ومن آياته أن خلق لكم من أنفسكم أزواجا لتسكنوا إليها الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثاناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد نحن نأخذ 40 حديث في how to gain a successful marriage ونحن نتحدث about a couple of things نتحدث about 40 حديث of the Prophet ﷺ about each one who has a headings a group of them, they have headings نتحدث about 2 حديث نتحدث about تلغيب في الزواج أرجع the youngsters and the youths and whoever is not married to get married نتحدث about the second chapter where we spoke about الحديث الواليدة في حسن الاختيار حديث pertaining to choosing the right spouse the right person for you and there we mentioned also 2 حديث so we finished 4 حديث like that and then we went to the third chapter which was the one we finished last session which we spoke about 5 حديث and that was الحديث الواليدة في الأمور التي تسبقوا عقد النكة a hadith pertaining to things that happen before marriage 5 حديث so 5 plus 4 is 9 right so we've already dealt with 9 narrations of the Prophet ﷺ which we got benefits from so إن شاء الله تعالى now we're going to go to a new chapter this chapter إن شاء الله تعالى is called الحديث الواليدة في ما بعد عقد النكة a hadith pertaining to things that happen after marriage so the person is actually he wants to get married which was the first chapter and then the second chapter is that he's now chosen the right person and then the third chapter is preparations that he had to come with now we're talking about after he's got married or more like this chapter is not only just going to deal with things that are going to happen after marriage but also at the time when the marriage is actually happening so this actually falls under فيما بعد عقد النكة such as the ceremony and the wedding and whatnot we'll be speaking about that إن شاء الله تعالى so 4 حديث will be taken in this إن شاء الله تعالى the first hadith which will be the 10th hadith but it will be the first hadith for this chapter is the حديث أبو داود ابن ماجه التنميذي narrated on the authority of أبو هريرا رضي الله تعالى عنه that he said أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان إذا رفع الإنسان the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was one that if he congratulated okay the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was one that if he congratulated الإنسان إذا تزوج when a person wants to get married if he congratulated them عليه وسلم he would say بارك الله لك و بارك عليك و جمع بينكما في خير the messenger would say بارك الله لك may Allah bless you و بارك عليك and may Allah place blessings onto you و جمع بينكما and may Allah bring you both together في خير in good this is what the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم would say when he congratulated a person for their marriage for their wedding so when we go to weddings and you know the sheikh or the wali if the aq is finished the girl is married off the sunnah is to say this dua the people they stand up and they greet the brother okay and they say to the brother بارك الله لك may Allah place blessings in this for you و بارك عليك and may Allah place blessings on it for you و جمع بينكما في خير and may Allah place between the two of you good the sisters also say the same to the sister you see this hadith ابلماج انترمي and this is the wedding of Imam Ahmed in his musnad is on the authority of Hassan is that عقيل ابن أبي طالب ربي الله عنه تزوجه he married امراءة من بني جوشمن عقيل ابن أبي طالب wanted to get married to but he married sorry he married a woman from the people of جوشمن فدخل عليه القوم the people entered onto him when he got married to her the people came and they all started to congratulate him and the regret with him was what فقالوا يساتهم بالريفاء والبنينة they said harmony may Allah bless you with harmony and may Allah bless you with boys sons basically and as you can see this concept of boys being the thing is a concept that is سلام dealt with سلام dealt with this concept which is that which one is better a boy or a girl for a parent which one brings more reward the prophet told us and I'm a father I'm a father of three girls and I have three sons personally and my three daughters three of my daughters I seem to get along with them more than I get along with my sons it's just a compassion it's just a love that the girls have they want to know how you're doing they want to ask you how are you randomly your daughters would kiss you hug you your son wants to see what's in your hand he wants to know if you've got chocolate for him if you've got sweets for him whereas the girl it's just that compassion and love that she has within her they made this dua they said to the messenger he said to them excuse me they said to him what should we say إذا كانت لنا معرفة أننا نقول هذا ، ما يجب أن نقوله؟ ونقل لهم ، قولوا بارك الله لكم ، أقول هذا و بارك عليكم أقول بارك الله لكم بارك الله لكم و بارك عليكم و جمع بينكم في خير أقول هذا إن كذلك كنا نقمر كنا نكون قادمنا هذا فهي رأيهم ، أقول هذا الدعاة بالرفائي والبنينة لكنه قد توقفهم منها و قلت لهم ليس أن نقول ذلك أننا لدينا لدينا قادمنا هذا وهذا هو when the woman and the man get married الشرنة يجب أن نقول هذا الدعاة لكن أيضاً هذا لا يعني أنه يجب أن تكون قادمنا أخبار جيدة أو أخبار جيدة التي يفعلها و أيضاً قادمنا وهذا هو الهديه للعروس قادمات التي يفعلها و لا يفعلها كل من يعرفه و كما يفعله إن صحيح مسلم كما يفعله إن صحيح مسلم أن أم السلين ، المدفنة of أنا سبن مالك رضي الله تعالى عنه أنا سبن مالك is gonna narrate his hadith for us it's only في سنة طريقة أوف الجعدة بأثمان أن أنا سبن مالك رضي الله تعالى عنه و قالت تزوج رسول الله و أنه صحيح مسلم يجعله و إذا كانت مدفنة جحش رضي الله تعالى عنها و جميعها فتحفظ أن أم السلين المدفنة of أنا سبن مالك رضي الله تعالى عنه و يجعله مدفنة أم السلين و نعم من المدفنة و أم السلين فجعلته في طور و نعم في طور إنه مصعب مصعب إنه مصعب مصعب يسمى الله ويحاولي المصحب يقول أنس يذهب بهذا إلى رسول الله يقول يجب أن تخبر هذا إلى المسجر فقولوا بعثت بهذا إليك أمي أن أمي أعطي هذا وهي تقرئك السلام ويخبرك السلام ويقول أنه يقول لك إن هذا لك مننا قليلون هذا لنا little is insignificant from what you deserve from us this is a prophetic nurturing the tarbiyah that the Prophet gave the companions how he nurtured them to respect him and not only that the way that they knew that they were not able to what they were not able to fulfill his rights and that which he done for them she said this is very little that for us to do for you we haven't fulfilled your rights so she said to him when you go to him she said as my mother told me and I took it to the Prophet she said she's giving you her greetings and she's also saying to you إن هذا مننا قليلون and she's also saying to you إن هذا لك مننا قليلون that this is very little from us like it's nothing it's worth it's really worth nothing the Messenger said the Prophet said then she said after that the Prophet said إذ have go the Messenger said فدع إلى فلانا call so and so وفلانا and so and so call those people call them وملقيته and anyone you meet as well don't just stop at those people there whoever else you meet call them وسمع رجال and the Prophet named a group of men and those who I met فدعوه لمن سما I called those people the Prophet I called them وملقيته and whoever I met on the way قال قلت لأنسر وملقيته الجعد أبو عثمان he said I asked him he said I asked him قلت لأنسر كم عدد عدد كم هؤلاء how much were they عدد كم كانوا how much were they in number and then he said 300 ملقيته وقال لي رسول الله the Messenger قلت لهم يا أنس هاتي تورا bring the earthen vessel فدخلوا they entered onto the Prophet حتى انتلأت صفة و الحدرة until the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the Prophet is qu'yad and his apartment they got full up they got full فقال رسول الله the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said ليتحلق عشرة عشرة ولياكل كل إنسان من ما يلي every one of you eat from the closest to him the place is closest to him فأكلوا they ate حتى شبعوا until they became full فخرجت لايفة a group left ودخلت لايفة then another group came in 300 but they were leaving another group would come حتى أكلوا كلهم until everybody ate فقال لي يا أنس the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ارفع lift the tower the earthen vessel فرافعتوا he said I lifted it فما أدري حين وضعتوا كان أكثر أم حين رفعتوا I don't know was it more when I brought it to the Prophet or was it more now that I'm taking it to him after they ate from it I don't know which one of it I couldn't assess the amount or the weight of which one was more before when I first brought it when I initially brought it or now that it has been eaten from I don't know which one and this of course is من دلائلين نوبوتي this was from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم evidences of his prophecy but what we're taking from this hadith is what what is it that we take from we take from this hadith the hadiyah the gift that is given also to gift the person and it's very important when you're gifting a person who got married a lot of the times what happens is people tend to gift what generally a lot of people are already going to give does that make sense when you're giving a gift try to be made try to make sure that you bring other things that you think probably other people may not bring for example a lot of the times people bring they bring bedsheets they bring vessels just like when the child is born as well people all bring you clothes of the baby so you end up with what extra too much clothing does that make sense so if you could try to get things other than that which is brought for the person especially it's good to know the weather and the situation of the person and the things that so that's the hadith we've taken for this chapter the first hadith for this chapter so now inshallah the 11th hadith is women playing the duff on the wedding day عن عايشة رضي الله و تعالى عنها أنها زفت امرأة إلى رجل من الأنصار فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يا عايشة ما كان معكم له فإن الأنصار يعجبهم له the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said أو عايشة because أنها زفت عايشة prepared امرأة a woman إلى رجل من الأنصار for a man of the people of أنصار عايشة رضي الله و تعالى عنها she prepared the groom right for the bride the bride for the groom عايشة رضي الله عنها she prepared the bride for the groom فقال النبي رضي الله the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said يا عايشة أو عايشة ما كان معكم له there was no amusement there was no له we done which is what a duff an enjoyment was it not done فإن الأنصار يعجبهم له because the people of أنصار it amazes them له they like it ألمام البخاري who brought it in his صحيح so this hadith is an evidence بجواز الضرب النساء that the women are allowed to play the sorry the duff they're allowed to play the duff or the wedding and they also allow to sing with their mouths with words that are good but it has to be في معزن عن الرجالي there can't be no men around amongst themselves there's no problem if they play their duff and they sing words that don't have منكر or فحشة or evil stuff then there's a نصن evidence for it there's evidence for it they play their duff you see and they sing there the people I'm from the Somali people I'm from among the Somalis what we do is we have a a thing that we do we call it we call it and what the women do is they they boast and they brag the tribes that the girls from and the boys from and it's mentioning of the tribes and what not there's no problem in that as long as there's no slandering of each other's tribes as long as there's no منكر evil being mentioned there's no problem you see this is provisible Arabs used to do it this is an Arab practice by the way فالأمر فيه سعوة الحمد لله there's no problem and there's no rights for an individual to prevent the women from doing this لكن they're not allowed to say things that are filthy things that are vulgar they are not allowed to bring musicians and rappers and artists they are not also allowed to bring instrumental musical instruments they can't bring beats and basses violins and pianos what is permissible is textual anything outside that requires an evidence and they're also allowed to sing as for taking this ruling of the specification and tried to generalize it is actually ignorance of the sharia the sharia has the rights the sharia الله تبارك و التعالى has the rights to prohibit things in other places and he's got the rights to what? permit it somewhere صحيح الله is the one who permitted it سبحانه وتعالى the women to pray the death when the the wedding day but he is the one who prohibited it from the men صحيح and the fact that الله permitted it for them here is not an evidence for elsewhere is it a permissible elsewhere no it's not permissible و لذلك the one who listens to music or likes music or needs to remember the hadith of the professor صلى الله عليه وسلم صوتاني ملعوناني two voices are cast the professor صلى الله عليه وسلم the cast صوتان a voice when the person is going through hardship the wailing the noise that the person makes and shouting and screaming and whatnot and the sound that the person makes when he is enjoying himself listening to music yeah الله says in the Quran و استفز من استطعت منهم بسوتك و أجلب عليهم بخيلك و رجلك و شاركهم في الأموال والأولادي و عيدهم و ما يعيدهم الشيطان و استفز من استطعت منهم بصوتك صوت هي صوت الشيطان و صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم يصححونه وقفن يقولون صحيح موقوفا ولا يصحهم رفوعا صلى الله عليه وسلم يقولون ذلك يستطيع أن يقول عبد الله من مسؤول إن الغينا يومبت في القلب النفخ أن موسيقا في مكان في القلب انتظر لو أنتم look at the people today who fall off their religion لو أنتم look at them ask them those people who have hello iman those people who have depression those people who have anxieties those those those go on this is where it comes from و لي دلك ابن القيم علي رحمة الله اللّه has mercy upon him He mentions that ذينة لوّط home sexuality all of that إذا كانت ترى قوة لها موسيقية إذا كنت ترى قوة إغاطة للحفان في مصاعد الشيطان فهي قوة موسيقية هل تسمعون للموسيقية؟ الآن سأخبركم بخير سأعودكم بأسئلة إبن القييم ولموسيقية من هذه الموسيقية كيف تقلق مع هذه الموسيقية؟ صحيح؟ مختلف even now if you look at the Arab world and you look at the western world the music is سبحان الله the Arab world is still the Arab world is still better than that doesn't mean that it's just permissible this is haram what I mean is at that time عبد الله المسعود is saying الغينا يومبط النفاقة في القلبي it places hypocrisy in the heart and it also what? now why I pointed here I thought about this pay attention that it places hypocrisy in the heart right? people who sing today look at them they pretend to be what they're not isn't hypocrisy hypocrisy they become they show their flashy cars they don't have it it's not theirs they rented the car صحيح؟ yeah they boast that I'm tough I'm rough a lot of them they cry and interviews like they get scared they're not as strong as they portray themselves to be صحيح؟ some of them get pranked and he was a big man yeah and there he is crying a big big strong rapper you see so it's mefaak it's hypocrisy they live in that they live that life that double life because the paparazzi is running after them and whatnot على كل حال القول of this صحابي الجليل عبد الامن عباث shows you the quwa right? also the process of statement ولا ينزلن أقوام إلى جنبي عالم يروح عليهم بساريحة لهم فيقول اقتنا غدل فيوبيتوا من الله ويجعلوا قيرادات والخنازير that Allah turns and deforms them into monkeys and pigs isn't that something if you look at them today look at the way they move their hands do you see the way they jump around Allah turns their form you see into pigs and monkeys they make noises like animals when they are drawn but what we're trying to point out here and that was just a lot of me going off topic is that women are permitted and they are allowed ضرب الدفع they are allowed to use deaf as for anything outside that there's no permissibility for them لأن الشرع الشريعة when it permitted we permit when it doesn't permit we don't أصلي that it's haram and this time it's an استثناء an exception and they're allowed to and they're also even allowed to sing they're allowed to sing with wordings that don't consist in it فيما عزيل عن الرجال words that don't have ethme in it and it has to be فيما عزيل عن الرجال no man have to be there now what I was talking is that a lot of the times you see weddings that are freemix freemixing صحيح freemixing men and women and this man is getting married to this sister he is doing this you see he starts his life off he starts his life off his marriage he starts off with منكر and then when the people make the dua for him بارك الله لك و بارك الله عليك في خير كيف عصيت الله you disobeyed Allah in the beginning stage of your life you see so it's very dangerous and then what's even more sad is those who fight for it who champion for it I'm going to make sure this wedding is actually a freemixing freemix the girl saying no the brother saying no because they're practicing but then somehow his sisters and brothers they basically overtake and they do it على كل حال فتقوا الله فيه الله تباركه تعالى bringing men and women together bringing musicians and rappers and singers to stage this is from the منكرات that has spread إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِنَّا إِلَا رَجْعُونَ and you know what's sad really truly to be said is that when the people disobey الله تباركه تعالى and they say that the religion that is being said it's made it's made too hard and it's and that these people are being tough on them and they disobey الله تباركه تعالى the effects hits their marriage and this person you thought was being harsh on you and was being too tough on you and rough wasn't he better for you now to save your marriage wouldn't it is it not better to save your marriage to at least listen to this tough person you call this Haram police that you call this person he's the one who truly is caring about you because he's going to save your marriage by giving you this sincere advice but to say I just want to enjoy myself what's the benefit of a joy comes after it a problem headache hardship now so sins have an effect they have a direct effect in our lifestyle they have a direct effect in the things about our life may Allah forgive us فيما ظهر that which is apparent and may Allah forgive us for that which is hidden that's not known إنه هو ليذالك و القادر عليك


Welcome to Pathways to Progress. I'm here with City Councilor's Victoria Pelletier and Roberto Rodriguez. We're coming to you live from the Portland Media Center, and we're here to talk about current events in your city. So thanks for joining in. How's it been going, Roberto and Victoria? How's your summer been so far? It's been good so far. You know, we're like in the peak of summer right now. The Council, in the months of July and August, instead of having the two traditional separate meetings, we have them both on the same day, so it kind of takes away a little bit of our workload, but then it condenses all the work in one meeting. But other than that, you know, ongoing, to me it's been a great summer as far as work, but other than that, happy to be back here and hanging out with Victoria. Great. Yeah, it's been a busy summer, and I do like the summer meetings. I actually didn't know that we did that, and so when I found out that we have one in July, and one in August, and then we actually take August off from committee too, I thought that was cool. It's nice to be able to reset, because I know we're going to have a really busy fall. So anytime that we can kind of have a little bit of a break is nice, even though I predict our meeting next Monday will be very long, but I still think it's cool that they condense them and give us a little bit of time to enjoy summer. Great. And you went on some boats? I did. So that's part of it. I have had access to two boats, and it's very exciting, because normally I don't have access to any. And I think I realized I enjoy being on a boat with a nice beverage, and I was like, this is fun. Why don't I do this more often? So yeah, it was cool. And your summer as a dad has changed a bit because your daughter's about to enter high school? High school? Yeah. And so she got a transit pass from the school district at the beginning of summer. Yes, absolutely. I mean, I knew that she was going to enjoy using the pass, but just how independent she and her friends have been all summer long. So she's an eighth grader or rising eighth grader. So all the high school students in public schools use the metro for their public transportation or for their school transportation. So we give them these passes. And so this summer is intended for them to get familiar with it. And my daughter and her friends have just been all over the city in the bus. They go to the mall. And again, the purpose here is to encourage the use of public transportation from a young age and create that cultural shift. And if there are any indication, it's a ridiculous success. I mean, I'm proud of how independent these young people are. Yeah, it sounds like a great idea. We are going to have a traffic question here eventually. But if you're ready to address some of the questions that have trickled in over the month while we were preparing for the show, I'd like to know if you agree or disagree with Councillor Tae Chung has announced that he will not be running for reelection. And there was a Portland Press Herald interview, asking him to explain why. One of the things he said in that interview was, quote, it's a changing of the guard. The old council was about trying to work within the system. And the new council wants to change the system. End quote. Victoria, do you agree with that? Disagree with that? You know, I agree. And I think that that is perfectly acceptable and a good thing. I take that as a compliment. I'm not sure how it was meant, but I definitely take it as one. Because I think that that is a huge reason why I ran for office in the first place was to have systemic change. And I don't think that you can have anything real without that systemic shift. And it's going to, it does not come without growing pains. It doesn't come without challenging conversations. But again, I think we all went in there to do great work. And in order to do that and make it as equitable as possible and make it so that we can really shape Portland into being a city that represents everybody, you have to have systemic change. And so to play within the system that we're given almost feels like we're just going in there and kind of shifting things around, but they're still going to stay in the same place and have the same narrative. But to change the system in which things exist in, I think is what we're all trying to do. Outside of Portland nationally, there's always going to be a strive for systemic shift. And I think that that's something to get excited about because that changes how we look at local government. That changes how our representatives look. And I think that that's actually a good thing. So that's a huge reason why I personally got involved in local office. Okay, great. I agree 100%. And I think the opportunity that we have in office, in municipal office, the best way that we can take advantage of it is by looking at ways to have broad systemic impact. I think that it'd be literally a bad use of our time or a waste of our time to get lost in the minutiae of small little issues when we have this opportunity. And we do it not just in, he talked about changing of the guard as in the votes that we take in the council, but these are also really advantageous positions in being advocates. It connects us to different parts of the community. It connects us to people at the state level that are doing really important work at the legislature. So we want to have those connections. We want to be part of the web of systems that helps to change the way that things have worked out in the past because we've been long saying that it is those systemic inequities that we need to correct. And if we don't address it from that broad perspective, we'll never be able to really make the difference that people need us to make. Here's an unexpected question. Do you think that the person who will be elected to fill that seat is likely to be also someone who wants to change the system? I mean, I don't know anyone that would run for office if they thought everything was going well. So I think we all run for different reasons, but we all want to change something or we all want to enhance representation. What kind that is, I'm not sure. It will depend on who fills the seat. But I do think the current tone of the council right now, and I know when we were first running and campaigning, a lot of the narrative about us in the paper was like the most progressive council we've ever had and like what's going to happen with all of that. And so I do think people getting involved in local office are trying to change something. And I would hope that based on the systemic change that we're really trying to accomplish, that this new seat that is going to be filled is someone that also says, I'm ready to make longstanding, impactful systemic change that will lead to just a more equitable and more representative local government. And I don't want to play it safe within these systems that very often are keeping us exactly where they want us, because it just hasn't been... I mean it's working, it's working perfectly, and that's the reason why so many of us are still disenfranchised and we don't really have any strong, strong change into making Portland a place that really represents and supports everyone. So we'll see what happens with who fills the seat, but I'm hoping that they are looking to change the system in the ways that we are. What about you? Do you want to make any predictions here? Who are you going to endorse for this? Of the people that have taken out papers for the District 3, Regina Phillips, I know her personally. I am going to endorse her. I think very highly of her. I think that she is going to bring that perspective of how do we have a broad impact with our work, and I think she's going to represent that district incredibly well. So I'm actually really excited for her to be a candidate. And again, I'm confident that she'll bring that broad impact and rather that view of having a broad impact. Let's hope so. The next question is kind of, this is a good segue into the next question. This is from Marcos Miller. He lives on Monroe Hill. And he has said, the city seems to be in a holding pattern waiting for issues of the Charter Commission and city manager to be settled. City staffing is at about the 80% level and we seem unprepared to go after opportunities. How can this leadership come from City Hall or should it come from outside City Hall? You think about that. Are we in a kind of a holding pattern and is that a bad thing or appropriate? You know, I don't know. It's hard to say if it's like a bad thing or not. I think it's a reality. I think that because there is so much on the ballot through the Charter Commission questions that could change the structure of municipal government that perhaps there is maybe some hesitancy from folks about how much are we going to advance at this point knowing that there's uncertainty in November. At the same time, I think it'll be really bad practice to just kind of put everything on hold. So you both have to meet the immediate needs and also continue to have long-term planning, right? We have a comprehensive plan in the city that I think still guides our work primarily. So as long as we don't halt everything, I do think that it's important that we strike a balance between how much we commit and how much do we really need to be aware of the environment. I agree that things feel like there's not a lot of movement. I would maybe push back a little bit in saying that there is a lot going on. We are certainly not standing still as counselors. We're having conversations specifically about the impact of the different ways that the Charter Commission questions and even the citizens initiatives that are going to be on the ballot and the impact that those will have. So we're certainly working as a council and trying to figure out what our positions are going to be in terms of options that we have to impact the outcomes. I feel so busy. I feel like we have so much that we're doing. What's a polling matter? No, I mean, we have a lot that's happening. And I think as well, it does. I definitely can understand how that looks from the perspective of someone that is not in the council because it probably does look like we're all just on pause until the determinations are made in November. But we're working. We're having a ton of conversations. We're preparing for a very big meeting on the 8th of the citizens initiatives in depth. We're going to be talking about the Charter work in depth. We're going to be voting to see what we want to adopt and what we want to send to the voters. And so there's so much happening that if anything, I think we're in this prep mode of saying, here's what's to come. And we're just going to have meeting after meeting that's going to be long and intense and filled with public comment for the next several months until we get to election day. So I think the leadership within that definitely is and should be coming from within the walls of City Hall. But it also needs to be talked about within Portland because all of it is going to come to the voters in November. So people really need to start taking this time to educate themselves on what am I voting on? What are we talking about? What are the citizens initiatives? What is the Charter worked on? Let me read the report. This is really the time to get as much information as possible, attend as many meetings as possible because all of that determination of what we see, whether it is going to go to a strong mayor model and we're not going to have a city manager anymore is in the hands of everybody in Portland. So I would just encourage them, if it does feel like downtime, to definitely utilize that downtime to push forward and study as much as you can and ask us questions because we're going to be talking about it a lot at the upcoming meetings. I thought it was kind of an interesting question because summer in Maine is kind of downtime. We grow food, we go on boats, we relax a little bit from the... It's very intense to live here during the winter and it's just living as easier in the summer. But it's interesting that the fact that you have one meeting a month rather than two meetings a month really makes that one meeting a month like this avalanche of stuff to decide. So if I understand you correctly, this next meeting that's going to occur on Monday the 8th, after that voters would know which ones are going on to the ballot for them to vote on in November and which ones the city council is going to go ahead and act on, am I understanding that correctly? Yeah, we will be going through each citizen initiative and we'll have to determine whether we are adopting, adopting and amending or sending it to the ballot and that will also be the meeting where we'll have a public hearing and so there'll be public comment for people to weigh their input on what they think of the initiatives and what they're hoping that we do. And do people have to show up in person to do that now at your meeting in person or can they also do it over Zoom? We still have hybrid meetings so while we're meeting in chambers and while people are welcome to come in and I love when people come in so I just think it adds more when we have individuals there and we can see them and hear their voices, people can still call in because we'll still have a Zoom option so if individuals can't make it, they can still call and make their voices heard that way. Sounds like an exciting meeting. Hopefully it won't go until 1 a.m. Well, I know that you guys get a lot of criticism as city councilors and some of it is not even valid and when people say you have to represent me just because you gave a speech that they didn't agree with everything in that, you know, you represent people when you vote, you don't represent people when you're out there in your personal life being yourself anyway. Here's a compliment, this is one that's also from Marcos Miller of Monroe Hill. I appreciate your asking the Maine Turnpike Authority to hold off on the Gorm Turnpike, also known as the connector. That was a unanimous vote, wasn't it? That's the part that surprised me. Honestly, I didn't know much about the Gorm Connector. I'm like, they unanimously really? Linking this to expanding public transit makes sense, says Marcos. What wider roles do you see Portland being able to play to address regional sprawl, traffic congestion, and land use patterns? I think, well, at first I wanted to say that I think it was tough in that because we voted and it was unanimous and we were excited and we talked about how it's really important if we are going to take climate sustainability seriously that we have a study done before we move forward and I was just proud that we were all on the same page with that despite some public comment. I mean, the majority of public comment was good. I think it was just Peter Mills from the MTA that didn't love what we were saying. But what was challenging I think was afterwards I noticed we got a couple emails from people that don't live in Portland that live in Gorham and wanted the Connector and they were like, you're the Portland City Council. So I don't know why you're voting on anything that has to do with... They were like, I don't know if you know this, but you're Portland, you're not the Gorham City Council, you're not the South Portland City Council. So to address that question, it's tough because I want us to do so much and I want us to be a leader really when we're talking about traffic impacts and sustainability impacts and taking it seriously and leading that conversation and saying before we do anything, before we potentially cause a ton of congestion, how are we going to make sure that we're doing everything we need to do to make this as safe as possible and sustainable as possible. But the feedback that we got was also challenging because I do want us to have a regional presence, but it's hard if it's not multi-municipal and I would love for us all, from all of the councils that are going to be impacted to all be on the same page. I don't know if we are or we're not. I don't want to hear from any councilors, but I think that's the part that's hard, is I want us to really get involved, but then we get a little bit of pushback because people are like, you're not representing here, you are only representing what's happening in Portland. Well, transit by its nature is going to be regional. Well, they can build the Gorham Connector all they want to the edge of Gorham and then they have to stop because the other municipalities that they're going to go through, they have to have their buy-in. So hopefully, maybe people are disappointed that people in Gorham that we're like, oh, we're just waiting, we're waiting, because they already have the congestion and I saw a lot of online comments like, you cannot build your way, you cannot build roads to solve traffic congestion. Every city that's ever tried that just has more congestion on new and fancier roads. But of course, the people living in Gorham and along the way are like, get us out of this traffic nightmare. So what do you see as the role of the city of Portland here? What can they do? I mean, I think that that vote and using our organizations like GPCOG and the structures that are in place to talk to the regional agencies that work in transit and with the roads, that's exactly what we need to do. The different transportation agencies in the region, Metro and even the cruise lines, Casco Bay lines in South Portland and Old Orchard Beach, all of these folks, if they don't have an alignment in the way that they see the future of public transportation, they're going to be working in silos. And like you just said, these municipalities we're transporting the same folks to and from work and home and school and everything. So I think that if we can get them to align their vision into what public transportation should be in the future and how the role that it plays in city planning and road planning, but I don't see that alignment right now. I don't know if I mentioned in one of our shows in the PAC's policy board we had some ARPA funding to allocate. It was upwards of $8 million and there was like a clear distinction between those agencies that wanted to use that funding to use, you know, to invest in innovative ways to bring ridership back into public transit, right? Especially bringing them back post pandemic and then the folks that wanted to use that money to just continue their ongoing operations, kind of status quo. And it's like, no, this money from the Fed is specifically meant to make the improvements, to look forward to make the advancements in public transportation not to do the status quo. And so if in that room with that chunk of free money, people can't agree on it, you know, then that's the work that needs to get done. So that's one way to get there. A lot of the other online comments that I saw were things like it takes 10 years to build a light rail system, you know, they don't have well, then we should have started 10 years ago. But I mean, aren't we really in the short term talking about buses, possibly bus lanes that are dedicated and then, you know, energy efficient buses? That doesn't seem like rocket science to me. Right? It really doesn't. It doesn't, but no matter what, people are going to be upset. That's a given. But I mean, if you're talking about building a four, I believe it's a four-lane highway essentially, with limited access. If you're talking about building that just for cars where there's one or two people in them, clearly doing that without accommodating our existing public transit, you know, potential would be really foolish, wouldn't it? It would be bad for air quality. It would be just... One of the, I don't want to segue too far away from this, but you know, we have investments in, you know, the EV chargers, the electric vehicle charging stations. And that's considered to be, you know, a really positive move because we're talking about emissions and whatnot. But in essence, those are still autonomous vehicles. So as much...  That means that those lanes for autonomous vehicles, we marry to them too. So we also have to be really thoughtful about when we're looking at taking steps forward, are we prioritizing buses?  Traffic jams do not prioritize, like, oh, it's an electric vehicle. I'll let them through. Like a traffic jam, is it? Traffic jam, right? Yeah. It's a thorny problem and definitely a regional problem. Here's another regional problem that's tricky in this. It'll probably be the last one we have time for. This question is from Pat Taub, who's one of your constituents in the West End. How can concerned residents of our city support the efforts of city government to alleviate the marked rise of unhoused people trying to survive in cars or on the street? Pat's a longtime resident of Portland. She's really not saying, get them out of my neighborhood. She's really saying, wow, there are so many more people living on the street this summer than I've seen before. What, how can we help you, the city, solve this problem? Or should we be down, pounding on doors in Augusta saying, this is not Portland's problem, this is Maine's problem? What would you suggest for the concerned citizen about housing right now? We all know it's a train wreck housing. We were just talking about before the need to look at these problems and how to have a systemic and broad impact. So I think that this is specifically a case where you do need to look at what is it that creates these ongoing homelessness issues and what is it that perpetuates the same folks having the same problems. And so that's one aspect of the work that I think it's quote unquote always ongoing and what we're kind of committed to doing. But then at the same time, probably more I'm thinking also part of what that question is alluding to is like how do we meet the immediate needs of these folks and that's sort of kind of like what can we do to help them get immediate shelter, food closing, things like that. I think at this point I'm going to really step aside and give Tori the floor. She's amazing she knows so much about local organizations and ways to be effective and so I'd love for her to just talk about ways that people can get involved to meet those immediate needs. We're lucky in Portland to have organizations that have been doing this work and advocacy for a really long time so I'm thinking immediately comes to my main needs which is working really hard to provide resources for individuals who are on house and asylum seekers and it's everything. It's clothing, it's books it's food. They're always posting and they're always advocating and so I'm just putting that out there for individuals to Google them or look them up on social media they always need help, they always need volunteers they always need donations and it's just a really really great organization that continuously provides any type of support to our on-house community and to our asylum seekers community I'm also thinking of main immigrant rights coalition which is another great organization that works really hard primarily for asylum seekers to provide resources and so again I know that in the past I think with us at the city we've done work with them and we've tried to highlight a lot of the stuff that they do but this is another really helpful organization and both of these main needs and main immigrant rights coalition and I would put Portland Housing Coalition in that as well are these advocacy groups and mutual aid groups that are working really hard to provide immediate resources to individuals so that they have food that's culturally specific so that they have clothing so that they have sunscreen and bug spray and all of these things that I think we just don't think of ourselves because we're privileged enough to have them and to not have to worry about having them so the smallest donations to these groups or the smallest kit to these groups they always like sometimes make it fun and say like we need kits of this or that it would go a long way to really providing immediate support for people that want to do on the ground work until we start to figure out what we can do regionally. I was just over the weekend a family member of mine was trying to advocate for a woman who'd been discharged from the ER at Main Med with a hotel voucher the patient was in a wheelchair and I think it had some kind of injury and the hotel wouldn't let them check in because they didn't have a credit card so there's this person with the hotel voucher now they can't you know they've been discharged from the ER and they've been resolved by communicating with a family member but it made me realize how those of us with privilege don't see those little built in structural barriers to getting shelter over your head even after you've been ill or you know it's a very complicated I have a lot of social work impulses but from working with real professional social work organizations and individuals over the years like that is a hard job you need real training for it and those people are always telling us we need resources we need resources the temporary emergency shelter that the state and the city were going to build apparently has now been scratched at least for the location that they had picked because there's some issues with renovating that building to work for that purpose it made me think when I heard that though that at least it did sound like someone in Augusta was listening when the city of Portland said we are now overwhelmed with asylum seekers we love them we want them but we cannot guarantee them housing we just are at capacity do you feel like that was heard a little bit perhaps you know I think maybe it is a good example of the regional approach and having our partners in the state help out it didn't work we still have the urgent need and thankfully the extension on being able to use the hotels it bothered us some time but I think it's it's still urgent that we augment that message and that we do think of it as a state problem as a national problem we cannot get lost in trying to identify once more ordinance or you've even seen the Green New Deal being blamed for it we can't get lost in those silly little arguments these are big issues that have so many impact or so many factors that impact how things work out and we have to think broadly again and the state being partners is crucial we cannot do it alone here well we are almost out of time it goes so fast when we are talking doesn't it it seems like we have been here for 10 minutes thanks so much for being here and giving us your thoughts and your best work I want to make sure and thank our producer and director Warren Edgar here at Portland Media Center and the Portland Media Center for allowing us to use their wonderful studio space we have a great tech crew on hand Dale Ashby and Jeffrey Cooper are here tonight to help us put the show out for you and please let me hear from you if you have questions you can get in their DEMs but they are very very busy and if you communicate your questions to me I am happy to bring them up and have them on the show in the future so thanks for watching, thanks for being with us take care, be well


studying The Merchant of Venice. Here's how you can analyze that two scene four. The scene opens with Lorenzo. Jessica's lover speaking here using literature and sibilants. He and Brattiano as well as Salarino and Solanio are going to help Jessica escape Sherlock's house so that Lorenzo will marry her. Lancelot then enters and this day directions show that he enters in order to give Lorenzo Jessica's letter. Lorenzo is really happy to hear from Jessica and he uses repetition of hand hair to basically say he's certainly in love with Jessica and he's happy she has written to him her plan to escape. Lancelot then agrees to help Lorenzo out by basically saying that he's going to ask the Salarino his new boss to invite Sherlock over for dinner so that Sherlock will be away as Jessica escapes. Lorenzo then reads Jessica's letter and he says that it has instructions about how she will escape. She also says that when she runs away she's going to steal valuable jewelry from her father's house. She promises that she's going to wear disguise. She's going to be dressed up as a man to escape. In other words she'll be Lorenzo's torch bearer.


Okay, so this one says, draw all important resonance structures for the following molecule. Or I, I guess. Okay, so resonance structures. How do I show resonance structures? The motion of two electrons, right? We're going to show it with the curly arrows, okay? So, and how do I show what's the resonance arrow look like? The double headed arrow, okay? So, we're going to show that to indicate another resonance structure. Okay? So, do we have any electrons that can move around in this thing for a resonance structure? Which ones are they? The pi bond. The pi bond electrons. So we have some here. So, to do one resonance structure, let's just do one. The positive charge here, what does there have to be over here? Negative charge. Positive charge, right? Yeah, don't just say what somebody else is saying. Yeah, same charge has to be on both sides of the arrow, okay? So is that the only resonance structure? No. There more? Yeah. There's a ton more. You can make a ton of those. Where's the positive charge going to be here? The last pi bond. The corner? Yeah. Is there any more? Yeah. Should we do another one? Yeah. Like that? Is that good? Yes. Okay. You can move the lone pair outside, right? There is no lone pair. I mean, not yet, right? Not yet, but we're going to do one of those two, okay? Okay. We'll make one of the pi bonds a lone pair is what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Let's see if we're still on. So these would be the more major resonance contributors. Then of course, like Sheldon was saying, we can break up some more of those charges. Like for here, if you want to, which pi bond did you want to move? Any of them? This one or this one or this one? Okay. Should I just do one and see if you got something simple? The bottom one. This one here? Yeah. Okay. So let's draw that and show another resonance structure. So what we could do, instead of moving it back over there, which would be this resonance structure, we could instead take these electrons and move them outside the ring as a lone pair. Okay? This is going to be a very minor route of resonance structure and you'll see why and I want you to tell me why. Yeah. You've got that charge separation and that high amount of charges. Okay? Both of which are met. Of course, you could do that with all of these. You could move them all, break them all up. And then you can do it all at the same time. Yeah. That's a resonance form but a very, very minor contributor. So for just, I put that away for example, how many of these were you actually looking for? For this one, I wanted you to just draw as many as you wanted to. I think for an example, you'd say three maybe. And out of this, what would you choose for the major and the minor ones? Obviously the one with the multiple charges would be the most minor. I mean... When the second one would be the most major. I would say that the ones within the positive charge within the ring to be the more major ones. The reason being is because carbocations that have more carbons associated with them, so like a tertiary carbocation, is more stable than a secondary which is more stable than a primary because carbon has more electron density to donate than hydrogen does. Okay? So since there's two carbons here, right, that's going to be more stable than just the one carbon being donated. Okay? Yes. So the more, the one that's contributing the most to, like I was saying, you're going to want to look at no charge separation, so this is no good. And the one that has the most carbons around it. Okay? For the positive charge. The more charges that's the worst it can be. So that means like they have one positive charge that they have, like, different have more carbons and they will have more stable. More stable. And if you have a heteroatom next to that positive charge, then it makes it even more stable. Okay? Like an oxygen. Okay. Or just that would be significant. Least significant. Least significant, yes. Or the minor contributor is what you would say. Of the three on the top that just have one charge, which one's the most significant? Well, yeah, the two on the, I mean, these two, these two, for the three on the top, I would say I would want you guys to think these two are equal. And this one is less significant. Right, because the carbons are around. Well, because there's two carbons connected to the carbocation as opposed to just one carbons. Okay? That's what I was getting at. Not that it, because it's a cyclic structure. It would be more significant than that one. Yep. Any other questions on this? I think we killed it.


Good morning, everybody. My name is Bill Hilf, and I'm very pleased to be here with you this morning. I have only a few slides to share with you.  I think the customer stories that we're hearing yesterday and today, just now, earlier from Doug are the best indicator of where Cloud Foundry, the project, and the community, and its customers are today. Better than hearing vendor blather about what we're all doing to build products around Cloud Foundry. So I've been at Hula Packard Enterprise for three years, actually three years coming up in about a week. And it's been an absolute joy to work in the Cloud Foundry community and be part of the foundation and on the board. And I'm going to talk a lot about that, the importance of that, and some of the things that happen behind the scenes to make this all go. So I thought in the morning I would start off with all the corporate marketing slides, and then take you through deep marketing slides for about 20 minutes. Is that good? Everyone good with that? Awesome. No, actually, in reality, I want to make sure you understand why HPE is in the business of Cloud Foundry, why we are building products with Cloud Foundry, and why we're doing these things. A lot of people think of HP, classically, as a printer company, PC company, server, storage company. So often I'll get the question, why are you in the developer game? Why are you working with a Paz platform, an application platform? I want to take you through that a little bit before we go too deep. We spend a lot of time with our customers. We target the large enterprise and large governments. We target all sides of businesses, but I would say our focus primarily is on the very large enterprise. And so we do get the benefit, frankly, of working with customers and understanding their requirements, but also their complexity. And I'll just sum it up. For many of you have been in the space for a long time. I've been working with enterprises my entire career. And the CIO statement that best sums it up is something I've heard in many different languages in many different ways, although I only understand one language. So I'm presuming they're all saying something important to me when they speak in different languages, including Klingon, for all my Klingon friends out there. One of the things I hear a lot is, Bill, I have one of everything. I have every database that's essentially been created. I still run Spark systems. I talked to a customer yesterday that is the number one customer for side-based databases. They have more side-based databases than any customer in the world, and they're a very large bank. We have customers that run legacy systems, vintage systems, they call them sometimes. And these systems are frequently very, very strategic and critical to the way that business runs. Sometimes we naively think, particularly here in Silicon Valley, we naively think, ah, just cut those apron strings, silly enterprise, move to the new world. See the Facebook infrastructure, be like Google. Pull your own sheet metal, lay cork down. You can do it. And the reality is, that's not what these businesses do. These large enterprises are not in large-scale-out infrastructures where they can easily just roll out a distributed operating system in a way they go. Many of them have critical systems, sometimes life-critical systems, that need to work and grow as they build to the new. And so that is the genesis or the root of what we call hybrid. And so a lot of the work that we do at HPE is helping customers go through that journey of taking their existing business systems and building the new applications and new services. And in many cases, the new organizational and operational models around that entire environment. That's what hybrid means to us. So this first area that we call transform to a hybrid infrastructure is one of our core four transformation areas. These four slices of the pie represent the HPE strategy and how we see the different challenges that customers are having as they think about moving to a hybrid, protecting more and more in their enterprise as things become digitized, really empowering from analytics up the entire business. And of course, how do they enable their employees and workforce? But from the transformation to a hybrid infrastructure, this is absolutely where Cloud Foundry and our Helion portfolio, which is the name of our portfolio products for all the cloud things that we do, really fit because these are technologies that we're building to help customers build apps, build services that allow them to move across those traditional and new environments. You notice I don't use the words public and private a lot. I'm really trying my hardest. I really am to eliminate those words in front of the word cloud computing. I'm trying really hard to make public and private go away from our vernacular. Thank you. I will pay you later, Australian man. The reason why is, I think in five years' time, maybe longer, we'll look back at those words as very simple, in many cases, wrong. Because the enterprises that I talk to, and I talk to enterprise customers literally every day, do not think in this very simple, naive construct of I have a public thing and I have a private thing. They already run extremely hybrid environments across multiple data centers, some that they own, some that they don't. They're used to co-location, they're used to hosting, they're used to building their own, they're used to renting. So that's the reality that enterprises are in. So as we look at technologies that can help those customers move forward in their strategies and their agendas, Cloud Foundry, where the core value proposition is multicloud, fits perfectly for those types of customers. That's why you're hearing these awesome stories about what I think Doug said, 30% of his environment now running on Cloud Foundry at all state. That's awesome. I mean, that is frickin' awesome. I'm a customer of all state, I think it's awesome. Not Snapchat, not a new fangled company, but all state. And that's part of the reason that I think we should all be so excited here is it's not just happening for file new types of deployments and green field deployments and developers saying I'm gonna hack something up on my own and stand up. It's happening for mission critical systems. And that's a very special time this community is in. I've been fortunate to be part of open source communities at various points of their evolution. Probably the most notable one that I'm thinking of that's went through a similar evolution was the Apache project. And a lot of the things I'm seeing with Cloud Foundry remind me of that. Where there's a point in time where it literally goes non-linear and there's a breakthrough moment where the next thing you know, Apache became a verb to web servers. And that's happening now with Cloud Foundry. So rather than have me blather about it even longer, I'm gonna invite someone up to share some of these stories and I'm gonna talk with them about the journey they've gone through. This is a customer that has been dealing with large systems and large applications for a long time. And I'm gonna invite Jason up to talk to us a little bit about their journey and spend some time with us on stage with Jason. Come on up, Jason Armstrong from Travelport. Thanks for joining us, buddy. I didn't just select the other guy who was exactly my size out of the audience. But thanks for coming out and talking to us. Any time. So Jason, tell the group here about your role, what Travelport does. Some of the things you told me about Travelport, about the business that you're in and how these folks might be using Travelport but they don't even know it. Excellent, so welcome this morning. My name is Jason Armstrong. I'm a director of enterprise services and middleware at Travelport. Probably never heard of Travelport and that's okay. I'll share a little bit about it with you. Travelport is a travel commerce platform. So what we do is we work with those travel providers that you work with and they work with us and through our systems they can book, sell, share, search for any travel option through our travel products. For example, many of you flew in or probably stayed at a hotel this week. More than likely your travel provider is worked with Travelport in order to book, sell and reserve that travel for you. And so Travelport's been around about 40 years, is that right? Yep. And so what is your role at Travelport and then maybe tell us a little bit about why you chose Cloud Foundry. So my role at Travelport is to lead a team that's implementing lots of different tiers of our cloud strategies. So I have middleware, traditional engineers. I have the operating system type of engineers. I have the senior developers in a more creative area of cutting edge service development. Awesome. And when you were looking at technologies to choose or platforms to choose, what was it about Cloud Foundry that resonated? It was the vendor lockout and the option that with Cloud Foundry, we had one consistent way to be able to push content, to scale content, to develop applications. It's actually funny, one of the beauties of Cloud Foundry was it embraced the term that a lot of people at Travelport hadn't heard of, which is 12-factor apps. So to us, it's the add-on of by going to a Cloud Foundry solution where no matter which data center you're in within our complex of environments, whether that's cloud or within our personal data centers, it's the same experience for those developers. The engineers have some work in the back end to deal with different distributions, but for the development team, which is the core where our revenue comes from, they have that. And so I got to ask Jason, did you look at other options? Did you look at other cloud technologies or other application platform options before you made that decision? Absolutely. We actually evaluated for a period of about six months all of the different options for cloud frameworks. Everything from Docker, Ansible, there's lots of vendor solutions I can name. You all probably know them very well. And we kept coming back to it each time that we looked at the different flavors. We really looked at Cloud Foundry as, wait a second, there's an open source community, it's very robust. Our goal was to create an environment where we could implement best practices in the community. All of you out here are the ones that kind of convinced us to go to Cloud Foundry because you convinced us that there are best practices that could increase our productivity. There was best practices that would enable us to deploy faster, and there was best practices for how to cut our costs by using a centralized system like Cloud Foundry. Awesome. One thing that we talked about in, I think this is maybe one of the most important aspects of the transition that we see customers go through is the technology, certain, there's tons of technologies out here. The technology is one aspect of moving to a cloud-native application platform. But something that Doug also mentioned this morning, tell me a little bit about the organization. As you moved, as you shifted left, both metaphorically and literally, as you shifted left, what happened to the org? What happened to the culture at Travelport? Or what's happening? Because I know it's in progress. Yeah, it's currently in progress. And what we're seeing so far is that by shifting left, and there's a love-hate relationship with the word DevOps, but shift left is the friendly term we use for it, which means we're pushing more responsibility to the left side of the diagram where traditionally development people are. So the development community is taking on roles such as coordinating their builds, doing their own regression testing, managing their deployments, production support. But in fairness, that leaves the right side of the diagram able to spend more time keeping the infrastructure up for those development teams. So where traditionally they were spending a lot of time in the infrastructure side, troubleshooting services and helping memory tune and other things. With Cloud Foundry, what we're seeing is a shift where those responsibilities for tuning and tweaking applications have moved to left. And the operation side is now focused on can I keep my servers up? Is my monitoring resilient? How are my customer experiences? Awesome. And for customers out there in the audience, what would you recommend? What tips would you give them as they're, because you're on the journey. As some are considering, how do we get there? Because I talked to someone last night who's literally here just taking notes and learning before they take the first step. What would you recommend to them? That's a great step. The community is excellent.  When people post items to boards, you're very responsive. So I'd encourage them to go out to the community and find out how they're working. Go up to the meetups and things like that. The other important thing as a big enterprise, and I make no qualms about it, where a big mainframe shop that has a whole lot of open systems around it, it's hard to shift your organizations. So you really need to brace them and bring them into the process. So where we brought in our network team and said, look, look at how many firewall requests you don't have to do.  You can spend more time looking at the cool new load balancer strategy versus having to worry about, oh, I have to implement 15 new load balancer requests today. So by kind of bringing them into that process, security, server engineering, all of them, they really got excited about the possibilities, how they can have more time to do the cool things. Great. And Jason, one last thing, a year from now, what does success look like? So you're in the process of this and the organization's moving there. Where do you want to be in a year? In a year, we're hoping to move many of our microservice APIs. So again, the pieces of our travel commerce platform that agencies and travel providers are hooking into to have them hosted closer to those vendors. So success is basically having Cloud Foundry instances running both in our data center and across the globe where we can actually have an experience where an Australian agency calls an Australian service which we happen to know that the data's coming from the Australian airline. Why come back all the way to the United States to our personal data center just to go back out to Australia to get that data? Again, success for us is being able to co-host that with the benefit of reducing that development time, reducing that deployment time. That's an extremely important part for us. We're a very quick moving industry in travel and if you don't keep up, you're gonna quickly get behind and those nimble deployments and processes are what we're looking for. Jason, thank you very much, man. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. I think what the theme that you're also seeing from all state and travel port is, these are businesses that had to make this transition that would be out of business if they were not moving this direction and taking advantage of the things that we're seeing with Cloud Native application platforms. So it's something we were talking about backstage a little bit. It's not so much, hey, could we do something like that? Would that be interesting? It's really survivability. How do you make a get to the point where you're able to work at the speed of development and reach your customers at the speed of development because times become the critical variable in extracting and delivering value to customers. I got just a couple more things I wanna talk about. One is about this slide here and I'll tell you six, seven years ago when I first really, really started spending time with large enterprises and government agencies about cloud computing just generally, I would never have predicted this slide seven years ago. I would not have guessed that all of these types of vendors and customers would come together in some sort of community to build something related to cloud computing. And to see how far, and this isn't just a marketplace where people stuck up their logos and some NASCAR-like experience to slap something up on a slide. To get on the slide means you're putting contrivial money and time into being part of the foundation. And I mean, it's real time. Like there's real work that happens to make, for all of these members to participate. And I think this here, and if you just look at some of the brands on here, look at the six I think that were announced yesterday that came into the foundation. It's truly remarkable. And I don't think it's because we're all just happy, go lucky guys and gals that like to get together. I'd love to believe that, but I'm not as, Sam does a better job of the Zen stuff. Like I'll let Sam stay in that zone. I believe this is because the commercial market is demanding it. I believe because we're in a different phase of cloud computing, where it's becoming much more synonymous with IT. I think the word cloud is starting to mean IT in many ways. And so because of that and the large complex heterogeneous requirements that enterprises have, this the market has demanded a multi-cloud application platform. That's why this group exists and that's why it's come together. But I just wanted to say thanks to all the members who've been part of this. And I would say even a year and a half ago or so when the foundation was just being thought of, or a couple of years ago, I don't think anyone would have guessed the amount of membership and the growth of this community. It's truly remarkable. And take a moment really at why you're here to have deep and authentic conversations with people in this community because I think Cloud Foundry really is at that liminal moment of growth. That's exciting. So as part of that, one of the things that we do at HPE is we want to help continue that growth. So we're announcing today a new dojo in Seattle that is open now. And this is the one picture that we took of Seattle that didn't have rain and clouds. But it looks really nice. We call this interview weather when we're trying to hire people. But we're really excited by this. And the model of how, and many thanks to Pivotal for helping establish the model that exists for how contributions happen and how you build high quality software. And we're very happy to participate by opening a Seattle-based dojo. We're not doing this because it's just my hometown. Maybe kind of. We're actually doing this because there's a very large growing ecosystem in the Seattle and the Puget Sound area around cloud computing. There's a couple really big players in the market there in terms of Microsoft and Amazon. But that's also created a pretty significant ecosystem of other startups and a pretty big developer community. So we're very happy to be hosting that dojo in Seattle starting today. I would also add, as you think about the, one of the fun parts of coming to events like this is I ran into literally eight people, eight, who have all worked for me in different companies all out that I met in the outside of this room. And they're all at different companies now, eight different companies. And I would like to think they're all here because I'm so terribly charming and they came to see their old boss. That's not it. They've all gone off to different roles where now Cloud Foundry is seated all over in these different companies, some vendors, some customers, some people doing services business, businesses around Cloud Foundry. And that ecosystem, just think how fast this has happened in the amount of time that growth has happened. It's pretty remarkable. So with that, I'm going to close. I'm going to give you my email address and my Twitter handle. I do want to have your feedback on how things are going, not just with HPE and what we're doing. Certainly to take any feedback except about my hair and being bald. Can't tweet about that. I get really, really sensitive on that subject. That's because I'm not Australian. But I do want to hear from you how you think the Cloud Foundry project is going as well because there's a lot of still shaping and molding and growth that's happening in this project which makes it so vibrant and exciting to be part of. So feel free to shoot me email with your ideas and thoughts. With that, thank you very much. Have a great time for the rest of the event.


Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. That's right in this video. We're going to talk about how John Oliver just exposed the real cause of the opioid crisis in the United States What is up everybody, this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel What I like to do is pull different topics from pop culture or the news to try to see what lessons we can learn from them So if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell So I just finished watching John Oliver last week tonight. Love that show love it so much And whenever they're talking about opioids. Ooh, I get all worked up. So those of you who don't know me yet Hi, I'm chris. I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. I've been clean since June 23rd 2012 So a little over six and a half years and my drug of choice was prescription opioids Okay, so this is something I'm very passionate about it's something that almost took my life Working in a treatment center for over three years. I've seen how it's affected so many people All over the country and I've seen how many people have passed away From addiction because of prescription opioids So in this video, I'm going to break down some of the things that John Oliver talked about share some of my own personal experience as well as some broader information about this and it's all going to lead back to where we're at with the opioid crisis Talking about some of the things that president trump's talked about and how those aren't necessarily the solutions. All right, so In this week's episode of last week tonight with john oliver.  All right. These are sometimes known as pill farms So the example they used was a small town in west virginia with a population of 400 And they ordered over 3 million prescription opioids. Okay, that was enough to give every person there about 7500 opioids Okay, so think about that for a second and I'm going to circle back to this in a minute But anyways, what they talk about has mckesson All they did was like they made it so they had to regulate themselves and keep an eye on themselves Which is absolutely bonkers. All right So one of the things that a de uh former dea agent was discussing is they shouldn't be fined Right because a fine is just a slap on the wrist. These guys are making Insane amounts of money off the backs of people who are becoming addicted and dying from this disease Like these are people who should be put in prison for what they're doing. All right So john oliver ends up going into the sackler family and the sackler family Oh They get my blood boiling But one thing about john oliver and the team of last week tonight is they lighten up the mood a little bit So what they did was they got various actors to read parts of this deposition with the sackler family or uh, I believe it was Richard sackler And I chose to use a couple clips from one of my favorites brine crampston who you may know as walter white So here's a few things pulled from that deposition The launch of oxy cotton tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition The prescription blizzard will be so deep dense And white and then don't forget this one We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem They are reckless criminals. All right. So this is absolutely terrible for those of you Who don't know the full history about this? When oxy cotton first came out They marketed it as a safer non-addictive opioid Okay, they said this is safe to use use this and all this and they were pushing it Light crazy and they were lying to doctors lying to the public They had a very very aggressive marketing campaign and by the way, I'm gonna link to the sackler gallery Dot-com website that john oliver created and lastly tonight created Um, it's great. Go watch it a little humor for this terrible situation But anyways, like they aggressively pushed this and so many people so many people even people who were part of their marketing campaigns And uh, the commercials that were doing they ended up becoming addicted and dying I think only a few a few people survived, right? Um, some of them became addicted to heroin and ended up getting clean But a lot of them ended up passing away from this So that one clip I just showed you that brian cranson read like that absolutely Sickens me. Okay. Like they're their whole idea behind this and he said other awful things like oh only 50 something people died That's not too bad. But anyways, their whole, um Campaign to like kind of sweep this under the rug was they wanted to get ahead of this thing and blame the addicts Blame the addicts for this. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. Okay? I have a science of addiction course up on my website for free if you want to go check it out It's linked down in the description below But yes, some people are born addicted some people develop an addiction from substance abuse But when doctors are pushing and over prescribing Addictive medications, there are chemical hooks. Okay, and then some people are more prone to addiction. All right Science has discovered this some people's genetics their brain chemistry is different than the average person So they are more prone to addiction. For example addiction runs in my family. There's actually a gene associated with addiction Okay, so we need to understand that they were creating addicts and then they wanted to blame the addicts and John Oliver makes a joke about how like, you know, um, they're they're they're Trying to blame the people who are filling their pockets with money So here's where this thing comes full circle back to where we're at today Okay, because this is something that got kicked off in like the early 2000s Now the sackler family is paying for it and all sorts of things But here's the issue that I have here's the biggest issue I have Is the way that president trump keeps talking about building a wall because mexico keeps bringing drugs into our country Like this is complete bs. Okay, there are so many politicians who are taking money from big pharma And the best way for people not to look at that is to blame mexico and say, oh, well, mexico's bringing heroin in Here's the thing on the screen right in front of you This is a report from drug abuse dot gov. All right Most people who turned to heroin Started with prescription opioids. All right, not many people wake up and they're like, you know what? I'm gonna try heroin today. That's not how this happens Most people start with prescription opioids So that wall that wall that they're so adamant about to keep drugs out immigration is a totally different thing that I don't talk about on my channel But one of the selling points that donald trump keeps trying to give is that the drugs are coming over and here's the thing Here is the other thing that upsets me. All right, and let me make it very very clear Like yes, there are people with chronic pain and yes, that is awful and like I can't even imagine But we need to figure out a way to come together because whenever I talk about this prescription opioid epidemic Chronic pain patients think that, you know, I'm talking about just getting rid of prescription opioids That's not what I'm talking about. But we're talking about regulating them. We're talking about Making it harder to access. I'm like, I'm sorry, but there are very bad doctors out there Who are pushing this remember that small town of kermit that I talked about Overordering prescription opioids and then selling them to the public because here's the thing Like here in nevada, they've cracked down quite a bit on it. So like for example, chronic pain patients They'll have to go back to the doctor. Um, like maybe once a month like they're not giving people 90 day prescriptions anymore They go back once once a month and then they might even have to do a drug test Why do a drug test? Do you ask right? And I remember there was an article in the las vegas review journal about this woman They quoted and they're saying oh and they're drug testing me like I'm some sort of drug addict No, here's the thing and like the most ridiculous argument I ever hear is like when people are like Oh, doctors weren't giving them to me. I was buying prescription opioids on the street How do you think people get those prescription opioids? Okay I was a prescription opioid addict and 99.9 of my dealers were like Older men and women. Okay. What they were doing was going to the doctor lying about their pain Getting a bunch of pills and then selling them to guys like me as well as many other peoples So this is one of the reasons why doctors are starting a drug test to make sure that people are actually taking the pills That they're being prescribed because there's a lot of people gaming the system in order to sell drugs to other people And this creates a dependency. This is why people turn to heroin. I can tell you from my own experience I I was addicted to prescription opioids without prescriptions So when my dealers would run out, I would go through withdrawal. I was in a lot of pain I'm one of the few fortunate people who had a very severe opioid addiction to prescription opioids And I never turned to heroin and like I was probably this close This close heroin was cheaper and it was stronger and it was more readily available. All right So we need to understand how this thing escalates So like I really really hope that all of you are getting the correct information and you're thinking about this I've been doing some more videos on like politics and things like that Like we need to understand where the sources of these problems are coming from the drugs. Yes Like fentanyl coming in from china. Yes, that's a big issue black tar heroin coming in from mexico Yes, that's a big issue But we need to start getting down to the root problem and figuring out why people are turning to heroin Why people are turning to fentanyl? Why are people doing this? A lot of it starts with a prescription opioid crisis that is coming from doctors coming from pharmacies right here in the united states All right, so let's all come together and figure this thing out. All right who We're gonna do this. We're gonna do this together. All right. Anyways, that's all I got for this video Let me know your thoughts down below in the comments if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos And a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon You are all amazing and if you would like to sign up become a patron help support the channel Get involved in our monthly q&a and some other stuff. Click or tap right there. All right Thanks again so so much for watching. I'll see you next time


And the ever-important question, how will I use the Hoka Evo Speed Goat moving forward? Ladies and gentlemen, here we go. Craziness, everyone. It's past 8 p.m. in Colorado right now, and I am hitting record on the camera for the first time all day. I haven't done this in a long time. It's Labor Day weekend, so I decided to just check out from technology as much as I could today, so I didn't vlog. So we went to a Colorado Rockies baseball game we lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates today, and then I did my three-mile jog afterward, and I was just disconnected all day. It was amazing. So anyway, but I still want to bring you my first impressions finally of the Hoka Evo Speed Goats. And today's three-mile jog, 5k, was almost 10-minute pace. I was really bopping along, but I was going nice and easy, really, really recovering because I'm going to take these shoes back out, back up to the mountains for a big mountain day tomorrow. And yes, we're going to go with Carl for the key name for today's vlog, spelled K-A-R-L-Y, because in case you didn't know, the Speed Goat line up from Hoka, which by the way is a neutral trail running shoe from Hoka, is named after one of the original godfathers in the ultra-running world, Carl Metzler. So he used to hold the FKT, the fastest known time for the Appalachian Trail. He was really a trailblazer at the 100-mile distance. In fact, I think he's still in his 40s, he might even be upper 40s, but he's still regularly, I do believe, still races 100-mile races every summer. So anyway, and he puts on the Speed Goat 50k out at Snowbird, Utah every summer, which by far was one of the hardest races of my entire life. Really difficult course. And so it's called the Speed Goat 50k and named after him Carl. And this shoe is named after him as well, the Hoka Evo Speed Goat. And I'm just going to mention right now, actually that's crazy, I have this magazine. So this is the Western States 100, the most prestigious 100-mile race in the United States, as far as not the most difficult, but the most prestigious, meaning it has a lot of history. It's the oldest 100-mile race in the United States. And so the winner, there he is, Jim Wamsley, who runs for Hoka. He wore the Hoka Evo Speed Goat, Evo EVO. I'm just going to say Evo Speed Goat in his course record run this year at the 2019 Western States 100. And everybody who is there was wondering like, what shoe does he have on his feet? What shoes does he have on his feet? Sure enough, it was this shoe. And let's dive into some specs. And by the way, this is just my first impression after 50 miles, which might happen this week. I'm getting actually closer, pretty close to 50 miles already will happen. So my full review will happen after 50 miles, as you well know. All right. And now let's move into some specs real quick. So we're looking at a four millimeter drop from heel to toe, 32 millimeter stack height in the heel, 28 in the four foot. And that's good. That's a lot of midsole cushion for those long trail races or trail runs. Here's where it gets pretty exciting, though. In my size, we're looking at 8.4 ounces or 240 grams. That is awesome. And in men size nine, which is a very standard weight to put out there for everyone to look at, you're looking at 9.9 ounces or 280 grams. Again, very lightweight trail shoe from Hoka. Did I already mention it's a neutral shoe? Just want to make sure that's put out there. It's a neutral shoe and moving on to that upper. So it's a Kevlar reinforced upper, which basically means it's really, really durable while still remaining lightweight. In fact, the Mafate also has that Kevlar through the upper. I don't know of, I don't know of the exact differences between the uppers. They might be actually the exact same. I'm not exactly sure, but we're talking very, very, I can just feel the build quality as I'm touching the upper here. And okay, I will just say, in addition on the upper, they place this, they're calling it a licorice strip, basically an overlay, a rubber overlay through the toe cap to help protect your toes from rocks, from stumps, from roots. I'm going to come back to that in a minute, though. And one last point on the upper is the tongue of the shoe. So what lays on top of your foot? I've put so many shoes onto my feet in 2019. I know immediately if a shoe company has nailed the tongue or not. For example, I had pretty high hopes for the New Balance Beacon 2. And I'm not sure they nailed the tongue this year in their 2019 iteration. Hoka, you nailed the tongue in this shoe. We're talking folks, it's very comfortable. And I'm going to come back to that in a minute for the positives, but they absolutely nailed, nailed, nailed. And I'm just going to say it, if you can see it there, there's a piece of material. I don't even know what it's made out of, some sort of synthetic material that helps the tongue connect to the rest of the upper material. It's so comfortable. The lockdown is spot on. And yes, I'll just say it right now. I went true to size and it's perfect. No issues with sizing. Maybe my pinky toe is barely touching the outer wall of the inner cavity through the toe box. I don't even notice it. And frankly, I would rather have a snug fit for aggressive trails, especially. So overall, the fit, the length is spot on, true to size for me. And for that midsole, which is the big EVA foam right here, it's injected EVA foam. And I don't know what they did. I don't know. I think they basically, they reduced the density compared to the Maffate. But I'm telling you, the midsole is very, very forgiving, but not in a bad way where you feel like you're bouncing down the trails. It's just the right density, Hoka. I don't know how to describe it. But as you can see, I'm pressing in with my thumbs as you see on the screen right now. And it's just enough forgiveness to let you ride through the trails in a very, very comfortable way. So anyway, I'm really enjoying the midsole so far in the Speed Goat and moving on to the outsole. So you can see the Vibram mega grip, which is they're advertising five millimeter lug depth through this Vibram outsole and that lug depth there. I'm not sure if I'm buying five, I'm measuring closer to three or four, but hey, that's what they're saying, a five millimeter lug depth. But for this outsole, I was running up Longs Peak the other day. And on the really bare rock, I wasn't exactly getting the best grip in the world. Not quite as good as my Solomon shoes, like the, oh, I don't know if I have a pair out here right now. But and just one more point on the outsole, this Vibram outsole, I'm not sure the lug pattern is spot on, especially for technical trails. Okay, I'm going to just say this is definitely a shoe for more the buffed out trails. I'll come back to that in a minute. I was slipping a little bit on the Ascent and the Descent for that matter on Longs Peak. So I just want to put that out there. These lug, the lug depth and the lug pattern is not for big, crazy mountain runs. Alright, and on to a couple positives and a couple drawbacks for the Evo Speed Goat for the positives. I have to go with the comfort all around, all around the upper, the midsole. I've already said it. I don't need to say it again. You nailed it, Hoka. You nailed the comfort. Okay, but the drawbacks, I barely rolled my ankle twice on Longs Peak only because, so I would be very careful, everyone, if you're going out on aggressive trails to really watch your ankles in a shoe, a trail-running shoe that has such a tall stack height. Now, this isn't crazy tall, but it's just tall enough where even though Hoka does have a very wide landing area through the outsole of the shoe, I did almost, now listen, it was very technical, aggressive trails up there, but just keep that in mind. This would not be my go-to shoe for difficult 14er mountains. This is more of a buffed out trail-running shoe. And the other drawback would have to be also two times on the run, on Longs Peak, a couple rocks popped up and basically laying, like kind of popped up and hit the top of my foot. And it didn't hurt that bad, but it definitely didn't feel great. In fact, it happened a couple times in the Soccany Mad River TRs and I noticed a lot more protection in the Soccany Mad River TRs compared to the Speed Goats, but these are frankly a lot heavier. So there's more protection through that upper. So keep that in mind as well. At the end of the day, lesson learned, even though I'm going to use these tomorrow on a 14er mountain, the trail tomorrow is much more tame, meaning it's not nearly as aggressive as Longs Peak. So anyway, just keep that in mind. Rolling ankles has potential on technical trails and then protection through the toe box, especially is just, I'm just not feeling it, even with that toe cap there. And the ever important question, how will I use the Hoka Evo Speed Goat moving forward? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to be racing 50 mile and 100 mile races for a long time. But if I was, I would use this shoe. Not a 50K. That's 31 miles. A 50K, I would want to go fast, as fast as possible. I'd probably choose a Solomon shoe. But this guy, 50 miles is just long enough where I'd want more protection for my legs, for my feet. And I would want more midsole protection, especially on trails that are not, okay, like I would not do the Hard Rock 100 in this shoe. I would do the Leadbill 100 in this shoe. This is a special shoe, Western States 100, perfect shoe. Or, or if you're doing, if you're training, if you're doing training runs, that are, let's say you're getting ready for a 100 mile race, but you want to protect your legs in, let's say a 22 to 32 mile training run, boom, on trails that are not crazy aggressive, boom. Or like, okay, if you're local in Colorado, the Golden Gate, Dirty 30, 50K, I probably wouldn't choose it, but this could work for you if you were out there training on that course. This, my friends, I mean, I love it. I love it. I don't know what else to say. I love it now. The price tag, $116. It's getting up there. But I'm going to say, now wait till the full review, I need to take it out to 50. I'm going to say right now, I'm in that camp. I really am, especially if you're looking for, if you're just dialed in to a 50 or 100 mile peak race, and you've been training all year for it, I would splurge and maybe go for this shoe. At least that's where I'm at right now at $160. All right, that's all I've got for today's vlog. I know it was a little different just talking about running shoes here in the studio, no outside filming.  So it's going to be good. Question of the day, what is your favorite hoka running shoe right now if you're a hoka fan? And that's that. So if you're not a hoka fan, I apologize. I'm kind of, kind of maybe, maybe you could, if you're not a hoka fan, maybe just let us know if you've ever tried hoka and they just didn't work for you. How about that? All right, but if you are a hoka fan, what is your favorite hoka road or trail shoe right now? And if you want to dive more into hoka running shoes, feel free to click on the box on the right. It dives into my first impressions of the hoka mafate or on the left hand side is my playlist for other hoka running shoes. Thank you all for being here. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it being here every single day. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


On Friday, February 16th, high school students from across New York City walked out of school to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. support for Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. The high schoolers declared that there can be no school as usual while their peers in Gaza are being brutally murdered by Israel. We did a walkout today because we believe that even though schools can't legally talk about the Palestinian war, I think it's only fair that students need to rise up and say something because young kids, adults, mothers, fathers are all dying in the war. And it's not fair that we stay quiet while they're dying and we just have to get up and come to school. We feel like we tend to be told that we aren't aware of what's going on or that we are not as educated on what's going on around the world. And so we want to show that we do know what's going on. We don't support this, even in our education system, even being in New York in general. We have so many people who represent us who are like supporting a genocide and we want to show that if nobody in the, nobody older is going to speak up, we are going to do exactly that. Friday's high school walkout was the second of such actions. In November, thousands of students had also walked out of school to demand an immediate ceasefire. However, following this brave action, students, educators and parent leaders were targeted by unprecedented retaliation by school administrators and authorities from the New York City Department of Education for speaking out against Israel's genocide. After their walkout this past Friday, students, educators and activists gathered at Bryant Park for a rally in March. Hundreds of New York City police officers were deployed to the march and made several arrests but were unable to prevent protesters from taking to the streets. We are all here together united in a just struggle.  Shipped from our school 130 days of Israeli- Whether you walked out of school today, have joined us after a long day of schooling and teaching, or are joining us from elsewhere, today we amplify our youth leaders' call for an immediate cessation of Israeli genocide of Palestinians. All divestment from the terrorist organization known as Israel and justice for Palestinians who have suffered at the hands of the United States sponsored genocide. We are here today to demand a free Palestine from the river to the sea. Like many of us, students in Gaza are also in their last year of high school and if anyone has family in Palestine, you know how important the last year of high school is, also known as Stojihe. So students in Gaza in their last year of high school start preparing for this exam from their start of the academic year. So a typical student, a Palestinian student in Gaza that's in their last year of senior year should be buried in their books.