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American Jewish-Israel Relations in the 21st Century
Following is the speech I gave on January 25, 2015 at Congregation Or Hadash in Ft. Washington, PA of the topic of American Jewish-Israel Relations in the 21st Century. The program was dedicated to Barbara Siegel, z"l, widow of Burt Siegel, longtime friend and colleague in the Jewish community relations field. __________________________________________________________
I initially had a hard time conceptualizing how to approach my presentation here this evening on American Jewish-Israel relations …then I received your flyer announcing the program, which made reference to the 21st century, and my problem was solved.
While many in my generation, the baby boomers, have made it into the 21st century and hope to spend a significant additional amount of time visiting here, the truth is that this century belongs to our children, the so-called millennials (born between 81-97), and our grandchildren.
Consequently, I decided to focus specifically on the younger generation. Although I am far from being a medical doctor, I plan on offering you a diagnosis, a prognosis and a prescription for what I personally would like to see implemented in this relationship as the 21st century unfolds.
Some additional preliminary comments: a relationship is a two-way proposition, meaning that its quality depends on engagement not just from the American Jewish side, but from Israelis as well. I am not particularly qualified, nor does time permit anyway, to do a serious examination of the Israeli side of this equation.
Our connection, our attachment, our relationship as American Jews to Israel is largely driven by two factors— first, the strength of our self identification as Jews and feeling part of a collective called the Jewish people, which has achieved national sovereignty in the State of Israel; the second factor is situational, the real world environment in which Israel and the American Jewish community exist.
First, let's consider some data— and there is an abundance of survey material on the American Jewish-Israel relationship. The most recent and comprehensive study of American Jewry was done by Pew in 2013.
My parents' generation, dubbed the "greatest generation," has the highest religious Jewish identification at 93%, while 81% of the baby boomers see their Jewish identity in religious terms; and only 68% of the millennials think of themselves as religiously Jewish– still a substantial majority, but a significant drop off. And the trend is clear.
This is an important finding because there is a correlation between religious self identification and attachment to Israel. Religious Jews have a much higher degree of attachment to Israel than Jews who identify as Jews in other ways, culturally for example. 49% of religiously identifying Jews believe caring about Israel is an essential part of being Jewish; while only 23% of non-religiously identified Jews believe caring about Israel is essential.
What does this mean? Less religiously identified, the younger generation is less likely to feel attached Israel, and, indeed, this is what the Pew survey shows. The baby boomer generation is very attached to Israel at between 32-35%, with over 65 year olds at 38%, while the millennials who are very attached Israel come in at 25%. I suspect that, but for the Birthright program, this figure would have been significantly lower. What this means is that the Greatest Generation and baby boomer generations are Jewish more instinctively; whereas the millenials in a sense are all "Jews by choice."
So much for the Jewish identification factor… clearly, the trend is for less attachment, less experiencing Israel as an important part of one's Jewish identity. What about the real world environment and how that has shaped our relationship? My parents' generation lived through World War II and the Holocaust, and then witnessed the amazing establishment of the state of Israel, with widespread international support and recognition in 1948. They built an extensive network of powerful Jewish institutions — mostly in suburbia — from federations, to welfare agencies, to JCCs, to synagogues. It was a membership model. You "belonged," and, even if Israel wasn't the highest communal priority, support for nation building in an Israel struggling with enormous economic and security challenges was a given.
Then came 1967 and the Six Day War — with the older segment of the baby boomer generation in its early 20s or teens — and Israel was transformed into one of if not THE central issue in American Jewish life. This development received further reinforcement six years later with the traumatic Yom Kippur war. AIPAC went from being a tiny operation run out of a living room into an organizational powerhouse, dominating the Jewish public affairs agenda. Federation fundraising skyrocketed on Israel's back— political advocacy and philanthropy became the primary channels for Israel involvement. Notwithstanding its military successes, we experienced a vulnerable Israel; an Israel almost universally perceived as fully committed to achieving peace with its neighbors — if only they would come to accept the existence of the Jewish state in the Middle East. This was the Israel of the kibbutz, of the beloved Golda Meir — it was relatively easy to form a deep and loving bond with such a society, and many of us did. Our Israel also struggled economically under a heavy defense burden and fundraising continued to revolve heavily around assisting our brothers and sisters in the Jewish state.
What about the millennials? The military conflicts they have witnessed — unlike the clean army versus army battles of 67 and 73 — are morally ambiguous intifadas and asymmetric warfare in Lebanon and Gaza, which by their very nature have resulted in considerable civilian casualties on the Arab side. They have witnessed a dramatic growth of government-supported Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank, which, while not making peace with the Palestinians and the broader Arab world impossible, they create complications that will be difficult to overcome in any negotiating process.
The word "occupation" is an integral part of their lexicon. They have not known a time when Israel did not control all of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Especially in recent years, they also see the growth of a strain in Israeli leadership – I don't need to name names — that seeks to privilege Israel's Jewish identity over its democratic character. Far from requiring Diaspora largesse, Israel's economy is healthy—in some ways healthier than our own. Does "start-up" nation need American Jewish charity? Israeli funds are helping bring our kids on Birthright trips.
A few more facts from the Pew study….Respondents were asked whether for them being Jewish was mainly a matter of ancestry, culture or religion. Those not identifying religiously chose ancestry and culture by 83%, which is not surprising; but that also was the top category, at 55%, even among those who identified religiously.
When asked what is essential to being Jewish, leading ethical and moral life came in at 69%, justice and equality 56%, and caring about Israel only 43%. These were numbers for the Jews generally, not broken down by age.
So we're getting a pretty clear picture of our "patient," the Jewish millennial. They don't define identity in religious terms; but are more cultural; they are less attached to Israel than previous generations; and do not see Israel as integral part of being Jewish; they are growing into maturity in an age when Israel/Israeli policy is subject to a lot of criticism, and they do not have the historical experience — the wonder and awe of living through the 48-73 era of birth and national self-defense — to be able to place current events in a broader context.
So much for the diagnosis; now here is my prognosis. Given the trends identified in the Pew study; the likelihood of continuing and messy conflict between Israel and the Palestinian for the foreseeable future; and the direction of some in the Israeli political class who seem prepared to sacrifice Israel's democracy to its Jewish character — a sacrifice American Jews overwhelmingly reject — the connection between the millennial generation and Israel is likely to further erode as we pass through 21st century.
If you are like I am, you face this prognosis with sadness. If you are like I am, you believe that an attachment to Israel can and should be an integral part of one's Jewish identity. If you are like I am, you want your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to see Israel, representing the restoration of Jewish national sovereignty after two millennia, to be the most important development in modern Jewish history and you want them to forge a meaningful personal connection to Israel.
I believe the prognosis can be somewhat improved with appropriate intervention. But, first, a couple of preliminary comments on intervention….Our goal should be to help the younger generation satisfactorily finish the following two sentences for themselves:
First—It is important that I remain Jewish and that my children remain Jewish because….
I firmly believe that Israel cannot and should not provide the exclusive or even central answer to that question. Jewish families and institutions, especially synagogues, are challenged to work cooperatively to help young people find their own answers. If successful, and only if we are successful with this question, then we can frame a second sentence the millenials have to be able to answer….
It is important that I support Israel as the democratic nation state of the Jewish people because…
The first question does not necessarily feed into the second, especially for the young generation.
It is not enough to say—I care about my Jewish identity; therefore, automatically, I support and want to be in relationship with the State of Israel. This equation may be valid to some degree with older generations; but not with the millenials. Furthermore, I am convinced advocacy and philanthropy, which served as the pillars of involvement for previous generations, will not speak nearly as deeply to the hearts of millenials as I have tried to explain here.
Something else is needed. American Jewish and Israel the Jewish state are not enough. An additional element must be added to this formula — — and for some time now I have been convinced that this additional element, while not a panacea, is "shared interest."
What this means is that we bring young Jews into relationship with Israel and Israelis on the basis of the things that THEY care about—and my supposition is that they all have an interest in something. It may be their chosen professions; it may be issues of concern; it may be hobbies. So it is Jewish plus Israel — AND ALSO law or medicine or high tech or culture or education or human rights or environment or archeology, and the list can go and on. And the point here is that we need to connect Israeli and American Jews on the foundation of these shared interests.
Personal example: My daughter loves dance, was a dance and psychology major in college, and became interested in a professional career in dance or occupational therapy. Before grad school at the Jefferson OT master's program, she spent almost half a year on the MASA program in Tel Aviv interning for the Bat Sheva dance company and at the Sports Center for the Disabled. These experiences connected her to Israel in a far deeper and meaningful way than had she simply volunteered to pick oranges on a kibbutz, not that there is anything wrong with that.
This has programmatic implications not only in Israel itself, but here as well — especially here because only a small percentage of our young people will end up on long term programs like MASA. So when synagogues and other communal institutions plan their Israel-related activities, including their missions, they should bring in a range of speakers and programs reflecting a wide area of interests that may attract young people not necessarily drawn to political topics.
And once we light the spark, once they take the "bait," we have to be creative in nurturing direct and ongoing connections between Israelis and American Jews with similar interests. Some of this tailoring to specialized interests, in fact, has occurred in such programs as Birthright. But I believe in order for this approach to be effective, it requires a real paradigm shift throughout the community more broadly, something which has yet to take place.
To sum up—
- Establishment of the state of Israel is the most important development in modern Jewish life;
- American Jewish identity can't and shouldn't be built exclusively on the back of Israel;
- A meaningful ongoing relationship between American Jews and Israel is mutually beneficial;
- The millenials, who will occupy a good part of the 21st century, are not likely to build their connections in the same way previous generations did;
- But, if we are smart and proactive as a community, we can find effective ways to help them move toward an even deeper and meaningful relationship.
As Theodore Herzl said, eem tirzu ain zo agadah— if you will it, it is no dream.


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POUND for pound and pounding for pounding, the Israeli military is one of the world's finest. But Hezbollah, with the discipline and ferocity of its fighters and ability to field advanced weaponry, has taken Israel by surprise.
Now that surprise has rocketed back to Washington and across the American military.
United States officials worry that they're not prepared, either, for Hezbollah's style of warfare — a kind that pits finders against hiders and favors the hiders.
Certain that other terrorists are learning from Hezbollah's successes, the United States is studying the conflict closely for lessons to apply to its own wars. Military planners suggest that the Pentagon take a page out of Hezbollah's book about small-unit, agile operations as it battles insurgents and cells in Iraq and Afghanistan and plans for countering more cells and their state sponsors across the Middle East and in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
The United States and Israel have each fought conventional armies of nation-states and shadowy terror organizations. But Hezbollah, with the sophistication of a national army (it almost sank an Israeli warship with a cruise missile) and the lethal invisibility of a guerrilla army, is a hybrid. Old labels, and old planning, do not apply. Certainly its style of 21st-century combat is known — on paper. The style even has its own labels, including network warfare, or net war, and fourth-generation warfare, although many in the military don't care for such titles. But the battlefields of south Lebanon prove that it is here, and sooner than expected. And the American national security establishment is struggling to adapt.
"We are now into the first great war between nations and networks," said John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a leading analyst of net warfare. "This proves the growing strength of networks as a threat to American national security."Continue reading the main story
In a talk that Mr. Arquilla calls Net Warfare 101, he describes how traditional militaries are organized in a strict hierarchy, from generals down to privates. In contrast, networks flatten the command structure. They are distributed, dispersed, agile, mobile, improvisational. This makes them effective, and hard to track and target.
A net war differs from all previous wars, which were about brute confrontation of forces, mass on mass — what Matthew Arnold called bloody contests of "ignorant armies" meeting on the "darkling plain."
Net war is the battle of the many, organized in small units, against conventional militaries that organize their many into large units. These network forces are not ignorant. They are computer literate, propaganda and Internet savvy, and capable of firing complicated weapons to great effect.
"The pooling of information is certainly a characteristic of these kinds of insurgencies," said Daniel Benjamin, who served on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton before joining the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In Iraq, for example, the lessons on how to build and place I.E.D.'s have spread and been assimilated in record time. There is certain to be the insurgent equivalent of a PowerPoint presentation on Hezbollah's successes that will make the rounds of the insurgent and terrorist Web sites."
Hezbollah spent the last six years dispersing about 12,000 rockets across southern Lebanon in a vast web of hidden caches, all divided into local zones with independent command.
"They dug tunnels. They dug bunkers, they established communications systems — cellphones, radios, even runners to carry messages that aren't susceptible to eavesdropping," said one military officer with experience in the Middle East. "They divided southern Lebanon into military zones with many small units that operate independently, without the need for central control."
To attack Israel, Hezbollah dispersed its fighters with no distinguishing markings or uniforms or vehicles. Fighters access the weapons only at the moment of attack, and then disappear. This makes preventing the attack all but impossible. It is a significant modernization of classic guerrilla hit-and-run tactics. Israel has been unable to significantly degrade the numbers of rockets because of this approach. Hezbollah fired more than 100 a day at the start of this conflict; they are still firing more than 100 a day, despite Israeli bombardment.
Hezbollah still possesses the most dangerous aspects of a shadowy terror network. It abides by no laws of war as it attacks civilians indiscriminately. Attacks on its positions carry a high risk of killing innocents. At the same time, it has attained military capabilities and other significant attributes of a nation-state. It holds territory and seats in the Lebanese government. It fields high-tech weapons and possesses the firepower to threaten the entire population of a regional superpower, or at least those in the northern half of Israel.
While Hezbollah has emerged as a new kind of threat, it cannot be forgotten that the network is a creation of Iran, with the support of Syria, and both countries know they cannot attack Israel — or American interests — directly. The Bush administration is debating internally whether the best course of action against Iran and Syria is to negotiate with them, isolate them, or do something stronger.
Hezbollah's success in surviving Israeli bombardment poses an immediate implication for American military planning as the United States figures out what to do about Iran, either as part of an effort to halt its nuclear ambitions or a broader offensive with political goals, like regime change.
Pentagon planners who focus on the region predict that the American military would face a conflict far less conventional than that of the armored columns that rushed to Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein. Iran trained Hezbollah, and it can fight like Hezbollah.
Military planners say they are closely studying groups like the Basij paramilitary force — organized, trained and equipped by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to provide a ready-made Iranian network of 90,000 full-time forces, 300,000 reservists and a mobilization base of up to a million men that would dwarf the insurgency bedeviling American efforts in Iraq.
Also of great interest in the military threat of these networks is that some of the most significant technologies once held in near-monopoly control by the American military are now available at L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer and Sharper Image, among them high-quality night-vision goggles and global positioning devices.
"We are in a world today where we have a non-state actor using all the tools of weaponry," from drone aircraft to rockets to computer hacking, said P.W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes in the impact of new technologies on national security. "That's what this new 21st-century warfare is going to look like. We have now entered an era where non-states or quasi-states do a lot better militarily than states do.'' He added, "I don't think we have answers yet for what to do."
The United States also has to take into account Hezbollah's global reach — it is blamed for the attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in Argentina in the 1990's, and its cells operate in Latin America, across the Middle East and in Southeast Asia, and it could attack American interests in any of those places.
Critical to the American response, military officers and academic experts say, is that the United States acknowledge that its takes a network to fight a network. American intelligence agencies and the military proved it can fight this kind of war, as it did in Afghanistan to rout Al Qaeda, when intelligence officers and small groups of Army Special Forces worked with local fighters to call in devastating air strikes and drive the Taliban from power.
Within the Bush adminstration and across the military, a clearer view is emerging out of the chaos in southern Lebanon. It is that nation-states know they cannot directly take on superpowers — either regional or global — without getting their clocks cleaned, and so they use proxies they train and support to take the fight to those superpowers. The fight against groups like Hezbollah requires a strategy for dealing with their sponsors. These networks, Hezbollah included, don't float around in the ether like free electrons bumping into each other. They alight. They attach themselves to territory. In Afghanistan it was with the full support of the Taliban. In Pakistan, it's an ungoverned space. In Lebanon, it's a state within a state. Cut off state support, or eliminate the ability of the networks to survive in ungoverned areas, and they collapse on themselves.
No solution has been written. But it would include military force along with diplomacy, economic assistance, intelligence and information campaigns.
"Most critically, we have to get better at — it's such a cliché — winning hearts and minds," said a military officer working on counterinsurgency issues. "That is influencing neutral populations toward supporting us and not supporting our terrorist and insurgent enemies."Continue reading the main story

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The exigency for social-computing equipment is a natural extension of digital collaboration and is increasingly fitting integrated into company productiveness options. in response to an April 2008 Forrester research Inc. report, "world enterprise Market Forecast: 2007 to 2013," 56 percent of North American and European companies accept as lawful with web 2.0 to live a precedence in 2008, and the market will raise from $764 million in 2008 to $four.6 billion through 2013. Microsoft is assisting to steer that style by featuring the social- computing options and systems today in SharePoint Server that equilibrium end- consumer empowerment without sacrificing IT control.
"What they check with these days as commercial enterprise 2.0 will the next day simply live considered a natural half of the way they every work," renowned Tom Rizzo, director of SharePoint Server at Microsoft. "SharePoint is main the traffic 2.0 revolution by providing a comprehensive company productivity platform that mixes ordinary collaboration solutions with more recent social-computing applied sciences in an enterprise-in a position product. using wealthy blog, wiki, RSS, mashup and social-networking solutions combined with the enterprise content management and search capabilities of SharePoint, SharePoint customers are neatly placed to bring precise traffic 2.0 solutions these days."
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Microsoft is tapping into the vim of its community of companions to foster innovation that enhances the current social-computing applied sciences it gives you with SharePoint Server. due to this fact, extra partners are turning to the productiveness platform as the groundwork for social-computing, as evidenced by using a yoke of new social-computing applied sciences from the following agencies:
-- Atlassian Pty. Ltd. Microsoft accomplice Atlassian offers the SharePoint Connector for Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki. With the connector, Confluence and SharePoint Server integrate through proposing bidirectional content material embedding and linking, cross-product search, and sole sign-on. more suggestions may furthermore live establish at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint. -- awareness Inc. recognition integration with SharePoint Server allows SharePoint Server clients to seamlessly beget interaction with external-facing internet 2.0 communities from inside SharePoint Server. more assistance will furthermore live discovered at http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/what/sharepoint.asp. -- blueKiwi application. The blueKiwi SharePoint connector and blueKiwi OfficeAssistant, a collection of accessories that enable the integration of blueKiwi's commercial enterprise companionable software suite with SharePoint Server and office, provide SharePoint Server valued clientele with dynamic competencies identification, social-network visualization, and an aggregated view of every conversations occurring throughout the whole enterprise. -- Connectbeam Inc. Connectbeam, a Microsoft associate, is proverb spotlight unite for SharePoint, a bookmarking and tagging add-on module to its traffic companionable search-and-discovery application. A demo of Connectbeam's integration with SharePoint Server can furthermore live establish at http://www.connectbeam.com/demo/sharepointintegration. -- Leverage application. Leverage application's creative net 2.0 social-networking equipment lengthen the attain of a SharePoint Server implementation and allow a company to connect with and gain information of from its shoppers, companions and corporate alumni, whereas preserving the protection and privateness calls for of the enterprise. -- NewsGator technologies Inc. NewsGator is announcing NewsGator companionable sites 2.0 plus Microsoft workplace SharePoint Server 2007, which grants positive and tangible social-computing enterprise effects. -- Telligent programs. via its leisure API, mail gateway, shared authentication and sole sign-on, neighborhood Server Evolution provides abysmal integration and interoperability among Microsoft office SharePoint Server, Microsoft trade Server, Microsoft energetic listing and Telligent neighborhood Server, an industry-main social-computing and online-neighborhood platform built on Microsoft .net. -- Tomoye Corp. Tomoye is supplying a SharePoint Server-able providing to enable businesses to deploy communities of solemnize using proven procedure and expertise. -- WorkLight Inc. WorkLight is announcing its new WorkLight for SharePoint, which allows SharePoint Server users to more securely view and supplant tips from SharePoint Server through generic buyer equipment equivalent to windows Vista instruments and fb purposes. shoppers capitalize From SharePoint Server's Social-Computing facets
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Microsoft plans to bring new page enhancements for SharePoint on-line users via the halt of February.
The web page enhancements will give SharePoint online clients greater ply over a page's title and description. users additionally will live getting monitor advancements, with the means to set page section tradition colorings, plus the capability to personalize web page thumbnails, Microsoft announced prior this month.
in regards to page titles, SharePoint online clients could beget alternate options for using "4 layouts, two alignment selections, textual content badges above the title, the capacity to trade the displayed author, and point to or cover the posted date," the announcement indicated. users may live able to customize page thumbnails using the web page details pane, as opposed to simply accepting an automatically generated thumbnail photo, and they will live able to regulate the thumbnail's text description.
The share backgrounds means coming this month will let users attach website-theme hues into SharePoint page sections, or they could proceed away those sections blank. In a SharePoint podcast eventual week, Denise Trabona, a major design supervisor at Microsoft, talked about that she turned into most excited concerning the share backgrounds addition, because it "helps your websites pop" and adds character and color to a web page.
These features are already launched for SharePoint online tenancies getting "targeted" check releases from Microsoft. they're anticipated to live at the creation-use release stage with the aid of "the halt of February 2019."
Microsoft additionally declared that it deliberate to liquidate the SharePoint comments button "from the site footer of every SharePoint domestic and modern web site pages" starting on Feb. 18, 2019. A hyperlink to Microsoft's SharePoint UserVoice forums will occupy its location, but Microsoft expects so as to add a new comments mechanism within the navigation bar "within the coming months."
Microsoft furthermore this month is casting off the three static photographs of community individuals from site headers. it's being done to convey a less complicated interface. clients can nevertheless click on on the participants link to perceive group member names.
during the podcast, Trabona answered a question about no matter if every of this customization may live giving too a much deal manage to SharePoint on-line halt clients. She referred to that the SharePoint design crew is hoping to deliver lots of capabilities out of the container, but that SharePoint remains a platform, and so customers will proceed to construct on lawful of it. "We just try to deliver superb tips," she added.
That tips comprises the SharePoint perceive booklet, which gives a visible breakdown of modern pages design points to inspire clients. The seem reserve can live downloaded as a .PDF. an additional useful resource is the SharePoint design useful resource site, which makes a speciality of audience wants, Trabona indicated.
crew websites AdviceTo that conclusion, designate Kashman, a senior product manager on the SharePoint crew, provided information this week on the way to assemble SharePoint on-line group sites in a weblog attach up. He recommended connecting a team web page to office 365 organizations as a means to provision a group site "in seconds." clients can add customized website themes and that they can manufacturer the team web site. they could switch on exterior sharing for the web page, but they may beget options on limiting the sharing.
An current group web page can furthermore live connected to a new workplace 365 group, which is one way "to modernize that web page and supply extra neighborhood capabilities to every crew individuals" and derive access to "community-linked apps," Kashman defined. moreover, a group-linked SharePoint team website will furthermore live connected to the Microsoft groups workspace collaboration respond the exhaust of a "new Create a team button," he indicated.
or not it's furthermore feasible to associate a SharePoint crew site with a Hub website. A Hub web page is a suitable hierarchical point for SharePoint online intranet users. Kashman additionally suggested aiding SharePoint online Lists and Libraries using Microsoft circulation and PowerApps and leveraging cellular capabilities by means of the SharePoint cell App.
SharePoint Framework's AnniversaryIn other SharePoint news this month, Feb. 23 turned into the 2nd anniversary of the SharePoint Framework, Microsoft's developer mannequin for constructing SharePoint extensions, in keeping with a Twitter publish by means of Vesa Juvonen, a senior program supervisor for the SharePoint developer ecosystem. The SharePoint Framework facets the exhaust of a variety of open supply equipment for developing extensions. SPFX 1.8 should live coming "soon," Juvonen mentioned in a web presentation this week, however he joked about that live aware. He observed that exhaust of the SharePoint Framework has been transforming into at 340 %, 12 months over 12 months.
Juvonen described a metadata tagging characteristic that happens at the code even for pictures in websites. SharePoint analyzes the pictures automatically. Availability wasn't described, although it's interestingly accessible within the English language. He furthermore described one of the vital obscurities about Microsoft's naming schemes for SharePoint services. additionally discussed had been complaints about how SharePoint websites behave across varied languages and time zones. No solution become promised, although.
internet EventsMicrosoft this week is promotion its can furthermore SharePoint conference 2019 adventure in boost by using providing a sequence of webinars. the primary one will genesis on Feb. 27 at eight:00 a.m. PST and will feature Kashman and SharePoint Experiences software manager Tejas Mehta on an overview of SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft groups.
different coming SharePoint webinars within the sequence will focus on employee appointment (March 6), enterprise procedures (March 13) and search (March 20). The signal-up to live a share of these webinars can furthermore live discovered at this page.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for the 1105 commercial enterprise Computing neighborhood.
REDMOND, Wash., March 28, 2001 — Thirteen of the realm's main systems integrators nowadays introduced plans to enable agencies to unexpectedly deploy Microsoft® SharePoint™Portal Server. These SharePoint Portal Server international Launch companions — Avanade Inc., Cambridge management Consulting GmbH, Cap Gemini Ernst & green LLC, Compaq computing device Corp., Dell computing device Corp., ePresence Inc., Getronics NV, Hewlett-Packard Co., Honeywell Inc., overseas computer systems Ltd. (ICL), Internosis, KSolutions Inc. and Unisys Corp. — will every present committed capabilities and options designed to inspirit customers with their enterprise deployments of SharePoint Portal Server. The information coincides with Microsoft's announcement nowadays of the unlock to manufacturing of the commercial enterprise portal solution, which is scheduled to live extensively available later this spring.
SharePoint Portal Server is a springy respond that can search and index probably the most crucial commercial enterprise content sources across a company and figure the guidance accessible to anyone in the company by way of a well-known person interface. the brand new server combines business-stage search performance developed with the aid of Microsoft research, with built-in document administration tools and versatile, with no exertion customizable traffic portal capabilities. talents workers can create their personal personal dashboards to view the guidance they exhaust consistently, comparable to their Outlook® inbox, calendar and primary info made viewable via web parts.
Microsoft has achieved wide evolution and checking out efforts for SharePoint Portal Server, together with imposing the solution throughout Microsoft's company intranet.
"businesses more and more view company portals as incredibly leveraged investments which enable employees to reply to the wants of their consumers with the aid of unlocking skills stored within the organization and on the cyber web,"mentioned Jeff Teper, established manager of the SharePoint Portal Server enterprise unit at Microsoft."These SharePoint Portal Server world Launch partners, representing the main programs integration companies in the industry, beget the information to realm committed SharePoint Portal Server consulting practices and provide purchasers with the materials to every of a sudden recognise the advantages of a company portal."
systems integrators beget embraced SharePoint Portal Server as an primary traffic utensil for consumers and are constructing committed solutions and services to champion their valued clientele instantly set up the product. The 13 SharePoint Portal Server international Launch partners below beget announced dedicated solutions and functions for the product:
Avanade plans to present consulting capabilities according to SharePoint Portal Server in every of its 17 global pile centers and is setting up options to set up and customize the product to meet the needs of traffic purchasers.
Cambridge administration Consulting plans to present a group of tailor-made options designed to assist purchasers leverage and harvest information and power productivity. These options will comprise templates for employee talents and skills monitoring and industry-certain assistance portals.
Cap Gemini Ernst & green should live presenting a wide set of SharePoint Portal Server deployment services and solutions in aid of its worldwide clientele.
Compaq is constructing a set of capabilities to optimize the SharePoint Portal Server, has opened three international SharePoint Portal Server solutions centers, and is practicing a hundred and fifty consultants in its Compaq world features division. Compaq is furthermore developing totally confirmed and counseled ProLiant server configurations to supply an optimized server platform for the new solutions.
Dell will present a dedicated consulting apply around SharePoint Portal Server as well as a manufacturing unit-based installing of the product on Dell servers.
ePresence will present purchasers a five-step planning and deployment software that comprises strategic development, wants assessment, doc taxonomy definition and portal customization.
Getronics functions for SharePoint Portal Server will consist of company transformation, application integration, and application administration and inspirit functions to develop traffic options.
Hewlett-Packard services' expertise consultants will assist midsize and big commercial enterprise organizations throughout North the united states, Europe and Asia Pacific with the aid of presenting consulting functions and customized end-to-conclusion options in line with SharePoint Portal Server.
Honeywell can beget a collection of proficient consultants to champion shoppers who adopt SharePoint Portal Server with their Uniformance deployments.
ICL will present services and options together with the design and genesis of SharePoint Portal Server-based mostly portal and indexing solutions, and integration with latest and software-oriented document management programs.
Internosis will present a 5-day consulting appointment designed to assist customers bounce-delivery their SharePoint Portal Server deployments. participating corporations will labor with Internosis technical consultants to verify infrastructure readiness; install, configure and verify the SharePoint Portal Server workspace; and habits person practicing and competencies switch.
KSolutions will present a suite of challenge and work-drive administration solutions constructed on SharePoint Portal Server.
Unisys will present a framework of options, developed on SharePoint Portal Server, designed to inspirit govt groups in improving their traffic approaches.
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Lync Server has transformed into a complete Unified Communications (UC) solution for traffic that encompasses presence, IM, web conferencing, audio/video (A/V) conferencing, and complete Voice over IP (VoIP) services. This chapter is a high-level overview of what Lync Server 2013 provides to an organization.
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Lync Server is a difficult product to summarize in a sole phrase, but it can live considered a secure, flexible, and extensible collaboration platform. From many people's perspective, it was simply considered Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) product since its inception. However, Lync Server has transformed into a complete Unified Communications (UC) solution for traffic that encompasses presence, IM, web conferencing, audio/video (A/V) conferencing, and complete Voice over IP (VoIP) services. Lync Server is the leading real-time collaboration platform available in the market today.
This chapter is a high-level overview of what Lync Server 2013 provides to an organization. Its features can live deployed together or in pieces, as determined by traffic requirements. It seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft products including Office, SharePoint, and Exchange. This flexibility is exactly what makes the product so compelling and advantageous to organizations. Because this chapter provides a complete overview covering topics both new and unchanged, if you're a Lync veteran you might find a bit of this redundant, but they furthermore want to welcome their new Lync administrators to the fold!
Presence is the core feature of Lync Server and drives or enhances almost every other feature. In its simplest form, presence is defined as the combination of a person's availability and willingness to communicate at any given time. This presence is published to colleagues and peers. It is what enables others to determine an preempt time to contact a user and which communication modality makes the most sense at that time. A user has complete control over his presence state, which means he can choose when to parade available or unavailable to peers.
Without presence information, users attend to Fall back on other communication methods such as sending email messages that say, "Are you free?" or, "Do you beget time to talk now?" With presence information at their disposal, users beget no exigency to route these types of messages. With a quick glance, users can discern a contact's presence and figure a determination about when it's preempt to initiate a conversation. These conversations are not necessarily IM-based; they can live in the figure of an IM, a phone call, or a video conference. However, the preempt time and modality of communication are driven by the presence information. For instance, a user whose presence is currently assiduous most likely isn't going to live receptive to a phone conversation, but might live willing to communicate through IM for a short period.Enhanced Presence
Many presence engines beget only a few presence states, such as Available or Away. These provide some insight into availability but traditionally require manual user management and present miniature control over what information is actually published.
The presence engine Microsoft has developed behind Lync Server is referred to as Enhanced Presence, which is a combination of numerous presence states, access levels, interruption management, automated updates, application integration, location information, and multiple points of presence (MPOP). These features interconnect to provide a prolific amount of presence information that is simply not feasible in many other systems.Presence States
Lync Server presence consists of a presence icon and a status text string. A number of colors are associated with each presence class, operating on a scale similar to a stoplight from green to red. Although these colors provide a auspicious indicator of presence, they are paired with a textual representation of the user's presence when published, providing even more insight into the current status. Some colors can occupy on sunder text strings depending on the user's availability. For instance, the color red is displayed when a user manually sets her presence to Busy, but red can furthermore live associated with the In a Call, In a Conference, and In a Meeting presence states. These are unique presence states, but they testify a similar even of willingness to communicate at that moment. The core availability classes are listed in Table 3.1.Table 3.1. Microsoft Lync Server Presence States
Presence Color
Presence Text String
AwayOut of Office
BusyIn a CallIn a Conference
Dark Red
Do Not DisturbUrgent Interruptions Only
Empty Color
OfflineAccess Levels and Privacy Relationships
Privacy relationships are the component of enhanced presence used to control the amount of information visible to contacts. In prior iterations of Communications Server, these were referred to as access levels, but they are now called privacy relationships in Lync Server. Instead of publishing the identical presence to every subscribers, a user can control the tide of information based on differing privacy relationships assigned to contacts.
The enhanced presence model publishes more than just a user's presence name; it furthermore includes email address, title, company, address, working hours, and a legion of other attributes.
The privacy relationships available in Lync Server are as listed here:
The functions allowed and information displayed for each privacy relationship are outlined in Table 3.2.Table 3.2. Information Shared Based on Privacy Relationship
Friends and Family
Offline Presence
Presence State
Display Name
Email Address
Work Phone
Mobile Phone
Home Phone
Other Phone
Work Address
SharePoint Site
Meeting Location
Meeting Subject
Working Hours
Endpoint Location
Last Active
✓Interruption Management
Access levels control interruption management because they determine whether a contact can initiate a conversation with the user at a particular time. For example, a contact assigned to the Company access even cannot interrupt with a phone convene or an IM message when the user's presence is set to Do Not Disturb, but someone assigned to the Team access even sees the status as urgent Interruptions Only. This provides a visual cue to the team members that the user doesn't want to live disturbed, but can live interrupted for a censorious issue. When a conversation is initiated, the receiver sees a pop-up notification called the toast in the lower-right corner of their screen.Automated Status Updates
Presence is a much indicator of a user's willingness to communicate, but if left to the users to manually manage, it tends to live inaccurate. A user cannot always recollect to change his presence to assiduous when walking into a meeting or back to Available when returning to his desk, so Lync Server leverages a user's calendar and manages these kinds of updates on his behalf. If a user has an appointment on the calendar, his presence automatically changes to assiduous during the appointment and then goes back to Available when the appointment concludes.
Endpoints furthermore differentiate between personal calendar entries considered appointments and meetings with multiple attendees. In the preceding example, if the calendar entry is a meeting instead of an appointment, the status changes to In a Meeting instead of Busy, indicating that the user is most likely in the company of others and probably is engaged in conversation.
This calendar integration can live performed from Microsoft Office Outlook if installed, or if the user's mailbox is hosted by a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or later, endpoints can exhaust Exchange Web Services to log in and haul the calendar data directly from the mailbox using Lync Server credentials.
In addition to the calendar integration, Lync Server keeps track of a user's activity at an endpoint and can automatically designate an endpoint as passive or Away after a unavoidable period. This ensures that if a user has walked away from an endpoint without changing his presence, subscribers can discern the eventual presence condition with an passive designation as share of the status. Even though the user is still signed in, subscribers can disclose they probably won't derive a response when trying to initiate a conversation.Multiple Points of Presence
Lync Server presence has the added flexibility of being read from multiple endpoints simultaneously. This enables a user to live signed in at multiple locations or endpoints that publish presence independently. The server then aggregates these endpoints and forms a sole presence class that is published to subscribers.
For instance, a user can live signed in to Lync on a desktop, again on a roaming laptop, at home on a Mac, and furthermore on a mobile device. Each of these endpoints publishes presence independently, and the server then forms the user's presence appropriately.
Having multiple clients signed in is generally considered a problem because how does a user know which endpoint to route a message to? Without multiple points of presence, there is a problem. However, when a user sends another user a message, the Lync Server determines which endpoint is currently most active for that user. For example, a user might live Away at three of the four endpoints, so the server sends the message only to the endpoint where the user is available.
If the server is unable to determine which condition is most active, it sends the message to the endpoint it determines most likely active and waits to discern whether the user acknowledges the toast at any location. If the user opens the toast at an endpoint, the server removes the message from the other endpoints. If an endpoint doesn't admit the message, the server leaves the message at only one location, the most likely endpoint.
MPOP might not live faultless at every times, but it does enable a user to publish presence from multiple locations and still receive conversations at the most likely endpoint.Extensible Presence
The built-in presence states provide an excellent array of options for users; but the Lync Server platform is extensible, and businesses can build on these choices using custom presence states. These custom presence states enable the user to select one of the gauge presence classes and colors, but customizes the text displayed with the status. Although a subscriber might still discern a green icon synonymous with availability, the user's presence can read "Catching Up on Email," which gives subscribers an additional piece of information to respect before initiating a conversation.
Some applications exhaust the extensibility features to provide more information about an endpoint's capabilities. Mobile clients generally append a Mobile indicator to the presence status. This gives subscribers information that the user might live tedious to respond because he is likely without a plenary keyboard or computer. Subscribers are alert that they likely won't live able to beget a lengthy conversation but can beget a short conversation. This designation might furthermore give users an credit that calling the user's mobile at that time is probably the quickest way to initiate a conversation.Application Integration
Another component of Enhanced Presence is the automatic availability of presence in other Microsoft products. This means that although a Lync client runs in the background, users are able to discern presence for those contacts in Outlook birthright next to their names. This presence can live seen directly in the context of the mail message, so there is no exigency to switch between applications to view a user's presence. birthright from the email message or contact card, the user can discern the presence and initiate an IM, email, or phone conversation with only one or two clicks of the mouse.
Lync Server can furthermore integrate with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 Outlook Web App to provide presence and IM capabilities directly within the Outlook Web App interface. This allows users to discern presence information within the context of email either from the plenary Outlook client or while using a web browser.
The identical wealthy presence information is furthermore available in Microsoft Office SharePoint, where users can view presence in the context of documents and files. The contact card displayed in other applications is the exact identical card and interface displayed within Lync, ensuring that users beget a consistent view of contacts and presence across any application.
With Lync any benevolent of telephone number displayed on a web page in Internet Explorer suddenly becomes a hyperlink and can live clicked to initiate a phone call. every of these integration points are not overwhelming by themselves, but collectively create an improved, unique end-user experience.Location
Another component of presence is the concept of publishing a user's physical location, which can live as vague as whether they are in the office or at home, or as exact as being on a particular floor of a building. Administrators can configure a Location Information Service (LIS) to integrate with Lync Server, which allows Lync Server endpoints to automatically identify what physical location they are connecting from and then publish that information with the user's presence. If the Location Information Service cannot identify the user's location, the user is prompted to enter one; the endpoint retains that information if the user returns to that location at any time so a user never has enter a location twice.
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Anaemic consumption pattern stirs debate among economists3 min read . Updated: 06 Jun 2010, 11:44 PM IST
Anaemic consumption pattern stirs debate among economists
Anaemic consumption pattern stirs debate among economists
The anaemic growth in private consumption last fiscal has stirred a debate among economists about changing patterns of consumer behaviour in the wake of fast-paced economic growth over the last few years.
Consumption growth has to accelerate this fiscal if the economy is to expand by 8.5%, the rate forecast by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Private consumption is critical to boosting economic growth as it makes up as much as 57.6% of India's real gross domestic product (GDP).
"For 8.5%, private consumption has to grow at 6.5%," said Pronab Sen, the government's chief statistician.
In 2009-10, private consumption grew 4.3% and underperformed GDP growth of 7.4%. This low growth is puzzling because micro-indicators such as sales of automobiles and consumer durables have been robust.
"It is against intuition; it doesn't gel with the overall story," D.K. Joshi, principal economist at Crisil Ltd, said of private consumption's performance. "It is a big puzzle that needs to be sorted out."
Economists have varying explanations for the phenomenon. According to Sen, micro-indicators such as auto sales tend to have an urban bias, which might give misleading signals about the larger economy. What is more critical is demand in the rural areas that account for two-thirds of India's population.
Rural demand is growing, but at a slower pace than urban demand. Rural consumers do not seem to have regained confidence in the wake of last year's drought.
Sen said the growth rate of the consumer non-durables sector, which includes products such as toothpastes and soaps, compared with durables, including TV sets and motorcycles, is a key indicator of consumer confidence. Consumption, in turn, is driven by the confidence people have in future incomes, he said.
"Consumer non-durables is driven by expectations about the future," Sen said. "That is where the weakness is."
Data on the Index of Industrial Production showed consumer non-durables in 2009-10 grew 1.5% compared with 26.1% growth in durables and 7.4% growth for all categories of consumer goods. The data was influenced by the release of a part of the Sixth Pay Commission arrears to Union government employees, economists had told Mint earlier.
There is unanimity among economists that rural consumers have not experienced the kind of distress that was observed in droughts prior to 2009 as the rural employment guarantee scheme, which assures at least one member of every rural family 100 days of work a year, has acted as a social safety net.
"Look at history. In every drought year, we have seen distress sale of land," Sen said. "This time it didn't happen."
Sen's explanation of the likely cause of weakness in private consumption was not shared by other economists Mint spoke to.
Other explanations ranged from the after-effects of the gradual withdrawal of the fiscal stimulus package to weaknesses in India's statistical system, which result in key numbers being revised at a later date when more reliable information is collated.
Joshi and N.R. Bhanumurthy of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy said consumer durables' growth is a good proxy for consumption. Slower growth in non-durables should not have a more significant impact on aggregate consumption, they said.
"Consumer durables is a strong leading indicator," Bhanumurthy said. "It is a proxy for buoyancy."
According to Joshi, the level of consumer confidence shows up in the decisions on consumer durables. In uncertain times, consumers tend to postpone purchase of durables, he said.
The decision to roll back the stimulus featured as a likely cause for poor private consumption. "It is the lagged impact of drought and the waning impact of fiscal stimulus," said Samiran Chakraborty, regional head of research, India, at Standard Chartered Bank.


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I'm one of those annoying people who makes everything a habit. To the people around me I seem inflexible and no one has ever called me "spontaneous". I do lots of "new things" and I have a wide variety of interests but I make them part of my daily routine and I NEVER do something once (even if I hate it). People talk about the time they took a vacation and went snow skiing. "Oh it was great!" they exclaim. "You should try it!" No f-ing way. The effort and cost to do something for 2 days that I can't go back and do again on my own next week makes me sick to my stomach. Go to the bar or out to a restaurant? Not without planning and setting it as "that thing I do on that night every week." I feel anxiety going to birthday parties and get-togethers. I like to have a list of things to do and I like to check that list off as I do them. The idea of "be at this place as 8pm for fun" isn't fun. (If that makes sense.)
I have changed my diet, my exercise, my work responsibilities, my clothing, my hobbies, my budget, my entertainment, and even my drinking over the course of the last year but I committed to all those changes and made them habits. That's how I roll.
For instance, when it got super hot this summer I set aside my bicycle in favor of running. I've worked my way up to running 2-3 miles 2-3 times per week. I'm not setting any records but I made it part of my schedule and I am seeing improvements. I feel good physically and psychologically after I run so there's a reward for having this task on my list. I have also committed to several important projects at home that are consuming a lot of time but I'm getting them done and that feels good.
Now, on to something that's not all about me.
Today while listening to the latest Adam Ruins Everything podcast I heard about the American Panorama. (Which also led me to the Atlas of Historical Geography.) This is some cool stuff.
The American Panorama has several interactive maps. One traces the forced movement of slaves from 1810's to 1850's including narratives from actual slaves and freedmen. Some of the narratives are harder to read then others. I would like to see a map like this for the movements of the freed slaves after 1860's. I feel like there's another tale to be told there.
The map that interested me the most was the one that tracks foreign born people in the US from 1850 to 2000. Considering the one-sided narrative of "immigration" as of late I think it's good to have a visual reminder that people move around. I picked a nearby city and checked out the data that was available. It's worth noting that through the mid to late 1800's the area has a steady stream of Germans Scots and English. Then in 1890 there's a flood of immigrants that is dominated (almost 2:1) by Italians. 50 years later there are no Italians moving to my area. That sounds like a story doesn't it?
One last thing. The Atlas of Historical Geography is an amazing resource that shows (primarily) how long travel took across out country over the decades. I doubt if any of you have ever spent more than 2 days in a car let alone 3 months walking on a trail. Think about how mad we get when we're stuck, over night, at the airport. Then consider that a 6 week journey from New York to St Louis in 1800 was only a 3 week journey in 1830. And a 1930 railroad trip from New York to East Texas was only 2 days........I ship dozens of pallets all over the country every week and thanks to certain unions/regulations it takes LONGER than 2 days to get ANYTHING to New York in 2016 by truck or train. But that's a rant for another day.
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The Women's Fellowship was formed in November 2014 and has 14 Christ Church members. We meet regularly on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month between 10.15am and 12 noon and also enjoy shared meals at such times as Easter, Christmas and end of terms. This summer we enjoyed a light lunch together, after spending a relaxing time painting pottery at our local pottery.
We meet primarily to study the Bible, to enjoy fellowship and to pray. As we grow in faith and friendship we trust that God will develop our individual and shared ministries. Recently we have been studying 'Spiritual Gifts' by R Paul Stevens. This thought provoking and challenging book uses both the Old and New Testament to discuss how the Holy Spirit gives his presence and power to ordinary followers of Christ enabling them to serve others lovingly. Each one of us is uniquely gifted and understanding our spiritual gifting is a crucial part of knowing how we are called to participate in God's work of renewal.
Retreat House Group normally meets every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7.30pm. An informal, friendly bible study group, meeting to learn, share fellowship and to pray.
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He's a full-time dad and about to be a husband too. Ricky Martin always wanted kids of his own and his two boys, Matteo and Valentino, were born in 2008 with the help of a surrogate. Two years later Ricky officially came out of the closet and now he's engaged to Syrian born artist Jwan Yosef. Soon the boys will have two dads. When he's not touring, Ricky is admirably active in humanitarian – especially children's – causes. Ricky brought the boys and fiancée Jwan to the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premier.
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