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• Specialization across the industrial landscape will further complicate decisions about where to invest. Each industry has a distinct ecosystem structure: Some are more fragmented than others, while some are more global than local.
• Long replacement cycles for legacy equipment and embedded software make the transitions difficult, but proofs of concept are under way.
• Requirements are demanding, given the safety factors. Operations technology needs to operate in real time, be deterministic and include a fail-safe mode that prevent catastrophic failures from happening.
• Safety and data security are paramount, as breaches could have catastrophic consequences. The 2010 attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities by the Stuxnet worm, which infiltrates and compromises industrial control systems, demonstrated the potential damage that malware can cause to industrial systems. Worms like Stuxnet, which was programmed to attack the logic controller of the centrifuges, are a particularly dangerous risk for mission-critical operations.
It may take years to develop and scale a platform, but now is the time to make investment decisions and choose the right partners, as industrial companies define their digital strategy and their ambitions for the Internet of Things.
Peter Bowen is a partner with Bain & Company in Chicago. Asit Goel and Michael Schallehn are partners in Bain’s Silicon Valley office. All three work with Bain’s Global Telecommunications, Media and Technology practice.
Adam Day digital drawing of the Bark Bar interior.
Plans to open a dog-friendly bar in a vacant church in downtown Little Rock are padding forward, co-founder Elizabeth Michael tells us. Bark Bar, to be located at 1201 Spring St., has been approved by the Department of Health for plumbing, and landlord/architect Adam Day has created drawings for the hound-lover hangout. Michael said she and co-owner Cara Fowler are hoping for an April opening.
Michael and Fowler, whose idea it was to open a place where dogs and their people could have a good time (and alleviate owners' guilt for leaving their dogs alone), bring various talents to the enterprise. Michael works previously worked with her father's furniture and design company, the Paul Michael Co., and now works for ad firm CJRW; Fowler is an event planner. They're consulting with food supplier Ben E. Keith, and in addition to the human bar menu are working up a doggie drink menu that might include, Michael said merrily, bacon-flavored, toilet-flavored and minnow-flavored waters (her dog likes to drink out of the minnow bucket when she fishes, she said).
Startup funds that would have gone to the accompanying dog play area have been eaten up by the red tape the two have had to untangle with the health department, Alcohol Beverage Control and the city, so they started a Kickstarter crowdfunding account. They want the play area to include a water feature and agility courses. (The building — which formerly held the Dreamweavers Outlet — has a side yard.) Those who donate will receive rewards, such as T-shirts, memberships, koozies and photos of their pets on the wall, depending on size of the gift (for $1,000, the bar will name a drink after your dog). So far, $3,916 has been raised toward a goal of $5,000.
Dogs will require a membership — proof of vaccinations, etc. People will not. Bark Bar is partnering with CARE for Animals to have "rescue mixers," so folks can play with rescued dogs and, perhaps, adopt them.
(NC) You can easily walk into a store and find jeans that look great on the shelf, but when you take them into the change room, it can be a different story.
To find the perfect fit, pay attention to the wash of the jean, the positioning of the back pockets, and the leg silhouette. Once you’ve found one that complements your shape, you’re on the right track to finding the right jean every time in less time.
• Lighter jeans with more intense sanding are classified as casual and are often the hardest to wear.
• Medium washed jeans are the most common for everyday wear. They can easily transition from casual to dressy depending on detailing.
• Dark wash jeans with little to no sanding are every woman’s best friend as they’re the most flattering on all body types. Darker washed jeans like the DH3 Mia Straight Leg from Mark’s are great for work, date nights and for women who are self-conscious of their thighs or back sides.
This detail can make or break a jean. If the pockets aren’t complementary to your body shape, your back side can appear too small, too big or too flat. Brands often use similar pocket placements in jean fits, so sometimes it can take some “trying on” to find the right one.
Once you have your fit down, your desired wash and the ‘right’ pocket placement, the leg silhouettes are easy. All leg silhouettes work well with multiple body types. They provide options that you can switch up as you wish.
Now that you know what to look for in your jeans, head to your local Mark’s store or visit marks.com to find your best fit.
In the MTV2 series, which aired for two seasons (2013-2014), Miller lived in the upscale pad with his friends and used the lower unit as a studio space. He rented the home from 2011-2014, according to the listing brokerage.
Perched on a hill in the Silver Triangle neighborhood, it offers six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms in 6,220 square feet.
An infinity-edge pool and spa fronts the property, and four balconies take in views of the canyon and city. Through a double-door entry, there’s a dramatic staircase lined with Blue Barracuda granite and wrought-iron rails.
The granite continues in the kitchen, accenting the backsplash and topping the center island. Other highlights include a formal dining room and a living room with a fireplace. Both feature Italian tile floors.
Upstairs, one wing holds four bedrooms, and the other holds the master suite, which offers a fireplace, spa tub and cherry hardwood built-ins.
His first studio album, 2011’s “Blue Slide Park,” was the first independently distributed album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 1995.
Ashley Antunez spent her 13th birthday last month in a hospital — her cancer having returned following years in remission.
Soon after, the Costa Mesa-based Southern California Hospice Foundation began planning a birthday celebration for her, knowing it might be one of her last.
Ashley was diagnosed in 2011 with acute myelogenous leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. She received chemotherapy until the end of 2012, then was in remission until the cancer returned last July.
Since then, she's had other procedures and treatments that have made her hair fall out and parts of her body to become swollen, but her cancer has spread to the point that it is not curable.
On Thursday morning, the foundation arranged for Ashley, her 4-year-old brother, Alex, and their parents, Martha Aguirre and Daniel Antunez, to be picked up by a limousine at their home in Montclair in San Bernardino County.
The limo took them to Casey's Cupcakes in Irvine for a party hosted by Casey Reinhardt, the business's owner and a winner of the Food Network competition series "Cupcake Wars," one of Ashley's favorite TV shows because of her love of cooking and baking.
"Being sick can be very isolating," said foundation Executive Director Michelle Wulfestieg. "Television becomes a window to the world, and connecting our patients to TV personalities gives them a sense of comfort and a moment to live a dream."
The foundation also arranged for Ashley and her family to have dinner and an overnight stay Thursday at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach.
Ashley arrived at the cupcake shop wearing a bandana over her bare head and a face mask.
Reinhardt greeted her as she slowly got out of the limo and into her wheelchair. The outline of Ashley's smile was visible through her mask.
Reinhardt, Ashley and her family filed into the shop's party room, where cupcakes waited to be decorated with icing, chocolate shavings and rainbow sprinkles. Reinhardt adjusted a tiara so it would fit around the bandana covering Ashley's head.
As the cupcake party commenced, Reinhardt asked Ashley about the treats she likes to cook and bake. She learned that Ashley's favorite food is shrimp, which the Island Hotel's executive chef, David Man, whipped up for Ashley and her family that evening.
Upon arriving at the hotel Thursday afternoon, Ashley was welcomed by the executive staff. Her room was decorated with red jewels, a reference to her middle name, Ruby — the reason her father calls her his "jewel."
On June 2, Ashley began receiving home care from Companion Health Group, an organization that provides hospice, home health and palliative care services to patients in Southern California, Arizona and Texas.
Companion's chief executive, Michael Uranga, founded the Southern California Hospice Foundation in 2002 to help patients with needs that hospice benefits do not cover, such as food, transportation, utility bills and final wishes.
In recent years, the foundation has fulfilled wishes such as a 12-year-old boy with bone cancer meeting the Angels baseball team and a 94-year-old with breast cancer riding 20 laps in a race car on a speedway.
The foundation covers the expenses of the wishes through donations, fundraisers and grants, Wulfestieg said.
"The end of life is tough," she said. "But we're here to make it a little easier."
AFTER 16 years and a £650,000 restoration project, a treasured steam locomotive is coming home.
Enthusiasts will be able to see the Horwich-built 76084 locomotive in action when it takes to the tracks of the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) this month .
The engine was one of the last to be produced at Horwich Works in 1957, just seven months before the site stopped building them.
Members of the 76084 Locomotive Company restored it to its former glory and were delighted to see it make its first journey in many years on the North Norfolk Railway last July.
Eric Bond, from the group, said: “Having 76084 on the East Lancashire Railway, even for only two months, is a dream come true.
“We really want 76084 to run in the north of England as she was first built here, ran here for British Railways and eventually was restored in the north.
“Running at the North Norfolk Railway puts her a significant travel time away from most shareholders and supporters.
“It was the ELR that approached us to see if 76084 was available to run during their Winter Steam Gala.” It will run as part of the ELR’s Steam Galas on January 18 and 19 and February 22 and 23.
Mr Bond, from Blackburn, added: “We have to pinch ourselves that all the years of hard work have come to fruition.” Withdrawn from service by British Rail in December 1967, 76084 spent just over 14 years at the Woodham Brothers scrap yard in South Wales.
Eventually bought by the 76084 Locomotive Company, it has been rebuilt by volunteers, professional engineers and enthusiasts. The group has now launched an appeal to raise funds to equip 76084 with the safety technologies necessary for a locomotive.
For more details about 76084, visit Standard4.com.
P Jeff Locke. The 49ers signed the left-footed Locke, a 2013 fifth-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings, on Monday. With Bradley Pinion signed for just one more season, he becomes at least a candidate if the team can't extend Pinion. Perhaps more significant, he gives Pinion – who also handles kickoffs – some relief during the offseason.
RB Jerick McKinnon. The 49ers signed the former Vikings running back to a four-year deal Wednesday. He is expected to be the lead back in a rotation that will include former Georgia Southern teammate Matt Breida and others.
RB Raheem Mostert. He signed his one-year exclusive rights tender, meaning the team's top special teams gunner again will compete for a role on the 53-man roster.
OL Weston Richburg: The 49ers signed Richburg – who played guard but mostly center for the Giants – to a five-year contract Wednesday. He and Daniel Kilgore likely will compete for the starting center role in San Francisco. General manager John Lynch offered no specifics on where Richburg will play. "We see Weston as one of the top young interior offensive linemen in the NFL," he said in a press release. "His athleticism, intelligence and attitude are a perfect fit for our scheme."
CB Richard Sherman. The longtime Seattle Seahawks cornerback signed a three-year deal with the 49ers on Sunday. Sherman is expected to be fully recovered from two Achilles' heel procedures by the start of training camp in late July.
DE Tank Carradine. The former second-round draft pick plans to sign a one-year deal with the Raiders after having visited Oakland and Seattle. Carradine never played as a traditional 4-3 defensive end -- his college position -- in San Francisco and will get a chance to do so with Oakland.
G Brandon Fusco. Fusco signed a three-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons. He started all 16 games at right guard last year for San Francisco.
RB Carlos Hyde. He signed a three-year deal with the Cleveland Browns.
DE Aaron Lynch. He agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the Chicago Bears. Their defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio, was with San Francisco when the 49ers drafted Lynch in the fifth round in 2014.
S Eric Reid. With Jaquiski Tartt penciled in at strong safety, Reid is unlikely to be back if there's a market elsewhere. What will his market be? It was quiet a week into free agency and Reid said he knew why.
CB Dontae Johnson. Johnson visited the Seahawks on Tuesday, March 20. He played more snaps than any other 49er in 2017 -- 1,224 total -- and therefore led the team in performance-based pay at $91,000.
TE Logan Paulsen. He visited the Lions on Monday, March 19.
PEMBROKE -- Less than three days after a nurse at Pembroke Hospital was brutally attacked by a violent patient, the State Department of Mental Health made a surprise inspection of the 120-bed psychiatric hospital that’s been the focus of four separate government probes in the last five months.
State officials did not say if last Saturday’s assault of a nurse prompted the agency’s unannounced visit to the for-profit hospital on Tuesday.
But the mental health agency has taken note of all the scrutiny bearing down on Pembroke Hospital and its low marks for patient care and high numbers of worker injuries.
“The Department of Mental Health is actively monitoring Pembroke Hospital and takes all reports, including the recent reports from several oversight agencies, very seriously,” agency spokeswoman Michelle Hillman wrote Tuesday evening in an e-mailed statement to the Patriot Ledger.
The state mental health agency investigated the death last August of a young female patient and Pembroke Hospital and sharply criticized the hospital for a range of policy violations and poor practices that could have prevented meaningful treatment of the patient. The woman already "showed obvious signs of death" shortly after 5 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30 when hospital staff called a “code blue” medical emergency, according to the state’s report.
On Saturday, a nurse at the hospital suffered serious injuries when a patient nearly tore off her ear and attempted to gouge out her eye as staffers attempted to move the 22-year-old male patient from a restraint board to a bed with restraining straps, Pembroke police said in their report.
The assault comes less than five months after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration flagged the number of workers injured by violent patients and called for improved staffing and safety measures such as panic buttons for workers in acute wings of the hospital.
Pembroke Hospital, owned by Arbour Health System, has ignored repeated requests from OSHA to respond with a plan for mitigating violence against its workers. Judy Merel, Pembroke Hospital spokeswoman, did not answer a request Tuesday to comment on the latest visit by Department of Mental Health officials.
Merel is the regional director of business development for Arbour Health System, which owns Pembroke Hospital and is the state’s largest provider of mental health services.
Pembroke Hospital is not required to respond to OSHA’s request, but Hillman indicated Tuesday that the Department of Mental Health – which licenses the hospital -- could step up its enforcement.
Two other federal investigations targeting Pembroke Hospital are underway.
A four-day inspection of Pembroke Hospital authorized by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in January concluded that the hospital failed to meet standards for patient safety and the administration of drugs, according to a draft copy of the inspection report obtained by The Patriot Ledger.
Investigators reviewed records of 14 patients, including the young woman who died there in August, and concluded that Pembroke Hospital failed to fix several of the problems identified during the hospital’s own probe of events surrounding the patient’s death and in the aftermath of unspecified adverse events for three other patients.
Federal investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice are also looking into possible billing fraud at Pembroke Hospital and four other psychiatric hospitals in the state, all owned by Arbour Health System, according to a recent report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Arbour’s parent, Universal Health Services in Pennsylvania.
LIKE a lot of other college seniors, Alexandra Leumer got her introduction to the heady and hazardous world of law school scholarships in the form of a letter bearing very good news. The Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco had admitted her, the letter stated, and it had awarded her a merit scholarship of $30,000 a year — enough to cover the full cost of tuition.
To keep her grant, all that Ms. Leumer had to do was maintain a grade-point average of 3.0 or above — a B or better. If she dipped below that number at the end of either the first or the second year, the letter explained, she would lose her scholarship for good.
Her grades and test scores were well above the median at Golden Gate, which then languished in the bottom 25 percent of the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings of law schools.
How hard could a 3.0 be? Really hard, it turned out. That might have been obvious if Golden Gate published a statistic that law schools are loath to share: the number of first-year students who lose their merit scholarships. That figure is not in the literature sent to prospective Golden Gate students or on its Web site.
But it’s a number worth knowing. At Golden Gate and other law schools nationwide, students are graded on a curve, which carefully rations the number of A’s and B’s, as well as C’s and D’s, awarded each semester. That all but ensures that a certain number of students — at Golden Gate, it could be in the realm of 70 students this year — will lose their scholarships and wind up paying full tuition in their second and third years.
Why would a school offer more scholarships than it planned to renew?
The short answer is this: to build the best class that money can buy, and with it, prestige. But these grant programs often succeed at the expense of students, who in many cases figure out the perils of the merit scholarship game far too late.
On the Golden Gate campus recently, a group of first-year students at risk of losing their scholarships were trying to make sense of the system. Most declined to be identified for this article because criticizing the school seemed, at minimum, undiplomatic. But the phrase “bait and switch” came up a lot. Several assumed that they were given what is essentially a discount to get them in the door.
The school’s dean, Drucilla Stender Ramey, declined to say exactly how many students would lose their scholarships this year, suggesting that doing so would violate the privacy rights of the students. She acknowledged, though, that lost merit scholarships have been the source of much campus misery.
Nobody knows exactly how many law school students nationwide lose scholarships each year — no oversight body tallies that figure — but what’s clear is that American law schools have quietly gone on a giveaway binge in the last decade. In 2009, the most recent year for which the American Bar Association has data, 38,000 of 145,000 law school students — more than one in four — were on merit scholarships. The total tab for all schools in all three years: more than $500 million.
It’s a huge sum, particularly when you realize that merit scholarships were exceptionally rare at law schools a mere generation ago. But given that many students lose their grants after the first year, the question is this: What exactly are law schools buying with all of that money?
JERRY ORGAN, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, has been one of the few academics to study law school merit scholarships. Six years ago, after a conversation with the school’s director of admissions, Professor Organ learned that the number of applicants weighing merit scholarship offers had soared since his days as an applicant in the early 1980s.
The difference between the early ’80s and today, he concluded, can be summed up in one name: U.S. News, which began ranking law schools in 1987.
If it sounds absurd that America’s legal education system could be whipsawed by, of all things, U.S. News, you have yet to grasp the law school fixation with rankings. Unlike undergraduate colleges, law schools share far more similarities than differences, particularly in the first-year curriculum.
So a lot of schools regard the rankings as their best chance to establish a place in the educational hierarchy, which has implications for the quality of students that apply, the caliber of law firms that come to recruit, and more. Striving for a high U.S. News ranking consumes the bulk of the marketing budget of a vast number of schools.
Which is where scholarships come in.
The algorithm used by U.S. News puts a heavy emphasis on college grade-point averages and Law School Admission Test scores. Together, those two numbers determine about 22 percent of a school’s ranking. The bar passage rate, which correlates strongly with undergraduate G.P.A.’s and LSAT scores, is worth an additional two points in the algorithm. In short, students’ academic credentials determine close to a quarter of a school’s rank — the largest factor that schools can directly control.
So the point of most merit scholarship programs, Professor Organ said, isn’t merely to tempt prospective students who might otherwise not attend, though that clearly is one result.
“What law schools are buying is higher G.P.A.’s and LSATs,” Professor Organ said. In other words, the schools are buying smarter students to enhance their cachet and rise in the rankings.
Each does it a little differently.

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