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Published Friday, Jun. 09, 2017 1:08PM EDT

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With the rise of cloud-based apps and the proliferation of mobile devices, information security is becoming a top priority for both the IT department and the C-Suite. Organizations enthusiastic about the Internet of Things (IoT) are equally guarded as global cyberattacks continue to dominate headlines.

Businesses ranging from startups to large corporations are increasingly looking to new technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, to protect their consumers. For cybersecurity, AI can analyze vast amounts of data and help cybersecurity professionals identify more threats than would be possible if left to do it manually. But the same technology that can iimprove corporate defences can also be used to attack them.

On Wednesday, June 28 at 11:30 a.m. (ET), Aleksander Essex will join us for a live discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. Essex is the head of Whisper Lab, a cyber-security research group at Western University, and an associate professor of software engineering and a speciality in cryptography.

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Elastomers expert honored for work on aerospace standards – Dayton Daily News

Air Force Research Laboratory materials engineer Alan Fletcher has been honored with SAE Internationals Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award for his contributions and leadership within the aerospace community.

Fletcher, who serves as a principal materials engineer in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorates System Support division, is an international expert in elastomers and a lead for elastomeric test and evaluation efforts. He is the industry leader for aerospace sealants and fluid seals and advances technical efforts in the development and sustainment of specialized aircraft coatings.

Fletcher has long been an advocate for the establishment and improvement of aerospace industry technical standards and specifications. Throughout much of his career, he has contributed toward efforts to convert military sealant, elastomer and coating specifications to SAE industry standards.

Consistent industry standards are the key to safe and reliable products, said Fletcher. They guarantee that a product functions reliably, which in turn inspires user confidence for both the military and the commercial sector.

To promote and achieve this vision, Fletcher has filled a number of leadership roles within SAE International. He has been a leader in the Materials Standards Committees since 1989, and a chair of the Aerospace Sealants G-9 Committee since 1990. He also played an integral role in the formation of the Organic Coatings G-8 Committee and headed the CE Elastomers Committee. He currently serves as the SAE Aerospace Systems chair, a role he has held since 2005.

Additionally, Fletcher was an originator of the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program, now known as Nadcap. This industry-based group has been at the forefront of processes and quality assurance standardization, reducing unnecessary and redundant audits and saving aerospace original equipment manufacturers valuable time and money. Since its establishment, Nadcap has expanded its scope to include many other commodities and currently flourishes worldwide.

Over the years, Fletcher has received numerous awards for his professional efforts, including the Air Force Chief of Staff Excellence Award, the Defense Outstanding Performance Award, the Nadcap Leadership Award and the SAE Chair Award.

Fletcher was also commended personally with the Command Civilian Award for Valor for acts of bravery in preventing harm to a fellow citizen.

Fletcher said that receiving the Kolk award is a tremendous honor.

The SAEs work toward establishing aerospace standards and practices that guide the aerospace industry has been and continues to be incredibly important to both military and commercial material applications, said Fletcher. Its wonderful to be part of this ongoing effort and very humbling to be selected for this award.

The Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award was established in 1978 to recognize individuals for outstanding contributions to air transportation as well as to aerospace technical committees in developing aerospace standards, specifications, technical reports and data through cooperative research.

Fletcher will be presented the award Sept.27 at the SAE 2017 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Dynetics to build aerospace facility in Morgan County – The Decatur Daily

Huntsville-based Dynetics Inc. is moving forward on a $14.2 million aerospace testing facility near Decatur after winning a lucrative NASA contract.

Dynetics announced it has secured the $221 million contract to design, manufacture, test and assemble the universal stage adapter that will join the Orion space capsule to its exploration upper stage slated to fly in the 2020s.

The adapter, which will provide structural, electrical and communications paths between the capsule and the explorer stage, will be manufactured and tested in Huntsville and at the new Dynetics Aerospace Structures Complex to be built on United Launch Alliance property.

Dynetics plans to break ground on the aerospace testing facility this summer with a target completion date in 2019, according to an official statement.

News of the test facility first emerged when the Decatur Industrial Development Board voted 4-1 in March to abate $195,341 in non-educational state and county property taxes over a 10-year period and an estimated $261,000 in state and city sales taxes during the construction period.

The facilitys 100-foot-tall building will be used to test launch vehicles and large aerospace structures.

The facilityis expected to initially bring about 10 jobs to the area with an average annual salary of $80,000.

However, Mike Graves, space vehicles department manager for Dynetics, said in March that Dynetics hopes to expand in Decatur, adding other buildings and more jobs within about a year.

The universal stage adapter also will involve another company that is setting up shop at ULAs plant on Red Hat Road. Dynetics said some of the production would take place at RUAG Space USAs new facility at ULA.

That $30.6 million facility, which is taking over 130,000 square feet of ULA floor space, is operational but still ramping up production with full production capacity expected by January.

RUAG Aerospace, a Switzerland-based company that has provided ULA with composite rocket components for years, announced plans in 2015 to locate a manufacturing operation at ULAs plant.

The companys composite payload fairings serve as the drag-reducing nose cones for ULAs Atlas V launch system, and RUAG is slated to produce similar components for ULAs larger Vulcan launch system set for a maiden flight in 2019.

RUAG is expected to bring 100 jobs to the facility by 2019 and 150 jobs by 2020 with an average annual salary of $100,000.

To help lure that project, the Decatur Industrial Development Board abated $980,000 in state and county property taxes over a 10-year period, the Alabama Industrial Development Initiative agreed to provide $1.2 million worth of pre-employment training, and the state of Alabama agreed to a $650,000 discretionary incentive.

Dynetics announcement comes as local officials strive to lure more aerospace companies, which are more often associated with Huntsville, to Decatur and Morgan County.

Aerospace has been and will continue to be one of our targets. Each new announcement helps our marketing efforts when trying to attract new prospective companies, said Jeremy Nails, president of the Morgan County Economic Development Association.

Morgan County Commission Chairman Ray Long said it gives local development officials more leverage when it comes to luring other aerospace companies.

Asked what the influx of aerospace means for the countys legacy manufacturing companies, Nails said many of them are high-tech manufacturers, too.

They have to be to remain competitive, he said.

He also said the aerospace influx helps diversify the local economy.

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STEM Superstars: Aerospace Adventure class places kids in the cockpit – 9NEWS.com

Amelia shows us an enrichment program- with classes such as Aerospace Adventure-that provides a more effective school experience and increases student motivation to achieve in school, graduate, and lead fulfilling lives.

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The Grant Beacon Aerospace Adventure class is helping middle school students take flight through STEM focused training courses both in the classroom and at Centennial Airport. Liz Kailey leads the program and describes her experience, procedures and goals:

I became involved in Grant Beacon Middle School when my son attended as a 6th grader. One of the reasons that I wanted my son to be a student at Grant was the schools enrichment program, which introduced kids to a wide variety of subjects, ranging from dance to photography to science.

At that time, the enrichment classes took place once a week and I volunteered my time to teach an aviation class. The staff at Grant was tireless in working toward becoming a Denver Public School innovation school and the enrichment program was expanded to 4 days a week as part of an extended learning day. I was asked to be part of the innovation team and soon I expanded and enhanced my class to encompass the space industry as well.

For five years, I have taught the Aerospace Adventure enrichment class two days a week in four, eight-to-ten week sessions during the school year. In the class, the students build rubber band-powered balsa wood airplanes and Estes model rockets that launch 200 feet in the air.

Along the way, students explore aviation and space history, learn how to use tools, materials, and instructions to construct working airplanes and rockets, and apply STEM topics, such as math and physics to real-world situations. We also take a field trip to the airport where students observe takeoffs and landings and sit in the cockpit of a training airplane and of a jet to see how the controls and equipment work.

For most students, this class is their first exposure to aerospace. By participating in the enrichment classes, students:

1. Are exposed to new subjects to which they typically do not have access. Over 80% of Grant students qualify for free or reduced lunchmany do not have opportunities outside of school to experience subjects, such as aerospace.

2. Learn skills, such as teamwork, communication, and buildingthey achieve a sense of accomplishment and ownership when the airplanes they constructed fly or their rockets launch.

3. Have an opportunity to discover something that they have a passion fora topic that motivates them to come to school and that might lead to a future career or hobby.

And discover how the subjects they learn in school, such as history, math, and science apply to the real world and how doing well in school can lead to exciting opportunities in fields such as aviation or space exploration.

4. Realize that there can be joy in learning for learnings sakenot necessarily to complete an assignment or prepare for a testbut to expand their horizons and enrich their lives.

I believe that the enrichment program with classes such as Aerospace Adventureprovides a more effective school experience and increases student motivation to achieve in school, graduate, and lead fulfilling lives.

To learn more about the Grant Beacon Middle School Program, visit beaconnetworkschools.org.

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Lockheed’s Don Erickson to address SC Aerospace Convention in Columbia – Greenville News

Don Erickson, site director for Lockheed Martin, shows off the hangar where they hope to build T-50A trainer jets for the U.S. Air Force in the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.(Photo: LAUREN PETRACCA/Staff)Buy Photo

Don Erickson, site manager ofLockheed Martin's Greenville facility, will address the South Carolina Aerospace Convention and Expo in Columbia in August.

The third annual conference will be held Aug. 29 to 31at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

Erickson will talk specificallyabout Lockheed's planned move of F-16 fighter jet production to Greenville from the company's Fort Worth, Texas plant. Hewill go over the timeline of when production is expected to start in Greenville and the details associated with the move.

In March, officials confirmed Lockheed Martinwill transition F-16 production to itsGreenville facility at the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center, or SCTAC. Leslie Farmer, spokesperson for Lockheed's Greenville operations, toldThe Greenville Newsthelast F-16 from the Forth Worth plant will be delivered in September, and it will take about two years for the company to get production going at its Greenville.

Employees at the Fort Worth familiar will transition into production of theF-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Erickson said some pieces of the F-16 production transition have already started, while renovations of the existinghangar are ongoing.

Lockheed already employs about 500 people at its Greenville facility. Erickson said the F-16 production shift could initially add between 180 and200 people, but there are potential opportunities to add more.

Asked whether Lockheed Martin supplier companies could shift their work from Fort Worth to Greenville: Erickson said there is a possibility down the road.

"There's a lot out there. The F-16 is certainly an excellent aircraft and very affordable," he said. "As we get the opportunity to build more, some of the suppliers could see it as advantageous to move a little bit closer."

Last year at the convention, Erickson spoke about Lockheed's T-50A trainer jet, part of an ongoing battle to wina $8 billion to $10 billioncontract to build a new training jet for the U.S. Air Force.

The Air Force is expected to make a decision on that by early 2018.

In August, Erickson will be joined by other speakers, that includeJoan Robinson-Berry, Vice President and general manager of Boeing in South Carolina, andUniversity of South Carolina Provost Joan Gabel.

"It'salways good to get together with aerospace partners in South Carolina," Erickson said. "Ithink it'sgreat forum foreveryone to glean amore knowledge and share information."

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Carlsen-Nakamura Norway Clash Ends In Draw – Chess.com

Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura was a great fight that ended in a draw, the same result as the other four games in round three of theAltibox Norway Chess tournament. Friday is the first rest day.

The start of Carlsen vs Nakamura. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

In November 2013, when Anand was struggling in his match with Carlsen, Nakamura tweeted the following famous tweet. Ever since a clash between him and the world champion is something special.

After 12 losses and 18 draws, only in Bilbao 2016, Nakamura managed to win his first classical game against Carlsen. After that, they played the 2016 Chess.com Blitz Battle and one blitz game in December in Qatar, but today's game in Stavanger was their first classical game in a year. Itdidn't disappoint.

Via a different move order compared to last year, the players reached a g3-Dragon and again Carlsen played b2-b3 early on. This time, Nakamura was well prepared for it.

For a change, Carlsen arrived early at the game, several minutes before Nakamura. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

Carlsen was "ashamed" of 11.b3 as he "didn't grasp Hikaru's idea at all." That idea was to simply swap pieces on d4, which normally gives White a pleasant space advantagebut not here.

Happy with his position, Nakamura decided to play actively with 21...f5, the start of "insanely risky" play according to Carlsen.

However, the world champ didn't make the most of his chances. A key position was this:

Carlsen was unhappy with 24.Rc6, the best moves according to the engines but not very practical. 24.b5 would have been tougher to meet. A knight appearing on c5 will just be taken off the board.

Carlsen:"With this time control you need to play for the initiative..." Nigel Short: "...and prevent his." Carlsen: "Exactly.I have no clue what he is going to do..."

In the game, Nakamura sacrificed a pawn to create an active play, and in a phase where Carlsen missed several of his opponent's moves, he was almost lucky not to get in trouble.

Hikaru Nakamura correctly judged that he would have enough counterplay.| Photo Maria Emelianova.

Interestingly, after the game, it turned out that both players had been optimistic about their chances. In that sense, a draw was a good result.

Carlsen joins the TV2 live show every day right after he finishes. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

Levon Aronian vs Anish Giri was a great fight as well, which started slowly though, compared to the other games. While Karjakin and Anand had already drawn, and others reached endgames, these players were still in their early middlegame. That was mostly because of Aronian using a lot of time: almost 20 minutes on 13.0-0, 19 minutes on 16.Qb3, 13 minutes on 19.Bc1 and 18.5 minutes on 20.dxe5.

Giri in deep thought.In the post-mortem, he said that during the game he realized that Aronian probably looked at this opening for Black in preparation for his second round game against Nakamura. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

That last move was right afterGiri had put the board on fire as he pushed the g-pawn in front of his king two squares.A tactical sequence followed and the chess board became a mess, but more important was Aronian's horrendous time trouble. He needed to make 12 moves in less than 2 minutes.

Giri: "What we didn't take into account here is that Levon had like a couple of minutes for 12 moves. The objective evaluation of the position is absolutely irrelevant."

"This time control is very strange. You're playing the classical control and then you have 20 minutes less. It's weird. Takes time to adjust," said Aronian, who was kind of lucky that an endgame was reached where he had a number of simple moves.

Giri is impressed by the "cheapo artist," as Short called Aronian the other day. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

Aronian is not the only player having difficulty adjusting to the time control in Stavanger (which is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and then 15 minutes to finish the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move 61).

Today Vladimir Kramnik, who drew a long game with Wesley So, revealed that he got it wrong initially. He assumed 2 hours for 40 moves and was wondering why he was getting so low on time during the first round. Then, at the start of round two, he noticed the clocks saying 1:40:00, and thought it was a mistake!

Despite attending the players meeting, Kramnik got the time control wrong during the first round. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

The first game to end today was Sergey Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand. It only took about 1.5 hours, but there was a nice story behind it.

First, Karjakin admitted that the line he played against the Berlin wasn't anything special, but Black needs to know what he is doing. Then Anand revealed how his memory had worked: at some point, early in the game, he remembered the position with 21...Bd7. From that point onwards he was trying to figure out how to reach it!

Karjakin vs Anand. The latter "won" the opening battle as he managed to remember his analysis. | Photo Maria Emelianova.

Anand vividly remembered the conversation with one of his seconds, who suggested that 21...Bd7 move. "I almost fell off my chair," Anand said. But Black is fine there, his second told him, and today he could show it in the game.

Both Kramnik-So and MVL-Caruana can be found in the PGN file.

2017 Altibox Norway Chess | Round 3 Standings

In the evening a group of grandmasters joined in the hotel lobby. Guess what they were doing?

Friday is a rest day. The pairings for round four on Saturday are Aronian-Carlsen, Nakamura-MVL, Giri-Anand, Caruana-Kramnik, and So-Karjakin.

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Rouhani should play chess where Trump is playing the fool – Trend News Agency

By Chris Cook, for Trend

Obama's Smart Energy Strategy

On taking office in January 2009, President Barak Obama inherited a failed energy policy from the George W. Bush administration which had attempted to secure Middle East oil & gas resources by military means through creating client states and imposing one-sided contractual terms favouring US International Oil Companies (IOCs). However, China's threat in 2007 to pull the plug on the US financial system forced the US to back off in Iraq, in the same way that the US threat in 1956 to pull the plug on sterling forced the UK to pull out of Suez.

Consequently, the 2008 US financial meltdown obliged the incoming Obama administration to take a very different approach to US energy security. There were two major objectives of Obama's resource resilience energy strategy: firstly, to rid the US for good of their historic reliance on Saudi oil, and secondly, to make a transition through gas as a bridging fuel to a low carbon economy.

The first objective was achieved by Obama's investment bank collaborators who used Saudi/GCC petrodollars to inflate the oil price from its low of $35/barrel in 2009 by manipulating the Brent/BFOE benchmark oil price. The price was then maintained in a range between a collar under oil prices of $80/barrel and a US gasoline price cap at levels which would not threaten Obama's 2012 re-election chances.

The effect of these artificially high prices were firstly, to fund indiscriminate lending to US shale oil and gas developers and secondly, to finance renewable energy such as wind and solar which substituted for fossil fuels. Finally, high prices led to massive investment in energy savings such as in more efficient car engines. As a result the US increased oil production by 5m barrels per day, and made oil product savings of maybe 2m bpd. When added to new high cost global sources of oil such as Canadian tar sands, and global renewable energy and efficiency, particularly in the EU, this led by 2014 to a substantial global surplus of oil production, which has now become structurally embedded.

The increasing surplus of oil supply led as I forecast it would in 2011 to a collapse in the oil price to $45 to $50/bbl in late 2014 after the financial Quantitative Easing (QE) pump of Federal Reserve Bank dollars was finally turned off.

Obama's Energy Doctrine

Obama's strategy executed through Hilary Clinton's State/CIA power nexus was for Caspian and Qatari gas to supply Europe, displacing crude oil and oil products and competing with Russia. Resource nationalism particularly in Turkey and Syria - stood in the way of this. Meanwhile the massive US base at Al Udeid has effectively come to secure Qatari gas production and an effective position of Qatar as a US proxy in the MENA region acting against resource nationalism by promoting Islamism.

The US strategy was therefore to create a new wave of non-nationalist Sunni Islamism such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere, and Gulenism in Turkey. The outcome desired by the US was Balkanisation of the region to create a Kurdish Petro State (which would be tolerated by a Gulenist regime in Turkey) with Islamist territories elsewhere acting as conduits for Qatari gas transit to Europe by pipeline.

However, Obama's smart energy policy was so successful that the accompanying wave of new smart technology and investment led to an irreversible tipping point in the global economy of Peak Demand the effect of which is to cap the global oil price at or around $50 per barrel.

Current Events

Saudi Arabia has clearly learnt the truth of Yamani's dictum that the Oil Age is not ending for lack of oil, since they would not conduct the Aramco IPO if the future oil price trajectory were upwards. Clearly, Saudi Arabia is now casting covetous eyes on Qatari gas, since this will enable them to free crude oil for export, particularly in the summer. In other words, Qatari gas will act as a bridging fuel while their ambitious (and in my view unimplementable) Energy 2030 programme progresses. Such a Saudi gas for oil swap is unlikely to take place on favourable terms for Qatar.

So President Trump has now turned away from the Obama doctrine at least in part due to his personal antagonism to anything Obama was able to achieve in office. Unfortunately, as with his similar rejection of COP 21 and Obama's domestic US energy policy he has no constructive Plan B.

As a result of Trump's impulsive action, Saudi Arabia has now been permitted to take extraordinary measures, with the full support of the US, which essentially constitute war on Qatar by economic means. Moreover, Qatar has been presented with a detailed ultimatum including a draconian prohibition in dealings with Iran and the scope for rapid escalation is clear.

Today's events in Tehran an attack on the Majlis and an unprecedented suicide bombing at the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini provide a grave challenge to President Hassan Rouhani and his colleagues in Iran's government. Trump's top military/security team is extremely antagonistic to Iran, and clearly hope and expect that Iran will act stupidly and aggressively in response to this provocation.

What is Iran's Smart Move in this difficult position?

The Smart Move

In my view, the smart, and unexpected, policy for Iran would be to propose a constructive regional initiative based upon energy/resource co-operation and resilience. This may perhaps commence with a humanitarian offer to Qatar of essential supplies through international waters.

What appears to be a unilateral US-backed resource grab by Saudi Arabia creates an opportunity for Russia, Iran & Qatar (who between them possess more than 60% of global gas reserves) to collaborate in launching a networked physical and financial global market in natural gas based upon a new settlement between gas producers and consumers.

The market in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is key to such a new settlement. While historically the global natural gas market has been fragmented and largely bilateral due to deliveries via static pipelines, the last five years has seen massive new production and infrastructure for liquidising and decompressing Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). The combination of diversity of supply, flexibility of delivery and homogeneity of gas (there are many grades and qualities of oil, but CH4 is CH4) has now led to an over-supplied global 'buyer's market' in natural gas. The emergence and convergence of a global LNG price is strikingly illustrated by this chart.

I believe based upon my experience of implementing the UK Natural Gas Balancing Point Futures contract in 1995 as a Director of what is now ICE Europe that the potential now exists for a global gas 'Balancing Point' physical gas market price based upon the price at which LNG is delivered into and out of global LNG infrastructure. This could enable financial energy credit instruments (not derivatives) based upon this price which are issued, traded, cleared and settled within a global energy clearing union.

The EU, which is fuming at Trump's America First antics, as well as China, India and Turkey (whose President Erdogan has offered to intermediate), could be expected to support a new global gas market settlement, while neutral countries like Norway and Switzerland could be expected to facilitate it.

So my advice to President Rouhani is to play chess where Trump is playing the fool, and to begin a process of depoliticised energy diplomacy based upon competition for quality of energy as a service and cooperation to reduce energy costs within a new natural gas global market paradigm.

Chris Cook is a former director of the International Petroleum Exchange. He is now a strategic market consultant, entrepreneur and a commentator.

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Amazon is helping veterans find jobs in cloud computing – Marketplace – Marketplace.org

ByMolly Wood and Clare Toeniskoetter

June 08, 2017 | 4:49 AM

Youve probably heard by now: the tech industry is in need of talent. Some companies are looking to veterans of the military to fill those roles.

Amazon has partnered with the Department of Labor, creating the Amazon Veterans Apprenticeship Program. Veterans enrolled in the 16-week program train for positions in cloud computing.

Ardine Williams is vice president of talent acquisition for Amazon Web Services, and she's also a veteran herself. Williams spoke with Marketplace's Molly Wood about the difficulties of finding a civilian job, and Amazon's efforts to help.Below is an edited excerpt of their conversation.

Ardine Williams:The challenge that people have on the tech side is, in many cases, the technology that they've been working with doesn't change as quickly in the military as it does in the civilian sector, and so helping veterans who are a good fit culturally and have good basic technical skills learn that next, more state of the art capability is really what helps bridge them into a role in tech, and then open up other career opportunities.

Molly Wood:What other things about the transition might be hard for veterans coming into the private sector, Amazon in particular?

Williams:You have to be willing to take a stand and say this is what I want to do. We have thousands of job openings at Amazon and I get contacted regularly by veterans who say "I'm really a capable leader and I can do just about anything." And I don't have any jobs like that. I need someone to come and say "Hey, these are three jobs that are a great fit for me" and "I want to be a project manager in supply chain." It's a very different experience in the military where you have a branch officer or someone the career side saying, "Hey Ardine, we're going to send you to Fort X and you're going to do Y."

Wood: The tech industry takes a lot ofcriticism for being in a bubble in a lot of ways. Do you think that hiring from the military, creating a pathway for veterans, could improve the sort of pipeline problem that the tech industry often cites in terms of improving diversity? Or is the military its own bubble?

Williams:While it's imperfect, the military is a relatively good snapshot demographically of the U.S., not geographically perfect, but from a demographic perspective if you look at gender and ethnicity. So in that regard, it's a very valuable pipeline for any industry.

Wood:How will you know if you've succeeded?

Williams: The first piece for me is "are they successful, are we actually able to bring people in?" and then, "can we scale it, can I grow it to be a very robust pipeline?" So late last year, we worked with the Department of Labor to build an apprenticeship program and we're running a number of cohorts this year in different locations. And success to me will be that we have a great graduation rate from those programs and that those graduates go on to roles that continue to increase in responsibility at Amazon.

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Here’s how venture capitalists are thinking about cloud computing companies and technologies – GeekWire

Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies so how are investors thinking about which ones to put their investmentbehind?

Three Seattle-area venture capitalists Frank Artale of Ignition Partners; S. Soma Somasegar of Madrona Venture Group; and Sheila Gulati of Tola Capital spoke on stage Wednesday at the inauguralGeekWire Cloud Tech Summit about the state of the cloud computing industry and opportunities they see for related technologies and startups.

The panelists all agreed that its an exciting time for cloud technology and that this isonly the beginning.

We are early in this game, and its a game that is fundamentally changing how computing happens, Gulati said. Cloud is the new operating system.

The discussion, moderated bySeattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald, ranged from the most attractive cloud-related areas of investment to how Seattle is becoming the cloud capital of the world.

Heres a quick rundown of their insights, which have been edited for brevity.

S. Soma Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group: In the last six to 12 months, we have been investing in a fair amount of what I call cloud-native, next-generation cloud infrastructure-related startups. Its everything from serverless computing, to the world of containers, to event-driven functions. There are a bunch of things people can go solve in a startup environment.

As you move the stack, there is still a lot of value that people can think about delivering at the application level. We get excited about what we call intelligent applications. Its not just predictable behavior from an application, but one that can learn from the data you have access to and continuously learn from thatand do a better job for customers. There are lots of enterprise use cases that are possible.

Sheila Gulati, Tola Capital: A lot of the opportunities for venture capitalists these days is up-stack, as you take advantage of the incredibly rich platform elements and the ability to develop and deploy more seamlessly and more easily.

But also, the real benefitthat the cloud gives you is that data ownership, that data predictability, that comparabilitybetween your different customersbecause youare running all of thatdata in cloud and then able to do very business-appropriate, business-useful comparisons. Its incredibly invaluable. Our last investment was in the insurance software space. Its specific to a vertical, its adding value. You have the industry incumbents really betting on this company in order to take forward the learnings and the benefit of cloud, mobile, and data-centric computing for their industry. We also like serverless.

Frank Artale, Ignition Partners: One of the things we look at, relative to cloud, are applicationsthat could not exist were it not for what the cloud brings, from an application perspective. That may include low cost access to things like cognitive services; low cost access to elastic compute and storage; networking; availability. Its all of these things that to build on-premise would just be too expensive to even go after. Enablement is always a big word for us.

Gulati: As you take each layer of traditional IT spend and map it out, cloud revenue is eating different layers of the stack. Cloud vendors are coming out with services that replace a lot of thetraditional, massive businesses. As venture capitalists, its important that we think of everything we do in the context of, lets makesure we understand how thisworks.

Artale: With the public cloud, now that it has become a trusted infrastructure as opposed to a technical curiosity, well see a similarpattern with enterprise IT that we saw inthe late 90s when hypervisors first came into existence. You saw a lot of lighter duty, older workloads being moved into virtual machines, and virtual machines being collected on backs of servers for cost efficiency. You could do more with less hardware, you havesome software, and you can run more apps.One of the first orders of business for enterprises of all sizes will be to identify existing on-premise applications that are candidates to make that move. People call this lift and shift, or modernization.'

Somasegar: Hybrid cloud will be around for at least the next 10, 20, 30 years. Not everyone can move everything they have on premise to the public cloud overnight. Its going to take time. People also need to take time to get comfortable to feel like they have the right levels of security and data protection. It takes time to get that level of trust. And even then, there will be extreme situations, whether government related or industry-specific, where youll want some stuff on premise. Hybrid is how I think the world will operate for at leastthe next two or three decades.

Somasegar: Its definitely changing for the positive. I was at a dinner last month with venture capitalists and the whos-who of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. They were saying that theyve never seen so many Silicon Valley VCs come together in one place and were wondering whats happening here. Its a testament to people getting exciting about whats happening in Seattle and how they can be apart of it.

Weve also seen, at least in the past year, a tremendous amount of interest in terms of whats happening in Seattle and the startups here. We host people from Silicon Valley a couple times a week because they want to come here and understand the ecosystem. They know something great is happening and they want to participate more.

And as much as we get excited about Seattle being the cloud capital of the world, its not just cloud computing. There are many other areas where we have a tremendous amount of innovation here, between the bigger companies and the startups. We are the No. 1 or No. 2 in what I call the hot technology trends. All of this together makes us better and better each day that goes by.

Gulati: Its fine to call Seattle Silicon Valleys little sister, but its not true.Everyone is moving up here; everyone is opening an office up here. Theprevalence of more cloud computing happening here than in any other city in the world does change the game.

Artale: If you look at the movement, one thing people do notice is the amountof real estateleasesthat are being taken by mid-cap, large-cap, even startups from the Bay Area. Weve had companies move here from the Bay Area. There is great access to not just software development talent, but people want to be close to the epicenter and thinkers in cloud computing.

We also find that we are much more concentrated geographically here. Silicon Valley stretches from San Francisco down to south of San Jose thats about 75 miles and many hours sitting in a car. [In Seattle] we are concentrated, so there is good promise around that.

The other thing is that, at least for high value software development talent and programmanagement and marketing functions, people tend to stay in their jobs longer here. They dont go work some place for two years and find the next hotly-funded startup and move on. There tends to be more durability of teams. From my perspective, that is super important. Its something that is very attractive to businesses of all sizes.

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Learning in the Sky: Collaborative Robots Embrace Cloud Computing – Machine Design

C2ROis a new innovative startup company that launched in October of 2016 out of the startup incubator TandemLaunch. Its mission is to introduce a new way for robots to collaborate via cloud computing. The C2RO developed a robot-agnostic software platform that streams in real-time data processing to provide cloud server-based artificial intelligence (AI) -enabled software solutions. This helps the robots by augmenting their perception and collaboration capabilities.

The software increases the intelligence and autonomy of the robots. It enables collaboration between several different robots to perform complex tasks. The robots connect via the software and their sensor data processes in real time in the cloud. This increases the way robots share knowledge, work in a joined network, enhance their sensor perception, and even helps robots that have limited sensing and computational resources.

[C2RO has] developed a software platform that connects robots in the cloudand processes their sensor data in real timein a secure and reliable manner, said Soodeh Farokhi, the companys founder and technology lead, who holds a Ph.D. in cloud computing. Using our software-only solution, robots can share knowledge using the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms.

The C2RO platform uses the machine learning and vision systems of robot one to help teach other robots via its cloud connected software platform.

Cloud robotics was coined in 2010 to describe network-connected robots using parallel computation and data sharing. The interconnection with other computer hardware and environments enable data sharing, and these environments are customizable based on customers needs. Connecting robots to the cloud dramatically enhances their efficiency and capabilities because it opens up possibilities for collaboration and collective learning.

C2RO offers a Multi-Robot Collaboration module, which connects multiple robots (regardless of type or manufacturer) so they can work together. There are two main benefits to collaboration: efficiency, such as when multiple robot vacuums are used to clean a large area; and complementary sensing, such as when drones and land robots combine their sensors and viewing angles in a search-and-rescue scenario.

Connected robots also tend to be lighter and cheaper, since they do not require expensive processors or memory localized on board the robot. Inexpensive robots can be made smarter with C2ROs product because intensive processing and computation is partially offloaded onto the cloud platform, which can process the data in real time due to our patent-pending technology.

Speaking with Farokhi, engineers will see benefits from working in the cloud. Programming robots becomes an easier task, even for those without expertise in machine learning or software engineering, because all of the modules have been pre-programmed into the cloud as a software-only solution. According to Farokhi, All the user has to do is install a package on his/her robot, and the platform has a dashboard that acts like an app store or marketplace in a way that the user can choose the modules they want for a monthly, subscription-based fee for each module per robot.

Cloud-based robotic networks can be measured by its response timethe total time it takes from when a request is made by a user until a response is received. Response time is in turn determined by two factors: latency and processing time. Processing time is the amount of time a system takes to process a given request, while latency is the delay incurred in communicating a message.

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According to Farokhi, the C2RO platform tackles the twin problems of processing time and latency. We have brought down the processing time of any request to mere milliseconds using our parallel computing technology, he explained, and to address latency, we have partnered with PubNuba telecommunication providerproviding a speedy connection, heighten security, and less network delays. PubNub is a data stream network company headquarter in San Francisco.

C2RO has also collaborated with Indiana Universitys School of Informatics and Computing. Professor Geoffrey Fox serves as a technical advisor for the company. With regard to C2ROs software platform, It will allow my cuddly robot, vacuum cleaner, high-speed lawnmowers, and even any smart home devices to share backend services and generate new ideas by linking their data together, Fox said. Our intelligent systems engineering department is uniquely positioned to support C2RO.

C2RO is currently signing up users for its beta release.

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3 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing Right Now – Fortune

It is no understatement to say that public cloud computing is revolutionizing how technology is used. Executives from the top three public cloud providersAmazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platformspoke at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, Wash. this week.

Here are three lessons you need to learn now.

Microsoft ( msft ) and Amazon are courting major software companies to run their operations on their respective clouds, and manyTableau ( data ) , Salesforce ( crm ) , Workday ( wday ) are doing so.

"We want to win both big customers and the software companies selling to those customers," Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of cloud and enterprise, said at the conference.

Related: Welcome to the Era of Great Data Center Consolidation

The problem is that the major cloud providers offer more than basic computing, networking, and storage building blocks. They are adding more capabilities that compete with software companies they are courting.

For example, while SAP ( sap ) financial software runs on Microsoft Azure public cloud, SAP also competes with Microsoft Dynamics applications. As Guthrie noted: "If we overlap in places, we have to do that in disciplined ways." Guthrie, who manages both Azure cloud and financial software that competes with SAP, added: "I see SAP as both a competitor and a partner, but we're able to manage that well."

This is dj vu for Microsoft. Years ago as the company built its Windows franchise, it wanted other software companies to move Microsoft products, which ran on the older DOS operating system. But even as the Windows team pushed third-parties like Lotus Development Corp., then a leader in DOS spreadsheet software, to move to Windows, Microsoft was building its own competitive Windows Excel spreadsheet software. This did not work out so well for Lotus, which ended up being acquired by IBM ( ibm ) .

Guthrie told Fortune that Lotus' fate had more to do with that company being late to Windows than any competition from Microsoft's competitive software. In similar fashion, Guthrie said software companies should quickly commit to cloud or risk falling behind.

Amazon Web Services ( amzn ) , the leader in the public cloud market, was born in Seattle approximately 11 years ago . Microsoft, the second largest public cloud company, is based a few miles east in Redmond. And while Google ( goog ) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., a good chunk of its cloud development work takes place in the Seattle area. Oracle ( orcl ) also fields much of its nascent cloud work in the area.

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At the conference, Docker's new chief executive Steve Singh said his company will open a significant engineering hub in Seattle or Bellevue soon. Docker, which backs container technology easing the deployment of software that runs in the cloud or in company data centers, is based in San Francisco.

Greg DeMichillie, director of product management for Google Cloud, said that company is constructing a new facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood to house more Google cloud personnel.

"If you look at the rate at which we are hiring, not just in engineering, our growth here in Seattle is pretty phenomenal, DeMichillie said. Google also has offices in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.

Fortune 500 companies run lots of decades-old business software, simply patched up and updated over time. Databases, financial accounting systems, and software managing manufacturing tasks all fall into that category. Cloud providers think much of that key business software should move from corporate data centers to the cloudbut such migrations are difficult.

Guthrie, however, said most of Azure's cloud business comes from truly new computing jobs that have never ran in anyone's data center. The Internet of thingsin which billions of connected devices from fitness gadgets to appliances to factory gear in order to gather datais partially responsible for enabling those new scenarios.

"We havent seen a huge lift and shift of existing things until recently," Guthrie said. "I think Amazon would say the same thing. Core IT hasnt been lifting and shifting core workloads until lately."

Related: Microsoft Claims Shipping Giant Maersk as Huge Cloud Win

Brand new computing taskslike German auto giant BMW's connected car work , which brings the driver's smartphone, contacts, calendar into the car itselfcould not happen without a cloud. Projects like this, Guthrie added, are not necessarily driven by traditional IT staff, but by business units at the company.

Brian Nowak, executive director at Morgan Stanley , agreed that much cloud workand revenueis driven by totally new tasks like these.

"Autonomous cars didn't even exist two years ago," Nowak noted. Connected home devices, like Amazon Echo, are also new. The data that these gadgets collect needs to be analyzed in the cloud, he explained, and that is driving the bulk of public cloud business going forward.

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New Cloud Computing and IT Outsourcing Requirements in the Financial Sector – JD Supra (press release)

On 17 May, 2017 the Luxembourg Financial Regulator (CSSF) published four new circulars concerning cloud computing and IT outsourcing. The new regulations will immediately affect credit institutions, professionals of the financial sector, payment service providers, and electronic money issuers (Entities). The four CSSF circulars, which came into effect on the date of their publication, introduce new rules and replace existing requirements set out in existing circulars.

This circular addresses the obligations that Entities must meet when their IT infrastructure uses or will rely on a cloud computing infrastructure.

The circular applies to the partial or full transfer of the activities and does not make many differences between an external provider and an internal provider within a group of companies.

The CSSF defines the term of material activity as any activity that, when not properly performed, reduces the ability of an Entity to meet regulatory requirements or continue its operations, and any activities that are necessary for the sound and prudent risk management.

Three different IT service models are described:

For each of the above service models, the CSSF provides an interpretation of the levels of control on the systems and the software that an Entity must respect when applying such model.

Within these service models the CSSF differentiates four different cloud types:

An Entitys outsourcing of IT matters will qualify for particular regulatory treatment, if it meets specific criteria set out by the CSSF and will be excluded from the scope of other existing regulations relating the Entitys central administration, accounting organization, internal governance and risk management (e.g. Circulars 12/552 or 17/656).

The criteria that the CSSF uses to define the specific regulatory treatment are:

If the above criteria are fulfilled an Entity must obtain the CSSFs prior approval (if a material activity is concerned). In case a Luxembourg based professional of the financial sector is used, an Entity must only file a prior notification to the CSSF.

Once the outsourcing is implemented, all the changes to the set-up and the service providers as well as the in-sourcing must be notified to the regulator before an Entity enacts them.

Entities under the supervision of the CSSF that would like to offer cloud computing services or related operating services to their clients must submit a program description to the CSSF to obtain its prior approval.

This circular amends the requirements applicable to credit institutions, investment firms and professional lenders. The amendments introduce Circular 17/654 and clarify that Circular 05/178 is repealed.

In addition, the amendments clarify that every time specific infrastructures are used or changed, authorized entities must observe data protection and professional secrecy rules.

The circular clarifies the conditions for the use of other group entities that are not authorized by the CSSF. The systems of such group entities may be used under the condition that no confidential information is stored in a readable manner on those systems. If this is the case, the supervised entity must inform its clients and, if required, collect their consent.

This circular aligns the IT outsourcing requirements for professionals of the financial sector other than investment firms, payment service providers and electronic money issuers to those applicable to credit institutions and investment firms. It copies the wording of the relevant sections of Circular 12/552 to ensure consistency and ease further alignments.

Finally, the circular introduces Circular 17/564 and clarifies that professionals of the financial sector that offer IT services to their clients, may use the infrastructure of a third party or sub-delegate a part of their services only with the prior consent of the concerned clients.

This circular amends Circular 06/240 and is applicable to all credit institutions and professionals of the financial sector. One important clarification of this circular consists of providing that only the production environment should contain confidential data, whereas the test and development environment(s) (that as per applicable regulation may be accessed by third parties) should not contain confidential data.

As the four circulars came into effect on the date of their publication, the Entities auditors are expected to pay particular attention to the new requirements when carrying out their audits.

Entities supervised by the CSSF will have to carefully study the new circulars and analyze the impact on their existing administrative organization and IT infrastructure, because if affected, theymust be aligned to the new requirements. Therefore, changes may need to be implemented at multiple levels:

As service providers located outside of Luxembourg will be required to accept contractual provisions that they have never been requested to comply with before, (for instance, amendments to certifications and controls), the time to implement the changes should not be underestimated.

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FinDEVr London: Preparing for the Dark Side of Quantum Computing – GlobeNewswire (press release)

June 08, 2017 08:00 ET | Source: ISARA Corporation

WATERLOO, Ontario, June 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Many technology-driven sectors will be affected by the advent of universal quantum computing which experts say will happen by 2026, or sooner, but the financial industry has particular reason for concern. ISARAs CEO, Scott Totzke, is among the featured speakers at the upcoming FinDEVr show, the premier international event for FinTech developers taking place in London on June 1213. Totzke will discuss the impact of the quantum threat on the financial industry, and provide recommendations for mitigation.

A quantum computer could be used to stage an attack on the cryptography behind the encryption and authentication used today across banking institutions and in FinTech development. Without the appropriate quantum-safe protections, traditional cybersecurity standards will become vulnerable.

Any technology that relies on public-key cryptography, including blockchain, is at risk in the quantum age. Businesses and financial institutions cannot afford to ignore the threat of quantum computers to the cryptography those solutions rely on, said Totzke.

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What: Why (And How) You Should Make Your FinTech Security Quantum Safe Today

When: Monday, June 12th, 14:10 pm

Where: Tobacco Dock, The Dock, Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, London, UK

Who: Scott Totzke, Co-Founder and CEO, ISARA

Totzke will also lead the roundtable discussion topic, We're all in it together: Making global FinTech crypto-agile, on Tuesday, June 13th, at 12:30 pm. For more information please visit, http://london2017.findevr.com/.

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ISARA Corp. is the largest organization in the world focused on developing quantum safe cryptographic solutions for easy integration into commercial products to protect against emerging security threats. For more information, visit https://www.isara.com/.

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Experts: Trump’s Comey Firing ‘Possibly Lawful, But Awful’ – NBCNews.com

WASHINGTON FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony Thursday certainly lived up to the hype.

The ousted FBI Director flatly accused President Donald Trump of firing him after he refused to drop an investigation that put too much pressure on the White House, and then lying about it and defaming the FBI.

But did Trump's actions break the law?

"I don't know. That's Bob Mueller's job to sort that out," Comey told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, referring to the special counsel recently appointed to look into Russia's meddling in last year's election and its potential ties to Trump's campaign.

Legal experts are divided. While many agree that Comey's testimony suggests Trump acted inappropriately, they point out it would be much harder to prove he acted illegally since obstruction of justice requires proving Trump's intent never an easy task.

And since presidents are charged not in a court of law, but in Congress through the impeachment process, the question may be as much a political one as a legal one.

The stakes are enormous since, as the old Washington adage goes "it's not the crime but the cover-up" that tends to ensnare politicians.

Richard Nixon resigned after the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice. And Bill Clinton was successfully impeached for obstruction (along with a second count for perjury), even though an independent criminal investigation later declined to bring any charges against him for the underlying scandals around Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky.

Comey, who knows Mueller well and earlier sought his approval on what he could say publicly during Thursday's congressional hearing, suggested his fellow former FBI director is already investigating whether Trump obstructed justice.

"I'm sure the special counsel will work towards to try to understand what the intention was there and whether that's an offense," Comey said during the hearing.

Related: James Comey, Donald Trump and the Russia Investigation: A Timeline of Events

But Joyce Vance, who was the Obama-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama until earlier this year, called Trump's actions "possibly lawful, but awful."

"His conduct indicates clearly here that he believes that he is above the law," she said. "You can't imagine Obama or Bush or any other president in our lifetime making these kind of requests directly to the attorney general, let alone the director of the FBI."

But are his actions obstruction?

"Maybe they're obstruction, maybe they're not technically illegal, maybe they're just completely inappropriate," she said.

John Lauro, who has been on both sides of obstruction cases as a former federal prosecutor that now runs a white collar criminal defense firm, was more definitive.

"Without a doubt in mind, it's not obstruction of justice," he said. "This doesn't even come within the zone of what obstruction is."

Legally, obstruction charges hinge on proving a person acted with "corrupt intent" to prevent the government from learning something.

"It's a very very high bar," Lauro said of proving someone's intentions. "It's a very very difficult statue to get convictions on."

Related: James Comey Testimony: Here Are 9 Key Moments from the Hearing

But Jens David Ohlin, a professor and dean at Cornell Law School, said the bar is completely different in this case, because it's set by Congress, not by the courts

"Would he be convicted? I don't know, but that's not the right question to be asking. He's not going to get prosecuted," Ohlin said. "The more relevant question is, is this the type of obstruction of justice which is so corrupt that the House should take the extraordinary measure of impeaching the president, and for the Senate to convict him and remove him from power?"

"It sounds like this is a person who is using his authority to stop an investigation," Ohlin added.

Many Democrats have already accused Trump of obstructing justice in firing Comey, but Republicans have, who control both chambers of Congress, have not.

Trump's defenders were quick to note that, according to Comey, Trump never ordered him to stop his investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, but simply said he hoped it would be resolved favorably.

Comey testified that he took that to be a direction from his superior, but Trump's camp has and will dispute both Comey's recollection and interpretation.

"Mr. Comey's testimony also makes clear that the President never sought to impede the investigation into attempted Russian interference in the 2016 election," Marc Kasowitz, the president's longtime lawyer who is now representing him this matter, told reporters on Thursday. "Consistent with that statement, the President never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone."

Meanwhile, Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie say, essentially, that as a former businessman with no government experience, Trump can't have acted with improper intent because he didn't know any better.

While ignorance is not often a successful defense, it could be here, according to Michael Wildes, a self-professed "very proud Democrat" who served as both a federal prosecutor and mayor in New Jersey.

"Trump is not a career politician," Wildes said. "It represents a naivete."

David Shapiro, a former FBI special agent who now teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed.

"The case may be significantly weaker than I expected," Shapiro said after reviewing Comey's prepared testimony made public on Wednesday.

Former FBI Director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington. Andrew Harnik / AP

But Joshua Dressler, the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at Ohio State University, thinks the facts around Comey's firing present a compelling circumstantial case against Trump.

"Put those dots together and you have a perfectly reasonable interpretation is that that was done with the corrupt intent to obstruct justice," he said. "There is now what you would call a prima facie case enough evidence that a judge would say that a reasonable jury could convict this person of obstruction of justice."

Dressler moved in the opposition direction of Shapiro. A few weeks ago, he was skeptical, but said, "Today's testimony strengthened my feelings that in fact this may have constituted legally speaking obstruction of justice."

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Steve Ryan, who once directed federal investigations against the mafia and served as general counsel to the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, guessed Mueller would not move ahead with charges even though the case "certainly has a Limburger smell about it."

But he said Comey's testimony raises other serious questions, like who else did Trump demand loyalty from?

"I can't imagine that that question won't be asked of any Department of Justice nominee that comes forward. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not have that question on the FAQ," he said.

And as Wildes said, there is still a long way to go.

"This is only the investigation of the investigation," he said. "It's only the beginning."

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Donald Trump hasn’t tweeted in a very long time – CNN

The last time Trump sent out a tweet was 8:17 a.m. on Wednesday. It said this: "Getting ready to leave for Cincinnati, in the GREAT STATE of OHIO, to meet with ObamaCare victims and talk Healthcare & also Infrastructure!" Between that moment and the time of this posting, roughly 37 hours have passed. That, according to calculations made by the one and only Philip Bump of the Washington Post, is the fifth-longest Twitter outage for Trump since he announced his candidacy in June 2015. To pass the fourth longest drought, Trump will need to stay away from Twitter for 2,312 minutes -- 38 total hours, or until 10:17 p.m. Thursday -- which looks doable. To break his all-time longest tweet drought, according to Bump, Trump would need to not tweet until 6:14 a.m. tomorrow.

What's fascinating about the past droughts is that they almost always have corresponded with slow news moments. Trump's longest break from Twitter, for example, came over the 2016 Thanksgiving Day weekend -- soon after he had been elected. The second longest was earlier that same month, the weekend after the election when Trump was, almost certainly, worn down from the just-concluded campaign.

If ever there was a time when you might expect Trump to take phone in hand and offer his own counter-narrative, this past 37 hours was it. And yet, nothing.

Theories abound to explain it.

The most common one is that someone took Trump's phone away, ensuring that he simply lacked the ability to tweet. I doubt it. He's the President of the United States. He's made clear -- in the face of much criticism -- that he isn't going to stop tweeting. I'm not sure anyone is in a position to simply tell the President to stop doing something and have him actually listen.

Or maybe Trump's staff, as they had hoped to do, successfully distracted the President over these past 37 hours -- keeping him from thinking too much, and therefore tweeting too much about the situation. But how is that even possible given that we know Trump is an absolutely avid news consumer and there has been so much (and so much bad) Trump news over that period of time?

The short answer is we don't know why Trump hasn't tweeted since 8:17 a.m. Wednesday. But with every passing minute of Trump Twitter silence, he edges closer to his own personal best (worst?).

One other thing we know: Silence isn't Trump's natural state. So when the drought breaks -- and it will break -- look out.

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Donald Trump is destroying America’s standing in the world and may end up destroying the world – Salon

During his recent announcementaboutthe United Stateswithdrawalfromthe Paris climate agreement which makes our nation the third in the world to not be part of the accord, along with Syria and Nicaragua President Donald Trump repeatedly insistedthathis decision had to do with simple fairness. It was the same kind of sentiment that he frequently conveyed during his presidential campaign: The rest of the world has been disrespecting, mistreating and, worst of all, laughing atus for years.

At what point does America get demeaned? asked the president. At what point do they start laughing at us as a country? We want fair treatment for its citizens and we want fair treatment for our taxpayers. We dont want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they wont be.

Like candidate Trump, President Trump seems to hearsnickering voicesin his head (presumablyforeign, non-English voices) and believes they are laughing at him and his country. In Trumps paranoid mind, every nation on the planethastaken advantage of America in one way or another, and the Paris agreement is just the latest example of this abuse.Ironically, the insecure man who constantlydemands respect from the rest of the worldis actually in the process of driving his countrys reputation into the ground, and the Paris exit is simply the latestembarrassment.

It is often said it is easier to destroy than to create, and over the past months Donald Trump has proven this maxim correct when it comesto governing. Trumps presidency has been like a violent wreckingball demolishing everything in sight. And nothing has been more grievously damaged by Trump than the United States credibility in the world. Americas global image has collapsed in record time, and with the presidents decision to pull out of the Paris agreement, the most powerful country in the world is well on its way to becoming an international pariah. As the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson,declared,The U.S. reneging on its commitment to the Paris Agreement renders it a rogue state on the international stage.

As Americas standing in the world crumbles, many people will no doubt recall how Republican politicians regularly claimed during the previous administration that the country was no longer respected under the leadership of President Barack Obama. As with mostRepublican positions,this was flat-out delusional, and polling revealedthat the countrys global image steadily improved under Obama after having fallen to historic lows during George W. Bushs presidency.

One of the most vocal proponents of this fallacious line of attack was, of course, a conspiracy theorist named Donald Trump, who was convinced that everyone was laughing at his country because it had twice elected a Muslim foreigner as president. Today that unhinged man-child is making the world feel somewhat nostalgic for George W. Bushs America. According to Pew Research Center, countries around the world have almost no confidence in Trump(compared to theirhigh confidence in Obama), and the freshman presidenthas turnedthe U.S. intoalaughingstockthat can no longer be trusted by its allies, asGermanys Chancellor Angela Merkelindicatedlast week.

Of course, President Trump continues to maintain that he is restoring the countrys status in the world after the U.S. has been mistreated (and laughed at!) for so many years. For example, he claimed in his exit speech that the Paris agreement gives other countries an economic edge over the United States and handicaps the United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our countrys expense. Not only that, continued Trump, but the nations that are asking America to stay in the agreement (that is, the rest of the world) are countries that have collectively cost America trillions of dollars through tough trade practices and in many cases lax contributions to our critical military alliance. Like most of his speeches, this one was full of falsehoodsand exaggerations, and the president cited industry-funded studies and misinterpreted other onesto make his harebrained case.

The great irony of Trumps begrudging speech (and his parochial worldview in general) is that America has long been the worlds leading imperialist force. If any country qualifies as a bully that has treated other nations unfairly over the past halfa century, it is the United States. This is evidencedby the many overseas coupsthat have been orchestrated by the U.S. government,often to serve the interests of American business,withthe classic case involvingthe United Fruit Company and Guatemala. The majority of Americans have not benefited personally from U.S. foreign policy; it has been themultinational corporations and the power elite, as C. Wright Millsonce called the countrys political and corporate establishments, that have benefited from such interventions.

Consider Americas economy, which Trump claims has been losing for decades because other countries have treated us horribly, stealing our jobs and thenlaughing at us to add insult to injury. This view is so facile and childishit seemsunworthy of comment. But, alas, it is espoused bya very powerful man. Itgoes without sayingthat American workers have suffered over the past 40 years due to numerous factors, including globalization andcorporatetrade deals; that doesnt mean the United Stateshas been losing to other countries. In fact, American businesses have done exceedingly well over the past three decades, as havethe top 1 percent of earners. Only working- and middle-class Americans have been losing in any real sense of the word and not because foreign governments are so cunning and inconsiderate but because of our capitalist economy.

In addition to arguing that the Paris agreement is designed to hurt Americaseconomy, Trump bitterly complained that it was unfair to the U.S. ascompared withthe fate of less-developed countries like China and India. China will be able to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years, said the president, claiming that the Chinese will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. The president then declared that the agreement doesnt eliminate coal jobs; it just transfers those jobs out of America . . .and ships them to foreign countries. This, in typical Trumpian fashion, is extremely misleading. China isactuallyin the process of canceling projects to build coal plants, and its coal consumption has declined since 2013, but such pesky facts are unwelcome in Trumps reactionary, zero-sum worldview.

Once again, the irony here is that America has contributed more than any other country in the worldto climate change and is responsible for nearly a third of the excess carbon that has built up in the atmosphere.In cumulative terms, we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does, saidclimate scholar David G. Victor to The New York Times. Furthermore, Americas per capita carbon emission is more than double that of China (and about eight times that of India).If one were truly interested in fairness, as Trump has claimedto be, thenthe U.S. would be doing much more than it agreed to in the Paris accords.

Withdrawing from the Paris agreement not only erodes Americas credibility and standing in the world, but is an importantstep toward dooming the planet or more accurately dooming the human species. It is somewhat fitting that the United States, under the leadership ofa vulgar and self-absorbedman who epitomizes the ugly American, may end up ensuring the collapse of human civilization. During the election campaign, many speculated that the narcissistic Trump was running for president because he had realized in old age that he would quickly be forgotten after he died. Whether that was true,Trumpwill doubtless be remembered now as the man who signaled the end of the American epoch and perhaps the human era as well.

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Tell Your Senators: Don’t Let Donald Trump Take Our Cuba Policy Backwards – The Nation.

Abipartisan group of senators has introduceda bill that would guarantee Americans the right to travel to Cuba.

Eric, 3, waves the V sign while posing in front of the Cuban and United States flags in Havana, Cuba, March 25, 2016. (Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino)

In late May, the conservative media outlet The Daily Caller reported that President Donald Trump was planning to make good on his campaign promise to terminate the Obama administrations opening of engagement with Cuba. Just two and a halfyears after the United States finally took steps to end more than a half-century of hostility and restrictions on trade and travel, President Trump wants us to go backward.

Luckily, theres some momentum pushing back. Lawmakers in Congress recently reintroduced the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act (Senate Bill 1287). The bipartisan bill now has 55 cosponsors and would guarantee Americans the right to travel to Cuba.

We need to expand, not contract, our engagement with Cuba. As Peter Kornbluh reported at The Nation, the economic impact of increased restrictions on travel would be dramatic: He cites a study that says the travel industry alone could lose $3.5 billion and over 10,000 jobs. And the damage goes far beyond that, as Kornbluh writes:

Trump is threatening to undermine years of concerted effortinside and outside of governmentto establish a civil, peaceful coexistence with an island neighbor after more than half a century of intervention, embargoes, and assassination plots. At stake is a model of responsible US foreign policyto be emulated, not repudiated.

1. The Nation is partnering with theLatin America Working Group to demand that senators cosponsor the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. Click here to join us by writing to your senators today.

2. To have an even greater impact, call your senators about the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. You can reach them at 202-224-3121 or find their direct numbers here. Follow our script below or craft your own message.

SCRIPT: I am calling to urge you to co-sponsor the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. Currently co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of fifty-five senators, the bill would guarantee Americans the right to travel to Cuba.

Public opinion polls show that 81 percent of Americans support free travel to Cuba. A recent letter to Congress signed by 46 travel agencies stressed the economic benefits of free and increased travel to the country, claiming that it would lead to them hiring more American workers. They also asserted that tightening restrictions on travel, as the Trump administration is threatening to do, would lead to significant layoffs.

I hope that youll make a commitment to co-sponsoring the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act.

3. Read and share Peter Kornbluhs latest at The Nation, Trump Threatens to Rescind Obamas Cuba Engagementand Activists Fight Back. In it, he cites studies on the economic impact of restricting travel to Cuba and lays out the importance of resisting this wrongheaded change. Already read it? Share the article on Facebook or Twitter.

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