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'Legal freegans' are looking to 'eat your lunch'
February 15, 2014 Managing Editor Regular News
Advanced technologies and nonlawyer entities are encroaching on the traditional practice of law
Mark D. Killian
In the 1880s, a group of experts was asked about New York City's future. While the prognosticators correctly predicted the city's population would swell exponentially, they concluded New York would become uninhabitable due to the waste generated by more than six million horses the city would need. The impact of the internal combustion engine and electricity was not taken into consideration.
When the Vision 2016's Technology Group sat down at the Bar's Winter Meeting in Orlando, Chair John Stewart told that story (taken from Jeff Stibel's 2013 book Breakpoint and discussed in an article by William & Mary law Professor Frederic Lederer in the January/February issue of The Bencher ) as a parable of the difficulties in discerning how emerging technologies and other trends will affect the future practice of law.
Nevertheless, the 68 members of the Bar's Vision 2016 commission continue their three-year mission to identify the challenges that lie ahead for the profession and to set out a framework for meeting them. In addition to technology, the commission is also focusing on the future of legal education, Bar admissions, and the delivery of pro bono/legal services.
Bar President Eugene Pettis said the commission will spend the next six months collecting information and educating themselves on the issues at hand.
"It is important that if we are truly going to shape the future and be the architects of our future, we are learned in the subject matters we are going to address," Pettis said.
Jay Cohen, the commission's administrator, asked the four subgroups to spend the afternoon narrowing their focuses to three to five key issues each. (See story, here. )
Jordon Furlong, a Canadian lawyer and consultant to law firms on strategic and tactical issues with Edge International, told the Technology Group the biggest issues the profession will face in the next three to five years include:
* Technology that performs a legal or lawyer function.
* Online dispute resolution.
* Technology assisted review.
Companies entering the legal market, including LegalZoom and RocketLawyer, can draft, in a matter of minutes, "airtight, top-notch contracts," pulled together without the use of a lawyer, he said.
"They are really not doing anything that a law firm could not be doing right now, as well, or frankly could have begun doing five years ago," Furlong said.
But that's just the beginning, as more powerful and sophisticated technologies start pouring into the legal marketplace.
"Software," Furlong said, "can answer straightforward legal or regulatory or compliance questions without the involvement of a lawyer."
One such company is Neota Logic, which Furlong said is already being used by law students at Georgetown and some large law firms.
On its website, Neota Logic touts itself as able to deliver knowledge in an operationally useful form as expert systems that can be consulted interactively online or embedded directly in business systems.
"We transform expertise into answers and action in law, compliance, risk management, accounting, human resources, environmental regulation, medicine, and other fields," according to the company. "Our technology, the Neota Logic System, solves problems in many fields, just as Microsoft Excel solves financial and numerical problems without programmers, quickly and efficiently."
While Furlong said predictive data technology is still in its infancy, interviewing software is quickly growing in power, traction, and users.
Are these machines practicing law?
"Yes," Furlong answered — to a certain extent.
He threw out a few questions:
* Should we ban them? "The effort will be interesting, but I'm not sure will be very successful."
* Should we ignore them? "I think that would be unwise."
* Should we adopt them? "Instead of worrying about how technology like this would replace us or knock us out of our position, can we find ways to co-opt it —find ways to integrate it into our practices in order to make those practices more effective and deliver more value to our clients?"
Online dispute resolution is already well established, Furlong said, with companies such as eBay and PayPal already using ODR to resolve upward of 60 million disputes per year.
"This has the potential to get really big really fast — resolving disputes without going to a lawyer or judge," Furlong said.
One online dispute resolution company is Fair Outcomes, Inc., which Furlong said was created by a Boston lawyer and uses game theory to eliminate disputes in both business and family law.
Fair Outcomes, Inc., says on its website that it provides parties involved in disputes or difficult negotiations with access to newly developed proprietary systems that are grounded in mathematical theories of fair division and of games.
"Our founders and staff include game theorists, computer scientists, and practicing attorneys with extensive experience in designing, administering, utilizing, and providing consulting and online services with respect to such systems," according to the company.
"Is ODR in a position where it is going to replace some aspects of ADR?" Furlong asked. "Full replacement? I highly doubt it, but displacement or moving into that field? Quite possibly."
Furlong anticipates advancements in ODR will ultimately reduce the number of cases litigated in court.
He said the Vision 2016 commission should consider if courts should adopt these technologies to use in affiliation with its other dispute resolution tools.
Furlong said ODR technologies most likely will appeal to the latent legal market and will be seen by the public as something that improves access to justice and legal services, which will make it difficult for lawyers to make the case that these types of services should not be offered.
Assisted Review
Also on the horizon are assisted review technologies that do not require the active participation of lawyers, or, at the very least, the central participation of lawyers.
"Predictive coding is basically computer software that, instead of saying to a lawyer: 'Here are 10,000 emails; read each one and figure out what is relevant to our case,' the system uses an algorithm, scans a sample of each document, and can make accurate forecasts of which are significant and which should be used," said Furlong, adding that it is similar to software used in spam filters.
Looking at long-term ramifications, attorneys also need to be concerned about predictive analytics or the whole area of "Big Data," such as IBM's Watson, which can understand natural-language questions and access huge amounts of information to come up with answers. While Watson is currently being used in medical fields, Furlong expects it eventually will turn to the law.
"When it does, we have to be clear about the impact it will have," Furlong said.
In January, IBM announced it plans to invest $1 billion in its IBM Watson Group, according to The Economist magazine.
"If you are a litigator, I imagine a point in the not very distant future, where if a client asks you: 'Will I win this case?' and you will be actually able to provide a predictive response based on analytics and data."
Legal Freegans
University of Miami law Professor Michele DeStefano, founder of LawWithoutWalls —which strives to develop the skills necessary to provide effective legal services in today's global, multi-disciplinary, and cross-cultural marketplace — said as the legal profession changes, lawyers need to grow with it.
"People outside of the law keep saying, 'When is law going to change?' But, as you all know, we all have actually changed a lot over at least the last five years, and some of those changes have been brought about by globalization."
While globalization offers many benefits, it also presents challenges. No longer are lawyers just competing for business with each other; now nonlawyers around the world are vying for work traditionally associated with attorneys, especially when it comes to support services, she said.
Any legal work that can be defined, repeated, and is predictable is ripe for legal process outsourcing, or LPO, DeStefano said.
Some of those companies include:
* Black Hills IP, a U.S.-based company that provides outsourced legal support services. Its legal support services include intellectual property docketing, paralegal, proofreading, and annuity management services. The company says it uses advanced automation software to make paralegal work more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective.
* Pangea3 is a company that DeStefano says provides many law-related services, IT, and back-end services that are profit centers for many U.S. law firms. Headquartered in New York and Mumbai, India, Pangea3 provides legal services and intellectual property services to in-house counsel in U.S., European, and Japanese corporations, and attorneys in international law firms.
* KM Standards describes itself as a knowledge-management company using "technology delivering the first and only contract analysis software." KMS says it has brought "innovative search engine analyses to the field of transactional practice."
DeStefano said the technological changes now entering the legal marketplace are often referred to as "disruptive innovations."
"To differentiate, you do need to innovate," DeStefano said. "At least for us to stay profitable as lawyers, we need to change what we are doing."
DeStefano warned there are "legal freegans" out there who are looking to "eat your lunch."
"They are trying to give to our clients what we do, and they are not lawyers," DeStefano said. "But the problem is: Who can tell the difference? What we are defining as law versus non-law has changed dramatically."
One of the challenges is that these nonlawyer companies are offering the same services as lawyers at a much lower or the same cost, and many of the companies entering their field are large accounting firms "that are not bound by the same rules of professional conduct that we are."
DeStefano said the result is new law firm models and ways to deliver legal services, such as Riverview Law, a U.K. company that aims to change the way organizations use, measure, and buy legal services through fixed price annual and multi-year contracts, plus litigation and advisory packages.
Another is Axiom Law, a 1,000-person firm that bills itself as "experts" in the business of law. "We experience a nerdy excitement from helping general counsel solve business problems, and we do it through three forms of engagement: insourcing, outsourcing, and projects," says Axiom Law's website.
"Axiom Law is changing the game," DeStefano said. "They are not a law firm, but I would bet 80 percent of people surveyed in the law market that have ever heard of them or looks at their website would think they are."
Axiom Law says it is currently serving nearly half of Fortune 100 companies through 12 offices and four centers around the world. DeStefano said Axiom Law opened in 2000, was profitable by 2003, and has raised more than $90 million in private equity, including investment by J.P. Morgan.
Axiom Law's niche makes sure whoever uses its services is an in-house lawyer, in order to avoid running afoul of unlicensed practice of law statutes, DeStefano said.
Services are offered "at a fraction of the cost," of traditional law firms, she said.
"But, believe me, they are offering legal services — or what you and I would call legal services," she said.
On the other end of the spectrum is the aforementioned LegalZoom, going after the legal consumer directly, and also mid-sized corporations.
"You can get divorced online," DeStefano said. "You can draft contracts online."
When LawWithoutWalls went looking for trademark protection, DeStefano said, she was looking at an $8,000-to-$10,000 expenditure using the traditional legal market. LegalZoom did the job for less than $1,000.
Like LegalZoom, RocketLawyer is also focusing on mid-level corporations, offering all the forms LegalZoom does for free, but charging for lawyer and consultant services, DeStefano said.
Another new company is Legal Force, which DeStefano said maintains an in-person kiosk in Palo Alto, and everything else is offered online.
"Blending may be the future. . . a lot of virtual interaction, but when you need a person, you can have them," she said.
Jim Calloway, director of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Management Assistance Program who has chaired the ABA's Tech Show, said with more artificial intelligence functions entering the legal marketplace, lawyers are going to be forced to pick up the pace.
"We, as bar associations and as court systems, proceed very cautiously and deliberately. And, too many times in meetings, we are very good as a profession at poking holes in other people's arguments or standing up for the status quo. We are approaching a time — largely because of technology, but also because of consumer demand — that we are going to have to be more dynamic and be more nimble," Calloway said.
He said technology is already pervasive in law firms, and there is no getting around that technology is going to push aside a lot of barriers.
"Whether we think it is a good thing or a bad thing is going to be irrelevant. It is going to be something that happens," Calloway said.
Furlong used a football analogy to describe the future role of lawyers.
"We need to look at various areas of the legal market and the various functionalities of legal services and ask ourselves if we are the quarterback, the ones who direct the entire offense and are in charge of everything. Or, are we like a wide receiver, an essential member of the offense but not necessarily involved in every play? Or, are we a situational third-down slot back, which is to say a specialist brought in maybe one play out of 10?" he said. "I don't know the answer to that, but I do think there are factions in the legal market in which lawyers can play any of those roles."


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Since the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released in 1990, hundreds of thousands of live turtles, mostly water turtles called red eared sliders, were purchased for between $10 and $25 after each ninja movie was released. The result? Many, if not most, were dumped and even deliberately killed or flushed down the toilet. Remember people buying thousands of dogs that ended up in shelters after 101 Dalmatians came me out? Same problem.
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In August, your children will be enjoying another edition of the extremely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. This will include a whole new generation of kids who missed the 2007 animated film. It's fun and great entertainment.
But, we are writing this to ask for your help.
Since the first movie was released in 1990, hundreds of thousands of live turtles, mostly water turtles called red eared sliders, were purchased for between $10 and $25 after each ninja movie was released. The result? Many, if not most, were dumped and even deliberately killed or flushed down the toilet. Remember people buying thousands of dogs that ended up in shelters after 101 Dalmatians came me out? Same problem.
Unfortunately, children do not realize that real turtles do not fly, perform stunts or do any of the exciting moves fictional movie turtles do. Parents, trying to please their children, purchased live turtles which ended up languishing in tanks. Or, when the kids realized after a few weeks that these were not ninja turtles, the turtles were dumped illegally into rivers and lakes as well as dumpsters, flushed down toilets or relinquished to shelters and overcrowded rescues. It's estimated that 90 percent died. As an aside, zoos do not take turtles.
Turtles have been around for 200 million years and outlived the dinosaur. Is this the way we want to treat our precious wildlife? Most of these turtles are taken out of the wild and sold to pet stores, breeders and mercados for profit.
Here's the bigger problem. Turtles carry salmonella which can make a child very, very sick and can even kill them. That's why turtles less than four inches were banned from sale in the U.S. in 1974 and still are...tiny turtles easily fit into a child's mouth. Children also tend to touch the water and don't wash their hands. It's an ugly problem. A nine month old baby in Los Angeles got salmonella meningitis from a turtle after its parents touched it and then held the baby. We do not recommend live turtles or tortoises for children under 13 because of salmonella exposure and because the kids lose interest almost immediately.
What can you do to help? Buy Ninja action figures and toys instead of live turtles and save a turtle's life, and perhaps even your child's.
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Tag Archives: Jackie Chan
By spankypatterson on February 22, 2010 | Leave a comment
Michael Jackson's This Is It
While I am a fan of MJ's music and do think he was the greatest solo artist of all time, I am in somewhat of a quandry with this release. While I could easily watch him perform rehearsals on a constant loop for the rest of time, I have to question the morals of this documentary. The man was a great performer, but mentally and physically unwell for a long time before his death and had been accused of quite a large number of horrific acts. Also, a lot of people came out of this film on release saying how it showed how MJ was manipulated by those around him – surely buying this DVD would just fund these people? I think a different type of documentary would have still raised the same concerns but surely a more appropriate documentary could have been created with a little more insight into the man? This is still going to shift a massive stack of DVDs, because a lot of people idolised the man and some of the songs are phenomenal.
Jennifer's Body
Listen to Episode 45 for more on this film. I have to say NOTHING could get me to see this movie. I really dislike Diablo Cody and my disdain for Megan Fox (less an actress, more of a prop) knows no bounds and the two of them together sounds like my idea of hell.
Really enjoyable but very flawed 'stitchpunk' movie which while being entertaining, is never challenging Pixar or Disney. The visuals are fantastic and the voice cast is a nice mix of well known actors , but the story is a little disjointed and it tries to appeal to the masses a little too much. It ends up being a little too creepy for small children and too childish in plot to fully work for adults. So while it is more than watchable, you can't shake off the feeling that it could have been a lot better.
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
I thought the original Cabin Fever wasn't a bad little horror/thriller. It was a mix of traditional and teen horror and was well received after being made for only $1.5 million, and a great example of how to use a low budget well. Which is why it is such a shame that this terrible film shares it's name. I think it was made for at least the same amount of money as the original, but boy, does it show! There were rumours that the Director Ti West (the director of the fantastic House of the Devil) disowned the film after claiming that the film was edited in such a way as to dwell on the gory elements of the film. Although without seeing his original version, I couldn't tell whether studio intervention hurt the film, the fact that House of the Devil was so good does make me question it.
The Crazies (1973)
The George Romero original set in Evan's City, Pennsylvania where a biological virus turns the townfolk insane. This is a classic, but under appreciated horror which hopefully will become more popular with the soon-to-be released remake starring Timothy Olyphant (which looks like it could also be very good, if the trailer is anything to go by)
Also out this week: Shinjuku Incident – The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – Katalin Varga
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Heroes of the East- Donnie Yen
By Tom Says on March 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
Now I wasn't planning to write two columns in a row about martial arts stars, but after seeing Ip Man last week, I decided I was in the mood to discuss the career of Donnie Yen. Added to the fact that Ip Man was choreographed by Sammo Hung and you have quite a nice link into this post, though this was simply a coincidence and should not be considered a stroke of genius.
Now as you might gather from the photo above, Donnie Yen is a bit of a poser. Unlike Sammo, the man rarely plays things for laughs (and when he does, such as in the film Wing Chun, the results are a bit awkward). Though this is not a problem for him, as he oozes charisma and is still one of Hong Kong cinema's biggest bad-asses (the most technical term that I could come up with!). Western audiences might recognise Yen from his roles in Blade 2 or Shanghai Knights (his fight with Jackie Chan being a huge letdown for those waiting years to see the two duel). However he has been around since the Hong Kong New Wave in the mid 80s, making his debut in the rather ridiculous Drunken Tai Chi. And he pretty much still looks and moves the same as he did decades ago, which can be evidenced in recent films like S.P.L and Ip Man! Acting wise, he's ok, but his fighting techniques have always remained stunning. Donnie Yen is quick and well versed in a variety of styles, so it's always a pleasure to watch him fight (even when he's matched up against lesser performers).
TOP 3 DONNIE YEN MOVIES
1- Iron Monkey- This film was probably the first time that Donnie Yen caught my attention and it remains one of his most well known movies. The wire work goes a little overboard, but for the most part it's spectacular to watch, including a fight sequence involving umbrellas and another where Yen battles an opponent while standing on top of wooden poles. (Trailer)
2- Once Upon a Time in China 2- I think it takes a little courage in China for leading men to play villains. I know Jackie Chan has turned down a bunch of bad guy roles to protect his hero image, so it was great to see Donnie Yen play the evil Commander Lan. The movie itself is decent enough, but it's the final fight sequence between Yen and Jet Li, which is a stand out in the whole of kung fu cinema (Donnie Yen also uses rolled up wet cloth as a weapon during the film, which further demonstrates his immense bad-ass status). (Trailer)
3- In the Line of Duty 4- This film is definitely just about the fights (barely a story), and don't worry if you have not seen the first three in the series…it really makes no difference. But once again the moves displayed by Yen are a sight to behold and a great deal of the thanks can be attributed to his frequent director/choreographer/collaborator Yuen Woo-Ping (a man who is unfortunately often billed as simply being behind The Matrix fight sequences, seemingly ignoring most of his other amazing credentials…but more on him later). In the Line of Duty 4 is a brutal film and will make you wince at the beatings the actors receive…I hope these guys have a good health care system! (Trailer)
Special Mention- Ip Man- I've mentioned this film at the start of my post and while I don't think it's one of Donnie Yen's better movies, it's still extremely entertaining and even in his mid-40s, the man moves like lightning. It also tells a surprisingly interesting story about the first master of Wing Chun who taught the style openly and eventually becomes Bruce Lee's teacher (a subject which is going to be covered in the sequel). Of course the film does take extreme liberties with the truth. It's set during the Japanese occupation of China, and there were moments where I thought Donnie Yen's character was going to rewrite history and end the war himself. However it's a fun ride filled with short bursts of intense combat…not quite an action overload (though it's more of a loose historical biopic anyway), but still very entertaining. (Trailer)
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Q: console.log the mouse coordinates every 2 seconds I have the below code:
window.addEventListener('mousemove', ()=>{
   myInterval = setTimeout(mouseMove, 2000);
});

const mouseMove = () => {
    console.log('first console');
    onMouseMove = (e) => console.log("mouse location:", e.x, e.y)
}

Only at the end of the timeout I should console.log the coordinates of the mouse; however, onMouseMove is not respecting the timeout logic.
The console.log('first console') is triggered only at the end of the 2 seconds, but onMouseMove triggers with every move of the mouse.
In addition to the above, I would like to console.log only the last coordinate at the end of this 2 seconds.
I've tried changing between setInterval and setTimeout, also clearing these interval and timeout, but still didnt work as intended.

A: The OP should use a throttle approach like the one of lodash (throttle) or underscorejs (throttle).
The advantage is to not being forced to deal with the time/out management. One just implements a simple logging function. The event handling also is done as usual with the small exception of passing a throttled version of e.g. the mouse coordinates logging as event handler.
The throttling is taken care of by a throttle method of one's choice (unless one has implemented one's own throttle functionality). Thus such a method creates a throttled version of a passed/provided function which invokes said function at most once per every milliseconds (where the latter value was passed to the method as well).

const logMouseCoords = (evt) => {
  console.log("mouse location:", evt.x, evt.y);
}
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  .addEventListener('mousemove', _.throttle(logMouseCoords, 2000));
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  left: auto!important;
  width: 50%;
  min-height: 100%;
}
.mousepad {
  position: fixed;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: rgba(255, 204, 0, .3);
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A: You want to throttle the call. There is many ways to do it, but here is a basic one where you call the function with the timeout. You set the timeout to determine if the timer is running. If it is you do not create a timeout.

const throttleMouseMove = (callback) => {
  const ms = 2000;

  let active = null;
  let x = -1;
  let y = -1;

  return function(evt) {
    x = evt.clientX;
    y = evt.clientY;
    if (!active) {
      active = setTimeout(() => {
        callback.apply(this, [{ x, y}] );
        active = null;
      }, ms)
    }
  }
}

const sayPosition = ({ x,y }) => {
  console.log(x,y);
}

window.addEventListener('mousemove', throttleMouseMove(sayPosition));

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Denne artikel indeholder en liste over væsentlige skibskatastrofer, hvor skibe er forulykket med større tab af menneskeliv til følge.

Danske skibskatastrofer

 1811 (24. december). De to engelske krigsskibe St. Georg og Defence forliser på revlerne ud for det nuværende Thorsminde. 1.391 omkommer og kun 18 reddes.
 1896, Castor
 1905 (25. juni) Skoleskibet Georg Stage, påsejlet af den engelske damper Ancona i Hollænderdybet.
 1928 Skoleskibet København, sporløst forsvundet i Sydatlanten.
 1947 M/S Kina ramt undersøisk skær, forlist d.25/12 47 ved Filippinerne, 34 Omkomne.
 1948 Kjøbenhavn (rutebåd)
 1952 Flying Enterprise forlist i Nordatlanten.
 1959 (30. januar) M/S Hans Hedtoft forlist syd for Kap Farvel (95 omkom)
 1959 (8. juli) Katastrofen på Haderslev Dam (57 omkom)
 1990 (7. april) Scandinavian Star, skibsbrand, Kattegat (158 omkom)

Internationale skibskatastrofer

 1628, Regalskeppet Vasa
 1676, Stora Kronan, samt admiralsskibet Svärdet.
 1694, HMS Sussex
 1858, SS Austria  sank i Nordatlanten i en af de værste skibskatastrofer i 1800-tallet, hvor 471 personer omkom.
 1904, S/S Norge
 1904, General Slocum
 1912, Titanic
 1914, Empress of Ireland
 1915, Lusitania
 1916, Britannic
 1917, Halifaxeksplosionen, det franske S/S Mont Blanc, var lastet med sprængstoffer kolliderede med norske S/S Imo ud for Halifax i provinsen Nova Scotia i Canada. Ca. 2.000 mennesker omkom ved den efterfølgende eksplosion og ca. 9.000 mennesker blev såret.
 1923, Skibskatastrofen ved Honda Point
 1944, Rigel-katastrofen
 1945 30. januar, Wilhelm Gustloff (over 9.000 omkom)
 1945 9. februar, SS General von Steuben (over 3.000)
 1945 16. april, MS Goya (omkring 6.800 omkom)
 1945 3. maj, Cap Arcona (omkring 5.000 omkom)
 1945 3. maj, SS Theilbeck (omkring 2.750 omkom)
 1956, Andrea Doria
 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald
 1987, Doña Paz (omkring 4375 omkom)
 1993, M/S Jan Heweliusz
 1994, 27./28. september, Estonia (852 omkom)
 1999, MS Sleipner
 2000, K-141 Kursk
 2006, Al-Salam Boccaccio 98
 2008, Princess of the Stars
 2013, Costa Concordia

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958 CHICAGO CUBS -160 Un 8,-110 -145 Un 7.5,-105
CINCINNATI - Current Season Performance
All Games 70-81 -10.6 57-86 4.4 0.245 0.306 0.425 0.731 4.4 0.238 0.307 0.413 0.720
Road Games 31-47 -10.7 30-45 4.4 0.235 0.295 0.414 0.710 4.4 0.243 0.311 0.419 0.730
Grass Games 70-81 -10.6 57-86 4.4 0.245 0.306 0.425 0.731 4.4 0.238 0.307 0.413 0.720
Night Games 50-43 +8.2 35-54 4.7 0.244 0.311 0.437 0.748 4.1 0.235 0.306 0.404 0.709
Division 29-39 -10.8 29-33 4.7 0.258 0.313 0.444 0.757 4.9 0.254 0.322 0.431 0.753
CINCINNATI - Team Hitting and Fielding Statistics
All Games 4.4 0.245 0.306 151 5067 1240 214 27 216 0.425 647 447 1327 72 976 119 81 120 84
Road Games 4.4 0.235 0.295 78 2667 628 112 22 107 0.414 332 226 677 43 488 67 44 61 44
Righty Starters 4.5 0.242 0.301 113 3768 910 170 18 170 0.432 490 320 997 51 696 87 55 89 65
CINCINNATI - Bullpen Pitching Statistics
Road Games 4.14 1.278 254.3 121 117 224 30 101 281 12-20 20 11 64.5%
CHICAGO CUBS - Current Season Performance
Home Games 51-24 +15.3 33-37 5.4 0.266 0.344 0.474 0.817 3.9 0.238 0.298 0.384 0.682
vs Right-handed Starters 68-50 +6.6 56-53 5.3 0.256 0.328 0.462 0.790 4.3 0.253 0.317 0.416 0.733
Past 7 Games 5-2 +2.3 5-2 9.6 0.315 0.384 0.610 0.993 4.4 0.263 0.339 0.370 0.710
Grass Games 82-68 -0.9 69-70 5.1 0.254 0.326 0.457 0.783 4.3 0.250 0.315 0.413 0.728
Night Games 41-45 -10.5 42-39 4.8 0.248 0.320 0.449 0.768 4.8 0.261 0.327 0.445 0.773
Division 35-29 +0.9 27-33 5.2 0.255 0.327 0.461 0.788 4.2 0.257 0.314 0.416 0.731
CHICAGO CUBS - Team Hitting and Fielding Statistics
All Games 5.1 0.254 0.326 150 5055 1283 248 24 243 0.457 742 544 1354 43 993 141 105 131 85
Home Games 5.4 0.266 0.344 75 2448 650 127 16 117 0.474 386 291 619 23 494 79 50 70 36
Righty Starters 5.3 0.256 0.328 118 3995 1022 201 17 196 0.462 605 429 1077 32 779 102 76 111 76
CHICAGO CUBS - Bullpen Pitching Statistics
All Games 3.96 1.328 509.7 237 224 444 63 233 510 31-26 37 23 61.7%
Home Games 3.05 1.173 256.7 92 87 205 24 96 264 23-8 24 12 66.7%
CINCINNATI - Schedule
9/3/2019 SIMS(R) PHILADELPHIA VELASQUEZ(R) 2-6 L +100 10.5 un U 6 8 0 10 8 0
9/4/2019 BAUER(R) PHILADELPHIA NOLA(R) 8-5 W +135 9 ev O 9 5 0 7 3 0
9/5/2019 GRAY(R) PHILADELPHIA VARGAS(L) 4-3 W -145 9 ov U 9 7 1 7 6 0
9/6/2019 MAHLE(R) ARIZONA RAY(L) 5-7 L +110 9.5 un O 7 11 0 12 8 0
9/7/2019 CASTILLO(R) ARIZONA YOUNG(L) 0-2 L -145 8.5 ov U 3 4 2 4 8 0
9/8/2019 DESCLAFANI(R) ARIZONA LEAKE(R) 4-3 W -125 9.5 un U 12 8 1 3 7 0
9/10/2019 BAUER(R) @ SEATTLE SHEFFIELD(L) 3-4 L -125 9 un U 8 6 0 4 3 0
9/11/2019 GRAY(R) @ SEATTLE GONZALES(L) 3-5 L -150 8 ov P 5 8 1 4 2 0
9/12/2019 MAHLE(R) @ SEATTLE DUNN(R) 11-5 W -120 9 ev O 11 7 0 11 9 0
9/13/2019 CASTILLO(R) @ ARIZONA LEAKE(R) 4-3 W -115 8.5 ov U 5 2 0 7 8 1
9/14/2019 DESCLAFANI(R) @ ARIZONA KELLY(R) 0-1 L 115 9 un U 3 3 0 1 0 1
9/15/2019 BAUER(R) @ ARIZONA GALLEN(R) 3-1 W 150 8 ov U 6 5 2 4 4 0
9/16/2019 GAUSMAN(R) @ CHICAGO CUBS HAMELS(L) 2-8 L 150 9 un O 6 11 1 10 7 0
9/17/2019 GRAY(R) @ CHICAGO CUBS DARVISH(R)
9/18/2019 MAHLE(R) @ CHICAGO CUBS LESTER(L)
9/20/2019 CASTILLO(R) NY METS DEGROM(R)
9/21/2019 DESCLAFANI(R) NY METS WHEELER(R)
9/22/2019 BAUER(R) NY METS MATZ(L)
9/24/2019 MILWAUKEE
CHICAGO CUBS - Schedule
9/3/2019 LESTER(L) SEATTLE HERNANDEZ(R) 6-1 W -250 10 ov U 8 6 0 9 11 1
9/5/2019 QUINTANA(L) @ MILWAUKEE ANDERSON(R) 10-5 W -115 9 ov O 16 10 2 6 8 1
9/6/2019 HAMELS(L) @ MILWAUKEE DAVIES(R) 1-7 L -110 9.5 ov U 3 3 2 10 11 0
9/7/2019 DARVISH(R) @ MILWAUKEE GONZALEZ(L) 2-3 L -115 9 ov U 4 6 1 7 10 1
9/8/2019 LESTER(L) @ MILWAUKEE HOUSER(R) 5-8 L 115 8.5 ov O 7 5 0 9 5 1
9/9/2019 HENDRICKS(R) @ SAN DIEGO QUANTRILL(R) 10-2 W -145 8.5 un O 15 9 2 9 9 1
9/10/2019 QUINTANA(L) @ SAN DIEGO BOLANOS(R) 8-9 L -165 9 un O 9 7 1 11 9 1
9/11/2019 HAMELS(L) @ SAN DIEGO PADDACK(R) 0-4 L -105 8 ov U 3 4 2 7 8 0
9/12/2019 DARVISH(R) @ SAN DIEGO LAMET(R) 4-1 W -155 8 ev U 8 6 0 5 7 0
9/13/2019 LESTER(L) PITTSBURGH BRAULT(L) 17-8 W -190 11.5 ev O 16 10 3 13 7 0
9/14/2019 HENDRICKS(R) PITTSBURGH MARVEL(R) 14-1 W -275 10.5 ov O 14 5 0 8 10 0
9/15/2019 QUINTANA(L) PITTSBURGH WILLIAMS(R) 16-6 W -245 11.5 un O 19 6 1 14 8 1
9/16/2019 HAMELS(L) CINCINNATI GAUSMAN(R) 8-2 W -160 9 un O 10 7 0 6 11 1
9/17/2019 DARVISH(R) CINCINNATI GRAY(R)
9/18/2019 LESTER(L) CINCINNATI MAHLE(R)
9/19/2019 HENDRICKS(R) ST LOUIS FLAHERTY(R)
9/20/2019 QUINTANA(L) ST LOUIS WACHA(R)
9/21/2019 HAMELS(L) ST LOUIS HUDSON(R)
9/22/2019 DARVISH(R) ST LOUIS MIKOLAS(R)
9/24/2019 @ PITTSBURGH
Cubs look to keep pace in playoff race vs. Reds
The Chicago Cubs know the odds of making a deep postseason run might not be in their favor.
They plan to go for it anyway.
Chicago (82-68) will look to make it six consecutive wins when its hosts the Cincinnati Reds (70-81) on Tuesday night. The Cubs won the series opener 8-2 Monday behind a three-run home run by Kyle Schwarber and a two-run double by Nicholas Castellanos.
With 12 games to go in the regular season, the Cubs trail the St. Louis Cardinals by two games for the top spot in the National League Central. Chicago has a one-game lead over Milwaukee for the NL's second wild-card berth.
Oh, and Cubs manager Joe Maddon's contract is set to expire at the end of the season.
No pressure. Right?
"Joe's done a great job, as always," Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said to reporters. "Since he's been here, he's been a terrific partner. There have been a lot of moving parts thrown at him this year. It's not the type of thing that normally bothers him. ...
"He takes such an even-keeled approach to managing the club, so he's not rattled by (injuries). He looks for solutions and collaborates. You couldn't tell if he has a totally healthy roster or is leading the league in injuries. He's unflappable that way."
Epstein spoke shortly after the Cubs announced that first baseman Anthony Rizzo underwent an MRI exam that showed a moderate right ankle sprain. Rizzo will not need surgery, but his status for the remainder of the regular season is in doubt with less than two weeks to go.
Meanwhile, the Reds are trying to end their season on a high note after a string of disappointments.
Cincinnati right-hander Sonny Gray (10-7, 2.80 ERA) is slated to make his 30th start after being pushed back a day. He is coming off a hard-luck loss in which he allowed three runs on two hits in 6 1/3 innings in a 5-3 setback to the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.
Gray is 2-2 with a 2.86 ERA in five starts against the Cubs. Four of those matchups have come this season, with Gray going 2-1 with a 2.70 ERA.
"He believes he's the best pitcher out there and that he can get every hitter out," Reds manager David Bell recently told reporters. "Combine that with his stuff and experience, he's just continuing to get better. It'll be exciting to watch how far he can take it."
The Cubs plan to counter with right-hander Yu Darvish (6-6, 3.97 ERA), who will make his 30th start of 2019 after making only eight starts in his first season with the franchise. Darvish earned a win in his last outing as he tossed six scoreless innings against the San Diego Padres on Thursday, surrendering only two hits and walking two while striking out 14.
In seven career starts against Cincinnati, Darvish is 3-1 with a 3.35 ERA.
Chicago is 51-24 at home this season. Cincinnati is 30-46 on the road.


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Michelle Obama Launches National Service Conference
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SAN FRANCISCO — National service and volunteering took center stage yesterday (6/22) as First Lady Michelle Obama spoke about two new volunteering initiatives this year during the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering & Service in San Francisco.
"You're the movers and shakers who've made giving back cool and made volunteering a nationwide movement," she said to more than 4,000 people gathered for the opening plenary of the three-day conference.
Speakers included the First Lady, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, musician Jon Bon Jovi and actor Matthew McConaughey.
The First Lady announced an initiative where national service will be at the center of television programming this fall on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which The Nonprofit Times reported exclusively last week.
During the week of October 19, the major four networks and others will intertwine service into show plots and story lines. The initiative, created by Los Angeles-based The Entertainment Industry Foundation, will collaborate with The White House, AARP and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), as well as Points of Light Institute and 200 other organizations that were part of the ServiceNation Summit held this past September.
The First Lady also talked about United We Serve – an initiative President Obama announced via video message on June 17, calling all Americans to incorporate service and volunteerism into their lives this summer as a part of a national initiative led by the CNCS.
United We Serve will kicked off yesterday and will run for 81 days, culminating in a National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.
The First Lady described the surging in service and volunteering, with more than 35,000 applying for 4,000 slots for Teach for America and AmeriCorps applications quadrupling. But she urged that volunteer and service organizations still have important jobs ahead of them.
"When our economy falters, you're the ones who deal with the fallout – more folks needing those food pantries; more families needing help to stay in their homes and pay their bills; cities and states cutting services, leaving so many people with nowhere to turn," she said.
"And just as more people desperately need your help, you've got fewer resources at your disposal — so you're making do with less staff, working longer hours, stretching every dollar even further. So you know better than just about anyone how badly we need change right now," said the First Lady.
The First Lady explained that national service would be key to achieving national priorities, especially in the administration's focus areas of clean energy, education and healthcare, and emphasized that the government can't change the world without the help of volunteers.
"But at the end of the day, there's only so much we can do from Washington. Government can't be everywhere and do everything — we need active, engaged citizens like all of you to step up and do their part too," she said.
The newly-announced initiatives are just two parts of administration's overall plan to extend national service. On April 21, the President signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would cost approximately $5.7 billion during the next six years.
The Serve America Act includes tripling the strength of AmeriCorps, from 75,000 to 250,000 volunteers each year, and establishing Encore Fellowships, a one-year fellowship for Americans 50 and older.
"We all know that our challenges are great and that we've got a long, hard road ahead of us. But standing here today with all of you — people who love this country and have devoted your lives to helping people share in its promise — I feel nothing but hope for our future," she said.
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Weeds are interfered with the utilization of land and water resources and adversely affect crop productivity of crops. In a comprehensive term, weed is a plant growing in field other than a croup.
Weeds been well adapted, competitive with crop plants, interfere with agricultural operation an ultimately reduce the economic produce. Some conclude that weeds caused more losses than other form of pests like insects' diseases, nematodes, rodents etc. Some estimates put as high as 100% yield losses due to weeds.


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The student is assumed to have a background in programming and programming languages. A basic first year mathematical education including an introductory course in mathematical logic is required. The student should be familiar with first order predicate calculus including its semantics and proof theory. A course in program semantics is useful.
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Partial solutions to past exam (19960814 ) Observe that the use of the for all definition in the proof of lemma 1 for problem 1 is wrong. You would need to use conditional substitution together with the corresponding assumptions about m1,m2 and m3.
For the exam, you are not allowed to bring anything but writing material (pen, pencil, rubber). This sheet will be distributed at the exam, for your aid.
You can earn up to 4 points (out of 100) in the final exam by answering correctly to the questions at the beginning of some of the lectures. You can also secure 12 points in the final exam by passing three home assignments.
You will probably find the guide on writing proofs to be of help for solving the problems. Hand in your assignments BEFORE the deadline, using Studentportalen . You should upload your assignment as a .pdf file, it is recommended that you use LaTeX . The deadlines are hard, no late submissions will be considered. The assignment is to be solved individually, meaning that you can discuss solutions with course mates, but not hand in identical solutions.
The labs will make use of the Spec# language from Microsoft Research. A number of exercises will have to be solved in order to pass the course. Exercises are to be handed in using studentportalen . The deadlines are strict and late submissions will be ignored.
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Discover Gainsborough | The Pilgrim Woman
Pilgrim Roots
The Pilgrim Woman
The Pilgrim Woman bronze statue is a lasting legacy bringing attention to the often unheard stories of the women who travelled to America on the Mayflower
Located on the water's edge of the River Trent in Gainsborough, the Pilgrim Woman is a symbol of growth and new beginnings as she prepares to leave her home to travel to America onboard the Mayflower.
The Mayflower story is often dominated by the idea of the 'Pilgrim Fathers' when in fact both, men, woman and children were part of the journey. Some of these women were the wives of leading Separatists including Mary Brewster, wife of William Brewster who served as a leader instrumental in establishing the Plymouth Colony in America. Mary was also one of the women to survive the first winter in America, and may have helped cook the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
It is quite fitting that the Pilgrim Woman is situated looking over the River Trent as research tells us that of those who escaped from Gainsborough in 1608 to Amsterdam, the majority were in fact mainly women and children and accompanied by a couple of men.
On 10 May 1608, a group of Separatists decided to escape from Gainsborough in search of religious freedom. They left via the River Trent on a small barge called 'The Francis' which travelled to Stallingborough near Immingham, where they would meet a larger boat that would take them to Amsterdam in Holland. By the time they reached Stallingborough, there were more than 80 people on-board.
The statue is mounted on a piece of stone which has the words "Steering our Future Informed by Our Past" carved on to it. These are the words from the national Mayflower 400 partnership and reflects how it is important to look back at our history, how it is relevant today and how it will carry us into the future.
Gainsborough's other main link to the Mayflower story is that a group of Separatists (some that escaped to Holland) were thought to have worshipped in secret in Gainsborough Old Hall – now regarded as one of the best preserved medieval manor houses in Britain – with the permission of its sympathetic owner, merchant William Hickman. The United Reformed Church in Gainsborough also stands as a memorial to John Robinson, pastor to the Mayflower Pilgrims and one of the founders leaders of the Separatists, and credited with being a founder of the Congregational churches.
The Pilgrim Woman was commissioned by West Lindsey District Council with funding from the Gainsborough Development Fund. The sculpture was designed by Nottinghamshire Sculptor, Rachel Carter and is part of her 'Spirit of the Mayflower' project.
The Pilgrim Woman was designed using highly advanced technology that involved hundreds of digital images being pieced together to create the final version. Rachel herself was the model for the Pilgrim Woman, wearing a full-sized Tudor dress, created by the sewing group at Gainsborough Old Hall. The sewing group have taught historical sewing techniques for many years and also make their own costumes for their own events that take place at the Old Hall.
For more information about the Pilgrim Woman, listen to Rachel's Spirit of the Mayflower Podcast (episode 10). Go to www.rachelcarter.co.uk/podcast. For more information about her projects visit www.rachelcarter.co.uk/projects.
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Our last day as Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery was Friday 30 November. The site is now closed as we develop new displays, new stories to tell, and new services to offer.
We would like to sincerely thank all of you for your support over our many years, and the amazing stories you have shared with us.
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Most of the Romanesque mural painting that has survived has a religious subject matter, but we also find decoration of a courtly or profane nature in large monastic centres, such as San Pedro de Arlanza in Castile. This fragment comes from a palatine room in the so-called Torre del Tesoro, above the chapter house, where there were zoomorphic representations inspired in the bestiary. Here we see a gryphon, a fabled creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, in a vigilant pose. The style of the paintings in Arlanza is related to other Spanish works of 1200 art clearly influenced by the English miniature, something that can be seen in the refinement and the precision of the motifs, combined with their monumental nature.
Flanked the south window. The MNAC has 5 more fragments from the same decorative group. There are others at the Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, The Cloisters in New York and another one in a private collection. They come from a room in the former Benedictine abbey of San Pedro de Arlanza (Burgos), located over the chapter house, on the ground floor of the Torre del Tesoro.


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The Digital Transformation in Public & Private Markets
Nidhi Singh, Chief Product Officer from Charles River development, and Jason Adams, Chief Technology Officer from Mercatus join together to discuss the digital transformation happening for investors in both public and private markets.
Kali Jakobi:
Welcome to Data Disruption, a podcast all about data problems, solutions and innovations disrupting the private markets. I'm your host, Kali Jakobi. Let's talk data.
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Data Disruption. As always, I'm your host, Kali Jakobi, and today I'm joined by not one, but two incredible guests. We have Jason Adams, chief technology officer from Mercatus, and Nidhi Singh, chief product officer from Charles River Development. Jason, Nidhi, welcome to the show.
Jason Adams:
Thanks, Kali. Great to be here.
Nidhi Singh:
Good to be here, Kali.
Today we're going to be talking about the digital transformation happening for investors in both public and private markets. Can both of you give a quick overview of your companies and the technology and services you offer? Nidhi, we can start with you.
Sure. So, as many of you probably know, Charles River Development is a financial technology firm that's predominantly focused on front office services that caters to asset managers, wealth management. About four years ago, when it was acquired with State Street, the vision and the goal was to really have front to back offering across the multiple segments. So Charles River enables our portfolio managers, as well as the investment users in the financial market space to be able to do a end-to-end, seamless, front to back offering. As part of us having the partnership with Mercatus with the last year's acquisition, it clearly continues our vision of looking at the different segments and ensuring that we can get not just the front to back on one segment, but really looking at how the investors are looking the space, whether it's on the institutional space, wealth space, private market space. The CRD's goal is to really look at that from front to back and provide those services from end-to-end connectivity, end-to-end features and functionality, and then taking it to the next step on not just the multi-asset, but the multi-segment view from a investment management perspective.
Thanks, Kali, and thanks, Nidhi, for that introduction to Charles River. Where Charles River is focused on where Nidhi had noted in the public markets and front to back, Mercatus is an investment data management platform focused purely on the private market segment. It is really built for that private markets' manager who's focused on multi-asset class portfolios within privates. So we focus primarily on data collection, consolidation, data orchestration, data assurance and oversight. What that really allows that manager to do is to focus on those primary needs of deal management, portfolio monitoring, asset management, valuation management and reporting use cases like ESG and investor reporting.
So let's dive deep here on technology for investors in both public and private markets. Can you tell us a little bit about how multi-asset managers solve their data challenges? As a more public market investor who are pursuing private funds, how is that changing the landscape for your technology?
Well, I guess I'll jump in and go first here because I think there's two parts of this question around how are multi-asset managers solving their data challenges. And then aside to that is how those public market investors are pursuing private funds. In addition to public, how you're looking at a holistic book. I would say that it's a big question and I would focus really on what is the state of the industry today. Honestly, it's not very attractive, but most managers are managing these portfolios with Excel spreadsheets and email still today. You might have a couple of point solutions thrown in for the mix for a given asset class or a strategy, but what we saw five to seven years ago of simply doing a data transformation project inside of your firm and looking to just get all the data into a data warehouse and put a BI tool on top of it, it's just not working.
One of the insights that I've seen, and Nidhi, I love to get your take on this as well, is one of the biggest challenge is not actually the technology, it's fundamentally getting consensus internally on what datum actually matters and what story does it need to tell and getting all of those different asset class owners and BU heads and all of that to agree on what we need before you can even insert technology there to help with that journey. What's your take on that, Nidhi?
That's a very good point. Look, I've been in financial markets for almost all of my career, dating myself back from when I used to trade on the floor, where data is always the underpinning of everything that we do in financial markets. I think, Jason, your point is pretty valid. If you go back and look at the cycles of what the initiatives that the companies have always used, like "Oh, we're all going to go and do data transformation and we're going to solve for this data problem," and if you look back, and I'm sure you've done it in your career, I could go back and look at it, just say you start a career, you start a project and two years down the road, it's like, "Oh, it's too difficult, too hard," and almost always comes down to, "Well, our technology just can't do it." And it's really not technology.
I think your point is very valid. When you look at data, what does it mean to be data, data for financial markets? Is this a security type? Is it the volatility and risk profiles that I need to look at? What type of personas that different users have in the company look at the data and interpret data very differently? It's not an easy problem to solve. I think what people are realizing is it's easy for us to say, "We're going to have a data solution for multi-asset platform that crosses multi-segment." Well, that's a lot of things in one sentence, but look at the projects that we're working on ADP, even those are a bit challenging because you start to bring in to say, "Yeah, I can build a technology on ADP built on snowflakes and have all the latest technology that I can put in." But it comes down to even as simple as what's an entity? A PIMCO entity in Goldman could be depending on the business you go to is viewed very differently, set up very differently.
So, I think it's really a normalization of that data. I think where technology can help is a creative solution of how to not push the businesses to transform completely, but be able to translate that data. But the underpinning of that is going to be you need those data scientists and you need those data analysts to be able to look at those data and interpret it to say, "Okay. An account in your world looks like this and in this world looks like this." But at the end of the day, we need to normalize those things. I think where we can from a technology and a FinTech provider can really solve for those is if we venture into that. That's part of the reason why even the organization, the way we've set up is to really have those SME experts that understand those personas, those data profiles and take that and then work closely with. It's a lot easier for technology to be built, even to provide that flexibility if somebody actually explains what you want it to be today and where you think it's going to evolve two years, five years down the road.
Both of your answers to that really got me thinking about a conversation I was having with one of our clients the other day, and he really talked about how difficult the process was for his internal team when they started adopting technology because he didn't even realize that they didn't know what they needed to track and things like that. So it was a lot of internal debate before they could even deploy technology, which we definitely see more often than not.
Yeah, 100%, Kali. I think that everybody wants to rush to getting all the data into one place. This is all your integrations and point management solution and interval of alignments of, "Am I collecting this quarterly or monthly or daily?" And then accelerating all the way to advanced functions, like predictive analysis and trend analysis and full data lineage. These things sound great, but where to your point and to the client that you're talking about's point, people get stuck in the middle and it's not that whiz-bang. It's getting consensus internally on what matters and identifying the most important rules and assurance rules and data quality rules you need to play by by asset class. Getting those two things done is a large bulk of the effort, and the technology platforms that we build and bring to market are going to help with the rest. Hopefully, by being a trusted advisor, we can accelerate that process too and help guide our clients in the right direction, but those are definitely the biggest challenges that I see.
Absolutely. So, let's talk more about the digital transformation journey for an asset manager or owner. There's a lot of options out there that we've already chatted about, but you could either build a system, partner with technology consultants, buy platforms like offered by CRD and Mercatus. So, what are your all's advice for CFOs and CTOs trying to navigate the beginning of this?
I could give my perspective. I think people may look at it selfishly since we're in the FinTech business and solve for that, that it's always difficult to build. But I can give you my perspective, having one of the unique things that I feel that I bring to the table is I've been on both sides. I've been on the customer side. I've been at banks like Goldman and Deutsche Bank that basically deals with the data problem across departments differently. I've worked at FinTech firms and startup firms, right? So I think it ties into the first point that we were just talking about, right? The simple answer is going to be it's always going to be difficult to build something internally. The reason for that is think about if you take any clients, at least I could tell you from public side, I'm sure even as we are working on the public to private, but if you take even one segment, the number of touchpoints and the different data sets that you have is not always just all in-house.
It would very easy for you to build and software it if you built everything from scratch in-house. But you have Bloomberg. You have MSCI. You've got Axioma. You've got providers like CRD, Mercatus. I don't think a company and our clients, that's not their bread and butter. They need to have data that can enable them to run their business better. Should they really be spending their technology dollars to build all these connectivities, scrub this data versus actually saying, "Look, we'll have a smaller staff that can integrate with the rest of our systems, but let somebody else deal with a lot of the integration." Just working through and looking at the projects that we have today, and Jason alluded to it, it's a lot of effort to even scrub and clean that data.
I always tell our clients when we talk about it to say, "You do have to have the right partners, but a good FinTech provider is not just bunch of techies who can just build a latest and greatest technology. It's a combination of really good technologists that are paired with really good SMEs, right? You can actually have those subject matter expertise that do this day in and day out," right? For a FinTech provider, our P&L and our revenue is to make these products better. When you look from a client perspective, they're the expense, right? You want to look at the expense at the lowest cost and partner with someone who can provide those solutions. So I think my approach has always been structure your product organization and your financial technology organization in such a way that you can actually understand those problems, work with clients to solve for those data challenges that we talked about in just a short while ago, and then build a really good technology that can service that.
I think that probably answers the question at least from my perspective that it's always difficult. I've seen firms, including when I was Goldman, to try to solve for these in-house, it's near impossible because vendors will evolve and you have to keep adding and keeping pace at it. In all fairness, subset of these datas are commoditized, right? In essence, once you can figure that out, there is not… There's a unique way of interpreting the data, but the underlying data is still the same, and it's just a matter of publishing and storing and archiving and providing those data sets to the clients is where I think a client should look at a good partner that can actually have skin in the game to provide that technology suite and product suite to solve for those problems.
I'm going to piggyback off of one of the points that Nidhi just made around tech-enabled services or tech-plus services. One thing that I always take a look at is no one's ever going to in the FinTech space, specifically in the space that Charles River and Mercatus operates in going to deploy software and then never touch it again. Clients are never going to be successful and there's a lot of reasons for that. I can speak to the private market landscape today. The data collection complexities alone across many of the common asset classes, private credit, real estate, technology simply can't solve it today effectively. So it requires technology, it requires services and it requires that subject matter expertise that Nidhi was mentioning.
Another aspect that I think leads to this challenge of the journey that an asset manager or owner is going to take as they look to build versus buy or partner is the technology skillsets that you need in order to harness and actually bring to market, whether it's a bespoke system internally or something broader with bigger aspirations. I think you're going to find that running a product and engineering organization as a wholly internal FinTech firm is difficult, right? To do it right, you're not going to be able to do this with just a couple of analysts and someone who knows Python. It's just not going to work. You need to have true backend developers, front-end developers. You need to have infrastructure engineers that can manage your clouds in multiple geographies.
That's typically what we also see not thought about when you think about the build versus buy conversation is you might be able to build something that's very, very opinionated for what you need to do inside your firm. However, what I see that tends to get ignored are the flexible aspects of the technology, so being able to handle the unknown use cases, being able to onboard effectively a new asset class that might be in an emerging market, and then basic things, like how are you handling permissions and access control to data across your firm or you can't just let everybody have access to everything. Now, you're starting to build into platforms and that's expensive and adds compounding maintenance efforts. How are you going to handle resiliency, right? A lot of the commercially available public product, such as Charles River or Mercatus, we've spent tremendous amounts of investments making the service resilient be able to fail over across geographies, have SLAs with 99.9 and insert the number of nines you want on the back of that. These are items that you typically don't see on in-house built tools.
Before you know it, you're building a technology company within your own company and that's just… No one has the true budget for what that is. So I know we're seeing a lot of CFOs beginning to hold back on larger technology purchases and deals due to economic uncertainty. That's the elephant in the room in just about any conversation you have these days. Can you tell us a little bit about what you're both seeing from clients, and how should investors be thinking about technology right now?
I'll take a crack at this one. I have been having many conversations on this matter as it's the topic of choice and the client that we sit in today. I understand the risk and concern. Capital expense and capital investment projects are typically the first to go in an uncertain economy. However, not making a move could be a devastating decision as well. So one thing that I keep pointing towards is that regulatory pressure and LP requirements to push GPs into further transparency demands is never going to subside and it's just increasing because of that climate. So shuffling your staff around on reporting tasks and validation efforts is really expensive, and people, no matter what, are always going to cost more than the technologies that you might deploy.
So, my recommendation to a CFO or a CTO at a firm would be that you would want to hedge with technology to give your business really the opportunity to meet those increasing compliance obligations without adding headcount, to give the firm an advantage via technology to adapt to new and emerging asset classes and to diversify into different asset classes that they may not be serving, and finally to provide more transparency and give yourself a competitive advantage to LPs if you're a manager, to be more competitive in closing new funds and managing those funds more effectively, you become more competitive in the space.
I'll piggyback off of that and maybe everything that you said is probably applicable in public space as well, but I think maybe slightly different perspective in the sense that if you think about at least on public space or institutional space, people have for decades now have outsourced their services and part of the reason why you outsource those services is because it's a cumbersome job that's not part of what you want to do. If you think back whatever, 20, 30, 40 years ago when perhaps technology was not at the forefront in financial markets, if you ask anybody today to do their job effectively in financial markets, it's powered by technology. That doesn't necessarily mean that you turn into a technology firm. I think that's where it's the same point that Jason make, but maybe a slightly different perspective to think about to say when you look at your business case, technology enables your business to grow and you want to be able to partner and you want to look at the technology and see which components of those can you outsource or which component of those can you actually partner with somebody.
So, in one sense, there are certain things that a firm might say, "Look, I want to have that as my core proprietary system and I want to be able to have those pieces." I always say having done post-trade and the back office perspective, and I always tell people it's like clearing is going to be clearing. You're not going to modify the world by building your own clearing system, which is hard and difficult. It's the same thing from portfolio management perspective, you have certain risk models that's going to be certain risk models. How you interpret those and how do you do some of those, take that data and create the model analysis is what changes and what sets you apart.
I think the decision really is what Jason said, right? You want to have your technology not as something that you always have to constantly worry about as part of your P&L, but something that you can partner and say, "How do I optimize my cost? How do I partner with firms like CRD or Mercatus that actually have some of the core offering that I can integrate with something that can enable my users and my business to grow and scale much faster?" Whenever we talk to the customer, I generally say, "Do a comparative analysis and see if you were to build everything, what your profit margin and operating model is going to look like versus partnering with someone that can actually continue to enable you to do that."
If you take the example of somebody who has for an office applications and all of a sudden they want to get into a private space, it's easier for them to then say, "Hey, CRD, now that you have partnership with Mercatus, how are you going to enable that?" versus them having something on their own and now they've got to start a brand-new initiative to say, "I've got to integrate something." So I think technology is an enabler. I do think that they have to embrace that as part of their business model, but it's something that always going to be an impactful thing for their P&L and really needs to be looked at from that operating model and P&L perspective.
From a forward-looking perspective, I've heard a lot of discussion about how investment data platforms will evolve with emerging technologies, such as machine learning, tokenization and blockchain. I mean, I just talked to Jay about this last episode. How do you guys see this space progressing though over the next five to 10 years? What is your all's opinion on that?
I can give my view. Look, I think there are areas where some of these things are very immature currently that needs an evolution, but I think there are areas around that actually can benefit. I think when we look at it from… If we go back to our data conversation, there's the aspects of data and how you analyze it, and that's, I think, where the machine learning or AI models can actually learn and continue to evolve. To me, I think the benefit and where I think it's going to be very useful going back to the operating model and expense ratios and reducing that footprint of the cost is, "Look, you can have our staff." It's not just about your portfolio managers, but it's about the operations staff that you have. Can you make them a bit more efficient? Wouldn't it be nice for them to be able to just do a quick query to say, "Give me everything in terms of portfolio risk models that were higher than 10%"?
Right now, it takes enormous effort and it takes a lot of challenges within the operations team. So I think as a industry, there is definitely benefits of the areas where we're going to grow. I think the AI models, the natural learning and the machine learning, that can help support not just the investment managers, but really taking that data and making it easier for them to run queries, bringing it more real time and interpreting that. I think I'll make very quick point around digital space where we all look at it and we all think about where it's headed. The reason why I said it's at the infancy is it's going to have to be balance of regulations and technology.
Again, it goes back to our first point of we could build anything in technology, but sometimes 100-year-old trading model, to transform that into a very different way of looking at it, is going to have a view from a regulator's perspective so that you don't have some of the things that you're hearing news today in terms of digital market. But I think it is a different way of looking at it and I think it's definitely there. Some things I do think is going to be probably in the next two to three years you'll hear a lot more about AI and natural language and you see a lot of the chat bots and a lot of the things that I think has got a very applicable thing for portfolio managers for our operations stuff, and there's going to be things that's going to be much further down the road.
I'll go off of the AI point and I'm the technology curmudgeon probably in the room, or I guess I'll call it the realist. I think a futuristic lens and embracing and moving towards general AI is fantastic. I mean, we can all dream of days when you can send any format of any data into a neural model and it'll come out and have context to know exactly what it means and the intent is, and then just go ahead and populate your data warehouse with the according data. That's fantastic.
What a world. Yeah.
What a world. But honestly, we've seen capital call requests on napkins in the private market space. I'm serious. So I think we're a bit far off until we can get some standardization that'll help drive some of these technologies there. But I do think that there's aspirationally moving towards concepts such as digital twin, where you can have a true digital representation of a tangible asset, like an infrastructure asset, for example. How is this airport in any given geography going to fare as it relates to natural disasters, economic disruption, war, et cetera? Not only that individual asset, but modeling down to those granular pieces and components. You can see though that portfolio might go in those scenarios.
But I think something that a little bit less sci-fi and far out that I think is probably realistic is as we look at public to private views and as we look at the private markets maturing a bit and we start to see some inklings of bright spots of standardization and a language that we can all talk amongst ourselves in that means the same thing, I think we can start to use some technologies like distributed ledger systems and standardization of data agreements to drive something like consumer participation in private market asset classes. I think that's really exciting because I would love to see a day when you can go into your preferred brokerage account and be able to not only participate in ETFs and stocks and bonds, but also be able to make direct investments in a school building in South Africa, for example, because you think the economics are there and you can see the models and you can put a micro-investment towards that as a consumer. I think that day is probably closer than we think.
So many things to come in the future. I can't even personally fathom the capabilities that we'll have. Well, Jason, Nidhi, thank you guys for joining me today. That is all my questions for the data side of things, but I always like to end my podcasts with a personal question and that for you all today is if you could travel anywhere in the world right now in this moment, where would you go and why? Whoever has their answer ready can go first.
For my answer, I might need a little bit of prep, just at least pack a bag so I don't die upon arrival. But I've always been fascinated with the raw landscape and beauty and challenge of Alaska and that's probably where I would want to go.
Yeah, you definitely need to pack for that one.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be dropped there right this second, even though I'm sitting here in my Midwestern flannel, I don't think it's going to be sufficient. But no, I love the nature, the raw, untapped beauty and the challenge. We as humans and people are always drawn to challenges and being able to be in that element and to face all those is exhilarating and something that I would be passionate about and love to drop myself into right now if I could.
What a great answer.
When you asked me about it, I had two different things. One was if I could travel anywhere, my favorite country by far has always been Japan. It's probably similar to Jason's raw beauty and I'm a big foodie, so just being able to go and do the mountain hikes and go to the rest stops and being able to have a really good meal at the end of the day. I think Japan, just the sheer nature of their perfectionist, every little thing has to be just right. It's not often that you have a country, where it's like, "I just sell eel and that's it." It's like, "Okay. Well, you get a small one, medium, one large one, that's it," right? But they do a really good job.
But I will cheat and I will say if I had the choice, the only other reason I would give up traveling to Japan is we are all well aware of the climate change, and one of the things that I've always wanted to do, and it is on my list is… Before I joined CRD, I was actually supposed to go to Antarctica, not just on a cruise ship, but actually go to Antarctica research station to be able to do some of the ice climbing and spend time with the penguins. If I had to pick something… Those glaciers are not going to be there. People always tell me, it's like, "Oh, it'll be there for your lifetime." It's like-
… you never know. I think that would be just similar to Jason, I would have to pack. But I think push comes to shove, I would probably pick Antarctica and do my trip where I could just go and look at the white desert and just the sheer isolation of that part of the world that you generally don't see. It's always amazing how there's certain things and certain people who can survive in that environment.
Yeah. Wow. You guys sound like some great travelers. I am so glad I picked this question with for you all. I would have to say I'd love to be just dropped at the top of Half Dome in Yosemite if I could. I've done that hike before and it is quite the trek to get all the way up there, so if I could just skip that part and sit on the top. I'm not really one for heights, so that hike definitely gets your stomach turned in if you're not a fan of heights. Well, thank you for your travel recommendations and imagination there. Thank you all for your expertise in the data space, in the technology space. If anybody has any follow-up questions for Jason or Nidhi, I am happy to connect you. That's all for this episode of Data Disruption. Till next time.
Hey, Kali, thanks so much.
Thank you, Kali. It was a pleasure to be on the podcast.
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