At a time when budgets have soared too high, leave it to a former pilot to teach how to bring them back down to Earth. He's been learning about and implementing a program the Army calls Lean Six Sigma since he landed his last aircraft. So what is it? So I've actually had to explain this to my mom a couple of times because she asked what I'd do. When it comes to LSS, we just say it's an easy answer, it's a process improvement methodology. And in English, that means... It's a set of tools that you can use to evaluate your process within your organization to determine the ways that we can improve it. Contract clerk? In current times, we really look at that cost factor. So can we save ourselves money by looking at the process and using the tools within the methodology of LSS or Lean Six Sigma to make that more cost effective? Apparently they can. $22 million more cost effective just last year. That's what Bachman and his team saved the Army by improving processes, and the Army took notice. So we won the best Lean Six Sigma program for all the Army for the two-star level organization below. It's the third straight year the 21st Theater Sustainment Command has taken top honors for their program. Now, cost-savers from around Europe are coming to learn how to implement their own Lean Six Sigma programs. Well, I think in these fiscally challenging times that we all need to look at our processes, you know, if we're going to be challenged to do more with less, then you have to find more efficient and effective ways to do business. If the military can navigate through the turbulence of the current fiscal environment, it'll be soldiers and civilians like the ones in this classroom who help guide budgets to a safe landing. For U.S. Army Europe, Jesse Granger, Kaiserslautern, Germany. So we'll go at 115. Thank you. Thank you.


We're talking about runtime security in the cloud and the world. But first of all, just to add to what you're trying to say, my name is Illyria Yaliddi, but you can call me Illyria for short, consider the full-time part of the house when you're in. And in the cloud innovation, I have container solutions. I also created something called Get-Go with Kubernetes, where I help people learn Kubernetes by workshops and work with the organizer. And I'm mostly a preacher, so when I'm not in tech, I'm preaching. Yeah. So let's dive in runtime security. The first thing, when we talk about security, a lot of things come to mind. You want to have secure systems. That's a key thing. And a lot of people talk about this thing that you call shifting security to the left, so that we can have security not as an afterthought of things that we do. Security should be primary in any system that we're developing or building, including our infrastructure. Security should not be an afterthought. So you can have, when you build systems, you think of authenticating users. If you're a software developer, you definitely want to do that. You probably want to have some authorization processes in place, as well as authentication processes. If you're an infrastructure engineer, you want to do things like static analysis of your manifest files to ensure that you don't handle vulnerabilities.  You do a lot of things before hitting production. And that's very good. We should always do that. Now, there is also the part that we talk about runtime and runtime security. So now my slide, yeah, I made a mistake in that slide. So runtime. So runtime has to do with, now we're live. Now when production, we are running. Our systems are off and functional. But how secure are we in production? We've done all the initial checks, like we mentioned, put authentication in place, you've scanned your manifest files, your images, all of those things. But we're live. How do you check for issues in production? How do you check that things are not working as they should not in production? That's where runtime security comes into play. And so runtime security has to do with observing and protecting software as they run. That goes very straightforward. So you're running your systems, and you want to ensure that you're seeing things are happening.  So that's where runtime security comes into play. So I'll give an example. There's this thing called zero-day vulnerability. And what this refers to is vulnerability attacks. Vulnerabilities that happen when your application vendors ships an application. And that application is running in broad. But the vendor did not take, of course, they do all of the initial checks. And they find these are the errors, these are the bugs, these are the things that you should be aware of. We have a new version. These are the errors in the old version. But zero-day vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities that the vendor is unaware of, because things can be in production. And there could be attacks. You cannot prevent, you certainly cannot be aware of every possible attack that would come into your system. So that's where zero-day vulnerability comes into play. And for this kind of thing, and this is just one use case for runtime security, we want to be able to detect things on the fly. We want to be able to know how our systems are doing on as we go and protect against those things. So that's runtime. That's where runtime security plays a very major role. And I don't have too many slides, of course. But I'm going to be talking about Falco. Now, Falco is a tool from its part of the CNCF landscape. Now, of course, it's one of the tools that helps with runtime security. And so how did that come across Falco? Just a few weeks or months ago, I believe, I was taking the certified Kubernetes security exam. And I saw that Falco was part of the things on the curriculum. It means, OK, what that means, first of all, is that for the CNCF to put this in the certification, it means that it's a very important tool in the CNCF landscape. And runtime security is also very paramount in the cloud native world. So you can think of it this way. You have your Docker image, let's say Docker image, or whatever container system you're using. You have your image. And your application has been gone good. You push this image to a registry. Somebody takes that image and begins to just run containers out of your image. So the containers are running fine. Now, there could be, if you had done checks, like static analysis on your manifest files, you probably would have spotted things like, your container is going to be running as root. And you might have blocked all of those things. So you might have seen some of those issues and fixed them. But say you fixed all of those. And you find out that there is an attack on your system. Something is happening and that should not be happening. So FACO helps you with those kinds of issues, those kinds of problems. So FACO gives you something called the ruleset. You can have rules and you can detect operations, certain operations based on the rulesets that get you. You can assert certain conditions. You can check that this is happening. This should not happen. For instance, if via a container, something is being written to a particular directory, and it's not supposed to write to that directory, perhaps if it's a mutable container, which you don't have mutable images, mutable containers. So if your container is writing to a particular directory, maybe any directory that you just filled in a secure directory and shouldn't be tampered with, FACO can specify in a FACO ruleset that if something is being written to this directory, alert me, all right? You can definitely send alerts to whatever system you want. You can have alerts on Slack, you can have alerts wherever. But the beauty about it is that you can tell when things are happening as you shouldn't, you know? By default, FACO gives you a ruleset that blocks a lot of things, all right? So you can now enable certain things. So by default, you're secure, all right? Then you can now decide to enable, based on the rules that you set, enable certain functionalities in your system at runtime, all right? But whatever is blocked, FACO detects and alerts you that this is what's happening in your system. Let me see. Yeah, so FACO was created by Sysdig. It's now a CSF project for runtime threat detection engine. Like I said earlier, it analyzes the behavior of the system and compares it with a set of rules and triggers and alerts to the positive match is found. So FACO can, I'll just give some rundown. Of course, my slides are not too much. I'm doing a lot of talking.  Can you run it on your bare metal servers and things like that? Yeah, I'll get into that, all right? But first of all, let's talk about the event sources. How does FACO get its events? How does it know what's happening? So there's this thing called system calls in Linux, all right? And what that means is that as a Linux user, you're probably trying to perform an operation. Maybe you're reading a file or you're writing to something, you're writing to this, whatever operation you're doing. So in Linux, all right, and I know there was a Linux talk just a few, I think a few talks back, my great. So Linux has this thing called system calls where I'm trying to write to a file, all right? But underneath, what's happening is that a system, a call is being sent, all right, to carry out that operation on my behalf. I'm just writing to a file, but there are some system calls, there are some functions in the Linux kernel that does the actual work, all right? So FACO, now, so whatever I'm doing on my Linux environment, my Linux machine or device or, you know, a Linux kernel, whatever I'm doing, it has a system call underneath, all right? And so how good would it be if I can track, I can have a look at those calls, all right, those system calls and be able to make meaning from them. So for instance, I get a system call, I'm not an expert, I'm by no means an expert on the Linux kernel, all right? But say you have a function that maybe is read, for instance, in the Linux kernel. Now, I'm trying to read the file, that function is triggered, all right? And what FACO does is it takes that call, it takes the argument that call, and it builds a story and it gives you this information. So you can now say, oh, okay, this particular container, for instance, is trying to write or is trying to read from this directory, this particular file. So you have all of that detection and in your research, you might have specified that, okay, if somebody is trying to read from this directory, that's probably an attack, okay? Now, this is runtime. It's not something baked into your image, it's not, this is at runtime. Something is happening at runtime and they're looking at, they are trying to read up files from your system, read up documents from your system. And FACO can give you all of these things on the fly as you go. So this is runtime security, that's where system calls come into play, all right? Linux system calls. So now you can also, FACO can also get, because if you're using Linux, for instance, now this is where, this is why we have these different areas, all right? Where you can get events from. So typically you take FACO and you install FACO on your machine, all right? You just take the binary and you begin to exclude the binary on your machine and it begins to detect system calls.  You don't have access to the control plane, for instance. You can't access it to the control plane and put FACO there, all right? So what you just have is, you just have Qubectl, you're talking to your cluster somewhere, all right? So FACO can also retrieve events from Kubernetes audit events, all right? So that helps you in your Kubernetes environment. And of course, you can also read up cloud logs, FACO can read up activities from cloud logs too. So that's very good. Before I go for that, let me just say this. This is my thinking and I think this is preferable. It's better to have, so look at this scenario. If you have Kubernetes running on premises, for instance, all right, on your servers, you have a couple of servers distributed and Kubernetes running there. I would rather install, you know, have FACO running on those servers than in Kubernetes. Now, the reason for this is if I get an attack on my Kubernetes cluster, FACO is gone. There's no detection anymore, all right? But if I have FACO on my servers, just pay on my servers, all right? Even if something happens to my Kubernetes environment, my Kubernetes cluster on those servers, FACO can still detect those things. So I still get, I get more information as to what happened before things went bad. So I just wanted to chip that in. If you have access to your host machines, I'd advise that you put FACO there directly. All right, I think I have about 10 minutes more. Yeah, so I picked some resources. I was going to go into a demo, all right? But because I'm stuck somewhere, but there's this tool by FACO on LensyStick.com, FACO 101, where you can, you know, have a look at FACO and see it at runtime. You can have hands-on tutorials with FACO. So I mentioned several things that FACO has a new set that you assert things against. You assert behaviors against. It has that new set. And of course, Yamal Pao's will help you do this. And yeah, so this is all that I have for this talk. Was very short, but I'm glad that I was able to do it regardless. So thank you so much. Awesome, awesome. That was a great presentation, Hilary. I guess it's time for questions. So if anyone have any questions, please feel free to drop it on the YouTube chat. Yeah, Hilary would be happy to answer all of your questions. And I can also, I can also answer questions. Yes. You can find me on Twitter, of course. Exactly, yes, Hilary is super active on Twitter. So you can find me at Hilary. I would of course, this handle on the chat as well. Since there are no other questions, I guess that's it for Hilary. Yes, thank you so, so much Hilary for joining us. This was super insightful talk. And yeah, we hope to, of course we hope to see you in the next one. And yeah, keep doing the play. In better conditions, hopefully. Yes. Also. Thank you so much. Awesome. Okay, in case you missed that, that was a session from Hilary on runtime.


If the eye truly is the window to the soul, then is it possible to invent a technology that can tell whether or not this soul is being truthful or dishonest? For years, the words polygraph and lie detector have been synonymous. The FBI has used the polygraph since 1939. No other viable proven solution to detect deception has emerged to join the polygraph until now. In 2002, two scientists from the University of Utah wondered if changes in eye movements and pupil size while reading and answering questions about a crime would reveal deception. They asked themselves, would changes in cognitive load affect the eye in such a way that we can capture those changes and be as accurate as the polygraph in predicting whether or not someone is being deceptive? Thus, the idea for the world's first ocular motor deception test was born. Over the next 10 years, a science team was formed. Two of these scientists are internationally known and highly respected in the polygraph community. In fact, in 1991, they were credited with inventing the world's first computerized polygraph system. In addition, various research studies cited in dissertations, a peer-reviewed article in a major psychology magazine, and field tests validated the effectiveness of this new deception detection technology, now known as Eye Detect. To bring this product to the market, a company, Converis, was formed. In April 2014, Converis president and CEO Todd Mickelson announced the worldwide release of Eye Detect at a press conference in Mexico City, resulting in more than 30 news stories.  It detects deception through a detailed analysis of the behavior of the individual's eyes. Across a series of field validation studies, Eye Detect correctly classified deceptive and truthful examinees with 85% accuracy. Eye Detect is ideal for efficiently and accurately screening potential hires and periodically screening current employees for lying, stealing, accepting bribes, using drugs and or divulging confidential company information. It's also ideal for organizations who do polygraph testing who want to offer an additional valuable service. Eye Detect works in three simple steps.  Second, the information from the test is captured, encrypted and uploaded to a secure server in the cloud. And third, proprietary algorithms interpret the data and provide a report with a credibility index score. The ease of use and Eye Detect's high accuracy make it an invaluable tool for helping prevent crime and fraud in your workplace. But more importantly, it helps preserve a culture of honesty and integrity. Never before have companies and governmental organizations had access to a deception detection tool this powerful. In addition to its incredible accuracy, here are eight more reasons why Eye Detect is such a revolutionary technology. It's fast. An Eye Detect exam can be completed in just 30 to 40 minutes. It's simple to use and administrator can be trained in as little as 60 minutes. It's incorruptible and unbiased. The human-based examiner element is eliminated. It's non-invasive. No cables or sensors to attach to the examinees. It uses bank-level encryption. It's scalable. An Eye Detect administrator can manage and process up to 14 tests per day. This makes it ideal for large groups. An Eye Detect station is portable. If your company has multiple locations, it can easily be transported to these locations. And you receive complete analytics and reporting within minutes of a test being completed. Theft and fraud are the nemesis of businesses worldwide. It's estimated the typical organization loses 5% of revenues annually to fraud. This translates to a potential projected global fraud loss of nearly $3.7 trillion. And now employers, as well as governments and law enforcement agencies, can use Eye Detect's innovative technology to successfully combat theft and fraud. Eye Detect is the new deception detection technology you've been waiting for. Finally, a cost-effective, accurate method for quickly prescreening potential new hires as well as periodically assessing the honesty of your current employees, thus enabling you to build and maintain a culture of integrity and trust. Yes, with Eye Detect, it is possible to now literally see truth. Never before have companies or governmental organizations had access to a deception detection tool this powerful. For more information, email info at converis.com.


Hello, hello, hello. Wait on. Just testing, testing to see what am I actually reporting. Thank you. Hello, this is Dr. Jeffries. In this video, we'll be learning about Python dictionaries and how we can work with them. This allows us to work with key value pairs. When I say we'll be working with key value pairs, these are two linked values where the key is a unique identifier, where we can find our data. And the value is that data. So we can actually think of it almost like a real physical dictionary, where we look up definitions. So in that example, each word that we look up will be the key and the definition of that word will be the value. So let's go ahead and look at some examples and how we want to represent dictionaries. Go ahead and take a look at some examples. So in order to define a dictionary, you just basically use these curly brackets. And that defines our dictionary. Right now, that's just an empty dictionary. But so in order to put some variables in there, I'll say a key of name, separate that by colon. And then we can go in there and say, John, say we want to go put another key in, maybe age, age colon, let's see, age colon, 24, let's go 18 to separate the by another comma, let's say class, class, let's say what, cryptography. OK, so this is our definition, our dictionary that we've just defined. Adding, let's print out our student. And as you can see, we've got the name John, age, 18, class, cryptography. All right? So if we save that and run it, we can see that it prints out all of our keys. Let's just get a value of one key so we can add square brackets after our dictionary name and specify the key that we want to access. We can also print anything else that we want from that dictionary. Let's put in the other key, brackets, let's say age, run that. OK, I'll say we wanted to maybe add another item to our dictionary. We would simply just say student, and if we want to add that, say maybe a bracket, see class, what else could we add here? I'm going to say if we wanted to see maybe a block it. OK, so then if we can do the print student again. You see there with block C has been added to our dictionary. So let's say I wanted to overwrite something. So say I wanted to change that name, student name equals Susan, OK? Overwriting that, again, we now look at our dictionary. Again, we'll see that the name John has been overwritten by Susan to certain things. So here we're printing the entire dictionary. But I could also just print the name, put that in brackets within there, and then I prints out the name. So just that particular key in the dictionary itself. Now, if you try to print something that does not exist, we will get an error. So let's say I said print student Greg, OK? Well, Greg does not exist in our dictionary. So we'll get this trace back error of Greg. One other thing to note here is that the values can be any type. But the keys can only be certain types. And there are different types we can use for that. But most commonly the keys are strings or numbers. So in Python, you can even mix the different types of keys. So let's say we want to add a new key, 10, with the value of 102. So let's go in and write our brackets here. So let's say student 10 equals 100. OK, so then if we print student again, see that we'll have that 100 is in there. But that kind of comes in handy if you want to say start adding actual CSS student 1 equals the actual word 1, right? Student 2 equals the word 2, something we want to do adding to our dictionary itself. OK, so now we go do a little print. Print student, see we've got 1 and we've got 2. So many things you can do with dictionaries with respect to the different types of key values. Going back to this here where we printed out, we tried to find an actual key that was not in the dictionary and we got an error value because it didn't exist. Well, we may not always want to throw an error. We just want to return none or default value. So to do that, we can use the dictionaries get method. So instead of accessing this key like we tried to do here, we can use the get method and get the name. And so if that key already exists, let's just try to go ahead and get something that we know does exist. So let's see, if I get a name, then that'll return Susan. But let's say we go and try to get something that we know does not exist. What that will return? Let's say, let's go get the, so if I go try and get that value that doesn't exist, then that method returns an error, returns none instead of an error. We can also specify default value for keys that don't exist. So we can just pass that default value as a second argument to the method. So if we put a comma here and a string, let's see here what we get. If I go here and say print student dot get, Greg, and let's just say I want to return a value of C. Let's say not found. So now when we run that cell, then the method returns not found. So that's a good way to give some more meaning to our error type of messages. Some other operations that we can do on dictionaries. Let's retype our dictionary here so we know what we have. So if you wanted to delete an item, delete a key. So we go delete student. The name. All right, we print that student a dictionary again. You see that name and its associated value are no longer in the dictionary. OK, so we want to get the length of a dictionary. So let's go length dictionary here. Boom. We get six. Why six? Well, the one, two, three, four, five, six items in the dictionary. All right. So say we want to see if an item is in the dictionary. So the way we would do that is. Oh, we type in Susan and students. So we want to know is this Susan in the dictionary student? No, because remember we had taken Susan out of there. Well, let's see. Let's go check for something that's actually in there. So let's go cryptography, cryptography, and student. That should return a true. No? The reason why that's false is cryptography is in the dictionary. However, cryptography is a value. We check membership. It only looks for keys. So if I wanted to see membership, I would have to say class, right? Class is the key student. And that should give us return us a value of true, because that indeed is in the dictionary student. And say you want to delete all the items from the dictionary. So we would just use the clear method. And that should clear it out. Print student, see what we get here. Nothing. It's the empty. An empty dictionary. And if we just wanted to get rid of that dictionary altogether, then we would just say delete event. And now we should definitely get an error message because there is no longer a dictionary by the name of student. Yep, not defined. So there's a few things about dictionaries that we'll be utilizing and going forward in the course. But for now, dictionaries are going to be very useful, or we can go and look at our key value pairs of things that we may want to utilize in our cryptography endeavors. That's it for now. We will talk to you soon.


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Hello, and welcome to this special discussion here on DM25. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date of enormous symbolic importance in Europe, marking one of the darkest chapters in human history. It's a day of particular significance in Germany, of course. The so-called remembrance culture, Germany's reckoning with the legacy of the Nazi periods and the industrial scale genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime have been much lauded internationally. But today, parts of this culture are increasingly coming into question by many, with charges of anti-Semitism being used by German institutions to silence voices, speaking up for the rights of Palestinians in particular. The targets of these charges are disproportionately Palestinian themselves, Arabs more broadly, and Jews. On the international stage, meanwhile, Germany's long, steadfast support for the state of Israel, which remains unshaken, even as the civilian tolling Gaza continues to climb to ever more obscene numbers, has raised the ire of many. The support, of course, is again justified by the legacy of the Holocaust and the German state's resulting sense of responsibility towards the security of the Jewish state. What about Israel itself? How has the memory of the Holocaust helped shape Israeli society? And how does it influence the Israeli government's words and actions? To discuss all this, it's my pleasure to welcome Udi Ras. Udi is a doctoral fellow at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, and a board member of Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East in Germany. Udi, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Lukas. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. I kept my intro for you deliberately short. I know it doesn't do justice to everything that you do into your life history, so if you could just fill in the blanks that I left out for us. My name is Udi. I was born and raised in a beautiful port city named Haifa, a city which is located right between Tel Aviv and Beirut. I live in Berlin since 2010. Before that, I lived in Mecklenburg-Fochmann in north of Germany. Berlin is my home in the last 10 years, or even more. We're gonna get into your activities in Germany more in depth, especially since October, because you've been involved in a lot of different things, and a lot of things have happened since then. But before that, something that you did here in Germany for a little while was you worked at the Jewish Museum, right? And we're gonna get into the specifics of how you ended up leaving your position there in a minute, because it actually made headlines here in Germany, even outside of Germany. But before doing that, I just wanted to ask you, how did that experience help shape your perception of Jewish life in Germany and of the Holocaust in particular, and this remembrance culture that exists here? Yeah, I mean, the case of the Jewish Museum is very interesting when we talk about how knowledge about Jews and Judaism nowadays in Germany is being institutionalized. It's important to keep in mind that when we institutionalize knowledge, we actually exercise mechanism of power. We say what is belong within this institution and what doesn't belong there. So the case of the Jewish Museum is a particular case that shows us how in Germany knowledge about Jews and Judaism is being produced, institutionalized, designed and made, maintained in order to create an idea that Judaism can be even be explained through a specific singular institution. My first visit in the Jewish Museum was around the time when I first moved to Berlin more than a decade ago. And already back then as a visitor in the Jewish Museum, I felt this sense of awkwardness because I am myself Jewish. I self-identify as a Jewish person. My entire life is very much shaped by this particular identity. My grandparents survived the Holocaust here in Europe and made it to escape and to find rescue in a place called Palestine. Later on, we'll talk about it later, it led to a very tragic course of events. But before I come back to that, I just want to underline that the Holocaust, Judaism and Jews in general is very much what defines the sense of home but shaped my understanding of who I am in this world. Visiting the Jewish Museum for the first time was awkward because all of a sudden I saw that my life story or the life stories that I'm familiar with are put into exhibitions. My life becomes an exhibit. Stories of my grandparents, of my communities become stories that are not only mine, but all of a sudden are shared with other individuals and groups that I'm not even familiar with. I felt this sense of exposure, but I was also very much intrigued by the fact that many people find so much interest in trying to understand what Judaism mean or what Judaism could mean and how the Jewish Museum delivers this knowledge. You asked me specifically about the topic of Holocaust and I want to share with you my experience within a specific installation at the Jewish Museum. This installation is called Shalachet. Shalachet can be translated into fallen leaves, something like that. And this is an installation that is a cooperation between the architect who designed the structure of the Jewish Museum. His name is Daniel Liebeskind. And together with an artist, his name is Menashek Kaddishman. They created this installation. Menashek Kaddishman designed and created 10,000 metal pieces, face shaped, and he places them on the ground of this hall, of this room within the Jewish Museum. And visitors are invited to walk into the room and by doing so, they also walk on the faces that in turn create sound. As if those faces actually scream as you walk on them. And this room, this installation is very sensual. There are no words involved, right? You enter a room and it's up to you to perceive what you perceive through your senses. And I think that this is a very powerful statement by the architect and by the artist who in this case really give up on the attempts to conceptualize the Holocaust through words and insist that it's up to you to try to come to terms with what this attempt to define the Holocaust, this experience does to you, right? And I think this also is a powerful statement because the artist who created this installation, Menashek Kaddishman dedicates it to all victims of violence and wars, right? Kaddishman insists that the experience of the Holocaust is something that every human being can identify with. And this is a very powerful statement because war and violence define lives of many, many individuals, communities and nations, not only in historical context, but right now around us. So in a way, the screaming faces that we hear as we enter the room do not scream only from the past, but it kind of asks us to be more attentive to screamings that we should have heard happening now around us and what is our relationship with this human suffering? Do we have responsibility toward it? I mean, let's leave this question open, even though I see, I believe that many people who listen to the interview for them, the answer is clear. And for me too, I also understand my own responsibility, especially when it comes to atrocities being committed in the name of, so to say, protecting me as a Jewish person, not only as a Jewish person, but as a Jewish person whose family were affected directly by the atrocities of the Second World War conceptualized through the term Holocaust.  It's something every human being can identify with. It also challenges the narrative that we hear around us that one should not and cannot even compare the Holocaust with other manifestations of human suffering. Because I think precisely because everyone who enters this hall can identify with the attempt of conceptualizing the human suffering that Kaddishman and Libeskin try to conceptualize there, opens up the possibility to understand that empathy is what unites us. And if we can understand what the Holocaust meant for Kaddishman and for Libeskin in their attempts to define what it means, it means that the Holocaust is not a singular case per se. There are some singularities for sure like any historical event, but the claim that one cannot and should not compare the Holocaust to other manifestations of human suffering should raise the question of why? Who are those who claim, who make this claim? And for what end? It's extremely interesting that you mentioned that because this exhibit that you're talking about might be the most famous one that is part of this remembrance culture here in Germany. And to learn that the people who planned it, the artists who designed it, the message that they intended to send was a message that is taboo in this very remembrance culture in Germany. So this comparison, you know, comparing the Holocaust to other genocides, it's a good moment to sort of transition to what many people, including yourself see as a perversion of this remembrance culture and a failure to learn the lessons that should have been learned from this experience in Germany. And I think a great entry into that is to talk about how you came to not work anymore at the Jewish Museum. So if you could tell us how that happened, what your actions there ended up resulting in. And more broadly, what does that say about this failure in German society to really reckon with the legacy of the Holocaust? And, you know, it's interesting that in this exhibit, like you said, the visitor is supposed to experience it and draw their own conclusions as they're stepping on those faces, which is a very powerful experience. What are the conclusions that German society more broadly have drawn? Look, those are very interesting questions. Let me start by explaining just the course of events that led to the fact that I'm not allowed to work anymore at the Jewish Museum. Initially, I worked at the Jewish Museum as a guide. I would walk through the exhibitions to the building together with groups, mostly with high school students who as part of their school trip, they also come to Berlin and visit the Jewish Museum. The Jewish Museum is quite a big project and indeed one can spend there more than one day for sure because the museum is divided into different sections, into different topics. I was specialized in the topic of Jews in Germany after 1945, after the Second World War. There are many different topics we're dealing with, talking about commemoration, about demography, demography of Jews in Germany, about how Germany understands who Jews are, and so on and so on. But there is a specific room towards the end of this section that is framed as the Israel Room. In this room, the Jewish Museums or the Curators try to link the dots or narratives that link the categories Jews, Israel, and Germany. Jews, Israel, and Germany. In this room, you find different video installations that actually show documentaries in their essence that show, try to thematize those, these topics. So in this room, I talk with the people who visit my tours. We talk about the shifts from the end of the Second World War until nowadays, the shifts that characterize the relationship between the State of Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, back then, West Germany. Nowadays, we refer to it as their Germany, right? The one United Germany. So we see in the beginning, in the 50s, it's written in Israeli passports that those passports were applicable to all states, but to the State of Germany. So we see that in the beginning, there are no any relationship between Israel and the State of Germany. Something changes then in the 60s for different reasons. I will not go into depth in it at the moment, but for different reasons, something changes in the 60s where the first German diplomat visits Israel for the first time, and Israel and West Germany establish diplomatic relationship for the first time. And then throughout the next few decades, the relationship remained relatively cold between the two states. There is this sense of ambivalence and then something remarkable happens in 2008 as Angela Merkel, back then, the Chancellor of the State of Germany, visits Israel for the first time and holds a very famous speech in front of the Israeli Parliament of the Knesset where she announces that Israel is Germany raison d'etat. Is Germany's Staatsräse, as they say in German? From this moment on, we see another shift in the relationship between Israel and Germany. Israel stands on the side of Israel without regard to what Israel is actually doing. And we all know that with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, this year also marks the beginning of the Nakba. The Nakba is the catastrophe in Arabic that narrates from Palestinian perspective, narrates the living realities, ongoing living realities that characterizes Palestinian life since then in our world around us. Palestinians, the indigenous people of the land were forced, most of them, to go into exile there until nowadays they are not allowed to go back into their homes that they left back then. Many of them live also here in Germany will come back to this later because it's important fact to keep in mind. But what I want to continue with is the fact that the ongoing Nakba means also Jewish supremacy in the land of Palestine or Israel depends on how you define this geographical area between the river to the sea because in order to maintain Jewish state by definition you have to create a sense that one population, namely Jews, have the power to decide how the living realities should be look like. When we talk about Israel, we talk about the Jewish state. By implication we talk about a democracy designed by Jews for Jews. The fact that also other Jews participate in decision making is not central to the goal of the state of Israel as a Jewish state. It's whether a byproduct to the fact that not only Jews live in the state of Israel or in Palestine. What we witness nowadays in Gaza is an extreme manifestation of Jewish supremacy and the fact that the state of Germany stands on the side of Israel, even when more than 11,000 children in Gaza have been killed so far by the Israeli military, even that the numbers of dead people exceeded 30,000 people. We're talking about mass murder in dimensions that we haven't seen before happening in the land of Palestine committed by the state of Israel. And the fact that Israel stands on the side of Israel also against this reality is quite telling. It's quite telling that for Germany, Palestinians are not matter. To stand on the side of Israel against these atrocities, this is quite telling. What I want to go with this story that I'm telling you is that what characterizes living realities of individual living between the river to the sea, according to human rights organizations, among them also MST International Human Rights Watch, but also Israeli human rights organization, they all come to the conclusion that this living reality is better described as an apartheid state. In my tools, I don't talk in general about the fact that the entire area is ruled by Jewish supremacy, but I use very carefully the term apartheid only when referring to the living realities of Jews and Palestinians who live in the West Bank. This is where we see the so-called settlements, for example. So Jews who live in settlements have Israeli citizenship. Accordingly, they are allowed to vote in the Israeli parliament. This is one example, but Palestinians who live in the exact same areas do not have the Israeli citizenship. They are not allowed to vote for the Israeli parliament. So this is only one example of why it's so important to point out to the injustice realities that characterizes the lives of Palestinians and Jews who live in this living area. It's important for me to note, to underline that whenever I speak, it's not my arguments, right? I base this knowledge on scientific knowledge productions produced by human rights organizations. Really, every human rights organization that researches about the living realities in this area comes to the same conclusion. Better described as apartheid system. For the Jewish Museum, it was too much. What does the Jewish Museum do in order to address such kind of injustice? They fire the only person who does speak about it. It's clear to me that not everyone is interested or affected by those living realities, but I am. And when the Jewish Museum hired me to walk for them, they insisted that I should bring in my own experience, my own voice as a Jewish person coming from Palestine, Israel to Germany and share it with the people who come with me to the tools. This was part of the deal. The fact that this was too much for the Jewish Museum is quite telling. It's telling that the Jewish Museum does not care about Jewish living realities or Jewish living experiences, but it cares about creating a sense of Jewishness that fits into a certain legacy that the Jewish Museum wishes to promote. My case there, the fact that they fired me, helped us to understand better what is this legacy, what is the agenda of the Jewish Museum. Namely, this is an agenda better described as Zionist ideology. We can come back to this topic later, but this is my experience within the Jewish Museum. How the Jewish Museum involves in not only shaping what Judaism means and who Jews are, but also actively excluding Jewish voices who do not fit into their own understanding of how the wish Jews would be, think and act. With that, I wanted to follow up and ask you a very simple question, really. Do you, as a Jewish person, feel respected living in Germany? I wish I could say yes. The answer is more complicated. On the one hand, I understand and I acknowledge that many Germans, especially those who are in power positions, wish to come to terms with the atrocities of the Second World War and specifically with the Holocaust, with the mass extermination of the Jewish population of Europe. How do you do this? To be honest, I don't know, but there are many different attempts. We can see it, for example, in restitutions, in compensations, financial attempts, we can say. There's also attempts in the forms of migration law. In the 90s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Jews were allowed to migrate to Germany. Also nowadays, Israeli, they have it much easier than other nations to simply migrate to Germany, to get visa and all that. But there is one specifically attempt that I find really painful and harmful and really tragic. And this attempts that says that Germany stands on the side of Israel doesn't matter what Israel is doing. For me, these signals that German policy makers do not care about Jews as such, but they care about Israel, the interest of a nation state, singling that Jewishness is not a category of a pluralistic society, but rather a singular voice, a voice that can be represented through a singular institution. And the fact that this institution, the state of Israel, committing atrocities in the name of Jews, in the name of Judaism. And the Germany not only remains silent against it, but actually supports the ongoing atrocities with weapons, with money, with diplomacy. This is really shocking for me, especially as a Jew living in Germany. I moved to Germany back then, I migrated here with the promise that I can live my life in a progressive, democratic, liberal state. Since the 7th of October, later than all the masks has fallen. It is clear that when we talk about Germany, we cannot any more talk about democracy, because let me come back for a moment to what I told you before about Palestinians being forced to leave their homes in 1948. Many Palestinians also come to Germany. In fact, Berlin has the biggest Palestinian community in Europe nowadays. The fact that since 2001, Palestinians are not allowed to commemorate in public their own catastrophe, the Nakba is a signal that Germany is a democracy that does not consider Palestinians and Palestinian voices or even Jews like me who orient themselves in relation to also to their living realities and historical narrative. It's quite telling that Germany is not a democratic designed for everyone. So the question that we need to ask ourselves is, who does have access to the democratic decision making here in Germany and who does not? And why is it this way? I also learned since the 7th of October that Jews like me, Jewish people like me who wish to show solidarity not only with our victims who are Israeli, but also with non-Jews who suffer under the living realities, especially those who live nowadays in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. We are not allowed to do so. So this democracy that some people refer to as Germany is not even designed for Jews as Jews. We had the pleasure of speaking with a colleague of yours here in our channel before. It is a fact also from Jewish voice or just peace in the Middle East here in Germany. And she put it very bluntly, as she usually does. She said, to be an Arab or a Palestinian or Muslim in Germany right now is horrible. They are the new Jews. Do you agree with that statement? And if yes or no, why? I agree with this statement because nowadays Arabs, especially Arabs, but I'm talking about Muslims in general, they are standing in the focus of political attempts to define the selfhood of Germany as a nation state. We saw it very clearly, for example, with Thomas de Miser, in 2017, published 10 key points for who are, by the way, Thomas de Miser was back then in 2017. He was the minister of inner affairs here in Germany in Merkel government. And he published 2017, a list of seven key characteristics of what Germany or what Germanness should mean or could mean refers to it as light culture, leading culture. What is the leading culture of Germany? And when you look at it, you see that more often than not, this attempt to define what is the leading culture of Germany is done by defining what Germany is not. And the headline of the article that Thomas de Miser published is called Wir sind nicht Buroka. We are not the Buroka. Which means Islam really stands in the center of German attempts to define what Germany is by saying what Germany is not. Interestingly enough, this term leading culture, light culture, according to de Miser, but not only according to de Miser. Many other individuals use the same term. They refer to it as a Judeo-Christian leading culture that characterizes the essence of German being. So, accordingly, to focus or to put the focus on Muslims as those who do not and even cannot be part of this Germanness signals that Muslims as such and Arab people specifically are excluded from this idea of being part of a leading society. This is very similar to what we see when we look historically on mechanism of political discourses that characterized Germany and Central Europe and Western Europe even before the 30s, when anti-Semitism emerges as a political ideology. All of a sudden, politicians try to make this claim. We understand ourselves by saying what we are not. Namely, we are not Jews. Jews become the problem or the question that characterizes their political discourse around European selfhood back then. And this is really similar to what we are witnessing nowadays in Germany. Later on, we witnessed how Jews are being excluded from political decision making, from the political realm. This is very similar to what we are witnessing nowadays in the case of Palestinians and Arabs. And I hope that from now on, things will get better. It's really a call for German policy makers to wake up because we also see how the ISD, the party alternative for Germany, is on the rise at the moment. And this party is an right extremist party in Israeli context. It's the party that governs nowadays the state of Israel. And we see to what extreme and how dangerous such a government can be specifically for Palestinians and Arabs. And with that, I wanted to shift the focus back to Palestine and to Israel. Our discussion here is centered around the Holocaust. And a question that comes to mind to me, especially opposed to you as someone who grew up in Israel, is how did the Holocaust and the legacy and the memory of the Holocaust, how did it affect and continues to affect the consciousness of Israeli society and also the words and actions of the Israeli government? Because, and I asked this question, not just because on the surface level, it's obviously a pertinent question, but also because Zionism, of course, precedes the Holocaust by a pretty long time, which is something that I think people are not entirely aware of. I know that I wasn't when I was in school. I basically learned that the Holocaust happened. And then as a result of the Holocaust happening, the state of Israel was established. So you don't really learn about anything that happened before that.  And then everyone all of a sudden sat together and decided that it would probably be best if the Jewish people had their own state. That is obviously not true at all. That's not what happened. Of course, the Holocaust was a factor, but Zionism was, again, a project that predates it by quite some time. So what is the relationship between Zionism, between Israel in general and Israeli society and the Holocaust? Lucas, thank you for the question. That's a very important one. And let me start answering it by reminding us that what we commemorate today is the international Holocaust Remembrance Day in an Israeli Zionist context, that what we refer to as the Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place in another date. Namely, exactly one week before the Independence Day of the State of Israel. And this is a symbolic narration of how you commemorate the Holocaust because it really links the emergence of the State of Israel with the Holocaust. Without the Holocaust, probably there would never be an Israeli Jewish state. And the Holocaust, so to say, signals us why such a state is a necessity growing up in Israel since kindergarten. I was exposed to terrible stories of when I was a kid, I was a kid. Also many Holocaust survivors were alive. Also my grandparents were alive. And they would talk to us very directly with as much empathy as they could. They told us why it's so important that Jews have not only in safe, in a safe place, but should also be in charge on designing their living realities because otherwise the alternative and the only alternative possible that one should recall in mind is the Holocaust. Commerating the Holocaust one week before the Independence Day of the Israel is a signal to the national, even nationalist usage of the Holocaust as a historical event, putting it into not only a historical context, but a historical and nationalist context. We can talk about nationalist narratives. And this is really essential to how people in Israel, I'm talking specifically about Zionists, understands the relationship between the Holocaust and the existence of the State of Israel. That kind of answers the question on an institutional level as far as the State of Israel is concerned, how that affects and sort of how they also weaponize it so to speak as well to justify all sorts of things. But in Israeli society in general, when we're talking just in terms of Israeli culture, et cetera, is it more or less the same thing that's playing out or is it a bit different? Because for instance, something that you read every once in a while is that, and I don't know if I've necessarily ever seen this from someone who grew up in Israel and Israeli saying this, but there is this argument that at least early on, Israeli society and Zionism in general actually frowned upon Holocaust survivors because there was this idea that they represented a certain type of weakness. It wasn't this heroic, self-assured, new Jew basically that Zionism was trying to create. That's the argument that's made. Do you agree with that? Do you perceive that as again, someone who grew up in Israel, that if it still is the reality or if it isn't, if it at least used to be? So nowadays it's not anymore the case, but it's true that in the early years, Holocaust survivors were looked very badly by those who were socialized and grew up in Palestine, in Israel. Because really, we need to keep in mind that Zionism, this is their leading ideology, the light culture leading culturally, if you will, that characterizes the hegemonic society that rules the area between the river to the sea in Israel, Palestine. It's important to mention that Zionism emerged in Europe around the time when Europe colonialism was in its peak. One decade before the first Zionist Congress, there was another Congress took place here in Berlin that it's called the Berliner Congress, where the European empires basically met in order to divide Africa into sections to decide which empire takes what area, so to say, in Africa. And one year before the first Zionist Congress took place in 1897, so one year before 1896, another interesting thing took place here in Berlin. It was the colonial Auschwitz, their colonial exhibition, which was a huge propaganda campaign or advertisement, we can say, of the German Reich to advertise why colonialism is so important, how we all, we in sense of everybody who lives in Germany, benefits from colonialism. So around this time, if you understood yourself as a nation, as a modern nation, as an advanced nation, you also understood that you should have a colony. And in fact, in nearly years, we see that within the Zionist Congress, the question was not whether Jews as a nation should colonize, but the question was whether, where and what Jews as a nation should colonize, right? So Palestine was one option, other options were Argentina, Uganda, and other areas in the world. Keeping this in mind, the Holocaust, or what happened after the Holocaust, was a tragic reminder to colonialist Jews, to Zionists, that Jews are not as strong as they wish to imagine themselves. All of a sudden, Jews were subjected to atrocities that humanity have never seen in such scales before. All of a sudden, Jews were excluded as European Jews from the idea of Europe and were murdered for that. So this put Zionism and Holocaust survivors in a clash, so to say, how you include the Holocaust within the narrative of Zionist, colonialist, modern nation. The thing is that throughout the years, now I can tell you nowadays, when I was a child even, we would look at Holocaust survivors as heroes. They were my heroes. I would look at my teachers and my grandparents and other people around me, and I thought of them as people who are, who have super power. How do you even survive what you also learn in history books, and you will see in TV, in films like Schindler's List and so on and so on. So for me, as a child growing up in the context, in the Zionist context of Israel, I understood Holocaust survivors as heroes. And I think it kind of signals to a shift that occurred throughout the years of how Holocaust survivors were indeed included within the historical narrative of Israel, of Zionism. And I think interestingly, it's also important to keep in mind that the full name of the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel is Remembrance Day for the Holocaust and for heroism. Because what Zionists like to commemorate very much is the fact that Jews also being subjected to extreme repression could resist and calling it to mind Mordecai and Alevich, for example, who fought in Ghetto Varsha against all odds and indeed with very limited success, but they fought against the rule of the white supremacist power of the Nazis. Would you, one final question that I wanted to ask you. We've talked a lot about German Remembrance culture and how perhaps not really the right lessons were learned as a result of the experience with Holocaust, but obviously all of this, at least superficially, comes from this necessity in German society of combating anti-Semitism, this sort of preoccupation that, again, is very distorted and sometimes leads to very bizarre sort of expressions of that sort of mission that Germany has set for itself. There's also a lot of cynicism in it, a lot of very hypocritical things, but my question that I wanted to close with, since again, this is a Holocaust Remembrance Day and anti-Semitism is obviously a scourge that we must fight. I guess the question is what is it that we should call it really anti-Semitism and the fact that the Israeli state will claim that any sort of criticism to itself is constitutes anti-Semitism complicates matters hugely, right? So, and it's something that a narrative that has been bought by the West in general. So it's weaponized to silence voices like we said earlier. But my question now is in terms of real anti-Semitism because no one in the right mind will deny that anti-Semitism doesn't exist. The question that I'm left with is, how do you combat anti-Semitism? Really, like real existing anti-Semitism, how do you combat it effectively? Look, if this is such an important question, I'm happy that you asked me this. I think we have to come back to the question of how we define anti-Semitism because I think that in the general discourse nowadays, we are kind of lost. There are so many attempts to define anti-Semitism. We hear so many accusations of people being accused of anti-Semitic being subjected to boycott, the investment and other sanctions that this discourse around anti-Semitism is very much emotional. There is so much power flowing through such attempts to define what is anti-Semitism. One attempt is the so-called IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. This is also the definition that nowadays characterizes the way that Germany and really other every Western nation claims to combat anti-Semitism. When we look at the genealogy of the history of where this definition comes from, we go back to a meeting that took place in 2016 within the body of the IHRA. The IHRA is an acronym of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. This is an intergovernmental alliance of mostly Western countries that came together in order to define what is anti-Semitism following the wish to effectively combating anti-Semitism. When you look at the definition offered by the IHRA of anti-Semitism, you find a definition that is very unclear. And indeed, I think it was also unclear for the framers of that definition. And this is why they found it necessary to attach examples for this definition in order to highlight what anti-Semitism means or what it could mean, perhaps even what it should mean. The thing is that we are talking about 11 examples. Seven examples out of this list address directly the state of Israel. So this definition or the examples, at least, they are focusing our understanding of anti-Semitism always in relation or mostly in relation to the state of Israel. So we say that we can say that the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism does not concern Jews as such, but concerns first and foremost the interests, the national interests of the state of Israel. I think it's quite telling. And it's also not surprising because those examples and the definition itself are outcome of a proposal by a US-based Jewish lobby organization for the state of Israel. So we can say that this definition and the examples reflect whether not only the national interest of the state of Israel, but also the US understanding of what are the national interests of the state of Israel are or should be. We are not talking about a scientific definition of anti-Semitism, and yet this definition has been adopted by all members of the IHRA, among them also Germany. So when we nowadays in Germany, we look how anti-Semitism is being discussed, we see more often than not that the ruling definition is the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. You can say that the ruling definition of anti-Semitism in Germany is anti-scientific. It is indeed pro-Israeli, or we can say it is not concerning Jews as such. To my understanding, this is anti-Semitic, and perhaps even important to note that the examples that are attached to the IHRA definition were not adopted by the plenary of the IHRA. They were just added there to the definition by the state of Israel. So we can say that this definition is even anti-democratic, anti-scientific, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic. This is the definition that Germany privileges as the working definition of anti-Semitism. To my understanding, and from what I learned from my grandparents, anti-Semitism is simply racism towards Jews. And historically, we see that the arguments that anti-Semites used were very similar to the arguments that anti-Semites that were also colonialists used in order to justify colonialism. That is to say, they used similar logic, racist logic, to colonize not only population living outside of Europe, but also the population living inside of Europe, those who were marked as not European enough, namely Jews, Sinti, Romans, but also later on sexualized minorities, homosexuals, queer, and later on also disabled and the list goes on and on. It's quite remarkable that nowadays, by the virtue of the ayajari definition of anti-Semitism, Germany becomes once again a dangerous place for anyone who is not Aryan. Thank you, Udi. And I think these are some very pertinent food for thoughts that we finish on with those words. I want to thank you again for joining us. I want to thank all of you for watching this discussion with Udi Raz. We'll see you next time and take care, stay safe. Thank you, Udi. Thank you, Lukas.


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I'm Jerry Glover, I'm with the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Bureau for Food Security in the Office of Agricultural Research and Policy. We're here in Addis at the Illry campus to design a new sustainable intensification research and development project focused primarily on the Highland regions of Ethiopia. With this project we hope to intensify some of the production systems here in the Ethiopian Highlands, essentially increasing the productivity of the systems, but the sustainable part of sustainable intensification emphasizes that we're very focused on natural resource management. So enhancing or conserving the soil resource, better managing water, better managing nutrients, combining that into a research project that increases productivity with the ultimate goals of decreasing poverty, increasing nutrition and health of the target populations, some of these smallholder farmers in the Ethiopian Highlands. So it's a new approach to integrating component technology such as tillage practices, fertilizer practices, innovative crops such as using tree crops, integrating livestock, and certainly increasing the use and the use of legumes in the cropping systems. Some of the specific challenges are degraded soil conditions and the lack of available services and there are labor issues as well. So in our project we hope to develop innovative ways of overcoming some of these challenges, for example in areas where fertilizer is too expensive or inaccessible, perhaps using legumes such as beans and other types of legumes and fertilizer trees that are able to provide the system with nutrients such as nitrogen. So this is one of three regional projects that we're initiating. We have a project that we just initiated in West Africa focused on Ghana and Mali and we'll be launching a new project in East and Southern Africa with a focus on Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia next week. The overall objectives of the three projects are very similar, essentially to sustainably intensify, sustainably increase the productivity of smallholder farmers in these three regions. There are some overarching themes, some overarching challenges that we face in all the systems, for example soil degradation is a key challenge in all three systems. Also the nutritional aspect, our desire to enhance the nutrition of these target populations by integrating livestock and legumes is also a key component. You know at this workshop we're bringing together some of the incredible talent and experience of the international research institutes, the national research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector to bring their experience to bear on overcoming some of these challenges and their experience with the decision-making at the household level and at the community level provides great guidance on how to move forward with these projects in terms of addressing the specific needs of farmers and their communities.


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Hi everyone and welcome, this is Melissa Armando with Stock Swishing and Reviewing WFC. I called an option in this a put yesterday. It was a great call. I knew this would gap down today. It earned us this morning. I knew no matter what the earnings said, this was gonna gap down and it did and it fell. So I called the 2450 puts, which I called yesterday, open underneath that beautiful drop falling today. Great call and then we did it as a day trade too. So let's go over the day trade. Again, I usually wait until, I mean 99.99% of the time I wait until I see the gap to make the trade call, but I knew this would gap down. I just knew it. And so, boom, I called it. I mean, this was a beautiful put. This was a beautiful day trade. You could still be in it, you could still be in it. Anyways, for the short, for the day trade here, we did it. And then we got the drop. Some people get out in the morning. I said it's got some lot of targets here. Let it get some momentum going. One of the reasons that, I mean, it was 24, once it broke 24, then I said 2360, 2350. It's gotten down to all of that. This could even go to 23. I said dream target today, 2250. But let's take a look at the market. Again, booking profits is very important, but with the drag on the market here, with the failure to follow through yesterday and today, I mean, who knows where these could go? Again, Goldman headings today, gap dot fell. BAC, we day traded this this morning too, this fell. So a lot of nice plays here in the banks on earnings this week. And again, all shorts, all shorts, all shorts or puts. So we'll see what happens here in the next two days of this week. But so far, this earnings season has not been bullish. It has been bearish. So it's very interesting. And one of the reasons that I've been looking at the spy and then looking at the banks or looking at the banks, then looking at the spy, I said, you're not gonna have the market make new highs with the banks dragging. Yes, these earnings could have done it, but most of the bank earnings are out. A few more tomorrow morning, Morgan Stanley is one of them tomorrow morning, we'll be watching. But when you have half of these go in the opposite direction, that's really telling you quite, quite a lot. So great day trade call today in WFC. Great put call yesterday that dropped into itself today through the strike. Beautiful calls here to start our earnings season. Looking forward to it, one of the new students, already made $1,800 from the option strains from yesterday I did this morning. So fabulous start for him. Hasn't even done the class yet. He signed up last week for the Golden Gap course, which is next weekend, October 24th and 25th. You must take the class to be eligible for the live trading run. And he signed up and it's already paid off. So good job to him. And anyone that's interested in the class, email me at melissathestockswush.com. Have a great day, everyone.


Hey my name is Naren and today I'm going to share my favorite scripture and this scripture also kind of helped me through a trial and gave me an answer. About three years ago I was getting ready to serve my mission and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to or if I needed to. And so I decided to read the Book of Mormon because I never read it before by myself. I used to read it as a family all the time but individually I had never read it. And then I came across a scripture in Mosiah chapter 7 verse 33 that kind of changed my whole outlook on serving a mission and in the church in general. It said, But if you will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart and put your trust in him and serve him with all diligence of mind, if you do this he will according to his own will and pleasure deliver you out of bondage. Now by no means was I in any bondage or any trouble but I did kind of have this predicament where do I stay home or do I leave for two years. It was definitely a big commitment and reading this just seeing that you know the Lord if we show him that you know we're 100% in the church for 100% you know wanting to do what he wants us to do then he'll provide the way the means for us to accomplish those things and we'll definitely feel his blessings and his plan is perfect ours isn't. There's definitely times when I'm like oh I wish that I could do this but I can't because that's not what the Lord has in store for me. So reading this definitely changed my outlook and I did decide to serve a mission and it was definitely the best decision I've ever made. This is very special to me because I absolutely adore children being a former teacher and now substitute teaching but most of all this is very meaningful for me because Jesus showed just how human he actually was.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scott of JSA, coming to you from Virtual Metro Connect 2021. Joining me today, my good friend Kevin Rocks, he's the EVP of Sales and Marketing at Southreach Networks. Kevin, welcome to JSA TV. Jamie, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much. Thanks so much again, Kevin for joining us. So excited to catch up, especially on our Virtual Metro Connect 2021 edition. So for our viewers who may not already know, can you tell us a little bit about Southreach Networks? Yeah, Southreach Networks is a relatively new carrier on the scene in the South Florida market. And the company was cobbled together by acquiring a number of different fiber-based assets that they're kind of leveraging to create what we hope over time will become, what we'd like to become is really a formidable player throughout the entire Southeast. So currently today the company has, we have our own fiber optic backbone from Miami, Florida, going up the East Coast to Jacksonville. We also have some fiber access and fiber rights going into Atlanta. And we're targeting all of the various carrier ecosystem clients. So everyone from data center providers, to hyperscalers, to resellers, to agents, to municipalities, consumers of dark fiber, consumers of ethernet-lit services, consumers of dedicated internet access, that's really our customer base. And there's a lot going on, as you're well aware just on a macro level that South Florida in particular has become kind of a growth place in general. It seems like a lot of people, I don't know if it's entirely weather related or it's pandemic related, but it really is kind of an old market, is that everybody wants to have a bolt hole, if not in Florida, somewhere in the South. So it's a good place to be in terms of the trajectory of what the local economies are doing. And we're really excited to be on the forefront of that. And being a small shop, we're not as bureaucratically driven as some of the others. So that really enables us to do a lot of things to be quick, be nimble, and be very responsive to the carriers and the service providers that call upon us. Yeah, there's been an exodus, massive exodus from big cities like LA and New York, going to some hotspots for sure in Florida and Texas. People wanting to leverage their at-home, stay-at-home orders and be in the states that are, well, great weather and great taxes and there's a lot of reasons for it, right? A lot of compelling drivers, yes. Yeah, all right. And for sure, Southreach Networks. I've been watching you guys grow. And particularly your role there, you've just been with Southreach for what, six months now as EVP of sales and marketing? Yeah, I came on board in mid-October and it's been a whirlwind. So as you're well aware, most of my career has been based in the Northeast market, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut throughout. So this is really the first time that I've taken on a completely new geography. And I have to say in a very short span, I'm totally engrossed with what's going on down there that I'm like, wait a minute, I forgot about New York. 60 Hudson Street and all that stuff. So that's kind of in the rear view. Still has a place in my heart, but the focus is now down in South Florida. It's a really exciting place to be in a lot of different projects and things that we're tackling. And we look forward to more of the same. Yeah, and for sure, this has just been an incredibly crazy year. MetroConnect obviously now virtual this year. Just everything's different, especially since typically middle of Southreach networks home in Miami. It's not to have our usual Miami drinks is a little sad. But what do you hope to gain from the event this year? Well, the interesting thing is, yes, so just kind of flipping back a little bit, when I came on board in mid-October, we still didn't really know where we would be in mid-February. So I was very hopeful that we were gonna be able to pull off an in-person event and lovely to be at the Eden Rock and sitting around the pool having great meetings. And all of these MetroConnects in the past that I've been to have always been great because it's a very much a sea level type audience. It's very intimate. You can have lots of really great conversations, so much more so than you get at some of the more high-trafficked trade show events that we've had, throughout the calendar year that we're used to. But once we knew, I guess a few weeks ago, the folks at Capacity notified us that they're going all virtual. We were especially disappointed because it's right in our backyard. And I was kind of thinking, we could probably do this thing outside. It's only a few hundred attendees. We'll do it on tents on the beach or what have you. But it wasn't to be. But I look at this, Jamie, as building the foundation for ITW, right? So right now that's hoping to be an in-person event. And that's really in four months time. So it's really not far down the road. What I really liked and hats off to the capacity to media folks for putting this thing together, irrespective of the environment that we're in right now. But they've got a lot of great line of great speakers. I've already had a number of reach outs and outreaches in terms of meetings, a lot of up and coming, a lot of investors, a lot of people, everyone is just so eager to kind of make things happen. And thankfully in our industry, I think we're really blessed in that, even because of the pandemic and less so, it's just, there's been the demand for communications continues to grow exponentially. So all we need to do, we just need to get in a room together so we can talk face to face and even grow it even further. So I hope that it's gonna be a very successful show. And I hope that we use it as a platform to build for the next in-person event. Yeah, there's definite tremendous buzz as we enter into it next week over at Metro Connect and folks at capacity, they never disappoint. And for sure, it's a lead up to ITW in just a few months away and back in DC. So... Yes, back in DC. I'm very happy about that. I love the old hotel too, but we'll take this new place. I think it's just over the border in Maryland. But it'll be nice. It's a train ride down for us as folks in the Northeast, probably not too far from you. And just to see people, I guess the unfortunate aspect is a lot of the international folks that could have potentially attended, that's gonna be a challenge for them. Because really when you're at ITW, you're almost like a guest within your own country because there's so many international folks there. We'll miss that flavor, but if we can pull this off, then it could be the stepping stone to many more in-person events going through 2021 and to next year. Yeah, us Americans have to show up for sure. We have to show up in droves. Yeah, yeah. In numbers, yes. All right, back to South Beach Networks though. I wanna make sure we get this in, looking out towards the rest of 2021. What can we expect? We can expect a lot of success-based builds. So in addition to having this fiber optic backbone, we have a lot of ingress and egress on-ramps and off-ramps that tie into a lot of the cable landing stations. And the traffic that is now going up through South America into a head end in Miami, up through Jacksonville, now with Virginia Beach and NJFX, it all goes up through Europe and out the other side and keeps coming back down. So we're kind of almost like a midway point in that traffic. So we wanna continue to expand and do laterals off of our backbone to continue to do on-ramps with these various cable systems and there's a number of others that are coming on board in the very near term. So you'll probably see some press around that. And we also want to expand laterals into the metros. So getting a little bit deeper into not just Miami, but Boca Raton, West Palm, going up the coast to Jacksonville in particular. And what we're really excited about is the area in kind of central coastal Florida on the East Coast is somewhat of an underserved market in a very large populated state like Florida. So once you get past West Palm going north before you kind of get up into the Jacksonville region, there's a lot of kind of gaps in that area in terms of service providers, access to fiber. So we're trying to utilize and leverage our backbone to get into some of the MDU multi-dwelling units, some of the homeowner associations, utilities, municipalities, supporting a lot of the 5G players in their cell tower, site selection, things of that nature. So we're really excited about that as well. So between that and we do have an upcoming press release coming out about some high capacity offerings that we're going to be having going just between the data centers. It's a data center focused product, which is 10G, 100G, connecting all the various data centers from Jacksonville to Miami. We're really excited about that press announcement which is forthcoming. So those are just a few of the things that we're looking to do this year. Where can we go for more information on South Beach? Oh, sure. Well, srnetworks.net is our website and I'm very easy. Kevin, firstname.lastkevin.rocks and srnetworks.net, all of the information will be there. We're going to continue to post things on our blog site. We're going to be using a lot of social media. We'll be making these announcements about this new high capacity service we're offering between the data centers. We also have a flagship data center of our own at 36 Northeast Second in Miami, which we kind of call as the annex to the NAP, which is a diverse connected data center to the NAP of the Americas and some of the other data centers that are intra-building within 36 Northeast Second. So that's some basic information on how to get ahold of us and any type of needs for ethernet capacity, dedicated internet access, dark fiber. That's where you go. Love it. Absolutely so exciting. Always great to learn what South Beach Networks is up to, but also you, Kevin, I'm so excited to catch up. Thank you so much for your time. Likewise, Jamie, thank you very much. Thank you to the JSA-NA team. We love working with you guys. It's been a fantastic year thus far and let's keep it going. Absolutely. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA-TV and JSA-Podcast. Happy networking.


Going on, everyone. Sam here with late sports cards. We're doing the full sellout promo for November. Well, technically, October 31st. I guess I should switch that. 1031. 1031. And then 1031, so technically for yesterday. I mean, now it is Wednesday. All right, wait, this is going to be a 509 entries. We have everybody who bought a spot today. I'm going to roll the dice. Whatever five names are on top are each going to get a spot in tomorrow's 10-case Bowman Chrome mixer. 10-case Bowman Chrome break. Good luck, everybody. Five times. One, two, three, four, and five. Jason S, select basketball. Six box number 39. The Minnesota Twins in Bowman Chrome. Hobby case number 68. Pick your team. Patrick R from 23, Immaculate Collegiate Football number 32. Tom B from Mac at Luminance of Elite Patches. Six box number 12. And Patrick R from Noir Basketball, number 13 tiered random team style. So congrats to everybody on this one. I'm going to say I don't need to write that down, right? No. What was this used in the morning? Yeah. Yeah, that should be fine. Copy all the, well, I guess I can just copy the clipboard. We'll do that. But thank you guys again for all your support today. Again, everything filled up. I'll make a note to make sure to get all of these good. And we'll be good to go. So thank you all. Coming up is personal.


Welcome to Toffy TV, we've got the brand new Everton third kit and I think it is amazing. I am loving this new third kit, white with a navy blue chevron down the middle with yellow to the side, yellow trim on the neck with the navy blue as well and navy blue chevrons on the side. Bas, what are your first impressions of the new shirt? Best kit of the three for me, yeah, out of the three that they brought, so all good kits. Definitely, but this is my favourite, alternate two, I think it's good. Alternate two, yeah, alternate one, alternate two, not the kit. Yeah, this for me is the best, it's the favourite one, out of the three, definitely, the nice navy shorts as well, I like the amber on it or the yellow on it, I think it gives it a nice little touch, it does remind me of the Romeluwikaku, white Kevin Morales-Walsberg style top that we had as well, but I like it, it's good, it's, when you're looking at the blue, the home kit and they're trying to do something different with it, it's always open for people not liking to change it to, but this one, I think with the away kits, they can go a little bit different with it. This is different, so I really like it, I think it's excellent. The chevrons down the middle, obviously the classic humble chevrons with the solid on one side and the lines through on the other side with the yellow, I think it reminds me of, there was a kit in the late 50s, it was a white sheet and instead of having a vertical line down it, it had a horizontal and it reminds me of that, because that was a solid navy blue with yellow on the side and we've never replicated that kit and I really like that and that, there's little echoes of that as well on this, I really really like this but it looks similar to that, just a little, you know, the way we did it with the away kit, the old terms of one kit, where that's got an echo of an old Everton kit from whenever it first started, this reminds me of a kit from the 50s, badge stitched, it is stitched as well as it is on the short, the shorts are navy with the yellow chevrons, the yellow trim and the badge as well and the humble, the socks are navy, navy socks, there you go, you see them, with the yellow on the top as well, it will be yellow, chevrons yellow as well. So what's good is though, it's completely different obviously to the home kit, completely different from the away kit, sometimes you get like a third kit or away kit that have like blue shorts and then there's blue alternatives to the home kit, this is completely standalone so, you know, you're getting a completely different kit for your money. You're right and I will be getting another kit because I'll be getting stung for this one because this is, like you say, this is my favourite one so I think they've done a good job. Again, Hummel have done an excellent job on the three kit. And it's completely different from anything we had last season as well, obviously last season we had the amber and we had the green kit, so this is completely different in terms of that as well. There were basically three just the same kit, last year we had different colours. But it's a new colour for Hummel as well and it's a new style and it's not something as you said, it reminds us of some obviously white kits that we've had in the past but this is completely new design so obviously the goalkeeper kit we've already seen that, it is the orange with a Denmark style, 86 style that we've also seen in the Euros as well with Denmark's third kit in the Euros as well so we've seen shades like that, that's a smart kit as well, obviously very bright, kids will love that as well with the orange. Something completely different to what we've already got as well, obviously we've got all three goalkeeper kits this season, all short sleeve and again another kit for people to buy if they want to or want to for their kids. So there you go, obviously there'll be new training gear as well to complement the kit, but I really like this one because it's just different and it just looks smart as well. So I'm looking forward to seeing this on the players, don't forget there is a link in the description where you can go and buy this shade through our link and we will get like a tiny tiny tiny little couple of pens so we can buy a box of Jaffa Kicks for the studio. So if you could do that, please do, helps us out, helps you out, you don't pay anything extra and helps ever and out as well because you'll buy near kits so there you go, let us know your thoughts in the comments on the brand new Everton third kit alternative to kit. Make sure to give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already, if you want more great videos, daily live videos, join us over on Patreon, the link is in the description and it's on the screen now, see you later.