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By INOMICS Team
Last year, we posted an article titled "Internships in Economics – Lessons from an Economist," which offered useful advice about the importance of internships and how to find what you're looking for. Now, as spring is flying by and summer is just around the corner, we know that many of you are in the process of finding a summer internship. In this post, we'll highlight a few specific internships and delve into the many great places to intern for anyone interested in economics and finance.
Internships differ greatly according to discipline as well as type. For Bachelor's students or those with little to no work experience, they can be a great first step into the working world. For anyone with a little more experience under their belt, internships are a good way to directly engage in a field of future employment, or to fill a gap between jobs.
For many econ and finance students, interning in a bank is a terrific way to gain experience and test out a potential career path. Numerous central banks offer high-level internships for graduate students, for instance the Central Bank of Ireland, the Bank of Canada or Deutsche Bundesbank. If you are interested in development work, banks such as the Asian Development Bank and the Development Bank of Latin America also offer structured internships for graduate students hoping to gain relevant work experience.
If you are an economics or finance student but not interested in working in a bank, there are still plenty of other options for top-notch internships. For instance, think tanks post open positions on a regular basis and are perfect places to gain experience in economic policy analysis and other areas. In Europe, institutions such as Bruegel, the Rimini Centre for Economics Analysis, TESEV or the European Policy Centre are all great options. For lists of other top think tanks in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America, take a look at our series of blog posts dedicated to that subject.
Beyond banks and think tanks, many large firms in the private sector also offer internships. Companies such as PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young all have offices in cities across the world, creating diverse opportunities for students and young professionals.
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Will Adamsdale: Borders
By Ed Barnes
'The problem with being white, male, and privileged' states Adamsdale in the opening few minutes of his latest show Borders, 'is that I have absolutely nothing to say'. This, whilst eliciting a laugh from the audience, is a sentiment that is slowly proved wrong over the next fifty-five minutes. The performance is a strange beast, more of an exploration of the writing process than a show itself, but still somehow a finished article. The title, Adamsdale explains, comes from a creative writing exercise from his university days, in which a word is selected as a focus before being expanded on.
Borders is at times hilarious, bathetic and baffling, and constantly engaging. This may be his best work yet.
In this case the word is 'borders', and is soon established as the concept that the show hinges on. Many borders are examined across the performance: geographical, social and metaphysical, but it is those that Adamsdale blurs that become the most interesting. Early on, the border between spectator and performer is broken by his swapping places with an audience member, and more crumble in turn under his relentless exploration. Utilising a pad and paper, typographical and compositional borders are examined, along with the border between writing and performance that Adamsdale crosses in his very attempt to present his creative process to an audience. The main border that is blurred however, is that found between fact and fiction. Running alongside his personal storyline consisting of anecdotes about his wife and his need for an orthopaedic chair, and his creative storyline involving looming deadlines and various trips to London borough borders, is a third narrative thread concerning his obsession with the advertising campaign of a certain high-street bank. As the show progresses, this fixation becomes more and more fantastical, until the three elements (already very much entwined) collide in a bizarre and beautiful finale.
The reason that this show works despite its apparent removal from reality, is Adamsdale's performance. By playing the ultimate unreliable narrator, coupled with a very personal and truthful delivery, the story functions as a whole. Punctuated with half-finished songs, projected slides and moments of true theatre, Borders is at times hilarious, bathetic and baffling, and constantly engaging. This may be his best work yet.
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Volkswagen Group has been fined one billion Euros for cheating diesel emission tests after accepting responsibility for the "diesel crisis" before public prosecutors in Germany.
The fine - equivalent to £880 million - was imposed by the Braunschweig public prosecutor yesterday (June 13) and is one of the highest ever imposed by German authorities against a company.
VW does not plan to appeal the ruling, which came after prosecutors established that the brand had sold more than 10.7 million cars between mid-2007 and 2015 which were fitted with an emissions test defeat device.
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Flattops Or Not: Japan's Dilemma
Tokyo's aircraft carriers once ruled the waves; could they make a comeback?
(WAR IS BORING (MEDIUM.COM BLOG) 17 JUN 13) … Kyle Mizokami
Seventy years ago, Japan had the most powerful navy in the world. The Imperial Japanese Navy, or Nihon Kaigun, boasted 10 aircraft carriers and 10 battleships plus a huge armada of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Japanese naval aviation was the best in the world, an elite corps of pilots that would fly missions over China, go on to cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and sink ships such as HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
By the end of the war Japan had but a single aircraft carrier, the rest of the fleet sunk in combat. Her elite pilots had been wiped out, ground down by attrition and replaced by amateurs after four years of war. Once the best in the world, Japan's naval aviation force was disbanded by the Allies in 1945.
Seventy years later, amid rising tensions in the western Pacific, some are wondering if Japanese naval aviation is about to stage a giant comeback.
The modern Japanese navy, or Maritime Self Defense Forces, had its beginnings at the end of World War II. The Coastal Safety Force, as it was called, was originally set up to deal with the large numbers of sea mines left over from the war and scattered throughout Japan's archipelago. The force acquired surplus destroyers from the United States, and by 1956 was producing its own ships. By the 1970s the MSDF was one of the largest navies in the world.
But it did not have carriers — and for good reason.
The issue of Japanese carriers is a sensitive one because of Japan's aggressive past and her present status as a pacifist nation. Article 9 of the postwar Japanese constitution renounces the use of warfare to settle disputes. While Japan has allowed itself to build armed forces for self-defense purposes, it has deliberately not equipped itself with weapons considered offensive in nature, including bombers, long-range missiles and aircraft carriers.
Carriers would undoubtedly enhance Japan's defense capability, but there are domestic and international considerations. Politically, the Japanese people have evolved a strong anti-war stance, and Japan's neighbors are wary of it acquiring offensive weapons. Still, elements within the MSDF have quietly lobbied for carriers for decades and there appears to be an ongoing effort to prepare the Japanese people for the return of Japanese naval aviation.
For starters, Japan built destroyers capable of carrying multiple anti-submarine helicopters. Then in the 1990s the MSDF acquired Oosumi-class landing ships, meant for carrying tanks. But the Oosumi class had a curious feature that other so-called LSTs lacked: it had a full-length flight deck just like aircraft carrier, although it had no hangar to maintain and store aircraft. Among Japan analysts, this was considered a "testing of the waters" of the sensitive aircraft carrier issue.
The "testing of the waters" continued with the Hyuga-class of "helicopter destroyers." Hyuga and her sister ship Ise are laid out like conventional aircraft carriers, with a flight deck, island and aircraft elevators. At 197 meters long and 19,500 tons fully loaded, the two ships are slightly smaller than the United Kingdom's Invincible-class light aircraft carriers. Despite the similarity Japan prefers to call the Hyuga-class not aircraft carriers but destroyers capable of carrying helicopters. Each "helicopter destroyer" will embark up to 10 SH-60J Seahawk sub-hunting helicopters. Japan has consistently downplayed the ability of the Hyugas to embark anything but helicopters.
But could they? Theoretically, yes. The ships are large enough to accommodate the vertical takeoff version of the F-35 (the only version it could feasibly carry) but their design presents problems. The ships are just not set up to support fixed-wing aircraft in the hangar, and would need specialized maintenance equipment, greater aviation fuel storage capacity and the ability to store aircraft munitions — all of which would take up space in the already cramped hangar. The ships also lack heat-resistant coatings on the flight deck to prevent damage when the F-35B vectors thrust downward.
The aircraft elevators present the biggest problem. The elevators are located in the middle of the deck, taking up valuable space. What's more, only one elevator is large enough to accommodate the F-35. A malfunction or damage to the elevator would put Hyuga's tiny squadron out of the fight. Finally the F-35 may be too heavy for the elevator to lift: an F-35B with a full load of fuel and carrying a pair of air-to-air missiles weighs nearly three times as much as a SH-60J helicopter.
Whether or not all of these issues can be fixed, there is clearly a line of development that points toward aircraft carriers as Japan's aviation ships are growing larger and more sophisticated. There are reports of a follow-on class to the Hyuga-class, 22DDH, which would be even larger and more aviation-compatible than ever. New, ever larger ships are being introduced every 10 years.
During the Cold War, Japan had no need for aircraft carriers because any proposed wartime action would take place all around Japan, where land-based aircraft were sufficient. The problem now is the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute, which is relatively far from Japan and very close to China. Only a handful of Japanese air bases provide daily coverage of the islands. There is also the problem that the Chinese military will always know what direction the Japanese are coming from and can predict a Japanese response.
A solution to this problem could be to build aircraft carriers. One or more Japanese carriers could help land-based aircraft patrol the islands, and provide a mobile base at sea whose location would be difficult to predict. Such carriers, which would only be used to buttress existing defenses, would still be defensive in nature.
Upstream, Japan has bigger problems that could sink carriers before they're even built. Japan is deep in debt and there is little money for defense spending without slashing other government programs. Japan also has a self-imposed cap on defense spending of 1 percent of GDP, and aircraft carriers are notoriously expensive to build and operate. Japan's political leadership is weak and may end up spending what political capital it has on fixing the economy rather than acquiring carriers.
Japanese carriers may not even be a worthwhile endeavor from an operational standpoint. Any Japanese carrier force, whether a single Hyuga carrying a handful of F-35s or a multi-carrier battle group of supercarriers, would be at a numerical disadvantage operating within range of mainland China and the weight of the entire People's Liberation Army Air Force. Into this lethal and dangerous mix would be the thousand or more crewmen of the carrier and escorting ships, and the financial capital necessary to build and train the force. Would Japan really risk the lives of a thousand sailors just to put 10 F-35s in the air?
A good compromise to building carriers would be to purchase F-35B fighters and base them on land. Japan doesn't need long-range power projection, just something it can use to cover the periphery, particularly Senkaku islands. Basing fighters in small airfields throughout the Ryukyus on islands such as Ishigakijima, Miyakojima and Yonaguni would allow Japan to play a shell game with China, constantly moving around fighters among dispersed airfields and making their detection difficult. Japan could then use the networking capabilities of the F-35, along with E-2C Hawkeyes to give it a decisive edge in air-to-air engagements and mass for anti-ship attacks.
Japan's present circumstances have made aircraft carriers both more useful and less affordable than ever. What appears likely is that if Japan does build carriers, it can't afford to build a small force. Japan's geostrategic position, coupled with the numerical superiority of the PLAAF over the Senkaku islands may ensure that when it comes to carriers, Japan may be forced to "go big or go home". Whether or not decides to accept this challenge and whether Japan's return to fixed-wing aviation is a nostalgic dream or a calculated goal only time will tell. Perhaps the best outcome is not a new carrier force but shifting political winds that make them unnecessary.
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TOKYO, May, 23 2019 - (JCN Newswire) -Japan-based Tohoku University and NTT DOCOMO, INC. have begun researching an artificial-intelligence (AI) technology to detect periodontal disease simply by photographing a person's gums with a smartphone. Periodontal disease can lead to tooth loss and lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, stroke, obesity and type II diabetes, so a solution for early detection could offer significant advantages, especially in aging societies.
The simple, easily deployed smartphone-based solution proposed by Tohoku University and DOCOMO would analyze gum color and shape, compensating for photo brightness and camera shake, to determine the risk of periodontal disease. By helping users to understand their personal risks, the solution is expected to facilitate better communication with dentists and increased examinations aimed at preventing early-stage periodontal disease from becoming serious.
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Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., July 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blue California joins with the innovative Massachusetts-based biotech company Conagen to announce the commercialization of high-purity, fermentation-derived nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN). A nature-based metabolic component which has caught the attention of health-conscious consumers for supporting energy and longevity.
The quest to age healthily and support longevity is surging among health-conscious consumers. "Consumers are reassessing their dietary regimen to make room for ingredients that can support an increased healthspan," said Chief Science Officer at Blue California, Dr. Priscilla Samuel.
NMN supplements are highly sought-after for healthy aging applications, including brain health, vitality, heart health, metabolic health, and even cosmetics. However, current NMN ingredients used in products on the market are mostly produced by chemical synthesis.
While consumers are exploring dietary supplements for a holistic approach to health, they are also demanding clean labels from their supplements, and moving away from synthetic ingredients. Blue California's fermentation-derived NMN opens new opportunities for producers to consider consumers' health more holistically while acquiring a closer-to-nature position.
NMN serves as a precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a coenzyme present in all living cells and critical for mitochondrial function.
Increased intracellular levels of NAD+ boost energy production and improve cellular health, but levels decline dramatically with age. Replenishing NAD+ in the body with its precursor NMN has been proposed as a way to possibly combat age-related degeneration and increase healthy lifespan.
"Our fermentation-derived offering is well-positioned to capitalize on the growing recognition of NMN as an important ingredient in the food and supplement spaces," said Samuel. "NMN is a well-known molecule in the longevity research community, and emerging research also suggests potential applications for immune health as well as sports nutrition."
Harvard professor David Sinclair, a well-recognized leader in the field of aging research, is an advocate of NMN for improving the health of aging populations.
"NMN is a logical extension to our line of "longevity ingredients" which includes ergothioneine and pyrroloquinoline quinone. All of these molecules are made by our own proprietary fermentation processes, enabling our customers to better serve consumers who might reject chemically-derived ingredients," said VP of Innovation at Conagen, Dr. Casey Lippmeier. "Because of the way we make it, Conagen's NMN is of the highest purity and quality. It is also very cost-effective and compatible with clean-label trends, all of which demonstrates our strength as a strategic partner with Blue California."
As innovation in dietary supplemental nutrition advances, so does the growth of global vitamin, mineral and supplement (VMS) launches. Mintel reported a growth of 67% of global VMS launches in Apr 2020 – Mar 2021, as compared to Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 — where the United States leads the VMS market.
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New South Florida Movie Waves Is an Afterschool Special on the Big Screen
ByPavel Klein| December 6, 2019 December 5, 2019
Waves strives for depth, but like its young protagonists, it's only teenage deep. All moping and feeling sorry for itself. With an indie sensibility, South Florida setting, focus on an African-American family, and repeated ocean imagery (complete with brewing storms in the background), Waves hearkens back to Moonlight, the Miami-based film that became a critical darling and multi-award sensation. But those are just surface comparisons. This is about an affluent family, living in a beautiful house, with one of its protagonists a popular, outgoing jock. More importantly, Moonlight was stylish with a poetic soul, Waves just has style.
Waves has flair, but at its core it's a very stylish after school special. It becomes more than that, thankfully, but that first hour or so, oh boy, it's like something a hungover English teacher would force on a bored high school class in order to take the day off.
The camerawork is energetic, constantly on the move, constantly roaming through each scene. Aspect ratios change, while dramatic colors enhance shots and kaleidoscopic sequences break up scenes (a colorist, Damien van der Cruyssen, is even acknowledged in the open credits). All of this gives the movie a visual vitality, especially in its hypnotic and lengthy montages.
That vitality, sadly, is lacking in the story department. Despite all of that style, the story feels perfunctory. It's confidently told, at least, and much of it is relatable, but nothing in that first hour convinced me to care. All of those fancy camera angles, yet nobody bothered finding a new angle from which to tell this type of story.
Waves first hour is packed with enough incident that it's like watching a full two hour movie in half the time.
It's exhausting. Filled with ominous dread, much of it delivered by an anxiety-inducing wall-of-soundtrack (score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross), that first half is clearly building to…something. We don't know what, but we know it's coming, and we wait and wait for it to come. Tyler is a talented high school wrestler. His father drives him hard ("We don't have the luxury to be average," he says), but a career ending shoulder injury leads Tyler to substance abuse, which leads to escalating fights with his unexpectedly pregnant girlfriend who doesn't want to get the abortion Tyler is passive-aggressively demanding. It builds and builds, but keeps postponing what it wants to get to, so interest just wanes and wanes. It takes so long to get to its point, eventually the movie just feels like Wheel of Misfortune, misery compounds with each turn as you wait for somebody to finally end up on "Bankrupt" and get it over and done with.
Once it finally is over and done with, the movie is anything but, leading to a whole second hour that switches to a completely different point of view. Emily, Tyler's younger teenage sister, is the focus here as she deals with the fallout of the film's first half and does so while navigating her first real relationship with Luke, who was on Tyler's wrestling team. This half is better, more poignant. The switch to a female point-of-view is unexpected and welcome, especially since the first hour and fifteen minutes is so alpha-male-centric. And the way the second hour juxtaposes with the first gives the movie some much needed emotional heft. But the second half is still just as ponderous as what preceded it. It's a lot to sit through. Too much risk, not enough reward.
Writer/director Trey Edward Shults puts the various Miami/South Florida locations to good use. As a backdrop, Shults sticks to our suburban areas, lakes, and canals not usually represented on the big screen, giving a sense of the real South Florida rather than the touristy one (well, mostly. The Rickenbacker Bridge appears within the first five minutes, a familiar site in movies because of its views of Miami's skyline).
Clearly, Shults has talent, and, clearly, he put thought into the movie. It all comes together nicely enough in the end, offering hope without treacle. But there's not enough insight into the characters, into human behavior to justify all of the preceding excess. In the end, Waves is more exhausting than enlightening.
Pavel Klein
Pavel Klein is a member of the Florida Film Critics Circle and author of the film-centric blog WritePavelWrite.com
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2018 Mobile
NSYNTH SUPER
Client GOOGLE
Category A09. Use of Advanced Learning Technologies
Title NSYNTH SUPER
Product/Service MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Entrant GOOGLE CREATIVE LAB London, UNITED KINGDOM
Idea Creation GOOGLE CREATIVE LAB London, UNITED KINGDOM
Production GOOGLE CREATIVE LAB London, UNITED KINGDOM
Google Creative Lab Google Creative Lead
Magenta is a research group within Google, exploring how machine learning can help musicians in new ways. One of their first projects was NSynth a machine learning algorithm that uses deep neural networks to learn the characteristics of sounds, then create thousands of completely new sounds based on these characteristics. To make the algorithm more easily accessible, we took the sounds that NSynth generates and put them into a musical instrument that enables musicians to play them in a more intuitive way. We call it NSynth Super.
Describe the creative idea
We had to find a way to organize the over 100,000 output sounds of the NSynth algorithm and put them into an instrument to make it intuitive for musicians to play. Using dials in each corner of NSynth Super, artists can select up to four source sounds (out of sixteen options, from a clavichord to a car engine) to define the space of sounds they'd like to explore. By dragging their fingers across the space between these points, they can play thousands of unique sounds which combine all four of their acoustic qualities. It fits seamlessly with a musicians' existing equipment. All they need to do is plug in a MIDI controller, like a keyboard, and use the touchscreen to explore new sounds. We wanted lots of musicians to access NSynth Super, so we made all of the source code, schematics, and design templates available for download on GitHub.
Describe the strategy
We started with a technical exploration of the algorithm and what the creative opportunities could be. By creating plots and projections of ML models, and testing out the new sounds created by the algorithm, we gained a good understanding of how we could approach the project. From these insights, we created our initial designs and began making prototypes. Throughout the project we maintained a feedback loop between design, musicians, and the technology, with each informing the development of the other. The result is a uniquely simple interface to the complexity of the underlying technology, and one that is instantly understandable for musicians.
Describe the execution
We took one of the most exciting machine learning research papers (NSynth) and made its potential accessible to non-researchers and musicians. The tech was inaccessible without very specialist skills; but even if you were able to run the algorithm, its output was not easily usable, lacking an interface that people can interact with in an intuitive way. We explored how we can use machine learning techniques (like dimensionality reduction) to create a new interface for the multidimensional space of sounds generated by the algorithm. The easiest way for musicians to create is through dedicated hardware interfaces, and this is what we did for the output of the NSynth algorithm. We created over 100k new sounds with the algorithm and put them in a format that musicians intuitively know how to use, and can quickly be expressive with. The interface also unlocks new possibilities for performance, allowing people to easily move between worlds of sound by swiping the screen, rather than manually adjusting multiple parameters. Without the interface we created, this would be a big folder of sound files. Instead it's something that can be used to make music.
List the results
As an open-source project, results for NSynth Super are difficult to track. So far, we can see 1168 GitHub stars, 86 forks, and approximately 200 downloads of the software. Musicians and makers from around the world have also been sharing the NSynth Supers they've made, and the music they're making with them. Some people have even began selling their own versions of NSynth Super online, and creating 3D printable versions. The project has received coverage from The Verge, CNBC, and Wired.