Mr. Rogers is here. I thought I saw him. I just saw him. Patrick is the VP of alliances at NetApp. And obviously an infrastructure company. We had, John, you remember you had Dave Hitzon at Oracle Open World? He was phenomenal. Yeah, he was very good. And we were asking at the time, all the storage CEOs and executives, how is storage sexy? And you were sort of telling him that. You were moving on. He said, let me tell you my answer. We're not sexy. We're the plumbing. We're the infrastructure. So we're going to hear from Patrick.  So Patrick Rogers, as I say, VP of alliances at NetApp. NetApp, very fast growing storage company. One of the leaders out there, fastest growing, big storage company out there.  NetApp, four or five billion dollar company. Patrick, welcome. Good to see you again. Thanks for coming on. My co-host, John Furrier. Great to see you. I think you guys have met. So yeah, Sapphire. Sapphire now. It's a good show. We were here last year. You guys made some announcements last year. We did. You got some stuff going on this year. We start, why are you here? What's going on with SAP? Yeah, so the big news for us at Sapphire this year is really around infrastructure refresh. We're hearing a lot from customers that they want to move to virtualized, oftentimes x86 type platforms. And they would really like to drive cost and improve efficiency, speed, time to market for their SAP applications. And so we're very excited to be rolling out a new pre-integrated, pre-packaged solution for SAP. And we're doing this together with Cisco. And so our big news is what we call SAP applications built on FlexPod. And so we announced FlexPod pre-integrated solutions with VMware and with Cisco last November. And now we're doing this specifically for the SAP stack. So these are solutions that are pre-tested, pre-configured, is that right? That's right. They're pre-certified. It's a design architecture. But the idea is, as a customer, you don't want to have to integrate the server, the storage, the network backbone, the virtualization software. You'd like to have that all done for you ahead of time. So you guys have proven this out in your labs? We usually have customers that have implemented this. So as part of this announcement, very large copper mining company here in the US, Freeport Mac Moran has implemented and gone live with SAP applications, running on a combined Cisco VMware NetApp solution. So you're hearing a lot about the changes in infrastructure applications, and of course the devices, tectonic shifts going in all of those. The Sapphire crowd, as you know them, is a storage company.  This is a different crowd, isn't it? It's a business crowd. A lot of line of business, CIOs, maybe even some CEOs here. How do you get them to care about infrastructure? Yeah, so the key word is cost savings and business agility, right? So that's what they're looking for out of their application environment. And a lot of them recognize how complicated and complex it is to run all the various SAP modules, and you need an infrastructure that helps simplify that. And so they do care. They probably don't care about the details, but they care about the result. So the cost savings thing, so the agility I could see that resonating strongly with an application head. I don't want to get it done faster. I don't want to get the function out quicker. Do they care about the cost of the infrastructure? Oh, absolutely.  If you have a 30 terabyte SAP instance, it's a pretty significant investment that you're making and you have to refresh every three years. Same thing goes with your server infrastructure. Oh, I don't customers care. I don't doubt that. It's the application head. Does the application head care? Or does he or she say, yeah, that's somebody else's problem. And how do you navigate through that maze? How do you get, or do you even try to fight that though? No, I understand your point. That's a very good one. And really the story for the application developers is, gosh, you're doing upgrades, applying patches. Oftentimes you're doing this on a monthly basis, right? Wouldn't it be great if we could speed that whole patch deployment process, right? And refresh or upgrades. And so moving to one of these new FlexPod infrastructures allow you to do that. You can really cut the time to install a new module or upgrade an existing module from months down to weeks. So huge advantages there. So for them, it's about agility and it's speed, right? NetApp, you guys are innovating, obviously. It's a Silicon Valley-based company, darling in the startup world. You guys grown crazy, crazily fast in the 90s, I mean the 2000s, and then innovating. How do you handle the whole M&A craze going on? Cause that's mashing up technology. Cisco, we were talking about last week at EMC World is kind of missed the whole Web 2.0 movement because they had the big mashup of acquisitions and their leader in internet 1.0 kind of missed the boat on internet 2.0 and chambers is on the hot seat. You know, we think he's kind of missing a stride, losing a step a little bit in terms of a tech athlete. So Cisco's kind of rebooting. They got to go sideways. Mainly because I think it's the acquisitions because you got all this technology. You guys have not done a lot of acquisitions, done some here and there, strategically kind of lower price relative to the big guys. How do you operate in that environment as a tech company? Everyone's bulking up with acquisitions. What's the core philosophy?  Well, we may not be well known to everybody, but now 20% of all storage by capacity comes from NetApp. So we're not a niche player anymore, right? So NetApp today is one of the four largest storage suppliers in the world today. And the only one that's growing at 20% annually. So our message is getting out there is continue to be heard. You've had great financial performance. I mean, you're consistently leaving it. And market share performance. Even we're proud of the financial performance. We're even prouder and we're really driven by our market share gains. We had Tom Georgins on at VMworld. And we were asking about that. How is it that NetApp is able to grow at the time, 35% when the industry's growing at whatever, pick your number, nine, 10%. And he said, you know, we don't really look at the 35%. That's not what we tune our business towards. We tune it toward gaining share. Exactly, right. One or two points a share per year, right? Is that the mindset? That is exactly right. The company's all about not growth for growth's sake, but really trying to become the largest player in the storage space. And to your point about acquisitions, we've been very focused, right? We are focused on data management. And we have such a powerful and important ecosystem of partners we work with at the server networking layer and at the application layer. And frankly, you know, one of the keys to success for NetApp is our partner ecosystem. And we have such great teamwork, you know, with companies like SAP or with VMware or you name it VMC in the management side. How do you compete with VMware? I mean, EMC for example, they own VMware, right? So obviously, you know, they're number one with VMware virtualization. How do you guys, do you guys feel second place there?  Yeah, yeah. So how do you guys respond to that? Well, VMware's been very good about maintaining effectively a firewall or a Chinese wall between their operations and the rest of VMware. And it was a pretty significant move and they decided to spin out and have a separate tracking stock for VMware because their responsibility of VMware is now to their fiduciary, you know, stockholders, right? And of which, you know, EMC is a major one but they also have many other partners there or stockholders that they're responsible to. So sort of similar question but in a more specific to FlexPod. So you really, when you think about... By the way, can I just compliment you guys? You did a recent study on share of virtualization partners and it looked pretty much to us that the two dominant players by far were EMC and NetApp in terms of... Well, thank you, thanks for that. There's a study that was done at Wikibon and I think there was some significant findings there. There's a loyal base amongst your... One was EMC and NetApp came out one and two in terms of VMware brand affinity. The other interesting thing there when we asked customers, all right, who's your primary supplier? It was EMC and VMware or NetApp were the two primary suppliers. But then we asked who's number one at VMware storage, only EMC and NetApp customers said EMC and NetApp respectively. All the other vendors said somebody else. That's right, yeah. Now that was interesting. Now when you dig into it, for example, they didn't have a lot of three par information in there. Three par gets very high marks. They do a good job of integration but small. So we'll see if HP can make that but very good scores for NetApp clearly which refuted some of the other stuff that we'd seen in the marketplace. So we were happy to confirm that. So thank you. So when I look at FlexPod and really we've said that there's two big whales going after that single logical block of infrastructure. It's really VCE and HP with converged infrastructure and then NetApp as a clear strategy. I mean, IBM is really not doing any of Oracle's sort of doing its appliance thing. So what do you bring to the table that's different than say a VCE or an HP? So let's pick off VCE first. So initially VCE was set up to provide full integration services. That was the objective. Acadia as you recall was a key initiative for them and effectively provide an integration capability that allowed them to compete effectively with HP or with IBM. NetApp took a different approach. We're not in competition with the integrators. They are our partners. And so we developed the FlexPod concept which is really a pre-packaging and consolidated pre-configured solution that we made available to all of our joint channel partners and system integrators. And that turned out to be a very, very effective approach and has resulted in a pretty significant ramp of product being sold in that form with Cisco. HP is certainly a very formidable competitor because they've been established for a long time, significant market share, but we're finding that most of our wins are at the expense of HP. And people are looking for best-of-breed, best-in-class technologies at the server layer, at the storage layer, particularly IP-capable switches that provide a much better value proposition than what you would think of as traditional sand, and then of course NetApp storage with its efficiency and flexibility advantages. So it's really that entire stack of best-of-breed technologies that we find is becoming a very popular choice.  Yeah, take it up another layer, Dave, exactly. Great, yeah, all right, good. So the other thing we're hearing here is mobility, right? The mobility, mobility, mobility, simplicity, but mobility is a really big, strong theme. And you don't necessarily think about SAP as the mobile enterprise company, but they're changing that from a brand standpoint. What do you make of that, and what does it mean for NetApp? Well, from a storage provider's perspective, it has implications. And that is, with mobility, it is actually driving more storage to the core, right? Because people are effectively keeping short-term information on their mobile devices. They want to have the permanent store in a central, secure, mission-critical, enterprise-ready location. And so it is driving actually more business for us as people move from a distributed storage model to a more centralized solution that supports various mobile devices and platforms. Patrick, is there something in the marketplace out there? Obviously, you're involved in that pretty innovative company. You're dealing with alliances and strategy and ecosystem. And you know, there's a lot of money being made here at SAP. This show clearly demonstrates that this ecosystem has been flourishing for over a decade, clearly. And money has changed hands significantly in this market. And it's changing, again, cloud, mobile. And we're hearing that, and everyone sees it. So it's a frenzy. How do you look at that, the money-making relative to NetApp? How do you go in there and talk to customers saying, we can help you fit better with SAP? Is it virtualization? Are there new technologies out there that are on your mind, that are like, hey, we're making a bet on this technology. Val is on theCUBE at SMW, Storage Networking World. And he said, basically, I'm paraphrasing, Hadoop flat-footed us. And so these new techs are out there, like Hadoop, big data. What is your story in these new tech areas? Can you show us some vision around? How that vectors into this ecosystem that will enable more scale on the tech side and more business growth? Yeah, so one of the areas that we're investing heavily in is object-based storage. And if you remember, we did an acquisition about 18 months ago. We view big data as predominantly coming to market in the form of object-based interfaces. Bycast. Yeah, that's bycast. And so we've seen tremendous interest for anybody who's doing large amounts of video storage or patient data records or PAX images. You know, those all require a more object-oriented approach where you're storing metadata associated with those items for fast search and retrieval. And so we see that as a significant trend in the market and one that we're going to continue investing in as we go forward. So that is modifying our roadmaps and plans. You know, in the case of Hadoop, we think that's pretty compelling technology as well. And we're trying to understand how that is going to adapt and change and grow in the marketplace. You're going to do your own Hadoop distribution in SiliconANGLE announced last week? We announced yesterday that, again, we announced, is that we will be distributing Hadoop with every cube deployment, like everybody else. So we're jumping on the Hadoop bandwagon. You guys aren't going to do that, are you? Yeah, I was. Pre-announce some Hadoop distribution. Yeah, no plans at this point.  I mean, you know, we're talking to SAP and he actually mentioned Bill McDermott, the co-CEO mentioned on stage, actually used the word Big Data, but they haven't really had any Big Data story here at Sapphire. And so, you know, the CIO and the other guys were saying essentially, inherently Big Data. They've been dealing essentially with what people call Big Data for years. And so to them, it's not so much about Big Data. They actually used the term that we coined in the cube called fast data. And so there's a real trend towards, it's not about the data being big. It's about data is the linchpin to the value proposition, which is get it there fast. So in memory, the SSD markets hot. How are you guys dealing with this fast data equation? Can you share with us anything? There's a tech, your alliances, your partnerships. So just to start with the fast data concept, one of the things we recognize there's a huge opportunity to incorporate flash into our designs, right? No, a lot of storage vendors took the approach of solid state disk drives, right? And they said, you know, let's just take this very fast memory that we need for fast data and we'll put it in the format of a disk drive and then put it behind this thin soda straw of a pipe. And that took a very different approach. And we said, you know, fast memory needs a fast bus and it should be sitting as close to the consumer that data as possible. And so we developed a flash cache that sits right on our processor bus and our controller. At front ends, all of our disk drives, what you're finding is for, you know, large big data applications where you are having particular files or portions of the objects that are frequently accessed, they can retrieve those from flash far faster than they can from disk drives. So that's a big advantage. So SAP is embarked upon their HANA project, right? They are going to be heavily dependent, you know, on flash memory for storage of large, you know, HANA data items. And we expect to support that with our flash cache technology. You're seeing flash throughout that sort of IO stack and even into the other side of the channel. As they say, the best IO is no IO. So although we hope some IOs hang around, so we have a job. Efficiency is another big theme of NetApp. We've heard Dave Hitz very, you know, really articulate around storage efficiency. We heard him recently at a customer dinner it's just talking about turn it on, you know. I don't do a good Dave Hitz, but just turn it on, try it, you know. And you guys have done a great job of embedding technologies like compression, like D-dup in there, giving it away for free. Understand there's some cycles in the processor that's required, but that's been a good strategy for you guys. And, but still the uptake isn't as much as you might think. You know, there seems to be a lot of upside there. Why do you think that? Well, you know, what Dave was really trying to articulate is we have many different storage efficiency technologies. It's not just one, right? And it's really the accumulation of those technologies that provides the value to our customers. We have some technology that everybody turns on, but there are others that aren't being as adopted as rapidly. And so Dave's point is, is you're only recognizing half the value until you turn on all these software features.  But he said, you're the only vendor that actually tells me this is ready to go and should be turned on immediately at first deployment. He said, you know, most of the other storage vendors I'm working with are saying, well, be careful, you know, we don't want to disrupt your existing environment. He said, Nanap said, please, turn this on now, see the advantages, we're that confident in what we're doing. And that really is our approach. You know, we've worked very hard to make these technologies bulletproof. Many of them have been in existence for the past three to five years. We want everybody to use them ubiquitously. And we don't care about selling more disk drives. I was going to say, don't you sell less storage at the near-term when you're at it? Yeah, we'd rather sell them software to not have to use as many of those. Patrick, we've been hearing from SAP about the, you know, investment in the core platform. There's been a lot of complaints from some of the user base around. They're not moving fast enough. But that, again, that's been a good move for SAP given all the security issues that are happening and with all this edge mobile stuff that they're launching. What do you see the SAP core platform evolving into and how are you vectoring into that? Because we're going to have the SVP for the platform up next here coming on board. We want to ask him some tough questions.  You deal with the alliances. How do you see that evolving? Where is it today? Obviously it's transforming. And what are some of the key things that you see in that? So SAP's been very consistent in driving to lower cost infrastructures on which to run their software. So you think all the way to the days back in the mainframe, when they were one of the first companies to adopt client server open systems computing, they drove aggressively forward with Linux and Windows and x86 architectures. They're now driving their customer base aggressively forward to virtualized environments, right? Through their partnership with companies like VMware. We have a very similar vision that we believe there's tremendous cost savings to be realized by driving to standardized, lower cost architectures. And that's really how we collaborate best with SAP. That's soft, or is that silicon, or both? That's both, right, yeah. So virtualization is software, right? x86 is really all about silicon. IP based networking is again, oftentimes about. Is there software out there that you see that could be, you say that's out there today that's not in silicon, that could be in silicon very quickly? That should be in the silicon? Yeah, sure, yeah. Like what? Oh, everything. Encryption, right? Yeah, you know, there's obvious algorithms that are far faster to put into silicon that we will take advantage of. Patrick, before you go, I want to ask you about the Ingenio acquisition. We were talking about acquisitions before. Sure. I think you picked up a nice asset there. I think a lot of people, a lot of people will first of all criticize you because you're basically a unified storage company, one architecture, waffle, you know, on tap. And then, sort of, you brought in Bycast, but that's okay, it was sort of object. Object's a little different anyway. Yeah, and it's important to realize that Bycast builds on top of our current on tap technology. Yeah, and you're bringing that in, I would respect. Ingenio is quite a bit different. I presume that's not just going to morph into on tap anytime soon, but we've said, financially, this is a great deal because you're talking about, you picked it up for what, 438, I think, and it's a company with 700 million in revenue. You're trading it, whatever you're trading at, three, four, five times revenue. The day you did that transaction, you made a lot of money for your shareholders. It's a great move from a financial M&A standpoint. But now it gives you some other options in the marketplace. You've focused on the video, Val talked to us about, you know, being rich data applications. What does it do from your standpoint from as an alliance executive? What does it do for you, if anything? So Ingenio has, you know, two very valuable attributes of our business. One is, is they have relationships with a number of existing storage suppliers, OEM type relationships, and we gain access to those markets, you know, that previously we didn't. But the other important point is, is that they have a core competency in developing very high bandwidth storage, and there are certain applications in the market that require that, and we'll take full advantage of that using the Ingenio technology. So it's a nice rounding out of our technology portfolio. So supply chain and new markets, really. Exactly. That's exactly what's going after. So the question for folks out there that might want to know, your Twitter address, if you have one, do you have a Twitter account? Do you tweet? I apologize. Do you blog? What do you do on the network? Are you too busy? CIO of SAP?  Yeah, well, we have, we have a question. We know Val's out there, we know they hit that stuff all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They might even be watching now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Val's great, great interview we had with him. But you guys got a lot of tweeters, but you know. You're not tweeting away, you're too busy doing business, you know, I have enough communication going on in my life right now, but we do have people at NetApp that are spending a lot of time. Simplify is the goal, not to expand, right? Thanks for coming on theCUBE. We really appreciate you following NetApp. Great to see you as always. Yeah, we want to do.


You start turning it to the right, righty-tidy, lefty-loosey and then that way you can slowly kind of work your hands out to the end of the torque branch and give it a proper pull to achieve torque. Alrighty, so I have been watching like every video on what happened at Carowinds Fury 325. I do know that it is a lot more serious than I made it out to see him on the podcast last night, but I also do know that when it comes to this specific incident, I do have a lot of understanding of what's going on. Due to the aspect that my channel covers on Canada's Wonderland, I've been really fortunate to gain some connections with a lot of construction companies in Ontario. Whether that be surveying, construction, welding, all the jazz, I have definitely gained a lot of knowledge and have the connections to reach out and figure out what possibly went wrong and what could possibly be at fault for what occurred at Carowinds. I'm going to give you guys my two cents, but please understand that nothing is factual. The only people that are going to know what's going on is Cedar Fair, Carowinds the park itself, and the people surveying the ride currently to figure out what had happened. But I guess I want to touch on a couple of things personally. So there's been a lot of hate coming towards Cedar Fair and needing a bigger maintenance budget and not doing the maintenance that is required, and them not necessarily being one of the best chains for maintenance. In today's video, I'm actually going to prove that wrong. So for those of you that don't know maybe, maybe there's a lot of new people watching this video that don't know this channel, I cover construction at Canada's Wonderland, and that means I fly my drone almost daily when there's a construction project going on. And because of that, because there was a new coaster and a new first of the kind flat ride this season, I flew my drone every day in spring before the park opened. And I got to capture a lot of preventative maintenance done on a lot of their attractions, if not all, and I have the proof. And it's going to be in today's video. So I'm going to insert the video footage of Wonderland, because my home park isn't Carolins, I can only use another Cedar Fair park, Canada's Wonderland as an example, of them doing their due diligence in terms of maintenance and really taking care of the rides. So I trust that Carolins does the same thing, because if Wonderland does it, it's definitely a principle and rule that the chain just follows as a whole. It wouldn't make any sense that another park, especially a top five park, wouldn't follow the same rules and guidelines that Cedar Fair has set out that Wonderland would. And if that is the case, then it is definitely on Carolins fault and not Cedar Fair's fault. And there will be consequences, and I know that there will be consequences if that is the case. But there are other situations at play here that could have led to this, and the fact that this fracture was there that we know of for about a week before being discovered by, I think, a guest. But yeah, so this footage that I'm showing you as starting now is all filmed this spring, and my viewers can confirm that. I ain't playing like two years worth of footage. This is this year all done. So here is another B&M, similar to the ride that had its little stress fracture happen at Carolins. This is the hyper model, so about 100 feet shorter. And this is a stress point as well, a turning stress point. As you can see here, there is welding going on, and this is the drop, and there is welding going on there. So for a lot of enthusiasts, parks don't typically have people that fly drones. Like, it's becoming a lot more common now, but it's not common to have someone document a daily activity and coverage of their theme park from the drone. I have the ability to do that because I live close, and I've been able to kind of learn things, and then again, from having construction sources and all that. This is something that occurs on the regular. Rides need to be welded regularly. Every year, at minimum, especially these older B&Ms, as they get older, they require more welding, and it's a very normal thing. The skyrises, the CN tower, office buildings, just even steel structures sell towers. They all require welding and maintenance, preventative maintenance, to prevent fractures. And occasionally, they occur. And with a ride like a B&M, they are designed to handle, overly designed, to handle flaws that might occur like that. Yes, if gone unchecked, it could have become more serious. But in the moment, no one was in immediate danger. That part isn't to defend Cedar Fair. I just want to take away the fact that on the news, they're saying, you know, if the guest hadn't reported it, then, you know, those guests could have, no, that's not the case. There's a lot that goes into it. I'm not sure how it went unchecked for a week, and I'm not going to discuss that. That's on Carolyn's maintenance team to figure out. But as you can see in my footage here, Cedar Fair does put a lot of money, patience, time, and resources into preventative maintenance to get their rides ready, checked, and rebuilt for the season. In fact, Wonderland had a lot of their rides refurbished this offseason and then completely reconstructed. It's a really serious high cost maintenance routine for a park to do. And that is something that Wonderland has done, and other parks do that in the chain as well. But here, as you can see, it looks like I'm covering Tundra Twister, but you're going to see a white boom go up. And you're going to see it, I don't get the whole thing because I didn't realize until I got home and checked the footage, but they're going to go check the support columns on Yukon Stryker's drop. So in today's footage, you're about to see Leviathan after this. You've seen them go check and weld Behemoth. Now they're about to go check and weld Yukon Stryker. And then after this, they're going to go check and weld Leviathan support columns. And Leviathan, not to give too much tea, but Leviathan had something that required welding as well before the park opened. And again, the maintenance team and the maintenance checks and preventative maintenance was able to catch all this. So if anyone is questioning Cedar Fair being trustworthy with your safety, I can tell you, if you were to interview my mom about how much of a hypochondriac I am, I am afraid to get in airplanes. I don't like being up on top of the CN Tower. I'm afraid of eating certain foods. I'm afraid of everything and anything that can hurt me. And I ride the rides at Canada's Wonderland very comfortably and I feel and trust Wonderland with my entire safety. And that continues on to Cedar Fair's parks as well. And that speaks volumes for myself because I know you guys don't know that saying doesn't help you guys make a decision based off of that at all. But let's talk about what possibly could have gone wrong. So there's a couple of things and I'm not saying this is what went wrong. But based off of the conversations that I've had today, there are many things that could go wrong. One, it could have just been a small hairline fracture, which occurs on every attraction at every theme park in the world. And it is up to the maintenance and the off season checks to catch those. You'll see a lot of that occur on suspended coasters like Vortex, Iron Dragon and why am I forgetting the name of the one at Kings Island. But that one as well. So those coaster models get a lot of stress fractures all the time and they're caught all the time and re-welded and reworked. Another attraction that gets a lot of stress fractures are B&M's. And I'm not sure about intimates because my park doesn't have intimates. But those attractions get welding very commonly. And there are machines that can detect that. There are people's eyes that can detect that. And there's the teams that work the rides that can detect that as well. So that's what it comes down to in terms of catching these things and fixing them. But what can cause it is weather, high forces, footings, in terms of there's footage I'm actually going to use, and this is how I know that. Yukon Stryker when it was built had a footing that wasn't built correctly or it was just not designed due to the soil type in that location. And again they were able to operate the ride by adding a slight modification to it until they could get to it in the off season and completely fix the footing and redesign it to better suit the soil. And if you have a bobbing, so here's the fix, there's the bracing they added, if you have a bobbing footing it can lead to things. And so essentially one of the options that could be going on or have happened at Fury is if any of the footings shifted, they're bobbing, they're not designed 100% correctly to distribute the forces of the ride. Again I am not the one that knows all this information, I am just broken telephone passing on information that I've heard from my little birdies in the industry. And that could lead to it as well, especially timing of the fracture, the ride isn't new, so if it was just due to forces of the ride then it would have happened sooner is what I was told. And on top of that there is one other factor, they did operate the ride during Winterfest so that could have been a factor as well but that is what the surveying company will be able to tell the park and the chain. So what you're going to want to look for is running the ride in colder temperatures, which I don't think this is going to be the case because Canada's Wonderland rides them, runs them up until zero degrees Celsius and they haven't had any problems like that and I don't know how cold it gets in carowinds when they're running this ride during Winterfest but that's option one, I don't think that's too likely, I think option two is really likely and it's going to come down to the footing. So I'd keep an eye on the footings of this ride and again Cedar Fair from what I know from Carowinds fans only, definitely check them out on Facebook and all social media, they're already analyzing the ride, Cedar Fair has had this company come in really quickly, they're surveying the ride, they're looking for any more damage which will help them figure out what's area of the ride is specifically causing this and then we'll get a better answer there. So I'm going to assume based off of what conversations I've had is this is going to be a footing issue and not very likely that it's a stress issue, the third option is it was a hairline fracture which happens all the time at every theme park in the world and unfortunately it just made it past these checks that you see on the screen right now, the machines and then the pre-seasonal maintenance checks with the welders so there is a chance that that could have been it and then it grew over time which we did kind of see some evidence of where a week ago there was a photo of a not a hairline fracture, a fracture that then turned into a complete decapitation of the support structure there but that's essentially all I can provide there, this video the purpose of it was for me to provide my understanding and context from my home park and flying my drone every day and watching Cedar Fair's practices with maintenance and defend the chain that they do do their due diligence in maintaining their rides and that this was honestly at the end of the day I'm you know I'm gonna vouch for them that this was probably just a one-off you know overlook or mistake it's gonna happen it happens a lot more than you guys think for example you know you're driving your car and your suspension goes or something like that goes even though you do your regular maintenance on your car things just happen to go and it's just a part of the industry it's transport industry has the same issues everything does so again this is just a one-off and because of social media and all that it's blowing up and unfortunately it is gonna look really bad on carolins and you know Cedar Fair is gonna have to come out with a statement that ensures everyone's safety and if they need any help I have the footage for them of them doing their due diligence in maintaining their rides and attractions but I'm a different park so but nonetheless I just wanted to come out kind of like clear the air I know a lot of enthusiasts right now are kind of panicking who's at fault is it Cedar Fair is it carolins is it B&M is it the construction company the the concrete company the cement company that pours the footings there's a lot of different people at play here so I think we just have to sit back wait for more information to come out about what exactly went wrong before we jump to any conclusions we cannot assume it's the maintenance team we cannot assume it's Cedar Fair and we cannot assume it's B&M and I'm gonna tell you actually the least likely option here is it's B&M's fault the manufacturer of the ride overdesigns their rides and this has nothing to do with B&M in my personal opinion and from the conversations I've had today with my sources out in the actual construction industry so this is 100% I'm gonna predict a construction or design flaw with the footing and the footing map of this coaster and the soil or the soil mixed in with that so we'll have to wait and see but thanks for watching today's video hopefully this provided any context I just wanted to come out and say something because I actually do benefit from having some really awesome sources in the construction industry anyways thanks so much have a good one guys bye


Several young St. Lucians expressed their artistic talent in their contributions to the 2022 component of the National Commission on UNESCO's Quaiol Poem Competition after a two-year heritace as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 Quaiol Poetry Writing Competition is organized in celebration of the just-concluded Quaiol Heritage Month in October under the theme Duval Assam. It is also organized as part of St. Lucia's observance of International Mother Language Day in February and World Poetry Day in March of 2022. The winning piece was penned by Arsé Ischmel. It captured the top prize with her poem entitled Anu Dossé Gwawonu. Mrs. Ischmel, who is known office to Creole Poetry Writing, expertly crafts life in sweet St. Lucia as the Gwawon, one of St. Lucia's traditional folk dances. La Vinou se conseillez, un danser traditionnel. Nous, à son stage, épilaté à la, la, cagadé nous, un parouadi. Un plaisir, qu'à vivre la Vinou, qu'à vivre la vie d'ou. Un dirouté, qu'à danser un Gwawonu. Nous toutes sommes, le maire en le maire. C'est entrer, sortir, entrer, sortir, rouler. Pas pitié, mais continuer. Douvant, douvant, douvant, douvant. Rouler, mais pas m'attir. Mais toujours changer. Nous qu'à continuer, douvant, douvant, douvant, douvant ensemble. Ensemble, nous qu'à célébrer commune, pas commune. Ensemble, nous qu'à célébrer, nous qu'à célébrer pep nous ensemble. Même à délai, nous pas, nous peut pas agir bien qu'on y faut. Même nous piler pieds en la lotte, même si nous tunaient gauche, les nous poutunaient droite. S'accepter, c'est cipoter en la lotte. Et puis moins qu'à célébrer. Pardon. Célébrer en loin, et puis moins qu'à célébrer. Et puis ensemble, nous qu'à célébrer. Ensemble, nous qu'à célébrer, nous tout ensemble. Douvant, douvant, douvant, douvant ensemble. Speaking at the official prize-giving ceremony in honor of the winners, held recently at the Allianz-Forcez, the Sainte-Décy in Pointe-Serafine, Secretary-General of the National Commission for UNESCO, Marcia Simforian, thanked participants and sponsors Loselek for their continued support throughout the years. Hopes to instill in St. Lucian's the importance of not just learning the mother language, but also to be able to write it. Ms. Simforian thinks it's a step in the right direction, as UNESCO continues to aid the Ministry of Education in making the teaching of Quayol in schools a reality. It is a concrete manifestation of the beauty of our mother tongue and a demonstration of its versatility beyond the narrow confines of the domestic sphere. The National Commission continues to advocate for a revision of the status of the Quayol language within the broader framework of our language policy. We continue to advocate for its confirmation as an official language and for its increased use within the public domain. Rochelle Victor's poem, who adependant certainly see won her the second place with her piece which traces St. Lucia's history placing the accent on key stages in St. Lucia's development. And Eva Stanislaus was awarded the third place prize with her entry entitled Mokka Tujutan featuring a commentary on a series of typical local sayings all while highlighting the various achievements of St. Lucian's. These poems as well as previous entries are to be featured in a book of original Quayol poetry by local poets which is stated to be launched in March of 2023 as part of activities in celebration of Francophoniman. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.


Dear students, now we are going to discuss reasons for different attitudes on occupational health and safety with reference to organizational behavior. Identify the focus and goal of individual behavior within the organization is a key term of our discussion. Just like in iceberg, it is hidden organizational elements which are as under attitude, perception and norms that make understanding individual behavior so challenging. If the attitude of individual behavior, perception and norms of individual behavior will fit in the organization, then automatically the organization will develop in a proper way and the organizational behavior will work well. Organizational behavior focuses on three things. Number one, it purely focuses on individual behavior, group behavior and organizational behavior. The goal of organizational behavior to explain, predict and influence behavior is the common things which we should try to understand. In organizational behavior, we talk about individual behavior, group behavior and organizational behavior. And these three things have to achieve the main focus organizational goal. Explain the role of attitude play in job performance. We know that the impact of attitude comes on behavior, whatever you will think, whatever you will feel, definitely that will be behaved through your psychomotors. Behavior is the application of your attitude. So, the importance of cognitive components is involved in this, the connection of cognition is with the mind and the mind itself is involved in the phase of perception. When we perceive things, the mind becomes a part of it, when we behave them, it becomes a part of behavior through psychomotor. Job satisfaction refers to individual attitude towards job. So, basically, in a precise way, I am telling you in the students that how these different things give importance to the organization regarding health and safety. MBUTI is basically a focus point in which we develop 100 questions and use the employee's attitude in the form of questionnaire. And the basic purpose of this is so that the employee's attitude of the organization can be learned that the manager has the right to change the attitude of the employee. Apart from this, there is a 5-model in which we talk about personality traits. There is agreeableness, consciousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. When these 5 things are applied to an organization regarding the employees, we also call it 5-model theory. Describe perception and factors that influence. There are many things in the organization that influence perception. The most important is the role of job management and manager. If these people develop a line goal of an employee, or follow the goal of the employee, then there is compatibility, so automatically, there will be no incompatibility in the organization. Attribution theory depends on three factors. Distinctiveness in whether and in the way you will display different behavior in different situations. In different situations, how the employee behaves differently is known to us. Now I want to give an example of this. In first-level management, the conceptual skill is less, the human skill is more than that, and the technical skill is more than that. When the employee is the part of the top management by moving, then the conceptual skill is more than that, the human skill is less and the technical skill is less. This means that the scale of vice versa increases or decreases with the passage of time due to change in your designation. In this, I would like to tell you further in the last few years. Operant Conditioning and Social Learning Theory is basically an important theory in organizational behavior. Operant Condition argues that behavior is a function of its consequences. A person first sees the consequences of his decision, then he behaves. If you see the consequences and behave well, then this will not be your good choice and good decision. Social Learning Theory says that in the way you learn by observing what happens to other people and by directly experiencing something. In Social Learning Theory, we see interaction with the rest of the organization, and we see overall how the individual behaves with the rest of the people, so that we know that all the groups we have formed in the organization are on the same page. In achieving the goal of the organization, our individual is putting a good effort.


Welcome to IGC 2022! Vlad Trocheco! It's the first class conference. He runs up to the stage. I think you can tell it's going to be a good one. One of the best events I've ever been to. I would highly recommend. Everybody's in here motivated to learn. I don't see you next year. I want to see any excuses. That's all I got.  You got the wrong one. I'm taking your king and I'll leave him broken. If I am in second, it's after no one. Just give me a second to let him... This really, really had to be a part of this. This conference is about the tools that you need to be successful. I'm hoping for actionable information and I've got it. If you're not at IGC, you're just behind. Whatever it takes, make it work.


Now in this question we have to again find a product of two factors so two factors are given this is factor number one and this is factor number two and we have to find out the product one very obvious way is you just multiply the entire term first with the point nine next term and then secondly with this term isn't it so and open the brackets that's what we have learned but then that will be too much you know or lengthy process so what will you do we will now take up the help of algebraic identities again as I keep saying mathematics is all about observation so if you observe again here in this problem what you see is this part and this part are related how if this is a then this is a square isn't it so that's the observation other observation is this part and this part are again related if this is b then here this is b square right and this part if you look closely is nothing but a times b right that's the observation and the moment I know this so this particular and you know given expression you know appears to be like like a plus b and then a square minus a b plus b square isn't it right where a represents what 0.9 x and b represents 0.7 y so if you see the entire expression can be reduced like this yes so what can we say about this then it is nothing but if a plus b a square minus a b plus b square is given you know from the knowledge of algebraic identities it is nothing but a cube plus b cube isn't it so hence let's use that and then so what is a here a clearly is point nine x so hence this particular expression will be reduced to 0.9 x cubed plus 0.7 y cubed isn't now which is nothing but if you see point nine cube is 0.7 to 9 x cubed and it is 0.343 y cubed why because always remember nine cube is 729 and seven cube is 343 so these numbers it's advisable to remember these values because you will be encountering these terms quite often in mathematics okay so this is how we find the product so what did we do we first of all observed what did we observe observed that there is a pattern there is a you know known you know very familiar term terms and hence we used algebraic identities to solve the problem instead of multiplying by opening the brackets we instead used algebraic identity and solved it very quickly


Hello everybody hooded Cobra commander 788 here and this is another small contribution to Cobra convergence 3 I thought why not open a vintage Cobra vehicle box While I was at Joe con, I just picked up a few random boxed vehicles They were very inexpensive. It was a great way to get them and it looked like some of them Were still sealed sealed boxes So this is one of them now. This looks like it's been resealed. It's been taped on both ends But I thought it would be fun to open this open a vintage Cobra vehicle box And I don't know if the toy inside the box has been assembled or not If it hasn't then we will assemble it here on camera. We've done that a few times. It's been fun I have my tools here that I might need if I'm gonna put this vehicle together If it's already assembled, we'll just take a quick look at it and that'll be pretty cool, too This is the Cobra adder from 1988 This would be the oldest GI Joe vehicle that we've unboxed not the oldest that we've assembled. I assembled the 1988 AGP In a previous video. So this is from the same year 1988 This is the Canadian release and I believe this is the first Canadian box. I've ever gotten It as you can probably see there. It's in both English and French As I've mentioned before GI Joe vehicles released in the US and in Canada are the same but on GI Joe vehicles the Canada releases have Instead of US flags, they have Canadian flags and instead of United States stickers They have stickers that say Canada for Cobra vehicles though since they don't have country-specific stickers They should be the same as far as I know they should be identical Inside the box to what we got in the US. So I am going to open this first. Let me show you the box Two flag points and their flag points were different from what we had in the US And I have it's sealed with clear tape on both sides And I'm pretty sure that's not how it was done at the factory. So I believe this is a resealed box This is going to be a surprise. I'm going to open it up. I don't know if this thing has already been assembled I don't know if it's still in the factory sealed bags. It Doesn't rattle around too much. So there's not a lot of loose parts in there So there is some hope at least that this thing has not been assembled before so I'm going to slice the tape on one side and Open this up and See what we've got There it is Opening this end here and ooh it does appear to oh, no, no, it's not factory sealed It's in a ziplock by a bag Okay, so it it has been assembled and it has the stickers on here. So not exactly an assembly video So I'm going to first make sure I didn't leave anything in the box. So there's the box the parts are Are loose in the bag though so I'm gonna go ahead and put this thing together and just quickly show you the 1988 cobra adder even though this was Re-sealed I I cannot complain at all and I'm not in the slightest disappointed Just because the prices that I paid for these box vehicles. They were Cheaper than I would have paid for just The vehicle itself without the box. So I can't complain at all really it's One of the great things about going to Joe con Is that you can pick up some things for Far far less than you would pay on eBay. All right, I was just looking at it to figure out how to assemble it and it looks like it's pretty easy This bar here looks like it goes into this slot And then we have a bar here at the Back that these C clips seem to clamp on too. So let's see if I can Carefully do that so it oh yeah, that's easy. Yes, perfect The adder is an extremely simple vehicle. It's basically this car with a little raising Missile launcher and two missiles and that's it single Single-person cockpit. I'll go ahead and put these missiles on everything Already assembled so I'm just kind of attaching the missiles I Like to say thank you again to everyone who came up to me And said hi to me at Joe con That was a thrill it was Far more than expected and I want you guys to know that I care about you and I listen to you and now sometimes I get Negative comments on my videos and sometimes people get angry and they just unsubscribe and they're done with me, right? Well, that can't bother me too much because I have you And I have the fine people that came up to me And said that they enjoy what I do And got pictures with me and that is not something that I'm used to Doing these videos is kind of a solitary effort, right? I'm here in front of the camera Kind of doing this all by myself, but I put it out there for People to see and I just you know hope that Uh, some people like it So I don't normally get to see people who are actually watching the videos, but when I got to see you guys You were fantastic. Um, you were So good to me and I'm I'm so grateful. I will never forget that experience It was special. So thank you for making the last Joe con A very special event for me on this adder. Um, I noticed a reuse of stickers on the The um, oh, you probably can't see that on the Control panel inside the cockpit See if I can move things out of the way. You still can't see it very well But I believe that's the sticker that was used on the 1982 howl heavy artillery laser With the airplane and the crosshairs. It was either that or the flak I'll have to check but that is definitely a sticker that's been used on another vehicle before I don't want to get too much into what I think of the cobra adder This is not a review. Uh, this is just a kind of a quick look at it I wanted to take it out of the box So I can show you the canadian box and show you the vehicle the vehicle does appear to be complete Which is expected the dealer that I got this from I've bought a lot of things from uh at joe con And they are always complete and unbroken and This looks about mint about as mint as you can get Uh, so yeah, I'm happy to have this in my collection now It's not one that I had gone after before Just because it's a very simple vehicle and um, I just didn't uh, it hasn't been high on the priority list But uh, now I have it, uh, thanks to uh, joe con and now you get to see it So that's all for now. I hope you enjoy the cobra convergence videos that are coming up Make sure you check out all of the channels in the list So you don't miss any And I will have a cobra convergence review for you every week And I'll try to do, um, little things like this in the middle of the week Just so you'll have some extra cobra content this month Thank you everyone for watching and thank you for making this project so special And making this experience special for me Thank you to everyone and I'll see you in a few days with a full cobra toy review And until then remember only cobra is cobra


Hello everyone, this is Evildea, your God, and today I want to talk to you about two things. And what is the time, I always wanted to talk about only two things at the same time, it's strange, but I guess it's... So, the first thing, after two or three days, it depends on when I'm going to make this film, and it depends on your time in the world, my wife is going to work for the rest of the family, and she will stay there for two months. So, that means that during two months I'll be here in Sydney alone with the cat, so I'm really not alone, because he's here, but he's not a human, so really I can't calculate him in my loneliness, I don't know how to say it, he's an ageless person, he's a human. Really, my cat likes to sit on the sofa and watch the TV, and when he sees ads, which have cats, his ears go like this. So, that's not the goal of this video blog. So, after a few days, she's in the kitchen, there, she's in the kitchen for two months, and I'm here alone, and I'm free to watch, really, I can do anything, I have the whole apartment just for me, but what do I do? Really, I've never thought about it, because I'm just happy that I'm alone, well, of course, I really love my wife, but during a few years, I've never had time just for myself, maybe I'll just sit here in the middle of the apartment and watch the walls, and think, hmm, it's a good thing, but give me suggestions for what I can do, maybe I'll study other languages, maybe I'll study Esperanto more, maybe I'll study anything, maybe I won't study, but I'll party, maybe I'll watch the video, maybe I'll chat with the cat without chatting for two months, but really, I can't do that for more than five seconds, because I'm a little shy, but what do I do? Because I have two months just for myself in this apartment, and I don't know what I can do, I've never been that free, but maybe I'm not free, maybe she'll hide her friends around my house, maybe they're here, maybe they're watching me, so I have to do everything in Esperanto, because she doesn't understand it, but maybe she'll have a friend, maybe she'll hide her friends around to find what I want to do, no, no, I don't think, maybe I don't think, no, no, I'm a little shy now, because I have a free time during two months, of course, I really love my wife, she's the head of my heart, but at the same time, my heart really likes to do it, really, it likes to do it, and to see the videos, and to try to go to the place, and no, I don't know, I really don't know where to go with that conversation, but I'll keep it. I think the goal of this video blog is simply to ask the viewers what I'll do, really I don't have ideas about what I want to do, so, that's all related to that, I suppose, and now when I started this video blog, I said that there were two things, but now I forgot the two things, and I know that it's a serious matter, but not that serious about the fact that I'm a free person, but what is it really, I have to think about it, wait a moment, so, I'll come back, but I forgot everything about what the two things were, or the goal of this video blog, so I'll just talk about it, and say that it was the fact that I haven't reached 1,000 subscribers yet, you have to give the help, because I want to reach it, before two languages reach 100,000 subscribers, because if I can do that, I'll die, and I'll eat a sack, and I'll eat a sack, because I won't eat a sack, and yes, I'll eat a sack of capsicum, and if you want to see that, you have to help me, you have to share my channel more, so, if you like this video, like it, share it, subscribe to my channel, if you haven't subscribed yet, write something that you don't like at all, don't do that at all, I just want to see if you follow all of my lists, so, yes, subscribe to my channel, and I'll see you in the next video, and if you're not there, I'll find you, and I'll invite you to my house, because I'm alone at home, and I'll be able to do something else.


everyone thank you for coming to our annual mayoral Veterans Day Breakfast I have the pleasure of introducing our Commissioner Commissioner James Hinden can you please everyone give him a hand good morning welcome to the 2022 New York City Veterans Day Breakfast as is mentioned my name is James Hinden I service Commissioner of the New York City Department of Veterans Services please rise for the presentation of colors by the United States Coast Guard color guard followed by the playing of the national anthem which will be played by the Coast Guard band advance the colors at this time please remain standing chaplain of the Coast Guard captain Daniel mode will deliver our opening prayer please join me in prayer eternal father we ask for your blessing on this Veterans Day Mayor's Breakfast and for all those who are here today supporting our veterans and active duty members may we honor those who have faithfully served our country in the military and recognize that the freedoms that we have today rest in part on their shoulders we pray that our veterans continue to lead and feel the same purpose teamwork and service to cause a higher than themselves that they felt while wearing the uniform as our country turns to honor its veterans today may we remember the sacrifices born not only by the service members but also by their families communities and houses of worship schools and the many organizations that support our military we also recognize that the military and the civic partnerships that are doing such tough work of supporting our veterans whose transition to civilian life at times has been challenging including those who suffer from PTSD and physical disabilities may we all give thanks and never forget those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country may their sacrifices be a reminder to future generations of hard-won freedoms that our country cherishes in which our military continues to defend may our nation soldiers sailors airmen marines Coast Guardsmen and guardians now hold that special title of veteran feel the same gratitude of all Americans on this veterans day and every day we ask this in your holy abiding name amen you may be seated now where were we happy veterans day happy veterans day everybody we'd like to give honors and salutation to our distinguished guests starting with our gold star families that is those here who have lost a loved one specifically a family member in combat service please let's give these family members a round of applause for our gold stars we would like to recognize our elected officials Darcelle Clark Bronx District Attorney Joanne Ariola New York City Council member and member of our Veterans Committee Vicki Paladino New York City Council member also Veterans Committee member Jennifer Raj Kumar New York State Assembly member Gail Brewer New York City Council member Sylvanna Brooks Powers New York City Council member Cordell Cleary New York State Senator Kevin Parker New York State Senator Louisville better New York State Senator Al Taylor New York State Senator and last but not least US representative retired Korean War veteran Purpleheart awardee and longtime chair of the House Ways and Means Committee the honorable Charlie Rangel next to key military leaders who are here from the Coast Guard our featured service branch I want to recognize in her absence Admiral Linda Fagan commandant of the United States Coast Guard her deputy who is here and will provide remarks Admiral Steven Pullen vice commandant of the Coast Guard Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Heath Jones we're Admiral John Marger common commander of the first Coast Guard District we're Admiral William Kelly Superintendent US Coast Guard Academy Command Master Chief Maria D'Angelo senior enlisted leader US Coast Guard Academy Captain Zeta Merchant commander Coast Guard sector New York and Command Master Chief Rob Reimer senior enlisted leader Coast Guard sector New York let's give around for our Coast Guard leaders who are here and acknowledging our friends from the Army Colonel Brian Jacobs Garrison Commander Fort Hamilton Command Sergeant Major Eva Commons Garrison Command Sergeant Major Fort Hamilton's cap for them as well I'd like to also acknowledge leaders of both local and visiting military commands anyone we did not mention next like to recognize our New York City Veterans Advisory Board and all of its members who are here acknowledging the board's leadership Wendy McClinton board chairman president and CEO black veterans of social justice Mercedes Elias board secretary co-CEO AmeriVent securities want to call out some of our veterans supporters who with us as well forgive me if I don't name everyone John Escalante Marine for life Todd do so Bob Woodruff Foundation Jeremy Butler Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Tina Atharall psych armor Sharon Sweeting Lindsay American Legion post 372 Paul Shottenham or American Legion Department of New York Marissa Australia Worldwide Veterans and Family Services and Mecca Nelson CEO Humble Haitian Warrior let's give them around a thank you to our community board members from across the city that are here you are the eyes and ears of New York we appreciate your being with us also want to acknowledge our friends at the United War Veterans Council organizers of today's Veterans Day Parade what will follow this breakfast the New York City Veterans Day Parade is the largest parade in the nation I want to call out Mark Otto executive director and Nick Angi on chairman of the board and our parades grand marshal retired master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard a true inspiration to us all Vincent W Patton the third want to acknowledge the food and the excellent meal that has been prepared by creative catering and last but not least the team at DVS and the mayor's office of special projects and community events all parties worked hard behind the scenes to put this together today and so all who are here from my speed and from DVS please raise your hand clap for these people please from DVS I want to give a special shout out to Andre Chirigo our outreach lead and executive producer for today's engagement and Cassandra Alvarez DVS is chief of staff my other everything this place looks beautiful wait let's clap for Andre Cass come on now this place looks beautiful doesn't it we want to thank iron 23 our hosts for today acknowledging Dan Colba iron 23's over owner the place looks good but more importantly you look good so no matter where we are we always do the roll call we're gonna start with the Coast Guard our featured branch then we're going from young to old so to my friends in the Coast Guard formerly known as a revenue cutter service birthday August 4th 1790 make some noise I see you I see you to the young bucks here the babies of the babies birthday December 20 2019 my children older than these folks Space Force anyone from the Space Force here one of these years they gonna get they gonna catch up we can get some veterans in Space Force is coming all right it's gonna say it we're like knowledge of guardians right next youngest young bucks last year's featured branch the Air Force September 18th 1947 birthday anybody from the Air Force here we got an Air Force folks all right all right with the birthday of March 24th 1794 the Navy where our sale is at Navy where you're at come on down the chain going to my my branch June 3rd 1784 Army was on okay all right all right all right they trying to show you Coast Guard folks up they try they try and then the old G's in the room who just celebrated a birthday last night of 270 247 years yesterday Marines where our devil dogs okay I see you I see you we're not done screaming y'all I want to do some other things here too just break it down by component where my guards man at anyone who's in the guard right now serving in the guard just make some noise I want to make sure we see you God all right and then for me I'm a reservist any of my fellow reservists here reservists here if you're currently reservists put your hand up holler yeah active duty where our active duty servicemen is at come on active duty you know it and then for all of you who don't wear the uniform anymore the breakfast is really named after our veterans where our veterans at if you didn't yell yet you can yell at some point if you're a family member of someone who served any of our family members of service members please holler out shout something your family members okay and then last but not least our supporters you're not family by blood but we claim you any supporters in this room let us hear you right now make some noise now that we're ready to go you know everybody they got this screaming in let's talk for a little bit there's a man here today named Vincent James Wesley he was born in Manhattan went away at Vincent I saw him earlier right there he's right there you put that hand that's Vincent right there he was yeah yeah he was born in Manhattan a few blocks from here on February 13th 1922 you heard that 1922 when Vincent was 19 he was drafted in the army that was 1942 he was drafted assigned to an all-black unit the 273rd quartermaster battalion went on to serve and elements commanded by General George Patton during the North Africa campaign World War 2 chase and Rommel from Morocco to Algeria to Tunisia Vincent went to Burma-haven Germany for two years after that then left the army came back to Harlem spent a career as a merchant Marine let's give Vincent a hand everybody yeah there's a woman here today named Wendy Cherise McClinton Wendy served 10 years in the Army Desert Storm era and listed about five years after high school in 1985 after serving a decorated military career got out 94 Wendy found herself in her hometown New York City couch surfing going from place to place from two years I'm talking about couches cars airports all of it did this while bringing her three children under the age of five her boys with her she was homeless at a time when she and her boys were at the Bronx EAU emergency assistance unit someone handed Wendy a flyer it said do you need help do you need services are you a veteran are you homeless she said yes to all these things flyer led her to the headquarters of black veterans of social justice 686 4th and Street in Brooklyn back then founder of the organization Joe Masheriki was there but he was busy and the phone was ringing and Wendy picked the phone up she said black veterans social justice Wendy speaking how may I help you Job sees her he says you got a job here as a receptionist welcome to VVSJ they gave her all the services she needed and everything including a place to live that was 35 years ago Wendy hasn't looked back ever since she now serves in the role that mr. Job once had president and CEO of black veterans of social justice let's give Wendy a round of applause y'all see you I see you and now we got to talk about and now we got to talk about Carrie Ann Dixon Carrie Ann where you at all right when Carrie Ann was in high school sophomore year she was given an assignment to write about the Navy I know we got some some sailors here and y'all expecting to hear the story go a certain direction but I'm telling you didn't not gonna go this way Carrie Ann started doing her homework thought she was gonna join the Navy but she quickly fell in love with the Coast Guard she wound up doing 14 years in the Coast Guard still serves in the Coast Guard as a government civilian and two things that gotta stay when we talk about her one is it Carrie does the clock Kent Superman thing and that she's with the Coast Guard as a government civilian by day by night she's an EMT out in Staten Island in Richmond County at the Richmond University Medical Center other thing I was gonna tell you Carrie was almost gonna leave all of this husband left her with two children in 1999 and she was thinking about leaving the Coast Guard while she was stationed in Kodiak Alaska a senior chief who Carrie Ann trusted convinced her to stay in the service it was a female Yeoman wasn't even her chain of command because of that conversation Carrie Ann Dixon or petty officer first class US Coast Guard retired Carrie Ann Dixon continued and continues to have a decorated decorated career let's clap for her please last but not least is Emily your group Emily raise your hand where you at Emily Emily met a dude at a friendsgiving event just after she graduated from high school his name was Vishal it was November 2010 instead of asking for the digits he said I'm gonna I'm going to bootcamp may I write you you did that other level of the game things took off from there they were on different courses though when they first met Emily was about to go to Hunter College Va Vishal was about to go to the school of hard knocks aka the United States Marine Corps before this brother knew anything about Emily as a girlfriend or about wedding rings he knew about the Eagle Globe and anchor she went on to do an internship for the city working at 311 Vishal deployed to Dellerham Afghanistan circling with echo battery second battalion second Marine Division during operation and during freedom he proposed when we he returned from theater in 2012 what was originally a plan where Vishal would stay on active duty and Emily would join him evolved into them saying let's get in the civilian life together corp or Vishal gun Raj left the Marines in 2015 without a plan but Emily is a planner helped him navigate the VA's program so he took advantage of his GI bill decompressed after the appointment and earned a degree from York College then she made sure that he knew how to navigate the city's employment system he's working with the sanitation department today been there five years let's give Emily around and Vishal please I can't stand here and honor people in the room without calling out veteran community with members who are with us in spirit those who have died and passed on and so I want to take a moment to ask everyone at the count of three to say the name of veteran or veteran family member who's no longer here doesn't matter how they passed or how they're tied to you we just want to say their names right now so they can be with us so on three y'all one two three we welcome those people here this morning to I said my grandfather's name is James William Hinden he was an officer in the army I mentioned all these people and tell all these stories for two reasons one I have so much respect for what it took for each of you to be where you are right now what you went through and your identity as a veteran as a family member before you put the uniform on during your service and everything afterwards to all of these people we talked about all of these spirits and both if you saw them walking down the street right now plain clothes no uniform on you wouldn't be able to tell that they are veterans this bond what defines us it is deeper than anything that can be seen it is deeper than race color national origin sex religion family status disability our souls are what bring us together as veterans countries 246 years four months of 77 days old and it's always been that way it's transcended just like Vincent Wendy Carrie Anne and Emily and Vishal we all came on board to help everybody every veteran community member in this room promotes and espouses life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and for this reason we thank you as we observe this veteran's day please give yourselves a round of applause other thing I want to say before we move on I wish I could tell you we were done that you could let your head out and relax but I can't you see service doesn't end when you take the uniform off we still need you in your own way shape or form to help there are thousand things I could ask right now but the one thing I asked the one thing is to help us mentor the new soldiers sailors guardians airmen Marines and coast guardsmen who are coming home we estimate that more than 3,000 service members leave the rich military and come here to New York City each year they're not 3,000 people in our agency and so we need you to help us as we put hands on these veterans and their loved ones as they ponder what is next we're still building the plan while flying it all this is happening in real time but if you have the time to deliver your wisdom then we ask you to please help I don't even need to illuminate why this is important we need each other and we need to grip hands with that next generation and so to you if you want to help please grab your cell phone right now and visit nyc.gov slash vet mentor fill out an interest form it's nyc.gov slash vet mentor fill out an interest form take less than 60 seconds we didn't just come together to celebrate each other enjoy the food we came here to work we came here to save lives and so to conclude say the things I always say three things one take advantage of all the benefits and opportunities surrounding you you have earned it the Department of Veteran Services we can be reached to help you at<PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER> connect at veterans.nyc.gov email is connect at veterans.nyc.gov our social media handle is at NYC veterans it is at NYC veterans and our website is NYC.gov slash vets it is NYC.gov slash vets please utilize us or our federal and state partners too as soon as you learn about a benefit or program or contact or opportunity tell somebody put the gas mask on yourself then put it on others we fail today if everything that said in this room stays here you're here in this place at this time for a reason each of the stories we pointed out involved a common theme of people facing adversity and helping one another so please tell somebody what you learn and in three say this every time and never get told thank you thank you thank you for your service there's so much gratitude that all 8.5 million New Yorkers have to you and your families for what you have done there is no New York City without our veterans no New York State no country no world that is enough to serve infinity times what we currently give you we can't repay this debt and so to end with that with two quotes this is Winston Churchill never was so much old to so many by so few say it again it's never was so much old to so many by so few and then the next quote this is loud zoo being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage being loved deeply by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage God bless you God bless the city of New York and God bless America thank you everyone at this time I'm humbled and honored to introduce our military speaker from our featured branch Admiral Stephen D Poland 33rd vice commandant of the United States Coast Guard well good morning everybody it's a true pleasure to be here thank you to Mayor Adams commissioner thank you fellow flag officers military service members and distinguished guests our Gold Star families our veterans and everybody who supports our military services it is a just a tremendous honor for me to be here to represent our joint force especially our United States Coast Guard thank you really for the opportunity to share this Veterans Day with you you may not know it but New York City is where the Coast Guard was born our founding father was Alexander Hamilton who rest in Trinity Church and Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist Paper number 12 a few arm vessels judiciously positioned at the entrance to our ports might at some small expense be made useful sentinels of the law that was the theory of the United States Coast Guard and so the Coast Guard was born and since 1790 your United States Coast Guard has been standing the watch here in New York City to protect America's sovereignty our security our maritime safety and protect the vital waterways the strategically by the waterways of New York City New York City is a Coast Guard City and that is represented today it was also here in New York City that the very first Armistice Day Parade was held in 1919 on the anniversary of the end of the First World War the event honored those who served those who fought and died in service to our country after another world war in 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower called upon the citizens of our great nation to observe November 11th as Veterans Day he said which you take a day to remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas in the air and on foreign shores to preserve our heritage of freedom and let us re-consecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain Veterans Day is an opportunity to demonstrate our gratitude to those brave and selfless people who answered the call to serve in defense and protection of others our veterans past and future ensure that Americans enjoy security and prosperity grounded in freedom and the rule of law and we must always honor our military families those who allow us to do what we in service feel called to do our military is committed to peace and stability our veterans have served to keep the peace we have fought to ensure freedom and our democratic values but we live in a dynamic world a world that changes too many malign influences and too many instances of armed aggression and so our commitment to our veterans must be enduring as our commitment to freedom and democratic values must be enduring I am so grateful for the many veteran service organizations that are here and those who have made this possible those who have served in uniform groups such as the United War Veterans Council they inspire the public to embrace veterans and their families and care and recognize us and those who have served the parade later this morning is a testament to that I also appreciate the many state and local governments who have dedicated resources to veterans in their communities and again thanks to the leadership of Mayor Adams and Commissioner Hinden the New York City Department of Veterans Affairs supports veterans and their families and the wide ranges of services that you offer are a demonstration of your commitment and I can tell you they make a difference each and every day I would also like to highlight the number of veterans who still serve others in civilian life as police officers firefighters healthcare workers and educators I know that many veterans here in New York City serve in those roles and they serve among us every day contributing to the well-being of others even after concluding their military service I know that we in the Coast Guard here in New York City have so many veterans who have served and those who are firefighters in their civilian capacity police officers but yet choose to continue to serve in our Coast Guard Reserve thank you once again for the opportunity to speak with you this morning I look forward to the day's events and on behalf of all those serving in the Coast Guard and the Joint Force I thank you for honoring our veterans and thank you for making your United States Coast Guard the featured service in this year's Veterans Day Parade I am so thrilled that you chose to honor the Reverend Dr. Vince Patton our eighth Master of the Coast Guard as a Grand Marshal Matthew Patton it's great to see you thank you and thank you all God bless you and Semper Paratus let's give another round of applause for Admiral Pullin everybody I want to also acknowledge a few other people who were here Chief of Staff to the mayor and Marine Corps veteran Frank Carone everyone yep also Commissioner for the New York for New York City emergency management also a Marine Zach Isko also want to recognize we just had new entry as far as assembly member Michael Novikov as we await the next set of remarks just want to make these public service announcements again as far as how to get in touch with us and our federal and our state partners once again the New York City Department of Veterans Services can be reached at<PHONE_NUMBER> I say again it's<PHONE_NUMBER> our email address is connectatveterans.nyc.gov it is connectatveterans.nyc.gov the website is nyc.gov slash vets once again it is nyc.gov slash vets and our social media handle is at NYC veterans social media handle for the New York City Department of Veterans Services at NYC veterans for our friends at the state level the New York State Division of Veterans Services can be reached at 888 vets nyc or<PHONE_NUMBER> once again<PHONE_NUMBER> email address for the New York State Division of Veterans Services is dvsinfo at veterans.ny.gov it's dvsinfo at veterans.ny.gov the website for the New York State Division of Veterans Services is veterans.ny.gov once again it is veterans.ny.gov and then for our federal friends the phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> or<PHONE_NUMBER> 800 myva411 the website for the US Department of Veterans Affairs is va.gov once again it's va.gov and please tell folks about the things you learned today tell them about what you learned for us as the New York City Department of Veterans Services we're six years old the oldest eight the youngest agency in the city and the smallest and our charter mandated areas are health care housing benefits culture education and employment so once again our areas are health care housing benefits culture education and employment if you have any needs for us feel free to reach out we do three major things in our agency we connect veterans community members to opportunities as far as making referrals we also are the first to responders when someone reaches out to the city of New York and says that they are a veteran and then the next thing that we do is we roll up our sleeves and do direct services and areas that involve burials for our veterans who pass away and need an honorable funeral as far as those earned funeral benefits also helping veterans process their service connected disability claims so for our veterans who have service connected disabilities or things done to your mind and body where you need compensation from the VA we help with that we also help with our housing insecure veterans so veterans who are dealing with housing issues between couch surfing between living in the shelter system or being at risk of being housing insecure and we provide mental health and care coordination in general as far as if a veteran reaches out and they express certain needs we say okay how can we find a way to connect the dots in these places we like to work hand in hand with many of our partners using our connection profile it is nyc.gov slash vet connect nyc.gov slash vet connect and in addition to working with our service providers to help in these different areas something that we are stood up now recently in the agency is ability assist our veterans who have needs that involve affordable housing so any veterans who have issues that involve affordable housing ranging from dealing with rent insecurity or as far as being behind on rent behind on utilities all the way to I'm looking at navigating the city's affordable housing platforms all the way up to I'm interested in using the very home loan to buy a home to purchase something so these are different ways that we're able to serve our veterans as well and then on the effort I mentioned where we ask you to go to nyc.gov slash vet mentor visit nyc.gov slash vet mentor what we're doing is pairing these service members who are coming home with mentors in the community this was a part of a more than two year back and forth with the Department of Defense where now we receive the data the DD 214 is electronic separation info for all new service members who are coming to the city of New York and so please any way that you are able to link in link up with us or partner we very much appreciate when we look at the issues that we're working with within our veteran community the key thing for us is self identification it's why it's so important for us to mentor those veterans who are coming home when we look at the VA's data approximately 33.1% of all veterans who are eligible to use their benefits use those benefits at the national level it's 33.1% when we look at it at the state level it is 29.7% of all in the state who are eligible utilize their benefits when we look at it at the city level that number goes down to 24.6% I always tell our service members and supporters whenever you see me tell yourself there at least two to three people who are ghosts whom you don't see it is so critical for us to work with these veterans so that we may close what is known as the deadly gap researchers from the VA and several academic institutions have identified that that first 12 months after leaving active duty service is when our veterans are most vulnerable to issues that involve mental health and that involve wellness and so it's critical to us to work to put hands on our veterans at that time there's a greater than two times likelihood that a veteran will commit suicide compared to active duty service community within that year there's an almost two times greater likelihood that they will commit suicide within the period of that year compared to the veteran community and so we're trying to do everything we can to get on top of these things and triage these issues by any means necessary for us and so that's another reason why we ask you to visit nyc.gov slash that mentor please fill out the interest form and something else that we're doing in New York City we believe one of the first municipalities in the country to do it is we're establishing a transition assistance program for service members here in the city so if you have recently left active service we're inviting you and a plus one to a two-day seminar where we work with you and make sure that you're aware of all benefits available to you in the areas of health care in the areas of housing of benefits of culture of education of employment we are working avidly with our friends at the Department of Labor with the DOL vets platform to make sure that we can do something that mirrors and echoes the tap program that's provided to our service members when they're on the active duty side of the legend it is critical to us for as many of our brothers and sisters as possible to know about all benefits available to them and to not only take advantage of those benefits but to tell others about this because we've realized so much of this is word of mouth another piece of the puzzle for us is reaching out to our influences we've been intentional about acknowledging all the family members of our veterans just like the story I mentioned about Emily and her husband often times it may not be the veteran that is that pressure point to make an influence in the veterans life it may be the veterans family member it may be a father it may be a mother it may be a sister a brother it may be a spouse a significant other when we look at our veteran community the archetype of our transitioning service members is someone who graduated from high school who after a year or two out in the world enlisted in the military who served for somewhere between four to eight years on the active duty side and then has come home they come home and they've likely already identified the person who they will ultimately marry and start a family with and so there's so many different needs there to triage between what is available through that veterans identity and what we look at through the veterans loved one trying to be right for them to be right for their spouse to be right for their children and others it's a tribe and we are charges and agency to help all who are in the tribe unlike our friends at the federal level and veteran in New York City by definition is anyone who has served at least a day in the military in other words we will afford you what benefits we can with our identity as a city so long as you have taken the oath of enlistment and served at least one day in the military being as progressive as we can so that we can be there for our veterans and I want to thank our friends in the city council who made that possible where that legislation became law effective this past May as far as how we look at the community we also are mindful of our active duty service members when it comes to our friends in the Coast Guard because we are a Coast Guard city and looking at our friends in the Army the Navy the Air Force the Marines the other branches have a footprint here we work hard to assist not only the veterans but also those service members because our charge is if you've taken the oath and you're within these five boroughs we are to work with you one thing I'll say also the hardest part of this job is it almost every week I get a call from a spouse or for a child or grandchild who reaches out and says my grandfather my grandmother's experiences some issues health wise and we need help and this is someone whom we wish had reached out to us decades ago whom we could have assisted through their veteran identity success to me is living in an environment where we are working with our veterans well in advance of them having issues where they need to come to us but where they do it in a proactive way and not a reactive way we often see situations where a veteran says I don't deserve those benefits that's not for me I don't want to take from someone else a lot of this work is to convince our veterans that that is not the way to think that you by being one of the 6.4 percent of all Americans who serve or who have served 5.7 percent veteran 0.7 percent currently serving between active duty guard and reserve by being in this community you have earned certain benefits we want to make sure you take advantage of them so whenever you speak with a veteran if you encounter that issue just let them know hey you have earned this I can tell you from experience at some point that veteran in his or her life will wind up coming to us if not them then their family and we want to do everything we can to educate people in advance of having these things a personal story for me my grandfather is also a career war veteran I mentioned his name this is my name James William Hinden he served in that time period he was an army chaplain he passed away we didn't know about his benefits of what was available to him and we weren't the richest people in the world I remember taking what money I had from what I'd saved when I was going to military school and helping to contribute towards his home going services it shouldn't be that way we want to make sure that more of our veterans know about all things that are available to them and that the families know and so to all who are here because I don't have to count but we made it a point to try to invite many of our community members here today there's several vets here there's several other community leaders who are here we want you to ask our service members the question or anyone who encounters you for help ask them the question have you served is anyone in your family served for us to identify the other three quarters of our people who are invisible we need to know that question because many of our veterans do not self-identify so among the things I actually take with you one is nyc.gov slash vet mentor and two is ask folks the question reach out to us if you need anything or have anyone who needs anything and now ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure to introduce the 110th mayor of the city of new york new york police department captain retired new york state senator emeritus and former chair of the senate veterans homeland security and military affairs committee and brooklyn borough president emeritus mayor of the city of new york ladies and gentlemen the honorable eric leeway adams thank you thank you good morning this is probably one of the most significant days uh in our city if not our country where we turn turn a conversation into an actual declaration it's one thing to say we support our military our men and women who are doing the uniform as we sit under the tree of freedom that they watered with their blood it can't be just something we articulated something that we believe as I drove over here this morning I reflected on the day during the 60s when I was a little boy and we got the call that my uncle my mother's brother was killed in vietnam and that day became so real for me that the conversation of the wall left the television station and entered into our living room and I rededicated my life to how important it is to be part of this great country and it broke my heart when I read a survey that stated that 52 percent of americans said they would not defend this country if it was attacked by foreign enemy but let me tell you something I'm one of the 48 percenters I'll protect this country throughout my entire life and when I wake up in the morning I wake up every morning and say the same thing I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and so even when bombs burst in air and that red glare give proof through the night that our flag is still there those bombs don't have to be physical it could be the bombs of covid it could be the bombs of financial uncertainty it could be the bombs of losing our employees or employment it could be any bomb one thing we could be sure of that flag will continue to fly because of the men and women who sacrifice their lives to make sure that flag flies and to anyone foreign or domestic there is only one country on the globe with dream is attached to his name there's no german dream no polis dream no friends dream but damn it that is an american dream and this dream is alive and it is well every day and so the men and women who fight to protect this country we honor you we respect you and we recognize your sacrifices services and there's someone else we recognize when i retire from the police department i remember my mother collapsing in my arms because of those 22 years she watched eric and my brother bernard serve this city we honor the family members the family members that watch their loved ones go abroad the family members that watch their loved one on the front line defending this country the family members that lose their loved ones to battle we honor you family members you know we know what you represent we know how much you give how much you sacrifice each time your loved one served this country you too serve this country and we thank you for what you do as well and so i'm happy today to march and walk on behalf of the men and women that serve this country and our administration is filled with those men and women you have commissioner isco commissioner hendon commissioner malina so many of the men and women who fought abroad are now here fighting for you every day and because of them i can probably say new york is not coming back new york is back thank you very much let's have another round for mary adams everybody that concludes our program for today you don't have to go home and you don't have to get out of here we have the place until 10 a.m please continue to enjoy yourself mix mingle do your thing that and i look forward to seeing you on the parade route for those who don't know the start time for the veterans day parade is sometime between noon and 12 30 as it kicks off marches and other participants will proceed north on fifth avenue to just north of 40th street things will end somewhere between 40th and 45th please join with us as we celebrate this year's new york city veterans day parade and happy happy happy veterans day thank you