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Coursetia gracilis är en ärtväxtart som beskrevs av Matt Lavin. Coursetia gracilis ingår i släktet Coursetia, och familjen ärtväxter. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som sårbar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Georgia's Parliament Speaker, Irakli Kobakhidze, and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Tamar Khulordava, presented an Action Plan today which outlines key parliamentary activities in 2019-2020 directed at the implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement.
Organised with the assistance of the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the event brought together Georgian law-makers and representatives of the civil society, diplomatic missions and international organizations.
Carl Hartzell, Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia, noted the increased role of the Parliament in the implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement.
The Parliament's Action Plan 2019-2020 on the Implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement has been developed based on the findings of a baseline study supported by the EU and UNDP in 2017. The Action Plan was adopted by the Parliament Bureau on 19 March 2019 aiming to streamline parliamentary activities and foster a strategic and uniform approach to the process across all involved committees. Three strategic goals described in the Action Plan refer to law-making and legislative approximation, oversight of implementation of the Association Agreement and effective public outreach and communication.
The EU-Georgia Association Agreement, including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, entered into force in July 2016 striving for political association and economic integration between the EU and Georgia. As part of the legal approximation, national legislation must be harmonized with 346 Directives, 213 Regulations, 57 Decisions and 31 Recommendations to meet EU standards. Under the terms of the agreement, almost half of these commitments need to be fulfilled by the end of 2020.


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Q: I need help to understand the syntax of pointers I'm new to pointers and I have this part of a code that I'm confused about. I have a couple of questions:

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*In line 1, I'm not sure what the double asterisks mean. I read that it is a pointer for another pointer but I don't what that exactly.

*In line 4, I have no idea how to interpret the syntax:
*(*(total_number_of_pages + x) + y)

/* total_number_of_pages

 * This stores the total number of pages in each book of each shelf.
 * The rows represent the shelves and the columns represent the books.
*/

int** total_number_of_pages; // (Line 1)
int x, y; // (Line 2)
scanf("%d %d", &x, &y); // (Line 3)
printf("%d\n", *(*(total_number_of_pages + x) + y)); // (Line 4)

A: Indeed *(*(total_number_of_pages + x) + y) is hard to "grok". That is one reason  the C language provides an alternative notation: *(E1 + E2) can also be written as E1[E2] (or E2[E1] since + commutes).  We can apply this rule inside your expression to get: *(total_number_of_pages[x] + y) and then once again: total_number_of_pages[x][y].
This is clearer. total_number_of_pages is a pointer to the base of an array-like area of memory. total_number_of_pages[x] denotes the value of the x-th element of this. That element is itself a pointer to another array, from which [y] denotes the y-th value.
In your program, total_number_of_pages isn't given any value, which means that its use in the expression *(*(total_number_of_pages + x) + y) invokes undefined behavior. For the expression to be valid, it has to point to array of pointers which has at least x + 1 elements, and the [x] element of that array must point to an array of int which has at least y + 1 elements.

A: Imagine if you had a row of books and you wanted to know how many pages were in each book in the row. You might use a collection of integers stored in consecutive memory addresses.
Now say you had many rows of books. You might use a collection of pointers to each row of books with each row of books being a collection of integers stored in consecutive memory addresses.
Since each row is a pointer, the address of the rows is a pointer to a pointer. Hence int**.
Now, total_number_of_pages is pointer to the first pointer to a row. To get to the second pointer, you'd add one to it. To get to the x'th row, you'd add x to it. If you dereference that pointer, you get a pointer to the first book in the x'th row. If you want the y'th book, you add y to it. You now have a pointer to the y'th book in the x'th row, which you dereference to get the number of pages in that book.
If you're not very familiar with pointers, you really just shouldn't try to understand code like this until you are.

A: Pointers are variables that contain memory addresses. To declare a pointer variable, you just declare a regular variable using an asterisk in front of the name.
int *ptr;

I will try to explain pointers to you with some graphics and less code.

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    int num = 5; //Just a regular integer variable.
    char hello[] = "Hello World!"; // An array of characters.
    int* point_to_num = # // & return's the memory address of a variable.
    char* point_to_hello = hello; //Notice that I don't use &. Arrays are already pointers!

    //----------Dereferencing Pointers----------//
    printf("%d\n", *point_to_num); //This will print 5

    //No Dereferencing  needed.
    printf("%s\n", hello); //This will print "Hello World!"
    printf("%s\n", point_to_hello); //This will print "Hello World!" again!

    return 0;
}

If we compare the code with the image, point_to_num is the third rectangle which contains the memory address 3000. When you dereferencing a pointer using the asterisk:
printf("%d\n", *point_to_num); //This will print 5

You are saying "Bring me the value contained in the memory address 3000"
But In this case:
printf("%s\n", hello); //This will print "Hello World!"
printf("%s\n", point_to_hello); //This will print "Hello World!" again!

strings are a sequence of characters, and you must give a pointer to the beginning of that sequence in order for printf to print the string until it finds the special null terminate character.
In your code
int** total_number_of_pages;

total_number_of_pages is uninitialized which means we can't say what the output will be.
printf("%d\n", *(*(total_number_of_pages + x) + y)); // (Line 4)

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Pending Activity Widget on My Dashboard displays all pending activities to be completed. To GoTo Dashboard click on This widget is enabled with a quick search option to drill down and list various pending activities for different employees.
Click on Provide Feedback the link will directly take to the Provide Feedback page for the employee or the Team member.
An employee can provide self-feedback and managers can provide feedback for his team members. When this activity is on, you will get an action item 'Provide feedback' in the action tab of 'My Action Items' screen (Performance -> My Action Items).
The feedback form looks similar for both the self- feedback for the employee and for the appraiser feedback. The feedback form would clearly indicate the target and the achievement against the target (The achievements can be regularly updated in the synergita by the appraised, this would save time at the end of the review period and also make it possible to monitor progress seamlessly).
For each goal's that have been set an employee will be able to reflect on his performance and provide the qualitative as well as the quantitative feedback. The rating guidelines are provided to ensure consistency in assessment.
Here you assess the employee and give relevant and necessary feedback to the employee for competencies displayed and goals achieved. The rating scale allows for the grading the employee based on his performance.
You can save your feedback as many times as you want by clicking on without submission of the feedback form for further action.
On completion of the feedback you submit the feedback by clicking on you won't be able to change the feedback; the workflow proceeds to next activity.
Managers will be able to refer the feedback given by other reviewers. The manager can view the feedback given by other reviewers for a particular goal/competency by clicking on '360-degree feedback' button.
It helps you to view the self-feedback, feedback given by their peers, supervisors, and direct report for a particular goal.
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New Prototype Gigapixel Camera Creates Super Hi-Res Photos
A team of Duke engineers used one of the most powerful cameras ever developed Sunday to produce a photograph of the university's graduation ceremony with 100 times the resolution of a consumer camera with 10 megapixels.
Their color image, which they posted online shortly after the graduates tossed their caps in the air, is 10 times sharper than 20/20 vision, enabling viewers to see details in thousands of faces.
David Brady and his colleagues developed the AWARE2 Gigapixel Camera with a single lens, 96 microcameras and a 110-degree field of view. The prototype device improves upon a previous version.
"What's really unique about this camera is that it has very high pixel count for things at finite range," said Brady, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Electric Engineering at Duke"s Pratt School of Engineering. "It does that in a way no other camera has before because each of the microcameras focuses individually, so objects at various depths can all be in focus.
"You can think of it as a pair of binoculars that points in all directions at once," he said.
The prototype camera is large -- about three feet cubed -- but Brady and his team are working to condense it.
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Telepathy Walker is the world's first smart eyewear specifically developed for navigation and local discoveries. Make your everyday walk smarter and more fun with Telepathy Walker's highly intuitive UI, sunlight-proof display, and handsfree design.
125 backers pledged $124,293 to help bring this project to life.
The world around you is full of wonders.
So much so that we need a device and applications that under no matter what condition, anyone can get around safely and see things they've never noticed before.
That is why we built Telepathy Walker, the world's first eyewear for discoveries while walking.
Walker's navigation/discovery app responds to voice commands. It's totally handsfree, allowing you to look ahead even if you are carrying luggage in both hands. You can even have a VoIP call on Walker's chat application at the same time.
The problem with navigation apps is that they're designed for driving, not walking. The detail you want is 20 feet at a time, not 100 feet or a mile. Worse if you are directionally challenged and unable to read maps.
Considering all the problems with existing navigation apps, we are currently developing a pre-installed navigation & local discovery app that adopts augmented reality and very intuitive user interface so that anyone, even the directionally challenged, never have trouble using while walking.
All you have to do to get to destinations is tell Walker where to go and simply follow the arrow!
*Kickstarter backers can use Walker's navigation app for free of charge. The monthly fee for those who purchased Walker after this Kickstarter campaign will be Approx. $5 (pricing is subject to further changes). Regarding the use of the application, the terms & conditions may apply.
In addition to our navigation/discovery app that people will never have trouble using, we are also developing other outdoor applications so that you can explore the world in completely new and entertaining ways.
We are also building our own web-based app marketplace where anyone can develop, distribute, purchase, and/install apps for Walker. Walker runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat, so anyone who has developed apps for Android OS can develop apps for Walker with ease. We will start developing mobile-friendly app marketplace once we succeed in this campaign and in fulfilling all the rewards.
We are now doing everything we can to create a vibrant developer community through communications, incentives, and technical supports.
Walker is more than just an idea. We have recently finished the final stage of prototyping and are ready to start mass-production. In fact, we successfully demoed Walker for 4 consecutive days.
There are no other devices that run on Android 4.4 and are cheaper and of better quality than Walker. Walker is also ready for production enough to stand with 4-consecutive demo days at CES 2016.
The thing about hardware is, however, it's hard. It takes hard money to go to production. With this KickStarter campaign, we're looking to raise $115,000 mainly to get us into mass production. We firmly believe in Kickstarter's strong, innovative community and hope to explore this beautiful world together.
Walker is very light and small.
Last, but not least, we developed an original head mount whose magnet allows you to attach and detach Walker with great ease. The head mount ensures screen stability and can be worn over your prescription glasses too.
One of the problems with smartphones and smartglass is that you can't see clear image under bright sunshine. With Walker's patented display technology, you see a bright, high-resolution image no matter what the lighting condition may be.
What's more, unlike any other smartglasses, we designed our device so that you see both the screen and the world around you clearly at the very same time. Your eye doesn't need to focus on the image because it appears at the same natural distance as your naked eye. What this means is that you can walk around safely with your natural vision unaffected.
Walker is designed and developed in Japan. We have a very strong strategic partnership with a Japan-based top global electronics manufacturer, and are going to manufacture the device in Japan. Made-in-Japan quality at this price range is a STEAL!
*There may be slight modifications to the product design.
*We have updated the rewards in response to the developer community's reactions! Please Check the right column for more information.
In an attempt to create a small, light, and portable smart eyewear, we developed a brand-new SoC made up of CPU, memory controller, and input/output. By layering memory and storage device on top of the SoC, we successfully materialized a smart eyewear with a very small footprint.
Walker's optical design consists of two separate parts: eyepiece and display parts. This separation creates a space between the two, which enables natural vision that is not interfered by the device's components.
In order to attain natural vision and high usability, virtual image is located 2 meters ahead from the eyepiece. By this, we successfully reduced the moving distance of focus between background and virtual image.
We also invented a small, lightweight, high-light-efficiency, and low-power-consumption display module specialized for smart eyewear from scratch. Our optical design with reflective LCD enables a small display module with minimal cover on the wearer's face. In addition, the optics with separated units enables see-through vision.
For high light efficiency, we used reflective liquid crystal for display device. Three colors of LEDs are used as a light source, and the adoption of sequential color suppresses the reduction of aperture ratio. In addition, we adopted a simple optical structure to reduce the loss of light efficiency derived from the optical parts. Due to this cutting-edge optical structure with integrated lens technology, we are able to show a world's best-in-class resolution, color reproducibility, and brightness with minimal components.
We think that the production risks are quite low since we have already produced "Telepathy Jumper", our B2B smart eyewear product, for various industrial customers and have done extensive trials in terms of hardware, middleware, OS(Android 4.4), and applications.
Our cutting-edge virtual display and optical system technologies have received extremely good reputations from industrial customers. These core technologies are used in Walker too and ready for high-volume manufacturing in cooperation with a Japan-based experienced electronics giant.
The components of Walker are already in production. we are working with well-established component suppliers and entire supply chain is already in place. Assembly site is also in Japan, which enables us to provide "Made in Japan" hardware quality.
Moreover, we successfully demonstrated several Android applications running on a prototype version of Walker at CES 2016, which proved that our product is ready for mass-production.
The risks are therefore minimal for producing Walker in volume for our Kickstarter backers, but there are certain risks that we would like to be honest and clear about.
For one thing, delivery date may be delayed approximately for a month or so, depending on FCC(USA) and IC(Canada) approval process.
Another risk is that whereas we are in talks and working with various application developers, some of the aforementioned applications EXCEPT for navigation/local discovery app may not be delivered at the expected launch dates. We are also trying our best to enable voice commands for all the applications installed on Telepathy Walker, but voice commands may be only available to navigation/local discovery app and several other applications at the time of delivery. We will keep backers updated about our development progress until and after delivery.
Lastly, if the device and/or attachments were malfunctioning or damaged at the time of delivery for some unexpected accidents, we will exchange the device with another unit if you contact us within the week after the delivery date. This return policy applies to every edition that includes one or more units of Telepathy Walker, even though the Hacker Edition, Early Bird Edition, Standard Edition, and Walker In Black Edition do not come with warranty.
Your support, no matter what, will be greatly appreciated! We'll show our gratitude through many thanks from the creators of Telepathy Walker, product updates, and EyeConnect, a vision sharing app for Walker and smartphones!
Still unsure about if you really want Walker? No problem! We will invite you to our developer community so that you can further explore the potentials of Walker.
2. Access to Walker's Developer Tools & App Marketplace.
Applications are not included, but build and deploy one for our marketplace so that our users can further enjoy exploring the world!
Hello fellow"Walkers"! You might have missed the early bird specials, but no worries; you will rarely find a world's best-in-class, practical, made-in-Japan quality smart eyewear at this price!
The show doesn't begin until we have the "dark side of the force"! With just $50 on top of the Standard Edition, you will receive a black-colored, world's best-in-class, made-in-Japan quality smart eyewear !
Even though we ensure our product quality through our manufacturing partnership with a Japan-based experienced electronics giant, we understand some of you want to "look before you walk".
Be reassured and let's explore the world together!
We have decided to add "Walk & Jump" Edition in response to the developer community's curiosity about Telepathy's smart eyewear technologies!
We will ship Jumper immediately after this Kickstarter campaign with no extra shipping cost so that backers can start experimenting with the device.
We believe in the power of vibrant developer community and promise to do whatever it takes to enrich discovery experiences while walking!
"If you want to walk fast, walk alone. if you want to walk far, walk together", says an African proverb.
Walking alone with Walker is a fun and exciting experience, but why not share it with your family and family!
Let's explore and share the world together!
In response to the developer community's requests, we have decided to add "Walk Me Through" Edition for developers interested in working closely with Telepathy to build applications and platform that further enrich discovery experiences while walking.
Let's discuss the future of Telepathy Walker and enrich our community's discovery experiences while walking!


BWAHAHA My son would LOVE this book, I may be checking it out for him next time we head to the library!
I am reading a really good YA book this week!
(ღ˘◡˘ღ) Teaser Tuesday LOVE from Alaska!
LOL, yea I believe knife throwing is illegal, great teaser.
Haha! Great tease. This book sounds wicked funny.
LMAO Sounds very funny indeed!
Ha. I like it. Sets the scene and tone and it's fun.
I think knife throwing is legal as long as you aren't trying to kill or injure someone. I've done it at fairs several times, anyway.
niiiiiiiiiiiiice. sounds like something that the boys might like? eh, who knows :D cool teaser regardless!


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Arnold Christopher Ræstad, född den 15 februari 1878 i Kristiania, död där den 18 september 1945, var en norsk rättslärd och nationalekonom, bror till Bertha Ræstad.

Ræstad blev juris kandidat 1901, sekreterare i utrikesdepartementet 1906-10 och därunder 1908-09 i egenskap av sekreterare och kartkunnig anställd som attaché hos norska regeringens advokat i saken angående Grisbådarna. Han tog 1913 juris doktorsgrad i Kristiania på avhandlingen Kongens strømme (fransk upplaga, prisbelöntes av Franska institutet samma år) samt blev 1913 universitetsstipendiat i folkrätt och handelspolitik i Kristiania. I folkrätt utgav Ræstad Norges høihetsret over Spitsbergen i ældre tid. En folkeretshistorisk fremstilling (1912; förkortad fransk översättning "Le Spitsberg dans l'histoire diplomatique" i "La géographie", samma år), en översikt av de i de viktigaste länderna bestående lagarna och reglerna angående sjöterritoriet i "Revue générale de droit international public" (1914)samt Krigs- og fredsproblemer (3 upplagor 1916). Nationalekonomiskt utgav Ræstad en samling av "Norges handels- og skibsfartspolitik" (1914), en mindre handbok i Handelspolitik (samma år) och Truster og karteller (1916). Ræstad var stipendiat till och med 1919 och blev i juni 1921 utrikesminister i Blehrs ministär. Då hans program att söka sluta handelstraktater med Spanien och Portugal inom ramen för det i Norge bestående alkoholförbudet misslyckades, avgick han i maj 1922. Ræstad var ledamot av bland annat tulltariff- och traktatkommissionerna (båda 1915) samt ordförande i förberedande ransonerings- och luftfartslagkommittéerna (1917 respektive 1918), varjämte han var ordförande i arbetsutskottet i finansrådet (1917), i valutarådet (1919) och i delegationen för underhandlingar med vinländerna (1920).

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CTSI Recognized on CRN's 2022 MSP 500 List
March 4, 2022 /in Blog, Press Release /by CTSI
March 7th, 2022 — Computer Transition Services, Inc. announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named CTSI to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category for 2022. CRN's annual MSP 500 list identifies the leading service providers in North America whose forward-thinking approaches to managed services are changing the landscape of the IT channel, helping end-users increase efficiency and simplify IT solutions, while maximizing their return on investment.
With many customers still recovering from the impact of the ongoing pandemic, MSPs have become a vital part of the success of businesses worldwide. MSPs not only empower organizations to leverage intricate technologies but also help them keep a strict focus on their core business goals without straining their budgets.
The annual MSP 500 list is divided into three sections: the MSP Pioneer 250, recognizing companies with business models weighted toward managed services and largely focused on the SMB market; the MSP Elite 150, recognizing large, data center-focused MSPs with a strong mix of on- and off-premises services; and the Managed Security 100, recognizing MSPs focused primarily on off-premises and cloud-based security services.
"In addition to having to adjust their own business operations to account for the changed conditions during the pandemic, MSPs have also seen increased demand for their managed communications, collaboration and security services," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "The solution providers on our 2022 MSP 500 list deserve credit for their innovative and game-changing approaches to managed services in these unpredictable times, as well as their ability to optimize operational efficiencies and systems without straining IT budgets."
"We are honored and excited to be ranked among North America's Leading MSPs," said Michael Vaught, Senior Vice President at CTSI. "Over the last thirty-seven years, CTSI has continued to adapt and evolve to the ever-changing demands of the IT industry. Every solution we implement has a cybersecurity focus, and our layered approach to cybersecurity allows us to put our clients in the best position possible to defend against the evolving cyber-threat landscape. I am most proud of how we work together as a team to provide forward-thinking strategic planning along with business-enhancing technologies to improve our clients' lives and business success."
The MSP 500 list is featured in the February 2022 issue of CRN and online at www.crn.com/msp500.
View the official press release here.
CTSI is a security-focused Managed Services Provider that delivers technology and security solutions to businesses all around West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. CTSI collaborates with various industry-leading vendors to provide integrated solutions and professional services to meet the technological and organizational needs of businesses. CTSI offers an array of services including Managed IT Services, Cyber Security Services, HIPAA Compliance Support, Technical Support Services, Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions, Technology Consulting, and Strategic IT Planning.
CTSI has been in business for over thirty-seven years, and we have built a culture around people who care. People who care about you, your business, and the communities we serve. We strive every day to put in our best effort to improve the lives and business success of those around us.
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The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com
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Interpreters for deaf bring seder to life
By J. Correspondent | April 6, 2001
When Cheryl Cohen's deaf daughter, Marissa, couldn't fully participate in the Passover seder, Cohen did what any conscientious mother would do. She lobbied the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, which had organized the Women's seder, to include an interpreter.
Now in its third year, the East Bay Women's Community Seder regularly includes two interpreters. Cheryl Cohen chaired this year's event, held Sunday at Centennial Hall in Hayward.
Cohen, who lives in Pleasanton, explained the need for two interpreters.
"It's very taxing. Interpreters work 20 minutes; you need two so they can switch off."
Also, she said, one interpreter might be more comfortable signing Hebrew. Other times, interpreters create their own signs.
How does one sign "charoset," for example?
"Well, you can finger spell out the letters," said Cohen, "or you can sign the created version, 'apples and nuts mixed up.'"
During the Haggadah reading, the interpreters sit with the deaf guests. Typically, two to four deaf people attend the event.
"Sometimes people are surprised to hear that an interpreter is present," said Cohen with a laugh. "Last year many didn't know until the interpreters and the deaf participants were called up to sign 'Dayenu.'"
Cohen's 17-year-old daughter enjoyed that moment.
"When I went on stage and signed the last prayer," said Marissa Cohen during an online interview, "it was a beautiful vision to see 600 women staring at me! I felt like a celebrity."
Another attraction for Marissa was the dancing.
"I usually don't like watching interpreters sign prayers because I can't hear any of it," she shared, "but I LOVE to FEEL the rhythm of music. With 600 women full of spirit, these women have a lot of energy to dance."
Cheryl Cohen originally found the signers through the Directory of Interpreters, looking for those who were comfortable with Judaic interpreting.
Bobbe Skiles of San Leandro, one of this year's two interpreters, got involved with interpreting 25 years ago when her children were small.
"Learning to interpret was my adult interaction," said Skiles. "And Passover was always one of my favorite holidays, so I enjoy interpreting the service."
Usually the bulk of Skiles' work involves legal issues; she sometimes flies out of state to interpret.
The other interpreter at this year's Women's seder, back for her second year, was Ann Ben Shalom. The El Cerrito resident learned sign language in 1980 as a way to communicate with a deaf co-worker. Then, years later, her sister had a deaf baby.
Now a freelance interpreter, Ben Shalom has worked at various locations — from a local residential drug rehab program to Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.
She was offered the opportunity to sign at the women's seder when E.J. Cohen, a well-known interpreter, was out of town. She is not related to Cheryl Cohen.
"I was scared going there, and not being E.J, but once I relaxed, I had a good time," said Ben Shalom. "Then, there's the overwhelming positive feeling everyone leaves with."
Cheryl Cohen also interprets. Together with her daughter, she has welcomed people to a program of the Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival at the School for the Deaf in Fremont.
"I was her voice," said Cohen.
The Women's seder attracted 375 people this year, according to Riva Gambert, director of education and culture for the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay. She explained some of the additional rituals in the service.
"We traditionally have a Miriam's Cup in the middle of the table. Everyone has water and pours it into the cup. This symbolizes giving something back. It's a way to honor the spirit of Miriam."
And how does one sign Miriam?
In the deaf culture, only deaf people have the right to create signs for people's names, according to Marissa Cohen. "We sign Miriam by signing with the letter "M" on our heart, because she has a full heart for all women.
"And that kind of thing hearing people can't create."
Marissa sees this spirit within her mother.
"I am glad my mom worked her butt off for the Seder. EVERY SINGLE DAY I saw her working! It was worth it."
Now several East Bay Jewish organizations regularly provide interpreters. Temple Beth Torah in Fremont has interpreters for one Friday night service a month. Interpreters were present at the recent "Havdalah Under the Stars" held in February at the Chabot Space Center in Oakland. Also, the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay provides a fund to include interpreters at Jewish events.
"It's been a struggle to make Jewish education accessible," said Cheryl Cohen, "but we've made progress."
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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave is een Amerikaanse sciencefictionfilm uit 2008 van The Asylum. De film is een vervolg op H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. De regie werd verzorgd door C. Thomas Howell, die ook een rol heeft in de film.

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Twee jaar zijn verstreken sinds de eerste aanval van de Martianen. Ondanks dat ze toen hebben gefaald, keren ze onverwacht terug om de mensheid alsnog uit te roeien. Ze gebruiken nieuwe machines die nog geavanceerder zijn dan de vorige.

Centraal in de film staan George en zijn zoon. Via hun radio, waarmee ze normaal contact houden met anderen, ontdekken ze dat de machines worden bestuurd van buiten de planeet, en dat de Martianen een wormgat tussen de Aarde en Mars gebruiken om snel toe te kunnen slaan. George deelt deze kennis met het leger, en die gebruikt het wormgat voor een tegenaanval. Gewapend met een speciaal virus valt het leger Mars aan, en roeit de Martianen uit.

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WMU football adds Notre Dame transfer wide receiver Justin Ferguson
Updated: Jan. 20, 2019, 1:30 p.m. | Published: Jul. 13, 2013, 3:03 p.m.
P.J. Fleck
By David Drew | ddrew1@mlive.com
KALAMAZOO, MI --
P.J. Fleck and the Western Michigan University football program continue to reel in talent.
The first-year WMU coach confirmed Friday Notre Dame transfer wide receiver
Justin Ferguson
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The 6-foot-2, 196-pound sophomore wide out from Pembroke Pines, Fla. was expected to be in the mix for playing time this coming season for the Irish.
Ferguson was rated as the 85th-best player coming out of high school and the 14th-best receiver on the ESPNU 150 list.
Fleck also confirmed
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The European view on global affairs w/ Barack Seener Founder & Chairman of Strategic Intelligentia
Welcome to Non-Beta Alpha I'm Ryan Morfin. On today's episode, we have Barak Seener from Strategic Intelligence here talking to us about the European view on global affairs. This is Non-Beta Alpha. Barak welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us.
Barak Seener:
Hi, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Well, we really appreciate you coming on the show, calling in from London. So you're a strategic consultant on international affairs. And today, the new cycle the United States is going to be really focused on the presidential election coming up in November. But I think it's really important especially for financial advisors to be paying attention to some of the trends that are going on that aren't going to make our new cycle for the next 60 to 90 days, maybe longer given that this may be a contested election.
So we'd love to talk to you about, where are things today, with nationalism becoming more on the forefront, America maybe taking an inward looking view, pulling back from some international obligations. What is your sense of the world today and is globalization dead?
I think that, America first doesn't necessarily mean having an isolationist approach. I think America first is about identifying the fact that the post World War II Order, that President Truman created, Bretton Woods, the World Bank, the international institutions that underpin the global order of the West, is unsustainable today. And President Trump, he identifies the fact that globalization worked for a couple of decades, but it created huge financial disparities between the haves and the have nots, utterly decimating both working and middle classes.
And it's really telling kind of sense when President Trump echoes what President Obama spoke about when they both said, "There is huge income disparities." And as a result of that, America kind of looks at the fact that it created a middle class in China at its own expense. On one hand, you've got Walmart where you'll buy cheap manufactured goods abroad, but it's been at the expense of your own middle class and your working class. I think that the issue of the middle class has been really overlooked. People like, Steve Bannon, well President Trump, they've been really focused on the Rust Belt, the working class. And he constantly commented on the working class issues.
I think however, what's really has been overlooked, is the issue of the middle class. And where the first post World War II generation that will do less well than our parents did. We'll have to work two, three times as hard as our parents did to have the same lifestyle. So I think these are real issues that the political establishments around the globe haven't really addressed. We know on one hand, that socialism has bankrupted every economy it's been applied to, but we also know that capitalism has created huge disparities in income.
And the left right wing debate could have taken place at a time when politics was national. And when you didn't have the same rate of financial flows taking place at a transnational level, but today the left right wing debate is moribund. So I think these are huge strategic questions that need to be taking place for the future.
Well, there's a lot in what you just said. So I'm going to take a pause back and pull back for a second. So, we're saying that globalization in the United States that we've financed through our consumption of imports from Asia has fully come at the expense of American working class, lower income households. You agree on that?
Middle class. Yeah.
And so the-
That's been taking place across the Atlantic as well, it's not only in the U.S. it's taking place throughout the West.
Well, I was just going to ask that question. How is that playing out in the UK and the European Union? Is it the same dynamic? Is it just as pronounced? Because I totally agree and see it here, middle class has been eroded in United States. And if you look at what's happening, all the consumption that we've been doing for Chinese goods, has been accelerating the rise of the middle class there.
But, they've manipulated their currencies. They've not subscribed to the basic tenets of globalization, which has been essentially, everybody's a winner. If you play by the rules and you're going to cause economies to become market economies, at the start you're going to cause them to become manufacturing economies, they're going to evolve to become service based economies, et cetera. And then those that manufacturing will shift to other lower income countries and will lift them up, that's not taking place because China in a sense has been cheating.
And there's no point to regurgitate that everybody knows it's been regurgitated a million times what China has been doing. But what's happened is as well, I published an article, The Godfather Wars, and there's great quote by Donald Lucchese in the Godfather part three, where he says, "Finance is a gun, politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." And the thinking behind globalization was that increased affluence and prosperity underpins peace and security. And what's happened is that… China was admitted into the World Trade Organization in 2001. And what happened was, that what China did was, it became affluent with a growth of on average 10% every year in GDP.
But rather than economic liberalism spilling over to political liberalism, we failed to co-op them effectively. So they used their increased affluence to become more military assertive, not only at a regional level, but even globally to become more globally confrontational, whether it be an air to play in the sea, in the rollout of telecommunications, Wolf diplomacy. So they've been really playing a zero sum game. And that's been as a result of their increased affluence. So that's tend to be undermined the whole ethos behind globalization.
So let's pause on that moment. So World Trade Organization works and globalization in a capitalistic global order. If everybody plays by the rules, China's not playing by the rules. So the same dynamic happening to us in the U.S. is happening to the middle class in the UK, in Germany, Europe. There's a book by honorable Liam Fox MP that I'm quite keen on called, Rising Tides is one of the best books I've read in a long time, was published a few years ago, but talks about the Anglosphere, forming to confront China on these issues. Do you see the kind of foundational elements of a new coalition to counterbalance the, we'll call the rule breaking Chinese capitalist model with the rule seeking Western ideology of capitalism?
Look at the movement now you've got… We're in a phase in history where we're not at the point of confrontation with China, we're at a pace of competition with China. Right? And if you compare this to a few years ago, it's the shift from co-opting China to competition with China is quite striking. So what that looks like is, countries attempting to hedge countries… And you've asked about the Anglosphere, but you can you see this in Australia, but you also see it in India, that countries are attempting to play it both ways. They're attempting to hedge on one hand, they want economic ties with China.
But on the other hand, they're attempting to strategically over-shore sensitive industries away from China. On one hand, they have economic ties with China, but on the other hand, they're thinking well, how are we going to regionalize or onshore our supply chains? On one hand, they are having economic ties with China, but they're also exploring having increased military and intelligence ties with the United States. So there's a shift. A few years ago, people would be speaking about when they were co-opting with China. It was an inevitability that the center of economic, sorry, the center of economic activity has shifted from the West Eastward.
That was a cliche that you've heard a million times. Now that has shifted to competition, which is taking the form of hedging, confrontation in the future, that shift from competition to confrontation will be a shift from hedging to, okay, here we have a system of increased military alliances to counter the United States. And the real question is, what is that going to look like? Is the United States going to have a hub and spokes approach of creating a series of bilateral ties with different allies? And that's going to be very time consuming. And I think Secretary Pompeo is just beginning to undertake this.
I don't think that there's going to be a comprehensive sphere of influence like there was in the Cold War. In the Cold War, it was very different to today, you were able to achieve bipolarity because, first of all the Soviet Union wasn't a consumer economy, right? They weren't gonna buy any Western products. They were decoupled to begin with. Secondly, you had the United States and the Soviet Union,[inaudible 00:12:10] carve out spheres of influence. When you have respective economic spheres of influence, capitalism versus communism, it was very much a top down approach. Today it's in the competition era, which we're in today.
It's much more complex in that strategic decoupling is beginning to take place, yet China is a huge consumer economy. Companies are still attempting to trade in China or invest in China, at an enormous rate, that decoupling hasn't completely taken place. You also have China holding a lot of U.S. debt. So the economies are still tremendously intertwined. So it's still quite ambiguous being in the competition stage. Currently, there's a disparity between u.S. rhetoric and U.S. action. But I do think that the trend will be that the US action will escalate.
Before we get to that next phase of the conversation on confrontation with China, I want to ask you two questions. One is 20th century relic power structures of the Western order, World Trade Organization, Bretton Woods, World Bank. Do they survive in the 21st century or do we need to rethink those? And is that what Pompeo and Trump are starting to lay the groundwork for?
I think you've asked the most critical question. That is the most important question that I think nobody is addressed effectively. That's something that I'm currently working on to publish in the next article. What is going to be the international architecture? What will that look like? Why is the United States the post World War II architecture not sustainable? Currently, what Trump is fully conscious of is, okay how can we change international value and supply chains to run through the United States? That is something that he spearheaded.
I don't think that yet the United States is fully conscious of how to create a new international architecture. And, while the United States is pulling out of multilateral forums. That's not adequate. That's the first phase. And what's the next phase is going to be? What will the follow up be? Will a future demonstration, will they be consequential like the Truman administration to create that new international economic and security architecture for the West? And I don't think that they're there yet. And.
I can tell you from the folks I know, what I call the nation building soft power skill sets in our government don't exist anymore. From the post World War II, the Marshall Plan era, that skill set does not exist today. And just look at our inner cities. You could pretty much just straight up see that we don't know how to do that. So the question is going to be, can we pull off new architecture that is teared up for a different element that we haven't talked about yet, which is what I call Neo-libertarianism, where you've got people who don't believe in ancient states, people who are globalists in mindset, multinational companies who hop around jurisdictions. Is it becoming more of a globalist nationalist fight? And China's leading the globalist effort?
I think that you're asking something, but you're grazing upon something much deeper. And there's a few things that you're touching upon. First of all, regarding the day after, I think that the Trump administration has been really intuitive knowing what works and what doesn't work. So they'll pull out of the World Health Organization, or they'll pull out of the Iran deal. Now I'm all pro pulling out of the Iran deal. But I predicted a few years ago when that took place.
Okay, so what's gonna happen the next day afterwards. Has America pushed Iran into China's sphere of influence? So, Chinese companies don't care about the U.S. sanctions, they don't need to operate in the U.S. market. So there's a common denominator whereby the United States needs to be thinking about the day after, in terms of whether it be the Iran deal or replacement for existing multilateral organizations, but also other things like investing in STEM. So that the United States is going to have scientists to compete with China vis-à-vis artificial intelligence and things like that.
It's also creating a flexible labor force. Our parents had the same jobs their entire lives, our generational will have three, four career shifts. So only the flexible and resilient will survive. The previous generation didn't have to be flexible or resilient. And another thing you spoke about, this is what I meant about grazing on something which is much deeper. In terms of when you say, America knew you how to develop infrastructure and sort of create aid to develop infrastructure in Western Europe, post World War II, China is doing that in its Belt Road Initiative.
And it's creating mercantile markets in a sense creating hostage markets, people that will be militarily, economically, politically hostage to them. America has not yet undertaken a comprehensive vision to counter China's infrastructure development in these countries. In a sense it's offering aid in a very traditional manner, but how is America going to be creating infrastructure? And the other two points that I want to raise which you've grazed upon is that on these points.
Number one, America has focused on its form of globalization has been very much a democratic globalization. Whereby, and being so democratic, it's also been at its own expense. I'm not even talking about learning others like China, sort of abuse the rules and cause that shift in economic activity to take place more rapidly than it should have. What I'm talking about is the fact that being democratic, being open, it's not been in control of where economic activity would shift.
It spoke about interconnectedness, whether it be digital interconnectedness. You remember the cliches of the day, globalization bringing a school to connect together an interconnected world, greater technological and financial flows, all these were buzzwords that you heard. And that was something that the Clinton era did. And indeed, NAFTA, caused economic activity to shift towards beneficiary states at the expense of the United States. China's form of globalization has been very, very different.
And it's a competing form of globalization. China's globalization has been all geared towards accumulating and concentrating power at the head of the Communist Party. Say for example, when it needs telecommunication lines, sorry, fiber optics lines, or whether it has 5G, it's all about collecting data to feed the Communist Party. Same with their Belt Road Initiative in terms of creating these mercantile markets and keeping people hostage. And it's been cleverly branded as, Oh, China is now becoming more interconnected to the international community. This is an unprecedented infrastructure development project that is historically unparalleled.
But that's what China has been doing. It's been all about creating a competing form of globalization where interconnectedness would not create parity, but concentration of power for a totalitarian regime. And in the phase of competition, that is what has taken place. America has not created a comprehensive strategy to counter China, whether it be on their vision of globalization, and create international institutions. And it's these international institutions that will reflect the United States competing vision of globalization.
So, what will it take or what are the precedents necessary for us to go from competition with China to a confrontation? How does that shift? Gradual or all at once?
I think it's going to be a combination of the two. Look, when I talk about gradual data thefts, when you've heard the head of the FBI speaking about China data theft constituting an act of war, right? Question then becomes, what level of data theft becomes acceptable and what level becomes unacceptable? At which point does the United States think right, enough is enough? Because, the reason for China's in a sense being ahead of the United States and certain technological areas, has been for a combination of state capitalism, whereby it's not been a free market, they have directed the economy towards investing in technology.
So that's been one form, or one reason for them bounding forwards. But another is also the theft of IP, the direct theft. Whether it be companies wanting to operate within China, and they have to give a huge percentage of their company away to a Chinese partner, or whether they have directly stolen from U.S. companies via malicious activities. A second point then also… So that's something which is incremental. And at which point does United States think Well, enough, is enough. Right?
A second point then is, if there is a flashpoint in the South China Seas, let's say China reads United States in activity vis-à-vis Hong Kong confers. Right? We're going to go into Taiwan. We're going to take over Taiwan. Or if they continue to actively not support U.S. sanctions on North Korea, or if there is a direct confrontation in the South China Sea. At which point does America blow that tip over to a hot conflict? Will that become an escalation? And if that becomes a political and military confrontation. Well, then will that accelerate the strategic decoupling taking place at an economic level? Those are the big questions.
I think you'll see the military in China get more hostile and assertive and aggressive regionally, as their middle class starts to develop the consumption necessary to keep their growth trajectory. And that's where I've started while I look at China, I look at their middle class domestic consumption. And you can really just track it to perfect correlation to how aggressive they've been getting with U.S. military with allies. And it's a fascinating time right now. And I think we'll-
I think that's a really interesting point, the fact that increased prosperity on the part of China domestically can spill over to increased confrontation with foreign powers. That's really interesting point, I haven't considered that.
So just going around the world here, what do you think of the Emirati Israel peace deal that the Trump administration is touting?
Look, I think it's not a deal. There's two types of peace deals. For example, Israel's peace deal with Egypt, was when Sadat saw that the Soviets were going to take over Egypt. And it was a pivotal moment when Egypt had to decide right, whose sphere of influence are we going to be in? Are we going to be in the United States sphere of influence or are we going to get taken over by the Savior's? And so Sadat, he did something monumental. He made a strategic shift towards the United States by signing a peace deal with Israel, right.
And then the military epsilon of Egypt received enormous amount of U.S. support. What's happened here in contrast is, this is not a deal that changes facts on the ground. It's a deal that reflects changing facts on the grounds. It's reflective of a pre existing trend. When you've had at least a decade of close security and intelligence ties between the UAE and Israel because of the Iranian threat. You've also seen the fact that every Gulf state has to diversify their economies because they can't rely on oil anymore.
Because, first of all, global recession, oil prices have plummeted. Secondly, everybody's an oil producer, the United States now is a huge and it's achieved energy independence with its shale oil and gas, it's not reliant on the Middle East. So once upon a time, the Middle East was able to be very hostile towards the United States and Israel, because it had the luxury of being able to, because it had huge energy resources that the West was relying upon. Today, it doesn't have that anymore.
So you see every single Gulf states is having a vision 2030 economic plan to diversify their economies. And they need as well support to especially have a digital economy. Israel is a power when it comes to high tech. It's the startup nation. So the reason why they've aligned with Israel is not only because of Israel's military and security capacity to help them confront Iran, but because of Israel's economic base which is high tech foundations. So those are the trends that are coming together. But nonetheless the very [crosstalk 00:29:50] sorry.
No, I'm going to say they've always historically used either Mexican companies or foreign companies in the Middle East to go invest in Israel and bring the technology out. Yeah, it's been fascinating. And I didn't even know, there's a real interesting bond between Mexico and Beirut. Carlos Slim is Lebanese. But there's always been that dynamic where they've used-
Why is there a Mexico, Lebanese link? Why is that?
A lot of Lebanese left Beirut to go to Mexico in the early 20th century, became the entrepreneur class in Mexico. They also went to Colombia. So Shakira is Lebanese and Colombian. But there's an interesting kind of, a lot of ultra wealthy folks that, from Latin America that run around the middle east, have been that proxy. So getting rid of those middlemen if you will, and having that direct dialogue should save a lot of money. So Barak, as we're looking at these interest, global interests, the multinationals that exist, that hop from different jurisdiction.
Well, we start to see even in a domestic economy like the U.S., a Goldman Sachs or Facebook, have different interests, then we'll call regional economic interests. People who are more domestically focused for commercial activities, and by doing so, have different alignments as it relates to where they go, and how they fund politicians. And so do we see that the multinationals as a new element in this new posture for spheres of influence in cold war kind of 2.0?
Well, first of all, how do you see that? Really, really interesting question, how do you see that? Do you see already the tension between multinationals and more local regional organized companies? How do you see it?
Yeah. I think a political divide that's going to start to emerge is, people who don't believe in the nation state anymore because their economic bread is buttered by globalist interest. So the folks in Silicon Valley who want more clicks in China, so they'll give the source code and they'll forgive their morals, by allowing a dictator or surveillance state to have access to the source data on the users. We'll start to become more self-evident as we get through some of the background noise about Tik Tok and about what 5G bad efforts that China's been producing globally, not just in the United States, Africa, Eastern Europe.
And so I think that's going to start to become more self-evident. And so I think you're going to see companies who do more business domestically, say, "Wait a minute, these multinationals, although they've got huge lobbying dollars in the United States don't really reflect what's good for the U.S. in the long term." Because they're not just U.S. companies anymore, they're globalist companies. And I think that's where you're seeing like Microsoft, Facebook, some of the huge international companies that are domesticated here, start to really have perverse interests that aren't aligned with long term American interests, because they're their own nation state in some respects. And it's a 21st century construct, to have a company that-
But I actually think that this is connected to the issue of strategic decoupling. I actually think that you're going to get to a point in history whereby companies will be subjected to regulations that set out by the US government, by national governments, just like they are strategically onshoring sensitive industries. And they are blocking out Huawei. Bear in mind, Boris Johnson in the UK didn't want to do that originally, he needed to get COVID in order to become more aware of the acute Chinese threat.
He resisted Donald Trump initially on this issue. So I actually think that we are going to enter a phase where companies are going to be forced to become local. I might be proven wrong, but I don't think so. I think that is the trend whereby nationalism will replace globalization. And it's going to be part of this escalating competition, escalating visions of globalization, escalating visions of technological advancement, in the process by the way, as well Western economy are going to be adapting elements of China to become corporatist states.
Just like you're going to see the private and public sector work together very closely, especially in certain industries such as technology, right? In order to advance if this is going to be part of the race. And in the 1930s, Mussolini bought into the whole concept of the corporate state, which is something that Winston Churchill was very interested in. And I think what's going to happen is increasingly, you'll see increased government intervention, whether it be bailouts, stimulus packages, and increasingly private and public sector going to work together.
And as part of that, I don't think there's going to be that wide latitude to go global, as countries have enjoyed for the past few decades. And very much the focus is going to shift towards how do we turn inward looking, not only to onshore supply chains or regionalize supply chains, but in the process, how do we develop our working and middle classes? So in a sense, it's a reversal of history. And historically, there was this sense of the fact that nationalism was a wizard, belligerent, and confrontational or even imperialist force. Whereas today, nationalism was always at the expanse of the author.
If you look at European history especially, American history is very different because America was shielded by two oceans, and it's nationalism was not its national project, it was an experiment. And the United States thought to have that experiment in direct opposition to the European experience, which they thought as very despotic. What I think is happening today, which is really interesting is as opposed to the 1930s, we have an upshot of nationalism, which led to the second world war, prior to that the World War I.
What's really interesting today is the fact that you've got transnational nationalist movements, all geared towards reclaiming national sovereignty, that isn't necessarily belligerent. And it's not necessarily confrontational. So often, the media will be speaking about the all right as being the same as the far right. And I think that's the wrong historical analogy. I think that there's no historical precedent for this specific phenomenon.
Now, that's interesting. I do think that the tech industry is going to face a lot of antitrust energy in the next four years next administration, no matter who wins. And I do think it goes back to Marshall. He told nation States you got to pick aside in 1946, in his famous Harvard speech before they launched the Marshall Plan. And I think, in many ways, someone's going to say tech companies to multinationals, you've got to pick aside, because you can't keep funding surveillance state Chinese Communist Party activities that are coming at the cost of national security or economic liberty of people around the world.
And so I think it's going to become a very interesting dichotomy. There's something very interesting for the first time, the protesters on the far left started getting upset in the U.S. about cotton that's made up in the northern province where the Uighurs are, because that's being generated by slave labor. And they're starting to wake up well, Nike is making these shoes or these jackets at the cost of Muslim slave labor in northern China. And they're starting to protest.
Recently a more recent example today, you've got Disney under enormous pressure because they previously operated in this globalist model creating new land. And now they have problems with, they can have maybe 200 million got slashed from revenues that they could potentially enjoy because they're experiencing in the United States its a backlash over the fact that it's got connections to the weak laws, and China is saying to them, "Hey, look, you're saying to all this media outlets, you're not allowed to promote this movie at all." So you're already seeing, it's not only a domestic backlash against globalization, it's globalization itself that is beginning to unravel.
Yes. One sensitive question and I'm going to ask it and forgive me ahead of time. But how is Israel not more offended that China is getting away with concentration camps in the north. How is that not the biggest discussion point in politics today from Israel, from the U.S., from the UK? How are we letting history repeat itself?
I wish that there would be more Israelis and Jewish people that would ask that question. I mean, if you think about somebody like Natalie Portman, when she speaks about the export of life products, or the eating of beef, as a Holocaust, right? Could you imagine if a non-Jewish person was to say, "To avert another Holocaust eat granola," right? It would be out, there would be a huge outrage and industrialized genocide. Now, what I think was very naive on the part of many Jewish leaders at the time of the founding of the State of Israel was, there was a same sense of okay, the Jewish people's national experience, and the Jewish ethos as well of the Judeo-Christian heritage and its own ethos of being good.
So that's what would be a light unto the nations. And I think that, what's happened to Israel is it has signed up to real politic, to the laws of statecraft. And as a result of that, I think that it's not good enough to have Holocaust Memorial Days, when you have human rights abuses taking place in China, and other places in the globe. And the Jewish state is silent about that. And I think that in order to be more consistent, its ethos, and to be aligned with it, historical experiences. The Jewish state needs to have a great outcry of what is going on around the world.
I appreciate those comments, couldn't agree with you more. I think time will tell what happens. So we have the final wrap up portion of today's conversation, we have a thing we call the human factor. And we asked you six quick questions there kind of, yes, no quick answers that we ask all of our guests in season two. First question is, if there is a vaccine available, would you take it today? For COVID?
If it worked, yeah.
Second question, who wins 2020 election in the U.S., Trump or Biden?
Trump.
What type of economic recovery are we in, if at all? Is it a W? Is it a V? Is it a swoosh? Any thoughts on that?
I don't think we're in recovery. I don't think that jobs increased job rates is indicative of recovery. When there's going to be second third, fourth waves and future lockdowns.
Fair enough. Yep. I agree. Anything that you worked on during quarantine, the summer that you're proud of, any new skills you picked up, or I think you may be writing a book and anything like that?
I just published an American interest, The Godfather Wars. Where I spoke and I want to turn it into a book form. I speak about, when do countries prioritize political over economic interests and vice versa. So I use the example of a model of Vito Corleone. He decides not to go too, into the drug trade with Slotzo. And he says, "While it might be very profitable, I'm not going to be able to maintain my political cachet and connections." He prioritizes politics over economics.
World War I, their biggest trading partners prior sorry, Germany's greatest trading partner prior to World War I was Russia and the United Kingdom who it went to war with. So sometimes countries prioritize political over economic interests. During globalization, it was very much I mentioned Clemenza. After they shoot Paulie, he says to Rocco, "Leave the gun, take the cannolis." And it's very much an idea of economic prosperity. Trump's politics and security, it will lead to economic security. That was globalization thinking and I think it was wrong.
Then you had Donald Lucchese perspective whereby increased economic activity will spill over to greater belligerence and confrontation. And then you had as well Flyman Roth. Where Flyman Roth sought to be a substate actor in cahoots with a government. And that's very much indicative of the private sector, which has often taken the initiative regionalizing and puncturing supply chains. It's working in tandem with the government for stimulus packages. And it's going to be increasingly working with the government in order to receive government investment in those sectors to achieve growth. And to stimulate the economy once again. That's really what I worked on during lockdown.
Anything silver linings in the UK, or global economy that you think are going to be optimistic, bright spots?
It's a double edged sword, because when China is seeing that when it invests in its economy, it also creates redundancies as well. Right? That's the problem with state planning. So on one hand, technology companies are going to get a boost, there's going to be greater investment in achieving different skills. But it's all also going to create surplus and redundancies. So it's not a pure silver lining, there's a cost that will come with it.
And what are you reading, watching or listening to on podcasts today that kind of expand your view of the world?
No one in particular. I get a lot actually from LinkedIn. There are people that post really great strategic articles. I'm not interested in politics, I'm more interested in policy, I'm not interested in gossip, I'm more interested in strategic articles. So, there's a lot of online journals, whether it be the National Interests Foreign Policy, as well as Asia Times. There's a lot of really great strategic material out there. And often, if you're immersed in social media, you're going to get sucked into the cesspool of it all. And you're going to miss all the future trends. So that's really what if I have been focusing on.
I'm like, "That's awesome." Well, Barak, thanks so much for coming on the show, we'd love to have you back in the months ahead. And I'm sure there's gonna be a lot to play out between November and January. So we'd love to have you come back on and talk to us about not only the European perspective, but kind of a global perspective from foreign policy and strategy standpoint.
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And I'll make sure we send out your articles a hyperlink from the show. So thanks so much for coming on, and we'll talk to you soon be safe.
Thank you. Take care. Bye bye.
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We've been quite fortunate so far, our dog has no food allergies. We have quite a bit of freedom to choose what goes into his daily meals and the treats we bake for him.
Well, other dogs are much more 'special' in the diet department and would require more attention to prevent any reactions to food allergies.
Lisa Fortunato (2007) The Everything Cooking For Dogs Book.
Richard H. Pitcairn (2005) Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats.
I'm allergic to wind...really, the Santa Ana winds here in Los Angeles make me very itchy with their dryness. It would really be aweful to be allergic to food though because I love to eat!
haha, I love wind :) Love sitting in front of the fan and get my fur all messy.
Great! No allergies is such a blessing.
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George Mueller is a hero of mine. From the time I was a young girl I was impressed with the faith of this man of God and loved any story I heard about his prayers and the answers he received. The other day I read yet another story in L. B. E. Cowman's Streams in the Desert that thrilled me. I want to share it as written in the devotional.
Actually, two of my heroes!
Cowman, L. B. E. (2010-01-13). Contemporary Classic/Streams in the Desert (p.
One of the reasons I am always thrilled to read these stories is because I know that George Mueller was no different than you or me. He was a normal person who had an extraordinary faith in God's ability and desire to answer prayer. His God is the same God Who longs to hear and answer prayers today. Come to Him in faith with your requests, trusting that He will answer in the way that will be best for you and for God's glory. When our hearts are right with God then our prayers will be effective and accomplish much, too. You can be a prayer inspiration also. I can't wait to hear your stories!


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change a seat
For long distance lorry drivers who struggle to reverse. Another driving seat at the rear of a wagon, so drivers can change which end they are driving from.
— gizmo, Apr 06 2002
1908 Studebaker Electric http://www.swigartmuseum.com/studebak.htm
Quite antiquated and simplistic, but there you go. [dag, Apr 08 2002]
Reversing is covered in any driving test. In the HGV driving test, it's covered in great depth (as it was in the PSV test when I passed it). If you can't drive it backwards, you don't get to drive it at all.
There are some *extremely* long trucks, such as girder trucks (so called because the chassis of the trailer is actually made up of the item which it's carrying), which have steering rear wheels, and sometimes another 'driver', the 'trailer boy', operating them. So, I'm afraid, either unnecessary or baked, depending on how you look at it.
— angel, Apr 08 2002
Thanks angel it will mark for deletion (or just delete it myself in a while) I had the idea for a car really, with a rotating seat, so you can see through the back windows to reverse, but I didn't know how you would put a steering wheel in the back passenger seat. ... hence the wagon thing.
There's a car lot that used to have a car my brother and I called a 'Pushmi-Pullyu'...It was the front end of two old cars that I didn't recognize, but looked vaguely British, welded together in the middle. Two engines, two sets of steering gear, two 'front' seats back to back.
— StarChaser, Apr 08 2002
I've seen pictures of this done well with a Volkswagen bus. Don't know if it actually worked but by looking inside you couldn't tell which end was which.
— justfred, Apr 09 2002
Seeing as the VW normally has the engine in the back, I don't suppose it would matter, as it won't be going anywhere.
Some time ago a truck delivered a load of building bricks to my Dad's house. It dumped the trailer, then the tractor unit had a fork-lift arrangement on the rear with a reversible driver's seat, so the guy could use it as a fork-lift truck to unload the trailer. Not a separate fork-lift - the whole big truck cab became the fork-lift. Most impressive.
— drew, May 12 2002


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Q: Cannot access SharePoint from Visual Studio Add-In (SPFarm.Local is null) I have a weird problem so I'm going to see if the SharePoint community can help shed some light on this.
I am developing a Visual Studio 2008 Add-In which creates some menu items on the 'Project' context menu within the Solution Explorer pane.
When clicking these buttons my code needs to interact with SharePoint - specifically it needs to get a reference to the SPFarm class. I am trying to loop through the solutions that are installed in the farm.
The problem I am having is that SPFarm.Local always returns null and in addition to this I cannot access SharePoint from the code at all - I have also tried the following:
Using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://myserver"))
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SPAdministrationWebApplication webapp = SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local;

I have read quite a few blog posts that talk about this being an x64 and x86 issue so Ive tried recompiling for both x86 and x64 platforms and that doesn't make a difference. Ive tried downgrading the version of .NET framework from 3.5 to 3.0 and putting my SharePoint code in its own custom class in case the 'connect.cs' class provided by the add-in was causing problems.
I am really stuck as for where to go next with this problem - the strange thing is that I can access SPFarm.Local from a console application just not the add-in.

A: Visual Studio is always running in 32bit mode, therefore your .NET Addin will run in a 32bit context. So if your running on a 64bit environment this may be the reason to the problem.


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DELOR LABS
Department of Chemistry at Columbia University, New York
MILAN DELOR
milan.delor@columbia.edu
Postdoctoral scholar, 2016-2019
Ginsberg group, University of California, Berkeley
Development of ultrafast interferometric microscopy for 3D tracking of energy flow; biomimetic light harvesting.
Doctoral Prize Fellow, 2015 and PhD Physical Chemistry, 2010-2014
Weinstein group, University of Sheffield
Quantum control of electron transfer in molecules ; ultrafast 2D infrared spectroscopy; artificial photosynthesis.
Milan was born in Nice, France, but grew up on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean, where his primary concerns were scuba-diving, bodyboarding, sailing and trekking. He completed his higher education in the UK, where after a masters in theoretical astrophysics he switched to experimental physical chemistry to study artificial photosynthetic systems using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy. In his PhD, performing experiments in Sheffield and at the Central Laser Facility (Rutherford Appleton Labs), he developed a new approach for predictive quantum control of intramolecular electron transfer in the condensed phase using vibrational excitation. In his postdoctoral years at UC Berkeley, he developed a generalizable interferometric ultrafast microscope capable of tracking energy carriers diffusing through any semiconductor in 3D with few-nm precision and picosecond resolution. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at Columbia University in 2019.
SHAN-WEN CHENG
sc4603@columbia.edu
BSc Chemistry, 2015-2019
Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Cheng is still adapting to the weather in NYC. In his undergraduate years, he obtained research experience in Professor Chun-hsien Chen's group working on molecular electronics using mainly customized scanning tunneling microscopy, where he developed a strong interest in studying electron transport behavior in materials. He is looking forward to gaining insight on controlling electron flow in the Delor group. When not in the lab, he may be delocalized in NYC trying something new.
VICKY (HAOWEN) SU
hs3140@columbia.edu
BA Chemistry and Global Health, 2015-2019
Vicky grew up in Shenzhen, China with interests in music, oil-painting and fencing. She received her B.A. in Chemistry and Global Health from Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, she worked in Professor Sophia Hayes' lab on solid-state NMR crystallography of CO2 mineralization products. In the Delor group, she works on ultrafast microscopy of semiconductor heterostructures and plasmonic superlattices.
DING XU
dx2192@columbia.edu
Visiting researcher, North Carolina State University
Ding is from Zhejiang, a coastal province in eastern China. Raised in a handicraftsman family, he is good at woodwork, weaving, painting, and cooking. During senior high school, he became interested in chemistry, which answered his questions about the mechanics of daily phenomena, such as rice-made paste, swelling of fishnets, fermentation and so on. In college, he began to study the doping of two-dimensional materials (Fu group). He successfully synthesized a series of lanthanide-doped TMDs and studied how lanthanide modifies the optoelectronic and catalytic properties of TMDs. In 2018, he worked in the Dickey group as a visiting student, where he developed a method to prepare ultrathin metal oxide films at ambient environment. He is now a graduate student in the Chemistry Department of Columbia University.
JACK TULYAG
jack.tulyag@columbia.edu
BS Chemistry, BS Physics, 2016-2020
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jack spent most of his formative years across the United States, from Orlando, to Philadelphia, to glamorous Fresno. While he always enjoyed science, it wasn't until freshman year at UCLA where he developed a serious interest (unhealthy obsession) in quantum mechanics and materials science when he discovered that it explained how day-to-day electronics functioned. His curiosity led to research in Sarah Tolbert's lab, where he synthesized multiferroic nanocrystals for applications in memory devices. His interest in being able to "see" the submicron world led to work in the structural characterization of semiconducting polymers and, eventually, research in Naomi Ginsberg's UC Berkeley lab on the self-assembly of rubrene spherulites. Jack is excited to return to the East Coast and is looking forward to finding a reliable food truck to fuel his neverending desire for cheap comfort food.
INKI LEE
inki.lee@columbia.edu
BS Chemistry, 2016-2020
Inki was born in South Korea and hails from Denton, Texas. He became interested in chemistry when he was in high school, and in college he began to enjoy studying physics and math. At UT Austin, he worked with Dr. Sean Roberts to investigate energy transfer from lead sulfide quantum dots to organic molecules using ultrafast spectroscopy. Although a large portion of his research consisted of synthesis and characterization, he particularly enjoyed studying light-matter interactions. Inki likes to watch Netflix in his free time, and he is excited to move to the Big Apple!
EILEEN MOUDOU
em3218@columbia.edu
BA Chemistry and Mathematics
Eileen is from Potomac, Maryland, and is an undergrad in Columbia College earning a B.A. in chemistry and mathematics. Her interest in chemistry started with an early high school introduction to organic chemistry, and in college shifted to mathematics as well, in terms of physical and quantum chemistry. In the Delor group, she is interested in the propagation and imaging of plasmon-polaritons in 2D metal halide perovskite materials. On campus, she is involved in UN Ivy STEM Connect, a volunteer initiative to remotely tutor students in Cameroon and Senegal in STEM subjects, she is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, and she spends much of her free time walking her dog.
©2020 by Delor Labs


Tunnel Manager allows users to easily manage a configurable list of SSH tunnels and their required keys.
This is a python program that helps me to manage the SSH tunnels that I use regularly for secure remote connectivity to my office and home networks. The standard Ubuntu repository already contains a program for managing tunnels, but it did not meet my requirements, so I used this as an opportunity to learn PyGtk programming.
The program allows you to maintain a configuration of commonly used dynamic, local, and/or remote SSH port-forwarding tunnels. Once configured, the tunnels can be started and stopped with simple mouse clicks, or even auto-started when the program is launched. Both SSHv1 and SSHv2 tunnels are supported. SSHv1 support was the main issue that drove me to write my own program.
If you are using key-based SSH authentication for all of your tunnels (you are, aren't you? if not, then why not?), you can register your SSH keys with the tunnel manager, too. The keys can be loaded or unloaded with simple mouse clicks, or even auto-loaded when the program is launched. This means of managing the key agent is another big advantage for me over the existing alternatives.
Version 0.7.7 adds Unity indicator support.


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Is AI Making Mastery Obsolete?
AI & SocietyReinforcement LearningGamingAI job lossDeepMindAlphaGo
Is there any reason to continue playing games that AI has mastered? Ask the former champions who have been toppled by machines.
What happened: In 2016, International Go master Lee Sedol famously lost three out of four matches to DeepMind's AlphaGo model. The 36-year-old announced his retirement from competition on November 27. "Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated," he told South Korean's Yonhap News Agency.
Stages of grief: Prior to the tournament, Lee predicted that he would defeat AlphaGo easily. But the model's inexplicable — and indefatigable — playing style pushed him into fits of shock and disbelief. Afterward, he apologized for his failure to the South Korean public.
Reaching acceptance: Garry Kasparov, the former world-champion chess player, went through his own cycle of grief after being defeated by IBM's DeepBlue in 1997. Although he didn't retire, Kasparov did accuse IBM's engineers of cheating. He later retracted the charge, and in 2017 wrote a book arguing that, if humans can overcome their feelings of being threatened by AI, they can learn from it. The book advocates an augmented intelligence in which humans and machines work together to solve problems.
The human element: Although AlphaGo won in the 2016 duel, its human opponent still managed to shine. During the fourth match, Sedol made a move so unconventional it defied AlphaGo's expectation and led to his sole victory.
We're thinking: Lee wasn't defeated by a machine alone. He was beaten by a machine built by humans under the direction of AlphaGo research lead David Silver. Human mastery is obsolete only if you ignore people like Silver and his team.