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Fast Company
a day ago
- General
- Fast Company
Late for work. Laid off. Office romance. What your dreams about work might really mean
Ever dream about work? Have nightmares? According to a survey by the mattress review site , nearly two-thirds of us have job-related dreams that cause us to wake up stressed out and worried. Instead of shrugging them off, you might want to take note. While no definitive answer exists on the meaning of dreams, notable scientists, including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, believed they hold messages. Freud, for example, considered dreaming to be an expression of repressed or unconscious conflicts or desires, while Jung explained dreams as thoughts released by the subconscious, creating an internal dialogue. Modern research recently concluded that dreams are part of the brain's data-dumping function, consolidating information it deems to be important. Dream interpreter Inbaal Honigman believes there is meaning in the dreams that you remember. 'It could be something super benign, or it could be more than that,' she says. Honigman teamed up with JobLeads, an online job search platform, analyzing search data to find the most popular work-related dreams. Here are some of the most common, along with Honigman's take on what they could be trying to tell you.
Korea Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
Daewoo E&C chair meets with Mozambican leader amid LNG push
South Korean builder Daewoo Engineering & Construction said Thursday that Chair Jung Won-ju met with Mozambican President Daniel Chapo to discuss cooperation on a liquefied natural gas plant project and potential opportunities in emerging sectors. According to the company, during Jung's four-day visit to Mozambique from Monday to Thursday, his meeting at the presidential palace included a request for continued cooperation on Daewoo's ongoing LNG plant project, as well as interest and support for a new LNG project bid currently in progress. Drawing on the company's expertise built since entering the continent in 1977, Jung emphasized that Daewoo E&C has executed around 280 projects in Africa, totaling $32 billion in value. 'Building on that experience, we aim to help Mozambique emerge as a global exporter of natural gas and achieve rapid economic growth,' Jung said. In response, President Chapo pledged active support for the company's future involvement. 'I hope Daewoo will also leverage its development expertise in new city and tourism infrastructure projects beyond the LNG sector,' he said. Mozambique plays a crucial role in Daewoo E&C's LNG development strategy. It is home to one of Africa's largest natural gas reserves, estimated to supply global demand for roughly 16 years. On Monday, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, the state-run energy firm, to collaborate on gas-related development projects.
Time of India
3 days ago
- General
- Time of India
CM inaugurates 125 community centres for sustainable livelihood in Meghalaya
Shillong: Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated 125 community centres across Garo Hills on Tuesday, funded under the Meghalaya Livelihood and Forest Ecosystem Management Project (MegLIFE). The centres were virtually inaugurated from Dobakol Awemong in Baghmara C&RD block of South Garo Hills district, where the CM was present for the event. Built at a cost of Rs 24 lakh each — Rs 13 lakh from the project and Rs 11 lakh from the state — the community centres aim to provide spaces for various community-led activities, including income-generating initiatives. "The MegLIFE project, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), focuses on community-based forest management and livelihood enhancement in 500 villages across 12 districts of Meghalaya. Alongside constructing these centres, the project has supported several income-generating activities such as nurseries, plantations, minor irrigation check dams, dug-out ponds, plastic tanks, and RCC water storage tanks," an official statement said. IVCS and SHGs have been integral to the initiative, receiving direct benefits and playing key roles in its execution. Speaking at the event, the CM emphasised the project's core objectives — restoring degraded forests, strengthening natural resource management, and improving rural livelihoods. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Jung, geflüchtet, voller Hoffnung Schweizerische Flüchlingshilfe Weiterlesen Undo "This project empowers communities to take ownership of forest, land, and water resources," he said. "We aim to foster a community-driven approach to sustainable livelihoods. Through MegLIFE, we are instilling environmental consciousness while ensuring sustained income through various activities," the CM added. The project targets the completion of 452 community centres across Meghalaya. Thanking JICA for its support, Sangma said an additional 150-plus centres would soon be completed in the Garo Hills region. Highlighting the role of these community hubs in fostering development and livelihood initiatives, the chief minister reiterated the project's focus on community empowerment and sustainability.
Forbes
11-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How GenAI Is Driving The Future of Legaltech Start-Ups
Lawyers need new ways to interrogate thousands of contracts Technology start-ups targeting the legal profession continue to grow at speed. The global 'legaltech' market was worth $31.6 billion last year, according to analysis from Fortune Business Insights, and could be worth $63.6 billion by 2032. However, in one area of the legaltech market where technology might be expected to have a huge impact, there is a growing sense of disillusionment. Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software enables enterprise legal teams to automate and standardise at every stage of the contract process, from creating and reviewing new contracts to storing every single agreement the business enters into in a form that can be analysed for risk and enhanced performance. That sounds highly attractive – but research has warned that almost half of CLM implementations are falling short of expectations. Those disappointments have seen other companies steer clear of CLM software. A recent survey from legaltech start-up Zuva found the majority of businesses are instead sticking with traditional document management systems, storing and managing contracts with tools such as SharePoint and Google Drive, or simply leaving them on local drives around the enterprise. Min-Kyu Jung, co-founder and CEO of legaltech start-up Ivo, thinks this is a huge missed opportunity. Legal teams need tools that enable them to put the data in their contracts to work, he argues. If lawyers are able to easily search and compare all their contracts, they can, for example, identify standout risk exposures, easily create new contracts that align with the business's policies and priorities, and negotiate from a better-informed position. 'Legal teams need intelligence at their fingertips that is contextual, instant and deeply reliable,' says Jung. 'Every contract should be a strategic asset.' Companies such as Ivo and Zuva think legaltech solutions built with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can resolve many of the problems that have dogged CLM software to data. Zuva's research points out that existing CLM products struggle to extract information and insight from contracts, and to understand the relationships between documents and the obligations they contain. Ivo's Jung makes a similar point. It is this week launching two new GenAI-based tools – Repository and Assistant – which aim to address these issues. He describes the launches as part of 'a growing shift in enterprise software from systems of record to systems of understanding'. Using GenAI, Ivo's tools enable legal teams to set up dashboards of their contracts, recording key insights, and to conduct natural language searches of contracts to find particular terms or features in potentially hundreds of thousands of documents. I first interviewed Ivo earlier this year, when the company unveiled a $16 million Series A funding round. Since then it has doubled its customer base, signing up around 100 legal teams – including the legal functions at prominent businesses including Lindt & Sprungli, Fonterra and Hootsuite – to its first product, a contract review tool. Jung hopes the launch of its new AI tools will accelerate its growth. 'We know many companies, right from the top of the business, are looking to all their functions to explore artificial intelligence tools that deliver value,' he says. 'We're also seeing a lot more sophistication from legal teams that have a much better understanding of the limitations of existing CLM software and a clear view of what they want from new solutions.' It is the advent of GenAI that is enabling legaltech providers to respond to this demand, Jung adds. 'I don't think the kind of products we're now launching would have been possible a year ago.' Indeed, research published last year by Innolaw found that while around 50% of CLM products used some form of AI to extract data, 'the use of GenAI in CLM software is still mostly hype-driven'. That is starting to change, with a new report from Gartner suggesting more than 70% of legal function leaders now intend to implement GenAI solutions within the next couple of years. It points to a growing number of legaltech firms offering these solutions – including ContractpodAI, GEP, Icertis, Ivalua, Luminance and Zycus in the natural language space.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man gets 6 years in scam that cost Tampa Bay women close to $1 million
TAMPA — A man who acted as a 'money mule' in a nationwide scheme that involved government impersonators and bilked a pair of Tampa Bay-area women of close to $1 million will spend six years in federal prison, a judge ordered Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Jung called the crime 'evil and wicked,' noting that the scheme ripped off older adults who were led to believe they'd be arrested if they didn't turn over their life savings. 'It's pretty much the same thing as going in their house and sticking a gun in their temple,' Jung said. 'These people were terrified.' The prison sentence was greater than the three years suggested by federal guidelines, though significantly less than what the judge said he'd planned to impose. Jung was apparently persuaded by arguments from Assistant Public Defender Adam Allen, who said Patel's role in the scheme was limited to that of a courier for what he knew was 'bad money.' It was a job he came to at a low point in his life, his lawyer said. 'He was really depressed and not doing well,' Allen told the judge. 'And those are the types of people that get roped into becoming mules.' Patel, 33, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his role in the scheme. Federal prosecutors identified 11 victims in seven states. Their collective loss was estimated at close to $1.8 million. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Peresie read a letter from one man who lost $49,000. He wrote that he had to sell his home and struggled to pay expenses. The man 'was devastated by the fraud,' Peresie said. The crime came to light in December 2023 after a Ruskin woman told investigators she'd handed over several large sums of cash and gold at the direction of someone who'd contacted her by phone. The woman, identified in court records by the initials 'E.L.,' believed the person was an officer of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She gave money to clear up what she was told was an arrest warrant charging her with money laundering. She described several transactions in which a car pulled up to her house before she was instructed to place cash packages in the back seat. She never spoke to the driver. Over several months and multiple transactions, the woman emptied her bank accounts, a life insurance policy and a Roth IRA. By the time the scheme came to the attention of law enforcement, she'd lost $170,000. A Pasco County woman told authorities a similar story. That woman, identified in court records as 'D.L.,' described a series of transactions for cash and gold bars with a person she believed was a Treasury agent. Her total loss was pegged at $732,000. The final exchange occurred outside a Ruskin Circle K, under the watch of Hillsborough deputies and U.S. Secret Service agents. 'E.L.' had been told to deliver $27,000 in gold coins and bars. Agents instead gave her a package of soap, which she placed in the back of a red Jeep. They followed the driver all the way to the Wiregrass mall in Wesley Chapel. In the mall parking lot, they watched as Patel got out and opened the package. He was then arrested. Patel tried to cooperate with investigators, his attorney said. But he could provide only scarce information about the people who employed him. No one else involved in the scheme has been brought to justice. The perpetrators were based in call centers in India. 'I need my sentence to send a message to wherever these people are,' Judge Jung said. 'You're hiding in some boiler room, but some of your minions are getting a serious, big sentence.' Patel's involvement in the scheme lasted only about 60 days, his attorney said. He had no role in planning or organizing the scam. He has otherwise lived a law-abiding life. He holds a college degree in mechanical engineering from a school in his native India. He immigrated with his family to the U.S. in 2018. They lived in New Jersey. Patel pursued a master's degree at Marshall University in West Virginia, but his limited English led him to drop out, according to a sentencing memo. His language difficulties made it difficult for him to hold a job. He'd worked for short periods as a 7-Eleven cashier, a Bank of America software engineer and a soil inspector for an engineering company. He married an American woman, but separated after she became physically abusive, his lawyer said. His life in the U.S. was characterized as 'one failure after another,' the memo stated. He became a 'money mule' out of desperation. In October 2023, he was offered a job that involved picking up and delivering packages. He was told little else, but came to learn the packages held money and gold. He received directions on his phone through WhatsApp about where to go to pick up the packages. He never met the person who gave the directions. Once he arrived, someone would come out and place the package in the back of his car. He'd then obtain further instructions on where to deliver it. For every package, Patel was reimbursed the cost of his airfare and car rentals. Although he assisted in the laundering of more than $1.5 million, Patel received a meager $6,000 for his work. He knew he was involved in an illegal scheme, court records state. But he knew nothing about its scope and structure. Patel sat in court Tuesday wearing an orange jail uniform. He listened to the words of an interpreter who translated the proceedings from Gujarati, his native language. His father, Bharat Patel, urged the judge to impose a lesser sentence. His crime was due to the bad influence of a friend, he said. As he spoke, his son placed his hands over his face. In his own words to the court, Pranav Patel said he wished he could apologize to the victims and vowed never to make the same mistake. 'I came to the USA for a better life,' he said, speaking through the interpreter. 'And I feel very sorry and bad ... that the best years of my life I spent this way.' He said he never knew that what he did was making people miserable. But their misery ran deeper than the theft, the judge said. Patel stole their peace of mind that they could never fall victim to such a fraud. 'You were a vital part of the scheme,' Jung said, 'which was just about as cold and nasty of a scheme as I've ever seen." Times staff writer Alexa Coultoff contributed to this report.
