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Oxford-based Hip Hop dance theatre company Body Politic is raising awareness about the UK's current mental health epidemic in adolescent boys and men through their show Father Figurine at The Hat Factory, Luton on Friday 20th of September as part of their second national tour.
With the current climate of mental health discussion, Father Figurine talks about the fragilities and vulnerabilities in men and young boys. This piece combines poignant spoken word poetry with hip hop dance, to explore the fractured relationship between a father and his son and their inability to healthily deal with a traumatic event.
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Will they be able to share their emotions with each other? Or will they fall into the statistic of nearly half of men believing they can't express their feelings?
Figures show that 75% of mental illnesses start before a child reaches their 18th birthday, while 50% of mental health problems in adults begin before the age of 15. Father Figurine combines poignant spoken word poetry with hip hop dance with the drive to bring these figures to light and empower men and boys.
Emma-Jane Greig, the Artistic Director of Body Politic, is looking forward to sharing Father Figurine and engaging in a post-show discussion with a panel of local mental health professionals at The Hat Factory, Luton on Friday 20th of September at 19.30.
She said: "I feel very honored to be touring Father Figurine for the second time this year. Earlier this year, this powerful piece of work was described as "meaningful" and "important" by health care professionals and audience members. I am really looking forward to continuing conversations around men's mental health this Autumn, and using our work as a catalyst for change."
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Family run Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne is set to reopen later this month with a social distancing strategy that will see a staggered entry system put in place. Less than a week ago, the team were in despair not knowing when they would reopen.
The good news is Paradise Wildlife Park's official opening date is the 27th of June 2020 for the general public. As one of Hertfordshire's top destinations, Paradise Wildlife Park's re-opening will be a godsend to families across the Three Counties and beyond.
You can book tickets for 27th of June 2020 and onwards on their website. Please note you will need to select a time of your arrival so that staff can ensure staggered numbers of visitors entering the park, thus complying with social distancing rules.
The management team at Paradise Wildlife Park are keen to highlight they are working hard to follow all of the government's advice to ensure social distancing and safety measures are in place to keep all visitors on site safe.
"We have implemented a one-way system, put up regular hand sanitizer stations on site and much more to give you and your family peace of mind that you are safe. We are also limiting the number of tickets available each day to allow plenty of space."
"We are so excited to finally welcome our visitors, members and supporters back to Paradise Wildlife Park after a long 12 weeks of closure. We are truly grateful for all the support and donations we received and cannot wait to give you the family day out you have been sorely missing."
Further details on the safety procedures that have been put in place at the park can be view here. Paradise Wildlife Park is a family run wildlife park based in Hertfordshire. It is also a fully registered charity under the Zoological Society of Hertfordshire (charity number 1108609). Paradise Wildlife Park is rated Hertfordshire's No.1 Attraction and is Europe's leading zoo for animal experiences. Paradise is home to over 800 animals including tigers, white lions, snow leopards, jaguars, penguins, red pandas, lemurs, monkeys and reptiles, including the largest anaconda on display in the UK.
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January 2015 in Ideas
Can this be done? You could have a simple page (it just needs to display a few numbers) on the website that reports statistics about the whole Eleven economy.
You could measure Gross Domestic Product (GDP), although of course it should be called something silly: add up all the income, in currants, that accrued to players every IRL day. That's the Eleven equivalent of GDP. It's fantastic!
You could also track consumption — how many currants were spent in the last 24 hours? — and savings —how many currants did players have in their pockets at the end of the day?
These tend to be the three macroeconomic factors that IRL economists want to look at: income, consumption (i.e. spending), and savings. Oh, and there's a very important fourth factor: GDP growth. It would be so cool if Eleven tracked GDP growth. If you already had the GDP info, it would just be a simple calculation. If you knew the number of players, you could calculate total GDP growth — which can result purely from more players joining the game — or per capita GDP growth, which is an increase in the average income (simply put, people are earnings more currants).
MMO economies are so fascinating to me. The MMORPG Eve Online once hired an IRL economist to be an analyst of the game's virtual economy. One of the most fun things for me in Glitch was the boom-bust cycle of certain commodities. You had people speculating on the price of things (I once bought 1 million currants worth of fish because it was about to go scarce) and losing big or winning big. It was a crazy fun world. I don't know if macroeconomic statistics would inform gameplay at all. I vaguely remember some third-party websites using Glitch's open API that would tell you the going price of any item over the last few days.
FlatEarther
We measure so many things in our real lives and some people do in the games they play. I'd be happy for those who value the measures to have this but would never use it. More Glitch, less real life.
Lyrical Dejavu
Id be more in favor of the sales history of each item, to make it easier to judge how to price items, but i dont really want to know who earned the most currants or the least, plus i dont think comparisons to each other in that manner is a good idea
I don't want to know specifically who the richest glitch is, but it would be interesting to see trends. Think about what the charts would have looked like when the rare items smugglers showed up.
Liza Throttlebottom
I'm currently many years into a torrid and steamy affair with numbers, so I'd love something like this! It would be lovely to compare myself to the whole economy I would take great pride in finding out that my earnings/savings/spending were something like 1% of the economy if 1000 of us were playing ; ) It would make me feel dedicated : P Honestly I just love numbers so so so so so much. Have I mentioned how much I loved Humbabella's blog Mathemaglitch? (http://mathemaglitch.blogspot.com/)
EiraFae
@"Liza Throttlebottom" do you know if Humbabella is coming back? I haven't seem them around
I quite like the idea as I'm sure many other glitchen would, and I think it would be really interesting to put that little bit more emphasis on the economy as well- and I think this sort of thing would work really well once excecuted in the quirky nature of Glitch.
Though I do agree with commenters above, I'm not sure I'd like to see who's richest- or have any of that sort of comparison between players as it seems like it would add something that Glitch (or Eleven) should neither have or need- a leaderboard as such. One of the (many) biggest appeals in the game for me, is the fact that there is no pressure. No pressure to be better than others or rank higher on leaderboards- and no sense of higher or lower standings among different players, because we all play our own seperate ways- without needing to compare levels or wealth.
However, a greater focus on the in-game economy, without bringing forth a leaderboard- seems like a really fun and interesting idea, that I would love to see brought forth. Perhaps even with some aspects of stocks involved could be fun, or a banking mechanic- an aspect of money and business seems like it could fit really well in with the quirky themes that this amazing game has to offer.
@Teddy I hate to disagree because I love the spirit that your comment is given in. I loved the quirky non-competitive feel of glitch. But to be honest... I'm a competitive person I loved the leaderboards! And for that matter I loved Game of Crowns! Friendly competition between Glitchen was my absolute favorite thing in Glitch (besides, perhaps, my love affair with Grendaline ; ))!
So basically what I'm saying is that I love that Glitch encourages us be non-competitive, but honestly I also loved that it ALLOWED us to be competitive if we so chose Because I love non-violent games with crafting and Glitch is the best non-violent game with crafting I've ever played! So it'd be nice if Eleven also had the competitive elements I enjoyed just as Glitch did Because of course, leaderboards can always be ignored if there is no emphasis placed upon them
So I'd say ditch the richest glitch stat, but definitely keep the leaderboards!
Edit: Oops, almost forgot you @EiraFae! I sure hope he is! I should track him down and inform him this project exists and see if he's interested!
Eris Lord Freedom
I wouldn't want a listing of who's the richest; while Glitch didn't get much in the way of griefing, it did get beggars who showed up and pestered people with "give me something... give me some potions... how about some beads... can I have some ingots..." Wouldn't want to announce in public where anyone could see it, "this glitch has srs resources."
OTOH, I kinda like the idea of a leaderboard of who's spent the most currants. Not sure if there's a way to do that without doing the other. We had leaderboards of who had the most favor with giants and such; if this was similarly unobtrusive (it took me a long time to notice those leaderboards existed) it should be okay.
We did have leaderbaords, but it was for areas visited, or the most favor , and various other things, but it was tied to activities you could do....stuff like that. Im Against leaderboards for wealth or lack thereof however, we do compete, but anything that there is a leaderboard for should be things that everyone can compete in ,Wealth is an aspect of the game but it is not an activity of the game itself
@"Eris Lord Freedom" As a former rich Glitch I can imagine it wouldn't be a good idea to have a list of the most successful players just out there like that... But at the same time the former leaderboards pretty much functioned that way : P If so and so had 2 million favor with Tii they probably had some srs resources as well! Just playing devils advocate there since I'm not a huge proponent of wealth/spending/earning leaderboards even if I think they'd be interesting : P
@"Lyrical Dejavu" I agree with your premise but I think it's sort of a cloudy, murky grey area : ) I don't think it's necessary to have wealth as a leaderboard since I think it's a bit too straightforward. To get on a leaderboard you should have to expend your wealth into a specific category AKA donating items for favor or spending money to buy materials to earn badges. However I'd say that it's sort of hard to differentiate the categories, since what is favor but wealth that was donated instead of sold? If I donate 1000 meat then I have 1000 favor, but if I sell 1000 meat in cebarkul I have 8000 currants.
Honestly I just love discussions like these : ) I think they're really thought provoking and help us to think through exactly what every aspect of Glitch meant and entailed and how we want to recapture all the Glitchy spirit in Eleven : )
True but favor the items you donated you did not necessarily have to buy to do it, you could of course but it doesnt = wealth perse, since it could be gotten a different way
I was thinking the leaderboard would be based on currants spent, not what's currently held--so the top spots would probably belong to L60 glitchen and stay that way. However, I suppose it'd have to be currants spent at vendors, not at auctions or towers or via trades, or two players could just trade 50k currants back and forth until they won the top spots.
And I'm not fixed on the idea of a leaderboard; I just like the idea of some way of drawing people's attention to the fact that there's an economy, rather than just the money they own. It's also a way to encourage spending, but maybe a handful of achievements would do that as well. ("you've spent 1,000,001 currants! Maybe you should get a platinum card... just as soon as one of the giants imagines platinum ingots!")
Could add additional trophys and therefore achievements associated with them. There is the 1mil currant trophy already, if currant sinks is what you were getting at
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting a leaderboard based on currants, and I don't like that idea. Macroeconomic statistics are all aggregated. When you say the GDP of China was $9.24 trillion in 2013, that doesn't tell you about any individual people in China, it just tells you about the Chinese economy as a whole. What I'm suggesting is statistics about the Eleven economy as a whole.
So, in my mind, there is a page that says something like:
Statistics for Today
9,113,484,950 currants earned
7,653,269,810 currants spent
39,715,816,332 in savings
Currant income is up 2.1% from yesterday
Currant spending is up 1.7% from yesterday
Currant savings have grown 0.4% since yesterday
It would be interesting to have stats like these at times like the fish speculation bubble. When the fishing update was announced, a lot of people like myself bought up tons and tons of fish, literally millions of fish, from street vendors and from players, thinking fish would suddenly became valuable because they would become harder to get. What actually happened is that the price rapidly soared beyond rational heights and then just as rapidly plummeted to around the price it began with. I spent 100% of my savings — 1,000,000 currants — on fish and lost all of it. A lot for players did the same thing. I wonder what the overall impact was? Was Glitch briefly in a recession for a few days? It might have been, not that it would have bothered anyone. It would just be fun to know these things.
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Forum member Stan from Northern California (aka BigBamBoo) has produced a cool video showing a 1000-yard shooting session with his Surgeon Rifles .243 Win. As he shot prone from bipod, Stan filmed with two cameras, one aimed at the shooter and the other zoomed way out at the target 1000 yards away. Using frame in frame editing, Stan combined the two camera viewpoints so you can watch his trigger-pulling and simultaneously see what's happening downrange. Stan hits steel five times in a row.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the steel ring about three seconds after each shot (it takes that long for the sound to travel back). On a couple shots you'll see dust kick up at the side of the target — but that's not a miss. Remember his bullet is impacting on steel and what you're seeing is dust kicked up on ricochet by a bullet fragment.
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Henry Loban MONTAGUE
Place of birth Dungog, New South Wales
Occupation Deputy town clerk of Kogarah
Address Lorelly, 44 Middleton Street, Stanley, New South Wales
Next of kin Father, H Montague, c/o Mrs J Lloyd, Dungog, New South Wales
Previous military service Nil
Enlistment date 29 August 1914
Place of enlistment Randwick, New South Wales
Unit name 1st Battalion, E Company
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A19 Afric on 18 October 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant
Fate Killed in Action 15 April 1918
cemetery records Parents: Henry and Kate MONTAGUE, Dungog, New South Wales
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front
Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 5 April 1915.
Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 27 August 1915 (not yet diagnosed); discharged to lines, 28 August 1915.
Promoted Corporal, 7 November 1915; appointed Orderly Room Sergeant, 7 November 1915.
Disembarked Alexandria, 28 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Embarked Alexndria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 22 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 28 March 1916.
On leave, 13 May 1916; rejoined Bn, 24 May 1916.
Promoted Staff Sergeant, 1 June 1916.
Attached to Australian Records Section (3rd Echelon), 3 June 1916.
Detached and transferred to No 6 Officers' Cadet Bn, Balliol College, Oxford, 31 December 1916; taken on strength, 3 January 1917.
Promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 27 April 1917, and posted to General Reinforcements.
Proceeded overseas to France, 13 May 1917; taken on strength, 4th Bn, in the field, 18 May 1917.
Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 26 June 1917, and transferred same day to 56th Casualty Clearing Station; to Ambulance Train No 29, 28 June 1917, and admitted to 8th General Hospital, Rouen, 29 June 19167 (trench fever); transferred to England, 8 July 1917, and admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital, Marylebone, London, 9 July 1917 (trench fever: slight); transferred to 5th Auxiliary Hospital, 13 August 1917; discharged to No 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 28 August 1917.
Proceeded overseas to France, 1 March 1918; rejoined 4th Bn, in the field, 7 March 1918.
Detached to 1st Field Company Engineers, 17 March 1918; rejoined 4th Bn, 18 March 1918.
Promoted Lieutenant, 1 April 1918.
Killed in action, 15 April 1918.
Note on file from CO, 4th Bn: 'Lieut. H.L. Montague was sniped through the heart, death being instantaneous, and was buried at the following location:- Sheet. 27. - W. 30.a.3.5' Grave subsequently lost.
Sources NAA: B2455, MONTAGUE Henry Loban


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'Club players' voices need to be heard once and for all' – calls to complete 2020 All-Ireland camogie series
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2019 ALL-IRELAND SENIOR club camogie champions Sarsfields of Galway are leading calls for the completion of the outstanding 2020 action — the provincial and national championship series.
Earlier this week, the Camogie Association overturned its controversial fixture plan as 53% of clubs voted in favour of a split-season format for 2021.
After an ugly back-and-forth involving the Gaelic Players Association [GPA] with inter-county players threatening strike action, members were polled on what direction the schedule should take.
The inter-county championship will now take place after the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie Leagues, which start this weekend, with 2021 club competitions following thereafter.
This decision, however, has come at a cost for clubs who were due to contest the 2020 All-Ireland club series. As of now, it will remain incomplete.
RTÉ Sport reports that the six senior clubs affected — Loughiel, Drom and Inch, Thomastown, Inagh Kilnamona, Sarsfields and Oulart-The Ballagh — have written to the Camogie Association this week to seek a window for those competitions to be completed.
The dates of 7, 13, 20 and 27 June have been put forward as four weekends that could see the completion of the senior championship – a proposed fixture schedule that would run in tandem with the 2021 leagues.
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Manager Michael 'Hopper' McGrath spoke out passionately on Galway Bay FM today.
"We've the template set for them. done everything for them only give us a pitch, give us a ref, let's get on with it," the Tribe playing great said.
"I'm telling you now, the repercussions for this are going to be drastic. It's going to split county players, it's going to split club players, we don't want that. We have eight on the county panel with Galway and we're very proud of them. But we're all about the mantra: you're a club person number one, that's where you start, that's where you finish.
Don't get me wrong, I played with the county myself and you give everything you have to the county, but it should not impede on club players. Club players make up 98% of the thing. Okay, the GPA are doing good things for the players, but they're doing a lot wrong as well. They're not doing anything for these [club] players, these are the heart of the communities, the heart of the Association."
"We want to sit down at them around the table, or whatever way it is over Zoom," he added. "They have to negotiate with us. They just have to. Who's suffering? Everyone's suffering.
"I hope they realise the effort that players have been putting in the last six months, putting their lives on hold for this. The county players threatened to strike, we have a nuclear option too and we'll be pressing that button if needs be. We're going as far as we possibly can to get common sense prevailing."
✅Suitable dates proposed & outlined.
✅Respective clubs ready to go. @OfficialCamogie @HildaBreslin What's the plan of action? https://t.co/XxiQn2ja0U
— Orlaith Mc Grath (@OrlaithMcGrath) May 14, 2021
Every players dream is to represent their club at the highest level. For some girls it's their first chance and for others it may be their last! Let's not undermind the importance of the club provincial and All-Ireland Championship. Hopefully the @OfficialCamogie will see sense! https://t.co/2YKiYz3zTQ
— Shauna Sinnott (@ShaunaSinnott) May 14, 2021
Let's hope the @OfficialCamogie see sense and do the right thing and what was promised. https://t.co/lTBXUGoMCI
— Jackie Tyrrell (@MrJackieTee) May 13, 2021
Would love for the @OfficialCamogie to explain their reasoning behind the All-Ireland Club Championship being completely disregarded despite numerous times being told it was going ahead. No reason it can't be played before the inter-county championship begins. @SarsfieldsCC https://t.co/LiztEy80Xb
— Siobhan Mc Grath (@grath_siobhan) May 11, 2021
Sarsfields released a statement yesterday — Oulart-The-Ballagh did too (read below) — which reads as follows:
"As things currently stand, following the outcome of the Camogie Association's 2021 Fixtures poll of clubs, the All Ireland Club Championships 2020 will not now be concluding.
"Understandably, Sarsfields Camogie Club, as with all the other clubs involved, are extremely dissatisfied with this outcome and see no reason why the 2020 championships cannot be concluded.
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"There is no reason why the 2020 championships cannot be completed during the inter-county leagues as is the case every other year.
"Repeated assurances were provided by the Camogie Association that the championships would be concluding and all our players together with hundreds of players across the country proceeded to train remotely on that basis.
"The Camogie Association states in its mission statement that "Camogie is at the heart of the community, a game that inspires, an Association for all". With its abandonment of the All Ireland 2020 club championships, the Camogie Association has disregarded its own vision.
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"What happened to the club being the heart and soul of our communities? Where do all players start and finish their careers?
"The championships have to be played and suitable dates have been identified by the clubs involved. Club players' voices need to be heard for once and for all."
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Say hello to your co-worker, HAL. Automation is hitting office jobs in Chicago
By Ally Marotti
West Monroe Partners deployed two bots into its finance and human resources departments this summer, meant to free its workers from some menial tasks. Employees at the Chicago-based consulting firm discuss how the bots, called Rosie the Robot and Hal 9000, have helped save time.
There's a new robot in town at West Monroe Partners' human resources department, and it's expected to shave off hours of work.
The bot, programed into an unassuming Lenovo Thinkpad, helps employees at the Chicago-based business and information technology consulting firm bring on new workers, entering data into a laundry list of systems. It's a job that takes an HR representative about 25 minutes. Rosie — named after the housemaid robot on "The Jetsons" — can do it in five.
Rosie represents one way companies are using technology to replace tasks performed by white-collar workers, a trend previously more closely associated with blue-collar manufacturing. It's part of a process experts have long warned is coming. Now, robots are here, one expert said, and if they aren't in your industry yet, they will be.
By the early 2030s, about 38 percent of U.S. jobs could be automated, according to a study consulting firm PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, released in March.
Researchers hesitate to quantify the number of jobs advanced technology has already consumed. It can occur through attrition or remain undisclosed by private companies. Some employers, including management at West Monroe, say automation will free employees from menial tasks and create jobs needed to maintain the new technology, but it's undeniable jobs will be lost. In fact, some are already gone.
Recent layoffs at Allstate and Capital One, for example, were attributed directly to advancements in technology that made some positions obsolete.
Allstate quietly laid off more than 500 employees this year. Most were casualties of the Northbrook-based insurer's QuickFoto Claim feature, which lets customers send in photos of their damaged vehicles rather than waiting for in-person visits from claims adjusters, the company said.
It's becoming a dominant method for inspection, the company's president has said. Along with drones that assess roof damage, a new immediate payment method and other tech, it has removed inefficiencies from the system, according to the company.
At Capital One's Rolling Meadows office, about 400 jobs that support the credit card call center are set to be eliminated by the end of the year. Investments in digital tools have improved customer service, and people now can resolve issues on their own, spokesman Sie Soheili said in August.
Soheili did not respond to requests for comment on what types of digital tools have been deployed.
Call centers are at the forefront of automation, with tools such as messaging bots that use algorithms to help consumers sort out issues, said Mohan Sawhney, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Using artificial intelligence to understand text, the bot gets smarter with every interaction. Plus they're usually cheaper, quicker and more efficient than humans.
"Algorithms don't make mistakes," Sawhney said. "They don't have accents."
These technologies finally have advanced enough and been proven to the point that companies have started betting on them, Sawhney said.
"We've been talking about AI for 30 years, and now it's actually here," Sawhney said. "(It's) starting to have implications for jobs."
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, Sawhney said.
Traditionally, automation has affected manufacturing — those repetitive, predictable jobs on the assembly line that robots can do just as well, if not better. "But this time it's different," Sawhney said. "This time it's cognitive work. That's white-collar jobs that are going to be affected — and affected in a very, very fundamental way."
After predictable physical tasks, data processing has the highest potential for automation, according to a January report from McKinsey Global Institute. The study focused on activities rather than entire occupations.
About seven of every 10 minutes U.S. employees spend processing data could be automated using current technology, the report found. Data collection is not far behind.
These tasks touch jobs in almost every industry, the report found, from human resources workers recording personnel history — like at West Monroe — and medical staff compiling patient records to accountants processing payments and mortgage brokers filling in forms.
"These are not just entry-level or low-wage jobs; people whose annual incomes exceed $200,000 spend some 31 percent of their time doing these things as well," the report stated.
The CEO of Deutsche Bank, for example, said this month that robots will soon take over much of the work at the German bank, the Financial Times reported. Though some roles likely will be made obsolete, in other cases automation could just take over the routine aspects.
In another example, Fukoko Life Insurance Mutual Co. recently started automating document processing using IBM Watson Explorer, which uses language processing and machine learning.
The McKinsey report assumes that the adaptation of automation begins when the economic benefits exceed the costs. In some cases, a robot is cheaper than human labor. In others, it's not. The study did not do an in-depth cost or savings analysis. It can vary widely between industries, regions and activity types.
This is the fourth wave of automation, said Mehdi Miremadi, a Chicago-based partner at McKinsey & Co. and a co-author of the automation study.
The first wave brought the assembly line, and the second came after World War II, focused on industrial automation. Blue-collar workers were hit hardest then.
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The third came with the internet, hitting white-collar workers in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, we are "automating intelligence," Miremadi said.
To be sure, automation doesn't always displace human labor, he said. It transforms what humans do. The report found that only 5 percent of occupations could be fully automated using currently available technology.
"What we expect to see is more human-robot or human-AI collaboration than necessarily replacement," Miremadi said.
West Monroe is putting that theory to work.
With Rosie the Robot taking over some of the grunt work involved in bringing new employees into the firm, HR workers are free to do activities that require people behind them, HR manager Katie Binder said. That means integrating new employees into the company.
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The roughly 900-person firm is growing, she said, with 20 to 30 percent year-over-year growth. The HR department is bringing on at least 10 new employees every two weeks. "(Rosie will) help us scale," Binder said. "We're going to continue to grow at that volume."
While less nefarious than its namesake in "2001: A Space Odyssey," a bot called Hal 9000 has been generating invoices in the company's finance department since July, freeing employees to do tasks that require "the higher functioning part of their brain," financial systems specialist Kevin Vandermyde said.
The bots can help companies do more with less, but they're not there to take jobs, West Monroe senior director Mike Hughes said. They're there to help make the employees do the jobs they have better.
As automation spreads, experts expect a growing need for employees that know how to maintain the new technology.
Job growth likely will come from nonroutine positions, according to a report by professors from Duke University and the University of British Columbia. It's the routine jobs — those involving sets of tasks that can be done by following instructions — that have been disappearing.
In the mid-1980s, 1 in 3 Americans older than 16 worked in a routine occupation, be that manual labor or behind a desk. When the study was released in 2015, that number was down to 1 in 4.
The report noted that those increasingly automated routine roles tend to represent middle-class jobs. And when they've been eliminated during recessions, such jobs have not made comebacks during times of recovery. That has contributed to the shrinking of the middle class, the report states.
McKinsey's Miremadi argues that automation has a significant role to play in productivity growth. And the U.S. needs a boost in that area.
As baby boomers retire, employment growth in the U.S. is expected to flatten, Miremadi said. Automation could help compensate by increasing productivity.
"It's not even a question of good or bad," he said. "It's needed if we are to maintain the same standard of living."
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Of course, automating tasks will take time. Most industries are still in the piloting stage, Miremadi said. There will be nuances and regulatory kinks that will hold things up, like the self-driving car debates at hand in many jurisdictions across the country, including Chicago.
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The cost of developing and deploying the technology will affect the pace of automation, the McKinsey report found, as will economic benefits. And just because a job can be automated, doesn't mean it will be.
The report estimates that between 2055 and 2075, about half of what people currently do will be automated.
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And when it comes to white-collar jobs versus blue-collar, "technology is colorblind," said Chris Brahm, head of Bain & Co.'s global Advanced Analytics Practice.
"The color of the collar doesn't matter," he said. "If it's something that's relatively routine ... (it) gets automated."
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Confession is a powerful avenue of healing that sheds light on any sin we are harboring. But it can get easily lost in today's culture of photo-shopped perfection and social media highlight reels.
However, I challenge you and me to reclaim confessing "one to another." It is a basic and powerful element of faith for those of us who call ourselves believers in and followers of Jesus. It is also the reason that sustained commitment to a twelve-step program, such as Celebrate Recovery or Alcoholics Anonymous, is the only way many find true freedom from destructive and addictive life patterns. And it is also the reason many modern churches have lost their effectiveness in truly leading their members into a lifestyle not dominated by sin. There sometimes is more of an emphasis on looking blessed than taking time to confess.
What would our churches and our lives look like if we truly began to imitate the ancient and effective pattern of the early church of shedding light on sin so true healing can occur? Why not try it and find out?
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