what the act of singing is. Or isn't.
Given the right vehicle great artists, such as Sinatra, can trip one's reset button – dumping all dulling foreknowledge of a particular form and inducing (to paraphrase Beatnik forefather Lawrence Ferlinghetti) a 'rebirth of wonder'.
As a kid I was vaguely aware of Sinatra the controversial celebrity, but was abjectly ignorant of what he'd done to and for male vocals - moving the form from standard-issue big band legato crooning to a heartbeat inflected and poetic conversational style.
It took the 1960's and the emergence of independent FM radio programming to hip me to what his voice could do - given the right material, arrangements and accompanists.
I first heard Sinatra - in a receptive frame of mind - one late evening while listening to Lights Out with Vacco. Vacco was a Hispanic sounding hipster who played an incredibly eclectic mix of sounds to a mostly stoned radio audience.
One night this particular music programmer prefaced something he was about to play with a cautionary warning about 'dismissal, prior to investigation'...and then proceeded to spin a smart selection of Frank Sinatra tunes from the singer's peerless Capitol years.
The few scattered groans in that night's room of long-haired listeners - when Sinatra's name was unexpectedly announced by the DJ - were soon silenced by a sound no one present had heretofore really heard.
I ran out the next day and bought the album Only the Lonely, for its title track. I've been listening ever since.
Change Partners (a gem written by Irving Berlin) performed with Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Here Sinatra's voice has begun to thicken with age and lose some of its 'ping'. But he's so masterfully in command of his instrument as to make that fact irrelevant.


DHAKA: The publisher of an atheist writer killed earlier this year by suspected Islamists was hacked to death in Bangladesh yesterday, hours after two secular bloggers and another publisher were also attacked. Both attacks in the capital Dhaka-the latest in a wave of violence targeting secular activists-followed the same pattern, with the assailants attacking the men with machetes and cleavers, leaving them in a pool of blood and padlocking their offices from the outside as they left, police said.
Faisal Arefin Dipan, 43, the owner of Jagritee publishers, was killed in his third-floor office in central Dhaka, his father Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, a noted intellectual and writer, told AFP. "I rushed to his office at Aziz Market and broke the padlock. And I saw him lying upside down in a massive pool of blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead," he said.
Police also confirmed Dipan's death. Haq told AFP that he became worried about his son after he heard of the earlier attack that left publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, 43, and bloggers Ranadipam Basu, 50, and Tareq Rahim, 30, who is also a poet, severely injured. "He published the books of Avijit Roy. They also attacked other publishers of Roy but only my son died," Haq said. Atheist blogger Roy was hacked to death outside a book fair in Februarythe first death in the wave of violence against secular writers in Bangladesh. The total death toll this year now stands at five.
In the first incident yesterday, three armed men posing as shoppers entered the offices of Shuddhaswar publishing house at 3pm (0900 GMT), police said. "Once inside, they started hacking Tutul, the publisher of Roy, and secular bloggers Basu and Rahim with machetes and cleavers indiscriminately and shot at Rahim from a firearm," said Dhaka police deputy commissioner Wahidul Islam. "They then padlocked the office from the outside and left the three in a pool of blood. Our officers broke the door and rescued them after getting emergency calls," he said. The three men were in hospital and one was in a critical condition. Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks via Twitter. "These two atheistapostates have published books that have attacked the honour of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and mocked Islam", the group said in a Bengali statement posted using the Twitter handle Ansar al Islam. Police spokesman Muntashirul Islam said officers had seen the statement, but could not confirm whether the Al-Qaeda branch was responsible for attacks. "We're investigating whether the claim is credible. So far it seems the attacks were pre-planned and carried out by organised miscreants," Islam told AFP.
Hundreds of activists held an impromptu march in Dhaka yesterday evening, criticising the government for failing to protect the country's secular writers. "We're stunned. One after another secular writers and bloggers have been silenced and murdered. Yet the government has failed to protect them," said Imran Sarker, who heads a secular bloggers group. Asif Mohiuddin, a Berlin-based Bangladeshi atheist blogger who survived a machete attack by Islamist militants in December 2013, also berated the government for not doing enough. "The country's bloggers have sought protection from the government and yet there have been no visible efforts to ensure their security," he told AFP by telephone.
He said about a dozen secular writers have fled the country following threats from the Islamists and the latest attacks would prompt more to do so or go into hiding. Police have said the banned local Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) were behind the previous attacks, which were also claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent. Tensions are high in Bangladesh following the recent killings of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer, who were shot dead in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.


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And, it matters BIG TIME, especially if you're a woman, or if you lead women, or if you want your organization to succeed.
According to recent research, companies employing women in large numbers outperform their competitors on every measure of profitability.
And, while men overestimate their abilities and performance, women underestimate both.
Yet, their performances do not differ in quality.
This recent research by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, two journalists, set me back on my heels.
In an article titled "The Confidence Gap," they write that women, specifically, lack confidence in important aspects of their professional lives.
the article's major points are worth keeping in mind.
If you subscribe to my Smart Boss e-newsletter, you'll know that leaders count on me to distill what's working now in Leadership and frame the most important data into ideas that can be put straight to work. I've distilled some of the most pertinent, actionable details from the Kay/Shipman research—19 points in all—in this LinkedIn publication, "Are You Confident?".


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King Richard III and the book trade
Posted on November 15, 2017	by alexmarchantblog
Posting yesterday about The Order of the White Boar being available on Blurb led me to an interesting point about King Richard and his attitudes and achievements.
While setting up the listing on Blurb, I saw a notification saying 'VAT will be added to the total at the checkout.' My immediate thought was 'But there's no VAT on books.' Then, 'Should I reduce the list price so the buyer pays no more than the normal price?'
I checked. There is of course no VAT on books, as there isn't on children's clothes, most foods and various other items. So it worried me slightly that potential buyers might be put off by thinking that the final price would be higher than £6.99. It won't be.
This extra tax levied on bought goods presumably isn't used to tax books because, as they are educational, as well as entertaining, they are far too important to allow them to be restricted only to better-off people. They should be available to all.
Then I remembered that in King Richard III's only Parliament (in early 1484) there was a provision designed to ensure that books would be available as widely as possible.
Parliament was passing laws designed to protect English craftspeople and sellers, whose business was at risk from foreign merchants, who often monopolized the sale of imported goods and exported the money they made back to their home country. Parliament insisted that such 'aliens' should not be allowed to sell directly to the public, and could only sell their goods to shops in the town in which they lived.
One category of good only was exempted – books. In 1484 there were only a tiny handful of English book printers and sellers in England: William Caxton and maybe three others. The rest were foreigners. If these 'aliens' were prevented from selling imported books at markets and country fairs, the growing book trade – in the cheaper books mass-produced by the newly introduced technology of printing – would be crippled.
Books were not exempted from import taxes, but this provision ensured that printed books continued to be brought into the country and could be sold there freely while the native book trade continued to increase in size. Without the imports, native makers and sellers would not have been able to keep up with the growing demand.
Some experts think that King Richard saw the danger to the book trade and was responsible himself for the exemption which ultimately allowed more people to access books and education to become more widely available.
Interestingly, perhaps, the acts of the 1484 Parliament were the first ever to be printed, allowing them also to be more widely available. It was also 20 years before any other acts of Parliament were printed and distributed so soon after the actual session of Parliament (the acts of Henry Tudor's first Parliaments were not printed until 1491).
Some people say King Richard III was 'a man of his time'. Others think that perhaps, in some ways, he was ahead of it.
Postscript: When this blog was posted on Twitter several people tweeted about the apparent importance of books in Richard's life, with research having been done into the books that we know he owned and read (i.e. they were used, not just for show or to display his wealth and professed learning).
In The Order of the White Boar this is an important aspect of his life at Middleham Castle, and when in London/Westminster for Christmas 1482. Matthew is able to browse his extensive library at the former, and spends time with him in the library at the palace. I don't know whether Richard owned De Cifris by Leon Battista Alberti, but his son Edward finds on his father's shelves a copy that he says Richard uses to encode letters to his brother, King Edward IV, when he is away at war, and the members of the Order use it to devise their own secret code. Another book of which Richard may have owned a copy – The Death of Arthur by Thomas Malory – also finds its way into Matthew's possession and is treasured by him. (This is of course a manuscript copy, as Caxton's famous print version was not published until 1485.)
More about King Richard III and his books (in a fictionalized context) can be found in both my historical novels about the King: mybook.to/WhiteBoar & mybook.to/TheKingsMan
Sources: http://www.medievalhistories.com/last-stand-on-vellum/, https://fineartamerica.com/featured/william-caxton-1422-1491-english-everett.html and Peter Blayney, The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557.
4 Responses to King Richard III and the book trade
inkjunkie1984 says:
Reblogged this on Jennifer C. Wilson and commented:
A fascinating piece here on Richard III and the book trade…
alexmarchantblog says:
Thank you Jennifer. I'm glad you found it interesting. Peter Blayney reckons Richard's role in drafting the statute is generally not recognized – and the statute itself is often misinterpreted. It's great occasionally to come across crumbs of positivity about him in historical works without axes to grind!
yorkrose1483 says:
Reblogged this on White Rose and commented:
Interesting information about the book trade. I remember reading something about this before. Time to go back to my notes *quickly dives into the mass of files and papers*
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Fox News Host Uses Tom Brady 'Deflategate' Ruling to Attack Hillary Clinton
On Fox News' 'Outnumbered' Monday, co-host Andrea Tantaros conveniently brought up Hillary Clinton's email server during a segment about Tom Brady.
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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 4:04PM ET / Published Apr. 25, 2016 6:23PM ET
Somehow a Monday afternoon Fox News segment about New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension turned into an indictment of Hillary Clinton.
During the network's daytime talk show Outnumbered, Judge Andrew Napolitano delivered his legal assessment of the situation—in which a federal appeals court ruled Brady will have to serve the previously overturned suspension in relation to the "Deflategate" scandal—when co-host Andrea Tantaros chimed in with her own unique take.
"It sounds familiar," Tantaros said of Brady's decision to destroy a cell phone that may or may not have contained incriminating evidence.
"Yes it does! The server in Chappaquiddick," Napolitano said, laughing, before correcting himself. Clinton's private email server was reportedly kept in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.; not the infamous Massachusetts island.
"Brady and Belichick are like the Bill and Hillary of football," Tantaros remarked. "I mean, deleting the evidence." Previously, when reporters asked Clinton if she "wiped" her servers, she responded, "What, like with a cloth or something?"
Remarkably, this is not the first time conservatives have attempted to paint Brady and Clinton with the same tainted brush. Columns in the Weekly Standard and Breitbart.com accused the media of holding NFL players to a higher standard than public officials like the current Democratic presidential frontrunner.
Speaking to a Boston-based radio host last summer, former GOP presidential candidate—and possible Ted Cruz running mate—Carly Fiorina joked, "Maybe Tom Brady learned how to wipe his phone clean by watching Hillary Clinton wipe her server clean. I mean, hey, if the secretary of state can just wipe out all relevant information on an investigation involving her, maybe Tom Brady decided, 'I can just wipe out all the text messages as an investigation swirls about me?'"
Similarly, Donald Trump made such an analogy by way of defending his one-time supporter Brady. "They had no definitive proof against Tom Brady or #patriots," Trump tweeted one month before he officially launched his presidential campaign. "If Hillary doesn't have to produce Emails, why should Tom? Very unfair!"
Despite the new ruling, Trump was still standing up for the quarterback at a campaign rally earlier today. In fact, he opened his remarks with this declaration: "Leave Tom Brady alone!"


LAS VEGAS, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese security companies are seeking more trade opportunities in the American market at the ongoing International Security Conference and Exposition, or ISC West, here.
A total of 154 Chinese companies, from sectors including surveillance, smart homes, access control and border security, are participating in the annual show from Wednesday to Friday, the largest security industry trade show in the United States.
Liu Chun, vice president of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME), told Xinhua it is the 18th time that the organization has organized such event.
"We value the huge security market in the United States, and hope to take the opportunity of the ISC West to help Chinese enterprises to explore more businesses with American partners," Liu said.
Through face-to-face exchanges, the Chinese companies could better understand the requirements of their American clients, and improve their products accordingly, she added.
During the exhibition, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the CCCME held a China Brand Show to introduce the latest Chinese security products and technology to foreign purchasers, which serves as a platform for Chinese companies to negotiate business with U.S. partners.
Jack Mao, CEO of Hisource, a high-tech manufacturer of PoE Switch from China, told Xinhua the company has cooperated with some U.S. enterprises in the areas of smart homes, smart cities and the Internet of Things since 2018. Hisource expects to further explore global markets, and improve international competitiveness of its products.
George Bonnett, CEO of Alarm Men, a company based in Visalia, California, told Xinhua the company is interested in buying Chinese security products, and has contacted two Chinese companies during the trade show.
The Chinese products have good quality, good techniques and good prices, and are very competitive, he said.
The ISC West 2019 attracted over 1,000 global exhibitors and brands in the security industry and over 30,000 security professionals. They focused on best practices, new technologies, and innovations on security and safety.


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One hazard that's pretty specific to outdoor kitchens is definitely an exploding gas cooker. This can happen when grease in the cooking food hits the gas tank and causes it to explode. One of the most common causes of this can be deep frying chickens or turkeys in the electric and gas powered fryer. Too much oil inside the fryer ensures that if the bird is lowered in the oil it bubbles out over the top, drips down and causes an explosion. The safest thing is to simply avoid cooking by doing this should you be unsure, in case you want deep-fried poultry, use caution.
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#STARTUPSEVERYWHERE: Santa Clara, C.A.
#StartupsEverywhere Profile: Thuc Vu, cofounder and CEO of OhmniLabs
This profile is part of #StartupsEverywhere, an ongoing series highlighting startup leaders in ecosystems across the country. This interview has been edited for length, content, and clarity.
Beware of the Helpful Robots!
Startups across the U.S. are innovating and using artificial intelligence to enhance and improve our everyday lives from how we communicate to how we care for our loved ones. In Washington, D.C. there is a lot of talk about AI, emerging technologies, and how we look at trade. This week, we met with Thuc Vu, cofounder and CEO of OhmniLabs, a startup that produces home robots that help people communicate at a distance. You may seen their robots on the Today Show! Vu and his team have partnered with policymakers to help communities in their healthcare and workforce development efforts. As OhmniLabs continues to grow, Vu hopes policymakers look for solutions to immigration reform and incentivizing research and development.
Tell me about you. What's your background?
I am a research-scientist-turned-entrepreneur with a PhD from Stanford and Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. My expertise is game theory, machine learning, tournament design and multi-agent systems. I previously founded Katango and Tappy, which were acquired by Google and Webby.co, respectively. Then I founded OhmniLabs in 2015.
Tell me more about OhmniLabs. Why did you start OhmniLabs? How big is your company?
OhmniLabs' mission is to re-imagine personal robots. We believe that robots can make a positive impact on people's everyday lives, and are committed to accelerate the adoption of robots in the home by reinventing the traditional robotics development process. We wanted to build a hardware company that was a lot more like a software company in terms of flexibility and iteration speed. Our thesis was that no company in the world knows exactly what the perfect robot should be — so being able to move fast and iterate is what will win in the long run.
We launched our first product, the Ohmni Telepresence Robot, last April on Indiegogo. Ohmni is being used in the homes, classrooms, hospitals, and offices— to remove geographical barriers and connect people with people or services simpler and at much cheaper cost. We have customers who are using Ohmni to spend time with their family when they can't physically be there, and Ohmni already saved a life!
We currently have 20 employees working from our office and facility in Santa Clara, C.A., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and remotely around the world.
What's the most exciting or important development that has happened to the robotics industry in the last few years?
We want to move faster and be more flexible in our production and manufacturing process, and 3D printing has played a huge role in our work. We started out using commercial 3D printers, but through working with them, we have developed and now built our own printers to support our production.
How have you partnered with government officials?
We are U.S.-based, but we have customers and partners from all over the world. We are working with the Ministry of Health in Vietnam for a telehealth pilot with rural health centers to improve their access to quality care and cut waiting time. In the U.S., we are working with Rep. Ro Khanna's office to further our impacts to the local community.
How does OhmniLabs work with Kambria?
When we were prototyping the first generations of Ohmni, we spent lots of time looking for existing researches and projects that we could use for our robots, and couldn't find much. We believe that the adoption of robots into the home has been slow because R&D has been mostly siloed. So we created Kambria to be the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including robotics and AI, where we are focusing first with the knowledge and technologies we already developed building Ohmni.
How are you using robots to innovate healthcare? What about education?
We are working with healthcare providers to develop telehealth solutions to remove inefficiencies, cut costs and waiting time. In the senior care space, our robots are helping to fight social isolation, and allowing seniors to age in place gracefully. In education, we are working with school districts to connect students with their classes when they can't physically be there.
Another solution we provide is the Ohmni Developer Kit built on the proven technology used in our own robots. The developer kit is an affordable human-scale open platform that includes our cloud-based JS framework OhmniAPI. Our goal here is to offer developers, researchers, and students the ability to program Ohmni as easily as developing web pages. We are extending the capabilities of the framework over time to add higher-level navigation and image/audio recognition so that writing high level tasks will be possible.
What is the biggest challenge you still face?
We are growing so quickly and are learning along the way. Finding the right talent is so important, and finding talent who can adapt and grow with the company is difficult.
From a policy perspective, do you have any wishlist items for the startup ecosystem?
I am an immigrant, and a lot of our team members come from diverse background and we benefit greatly from this variety of viewpoints and experience. I do hope for a solution to help immigration entrepreneurs start companies, grow and create jobs easier in the U.S., since that would benefit American workers and the local economy. As a new tech company, we would love to see more incentives for advanced tech manufacturing and R&D.
What is your goal for the next year? Next five years?
We definitely want to hit all of our goals next year and build even more robotics solutions. We are unveiling an exciting prototype at CES 2019, so come visit us at booth 42152 at the Sands if you are around!
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Home » FAQs » Condominium FAQs » Budgets and Reserves » How does an association know if its reserves are sufficient?
How does an association know if its reserves are sufficient?
Every condominium is different and has different expenses and reserve requirements. Therefore, no specific dollar amount can be given for any condominium. Instead, a board must make a reserve study (or analysis) of the project to determine if the association has sufficient reserves. A reserve study requires the board to determine: (i) which parts of the project the association is responsible for (e.g. walls, roof, parking lot); (ii) when they will need replacement, maintenance, or repair; and (iii) how much that will cost.
Example: A board's reserve study indicates that in 10 years the project roof will have to be completely replaced at a cost of $100,000. At present, the association has no money to do the work. The board must collect at least $10,000 a year for the next ten years ($100,000 divided by 10) to ensure that it has a "full" reserve for the roof (i.e. $100,000 to replace the roof 10 years in the future). NOTE: The board does not have to collect $100,000 immediately. The board needs to collect only enough to ensure the association has the necessary amount at the end of ten years. For example, if after 5 years the board has collected $50,000, its roof reserve should be "full" at that point. The roof will still be 5 years from replacement, so the association will still have 5 years to collect the necessary funds. In 1992, the reserves law was amended to permit an association to set aside a "statutory reserve" of at least 50 percent of a full reserve.
Private companies that conduct reserve analyses for condominium associations may be hired to assist associations with their reserve study.


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Boulder Youth Body Alliance: Teens to lobby Congress to improve eating-disorders treatment
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Tomorrow, Vally Dikovitskaya and seven other members of the Boulder Youth Body Alliance (BYBA), a program dedicated to helping teens with body image concerns and eating disorders, will be in Washington, D.C. They're hoping to convince Colorado officials to co-sponsor the Federal Response to Eliminate Eating Disorders (FREED) Act, which would provide better health-care treatment for those suffering from such issues.
On a previous lobbying trip to Washington, Dikovitskaya, a Fairview High School senior, met a young woman with an eating disorder who was also in the nation's capital to lobby on the subject -- and her story speaks to its seriousness.
"She struck everyone with her story of trying to get treatment over and over, and it was appalling to know that it could be so hard to get help," Dikovitskaya recalls. "When we came back (to Washington) the next time, she had planned to go. We got there and it turned out she had died either the night before or a couple nights before in her sleep because of her eating disorder. That hit me really hard to know that someone could want to help herself and help others and fought so hard for other people and for the FREED Act. It was really emotional for me to hear that she had gone through -- all that just to die a couple days before the trip."
The feeling behind Dikovitskaya's words is emblematic of the entire BYBA contingent, says Carmen Cool, found and executive director of the organization.
"I love these kids so much, and they bring so much energy to Capitol Hill," she says. "They are so passionate when they speak about this bill and why it matters to them from their perspective and what they see in high school."
Dikovitskaya is inspired to create change by what she sees in her school.
"Every day at school, almost without fail, I witness situations where students harass other students for the way they look. And it's tragic for me to hear that, because I know how detrimental that can be to someone's body image," she says. "Body dissatisfaction and body hatred are already so prevalent in our society because of the media and all these messages we get from everywhere that we have to look a certain way."
This will be the BYBA's fourth trip to lobby Congress, as illustrated by the photos seen here featuring representatives Jared Polis and Patrick Kennedy. The teens will meet with Colorado representatives and Dikovitskaya, Gaelyn Tierny and Talia Goldberg will speak at a Congressional hearing. In addition to providing funding for education and research, the FREED act would require insurance companies to pay for treatment for eating disorders -- a major hurdle to fighting eating disorders.
"A lot of people have inadequate insurance coverage, so they can't get the treatment they need," says Cool. "That makes me really sad and angry that can often be a barrier to their recovery."
According to a 2007 Boulder County youth-risk behavior study, 49 percent of girls are engaging in unhealthy weight-control behavior and 19 percent of boys are doing the same. The survey also found that almost 7 percent of girls and 3 percent of boys in Boulder County have exhibited eating-disorder behavior. Averages for Colorado as a whole are similar.
"Even if people aren't suffering from eating disorders, so many people are struggling with body-image issues," says Goldberg, a senior at New Vista High School. "There's a fine line for going from having body image issues to having an eating disorder."
According to Jeanine Cogan, the policy director of the Eating Disorders Coalition, which sponsors the lobbying day, the biggest obstacles to passing the FREED act are the stigma and ignorance that surround eating disorders. Much of the public isn't aware that people die every day from eating disorders. Cogan adds that partisan politics and passing any bill with insurance mandates on the heels of health-care reform will be a challenge.
"With the FREED act, it's important for people to know that even though it does have a mandate incorporated into the bill, it is worth it," says Tierney, a senior at Boulder High School. "People are worried that it is going to be extra money we have to spend. But in the long run, it is going to save money and it will save lives. So I think it's completely worth it."
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I spotted this a few days ago here in Denver. It's a Cream Yellow first generation S40. So what, right? Well, kinda.
I'm sitting here writing about it only because of its paint… Cream Yellow Volvo (color code 607… maybe).
The awesome 1995 Volvo 850 T-5R made Cream Yellow famous because of its extremely low production/import numbers, namely 2537 worldwide and 413 imported to North America.
Update Jan. 24: apparently it's Panama Yellow, Volvo paint code 248. Thanks to Rick in the forum.
So What's With the Cream Yellow S/V40?
No other Vovos could boast of this pretty color until sometime in the run of 2000-2004 S40 and V40 siblings. I'm not even sure it's the same color code 607 on these cars because no paint lists I read through name it. No other Volvos have this color besides the T-5R and these odd 40 twins.
I've seen a handful of these before, but never had my phone ready until now.
Does it make these S/V40s more valuable? Almost certainly not. It's just one of those automotive mysteries that make cars so fun as a hobby. If you have insight on this, please let me know what you know in the comments below or an email.
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Christian, conservative groups organize to oust Supreme Court justice
Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
The seal of the state of Alaska hangs on April 19, 2018, behind the dais where Alaska Supreme Court justices normally hear cases in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. (Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
A coalition of conservative and religious leaders has launched a campaign to oust an Alaska Supreme Court justice whose rulings they oppose.
The group, Alaskans for Judicial Reform, announced its campaign against Justice Susan Carney on Monday with a news conference in front of a downtown Anchorage courthouse. Glenn Biegel, the former conservative talk radio host, is chairing the group.
Carney was appointed by Gov. Bill Walker in 2016, and must win a majority of votes in her "retention" election this year to keep her seat on the five-member Supreme Court.
The Alaska Judicial Council, the nonpartisan state commission charged with helping to vet and select judicial candidates, recommends that residents vote to retain Carney. That's based in part on her average 4.6 rating, on a 5-point scale, in performance surveys by more than 250 Alaska attorneys and 40 court system employees.
The framers of the Alaska Constitution created the judicial council, which is made up of three attorneys chosen by the Alaska Bar Association, three members of the public chosen by the governor plus the Supreme Court's chief justice.
Social conservatives have long criticized that composition of the council, saying it's skewed toward attorneys who aren't accountable to the public. But they've failed in their efforts to amend the Constitution to expand the council's membership.
Alaskans for Judicial Reform is taking issue with Carney's rulings in three different cases.
Among them is one where she joined a majority opinion finding that a man convicted of a sex offense outside Alaska should be allowed to ask a judge for an exemption from the state's registration law if he could prove he's no longer a danger to the public.
Governor Walker, Justice Susan Carney from Faibanks, and Justice Dana Fabe from Anchorage. (Wesley Early/APRN)
The second is an opinion Carney wrote last year that invalidated an Alaska law that limited abortions covered by the state-federal Medicaid program to those deemed to be "medically necessary." And the third was a unanimous opinion she joined in 2017 that ruled that Walker had the authority to veto part of the annual Permanent Fund dividend payment to residents.
It's rare for voters to reject a judge up for retention, though that happened in 2018 to an Anchorage Superior Court judge, Michael Corey, who approved a controversial plea agreement. Social conservatives tried and failed to oust a former Alaska Supreme Court justice, Dana Fabe, in 2010, and a different Anchorage Superior Court judge, Sen Tan, in 2012.
Nat Herz covers government, politics, environment and COVID-19 for Alaska Public Media. Reach him at nherz@alaskapublic.org.
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You can now buy the recently released book, Fall of a Thousand Suns: How Near Misses and Comet Impacts affected the Religious Beliefs of our Ancestors. It is available through iBooks and Amazon.
This website only lists information on modern-day comets and meteor showers. The book, however, thoroughly investigates how specific ancient impacts and near misses changed religious beliefs around the world.
What is a Meteor Shower?
The next time you "ooohh and ahhh" during a meteor shower, consider the source. Remember that a comet passed close to Earth's orbit. Our planet is racing through a celestial battlefield, and it's only a matter of time until one of these cosmic bullets has our name on it.
Quadrantid Meteor Shower
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January 2)
The Quadrantid meteor shower can be as intense as the Perseids and the Geminids, but the peak intensity sometimes only lasts hours. The parent body of this meteor shower may be The Great Comet of 1491 (C/1491 B1). Astrophysicists at JPL suggest that this comet may have passed closer to Earth than any other known comet. They are visible between January 1 and January 10.
Alpha Centaurid Meteor Shower
(February 8)
The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower is relatively weak at three meteors per hour. They have been observed since 1969. The parent body is not known.
Theta Centaurid Meteor Shower
(February 10)
From January 23 to March 12, astronomers in the Southern hemisphere can see this relatively weak meteor shower. The radiant is located west of the constellation Lupus. It's peak occurs one or two days after the Alpha Centaurid meteor shower.
Virginid Meteor Shower
(April 17)
Several meteor showers radiate from Virgo between February and May. They are collectively known as the Virginids. The Alpha Virginid meteor shower peaks each year between April 7 and 18. The first recorded observation occurred in 1895.
Lyrid Meteor Shower
Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), a comet with an orbital period of 415 years, is responsible for the Lyrid Meteor Shower. The Lyrids were first recorded by Chinese astronomers on March 16, 687 BCE, making them the oldest known meteor shower. Once every sixty years, the Lyrids can produce hundreds of visible meteors an hour.
Pi Puppid Meteor Shower
Comet Grigg-Skjellerup (26P/Grigg-Skjellerup) is responsible for the Pi Puppid meteor shower. The radiant of this meteor shower lies in the direction of the constellation Puppis.
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower
(May 5)
The meteors in the Eta Aquariids are from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley). Halley's Comet does not currently have an orbit that brings it near enough Earth orbit to produce a meteor shower, but this was not the case centuries ago. The radiant of this meteor shower is north of the constellation Aquarius, near Eta Aquarii, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. They are visible from April 19 to May 26.
May Camelopardalid Meteor Shower
(May 24)
In 2006, calculations showed that Earth will pass through dust trails left by Comet 209P / LINEAR on May 24, 2014 (Jenniskens, 2006). The peak activity of this new meteor shower, which by most accounts will produce hundreds of meteors an hour, will occur around 7:30 UT / GMT (3:30 AM ET, 12:30 PCT). The radiant of the meteor shower will be in Camelopardalis, a constellation close to the north celestial pole.
Arietid Meteor Shower
(June 7)
Rivaled only by the Zeta Perseids, the Arietids are the most intense daytime meteor shower. The parent body is not confirmed, but astronomers suspect asteroid 1566 Icarus or Comet Machholz (96P/Machholz). It radiates from the constellations Aries and Perseus and has been known to produce upwards of sixty meteors an hour.
June Bootid Meteor Shower
(June 27)
In 1916, an outburst of this meteor shower "put in on the map". The previously unknown meteor shower has been relatively weak since. The parent body is Comet Pons-Winnecke (7P/Pons-Winnecke), a Jupiter-Family Comet that orbits the Sun once every 6.37 years.
Southern Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower
(July 27)
This meteor shower is produced by Marsden and Kracht Sungrazing comets. Its meteors are visible from July 21 to August 23. Their radiant lies near Delta Aquarii, one of the brightest stars in the constellation Aquarius. It produces 15-20 visible meteors an hour. This meteor shower was first observed in 1870.
Alpha Capricornid Meteor Shower
In 1871, a Hungarian astronomer first observed the Alpha Capricornids. Its parent body was later determined to be Comet 169P/NEAT. According to the astronomers who connected it to 169P/NEAT, this meteor shower was created 3,500 to 5,000 years ago when about half the parent body disintegrated. It is visible from July 11 to August 10.
Perseid Meteor Shower
(August 12)
Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle), a comet that takes 133 years to orbit the Sun, is the parent body of the, at times, epic Perseid meteor shower. It was first recorded in August of 36 CE by Chinese astronomers, but credit for its modern identification is given to Adolphe Quetelet in 1835. Its meteors are visible from July 13 to August 26.
Kappa Cygnid Meteor Shower
This weak meteor shower radiates from the star Kappa Cygni in the constellation Cygnus.
Draconid Meteor Shower
(October 8)
The Draconids are best viewed after sunset. It produced two of the most intense meteor storms of the 20th century, in 1933 and 1946, with thousand of meteors visible per hour. The Draconid meteors were created by Comet Giacobini-Zinner (21P/Giacobini-Zinner), a Jupiter-Family Comet that take 6.62 years to orbit the Sun.
Southern Taurid Meteor Shower
(October 10)
The Southern Taurids are the result of dust and debris left by Comet Encke (2P/Encke), a Jupiter-Family Comet that orbits the Sun quicker than any other comet. Encke and the Taurids may be part of a much larger comet that disintegrated between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago. The Southern Taurids are visible from September 7 to November 19. Some astronomers have attempted to link the Taurids to the explosion of an object in mid-air over the Tunguska River in Siberia in 1908.
Delta Aurigid Meteor Shower
The Delta Aurigids are a relatively weak meteor shower.
Orionid Meteor Shower
Halley's Comet (1P/Halley) can lay claim to the Orionids, which are visible from October 4 to November 14. Some years, upwards of 70 Orionids per hour are visible to the unaided eye. After meteor showers were known to be produced by comets, A.S. Herschel was the first to predict a meteor shower. It was the Orionids. Halley's Comet is also responsible for the Eta Aquariids in May.
Leo Minorid Meteor Shower
The Leo Minorid meteor shower only produces one or two meteors an hour. It is produced by Comet C/1739 K1. The meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Leo Minor.
Northern Taurid Meteor Shower
(November 12)
The dust and debris trail associated with Comet Encke (2P/Encke) has divided into two major sections. The northern Taurids are visible from October 19 to December 10. They peak nearly a month after the Southern Taurids.
Leonid Meteor Shower
One of the grand-daddies of all meteor showers. It has produced some of the most intense meteor storms through the centuries from November 5 to November 30, including one in 1833 which "produced thousands of meteors an hour" in some parts of the United States. Comet Tempel-Tuttle (55P/Tempel-Tuttle), a comet that takes 33 years to orbit the Sun, is the parent body of the Leonids. In 1366, Comet Tempel-Tuttle passed .0229 AU from Earth, one of the closest "near misses" by any comet in the past 1,000 years. It first recorded observation was in 902 CE.
Alpha Monocerotid Meteor Shower
The parent body of this weak meteor storm is unknown. It is thought to be a long-period comet.
Phoenicid Meteor Shower
(December 6)
The Phoenicid meteor shower was identified in December of 1956 after an outburst of nearly 100 meteors within an hour. It radiates from the southern constellation Phoenix. The parent body may be 289P / Blanpain (formerly D/1819 W1).
Monocerotid Meteor Shower
The Monocerotid meteor shower is a relatively weak meteor shower.
Geminid Meteor Shower
(December 13)
The parent body of the Geminid Meteor Shower is 3200 Phaethon, an extinct comet that is now classified as an asteroid. It was first observed in mid-December of 1862 radiating from the constellation Gemini. In recent years, the Geminid Meteor Shower has become more intense producing a maximum of 100 - 120 meteors an hour.
Comae Berenicid Meteor Shower
This minor shower was first detected in 1959 by Richard Eugene McCrosky and A. Posen as part of the Harvard Radio Meteor Project. This meteor shower has similarities to the Leo Minorids.
Ursid Meteor Shower
This minor meteor shower was first observed over the course of several years during the early part of the 20th century. In 1945, the Ursids produced upwards of 165 meteors an hour and attracted the attention of other astronomers who eventually determined the parent body, Comet Tuttle (8P/Tuttle). The Ursids can be observed from December 17 to December 23.
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Destroy to Preserve or Watch it Crumble?
One of the things that I found shocking when I was pursuing my Masters in Library Science was the number of truly passionate debates that would break out in my classes. Some of them were kind of funny. For example, things got a little heated when we talked about whether libraries should offer gift shops in the ground floor. If a book is about how to care for animals, how can you make sure both a "cat person" AND a "dog person" would find it? Since the classification system didn't include codes for every vegetable, how could you tell someone that a book coded as "corn" was actually about carrots?
Some debates were more serious though. One that I remember being particularly interested in was an argument about the preservation of antiquated documents. You see, the process then (I don't know if the technology has changed) was to scan the books into a digital format. The process, however, often sped up the obliteration of the physical document. What was more important? Having the actual manuscript, crumbling though it may be, or preserving the content via some modern, impersonal digital medium?
I was on the side of keeping the actual manuscript. Many had been hand-illustrated. The covers had been hand-created. The codex had been sewn together by someone sitting in a dark and empty room of some monastery somewhere. Today, publishers create books so that they can withstand the rigor of 1-2 readings. These manuscripts have far outlived today's life expectancy. Why not let them live a little longer?
As a librarian, my view was somewhat inappropriate. My focus was supposed to be on the content, not on the sentiment of nostalgia.
Now, in my new professional life, I am faced with a somewhat similar debate. We are using Social Media, and depending on how you use it, you can cast a wide net or capture a few quality friends. Sometimes you can do both at the same time. You can stay in touch with people you went to elementary school with. You can reconnect with your first crush and your first arch-enemy in one day. I am torn about all of this.
Of course, back in Library School, I understood the value of preserving the content. I wasn't against it. It was just a choice of priorities. I'm not against Social Media. I certainly see the value of it. But are we meant to stay in touch with every person in the world? Are we meant to do business with people we may never meet in person? With someone who may never even see our handwriting? Aren't some relationships meant to crumble? Aren't some meant to grow tangibly through handshakes and meals?
Is it better to have access to thousands of documents digitally knowing that the physical document was destroyed to create that experience? Is it better to deal with people digitally because some relationship is better than the few you might have in "real life"? Is it better to do business with hundreds of people at the expense of shaking hands with a few?


Busan Beach Trip – Writing with Beau!
I know this title photo is aggressive. It may make you uncomfortable. I felt uncomfortable taking the picture–knowing I shouldn't be looking at it let alone documenting it. But it is especially pertinent, I think, to my Korean beach trip.
As this man was adorning the double-up-thong, so too were many others. It was commonplace. I saw a lot of things that I had never seen at the beach before. I also did a lot of things I had never done at the beach before. This picture is indicative of the type of beach trip I had and soundly represents all that was new and unfamiliar. I had an amazing experience, and we enjoyed ourselves, but the same way you never really get comfortable being around a man in a doubled up thong, I'm not sure if I could ever buy in to Korean beach life.
Applying feedback I've gotten for this site, I'm going to use bullet points to describe my Busan (South Korean city) beach trip. People seem to enjoy themselves more reading my words in bullet form and I think I'm more concise in my thoughts. I will employ two types of bullets concerning the events and interaction of this trip: Things I've never done or seen at a beach before and Things I did that would disappoint my mother. Some bullets may be appropriately labeled as "both", if in fact I had never seen or done anything like that a beach before while knowing it would also upset Nancy.
Double-up-thong: We have already discussed this adorning vestige, but it still deserved a bullet. Thongs, on men, unfortunately are a thing at beaches. But two, one upon the other, is new. I hope this trend stays in Asia.
Applied tanning oil: I've been told, melodious voice aside, that I bear a firm resemblance to Ed Sheeran–pale skin. Typically when I go to the beach I lather myself in an SPF 15,000 or just keep a shirt on, if I'm out of shape. On this trip, in South Korea, I just assumed that UV rays weren't a thing. I disregarded the thousands of Koreans swimming or lounging in full sleeve water wear; assuming it to be a cultural antic or a fear of arousal. Not wanting to waste a rare trip to the beach–an opportunity to bronze–I tried to exacerbate any influence of the sun upon my skin, mild it may be. After a stop to the beach grocer and fifteen minutes of rigorous application, I was layered in tanning oil. 8 hours later, in our condo, my skin surpassed bronze and settled on charcoal. I had difficulty moving until inebriation set in.
"Can I borrow your football?": Going to the beach without the pigskin, in America, is unheard of. It's upsetting to think about. On the fourth day, an English teacher came to the beach with his lady, and began tossing around the rock (football). When they finished, I asked, "Could I borrow your football?" I have never asked that before because I would not go to the beach without a football. Footballs do not exist in Korea. I hope I never have to ask that question again.
Stolen food from a child: Libby, mother to Henry, meticulously packs a travel bag for her family–particularly Henry. Henry is almost two and is the coolest. At the beach, her travel pack was even more noteworthy. I, however, am not a great packer. I also get the munchies when I drink. On the second day, midday, I was drunk and I was hungry. Darin and Libby were playing beach baseball with Henry. After forcefully and audibly clapping for Henry when he made contact with an underhand toss from Dad, so they would know I was watching them and not Libby's travel bag, I dove to their umbrella and rifled through her rucksack until locating Henry's cookie wafers… Again, petty theft isn't something new to me at a beach; I've just never stolen from a child before. I did not list this under both, though, because I think Nancy would respect the ruthless hustle.
Beer pong with a toddler: Later that evening, after we had collected ourselves and regrouped in our respective condos, Henry and his family met us at Sam Ryans, a beachside pub. He never said anything, or verbalized his discontent, but Henry was seemingly hostile towards me. I think he knew I ate his wafers. Before his parents could stop and select a booth for dinner, Henry viciously waddled to the barside beer pong table. I followed. Words didn't really need to be spoken; I knew this was how things would be settled. Henry played with his father, Darin, and I played with my Korean friend Kevin. We didn't let Zach play because he is bad. We played two games, in fierce battle, where Henry stood on the table and repeatedly ignored my "elbow" protests. His dad even guided his shot and drank all the beer, which I thought was bush and enabling. After defeating Henry and Darin, though, Henry and I were able to bury the hatchet. I think he respected how well I played and the way in which I competed. I also think we severely upset the Korean owners but, due to language difficulty, they never told us not to play beer pong with an 18 month old child.
Shots with a homeless man: Let me clarify first that the reason my mother would be disappointed is not because of the societal status of the person I drank with–homeless–, but more the blatant disregard for hygiene and professional appearance. She is not conceited and above people, but I do not believe she would approve of me pouring alcohol in cups, secured by the sand, for a man who has clearly had issue with drinking in the past. Nonetheless, because I was at the beach, and I enjoy meeting new people, I drank beer and Soju (Korean Sake equivalent) with my friend Park Ji.
Escaped a fake rifle execution: Park Ji spared me when he used an invisible air rifle–equipped with automatic-mouthing bullet sound–to execute my friends… After I gave this man some beer and a shot, he would not leave me. Talented in his consumption, when he finished his drink, he wanted another. And another. In gentle fashion, because confrontation scares me, I made several trips to the water or along the beach to shake him. It didn't work. Park Ji was persistent and affectionately followed, calling me "my friend". After an hour, I returned to my beach chair. So did Park Ji. He started making miming motions for drink, "mo drink." Anthony, adjacent us, spoke in friendly-firm tone, prodding Park Ji to leave. It did not work. Anthony's translator, Alex, and Alex' lady, Sarah, addressed Park in Korean. Initially, they were friendly too. Park Ji idly resisted, turning to me, as if imploring for me to intervene and let these people know we were boys. Alex got a little harsher. Park Ji sprawled in the sand, across our blankets, in protest. Sarah stepped in and let Park Ji have it. Alex followed, because it seemed as if Sarah was wearing the pants. After a minute, and a torrent of Korean yells, Park Ji rolled over again–full scorpion. Finally, he got up, amidst stumble, and balanced himself. Pulling from the hip he raised an invisible rifle with both hands, right hand on the trigger, and blasted Alex and Sarah with a spray of bullets. After their execution, he turned to Anthony and delivered 10 to 15 rounds to his chest. Park Ji lowered his weapon, wiped the spit (ammunition) from his mouth, with his off hand, and delivered me a thumbs up. When I reciprocated, via wave, Park Ji turned and left.
"Shark!": I've played plenty of pranks at the beaches, but never one as insensitive and panic inducing as yelling "shark!" After several beers on the second day, and an absorbed anger because of painfully burned skin, I didn't give AF. I stood at the breaking of the beach and water, where the surf rolls to its foaming retreat, and violently yelled "Shark!" Nothing happened so I yelled again, this time pointing and jumping. In simultaneous form, exactly as I realized no one could understand me and people were disregarding me, a small child walked up and poked my arm, solely to see the red skin turn yellow–as skin does when it is burnt.
Over reaction to average white female: To make a mini disclaimer, I do not like to objectify women, especially in terms of the notorious 1-10 barometer. I have women in my life too important to me that I respect too much to do this. But, the only way I can depict this over-reaction is by labeling the certain women I saw, walking the beach, as physically average. I have never been at the beach before, seen a soft bodied American with coarse features, in a one piece, and whistled at her. I have never done that before because 1) it is disrespectful and 2) I was too busy staring at the olive-skinned knockout rocking a shoe string bikini. Too much time abroad, devoid of conversation in a common language, has made me this way. I am not proud of it and have never acted that way before.
Thst was awesome and Im upset we missed out on that type of fun!
Also, you looked jacked in that picture in the water with your boy, Park-ji.


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17th Edition Of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
Cultural Event The Arts Event
Film Festival Film Screening Event Non Profit Event
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center And Istituto Luce Cinecittà Announce Complete Lineup For The
June 1 – 7, 2017
Opening Night selection is Edoardo De Angelis¹s Indivisible
14-film festival features eight North American and six New York premieres
New York, NY (April 28, 2017)  The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà announce the complete lineup for the 17th edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, June 1-7.
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema offers North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year¹s edition again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries, with in-person appearances by many of the filmmakers.
The Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of Edoardo De Angelis¹s Indivisible, a captivating feature about talented conjoined twins whose dreams for their futures start to diverge around their eighteenth birthday. This year¹s edition showcases 13 additional titles, all North American or New York premieres, including At War with Love, acclaimed Italian TV personality Pierfrancesco Diliberto¹s World War IIset satire; Federica Di Giacomo¹s exorcism documentary Deliver, which won the Orizzonti Prize at last year¹s Venice Film Festival; Marco Tullio Giordana¹s Two Soldiers, the last in his popular organized crime trilogy; and The War of the Yokels, Davide Barletti & Lorenzo Conte¹s fable about a society at war‹cast almost completely with children.
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan, Film Society; and by Carla Cattani, Griselda Guerrasio, and Monique Catalino, Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
Acknowledgments:
Italian Trade Commission; Italian Cultural Institute New York; Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò‹NYU; Antonio Monda
Tickets for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema + our Marcello Mastroianni retrospective, Il Bello Marcello, go on sale May 4, with Film Society members receiving an early access period beginning May 2. Tickets are $14; $11 for students and seniors (62+); and $9 for Film Society members. See more and save with the 3+ film discount package or Open Roads Access Pass. Learn more at filmlinc.org.
Films & Descriptions
All films screen digitally at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St) unless otherwise noted
OPENING NIGHT:
Indivisible / Indivisibili
Edoardo De Angelis, Italy, 2016, 104m
Italian with English subtitles
At first glance, identical twins Dasy and Violet (newcomers Angela and Marianna Fontana, in powerful debut performances) appear to have it all: they're beautiful, gifted with captivating singing voices, and they do not want for gigs around Naples. They also happen to be conjoined at the hip, which is shamelessly exploited by their parents and close friends for money. But on the cusp of their 18th birthday, Dasy falls in love and pursues a new life after learning she can be separated from Violet. Balancing the beautiful and the perverse with poise, and featuring a beguiling soundtrack by renowned singer-songwriter Enzo Avitabile, Edoardo De Angelis¹s third feature is a moving, eccentric fable about the pains of growing up, and the lengths to which one may go in order to fulfill a dream. New York Premiere
Thursday, June 1, 1:45pm & 6:30pm
At War with Love / In Guerra per amore
Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Italy, 2016, 99m
The latest by Pierfrancesco Diliberto (a.k.a. Pif, Italy¹s renowned TV host and political comedian) is a tender comedy set against the backdrop of World War II. Sicilian emigrant Arturo (Pif) is in love with Flora (Miriam Leone), but she¹s betrothed to the son of a New York mafia boss. Arturo¹s only option is to ask Flora¹s father for her hand‹however, he still lives in Sicily. Penniless but determined, Arturo takes a ³free² passage to Italy by enlisting in the U.S. military at the start of the Allied invasion. Mixing history with outrageous comedy and political satire, At War with Love is like Forrest Gump by way of Mel Brooks‹equal parts funny, charming, and irreverent. North American Premiere
Saturday, June 3, 9:15pm
Tuesday, June 6, 2:30pm
Children of the Night / I Figli della notte
Andrea De Sica, Italy/Belgium, 2016, 85m
Introverted 17-year-old Giulio (Vincenzo Crea) is sent to an elite boarding school in the Alps. Contact to the outside world is limited, and the students‹all troubled, some territorial and violent‹are constantly surveilled by the administration (which includes an unctuous Fabrizio Rongione). Giulio forms an unlikely bond with the most sullen and rebellious student, Edoardo (Ludovico Succio), with whom he routinely sneaks off to a lascivious nightclub in the forest‹but their nighttime excursions don¹t go undetected, nor are they as transgressive as initially thought. A twisted coming-of-age story tinged with elements of horror, Andrea De Sica¹s feature debut is a tightly wound narrative that defies convention. North American Premiere
Sunday, June 4, 4:00pm
Wednesday, June 7, 4:30pm
The Confessions / Le Confessioni
Roberto Andò, Italy/France, 2016, 104m
Italian, English, and French with English subtitles
Roberto Andò reteams with Toni Servillo in this Hitchcockian mystery-thriller, a spiritual sequel to Andò¹s Long Live Freedom (a 2014 Open Roads selection). During a G8 summit in a luxurious German hotel, a trio of outsiders‹a rock star (Johan Heldenbergh), a children's novelist (Connie Nielsen), and a laconic Italian monk (Servillo)‹join the Group of Eight at the request of Daniel Roché (Daniel Auteuil), a powerful man with an obscure agenda. Things get even more mysterious when Roché is found dead following a clandestine meeting with the monk. Boasting a star-studded international cast and a perfect blend of suspense, international intrigue, and a subdued but biting sense of humor, The Confessions is a classically composed and wildly entertaining whodunit. New York Premiere
Deliver / Liberami
Federica Di Giacomo, Italy, 2016, 90m
Winner of the Orizzonti Prize at last year¹s Venice Film Festival, Deliver follows Father Cataldo, a Sicilian priest sought out by Catholics who believe themselves to be possessed. In between capturing the religious rites he performs on his clients‹by turns frightening, profane, and absurd‹Di Giacomo¹s documentary peers into the private lives of the afflicted: everyday people drawn to the church out of desperation who discuss their demonic interactions as though they were mere medical conditions. Avoiding cliché and easy sentimentality, Deliver offers a fresh perspective on the psychology underlying the continued practice of exorcism in the modern world. New York Premiere
Ears / Orecchie
Alessandro Aronadio, Italy, 2016, 90m
A man wakes up with a painful ringing in his ear and to a note that reads, ³Your friend Luigi is dead! I¹m sorry. PS: I took the car…² But who¹s Luigi? This is just one of the many questions the unnamed protagonist (Daniele Parisi) must ask himself in this absurd tragicomedy by writer-director Alessandro Aronadio (One Life, Maybe Two, a 2010 Open Roads selection). Unfolding in a single day, Ears upsets a hapless man¹s routine with a series of hilarious, Kafkaesque situations involving meddlesome nuns, bumbling doctors, and a perplexing array of bureaucratic mishaps. Aronadio¹s black-and-white, aspect ratioshifting second feature is a one-of-a-kind comedy that surprises and delights with unassuming humor and a quirky supporting cast. New York Premiere
Friday, June 2, 3:45pm
Monday, June 5, 9:00pm
Claudio Giovannesi, Italy, 2016, 109m
Stylishly blending social realism with a coming-of-age story, Claudio Giovannesi¹s third feature focuses on a blossoming romance in a juvenile detention center. Newcomer Daphne Scoccia stars as a tough but troubled young girl locked up after committing a robbery, and during her stint she meets Josh (Josciua Algeri), an inmate confined to the boy¹s ward in the neighboring building. Their prohibited interactions spiral into a forbidden yet innocent romance that provides an escape from their fraught personal problems. Fiore¹s measured treatment of troubled youth recalls the Dardenne brothers, but the film¹s assured visual style and breathless romance are entirely the invention of director Giovannesi. New York Premiere
Pawn Street / Le Ultime Cose
Irene Dionisio, Italy/Switzerland/France, 2016, 85m
Irene Dionisio's debut feature is a gripping moral drama that weaves together the plights of three people connected to a pawn shop in Turin. Stefano (Fabrizio Falco) is torn between doing the right thing and keeping his new job as a pawnbroker after catching his morally bankrupt manager (Roberto De Francesco) deceiving customers, one of whom is Sandra (Christina Rosamilia), a transgender woman at odds with her past. Outside the pawn shop, Michele (Alfonso Santagata), a kindhearted family man, gets in too deep with some deceitful street hagglers who illegally buy up receipts from the shop¹s customers. Lensed by César-winning DP Caroline Champetier (Holy Motors, I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar), Pawn Street tackles complex themes of shame and redemption with naked emotion and vivid realism. North American Premiere
Sun, Heart, Love / Sole, Cuore, Amore
Daniele Vicari, Italy, 2016, 109m
In this tragic ode to urban living from writer-director Daniele Vicari, Eli (Isabella Ragonese) puts herself through a crushing daily grind‹a two-hour commute from the outskirts of Rome that's slowly taking a toll on her health‹in order to support her unemployed, loving husband and their children. Meanwhile her lifelong best friend Vale (Eva Grieco in her debut role), a dancer living on her own, is faced with her own struggles after taking in a coworker who was beaten by her boyfriend. Beautifully blending melancholy with quiet joy, Vicari¹s latest is a sorrowful, sensitively observed study of straphangers caught up in life¹s unrelenting demands. North American Premiere
Sweet Dreams / Fai bei sogni
Marco Bellocchio, Italy/France, 2016, 134m
Italian and French with English subtitles
The latest from Marco Bellocchio is this delicate, melancholic, and deeply moving adaptation of Massimo Gramellini's popular autobiographical novel Sweet Dreams, Little One. Tracing a middle-aged man (Valerio Mastandrea) as he still struggles to come to grips with the sudden loss of his mother when he was nine years old, Sweet Dreams alternates between past and present, memories and dreams, effortlessly weaving together disparate elements of Massimo¹s life to yield a profound, poetic study of loss and maternal love. Gracefully photographed by frequent DP Daniele Ciprì (Vincere, Dormant Beauty), this is Bellocchio at his most emotional, but his signature sense of humor and irony are as strong as ever. New York Premiere
Tenderness / La Tenerezza
Gianni Amelio, Italy, 2017, 103m
The latest by Lamerica director Gianni Amelio explores loneliness, heartbreak, and complicated family relations in modern-day Naples. Renato Carpentieri stars as Lorenzo, an elderly widower estranged from his children who gradually builds a friendship with the new family next door‹until a catastrophe pulls them apart. Loosely based on Lorenzo Moreno¹s Premio Strega Prizewinning novel The Temptation to Be Happy, Tenderness is a powerfully acted character study as well as an evocative portrait of middle-class Naples, beautifully filmed by Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty). North American Premiere
Two Soldiers / Due Soldati
Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2017, 100m
A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with Naples¹ violent Camorra in what could be considered the third installment of Marco Tullio Giordana¹s organized crime cycle‹including his Golden Globe-nominated One Hundred Steps and 2015¹s Lea. Rising star Angela Fontana (one of the leads in Indivisible, this year¹s Opening Night film) plays Maria, a young woman planning her marriage to a soldier stationed in Afghanistan (Dario Rea), until his life is tragically cut short. After being left alone in their new, empty apartment, she crosses paths with Salvatore (Daniele Vicorito), a member of the Mafia who hides out in her condominium after a botched hit job. Giordana¹s latest is a complex exploration of grief and redemption that evocatively captures the rippling consequences of war. North American Premiere
The War of the Yokels / La Guerra dei cafoni
Davide Barletti & Lorenzo Conte, Italy, 2016, 98m
With an eclectic ensemble cast made up almost entirely of children, Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte¹s fable about a war between the ruling elite and lower classes, based on the novel by Carlo D'Amicis, plays like a cross between Lord of the Flies and The Goonies. No one really knows why the centuries-old war exists, but after the ³yokels² of the underclass carry out a series of disruptive invasions, and bring in a ruthless outsider, things start to escalate violently. Meanwhile, the pitiless leader of the ruling class falls in love with a yokel and begins to question his role in the needless war. Set in the 1970s off the sunbaked coast of Puglia, beautifully photographed by Duccio Cimatti, The War of the Yokels is a rambunctious mixture of social satire, perilous adventure, and low-key fantasy, with energetic performances by its cast of young actors. North American Premiere
Worldly Girl / La Ragazza del Mondo
Marco Danieli, Italy/France, 2016, 101m
In Marco Danieli¹s debut feature, Sara Serraiocco (Salvo) stars as Giulia, a smart young Jehovah¹s Witness whose lifestyle is put to the test when she meets Libero (Michele Riondino), an ex-con and son of a recent convert. As much as Giulia wants to pursue a future in mathematics (which goes against her religion), it¹s her unexpected attachment to Libero that pulls her from her community. Sensitively portraying the religious community, Danieli¹s first feature is an assured, wonderfully acted, and unpredictable celebration of individuality. Worldly Girl premiered at last year¹s Venice Film Festival, where Danieli won the Brian Award (given by the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics!) and stars Serraiocco and Riondino both won Pasinetti Awards for their performances. North American Premiere
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Istituto Luce Cinecittà is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture subsidizing its activities on an annual basis. Istituto Luce Cinecittà holds one of the most important European film and photographic archives in which materials are collected and digitally categorized, including its own productions and materials, derived from private collections and acquisitions by a variety of sources. Istituto Luce Cinecittà owns a film library, Cineteca, containing around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions in order to promote Italian culture at major national and international institutes around the world. In collaboration with the Italian Ministry for the Foreign Affairs, restorations and new prints are added every year.
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Our Commode Chair is perfect for Bedside use when a bathroom might be just out of reach.
The chair can also be used over your regular toilet to give you the added height you need.
Seat Height: 19" to 22-3/4"


When I'm not sailing my boat de Verwisseling, I give tours in the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. This museum boasts the second-largest maritime collection in the world. Docked at the pier behind the museum is the impressive replica of the Dutch East India Company's ship Amsterdam and the beautiful renovated royal barge.
An ideal combination: a visit to the Maritime Museum in the morning, followed by a relaxing afternoon sailing on the Markermeer, a hearty meal and a relaxing return home.
The visit to the museum, tours of the various expositions and the replica ship, sailing on de Verwisseling and transportation between Amsterdam and Muiden can all be arranged according to your needs.
Giving exact prices for this trip is not easy, because of the many variables and options.
Contact me and I'll gladly work out a tailored arrangement, according to your wishes as far as transportation, tours, and food are concerned.
One thing there can be no doubt about, is that this trip will be an unforgettable experience! More information about the National Maritime Museum can be found on their website.