Iwatch a lot of YouTube videos. Currently, I am watching many female players playing Chess. There are many YouTubers such as Anna Rudolf or Dina Belenkaya, I also enjoy watching Anna Cramling, daughter of Pia Cramling, and the Botez sisters. They are very strong, far stronger than what I could ever be. Actually, I am not even playing a lot. I know the rules, but I can barely beat the level 3 computer on the Lichess website.
Why am I telling you all that nonsense? What if I tell you that Anna Rudolf is an International Master at Chess, Dina Belenkaya is a Woman Grand Master as Anna Gramling and Alexandra Botez? They are all titled. Their skills are insane. I am a bit jealous of who they are, because, they have a title, and these titles are kind of accountable of their level, they are very strong female Chess players. Would you like to play like them, or would you like to play like any unknown and untitled Chess player? Now you know their titles, now you know how strong they are, you may want to become as strong as them, you may want to become them. They truly are role models for anyone who wants to play Chess, and all the more for any young little girls. Of course there are a lot of famous male Chess players, but, they are known! Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov and so on. Everyone knows them, there are many male role models already.
Whilst I am pursuing my career, I am getting titles: Senior developer , Principale dev , Staff engineer . I try not to mention them too often because it could seem pretentious, which was not the case when I was a junior developer . In general and in the tech industry in particular, it is far better not to become full of our own importance. This could trick you. It is a job where any very experienced developer still have so much to learn. As Socrates said: All I know is that I know nothing .
As a matter of fact, the tech industry suffers from a lack of female role models. On the one hand, claiming our title is arrogant, but on the other hand, the tech industry needs female role models. As female developers, we should claim our title because we need female role models. Even if, at first glance, it seems arrogant to do so, the tech industry and all the women and little girls need this.
When the world's most famous black diamond is stolen during a magazine cover shoot, it's up to undercover model Axelle Anderson to crack the case. The only witness is a trendsetting teen fashion blogger who refuses to say anything, and Axelle has a hunch that what appears to be a clear-cut case of jewelry theft is anything but.
Axelle and her sleuthing friends are drawn into a web of blackmail and backstabbing fashionistas. As she struts her way down the New York City runways and juggles her busy modeling schedule and new romance, Axelle must pit herself against a rival who'll stop at nothing to bring her down.
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Background: Retroperitoneal sarcomas are tumours with a poor prognosis. Upfront characterisation of the tumour is difficult, and under-grading is common. Radiomics has the potential to non-invasively characterise the so-called radiological phenotype of tumours. We aimed to develop and independently validate a CT-based radiomics classification model for the prediction of histological type and grade in retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma and liposarcoma.
Methods: A retrospective discovery cohort was collated at our centre (Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK) and an independent validation cohort comprising patients recruited in the phase 3 STRASS study of neoadjuvant radiotherapy in retroperitoneal sarcoma. Patients aged older than 18 years with confirmed primary leiomyosarcoma or liposarcoma proceeding to surgical resection with available contrast-enhanced CT scans were included. Using the discovery dataset, a CT-based radiomics workflow was developed, including manual delineation, sub-segmentation, feature extraction, and predictive model building. Separate probabilistic classifiers for the prediction of histological type and low versus intermediate or high grade tumour types were built and tested. Independent validation was then performed. The primary objective of the study was to develop radiomic classification models for the prediction of retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma and liposarcoma type and histological grade.
Interpretation: Our validated radiomics model can predict the histological type and grade of retroperitoneal sarcomas with excellent performance. This could have important implications for improving diagnosis and risk stratification in retroperitoneal sarcomas.
Funding: Wellcome Trust, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer-Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group, the National Institutes for Health, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research.
The last thing hot new model Axelle expects to find at a photo shoot is a top stylist dead on set. But as a high-heeled, runway-ready secret sleuth, she's just the girl to solve the mystery of who poisoned Elisabeta. With gorgeous Sebastian by her side, Axelle plunges into a world of dirty rumours, sparkling jewels and high-speed chases to track a ruthless killer. Could this be Axelle's most dangerous investigation yet?
The photos will appear in major European fashion magazines in September. It is the first professional modelling assignment for Axelle, who this summer was bombarded with attention from the international press following the Belgium-Russia match. Hundreds of people from around the world shared photos of her on social media.
The media attention almost led to a contract with French cosmetics giant L'Oral, but the company backed out after Axelle posted an old photo of herself posing with a rifle over the dead body of an antelope.
Beauty brand L'Oreal has cut ties with Axelle Despiegelaere, saying they only ever intended for a one-off photo shoot with the 17-year-old, who was spotted by the company when pictures of her cheering on Belgium at the World Cup hit the internet.
Despiegelaere quickly took to Facebook to apologize and say she had not intended to offend anyone, but many took to L'Oreal's page to tell the company they were unhappy with the girl being used in a campaign.
Whether L'Oreal had ever intended to use her for anything more than a quick World Cup campaign is unknown, but for now it looks like her modeling career, much like the Belgium's World Cup run, has ended.
As crucial as models are to the staging of fashion shows, their role is often overshadowed by the wider sartorial spectacle. That changed this week in New York during the double presentations of 'Models Never Talk', a conceptual performance piece produced by the French writer, fashion curator and historian, Olivier Saillard.
The performance saw Saillard assemble a troupe of seven former supermodels, each an icon in her own right, to break from their occupational silence. As each took to the 'stage' - a blank white cove in a studio at Milk Studios - dressed simply in black and white, they recounted the clothes they wore for legendary designers such as Thierry Mugler, Rei Kawakubo, Madame Grs and Yves Saint Laurent, and how cuts and fabrics affected their gait and stance. Using just poses, short descriptions and gestures, the models transported their audience to another time.
Violeta Sanchez, a muse to Saint Laurent, shared how her sexing up of look 180 of A/W 1984 - a long dress in silk and scarlet velvet - affected YSL. 'He looks at me approaching, astonishment in his eyes. "My little Catherine! What is that? I have asked you for Lady Macbeth, not Mae West!"'
Meanwhile, Axelle Dou recalled modelling in a gown for Madame Grs in 1980. 'I was lucky to model for Madame Grs when I arrived in Paris, at the beginning of my career. The dress she made for me incorporated the drapery which made her famous and influenced my way of walking.'
Saillard, who is the director of Paris' Palais Galliera museum and has also curated exhibitions on Azzedine Alaa and Christian Lacroix, was intent on showing that, despite being required to be blank canvases, models also wield powerful relationships with designers that have shaped the course of fashion history. The loose flow of words may have been the only cues for the audience to visualise from, but they perfectly captured and conveyed each woman's memories.
As each took to the 'stage' - a paper backdrop much like a photo shoot - dressed simply in black and white, they recounted the clothes they wore for legendary designers such as Thierry Mugler, Rei Kawakubo, Madame Grs and Yves Saint Laurent...
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