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Beyond Horsepower: Xpeng P7 Shows What’s Next for Intelligent Transportation

For decades, car owners looking for the latest technology features have had to wait for the arrival of a new model year. Now, their daily ride can always be state of the art. The Xpeng P7 is an all-electric sports sedan developed from the ground up for an intelligent driving future. Introduced this week in Read article >

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How RDMA Became the Fuel for Fast Networks

Two chance encounters propelled remote direct memory access from a good but obscure idea for fast networks into the jet fuel for the world’s more powerful supercomputers. The lucky breaks launched the fortunes of an Israel-based startup that staked its fortunes on InfiniBand, a network based on RDMA. Later, that startup, Mellanox Technologies, helped steer Read article >

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NVIDIA Chief Scientist Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally this week released an open-source design for a low-cost, easy-to-assemble mechanical ventilator. The ventilator, designed in just a few weeks by Dally — whose storied technology career includes key contributions to semiconductors and supercomputers — can be built quickly from just $400 of off-the-shelf parts, Dally says. Traditional ventilators, by Read article >

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NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Instructor-Led Training Now Available Remotely

Starting this month, NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute is offering instructor-led workshops that are delivered remotely via a virtual classroom. DLI provides hands-on training in AI, accelerated computing and accelerated data science to help developers, data scientists and other professionals solve their most challenging problems. These in-depth classes are taught by experts in their respective fields, Read article >

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NVIDIA Chief Scientist Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally this week released an open-source design for a low-cost, easy-to-assemble mechanical ventilator. The ventilator, designed in just a few weeks by Dally — whose storied technology career includes key contributions to semiconductors and supercomputers — can be built quickly from just $400 of off-the-shelf parts, Dally says. Traditional ventilators, by Read article >

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NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Instructor-Led Training Now Available Remotely

Starting this month, NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute is offering instructor-led workshops that are delivered remotely via a virtual classroom. DLI provides hands-on training in AI, accelerated computing and accelerated data science to help developers, data scientists and other professionals solve their most challenging problems. These in-depth classes are taught by experts in their respective fields, Read article >

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God’s Strategy for Church Growth (Selected Scriptures)

Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church.




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How Christian Freedom Works (Galatians 5:13–16)

Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church.




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The Perfect Model of a Spirit-Empowered Life (Galatians 5:16–26)

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Spiritual Power for Holy Living (Galatians 5:16-26)

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The Inescapable Law of Sowing and Reaping (Galatians 6:7-10)

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God’s Own Commentary on the Cross (Matthew 27:45-53)

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How a Lie Proves the Resurrection (Matthew 28:11-15)

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Finding the Narrow Way to Heaven (Matthew 7:13-27)

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Hearing from Heaven: How to Know the Voice of God (Justin Peters) (Selected Scriptures)

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How to Shine the Clear Light of Scripture (Selected Scriptures)

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The Lowly Coronation of the High King of Heaven ()

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Why Does God Allow So Much Suffering? (Selected Scriptures)

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East-West Center Collaborates with University of Hawai‘i on Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment

East-West Center Collaborates with University of Hawai‘i on Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment
The East-West Center is pleased to be collaborating with the University of Hawai‘i Foundation and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa to raise funds for student fellowships in honor of Ann Dunham Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama. The graduate degree fellowships will focus on Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, and are intended to perpetuate the kind of penetrating and insightful study of Indonesia that was exemplified by this distinguished alumna of the East-West Center and the University of Hawai‘i.




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New Journalist Exchange Focuses on China’s Growing Clout

New Journalist Exchange Focuses on China’s Growing Clout

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (center, left) with participants in the EWC’s China-U.S. Journalists Exchange program discussing Chinese investment in Los Angeles.

The East-West Center’s first China-United States Journalists Exchange focused on China’s more assertive role in regional issues and its increasing economic might.




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EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability

EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability

Sustainable EWC initiative volunteers help manage the Center’s recycling efforts.

"It is my firm belief that change comes from our own community--recycling in the EWC community is an example of this,” stated Mariko Miyahira, EWC Participants’ Association (EWCPA) Sustainability Co-coordinator. “By collecting bottles, paper, and other recyclables, EWC participants are putting their beliefs into practice, and we are making change within our community."

 




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EWC 50 Spotlight: Follow the EWC International Media Conference Online

EWC 50 Spotlight: Follow the EWC International Media Conference Online

More than 250 journalists and media experts from across the Asia Pacific region and the U.S. gathered in Hong Kong April 25-28 to discuss the latest news and media-industry issues in the region.




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Spotlight on Journalism Fellowships

EWC Journalism Programs Expand Offerings, Participation

A strong growth area at the East-West Center in recent years has been the Center’s journalism fellowships and exchanges. Since 2005, the range of EWC programs for journalists has doubled, to 10 programs serving about 100 participants per year, with many more attending the biennial international media conferences.




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How to Approach Pakistan

How to Approach Pakistan
(Note: This commentary originally appeared in The Honolulu Advertiser on March 8, 2009.)

By Shabbir Cheema

EWC Senior Fellow

The Obama administration has placed its relationship with Pakistan at the top of its foreign policy agenda, and for good reason.

Put simply, a solid relationship with Pakistan is key to a stable Afghanistan and, in turn, national and global security.

Many of the safe havens of al-Qaida, surely the No. 1 "enemy" in the war on terror, are in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan next to Afghanistan. This is where as many as 50,000 U.S. troops will be stationed in the near future.




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Slain Sri Lankan Journalist was EWC Jefferson Fellow

Slain Sri Lankan Journalist was EWC Jefferson Fellow
(HONOLULU) Jan. 9 -- Prominent Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga, who was gunned down yesterday in Colombo, was a 1995 participant in the East-West Center’s Jefferson Fellowships for journalists. Wickramatunga, the editor of the weekly Sunday Leader newspaper, was shot by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles as he drove to work.

“Our deepest sympathies go out to Mr. Wickramatunga’s family and loved ones,” said East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison. “His tragic death underscores the courage with which so many of the international journalists who have participated in Center programs pursue their vital work at great personal risk.”




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Spotlight on Seminars: Hong Kong Journalism Fellows Explore Post-Olympics China

Spotlight on Seminars: Hong Kong Journalism Fellows Explore Post-Olympics China

Hong Kong Journalism Fellows interview Tibetan monks at the Gedan Songzanlin Lamasery in Shangri-La, Yunnan, China.




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Spotlight on Education: New EWC Student Fellows Welcomed

Orientation 2008 group photo. Click image to enlarge.

 




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Spotlight on Research: EWC Fellows Discuss Asia’s Energy Future on Capitol Hill

Spotlight on Research: EWC Fellows Discuss Asia’s Energy Future on Capitol Hill

As gas prices soar in the U.S., concerns about energy security take center stage in the international dialogue on economic development. Editors of “ Asia’s Energy Future: Regional Dynamics and Global Implications ,” EWC Senior Fellows Fereidun Fesharaki and Kang Wu, examined this issue in light of Asia’s sharply increasing energy demands, during an EWC briefing in late April on Capitol Hill.




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EWC Community Saddened by Loss of Emeritus Senior Fellow Meheroo Jussawalla

The East-West Center expresses its sadness over the passing of Emeritus Senior Fellow Meheroo Jussawalla following a long illness. After a very distinguished career in her native India, Meheroo joined the East-West Center’s Communications Institute in 1977 and was a pioneer in developing the field of information economic. After she formally retired, she remained active in East-West Center projects and activities.




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EWC's Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellows Discuss Digital Strategy with White House Social Media Experts

APLP fellows gather with the White House social media team.On the first day of their Washington, D.C. field study, EWC’s Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) fellows met with the White House Office of Digital Strategy (a.k.a. the Twitter Team). They discussed how for the first time, a U.S. President is using social media platforms to amplify the Administration’s message and directly interact with the American public. “Being from Indonesia, this is very new for me,” remarked Ismail Sulaiman, APLP fellow and head lecturer of communications at the State Islamic College Cot Kala in Aceh.  “Of course we are online, but this is actively exchanging information with the U.S.




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Shutdown Hurts US-Asia Engagement

By Charles E. Morrison, EWC President

(Note: This commentary first appeared in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Oct. 13, 2013.)

When I arrived in Bali last week for this year’s APEC summit, my van driver asked where I was from. When I told him, his face broke into a huge smile. “Say hello to my brother,” he said enthusiastically, referring to President Barack Obama, who remains enormously popular in Indonesia where he spent several years as a child.

Two days later, the U.S. budget stalemate forced Obama to cancel his trip to the APEC meeting and the subsequent East Asia Summit in Brunei, along with scheduled stops in Malaysia and the Philippines that had already been called off.




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In India, EWC Leadership Fellows Help Boost an Alumna’s Development Efforts for Women

Leadership fellows from the 2016-17 cohort of East-West Center’s Asia-Pacific Leadership Program, spent a week recently volunteering their technical assistance for the Parinaama Development Foundation in India's Odisha state.




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In a time of lockdown, street art is taking on a new shape

Londoners locked out of galleries can find an alternative art fix on a wall under some railway arches after street artist Lionel Stanhope painted a Caravaggio classic, updated for the novel coronavirus




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Italians slowly venture out into the world again

Italians strolled in the park, grabbed take-out cappuccinos and paid their respects to the astonishing number of dead as the European epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic gingerly woke up from the continent’s




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Whistleblower fights back

The ousted director of a US agency responsible for developing drugs to fight the coronavirus pandemic filed a whistleblower’s complaint on Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of retaliating




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Pets stranded by travel shutdown

When Guy Nizan flew to Israel with his wife and daughter for a family emergency in March, Gula — their six-year-old German shepherd mix — stayed behind in New York with a pet sitter.




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Show me the Money! - The SFC Moves to Regulate Depositaries of SFC-authorised Collective Investment Schemes

The SFC Moves to Regulate Depositaries of SFC-authorised Collective Investment Schemes In September 2019, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (the “SFC”) issued a Consultation Paper (available here) setting out its proposa...




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Lawbite:Language, context and background knowledge should not to be disregarded

Ashtead Plant Hire Company Limited v Granton Central Developments Limited [2019] CSOH 7 This case involves a landlord and tenant dispute over the proper construction of the rent review provisions in a lease of commercial premises.  The parties ...




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Lawbite: Do you know your AGAs from your GAGAs?

Co-operative Group Food Ltd v A & A Shah Properties Ltd [2019] EWHC 941 (Ch) A recent case saw the court wrestle with the difficulties sometimes encountered with guarantee provisions and the way in which they are drafted. The landlord A & A ...




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How a Lie Proves the Resurrection (Matthew 28:11-15)

As we think about the resurrection this morning I want to remind you of a portion of Scripture in the tenth chapter

 




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Upside-Down Apple-Pecan-Raisin Pie

From Nov 2009 Southern Living magazine. -- posted by Bren in LR




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The FSA consults on updated guidance following change to allergen labelling law

In September 2019, the UK government introduced new legislation which will change the way in which food businesses are required to provided allergen information. The new legislation, which comes into force on 1 October 2021, requires food businesses...




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Parents’ Rights to Care and Contact of their Children during Lockdown

The lockdown announced by the President on 23 March 2020 left many parents who are co-holders of parental responsibilities and rights uncertain as to what the position is in regard to their right to exercise contact and care to their children during...




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Life After Lockdown

Mining and Natural Resources Sector - Life after Lockdown and Covid-19:Updated on 16 April 2020 to include the amendments to the Regulations issued in terms of the Disaster Management Act No 57 of 2002 It has been an extremely frenetic few weeks sin...




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Coronavirus – CARES Act loans and related programs come with increased oversight and risk of False Claims Act prosecution: Borrowers beware – US

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Subrogation – follow the money

The doctrine of subrogation can provide a remedy to a lender whose charge has not been properly registered. It can be a complex remedy but is worth exploring further both here and in future financial e–briefings. Indeed in the 'recoveries&nda...




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Leadership Program Virtual Workshop: Power and Influence

Start Date: 
May 18 2020 - 4:00pm
End Date: 
May 18 2020 - 5:30pm
Timezone: 
Hawaii time
Description: 

Influence is a key leadership skill. In this live workshop, we'll explore sources of power and also strategies for influence. We’ll think about and map out which power sources and influence strategies we have, which we prefer, and which we could grow and practice. This session is open to Leadership Program alumni and East-West Center staff and students.

 

Location: 
Zoom meeting
Contact Name: 
Christina Monroe




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Leadership Program Virtual Workshop: Yoga Flow

Start Date: 
May 19 2020 - 3:30pm
End Date: 
May 19 2020 - 4:30pm
Timezone: 
Hawaii time
Description: 

Stretch from head to toe with LP alum Goi-Chawesa Fischer. Goi will guide us in a restorative session that gives us time to care for our bodies and minds. The focus will be on relaxing and stretching, with a short meditation and a bit of pranayama (breath exercise). Goi is an experienced online yoga instructor from Thailand who lives with her husband and daughter in Colorado, USA. This session is open to Leadership Program alumni.

 

Location: 
Zoom meeting
Contact Name: 
Christina Monroe




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Northern Powerhouse and the impact of Brexit.

Whilst the “Northern Po...




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A New Vision for the Northern Powerhouse?

At the same time he delivered his (final) Autumn Statement the Chancellor also issued a strategy document to advance one of his predecessor’s key policy aims - the Northern Powerhouse. For those who support the notion of the North providin...