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With over five million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the United States every year, it’s unlikely dermatologists there will be out of a job any time soon. However, it’s a stark reminder of just how capable technology has become. Its unstoppable progression doesn’t only threaten the traditional diagnostic skills ... |
Exactly what lies ahead for the professions is a major preoccupation for Prof Richard Susskind and his son, Daniel, a fellow in economics at Balliol College, Oxford. They are the co-authors of The Future of the Professions, which goes into some detail about the two potential scenarios facing the professions as a conseq... |
“One is reassuringly familiar and essentially a more efficient and streamlined version of what we’ve got today,” Daniel Susskind says. “For example, doctors using technology to speak to patients by Skype or architects using software to design more complex buildings. |
For now, Susskind predicts that these two futures will develop in parallel but eventually, he says, the second one will dominate as technology will offer new and better ways of solving the problems that professionals have traditionally solved in the past. Susskind describes this shift as “an existential challenge for t... |
He says many of the tasks that were once the exclusive preserve of doctors, lawyers and accountants are not going to remain so, mainly because they are “antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable”. |
In an internet society, he argues, people neither need nor want professionals to work as they did in the last century. As a result, there will be a fundamental change in how specialist expertise is made available. “Our research suggests that people in search of professional services are actually looking for a reliable ... |
Susskind is not suggesting that the end of work is nigh or that the professions will end up on the scrap heap. In fact, his advice to young professionals and those thinking of pointing their offspring towards the professions is to stick with it. |
So much for the youngsters. But what about older professionals, who still have a long way to go to their retirement? |
In Susskind’s view they are not about to experience mass unemployment, but they are going to find themselves faced with redeployment and extensive retraining as the 2020s unfold and different skills are needed to do the new tasks that will emerge. |
Asked what skills will be useful in the years ahead Susskind identifies two possibilities. |
The first is learning to do the things that machines and intelligent systems are not good at such as certain types of problem solving, creative processes and inter-personal tasks. The second is learning to design, build and operate the machines themselves. |
Making these strategies work, however, requires educators and professional bodies to address skills gaps in these areas with some haste. Machines may struggle with practical tasks such as cutting hair, folding laundry and making beds but they are well suited to encroaching into high-skills areas such as medical diagnos... |
The Frenchville Dream, With a Pool! |
Executively positioned within the heart of Frenchville is where you'll find this gorgeous family home. |
Featuring a glistening in ground pool surrounded by an entertaining area which can be enjoyed all year round, you'll have fallen in love before even going inside. |
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After dropping the N-Bomb and getting upbraided by Al Sharpton, Nader continues the slide into oblivion. Why is he still fundraising halfway into 2005? Tsk Tsk. |
Mike Francesa 'desperately' wants to return to New York radio | Back to WFAN? |
Is the return of Zaun imminent? |
Mike Francesa "desperately misses" New York sports talk radio and is trying to find a way back on the air, according to a report by The New York Post. Citing sources, The Post's sports media columnist, Andrew Marchand, reports Francesa or representatives from his camp have had discussions with ESPN Radio New York and W... |
Francesa could not be reached for comment, according to The Post. |
A Francesa return, on any local station, would be a stunning development following his exit from WFAN last December. Francesa has been eligible to sign with any radio station since April 1, but has reportedly been unable to find a landing spot to this point. |
The news of Francesa's apparent desire to get back in the game comes days after his WFAN replacements, Chris Carlin, Maggie Gray and Bart Scott of "The Afternoon Drive," finished slightly behind longtime Francesa nemesis "The Michael Kay Show," which is broadcast on ESPN Radio, in the winter ratings book. Francesa neve... |
WFAN's Mike Francesa calls Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins 'a disgrace to the uniform' for his effort against the Niners. |
Francesa has shopped his long-running NFL Sunday show to ESPN, according to The Post, but ESPN would not consider dumping Kay's weekday show and replacing him with Francesa. WOR currently has conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on its afternoon schedule, but those are syndicated programs. The st... |
According to The Post, Francesa could have stayed at WFAN in a reduced role - the report says the station was willing to shorten his hours - but he declined. Francesa also passed up the chance to stay following the September arrest of former morning show host Craig Carton. Francesa asked for a raise, according to the r... |
THE reshuffle of about 200 pesonnel of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) assigned at the Travel Control and Enforcement Unit (TCEU) and the Border Control Intelligence Unit takes effect beginning today. |
Newly-designated Port Operations Division (POD) Chief Grifton Medina said a ban on vacation leaves was also implemented beginning October 27 to November 5 and will again be enforced from December 8 up to January 5, 2019. |
Medina, under whose jurisdiction the TCEU and BCIU fall, also said the move is aimed at doing away with fraternization or too much familiarization which may adversely affect the way their personnel discharge their duties. |
According to Medina, the reshuffle is for good governance and will only cover the rank-and-file since the heads are covered by department orders. Without going into details, he, however, said he has certain recommendations to the office of the commissioner for final approval. |
Medina said a major revamp would also be part of strategic moves that would aid measures which will be implemented to address the expected surge of passengers during the Christmas season. |
This coming November alone, Medina said the volume of arriving and departing passengers is likely to breach the 30 million mark. |
Last year, the number of such passengers processed by the BI reached at least 28 million. |
He also announced that to address the expected increase in the number of departing and arriving passengers, about 100 new BI personnel will be assigned to the airports before Christmas, particularly the premier NAIA Terminals. |
Then he shuffled down to the Buckhorn Steakhouse and traded three newspapers for a beer – another of his longtime traditions. |
All of these things are my business. I reckon you could say that I put flesh on the facts. |
The Express planned to host a potluck Friday evening that was not billed as a sendoff for Wallace – just another Friday the 13th and an excuse to clean the office and tap a keg of beer. |
“No presentations. No gold watch,” said Charley Wallace, 65, the current publisher of the Winters Express and one of Newt’s five children, three of whom have already retired. |
But in a community the size of Winters – with 7,000 people nestled at the base of the Vaca Mountains – news tends to get around by word of mouth faster than the paper can print it. Many have been aware of Newt’s plans for months, and a sizable crowd was expected to attend Friday’s potluck. |
Winters Mayor Cecilia Aguilar-Curry said she’d drop in before the big Winters High School football game Friday night. |
“They’ll have a very nice turnout, and he’ll be humble and shy,” she said. She planned to bring a six-pack of Olympia as a retirement gift. “It’s a sad day in Winters,” she said, calling it the end of an era. |
The Winters Express, circulation 2,000, started in 1884. Newt Wallace was born in 1919 and remembers his grandfather talking about fighting in the Civil War, his children said. |
Wallace graduated from Iowa State University and participated in ROTC, but the Army rejected him for service in World War II because of a heart condition that doctors worried might affect his longevity. Instead, he and his wife, Ida Wallace, moved around the country working as civilians on defense projects, including b... |
After the war, Wallace worked as an editor at small papers in Denison, Iowa, and Upland before buying the Winters Express for $8,500 in 1947. At the time, Winters was known mainly for apricots. Hundreds of rail cars would leave the city loaded with the fruit each spring, Wallace said. |
Like many small-town publishers, he reported stories, sold ads, poured molten lead for type, and delivered the paper himself. His wife and children worked alongside him. |
“From the time we were 5 years old,” said Newt’s son Polk Wallace. |
On printing days, Tuesdays, they’d often work long into the night. Newt’s daughter Lois Brandt remembers her father waking her up late when she was 10 because he needed more help after part of the printing press broke down. |
Wallace played a role, from editor to paper boy, in putting out about 3,500 weekly papers over 68 years in Winters. Ask him him about his experiences in journalism, and he invariably mentions one very long day in August 1953. |
That was the day officials broke ground on the Monticello Dam, which created Lake Berryessa in the hills above Winters. Wallace said his back was killing him from a herniated disk, but he covered the event, which Gov. Earl Warren attended. It was one of the biggest news events in Winters history. |
Wallace rushed his photographic negatives to Woodland to be processed so he could make deadline. He already had a long night ahead of him, setting type and printing the paper. But when he arrived in Woodland, someone told him a wood mill in Winters, one of the city’s main businesses, was on fire. |
He sped home to cover it. By then it was early morning and all the gas stations were closed. He begged for a few gallons from the city lot and drove back to Woodland with his latest round of negatives. Then, at about 4 a.m., he was able to get back to Winters to print the paper and hand-carry that week’s issue to the p... |
In the summer of 1962, Wallace and 24 other editors and publishers from California went to the White House to have lunch with President John F. Kennedy. Wallace was a vice president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and had been invited by White House press secretary Pierre Salinger to represent the st... |
On that day, he said, Kennedy spoke about some of the troubles facing the nation. Wallace commiserated. “I’m glad you have this job instead of me,” he told the president, according to a news report. Without missing a beat Kennedy said, “This is the first I knew you were a candidate,” Wallace recalled with a chuckle. |
Five years later, a film crew with the U.S. Information Agency came to Winters. The agency was making movies to be translated and shipped around the world to show people what life was like in America. It chose Newt Wallace and the Winters Express for a documentary about running one of America’s hundreds of small-town w... |
In the film, Wallace explained that news happens everywhere, including in small towns. A woman hits her husband on the head with a cast iron skillet, he said. A rattlesnake is found at the corner of Abbey Street and Railroad Avenue in downtown Winters. |
These days, Newt Wallace and his children reckon he’s devoted the better part of 80 years to journalism. He started delivering papers when he was 10 in his native Oklahoma and stopped doing so on Wednesday as he nears 100. Why did he work so long? |
“I had nothing else to do,” he said. “I don’t play golf. Besides, I enjoyed my work.” His wife died on Valentine’s Day in 2011 at age 90. |
One of the reasons Charley Wallace has downplayed his father’s retirement is because he and others don’t believe it. “I figure he’ll be back in two weeks,” Charley Wallace said. |
Not true, Newt Wallace insisted, though he did say he’d probably go to the office each morning to read the paper and get help with his eye medication. |
The body of a Memphis National Guardsman killed in a training exercise returns home Saturday, with a funeral set for next week. |
The body of Pfc. Tara Turnage, a Memphis National Guardsman killed during a California training exercise May 7, will return home Saturday morning with a funeral planned next week in Holly Springs, Miss. |
Her mother, LaQuita Darnell, said her daughter's body is scheduled to arrive at Memphis International Airport at 10 a.m. Saturday. A funeral is planned for Thursday in the North Mississippi town where Turnage grew up. |
Turnage, 26, died when she was pinned between two vehicles at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif. She was among more than 3,000 Tennessee Army National Guard members from across the state participating in a month-long training exercise before deployments to Poland and the Ukraine later this year. |
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Awakening Christian Center, 231 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Holly Springs. A wake will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday. J.F. Brittenum & Son Funeral Home in Holly Springs has charge. |
Turnage grew up in Holly Springs, about 50 miles southeast of Memphis, and graduated from Holly Springs High School in 2010 before moving to Memphis. Her mother still lives in Holly Springs. |
Turnage was engaged at the time of her death, and she leaves a 7-year-old daughter, NiKyiah Humphreys. |
Following a string of fund-raising and a push into mobile, Zalora, the Southeast Asia-focused online beauty and fashion store started in 2012 by Germany-based startup accelerator Rocket Internet, has launched an Android app across the region today. |
The Android version follows closely behind Zalora’s iOS app launch in April this year, which rapidly became the top lifestyle app in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Vietnam. It also launched a mobile site earlier this year. |
The company’s push into mobile comes as it raised a huge funding round of $100 million two months ago from regular Rocket co-investors Summit Partners, Kinnevik and Tengelmann Group, along with Verlinvest. |
Our developments in the m-commerce sphere earlier this year have proven to be the right move for us — now almost 25 percent of our revenue across the region comes from mobile. |
The Android app allows users to receive push notifications regarding new arrivals and flash sales, add items to their shopping cart and infinitely save them for later, as long as the app is kept active, and get a quick overview of product information and ratings. The app also uses the built-in capabilities of the Andro... |
The company said it will also be launching a redesigned version of its mobile site in August — which will feature additional filters, a multi-step checkout process and social sharing. |
With its focus on Southeast Asia, mobile is a key component of growth for the fashion e-commerce startup. The adoption of smartphones continues to grow in Southeast Asia at breakneck speed, according to a GfK report which found smartphone sales across the region grew 61 percent over the past year. |
Zalora’s Android app has also been long-awaited, given that Android is the dominant platform across the region. According to GfK, Android accounted for 70 percent of smartphones sales over the past year — up from 50 percent last year. |
with dank piss and fear on his camel-hair clothes. |
Or whether they should look for another. |
Because Israel had not been restored to power. |
Because the advent of wrath had yet to arrive. |
Because the fires of unquenchable vengeance smoldered and gasped. |
Because no one had been burned, least of all their enemies. |
Because they were not yet saved, least of all him. |
Because he was in prison while Jesus preached liberation. |
was no longer the one he had expected. |
Simple operation, easy navigation, uses standard Windows tools, headphones have remote, headphones sound better than average. |
Poor battery life, relatively bulky, rubbery, imprecise rocker switch, proprietary USB cable, slow transfer speed. |
The Nex IA has good features, easy use, and good sound, but lags somewhat behind the curve in size, weight, battery life, and speed. |
The Frontier NEX IA 1GB has good features and sound quality, and it's easy to use. But it lags behind the other players in size, weight, battery life, and speed. |
The NEX IA's 1GB CompactFlash hard drive has only a quarter of the capacity of the tested Apple iPod Mini and Creative Nomad MuVo2. You navigate with a four-way rocker switch and a Mode button. The interface is straightforward, and the screen shows eight lines of folders or songs. While playing, the NEX IA displays son... |
Individual over-the-ear headphones are comfortable and provide excellent bass. A remote control on the cord duplicates the NEX IA's front-panel controls. The NEX IA takes 20 seconds to boot up, and the initial screen gives you a choice of player, radio, ordisconcertinglyformat. |
The nylon carrying case has a belt loop and a clear window for the display. It blocks access to the controls, but that's not a problem if you're using the remote. |
Although the NEX IA is easy to operate, file transfers are somewhat slower than the usual USB 1.1 crawl: A 30MB folder with 10 songs took 15 minutes to download. The NEX IA doesn't support playlists, but it navigates easily among folders, subfolders, and songs. You can drag and drop songs with Windows file tools and mu... |
As with all these players, the headset cord is the FM antenna. You'll experience static as you move around, but the NEX IA's tuner is satisfactory for strong stations. Recorded voice quality is fine. |
Using double-A alkaline batteries, the NEX IA played for 3 hours 20 minutes. Nickel hydride battery cells rated at 1,400 mAh improved the time to 4:40, which was still the shortest battery life we measured. |
IT WAS ANOTHER week of rain, wind and general misery. |
Homes and cars were destroyed, businesses interrupted and everyday life put on hold. |
Despite the gloom, many people took the opportunity to capture some of the wonders of nature…or have a bit of fun. |
These are some of the best photos and videos sent to TheJournal.ie over the past seven days, many of which we unfortunately didn’t get to publish. |
Luckily, nobody was hurt in the making of this video. |
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