This is how they rank them. This is how they judge them and measure them. And therefore, when the prophets came to their communities, the communities were shocked, many of them. In fact, all of them. They were shocked that those prophets and messengers, they are poor. They come from a poor background. They are not rich. فلولا أنزل عليه أسويلة من ذهب أو جاء المقهر الملايكة مقتلينين. فرور, when he looked at Moses coming from a poor background, he's not wealthy, he's not millionaires, he's not rich. He said, then where is his wealth? If he's truly the messenger of God, why we don't see him wearing bracelets of gold? Where is his wealth? The same argument was presented by the people during the time of our prophet. صلى الله عليه وسلم, when he came, they were shocked. They said, وقالوا لولا نزل هذا القرآن على الرجل من الارياتين عظيم. الارياتين to villages, بايف المكهر. There were two millionaires living in these two cities. Why this book? Why these revelations did not come on those two millionaires, those two rich people? Why it came upon Muhammad who's orphan, who's poor, who cannot even afford having dinner for his nights? Where is his wealth? They were shocked. Why? Because people always, always measure the humans with one standard. A standard of material achievement. Of how much money you have. If you have more money, you are a great person. If you have less money, then you are not important. All religions, including Islam and all scriptures, including the Holy Quran, they came to change this perception. To say that when it comes to God, God does not judge and evaluate people according to their income, according to their wealth. Neither their family or their influence. It's according to their personality. A person is important in Islam, in the eyes of God, if he carries a great personality, great character. According to his or her service, her commitment to their cause, to the cause of the humanity. That person is going to be considered great in the eyes of God. God does not look at your financial statements, nor your bank records. He doesn't care about that. He looks at your heart, your commitment, your service, your dedication to the humanity. That's what is mattering. God says, if it wasn't for the fear, if it wasn't for the fear that the entire population of earth is going to sway towards materialism and wealth, and they run after only money, we would have given the wealth of this earth, the entire wealth of this earth, only to the non-believers. To prove that the wealth of the earth has no value in the eyes of God. But God says, I feel that all people are going to be non-believers. None is going to survive. Because they think that this is the sign of success. If you become wealthy, only wealthy, that is the great sign of success. They are going to be faith. This is one of the most staggering verses in the Quran. This verse in Surat al-Zukhruf chapter 43. ولو لا أن يكون الناس أمة واحدة. لجعلنا, if it wasn't for the fear that we fear that the nation, the population of earth, they are going to gather around disbelief and rejection of faith. We would have given and bestowed upon every non-believer huge wealth, huge properties. لجعلنا لمن يكفر بالرحمة, لبيوتهم سقفا من فضا. The roofs of their properties and homes, it's going to be decorated and ornamented with gold. سقفا من فضا, gold and silver. ومعارج عليها يتكئون. ومعارج عليها يظهرون وليبيوتهم. وليبيوتهم معارج are stairs. One of the properties is a huge. It's a tower. When they have a tower, huge skyscrapers and tower, it has a stairs. This signifies the greatness of the building. The building is so magnificent and huge. It has stairs. ومعارج عليها يظهرون وليبيوتهم أبوابن. The palace has not only one entrance but many entrances, a palace, a mansion. وَلِبُيُوْجِهِمْ أَبْوَابَنَ، هذا why it is plural, not verb but أبوَاب. This signifies that we would give them the entire wealth to prove that wealth has no value. The wealth of this earth, material wealth has no value in the eyes of God. Yes, wealth is going to have value when you serve the nation, when you save lives with it. When it becomes a source of construction, a source of reformation, you reform your society, you save the hungry, the poor, the needy, you advance the cause of the humanity. Then it has wealth, the wealth is going to have wealth in the eyes of God. But merely seeking wealth for the sake of being wealthy only has no value in the eyes of God. And it has no advantage and it carries no merits. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to say that use the wealth to build yourself. But do not make it the center point of your life. Yes, utilize what God has given you. وابتغي فيما أتاك الله الدار الأخير. God addresses the wealthiest person on earth at that time, Arun, during the time of himself. وابتغي فيما أتاك الله. If you have wealth, property, seek to build you hereafter. وابتغي فيما أتاك الله الدار الأخير.  It's okay. It's okay to have good life, good house, good living. No problem about that. But the vast majority of your wealth and your focus has to be to build the hereafter. To prepare yourself for the hereafter. Many people ask, why God does not make all the believers wealthy? No, He doesn't. He says, I would not make them wealthy. Because if believers are supposed to be all of them wealthy, then people are going to be driven towards faith out of greed, not out of conviction. Not because they think faith is something good. Because they look at faith as a means of material success. So let's become faithful. Let's become religious. Let me go to the mosque. Because everybody who went to the mosque became wealthy. So I will join them. أمير المؤمن says, يَلَا سَقَطَ الْبَلَاءَ. Then God, why is testing us? There is no reason to test. God wants to test us in this life. To see whether we stay with Him at the time of poverty, at the time of fear, at the time of hunger, at the time of deprivation. Whether we stay with Him or not. At the time of affluence, all people can worship, no problem. But at the time of poverty and severe tests, would they still worship God and stay with Him? God wants us to reach faith through difficulties, not ease. This is why He does not make believers all of them wealthy. He doesn't. He says, the path to faith is not through comfort and ease and wealth and relaxation. It is through struggle. يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنْسَانُوا إِنَّا كَكَارِحُنْ إِلَا رَبِكَ كَتْحَنْ. We have to struggle, labor. كَتْحَنْ فَمُلَقِهِ. We can't reach Him through ease. And therefore my friends, the more we get attached to materialism, the more we develop depression. This is a proven. America today, we've been told, it's the strongest nation on earth. Which I doubt that. Yes, we are strong in military, but in morality, I don't think we are the strongest. Neither in economy, nor in education, nor in healthcare. Yes, in Pentagon, we have the biggest military expenditure. Almost $2 billion a day. We have money for that. But for healthcare, we have deficit. For education, we have deficit. However, the more we get attached to materialism, to this lower life, to this cheap life, the more we develop anxiety and attachment to this life. And this attachment does not produce other than and happens, more depression, more worries, more agreed, more thinking about what should I eat today, what should I wear, where should I live, what model of car should I drive, what you would never be able to think about your spiritual advancement, your spiritual nourishment. And the more you detach yourself, detach yourself from materialism, use materialism that don't get attached to it. Be ready to separate yourself any minute from materialism. Be ready. This is the point why we fast, because we are attached to food and a drink. Some people cannot survive without coffee in the morning or without food, without breakfast, without this type of food, that type of food. Islam came to teach us that we have to grow. You have to detach yourself for a few hours a day. A few hours, maybe 16, maybe 17, maybe 18 hours a day, maximum. Detach yourself from this. If you are completely dependent on materialism, you cannot grow. You cannot grow, you fail. You cannot free yourself from these chains of materials. Once you free yourself, you'll be able to fly. You'll be able to become lighter. And you can reach. وَكَذَا لِكَنُورِ إِبْرَهِمَ مَنَكُوتَ السَّمَا وَاتِيْوَ الْبَبْ The kingdom of this heaven that around us, a friend was giving an example the other day. He said, I live in a very polluted city. Very polluted. There is this mud, there is dirt in the earth. And we don't see the stars. So one day I went to the desert, you know, two hours of drive outside that city. And I looked up in the evening and I said, Wow, look at this. Where is this? This is always there. These are stars and galaxies. They are always there. But in the city you cannot see them. Why? Because there is a layer of a small pollution. The same thing in the spiritual realm. We cannot see God because there is pollution. Pollution of materialism. Pollution of attachment to this life, to our wealth, to what we eat, what we enjoy, what we were. We are obsessed with that. So we can't see. We can't see the malakout. Unless we have self-control. This is why we fast. Why do we fast? لعل لكم تتطبون. كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم. لذا you develop self-control about your desires. You curb the desire. Once you curb your desires, you can see the stars. You can see the galaxies. You can see what is around you. You can see the beauty. This is one of the reasons of working on ourselves, polishing ourselves, in ourselves during the Marth of Ramadan. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. والعصر عند الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصر. وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمل وأهل بيتها. طيبين الطهرين. لا.


Many organizations in Brainerd seek help from volunteers on a regular basis. The senior citizens in the community have been filling up many of those volunteer spots. Today two outstanding senior volunteers were recognized. Sarah Winckelman has their story. Today the executive director of the center recognized one male and one female for this year's Crow Wing County Outstanding Senior Volunteer Award. The center hosted a picnic at Lum Park where the seniors first enjoyed a meal and afterward the recognition of those who went above and beyond in their volunteer work. Both of the winners today were asked to come help out of the picnic by their coordinators. Little did they know that they would be walking away with a plaque. I'm excited. I am. I'm thrilled.  So this was all planned behind my back. The award recipients did not know before the announcement they had won however those who nominated them did and were able to watch the reaction of their nominees. Total deserving of course she is you know so I'm really happy because it's nice to be able to give it to somebody who does do so much for the whole community not just for one organization but for the whole community into a lot of different organizations and stuff so she's very well deserving and I'm very very happy for her. Carol isn't the only one who volunteers at multiple organizations throughout the community. He is so deserving and I'm so glad he's getting the recognition that he deserves because he helps at the curling center he helps in breath of life he helps with pickleball and tennis and at the school district so he really covers a lot of ground I think he works more hours as a volunteer as he did when he was working. So why put in so many volunteer hours? For Jim the answer is simple it's all about the people. I worked with the public my whole life so when I retired I missed it. Both Jim and Carol will now go on to compete at the Minnesota State Fair for the 2017 Minnesota Outstanding Senior Citizen Award reporting in Brainerd Sarah Winkleman Lakeland News. You can also see winners being recognized at the Distinguished Service Awards banquet and the Crowan County Fair. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


In Australia, students move through several stages of schooling as they prepare for further education, the workplace and adult life. Most Australian students spend seven years in primary school, which is generally divided into the early years of learning, foundation to year two, middle years, years three and four, and the upper years, years five and six. Young learners then move on to secondary school, which takes them from year seven through to year ten, the end of compulsory schooling and prepares them for the senior secondary school, years eleven and twelve. After completing their studies in year twelve, Australian students are awarded the certificate or credential determined by the state or territory in which they live and learn. The Australian curriculum sets the expectations for the learning of students across the nation. It integrates the three dimensions of learning areas, general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities. It is divided into curriculum for students in foundation to year ten and students studying in the senior secondary years. The senior secondary curriculum for years eleven and twelve builds on and extends the learning that has taken place from foundation to year ten. There are senior secondary subjects in a number of learning areas, in English, mathematics, science and in humanities and social sciences. In English, four subjects are available in the English learning area. English. English is an additional language or dialect. Essential English and Literature. As in English from foundation to year ten, all four senior secondary English subjects continue the development of students' knowledge and skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing. The three strands of literature, literacy and language also continue to be the organisers in senior English, but the emphasis on the strands and the nature of text studied vary across the subjects. For example, while students study a range of fiction and non-fiction texts in English as an additional language or dialect, the focus is on language learning and the development of oral language and literacy skills in standard Australian English. In Essential English, although literature is important, the primary focus is on the development and demonstration of literacy and language skills in everyday social and community contexts. The subject English retains a balance across the strands of literature, literacy and language, whereas the subject literature is predominantly focused on analysis of literary texts. Mathematics. The subjects are essential mathematics, general mathematics, mathematical methods and specialist mathematics. The mathematics subjects are differentiated and hierarchical and designed to meet students' varying interests and abilities. Essential Mathematics is designed for students interested in practical applications of mathematics for future training or workplace environments. General Mathematics is about the discrete mathematics and geometry needed to analyse and solve problems. For example, students find solutions needed for financial modelling, network analysis, scaling and navigation. Calculus and statistics needed to model physical processes and analyse phenomena are the basis for mathematical methods. Specialist mathematics builds on and deepens the ideas presented in mathematical methods including probability and statistics and introduces the topics of vectors, complex numbers and matrices. Science. The four subjects in this learning area represent the scientific disciplines of biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science and physics. All four science subjects build on students' understanding of key concepts in the Foundation to Year 10 curriculum, science inquiry skills, sciences as human endeavour and science understanding. The science understanding content in each of the science subjects is complementary. For example, biology and earth and environmental science both explore environmental change, but biology views this in terms of effects on individual organisms and ecosystem dynamics, whereas earth and environmental science views this same topic in terms of interactions between the earth's spheres. The strong connections between the four science subjects encourage students to appreciate the multidisciplinary studies and or careers that characterize contemporary science. Humanities and social sciences. In the humanities and social sciences, there are three subjects. Two history subjects. Ancient history and modern history and geography. Each of these builds on the knowledge and understanding and inquiry skills developed in the Foundation to Year 10 curricula. Ancient history focuses on the nature of the evidence of the ancient world and the key features and developments of ancient societies. Modern history focuses on key events, ideas, movements, developments and people that have shaped the modern world. Geography draws on students' curiosity about the complexity and diversity of the world's places and their peoples, cultures, economies and environments. State and territory curriculum, assessment and certification authorities are responsible for determining how the Australian curriculum content and achievement standards are to be integrated into their courses. States and territories also determine the assessment, examination and certification requirements for the senior secondary years. For more information on these requirements, contact local, state or territory curriculum authorities. The intellectual, personal, social and educational needs of young Australians must be addressed at a time when ideas about the goals of education are changing and will continue to evolve. The senior secondary subjects offered in the Australian curriculum provide the basis for the knowledge, understanding and skills that support 21st century learning. Young people need a wide and adaptive set of skills to meet the changing expectations of society and to contribute to the creation of a more productive, sustainable and just society. At Akara, as is true for curriculum authorities, schools and teachers across Australia, there is a strong focus on preparing young people for the next stage of their lives, whether that be further learning or work. More information on the senior secondary curriculum can be found on the Australian curriculum website www.astraliencurriculum.edu.au forward slash senior secondary curriculum.


Okay, okay. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and all those watching us on social media, we are here at Musaka Service Headquarters at Foset Quarters as it is called. We are here for the case of Honorable Shakafuswa Christopher. This morning you are aware that Honorable Shakafuswa was picked up yesterday from a shopping mall when he was with members of his family. He was taken, banded in a vehicle and he was taken to Musaka Central Police where he remained detained until this morning. This morning they transferred him from Musaka Central Police to Service Headquarters here where they have since warned him, they have issued the one and caution statement and there's an eventual arrest that they may conduct, they allege that he proposed violence on third men 2023 when the police conducted a raid at the residence of the former president, Zambia 6 president Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lumi. So we are here with Honorable Chimbaka Mburi and the other leaders. We have seen Honorable Christopher Shakafuswa is doing well, is in good spirit. He will shortly be transferred to Kawata Police Station, I think where the other formalities will be done. Our prayer is that he gets police bond as soon as possible and come into the politics. We've been very consistent that this is a crack squad, this is an attack on the opposition, that you can see that they are coordinated efforts to scandalize the opposition, arrest them, intimidate them, you know, lock them up so that maybe they will be called into silence, into fear and our advice has been to President Nagaine Hreni that we are not a police state, we are a constitutional democracy and law enforcement agencies should not be used or abused to target especially the opposition and those critics of the current government. Our role is just to provide checks and balances. You may not like how we provide checks and balances but that is our role and these attacks and arrest and intimidation against opposition we will not cow us down, it's eroding our democratic credentials, it is destroying our cherished democracy and the descent into like a police state authoritarianism is totally unacceptable. Let me invite Honorable Shimbaka Bumi just for me. Just inform us. I want to thank all of you who have come to give some dignity to our brother, Honorable Shaka Fuson and I want to state this that there is absolutely nothing wrong in interviewing or interrogating somebody if there is an alleged commitment of an offense. I want to underline this, there is absolutely nothing wrong with interrogating or investigating anybody whether you are MP or president as long as there is an allegation of an offense but what is important is the way it is done. Honorable Shaka Fuswa is a member of parliament or fixed abort, he's got a parliamentary office where even police provide security. Why go and arrest him like a common criminal at a shopping mall when he's doing his shopping with his family? I think these are issues that must be resolved once and for all. We are not going to continue living in stone age and be referred to as African debt politics. The man, if they were looking for him from 3rd May, why not take a call out to his house, to his office or indeed ask the speaker that we are looking for for one of your members of parliament, could you ask him to report himself to the police station so that investigations can be carried out. You wait until there is a public holiday, you go and arrest somebody like a common criminal, you bring him to the police and say no, we cannot deal with this matter because today is a holiday so he has to spend the night in the police cells. What a way of thinking, what a way of thinking. Those cells are made for criminals who do not have the fixed abort and the flight risk but surely somebody goes to parliament every day, you go and arrest him in that manner. Please, ma polis, please hand me the tissue and I want to appeal to these ordinary police officers, the junior ranks. The way you conduct yourselves, have you seen that every time there's a change of government, those who are in the forefront of doing these things are fired and the people who send you to do these things are quiet in their homes. You are career police officers who need to keep your jobs for at least up to pensionable age but are you going to accept to be fired, to get fired every time there's a change of government. So don't follow political instructions, do your job professionally. If you are told go with a battalion of police officers at Honourable Cambodian, pick him, bring him to the police, tell them sir why can't we just give him a call out. If he doesn't come, if he doesn't cooperate then we can do that. The man was never invited, he was never even told that police were looking for him, you just meet him at a shopping mall, you arrest him and this is now misusing the cyber security law where you can place surveillance on the perceived political enemies so that you know where they are and you plan to arrest them in an embarrassing situation. I hope and trust that as he being transferred to Kawata police, police bond will be given because police bond is right under the law unless somebody is a flight risk and he has is of no fixed abort. The president has been saying and the problem we have with our president is picked so well and so good creating an impression that he's a very good man but behind him there is a monster behind him because really why not tell the police we promised our people that this kind of arrest and all that should not be done. Why are you police doing this but the the mere fact that is quite it means is the man behind all these arrests but I can tell you something for nothing leadership comes from God and when your time comes your time come when your time to go comes no matter what you do you can intimidate people arrest people do this destroy your friends businesses one day just one day you'll be out of state house how would you want to be treated mwimbu boy mwimbu jack look at Namibia for instance before an MP is arrested the speakers to know the speakers to inform the president then the president authorizes they go and pick them nicely interview them nicely charge them nicely if they have an offense take them to court but brutalizing MPs but why treat your fellow members of parliament like that you are only lowering the dignity of members of parliament there is no cooking there even these people you arrest ordinary people if they have got a fixed abode why put them behind bars why and this propensity of arresting somebody from chawamu kwekala mayamu chita mamutuala kubamora mayabika monen soka can you stop it can you stop it it's not building anybody mlei sewa nyafiye and i'm telling you this pompacity we are seeing where even a catholic priest you call catholic priest you are not educated we can take you to school do you know what catholic priest go through to be a priest seven years a franciscan seven to ten years catholic priest are even more educated than the president so you want to demean them by saying if you don't know numbers we can take you to school the sphrej keshwa ala pompacity ego and the becoming arrogant is the form of leaders and the president must not be answering to anything and everything we am butch the only mayor a mayor mayor elected elected and she was only politicking on a political platform is that what the president can comment on hao mandi tuwari amakota tuwapoku amakota tuwari achkandaya kocha ala tule tekua nombana wa klinangalanda fe klinna kwa government office wa president nabaya per platform i'm sending oning to that cleaner this is what you are equating yourself to president stop it my brother it's not everything that you can talk about you know catholic priest are very educated people to tell you the truth if you don't have a catholic i can explain what it takes to be a catholic so to go and demean them that they don't understand the numbers stop insulting other people stop this this arrogance eh no how to answer people there are people who are not educated in this country not because they like it but because there were no schools during their time so don't demean them like that you are head of state have some kind of kates when you are addressing the people you the same president aga in the hlm when pf paraded people to hand over the the the fire engines you condemn it that this is the waste of money it is a responsibility of government to buy fire engines and vehicles why call people in a stadium to hand over the fire engines that's what you say you are doing the same thing the same thing that you condemned you want pf mps to come and attend your functions you refused your mps to attend functions a very good example is our uh tom who was mayor in kafiwe he attended keep zambia clean with president uh edga lungu and you suspended the man so do unto others what you want others to do unto you if you want safety if it's tkf if you have well well if you have a position when you are ruling party people let's all get united as a government because the opposition is a government in waiting the opposition mps are part of government so if you have a kanya no mui kaya kukulia because uh uh in in imova opposition mamone fuchita ilo wale kanya banobe iwe hh ukuyapu kuma functionia government ilo wale kanya banobe number you you want the other mps to attend bane to refer to somebody lepochimu mule iikata bane no if you have a mui kata naimua kesa mui kata bana instead mule but this should come to an end because i don't want to come and go through this but you are saying i will do it so that i can also come and go through it however netutemo ane and stop this it's not building anybody so we are moving to kabuata to wait we'll be at the police station until the formalities are done and our brother is released on police bone and to you police officers new i g we new i g stop it thank you very much kore boshaka pusha is expected to be moved to kabuata police station where we will follow up on the matter to give you an update later thank you very much


Welcome, and aloha. My name is Mark Shklav, and I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today, the title of our program is If This Child Was Yours. My guests are Stephen Lane, Bridget Morgan Dickerton, and Crystal Glendon. Stephen Lane is a paralegal consultant who has been appointed special master in many cases involving abused and neglected children. Bridget Morgan Dickerton is an attorney who handles a wide range of civil and commercial litigation with an emphasis on consumer class action. Crystal Glendon is also an attorney who practices criminal, defense, family law, appeals, and civil litigation. All three of my guests are also advocates for abused and neglected children. The focus of our discussion today is on the protections afforded under Hawaii law for these children, including the right of foster children who have legal counsel appointed to represent them. Steve Lane recently submitted testimony in support of a proposed Hawaii law that would require certain persons to report abuse of a foster child to the family court and would also provide the family court with the authority to appoint legal counsel to represent the abused child. In essence, Steve's testimony to the legislators was, if this child was yours, this is what you would do for your child. Steve, Crystal, Bridget, welcome. Good to see you all today, and this is a serious topic. And Steve, I want to start with you. Why do we need these protections? What are we talking about? For abused and neglected children, especially for foster children? Well, there are about 2,100 foster children in Hawaii each year, some 3,500 to 4,000 children each year, except for abuse or neglect of some sort. A child who's in foster care who's under the supervision of the court does not have access to a lawyer because one, the minority status, they're too young. If you're under 18, you can't hire an attorney of your own. And two, their ward status, they are effectively a guardian, the state of Hawaii is their guardian. So that's why foster children need access to counsel, otherwise it would be unrepresented, fundamentally enfranchised. They have no one to stand up for them as a lawyer. No one to speak for them? Correct. Okay. And Bridget and Crystal, would you add anything to what Steve has said? It sums it up pretty well. That's a major hole in the system, or at least it was, until a protocol that we'll talk about in a little bit was implemented. Foster children really didn't have a voice in the legal system. Okay. I absolutely agree. And without that voice, without the protocols that have been set in place, we would continue to have no voice, but we're hoping to rectify that. And when we talk about abuse and neglect, just generally, what is that type of thing? It covers a wide spectrum of that, right? It does. And this protocol is intended to provide access to counsel for children who suffer physical abuse or even emotional abuse. And under this protocol, various court officers, passive workers, social workers, others who are officers of the court are required to report any instance of abuse to the family court judge, so a special master can be appointed to represent them. What currently exists in the state of Hawaii, what is the status now of the protections afforded under law for abused and neglected children, especially foster children? Well, typically, if a child is injured, abused, or neglected, and is still in the care of their parents, their parents can initiate illegal action on their behalf, they can seek out an attorney, and they can pursue a tort claim on their own child's behalf. If this child was yours. However, for foster children, it's a little bit different. There has been implemented a foster tort protocol in the family court that was adopted by Judge Browning that requires guardians of the item, CASA workers, social workers, Department of Human Services workers to immediately report to the family court any injury that they suspect may give rise to a tort claim. These individuals are already required by statute to report injuries to the court, but what the protocol does is require them to immediately make those reports. The court is then required to appoint a special master to investigate, to collect records, to interview individuals, to ascertain and determine whether or not a colorful tort claim exists. And the master is kind of what you've been doing, Steve, on some occasions, right? Yes. And this new protocol, how long has that been in practice approximately? I believe we're going on two years now. I think it was adopted in early 2018. Crystal, you're familiar with this protocol, and how is it in actual practice what happens? What have you discovered in actual cases? Well, I guess the number one thing would be that the reason why the tort protocol is so important and getting things moving along quickly and having those reports made is because we're dealing with a statute of limitations when it comes to tortuous conduct, and that statute of limitations is two years. So that's why it's very important. And what I've experienced personally is actually Mr. Lane here is a special master in one of the cases that I'm handling, and what happened was he was notified of a situation, was appointed special master through a petition of his own. And from there, completed the investigation, was able to get records, talk to witnesses, primarily talk to the client, and from there hired me to file a complaint on behalf of a minor who is currently in foster care, falls within the tort protocol, and ultimately we were able to accomplish the filing of her complaint. When you talked about abuse that these children have suffered for this particular case, and I will not mention any names because of her status as a minor, this poor young woman was within the care of the Department of Human Services when she was sexually assaulted, and this would have been by someone who had access to her while she was in the foster home that she was in. So ultimately we are proceeding with her case, and that's essentially how it's worked in my experience. Okay, now in all of you, I mean what happens? I mean somebody reports something, and then what's the next step? Somebody says something to the court, they're required to do that, does it always happen I guess? It doesn't always happen, what's supposed to happen is one of these individuals enumerated in Judge Browning's protocol are required as mandated reporters to report any instance of physical or emotional suspected abuse. When that report is made to the judge, the judge then customarily appoints a special master to obtain records, to examine the cases to whether or not there appears to be a claim, and that special master, if he finds evidence of a claim, is empowered to hire counsel to represent the child. So there's actually a court hearing held to make that initial determination? Yes. Okay. Unfortunately that is not what usually happens, and I think that's a product of a lack of education and knowledge about the protocol. The implementation of this protocol has been irregular at best. In fact I do not know- Do you mean within the courts? Within the courts, right? I think that is a lack of education, I would say mainly about the tort protocol. I'll say that I was a public defender for almost 15 years and I practice a bulk, the bulk of my practice was in family court and I had a lot of cases that crossed over between juvenile as well, children who are also in the foster care system. This isn't something that I was aware of while I was a public defender and I believe that under the tort protocol I would have been one of the ones who could have reported as well as made referrals to the court to have special masters appointed because what I saw was a lot of the children who happened to be within the juvenile system so charged with either law violations or status offenses. They were also foster children and a lot of them did suffer abuse and that's why they ended up there. But you didn't know about- I didn't. And so how do we get- Well on the other end of things there are attorneys who would be capable, willing to bring these cases and I don't think the plaintiff's bar, the personal injury bar is aware of it either. So one thing that the court will need is a list of attorneys who are willing and ready to serve both as masters and as attorneys for the children and I think that we need to educate everybody in all the different realms that we've been discussing to disseminate this. Judge Browning came up with this protocol, I hear you telling me. Well I think Mr. Lane came up with the protocol and then chopped it around. But Bridget and I worked on designing a protocol basically modeled on the Los Angeles County protocol several years ago. We presented to the Y Supreme Court Standing Committee on Children and Family Court. They rejected the protocol. In response I went to talk to Judge Browning, expressed my displeasure and he said that I'll adopt it. Thank goodness for that. Had Judge Browning not done so on his own motion he was a senior family court judge. It wouldn't have been any protocol. Like an administrative rule. That's correct. It's become an administrative rule. And has he published that? Is that out there for the lawyers or how do you get it out there? I'm reliably informed that copies of this protocol were sent to every judge in every circuit in the state of Hawaii some time ago. There needs to be more education as Ms. Morgan has mentioned, both within the bar and on the bench. The Guardian Ad Lighting Committee community needs to be educated about this. There are lots and lots of people who appear on a regular basis in Family Court who need to know about this protocol more fully than they do now. The courts should do something. I guess the bar association should be doing something. And the state of Hawaii, Crystal, I mean how do we get the word out there to people? Well, we start with programs like this. And so my hope is that this is one of the I guess leaping ads for more people to find out about the protocol. I think that continuing legal education for the attorneys that could be involved would be important and training perhaps within the Family Court, not just for the judges themselves, but for the many staff members who are connected with the courts and who are mandated reporters under the protocol. Educating and I guess proliferating the information so that there's no mystery about it. I think a lot of people might be hesitant because you start talking lawyers and suing and people get a little hesitant to speak up and or make the referrals. But I think ultimately it comes down to the advocacy for the children. And if this child was yours, right?  Now, why was the proposal rejected when you folks first proposed it? Oh, I can't speculate on that. I think it was, I don't know. I think there are probably a lot of reasons and I don't know. It wasn't something that was developed at the time. I wouldn't want to speculate on why it was rejected. The majority of the committee members of the committee of Children and Family Court were state employees. Many of them were DAGs. Many of them were social workers with the Department of Human Services. And I think they were frankly fearful that if such a policy became official that their agencies would be on the short end of a lawsuit. I think that's probably the reason why the committee rejected the proposal. I think it should be pointed out on the favorable side. To the best of my knowledge, Hawaii is the only state in the nation that has an equivalent protocol in place that provides access to counsel for children who otherwise voiceless for foster children. And we should be proud of that. So we've got to start is what you're all saying. We need to educate, get the word out there and people can take that and run with it and protect the children as if they were their own children. Is that what I'm hearing you tell me? And so that's an optimistic viewpoint, although there's been some downsides. I think that's a good summation. I think I'd add one more thing. I think right now we have basically an administrative rule. I'd like to see this codified by way of a statue. I would like to see this become an official statue within the next year so it's a matter of law. And we're going to take a break right now and come back. And I want to ask a little bit more about that and also about actual cases. I know you can't tell me the names of people, but I'd like to hear about some actual cases so that people that watch this program can touch base with reality. Well, thank you. We'll be right back in a minute. We're going to take a short break and come back and talk about if this child was yours. Thank you. Aloha. My name is Wendy Lowe. And I want you to join me as we take our health back. On my show, all we do is talk about things in everyday life, in Hawaii or abroad. I have guests on board that would just talk about different aspects of health in every way, whether it's medical health, nutritional health, diabetic health. You name it, we'll talk about it. Even financial health. We'll even have some of them Miss Hawaii's on board. And all the different topics that I feel will make your health and your lifestyle a lot better. So come join me. I welcome you to take your health back. Mahalo. Aloha, I'm Mellie James, host of Let's Mana Up. Tuesdays, every other Tuesday, from 11 to 1130. This show is meant to dive into stories of local product entrepreneurs and how they're growing their companies from right here in Hawaii. I'm so thrilled to have our show kicked off. And so please join us on Tuesdays at 11 o'clock as we talk to local entrepreneurs and hear their stories. Welcome back. I am Mark Shklav with Law Across the Sea with Steve Lane, Bridget Morgan, Crystal Glendon. We are talking about if this child was yours and protections afforded under Hawaii law for children, especially foster children. When we left off, Steve, we were talking about a couple things, and I want to kind of go back. What laws are out there that could be passed to protect children? And then I want to ask Bridget, Crystal, some actual cases. I think right now we're looking principally at the protocol as it stands now as a sort of an administrative rule. What I would like to see is that protocol converted into a statute. Bridget has some good information on that subject. Well, to add to that, there is a provision of the Child Protective Act, the Hawaii Child Protective Act that lists, enumerates all of the rights of foster children. It would be very simple to add to that specific subsection of 587 that all foster children shall enjoy the same rights with respect to being able to pursue tort claims that non-foster children enjoy. I think that would be a quick, simple way to revise the statute to implement the tort protocol and codify it. I've noticed that there has been a couple attempts for both Senate and House bills to pass laws in the state of Hawaii that resemble the family court protocol. But they never got out a committee from what I could see.  And what's the base?  I mean, anybody have a knowledge of that? State agencies testify against it. The last time I testified before the legislature on behalf of one of these bills, the Attorney General's office came in and said it's not necessary. Some of the real issues are that the courts are already plagued with more cases they can handle. I think that a lot of people see this as something that would raise costs. So a lot of the testimony, I think, had to do with increased costs, practical things like that, that I think can be resolved if a push is made to resolve it. Well, I guess there was some concern I read in some testimony about the cost of masters. OK, well, OK. I'd like to add to that just briefly. The protocol in Los Angeles, which this was patterned after, has been successful largely because it's generated so much money for the city and county of Los Angeles in the recovery of third-party damage liability claims. Tor claims. The fact of the matter is most of the injuries that children suffer in fostered care aren't claims that arise against the state custodian. They're claims like any other kid suffers. Automobile accidents, products cases, any number of other situations that cause injury to children. But this is not simply a way to bring more cases against the state of Hawaii. Well, let's bring reality in here, Crystal. Please tell me, I understand you can't tell me who we're talking about, but give me some examples of cases of child neglect abuse that would benefit counsel. Absolutely. So I did mention the one that I'm handling right now. So that one, absolute benefit for counsel for this particular child who otherwise has been disenfranchised and has had to suffer. How old was the child? 16. But the allegations were at the time when she was 13. And so we're talking about a child who was under the legal age to consent to any kind of sexual contact. And we're talking about statutory rape, essentially, which is what happened. You were appointed as counsel in that case? Well, in this particular case, I was approached by Mr. Lane to evaluate the case, make contact with the client, and then from there to proceed with filing the claim on behalf of the client. Is that pursuant to the protocol? That's correct. OK, I see. Any other cases? Active, no. I mean, I can think of a couple of examples of foster children who I would have liked to have referred under this protocol to an attorney. Children who were my clients when I was a public defender who were within the foster care system just suffered abject, horrendous conditions by their foster parents. So I think they are the people that are contemplated within this tort protocol. One of the cases that I had, one of the children that I represented was beaten on a daily basis and subjected to what I would call slavery on a daily basis. And I mean, essentially came to me through a juvenile case. However, I think this would have been the perfect example for a referral. Steve? Well, the case is probably best known in Hawaii involving this protocol is a Peter Kema case on the Big Island, which I was appointed special master. This is a unique case. It presents some unique legal issues, including a statute of limitations issue. Peter Kema disappeared and we later learned was murdered by his parents some 20 years ago. And that case is presently in litigation. Bridget, how about you? I haven't actually done a case myself as an attorney under the protocol, but we do, my firm handles personal injury cases on behalf of children all the time. And those are cases that would be subject to the protocol if they occurred, if the tort had occurred to a foster children. We have cases where parents have sued preschools on behalf of their children for abuse at the preschool. We have products liability cases where the parents have to bring in on behalf of the child because they're a minor. And it has to be brought through a parent. So those are cases that you could imagine if those kids had just been in foster care without this protocol, there would be no recourse for them. And these are kids who are injured and require lifelong care and resources because of their injuries. Foster kids should have the same rights as kids who are not in the foster system to bring those claims and to get some sort of recovery for their injuries. And that kind of shows the disparity, right? I mean, people who are not foster children, they hire you to represent the children, take care of the children. And foster children don't have those same opportunities. That's correct. Is that right? Absolutely. All right, why do you guys do this? Steve, why do you be a master? And what motivates you? I was a foster parent with a state of life for some 20 years, raised four foster kids myself as a single parent. And I've seen firsthand some of the challenges that foster children face. And I think this is another way to deal with that issue. Crystal, what's your thoughts? Well, as I said, my background as a public defender in the juvenile section, my heart goes out to these children and watching them suffer and being able to assist them as a public defender was one way to help. And now that I can take on a new role and represent them and advocate for them in a civil capacity, that's why I do it. You've moved into private practice now. Yes. I can see you're doing a wide range of cases. Perhaps a little too wide. But I do appreciate Mr. Lane learning me to the protocol and bringing me on board. Like I said, I see it as one more way of advocating for the children who otherwise don't have a voice. Bridget, what are your thoughts? I mean, you don't have to be involved in this. You're in private practice. Well, I am now. I got my feet wet in the legal profession with a legal aid, legal aid society of Hawaii as a guardian of light. And that's where I was first introduced to the law and represented foster kids throughout the islands and actually met Mr. Lane during that work as a guardian of light. And so we just saw a lot of holes in the system and saw a lot of injuries that were going unreported and unprosecuted. And since I've been in private practice, but it's always been an issue that's near and dear to my heart and needs to be addressed. So what is the status now? Where do we go from here? What's lacking? And what needs to be done going forward with respect to the courts? And also, I'm a little disturbed about the state not taking action in cases where they knew about something going on. Well, we're going to give them a hand. All right, so excuse me. I think education is one of the first things that needs to be done. I think members of the bar and the bench need to be more familiar with this protocol. I think the suggestion Bridget made to amend some of the HRS revisions is something that could be done comparatively easily. So this becomes a matter of law, not just administrative rule. And I think those are some things that can be accomplished in the next year or so. And that's where we're going. Is that where you see the emphasis of this? I think so. I mean, ultimately, that's the only way to get this word out so that more people are aware of it, so that the people who are stakeholders, as well as the ones who can report, know what to do. Bridget, you're going to advocate? I will advocate. And I think the biggest place that I can have an impact is just to educate the bar and try to get that list of attorneys who are willing to serve, both as masters and attorneys, get those lists out to the court. Let them know that there are people out there willing to serve who are court attorneys who've been practicing for decades. And they can call on us when needed. I like what Steve said, too. You make a lot of money in a tort case when you prevail. And that should not then be a drawback that is often seen in state concerns about money. Well, states, especially in foster care, it's really the state that has a lien against a case. And for the medical care that the child would have received, and they will get that money back, or at least a portion of it, if the case is pursued and if funds are realized on that case. We've got about a minute left. In a few seconds, could you each briefly tell me what you have learned from being involved in this with these foster kids and abused kids? I have learned that foster kids are some of the most resilient people on this earth. And that we owe it to them. We, as a society that has a voice and has power, we owe it to them to have the same rights that any other kid has. And in particular, what we're discussing today is the right to pursue claims if they've been injured, just like a child who's not in foster care. This is not an inconsequential problem. We have 3,500 children a year in Hawaii who suffer abuse and neglect. 2,400 kids a year in foster care. This needs more attention. As foster children, they deserve our compassion and they deserve access to whatever tools we have in our toolbox to assist them. And that's something that I know I'm willing to do. Everyone here on this panel is willing to do. There are a lot more people out there who are willing to do it. And I guess if they knew this, they knew what was happening. And they realized that if this child was theirs, this is what they would want. They'd want counsel to represent them and protect them and help them. Hopefully, we can move forward with that. I'd like to thank all of you. Steve, Bridget, Crystal, thank you all for being here. Thank you for having us. Thank you very much. Yeah, we'll look forward to the next time we get together to talk about the progress we've made. Aloha. Aloha. Thank you very much.


So it's easier to bring up a big brush and make general statements all the time, which is what our politicians do is talking points instead of focusing in and talking about the intricate, right, the micro. So I'll read that again.  Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries. So you can for now think about asymmetries as people that don't have any skin in the game, right, people who make decisions and don't pay the consequences when things go crazy. So let me read you this thing about bankers. Okay, but not to worry. If we do not decentralize and distribute responsibility, it will happen by itself the hard way. A system that does not have a mechanism of skin in the game with a buildup of imbalances will eventually blow up and self-repair that way. If it survives, for instance, bank blow-ups came in 2008 because of the accumulation of hidden and asymmetric risks in the system, bankers masters of risk transfer. That's his comment regarding the 2008 financial scam.


Welcome traders, another tip of the chart with me, Patrick, and we want to update Sterling Dollar on the daily timeframe. We are looking to put in an interim base here just above 134. I'm watching for any pullback into this prior support region at 136. What's for bearish reversal patterns there, set short positions, ultimately targeting an equality objective versus this B wave high at 139.87, down to 133.23. From there, we may see a more meaningful, corrective phase development. For now, watching for bearish reversal patterns at 136 to set short positions, targeting 133.20. As always, trade us, plan the trade, trade the plan, and most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


I've got a very special guest coming on. I'm here with my co-host right now, John MacArthur. And Brian Traskowski, who is the general manager of the IBM storage division. Brian, you've been on the queue before, but not in this type of setting. Thanks very much for making time out of your busy schedule. Glad to be here. So this is really kind of your group's show. I mean, it's kind of the coming out party for IBM, IBM Edge up on the stage this morning. How do you feel? Great. This is a first of its kind event for us, as you said. So we haven't done an event of this scale or magnitude in the past. So it is a coming out party of sorts. And we expect to continue it into the future and certainly grow it over time. I was talking to Dave Rasmussen last night. He was explaining to me that last year you had a customer event. Didn't have a name. It was just got a bunch of customers together. And it was very successful. And this event, Edge, spawned from that interaction, right? Is that? Yeah. Well, we've been running an STG, what we call smarter computing event, client events. And as we've noticed over the last year or two, storage is becoming an increasingly integral part of our smarter computing strategy. And we thought it warranted some new thinking and a new venue and a new approach as we move forward. And our clients and our business partners have been looking for something I believe of this nature. Well, it feels energized here. And to me, the observation that we were making at the top of the discussion here was that IBM, 10 years ago, put some of its storage initiatives, its system storage initiatives on ice and made some moves.  You had to make some acquisitions. And you've been doing that over the past five, six, seven years. Now, people might expect, OK, you're part of the systems division. You're part of the software division now. Maybe you could piggyback on those events. But you're choosing to actually shine a light on storage. And the message here is all about the portfolio. Talk about that a little bit. I mean, we've been asking, can IBM get back its storage mojo? Sure. Well, and I think you make a couple good points. We're focused on innovation and integration at the same time. So we know we need to innovate in the storage space. And we've been doing that for 60-some years. So depending on your point of view, you could argue we created the storage industry. Back in the 1950s, right? So we have a lot of experience here. So we need to leverage what we've done in the storage space over a long period of time. At the same time, I don't think there's anyone in the industry that can integrate the capabilities the way our clients are asking us to, to your point, with servers, with software, with services, components, and IBM. So it's not either or one or the other. We need to be good at storage and innovating around storage. But more and more of our clients are demanding this notion around integration. And I think that's critically important to us going forward. We had Laura on earlier. And we were talking about the whole challenge. And I'll ask you the question. So the hard part of your job is, like you said, you've got the integration. And there's immediate ROI to doing integration on things that maybe others don't pay as much attention to. Look at the integration you've done with Protectier and the main frame side. Look at the average prices of those and the margins that you get for those. And I know you can't comment specifically on that. But that's good business. That drives ROI and free cash flow. And we made the comment that IBM outperformed Apple last year as a stock. A lot of people don't really pay attention to that. At the same time, you've got a lot of pressure from clients to sort of chase a lot of what the startups are doing, a lot of the new features. So how do you balance those? Can you do both? I think you can. I mean, first of all, a lot of the competitors in our space I think would like to look a lot like IBM. So our ability to integrate our broad software portfolio, our broad services portfolio, that is some unique value add we can bring to our clients. And unique capability we can leverage for our business partners advantage as well. So I think we can be both. We have to be able to do both. And frankly, our competitors aspire to be more like IBM. So one of my challenges to your point is, A, do what we need to do in storage. But equally important, leverage what's powerful and good about the rest of IBM. Because I think that's where the real value is delivered to our clients in the end. Can you talk a little bit about how it was down at the, and we saw each other down at the Pure Systems, the Pure Flex announcement, which is very impressive, by the way. We've said a lot of very positive things about that. Storage fits into that. Can you talk about how you're drafting off of that announcement, what it means to you, that whole strategy of integrated systems? Well, first of all, Pure Systems, Pure Flex, and Pure Application Systems are clean sheet initiatives from IBM. So we really started from scratch, based on our understanding of what clients are looking for in that integrated space. And it really is a new category, expert integrated systems. And storage has been and will continue to be an integral part of that solution set going forward. So have we drafted on it? I would say no. I think we've been an integral part of the design and development of that. A lot of the capabilities we delivered in storage over the last many years are an integral part of that solution set and frankly has influenced the design to a great extent around graphical user interface, virtualization, and some of those capabilities. Okay, so that's, so now, you guys made the B&T acquisition, I don't know, over a year ago now. And that part of that IP, a big part of that IP was the scale-in networking, which is sort of a new term that you guys put forth. That's obviously IP that's part of your organization. Now, you talked about sort of starting from scratch, right? Which was, I think, a very impressive way to approach it. How about the storage piece? How does storage fit in? You're uniquely allowing other people storage. I don't think anybody else does that with their converged infrastructure, what you guys call expert integrated systems. Talk about how storage fits into that white sheet of paper design. Well, I think it starts with what we were trying to accomplish with peer systems to begin with, the integrated nature of the platform, the ability to scale seamlessly, the ability to simplify the deployment of the technology, the ability to simplify the management of the overall infrastructure, and the ability to add it in very efficient ways that you want to add more capacity and more functionality and feature set. So, storage in that regard and what we've done with technologies like sand volume controller and our virtualization capabilities was a natural fit as part of that solution set. At the same time to your point, we know storage needs to be evolutionary, not necessarily revolutionary. And we understand that clients have made investments in pre-existing storage platforms, whether it's from IBM or third party. So, our ability to allow clients to integrate that existing infrastructure investment into those systems, we think is an important differentiator that allows customers to protect that investment and yet get the advantages from the integrated capabilities we deliver with peer. So Brian, when, so EMC went down a path with their storage management software platform, it's probably going back 10 years or so when Chris Cahagan was running it, I think, where they were going to manage everybody else's storage. And so, and they made a massive investment, the integration effort that they tried to put forward to write to everybody's interfaces so that they could manage non-EMC storage. They really, they tried that and they failed, they frankly failed that and they backed away from it and they said, no, we're just, we're going to manage our stuff better than anybody else. How are you different and why are you going to succeed? It's not just about management. So John, what we're doing is focused on virtualizing that environment. So at the core of this is our ability to virtualize those volumes and by doing so then you can leverage a common user interface. So it's about what is that management layer? How do you accomplish it? And it's not just being good at managing to a set of industry standard interfaces for management sake. It's about how do you integrate this in a fashion that allows you to virtualize everybody's storage, integrate it in a unique way and then naturally you get the management capability with that. And how does sort of, someone was talking to John Singh earlier and he was talking about there's a set of investments that companies are making on managing 30% more capacity every year, 20% more efficiently because that budget's getting squeezed. So in terms of sort of these, this approach, are we focused on that 30% growth at 20% less cost kind of sector or are we focusing some of that on some of the faster growing areas where we've got explosive? Yeah, I mean, it's a combination of going after new opportunities where performance is important. But clearly, in fact, I think it was Wikibon who said by 2013, 70% of the IT spend is going to be on the management of the IT. So that's still a very important aspect we have to deal with. The budgets are not growing at the rate and pace that data is growing at. So we have to solve both of those problems at once. Go after new opportunities that may be performance based, maybe capacity based, but we fully understand that if we don't help our clients solve the challenges around the efficiency and being able to optimize these environments so they're not having to try to spend at that same rate as the capacity growth, we and our clients won't be successful. And this is a huge issue that you guys are trying to attack this IT labor problem I call it. Where two thirds of the spend in IT is on people. And we're supposed to be automating all these tasks. So with the data growth where it is, that just can't continue, John. Yeah, and you had an initiative a few years back called Autonomic Storage. This is different from Autonomic Storage. Yeah, well I think what we announced around smarter storage is really about several things. It's efficiency to help with those problems and efficiency that's built in and automatic and not needing as many resources to be thinking about it. It's also about self-optimization. So understanding workloads, understanding the performance needs. And again, using the deep analytics skills and math skills we have in IBM to deploy that. When I think about some of the growth opportunities in big data and data analytics, you're very close to the applications. And you're also very close to the business of your customers. So if you're an IBM customer, you're really, really, IBM can be really, really close. How does that sort of drive your ability to differentiate in terms of selling the whole solution, selling storage or designing solutions that are better business problems? Well, I think it allows us to differentiate on several levels. First of all, we run some of the largest data centers in the world, in IBM on behalf of our clients. As an infrastructure outsourcer. As an infrastructure outsourcer. And a lot of that's running on IBM gear. A mix of gear, frankly, because what we acquire through those... Do you pull their stuff in? We pull their stuff in. So there's a lot of experience we're gaining from running some of the largest data centers in the world. So sand volume controller, as an example, would be a wonderful tool for you to drive efficiency into an environment if they hadn't been using it and you want to leverage those. It's a wonderful tool for our strategic outsourcing colleagues to leverage, to drive efficiency for their clients. At the same time, we also have very tight relationships with our software group colleagues. So we work with the streams organization, the analytics teams and software group. How do we refine, based on an experience from our services organization, refine that linkage and integration point we talked about earlier to make sure we're providing the most value to our clients end-to-end across all of IBM's both software and hardware components. And how does that drive you as a company in terms of your, and as a business unit owner, how do you, how does that inform you through your both R&D and your acquisition strategy?  I'm just looking at the 2.4 billion that HPE paid for three par and you look at, you know, the 2. something billion that EMC paid for data domain. You've made much smaller acquisitions earlier on in the sort of formation growth of the company. Can you just talk a little bit about that? Sure, well, I think it's a good observation. I think our software organization is very good at that. I think we get a lot of insight early as to where our gaps are emerging opportunities is maybe a better way to say it in our business models. And I think we have a very refined process that allows us to identify some of those companies very early in the process and make strategic moves ahead of when some of our competition is even thinking about it. But more importantly, we're making huge organic investments in IBM through the six billion we spend in R&D every year. So we can leverage that six billion in R&D spend, I think, in some very unique ways. And a lot of what we do is homegrown. And again, it comes back to that integration we talked about and then using acquisitions because we don't create all of the best IP in the world and building out richer and more complete solutions through that acquisition strategy. We have a lot of conversations on theCUBE as to who's the best at acquiring companies. IBM obviously is right up there. We always throw at IBM and Oracle. IBM is very disciplined. And it doesn't seem to go chasing companies at auction. Yeah, don't get into bidding wars between volume server vendors as an example. You know, at the same time, at the same time you see a company like EMC that does really clearly goes after bidding wars. Excuse me, and it doesn't have your track record, but it has some clear successes. And so the acquisition versus R&D discussion is always interesting. I always like to ask, and I'm gonna ask and I can almost predict what the answer's gonna be, but what's a better investment? Is acquisitions or R&D? It depends on the use case, right? You knew the answer, right? I think it's consistent with what we just talked about. So obviously the core strategy is our organic investment. But to your point, I think we've gotten good at acquisitions and we use those to embellish, improve, enhance our capabilities. And it's all about delivering client value in the end. Right, right. So I'm gonna talk about the messaging at the, I guess we don't have much time. Real quick, so we've got smarter storage, efficient buy design, cloud agile, good high level messages. You started to talk about some of the examples beneath them. Is this really the roadmap that you're gonna put forth in terms of the portfolio over the next two to three years? It is, it'll influence my investment decisions. So we will use these attributes as kind of a key lever that will inform what we're doing in our development plans. We'll be able to describe them that way. There isn't clean boundaries between any of these attributes, but clearly based on the 20 plus innovations we're announcing here today, you'll start to see common threads in how we're approaching our portfolio and how that translates then into value for the client. So last question is what really excites you? I'm growing hair. I'm growing my hair too. I'm thinking about doing the St. Baldrick's thing. Are you? Yeah, I've been challenged to do it on theCUBE. I was gonna ask you to deal with me, but you're already there. Really, seriously, what I'm really excited about is the energy and excitement from the clients we have here at the Edge Conference. So I'm always energized by the time with clients and our business partners. So that truly is exciting me. And I'm just happy to be here and happy we're going to be able to provide the agenda we are for our clients the next several days. Excellent. Brian Traskowski, thanks very much for taking time out. Thank you. Come on theCUBE. It was really a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Nice to see you guys. Thank you very much. All right, get it right there. This is theCUBE and we'll be right back live from Orlando. This is IBM Edge. This is theCUBE.


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I'm Corbin, I'm Brick, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Do you remember those on Patreon? You saw this first, like always. It's true. And there's exclusive content on there, stuff that gets blocked. A lot of our stuff gets blocked because... It's true, but then Corbin does his magic, and you know what happens? In your face, blockers. Yeah. Had to do that last night. Uh, but... Tudum... Requested one for a long time. Awful, awful, awful, long time. Ever since the trailer was spoiled for me. Yep. Um, but it's, uh, Kahani.  Yes, very kind of. They have not, not spoiled one since. So I'm, I'm grateful. Uh, but it's, uh, directed by Su, Sujoy Gosh. Sujoy Gosh? Yeah, you're getting pretty good. Um, which sucks, because I like the Corbinizations. But the channel is over now. Yeah. Goodbye, everybody. Last night, obviously starring Vidya Balan, which I find really interesting that that character name is the same character name as her real name and the whole play on the V sound of the V sound.  Yeah, anyway. Um, yes. And then, obvious, and, and of course... And of course, Nwazed it. Which I forgot or didn't know. I don't know, did you really, did you remember that he was in it? I did. Okay, I did. Yeah, I was waiting for Nwazed to appear. I saw his name at the beginning. I was like, oh yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I remembered he was in it and then I was just waiting for him to appear. Uh, and this was a very Gary Oldman role, too. I mean, come on, very, very much so. Uh, but you want to read the synopsis? Sure. The synopsis is this. In case you didn't know. A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Calcutta, but every one she questions desires... Wait a minute. Denies. Sorry. But everyone she questions denies having ever met him. That's a good synopsis. There. Um, and 100% spoiler review. Wait a minute. Oh, that's a great poster. It is. That's a great poster. You see the touches they did on that to... We'll talk about that in a second. Yeah, spoiler review. Obviously, 100% spoiler. If you haven't seen this yet, I think you've all seen this. Yeah. I think it's her most popular film. Except for my dad. Uh, and I want to know what was the... Because I remember you got spoiled, but I didn't know what they said. What did they say in the... One of the comments when I was looking through the comments, because I will do that. I will look after... We post one. I'll let time go by so there's comments. And then I'll go into the comments and see what people are saying and reply and respond and have a touch with the super babies. Somebody in the comments, first thing they say about the gay, she's not pregnant. She's faking it. I'm like, gotcha. Thanks. I thought it was something around that. Slat out. She's not pregnant. While I was watching it, I was like, I'm wondering if this is what they said. Yeah. Slat. I'm hoping it didn't ruin the film for you. It... I'll tell you in a second. But yes. This was a... And also this director directed Bad Luck. Yes. I know. I saw that. That there's... Which we loved. Yes. This guy's very good at directing. Very good director. This guy knows how to direct thriller. I mean, I'm sure he knows how to direct other stuff. Other stuff, yeah. The thriller is a really good thriller. The stuff with twists in it? Yep. And I was... We'll talk about that. Watching it is one because it got spoiled for Rick. And not me. It did not get spoiled for me. But I wanted to see if I could wait and he's old and see if he would forget. And so... I'm not that old. Did you know when I suggested Kehani it was the one that he was spoiled? Or did you know when you started watching it? No, I never... You knew? I always knew. Okay, cool. Yeah. But I also will say this because I had commented a reaction or two later and Stupid Baby saw I was genuinely pissed off because my motto was let the movie tell the story. And thankfully you all have been gloriously beautiful and not ruining films. So many Stupid Babies replied and said, even though you know that, please watch it because there's a lot more stuff you don't know that you'll appreciate. It's not the only twist. It's not the end all be all of it. It's a huge twist. Yes, of course. But it isn't the only twist. And I'm grateful that we followed through on it and watched it. So we can talk about one... Let's start with her. Her performance. Let's start with her. Okay guys, when we reacted to Mission Mongol, they got mad at me because I didn't put her name in the title because I knew Topsy and we've seen Topsy in a bunch of stuff. We loved Topsy. And some people got mad. They were like, why would you put Topsy and not put her? She's a god. Topsy's a peasant. Blah, blah, blah, blah. She's been acting before Topsy was even born. I don't know. I'm sure. This is our first experience with her. She's a phenomenal actress. She has amazing screen presence. Freaking tasked actress. She immediately jumped to the top of the list for me of actresses I'm excited about. Yeah, to learn more about and just let us know what else we should react to with her. But her performance was in so nuance, especially knowing the whole thing after you finish it and everything like that. All the little stuff she added and all the little details. She's very small, but she's also very motherly. Great listener. She played that very well. Great listener. She's a terrific... She never had a false moment. Really? No. I can't rant about her enough. Great actress. I mean, this film would have been great even without her. I agree. Like any... An actor who didn't put the performance she did. If they were a solid actor, the role itself was written and the story is written so well. But she obviously added... Yeah, but reading the script, she just must have been like... Same with Nawaz. Anybody in this thing must have just gone, let's get working, man. Because the script was great, the story is great. Yeah. Her performance was just as it should. And I did a little research about her. And this is one of my most favorite things about this film. And I have a lot of favorite things about this film because I loved it. One of my favorite things about this film is this is probably... Remember when we reviewed Devdas? I said there was levels of it that we could understand because of our appreciate nice. We could appreciate it in a certain respect now because we had had some level of immersion in the Indian culture and spirituality and everything else. But still felt like there was a whole myriad of things we didn't grasp. This was probably the first film I saw where I had had enough exposure and homework about the setting, the context and some of the underlying things that we would have previously missed where I really could enjoy this at a deep, deep level. Yeah. And we'll talk about it in a second. Yeah. But there's really nothing to dislike about this movie. Yeah. And we could talk about Nawaz as well. This guy... Oh, I have one thing I could say. We'll talk about it later. This guy. Let's go. Let's just... Hey, I know you guys don't care about Holly.   Yep.  He could be one of the best Bond villains of all time. Ever. Yeah. Who's his... Okay. Here's the thing. I know you don't care. He may not care. He may not care. Like, I know Alia has said that she would like to branch out and extend that. She's actually been here. She would like to penetrate the American market and cinema, which she should. Yes. She's good enough to do that. Because the level is that good. Nawazadin is an Oscar level actor who, if he got the right role here, would become a household name. It was one of the great character actors around in cinema. And freaking should be known here that way. Yep. 100%. Yeah. If you want to watch us be even more... Doesn't need it. No. Doesn't ever need to be in an American film. Whatever. We're just mad that Americans don't know about him. Doesn't know about him. And they're not going to, sadly, because they're not going to watch Indian cinema. Yeah, but we can rattle off ten names that we feel that way. Yeah. But he's at the top of my list. Yeah, he's so crazy. Because he's so good. He doesn't try. No. No. Like, he's very just natural with all of his performances. But he's so... He has the screen presence, we said before, of an Al Pacino. Yes. Just a magnetism. The camera loves him. And he is a minor role in... I mean, he's supporting, I suppose. He's a supporting role. He's a supporting role. Yeah. It's not like he's... Vidya. Yeah, she's the star. She's got the lead role. And the co-star would be the other guy who plays the cop that's alongside of him. Very, very well. Very good job. But his performances, and he had the twists of his own in this story, which was good. Yeah. Is he good? Is he bad? Yeah. So now we're talking about that they're a freaking director. Man, you know how to play a film to where... Because obviously when you do a thriller and you're trying to guess what's going on. Right. You have to be ahead of the audience because... That's how I'm watching films, especially thrillers. Yeah. Of course. You're trying to guess what's going on. Okay, that's going to happen here. Right. And I called her not being pregnant pretty early. Uh-huh.  There's other... There's a very early hint. Yeah. About double identity when she's taking the... Not the taxi ride. She's getting a ride from... What's his name? The police officer that she's talking to. The character name and the actor name. Uh... This? Are my... No. That's not it? That's not the name. No. No, I think that... Oh, inspect this with him. No, right here. Yeah, Rana. Thank you. Rana. She's driving with Rana very early. She's just arrived in Calcutta.  Your name is Rana, but it says this on the name tag. And he explains that Bengali people have two names. They have the proper name and they have the name that's more common when they're used. And she says... She says something of the effect of interesting two identities. And it's just a little... Little wink, wink. Yeah. And I called that from pretty early, but it was still shocking to see her kick in the stomach, you know? It's like... Oh!  Right? Yeah, with a nail pipe. But... And then when... I was like, she's going to take off her belly. It's... There's something like... Because I thought that... There's a whole mirage of things. I didn't get the noisement twist. I thought he was the bad guy. I did too. I thought he was part of the bad team. That's a fun thing to learn. Like, he was bad, but he's actually the good guy. Right. And then at the end, I was like, so why is she doing it? I was like... Because I thought her husband was like a spy. But it just so happened that he was kind of almost caught up in a mistake. Yeah, and died on that train. Yeah. So this for her was to avenge. For her and she lost her child because of it. Because of the strain and the stress of what had taken place. So for her, man, she rips... She knocks the gun out of his hand. And she jabs the thing in his foot. And then when she jabs the thing in his neck... I shouted, heck yeah! And then this is so badass. He's going away. She's broken his leg. And he's running it in slow-mo.  Oh yeah, I love that. She fussed out. And she's ready. Oh! Loved it. Yeah. Loved it. And then she just emptied her gun into it. Yeah. Just fantastic. Fantastic ending. So I can't speak enough to this director. Yeah, brilliant direction. Truly great thriller direction. Two of your films now, I believe. Yeah. The two things that immediately jumped out of you at the film. There were three things that jumped out of me immediately. First was her acting. I immediately knew this was a really, really talented actress. And the watchers, of course. Yeah, but he came later. I'm talking like... The first ten minutes of the film, she's a great listener. She's a great actress. I can't wait to watch this film because I'm going to enjoy her. This guy knows how to direct. Yeah. And I really... A really big thing for me, again, this goes back to what I said earlier in regard to having a more... A more... A deeper appreciation of this film than I would have months ago. Yeah. Because I have begun to be exposed to a lot more of what's going... Particularly Bengali film and culture in the city of Calcutta, right? Stuff that would just... I've been exposed to that. Yeah. And what I... And this particular festival and the symbolism of what takes place when the... The Durga puja that takes place in the fall. Like, see the poster? Mm-hmm. They're conveying she is Goddess Durga. Yeah. With big arms. Yeah, they kept alluding to that in the film. 100%. And I did some homework on her and discovered that, for example, if we were Indian and we were waiting for this film to come out and we saw her in this role, remember when people said Akshay was perfect for Kasari? Yeah. Because of the national pride he brings to a role? Yeah. And he can portray a particular kind of role because he's already portrayed things and has a persona. She has, at this point, already done some films about women empowerment. Oh. And he's already an actress that cinema goers would look at and go, oh, who else would you want to have play? It's like if we were doing it here, I would think of an actress that would immediately come to mind who's always playing these women that are empowered and flipping the tables on men. Yeah. I don't know in that regard, but I did have a fellow while watching it not saying they're the same actress at all, but just the kind of presence and talent she reminds me of is Amy Adams. Sure. I actually, in many respects, because she's, I don't know. Or Young Streep, even. Yeah, she has it. You know who else she reminds me of a bit? And I think it's because of the dark eyes and dark hair. There's some Natalie Portman strength going on in there. Because Natalie Portman can play a really strong woman. Oh, yeah. And she conveys, and there were times she gave glimmers of it that were so gorgeous.  But she flips a switch with him when he's saying to her, you don't know who you're dealing with. And she basically looks at him and says, yeah, you don't know who you're dealing with. And Nawazuddin just gets a little, like, what? Yeah. Why are you talking to me like that?  That scene was similar. The scene between Nawaz and her, just then too. Yeah. Reminded me a lot of Joker and Batman kind of just watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two actors. Two actors just do their thing. And go at it. And that's why I love it. I love it so much. Just absolutely. Two really, really good actors just kind of throwing blows. Yeah. Kind of like a boxing match. Absolutely. And so I loved it. And I thought she did a phenomenal job. And I loved, here's the other thing I loved. At the outset, I loved the, as I said, her acting, the direction. And the other thing I loved from beginning to end, and especially as the film concluded, I loved how this director utilized and made Calcutta a character in the film. And conveyed not only the sense of the culture, but as I've done research and talked with people who are from there, the significance of this particular festival at this time of year and what it represents and how this character that she portrays is the embodiment of this goddess that is celebrated at this time and that she actually does what she does during the festival and winds up going into the parade and blending in and having the colors put on her. And then at the end, it's Big B doing the narration with the goddess being submerged, which they do at the end. This was the first time I could fully, I feel, appreciate a film from India where a director was adding subtle nuances of the culture and the spirituality and a festival and tying it into the story in such a way that you recognize the artistic brilliance of the script, the story and the direction and the score and everybody together where, just like the end, I felt as fully immersed in the story and could capture the larger brilliance of the director taking the story and marrying it to this festival so that it was a celebration of both moviemaking and I got to imagine that people from Calcutta have got to be really proud of this film and the way it portrays them and their city and this festival that's so important to them. This is one of my favorite films we've seen. This would be at the top three, top five of films I would recommend to an American who has never seen 100% any Indonesian cinema because it would be a good blend of what they know because it needs to be something similar in terms of style of film to something they're familiar with. You can't just show them Devdas. No, they would, or Lagan, they would lose their minds over that. You need to be exposed more but this kind of film, I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't taken this idea, honestly. They're really good but the idea of it doesn't work. The acting is all brilliant, the directing, the score even. It's a subtle score but it helps the film move along which is as impressive as a big score. And even as we're learning, because we've learned before we started doing the channel we just knew India and then we began to realize, oh there's East India and there's South India and there's North India and there are completely diverse differences of the rural versus the urban and then there's... And so this regionally, the Bengali of this I know reading some notes because we haven't jumped into this filmmaker's work but Sajit Reha, if I'm pronouncing his name correctly the legend of the Bengali cinema, we did the trilogy thing that we had done that they haven't seen because as happens... Well, Patreon has seen it. Yeah, Patreon's seen it. It got copyrighted. It got copyrighted but it'll be here. There are apparently hints and little celebrations that this director does that are shout outs to that director's films. That if we were watching, for example, a contemporary director who started doing some things that were Hitchcockian we as American cinema lovers would go I loved his shout outs to Hitchcock. Apparently this director and that makes me... I can get emotional. The love he has for the artistry and the cinema of this region of India is just to me as about as beautiful as it gets. Yeah, I would love to delve one more into her obviously and then his work as well. So let us know for both of them what of her films we should react to next or watch and then his films as well. Yeah. The only thing I didn't like... There's a second one. Yeah, there was. You know what? I learned this about it. Talk about success. They filmed this thing on a shoestring budget of about a million American writers. Oh, wow. That's not a lot. And it made 15 million in its first couple of weeks. Really? Yeah, American by ratio. The only thing I didn't like about it were some of the really small roles were bad. Really small. Like the secretary at the office that they went to talk to every once in a while who had maybe five lines. The guy at the Mona Lisa at the front desk. I'm talking... That's super, super, super, super nitpicky that I wouldn't even mention to people when I'm recommending the movie because they probably wouldn't even notice. That's me being uber critical. Those didn't bother me too much. Yeah. I'm being uber. I just got to pinpoint it to say that's the only thing that takes it from being just almost a perfect film for me. I give it an A plus. A plus. 100% of it is an A plus. One of my favorites. One of my favorites just again. I would... I'm actually going to because you know who... You shall not be named. She was like, you watched that without me? And I want Ashley and Alexis to see this as well. I would put this, for example, because it's similar. It's the exact same way you do. When I'm recommending movies to people here, I will tell them which ones I think they'll ingest because it'll be more palatable to their cinema appetites. Like, I think Gully Boy is extremely palatable for American cinema. Yeah. This one even more so. This one even more so. Because of the runtime. Exactly. Yeah. And so is Pink. Yeah. And so is Badla. Very similar. But, example, as much as this is similar to, say, Pink and Badla because it's a thriller, it doesn't have the legal aspect of it. But this one is so much more immersed and sapping and ripping with Indian culture and Bengali culture. It's just fun too.  And even with somebody who got it completely spoiled once again, I didn't. Yeah. Even with the spoiler, you can still enjoy it because it's such a well-made film. This movie has an impact for me that's much deeper because I have had a particular focus of what I've been looking at and reading about in regard to Calcutta and Bengali life and Bengali filmmaking. And that ending picture for me where the goddess is being submerged and the symbolism of that and knowing what that means and knowing what this particular festival means, this had a much deeper impact on me that if I had watched this three months ago, wouldn't have hit me the same way. I mean, it would have been a good film. It would have been a great film. That's what's beautiful about it is it's both a film that the average American can see and love but the person who's going to become immersed particularly in this part of India, it was like a providentially beautiful moment to see this movie for me right now. So let us know what else we should watch and review next of his films and her films as well. I absolutely want to see so much more of her films. Both of them. Both of them. And obviously, you know how we feel about Nawaz, but of course we're going to watch so much.