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New Report: Fewer Than Half of Organizations Can Detect a Major #breach Within One Hour
▻https://hackernoon.com/new-report-fewer-than-half-of-organizations-can-detect-a-major-breach-wi

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A recent Widmeyer study confirmed what many of us have long suspected — the good guys’ grasp of technology is lagging behind the bad guys’. Widmeyer surveyed more than 750 IT specialists from Asia, Europe and North America and found that only about half of them have the capabilities to detect major data breaches within the first hour.And the half that can? Only about a third of this cohort was confident they had the means to contain the breach even if they did manage to detect it.What Does This Mean for the #business World?To put it mildly, it means we have a lot of work to do. This and many other studies like it have placed the phrase “security maturity” in our vocabulary, which is a useful way to look at it. For the business world, the advantages of modern connected technologies are too (...)

#security #cybersecurity #hacker

8 Tips for Latin American Founders Visiting Silicon Valley
▻https://hackernoon.com/8-tips-for-latin-american-founders-visiting-silicon-valley-659eb99fb23f?

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By Sophia Wood, Launchway MediaFor an entrepreneur operating outside the world’s biggest tech hub, a trip to Silicon Valley can be life-changing. Whether you are traveling to build your network, raise capital, or just to get inspired, you can learn a lot on a visit to North America’s center of innovation. However, if you are used to working with a small community in Santiago, Lima, Buenos Aires, Medellin, or Guadalajara, Silicon Valley might be overwhelming.While you might have big expectations for your visit, keep in mind a few tried-and-true tips from founders who have tread the path before you so you can stay on schedule and achieve your goals.1. Buy a flexible round-trip ticket.Whether you are visiting for ten days or a few months, keep in mind that you don’t necessarily have control (...)

#latin-american-startups #startup #silicon-valley #startup-lessons #latin-america

“Crops and Agricultural Developments in Western Europe”

One of the problems we meet when we are discussing “agriculture” today is that in the last 150 years, our idea of what the word means has changed beyond recognition. The term “agricultural revolution” has been put to much too many uses (and misuses). But what resulted from the development of machines, fertilizers, genetically selected crops and pesticides in Europe and North America from the middle of the 19th century on can properly be named a revolution. Yields have increased about ten times, and labour productivity by a factor 100 to 1000, according to the task concerned. Nothing like that is recorded from any other period in the past. True, assessing yields for older times is a rather tricky business. But the orders of magnitude are pretty well known. Figures given by Roman agricultural writers in the two last centuries B.C. are not very different from those known from 18th century sources, so it would be possible to assume that nothing really important did happen in between. Of course, it is not quite true. There were many changes. But there were also many things that did not change. The main difficulty is to draw a fair pictures of both, never forgetting that non-changes may be as significant and important as changes.

▻http://www.francois-sigaut.com/index.php/publications-diverses/publications/12-articles-fond/326-2013d
#histoire_de_l'agriculture #agriculture #semences #foin #évolution #changement

Encore du nouveau en ce qui concerne le peuplement de l’Amérique du Nord.

L’étude des pointes de lance donne une nouvelle explication de la façon dont les premiers humains se sont installés en Amérique du Nord.

Spear point study offers new explanation of how early humans settled North America

▻https://today.tamu.edu/2018/04/02/spear-point-study-offers-new-explanation-of-how-early-humans-settled-nor
Heather Smith and Ted Goebel, Center for the Study of the First Americans, part of the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M.

Après la route de la côte, les premiers colons auraient exploré la route de l’intérieur mais du sud vers le nord et non l’inverse comme on le pensait précédemment.

Although during the late Ice Age there were two possible routes for the first Americans to follow on their migration from the Bering Land Bridge area southward to temperate North America, it now looks like only the Pacific coastal route was used, while the interior Canadian route may not have been fully explored until millennia later, and when it was, primarily from the south

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This is tangible evidence of a connection between people in the Arctic and the Mid-continent 12,000 years ago, a connection which may be either genetic or social, but ultimately, speaks volumes of the capability and adaptability of early cultures in North America

#Préhistoire #Clovis #12000BP #technique #Peuplement #Amérique_du_Nord #Smith #Goebel #Texas_A&M

World’s largest #eSports organisations sign up for Clash Royale League
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-04-03-worlds-largest-esports-organisations-sign-up-for-clash-roy

36 teams from North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to compete in $1 million World Final

Raised by Wolves | by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of Books
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/raised-by-wolves

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Distinguishing a dog from a wolf is not always straightforward, and because several US states have laws prohibiting the keeping of wolves or wolf/dog hybrids, expert testimony is often called upon to determine whether an animal is a dog or wolf. Pierotti has been called as a witness eighteen times; having kept wolf/dog hybrids and studied both wolves and dogs extensively, his testimony is highly valued. In many cases, he has been able to demonstrate that the canid in question has no admixture of wolf genes. But as he points out, there is a larger question here, for the laws assume that wolves are more dangerous than dogs, when in fact the reverse is true. In the US between 1979 and 1996, more than three hundred people were killed by 406 dogs, and only fifteen of these instances involved purported wolf/dog crosses, some of which, according to Pierotti, are “highly questionable.” The situation with purebred wolves is even more clear-cut, for there is not a single example of a wolf in nature killing a human in the entire history of North America.

#chiens #loups

» Saudi Prince Meets with AIPAC, anti-BDS Leaders during US Visit– IMEMC News | April 1, 2018 8:17 PM IMEMC News & Agencies
▻http://imemc.org/article/saudi-prince-meets-with-aipac-anti-bds-leaders-during-us-visit

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has met with leaders from a number of right-wing Jewish organizations during his tour of the United States.

The groups, which have donated millions to illegal settlement building and the fight against BDS (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, include officials from AIPAC, Stand Up for Israel (ADL) and the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).

Haaretz reported that, according to a leaked copy of his itinerary, Bin Salman also met with leaders from the Conference of Presidents, B’nai B’rith and the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

AIPAC, ADL and the JFNA have long targeted BDS, a non-violent movement that seeks to economically pressure Israel into providing equal rights and a right of return to Palestinians.

Some of the pro-Israel US groups have spent millions in lobbying for the Combating BDS Act, a bill that seeks to stifle BDS. (...)

A Regional Comparison of Venture Capital Fundraising and Investor Appetite
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-regional-comparison-of-venture-capital-fundraising-and-investor-appeti

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North America is home to the majority (57%) of LPs that were active in venture capital funds in 2017. Given that GPs typically have a better understanding of LPs’ requirements in their home regions, fund managers tend to attract a large proportion of investors domestically. Consequently, it is unsurprising that North America-based venture capital funds continued to dominate the fundraising market in 2017: 262 funds reached a final close, securing an aggregate $35bn in investor capital. This is greater than the total capital ($21bn) raised collectively by 185 vehicles headquartered in Asia and Europe.Despite Europe-based venture capital funds securing just 13% of aggregate capital raised globally in 2017, the region saw a favourable fundraising environment. As shown in the chart below, (...)

#venture-capital #vc #startup #entrepreneurship #investing

Is Postmodernism Destroying Western Civilization? On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/postmodernism-did-not-take-place-on-jordan-petersons-12-rules-for-li

A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe.

Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of...

Finger Punch opens new headquarters in Singapore
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-01-finger-punch-opens-new-headquarters-in-singapore

Mobile publisher plans to “ambitiously pursue” partners across Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe

#Mobile #Publishing

500 Years of Black Resistance

In 1526, the very first Africans arrived in North America as slaves of the San Miguel de Guadalupe colony. They promptly revolted and took refuge with the local indigenous people, becoming the first permanent non-native inhabitants of what would become the United States. Since that time, African-American resistance has taken a variety of forms as their challenges shifted from slavery to lynching, segregation, inequality, discrimination, profiling, mass-incarceration, police violence, and others.

During the slavery era, common forms of resistance included slave revolts, sabotage, and escape to free states, other countries, or independent communities (maroons). Some captives chose to commit suicide rather than submit to slavery. Perhaps the most day-to-day form of slave resistance was slowing the pace of their work. This contributed to the perception that black people are lazy and docile. If nothing else, this map debunks that racist stereotype. The African-American fight for justice has, for centuries, been as constant as it is widespread, showing that they are anything but a submissive people.

After the abolition of slavery, free black communities began to organize for self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and lynching mobs. The early 20th century saw the first public demonstrations for civil rights after a wave of lynching violence against black communities. During the Civil Rights Movement, many nonviolent tactics like sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, occupations, and civil disobedience were developed. This era also saw the rise of more militant factions and rising discontent led to occasionally violent uprisings. Today, a new wave of civil rights has been ushered in by movements like Black Lives Matter. Activists employ the whole toolkit from symbolic actions like kneeling during the national anthem to direct actions like removing the confederate flag from the South Carolina State House and pulling down the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham.

May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight.

The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all black resistance movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the black resistance milestones you would include.

The background of the map depicts the percent black population from the 2010 census.

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Et du coup je découvre cet #atlas_décolonial (#atlas sous forme de blog), qui peut bien plaire notamment à @reka !

NASA Satellite Captures Ship Trails Over Atlantic Ocean – gCaptain
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The above satellite image was captured on by a NASA satellite on January 16, 2018 and shows criss-crossing cloud bands caused by ships in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off Spain and Portugal.

Although the white trails look vaguely like contrails left behind by airplanes, they actually result from ship exhaust.

The narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around microscopic pollution particles that ships emit as exhaust. Due to smaller and more abundant particles than those of the surrounding clouds, the ship trails typically are brighter and thicker in appearance and with easily defined boundaries.

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Gamevil and Com2us merge in the US
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-02-05-gamevil-and-com2us-merge-in-the-us

Mobile companies combine to focus efforts in North America

#Mobile #Publishing #Development

An Algorithm to More Accurately Classify Land Cover Using Landsat Imagery ~ GIS Lounge
▻https://www.gislounge.com/algorithm-accurately-classify-land-cover-landsat-imagery

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Classification of multispectral and hyperspectral data has increasingly become important to detecting land use change. While many algorithms and approaches exist for such classification, improving classification techniques using widely available data such as Landsat #satellite data has largely stalled in recent years.

Recently, Hankui Zhang, from South Dakota State University, has developed a new classification technique that used a large number of images from MODIS, which has 500-meter resolution, and Landsat (30-meter) resolution together. Overall, three years of data were gathered from the Landsat 5, Landsat 7, and #MODIS programs. The research focused on the area covering 20 and 50 degrees north latitude mostly in North America. A future aim is to use the Sentinel 2 series and combine that data to then also obtain a global 30-meter resolution classification. The algorithm can be obtained using an FTP server after obtaining a username and password from Zhang.[1]

#algorithmes #cartographie #couverture_des_sols

Container lines will feel the pinch as China restricts import of #waste for recycling - The Loadstar
▻https://theloadstar.co.uk/container-lines-will-feel-pinch-china-restricts-import-waste-recyclin

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Container shipping lines could lose around 5m teu of cargo a year following the recent import ban on a wide variety of waste materials for recycling, according to new research from Drewry Maritime Advisors.

China brought in new rules on 1 January, applying from 1 March, which will see a complete ban on the import of unsorted waste paper, Vanadium slag and waste textiles, as well as wide-ranging restrictions on other recyclable materials such as a steel, plastics, wood, paper and cardboard.

In 2016, China imported around 30m tonnes of waste paper and 8m tonnes of waste plastics, and the ban has already led to growing mountains of waste products in the US, Japan and Europe as dealers struggle to find alternative recycling facilities.

One in-depth report claims the ban could create crises around the world equivalent to a major natural disaster.

The problem for ocean carriers is that waste products constitute a large percentage of #backhaul volumes from Europe and North America to China – the US exported two-thirds of its waste paper to China in 2016, some 13.2m tonnes, and about half of westbound transpacific violumes are waste products for recycling.

#déchets
#fret_de_retour

Basic Income Experiment 2017–2018 - kela.fi
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PlayStation 4 outsold last month in North America by Xbox One
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-12-playstation-4-outsold-last-month-in-north-america-by-xbox-

Nintendo Switch shifts most units overall, says Xbox marketing head

#Publishing

Nexon blames PUBG for LawBreakers’ struggles
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-03-nexon-blames-pubg-for-lawbreakers-struggles

Boss Key’s underperformance also impacted publisher’s Q3 financials in North America

#Publishing

North Korean EMP Attack Would Cause Mass U.S. Starvation, Says Congressional Report (octobre 2017)
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2017/10/23/north-korea-emp-attack-would-cause-mass-u-s-starvation-says-congressional-re

The consequences of such a detonation would be dire.

“The U.S. can sustain a population of 320 million people only because of modern technology,” said Pry. “An EMP that blacks-out the electric grid for a year would [decimate] the critical infrastructure necessary to support such a large population.”

In three days, the food supply in local grocery stores would be consumed and the 30-day national food supply in regional warehouses would begin to spoil, says Pry. In one year, he contends that up to 90% of the population could perish from starvation, disease and societal collapse.

After generating gamma-rays that interact with air molecules in Earth’s stratosphere, a so-called fast pulse EMP field of tens of kilovolts would only last a few hundred nanoseconds.

But in the event of such an attack, aircraft electronics would be fried, as well as electronics in air traffic control towers, and navigation systems , says Pry. “Airliners would crash killing many of the 500,000 people flying over North America at any given moment,” he said.

Pry says electro-mechanical systems which regulate the flow of gas through pipelines would spark; causing the gas to ignite and result in massive firestorms in cities and large forest fires.

There would be no water; no communications; and mass transportation would be paralyzed, says Pry. In seven days, he contends that reactors in U.S.’ nuclear power plants would essentially melt down, spreading radioactivity across most of the nation.

Reprise dans NewsWeek :
▻http://www.newsweek.com/could-north-korean-emp-attack-could-cause-mass-starvation-and-societal-691

Explication dans Popular Mechanics :
▻http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a28425/emp-north-korea

Quelqu’un a des infos là-dessus ?

Call of Duty: WWII tops $1 billion worldwide
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-20-call-of-duty-wwii-tops-USD1-billion-worldwide

Activision says military shooter and Destiny 2 are 2017’s top grossing console games in North America

#Publishing

Border-Making and its Consequences: Interpreting Evidence from the “post-Colonial” and “post-Imperial” 20th Century

▻http://www.abs2018world.com/home

Plein de thèmes bien

– The transformation and repositioning of border cities facing the challenge of economic integration and securitization

– Plebiscites and Border Drawing in Schleswig

– Rethinking Borders and Territory in the Middle East

– Building Capacity for Transborder Regional Development: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

– Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing

– Trump, fear and migrations in North America

– Transborder Innovation Ecosystems: Regional Drivers, Models and Governance

– Fluid yet solid: River borders, infrastructure, and state making

–Eastern Dimension of EU Actorness

– Border methodologies

– The Habsburg Legacy of Multilingualism: Perspectives from Borderlands and Border Communities in South-Eastern Europe

– Precarious Borders

– The unmaking and making of imperial centers and peripheries: Hungary’s new borders and Central Europe’s reconfiguration

– Historical and Virtual Borders: Perspectives from Poland

– Borders and Boundaries in Asia

Those Left Behind: Statelessness and the Consolidation of National Territoriality

– Moving Mountains: The Carpathians after 1918

– Multilingualism in interwar Poland

– Border Textures: Interwoven Practices and Discursive Fabrics of Borders

– Citizenship, statelessness and minorities

– Cross-border workers and cross-border labour markets

– The transformation/development of businesses in towns in border areas

– “Learning Border Regions” – Border Regions as Regional Learning Processes

– Migration and Flight in Western and Southern Europe

– What is Border Studies?

#frontières #colonialisme #post-colonialisme #néocolonialisme

How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago | Inequality | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/05/how-neolithic-farming-sowed-the-seeds-of-modern-inequality-10000-years-

The extraordinary productivity of modern farming techniques belies just how precarious life was for most farmers from the earliest days of the Neolithic revolution right up until this century (in the case of subsistence farmers in the world’s poorer countries). Both hunter-gatherers and early farmers were susceptible to short-term food shortages and occasional famines – but it was the farming communities who were much more likely to suffer severe, recurrent and catastrophic famines.

Hunting and gathering was a low-risk way of making a living. Ju/’hoansi hunter-gatherers in Namibia traditionally made use of 125 different edible plant species, each of which had a slightly different seasonal cycle, varied in its response to different weather conditions, and occupied a specific environmental niche. When the weather proved unsuitable for one set of species it was likely to benefit another, vastly reducing the risk of famine.

As a result, hunter-gatherers considered their environments to be eternally provident, and only ever worked to meet their immediate needs. They never sought to create surpluses nor over-exploited any key resources. Confidence in the sustainability of their environments was unyielding.

#agriculture #chasse-cueillette #résilience #néolithique

Researchers Measure Inequality Caused by #Agriculture in Ancient World
▻https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2017/11/researchers-measure-inequality-caused-agriculture-ancient-world

A propos d’un article de Nature : ►https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24646

But, the researchers unexpectedly found that while societies in North America and Mesoamerica (the New World) plateaued at .35, inequality kept rising in the Middle East, China, Europe and Egypt (the Old World). Eventually the median #Gini reached about .59 in these regions.

The researchers believe domestic animals may have been a main factor in the difference between the New World and Old World.

#inégalité

En complément de cet article :
►https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fundamentally Changing the European Union | The Nation

With the Eurozone in permanent crisis, Brexit on the horizon, and far-right parties on the rise from Germany to the Czech Republic, the future of the European Union has never seemed so much in doubt. There’s no shortage of leaders aspiring to reboot the unification project that helped Europeans leave behind the terrors of two world wars. But whether it’s the old federalist president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the solid German Chancellor Angela Merkel, or the maverick French President Emmanuel Macron leading the discussion about Europe’s future, there’s a recurring theme at the top of the priority list: defense.

In his ambitious Sorbonne University speech on the future of Europe in September, Macron expressed his grand vision: “At the beginning of the next decade Europe must have a joint intervention force, a common defense budget and a joint doctrine for action.” This is not merely a political wish list: Both the financing plans and institutional infrastructure for just such a consolidation of European military policy are being put in place at an astonishing speed. Billions of euros have been put on the table for R&D and weapons procurement; plans to militarize development aid, circumvent constitutional restraints, and bring European forces to the battleground are on paper and ready to go. EU members states will meet next Monday in Brussels to sign a defense pact (#PESCO -Permanent Structure Co-operation) calling for a massive increase in military investment and to pave the way for the deployment of European forces....

▻https://www.thenation.com/article/the-military-industrial-complex-is-fundamentally-changing-the-european-un

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#militarization #europe #eu #otan @cdb_77 #défense

Israel secretly using U.S. law firm to fight BDS activists in Europe, North America -

Israeli government hired lawyers to counter BDS; nature of work is kept a secret, and defined as ’extremely sensitive’

Chaim Levinson and Barak Ravid Oct 25, 2017
read more: ▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.818938

The government has been secretly using a U.S. law firm to help it fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in Europe, North America and elsewhere, according to documents obtained by Haaretz.
The government has hired the Chicago-based firm Sidley Austin to prepare legal opinions and handle court proceedings. The Justice Ministry and the Strategic Affairs Ministry have declined to reveal the nature of these activities, for which the state has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past two years. The ministries call the activities “diplomatically extremely sensitive.”
About two years ago, the security cabinet made the Strategic Affairs Ministry responsible for coordinating the fight against “delegitimization” and earmarked major resources for these efforts. The Strategic Affairs Ministry transfers some of the money to the Foreign Ministry in various places worldwide and some money has been given to Jewish organizations overseas for public relations work on campuses and elsewhere.
But the Strategic Affairs Ministry is also operating on these matters in ways that have not been made public. In the past, the ministry’s director general, Sima Vaknin, told the Knesset that it is involved in “gathering intelligence and attacking.”
Over the past year, attorney Eitay Mack has asked government ministries in the name of human rights activists to receive information on all the contracts signed with bodies overseas involving anti-BDS activities. The Foreign Ministry said it had no such contractual obligations, but the Justice Ministry provided censored documents.
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The documents show that the special-tasks department in the State Prosecutor’s Office, which is responsible for dealing with matters of national security – in cooperation with the Strategic Affairs Ministry – called for bids in early 2016 from international law firms.
This was for “preparing documents and legal opinions, handling legal proceedings (suits or representation) to the extent needed battling the BDS phenomenon in particular concerning calls and initiatives to impose boycotts and sanctions against Israeli companies and businesses, as well as against foreign companies that have business operations in Israel.”
The detailed description of the services was censored from the document. The Justice Ministry said the details were redacted because their publication could lead to “damage to the country’s foreign relations and damage to the ability of these bodies to provide the requested service.”
In February 2016, the Justice Ministry contracted with a law firm, but in May the ministry asked to switch firms after the original outfit was found to have a possible conflict of interest.
A contract with a different law firm for 290,000 euros was then approved, with the option of increasing the amount by another 200,000 euros for additional work. Another expansion of the original contract was later approved, this time for another 437,000 euros, making a total contract value of 925,000 euros, or 4 million shekels ($1.1 million).
The tenders committee decided not to publicize the contracts in the government’s Manof information system because of the sensitivity of the matter to Israel’s foreign relations.
The secrecy surrounding the contracts raises the suspicion that the work involves not only writing legal opinions but also preparing lawsuits against BDS supporters, as Israel does not want to be revealed as supporting such actions, to avoid the perception that it is interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
The money is disbursed as budgetary allocations for international contracts. The Justice Ministry’s report on such contracts shows that the government contracted with Sidley Austin in March 2016 for consulting services, without issuing a tender for competitive bidding. In the first half of 2017, the firm received $219,000 in payments. No other law firms were paid under the same budgetary section.
Sidley Austin did not reply to questions on whether it was working for the Israeli government.
Sidley Austin is one of the largest American law firms and employs 1,900 lawyers. It is the firm where a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson, met a summer intern named Barack Obama. The firm has four offices in Europe: in Brussels, London, Munich and Geneva.

Chaim Levinson
Haaretz Correspondent