Thanks, Tophik. I am monitoring the YouTube chat to see if there are any questions there. I have one question. Do you have any examples of scripts or automation which people can use to, let's say, monitor the APIs to make sure that people are being used? Is there any examples of automation? So I think what we've done is actually we've built a custom platform. And that custom platform essentially has these kinds of checks in place. When I say custom platforms, honestly speaking, it's just a bunch of collection of script that before you ingest anything into things like L or database or a Splunk or anywhere else, it will essentially look for regular expression pattern matches. And if it means that pattern matches, it will automatically mask the information before it records it. But yeah, I think I can give you some more examples on my slide before I publish them. Any questions from the panelists on Zoom? There are no questions on the YouTube chat at least yet. OK. OK, thank you. Devan, do you want to take it forward? Sure, Rajan. Thank you. So yeah, I think over the next 15, 20 minutes, what we're going to do is we have a couple of panelists here today with us who are going to discuss their point of views and share their knowledge on their experiences in the space of privacy by design. So we will continue with Tophik on our panel. He is a principal cybersecurity engineer at Emirates Group. We also have Sameer with us today, who is the co-founder of ARCA and comes with a lot of experience in the data security and privacy space. And we also have Satya, who is a senior solution engineer at Akamai. So they are going to be our panelists for today's discussion. So I would probably start with one question for all the panelists here. And this is perhaps just a continuation of what Tophik was mentioning in his presentation, which is around trust, but always verify. One of the things that I have seen in terms of a big struggle with implementing privacy by design is that there are a lot of commercial of the shelf software and tools and technologies that are being used everywhere in organizations, especially when we start looking at the fields of data science and engineering and analytics, et cetera. And that brings in a big challenge because to Tophik's earlier point, a lot of times we know what we know and what is in our control, but it is not in our control. And in this case, these would be the Scots solution. And a lot of times the choice on the Scots solution is not made like the due diligence doesn't incorporate all the different factors, including privacy by design. Sometimes they are made in terms of a specific problem that we want to address or a specific area that we want to address. So my question for the panelists would be that, one, have you encountered those situations wherein you have come across some of the Scots solutions in implementation, and you had to sort of retrospectively look at how to address some of the privacy issues that they bring about? Maybe we can start with Tophik because you were just sort of sharing your point of view, Tophik, and then go to the other panelists. Absolutely, thanks. I think your question is really valid, and I think this is a question that we asked ourselves back in the day when we started this whole privacy by design initiative. I think out of experience, we've come up with this process that we like to call as data privacy impact assessments. What we do as a part of this process is that every time you engage with a new partner or a new supplier or with a different team, you come up with all the data that is going to be exchanged at the time of development or during the lifecycle of the product itself. You catalog all of that data, and once you've cataloged them, you agree what kind of technical controls are going to be implemented. And then as a part of your development process towards the end, you go back and want to validate if those technical controls are implemented in the way that they were meant to. Now, there are challenges with systems that were already designed, so you have to do a lot of retro work. But you can always begin and then eventually move in the direction where all of this data is identified right up front as a part of your data privacy impact assessments. OK, I think that's a very interesting point. I would maybe, Sameer, can you share your point of view on this? Yeah, OK. So I mean, we have seen this happening across COTS. I would not want to go into the product development part of it because that's a year one to tackle. But when it comes to COTS, this is a situation that we have seen happening every time. And when you look at privacy by design and trying to implement, there are really three facets to a privacy by design. Facet one is where you're looking at saying, is this a situation where I need to deploy contracts to be able to take care of it? Facet B, you're looking at saying, can I build wrappers around the COTS so that I'm able to filter and manage their data sharing and their connections and all. And the third part is when you really look at the technology and say that, OK, can I force the COTS guy to go back and redo certain parts of it so that I'm able to take care of it. So so long as contractually with the COTS guys, you're kind of making sure that they take care of privacy in line with whatever you want. You're still in a lot of ways protected. And many of the contractual decisions is via what law says or even what Profig was saying is a privacy impact assessment, which is similar to what you would do like a security impact, but you would go a lot deeper in terms of looking at saying what is the kind of personal data and all that that is coming in. Then you can also look at a lot of wrappers that you can build around. Wrappers are, to my mind, smaller software libraries which would allow you to filter the kind of data inputs that are going in and also build access restrictions in terms of the data output that is likely to be shared with somebody else. Then as a last part, you go into the monitoring and you get into data minimization and what else you want to do and all. So these are the three facets when specifically when it comes to COTS. If, of course, I'm going to go out into development, there is a whole different layer of framework that you need to get building on from both the non-tech as well as the tech perspective as well. Thank you so much. I think you brought up the focus on two very important aspects that we typically look at when we are doing software development. And I think those are considered as part of your NFRs when you're building a good platform, an evolutionary platform. And they would be merit in bringing them into the data security and privacy world as well, which is extensibility and as a collective, perhaps as a collective in the industry, if we could push back on some of the COTS that do not sort of adhere to the privacy by design aspects, then that force would at least ensure that they actually go back and take it seriously. So this is going to be perhaps an outcome of the collective rather than of individual organizations. Satya, do you have anything to share on from your side on this? Yeah, so in my opinion, I think the way the topic sort of laid it out, it actually makes a lot of sense. If you have, whenever you're building a product, if your design teams and your development teams take care of privacy at the very beginning, that's your best case scenario. But I think even Samir and you pointed out that in a lot of situations, businesses typically buy off the shelf components. And it's very hard to sort of build a lot of these systems ground up. The other thing that's happening is a lot of businesses are also now being forced to consider privacy, it's not by choice. But because of regulations, GDPR, we have PDP on the way. So there are some market impetus which is sort of pushing that agenda forward, which is a very good thing. So I think a little bit of awareness overall in the ecosystem would go a long way. Understanding the basics of what is encryption, where is the content encrypted? I mean, encryption is often a term that's thrown around, but it's important to understand whether the content is encrypted at rest or when it's in transit, what is it exactly mean and how does it impact the workflows? Another thing that often goes unnoticed, I think Tophik touched upon this and it's very critical is, if you have content on the browser, there is no way you can actually hide it from a person who is using the browser. Browser tools these days, you can just right click, inspect the traffic, that goes a long way. But a lot of it is actually true for apps and other ecosystems. So in general, as long as you assume that clients are compromised, that goes in a long way, both in terms of security as well as in a lot of cases, privacy by extension. So I think businesses today are grappling with how to deal with privacy, given the fact that traditionally privacy essentially where a few compliance check boxes which were not the focus and it's hard to sort of justify at least in terms of dollars, irrespective of the size of the company. If you're a large company, it's easy to justify the damage to reputation brand and all that sort of stuff.  It's sort of difficult to justify the cost. I think that's where the collective effort in sort of driving some of these best practices, a change in mindset will go a long way. Very valid points at them. Thank you for sharing that. So if I want to just quickly summarize what D3 just talked about is, I think one very important and very concrete step that the organizations can take right away is having a data privacy assessment framework that can be used whenever they are building a solution or are buying off the shelf or solution. And that goes a long way because even though that data privacy assessment framework may not be complete, but there is a starting point and over time some of the feedbacks could be incorporated into adding more elements to this framework. There are certain aspects that Sammy talked about which is around looking at what kind of contracts do you have around data with the solution that you're buying. Is the solution extensible and what kind of push you can have on the court solution provider to go back and fix some of the security and privacy issues that they might arrive at. And one key point that you just mentioned Satya was, look at worst case scenarios and sort of start from there because that sort of helps you understand what kind of risk you are running into in case something were to go wrong. So I guess that's gonna be helpful for a lot of organization and as well as technologists, we could work collectively to build some of these assessments or rather expose some of the vulnerabilities that come with some very popular court solution so that the industry as such becomes aware of it and the collective can drive our larger push towards privacy by design. This other question that I had and I think Taufi covered this in his presentation as well which is the balance between convenience and balance between privacy, balance between convenience and privacy essentially. Now, when we are starting with Greenfield project, sometimes it is easier to look at privacy by design as the first class citizen if you have the right personally, room or the right intent in the room. It becomes extremely difficult when you have an existing platform or a product and you have to go back and fix some of the issues in there. And I think we all saw this happening when GDPR was rolled out because a lot of people had to unhappily let go of some of the analytics and data science driven features that they were providing to the customers. So could you all share your point of view on how could an organization start looking at this balance and perhaps let go of some of the key drivers of their business, especially around data science and analytics? Satya, would you want to go first? Sure. So I think in my opinion, right? In general, the regulations on privacy and I just want to make the distinction that I'm specifically talking only about the regulation part of it. If you look at it for the growth of any product or industry that you're looking at, regulations are probably your worst nightmare because you know that there's a lot of information that you can collect. And today, if any product, you can pick a vertical and you're likely to see some amount of personalization and some amount of recommendation or advanced techniques on AI ML being used. All of this needs data to sort of bring out those recommendations, get you the next link that you're most likely going to click on or even make the right recommendations on product fit or what's important to your business. All of that requires data and the regulations specifically are going to hamper it. I think it's a given. Organizations are likely, even going forward will sort of always struggle when a new feature is being released. I think what's important is again, a baseline where you or every product owner and companies know that a new feature is going to be rolled out and if it needs a new piece of data, the adoption is going to be very slow and it's not going to be as fast as the size of your user base. That's critical and fundamentally it's a change in mindset. It essentially means that tomorrow if you're rolling out a feature, it's not going to be accessible to all of your users till they accept sharing that data with you or if a person sharing his data pretty much drives another person's ability to see a feature, then you're going to see very slow rollouts. So that's a new sort of expectation and we'll see that sort of evolve over time and that's where the regulations sort of come in. Unless there are financial penalties, I don't think organizations will be adhering very strictly to it. There will be creative ways and we'll sort of work around the limitations of each of the regulations of the land to sort of speed up the development, bring faster time to market for whatever the products are. So it'll be an interesting space and we'll have to see, we know how GDPR is sort of evolved. It'll be interesting to see when PDP comes and whatever updates to the regulation bills that a lot of countries are in the process of rolling out, we'll have to see how all of that sort of plays out. I like the skepticism that you have here and I think perhaps that might be the way to go forward that maybe as a tech community, we drive some of this organizations are never gonna adhere 100% to these because one, they'll always be creative ways of working around it and two, as long as it keeps contracting with the commercial goals, this will never become a first-class citizen. So I think definitely working with skepticism is definitely gonna help there. Tophik Sameer, would you want to share your part of view on that? I think there are two important aspects to this question, right? One is, where do you want to draw the line? And the other bit is what is your S-capitaite? Now, what I mean here is that at least for us having operated or operating businesses across multiple geographies, you want to be able to add a dollar value to say that what if you lose business from a given geography due to privacy-related requirements? For example, if my business is very, very active in Europe and if I have massive penalties and 80% of my user base comes from there, I need to sit back and take a call of whether I want to prioritize feature over privacy control. And I think helping businesses make educated decisions using proper data, I think drives a lot of changes as opposed to taking a regulatory framework and trying to fit your system into that framework. So I think the way we've tried, and as you mentioned in your question that it's very difficult to implement systems, implement privacy in systems that have been built over a period of 30, 40 years. I think the only way you could address that problem, it doesn't necessarily address, but it gives you a start is to have like a data privacy office that essentially has representation from different parts of your organization, which is something that I mentioned on my last slide. The reason we saw an advantage in doing that is because it's not about what the cybersecurity team says versus what the development team thinks versus what the business thinks. It's everyone giving their point of view and as a result trying to then choose what's the balance approach in terms of going forward. So that's one approach that we've taken to solve the problem. But yes, it's extremely difficult and you will never be able to 100% say that your system is compliant to all the privacy by design principles. Okay, I have a slightly different take on the whole convenience part. So when you say you can either have privacy or convenience and not both is actually incorrect because that's a phase that comes for security, but not really privacy. Privacy is a way of life. So as an organization, if I say that I want to embrace privacy and take whatever it comes to build a business model, then you'll embrace privacy and you're going to find ways and means to ensure that your ecosystem, your suppliers, vendors, the internal governance and all that kind of works with you to make sure that the privacy is built in. Of course there are legacy systems which pose its own set of entrances to building privacy, but it is not that it is insurmountable. Like I said before, we've worked with people where they've built wrappers and we've kind of taken care of it. And at least systems newer that are built in the last five, 10 years, even if they're using the latest technology and all. For those, it's a matter of the organization looking at saying, okay, to what extent I'm going to implement privacy. And then the tech community is able to build a lot of privacy controls within the entire place. Not that it'll happen overnight and I don't think the law is ever saying that it's going to happen overnight, but it's not that it is insurmountable as well. It's also not something that you need to try to do a conflict or try to do a trade-off between convenience and privacy. It's not required really because I don't think there is any end user or even us as end users would be happy to share data if the privacy practices are being met. So it really is not an inconvenience. And going by the way, as tech, everybody of us looks back at practices done by others, the challenge is even more easier because now that there are certain companies who are able to do it better, I would rather have a community working with them and towards them rather than anything. And in fact, for the whole privacy by design, whether you're doing it for legacy or build sometime back or you're kind of just starting out now, we already are building frameworks. We have implemented it at places as well. And we would open it for community as well if you're able to get more contributors, nothing like it because all of us will be able to drive and take care of the whole privacy by design, not design. An example that I can give is the inconvenience actually is more for tech because it was a time earlier when for building a mobile application, you could just simply list all the permissions and say the mobile app needs to have all the permissions without bothering whether I really need the permission or not. Today, the ecosystem, which is people like Google and Apple are forcing back and saying, no, you need to tell us why you need that application. And I will enable that permission for you as part of the ecosystem only when you really need it, not otherwise. So only when I want to access photos, I will get a photos permission. When I want to take a photo, I will get a camera permission. So this is more convenience portion that is coming towards us rather than the end consumer. And we need to embrace this. I don't think there is anything wrong with it because it affects all of us. You also have to look at saying whatever we build, if it does not have the right practices, it's also going to impact us. So therefore, it's not really an inconvenience. I would say it's a way of life. You either take it or you can choose to ignore and work around it. So there are some very important points that you brought up here, and it gives me a perfect segue into my next question, which is earlier privacy by design would be a conversation topic for perhaps the security professionals, but it does ask for a more interdisciplinary or a more cross-functional involvement from teams and different kind of leadership.  I guess when you were mentioning that privacy is the way of life and you have to decide whether you embrace that fact or you essentially completely ignore it and still end up building your business around it or against it. So I think perhaps at this point, everyone would agree that we do need to take it as something where you need interdisciplinary involvement, whether this is from the organizational leadership, your legal teams, developers, security teams, data scientists, I would even say it perhaps goes even extended to the UX community who's involved in building these systems. I think that's perhaps sort of agreed by somebody, but have you seen instances in your life, in your career of organizations who have really embraced it and they have benefited from it? I guess we could talk about where things might have gone wrong, but all of us, we have very few positive stories to look at. So if there is any story that you would like to share from your experience. Sure, sure. So about five, six years back when the whole privacy thing was started, we started working on it within India, the initial discussions were all with security folks because it was more because security folks and tech guys are looking at it saying, okay, it's gonna come someday, it's gonna impact me, so I might as well be prepared for it. And we had to force ourselves to go till business or to go till product managers and tell them that, hey, this is really your problem. And it's not really a security problem because privacy is gonna be much, much bigger and much more than security. At least now, I think in the last two years, I'm happy to say that the discussions have started coming from either boards or the CEOs or the sales guys, the marketing managers or the product managers and all. And while yes, it gets deferred to the CISO, the tech community and all from an implementation point of view. A lot of decisions have started coming from there. We've also seen now, I mean, we work with the private equity, we see the investors community as well. And quite a lot of them now have started engaging with us saying we want you as part of the due diligence to check for how these guys are maintaining privacy and security within the system as well. So that is now becoming a live thing where everybody with the community is also looking at saying, how are you going to take care of privacy? And do you have any practices? Do I need to build something? So it's a very positive spin because one thing we have seen for sure when business takes a stand and says, yeah, I want privacy, a lot of work is easier for the implementation side of things because you don't really then need to go back and convince. And there is now, I think most of the larger organizations that we have seen and even smaller ones that we work with have come to the realization and in the last six months have actually started forming a lot of teams where multiple facets of the organization come together. Be it legal, if we have in fact included even finance being included, then the physical security part of it being included, you have the marketing sales and the operations and all coming in to have their chip in to say that, hey, I'm going, privacy is there, the regulation is there, I have to work with it. And so therefore what is my input going to be? So I see a lot of positivity that is available around and that is coming around, there's a lot of realization also. And I think thanks to the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal and the amount of media movement that was happening, privacy became mainstream at a much faster pace with business than what security has been able to do for quite some time because privacy is now not just linked to the regulation, but a lot of people realize it is linked to reputation. Most consumers surveyed have actually gone back and said that if your privacy practice is not great, I simply don't want to work with you. And they have seen the impacts of hash WhatsApp, hash delete Facebook, has delete this, has delete that working, which as a cancel campaign has served to increase and improve the momentum overall. But at the end of the day, I'm done. Right. And I think what he just shared is quite heartening to hear. And so thank you for sharing that, Sameer. Tophik Satya, do you have any stories that you want to contribute? Well, I think yes, I would agree to what Sameer was saying all this while that, I think there is a lot of change in the last two or three years from a privacy point of view. And there is a reason for it probably is because privacy back in the day was always looked upon to cybersecurity or security professionals. But today, privacy is much more beyond that. Right. And as a result, the businesses do want to consider, they want to, they do want to come on the table and have these conversations to be able to facilitate privacy related requirements as and when they're developing either new features or they're developing, I think, new systems. So I would say that I have seen a positive spin at least when I work where now it's not just about cybersecurity standing up or attribution saying that oh, if this is privacy, there are issues in privacy that have security impact, but not every issue, every privacy issue is security related. And as a result, it's very important to socialize and get different people across the different organizations to come together, talk about it, and as a result, have a positive outcome of privacy by design discussions. Right. I think it's a very important point you brought up, which is privacy is not equal to security and they sort of have to be looked at as two separate entities, which might have overlap, but it is not exactly equal. Satya, anything that you would want to add? I think I'll just stress on two things between Sameer and Tophi. I think the point that Sameer made that brand reputation is important today and there's a lot of at least heat on the social media if there's either a breach in privacy or security, right? I think that's one of, it's a new phenomenon, it's critical to sort of speed up the entire adoption of privacy guidelines or even security best practices. In some cases, it's a mix of both and it's hard to tell between the two. The other thing that Tophi was talking about earlier, sometimes it's been difficult to sort of adopt and the point that Sameer was saying that it's not about how difficult or easy it is, it's about the mindset of the organization. I think fundamentally, all of these are shifts in the attitudes, we'll have to see how it plays out. A lot of the power sort of goes to the consumers of a lot of the products, I would say, if they force all of these products to adhere to privacy or there's a regulatory framework sort of pushing them towards it, it's just going to accelerate the process because at the end of the day, I think all of the most organizations are there to make profit. So there has to be something that sort of pushes you in a direction which whatever it may be sort of hinders either the pace at which you can move forward or eats a little bit more of effort towards your goals. So I'll just round up with that. I love that point, Satya. And I think what you are essentially pointing at is consumers, us as consumers used to be, we used to be actual consumers of technology, but to a large extent now, we have become the drivers of technology as well. So I think there's a lot more power that has come in consumers' hands now in order to drive some of these shifts in technology world and specifically in the world of privacy as we're talking right now. I see that the audience doesn't have any questions, but does anyone in the panel or Rajat, Zainab, do you have any questions? So I would like to make one point here and also I think this is something that I wanted to understand from Tophik also. That Tophik, you mentioned a lot about the tokens and anonymization and encryption and all that that comes in. And there is a lot of additional quality review and all that needs to be done. But if I were to understand correctly, you were coming from the perspective of security and there is a security leakage and therefore because it contains personal identifiable information, there's a privacy leakage as well. Whereas when you look at a privacy by design or a privacy leakage, there would be a lot more than that also. And that's something that has a framework that we are working on. So is there something in your organization and all that you have seen happening or is there something, there's a movement that you've seen around which we can work together on? Because I believe as a community, tech has to drive this and unless everybody in different languages and different systems come together, will not be able to push this forward across. It will become a, it'll remain like a security issue, not really a privacy issue. Right, Sameer. So I think with our experience implementing or going through this process, what we've realized is that although there is a lot of overlap between security issues and privacy related issues, meaning because there is a personally identifiable token, it's a security issue, but it has privacy implications. So what we've realized is to be able to define a set of controls that have security implications and that only have privacy implications because the audience that deals with the solutions to both these problems may be distinctly different. So for example, if it's a security issue that leads or has implications of privacy, then you have a set of team that will come or an agile or a small team that comes forward and then decides the way forward versus something that is purely privacy oriented is when you have another set of audience that comes forward and decides the way forward. So I think it's very use case driven depending on what situation you are in. Sure, makes sense. I mean, that's what we have also observed. So even things like I was not able to fulfill rights becomes really a privacy issue. Whereas an actual data leakage becomes a security plus privacy issue. Correct. So the other example that I could potentially give you is around GDPR. You have GDPR has this provision where a user can request deleting all the data that is present or the enterprise holds about that particular user. Now, that's again more privacy driven but if you were really to be able to delete information about all of that for that particular user, you also need to know how many systems are cataloging that data as of today for you. And that is where that security part comes in where you're saying that let's not record what we don't need or let's mask the information. And as a result that sort of rolls up at a point where the business is fairly confident that if ever somebody raised the request to delete the data, I know that it will get deleted and it will not be present in any part of my ecosystem. So the GDPR thing has also now changed to say that it will become a right to forget and which means if regulatory wise if I need to retain something it retains, plus they've also added to say even masked information should be removed. So the moment you know where your masked information is, potentially you're opening up to saying that I can unmask and therefore the privacy is gone. So it's become a very touch and go situation in that. Yeah, I think it's, I fully agree with you. I think it's also very complicated when there are multiple regulatory frameworks that have a different way to look at user data, let alone security or privacy aspects for it. For example, in case of HIPAA, you want to hold the information for 10 years even after a particular treatment was done and closed. But if you then apply privacy regulations on top of it, it becomes difficult for you to retrieve that patient information if you've aligned to all the privacy requirements. Correct, correct, correct. So that is why I mean, multi-disciplinary comes in to decide but there is this whole set of security also which is required to contribute in the entire thing. It's just that I mean, off-lead we are seeing that security is not really driving the entire discussion till the end. Maybe one of the initiators and then a major contributor. But increasingly we are seeing tech and primarily because all the economies are moving towards tech and especially in the current COVID era, everybody is kind of looking at digital. So it's tech who is going to be the primary driver for each and each facet of tech is going to come in like whether it is AI, ML, or a warehouse situation or anything that has data in it. We will have to look at a filter in between which says, are you going to imbibe personal data? And if you are, then these are the additional things you need to definitely do, types. And I think that's what you can do pretty much on ongoing basis. I think as you keep doing it, over the time you will see that your systems are far more aligned to the overall goal but at the same time, the businesses do run their operations as smoothly as possible given the guardrails around these regulatory frameworks. Absolutely. Hey, thanks Devangana for letting me ask the question. Sorry, I took up a little more time I guess. No worries at all Samir. I think this was important and these are the questions that all of us keep coming across in our day-to-day life. So I think this discussion was certainly helpful. I know that we are over time. So I guess any questions that the audience might have or anyone might have, they can reach out to, any of you three or all of you three to get those clarifications. Raja, Tena, do you have any closing thoughts? No, thanks Devangana for moderating this session. For those of you who are watching, the videos of these sessions will be uploaded and processed by about next week on hasgeek.com slash shift elephant. And if you have suggestions for topics, please do leave them in the comments section on hasgeek.com slash shift elephant. We'd be happy to consider. And if you'd like to speak, please reach out to us. We're looking for interesting case studies and data governance and on various aspects of engineering for compliance. That's all we have for today. Thank you very much. Thank you to all the panelists, to Tophik for taking the time out to do this presentation and to Devangana and Rajat for being so supportive in getting this initiative together. 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Over the past decade, illicit trade has grown into a global phenomenon of far-reaching proportions and causing unprecedented human, social, economic, political and environmental harm. It undermines sustainable economic development and has also become the primary source of funding for transnational organized criminal networks. In July and August 2012, Interpol and the World Customs Organization deployed Operation Meerkat across eastern and southern Africa. This operation, in fact, is the first one we can say conducted in this particular sector in this region. We have also to remind it's a joint operation between WCO and Interpol. In the first phase, we have recorded a good number of seizures which were carried out by both police and customs. As we have discussed also during the preparation of this operation, we believe that we have to establish a sustainable approach for this region in order to support the activities which already are undertaken. The focus of Operation Meerkat was to concentrate law enforcement efforts in combating the trafficking of illicit tobacco and alcoholic beverages to product sectors which are highly affected in the region. To most of these seaports, it arrives a lot of products and containers coming from different parts of the world that are going straight to landlocked countries such as Zimbabwe, Zotho, Botswana. So that's why it's so important that the authorities continue performing this kind of strict control on the containers and the merchandise arriving to this region. Our country is losing a lot of revenue every year due to illicit trafficking of cigarettes and other tobacco products. We are losing about between 3 and 4 billion rand each year on revenue which is very important for us to try to obtain to be responsible for this type of crimes. The main challenge that we face is obviously the understanding of the volume of these illicit goods that are coming into the country as well as the monitoring and patrolling our borderlines because we have quite a vast and expansive borderline where these goods come across. So monitoring and enforcing those kind of actions is one of our key challenges at the moment. Operations require several weeks of careful planning, preparation and integrated training with close cooperation and coordination between all the agencies and organizations involved. Police and customs officials work together to patrol land, sea and airport border control points checking vehicles, boats and containers for illicit goods. Raids at marketplaces and shops were also carried out. Operation Meerkat has again revealed increasingly elaborate methods used by transnational organized criminal groups to traffic illicit goods. They prepare a concealed area inside this bus in the underneath part and they hide these tobacco products, these are part of the original consignment that it was hidden. This place it was intervened some weeks ago and it was part of an intelligence gathering from the private sector that gave place to an intervention performed by customs and an investigation that is currently performed by the police. So this whole consignment it's valued around 1 million euros and you see it's a big amount of cigarettes from many different brands and the main problem they have, I mean the infraction that they have is that this is a illicit product but it was hidden from the authority to avoid paying taxes. So that will of course imply that that money won't come for the government and it will go straight to the counterfeiters and to the smugglers. The resources required to police millions of movements of merchandise across borders involve close cooperation between officers skilled in prevention, intelligence, detection and investigation. This logo or seal that you find here that they call the South African diamond it must be included in each one of the legal cigarette packages but we don't see it here so this is an illegal product. The operational coordination units monitored the exchange of information between the participating countries with additional support and tools being provided by Interpol's regional bureaus of eastern and southern Africa. Those arrested during the interventions have their names checked against Interpol databases. They will take the names and they will make the checks in the database but this is only at the international level but our colleagues here in the economic branch and the tobacco area they are also doing the same checks in the national databases. Police carried out 40 interventions during Operation Meerkat which led to the seizure of more than 32 million sticks of cigarettes, 134 tons of raw tobacco and 2844 liters of alcohol. Once the criminal proceedings are concluded the seized goods will be sent to central warehouses where they will be destroyed. Operations like Operation Meerkat is playing a vital role to connect people from the different countries that we can de-heize during these operations and it's also operational sort of interventions that you can do through that. The engagement with the WCO and Interpol in terms of spearheading this kind of operation is very important and it gives us an opportunity to network with other countries to utilize the electronic tools that are available to communicate and share information as well as the seizure data on interdictions that are conducted in the countries. It also gives us an opportunity to share some of the risks that are being identified within countries so the WCO and Interpol's engagement with this operation is very important and we appreciate and we support it. Certainly this operation has shown the possibility, the great potential of the cooperation between police and customs at national level as well as by the relevant agencies internationally. These seizures, some of the seizures recorded are significant and what is also important to underline is that the job is not concluded here, the exchange of information which occurred amongst the different agencies involved certainly will lead to additional seizures in the coming weeks.


India and Nepal share a unique and age-old relationship of friendship and cooperation. The strength of bilateral cooperation is also visible in the power sector where India and Nepal are working on several aspects such as development of generation projects, power transmission infrastructure and power trade. Today, India and Nepal are marking yet another milestone in this field through inauguration of the Solu Corridor project. Solu Corridor is a 90-kilometer long, 132-kilovolt double-circuit power transmission line and substation project. It is implemented by Nepal Electricity Authority and financed by India's line of credit extended through the Exim Bank of India. The Solu Corridor connects relatively remote Solukhumbu, Khotang and Okuldunga districts of Nepal with the National Electricity Grid. It will evacuate electricity from hydro projects in these areas into the National Grid and also supply the rural electrification networks. As one of Nepal's iconic infrastructure projects, Solu Corridor is yet another symbol of India's commitment to the development partnership with Nepal as part of the Neighborhood First Policy.


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Hello and welcome back here to the channel. I'm evil rabbit We're here on for the horizon five going to take a look at the super seven challenge here on the wheel We'll be running these player created challenges to make sure you guys follow me on all social media on the description box below If you're not subject channel, I would appreciate you tap in that subscribe button I've got a grip tires on this car and tap the like button and as well one thing I would also like to mention is go down in the description box below and take a look at the reference code big. Thank you to coldest water for being a supporter of the channel They got an awesome deal going on for their blackout event 20% off your purchase with code blackout at Check out, but make sure you guys click on that reference link You know close water Eddie rabbit was seven so they know who sent you go get your own cold water bottle once again A big thank you to them for being a supporter of the channel and myself We got it always hit sitting here filled with water for hydration because well It gets a little bit warm when you're on a wheel setup sometimes So we are cruising to the super seven in our a98 and then we're going to be hopping into the challenge on a wheel definitely not know what I am going to expect because But what I've heard and seen some of these things can get pretty crazy So they're on grip tires I am going to be doing an episode here comparing all different kinds of tires For drifting and what I feel is the best because this is on a semi-slicks right now and it does handle pretty well It's got some good grip, but it also Does have a little bit of slide so super seven And it looks like the first one storm in a storm in a t-truck So we're going to go full sen I think we're probably going to use paddles for this because I'm sure it has more gears than I do on the shifter Or we'll we'll try it with the shifter first and see where we're at Storm in a t-truck All right, let's see what we can do First one beat the skill Door, okay Not sure how we're gonna do this, but I mean we can just do a whole bunch of like Landscaping and wreckage and we only got a minute to do it. So I don't think this is enough though Okay, let's jump though not remaining. Oh man, we're nowhere near it. How did you get that much of a skill score? In that amount of time You can retry the same challenge card or get a new one I think we're just gonna retry it real quick Because that was uh, interesting how good we got half the score So now I gotta try and figure out how the heck he got that much challenge score in A time limit of one minute make it through. Oh, we did that's not gonna help us I feel like we just need to like Take down a whole bunch of fences and Greens and all kinds of stuff maybe Because I don't even think doing drifting is gonna help I mean we're gonna take the jump and see what that does, but we may have to burn this card because Oh, yeah, I know we're near it this time either Yeah, we may have to burn this card. I am not sure how this challenge Was beaten in this time frame if you guys have beaten this card Let me know Down in the description box because I'd be very curious to know how this card was beaten I do like it But unfortunately I didn't beat it season's changing. All right, so let's go back into Hey, Andrew super seven remember that challenge card you made Well drivers at the festival do would you like a new challenge card? Yes, I'd watch it back Nemo needs to fly always handy to have one up your sleeve. I think we're gonna burn this one too and go to another one Hit 88 miles in a DeLorean and return to 1985 Um, a yes, please. We're gonna hit this one up. We're gonna start with DeLorean 88 miles an hour So I'm assuming we have to hit 88 miles an hour at a certain point And hold it there Should be quite easy to do Hit 88 miles an hour in the DeLorean and return to 1985 All right, let's go Race the speed trap and smash the speed target Oh my gosh this car Holy crap This car is fast Oh my oh this car is a handful Race to the speed trap and smash the target speed so we Don't want to go too high, but I think we're gonna try and get exactly 88 miles an hour But we got to get there first. Oh my god 170 miles per hour In this DeLorean Oh, we're dead. We're dead. We're dead.  We got it. Whoo We did not die. We're still good We are Cruising right now So we've managed to beat it. We didn't go 88 miles an hour But we definitely went way faster than 88 miles an hour in the DeLorean We did find a another challenge card that we're going to do and it is initial de inspired Seeing if we have what it takes to be part of project Drift So we do have the red sun supra Project D This is the way to start so let's see what we actually have to do. I'm hoping it's a drift challenge because well if it's not I'd be very sad Get to the destination in under four minutes Okay So it's a whole downhill run I mean, we probably could have just skipped it down The actual path, but you know, we're gonna take this the correct way And run this how we would actually be running it Let's do a little first person action for this right now a little bit off grass I don't know or a little bit off track. I don't know if that's a good thing Try to minimize use of e-brake here Oh, we're all off track there Good thing we are allowed to stay You know, we're allowed to cut track and grass otherwise we'd be in some serious hurt right now I definitely want to make a stay in your lane challenge again like I did in the other fours I was gonna be making that up and putting it up for you guys Basic stock 880 Now we got some speed going 130 miles an hour We almost money shifted that and we got we got it Running the whole mountain set down here We're still currently only at Two minutes, but we have 4.3 more miles to go I feel like you could cheat the system by just going straight down the mountain I think but we're not going to do that. That would be totally unfair kind of ripping this in a togey slash drift style actually Driving these roads. I've only drifted this road once you guys saw that in earlier videos So trying to grip drive this road in like a togey style It's a bit it's a bit more challenging. I feel than drifting it Probably a good episode for little togey battles if you guys want to see togey battles here Let me know down in the comment section down below. Oh, no Lost control of that a little bit thought I was gonna slide more than it would but it did not There's a lot of challenge cards that are just you know speed like flat out destination, but this one seems a lot more All more fun and I do appreciate the initial deep vibe with it And now I'm getting the red suns on the side of the Superset Pretty good pretty good additive Should have ran like an rx an rx-7. Maybe would have been made this a lot cooler Oh, we stalled it We show oh boy. We got a minute left to get one mile On these s e roads. I still feel like we should be able to complete this no problem at all Maybe not. Oh boy We may have been gripping or drifting a little bit too much. I don't think we're gonna make it Oh, we're gonna go full yeet. We're gonna skip through just to get to our destination That was kind of cheap towards the end, but unfortunately, uh, we were gonna run out of time So we're gonna do probably one more challenge here for today's episode and uh, let's get to it So we were gonna do one more challenge in today's episode But unfortunately my game decided to crash something that they really need to fix I hope the hot face comes out soon So if you guys want to see some more challenge card episodes Make sure you let me know down in the comment section down below And as always, I thank you guys for coming back and watching. I'm evil rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track


The price of premium motorists, otherwise known as fuel, ranges from 590 to 605 Naira in Yanagawa Metropolis. Biosyns say they are yet to recover from the struggles on the removal of fuel subsidy, biting hard on them already, which has affected prices of staple food, transportation and other items. They are calling on the federal government to prioritize the welfare of Nigerians, saying that licences should be given to modular refineries to operate and also resuscitate refineries in the country, in order to have petroleum products available. I don't think the Nigerian government is thinking in this light, because majorly they are paid bubble salaries, the take-boot allowances, all these things that we pay for. As government officials, they provide these utilities and amenities for them, free of charge. Give licenses to modular refineries to operate. This morning when we got to the rich, they transferred us on increased licences we used to pay, 100 Naira is now more 50 or 200. And a lot of people got caught because they were not expecting this kind of sudden increase. Of course, the fallout of this is that more inflation, costs of food, even the previous months, the past month, there is a lot of increased prices of staple food like curry, yahr, etc. Since the removal of subsidy, markets have been very, very down. People cannot buy as before. All they talk about is let them first of all get something to eat. And now that it has increased again, I think there's no doubt that there will be more depression in the bio rate of things. And those who are making laws, inasmuch as they are thinking about themselves, they should think about the common man also. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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All right, a lot to talk about. So we won't have any problem balancing each other. Let me be clear, just to clarify my view, I don't believe inequality is good because it's functional or because it provides incentives. I believe inequality is good because it is just. Because inequality is what happens when you leave people free. If you look around the room, we're all different. We all have different skills, we all have different talents, we all have different incentives, different motivations. Some of us work really, really hard and we get really great grades, some of us cruise a little bit in college. Would you want to give the people who cruise a little bit in college the same grades as those who work really hard and get straight A's? Do you want to give everybody A's even when some people are smart and some people are not so smart? The reality is we're not all equally smart. So inequality is a reflection of our metaphysical nature. It's a reflection of who we are and what we are. It's a reflection of our morality. The fact is we're unequal. Now, some of us even make choices not to be rich, like anybody who's chosen to be a university professor. Right? University professors, particularly- You're already rich, I don't know that. Some might be rich, some of us are not. We're not rich when we started. University professors don't make a lot of money, but they're really smart. They have high IQs. And they could have probably gone, we could have probably gone to Wall Street or somewhere else and made quite a bit of money. Economics, finance, we know math, we can do this stuff, right? But we chose to be teachers because we love, hopefully, I hope this is true of most professors, we love teaching, or we love research. We love the intellectual engagement. And we're willing to give up some money in order to do the fun stuff that we love. Life is not about money, but life is about inequality. Everywhere you look, there's inequality. It's who and what we are as a species, we're different. And if you leave us free, if you leave us free, then we're gonna have different outcomes. So to me, inequality is a feature of freedom. That's why I love it. It's not a bug, to use tech terms, right? It's not a bug of freedom, it's a feature of freedom. Because I love freedom, and that's my key. I love freedom. I don't want people taking my stuff away from me in the name of some morality that they decide is good for me. I wanna be free, and when you leave people free in any society, what you get is inequality. Now let me just address, so that's my moral point. My moral point is because I love individual freedom, because I believe individual freedom is the moral base. That's why I like inequality. Because it's the obvious necessary outcome of leaving people free. Okay, let's get a little bit of economics. What about these correlations? Well, look at the studies. Yes, Zimbabwe has very high inequality and has horrible health outcomes. By the way, how you measure health outcomes is very distorted, and what we're not gonna do a debate hopefully on healthcare, although we could. The United States might have lower life expectancy for a variety of reasons, but if you have cancer, or if you have heart disease, there is no better place in the world because survivability rates for cancer and heart disease in the United States are far higher than anywhere else in the world, far higher, not even close. So the reasons why life expectancy is not, we don't match other countries in life expectancy. But these correlation studies, and it is, it's correlation is not causality, but more than that, it's if you look at the studies and look how they group countries that are unequal and countries that are equal and what they're actually grouping around. They're very dubious. We can talk a lot about monopolies. I would love to stand here and defend Bill Gates. I have no problem, by the way, in a free market of somebody having a very large percentage of the market. I don't think that's an economic problem. I don't think in history we've seen economic problems in a relative free market come out of so-called monopolies. Corporation, I'll end with this. Yes, I love corporations. Capitalism is a system of cooperation. It's not the system of competition. The essential characteristic of capitalism is cooperation. You cooperate with cooperation within a company, but think about, you know who makes some of the stuff in this? This is an apple, by the way. You know who makes some of the stuff in this? Samsung. So they compete? It's good it's flow. It's good it's flow. Apple has protected us in the closing parts of the Samsung. Companies cooperate much more than they actually compete. The essence and the cooperation goes across with customers, suppliers, every way. The essential characteristic of capitalism is voluntary win-win cooperation. I'm out of time. Perfect. Good job. So, let's go back to the song. I'm kind of tendency to think of these things in more quantitative function of the student sort of ways of looking at it. Yaron comes from a libertarian sort of philosophy and I suppose he tends to think in terms of issues of ethics. So that's what you're referring to, and fairness and freedom. So I'll engage a little bit on that, but that's certainly not what I think is the most relevant issue in the discussion of, but it's fair enough, it's in the question there, it's in equality fair. It's a complex question. So a few years back there was a study of captured monkeys. And they had to exchange your rock for a cucumber or a grape. And these are monkeys, not even apes. And the one monkey that kept giving the trainer a rock and got a cucumber after twice of this happening, he gets pissed off and throws the cucumber.  There is an intrinsically unfair exchange that the monkey's capable of understanding. So I think you said that inequality is a feature of the species. So I'm assuming, you're setting the quality, and the difference, but not fair enough. And it's an intrinsic question of our morality, I think you said. So that will make us less than the captured monkeys. From what I understand, we evolved to have a sense of fairness. And I think when they teach political economy in this university, they teach about an experiment, which I forget the name, it's an experiment in which basically they give you $100 for one person, they have to give you the $100 and they make, it's a little game and they make a decision on how much money they give you back. And the notion is that they're not close to 50%, there's extensive studies of this. The old main of game. The old main of game. So somebody was paying attention in that class. And so good for you. So the middle game suggests that we are hardwired to think in terms of fairness. And the fairness is, it's not the fairness you suggest, the fairness of inequality is good, it's the fairness of some degree of equality is a good thing. And which again goes to the notion that, because we live in hunter-gatherer societies for millennia before we came down, right after we came down from the trees. And so that means that we are probably hardwired to think in terms of fairness and that kind of inequality. So when I think of fairness and freedom, freedom is another word that you used. And I have some time. So, and that comes very often in terms of the discussions, for example, of free trade, which I think it's a terrible misnomer. People that think about free trade, and I don't know your positions maybe are very radical in terms of this, but people that are in favor of free trade, they don't necessarily, they're not often against, you know, saying, look, we are gonna decide that you cannot sell us poison. So there is a minimum of regulation that says, you know, the things that are gonna be sold in the market have to have some minimum standards. And that's already managed trade. So we're deciding that for future sanitary rules we're managing trade, which seems to be a reasonable thing to do. So the question we're discussing really is where do you draw the line, you see? So obviously there is an issue of how much equality you want and how much inequality you want, which seems more reasonable debate from my point of view than how much inequality is fair and how much it can hurt. And again, it goes to the issue of causality. I think we go back to those issues that, you know, you sort of wave and dismiss the data set, you know, all the data, you know, it's correlation not causality, forget all of those studies. And there is a lot of problems with studies that's, you know, it's obviously true. But the correlations that I'm suggesting are fairly strong. And, you know, again, and indicate, for example, think of this, let's forget Zimbabwe, which is probably, you know, an outlier anyways and the U.S. is an outlier. But let's think globally. What's the period, you guys know what's the period in the whole history of humanity that we grew faster? It's a period called the Golden Age of Capitalism. So it's a period from the mid 40s to the early 70s. That's also the period in which the welfare state bloomed. So we had more government spending, significant redistribution policies in terms of health, social security, and so on and so forth. And yet, we didn't have a problem in terms of, and I'm precise at five minutes. All right, well, we're still going? So there's a lot there. I don't believe fairness is hard-wired. I believe people's attitudes towards fairness change all the time. And indeed, attitudes towards fairness in Europe are very different than attitudes towards fairness in the United States. A very different attitude towards fairness, I suspect. I don't know this in Latin America, but certainly in Europe, about fairness. Attitudes in Europe and the United States, attitudes towards fairness are very different. And attitudes towards fairness in the United States have changed over time. When surveys were done 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 100 years ago, asking questions about what other people made, people tended to have the attitude, I don't care, or good for them to be enriched. We have become systematically over time more envious society. I believe that has to do with the rise of a certain philosophical attitude in this country that's more collectivistic, more egalitarian in terms of outcome. And again, we've seen this in this last election. We're both candidates, I believe, of both egalitarian and collectivistic, very collectivistic, both of them. So that we stop caring about the individualists. We're not any more individualists, which I think is the core individualist, not a sense of being on a visit either, but in a sense of primarily caring about your own well-being. We stop being a society of individualists, which was the way this country was founded, and it become a society much more like Europe, which is collectivistic group, think I care about my position within the group, rather about my position vis-a-vis relative to my talents, my abilities. I would like to see us attuning to becoming individualists instead of being servants of some collective, which psychologically, I think, distorts our perception of fairness. I am for absolute free trade. FAAD is wrong. The only role of government in my view is to protect us from fraudsters and crooks and criminals and terrorists. But to protect us, to physically protect us, yes, if you're selling poison and pretending it's food, then you should be banned, but that's not managed trade. That's just basic function of the courts and government. 40s and 70s growth, first empirically, economic growth was much faster from the Civil War till 1914 till the break of World War I than the 40s and 70s. Average growth then was higher, but 40s and 70s did not see a massive role of government in spite of the rhetoric. 40s there was a massive role of government because of the war. So a lot of money was put up. But standard of living in the United States, GDP went up during the 40s, which is bizarre. It tells you to suspect GDP numbers, but it went up dramatically during the war. Standard of living collapsed. There was no welfare state in the 40s and 50s. Remember, the welfare state is a creation of the late 1960s. It's a creation of the Johnson administration, 65 to 68. So you had Social Security, but no Medicaid, no welfare state, no massive redistribution title under welfare state. That's all Johnson's great society, 68. And guess what happens right after that? Right after that you get the 1970s, a period of stagflation, massive inflation, horrible economic growth. I always am bewildered by people who look back at the 70s and say, what a wonderful period of time for America. It was one of the most horrible periods in entire American history. It was a dark, violent, horrible era in America. This is why they were willing to elect somebody who was as radical at the time as Ronald Reagan was. It was a depressing period. I lived in the US for a little while in the mid-70s. Wouldn't want to go back then in any respect. Then New York was a dump. Nobody went out at night because it was dangerous. The economy was in a tank. American corporations were losing business in mass in those days to the Japanese. Of course, we demonized the Japanese in those days. We wouldn't let them buy assets in the United States. They were the bad guys, trade barriers. Ronald Reagan passed the number of trade barriers against the Japanese to protect our industries. Now we're doing the same thing to Chinese. They are overpaying for our real estate just like the Japanese overpaid for their our real estate back then. There's nothing about the 1970s to glorify, really nothing, except the music. Music was the best. Popular music was very good in the 70s. So, modeling. Hopefully not disco. No, no, not disco. No, but yeah, yeah, then I correct myself. Not disco, not disco. But hey, we had Pink Floyd. Yeah, that was good, it was good. It was good to be in the 70s. Pump was awful. Off topic, all right. So, if you really want economic growth, a formula simple, it's cut government. Reduce government spending, reduce government regulation, reduce taxation, particularly taxation that is attempting to manipulate. That it is attempting to give favors to some at the expense of others. Which is what Reagan did, tried to do in his tax simplification act. It wasn't that simple, but he tried to do that. All right, so if you want real economic growth, every country that's deregulated cut taxes has done very, very well.


You know during translation, the ribosome works in a cyclic way that all the changes, all the processes take place in cycles. So the ribosomes cycle of aminoacyl, tRNA binding, peptide bond formation and translocation continues until one of the stop codon enters the A site. So this process goes on as soon as any stop codon comes to the A site, the first site in the ribosome. When it comes there, this process stops. It was initially postulated that there would be one or more chain terminating tRNAs that would recognize these codons. However, this is not the case. Instead, stop codons are recognized by the proteins called release factors that activate the hydrolysis of the polypeptide from the peptidyl tRNA. There are two classes of release factors, class one and class two. Class one release factors recognize the stop codons and trigger hydrolysis of the peptide chain from the tRNA in the P site. You know the polypeptide is attached at the P site of the tRNA. So if this polypeptide is released or cut from the P site, it will be released. Prokaryotes have two class one release factors called RF1 and RF2. RF1 recognizes the stop codon UAG and RF2 recognizes the stop codon UGA. While the third stop codon, which is UAA, this is recognized by both the RF1 and RF2. In eukaryotic cells, there is a single class one release factor, which is called ERF1 that recognizes all the three stop codons. Class two release factors stimulate the dissociation of the class one factors from the ribosome after release of the polypeptide chain. So class one release factors will first bind the ribosome and release the polypeptide. And now who will release them? To release them, class two release factors will bind and they will release them. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes have only one class two factor called RF3 and ERF3 respectively. So in prokaryotes, this is RF3 and in eukaryotes, this is ERF3. Like EFG, IF2 and EFTU, class two release factors are regulated by GTP binding and hydrolysis. So you will remember these EFG and EFTU and IF2 are associated with GTP and GTP hydrolysis. So class two release factors are also dependent on GTP hydrolysis. How do release factors recognize stop codons? Because release factors are composed entirely of proteins. So protein RNA interaction must mediate stop codon recognition. Because release factors are proteins and ribosomes are RNA. So if protein and RNA interaction occurs, then this recognition can occur. Experiments in which short coding regions were genetically swapped between RF1 and RF2. Because these RF1 and RF2 have different stop codon specificities. They identified a three amino acid sequence that is critical for release factor specificity. Research of these three amino acids between RF1 and RF2 swaps the stop codon specificity of two complexes. For this reason, this three amino acid sequence is called a peptide anticodon and must interact with and recognize stop codon. A 3D structure of RF1 bound to the ribosome confirms that RF1 binds to the A site of the ribosome. In this structure the peptide anticodon is located very near the anticodon. But it is likely that there are additional protein regions that contribute to codon recognition. So there are some additional regions that contribute to codon recognition. Origin of class 1 release factors that stimulates polypeptide release has also been identified. All class 1 factors share a conserved three amino acid sequence and these three amino acid sequences glycine, glycine, glutamine. And it is essential for polypeptide release. Moreover, the structure of RF1 bound to the ribosome confirms that the GGQ motif is located in close proximity to the peptidyl transferase center. It remains unclear whether the GGQ motif is directly involved in the release of polypeptide from the peptidyl tRNA or it induces a change in the peptidyl transferase center that allows the center itself to catalyze the hydrolysis of polypeptide chain.


Hey everybody what's going on today I'm actually bringing back a series that I haven't done in 9 months and that is the back room's endings series that I used to do back last year I decided to bring it back for the spooky season so if you do enjoy it and you want more make sure to leave a like let me know without any more blabbering let's get into these terrifying endings let me know which one was your favorite and which one was the scariest.


There is a song on repeat in my life. You know, there is power in a name. Let's talk about it today on Hope Today. I'm Amy Schaefer. I'm here with Tom Hollis. Tom, what do we have to talk about? Oh, we were gonna be talking about that. Let me ask you a question first. Are you tired of a superficial relationship with God? Do you long to experience His presence in a more profound and personal way? I'm sure you do. Well, Rabbi Kurt Schneider is with us today to help us dive into the ancient Hebrew scriptures. We're going to learn, Amy, some of those names of God and their symbolic and prophetic meaning. And it's gonna unlock a new dimension in our lives of what it really means to understand God's character, God's purposes. Amy, it's gonna be such a great conversation. Again, this book, To Know Him By Name, it's so powerful. There's so much in here. We're gonna dig in with Rabbi Schneider. Well, think about that. Like, I know you by name. And we've worked together for a decade now. I know kind of where you're gonna go in an interview or what you're gonna say. That's useful. Or what are some of your key scriptures or thoughts or what you and your wife are gonna do.  I know that for sure. But do we know God by name? Do we know Him? Do we know His thoughts, His attributes? What is He thinking about today? What is on His heart today? What is in His name? And honestly, how can we take these names of God and personally apply them to our life in our real everyday life? And that's the thing we're gonna talk to Rabbi Schneider about, that whole idea of the personal relationship with God, that is what is so key. And I just, it's something that I've talked about and I'm sure you as well, all my life I've heard about this is not religion. This is about relationship. And so relationship can only happen with a person, right? And so that's what's wonderful about learning the names of God. Well, God desires to have that personal relationship with each and every one of us. And one of the ways we can draw closer to Him is by understanding His many different names in the Bible. Our good friend, Rabbi Kurt Schneider is our next guest and he's written a new book called To Know Him By Name. He joins us now to share how we can discover who God truly is and how He desires to be for us. Rabbi Schneider, it's great to have you back on Hope today. I'm Amy and I'd rather my sister and the Lord, great to be with you. I love both your spirits and good to be in partnership together to bring God's glory and to bring His Word into the earth. Yeah, I think that one of the things that is, I really wanna leave people with as they digest this material in this book To Know Him By Name, discovering the Hebrew names and titles of God is a point, Tom, that you just mentioned. And that is, it sounds so basic, but if we really let it soak in, it can produce change. And that is that our God that we're in relationship with is a person. Now again, that sounds really elementary, but when you understand that God's a person, here's some of the things that can kind of shift your heart. A lot of times when people think about God and faith in God, it's mostly about what God can do for them. But when we realize that God is a person, that He has emotions, that He has likes and dislikes, that He's a person just like we are, it puts us in a place of not only looking to Him to bless us and meet our needs, which is great, we should do that. But also it helps us realize that because He's a person and could be affected by us, it puts a weight on us and onus on us to make sure that we're treating God correctly. For example, in the book of Ezekiel, the Lord said through the prophet, my people Israel have hurt me because of their adulterous ways. I mean, think about that, the Lord can be hurt. That's a mind blowing to me. When I read that, I thought, man, I've got to wake up. It's not only about me looking to the Lord to feel blessed or to feel His presence or to feel His peace. It's also about me recognizing that I can either bring Him pleasure or I can hurt Him. But switching gears now for a second, when we look into Scripture concerning the Hebrew names and titles of God, there's a difference between a title and a name. So that for example, in the book of Bear Sheet, which is the Hebrew word for Genesis, we read in the first verse there, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And that same chapter in Genesis goes on to say, the Lord is speaking in the first person and he says there, let us break man in our image. So I just want to take that apart for a second. When we read in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the Hebrew word there for God in the original in the Torah is Elohim. And Elohim is the plural of the Hebrew word El. El means God. But again, we don't just read El there, it's Elohim, it's the plural form of El. So why is God referring to himself in plurality? Well, when you add Eem onto the end of El, it does two things. Number one, it puts emphasis on the El. So the Lord is saying, I'm not just a God, I'm the God. But also again, it creates plurality and connect that with the fact that the Lord goes on to say, let us make man in our image. The point is, is that even though God is one, he's multi-dimensional and there's relationship within the Godhead. That's why the Lord said, let us make man in our image. That's why he's Elohim, God in plural form, one God, but multi-dimensional. Now, as a Jewish person, our most famous declaration is the Shema, here who Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. But when we speak about one there, Ahad, we're not talking about necessarily a singular unity because the Bible says that a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two man and wife shall become one. It's the same Hebrew word, Ahad, that's used in the Shema. So God is multi-dimensional. The fact that he's one does not mean that there's not community of relationship within himself. God is love, and in order for love to be able to be love, it has to love somebody. And so the son has always been in the bosom of the father. Yeshua of Nazareth has always been in the bosom of we say in Hebrew, Yudhe Vavhe, that's God's covenant name, which Jewish people will not say because we feel it's too sacred, but most submitted language scholars believe that God's memorial name that he revealed to Moses in Exodus three and Exodus six, composed of the four Hebrew letters, Yudhe Vavhe, is pronounced a breathy yon wet. And so the Lord, and I'm gonna wrap this up in a second and give you guys a chance here, but in Exodus three and Exodus six, the Lord comes to Moshe to Moses and says, Moses, your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, knew me as El Shaddai, which is God Almighty. But by my name, the Lord said Yahweh, which is about 7,000 times in the Hebrew Bible, the Lord said, they did not know me. This is my memorial name forever. Yeah, wow, there is so much just in that and what you shared there. I love it from the first chapter of the Bible, the personal nature of God. But let me ask you about Yahweh because you say in the book that most of our English translations will say the Lord, we'll translate that the Lord, which is good in and of itself, but inadequate to express the meaning of the personality and personhood of God. Could you unpack that for us? Well, I think you're right. I mean, I think that's the main thing. I think that God is a person and the Lord not only reveals His name as Yudhe Vavhe as Yahweh, but then we have places where we find what He likes and what He doesn't like. What is nature is? So for example, Moses said to the Lord, show me your glory. And the Lord said, Moses, you can't see the fullness of my glory and live, but go in the cleft of the rock and call upon my name and I'll make all my goodness pass before you. So Moses, Moshe goes in the cleft of the rock, he calls on the name Yahweh, Yahweh God. And as he's calling, Tom, Amy, on the Lord by name, it says, the Lord passed by him and proclaimed His name to Moses and then revealed to Moses who He was. He said, I am Yahweh, Yahweh God, compassionate and gracious, full of loving kindness, mercy and truth. Yet I will by no means leave the guilty go unpunished. So Yahweh is a person and He reveals who He is. He says, I am compassionate. And it's interesting that the Hebrew word for a compassionate is Rahum and it actually carries the idea of a mother nursing her infant. And so compassionate is a feminine word. So even though God is, we refer to him as a he, he also is a she, God is composed of both the feminine and the masculine. And I love the fact that the first thing the Lord does in revealing His nature to man is reveal Himself in the tender language of a mom, a little mom, a mom taking care of her infant child. He's a person and the more we become sensitive to who He is as a person, the more we're gonna be able to relate to Him and be sensitive to Him so that we can truly experience what it means have intimacy with our Creator. That is so good. Rabbi, when you were studying for this book to know Him by name, to dive in, to dig in and to study the names of God, which name really resonated with you? Which name did you take and you just took it and you applied it to your life? And how did you do that? Well, thank you. Really good question to me. I would say right now, because I think, you know, seasons shift, but right now my main joy in the Hebrew covenant names of God, it's Yahweh Rofecha, Yahweh Rofecha taken from the book of Exodus. It means the Lord your healer. And Yahweh revealed this name as Yahweh Rofecha when the children of Israel were getting sick because they were drinking poisoned waters from a place called Marah. And the Lord called, Moses called upon the Lord and the Lord told Moses to put a Hissa branch in those polluted waters that was making his children sick. And when Moses put the Hissa branch in the water, the Lord cleansed the water, healed his people and then said, I am the Lord that healeth thee. I am Yahweh Rofecha or Yahweh Rafa. And so for me, Amy, to answer your question, I've been battling a skin issue.   I mean, you get an infection, your body creates antibodies, but even beyond the natural, God is a supernatural God that will release healing into our bodies. And he wants us to look to him to be the source of our healing. So that right now is one that really I take to heart. And of course, Yeshua Jesus, who is the image of the Father, who embodied the Father, right? Yeshua said, if you've seen me, you've seen Yahweh, you've seen the Father. And what did he do? He went about healing people of every cup of sickness and every cup of infirmity and disease. Well, we are talking with Rabbi Kurt Schneider. He's written the book to know him by name discover the power and promises revealed in the Hebrew names and titles of God. You haven't divided up into some different categories. And the one I wanted to jump into now are the Hebrew names of Messiah. Could you just unpack that for us? You have several of them listed here. Mashiach is the anointed one. Could you just sort of unpack a couple of those for us? What we've heard them before in many cases, what are the significance in relationship for us? Great point. So Mashiach, as you mentioned, means the anointed one. Yeshua, we say in Hebrew, Yeshua Ha, means the Shia, Yeshua Ha Mashiach, Yeshua the anointed one. So in Greek, the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Mashiach is Christ. So the traditional English way of referring to Jesus to Yeshua is Jesus Christ. But I know that most of our listeners today know that Christ is not Yeshua or Jesus' last name. It's just the Greek form of Mashiach. So it's Jesus, the anointed one. And the reason the New Testament's written in Greek is because it was the most common language of the world at the time and the purpose of the creators at the news of his salvation which spread throughout the entire world. And so the language that would create the greatest impact and breakthrough to carry the good news of Messiah to the world was Greek. And so we say Christ, but the Hebrew originally was Mashiach. One of the Hebrew names of the Lord that I also like is the branch. Yeshua is referred to as the branch in scripture and messianic prophecy. And when you think of the branch, Yeshua speaks of himself being the life of the father that's been given to the world. And as we abide in him, we receive his life. And so it's a flow. It's a flow of divine order. Everything is emanating from the father, from the creator. And the father makes himself available to those of us that he's created in his own image, Jew and Gentile alike through his branch which goes into the earth who's Yeshua.  And one of the things about Hasidism is that they believe that you can relate to God just by talking to him and being emotionally and they tried to make God accessible to everybody. And one of the things in their teaching, and I'm not saying this is my belief system, I'm just helping our viewers to understand is they believe in something that's called the Sephirot which are 10 emanations they believe that come from the Godhead. So according to Hasidic Judaism, men connect to God by tying into the Sephirot. The Sephirot are like a transformer. Like you can't tie into the full power so you tie into the Sephirot. But we don't speak about Sephirot. We speak of Yeshua, that Yeshua is the one that made it possible for us to approach and have a relationship with the all-powerful Father. And Yeshua is referred to in Hebrew as the Sarshalon, the Prince of Peace. And that's so powerful because God is peace. That is wonderful and so good. You know, in the time we have left, maybe you could help someone out there who's watching who's kind of got a stained glass view of Jesus or a God that's in a book somewhere, impersonal. What would you say to encourage that person right now? Maybe they're hearing some of this for the first time. What would you say to that person to encourage them to dig deeper and to know God as he is? Well, the first thing I would share is, you know, just open your heart. If you're seeking right now, but just don't know. Just open up your heart and say, God, if you're real, would you please show me yourself? And if Yeshua, if Jesus is really the way to you, please reveal that to me. I want to believe you. I want to follow you, but I just don't know. I ask you, Father God, I ask you God to give me understanding, give me revelation and reveal yourself to me. So the first thing I would encourage a person that's seeking sincerely to do is just to open your heart and pray and keep praying. Don't just ask one time. Continue to pray every day because it's obvious that there's a God. Everybody deep down inside, whether they even realize it or not, at the deepest level, they know there's a God because God makes it evident to humanity. Deep in our heart, we have a conscience. And then secondly, when we look into the world, those of us that have been gifted with the ability to see with their eyes, we see the reality of God, a sky that goes on forever, the beauty of His creation. All these things are manifestations of who He is. So everybody deep inside knows, but we have to open up our heart and say to our Creator, Father God, would you please have mercy on me and show me yourself? And I would encourage people to get this book because I think it's written in a non-religious way. I don't think it's going to turn anybody off. And I think people will be able to respect what they read and glean from it. The book is to know Him by name, discover the power and promises revealed in the Hebrew names and titles of God. Rabbi Kirchner, thank you for the richness. Thank you for the depth of everything that you've shared today. It's been fantastic. Pah, Mamie, I love you both. A pleasure to do interviews with you guys because you guys really have the heart of the Lord and I bless you guys. Thank you very much for having me today. Thank you so much. Powerful conversation. Well, now it's time to check in with Sidney and see what's taking place on this week's edition of The Glory Hour. Hey Hope Today family, are you ready to march into all your call to be, especially when it comes to authenticity? You know, when it comes to our spiritual journey, we want to be our true authentic selves and that's why I am super excited for my conversation I had for this episode of The Glory Hour that you don't want to miss that you're dropping this Wednesday, 3 p.m. on Cornerstone Telstra Network's YouTube channel, also on Spotify. Had a conversation with my mentor, somebody who means the world to me, Pastor Deon Edmonds. She is a teaching pastor at Macedonia Church of Pittsburgh and here's just a little taste of what she had to say. How can I be vulnerable with you if I can't be vulnerable with my maker? And so there's always gonna be this level of pretense, if you will, with other people if I'm not first and foremost vulnerable with him. So it's my vulnerability with him that it's in that quiet place with him as I'm vulnerable with him where he begins to peel back the layers and he takes off the mask and he gives me permission to be myself and to know that in being my authentic self I'm still fully seen by him and I'm still fully loved by him and I'm still fully known by him and that's not predicated on what I've done or haven't done. That is based on his finished work of the cross. I'm so excited for this conversation. It literally just transformed, uplifted my spirit and took me to new places that I had to even ponder and sit on when it comes to my faith and being all God has called me to be. So please can't wait to join you, join me and that we can go on this journey together with Pastor Dionne Edmonds talking about authenticity, talking about vulnerability and talking about letting God do the deep, deep work within so that we can be all God's called you to be. So I'll see you on the glory hour. Love ya. I feel like we just went to Hebrew school today talking about, you know, to know him by name. I mean, what a great question. You know, do you know him by name? I was recently at a pastors conference and he had the best illustration. I thought, I'm just gonna share it with you because we love you so much. He had a fishbowl on the pulpit and these cute, gorgeous little fish were swimming around and while he was talking, he just grabbed one of the fish out and he just set it on the table and we're all like, I mean, the fish is flopping, and he just kinda kept it on the table and then it kinda laid down and we can't focus on anything he is saying because we're just like, put the fish back in the water. We're just like, save the fish. Finally he grabbed the fish, threw it back in the water. The fish started swimming around and he said, I saved the fish. And we're all like, oh, thank God. And he said, the problem is, is that you're more concerned about the fish dying than you are about your neighbor, your coworker, your friend, and so I thought, maybe we need to take time today. Today's a great day. Talking about, do we know God by name? Like, do I know him? Do I really know him? It's a great time to stop and say, how are you with your relationship with God? You know, the gospel is the greatest story ever told. The gospel is the greatest love story ever told. It's a story of redemption. It's a story of salvation. It's, we were separated from God. Our sin separated us from a loving father. And he said, I've got a solution for this. I'm gonna rescue back my man. I'm gonna rescue back my woman and I'm gonna do that through my son, Jesus Christ. And all we have to do today is believe in the Son and then we become children of God. I wanna read you one scripture and then I wanna pray together. In John 1, 11 through 13, it says, even in his own land and among his own people, the Jews, he was not accepted. Only a few would welcome and receive him, but to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they needed to do was to trust him, to save them. And all those who believe this, they're reborn. You're reborn. It's so easy, not by a physical rebirth, but they were born of God. That's all you have to do today. You just have to believe. You just have to receive. You just have to ask and it's not on your works or what you do, but it's all on what Jesus, the Messiah did for us. And Rabbi Schneider asked a question in this book. He says, what is our response to know him by name? Like what's our response? Our response is that he is my Lord and he is my master.  He wants to save you today. So let's stop everything and let's make it right with God. Will you pray this prayer after me? Will you just say, dear heavenly father, I need you. I know I need you. I need your love. I need your forgiveness. I need your acceptance.  Lord, I wanna be a child of God.  I wanna know that I know that you are my Lord and my master. So God, right now I ask you to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins and make me born of God. And I thank you today that I receive and I believe when I pray in Jesus' name, amen. And if you prayed that prayer, I want you to give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. We wanna help you with those next steps in your journey and your walk with God. That is so good. And I love that verse because it says as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God. It's not about whether you went to church enough or you prayed enough or you read the Bible enough or you did good works enough. Those are all important, very, very important and we should be about them. But it's, have you received him? Have you received him? Cause that's how you become a child of God. It's by his grace, by faith in his grace that things change. Things change forever in us. We're not the same. We're a new creature in Christ when we come to him.  Reach out to him.  Discover what God's word has to say about healing and deliverance. Bestselling author John Eckhart makes topical Bible study easy with his new book, scriptures for faith, deliverance and healing. 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