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Remembering Ugly Betty: The best forgotten TV show of our generation
THE PONCHO
Ugly Betty was a mid 2000s masterpiece. Picture Daniel and Wilhelmina swanning around the pristine, white offices of fashion magazine MODE. Mark and Amanda gossiping at the reception desk. Betty turning up in a poncho on her first day because she thought it was stylish. Christina in the fashion closet, talking in a Scottish accent and stitching some crazy dress. And someone constantly, incessantly trying to steal the company and become Editor in Chief.
Somewhere, deeply ingrained in the back of your brain, you have a vault of Ugly Betty memories and knowledge just waiting to be unlocked. It was playing on E4 on a loop for most of the late 2000s, after all. I'm here to unlock that vault for you. We all need to remember how good it was, and how much it shaped us as teens.
This is everything you forgot about Ugly Betty that made it so beautifully awful, and so watchable. Prepare to audibly gasp and go "Oh my god I forgot about that!"
Daniel Mead was the sexy boss we all wanted (as 10 year olds)
Oh honey, how could I forget about you
Oh Daniel. Daniel, Daniel, Daniel. The clueless, bachelor party boy that got handed a fashion magazine and ended up as Betty's boss. He was a long standing childhood crush even if you didn't realise it at the time.
Included in some of the things you forgot about this batshit series is that he starts the series as a sex addict, has an illegitimate child that turns out to actually be his sister's and nearly dies like, five times.
You've remembered Daniel Meade but how could you forget… Alexis Meade!
At the start of the series, Daniel's brother Alex Meade has been dead for years as a result of a mysterious skiing incident. By the end of season one, we learn that Alex has transitioned and is in fact now Alexis Meade.
Alexis and Wilhelmina (We'll get to her later) plan to steal MODE from Daniel's grasp but eventually she remembers he's her brother and she loves him blah blah – basically, it's mental. The storylines in this show really did not hold back.
MODE was so clearly based on Vogue
Ugly Betty is set in the offices of fashion magazine MODE, where Betty works as an assistant. The very beginning of Ugly Betty is based on the death of Fey Summers, Editor in Chief of MODE who rules the fashion magazine with an iron fist.
Of what we see of Fey, she has a short bob and walks around wearing big sunglasses all the time. Basically – she's Anna Wintour, the Editor in Chief of American Vogue. Also her last name is Summers. Wintour, Summers. I rest my case. This is something that your sweet pre-teen brain probably never thought of, but now you know.
Remember when Betty wore a Guadalajara poncho on her first day at MODE?
In the first episode, Betty applies for a job at MODE. The running joke throughout the show is that Betty should not be working at MODE because she is "ugly" (rude) and doesn't know about fashion. To try and fit in, Betty wears a Guadalajara poncho because she saw a model wearing a fur poncho a few days before. When she arrives at the offices, Amanda says to her "Hi – are you the before?" Which brings me to…
Amanda's one liners were impeccable
Amanda was more than just a mean receptionist. She was an icon. She thrived off sticking her nose into other people's business, following Daniel around in the hope he may eventually love her and dragging Betty down at every possible opportunity (sorry Betty).
It is entirely up to you whether or not you watch the remaining thirteen minutes of video. Make the right decision.
Mark and Amanda were truly the most iconic duo
Amanda and Mark were the bitchy duo of the office and provided 90 per cent of the comedic material for the show. These two were so worthy of a spin off entirely about their lives, but alas, we can't get everything we want.
If you need to remember one thing about Mark, it's the scene where he walks into an interview (he and Betty are both going for the same job) to the tune of Poker Face with five assistants in tow. One of them being Amanda.
I'm GAGGED.
Wilhelmina lived off botox and raw female power
Wilhelmina was the stuff of nightmares. She was always trying to bring Daniel down and become Editor in Chief of MODE. Mark would routinely inject duck fat into her face to make her look younger and she was always wearing white.
Looking back on it, Wilhelmina was actually a low key legend and an inspiration to all women. Except when she marries Daniel's father just to gain control of the company. That's not very inspirational. Don't try that at home.
One thing I wish I didn't remember is Henry, Betty's nerdy boyfriend
Henry was truly the most boring character in the whole series, but Betty was OBSESSED with him. His name is literally Henry Grubstick. Like Betty, please.
In season one he and Betty have a bit of a fling while she's trying to end things with her current and equally boring first boyfriend, Walter. Then he fucks off to Texas, reunites with his ex-girlfriend Charlie aka weird guidance counsellor from Glee, comes back and breaks Betty's little heart.
It's okay though, because it paves the way for Betty x Daniel sexual chemistry which is all we ever wanted to see.
This picture is just waiting for a Youtube comment saying "Was this filmed on a potato?"
Christina was your weird art teacher in TV form
Christina was Ugly Betty's slightly unhinged stylist friend at MODE who was incredibly Scottish and always got herself into weird predicaments. If you were young and vaguely kooky you wanted to BE her. I miss you, Christina.
Also, Betty wasn't even ugly
They just stuck some glasses and braces on America Ferrera, a genuinely attractive woman, and told us all she was ugly and we believed them! Realising she isn't ugly will shake you to your core. Your entire childhood was a lie.
Now that I've given you enough throwback to give you whiplash, please join me in starting a petition to get Ugly Betty on Netflix. We need it.
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An orthodontist may recommend that braces are fitted for a number of reasons. For example, they can be used to correct the alignment of teeth that are crooked. For other people, dental practitioners say they will help with overcrowding by moving teeth into better positions. They can be used to correct both over and under biting. Whatever the reason for having them, the sort of braces that will be fitted are important.
Ceramic braces are a common alternative to metal braces these days but few people know what the pros and cons are compared to the commonly seen metal type. Ceramic braces can be a favourable choice for a lot of patients, particularly if they are concerned about the appearance of their smile. Read on to discover more about their potential upside and any problem areas you ought to know about.
Ceramic braces were first introduced by orthodontic practitioners in the 1980s so they are a tried and tested form of tooth alignment device. There is no need to worry that they are newfangled and untested.
Ceramic braces use brackets that are tough these days and they won't stain as easily as ones you might have heard of. In the 1990s, their reputation for staining put some people off using them. Some patients have reported that ceramic braces are less uncomfortable for them, largely because they don't tend to irritate the gums as much as other options.
Ceramic braces are fitted with a semi-translucent ceramic bracket, meaning that they blend in with the natural colour of your teeth no matter whether you happen to have very white ones or a set of teeth which is more off-white in tone.
Ceramic braces are incredibly durable these days and almost as tough as metal ones. The high-quality ceramics used mean that they won't chip or fracture unless they are severely abused.
Ceramic braces are larger and feel bulkier despite the fact they blend in better.
Some patients are unsuited to ceramic braces because they are not capable of withstanding as much pressure as metal braces. For this reason, some people who need extensive treatment to correct multiple teeth are advised to stick with metal ones.
Ceramic braces may be more obvious in a visual sense than other options, such as clear braces.


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Michael Cohen Wife, Family, Net Worth- Everything About American Attorney
Updated On: 12 Jul, 2018
Laura Shusterman(1995-Present)
-$1 Million
Samantha Blake Cohan(Daughter)
Sondra Cohen(Mother), Maurice Cohen(Father)
Michael Cohen is an American lawyer who formerly worked for the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. He is famously known for allegedly paying off $130,000 to pornstar Stormy Daniels for Trump.
Aside from his controversial fame during his time as Trump's lawyer, he is also an aficionado of taxi and real estate business. From exciting details of his career, his net worth to covering his personal life; here's everything you need to know about the American Attorney:
Family Scrutiny: His Wife Laura & Daughter "Subjected To Harassment"
In the Trump-Russia probable-collusion dossier, Cohen surfaced as a key suspect who allegedly handled the proceedings between Trump's Presidential Campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election cycle.
However, he wasn't the only member of his family who made the headlines on the tabloids. His wife, Laura Cohen, along with his daughter, Samantha Blake Cohan, also began to gain additional attraction after he was involved in the investigation.
Michael Cohen poses with his daughter, Laura in Jan 2017 (Photo: Micahel Cohen's Twitter)
When Cohen provided his statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 2017, he mentioned his wife and Ivy League daughter, and how they've had to endure criticisms,
"My wife and I have been married for 23 years, and are now entering into the season of our lives when we get to watch our children become adults themselves. My daughter, who is at an Ivy League school, and my wife, who is of Ukrainian descent, have especially been subjected to harassment, insults and threats … some so severe I cannot share them in mixed company."
For instance, his daughter had to face unnecessary public scrutiny when he shared a picture of her dressed in lingerie on Twitter in May 2017.
Michael Cohen defends daughter from shameless public harassment (Photo: Michael Cohen's Twitter)
Also in the same statement to the intelligence committee, Michael provided his alibi against the dossier's claim that he had met with the Russian officials in Prague during 2016.
Amidst investigation from Muller and other bodies of law, Cohen's legal fees drastically increased, bringing him closer to bankruptcy.
He also claimed that he was with his son, Jake, visiting a prestigious university, USC, in Los Angeles on that day. He further expressed in his statement that his family shouldn't be subject to scrutiny just because of his role in the government.
What is Michael Cohen's Net Worth?
Michael Cohen enjoys the net worth of $20 Million. He has derived the majority of his fortune from his investments in transport and real estate business. He sold three rental buildings at 237 Henry Street; 239 Henry Street; and 235 East 27th Street, profiting $9.25 million in 2015. A year before that, he earned $10 million when he sold a rental building at 172 Rivington Street. In the year 2014, he reportedly sold four buildings in Manhattan for $32 million.
He and his wife owned more than 30 taxi medallions during a time when one medallion was worth $1 Million. According to the Fortune article published on 20 June 2018, the pair got state warrant for about $185,000 in unpaid taxes (on his taxi business) by New York. The pair also (probably in 2017 or 2018) put their apartment in the Trump Park Avenue plus other assets (valued together at $9 million) in collateral against $12 million-plus loan they owed to Sterling National Bank Of Montebello. Previously, his taxi medallions had secured the loans, but not more it was the reality after their value dropped down to as much as 80 percent. The competition from Uber and Lyft was the reason for their plummeting value.
Aside from his investments, his annual salary from his law career is expected to be around $731,000 annually.
Michael Cohen was born on 25th August 1966. He married Laura Shusterman in 1995. He has a daughter with his loving wife to whom he married at The Pierre.
In 2018, his house and office were raided by the FBI, and numerous documents were seized.
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This two hour DVD video covers the important points of the Beyond The Zone System method.
When you are done, you'll be able to characterize paper, film and have a firm understanding on what effects are really gained with one film or developer over another.
The video is invaluable to both the beginner and the advanced practitioner.
A workbook is included to help you track the lessons and provide further information on the methodology.
Complete with fifty page workbook on a CD (PDF files).


During the NDC Hackathon you will be asked to use at least one of the NDC APIs and address at least one of the challenges around leisure or business travel. In parallel, you will be able to attend some of the workshops that will take place on-site and access to mentors that will guide you throughout the Hackathon.
We are thrilled to a new edition of NDC Hackathons and looking forward to seeing the outcome of the Dublin edition!
See what happened during the #NDCHack in Dublin and understand why the developer community is vital to the transformation of the airline industry.
Scenario 1: SHOPPING / REPORTING - How to provide a better experience to travelers by granting them with more flexibility (let them choose the services they want) while controlling the flight expenses?
How to improve the passenger journey through tracking of usage of products such as fast track at airport, access to lounge, extra baggage on board etc.
Tamara gets stressed when traveling as she is never sure of how to get real time updates on her journey. Travel providers (airlines, ground transportation etc) must be able to provide her with updates on the status of her trip and must be able to inform connected travel providers of changes in schedule. Please make sure she is updated on the status of her trip.
Valentin is a travel manager in a big company. He needs to track the usage of products from his travelers (whether Mr Smith caught his transfer to his hotel, accessed the lounge at connecting destination, etc). This data is important for Valentin since he can assess preferred products & services that will lead to better informed decisions when negotiating airline deals. Also, in order for him to provide duty of care, he needs to be able to locate and contact his travelers for emergencies that might occur. Can you make his job easier?
The New Distribution Capability (NDC) is a travel industry-supported program launched by IATA for the development and market adoption of a new, XML-based data transmission standard. The NDC Standard enhances the capability of communications between airlines and travel agents and is open for others to implement and use.
The ONE Order initiative aims to modernize the order management process in the airline industry by replacing a multiple and rigid booking, ticketing, delivery and accounting methods. ONE Order complements NDC by extending the capability of the Order Management system.
You must use at least one of the NDC APIs to win!
Contact American Airlines mentors on-site.
The ONE Order initiative aims to modernize the order management process in the airline industry by replacing a multiple and rigid booking, ticketing, delivery and accounting methods with one single reference. You must use ZEUS - a fake airline API compliant with the ONE Order standard - if you want to compete for the ONE Order prize or you can combine it with an NDC challenge to increase your chances to win!
Contact Links Rez mentors on-site.
You and data visualization go way back! In your capable hands, dashboards and applications shine!
VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
Information on how to enter the IATA NDC Hackathon (the "Competition") and the prize details form part of these terms and conditions of entry ("Terms and Conditions"). Entry into the Competition is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Entries not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions are deemed ineligible.
The Competition is organized by International Air Transport Association ("IATA" or the "Organizer"), having its Head Office at 800 Place Victoria, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4Z 1M1 and its Executive Offices at 33, route de l´Aeroport, P.O. Box 416 CH-1215 Geneva 15 Airport, Switzerland.
"API" means Application Programming Interface. APIs define a standardized language to access application functionality from external code.
"Competition" means the developer event called "IATA NDC Hackathon" organized by IATA, starting on August 18th 2017 with participant onboarding/ ideation and ending on August 27th 2017 in Sunnyvale, California USA with the final Hackathon.
"Hackathon" is a combination of the words "hack" and "marathon", where "hack" is used in the sense of exploratory programming. Hackathon refers to the final phase that will take place during the Competition and during which Participants (as defined below) will have to create innovative solutions related to NDC and/or its Partners' APIs with the goal to win cash prizes and/or the possibility to be incubated and in the opportunity to present the ideas at the IATA World Passenger Symposium in Barcelona, Spain from the October 24th to October 26th 2017 and IATA Business Travel Summit in 2018 (dates and location to be confirmed)..
"Ideation Phase" means the phase where the Participants start to bring in ideas, which need to be reviewed, commented and steered.
"Online Incubation" means structured development and refinement of an idea of a Participant. Mentors and specialists (e.g. Designers, Project Managers) help the Participants to improve the idea towards a viable product.
"Participant(s)" means any individual or company that is registered to participate to the Competition.
"Partners" means the selected companies by the Organizer that will contribute to the Competition by providing for instance mentoring services/APIs/products to the Participants.
"Solutions" means the innovative solutions created by a Participant during the Hackathon.
A "startup company" (startup or start-up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing or offering an innovative product, process or service. A startup is defined as a small business.
"Professional companies" or "Corporations" are providing corporations or professional services (abbreviated as PC or PSC) are those corporate entities for which many corporation statutes make special provision, regulating the use of the corporate form by licensed professionals such as attorneys, architects, engineers, public accountants and physicians. The general category of the PC or PSC can be as a S-corporations, C-corporations or LLCs, but with subcategorization as a PC or PSC. Professional corporations often exist as part of a larger, more complicated, legal entity.
First phase: Ideation - The first phase, consisting of an ideation platform ("Ideation Platform"), will permit Participants submit and discuss ideas via e-mail in relation to the theme of the Hackathon with a panel of experts and other Participants. The goal is to allow Participants to adjust ideas they want to build in the Hackathon by getting feedback from other Participants and Mentors. This phase of the contest will end with an in-person ideation session in Sunnyvale, USA where ideas will finally be shaped before implementation and the Partners inform the Participants about their business models and APIs.
The second phase: Hackathon - The second phase, consisting of 28 hours in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), California USA.
The Hackathon, to be held from the 25th to the 27th August 2017, will permit Participants to pitch their ideas, designs and develop products with accessible data and technologies, in order to win a prize as described in section 12.
IATA (International Air Transport Association) is the organizer of the event and it is fully responsible for the event.
The Organizer will provide for the registration website and mentor supporting Participants during the first phase.
The Organizer will be responsible of Hackathon and set up a jury deciding on the winners of the Hackathon (the "Jury").
The Organizer retains the right to change, supplement, add provisions or remove provisions from these Terms and Conditions.
The event will start on 25th August 2017 with presentation of Sponsors and engagement cocktail with developers and API providers. The competition will take place from 26th August 2017until the 27th August 2017.
The Ideation Platform is available under http://ndc.developer.iata.org/hackathon. Registration will open on the 07 July and last until 25th August 2017 ("Registration Period"). The Organizer will invite each Participant who registered to the Hackathon to submit any kind of questions during the Ideation period through a dedicated website. The phase will be ended by the idea pitch session on 27 August 2017 in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), California USA. There a) groups can still be formed b) groups already formed can present their concepts and network with the Competition Partners.
2nd phase: a total of 28 hours Hackathon from 26th to 27th August 2017 in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), California USA. . A detailed schedule will be available on the registration page.
The Online incubation will be held exclusively online from 04th September 2017 to 13th October 2017 without physical interaction. It will partly continue on the same method used for ideation in addition to conference calls, but mostly comprise webinars, 1-on-1 coaching and digital interaction with mentors provided by the competition partners.
Participant is a natural person of at least 18 years of age.
Ideally marketer, developer, idea generator, designer or data analyst.
Any company or start-up willing to participate.
A responsible team leader must be named, stating that he/she is able to take decisions in name of the company to bind it.
To abide by all the rules stated in these TCs.
To fulfil any visa and/or entry requirements required by the United States of America as applicable. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that it is the sole prerogative of the Immigration officials and government to let anyone inside the country and the Organizer assumes no liability for any denial of access by the authorities of the Ireland and or European Community/Schengen countries.
The Participant agrees that it releases and hold harmless the Organizer, its subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents and Partners from any and all liability or any injury, loss or damage of any kind, arising from or in connection with the Competition or any prize won. The Participant is responsible for payment of all any taxes and any other liabilities arising from the Participant in the Competition.
To release and hold harmless the Organizer, its subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents and Partners from any and all liability or any injury, loss or damage of any kind, arising from or in connection with the Competition or any prize won the Participant is responsible for.
To agree that all The Organizer's decisions will be final and binding on all matters related to the Competition.
To agree that all the Jury's decisions will be final and binding on all matters related to the Competition.
That any photo or video containing his/her likeness or voice, as may be shot or filmed during the Hackathon, may be published by the Organizer, in part or in full, with or without stating the Participant's name, on any media, including but not limited to the Organizer's website and or Youtube page, at the Organizer's sole discretion. This authorization will be given for 10 years and shall be valid Worldwide.
7. REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE COMPETITION?
Signing up for the Competition shall be made through the official website http://ndc.developer.iata.org/hackathon, which requires an email address, name, and basic description of their project/idea.
Each Participant who has registered to take part in the Hackathon at http://ndc.developer.iata.org/hackathon will receive an invitation from the Organizer, via email to participate to the Ideation phase.
Registration on the Ideation phase will only be possible by invitation.
Access to the whole Hackathon phases are free of charge.
The number of Participants is limited to the capacity of the venue of the Hackathon in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), and the Organizer may close registration before the end of the Registration Period in case the maximum number has been achieved.
The Organizer may prolong the Registration Period at his sole discretion. In such case the dates of the Hackathon will be postponed accordingly. The Organizer will inform the registered participants in due course before such prolongation.
Submit ideas to a panel of Mentors being experts that have been selected by the Organizer for their business expertise and experience ("Mentors").
Ideate on, develop and enhance their ideas they would like to present and build during the 28 hours of the Hackathon.
Will not encourage the use of controlled substances, including but not limited to alcohol and drugs; the Organizer reserves the right to disqualify, at its sole discretion, any Participant which doesn't comply with the above-mentioned criteria.
Upon Participants' requests, or upon their sole discretion and at any time that they choose, Mentors will provide feedback to registered Participants' submissions.
Mentors will be available online during UTC (Central European Time Zone) business hours to answer questions and to comment on ideas that have been submitted.
Mentors will receive the questions from IATA via a dedicated Ideation platform.
The Jury for the Hackathon will be comprised of representatives of the Organizer and of Partners of the Organizer.
The Jury will evaluate the Solutions created during the Hackathon based on the demonstration and according to the judging criteria, which are listed further below. In the event of a tie, the Jury will deliberate to determine a winner.
The members of the Jury might change at the Organizer's sole discretion and upon availability.
In the event of a conflict of interest, a member of the Jury may disqualify him/herself or be disqualified by the Organizer from passing judgment on a particular team or participant. Such disqualification shall not affect the judging or review of the team or Participant's submission by other members of the Jury.
The Organizer will publish the Venue through the Hackathon website at the latest on the 15th July 2017.
Attending the Hackathon days is free of charge for the Participants confirming the attendance at least three (3) days prior to the event. The Organizer will bear costs for the venue and catering. However, traveling costs to get to the Hackathon in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley), California and accommodation shall be entirely borne by the Participants themselves.
Organizer will not to take any responsibility for any sickness, illness or injury caused to participants as a result of food and beverage consumption. Participants understand, accept, and take full responsibility for the potential risks and hazards of consuming foods and beverages during the Hackathon. In the case of dietary restrictions or allergies, it is imperative that Participants verify the ingredients.
The final Jury will select the winners of the Hackathon according to the following criteria, each of which will be scored on a 1 to 10 scale. In the event of a tie, judges will deliberate to determine the winner.
In the final demos, each participant will have 3 minutes to demonstrate their project and 2 minutes for questions and answers with the jury.
A detailed list of parameters will be provided by the beginning of the Hackathon weekend.
a) 1st position presentation at World Passenger Symposium in Barcelona, Spain with 700+ delegates from the entire business chain. This is limited to 2 members of the team.
Bonus prizes might be given out on the hackathon at the discretion of the Organizer.
Presentation at IATA Business Travel Summit 2018 (Dates and location to be confirmed)This is limited to 2 members of each team.
All entry requirements are the sole responsibility of the winners and the Organizer shall assume no responsibility as to the entry of such winners into the above-mentioned countries.
In case one of the winners is a group, the cash prize will be divided and distributed between team members. The Team will decide which 2 team members will be presenting the project.
Cash prize will be sent through bank transfers within three (3) months of the end of the Competition. Flight tickets and hotel reservations will be issued by the Organizer.
Travel will start and finish in the city and country of residence of winners. Proof of residence needs to be provided to the Organizer. Travelers are responsible for issuing and paying for their own visas in case visas are required.
Within the Competition, no assignment from the Participants on any part of their exploitation rights and the property of their projects is required. However, the Participants can propose to the Organizer or its Partners to acquire the usage rights for business purposes. The parties will have to formalize this transfer of rights within the framework of a written agreement.
For the avoidance of doubt, any data or material provided by the Organizer during the Competition shall remain the sole property of the Organizer and the Participants shall not have any rights in such data or material. The Participants are only entitled to use such data or material for the purposes of the Competition and shall not use it afterwards; this also applies in cases where the Participants have integrated the data and material in their works created during the Competition ("Work Results").
The Participants expressly authorize The Organizer, to publish, to communicate, to expose and to disclose, divulgate and represent the submitted ideas and Work Results verbally, graphically or in writing, in any medium worldwide and without restrictions in time, and by any means, either present or future, free of charge, in relation to this Competition.
The Work Results shall, in no event, infringe in any manner or induce infringement of any third party intellectual property rights. Should the right from identified third party right owner not be commercially available, the Work Result may not be qualified to win the prize. The Participant undertakes to indemnify the Organizer against all claims asserted by third-parties against the Organizer due to an actual or alleged infringement of rights resulting from the use of the Work Results, as well as against all litigation costs (including reasonable attorney fees) required to defend the Organizer against such claims, unless the Organizer itself is responsible for the infringement of rights by its gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The Organizer is fully entitled to shorten, extend, modify or cancel the Hackathon should circumstances so require without any liability.
The Organizer is fully entitled to disqualify a Participant or a team which does not abide by the Rules or acts in any other way deemed inappropriate by the Organizer; such inappropriate behavior could for example be the taking of drugs or other illegal substances during the Hackathon, harmful and discriminating statements, hacking or manipulating or attempt to hack or manipulate the IT system or the data of the Organizer or other teams.
The Organizer and the respective subsidiaries and branches of the Organizer are not responsible and assume no liability for lost, misdirected or late submissions or for (i) electronic transmission errors, (ii) theft, destruction, change of or unauthorized access to submissions, (iii) technical problems, malfunctions or errors in the operation of any hardware or software which are necessary for the transmission of submissions or the planned Competition procedure, including computer viruses and bugs, or for manipulations, unauthorized access, scams, overload of the Internet or a website or any combinations of these, nor for other causes not subject to the inspection by the Organizer and the respective subsidiaries and branches of the Organizer. In case any of the above events occurs, the Organizer retains the right to take one or several of the following measures according to its sole discretion: to disqualify each person who manipulates the submission or voting procedure as well as to adjust, change, postpone or cancel the Competition.
ATTENTION: each attempt to intentionally damage a website or to undermine the legal procedure of the Competition is a breach of provisions under criminal and civil law; in such a case the Organizer retains the right to demand compensation from the concerned persons using all legal possibilities.
Participants, who are employees of a corporation, government agency, or an academic institution, are responsible for ensuring that their participation complies with any policies their corporation, agency, or institution may have regarding participation in contests of this type. If the Organizer has reason to believe that a Participant violated any of those policies, the Organizer reserves the right to prohibit the Participant from participating in the Competition or receiving a prize at any time. The Organizer is not responsible for any disputes arising between a Participant and his/her employer.
Also, the Organizer will not be involved nor shall it be held liable in case of litigation with any companies or other entities which have developed the offered prizes.
This Competition will be governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States. Any dispute arising between the Organizer and the Participants shall be governed by the courts of the State of New York (in New York city), excluding any conflict of law provisions.
The Organizer reserves the right to verify the validity of entries and to disqualify any Participant which tampers with the entry process or which submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. The Organizer will not accept any late or misdirected entries.
The Organizer reserves to the right to cancel the awards or to award less than the total prize money. If, however there are at least three Participants, all prizes will be awarded.
The Organizer's decision in relation to any and all aspects of the Competition is final and binding on every Participant.
Disqualification of any individual whom the Organizer has reason to believe has breached any of the Terms and Conditions, or engaged in any unlawful or other improper misconduct calculated to jeopardize the fair and proper conduct of the Competition, is at Organizer's sole discretion.
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Mary Jo Foley is blogging at ZDNet!
Just catching up on feeds before calling it a day and I learn that Mary Jo Foley - day in and day out one of the Microsoft commentators and analysts I most enjoy reading - has left Microsoft Watch and joined the blogroll here at ZDNet.
Yep, this is my new gig. No more Microsoft-Watch for this Microsoft watcher. I decided it was time to move to a place that reflects my opinion that blogging is the future of journalism.
Robert McLaws has a brief "exit interview" with Mary Jo discussing her decision.


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Designed the drive-thru sign for Cafe Muse in North Liberty.
Designed the logo and marketing materials for Ruth Realty Group, a local real estate team.
Designed and created all of the material (photography + design + packaging) for the company's marketing needs, including product mailers to potential and current customers, product instructions and brochures. Developed a more cohesive branding strategy, by using the same style guide for new marketing and design documents.
Reduced number of product instructions from over 70 to 7 general instructions that fit all company products. This included designing each instruction into pamphlets in 18 languages for international customers to download in PDF on the company website for easy viewing/usage.
Designed the event invitation and posters for the party. Invitations included the event details, RSVP card, sponsor list and live auction list.
*Event was put on by Fran & Margaret McCaffery as a fundraiser for Coaches vs. Cancer but has since been changed to raise money for the AYA Cancer Program at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
Created the logo and product packaging for David's Famous Gourmet, a local custard company.
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They wanted a business card that was bright and fun, but was easy to understand what the business was about. Together we created this business card.
Various invitations I have created.


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text:
Transport peak in thermal spectral function of ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma at intermediate coupling
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2018)
J Casalderrey-Solana, S Grozdanov, AO Starinets
We study the structure of thermal spectral function of the stress-energy tensor in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at intermediate 't Hooft coupling and infinite number of colors. In gauge-string duality, this analysis reduces to the study of classical bulk supergravity with higher-derivative corrections, which correspond to (inverse) coupling corrections on the gauge theory side. We extrapolate the analysis of perturbative leading-order corrections to intermediate coupling by non-perturbatively solving the equations of motion of metric fluctuations dual to the stress-energy tensor at zero spatial momentum. We observe the emergence of a separation of scales in the analytic structure of the thermal correlator associated with two types of characteristic relaxation modes. As a consequence of this separation, the associated spectral function exhibits a narrow structure in the small frequency region which controls the dynamics of transport in the theory and may be described as a transport peak typically found in perturbative, weakly interacting thermal field theories. We compare our results with generic expectations drawn from perturbation theory, where such a structure emerges as a consequence of the existence of quasiparticles.
Details from ArXiV


text:
Naturally occurring thulium (69Tm) is composed of one stable isotope, 169Tm (100% natural abundance). Thirty-four radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being 171Tm with a half-life of 1.92 years, 170Tm with a half-life of 128.6 days, 168Tm with a half-life of 93.1 days, and 167Tm with a half-life of 9.25 days. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 64 hours, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 2 minutes. This element also has 26 meta states, with the most stable being 164mTm (t1/2 5.1 minutes), 160mTm (t1/2 74.5 seconds) and 155mTm (t1/2 45 seconds).

The isotopes of thulium range in atomic weight from 144.97007 u (145Tm) to 178.95534 u (179Tm). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 169Tm, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta emission. The primary decay products before 169Tm are erbium isotopes, and the primary products after are ytterbium isotopes. All isotopes of thulium are either radioactive or, in the case of 169Tm, observationally stable, meaning that 169Tm is predicted to be radioactive but no actual decay has been observed.

List of isotopes

|-
| 145Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 76
| 144.97007(43)#
| 3.1(3) μs
|
|
| (11/2−)
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|146Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 77
| rowspan=2|145.96643(43)#
| rowspan=2|240(30) ms
| p
| 145Er
| rowspan=2|(6−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (rare)
| 146Er
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 146mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 71(6) keV
| rowspan=2|72(23) ms
| p
| 145Er
| rowspan=2|(10+)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (rare)
| 146Er
|-
| rowspan=2|147Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 78
| rowspan=2|146.96096(32)#
| rowspan=2|0.58(3) s
| β+ (85%)
| 147Er
| rowspan=2|11/2−
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| p (15%)
| 146Er
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 147mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 60(5) keV
| 360(40) μs
|
|
| 3/2+
|
|
|-
| 148Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 79
| 147.95784(43)#
| 0.7(2) s
| β+
| 148Er
| (10+)
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 148mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" |
| 0.7 s
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|149Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 80
| rowspan=2|148.95272(32)#
| rowspan=2|0.9(2) s
| β+ (99.74%)
| 149Er
| rowspan=2|(11/2−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+, p (.26%)
| 148Ho
|-
| 150Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 81
| 149.94996(21)#
| 3# s
| β+
| 150Er
| (1+)
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 150m1Tm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 140(140)# keV
| rowspan=2|2.20(6) s
| β+ (98.8%)
| 150Er
| rowspan=2|(6−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+, p (1.2%)
| 149Ho
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 150m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 810(140)# keV
| 5.2(3) ms
|
|
| (10+)
|
|
|-
| 151Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 82
| 150.945483(22)
| 4.17(10) s
| β+
| 151Er
| (11/2−)
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 151m1Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 92(7) keV
| 6.6(14) s
| β+
| 151Er
| (1/2+)
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 151m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 2655.67(22) keV
| 451(24) ns
|
|
| (27/2−)
|
|
|-
| 152Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 83
| 151.94442(8)
| 8.0(10) s
| β+
| 152Er
| (2#)−
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 152m1Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 100(80)# keV
| 5.2(6) s
| β+
| 152Er
| (9)+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 152m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 2555.05(19)+X keV
| 294(12) ns
|
|
| (17+)
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|153Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 84
| rowspan=2|152.942012(20)
| rowspan=2|1.48(1) s
| α (91%)
| 149Ho
| rowspan=2|(11/2−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (9%)
| 153Er
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 153mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 43.2(2) keV
| rowspan=2|2.5(2) s
| α (92%)
| 149Ho
| rowspan=2|(1/2+)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (8%)
| 153Er
|-
| rowspan=2|154Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 85
| rowspan=2|153.941568(15)
| rowspan=2|8.1(3) s
| β+ (56%)
| 154Er
| rowspan=2|(2−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| α (44%)
| 150Ho
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 154mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 70(50) keV
| rowspan=2|3.30(7) s
| α (90%)
| 150Ho
| rowspan=2|(9+)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (10%)
| 154Er
|-
| rowspan=2|155Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 86
| rowspan=2|154.939199(14)
| rowspan=2|21.6(2) s
| β+ (98.1%)
| 155Er
| rowspan=2|(11/2−)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| α (1.9%)
| 151Ho
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 155mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 41(6) keV
| rowspan=2|45(3) s
| β+ (92%)
| 155Er
| rowspan=2|(1/2+)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| α (8%)
| 151Ho
|-
| rowspan=2|156Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 87
| rowspan=2|155.938980(17)
| rowspan=2|83.8(18) s
| β+ (99.93%)
| 156Er
| rowspan=2|2−
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| α (.064%)
| 152Er
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 156mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 203.6(5) keV
| ~400 ns
|
|
| (11−)
|
|
|-
| 157Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 88
| 156.93697(3)
| 3.63(9) min
| β+
| 157Er
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| 158Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 89
| 157.936980(27)
| 3.98(6) min
| β+
| 158Er
| 2−
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 158mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 50(100)# keV
| ~20 ns
|
|
| (5+)
|
|
|-
| 159Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 90
| 158.93498(3)
| 9.13(16) min
| β+
| 159Er
| 5/2+
|
|
|-
| 160Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 91
| 159.93526(4)
| 9.4(3) min
| β+
| 160Er
| 1−
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 160m1Tm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 70(20) keV
| rowspan=2|74.5(15) s
| IT (85%)
| 160Tm
| rowspan=2|5(+#)
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (15%)
| 160Er
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 160m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 98.2+X keV
| ~200 ns
|
|
| (8)
|
|
|-
| 161Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 92
| 160.93355(3)
| 30.2(8) min
| β+
| 161Er
| 7/2+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 161m1Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 7.4(2) keV
| 5# min
|
|
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 161m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 78.20(3) keV
| 110(3) ns
|
|
| 7/2−
|
|
|-
| 162Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 93
| 161.933995(28)
| 21.70(19) min
| β+
| 162Er
| 1−
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 162mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 130(40) keV
| rowspan=2|24.3(17) s
| IT (82%)
| 162Tm
| rowspan=2|5+
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (18%)
| 162Er
|-
| 163Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 94
| 162.932651(6)
| 1.810(5) h
| β+
| 163Er
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| 164Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 95
| 163.93356(3)
| 2.0(1) min
| β+
| 164Er
| 1+
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-indent:1em" | 164mTm
| rowspan=2 colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 10(6) keV
| rowspan=2|5.1(1) min
| IT (80%)
| 164Tm
| rowspan=2|6−
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β+ (20%)
| 164Er
|-
| 165Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 96
| 164.932435(4)
| 30.06(3) h
| β+
| 165Er
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| 166Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 97
| 165.933554(13)
| 7.70(3) h
| β+
| 166Er
| 2+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 166mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 122(8) keV
| 340(25) ms
| IT
| 166Tm
| 6−
|
|
|-
| 167Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 98
| 166.9328516(29)
| 9.25(2) d
| EC
| 167Er
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 167m1Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 179.480(19) keV
| 1.16(6) μs
|
|
| (7/2)+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 167m2Tm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 292.820(20) keV
| 0.9(1) μs
|
|
| 7/2−
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|168Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 99
| rowspan=2|167.934173(3)
| rowspan=2|93.1(2) d
| β+ (99.99%)
| 168Er
| rowspan=2|3+
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| β− (.01%)
| 168Yb
|-
| 169Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 100
| 168.9342133(27)
| colspan=3 align=center|Observationally Stable
| 1/2+
| 1.0000
|
|-
| rowspan=2|170Tm
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 69
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:right" | 101
| rowspan=2|169.9358014(27)
| rowspan=2|128.6(3) d
| β− (99.86%)
| 170Yb
| rowspan=2|1−
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| EC (.14%)
| 170Er
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 170mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 183.197(4) keV
| 4.12(13) μs
|
|
| (3)+
|
|
|-
| 171Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 102
| 170.9364294(28)
| 1.92(1) y
| β−
| 171Yb
| 1/2+
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 171mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 424.9560(15) keV
| 2.60(2) μs
|
|
| 7/2−
|
|
|-
| 172Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 103
| 171.938400(6)
| 63.6(2) h
| β−
| 172Yb
| 2−
|
|
|-
| 173Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 104
| 172.939604(5)
| 8.24(8) h
| β−
| 173Yb
| (1/2+)
|
|
|-
| style="text-indent:1em" | 173mTm
| colspan="3" style="text-indent:2em" | 317.73(20) keV
| 10(3) μs
|
|
| (7/2−)
|
|
|-
| 174Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 105
| 173.94217(5)
| 5.4(1) min
| β−
| 174Yb
| (4)−
|
|
|-
| 175Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 106
| 174.94384(5)
| 15.2(5) min
| β−
| 175Yb
| (1/2+)
|
|
|-
| 176Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 107
| 175.94699(11)
| 1.85(3) min
| β−
| 176Yb
| (4+)
|
|
|-
| 177Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 108
| 176.94904(32)#
| 90(6) s
| β−
| 177Yb
| (7/2−)
|
|
|-
| 178Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 109
| 177.95264(43)#
| 30# s
| β−
| 178Yb
|
|
|
|-
| 179Tm
| style="text-align:right" | 69
| style="text-align:right" | 110
| 178.95534(54)#
| 20# s
| β−
| 179Yb
| 1/2+#
|
|

References

 Isotope masses from:

 Isotopic compositions and standard atomic masses from:

 Half-life, spin, and isomer data selected from the following sources.

Thulium
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Boarding facilities for girls (on site) and boys (Hostel facilities off site).
Multimedia facilities, including projectors, for up to date teaching techniques.
Vsat broadband connection for all students.
Catering facilities with air conditioned dining hall.


Veracity at INTERSEC 2014 in Dubai.
Veracity at INTERSEC 2014 in Dubai 19 - 21st January.
Complete Pixel and Veracity showed innovative IP transmission solutions and storage products at INTERSEC 2014 in the Dubai World Trade Centre, United Arab Emirates. Thanks for coming along to see us.
The largest and most comprehensive exhibition and conference for security, safety and fire protection in the Middle East.


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Jeff Wall Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery 21st Street
[Image: Jeff Wall "Parent child" (2018) inkjet print, 86 5/8 × 108 1/4 in. © Jeff Wall]
Ends in 10 days
Gagosian presents Jeff Wall's first exhibition with the gallery. The majority of the works included are on view for the first time.
From his pioneering use in the 1970s of backlit color transparencies—a medium then synonymous with advertising—to his intricately constructed scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and illusion.
The triptych I giardini/The Gardens (2017) was photographed in the gardens of the Villa Silvio Pellico in Moncalieri, outside of Turin, Italy. Though Wall has made several works that combine two or more images, this is the first in which the order, read from left to right, represents a passage of time. It therefore has a narrative aspect absent from any previous picture group. The three images—individually titled Appunto/Complaint, Disappunto/Denial, and Diffida/Expulsion order—trace the relations between either two or four characters through three depicted moments. A doubling effect occurs again in Pair of interiors (2018), a diptych showing either one or two couples in a lamplit living room, and in Summer Afternoons (2013), which shows what appears to be another equally introverted, younger couple in a sunny apartment. Each person appears in his or her own picture, creating uncertainty about whether the diptych depicts one or more "summer afternoons."
Landscapes are the subject of three more works. Hillside, Sicily, November 2007 (2007), one of two black-and-white images in the exhibition, shows the dry, rocky landscape of the eastern part of the Italian island; and an olive orchard has risen out of the dry desert in Daybreak (on an olive farm/Negev Desert/Israel) (2011), where we see Bedouin harvest workers about to awake and begin their workday. The only human structure on the Sicilian hillside is the remnant of a small stone shelter; on the horizon behind the olive orchard stands one of the largest prisons in Israel. With its flat, vibrant colors resembling a painting more than a photograph, Recovery (2017–18) is set in a seaside park on another summer afternoon. One figure separates himself from the fantasy: a young man sitting on the grass, looking out of the composition, up and away. Is the image a blissful momentary vision occasioned by his recovery from some temporary misfortune? Recovery recalls Wall's previous experiments with hallucinatory moments in works such as Dead Troops Talk (1992) or The Flooded Grave (2000).
Parent child (2018) also shows a blissful moment on a summer day—at least for the dreamy little girl who has decided to recline on the sidewalk; less so for the adult responsible for her. Another child appears in Mother of pearl (2016), this time in a room filled with antique furniture and keepsakes. Fascinated by a set of iridescent old game counters—made of mother of pearl—she is transported by her imagination as perhaps only children can be.
Weightlifter (2015), Wall's most recent black-and-white picture, is an example of what the artist calls his "near documentary" direction. The lifting of heavy objects recalls the most archaic forms of labor and the permanent subjection of life to the force of gravity. The sport of weightlifting enacts that archaism, detached from any practical purpose and absorbed in private ambition.
Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives and works. Collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Broad, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. Exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007, traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); In light, black, colour, white, and dark, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2012); Jeff Wall Photographs, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2012, traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, through 2013); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2013); Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996–2013, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014, traveled to Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, through 2015); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2014); Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris (2015); Appearance, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2018); and Mudam Luxembourg (2018).
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"Summer Fling" Exhibition
Dana Powell "Burner"
"Living In A Lightbulb" Exhibition
Amy Bennett Exhibition
"Drawing the Line" Exhibition
"Summer Gems" Exhibition


Russian Helicopters to showcase new military helicopters at Dubai Airshow 2013.
Russian Helicopters will demonstrate commercial models currently in production, including the Ka-32A11BC, as well as the new Mi-171A2, the latest Ka-62 and the modernized Mi-26T2. The company and Rosoboronexport will jointly present the military Ka-52 Alligator, the Mi-28NE Night Hunter, the multirole Mi-35M and the Mi-17V-5 and Mi-171Sh military transports.
At Dubai Airshow 2013, Russian Helicopters will hold a briefing, "Mi-171A2 – Solution Tailored to Your Needs", on 18 November at 11am-1pm in conference hall 3. The company will demonstrate the Mi-171A2 to helicopter operators from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and will highlight the helicopter's unique capabilities and hold a question and answers session. The Mi-171A2 is the newest addition to the renowned Mi-8/17 series, incorporating the latest materials and technologies, and is a perfect fit for the needs of helicopter operators from these regions.
In the commercial segment the company will present the multirole coaxial Ka-32A11BC, which regional operators already know from Dubai Helishow 2012. The Ka-32A11BC is unique as a fire-fighting helicopter, according to experts, and the helicopter can put out a fire even at the top of the Burj al-Khalifa in Dubai, one of the tallest buildings in the world at 828 metres and 163 storeys. The Ka-32A11BC in fire-fighting configuration is highly effective in combatting fires of all types, and can also be used for search-and-rescue and medevac missions.
Also expected to attract high levels of interest is the new Ka-62, designed to carry passengers and fly a wide range of missions including rescue operations. The helicopter can also be used in the oil and gas sector, and is well-suited to corporate purposes thanks to its spacious and comfortable salon, which can hold up to 15 people. Flight testing of the Ka-62 is planned for the end of 2013, and Russian Helicopters expects to obtain certification for international use in 2015-16.
The Mi-26T2 is an updated version of the Mi-26T, the world's heaviest-lift helicopter. The Mi-26T2 has a modernized engine and new avionics suite that cuts crewing requirements to two people, helping operating companies to reduce flying and staff-training costs.
Russian-made military helicopters are already in operation with armed forces across the Middle East. The most widely deployed are models from the Mi-8/17 series, which includes the modern Mi-171Sh and Mi-17V-5. These helicopters can fly a wide range of missions and can operate in different climates and temperatures from minus 50°C to plus 50°C.
The Russian stand will also display the modernized Mi-35M, based on the world-famous Mi-24 and equipped with the latest systems; the Ka-52 Alligator, with coaxial rotors that give it unique maneuverability and acceleration; and the Mi-28NE Night Hunter strike helicopter, which can fly search-and-destroy missions against a range of targets including armoured vehicles, artillery positions and anti-aircraft emplacements, as well as enemy helicopters.
Dubai Airshow takes place every two years and is a key event in the Middle East region. The first Dubai Airshow took place in 1989. Participants include global aerospace and defence companies and producers of systems and components interested in expanding their presence in the Middle East.


Last week we made the trek from Gimje to Gurye to spent a couple days on Mr. Hong's tea field! It was one of the most memorable parts of the trip for me because everything I've learned about tea and it's initial production process just came full circle for me. As a freshman joining the Institute last year, I thought that just by memorizing all of my notes I could do well on the test and drink my daily dose of tea. However, I never thought that the next year I would be using all of that knowledge in South Korea picking tea on a tea farm! Like when learning anything for the first time, the moment you get to use that knowledge in a real-world situation is always the moment when you truly grasp it. This was picking and processing green tea for me with Mr. Hong! We got to wear these phenomenal outfits while picking, giant hats, sunglasses, clothes that cover you fully, bags for the picked leaves and hiking boots!! It was awesome to pick tea leaves with the Halmays, the tea grandmothers, and just realize where the tea we drink everyday comes from. Those pu'er cakes or tightly rolled oolongs start out as small leaf and a bud pairings all over the tea bush. Then you see just how many bushes there are and how much work goes into the first process of tea production, picking the leaves. It was funny, I think the five of us picked half as much tea as one Halmay did, I don't know how they do it! They're just amazing, especially because they spend about 8 hours picking depending on the day!
Next, comes tea production and the first tea we made was Nokcha, green tea! After putting on headscarves, 5 layers of gloves, and an apron we started. First it goes through a shaqing, just getting the moisture out of the tea leaves on a giant wok. Four of us had to constantly move and shake the leaves in the wok so the were evenly heated. After the each shaqing you must cool and separate the tea leaves….and repeat! Nine times probably took about 2 hours two finish. It was a lot of work but it was so awesome to experience, definitely worth every drop of sweat! I loved every minute of it! I have learned from this trip just how many things we take for granted. All the hard work and time it takes to make tea, tea ware, and other parts of the different ceremonies should always be remembered. With each brew, I know I'll forever remember the people who helped me enjoy a cup of my favorite beverage and appreciate all that they do!
Another cool thing is that we to keep the tea we made and bring it back to the Institute for everyone to try! So make sure you stop by the Penn State Tea House, when we get back during the Fall, to try the tea we put so much work and time into during our stay in Gurye! It's great, I promise!
Till next time and hope to share a cup of Nokcha with you next semester!
Long after this trip has ended there will be several experiences that will still remain vividly in my memory. One of these experiences happened last week near the small town of Gurye. Nothing that I have done on this trip has enhanced my knowledge of tea culture more than working with Mr. Hong in his tea fields. Not only were we able to see the entire production process from start to finish, we were able to interact with the wonderful people that oversee and help with the production of this beverage we have all come to love so much.
The first morning, we were greatest with an amazing breakfast of toast, homemade strawberry jam, and yogurt. It may not be the most traditional Korean breakfast, but it certainly filled us up for the day that lay ahead. Picking tea was unlike anything I have ever done before. Done up in our fabulous outfits, consisting of wide brimmed hats, plastic shoes, and an apron complete with tea pouch, we were ready to begin the days work.
The diligence and endurance needed for hours of work, hunched over in the scorching sun, is nothing to laugh at. The woman who do that same work day after day, from march till may, have my utmost respect. They also are far better at it than any of us. When we were done picking, the five us emptied our take into a basket. Our combined tea equaled the amount collected by just one of the grandmothers.
After dinner. There was another new experience awaiting us. The days tea was ready for processing. All of us donned arm guards and four separate layers of gloves in order to withstand the head of the shaqing apparatus. We all leaned over the burning bowl and took turns stirring the tea with our hands. After each round we had to remove the tea and place it on the table to cool. For the first few rounds, we also rolled the tea. Rolling the tea involved collecting a pile of the tea leaves and rolling them roughly into a ball. Ever couple of minutes, we would pass our tea to the person next to us and begin again.
Every round the temperature of the wok got cooler and the leaves became more brittle. After a few rounds we no longer rolled the tea and simple cooled it on the table. By the end of the night, my back was aching and my arms were burning, but I felt the greatest sense of accomplishment because, laid out before me, was a whole table filled with green tea.
The next day, was more of the same. We spent hours upon hours in the hot sun collecting tea. Normally, this would dampen most people's spirits, but we pushed through for the love of tea. Playing games while we worked helped as well. You never know how seldom some letters are used until you have to come up with a food or an animal that begins with every letter of the alphabet.
On the third day, we got to learn the production for padiyocha. It was similar to the green tea we produced a few days before, but there was a lot more rolling involved. Mr Hong then put all the tea into an ongi pot to sit overnight. It is pretty cool how two traditional Korean practices work together to produce one amazing product.
The time I spent with Mr Hong definitely gave me a greater appreciation for the tea I drink everyday. The production process is no longer a bulleted list on paper; it is a set of concrete steps that I have performed myself and understand. The people who produce the tea are no longer strangers; they are the friendly women who frantically waved at us to take water breaks and told us the best spots to pick tea. Above all, I now know how much work goes into the production of the wonderful beverage that I consume so much of .
We arrived in Gurye just in time for dinner, we were met by the familiar face off Mr. Hong Kyong-Hee. Mr. Hong was one of the guests that flew in to Penn state to present on Korean tea ceremony and tea production methods. After a wonderful dinner we took a ride over to Mr. Hongs house where we drank his first picking nokcha. Before this tea I had never had a tea so fresh and recently produced. It would be an injustice to it's magnificent flavor, active mouth feel and sublime qi to say this was anything but the best nokcha I've ever had. We all awaited the next day anxiously as it would be our first day picking tea.
We awoke at 6 to pick tea but it had unfortunately rained over night so we decided to spend our morning trekking through some if the Jiri Mountain range. We hiked to the peak of the 800 meter high mount nogodan. We walked through clouds, quite literally, making our way past beautiful streams and breathtaking rock formations. As we reached the top the clouds started to clear and we were rewarded with a beautiful view of the mountain range from the peak of one of it's highest mountains.
Around 1 in the afternoon Mr. Hong deemed the conditions fair enough to pick tea so we dawned our picking attire and got to work. We first picked tea in Mr. Hong's fields surrounding his house. There were about 50 or so semi wild tea bushes. We were picking alongside 5 'helme' (the term Mr. Hong used for grandmothers from the village) and after about 4 hours we picked most of buds from the field. Picking was tough work: being out in the sun, trudging through all forms of plant life to get to certain bushes, as well as fighting of some of the strangest bugs i've ever seen were only some parts of our picking experience. Picking tea although hard can also be relaxing, after picking for a while you fall into a sort of picking zen. A deep meditative calmness befalls you as you work your way from bush to bush scouring for leaf and bud combos. Slowly your eyes picked out buds quicker than they did before and by the end of the harvest you realize how much your picking skills have increased. However, we were always humbled when it came time to dump our pouches of tea revealing a measly kilo or so between the five of us. The helme would laugh and then dump about a kilogram of leaves each, a testament to there many years of work.
After letting the leaves sit out to wither in the shade of Mr. Hong's workshop for a few hours we started the processing cycle. We started with the Sha Qing in an approximately 275 degrees wok. We moved the leaves around very quickly in a circular pushing motion never allowing any leaf to sit around for more then a second or two. After a minute or two we removed the leaves and put them on a table with a fan blowing on them and we started to separate the piles of leaves to make sure they cooled quickly and evenly. We then grabbed decent size piles of leaves and balled them up. From here we rolled the leaves, it wasn't a gentle job either. We rolled hard for couple of minutes in a long line. We then separated the piles again and repeated the wok drying,cooling and separating stages eight more times until we were left with a pile of leaves about a fourth of the weight of our original materials. The following wok processing stages were much cooler then the first, around 140 degrees. The processing was also very work intensive but going through the picking and processing stages really helped me get a more solidified idea of all the steps that go into making tea, the order in which it's carried out, and many of the minor details that go into making a tea that you never come across in readings.
The next day we picked tea from 7-12, had a nice lunch break, and then picked again from 1-4. This tea was destined to become padio cha. The tea was left out to wither til 8 the next morning. When we came into the workshop the next morning we pulled up our sleeves and got to rolling. We rolled the tea for about an hour and a half, which was a killer forearm workout, we all rolled a football sized wad of tea leaves at a time for about five minutes at a time and then passed it on to the next person. After rolling the tea was separated and packed into an ongi were it was left in an ondol heated room, covered with a blanket, and left for a day. The next day the tea was spread out on a mat in the ondol heated room and was then left out for another 2-3 days. Tea is most certainly the worlds most labor intensive luxury good.
Our time with Mr. Hong eventually came to end, a few days is all too short to spend with him. Brewing the tea we made is sure to bring back fond memories of picking, processing, and drinking tea with Mr. Hong. We all eagerly await the next chance we get to see Mr. Hong, and perhaps the next time we get to make tea with him.
I guess you could say I'm a bit of a country bumpkin. The city is always fun and exciting, but for me, there is just something about the rural areas that make me feel alive, fully embracing the carpe diam inside me. So what happens when you mix my love of non-urban areas with my love of tea? You get another amazing part of this trip! We spent about 4 days with Mr. Hong, a master of tea production in South Korea. on our first day with Mr. Hong it was raining, so we were unable to pick tea until later in the day. We decided to have a low key and relaxing morning and climb a mountain. I wish I could describe the view, but no words in the English language would do it justice, and my Korean is a tad sub par. After our climb, the sun came out so we were off to the tea fields! We picked tea for a few hours, but only picked about 1% of what the helmay were able to pick. It was really cool to be able to interact with tea in its rawest form. And of course seeing and experiencing all of the work that goes into just the procurement of the tea laves made each cup we drank at Mr Hong's all the more delicious.
After dinner we went back to Mr Hong's house and were able to actually assist in the production of tea. After putting on enough protective gear to make us suited for surgery, we started turning the raw leaves into this beloved beverage we love to learn about. It was awesome. We alternated between rolling the tea and tossing it in the shaqing. It was hard work, but so cool to be part of the process. We did this for about. 2 hours, and then were off to bed to prepare for our next day.
Our next day was our first true tea picking day. We woke up at 6 and were picking tea by 7. I have to admit, spending 5 hours shoulder-deep in a tea field was definitely a high of my trip. I just gained such a higher appreciation for every tea leaf. After a quick lunch we were back in the fields for a few more hours of picking. Although I have to be honest I was exhausted after so much tea picking, but picking tea all day is probably the most enjoyable way to wear yourself out.
As I'm sure many of you know; I study ChaXi with Teaparker (Chih Jung Sien) and Stephane Erler of Tea Masters Blog; and like them, I like to make ChaXi in far away, hard to reach, exotic locals. Sometimes The Penn State Tea House just doesn't cut it, and I have a lot to do catching up with the greats!
I got (very) lucky with this ChaXi at Yakcheonsa; its meets all the criteria above, and is strikingly beautiful with a Silla Dynasty carving of Buddha in the wall the monastery is built into.
My students and I, with the guidance of Mr. Hong (Tea Master Hyo-Am), trekked up above the temple and laid out my travel ChaXi. It's simple, 4 cups, a small Gaiwan and a waste water bowl; all Yinge wares save the bowl (It's Korean, a gift from Sang Hun Lee). The view was beautiful, and, after the water finished boiling in my Jet Boil (a climbing/camping canister stove), all was silent save for the light conversation, the chirp of birds, and the stirring of leaves with the wind .
Every once in a while a sound from the monastery would loft on the breeze and we would all be reminded of where in the world we were, or perhaps be called to a satori.
We drank Stephane's Fall 2011 GaoShan Luanze A Li Shan. The tea was full, yet airy like our rocky perch, and intensely floral. Siting up high looking down at the vally's around us, only a tea such as this would do.
This was a good session. More soon.


A losing four-year fight to keep a Florida man from parking a truck in his driveway is costing a homeowners' association $187,000.
A Hillsborough County judge last week ruled the Eagles Masters Association must pay resident A.J. Vizzi's legal fees after deciding their protracted battle in his favor.
The disagreement began in 2001, when Vizzi started racking up hundreds in fines for parking his Ford F-350 in his driveway because it wouldn't fit in the garage. His Tampa-area country club community, with two full golf courses, prohibits the practice, but Vizzi argued it was allowed in his subdivision.
The association sued in 2006, losing first in circuit court and then after pressing an appeal.
The homeowners' association attorney wouldn't say how much its own legal bills cost.


Cola India's Q2 earnings were in-line with estimates. E-auction premiums stood at just 36 per cent, implying weak user industry demand from the non-power sector. Further downside to its business are limited given its already low price and potential dividend yield of 5 per cent is attractive.


Signature is in conversation with Marriott International Inc. following their October 30th announcement that as of January 15, 2015, Marriott will offer free Wi-Fi to its 47 million Marriott Rewards members, but only if they book directly with Marriott. This new rewards benefit applies to all Marriott brands.
Alex Sharpe, president and CEO of Signature, comments, "Travelers have come to expect Wi-Fi to be available when traveling. We applaud Marriott's decision to reward repeat guests with complimentary access, but we are sincerely concerned regarding their decision to circumvent the professional travel consultants. As an industry that is built on repeat and referral business, we hope Marriott recognizes that many of their most frequent and valuable guests are customers of travel consultants. More specifically, they are the clients of travel consultants who have originally brought them to the Marriott brand."
Marriott is a long-term and valued partner to Signature and the travel agency community at large. We are hopeful that they will indeed change course and include the agency distribution channel in their plans to retain customers.


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Q: How to load NasNet in Tensorflow Slim After downloading the appropriate model data from the list here, I can load, e.g., ResNet-50 like this:
graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():
    img_p = tf.placeholder(tf.uint8, (None, *img_shape))
    processed_img = tf.cast(img_p, tf.float32) - rgb_means

    with slim.arg_scope(resnet_v2.resnet_arg_scope()):
        logits, endpoints = resnet_v2.resnet_v2_50(processed_img, num_classes=1001, is_training=False)

    init_fn = slim.assign_from_checkpoint_fn('pretrained/resnet_v2_50.ckpt',
                                             slim.get_model_variables('resnet_v2_50'))

sess = tf.Session(config=config, graph=graph)
init_fn(sess)

What is the analogue of this for NasNet? There isn't actually a .ckpt file, and I'm not sure what variables to load. I can successfully create the model, but I'm unable to restore the pretrained weights. I've tried passing in the .cpkt.index file instead and not specifying a scope for slim.get_model_variables:
graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():
    img_p = tf.placeholder(tf.uint8, (None, *img_shape))

    processed_img = tf.image.convert_image_dtype(img_p, tf.float32)
    processed_img = 2 * (processed_img - 0.5)

    with slim.arg_scope(nasnet.nasnet_mobile_arg_scope()):
        logits, endpoints = nasnet.build_nasnet_mobile(processed_img, num_classes=1, is_training=False)

    init_fn = slim.assign_from_checkpoint_fn('pretrained/nasnet_small/model.ckpt.index',
                                            slim.get_model_variables())

sess = tf.Session(config=config, graph=graph)
init_fn(sess)

but that gives the following error:
NotFoundError: Tensor name "cell_4/comb_iter_0/right/bn_sep_3x3_1/gamma" not found in checkpoint files pretrained/nasnet_small/model.ckpt.index
[[Node: save/RestoreV2_439 = RestoreV2[dtypes=[DT_FLOAT], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](_arg_save/Const_0_0, save/RestoreV2_439/tensor_names, save/RestoreV2_439/shape_and_slices)]]
[[Node: save/RestoreV2_317/_1597 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_3852_save/RestoreV2_317", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0"]()]]

Does anybody know how to load the NasNet models? (I'm not interested in being able to use them from the command line interface)

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Friday Links
By Mark Whitt
Here are some articles/blogs from this past week that you may have missed, but may be of some help to you as you work with young adults in your church and community.
"The Key to Thriving in the Digital Age" by Tim Elmore
Many of us who work with young adults are immigrants to the digital age, while young adults are the natives. Tim presents the necessity of leaders helping young adults to navigate the great possibilities of the digital age while maintaining integrity and values at the same time.
"4 Things Churches Need to Stop Saying to Single People" by Ema Angelo
With young adults getting married much later in life or not getting married at all, there are always conversations around the topic of marriage that are not helpful. Angelo addresses four things that are often said to single adults in our churches.
"International Student Ministry in 4 Words" by Tom Knight
Every year thousands of international students come to the U.S. to study at our colleges and universities. Knight reminds us that we can minister to international students who are here working on their degrees.
Mark Whitt is the Collegiate and Young Adult Specialist at LifeWay Christian Resources. Before joining LifeWay, he spent many years on the campus of Murray State University as a campus minister. Connect with Mark via Twitter.


Næringsministerens tale under sjømatmiddagen "Tasting the ocean", ved Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal, 18. oktober.
It is my honour to welcome you to this Norwegian seafood dinner "Tasting the ocean".
First, I would like to thank The Norwegian Seafood Council and Innovation Norway for giving us the opportunity to meet again. This time over exquisite Norwegian seafood. Made by some of our very best Chefs, exclusively flown in from Norway. So, we are in the best hands tonight.
I would also like to express my gratitude for the wonderful days we have spent here in China. With Ocean Day today as the grand finale.
Believe me, we have enjoyed every moment.
All of us present here tonight have been fortunate enough to participate in a special day today. A day dedicated to discussing the Ocean in its various forms. Productive dialogue around new business ventures, and ways in which we can further develop relations between Norway and China, represent new optimism and new opportunities.
And most important of all: These days have given us renewed hope for the future of our most precious treasure of all: The oceans.
But first, let me remind us all that one of the greatest challenges the world faces today is to secure enough healthy food. Again, we have to look to the oceans. Marine resources play a crucial role in providing food for a growing world population.
That is why we must take good care of the oceans and make sure to use these marine resources sustainably.
Norway and China have a particular obligation, in this regard.
As two of the world's leading seafood nations, we have to work even closer and harder to make this a global responsibility and to provide the world with even more sustainable seafood.
I believe today's discussions around this topic were very fruitful.
And I am sure that most of you here tonight will use the opportunity to strengthen existing ties and establish new friendships.
Now it is time to taste and enjoy some of the treasures of the ocean.
Allow me to propose a toast to the Chinese-Norwegian partnership.
Let me now introduce the chair of the Norwegian Seafood Council, Marianne Johnsen, and the Norwegian Chef, Gunnar Hvarnes, who will present tonight's menu.


Fast-forward two months… This week, we announced exciting progress in our efforts to accelerate genomic medicine. The DNAnexus cloud-based genome informatics and data management platform is powering a number of collaborations between Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) and its leading healthcare provider partners.
In a RGC press release, they announced these new collaborators, which include the Geisinger Health System, Columbia University Medical Center, Clinic for Special Children, and Baylor College of Medicine. The RGC will be using the DNAnexus platform to integrate sequencing data with de-identified clinical records from patient volunteers. To date, the RGC has sequenced samples from more than 10,000 individuals and is currently sequencing more than 50,000 samples per year.
The Geisinger collaboration, which has been described as the largest clinical sequencing project in the U.S., is on track to sequence more than 100,000 patient volunteer samples. This DNAnexus-powered initiative has resulted in the first 100% cloud-based biopharma genome center, and is now operating at scale.
Next-generation sequencing technologies, like Illumina's HiSeq 2500 or X Ten platform, have reduced the cost and increased the speed of DNA sequencing outpacing Moore's Law to the point where the new bottleneck is genome informatics. To address this issue, companies like Regeneron are adopting cloud-based solutions to handle the massive volume of sequencing data.
DNAnexus provides the technology backbone that enables the sharing and management of data and tools around large volumes of sequencing data between the RGC and its healthcare collaborators. Currently the RGC is processing more than 1,000 exomes per week and sharing the data easily and safely with their collaborators.
In order to improve patient care and ultimately human health, the integration of genomic and phenotypic data needs to happen on a massive scale (something David has recently discussed from the perspective of phenotype here and here). Combining large cohorts of deeply-phenotyped individuals with their genomic data offers a wide range of medical applications, the most obvious being a more personalized approach to medical interventions such as which therapy might work best for a given individual. These data can also be used to aid in the development of new companion diagnostics and clinical trial participant selection. As an article in GigaOM put it this week: Cloud Computing is Coming for Your DNA, and it Will Lead to Better Drugs and Health Care.
These collaborations are powerful examples of how the DNAnexus platform is enabling an integrated approach between biopharmaceutical companies and their partners to accelerate the research and discovery process. As David said, healthcare industry leaders who prioritize the management of large healthcare data flows will emerge as the pioneers who help us realize the full vision of precision medicine –delivery of the optimal therapy to the right patients at the right time – ideally before they are sick.


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Quote at least one line that directly associates Chillingworth with the devil. Cite the page number. This is in Chapter 14.
In Chapter XIV, a chapter in which Chillingworth and his wife, Hester Prynne, discuss the Reverend Dimmesdale, Hester's punishment, and Chillingworth's machinations, the narrator says, "In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office." Hester is somewhat shocked by the sight of her husband because he looks so different from the way he used to. His nature seems to have been completely corrupted by his attempts to torture Arthur Dimmesdale, the man with whom Hester sinned. He has become a devil after acting like one for so long.
About Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth's torture of him, Hester says,
"'Better he had died at once!' [...] 'Yea, woman, thou sayest truly!' cried old Roger Chillingworth, letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes." This "lurid fire" seems to refer to the fires of hell which have been kindled in his heart since he began to exact his evil vengeance on Dimmesdale.
Finally, Chillingworth says, "'I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted in thy nature.' 'And I thee,' answered Hester Prynne, 'for the hatred that has transformed a wise and just man to a fiend!'" The devil is often referred to as the "Arch Fiend," and so this quotation may be interpreted as Hester again comparing Chillingworth to the devil.
Reuben Lindsey
Pearl, insightful young girl that she is, warns her mother away from Chillingworth in Paragraph 23 of Chapter 10. She tells her mother Chillingworth is "the black man" which is another word for devil:
Hester Prynne, likewise, had involuntarily looked up, and all these four persons, old and young, regarded one another in silence, till the child laughed aloud, and shouted--"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old black man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!"
dymatsuoka
Top subjects are Literature, History, and Math
In the sixth and seventh paragraphs of Chapter 14 - (page numbers vary greatly from edition to edition of the book) - Chillingsworth is described thus:
"...there came a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the old man's soul were on fire, and kept on smoldering duskily within his breast, until, by some casual puff of passion, it was blown into a momentary flame...Chillingsworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office".
Chillingsworth's evil obsession with revenge for the past seven years has changed him from the "intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet" whom Hester remembers, into something akin to a fiend. Chillingsworth also is aware of his own transformation, and considers it beyond his power to stop it.
What does the rose bush near the prison door symbolize in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
How does Dimmesdale punish himself in chapter 11 of The Scarlet Letter?
What does Chillingworth discover when Reverend Dimmesdale is sleeping in Chapter 10 of The Scarlet Letter and how does he react to this...
What did Chillingworth do to Dimmesdale?
In Chapter 4, what does Chillingworth ask Hester to promise? Why does she agree?
What does this quote from The Scarlet Letter mean? "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the...
What are some direct quotes, about Roger Chillingworth, in The Scarlet Letter, that show Roger changing physically, emotionally, and...
Latest answer posted October 07, 2010 at 2:48:36 AM
In what sense has Chillingworth devoted himself to "a devil's office" in The Scarlet Letter?This is hopefully in chapter 14.
Latest answer posted July 21, 2010 at 2:33:21 AM
In Chapter 14 of The Scarlet Lettter, how does Chillingworth seem to Hester at this point?
What is the relevance of names such as Dimmesdale and Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter?Can someone show me some examples of this in the book with page numbers?