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19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB ENGINEERING
June 11 - 14, 2019 / Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), Daejeon, Korea
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Tutorial 1. Tuesday, June 11th 09:00-10:30 (#102, 1F)
Powerful Data Analysis and Composition with the UNIX Shell
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by Andreas Schmidt and Steffen Scholz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Short Bios :
Prof. Dr. Schmidt(1),(2) a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He is lecturing in the fields of database information systems, data analytics and model-driven software development. Additionally, he is a senior research fellow in computer science at the Institute for Applied Computer Science of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research focuses on database technology, knowledge extraction from unstructured data/text, Big Data, and generative programming. Andreas Schmidt was awarded his diploma in computer science by the University of Karlsruhe in 1995 and his PhD in mechanical engineering in 2000. Dr. Schmidt has numerous publications in the field of database technology and information extraction. He regularly gives tutorials on international conferences in the field of Big Data related topics and model driven software development. Prof. Schmidt followed sabbatical invitations from renowned institutions like the Systems-Group at ETH-Zurich in Switzerland and the Database Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken/Germany.
Dipl.-Ing Dr. Steffen G. Scholz(2) has more than 15 years of R&D experience in the field of polymer micro & nano replication with a special focus on injection moulding and relevant tool-making technologies. He is an expert in process optimization and algorithm design and development for micro replication processes. He studied mechanical engineering with special focus on plastic processing and micro injection moulding and obtained his degree as from the University of Aachen (RWTH). He obtained his PhD from Cardiff University in the field of process monitoring and optimization in micro injection moulding and led a team in micro tool making and micro replication at Cardiff University. Dr. Scholz joined KIT in 2012, where he is now leading the group for process optimization, information management and applications (PIA).
(1) Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
email: { andreas.schmidt | steffen.scholz }@kit.edu
(2) Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems
emai l: andreas.schmidt@hs-karlsruhe.de
Primary email contact : andreas.schmidt@kit.edu
Brief description :
For data analysis and knowledge discovery, typically we load the data into a dedicated tool, like a relational database, the statistic program R, mathematica, or some other specialized tools to perform our analysis.
But often, there is also another option, which can be performed on nearly every computer, having the necessary amount of mass-storage available. Many shells, likebash,csh,…provide a bunch of powerful tools to manipulate and transform data and also to perform some sort of analysis like aggregation, etc. Beside the free availability, these tools have the advantage that they can be used immediately, without transforming and loading the data into the target system before. Another important point is, that they typically are stream based and so, huge amounts of data can be processed, without running out of main-memory. With the additional use of gnuplot, ambitious graphic plots can easily be generated.
The aim of this tutorial is to present the most useful tools like cat, grep, tr, sed, awk, comm, uniq,
join, split, bzip2, wget, etc., and give an introduction on how they can be used together. So, for example, a wide number of queries which typically will be formulated with SQL, can also be performed using the tools mentioned before, as it will be shown in the tutorial. Also, selective data extraction from different webpages and the recombination of this information (mashups) can easily be performed.
The tutorial will also include hands-on parts, in which the participants do a number of practical data-analysis, transformation and visualization tasks.
Level: Intermediate -Participants should be familiar using a shell like bash, csh, DOS shell, …
Materials to be distributed to the attendees:
Command refcard
Introduction 15 min.
Commands/tools for structured data 45 min.
Hands-on Part I 30 min.
Commands/tools for unstructured data 30 min.
Visualization 30 min.
Hands-on Part II 30 min.
Software Requirements for the hands-on parts:
Unix and Mac users: none, the needed tools are already part of your distribution
Windows users: Please install cygwin on your computer (https://www.cygwin.com/).
gnuplot must be additional selected during the cygwin installation process.
Deep Learning-based Sequential Recommender Systems: Concepts, Algorithms, and EvaluationsPresentation Material
by Hui Fang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China), Guibing Guo (Northeastern University, China), Danning Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China), and Yiheng Shu (Northeastern University, China)
Hui Fang (Assistant Professor, School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Dr. Hui Fang is an Assistant Professor in Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her main research interests include trust prediction in online communities, personalized product/social recommendation, link prediction and data-driven decision making. Her research has been published in top conferences like IJCAI, AAA and AAMAS. Presently she is the Associate Editor of the ECRA journal, and invited referees of other journals like TKDE, Cybernetics, and DSS. She also serves as a Program Committee Member for international conferences, including UMAP and IJCAI, etc.
Guibing Guo (Associate Professor, Software College, Northeastern University, China)
Dr. Guibing Guo is an Associate Professor in the Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He received a Ph.D degree in computer science at Nanyang Technological University, and did a post-doc at Singapore Management University. His research interests include recommender systems, deep learning, social network analysis and data mining. The main research focus is to resolve the challenges of recommender systems, including data sparsity, cold start, diversity and so on. He is the original author (and now the team leader) of the open-source library for recommender systems, LibRec, which implements a large number (over 90) of recommender algorithms.
Yiheng Shu (Software College, Northeastern University, China)
Yiheng Shu is an undergraduate student of Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. His research interests are recommender system and deep learning.
Danning Zhang (School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Danning Zhang is an undergraduate at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China. Her research interests are recommender system and deep learning.
Deep Learning-based Sequential Recommender Systems: Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluations
With the development of e-commerce and deep learning technique, deep learning based sequential recommendation has become a hot topic in recommender system field. In this tutorial, we will (1)give a comprehensive overview of sequential recommender systems based on DL techniques. (2)show an original classification framework for sequential recommendation, corresponding to three different recommendation scenarios, and then introduce the representative algorithms under each scenario. (3)summarize the influential factors for typical DL-based sequential recommendation and demonstrate their effects by empirical studies, which can serve as a guidance for sequential recommendation research and practices. (4)summarize challenges of sequential recommender system, and future research directions.
Non-Monotonic Reasoning on the Web
by Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy)
Matteo Cristani is Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona. His expertis is the semantic web, and in particular, web applications with natural language processing and nonmonotonic reasoning. He has got numerous journal and conference papers in the mentioned communities. He has been the co-organised of the KDWeb (Knowledge Discovery on the WEB) workshop since 2017. The workshop has been a ICWE workshop in 2018.
The development of the communities of Semantic Web and Web Engineering have been interlacing frequently in the past twenty years. Many interesting approaches to practical issues of web engineering involving reasoning techniques have been succesful, as happened, for instance, in the linked data recent investigations. A specific attention has also been posed on the basic issues of porting the web onto the semantic era as related to the development of XML-embedded languages, in particular OWL, as recently approached in many different applicative contexts.
Another community of research has deeply investigated the domain of web as related to reasoning, in a much more general way, and it is generally recognized as the reasoning web community. In this specific case, many studies have been dealing with problems related to change of knowledge, trustability and preference. In many senses, a unifying semantics of the borders among the three communities (OWL-related studies, semantic web engineering, reasoning with web data) can be given by rule-based reasoning systems also known as nonmonotonic reasoning.
Although the basic knwoledge on the above mentioned issues is common in practitioners and researchers of the various areas of web engineering, it is also true that a significant number of scholars and professionals, especially in the early stage of their careers can have a valuable advantage from a neater and wider survey on the nonmonotonic methods as applied to the web.
The tutorial will be articulated in three parts:
A general introduction to nonmonotonic reasoning systems, with special care for the defeasible reasoning framework. This is introduced in a formal way, by specifying syntax of rules, priorities and defeaters, and the derivation methods based on proof tags, associated with specific derivation and conclusion inferential methods, with the corresponding associated equivalent of proof conditions.
A survey on the applications of the above to four typical issues of web reasoning:
(a) Solving conflicts in definitions given within reliable sources of knowledge. The example reported is Wikipedia, we show how to determine and possibly solve existing conflicts in definitions;
(b) Constructing debunking methods based on external reliable knowledge. The example reported is The skeptical inquirer, a scientific-oriented dissemination periodical;
(c) Providing decisions about trust on a given individual based on external sources. We show how the theoretical framework named Public announcement logic works;
(d) Ontology alignement with external sources of knowledge. The discovery of conflicts and their resolution using Roget's thesaurus.
Rule-based reasoning on the semantic web. An introduction to translation techniques and the solution of opinions, generalization, typicalization and other mitigative expressions into lambda-expressions for the translation of natural language onto rule-based semantic systems.
Architectural Styles for the Development of WoT Applications Presentation Material
by Javier Berrocal, Jose García-Alonso and Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Javier Berrocal is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics and Telematics System Engineering at the University of Extremadura (Spain) and co-founder of the company Gloin. He received a PhD degree (with European Mention) in 2014. His main research interests are Mobile Computing, Context-Awareness, Pervasive Systems, Internet of Things and Web of Things.
José García-Alonso is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics and Telematics System Engineering at the University of Extremadura (Spain) and co-founder of the Startups Gloin and Viable. He received a PhD degree (with European Mention) in 2014. His main research interests are eHealthCare, eldercare, Mobile Computing, Context-Awareness and Pervasive Systems.
Juan Manuel Murillo is a full professor of software engineering at the University of Extremadura and co-founder of the Startups Gloin and Viable. His research interests include software architectures, mobile computing, cloud computing, Context-Awareness, eHelathCare and eldercare.
The massive adoption of smart devices has fostered the development of Web of Things (WoT) applications. Due to the limited capabilities of these devices (some of them are battery powered, or the data exchange is limited), these applications have very stringent requirements. The success or failure of these applications largely depends on how they address these requirements, being the resource consumption a crucial one. With different architectural styles we can obtain a similar behaviour, but the selected style directly impacts on the resource consumption.
In this tutorial, we will detai l:
– Different architectural styles that can be used for the development of WoT applications. For that, a running example will be used.
– A tool developed for estimating the resource consumption of WoT applications in early development phases.
– Finally, a tool for the deployment of a WoT application detailed using the OpenAPI standard on both a Cloud environment or an end device.
PRE-REQUISITES :
The technical background desirable to follow the workshops is: being able to read JSON and YAML files.
In order to participate in the hands-on part of the tutorial, a laptop with a text editor and a Web browser will be required.
Exploiting Side Information for Recommendation Presentation Material
by Qing Guo, Zhu Sun and Yin Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Qing Guo is a Ph.D. candidate in Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. He focuses on Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation by exploiting the heterogeneous information in location-based social networks. He obtained his M.Sc. in The University of Hong Kong in 2014 and B.E. from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2013. While doing Ph.D. study, he was also a research associate in SAP Innovation Center network from 2015 to 2018, where he participated in machine learning products development in SAP products. Now, he is a data scientist in Shopee Singapore and continue to work on recommendation research and applications.
Zhu Sun obtained her Ph.D. Degree from School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018. During Ph.D. study, she focused on design efficient recommendation algorithms to improve the performance of recommender systems. Her research has been published in leading conferences and journals in related domains (e.g., ACM UMAP, ACM RecSys, IJCAI, AAAI, CIKM). Zhu Sun is active in serving research communities. She is the co-chair for the international workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens (CitRec) at ACM RecSys 2017, and local arrangement chair of ACM UMAP 2018. She has also been actively participating in industrial projects related to the research. Currently, she is a data scientist in Shopee Singapore with recommendation group.
Yin-Leng Theng is Professor and Director of the Centre of Healthy and Sustainable Cities (CHESS) at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, and Research Director at the Research Strategy and Coordination Unit (President's Office) at Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests are mainly in user-centred design, interaction design and usability engineering. She has participated in varying capacities as principal investigator, co-investigator and collaborator in numerous research projects in the United Kingdom and Singapore since 1998.
Recommender systems are indispensable tools to help tackle with the information overload problem. However, with merely relying on user-item interaction data, traditional recommender systems inherently suffer from the data sparsity and cold start issues. To address such issues, a number of recommendation algorithms have been designed by leveraging the valuable side information of users, items and their interactions to compensate for the insufficiency of rating information.
In this tutorial, we would provide a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art recommendation approaches with side information in a principle way from two perspectives: representation and methodology. By the end of this tutorial, the audiences would know how the recommendation approaches evolve with more complicated representations and methodologies for using various kinds of side information.
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argparse4s is an argument parsing library for Scala built on
[argparse4j][], which in turn is inspired by the Python `argparse`
module.

[argparse4j]: http://argparse4j.sourceforge.net

# Project Status

I (Michael Ekstrand) am not actively using or maintaining this project.  Happy to turn it over to anyone interested in carrying it forward.

# Using argparse4s

First, add argparse4s to your project dependencies. In SBT:

    libraryDependencies += "net.elehack.argparse4s" %% "argparse4s" % "0.2.1"

The main entry point for argparse4s is the `Command` trait. To use argparse4s,
create an object extending `Command` whose `main` method calls `Command`'s
`run(Array[String])` method. It will then parse the arugments, prepare an
`ExecutionContext`, and pass it to your command's `run()` method.

Options are defined using the `option`, `flag`, and `argument` methods (from
`CommandLike`). These methods return objects representing the arguments which
can in turn be used to set additional parameters (defaults, help messages,
etc.) and to get the actual value (using the `get` method, which requires an
implicit execution context).

An example:

    object MyCommand extends Command {
        /* characters are short options (-v), strings long (--verbose). */
        val verbose = flag('v', "verbose").
                      help("emit verbose output")
        /* Option-typed options are optional. Files have a default
           metavar of FILE. /
        val outputFile = option[Option[File]]('o', "output-file").
                         help("output to FILE")
        /* Options can have defaults. */
        val count = option[Int]('n', "count").
                    default(5).
                    metavar("N").
                    help("run up to N iterations")

        /* accumulate all arguments as an input */
        val inputs = argument[Seq[File]]()

        /**
         * The run() method contains your program logic.
         */
        def run()(implicit exc: ExecutionContext) {
            /* get argument values with the get method */
            for (i <- 1 to count.get) {
                /* do something */
            }
        }

        /**
         * main calls out to argparse4s.
         */
        def main(args: Array[String]) {
            run(args)
        }
    }

For more details see the [scaladoc][].

[scaladoc]: http://elehack.net/projects/argparse4s/scaladoc/

# Customizing argument types

The `OptionType` typeclass allows you to specify behavior for specific
option/argument types, including parsing strategies and the default metavar
name.

# Subcommands

argparse4s inherits from argparse4j the ability to have subcommands. To
support subcommands, extend the `MasterCommand` trait. Each subcommand must
extends `Subcommand`.

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Enough excuses: province's vaccine rollout a failure By: Tom Brodbeck Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2021 Last Modified: 8:26 PM CDT Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2021 Updates
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Manitoba was scheduled to dole out between 8,000 to 9,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine per day this week. So far, the province is doing a little more than half that. This weekend, the vaccine rollout is scheduled to scale down again, as it does most weekends. The province is expecting to administer just over 4,000 doses Easter Sunday.
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Despite a shipment of over 123,000 doses expected to arrive in Manitoba this week from three separate suppliers, the province is projecting to administer only 5,000 to 9,000 doses a day over the next three weeks. That's not even close to half the theoretical capacity of 20,918 daily doses the province claims it can do.
Despite a shipment of over 123,000 doses expected to arrive in Manitoba this week from three separate suppliers, the province is projecting to administer only 5,000 to 9,000 doses a day over the next three weeks. (Muhammad Sajjad / The Associated Press files)
There is still no urgency here.
The excuses are piling up: the province says it's falling behind on data entry, so not all numbers are up to date; the government had trouble hiring "navigators" at the RBC Convention Centre "super-site," which caused bottlenecks over the weekend; next week's Moderna vaccine shipment is going to be late; it takes longer to get vaccines through smaller supply chains like pop-up clinics and focused immunization teams; the province is still not getting enough supply from the federal government.
Daily vaccines administered
March 17 — 4,794
— Daily increases in total doses administered as reported on Manitoba COVID-19 vaccinations — summary statistics dashboard. Includes super-sites, pop-up clinics, focused immunization teams, pharmacies and medical clinics. Does not include First Nations.
The excuses are wearing thin. If there was a supply problem a month ago, there isn't one now. The province has received 248,180 doses of vaccine (all of which it's had since March 26) and has administered 199,322 of them, including on First Nations, in pharmacies and medical clinics. The province still has an inventory of almost 50,000 doses, an amount that is expected to soar with the arrival of more shipments this week.
If data isn't being entered into the system quickly enough, the province should hire data entry staff. While they're at it, they should fix the online vaccine reporting. Right now, the province is reporting two sets of conflicting data sets on how many vaccines are administered each day (both are showing the province is well behind in its projections).
Also, why the slowdown on weekends? The province has not been scheduling vaccinations through pop-up clinics or focused immunization teams on Sundays. People are still dying from COVID-19 and more contagious variants are spreading rapidly. This is not the time to take Sundays off.
Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press. A person waits outside the RBC Convention Centre downtown after receiving their COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday afternoon. March 31, 2021.
Manitoba is getting at least 500,000 doses over the next nine weeks (likely far more), enough to do 8,000 doses a day, not including the nearly 50,000 doses sitting in freezers, or shipped to third parties.
Last week, provincial officials said all available doses were booked and they would run out in five days if no new supply arrived. New supply did arrive (just under 15,000 doses) and they're nowhere near depleting their inventory. This week, the province said all available doses are booked and they would run out in seven days if more supply didn't arrive. Over 123,000 doses are scheduled to arrive. At this rate, the province will be further behind this time next week.
There has been no ramping up of the vaccine program. The province has been averaging around 5,000 doses a day (not including First Nations, which are doing around 2,000 doses a week). Manitoba has been stuck at that level for two weeks. Provincial officials can't blame it on delays in data entry because the data eventually gets caught up. If Manitoba was ramping up, an upward trend would emerge. It hasn't.
Premier Brian Pallister continues to blame a lack of supply for the slow rollout, insisting the province could do far more if it had more doses from the federal government. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
Premier Brian Pallister continues to blame a lack of supply for the slow rollout, insisting the province could do far more if it had more doses from the federal government. It's no longer just a tired excuse, it's an insult to Manitobans (one of the many reasons the premier's approval rating has taken a nosedive in the polls).
"There are going to be hiccups along the way," he said Wednesday.
These aren't hiccups. This is evidence of a poorly rolled-out program.
The tens of thousands of doses still sitting in freezers should be in Manitobans' arms. If they were, more people would be protected against serious illness, including death. This is a major failure.
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In case you missed it, below are a few of the most recent employment law updates that may have gotten lost in the onslaught of the 24-hour news cycle. EEOC Issues Opioid Accommodation Guidance - While employers have...more
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Amid the United States' growing opioid crisis, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued new guidance on employers' obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") regarding job applicants or...more
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Microsoft Revamps Bing With Social Sidebar
Three-column design rolling out over coming weeks
By Tim Peterson
Microsoft's Bing has been gradually gaining traction in the search space by excelling at something Google doesn't own: social search. For example Bing users can link their Facebook accounts in order to get results based on social connections (while Google and Twitter have famously quarrelled over including tweets within Google search queries).
Today Bing took social search a step further with a design overhaul that will roll out to U.S. users over the coming weeks which splits the results page into three columns, the most noteworthy of which being a social-heavy sidebar.
Instead of just surfacing results based on social signals such as "likes" or tweets, the social sidebar—which will run along the results page's right rail—makes social search an active experience. Users can post questions through the sidebar that their Facebook friends might be able to answer, and Bing will recommend who of a user's Facebook friends might be of most help based on their likes, Facebook profile information and shared photos. Also populating the sidebar will be real-time posts and queries from a user's Facebook friends that can be then be answered, liked or commented on.
"For the first time we've enabled information to flow from search to social networks," Harry Shum, corporate vp of core search development at Microsoft, said during the Bing Search Summit today.
The sidebar can also connect with other social networks like Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Quora, Foursquare and Blogger to identify people who might be able to answer a query. Google has made a big push to link its Google+ social network with search, but Bing's Google+ integration doesn't seem so complex as to undermine Google's efforts. When a Google+ profile pops up as someone who can answer a query, the user clicks through to that Google+ profile rather than solicit questions within the sidebar.
As part of the redesign, Bing is also adding a column called "snapshot" that will be sandwiched between the standard results listings on the left-hand side and the social sidebar and will display results information such as mapped locations, restaurant reservations and reviews. Bing has partnered with Yelp, OpenTable and Fansnap, among others, to populate snapshot results.
Given the design overhaul, an obvious question for brands is what happens to the ads that have historically run along the right side of search results? According to Microsoft, the answer is nothing—yet.
"In the future, as we look at both the snapshot and the sidebar, we will start to experiment with new ad formats and new ad models for both of those," Derrick Connel, corporate vp of search program management at Microsoft, said during the Bing Search Summit.
The redesign has removed the results page's left rail, but all the features it housed have been integrated throughout the search engine, said Connel. Users can access their search histories through a link that will appear in the search box as users type their queries. Related search suggestions will be pulled into the results list, and search filters have moved to the top of the page.
The Bing mobile design won't feature a three-column layout, but at the bottom of the mobile results page users will find a link to a mobile version of the social sidebar, Connel said.
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EY announces Bryan Dori of Archer named Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Award winner in Greater Philadelphia
June 8, 2017 | Archer, the Complete Investment Management Solution
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Berwyn, PA (June 8, 2017) – EY today announced that Bryan Dori of Archer, a technology and services innovator for the investment management industry, received the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Award in the Fintech category in Greater Philadelphia. The award recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Bryan was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a special gala event at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts on June 7.
Archer was founded in 2000 by industry experts seeking to break free from legacy technology, and has been applying an entrepreneurial spirit to providing investment management solutions ever since. "While it was truly an honor to be a Finalist, being named the winner from amongst such great leaders and companies in Fintech was tremendous. It shows how effectively the Archer team is executing on our vision to bring success to our clients through innovative solutions."
Since 1986, EY has honored entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, spirit of innovation and discipline have driven their companies' success, transformed their industries and made a positive impact on their communities. Now in its 31st year, the program has honored the inspirational leadership of many leading companies.
As a Greater Philadelphia award winner, Bryan is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 18, 2017. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth ForumTM, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Founded and produced by EY, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the US by SAP America, Merrill Corporation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
In Greater Philadelphia, sponsors also include BallardSpahr, Morgan Lewis, Murray Devine, Pepper Hamilton, Pine Hill Group, Philadelphia Business Journal, Simkiss & Block and SolomonEdwardsGroup.
About Archer:
Archer provides solutions to the investment management industry through a combination of technology and services. The core platform was purpose-built to support all asset classes, and includes a full suite of portfolio accounting, trade order management, performance measurement, and reporting tools. With flexible outsourcing services, Archer provides a complete solution that supports the middle office for institutional, HNW/private wealth, and retail focused investment managers. For more information, visit www.archerims.com.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®:
Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world's most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, chosen from an independent panel of judges including entrepreneurs and prominent leaders from business, finance, and the local community. The program makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global awards program of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 145 cities in more than 60 countries. ey.com/eoy
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EY's worldwide Growth Markets Network is dedicated to serving the changing needs of high-growth companies. For more than 30 years, we've helped many of the world's most dynamic and ambitious companies grow into market leaders. Whether working with international mid-cap companies or early stage, venture-backed businesses, our professionals draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help your business succeed. For more information, please visit us at ey.com/sgm or follow news on Twitter @EY_Growth.
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Ms. Kinner has over 30 years of experience in private equity and banking. Most recently, she was a Partner at Quilvest Private Equity, where she was responsible for the firm's private equity investments in the US. She is now a Senior Advisor at the firm. Prior to joining Quilvest in 2005, Ms. Kinner managed private fund investments for Royal Bank of Canada. Previously, she was with JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors for over 22 years, where she led the firm's legacy Chase Capital Partners private equity business, managing over US$1 billion.Ms. Kinner holds an MBA from the Whittemore School at the University of New Hampshire and an A.B. in Economics and Psychology from Smith College.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has decided to allow freedom to a woman who received a life sentence when she was a teenager for killing her former pimp.
Brown decided late Friday not to take action on a state parole board's decision to grant parole to Sara Kruzan, thereby allowing the decision to go into effect, his spokesman Evan Westrup said Saturday.
Kruzan was 17 when she was sentenced to die in prison for the 1994 shooting death of George Gilbert Howard in a Riverside motel room. She contended that he sexually abused her and had groomed her since she was 11 to work for him as a child prostitute.
Her case became a high-profile example used by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who sought to soften harsh life sentences for juveniles.
"It is justice long overdue," Yee told the Los Angeles Times. He called Kruzan's case the "perfect example of adults who failed her, of society failing her. You had a predator who stalked her, raped her, forced her into prostitution, and there was no one around."
Kruzan's case garnered widespread publicity in 2010 after Human Rights Watch posted a six-minute interview with her on YouTube.
The year culminated with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuting her sentence to 25-years-to-life with the possibility of parole on his last full day in office. Schwarzenegger said he still considered her guilty of first-degree murder, but he sympathized with her defense that the man she killed had sexually abused her and served as her pimp for years.
FILE – In this March 11, 2012 file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows Sara Kruzan. California Gov. Jerry Brown decided late Friday Oct. 25, 2013 not to take action on a state parole board's decision to grant parole to Sara Kruzan, thereby allowing the decision to go into effect, his spokesman Evan Westrup said Saturday. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)
"Given Ms. Kruzan's age at the time of the murder, and considering the significant abuse she suffered at his hands, I believe Ms. Kruzan's sentence is excessive," the governor wrote in his commutation message, "it is apparent that Ms. Kruzan suffered significant abuse starting at a vulnerable age."
This January, a Riverside judge further reduced her first-degree murder conviction to second degree, making her immediately eligible for release.
Yee's legislation to allow new sentencing hearings for juveniles sent to prison for life without parole became law in January. In September, Brown signed a second bill requiring parole boards to give special consideration to juveniles tried as adults who have served at least 15 years of lengthy sentences. Advocates estimate there are more than 1,000 prisoners already eligible for parole hearings under that new law.
Brown's decision on Kruzan's case came nearly two weeks before the deadline for his action, Westrup said. The parole board was expected to act on the decision on Monday.
Kruzan is housed at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
Her aunt told the Associated Press she wasn't surprised by the governor's action.
"I just wondered why it took so long," Ann Rogen of Riverside said.
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If you're an avid reader of US Harper's Bazaar like ourselves, you're aware that the magazine often goes down the same (sometimes cheesy) route when it comes to its cover shoots. Back in March, Jennifer Lopez was captured flying above downtown Los Angeles, Julia Roberts took us rock climbing last month and now, Margot Robbie swings high above the hills of Malibu for Bazaar's December/January issue. In the bright newsstand cover (below), the Chanel brand ambassador is all smiles, flashing her pearly whites for photographer Camilla Akrans in a look from Chanel's Fall 2018 Haute Couture collection as she finally makes her US Bazaar cover debut.
The all-important question remains: were our forum members impressed? "Radiant smile, but this is such a cookie cutter US Bazaar cover! Imagine Reese [Witherspoon] in this in 2007. This magazine is a lost cause. And what's happening with her eyes?" wondered Benn98.
"She looks strangely plastic on that cover, like a Barbie doll or Stepford wife with a fake smile. Shame because she's easily one of the most gorgeous actresses out there at the moment," wrote Morgane07.
"Why such high level of cheese? I know it's US HB, and Glenda [Bailey], but damn, how long will this woman be employed before the Hearst suits realize just what a joke HB is?" asked Miss Dalloway.
"Not great – luckily Margot is so beautiful that she manages to look good even with half-open eyes but surely they could have used a better shot of her," said SallyAlbright.
HeatherAnne wasn't feeling it, either. "It looks like a shot that would be in a lower tier department store advertisement… yikes. She's so beautiful, and they made her look so cookie cutter generic," she complained.
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It's clear there will be winners & losers from global warming. Russia shouldn't be ashamed of standing to gain from a warmer world
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The West's insistence that local weather change shall be horrible for everybody is simply an ideology. In actuality, as with all issues, some folks will achieve and others will lose. Russia, it appears, might emerge in a far stronger place.
From mid-July to early August this yr, my hometown of Vladivostok, within the nation's Far East, noticed sizzling and rainless climate on a scale even the old-timers right here had by no means seen earlier than. Within the day, temperatures hovered at slightly below 30C (86F), which, together with the humidity coming from the Pacific Ocean, made it an ordeal, particularly for individuals who don't have air-conditioning at residence. The ocean off Vladivostok warmed to 29С (84F), prompting warnings from scientists about the opportunity of sharks swimming into town's bays.
Horror tales
The Far East is simply one of many many Russian areas enduring irregular temperatures this summer season. Within the Rostov area, within the south, a 41C (105F) heatwave led to energy outages as residents turned on air-conditioners and followers. Yakutsk, the capital of the republic of Yakutia in Jap Siberia, was blanketed by the smoke from enormous wildfires, apparently induced by the unusually sizzling and dry climate in June and July.
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Putin says results of world local weather change disproportionately hitting Russia, as nation battered by floods & raging wildfires
Western media, led by its flagship newspaper the New York Instances, predictably carried horror tales from Russia. In line with these stories, the world's largest nation faces the grim prospect of being consumed by forest fires, whereas its housing and infrastructure will quickly begin to sink into the thawing permafrost. The not-so-subtle subtext of a lot of such reporting is that Russia most likely deserves the climate-related calamities, as, "for years", its management has rejected the truth that people bear the duty for international warming.
It's true that, till not too long ago, the Kremlin, in addition to nearly all of Russian residents, didn't care about local weather change, as a result of they both didn't consider in it or didn't see it as one thing that might instantly affect Russia. That has since modified. This yr is shaping as much as be the turning level. It has lastly dawned on the nation – each the political class and lots of bizarre residents – that local weather change is actual, and we're already being affected.
There's little question Vladimir Putin himself has begun to take local weather change very severely. In current months, the president has repeatedly targeted on the local weather in his statements and public appearances. Assembly with the cupboard on August 5, he clearly said that it was the reason for the current wildfires and floods within the nation. In line with the Ministry of Pure Assets and Atmosphere, the tempo of warming in Russia is 2.8 instances that of the worldwide common.
Silver linings?
Coming to phrases with the fact of local weather change and its monumental challenges doesn't imply Russia ought to focus solely on the threats, whereas ignoring the advantages it might convey, nonetheless. The climate-change narrative at present dominant within the West largely downplays these upsides, whereas emphasizing the possibly disastrous penalties of world warming. Sarcastically, simply final December, the exact same New York Instances ran a protracted learn on the potential advantages of world warming for Russia's agriculture.
In line with a research by the Institute of Geography on the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1961, as a lot as 63% of Russia's territory had weather conditions deemed opposed for people. By 2010, as a result of rise in temperatures, the unfavorable zone had shrunk to 50% of Russia's landmass.
Extra analysis, performed by scientists on the Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and NASA's Langley Analysis Middle, concludes that international warming will make the local weather of Siberia and the Far East extra amenable to each life and agriculture. By the 2080s, scientists say, climates over Asian Russia, which makes up two-thirds of the nation, are projected to get "a lot hotter and milder," which might result in a five- to seven-fold improve within the capability of the territory to maintain a human inhabitants. This may lead to the next capability for inhabitants density throughout the world, which is now sparsely inhabited, and make it extra engaging for inbound migration.
A 2021 evaluation by Princeton College economists predicts that, on common, world elementary productiveness will decline by 19% by 2200 resulting from rising temperatures. Brazil, Africa, India, Australia, and the Center East would be the predominant losers, with declines in financial productiveness of as much as 60%. Nevertheless, will probably be a really totally different story in northern latitudes, together with a lot of Russia. Elements of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and northern Russia will see productiveness double relative to what it might be with out international warming.
One other current research, authored by scientists from the USA, Canada, and Britain, appears on the areas that might develop into newly appropriate for industrial farming on account of local weather change. They concluded that Russia and Canada had the best potential to develop into the globe's new agricultural frontiers. Russia might add 4.3 million sq. kilometers (1.7 million sq. miles) of latest farming land whereas Canada might add 4.2 million sq. kilometers (1.6 million sq. miles).
Not all excellent news
As for the downsides of local weather change that Russia will inevitably face – and is, in actual fact, already experiencing – they're little question critical, however may be managed. Some 65% of Russia's landmass is roofed by permafrost, which is now starting to thaw, threatening the buildings, roads, and different services and infrastructure that had been constructed on it.
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Nevertheless, the majority of Russia's inhabitants and financial actions is concentrated in non-permafrost areas. Solely 15 million Russians stay within the excessive north, which may very well be susceptible to permafrost degradation, and there was a shift in inhabitants as many individuals transfer south looking for higher circumstances.
There are engineering options to strengthen buildings threatened by melting permafrost. They're costly, however Russia might most likely afford them if the issue will get actually acute. Equally, as the danger of forest fires grows with the rise of temperatures, there needs to be mitigation measures in place. This summer season's blazes in Yakutia may not have been that dangerous, had the state preserved its nationwide system to struggle wildfires that existed throughout the Soviet period.
Nobody can predict with certainty the long-term results of local weather change. That is additionally true with respect to its affect on Russia. But there are causes to anticipate that, on stability, the nation may gain advantage from international warming, if it performs its playing cards proper. The opposed results of the local weather disaster may very well be met with adaptation measures, from investing within the aforementioned nationwide wildfire-fighting system and introducing drought-resistant kinds of crops to putting in air-conditioning in each Russian family.
Nevertheless, the cash spent on the difference needs to be greater than offset by the industrial and strategic beneficial properties Russia might doubtlessly reap from the upsides of world warming. These embrace extra amenable circumstances in locations beforehand unfit for human residence due to deadening chilly, tens of millions of sq. kilometers of newly out there farmland, and an ice-free Arctic, making the polar seas a brand new Mediterranean – and one by which Russia has a controlling stake.
Popping out as a winner
In coping with local weather change, Russia wields one other necessary benefit. Due to the enormity of its territory, it has 18 climatic zones that shall be in a different way affected by rising temperatures. If there are areas negatively affected by the local weather disaster, they are often compensated for by zones by which circumstances develop into extra amenable.
Some fashions predict that just about a 3rd of the worldwide inhabitants might discover themselves in extraordinarily sizzling and uninhabitable – Sahara-like – circumstances, producing lots of of tens of millions of local weather refugees. Russia might develop into one of many predominant locations to host folks fleeing from excessive warmth, droughts, and rising seas. Because the Princeton research says, "In the end, one of the simplest ways to adapt to international warming is … emigrate to areas that lose much less and even achieve from temperature will increase. Many of those areas are sparsely populated at this time, resulting from their lack of facilities and productiveness, however may very well be improved as temperatures rise and new migrants put money into them over the subsequent centuries."
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One possibility could be for the world to finance the resettlement of local weather refugees in Russia by means of a global fund supported by wealthy governments and personal donors. That may very well be one other approach for the nation to monetize its climate-change benefits, boosting its flagging demographics within the course of. The worth, for the West not less than, would doubtlessly be to maintain at bay a burgeoning local weather refugee disaster that will divide governments and the general public, and pressure, for instance, the EU to make robust and unpopular choices about folks's lives.
Maintaining the struggle
Nevertheless, regardless of this outlook, Moscow can't flip its again on the struggle in opposition to local weather change. As a member of the worldwide group, it should be a part of efforts to fight the disaster, even when it means a substantial lack of the nation's oil and fuel revenues due to the decarbonization of the worldwide financial system. In actual fact, decarbonization is a blessing in disguise for Russia, as it should induce the nation to do away with its humiliating dependence on hydrocarbon exports and transfer in direction of a extra diversified and revolutionary financial system.
Nevertheless, as a result of time-lag results of the planet's local weather, international warming will proceed throughout the subsequent a number of a long time, even when the world group miraculously manages to slash greenhouse fuel emissions within the close to time period. There may be nothing improper in Russia, resulting from its geographic benefits, benefiting from local weather change. Certainly, it ought to make the most of international warming pragmatically and strategically.
The dominant Western discourse, asserting that local weather change is equally horrible for everybody, is ideologized and smacks of hypocrisy. The precise geopolitics of the disaster, which is never talked about, could have its losers and winners. As an example, most local weather fashions present that India shall be one of many predominant victims of world warming, whereas China shall be considerably much less affected, with its northern areas most likely even benefiting, so it stands to cause that the local weather disaster could have a direct bearing on the stability of energy between Asia's rival giants.
Within the late nineteenth century, a Russian emperor famously stated Russia had two allies: the military and the navy. Within the twenty first century, its two predominant allies may very well be its nuclear weapons and international warming. The nation's huge arsenal of atomic warheads and rockets will maintain it militarily highly effective, whereas international warming might convey a brand new geo-economic significance to its huge, once-frozen wastes.
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In the Odessa region, an educational course "Fundamentals of the Ukrainian Sign Language" was introduced for teachers. Seminars-trainings are held on the basis of continuing education courses of teachers of the Odessa Academy of Continuing Education. This was reported by the director of the Department of Education and Science of the Odessa Regional State Administration Oleksandr Lonchak.
"Educational seminars are aimed at mastering sign language, as a means of communicating with people with hearing impairments. This skill will enable teachers to bring children with special educational needs to study so that they feel more confident in society. Odessa Oblast was the first to introduce such trainings for teachers. Our priority is to cover inclusive education as much as possible in the regions of the region, "Alexander Lonchak said.
The teachers of the educational course are experienced specialists of special educational institutions for hearing impaired children. Upon completion of the training, teachers will have the elements of the dactyl - the alphabet - and they will know the basic terms and gestures for everyday communication.
It should be noted that the educational course "Fundamentals of the Ukrainian Sign Language" was introduced at the initiative of the chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration Maxim Stepanov.
Recall that the development of inclusive education - one of the key priorities of the Strategic Action Plan of the chairman of the Odessa regional state administration Maxim Stepanov "Intelligent Region". In particular, at the end of December, inclusive and resource centers were opened in Podolsky, Bilgorod-Dnistrovsky and Savransky districts. The work of institutions is aimed at integrating children with special educational needs into the educational process.


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Malala Yousafzai is awesome. She embodies the word "inspiration". An outspoken supported of women's education, she not just survived an assassination attempt but has stood up to the more vile brutes in a way only a child could have.
But for some something as basic as going to school is a struggle. Malala Yousafzai is from the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley of Pakistan's Khyber Pakthunkhwa region. This is a region the Taliban started a campaign to shutdown schools for girls.
Malala was shot in the head last year, a assassination attempt she survived with months being spent in hospital. Until yesterday, this teenage girl was nominated for the Nobel peace prize until they gave the prize to an uninspiring organisation which basically was sort of doing its job – it seems old men with desk and supposed gravitas won over someone who actually is inspiring. She appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and left him (and many others I am sure) speechless.
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No, I have not read "I am Malala" and I do not think I will anytime soon. Usually prefer reading history books and very rarely read recently written books. But yeah I might pick it up some day and read it.


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The 2016 Cardiff AAC Annual Presentation of Awards Evening will be held on Friday of this week (18th November) starting at 7.00pm. We shall again be at the Cardiff City Stadium (entrance off Leckwith Road), which was so successful as a venue last year and where there is plenty of parking space.
Cardiff's Olympic and Paralympic athletes will be there to present awards so you can have your photograph taken with Aled Davies, Steve Morris, Kevin Seaward and Charlotte Wingfield.
It is always a great evening so make sure you are there.
With the second round of the Gwent League in Brecon on Saturday, the Cross Challenge in Milton Keynes the same day and an international in Spain, Cardiff AAC had athletes competing in all three.
Clashes as well as illnesses meant that numbers at the Gwent League were down on the first round but there was still much to celebrate as the South Wales regional championships were incorporated and Cardiff athletes did well, with Jess Wadey, Morgan James, Bethan Evans, Jac Smith, Lucy Marland and Carwyn Jones all winning gold medals.
While his team mates were racing over the country Cardiff's Mike Kallenberg was representing Great Britain on Friday in the world 50k road race championships in the heat of Doha, where he finished an excellent sixth, a placing which improved both his position and time from last year's 50k championships. Following an assured performance, 25-year-old Mike commented: "That was really tough tonight but I'm happy with my run and delighted that we are coming home with a silver medal."
Meanwhile, back on the country, the Cross Challenge took place on Saturday in Milton Keynes. The best performance came from Ryan Edwards in the under 13 boys' race where he finished an excellent second. The under 13 girls' race saw Eden Williams finish in eighth place while Nia Clatworthy was 14th in the under 15 girls' event.
A good turn out at the combined Welsh Athletics and Welsh Schools combined event championships at Cardiff's NIAC last Sunday, 6th November, included numerous Cardiff AAC athletes in the various age groups.
Taking gold medals were Lauren Evans in the under 18 girls' category and Luca Contino in the under 16 boys. Silver medallists were Evie Wong, Daniel John and Harri Wheeler-Sexton with Harvey Reynolds taking a bronze.
Cardiff's Carwyn Jones is enjoying a run of good form and took first place at the popular Richard Burton 10k road race in Cwmafon on Sunday last, 6th November, with James Hunt in third.
Having won the senior men's race at the first round of the Gwent League, Carwyn will be looking for a repeat performance in the second round in Brecon this weekend.
The senior ladies team (Carys Hughes - 3rd, Lucy Marland - 4th and Laura Wright - 11th) came home in first place.


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Okay, so I couldn't modify the CPU but it is very easy to modify the GPU. The PSU is nowhere near good enough for the GPU when it's at 100% usage as the blue screens attest too.
So using MSI Afterburner I was able to undervolt by a good measure, now trying to eek out a little more. It started at 1.2 and I'm currently testing at 0.85 at the moment, hopefully that is stable. It isnt at 0.80 and is definitely stable at 0.90.
So thanks for your original post and your attempted assistance. Hey temps have dropped about 10c also.
Strange though, in MSI Afterburner I set the voltage to 0.85 but other software reads voltage at 1.00. So I'm not sure if MSI is reducing the voltage correctly or other software is not reading it correctly. Well its default is 1.20 and its definitely had a temperature drop. But I wonder if it registers below 1.00? Thing is the system failed in about 2 seconds with a yellow screen glitch when I set voltage to 0.80, it crashed duting testing at 0.825 but seems to be stable in Crysis and OCCT when at 0.85.
I've modified the BIOS to permanently change the voltage used.
If I could get MSI to run the GPU slower speeds I'd try lowering farther.
That's some neat work :) I've never worried about GPU heat, I've always had external venting and just not given a damn because if it lasts 3 years, then thats probably the end of its useful life, and once again, a silicon chip being shortened to 3 years is probably an 80% drop in life? Im not pushing it that hard.


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The Next Inconvenient Truth: Robots Are Coming For Your Job
But the forecast for an automated future doesn't have to be apocalyptic.
by: Kaz Weida on September 1, 2017
An army of robots has already marched into factories around the world, replacing human workers with dazzling efficiency and inexhaustible productivity. Initially, many experts assumed that while most menial, physical labor might be addressed by technology solutions, certain creative or highly skilled jobs were unlikely to be taken by our robot overlords.
That assumption is rapidly changing. Conservative estimates from the McKinsey Global Institute indicate that by 2055, nearly half of the world's jobs will be replaced by automation. That pace could be accelerated by one very important advancement that's a wild card in the future of automation. Artificial intelligence.
AI is transforming the landscape of technology at an unprecedented pace and its applications are vast and far reaching. While we have an idea of what garden variety automation did to the economy during the industrial revolution, there is no handbook for where artificial intelligence might take us. We've accelerated the pace of AI by providing robots with access to the internet and its vast treasure trove of data to be mined. Because robots are now capable of learning and decision making, their ability to automate even creative processes appears imminent. And that leaves us with one very important question.
What Does The Future Of Work Look Like?
Despite these dire warnings, we aren't suddenly falling off a cliff into this automated future. Our economy has been steadily marching towards it for some time. In the last decade, the rise of the remote worker and the growing gig economy have transformed how companies around the world structure work. The emphasis has shifted from traditional careers to valued technical or creative skills, enabling highly qualified freelancers to handle an increasing portion of projects.
Michael Solomon, the founder of 10x Management, spoke to Rantt recently about the future of work. His team specializes in curating freelance tech talent for some of the most innovative companies in the world and he sees the gig economy as a stop on the journey towards a world without work.
"Our recent realization is that it is actually just the rest stop on the highway between the employed world we've resided in for the past century or so and the post-labor world we're rapidly heading toward. Net job loss as a result of automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning is coming soon. How our society prepares for these changes will determine if we're heading into an apocalyptic transition or a civilized one."
The Future Of Work Is Already Here
Thus far, automated processes have focused on replacing jobs in the manufacturing sector. But advances in artificial intelligence mean opportunity for automation will explode into many new industries over the course of the next decade.
As artificial intelligence advances, workers will need to focus on specialized skill sets to provide value to employers. Eventually, even highly skilled workers won't be safe from the effects of job automation. And when that occurs we'll need to have a plan for what happens next.
Are We Prepared For A World Without Work?
In a nutshell, no. The United States, in particular, is not well positioned to cope with the massive impending job losses that will occur as a result of increased automation. While other countries have moved towards strategies like universal healthcare and basic income, the current administration has refused to even entertain the idea that job automation poses risk for our immediate economic future.
"In terms of artificial intelligence taking over American jobs, I think we're so far away from that that it's not even on my radar screen. I think it's 50 or 100 more years."
-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Interview with Axios
While this administration focuses on reviving dead-end jobs in manufacturing and coal, other US companies like 10x Management have recognized the difficulties we face in the near future from automation compounded by dwindling numbers of available tech talent. And they are beginning to sound the alarm and demand action.
This doomsday economist forecast, compounded by a shortage of tech talent, has forced companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook to step into the political fray. Corporate activism on healthcare, the travel ban, and the H-1B visa problem reflect a growing realization that some policies are necessary to avoid collapse and chaos as our country transitions into the gig economy.
To anticipate a future without work, we need to look closely at what having a traditional job currently provides. Income, healthcare, and a sense of purpose all rank high on the list of benefits that would need to be immediately addressed in the absence of standard employment. And while we've made some strides in discussions about how to provide all citizens of this country with healthcare, options for supplying income and a sense purpose have been trickier to quantify.
Basic Income Is About More Than a Handout
Much of the discussion about basic income has revolved around the concept as a solution to increasing levels of poverty and the welfare-state in America, but it's also one of the ways we could effectively address a future without work. Unconditional basic income (sometimes referred to as guaranteed universal income) would give a fixed amount of money to each resident to be used in whatever way they would like. This cash infusion comes without conditions and is delivered to all individuals.
Pilot programs have sprung up around the world that employ some variation of basic income in Brazil, Finland, Switzerland, and Kenya. Alaska already has a version of UBI called the Alaskan Permanent Fund, which subsidizes lost revenues from the oil industry. Recently, Democrat Chris Lee introduced a measure that would make Hawaii the first state to run a government-sponsored basic income pilot on US soil.
Arguments against the idea of basic income take the form you might anticipate. Supplying people with large amounts of cash, no strings attached, will lead to lazy, unemployed riffraff who spend the majority of their days in a drug-induced haze. But according to basic income pilots conducted in Canada and Africa, that's actually the opposite of what occurs. Studies show that when given a source of income, people tend to invest in education and housing, driving up graduation rates and home ownership. In Manitoba, employment among working age men fell just 1% after implementation of basic income.
Contrary to what you might expect, the concept of basic income enjoys widespread, bipartisan support among economists who agree it's a simpler welfare system and could reduce costs associated with healthcare. Figures for basic income are around $10,000 per person annually and would require a significant increase in taxes, but might ultimately result in greater economic growth and a higher standard of living for all. And in a world without work, it could be a lifeline to people suddenly displaced by automation, preventing chaos from unprecedented numbers of unemployed.
Despite the panic and uncertainty that increased job automation inspires, a world without work has a positive, long-term outcome. Imagine a future where universal healthcare was the norm, basic income pays the rent, and you have the flexibility to choose when and how you'd like to be productive. Instead of holding down a job to ensure a paycheck that puts food on the table for your family, you might be able to invest your time in your passions. Experts agree it could usher in a new era of creativity that inspires unprecedented innovation and a better quality of life.
But to get there, we'll need to prepare for the transition and the first step is acknowledging that the gig economy is here to stay, Relying on traditional, salaried positions that provide employer-funded healthcare to the majority of Americans is not a feasible long-term plan. Refusing to acknowledge rising poverty levels and job loss will not make the need for basic income go away. Our best bet in a future without work is to leave the labor to the robots and start thinking about how to engineer a successful transition into a fully automated world.
Read about The Future of Work or Visit A Day Without Labor to learn more.
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Had a bad episode. Thought there were bugs in my skin and I injured my face/hand. Lasted for about an hour and had no idea it was fake until the episode was over. It still scares me. It has happened before when I was untreated and this time it wasn't as severe, but still terrifying.
I bet it was terrifying whiteflags330. I remember going through similar and it wasn't pleasant.
I can relate. I'm glad it only lasted an hour for you. When it happens do you actually feel the bugs? I spent the last two days feeling them but woke up today and it was gone. Scary and really hard to explain.
See that's the thing, I take a hefty dose of antipsychotics. Maybe it would have gotten worse if I wasn't on them? I don't know!
I'm sorry you went through that. That sounds intense. I was afraid of bugs when I was a kid, not so much now. I had a few extreme experiences when I was a kid. I put peppermint in my room to keep spiders away.
When I was a kid I was terrified of bugs, especially spiders. I got stuck under a fence in my yard for awhile and there were a lot of bushes. Screaming and crying got the attention of the neighbors and it took three men to get me out. Luckily I didn't see any bugs and to this day I'm surprised I didn't considering it was a very shrubby yard back then.
I've had similar experiences. I sometimes see bugs on the wall - hundreds of them. Luckily the hallucination usually doesnt last too long. It's very disconcerting. I have found that listening to music whenever im in an episode helps.
But being aware that you can experience such hallucination, doesn't help to have a lower anxiety when it happens?
Yea To a degree knowing that it is not real in the back of my head helps.


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Senator James Risch Explains His Warning About 'Biblical' Conflict With North Korea
The Idaho Republican also says there's no "bloody nose" strategy: "What a dumb thing to do."
Uri Friedman
Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters
At a recent security conference in Munich, Senator James Risch cautioned that a "very brief" conflict "of biblical proportions" could erupt between the United States and North Korea, leaving in its wake "mass casualties the likes of which the planet has never seen." He then promptly left his stunned audience to catch a flight. This week, back in Washington, D.C., the Idaho Republican explained the warning. He expressed some hope that economic sanctions and other pressure will make North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rethink his pursuit of nuclear weapons. But if that doesn't happen, he suggested, the nuclear threat from North Korea is so exceptional that the Trump administration could feel obligated to embark on an all-out war.
The press reacted to Risch's remarks in Munich with "headlines about Trump wanting to go to war." That, he told me, "was 180 degrees from the message that I was trying to convey. … The headline should have been: 'If Kim Jong Un keeps doing what he's doing, he's gonna cause a war.'"
Risch is a senior member of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees; he just returned from a visit to South Korea as part of Donald Trump's delegation to the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics. He has spoken extensively about North Korea with the president and other top administration officials. The American president doesn't want war, Risch said, but "I firmly believe that he is strongly committed to defending the country. ... Whether you like or dislike President Trump, you have to admit he is a person of strong will."
Journalists missed the significance of his Munich comments in their zeal to take shots at Trump, he said. The outcome of the crisis is "in one person's hands, and that's Kim Jong Un"—who, according to Risch, is now facing a choice between two starkly different paths: "One path will result in the consequence that his regime … stays in power, and he continues as head of that state. The other path ... is going to result in all likelihood in a termination of his regime. It is not the policy of the United States to pursue regime change. We do not want that. But these are his choices, not ours."
In an interview with The Spokesman-Review, Risch had suggested that the scenario he had in mind in Munich was how the United States would respond to North Korea's use of a nuclear weapon. But in our conversation he declined to specify a "red line" that, if Kim crossed it, would spark U.S. military action. Risch observed that "the president of the United States has said that he will not allow, tolerate a condition whereby North Korea has the capability of delivering a nuclear weapon by an [intercontinental ballistic missile] to the United States homeland"—a milestone that, according to Trump's CIA director, the North is only months away from reaching. "I'm not at liberty to say what [the] tipping point is," Risch told me, but Trump should be taken at his word.
"The president of the United States has said over and over again that he does not telegraph what and when and how he is going to do something," he continued. "He proved it once in Syria, in response to [President] Assad using chemical weapons against his people, and he proved it a second time in Afghanistan when he delivered" the "mother of all bombs" against ISIS targets. "Both of those times that he pulled the trigger were very surgical, very direct, accomplished exactly what they were supposed to accomplish."
Risch denied, however, that the Trump administration is seriously considering a limited, symbolic "bloody nose" strike on North Korea, as reports have repeatedly indicated in recent months. "I have personally discussed [it] with the people who gave the president the [military] options," he said. (Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse have said the person who made these assurances was National-Security Adviser H.R. McMaster; Risch wouldn't confirm or deny that.) The administration officials "looked me in the eye and said, 'Stop this. There is no such thing as a "bloody nose" strategy. We did not give the president that strategy. He does not have that strategy. It is not the policy of the United States.'" The idea isn't credible, Risch added: "What a dumb thing to do. If you punch somebody in the nose, they're not gonna stop and catch their breath. They're gonna punch back and this thing gets away from you really, really quickly."
But just as remarkable as his dismissal of the "bloody nose" buzz was his message that a nuclear-armed North Korea would pose so grave a risk to the United States that, in order to prevent it, the Trump administration is prepared to wage a war against the Kim regime that experts estimate could kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, and escalate into nuclear warfare. Why the U.S. would enter into such a catastrophic conflict in the absence of an actual or imminent North Korean attack is "an equation that only the president could answer," Risch said. "What you'd be looking at would be on a scale: What are the risks you're running by not doing it?"
North Korea shouldn't be lumped together with nuclear powers like Russia and China that have the capacity to nuke the United States but have been deterred from doing so, Risch argued. "I don't lay awake at night worrying that the United States and Russia are going to get into a fight lobbing nuclear weapons back and forth. … After World War II, when the arms race started, both parties wound up with enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the other party. Both of them realized it, they sat down together, they reached a number of treaties, and they put in place really strict, really clear protocols of telephone calls and communications that will avoid this. Both parties know what the ultimate consequence of [war] is, which is mutual destruction."
In the case of North Korea, "none of that is in place," he noted. "What if somebody miscalculates? What if there is an accident? … That is as much a danger as an intentional act. And there's no protocol in effect for the red phone to ring in the White House and the other one to ring in Pyongyang and say, 'Hey why don't we stop and talk about this?'" Russia and China "know exactly what we're thinking and we know exactly what they're thinking. With the North Koreans, I listen to what they say but you say to yourself, 'Can they possibly be thinking like this? And does [Kim Jong Un] really misperceive who he's dealing with?' This is a country with pea-shooters taking on a country that's got the power and force that America does. Now don't get me wrong: With what they have, they can do tremendous damage right there on the peninsula and for that matter in the whole neighborhood. There's a lot of countries that they can reach."
Isn't the possibility of miscalculation a good argument for talking to the North Koreans, if only to handle crises? "Of course it is," Risch said. "Civilized people would do that, wouldn't they?" But North Korea's "recklessness" and "maliciousness" mean that its leaders are "entirely different than the civilized people we're dealing with who are nuclear powers," he said.
Nor does he see much promise for a diplomatic breakthrough resulting from the Olympics. "I subscribe to the president's theory that talking is good," he said. "In the middle of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, all of our cell phones went off at the same time to indicate that the South Koreans had announced that the North Koreans were ready to talk. And we were surprised. Now what does that mean? We don't know yet. Our history of talking with the North has not been good. … They made demands before they'd even sit down at the table—they wanted food, they wanted oil and fuel, they wanted release of sanctions, and those were all given to them when the talks started last time. That is not going to happen this time."
Risch hopes the severe sanctions that the Trump administration has imposed on North Korea will have an impact on the trajectory of the crisis. Yet here too he has his doubts. "Is [Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign] causing them grief? Yes it's causing them grief," he said. "Has it caused them to change their thinking and their actions? Not yet." The administration just implemented strong measures against ships and shipping companies that are helping North Korea evade restrictions on importing and exporting fuel, he noted. But in terms of sanctions, "we're about at the end of the road as far as the kinds of things we can do."
Uri Friedman is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security and global affairs.


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Censure Almost Certain as Rangel Ethics Case Ends
Thursday, 02 December 2010 07:22 AM
Rep. Charles Rangel faces an almost certain censure by the House, a devastating defeat for a 40-year veteran who insisted to the end that he never meant to violate House rules.
If the House votes for censure Thursday as expected, the New York Democrat will have to humbly walk to the front of the chamber to receive his punishment. He'll stand in front of his colleagues while Speaker Nancy Pelosi — in one of her most solemn duties — reads him a resolution condemning his ethical misbehavior.
The House ethics committee took a hard line toward Rangel, 80, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Most past censures involved congressmen who enriched themselves. Rangel was not charged with lining his pockets, although he did fail to pay taxes for 17 years on income from a vacation villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.
In Rangel's case, the House ethics committee said, his long pattern of fundraising and financial misdeeds justified the most severe penalty short of expulsion.
Fellow Democrats on the committee showed Rangel little more mercy than Republicans, as the committee of five members from each party voted 9-1 on Nov. 18 to recommend censure.
Rangel has had a difficult time accepting the punishment and planned to argue on the floor of the House for a lesser reprimand — a vote disapproving his conduct but without the requirement that he stand before his colleagues to accept the discipline.
His argument is that censure is reserved for corrupt congressmen, and he's not one of them.
In a last-ditch attempt to influence the House, Rangel e-mailed about 25,000 campaign supporters Wednesday. He asked them to call the Capitol switchboard to get connected to their congressmen and ask them to vote against censure.
Rangel was apologetic in his plea.
"I am truly sorry for mistakes and would like your help in seeing that I am treated fairly," he wrote.
Rangel said he posted arguments for a reprimand on his website, "which shows that the recommendation for censure is excessive and that my lapses do not rise to the level of transgressions of those censured in the past."
Rangel filed misleading financial disclosure reports for a decade, leaving out hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets he owned. He used congressional letterheads and staff to solicit donations for a center named after him at City College of New York.
The ethics committee found that he contacted businesses and their charitable foundations that had issues before Congress and, specifically, before the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel formerly headed. He was not, however, charged with taking any action on the donors' behalf.
Rangel also set up a campaign office in the Harlem building where he lives, despite a lease specifying the unit was for residential use only.
Rangel has paid the Treasury $10,422 and New York state $4,501 to fulfill another ethics committee recommendation. The amounts were to cover taxes he would have owed on his villa income had the statute of limitations not run out on his tax bills.
Rep. Charles Rangel faces an almost certain censure by the House, a devastating defeat for a 40-year veteran who insisted to the end that he never meant to violate House rules.If the House votes for censure Thursday as expected, the New York Democrat will have to humbly...
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