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New Computer Science Building is Open for Business, Education and Infinite Innovation
70,000 square-foot state-of-the-art complex boasts 4,500+ enrolled students, 8,000 alumni, 5 research centers and more
"Today is about a bold, new future for Computer Science at Stony Brook. It celebrates the beginning of revolutionary ideas and high-tech collaborations that will fuel the power of innovation," said Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. "This building will help propel the University to a regional leadership position in high-performance computing; while advancing our goal as a top public research University to educate and train future generations of computer scientists."Stony Brook University's state-of-the-art, 70,000-square-foot Computer Science Building is open for business as University administrators, elected officials, faculty, staff and students gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon. The celebratory event featured remarks from Stony Brook leadership and community leaders, tours of the facility and its five research centers and live lab demonstrations that included virtual colonoscopy screenings, immersive head mounted displays which allowed attendees to tour the building virtually in 360 degrees, and cyber security demonstration projects in the building's National Security Institute.
The $41M project, designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP, offers career-boosting resources and partnership opportunities among students and faculty. During his remarks, President Stanley gave special thanks to NY State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, Chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee.
"Senator LaValle has made it his mission that Stony Brook University, as well as other New York state institutions, have the tools and resources
(L to R): President Stanley, Senator LaValle and Computer Science Chair Kaufman
needed to serve the state in the most powerful and effective way possible, and for that I'm very grateful."
"As the country and the world evolve into a high-tech economy and lifestyle, this state-of-the art facility will ensure that Stony Brook University students and researchers have access to the newest technologies while reaffirming the University's leadership role as a nationally-ranked computer sciences center," said Senator LaValle. "It will also help fill our workforce needs, as we continue to attract new high paying technology jobs to our region and further establish Long Island as a magnet for innovation."
"This state-of-the-art building will help us continue to attract the best and brightest faculty and staff to Stony Brook," said Dennis N. Assanis, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University. "Over the past decade, the Computer Science Department has experienced a 70 percent growth in undergraduate students, a 60 percent increase in graduate students and is represented in five of the ten campus-wide interdisciplinary faculty clusters."
Yacov A. Shamash, Vice President for Economic Development and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said "I am especially delighted for current and future faculty, students and staff who will be utilizing the innovative technology in this state-of-the-art facility."
The new building includes a mix of faculty and administration offices; research and teaching laboratories; a large wireless teaching lab; and shared conference areas. It's also home to 18 research labs and five innovative research centers which include National Security Institute, Center for Dynamic Data Analytics, Center for Mobile Computing, Center for Smart Energy and Center for Visual Computing.
"Today is the happiest day in the 46-year history of the Department of Computer Science," said Arie E. Kaufman, PhD, Distinguished Computer Science Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook. "This new facility will help fulfill our grand vision for Computer Science and further excel our teachings and research missions. "
The new facility is also recognized as LEED Silver certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. During construction, the project recycled a minimum of 50 percent of construction and demolition waste, thereby diverting this waste from local landfills. Additional sustainable design elements include:
A storm water reclamation system that captures enough rainwater to meet 100 percent of the building's demand for potable water.
A high-efficiency curtain wall system and passive solar shading louvers that, combined with high-performance mechanical and lighting control systems, results in a 28 percent energy savings annually over a comparable building as required by the New York State Energy Code.
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THE GREATEST JEWISH JOKE EVER!
THE DOLLAR HAS PRINTED ON IT, "IN GOD WE TRUST"!
WHICH GOD?
THE RACIST GOD OF THE JEWISH BIBLE, WHO HATES GENTILES!
GOYOPHOBIA
"The 'goyim' םיוג (cattles/gentile) are not humans. They are beasts." (Baba Mezia 114b)
"All children of the 'goyim' םיוג (gentiles) are animals." (Yebamoth 98a)
GOYOPHOBIA is the sign of profound mental and social failure — and a harbinger of more failures and errors to come:
GENTILES IN HALACHA
Foreword — Daat Emet
For a long time we have been considering the necessity of informing our readers about Halacha's real attitude towards non-Jews. Many untrue things are publicized on this issue and the facts should be made clear. But recently, we were presented with a diligently written article on the subject, authored by a scholar from the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva — so our job was done by others (though we have already discussed some aspects of this issue in the weekly portions of Balak and Matot). Since there is almost no disagreement between us and the author of the article on this issue, we have chosen to bring the article "Jews Are Called 'Men'" by R' David Bar-Chayim (in Hebrew) so that the reader will be able to study and understand the attitude of the Halacha towards non-Jews.
In this article R' Bar-Chayim discusses the attitude towards "Gentiles" in the Torah and in the Halacha and comes to an unambiguous conclusion:
"The Torah of Israel makes a clear distinction between a Jew, who is defined as 'man,' and a Gentile."
That is to say, any notion of equality between human beings is irrelevant to the Halacha. R' Bar-Chayim's work is comprehensive, written with intellectual honesty, and deals with almost all the aspects of Halachic treatment of non-Jews. It also refutes the statements of those rabbis who speak out of wishful thinking and, influenced by concepts of modern society, claim that Judaism does not discriminate against people on religious grounds. R' Bar-Chayim shows that all these people base their constructs NOT on the Torah but solely on the inclinations of their own hearts. He also shows that there are even rabbis who intentionally distort the Halachic attitude to Gentiles, misleading both themselves and the general public.
For the English readers' convenience we will briefly mention the topics dealt with in R' Bar-Chayim's article:
Laws in regard to murder, which clearly state that there is Halachic difference between murder of a Jew and of a Gentile (the latter is considered a far less severe crime).
A ban on desecrating the Sabbath to save the life of a Gentile.
A Jew's exemption from liability if his property (e. g. ox) causes damage to a Gentile's property. But if a Gentile's property causes damage to a Jew's property, the Gentile is liable.
The question of whether robbery of a Gentile is forbidden by the Torah's law or only by a Rabbinic decree.
A ban on returning a lost item to a Gentile if the reason for returning it is one's sympathy towards the Gentile and compassion for him.
The sum which a Gentile overpays in a business transaction due to his own error is forfeit; whether a Jew is permitted to intentionally deceive a Gentile is also discussed.
One who kidnaps a Jew is liable to death, but one who kidnaps a Gentile is exempt.
A Jew who hurts or injures a Gentile is not liable for compensation of damage, but a Gentile who hurts a Jew is liable to death.
One who overcharges a Gentile ought not return him the sum that the Gentile overpaid.
A Gentile — or even a convert to Judaism — may not be appointed king or public official of any sort (e. g. a cabinet minister).
One who defames a female proselyte (claiming that she was not virgin at the time of her marriage) is liable to neither lashes nor fine.
The prohibition to hate applies only to Jews; one may hate a Gentile.
One may take revenge against or bear a grudge towards Gentiles; likewise, the commandment "love your neighbour" applies only to Jews, not to Gentiles.
One who sees Gentile graveyards should curse: "Your mother shall be greatly ashamed…"
Gentiles are likened to animals.
If an ox damaged a Gentile maidservant, it should be considered as though the ox damaged a she-ass.
The dead body of a Gentile does not bear ritual impurity, nor does a Gentile who touches the dead body of a Jew become impure — he is considered like an animal who touched a dead body.
One is forbidden to pour anointing oil on a Jew, but there is no ban on pouring that oil on a Gentile because Gentiles are likened to animals.
An animal slaughtered by a Gentile is forbidden, even if the ritual slaughter performed was technically correct, because Gentiles are deemed like animals. (Daat Emet does not agree that this is the Halachic reason for invalidating a Gentile's ritual slaughter — but this is not the place to delve into the subject).
Their members are like those of asses" — Gentiles are likened to animals.
Between the Jews and the Gentiles — In the Aggadah, the Kabbalah, and in Jewish Thought
R' Bar-Chayim's arguments and conclusions are clear, Halachically accurate, and supported by almost all the existent major Halachic works. It would be superfluous to say that R' Bar-Chayim fully embraces this racist Halachic outlook as the word of the Living G-d, as he himself pointed out in the "Conclusion" of his article:
"It is clear to every Jew who accepts the Torah as G-d's word from Sinai, obligatory and valid for all generations, that it is impossible to introduce 'compromises' or 'renovations' into it."
On the other hand, we want to make it clear that Daat Emet — as well as any reasonable people who do not embrace Halachic laws as the word of the Living G-d — are repulsed by such evil, racist discrimination.
In the Hebrew text we have abridged the second part of R' Bar-Chayim's article,
"Between Jews and Gentiles — In the Aggadah, the Kabbalah, and in Jewish Thought," because, in our view, the Halacha is the law which obligates every religious Jew while concepts of the Aggadah, the Kabbalah, and Jewish thought are not binding on anyone, as our rabbis have already written:
"And so the Aggadic constructs of the disciples of disciples, such as Rav Tanchuma and Rabbi Oshaya and their like — most are incorrect, and therefore we do not rely on the words of Aggadah" (Sefer HaEshkol, Laws of a Torah Scroll, p. 60a); we have expanded on this issue in the portion of Vayeshev.

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Helen: 13:18 Most people choose medical professions because they want to help people. And there is an innate reward when we help people. It's been described as exquisite empathy, like that moment where what you say to a patient and where they recognize that they are really understood and being helped, that the benefit is both to the patient and to the physician.
There may not be a time in our lives when it's more important to know we're being understood by another person – than when we're in a doctor's office.
It's not an exaggeration to say our lives could depend on it. If we're going to follow our physician's advice, there has to be a level of trust. And we need to know we're being heard.
Relating and communicating in the doctor's office seems to us like an important enough subject to devote a devote a special series of three shows to it. Our first conversation is with Helen Riess whose research has answered some important questions. Questions like: How important is empathy in the doctor-patient relationship? Can empathy be taught?
Her answers are encouraging and exciting.
Alan: 00:00 Helen, I really love this chance to talk with you on the podcast, because we have a history together. You were in my book, and I'm in your book.
Alan: 00:10 The book that just came out that you published, The Empathy Effect. The byline is Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences. That's a subtitle almost as long as mine.
Helen: 00:27 It's almost as long as the book.
Alan: 00:30 It's funny how the publisher always wants to put the whole book on the cover.
Alan: 00:35 But the Empathy Effect is really at the heart of so much. In a way, I think it's at the heart of communicating. How did you know? I love origin stories. We all do. The Bible starts with the origin story, and we all are drawn to them. How did you realize how important empathy was in your work? As I remember, your graduate student came to you and said, "I want you to get hooked up to your patients." Was that right? What was your reaction to it, if that's he said?
Alan: 02:35 What was your resistance?
Alan: 02:48 Yeah, because that skin conductance … Is that what you called it?
Helen: 02:57 Yes. That's right.So we both wore these noninvasive leads on our fingers that measured these micro-amounts of sweat, and that's called skin conductance monitoring. We're always releasing sweat whether we realize it or not. But the degree that we release it is directly linked to our physiologic activity.The reason it works in a lie detector test is that most people, when they're lying, are in a state of cognitive dissonance, which creates anxiety and stress.
Alan: 04:17 So you finally agreed to be hooked up to the patient?
Helen: 04:20 Yes. He said, "Please, I need 20 subjects. Will you please?" I realized like, "This is such a great opportunity to learn something." I and almost 20 other people agreed to do it, and it was fascinating.
Alan: 04:33 What the nature of the problem you were working with the patient?
Alan: 04:40 And it was a regular psychiatric interaction. Right?
Helen: 04:42 Yes, it was one visit. It was with a person who had been trying to lose weight, and we weren't having much success with that goal. But we were having success with her learning to be more assertive and to set limits on people who were ridiculing her about her appearance. When we did this study, I recognized that there were times when her activity was far more intense than mine.
Alan: 05:17 There were moments where you were not in sync.
Helen: 05:19 Yeah, where we were clearly not matching. I went back and looked at the video to see what was happening during that time. This person was making subtle movements that I had just not been paying attention to.
Helen: 05:37 Like flicking her hair or making a funny sort of chortle like, hah, hah, hah, like that. It was like all these pieces of evidence were hiding in plain sight.
Alan: 05:54 … activity and yours didn't because you weren't picking up on what you were seeing?
Helen: 05:57 Right, and so when I realized that there were these patterns to the manifestations of anxiety that I had been missing, in our continued work I would say, "What were you feeling just then?" Instead of this going right by, I would learn that she was feeling uncomfortable or maybe a little ashamed, and we got to a much deeper level. The results were that that year this person who had never lost one pound and only had gained, actually lost 40 pounds that year.
Alan: 06:31 Wow. That really stemmed from your paying attention to what you were seeing?
Helen: 06:38 It was from tuning in at a much more perceptive level, which I believe is the first step in empathy. First we have to open our eyes to what's there. We can't empathize with things we can't perceive.
Alan: 06:53 Is that when you began to realize you could train other doctors to do this?
Alan: 07:26 Yeah, yeah, right. You're not just saying, "Trust me. This makes you more empathic." You can show them the tracings.
Alan: 07:37 You work with all kinds of physicians, not just psychiatrists. Is that right?
Helen: 07:46 Yes. In fact, I got pretty excited about this because my own patients in my practice were really complaining about feeling unseen, unheard, and treated like a number in their visits.
Alan: 08:02 The visits to their?
Helen: 08:03 To their doctors and their surgeons.
Helen: 08:05 It was becoming a very pervasive theme in my practice. I realized that this same thing was showing up in the media, in major newspapers, about doctors. Patients wanting their doctors to have more empathy. I realized that what I was seeing was actually a national trend. When I realized that we had tools for teaching this skill, which, really in medical schools, this has not been a focus, teaching.
Alan: 08:40 Is it more so now? Or is there more attention to training and empathy?
Helen: 08:40 There's more attention now because the epidemic of burnout is on everyone's mind.
Alan: 08:47 I don't think people realize how severe a problem burnout is. I didn't. When I first heard the figures, I was astonished. I just heard the other day, for instance, that two-thirds of physicians would not recommend this as a life to their children.
Helen: 09:06 It's really sad because it used to be a profession everyone would want to pass on.
Alan: 09:14 It has an effect not only on the physician who feels often depressed, not feeling that they're accomplishing anything meaningful. But it can lead to mistakes with regard to the patient's wellbeing. The disengagement just to try to survive and keep your head above water I guess.
Alan: 09:59 Before saying hello. Hello is such a simple thing to say.
Helen: 10:02 You would think, but it seems like saying hello to the computer is more important.
Alan: 10:06 Is more important.
Helen: 10:08 But a lot of this is just, I think, a lack of awareness, because people didn't use to be like this.
Alan: 10:15 But if the computer is in the room and there's an obligation, and really a strict obligation, to enter information into the computer. As I understand it, it's not uncommon for the computer to be against the wall and make the doctor sit with his or her back to the patient.
Helen: 10:33 Well, that's actually very true. I would say that anyone designing a hospital or a clinic or anyone renovating one to be sure to make the face-to-face interaction with the patient a top priority. Otherwise, the patient's sitting there feeling like they're sort of like a sideline instead of the main event.
Alan: 10:54 Right. Even with empathy training, they don't get a chance … if their back is to the patient … to do what you learned to do in that encounter with your patient where you realized that you could pick up on clues.
Alan: 11:08 If a patient tells a doctor about symptoms and has an expression on her face that really means there's more to tell you than what I just told you and you missed that, you don't get the full story.
Helen: 11:24 That's true. If a physician is recommending a medication and misses a facial expression of disgust, which probably means there's no way in the world I'm gonna take this, because the last time I did I was vomiting for three weeks.
Helen: 11:40 If you don't see that look and the patient doesn't speak up, you might hand a prescription and think you're all set when you've actually just broken a partnership.
Alan: 11:51 The underlying sense of trust seems to me to be really important. If the doctor is actually paying attention to the patient, the patient is, I think, my guess is, more likely to trust the recommendations of the doctor.
Alan: 12:21 MGH is what?
Helen: 12:22 It's Massachusetts General Hospital. We did a systematic review and a meta-analysis of all randomized control trials that claimed that relationship factors helped hard health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, lung infections, et cetera. We found 13 very excellent, rigorously done studies that showed that just by changing the level of trust and cooperation between the doctor and the patient, they could get significant improvement in some of our most vexing health problems in our country.
Alan: 13:02 This has been a curious issue for me. What effect does that have? It's clear it has a good effect on patient. Does it have an effect on the doctor as well? Does the doctor feel better if he or she is able to show empathy?
Helen: 13:18 You know? That's a really great question. Most people choose medical professions because they want to help people. They're people-oriented individuals. There is an innate reward when we help people. It's like a reciprocal experience of feeling good. It's been described as exquisite empathy, like that moment where what you say to a patient and where they recognize that they are really understood and being helped, that the benefit is both to the patient and to the physician. This is true in any two-person interaction. People love to help. When you feel helpful, you want to help more.
Alan: 14:02 You're getting signals back from the other person. It's not just a one-way communication. It's a real partnership that starts to be established I imagine.
Helen: 14:11 Exactly because our emotions are contagious and most feelings are mutual. If you make another person feel understood and good and that you're an ally in their journey, that gratitude is just gonna come back and fill you up. That's the loop that I think has gotten broken by not paying attention to patient emotions.
Alan: 14:34 How do you get doctors to do that? What kind of training do you give them?
Helen: 14:39 Well, I developed an empathy training program that I knew it had to be brief and it had to reinforce the training. It was based on a neuroscience fellowship I did at Harvard where I got to take a deep dive into the neuroscience of empathy. I realized that so many of the ways that we naturally connect are teachable. They start with basic things like acknowledging one another's presence. That's done by making some eye contact.
Helen: 15:20 Instead of running to the corner in the room.
Alan: 15:22 Right. Sorry. So often when we say something that we feel is important, we look away from the person we're talking to to make sure we get it right. We are in our own world. We're communicating with our own brain rather than with the other person. It's probably to say it sloppily to the person than perfectly not to the person.
Helen: 15:48 That's a really important point you're making. I think most people don't realize that they're doing it. It's almost like they're reading their thoughts from the back of their brain instead of communicating directly.
Alan: 15:57 Right. They're processing the words rather than really making an interchange with you. Because if the other person is uncertain about what you mean by it, if you notice that, you can alter what you're saying on the go. But you can't if you're looking away.
Helen: 16:16 Exactly, which is the title of your book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on my Face?
Helen: 16:25 The empathy training that I developed, I knew no one would pay attention to it unless we tested it in the most rigorous way. I got some grants to test this training in six different specialties at Mass General Hospital. With this brief spaced education intervention, we had patients rating the doctors before and after the training.
Alan: 16:52 Oh, so you really got the data on this?
Helen: 16:54 It wasn't self-report. It was: What do the patients say? The doctors were randomized by a computer to either receive the training or not. Then about a month after the training, we asked the patients again. Their ratings of their physician's empathy and compassion and listening and showing concern for the whole person not just a body part significantly improved.
Alan: 17:21 How did you do it? The doctor comes into his room. How much time do you have with the doctor to try to up his empathy or her empathy?
Helen: 17:28 Well, our training eventually got translated into an online learning so that doctors can take the courses in a self-paced way. I ended up founding an organization called Empathetics that delivers this training online. We also provide classroom training to reinforce what they've learned. It's three hours of self-paced learning that's supplemented by other interactive training.
Alan: 18:03 You get them both, in both modes. Right? Both online and in-person?
Helen: 18:09 Right. It's called blended learning. Our training is very amenable to other supplemental types of training like the kind of training that you do with improv. Anything that deepens the connection between people that can be paired with the scientific training that came out of the neuroscience research can bolster the training.
SO, HOWEVER YOU DO IT, IT'S NOT ONLY POSSIBLETO TRAIN DOCTORS TO HAVE MORE EMPATHY, IT'S A VALUABLE THING TO DO. BUT HERE'S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE TOO MUCH EMPATHY?
HELEN EXPLORES THAT QUESTION – WHEN WE COME BACK.
THIS IS CLEAR + VIVID – AND NOW BACK TO OUR CONVERSATION WITH HELEN RIESS.
Alan: 20:21 One of the things that I think you found that's really interesting to me is that the doctor is in danger of something by having more empathy, which is getting swamped by the feelings of the patient, which I suppose can lead to burnout.
Helen: 20:44 You know, Alan, that's a very important point. I think it's important for everyone to understand that empathy has both cognitive thinking components and feeling or affect emotional components. Some people are out there saying, "Let's get rid of emotional empathy and just use cognitive, because people will get too burdened by other people's emotions." I think that's a real mistake. I think that what we really need is self-regulation skills so that we can manage our own emotions. But if we try to wipe emotions out of a patient-doctor relationship, you might as well be talking to a robot. Some degree of emotional connection, I think, is absolutely necessary.
Alan: 21:33 How can we go about regulating what we're getting from somebody in distress?
Helen: 21:45 Mm-hmm (affirmative). The key to self-regulation is first awareness that you're in a dis-regulated state. We train to be aware of when you're most likely to go into fight or flight mode, and that is when patients criticize us, refuse our recommendations, don't come. What's never really been made clear to physicians or physicians-in-training is how threatening these things are. They're as threatening as somebody coming at you with a fist in your face when a patient says, "I don't like your lousy medication. It made me feel so sick." People think that's having no impact on the physician, but it's basically saying, "You're not helping me, and your medicine is lousy." We have to train them to be aware of when they're actually getting emotionally worked up.
Alan: 23:03 Yeah. For a minute, I was surprised at his reaction because he said, "Well, yeah." I'm realizing now as you speak that I must have put him in an uncomfortable state in that moment.
Alan: 23:43 That puts them in fight or flight.
Alan: 24:12 I'm not getting the connection a little bit that I can understand if the patient is crying and you get drawn into that in an uncomfortable way, and you need to regulate your own emotions. Are you saying it also applies to when the patient says, "I don't want to take that pill," and you have an emotional response to that that you have to regulate as well?
Helen: 24:39 Well, see, not everybody when a patient is crying will get drawn into the sorrow. Some people will get drawn into helplessness or even anger. Like, "What are you doing crying now? I'm trying to help you." The emotion of crying can elicit very different reactions. If it's empathy and I want to help you, that might be more comfortable than, "Oh, my gosh. I don't know what to do with this person who is now crying. How did I get them to stop?" You know?
Helen: 25:07 Learning what your own triggers are is really key to self-management.
Alan: 25:27 … feeling what the patient is feeling to an extent that it inhibits your own functioning.
Helen: 25:33 Exactly. Most people are not at the level of awareness of what triggers them. They're going through their day. They might say, "Oh, that person just drove me up a wall." They're venting but they're not realizing like, "I got really dis-regulated." We do teach techniques through breathing, through taking a moment, through knowing when you need to talk to a colleague and talk something through that this emotional burden and load has to be relieved. Otherwise, it can just mount up.
Alan: 26:07 I've found, I think I've found … I want to test this out on what you've found … is that when I'm more empathic, I think I'm more aware of my own feelings as well as those of others. Do you find that? Or am I kidding myself?
Helen: 26:27 Well, I think you have thought a lot about this. It's clear that this is a topic that you give great consideration to. I think it can go both ways. The more empathic you are, maybe the more you sink into the helplessness or hopelessness. But if you're aware through cognitive empathy, it's almost like you're watching yourself at the same time that you're with the person. You have like two modes of awareness going on. What helps me is to remember what my role is.
Alan: 26:59 Oh, that's good. Yeah.
Helen: 27:02 In my psychiatric practice, I hear a lot of pain and suffering. I am very attuned to that. I know that I resonate with that. But I also have to say to myself, "I'm not here to just be crying with you. I'm here to understand this and to show my curiosity and learn more." If we get triggered, we might not want to learn more.
Alan: 27:30 Exactly. We would disengage.
Helen: 27:32 Exactly. It's a pretty sophisticated dance.
Alan: 34:10 Do you find, what I think I've found, that empathy doesn't necessarily produce compassion, but it is the basis for compassion if you want to be compassionate?
Helen: 34:25 Thank you for asking that, because I think there's so much confusion about empathy and compassion. Empathy is necessary in order to show compassion. Empathy is the perceptive arm, seeing a face, hearing the tone of voice, being moved by a person's predicament. That elicits empathic concern, which is a state of mind of like, "Oh, I care about this." Compassion is the response that is visible to the world. That's what comes out of us, so it's like a loop.
Alan: 34:59 Doctors probably already have the impulse to be compassionate because they want to help. It seems to me, I think I hear you saying, that without the groundwork of empathy, it makes it harder for them to show the compassion they would like to show in order to be of help.
Helen: 35:22 It's like trying to get output from a speaker without inputting anything. Like if your gaze is at a computer screen and you're not actually experiencing the person, it's very hard for a compassion to come out of you because you've kind of missed the input.
Alan: 35:42 This thing of actually paying attention to the person you're trying to communicate with sounds so dumb. It's so simple that it almost seems absurd. Somebody says, "Well, what's the best way to communicate?" My impulse is to say, "Pay attention to the person you're trying to communicate it." It's sort of basic.
You and I think independently discovered something that helps us be empathic. Maybe it's been known by and studied by other people. I don't know. But in order to enhance my own empathy, which drains away if I don't work at it … We can talk for a second about why that happens. But in order to increase my empathy, I found actually looking people in the eye and trying to figure out what they're going through, trying to name their emotional state really helps me focus on them and seems to generally increase my empathy altogether. You do that yourself, too, and you recommend that to people, don't you?
Helen: 36:59 Well, looking people in the eye or meeting someone's gaze and I don't mean glaring or staring at people, but really meeting someone's gaze, it goes back to mother-infant bonding. The gaze between a mother and a baby is what releases oxytocin, which is the bonding hormone. If you're talking to someone and not meeting their gaze, something is not happening that is naturally supposed to unfold when we're with people. The idea of naming emotion, that is very emphasized in psychiatric training.
Alan: 36:59 Oh, I didn't know that.
Helen: 37:41 We actually have to write that down.
Alan: 37:43 Really? You have to name it and write it down?
Helen: 37:47 It's part of what's called the mental status exam. There's an A for affect and you have to write down, "Was the affect sad? Confused, angry, intense?" Whatever adjective you want, but that orients you to the emotion of the person. In typical, non-psychiatric visits, affect, I've never seen that as like one of the questions in the review of systems. I think that's really missing something important.
Alan: 38:18 It's common, I think, when you first start to ask yourself, "What's the emotion the other person is going through, what their affect is?" It's common to have a very limited vocabulary. I know when I tried to do it in the beginning, I think, "Well, is the person happy or sad?" I kind of had two choices, but there's a very wide range of emotions that people can go through.
Helen: 38:48 We talk a lot about perspective taking, like trying to understand where they're coming from and try to guess or imagine the emotion. But there's also perspective getting, which is just asking.
Alan: 39:03 That's good. Yeah. That's very good. There was something that came up. Oh, why does it happen that we, no matter how empathic we are, it seems that in the course of a day or two that empathy can go down? We can lose it. Why do we lose it?
Helen: 39:33 Well, you're bringing up the point that it's a very mutable trait. People have the greatest empathy when … I call it … their tank is full. Think about your car. It'll go the farthest when your tank is full. It's not go too far when it's nearly on empty. That's how empathy works. When we take good care of ourselves … I call this self-empathy … then we have a full reservoir to be more perceptive and to be more attuned to the needs of other people. But if we're not taking good care of ourselves and medical training does beat it out of you to a certain degree because you're exhausted, you have more work to do than you ever feel you can accomplish, that's the risk of your tank being pretty low. That is why there's so much emphasis on wellness and self-care coming into medical curricula now, because it's been a process of training that really has beaten some of the humanity right out of it.
Alan: 40:35 It sounds like you're saying that stress, certainly the stress that doctors undergo in their training and in the practice of their profession, the stress probably puts you in a fight or flight mode. You have different hormones coursing through you that are not conducive to empathy I would imagine.
Helen: 40:57 Exactly right. Cortisol is the stress hormone, and cortisol is like an antidote to empathy. Because when you're stressed, who are you focused on? You're focused on your own tiredness, your exhaustion. You become very centered on your uncomfortable feelings, and that doesn't open up a big window into the feelings of others.
Alan: 43:14 When you're looking at somebody trying to figure out what they're feeling, what they're going through, is there something in just the effort to do that, do you think, that makes for a better connection? In other words, as I look at you now and I try to identify what it is you're going through, I'm probably paying more attention to your face, and you pick up that attention that I'm spending on you. It must do something to you. For instance, when I was saying that, and right this second, I'm seeing more connection. You're very connected, but there's a little more connection than I saw a few minutes ago.
Helen: 44:02 Well, I think when we focus our attention in a very acute way, even more connection opens up. But it's almost like we have to remind ourselves to do it, because a lot of us are living in our own heads. I think we all know that when we're talking with people we're often thinking about what am I gonna say next instead of like, "How am I gonna just stay with this right here in the moment?" See, this is why when you said early, these things are so simple. They're so obvious. These things may be simple, but they're really difficult, because paying attention and focusing on any one thing for longer than about 10 seconds is a real challenge, and it's just getting more challenge today.
Alan: 44:51 Yeah. It reminds me of the evaluation of some brain scientist that the present moment only lasts for about five to seven seconds. If you can't stay in that constantly, you're drifting into the future. What'll I say next? Or the past, what did I do wrong or how can I challenge this person's idea? In really listening to the other person, you'll not only get a good diagnosis probably, but you also get a chance for you to be partners in this exchange. Do you find that happening to you in real life, not just in your professional life?
Helen: 45:33 You mean really listening?
Alan: 45:35 Having more of a partnership with the person you're listening to?
Helen: 45:40 Absolutely. I think what I'm realizing is like tapping into what that other person cares about can bring about extremely rich conversations.
Alan: 45:52 What would be an example of that?
Helen: 45:54 Well, like I was talking to someone at a conference just on Saturday who was saying, "Oh, I'm gonna be leading some mindfulness workshops. Could you let the residents at your hospital know about it?" I could have just said, "Oh, yeah. Give me your card. I'll pass it on." Instead, I said, "That's really fascinating. What got you interested in doing this work?" I learn how much training this person has been doing, how excited she is about the work she's doing, and how it's transformed her life. It made me way more motivated to share her workshop idea, because though curiosity and understanding.
Alan: 46:46 That's the word I was going to say, that it's interesting, we often shrink from contact with another person and settle for small talk. Some of us don't even like small talk, but small talk at least can start the ball rolling. But the ball really gets momentum when we have some curiosity about the other person. Who is this person? What's going on in there?
Helen: 47:13 Curiosity is the biggest gift, because most people do want to be known. Most people want to be seen.
Alan: 47:24 Everybody has something worth contributing.
Alan: 47:28 When they talk about the wisdom of crowds, the idea that if you have many different perspectives converging on a question, you get really, often, very good answers because you have all these different perspectives. That means that this person you're talking to is maybe a perspective you haven't heard before, and it could really be a contribution, a gift. But you don't get the gift unless you pay a little curiosity and attention to the person.
Helen: 47:57 I couldn't agree more.
Alan: 47:59 Well, I sure got a lot of gift out of you today. I think our time is coming to a close. But do you mind doing what we do with our guests? You probably have heard the podcast and you know there are seven questions we'd like to ask? Do you mind?
Alan: 48:16 Oh, you don't? I'm gonna ask them to you one at a time as long as you're okay with it.
Helen: 48:21 All right. I'll do my best.
Alan: 48:22 They're basically about the question of communication. They're based loosely on the idea of communication. For instance, what do you wish you really understood?
Helen: 48:37 Oh, I wish I really understood how to excite people about the life of the mind instead of the life of tasks?
Alan: 48:56 Well, you got me excited.
Helen: 48:59 Well, that's good.
Alan: 49:02 So, you're on the right track. What do you wish other people understood about you?
Alan: 49:21 Oh, wow, so you're in a constant state of fight or flight?
Helen: 49:26 Well, it's more like a constant state of stepping up to opportunity and stepping up to invitations. I guess I really recommend that even if the invitation seems a little bit daunting or like stretching you out of your comfort zone, it is so worth it.
Alan: 49:43 Oh, that's great. What's the strangest question anyone has ever asked you?
Alan: 50:07 You really have to go down to your roots with that one.
Alan: 50:40 Okay, here's the next question. How do you stop a compulsive talker?
Helen: 50:45 Well, two weekends ago I was in a convenience store. The person behind the clerk noticed a BMW pulling out and he said, "I have a BMW." He started to tell me about this litany of things that were wrong with it. He was going on for like five minutes. I was like clutching my bag trying to give it.
Alan: 51:07 Trying to give him signals.
Helen: 51:07 Yeah. I said, "Oh, gosh. You sound really disappointed. Have you thought about getting rid of it?" Thinking that my end the … Then he just said, "No, but you know, it drives like nothing else. It's such an amazing car." I said, "It sounds like you're pretty ambivalent." Then he had this big smile on his face and he goes, "That's exactly it." I think trying to get to the emotion that they're trying to express kind of helps to stop the train going out of the station.
Alan: 51:39 That's so interesting that, in a way, the way to stop a compulsive talker is to listen a little more deeply.
Helen: 51:45 Exactly. It's sort of like one of those paradoxes.
Alan: 51:48 Yeah. Is there anyone for whom you just can't feel empathy?
Helen: 51:57 Even people that we all know about in our world who seem to lack it totally and don't elicit much empathy, I feel really sad to not know the experience of the richness of empathy. I would say I really can't think of anybody. I am very challenged with people that have destroyed others and committed horrible acts of cruelty. I can only imagine that living in that brain cannot be a good experience.
Alan: 52:38 Certainly not good for others, and it's hard to feel empathy, I guess, but.
Alan: 52:44 How do you like to deliver bad news? In person? On the Phone? Or my carrier pigeon?
Alan: 52:55 You really like it?
Helen: 52:57 I just feel like if you don't see the whole reaction, you can get so off base and really end up botching it.
Alan: 53:07 What, if anything, would make you end a friendship?
Helen: 53:16 I think friendship is based on love and reciprocity. The boundaries of that can be quite stretched. But when they get stretched to the point of being broken where you realize someone really does not have your best interest at heart and it's not in any way a reciprocal relationship, I think that really can break a friendship.
Alan: 53:44 This has been so much fun for me. I really, really love talking to you.
Helen: 53:44 It's been great for me, too. Thank you.
Dr. Helen Riess DOESN'T JUST TRAIN DOCTORS TO HAVE MORE EMPATHY. SHE'S INTERESTED IN HELPING THE REST OF US, TOO. HELEN is the author of a new book called "The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love Work and Connect Across Differences." I think it's a really useful book – and I was happy to join in when Helen asked me to write the foreword.


This was a last-minute costume creation since we've had a freakstorm of warm weather in my neck of the woods. So after remembering I had the candyland tutu lying around I re-purposed it for my little clown! The other DIY details consisted of: taking a onsie and adding ribbon suspenders, a fun big bow tie and (matching skirt bow), glueing a few pom-poms and adding red tights and we were in business! I must say, I love when a project works out the way as planned!


Guatemala is a developing country in Central America that has caught the attention of some Calgary West Rotarians. It started with Evelyn and Clarence Buckley participating in a stove building trip in 2007 with Hearts and Hands Foundation. They witnessed the vastly underdeveloped school facilities in northern Guatemala's Uspantan, Quiche villages. Since then Bill Lawless and his committee has been hard at work in the role for the Calgary West Rotary Club as coordinator of a program aptly named: Building Basic Education in Guatemala. In an alliance with the Hearts and Hands Foundation which started in 2007 with a presentation about the possible project idea. Bill has visited there three times since the project was adopted as a WCS project.
Hearts and Hands from Canmore AB, had as an original focus the installation of cooking stoves for the Mayan families which would both improve the cooking fuel efficiency and reduce the adverse affects of high levels of smoke inhalation resulting from indoor open fires. On these trips, additional help is provided by volunteers of the US Peace Corps who act as both interpreters and stove building experts. Bill says that each trip usually has a minimum of 10-12 volunteers from Canada and in total can be as many as 30 individuals.
Immediately apparent to the stove building visitors was the over crowding of elementary schools and hence the need to build more class rooms but equally apparent was the need to improve the learning environment with better equipment and install cement covered play areas. Bill acknowledges that it is the Hearts and Hands Foundation, that provides to the BBEG program, the majority of construction coordination plus liaison with Municipal officials. The cumulative intention is to increase the number of Grade Six graduates. Improved education for the people of developing nations is almost universally accepted as the best way to improve their health and well being. Education, which leads to better employment, results in economic and community development.
There are others involved in Guatemala-wide education projects. For instance Manitoba's Rotary District 5550 Ripple Effect Program (which accesses Rotary CRCID funding) operates throughout Guatemala. Bill says that, especially in Uspantan, the BBEG project is the operating branch for the Ripple Effect Program. It is really the Hearts and Hands folks however, along with the input from the municipality Bill says, that selects and executes our class room building related projects.
Funding for the school building activity comes from the Rotary efforts spearheaded by Calgary West and the Canmore AB, clubs and includes matching grants from the Rotary Foundation. Help is also obtained from the Canadian Rotary Collaboration for International Development (CRCID) which advises Rotary clubs, districts and multi-districts on technical aspects of obtaining, through CRCID, grants from the Canadian International Development Agency. Three other important partners include compassionate Rotary Clubs in Southern Alberta and Rotary District 5360 plus grants from the Alberta sponsored Community Improvement Program.
Bill proudly reports that "We have put together approximately $330,000 CND to complete the 38 classrooms by 2013. Since the start, there have been school additions built in 8 villages totaling 19 classrooms plus 3 play areas, 2 kitchens and 1 set of latrines. By spring time in 2013, 19 more classrooms will be finished in 8 more villages".
Success can now be declared for decreasing the Uspantan class room over crowding and up-grading of the learning environment but statistics on graduates will take time to accumulate. Bill has provided a number of photos with captions. We can expect periodic updates from Bill with each successive graduating class. For more information in the Building Basic Education in Guatemala program please contact Bill Lawless bawless@shaw.ca or Doug Jones jones.treetops@shaw.ca from the Rotary Club of Canmore.


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Q: Gitlab-runner with podman can't run containers inside properly Description of the problem:
Hello,
We have a pod YAML file with specifications of our containers, their setup, etc. If we run this pod locally with the command 'podman play kube pod.yaml', it starts successfully, and our application runs. But if we run this command inside GitLab-runner (podman as executor), some networking problems occur.
Gitlab runner version: 14.9.2 (CI runner), 15.0.0 (Local GitLab runner)
Description of the problem and differences between running containers in GitLab-runner vs. localhost.

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*We can't access the external network from the containers inside GitLab-runner (no packages can't be installed etc.). Gitlab-runner container itself can access the external network.

*If I try to access POD_NAME:8080/ inside GitLab-runner, it says connection refused. If I try to access POD_NAME:8080/ from localhost with directly running application containers from the host, it says connection refused too.

*If I try to access localhost:8080 from the host, it loads the page. If I try to access localhost:8080 from the runner, it says 'No route to host'.

*We run the gitlab-runner command with '--privileged' and '--network=host' flags. Also, in our pod, we use 'networkHost: true' and 'privileged: true'.

*Containers from GitLab-runner and localhost have different /etc/hosts files:

Containers started from localhost:
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
10.88.0.113 cqe dd88a3440675-infra
127.0.1.1 cqe cqe-dispatcher
127.0.1.1 cqe cqe-umbsender
127.0.1.1 cqe cqe-frontend
127.0.1.1 cqe cqe-db
127.0.1.1 cqe cqe-umbreader

Containers started from runner:
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
10.88.0.117 runner--project-0-concurrent-0 runner--project-0-concurrent-0-d244dbca3614d5aa-build-2
10.88.0.2   cqe 4a46f7216e30-infra
10.88.0.1 host.containers.internal
10.88.0.117 host.containers.internal

Our pod file (I kept only network information and deleted env variables etc.):
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  labels:
  name: cqe
spec:
  hostNetwork: true
  privileged: true
  restartPolicy: Always

  containers:
    - name: db
    - name: frontend
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 5000
        runAsGroup: 5000
      ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
          hostPort: 8080
          protocol: TCP
    - name: dispatcher
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 5000
        runAsGroup: 5000
    - name: umbreader
      workingDir: /clusterqe-django
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 5000
        runAsGroup: 5000
    - name: umbsender
      workingDir: /clusterqe-django
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 5000
        runAsGroup: 5000

*Containers have access to each other via all ports. For example, I can access db from the frontend by 'curl POD_NAME:3306'. This also works in containers from GitLab-runner.

I think the problem will probably be related to the fact that we are unpacking a container within a container. But despite using all the different flags and settings, we have not been able to solve this problem for a long time. I will be happy to add more information and reproduction steps.
If I were to describe the main problems that I don't understand:

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*Containers inside gitlab-runner don't have access to the external network.

*I can't access the pod name and its exposed port regardless of whether it's running in the runner or on localhost.

*Differences in /etc/hosts and other network settings if I'm inside the runner or on the localhost.

A: Check if See GitLab 15.1 (June 2022) helps, considering podman is officially supported there.

GitLab Runner 15.1
We're also releasing GitLab Runner 15.1 today!
GitLab Runner is the lightweight, highly-scalable agent that runs your CI/CD jobs and sends the results back to a GitLab instance.
GitLab Runner works in conjunction with GitLab CI/CD, the open-source continuous integration service included with GitLab.
What's new:

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*Use Podman as the container runtime in the Runner Docker executor <===

*Add Software Attestations (metadata) to enable SLSA 2 in GitLab CI
Bug Fixes:

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*Kubernetes executor ignores Docker ENTRYPOINT for the runner helper image

*Docker Hub image for GitLab Runner 15.0.0 has only amd64, not arm64 or ppc64le
See Documentation.

And with GitLab 15.3 (August 2022):

GitLab Runner 15.3
We're also releasing GitLab Runner 15.3 today! GitLab Runner is the lightweight, highly-scalable agent that runs your CI/CD jobs and sends the results back to a GitLab instance. GitLab Runner works in conjunction with GitLab CI/CD, the open-source continuous integration service included with GitLab.

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*Use Podman for the Docker executor on Linux  <====

The list of all changes is in the GitLab Runner CHANGELOG.
See Documentation.

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Go Beyond: Fraud Protection at the POS. These fraud-preventing microchips can reside inside a payment card, a fob or a mobile device. Regardless of the form factor, the chip technology adds one of the most important payment transaction benefits – enhanced fraud protection. Whether the payment card is inserted into the chip-enabled slot reader (contact) or waved above the device (contactless), the data on the chip ensures the card is authentic, and the PIN or signature ensures that the person presenting the card is the rightful cardholder.
device to ensure the validity of a payment card and the person using the card. This kind of chip or smart card technology adds layers of security against fraud and is virtually impossible to duplicate.
chip-based cards used at 23.8 million EMV acceptance terminals in over 80 countries.1 With some recent industry announcements, it's likely only a matter of time before smart card technology becomes a widely adopted standard in the U.S.
59%: Percentage of retail locations that will be EMV-compliant by the end of 2015.
EMV is a global standard for inter-operation of integrated circuit cards (IC cards or "chip cards") and IC card capable point of sale (POS) terminals and automated teller machines (ATMs), for authenticating credit and debit card transactions.
EMV is a joint effort initially conceived by Europay, MasterCard and Visa to ensure the security and global interoperability of chip-based payment cards. Europay International SA was absorbed into MasterCard in 2002. The standard is now defined and managed by the public corporation EMVCo LLC. JCB (formerly Japan Credit Bureau) joined the organization in December 2004, and American Express joined in February 2009. China UnionPay was announced as member in May 2013, and Discover joined the corporation in September 2013. The EMVCo members MasterCard, Visa, JCB, American Express, China UnionPay, and Discover have an equal 1/6 interest in the standards body. IC card systems based on the EMV specification are being phased in across the world, under names such as "IC Credit" and "Chip and PIN".
The EMV standards define the interaction at the physical, electrical, data and application levels between IC cards and IC card processing devices for financial transactions. There are standards based on ISO/IEC 7816 for contact cards, and standards based on ISO/IEC 14443 for contactless cards (PayPass, PayWave, ExpressPay).
The first standard for payment cards was the Carte Bancaire M4 from Bull-CP8 deployed in France in 1986 followed by the B4B0' (compatible with the M4) deployed in 1989. Geldkarte in Germany also predates EMV. EMV was designed to allow cards and terminals to be backwardly compatible with these standards. France has since migrated all its card and terminal infrastructure to EMV.
D-PAS – Discover/Diners Club International.
Visa and MasterCard have also developed standards for using EMV cards in devices to support card-not-present transactions over the telephone and Internet. MasterCard has the Chip Authentication Program (CAP) for secure e-commerce. Its implementation is known as EMV-CAP and supports a number of modes. Visa has the Dynamic Passcode Authentication (DPA) scheme, which is their implementation of CAP using different default values.
In February 2010, computer scientists from Cambridge University demonstrated that an implementation of EMV PIN entry is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack; however, the way PINs are processed depends on the capabilities of the card and the terminal.
a POS device like the FD35 or they wave it in front of the contactless icon.
2. Most chip cards will also have a magnetic stripe, so if a chip card is swiped like a traditional payment card on the POS device, the device will prompt the customer to process a chip-enabled transaction using the chip-based device. NOTE: If the card is inserted into the device, it must remain inserted in the POS device throughout transaction. The card should not be removed until the terminal prompts its removal. Removing the card too early will cancel the transaction.
3. The consumer will follow the prompts on the terminal's screen, which may include entering a PIN for both debit and credit transactions.
4. Once the user is verified and the purchase is approved, a receipt is printed.
consumers to take their card once the transaction is complete.
Chip-enabled cards will continue to have a magnetic stripe that enables them to work with non-chip reading terminals. For these transactions, the usual magnetic stripe transaction process applies.
Cardholder security is our first priority at First Data and smart card technology is just one of the many layers of security First Data offers. While EMV provides one layer of fraud protection, it does not protect or remove cardholder data from the payment process; it simply authenticates the card is valid, verifies funds are available and validates the user via a PIN number or signature.
trends, loyalty and marketing programs. The TransArmor solution combined with chip-based technologies is the perfect combination of data theft protection and fraud prevention technologies.
EMV is the current global standard for payment processing with credit and debit cards.
It will soon become the standard in the United States as well. Currently, cardholder information is stored on a magnetic stripe on the back of the card. With EMV, that information, and more, is stored in a chip embedded in the front of the card.
Do you support EMV-compatible equipment?
Yes, we offer the most up-to-date equipment available on the market; merchants may upgrade their equipment now to prepare for EMV acceptance as soon as it becomes standard.
(POS) transactions, with an end goal of reducing duplicate card fraud and enabling other cardholder validation methods. Rather than swiping a magnetic stripe card through the magnetic stripe reader, customers insert the card into the chip reader to enable the POS equipment to interact with the chip in the card.
swipe the card's magnetic stripe data and download it onto a computer or other device; then a duplicate card is made, enabling criminals to process credit card transactions using stolen card information.
When an EMV-enabled payment card is inserted into the chip reader, security information such as PAN/track data and dynamic CVV are presented to be used in the authorization request. This dynamic CVV changes for each transaction and is validated against what isexpected at the card issuer host.
What other benefits does EMV offer?
Most foreign countries issue only chip cards, and many major U.S. card providers are now beginning to issue them as well. The ability to accept a chip card may mean the difference between card swipe rates and hand-keyed transaction rates. In addition, the ability to accept EMV cards can provide a potential increase in revenue through acceptance of foreign visitors' cards. And merchants may save money through the future liability shift.
What is the liability shift and how does it impact merchants?
and this is the cause of the fraud, that merchant will be financially liable. Today, if an in-store transaction is conducted using a counterfeit, stolen or otherwise compromised card, consumer losses from that transaction fall back on the payment processor or issuing bank, depending on the card's terms and conditions. After Oct. 1, 2015, deadline created by major U.S. credit card issuers MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express, the liability for card-present fraud will shift to whichever party is the least EMV-compliant in a fraudulent transaction.
What is the difference between a contact card and a contactless card?
Contact cards communicate with the card reader over a contact plate; this plate must come into contact with the terminal, usually via a dip reader. Contactless cards communicate with radio frequency (RFID) or near field communication (NFC). Dual interface cards combine both technologies and can communicate either way (contact or contactless).
Why is the ability to accept contactless cards important?
must have the ability to accept EMV cards and must support both contact and contactless interfaces.
How does EMV impact PCI compliance?
Merchants are still required to achieve and maintain PCI compliance. Annual SAQ completion and quarterly external vulnerability scanning requirements remain in effect.
Why are equipment upgrades necessary?
Utilizing the most current EMV capable devices — with a chip slot — on the market today ensures that the merchant can enable EMV via a simple download once EMV-capable applications become available. Merchants that purchase the most current technology will be able to add compatible peripheral devices with contactless functionality once they become available; this will put merchants in the position to fully achieve compliance and be ready for the future liability shift.
We will be happy to answer your questions and provide all the information you need. Just contact your business development representative.
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Cat Who Hated Dogs Loves Going On Adventures With His Dog Brother Now
"He just seemed really mad every time we would leave. He'd go to the window that overlooks where I park my car, and you'd see him in the window just staring down at us."
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
Published on 12/15/2017 at 5:24 PM
Amber Pitcher never intended on getting a cat. But when a Good Samaritan found Ollie — a stray cat with a badly broken leg — and brought him into the veterinary clinic where Pitcher worked, she found herself drawn to him.
"I saw him in the kennel, and he was just purring, even though his leg was completely shattered and he wasn't able to walk," Pitcher, a veterinary technician at the Village Animal Clinic in Voorheesville, New York, told The Dodo. "He was just so sweet that I made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was going to bring him home."
Ollie on the day he first arrived at the vet clinic | Amber Pitcher
Pitcher already had another pet — a dog named Ariel whom she adopted from the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society 10 years ago. Like Ollie, Pitcher remembers instantly connecting with her.
"I went to the shelter with my parents because I was still in high school at the time to just take a peek at the dogs," Pitcher said. "The first thing I noticed was her different-colored eyes. And she was sitting quietly in the back, so I leaned in and stuck my hand in there, and she crawled over and just stared at me. I knew right then."
Amber Pitcher
"We actually took her home that day," Pitcher added. "She was definitely the one who spoke to me, and she's been my best friend ever since."
When both Pitcher and Ariel got a little older, they started hiking together in New York state. In fact, they eventually ticked off every hike in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.
"We finished the Catskills first," Pitcher said. "Then we eventually finished all the Adirondacks. It's a big accomplishment, especially for a dog. Some of the hikes are over 20 miles in a day."
Pitcher couldn't wait to make new memories with Ollie, too, though she didn't imagine he'd be into hiking like Ariel.
Either way, there was a problem — a big one. Ollie had surgery on his leg, and while in recovery, the vet staff noticed something concerning.
"I grabbed some stuff for him and when I actually came to get him, my coworker said, 'We might have an issue. He really hates dogs,'" Pitcher said. "He was so frightened by them, he actually started urinating blood at the clinic."
Ollie was suffering from something called cystitis, a urinary tract disorder. While the cystitis itself was treatable, Ollie's fear of dogs might not have been.
Even so, Pitcher didn't want to back out of her adoption promise to Ollie. "I was a little nervous," she said. "I didn't want him to be in a house where he was stressed out about that, but I figured I'd give him a chance. I thought, 'I've never met anyone who doesn't like Ariel — dog, cat or human.'"
Ollie's first day at home with Ariel | Amber Pitcher
When Pitcher brought Ollie home, something magical happened. "He just plopped down on his new bed next to Ariel's bed, and they've been great friends ever since," Pitcher said. "[Ariel's] such a calming presence, and I think she really just helped him out."
Ollie and Ariel sleeping next to each other on Ollie's first day in his new home | Amber Pitcher
At first, Ollie had to spend most of his time inside as his leg healed. But when he got better, he let Pitcher know that he wanted to go hiking with her and Ariel.
"He just seemed really mad every time we would leave," Pitcher said. "He'd run to the door, and when we went outside, he'd go to the window that overlooks where I park my car, and you'd see him in the window just staring down at us."
So Pitcher got Ollie a harness and leash, and took him on his first adventures.
"Last spring, I was going to take Ariel camping, and I thought, 'Why don't we try bringing Ollie?'" Pitcher said. "So we brought him and he had the best time."
"Then we decided to try kayaking," Pitcher added. "Ariel will ride at the top of my kayak and Ollie will ride on the back. He's been paddleboarding and canoeing."
Now the three of them go on all kinds of outdoor adventures together. If Ollie ever gets tired, he rides inside of a special backpack Pitcher carries for him.
"He never tried running away," Pitcher said. "He literally just chases after [Ariel]. As long as she's there, he's pretty cool and just wants to be involved."
Now Pitcher couldn't imagine her life without both Ariel and Ollie — and she counts her blessings every day that she adopted them both.
"Life wouldn't be nearly as entertaining or full of love without the two of them," she added. "They definitely make every day better."
To see more photos of Ariel and Ollie sharing outdoor adventures, you can follow their Instagram page.


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Summary: Of the hundreds of canonized saints in the Catholic Church, here are 12 that especially appeal to children, and inspire them.
Keywords: Great Saints for Children, Catholic Saints for Children, Catholic Saints, Patron Saints
"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God," said Jesus (Mark 10:14). That's why He gave us great, special saints for children. Here are 12 of them:
1. The Blessed Virgin Mary. All children especially love Mary, their beautiful, tender Mother who always is there for them. She especially is the model of chastity and modesty for girls. And she raised Jesus from the Incarnation in her womb through infancy to adulthood.
2. St. Joseph. The foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ was a most holy man, an example for all fathers. He protected the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, in particular when they fled into Egypt during Herod's persecutions.
3. St. John Bosco. This great saint was dedicated to helping the children of the poor. He established schools and other organizations based on Catholic charity. His especially was dedicated to helping orphaned boys.
4. St. Dominic Savio. One of the children helped by St. John Bosco, St. Dominic was a holy boy from a young age, but died at age 14. His motto: "I can't do big things but I want everything to be for the glory of God."
5. St. Maria Goretti. In these difficult times, she is the perfect model of chastity. She heroically defended her virtue against an attacker, even to the point of her death.
6. St. Therese of Lisieux. A favorite saint for many people, the Little Flower is beloved for her simple, yet profound devotion to Jesus from a young age. She is an example of how children can develop a strong life of prayer.
7. St. Francis of Assisi. As a young man, St. Francis was frivolous and materialistic. But he started to pray. Eventually in a church, God spoke to him, "Francis, repair my church." He then lived a life of poverty and founded the Franciscan religious order.
8. St. Ignatius of Loyola. Like many young men, St. Ignatius wanted to be a great soldier. Then he was wounded severely in battle, with his legs shattered. Recovering in a hospital, he began reading books on Jesus and the saints. After intense prayer, God led him to found the Society of Jesus.
9. St. Bernadette. When age 14, in the year 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette and proclaimed, "I am the Immaculate Conception." A chapel was built on the site, which is a grotto, where clear waters heal the sick to this day.
10. St. Nicholas. Commonly called Santa Claus, he is the Patron Saint of children. As bishop of Myra, Asia Minor (today the country of Turkey), he was well known for his charity, especially giving gifts to children.
11. St. Michael. As an archangel, St. Michael is our great protector against Satan, the devil who tempts us. The Bible describes St. Michael as "the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people" (Daniel 12:1). Children should call on St. Michael by praying the St. Michael Prayer.
12. St. John the Evangelist. He was in his late teens when he became one of the 12 apostles Jesus called to His ministry, and to lead His Catholic Church. The only apostle to stand by Jesus at the foot of the Cross, he wrote the Gospel of St. John, three epistles and the Apocalypse.
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The Basics of Indirect Taxes and What to Consider Before an International Expansion
By Nick Hart, Senior Consultant, Indirect Taxes
To the optimistic business leader only taxes, not death, are inevitable. Accordingly, taxes are an important consideration when expanding overseas.
Nearly all countries charge some type of indirect tax on the local sale of goods or services. Understanding your company's obligations and liabilities with regard to indirect taxation and devising effective tax compliance and mitigation strategies is an important ingredient in the success of an overseas endeavor.
About Indirect Taxes
For the purposes of this post, it is important to understand the basics of indirect taxes. Indirect taxes generally fall into one of two types: sales tax, which is familiar to most Americans, and value-added tax ("VAT," also known as goods and services tax or "GST"), which might be unfamiliar. VAT is a form of consumption tax levied on a product or service on the value-added element applied at each stage of a supply chain through to the final sale to the end consumer. It differs from a single-stage sales tax in that it is charged in relation to each transaction within a supply chain. As with sales tax, the seller charges the buyer the VAT tax, which the buyer may then deduct from the value added when it in turns sells the good or service.
It is helpful, as well, to distinguish between the three most common entity types used in an expansion: representative offices, branch offices and subsidiaries. Because a representative office is an extension of the parent company without the ability to generate income, it does not in itself create an entity which will have any indirect tax registration obligations. Such obligations, however, may still exist for the parent company of the representative office. Branch offices and subsidiaries, by contrast, are entities capable of being obligated to register for local indirect taxes. In many jurisdictions, a branch may not be able to register for local indirect taxes in situations where a subsidiary would be able to register. This may be an important consideration for a company determining the optimal legal entity type when entering a new jurisdiction.
Key Questions to Consider Before Expanding
There are a host of important indirect-tax-related questions to answer before executing an expansion. The answers to the fundamental questions outlined below will necessarily vary between countries. It is, therefore, advisable to consult an expert on international indirect taxation systems before expanding into a new country. Without performing the necessary due diligence in this area, a company may ultimately face a variety of risks and additional costs, as well as exposure to action by local tax authorities.
Is your entity required to register for the local indirect tax, and if so what are the compliance implications of this in terms of tax filings (e.g., filing frequency, deadlines and agent authorizations)?
What are the operative taxes charged within the indirect tax system and at what rates? How are taxes collected, administered and remitted to the relevant tax authority?
Is there an entitlement to be registered for the local indirect tax, and if so what are the benefits of doing so? (In some cases, your business may be able to recover taxes paid on operating costs or use a VAT registration to support your business's legal/tax status in the country or region.)
What are the operational implications of the indirect tax for your entity? Getting this wrong can cause your business to assume avoidable tax costs, commercial inefficiencies and third-party relationship issues. (Keep in mind that the relationship between the entity and the parent company can be important — for example, support services provided to the parent company by the local entity can be subject to taxation in some jurisdictions.)
What tax optimization strategies can you employ to reduce tax liability or recover taxes paid? For example, can you shift the tax burden to vendors or other third parties through proactive contract structuring? What documentation is it advisable to retain to justify your approach to collecting and paying taxes?
These are only a few of the most important indirect taxation questions to consider when expanding abroad. It is also important to consider your company's capabilities. Specifically, your tax compliance office, finance office and third-party management (among other departments) must be able to meet the challenges of expansion without disrupting existing operations.
In addition, it is important to be mindful of the variation in tax regimes. Even within the European Union, where there is a unified VAT framework, specific country rules regarding registration, recovery and compliance can vary greatly. A strategy that has worked in the past in one country may not work in a new country, even one with seemingly similar tax systems. That being said, indirect taxation should not prevent you from expanding successfully: With careful preparation, consultation and a conscientious approach to compliance, meeting your indirect taxation obligations will rapidly become business-as-usual.
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namespace Arobbot.ControlUIApp
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.IO;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime;
    using Windows.Foundation;
    using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
    using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;
    using Microsoft.Maker.Serial;
    using ARobbot.RobbotControl;

    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        private const int NumberOfMotors = 2;
        private const int LeftMotor = 0;
        private const int RightMotor = 1;
        private const int MotorsMaxSpeed = 80;
        private const int MotorsRPMStep = 1;
        private const int MotorsStartSpeed = 0;
        private const int WheelStep = 3;
        private MotorDirection[] motorDirection;
        private BluetoothSerial bluetooth;
        private RobbotControler robbot;

        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
            this.PivotItemControl.IsEnabled = false;

            bluetooth = new BluetoothSerial("HC-05");
            robbot = new RobbotControler(bluetooth, NumberOfMotors);
            bluetooth.ConnectionEstablished += OnConnectionEstablished;
            bluetooth.ConnectionLost += OnConnectionLost;
            bluetooth.ConnectionFailed += OnConnectionLost;
            bluetooth.begin(0, 0);

            motorDirection = new MotorDirection[NumberOfMotors];
            motorDirection[LeftMotor] = MotorDirection.Forward;
            motorDirection[RightMotor] = MotorDirection.Forward;

            this.ButtonConnect.Click += Connect;
            this.ButtonDisconect.Click += Disconect;

            this.ButtonStartLeft.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StartMotor(LeftMotor);
            this.ButtonStartRight.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StartMotor(RightMotor);
            this.ButtonStartAll.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StartAllMotos();

            this.ButtonStopLeft.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StopMotor(LeftMotor);
            this.ButtonStopRight.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StopMotor(RightMotor);
            this.ButtonStopAll.Click += (o, e) => robbot.StopAllMotors();

            this.SliderSpeed.Minimum = -MotorsMaxSpeed;
            this.SliderSpeed.Maximum = MotorsMaxSpeed;
            this.SliderSpeed.StepFrequency = MotorsRPMStep;
            this.SliderSpeed.Value = MotorsStartSpeed;

            this.SliderSpeed.ValueChanged += OnDriverSlidersChanged;

            this.SliderWheel.Minimum = -0.5 * MotorsMaxSpeed;
            this.SliderWheel.Maximum = 0.5 * MotorsMaxSpeed;
            this.SliderSpeed.StepFrequency = WheelStep;
            this.SliderWheel.Value = 0;

            this.SliderWheel.ValueChanged += OnDriverSlidersChanged;
        }

        private void Disconect(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.PivotItemControl.IsEnabled = false;
            bluetooth.end();
        }

        private void Connect(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            bluetooth.begin(0, 0);
        }

        private void OnConnectionLost(string message)
        {
            this.PivotItemControl.IsEnabled = false;
        }

        private void OnConnectionEstablished()
        {
            this.PivotItemControl.IsEnabled = true;
        }

        private void OnDriverSlidersChanged(object sender, RangeBaseValueChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            var speed = (int)SliderSpeed.Value;
            var wheel = (int)SliderWheel.Value;

            var leftSpeed = speed + wheel;
            var rightSpeed = speed - wheel;

            if (leftSpeed > MotorsMaxSpeed)
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMLeft.Text = MotorsMaxSpeed.ToString();
            }
            else if (leftSpeed < -MotorsMaxSpeed)
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMLeft.Text = MotorsMaxSpeed.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMLeft.Text = leftSpeed.ToString();
            }

            if (rightSpeed > MotorsMaxSpeed)
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMRight.Text = MotorsMaxSpeed.ToString();
            }
            else if (rightSpeed < -MotorsMaxSpeed)
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMRight.Text = MotorsMaxSpeed.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                this.TextBlockRPMRight.Text = rightSpeed.ToString();
            }

            ChangeMotorState(LeftMotor, leftSpeed);
            ChangeMotorState(RightMotor, rightSpeed);
        }

        private void ChangeMotorState(int motor, int speed)
        {
            var absoluteSpeed = Math.Abs(speed);

            if (absoluteSpeed > MotorsMaxSpeed)
            {
                absoluteSpeed = MotorsMaxSpeed;
            }

            if (speed < 0 && this.motorDirection[motor] == MotorDirection.Forward)
            {
                this.motorDirection[motor] = MotorDirection.Backward;
                this.robbot.ChangeMotorDirection(motor, MotorDirection.Backward);
            }
            else if (speed > 0 && this.motorDirection[motor] == MotorDirection.Backward)
            {
                this.motorDirection[motor] = MotorDirection.Forward;
                this.robbot.ChangeMotorDirection(motor, MotorDirection.Forward);
            }

            if (!this.robbot.motorsStoped[motor] && absoluteSpeed == 0)
            {
                this.robbot.StopMotor(motor);
            }
            else if (this.robbot.motorsStoped[motor] && absoluteSpeed != 0)
            {
                this.robbot.SetMotorRpm(motor, absoluteSpeed);
                this.robbot.StartMotor(motor);
            }
            else if (absoluteSpeed != 0)
            {
                this.robbot.SetMotorRpm(motor, absoluteSpeed);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Q: R6034: An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly I am getting this R6034 error when running program that I just updated (and cleaned) from VS2003 -> VS2008. To be more exact:

"R6034: An application has made an
  attempt to load the C runtime library
  incorrectly."

It seems to happed almost at the same place all the time when running. I have no really idea why but I tried some suggestions I found when googleing this. For example adding the msvc dlls, but that didn't work.
Any help on why this error occurs would be great. Thanks

A: Starting from Visual Studio 2005 you must refer to the C Run Time using a manifest file.
Referring to the DLL's by just putting them in the path will give the above error.
The manifest file will look like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
  <dependency>
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.DebugCRT' version='8.0.50727.4053' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' />
    </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
</assembly>

You can use the MT command to integrate the manifest as a resource in the application, but that's not mandatory.  It's also allowed to have the manifest besides your application (as MYAPP.EXE.MANIFEST).

A: The following test program:
#include <iostream>
#include <crtdefs.h>

void main()
{
std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl;
}

Compiled using these commands (Visual Studio 2005):
cl /EHsc /MD /c test.cpp
link test.obj

Create the executable (TEST.EXE) and a manifest file (TEST.EXE.MANIFEST) that looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
  <dependency>
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.CRT' version='8.0.50727.4053' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' />
    </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
</assembly>

I didn't try this with VS2008, but this should probably work as well.
Hope this is enough to get you started.


Sixten Ivarsson (1910-2001) was undoubtedly the most influential Scandinavian pipemaker during the last century. He was born in Sweden but moved to Copenhagen in the 30s and stayed there for the rest of his life. During WWII, when the supply of most necessities in life was short, he happened to break the stem of his pipe. That incident actually made him a pipemaker.
Sixten Ivarsson started to repair pipes in a workshop called Suhr's Pibereparation and there he also made his very first pipes. During that time he also started to cooperate with the Stanwell factory and made some shapes for them. That cooperation was to last for many decades.
In 1951 Sixten started on his own and a few years later he moved into a workshop, situated close to the pedestrian street Strøget in central Copenhagen. There he was to stay for the rest of his life.
Sixten created a new style of pipes and a new way in making them. Besides being an excellent pipemaker he was a brilliant teacher and among his pupils are world-famous names like Lars (his own son), Bo Nordh, Jess Chonowitsch and Jørn Micke.