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"Super"-computer: Henry Cavill breaks the Internet again with more geek content – wcsjnews.com

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

(LONDON) -- While Superman himself,Henry Cavill, already proved his geek bonafides whenhe revealedthat he paints miniatures used in the role-playing gameWarhammer, his latest Instagram post further proved he's a pin-up for the nerd set.

Cavill justposted a video, set to the sexy sounds ofBarry White's "My First, My Last, My Everything," in which themuscled Witcher actor, clad in a tank top, builds a gaming computer from the ground up.

The techy thirst-trap video was too much for some fans to handle. "Which gamer girl doesnt dream of a guy like you?"one follower commented.

"Glad we all agree that the video of Henry Cavill building a pc in a tank top is NSFW," another swooned.

Further evidence that Cavill's a bonda fide gamer: inpast interviews, he's confirmed that he missed the call from directorZack Snyderto tell him he'd won the part of Superman inMan of Steel, because he was playingWorld of Warcraft.

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Looking towards the future: Automation, training, and the middle class – Brookings Institution

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are projected to either replace or fundamentally change human effort in many occupations. Some jobs may become obsolete. But the potential gains in productivity and efficiency from these technologies will likely transform legacy industries and lead to the emergence of new industries, generating new tasks and jobs. Displaced workers and new labor market entrants alike will therefore need to invest in skills and knowledge that complement these technologies.

Even before the recent employment crisis triggered by the COVID-19 outbreaks, we saw glimpses of these future labor market concerns. In particular, the difficulty many firms face in filling vacancies has raised broader concerns that our skilled labor force is not growing fast enough to keep up with demand. Businesses often cite skill mismatches between their workforce needs and those possessed by potential workers as a principal cause for these unfilled positions. Advances in automation and artificial intelligence will likely exacerbate this problem.

In response, some large employers have moved to invest in training and upskilling programs for their employees. Notwithstanding these important private-sector developments, most firms lack the resources, infrastructure, or desire to make these investments themselves. Ignoring this issue will have long-term consequences for labor markets, firms, and worker mobility. Public policy matters here.

At a recent webinar hosted by theFuture of Middle Class Initiative on Automation, Training, and the Middle Class, two papers were presented, focusing on two distinct pathways for worker training: state-subsidized workplace training programs, and community colleges. Given that most US high-school grads remain unlikely to complete a 4-year college education in the near future, community colleges and other two-year institutions can play a pivotal role in mitigating skilled worker shortages and fostering middle-class mobility. Likewise, for incumbent workers facing potential displacement, subsidies that help support and provide incentives for private-sector firms to retrain their workers may be a key factor in saving jobs and increasing worker productivity and wages. I summarize these papers below, focusing on several key findings and their implications for labor market and training public policy.

In State-level Policies to Incentivize Workplace Learning: Impact of Californias Incumbent Worker Training Paper, Marian Negoita and Annelies Goger evaluate California Employment Training Panel (ETP). The ETP uses funding from a small payroll tax to reimburse employers for the costs of approved training for their employees. Using a mixedmethods approach, Negoita and Goger summarize findings from interviews, employer surveys and a quantitative assessment, focusing on various aspects of the program. In particular, they examine how ETP investments affect employers and workers and discuss some potential improvements to the program.

Negoita and Goger report several important findings. First, they find evidence that take-up of the program between 2014-2016 was generally concentrated among medium-sized to larger firms. as shown in Figure 1 below(adapted from Figure 2 of their paper). Although the vast majority firms in California are considered small (0-50 employees), they received less than 50 percent of approved funding for retraining.

Figure 1: Large CA firms receiving most public training dollars

Sources: ETP administrative data for completed contracts, 2014-2016, and State of California Employment Development Department: Size of Business Data for California, 2015 Q1.(Small businesses 0-50 employees, medium businesses 51-250 employees, large businesses >250 employees).

The authors attribute this skew in part to the administrative burden associated with applying and administering the program. In most cases, firms need to hire third-party consultants to help them through the process, making it cost prohibitive for smaller firms. Of course, smaller firms may also be less likely to need such funding if they are involved in services or are less likely to adopt new technologies and processes that require retraining. Nevertheless, given the importance of small business to the economy, efforts should be directed at ensuring that all firms have access to such support.

Second, the authors find evidence that ETP funding is associated with positive changes in company sales and employment. In main results shown in Figure 2 (from Figure 3 of their paper), ETP funding was linked to a 22 percent increase in jobs and work sites over a two-year observation period. The authors argue that ETP funded training helped recipient firms to either create new jobs or prevent job loss and worker displacement.

Figure 2: ETP training funds boosted firm sales and jobs

Source: Dun & Bradstreet (2019).Note:The starsdenote statistical significance at the 95% level.

Third, ETP funds had their strongest impact among companies that were more than 10 years old; these firms had been active long enough to have established internal infrastructure and pathways for learning.

Fourth, the impacts of ETP were also strong among small or midsized businesses with between 19 and 100 employees (though as shown above, these firms were less likely to have received the funding). Importantly, small businesses were likely to invest the least in training overall, underlining the for a more equitable distribution.

Together these findings suggest that state-level programs that incentivize employers to retrain and upskill their existing workforces are a promising tool for addressing skills gaps and mitigating the likelihood of large layoff events. Likewise, providing such resources to firm may reduce the incidence of these persistent mismatch, helping firms to close vacancies faster, reducing productivity loss and promoting firm growth. These programs also provide a natural pathway for potential federal support for workplace retraining and upskilling programs.

In Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses, Miami University economist Riley Acton uses administrative data on the education choices of recent high school graduates in Michigan to study how labor market conditions influence students community college program decisions. Specifically, Acton matches programs offered at local community colleges to industries, based on the skills and tasks associated with typical occupations within that that industry. She then examines how local, occupation-specific job losses that potentially alter the expected relative benefit of pursuing different programs influence course choices.

Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to mass layoffs and plant closings and the educational choices among high school leavers in different counties and at different times, Acton presents evidence that students respond to observed local labor market conditions by changing what they study but not whether they enroll.

Actons preferred results suggest two central takeaways. First, as presented in the papers Table 3, reproduced below, increases in layoffs in an industry reduce the share of a high school graduates enrolling in the corresponding program at community college. So if a local hospital facility has a large layoff event, students reduce their enrollment in programs for x-ray and ultrasound technicians. This effect is sizable: each additional layoff per 10,000 working-age residents results in a nearly 1 percent decrease in the associated programs enrollment.

Table 1: Enrollment in Response to Labor Market Disruption

There is evidence, however, that students are substituting into the next best program in terms of skill requirements. Using rich data on occupational characteristics available in O*NET data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Acton shows that students primarily substitute into programs that feature similar skill requirements. Figure 3 below (adapted from Figure 4 of paper), illustrates these substitution patterns. The x-axis in each sub-graph represents a measure of the dissimilarity between the skills typically required for that sector and those predominant in the academic program. (A skill distance closer to zero suggests substantial overlap in skills for the employment sector and the academic program, whereas a skill distance closer to 1 suggests that the skill set overlap is very low). Actons results suggest that layoffs in business or health-related occupations decrease enrollment in health programs but increase enrollment in law enforcement programs. By contrast, layoffs in STEM and skilled trade occupations lead to little change in enrollment into other programs, perhaps because there are no close substitutes.

Figure 3: Program Substitution in Response to Layoffs

These results have several policy implications both in Michigan but at a national level. Most important, theysuggest that student educational choices are malleable with respect to new and better information. Thus, as Acton argues in the paper, both community colleges and local high schools should look to provide more information on local and non-local labor market opportunities to potential students to help foster educational choices by students that better align with their geographical preferences and constraints. Of course, this also suggests that policy should facilitate better coordination between the program and curriculum choices offered by community colleges and the local private-sector needs.

Educational institutions should seek to anticipate student demand in response to these local labor market shocks. To do this effectively, however, community colleges will require more resources to ensure they can quickly expand alternative programs, particularly those with relatively higher labor market returns.

Given impending changes in the labor market, possibly accelerated by COVID-19, further exploration of these issues should be a priority. The Future of Middle Class Initiative at Brookings will continue to explore these issues in the subsequent months. Please continue to visit this space, and if you havent already, please sign up for ournewsletter.

Sarah Nzau provided excellent research support for this paper.

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Zenoss and HCL Technologies Deliver Automation for IT Monitoring and AIOps – EnterpriseTalk

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Zenoss Inc., a leader inintelligent application and service monitoring, today announced a strategic partnership with HCL Technologies (HCL), a global technology company that empowers organizations for the next decade today. The partnership will deliver the only end-to-end solution that combines full-stack monitoring, AIOps and AI-powered runbook automation.

This strategic partnership leverages Zenoss Cloudsintelligent monitoring and AIOpscapabilities to derive much-needed context, enabling DRYiCE iAutomate (iAutomate) to intelligently automate and remediate IT incidents. The result is an improvement in IT efficiency while simultaneously lowering costs and mitigating risk.

Under the agreement, Zenoss will offeradvanced automation capabilitiesto its customers by leveraging iAutomate from HCLs DRYiCEsoftware. In return, HCL will offer its customers monitoringand AIOps products from Zenoss as part of the DRYiCE MTaaS platform. These offerings will provide customers with faster time to value and improved ROI, and allow them to be better positioned for the future.

Digital transformation has changed IT forever, and our customers look to us for innovative solutions that will help them manage modern, complex environments, saidAmit Gupta, executive vice president and global head of DRYiCE at HCL. This partnership will help us jointly deliver intelligent automation capabilities for todays complex IT environments.

The Zenoss and iAutomate integrated offering delivers:

Zenoss Cloud is the first SaaS-based intelligent application and service monitoring platform that streams and normalizes all machine data, uniquely enabling the emergence of context for preventing service disruptions in complex multicloudenvironments. To learn more about Zenoss Cloud,visithttps://www.zenoss.com/product.

For years, we have been talking about delivering on the promise of a lights-out data center, saidGreg Stock, chairmanand CEO of Zenoss. This partnership with HCLs DRYiCEsoftwareis another step in that journey delivering real value to our customer bases at a time when its needed the most.

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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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The COVID-19 Impact On Robotic Process Automation Market || Overwhelming Hike Of Billion Dollar Industry – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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Virtually or In-Person, Automation Improves The Healthcare Experience – HIT Consultant

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Muthu Alagappan, MD, Medical Director at Notable Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented shiftinthe way consumers view and access a variety of goods and servicesandhealthcareis no exception.Recent studiesshow that many patients, including vulnerable populations likethose living with cancer, are delaying recommended care and proceduresand will continue to do so for at least several months amid fears over the safety ofin-personvisits.Inresponse, reports of providers adapting to offer carevirtuallyare all the more commonplace, with almosthalf of physiciansnow treating patients through telemedicine platforms, up from just 18 percentin2018.

These trends have solidified virtual care as a mainstay, and as a result, the virtual visit has become a commoditya service that can be provided by many capable vendors. However, the logistics that power the adoption of virtual care are often overlooked. Ashealthcareadministrators turn to telemedicine to resume non-urgenthealthcareservices, we must ensure that best-in-class technology solutions are utilized to improve the virtual careexperiencefor providers, clinical staff, and, importantly, patients.

Health systems and their networks face significant operational issues when delivering careina remote setting, due to the range of potential interactions and diversity of devicesadding to the already recognized administrative burden that comes with routine patient care. With each patient visit comes over a dozen manual tasks, including patient intake and registration,in-visit clinical note writing, as well as back-office billing and claims processing. The virtual visit adds even more steps, such as helping patients access the appropriate technology for a two-way video interface or sending custom links to a virtual waiting room at the right time.

Facilitating a seamless virtual careexperiencebefore, during, and after a patients visit should be top-of-mindparticularly as patient expectations have heightened andhealthcarehas progressed towards a technology-enabled future. Fortunately, theautomationof operational workflows can helphealthcareadministrators smooth the friction around conducting virtual visits at scale.

Intelligentautomationextends our capacityinhealthcareby enabling us to do more with the same workforce and technology infrastructure.Infact, digital medical assistants can use artificial intelligence to automate repetitive, cognitively tiring, and error-prone tasks. This technology can support the influx of virtual visits by offloading administrative processes, such as co-payment collection, clinical documentation, and pre-population of common clinical orders.

For patients not as familiar with digital interactions and the variety of telemedicine modalities, which can include platforms like Amwell, Doctor on Demand, and Teladoc or video conference solutions like RingCentral and Zoom, participatinginvirtual visits can be a daunting change. Additional technological challenges associated with virtual care can resultinheightened frustration, increased no-show rates, or decreased activation, so maintaining patient engagement throughout the patient journey is even more importantina virtual environment. Digital medical assistants can automate appointment reminders, offer detailed setup guidance for patients, and provide just-in-time virtual visit links to ensure patients and providers can make the most of their time together.

The COVID-19 pandemic has also introduced new variables and risks that patients, providers, andhealthcareinstitutions at-large must consider when seeking and delivering care. Until recently, it was a relatively straightforward process to determine where a patient should receive routine care. Now given the risk of disease spread, providers find themselves considering which patients to see when to see them and whether to see themvirtuallyorin-person.

This creates additional complexityindetermining when to schedule patients andinwhich medium to conduct the visit. Platforms that leverage intelligentautomationcan help clinical teams to pre-screen all scheduled patients, collect a thorough medical history, intelligently segment patients into risk cohorts and triage each cohort to an individualized destination, be it a return toin-personcare or a virtual environment.

Inthe virtual exam room, things also look a little different. From the providers perspective, one of the oft-cited drawbacks of virtual visits is the limited ability to measure vital signs, perform a physical exam or order point-of-care diagnostics. At-home diagnostics, wearable devices and remote patient monitoring tools allow providers to collect continuous clinical data that can be gathered asynchronously and quickly, resultingina more comprehensive picture of a patients health. Further, platforms that use intelligentautomationalgorithms to organize data collected across the care continuum can parse these data streams to identify at-risk patients and then automate outreach and care management to follow clinical care pathways.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a unique opportunity to reimaginehealthcareusing a modern suite of technology for patients, providers and staff that does away with outdated and inefficient processes. But we also have a responsibility to replace them with solutions that improve digital experiences by supporting patients before visits, automating repetitive workflows, and parsing large amounts of data to support clinical decision-making.

Combining intelligentautomationwith virtual visits creates a powerful tool to efficiently manage patient populations and offer anexperiencethat feels intuitive while enablinghealthcaresystems to do more with less. By accelerating the digital transformation ofhealthcaretoday, we can position ourselves for a future of increased capacity, decreased overhead, and improved quality.

Muthu Alagappan, MD, is an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, a trained engineer, and medical director atNotable Health, ahealthcareexperienceautomationcompany.

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Tag: Global Automation And Accessories For Industrial Doors Market Growth – Cole of Duty

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Prominent players operating in the Global Automation And Accessories For Industrial Doors Market are:

Dictator TechnikDitecDoorhanGilgen Door SystemsRibBftWilcox Door ServiceRite HiteCameSOMMER Antriebs- Und Funktechnik

The Type Coverage in the Market are:

Type 1Type 2Type 3

Market Segment by Applications, covers:

Application 1Application 2Application 3

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Retail Automation Market Global Challenges and Opportunities by 2026 – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to impose lockdown that inturn has stopped Retail Automation developments and the operations of firms in addition to fabricating centres. The businesses around the globe are currently seeing shortage of labour together side materials because of the epidemic; it is projected to result in the Retail Automation development of the market in coming years in alteration as the vaccine is in its final trails.

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(PoS, Barcode & RFID, Barcode & RFID, Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL), Autonomous Guided Vehicle (AGV), Automatic Storage and Retrieval (ASRS), Automated Conveyor)

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Industrial Automation Software Market 2020: Potential Growth, Challenges, and Know the Companies List Could Potentially Benefit or Loose out From the…

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought effects on many aspects, like flight cancellations; travel bans and quarantines; restaurants closed; all indoor events restricted; emergency declared in many countries; massive slowing of the supply chain; stock market unpredictability; falling business assurance, growing panic among the population, and uncertainty about future.

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Library of Congress Wants To Try Adding Humans to Automated Processes – Nextgov

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

The Library of Congress, the biggest physical repository of information in the world, has been digitizing its resources, expanding its digital library and developing automation tools to manage its collection. As those tools bear fruit, Library officials now want to reintroduce humans to the process.

The Librarys Digital Innovation Labs Section has undertaken a range of programs aimed at maximizing the use of digital collections and supporting emerging research methods, including using machine learning and crowdsourcing prototypes, according to a solicitation posted Tuesday to beta.SAM.gov. Now, the Library of Congress seeks to build on these initial experiments to further examine models that expand access to digital collections by combining digitally-enabled human participation with computational methods, otherwise known as human-in-the-loop approaches.

As the Librarys digital collection expands, it needs help properly tagging and verifying the metadata attached to the content. Machine learning tools have been plugging along at this task through the pilot programs, but Library officials want humans to help verify the work is being done correctly, as well as ethically.

Through the contract, the Library wants to procure at least two experimental prototypes using human-in-the-loop workflows to model, test, and evaluate different ethical approaches to applying crowdsourcing and machine learning methods to Library digital collections that enhance collection usability, utility, discoverability and user engagement.

Per the solicitation, at least one of the two prototypes will focus on improving metadata through crowdsourcing methods. As users add feedback on the accuracy of the derived metadata, those results will in turn be funneled back into the automation tools to serve as training data for a machine learning algorithm that shall be applied to Library digital collections to create enhanced metadata.

Library officials stressed the need to incorporate user-centered design in the process or risk alienating the volunteers and researchers contributing to the project. The solicitation pushes this concept beyond basic interface design and requires the contractors to consider user motivations and needs in the workflow.

Workflows shall be adaptive to different use cases and user profiles, to ultimately facilitate meaningful and productive user interactions with the Librarys digital collections, according to the statement of work.

Bids are due by noon August 5. The contract will run from September 1 through June 30, 2021.

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Global Dairy Automation Market 2020 with (COVID-19) Impact Analysis, Product Type, Key Manufacturers, Regions and Forecast to 2026 – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Global Dairy Automation Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2026 explains the historic growth of the market and the forecasts the future. The report determines the market properties, industry layout, obstacles in the market, and industry effectiveness. The report covers various aspects of the global Dairy Automation market along with the factors governing the same. The report gives insights of market size, trends, share, growth, development plans, investment plan, cost structure and drivers analysis. The document provides in-depth analysis for new competitors or existing competitors in the market. It focuses on recent trends and developments and the changing structure of the market.

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The scope of the report is limited to the application of the type, and distribution channel.This report presents the worldwide Dairy Automation market size (value, production and consumption), splits the breakdown (data status 20152020 and forecast to 2026), by manufacturers, region, type and application. It analyzes opportunities in the overall market for stakeholders by identifying the high-growth segments. The research report is a compilation of key data with regards to the competitive landscape of this vertical and the multiple regions where the business has successfully established its position.

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Below mentioned companies are analyzed upon their revenue, price margins in the market and main products they offer: Lely, Delaval, ProLeiT, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, ABB Group, BECO Dairy Automation, DSK Digital Technologies,

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Automating IT security – ComputerWeekly.com

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

A study from Forrester recently warned that IT security professionals are becoming increasingly concerned about the rise incyber crimepowered by artificial intelligence (AI).

The study, commissioned by Darktrace, reported that close to 80% of cyber security decision-makers anticipate offensive artificial intelligence (AI) to increase the scale and speed of attacks.

In addition to their quickness, 66% also expect offensive AI to conduct attacks that no human could conceive of. The study warned that these attacks will be stealthy and unpredictable in a way that enables them to evade traditional security approaches that rely on rules and signatures and only reference historical attacks.

According to Forrester, human operators limit the speed with which organisations can detect, interpret and respond to threats. As attackers modify their tactics and beat legacy security tooling, they will move deeper and more quickly into infected networks, the analyst company warned. This lack of speed has serious implications.

Cyber security decision-makers are most concerned about systems or business interruption, intellectual property or data theft, and reputational damage, but help is here thanks to advances in AI.

PA Consultings Lee Howells, an AI and automation expert, and YannisKalfoglou, an AI and blockchain expert, believe that the use and capabilities of AI to attack organisations is growing and becoming more sophisticated.

In a recent Computer Weekly article, Howells andKalfoglousuggested that cyber criminals would inevitably take advantage of AI, and such a move would increase threats to digital security and the volume and sophistication ofcyber attacks.

AI provides multiple opportunities forcyber attacks from the mundane, such as increasing the speed and volume of attacks, to the sophisticated, such as making attribution and detection harder, impersonating trusted users and deep fakes, they wrote.

One example of a simple but elegant AI-based attack is Seymour and Tullys Social Media Automated Phishing and Reconnaissance (SNAP_R). This proof of concept created by security researchers automates the creation of fake tweets with malicious links.

According to Howells andKalfoglou, AIs ability to analyse large amounts of data at pace means many of these attacks are likely to be uniquely tailored to a specific organisation.

The pair warned that these kinds of highly sophisticatedcyber attacks, executed by professional criminal networks leveraging AI and machine learning, will enable attacks to be mounted at a speed and thoroughness that will overwhelm an organisations IT security capabilities.

AI-enabled security automation has the potential to combat AI-powered malicious activity. For instance, Howells andKalfoglousaid an organisation could use behaviour-based analytics, deploying the unparalleled pattern-matching capability of machine learning.

Assuming the appropriate data access consents are in place, the abundance of user behaviour data available from streaming, devices and traditional IT infrastructure gives organisations a sophisticated picture of peoples behaviour, they wrote.

For Howells andKalfoglou, user behavioural data can be analysed to help organisations determine what device is being used at a particular time (for example, iPad at 10pm), what activity the user is typically doing at that time (such as processing emails at 10pm), who is the user they interacting with (for example, no video calls after 10pm due to security policy) and what data is being accessed (for example, to stop shared drive access after 10pm).

They add that this behavioural data can be built, maintained and updated in real time by a well-trained machine learning system. Any detected deviations from the normal pattern will be analysed and trigger an alert that could lead to cyber defence mechanisms being deployed.

IBMs 2019 Cost of a data breach report looked at the relationship between data breach cost and the state of security automation within companies that deploy, or do not deploy, automated security methods and technologies.

Such security technologies aim to augment or replace human intervention in the identification and containment of cyber exploits or breaches and depend upon artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics and incident response orchestration.

Having systems in place that automate the detection of and response to malicious activity negates the need for human-driven investigation. IBMs research found that over half (52%) of companies studied had security automation partially or fully deployed. The average total cost of a data breach was 95% higher in organisations without security automation deployed.

IBM reported that the average total cost of a data breach was $2.65m for organisations that fully deployed security automation. The cost of a data breach in organisations that did not deploy automation was $5.16m, in other words, some $2.51m higher.

Ivana Bartoletti, a cyber risk technical director at Deloitte and a founder of Women Leading in AI, says AI can be deployed in the training of a system to identify even the smallest behaviours of ransomware and malware attacks before it enters the system and then isolate them from that system. She says AI can also be used to automate phishing and data theft detection, which are extremely helpful as they involve a real-time response.

Security professionals are adopting security information and event management (Siem) tools to enable them to take a holistic approach to monitoring IT security. According to a forecast fromMarketsandMarkets, the global Siem market size is expected to grow 5.5% annually to $5.5bn by 2025. But not every organisation can justify deploying a full Siem system.

Logically, using AI to trawl masses of data to identify threats is not dissimilar to the techniques used in AIOps, where server, network and application logs are analysed. Analyst Gartner says AIOps is primarily used to support IT operations processes that enable monitoring or observation of IT infrastructure, application behaviour or digital experience.

Almost always, AIOps platform investments have been justified on the basis of their ability to decrease mean time to problem resolution and the resultant cost reduction, says the analyst firm.

Gartner analysts wrote in the companys Market guide for AIOps platforms that the benefits of AIOps include reducing event volumes and false alarms. Getting overwhelmed with false positives is a major headache for IT security, leading to legitimate activities being blocked. As Howells andKalfoglousiPad example shows, AI can build an understanding of what constitutes normal user behaviour.

AIOps can additionally detect anomalous values in time-series data. This goes beyond merely knowing when the iPad was used to try to access shared data after 10pm, against company policy.

Instead, the AI can uncover meaning in hidden data and predict an outcome, and such predictions could show security professionals problems long before a data policy violation is flagged.

AI can also perform root cause analysis using bytecode instrumentation or distributed tracing data along with graph analysis, to understand why a data breach occurred.

However, Deloittes Bartoletti warns that over-reliance on AI presents another problem. As AI improves at safeguarding assets, so too does it improve attacking them, she says. As cutting-edge technologies are applied to improve security, cyber criminals are using the same innovations to gain an edge over them. Typical attacks involve gathering system information or sabotaging an AI system by flooding it with requests. AI can augment cyber security so long as organisations know its limitations and have a clear strategy focusing on the present while constantly looking at the evolving threat landscape.

As the game between IT security professionals and hackers intensifies, the battle will inevitably shift to AI-poweredcyber attacksand cyber defences. The question then becomes, whose AI is faster and smarter? Who wins: the cat or the mouse?

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IT Process Automation Market Evolving Technology and Growth Outlook 2020-2026 – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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Intelligent Process Automation Market Key Insights Based on Product Type, End-use and Regional Demand Till 2026 – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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The report covers the forecast and analysis of the Intelligent Process Automation Market on a global and regional level. The study provides historical data from 2015 to 2019 along with a forecast from 2019-2026 based on revenue (USD Million). In 2018, the worldwide GDP stood at USD 84,740.3 Billion as compared to the GDP of USD 80,144.5 Billion in 2017, marked a growth of 5.73% in 2018 over previous year according to the data quoted by International Monetary Fund. This is likely to impel the growth of Intelligent Process Automation Marketover the period 2019-2026.

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Intelligent process automation is the application of artificial intelligence and related new technologies, which include computer vision, cognitive automation, machine learning, and robotic process automation. It is integration of machine learning and robotic process automation, which assists the human work and has the tendency to improve over a period without any command. Intelligent process automation consists of five technologies. These include robotics process automation, smart workflow, machine learning, natural language generation, and cognitive agents.

Organizations are implementing the IPA worldwide to run their business cost-effectively. IPA provides several business benefits, like human-robot orchestration, automation of repetitive and scheduled tasks, ensuring sound governance and reducing risk compliance, process visibility across the whole customer journey, and business agility and speeding up the rapidly changing business processes. The IPA enables companies to identify, model, assess, evaluate, improve, optimize, manage and automate different company procedures to improve their efficiency.

Automation is revolutionizing business processes, both customer-facing, and back-office. Growing demand for automation-led transformation programs with the help of a digital workforce is one major factor driving the market growth. Technological advancements from robotic process automation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming the landscape of automation. The implementation is majorly focused on productivity, operational efficiency, and building new revenue-generating opportunities.

The Asia Pacific region is expected to have the highest CAGR in the intelligent process automation market during the forecast period, due to its growing technology adoption. This is due to the presence of rapidly growing economies, such as China and India. Rapid economic development, globalization, digitalization, and the increased adoption of cloud-based technologies are expected to drive the growth of the intelligent automation market in the Asia Pacific region.The key players profiled in the intelligent process automation market analysis are IBM Corporation, Atos, Tech Mahindra Limited, Accenture PLC, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Infosys Limited, Capgemini SE, Cognizant, Genpact, and Xerox Corporation. These players have adopted various strategies to increase their market penetration and strengthen their position in the industry.

KEY MARKET SEGMENTSBy Component*Service*Solution

By Technology*Natural Language Processing*Machine & Deep Learning*Neural Networks*Virtual Agents*Mini Bots*Computer Vision*Others.

By Deployment Mode*Cloud*On-premise

End Users (Revenue, USD Billion*Telecom and IT*Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI)*Transport and Logistics*Healthcare*Media and Entertainment*Manufacturing*Retail and ecommerce*Others

By Organization Size*Large Enterprises*SMEs

By Regional AnanlysisNorth America*U.S.*Canada

Europe*Germany*UK*France*Italy*Spain*Belgium*Russia*Netherlands*Rest of Europe

Asia-Pacific*China*India*Japan*Korea*Singapore*Malaysia*Indonesia*Thailand*Philippines*Rest of Asia-Pacific

Latin America*Brazil*Mexico*Argentina*Rest of LATAM

Middle East & Africa*UAE*Saudi Arabia*South Africa*Rest of MEA

Key companies profiled in the report include Atos Group, Blue Prism Group PLC, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, ExlService Holdings, Inc., Genpact Limited, IBM Corporation, Tech Mahindra Limited, Infosys Limited, Wipro Limited, SAP SE, Accenture PLC, Pegasystems, Inc., CGI, Inc., and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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HPE announces 5G Lab and demo of automated 5G network slice orchestration – TechRepublic

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Telcos can get hands-on experience with innovations with the lab, and the demonstration showcases the expanding use cases and service agility necessary to support 5G applications.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled two major 5G initiatives on Thursday: The 5G Lab and a technical demonstration of automated 5G network slice orchestration. Both projects highlight the expanding use cases and growing innovations surrounding 5G connectivity in business.

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Despite the coronavirus pandemic stifling many organizations' progress and digital transformation initiatives, 5G has continued to grow, a 5G Americas report found. 5G connections globally as of Q1 2020 have surpassed 63.6 million, signifying a 308.7% growth since Q4 2019, according to Omdia data.

Commercial networks are seeing similar growth, with 82 networks now in existence, and it is expected to double to 206 by the end of 2020, a TeleGeography report found. With this growth, HPE took the opportunity to facilitate further innovation, specifically by building multivendor solutions.

"What we are pushing towards the market is the message that it is the time to build multivendor solutions," said Richard Band, head of mobile core and 5G at HPE CMS. "If you look at the 5G market or the core network market there's very few vendors left that can do the end to end [process]."

"Many of our customers, including Orange, are looking for ways to diversify their supplier base," Band added. "Orange wants to build a multivendor network, and this robot demonstration that we've done with them was a first step in building this. The HPE 5G lab is an HPE initiative to encourage the emergence of the multivendor ecosystem."

The HPE 5G Lab is a test environment where telcos and partners can experiment with and validate 5G network solutions. The mission of the lab is to help telcos accelerate 5G adoption and gain revenue quicker by getting hands-one experience with the latest 5G tech, according to a press release.

The lab is based around a specific group of HPE 5G solutions including HPE 5G Core Stack, HPE Telco Cloud, HPE Telco Blueprints for Core and Edge, and Aruba networking equipment, which HPE Lab users can utilize to test innovations, Band said.

"With the HPE Lab, we are dramatically increasing the proportion of standard IT tools and technologies in telco. Historically, telco has been a very closed environment. When I started 20 years ago, everything was proprietarythe hardware, even the cabling," Band said.

"Over the years, we've moved away from this very proprietary [environment] and made it more aligned to the IT industry. This is an important step because now we're adopting cloud-native technologies...which gives you very quick updates on services. We're bringing this into telco," Band noted. "It's a huge challenge because it's a new, different type of workload, different way of working."

"This lab is intended to help the industry understand how to leverage all of these capabilities; ultimately, the objective is to have a much higher degree of automation and much faster innovation," Band said.

The HPE 5G Lab is located in Fort Collins, CO, and is available worldwide to customers and HPE partners through remote access, including the provision of personnel to manage and operate the lab environment and help with integration and testing.

To access the HPE 5G Lab and validate via the 5G Core Stack, independent software vendors (ISVs) need to join the HPE Partner Ready program, which will allow them to demonstrate compliance with 3GPP standards and utilize the HPE 5G ecosystem, according to the release.

HPE's second major announcement involves a partnership with Orange and Casa Systems that uses a kit robot to demo an automated 5G network slice orchestration.

"5G network slicing...is kind of a virtual private network from mobile networks," Band said. "Network slicing is really about the ability to instantiate different splices, different networks, different characteristics, and isolate them logically from one another, also from a security perspective."

The collaboration demonstrates the capability of a cloud-native 5G core network to recognize degradations in quality-of-service (QoS) on a common network slice for a mission-critical service and automatically self correct, creating a new dedicated network slice immediately, according to the release.

"We instantiated an initial network slice at those network functions and implemented 5G core network capabilities and we ran this robot," Band said. "This robot is circulating and self- balancing kind of thing, and it's a remote control. So the function that tells it what to do is not actually on the robot, but it is remote. It's connected through this 5G network and then we start loading additional traffic onto the network so it gets saturated."

"You start seeing that the behavior of the robot becomes erratic because it's not getting instructions on time from the centralized server," Band said. "At that point, we say, 'OK, we will split.' And we will instantiate different sets of network functions, different networks slices, but they're just dedicated to this robot. We instantiate this automatically. Then we tell the robot, you can use this from now on. And at that point you see that the behavior becomes smooth again."

Historically, if a telco wants to build a network, it builds it once and never touches it again. If it wanted to add to the network, it would take months or years to accomplish, Band said.

"What we are showing here is an ability to react in real time or near real time to conditions and adds capacity to the network. With that, the network works much faster," Band said. "You get a much smoother experience as a mobile subscriber, but the real value, generally speaking for 5G and including for network slicing, is really for enterprise for their own internal processes or for the things that they will offer to you."

The next steps for Orange, HPE, and Casa is expanding this use case demonstration into an end-to-end campus trial to move toward broader service availability, according to the release.

"This demonstration with Orange and Casa underscores our ability to automate and orchestrate the complete lifecycle of 5G services in cloud-native, multivendor environments," said Domenico Convertino, vice president of product management, communications and media solutions at HPE, in the release.

"An open 5G Core is key for operators to break out of the single vendor lock-in of previous generation networks. The HPE 5G Core Stack, as well as our newly announced HPE 5G Lab, enable an accelerated evolution to 5G networking that is open and interoperable," Convertino added.

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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Workload automation software is used to manage distributed mainframes. This software is adopted by small and medium enterprises as well as large enterprises at low costs also it manages central servers and distributed systems. Continuous developments in IT and telecommunication industry will propel the market growth. Mainly this software is classified into two types such as On-premise, cloud-based, and SaaS.

Increase in technological advancements is the key driving factor which is expected to boost the global workload automation software market. Furthermore, rise in adoption of this technology by various small and medium enterprises as well as large enterprises will have the positive impact on market growth. Also, workload automation software can eliminate manual scripting process which is expected to drive the global workload automation software market growth during this forecast period.

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However, lack of stable internal workload process is the major restraining factor which is expected to obstruct the global workload automation software market growth.

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Mayor reinvents the wheel, spins it as ingenuity – Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Its hard to tell whos more out of touch, the Democratic mayor of Santa Fe or the Republican in the White House.

The mayor, Alan Webber, says he wants to re-imagine and reshape the way city government works for you.

Webber ought to be asking if it works at all.

Weeds in Santa Fe are more ubiquitous than campaign promises in this election year. The city failed to make six springtime payments to employee retirement programs. The promise of safe neighborhoods gets more talk than action.

I recently reported a stop sign in the South Capital via Constituent Services that is completely obscured by Siberian elms. [They] still havent been cut down, one resident said this week.

With basic services neglected, Webber wants to create three more city departments.

One comes with a blue-sky promise from the mayor. He says his proposed Department of Community Development would deliver enhanced neighborhood livability and improved economic opportunity across the community.

Everyone in town looks forward to details on how a reshuffled government agency will create this utopia.

Webbers claim brings to mind the misplaced confidence of President Donald Trump, who said the new coronavirus would one day just disappear, I hope.

Another of Webbers new departments would remake the City Clerks Office, which no longer is responsible for overseeing municipal elections. That job shifted to the county government under state legislation.

Webber and the City Council should be streamlining the City Clerks Office, an operation stuck in the 19th century.

Even tiny towns use the internet to rapidly report election returns to their residents. Not midsize Santa Fe.

City Clerk Yolanda Vigil occupied herself on election nights by standing in City Hall and reading the results to a few dozen people who were eager to learn if their candidates won.

Vigil functioned as an overpaid town crier. After dribbling out election returns, she would praise her staff for transmitting the numbers the way it was done before statehood.

Webber wants to expand the City Clerks Office rather than shrink it, even though its workload has been cut. The mayor envisions the City Clerks Office as sort of a hospitality suite of government.

By moving Constituent and Council Services into the City Clerks Office, we will transform it into our Community Engagement Office, an information and data-rich operation where the whole community can go to get answers to their questions, find updates on city programs and projects, examine records from the past and offer input toward the citys future, Webber said.

Every service he mentioned should already be provided as a matter of routine. Calling basic functions an innovative breakthrough is an old shell game at City Hall.

Webber also wants to establish a Department of Community Health and Safety. He stated that the new agency would re-balance the resources for Police, Fire and Community Services, and introduce new ways for them to join hands in solving complex community problems, from law enforcement to firefighting to social services.

Forget for a moment Webbers jumbled syntax in which firefighting and policing became problems. The greater issue is why a new department is needed to re-balance how the city spends money and deploys staff members responsible for public safety.

What in the existing government structure prevents the mayor and city manager from making sure the police and fire departments are operating efficiently?

Building bureaucracy and calling it progress are two of Webbers weaknesses. He began his term as mayor in 2018 by adding a chief of staff to the public payroll.

The job was unnecessary. Worse, Webbers maneuver reeked of cronyism.

He hired Jarel LaPan Hill, who was part of his campaign team. Now shes his city manager.

Sorry to say, but the rubber-stamp City Council is almost certain to approve Webbers reorganization plan.

It ought to be asking whether having more city departments will fill another pothole, smooth a bumpy road or make certain evidence doesnt vanish from the leaky police department.

The council ought to be saying city government doesnt need additional departments, more empty promises and fancy new titles.

What it could use is nowhere to be found on Webbers agenda.

The pandemic provides more than the usual incentive to eliminate featherbedding at City Hall. It was a way of life before Webbers arrival, and he has continued the tradition.

Webber wont back away from his plan. He wants his fingerprints all over a bloated organizational chart that doesnt fit a city of 85,000 people.

What hes really doing is setting the stage for erratic governance. The next mayor might junk Webbers convoluted creations in a back-to-basics campaign.

But for now, Webber can reinvent the wheel and spin it as ingenuity.

Ringside Seat is an opinion column about people, politics and news. Contact Milan Simonich at msimonich@sfnewmexican.com or 505-986-3080.

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Conversations: Two Screenwriters Talk About Their New NovelsUtopia Avenue and Antkind – thirdcoastreview.com

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

Screenshot, Madeline Miller and David Mitchell in conversation.

It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact that the release dates were a week apart (July 7 and 14).

Last week, it was Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa; Synecdoche, New York; andBeing JohnMalkovich) with his first novel,Antkind. This week, it was David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas,The Bone Clocksand eight novels) with his latest novel,Utopia Avenue.

This article is not a book review, but a report on the hosts conversations with two talented and idiosyncratic authors.

David Mitchells conversation with author Madeline Miller (her novels areSong of AchillesandCirce) turned out to be a mutual admiration fest.Miller did succeed in turning the conversation to Utopia Avenue and Mitchells other writings, but he came armed with a long list of questions, he said, about Millers two novels drawn from classic mythology; he flourished copies of both books to the video camera as he talked. Mitchell said hes a big admirer of Millers novels and so there was a lot of conversation about how Miller got interested in the classics (her mother read her The Iliad when she was 5 or 6), the longevity of myth, and the power of poetry in Homers writing.

Utopia Avenue is about a fictional British band in the 1960s (named Utopia Avenue after they decide against naming themselves The Way Out), and the four musicians who come together to make music and money. The band is formed under the guidance of a manager, Levon Frankland, who is a decent guy, not the stereotype evil dealer. Theres Elf (Elizabeth Frances), the keys player, vocalist and songwriter, who comes from the folk scene. Griff, the drummer, is a jazzer. Jasper is a virtuoso guitarist and songwriter and Dean is a talented, self-taught bassist and songwriter and former member of a band named Battleship Potemkin. (Jasper and Griff were with a sub-subpar band named Archie Kinnocks Blues Cadillac and Elf just broke up with her duo partner/boyfriend.)

The 60s were the early days of rock and roll and there were plenty of eclectic influences as bands began. The Stones were already well-established and enviably rich.

Mitchell, Lancashire-born and now living in County Cork, Ireland, has written a book larded with musical references, musical jargon, famous bands and track titles. Jasper meets a still-unknown David Bowie while leaving the bands management office. There are cameo appearances by famous musicians like Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen.

When Miller asks Mitchell about works that influenced this book, he names the Canadian band Rush because of their high register vocabulary, Dr. Who and Isaac Asimovs Foundationseries .And one more thing: the childrens book series, Flat Stanley. As Flat Stanley found, upon becoming flat, a curse is a blessing and a blessing is a curse.

Mitchell isnt a musician but he admires the instant feedback loop that musicians have in live performance. Im jealous of that, he said, and commented that music is important to us from the womb on (when we are conscious of the bass track of our mothers heartbeat) and then in adolescence, when music is a tribal identifier. We have a primal relationship with music throughout our lives.

The musicians intention is changed by the listener, who adds personal meaning to the musicians work. And a novel cant make the reader hear the music, Mitchell acknowledged, but it can show its effect on human beings.

His descriptions of the bands early gigs are realistic, with the musicians terrified and their audiences in turn bored or insultingand later their audiences become adoring fans. The band members play off each other; they are strangers at first and become a unit. They start by playing in grungy, mostly empty college halls and rural bars. They travel in a decrepit van they call the Beast. It barely runs but it carries all their gear, amps and Griffs drum kit.

Miller commented on the interconnectedness of Mitchells novels: characters or incidents in one novel appear in others. He does that, he says, because it pleases me to do it. My characters get away and may have a future in another book. Im sometimes thinking three books ahead, he said.

Screenshot. Greta Johnsen and Charlie Kaufman discuss his book.

Antkind, the quirky, circuitous story of a film critic, and Kaufmans other writing were the subjects of his conversation with Greta Johnsen (WBEZ and the Nerdette podcast) last week.

In Antkind, B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, the not-Jewish film critic, drives through Florida, trying to keep his windshield bugfree and stopping at a Slammys for a biggy cola and paper towels. He has an African American girlfriend (you would know her name), a relationship of which hes inordinately proud. Hes headed for the St. Augustine Film History building, the architecture of which recreates the head of The Creature from the Black Lagoon,filmed nearby.. (The vault is in the chin; the screening room is in the left gill.) B. is there to do research for a monograph on a Black filmmaker.

The film critic serves partly as Kaufmans opportunity to lampoon film critics (they can write about you but you cant write about them). B. is a jerk, Kaufman says, has a deep need for approval, and hates the work of Charlie Kaufman. The book is often self-referential and in current argot, meta.

Mitchell explains the musicians intention being completed by the listeners experience and emotional state. Kaufman says a piece of work is completed by the readerit goes into your brain.

The main plot line of Antkind concerns the ancient outsider filmmaker that B. meets who has been working for 90 years on a stop-motion animation film with an army of puppets. Watching the film takes three months. B. decides this masterpiece could be the greatest discovery in the history of cinema plus it could save his foundering career. His attempt to bring the film to cinema royalty is the main story thread among many.

Kaufman is being interviewed from his temporary New York apartment. Johnsen asks him if he knew where he was going when he started writing the book, which, by the way, runs 720 pages. Not at the beginning, he says. I like to explore, sort of free form.I didnt know if it would be funny or something else. I tried writing in third person, then first person. (Its written from B.s perspective, in B.s voice.)

Johnsen asks him when he knew he was done. He worked on the book for five-and-a-half years, Kaufman said, and after about five years, he knew where he was goingbut thats by design. Everything is anxiety-inducing for me, he says, so I just add that to it (the anxiety).

Are there books that Antkind is in conversation with? Johnsen asks. Like Kafka, David Foster Wallace, Pynchon. He acknowledges that Kafka has been a big influence on his life and on his thinking. And I used to read a lot of Philip K. Dick, but not recently. Everything feels very of the moment.

Do you ever have writers block? Johnsen asks the standard issue question to a writer. Well, if I do, therere always things percolating even when you dont know they are. (So we might think of writers block as a different form of creativity.)

Charlie Kaufman has a thing for hirsuteness. He begins Antkind with a first-person homage by B. to his beard.

My beard is a wonder. It is the beard of Whitman, of Rasputin, of Darwin, yet it is uniquely mine. Its a salt-and-pepper, steel-wool, cotton-candy confection, much too long, wispy, and unruly to be fashionable. And it is this, its very unfashionability, that makes the strongeststatement. It says, I dont care a whit (a Whitman) about fashion. I dont care about attractiveness. This beard is too big for my narrow face. This beard is too wide. This beard is too bottom-heavy for my bald head. And on and on. Its what he calls his beard monologue.

In a 2015 photo of Kaufman from some film festival, his beard is thick, longish (not a goatee) and dark although not unruly. Hes also definitely not bald. Thick dark curly hair. So Im a little surprised when he Zooms onscreen to converse with Greta Johnsen. His hair is moderately cropped and ruly and hes beardless, but has a big old porn-star mustache.

As to the books themselves, Ive read the first 100 pages of Utopia Avenue and a little less of Antkind (in e-galley versions from the publisher). Utopia Avenue is immediately engrossing, as Mitchell introduces the band members and the London music setting of the late 1960s. I can tell by the smart and funny dialogue among the musicians, as well as hints of whats to come, that Im going to love Utopia Avenue. I know that its at least partly because Im smitten with the pop/rock music scene and thats why UA immediately appeals to me.

Antkind feels as if it will be a novelized version of some of Kaufmans quirky films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich. I didnt find the first section that I read as appealing as the other book, but Ive always felt you should read 100 pages of a book before deciding if you want to finish it or not.

Finally, I just want to say something about longggggg books. Mitchells is 574 pages and Kaufmans is 720 pages in print. Now Ive always been a devoted reader and Ive read my share of 700-page doorstops. Im looking at you Ron Chernow with your eye-opening Hamilton biography and David McCulloughs John Adamsor Simon Schamas glorious Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution at 900 pages! But those are all nonfiction. Of course, theres Ulysses (no, Ive never finished it) and Tom Wolfes Bonfire of the Vanities, which I devoured every word of. But whats wrong with a nice 300-page novel? I like a book that fits in my bag when Im commuting or traveling and that doesnt turn my arm numb when Im reading in bed. (Yes, I do read on a Kindle, but I prefer a real book.)

Maybe the pandemic is the time to finally read Ulysses from cover to cover.

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6 best restaurants for salads in the Long Beach area – Long Beach Press Telegram

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

WellI thought that by now, Id be cranking out ecstatic columns about the return of dining in Southern California. And it almost almost! happened a few weeks ago. And thenCOVID-19 came raging back, placing California, and Southern California in particular in the unfortunate ranks of Florida, Texas and Arizona. And so, going out to restaurants became a high-risk game of chicken once again.

Though Colorado Boulevard in Old Pasadena, with its newly configured street parking and outdoor dining options, is making a noble attempt to return to normalcy, were still in a state of you pays your money, and you takes you chance. So, for a few more weeks at least, dining at home seems to be the safest of options especially with all the binge-watching available on our several zillion TV channels. And as Ive demonstrated over the past three months, theres a lot of great takeout available across Southern California. Including our much loved standby salad.

Now, Ill bet you thought you knew salad I sure thought I did. And then, I looked at the Wikipedia entry for salad, and discovered theres a lot more to a salad than a bowl of greens with something tasty poured overand something even tastier tossed in for both goodness and texture we do love our crunch.

When it comes to salad, theres a whole world of complexity. Just consider, for starters, the Wikipedia definition of salad: A salad is a dish consisting of a mixture of small pieces of food, usually vegetables or fruit. However, different varieties of salad may contain virtually any type of ready-to-eat food

So far, so recognizable.

But then, the article goes on to detail salads, both cold and warm, appetizer salads, side salads, main course salads and dessert salads. We learn that salad and salt have the same Latin root, since the veggies in a salad used to be salted in brine and in some cases, still are. We discover that William Shakespeare may have coined the term salad days, based on the notion of green vegetables and youthful inexperience. We learn that the ancient Greeks, the Persians and the Romans all ate salad, with dressing. And that a 1699 Discourse of Sallets was written to encourage the English to eat more greens. (It didnt succeed as anyone whos enjoyed deep-fried fish and chips in London can attest!)

And then, we learn of the nine types of salads I mean, who knew? There are composed salads, and there are tossed salads. There are green garden salads, and green wedge salads. There are fruit salads. There are rice and pasta salads, dinner salads, and dessert salads which include not just Jell-O salad, but also pistachio salad, ambrosia, Snickers salad (seriously!), glorified rice salad and cookie salad!

And, theres a term Ive never encountered before: bound salads. Which have nothing to do with bondage & domination, but instead are salads held together bound with thick sauces like mayo (tuna salad, chicken salad, potato salad and egg salad).

You can, of course, make many of these yourself. Or, if youre hankering for the last episode of The Great, and just dont have the time, or the masks needed, to run to the market, there are great takeout salads available all over town. We are defined by our salads, always have been. We created the Caesar salad after all. And the Cobb for the luvva mike! We own the word salad. It defines us. And keeps us healthy, happy and well-crunched.

Beachwood BBQ

210 E. 3rd St., Long Beach; 562-436-4020, http://www.beachwoodbrewing.com

It may seem a bit strange to declare one of the best salad destinations in town to be a barbecue and beer place. But at Beachwood BBQ what they do with their salads is pretty awesome. Consider the Cobb salad, which is made with smoked ham, smoked turkey and applewood-smoked bacon a barbecue fanatics version of a Cobb.

Theres a barbecue chicken salad as well, that pretty much kicks butt, thanks in part as well to the addition of roast corn, black eyed peas and smoked red onions, in a killer chili-buttermilk dressing.

And their salads arent just built around smoked meats though you can add chicken or pork to any of them for a few dollars extra. The Hoppin John Salad is a pure Southern creation of wild rice, farro, black eyed peas, celery, peppers, arugula and watercress in a bacon vinaigrette (got to get the bacon in there somehow!). I also like the roasted root vegetable and farro salad. Its made with smoked feta. It comes with cornbread, as do all the salads. The que at Beachwood is pretty great. But the salads rock as well.

The many salad options include the wedge this one featuring hand-cut grilled bacon. (File photo by Eugene Garcia, Orange County Register/SCNG)

This Caesar salad features blistered cherry tomatoes, chicken breast and croutons. (File photo by Eugene Garcia, Orange County Register/SCNG)

While Cobb salads often feature chicken, this one includes Cajun-seared ahi, along with avocado, boiled egg, blue cheese, baby heirloom tomato, pancetta and grilled corn tossed with a Dijon vinaigrette. (File photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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This Greek salad features a garden lettuce blend, roasted chicken, kalamata olives, cucumbers, red onions, feta cheese and balsamic vinaigrettee. (File photo by Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register/SCNG)

This salad is made all the more appetizing topped with hot fried chicken. (File photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The Green Olive

3580 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach; 562-912-7030

The Green Olive is a Middle Eastern restaurant, reminding us theres more to Middle Eastern dishes than hummus and skewers over pita. Which is not to take away from hummus and skewers over pita, which I love much. But on the side, its definitely a pleasure to have a fine pile of tabouli, that classic creation of crushed wheat, chopped parsley, tomato and green onions in lemon juice and olive oil. Or perhaps fattoush, which is built around toasted pita chips like tortilla chips, only not. I love the yogurt and cucumber, flavored with garlic and mint so simple, and so brilliant.

Theres also a Greek salad, a Caesar salad, and a grilled vegetable salad with peppers, eggplant and feta cheese. And no kale in sight. How is that even possible?

Humblebrags Eatery

3225 Carson St., Lakewood; 562-429-3161, http://www.humblebragseatery.com

Yes, I have mentioned Humblebrags often in these takeout guides, including here, here and here. And thats because, like Jongewaards, they do so much so very right. And in the case of salads, they make me very happy. There are large, well assembled plates of a proper Cobb (chopped, but not too chopped), an heirloom tomato and burrata creation (with lines of both pesto and balsamic, very colorful), a chunky old school iceberg wedge, and if you need to mix protein with your greens, both a steak salad and a grilled chicken salad. The grilled chicken comes with shredded mozzarella; the steak with blue cheese crumbles.

Humbly, details are well respected here. And, of course, theres more. For what goes better with a salad, than a sandwich? And a burger including a bison burger with blue cheese and a chipotle aioli. And dont miss Marys Airline Chicken. Which makes me think its going to be something you might be served at 30,000 feet, a breast with a drumette attached, that comes with soup or salad, and a choice of side braised carrots and prosciutto mac and cheese seemed right. Right enough that the restaurant deserves bragging rights though done humbly so.

Saint & Second

4828 E. 2nd St., Belmont Shore; 562-433-4828, http://www.saintandsecond.com

As one of the trendiest restaurants in Belmont Shore, it comes as no surprise that at Saint & Second among the salmon poke, the lamb belly (Korean style) and the smoked short ribs with mole sauce theres an equally edgy assortment of salads. You can get your arugula and quinoa, mixed with grapefruit and a lemon-parmesan dressing, with Moroccan spiced Marys chicken breast, or with grilled Skuna Bay Salmon very nice.

The chicken & goat cheese salad is tossed with, of all things, Green Goddess dressing and its good to see it back! Theres a spiced shrimp salad with candied pecans, figs, bacon, aged cheddar and toasted oats. Theres an ahi soba salad, which would fit very nicely at any number of Japanese restaurants around town. And how about the S&S Cobb Salad, made with both Duroc pork slab bacon, and fried chicken. Is it the classic Cobb? Of course not. Thats the point.

Utopia

445 E. 1st St., Long Beach; 562-432-6888, http://www.utopiarestaurant.net

Who knew that Utopia was in Long Beach diagonally across from a Courtyard by Marriott and a Best Western Plus? I always figured that Utopia, as first envisioned by Sir Thomas More in 1516, was an idyllic island in the southern Atlantic. But no, there it is at the intersection of First Street and Linden Avenue a very pleasant Italian/Eclectic restaurant, with a good bar, and lots of original art on the walls.

Indeed, the full name is Utopia Good Food & Fine Art. Though its rarely referred to as such Utopia more than suffices.

Utopian cuisine leans toward the comfort food side of the equation, with a menu of the sort of dishes that are easy to settle into, and pleasantly easy to enjoy. Steamed clams and mussels in a light garlic and white wine sauce? No problem at all. Fried artichoke hearts with feta cheese and a pesto aioli for dipping but of course and what a pleasure a nice crispy artichoke heart can be.

The artichoke hearts reappear in a salad with kalamata olives and roasted red bell peppers, a perfect combination. But perhaps not as perfect as the salad of garbanzo beans, tomato, cucumber, parsley, celery and feta cheese with a lemon and olive oil dressing honestly, my favorite new salad, and one Ive got to try making at home. A dish that inspired me to get into the kitchen, and start chopping, for the goodness of it, and the healthiness as well.

And yes, there are a bunch of pastas. And risotto, rather than being made with porcini mushrooms, is topped with strips of beef tenderloin turning it into beef with rice dish, rather than a rice with more subtle mix-ins. Im not sure I agree with the notion; but Im not sure I dont. I do know I like being in Utopia its warm and caring, with a cheerful staff (they seem to be local college students or at least some are).

The crowd, when there is one, and not just takeout, is sophisticated. Conversations are hushed. No one was on their cell phone at least when I was there. Thats a Utopian notion if ever Ive heard one no cell phones with dinner!

Veggie Grill

6451 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach; 562-430-4986, http://www.veggiegrill.com

The popularity of the Veggie Grill chain is undeniable; most nights the local branch attracts not just the wheat juice crowd, but also families who appear to enjoy a hamburger with fries during the rest of the week.

Veggie Grill has managed to position itself as a destination for both vegetarians, and non-vegetarians. Its a tasty alternative, for those who want recognizable dishes, even if those recognizable dishes arent made of the animal protein theyre usually made of. Its a chain where salad, not surprisingly, is made with all the greens o the moment.

There are seven entre salads on the menu, including Quinoa Power Salad, All Hale Kale, and a Savory Kale Caesar. And that brings me to my sense of using vegetarian cooking as an aid in dieting. Salads are a wonderful thing as long as you dont assemble them as folks used to at places like the now defunct Souplantation, where the options make a Big Mac seem healthy.

I like my greens. I like them with a diet dressing, low in fat. And years ago, I got into the habit of getting the dressing on the side. I have little enough clothing that still fits. Ive got to do all I can to not have to move up another size. Eating salads, well-constructed, works very well.

Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic.Email mreats@aol.com.

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Unchaining Demons: Critical Race Theorists and Progressive Activists Revive One of Humanitys Worst Ideas – The Epoch Times

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Danzig

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Since the beginning of the 1619 Riots following the death of George Floyd, the ideas of critical race theory, systemic racism, and white privilege have taken mainstream America by storm.

In university lecture halls, grade schools, sports arenas, and corporate boardrooms, progressive activists, especially those associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, now demand a wholesale reordering of American life and a nihilistic erasure of American history and culture. Those who oppose any element of this movement or express any qualms about its tactics or motives are deemed white supremacists.

Far from ending racism, however, BLM and its allies are fomenting racial hatred.

Robin DiAngelos White Fragility, the handbook of the racial left, espouses a new version of scientific racism, a set of ideas whose first incarnation led to the most horrific events of modern history. Not only was scientific racism used to justify slavery and apartheid, it was a mainstay of Adolf Hitlers beliefs and helped fuel the Nazi takeover of Germany, resulting in World War II and the Holocaust.

Scientific racism grew out of the work of Charles Darwin (though never directly endorsed by Darwin himself). Scientific racism claimed that race was an essential and defining human characteristic, that races were in permanent conflict with each other, that such conflict shaped human history, and that races had permanent characteristics that made some superior and others inferior.

Nordic races were viewed as more civilized and more intelligent, while sub-Saharan Africans, east and south Europeans, and Asians were seen as inferior and less civilized. For example, one 1911 guidebook to races and peoples described Italians as excitable, impulsive having little adaptability to organized society.

Scientific racism was a pseudo-science. Its research was at best contrived and often based on bizarre ideas about minor physical differences, such as the shape of peoples skulls, that were supposed to determine intelligence. Yet, it wasnt a fringe movement. It was considered settled science and found support among the most educated and progressive classes in the United States and Europe: politicians, jurists, government officials, professors, doctors, writers, and artists.

This was more than theory. Race science was designed to be applied to real human societies. Its best-known application was eugenics, which sought to do the work of scientific racism by creating a racially more fit and hygienic society through selective procreation.

Margaret Sanger, a founder of the American Birth Control League (later known as Planned Parenthood), stated her goal as more children from the fit, less from the unfit. (The original meaning of birth control was not something to prevent pregnancy but the idea that procreation should be determined and guided by scientific experts.) The unfit and inferior were to be prevented from reproducing and thus eliminated.

Under Nazi rule in Germany this application of racial science was taken to its logical extreme in a desire to create a utopia fit for the Master Race by eliminating Jews and other so-called inferior races, as well as people with disabilities.

The Holocaust and the defeat of Nazism discredited scientific racism as pseudoscientific biology. Racism became synonymous with evil, and Europe and the United States made significant progress in overcoming legalized forms of racism and its economic and political legacies.

Yet, as overt racism began to slowly fade away, post-modern academics became preoccupied with theories of race and racism, and by the 1990s began to lay the groundwork for a new version of scientific racism.

While the original scientific racism was grounded in biology, the new version is based in the humanities and social sciences, especially fields like sociology, education, and critical studies.

As in the 19th century, post-modern critical race theory creates a hierarchy of races, only it inverts the order of that hierarchy with whites at the bottom. The old racists ranked races using phony measures like attributes of civilization. The new racists create their ranking from each groups level of perceived victimization. The more historically victimized a group, the higher on the ranking it is and the more allegedly valuable it is.

Whites are oppressors, and their desire to oppress comes not from changeable attitudes but from their unchanging nature as white people, while people of color in varying degrees are permanent victims in need of solicitude.

Like pseudoscientists of the late 19th century, post-modern race scholars consider themselves on the cutting edge of scholarship and cloak their theories in opaque, mystical sounding jargon. Yet their scholarship is no more valid than their 19th century counterparts who debated the effect of skull shapes. Critical race scholars are either unable or unwilling to clearly define even their most basic terms, like white. Whole books are written about topics such as white fragility where authors cant coherently explain what white means.

Scientific racists believe that race defines the person. Character, individual identity, family background, or even culture are irrelevant. This is a special problem since most people dont define themselves by race. If you think of yourself as a Jewish American, Italian American, or just American, you have to be re-educated. So Di Angelo and other critical race theorists, spend a lot of effort to convince white people to define themselves as white.

The idea that to fight racism we have to convince white people to adopt a white racial identity and define themselves by their race is insane and dangerous, creating the very thing it claims to oppose.

A century ago, race theorists believed members of each race acted together in a kind of secret conspiracy. Anti-Semites promulgated fakes like Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the belief that all Jews were part of a secret society dedicated to undermining or controlling society. Todays race theorists believe the same thing.

The late historian Noel Ignatiev stated, The white race is like a private club based on one huge assumption: that all those who look white are, whatever their complaints or reservations, fundamentally loyal to the race. The club, he believed, grants its members special powers denied to others.

In 1916, progressive eugenicist Madison Grant, a close ally of Margaret Sanger, published his book The Passing of the Great Race, a virulently racist tract that posited that the history of Americaand all human historywas defined by an eternal conflict between hostile races. This view was the hallmark of scientific racism, and it came to define the worldview of Adolf Hitler and many of his followers.

In 2019, the New York Times published the 1619 Project, which claims that American history is nothing more than a perpetual conflict between whites and blacks.

Todays progressives have now almost completely resurrected one of the most evil ideas ever created by humanity, a theory that caused untold death and suffering. Far from opposing racism, critical race theorists in academia and beyond are creating it and feeding it.

Critical race theory demeans people of all races and cultures, reducing them to a social construct of skin color. It deliberately foments conflict between racial and ethnic groups, based on real or perceived historical grievances, whether for political gain or even out of a belief that critical race theory will bring about a utopia of cultural harmony. Yet no such utopia can even exist, and those who seek political gain in racial strife ignore countless examples of the extreme danger of racial politics across the last century from Armenia to Rwanda.

For all its faults and imperfections, and through centuries of conflict and its hard lessons, America is one of the few examples of a society where people of different cultures, faiths, and races have had the possibility to live together in peace and safety.

Yet the return of scientific racism and its promotion by much of our political, social, and cultural elite, places Americans of all races in the gravest danger.

John Radzilowski, Ph.D., is a professor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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