Last year the company announced it was moving to a festival format. General Director Kim Gaynor: “I don’t want to abandon our presence throughout the year. The festival I really believe in because a festival allows you to do things you can’t do in a regular season. But at the same time, we must maintain our traditional audience until they die or they go to Florida or Mexico to retire. We must do that because those audiences still are the lifeblood of the organization.”
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McKinsey Study: Automation Will Eliminate A High Number Of Jobs In Coming Decades (Maybe Yours)
“McKinsey estimates that about 45% of all activities in the economy can be automated. How many people will that affect? They estimate that bots can pick up about a third of all the work in 60% of occupations. That figure is based on technologies that already exist and are in use, not capabilities that may arrive in the future. Global trends already show that the growth of jobs is starting to decline or even dip into the negatives in countries around the world; now robots are poised to take more work away.”
Literature Glamorizes Madness As Some Sort Of Insight To The Human Condition. The Reality Is Somewhat Different
“Madness”, in the terms dictated by this rich literary history, bears no real relation to the objective reality of mental illness. The day to day business of mental illness is hard, boring and unrewarding, and though it can certainly provide benefits – increased empathy for other people’s pain, an ability to withstand intense periods of suffering – it rarely offers profound revelations about the human condition. “Madness”, on the other hand, sounds wild, romantic, even; a primal, primitive closeness to the essential truths of the universe.
Auction Houses See Steady Market (But Their Guarantees To Sellers Suggests…)
“Values can be inflated when auction houses offer competitive guarantees to secure major consignments. These guarantee can then be transferred to a third party, who will either buy a work at a sale, or be rewarded for their unsuccessful bidding. More recently, some third-party guarantors — called “irrevocable bidders” at Sotheby’s — have also been paid fees if they are the purchaser. These confidential arrangements, denoted by symbols in the catalog, can have the effect of deterring bidding in the salesroom.”
It’s Official: Pittsburgh Symphony Strike Is Over
The musicians are taking a sizable pay cut in the first year of the new contract’s five-year term, with salaries edging back upward later.
That Running Conversation You Have With Yourself Inside Your Head? It’s Called “Inner Speech” And We’re Learning About It
“I think it was assumed that inner speech was just this kind of monologue, the output of a solitary voice chattering away in your head. And we now think there are a few main kinds of inner speech. Inner speech varies according to how compressed it is, how condensed. We think inner speech varies according to how much it’s like a conversation between different points of view. We’re starting to tease apart these different qualities. And that fits with the idea that inner speech has a lot of different functions. It has a role in motivation, it has a role in emotional expression, it probably has a role in understanding our selves as selves.”
Poem Signed By Anne Frank Sells For $150,000
The eight-line poem, half of which was copied from a Dutch book of verse, is dated March 28, 1942, shortly before Anne and her family went into hiding from the Netherlands’ wartime Nazi occupiers in a secret apartment in an Amsterdam canal house.
These Are The Biggest Hollywood Flops Of 2016
Comedies accounted for 50% of the flops on this year’s list of least profitable movies. The worst performing funny film: horror comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which made back just 58% ($16.4 million) of its estimated $28 million production budget at the box office.
Epic Movie About Legendary World War II Battle Opens In Russia, And People Argue About The Truth
And they’re arguing less about whether the version of the story in the film is true than about whether the truth matters.