Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean. CodePink's weekly YouTube program of hot news out of the region. In partnership with Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, Interreligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Task Force on the Americas, we broadcast weekly at 4.30 p.m. Pacific, 7.30 p.m. Eastern on CodePink's YouTube channel. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Telegram, and now at radindymedia.com. Today's episode, the impending US invasion of Haiti. I'm really honored and pleased and excited to have our guest, Jamima Pierre, of Black Alliance for Peace. Some of you know we've tried a number of times to have her join us, and so here she is with us today. I want to tell all of you a little bit about her. She's got an impressive resume. She is Associate Professor, Department of African-American Studies, and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. She has a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African studies and African diaspora studies, and engage three broad areas, race, racial formation theory, and political economy, culture, and the history of anthropological theory, and transnationalism, globalization, and the diaspora. She is the author of the Predicament of Blackness, Post-Colonial Guyana, and the Politics of Race. So welcome, Jamima. Really an honor to have you with us today. Thanks so much for having me. It's my pleasure. I would, let me give the audience a brief background of what we're going to talk about today. On Monday, October 17th, thousands of protesters across Haiti, oops, sorry, I lost my audio there, thousands of protesters across Haiti, protested, forced the resignation or protesting the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The protest started hours before the United Nations Security Council held a split vote over sending an international force to Haiti to help with deteriorating security and a surge in cholera after powerful gangs took over the main port and blocked fuel deliveries. The government had been awaiting a response to Henry's recent request for the international community to help set up a quote specialized armed force, unquote, to quell the violence which has worsened in the power vacuum created by the 2021 assassination of President Covenal Moise. The United States and Mexico said on October 17th that they are preparing another UN resolution that would authorize, quote, an international assistance mission, unquote, to help improve security and crisis rack Haiti so that humanitarian and desperately needed medical supplies by millions of people could be delivered. Petroleum stations have remained closed. Hospitals have slash services in and as well as businesses, including banks and supermarkets have cut their hours as everyone across the country runs out of fuel. So Jamima, let's talk about this intervention that seems to be coming and there's a lot of euphemisms that Mexico, United States and UN have used to create an intervention and maybe for the audience, it'd be really good for you to talk to us about the significance of October 17th in the history of Haiti because this is a really important date and not just for Haiti, in my opinion, not just for Haiti, but for the hemisphere as well. And we don't talk enough about this in the hemisphere. Right, so October 17th is important because it was the anniversary of the assassination of Jean-Jacques de Salin who's the father of the Haitian nation. He took over the revolution after the French captured Toussaint Louverture who had helped begin the revolution against the French and against slavery and colonialism in 1791 and he took over once Toussaint Louverture was captured by the French in 1803 and he was assassinated by rivals in 1806 but after he declared Haiti independent and a republic and wrote the constitution. And so I think it's really amazing that, and I don't even think that this was an accident that they would choose this date, the U.S. and it's, I'll call them minions and its peoples in creating this to have this conversation where they were thinking about, they're thinking about sending an armed group to intervene into Haiti at this moment. And so it's really, which is really seen as an affront to the Haitian people. They were very, not frustrated but angry at the audacity of the U.S. at this particular moment over this meeting in particular, but in general since the protests have been going on for 10 weeks. So this particular set of protests has been going on for 10 weeks but there have been a series of protests in Haiti over more recent years, probably 300 years really Haitians fought for their freedom and have continued to fight ever since it's, they've never been fully recognized as sovereign people, not with their dead and not with their lives but there's been a series of eruptions protests like for the last three to five years. So to me, from the outside looking in, this is a series of protests of the Haitian people expressing their frustration with external interference and really pushing for their sovereignty to be respected. That's correct. And I do wanna say one of the things that emerges from the Western media around the current, what they wanna call crisis in Haiti is the fact that they actually have not highlighted the protests what they've highlighted, they've hidden the protests under the discourse of gangs and personalize it to one gang member. And that's the way the U.S. does it, it demonizes one person and then that becomes the boogeyman for intervention or bombings or drones and so on and so forth. And so I called it the bin Ladenization of these young men in Haiti. But so the protests have been going on for 10 weeks primarily and this is key and this is why it's not mentioned in the mainstream press because the Haitian de facto prime minister which was installed by the U.S. in the core group and not elected, removed few subsidies from Haiti. And this is something that the U.S. has been trying to do for a long time. And so, and I would like to point people to assistant secretary for the region, Brian Nichols who admitted just yesterday in an interview on CNN that when they asked them why the U.S. supports Aya Ali, he says, well, he has ended few subsidies on which is something we have wanted to see in Haiti for quite some time and I respect them for that. So that tells you everything where it's, the shame of this thing is that the fact that you dismissed the principles of basic good politics and policy when it comes to Haiti, how can you praise the government for cutting subsidies that led to 130% increase in prices amongst the global economic crisis, right? And so to put this in context, the average minimum wage in Haiti is about $2 a day, right? Gas prices were about, I think three or $4 a gallon with the removal of subsidies, the prices are now $6 a gallon and people are making $2 a day and it's outrageous. And one of the key reasons why one of the young men who's blocking one of the key oil areas in Haiti, he say until the subsidies are put back in place, he's gonna block everyone, right? And so one of the things we have to know about is the U.S. insistence of really killing Haitian labor and they've done that over and over again, just maybe about 12 years ago, the WikiLeaks file revealed how the Obama administration tried to prevent the government from raising Haitian minimum wage to $5 a day, right? And so these are like bread and butter issues that the Haitians are protesting and they're protesting and they want this Prime Minister gone, they want him to step down because he's a puppet and he was installed without, he has no legitimacy, he was installed by foreigners. And but also he's been able to remove the subsidies and the reason there are protests, and I have to say you say the past three to five years, there are protests in 2018 when Joel Velmaiz, another illegitimate president tried actually announced that he would remove the fuel subsidies. And so everyone took to the streets and so it was so politically bad that he actually didn't do it. But the U.S. is able to get this are your only guy to come in and do it. So that's really the key to the protest, but also general frustration of interference. You know, and I guess we could talk about this later, but the reason that there's a security issue is because there's been about 700,000 guns dumped into Haiti coming through private ports and these ports are owned by the Haitian, well, I don't know if you wanna call them, but the non-black oligarchy, there are transnational oligarchy that lived in Miami, in France, different places in the Western world that own these ports. So there's no way that you have guns coming through Haiti without the people knowing, without the U.S. and the guns are coming from the U.S. And so there's been a dumping of guns into the area, into Port-au-Prince and that's really caused an increase in young men who have nothing to do. They're being given guns by these political parties, by these oligarchs to fight one another to protect their assets in the country. So that's really what's behind the insecurity that could be fixed by actually just stopping the guns from leaving the U.S. and getting to Haiti. But instead, what the U.S. wants to do is actually send an armed mercenary force, really, to basically prop up this completely illegal legitimate and unpopular prime minister that they installed. So what I am hearing, understanding is that these 700,000 guns, this is a way to destabilize the country internally, the gang violence, and then the gang violence that's being manufactured, that violence is being used as the excuse for an international force to intervene. So it's a manufactured crisis, which is not unique to Haiti in my opinion. Exactly, it's not unique to Haiti. And I wish, and I always say this, and I say, if people didn't exceptionalize Haiti so much, they would see the patterns. And I was talking to a group just yesterday, an older Caribbean activist group, and they're saying, well, the U.S. did the same thing in Jamaica in the 80s, just dump all kinds of weapons into the country. And so Jamaica's violence is out off the chain compared to Haiti, really, or even Mexico. And that's the most ironic part, is that you have these cartels controlling things, but yet, you have Mexico trying to send a force to Haiti. But one of the key things to think about is the intervention, I want people to really know what the U.S. is trying to propose here. And Haiti is the laboratory for U.S. foreign policy experiments, because it is through the Global Fragility Act, which was passed by Donald Trump in 2019, which is the new foreign policy template for the U.S. And what the Global Fragility Act says is that they're trying to find a way to use allies in the region to, they're like, they're gonna focus on fragile countries, fragile states that are violent. And they're using- Fragile is defined by the United States. Exactly. Or as a manufacturer. As a manufacturer. Right, and so, exactly. And so the whole point then, this new foreign policy is a combination of the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and USAID. This is the new model, and I hope people look up the Global Fragility Act. It's a new model for foreign policy where you basically deploy local forces around, and use so-called local-based solutions. And then local allies to actually work to bring security and safety to these different countries. And so what's happening with this Global Fragility Act is that the U.S. chose five countries, and guess which is the first country that they're trying it on? Haiti. So Haiti and Libya are the first two countries that they're gonna try the Global Fragility Act. And so I wanna talk about the intervention because one of the key problems, one of the key things that shock us all is that Haiti has had a long history of intervention. And Haiti is still under occupation from the 2004 coup d'etat that was led by Canada, France, and the U.S. and then hidden by the U.S. a Chapter 7 peacekeeping, so-called peacekeeping operation where the U.N. still runs Haiti. So the forces left in 2017, but they left the core group, which is run in the Beano office, which is run by Helen Lee, which is the office that actually led the charge on October 17th to ask for a foreign occupation. But this foreign occupation is different than the U.N. one is because they were very specific to saying that they want a non-U.N. multinational force. And you have to wonder why it is that they would want a non-U.N. force. And they want a force of like, almost like the coalition of the willing of having, you know, of not, you know, so we hated the U.N. occupation, but to have a force that's not under the U.N. mandate actually makes it even less legal. And they're, you know, so the legal realm of the legal parameters that these didn't become very confusing, right? And so basically it's like getting a coalition of countries willing to send troops into Haiti, armed troops that are, you know, but without the purview of the U.N. That to me is a bunch of mercenaries going into Haiti and doing that. And so, but the Global Fragilities Act is such that it basically says it will do something like that. So right now, what we see is happening is that I think we think that the U.S. they're having trouble getting the Western countries to provide troops, but they've already convinced the Karakam countries, the Caribbean countries to provide troops. So all in line one after another, the past week you had the Haman government, the Trinidad government, the Guyanese government saying that they are willing to send troops into Haiti. And that is a recipe for disaster. So let me ask, the U.N. still has a mission there, troops there, okay. So they have police there. They said they removed all the troops and the mission supposedly finished in 2019, but the U.N. office, the Vino office is still there. Yes. Okay. So there's still a presence there with police. Now you're going to introduce a non-U.S. Western. A non-right. Coalition. Black countries. Right. Yeah, I'm shocked about Karakam. Well, maybe not. No, you shouldn't be. No, maybe not. So listening to this, let me just ask you, are we seeing, to me when I see a coalition non-U.N. Western, I have to say to me, this is almost like watching what's playing out in Europe right now. And East-West. Probably more. Yes, and East versus West, or Eurasia versus the international community, Western. And, you know, it may also play out in other parts of the Americas as well, with Columbia being a NATO global partner and Venezuela being right next door as a Russian ally. I mean, is this like growing? Or maybe not growing, but becoming more and more visible, I guess. Yeah, but it's also using proxies everywhere so that U.S. troops don't have to be on the ground. And then you have to link this to military exercises because one of the things, the goal is to use soldiers from these, but with U.S. equipment and U.S. training, right? So then it makes sense then you have the Southern command that's been having military exercises every year. So operation trade wins, which is a military exercise that they have every year that includes all these Caribbean and some Latin American countries in the area where they have exercises right off the coast of Venezuela, right? And so that tells you what, so you wonder, so why are they doing these exercises? So that these countries, they can fulfill the role of the U.S. without, so it doesn't look like you have white people going into Haiti like you've had in the past in 1915 where it was like the white races from the South invading Haiti. Now you can have black and brown folks from the Caribbean and elicit some African help, right?  And that to me is distressing and we should all be outraged. So, oh boy, I've got like a whole list of questions that I've been scribbling down. So the Southern command has been off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, but very close to the coast. That was expand, that's like a full fleet there now, I believe, not just regional, but that's been expanded to a full fleet. The oil subsidies, the fuel subsidies in Haiti, is that part of Petro Caribe? Is that part of the Venezuelan oil program? It was historically, it's not any longer, is that my... Right, so that they've always, they've had the fuel subsidies predate the Petro Caribe. As far as I can tell, the Petro Caribe is a separate program, right? And so I'd have to double check whether or not it predates, but for people who don't know, this was under Hugo Chavez, one of the true friends of Haiti, of Venezuela. And God rest his soul, I wish he was still alive. A lot of us do. Yes, yes, oh my gosh. And so he created this fund for the Caribbean nations where when oil prices were really high, basically providing oil to these nations at major discount at a loan of 1% interest with that they did not have to pay for 25 years. And so then these nations would take the oil, sell it, and then use the profits for development projects. And the US, and so Lene Perval, who became president and signed on to the Petro Caribe, really the US wanted him out because they were very upset that he actually went behind their back and signed this deal in 2006. And they've been trying to get rid of Petro Caribe for the longest. And they got out of it once they installed Jovenel Moïse who was able, who got out of the Petro Caribe program, which would have been very helpful. But at the same time, not before the PhDK, the party that Hillary Clinton helped put in place, Michelle Martelli from 2010, stole about $2 billion worth of that money that was set up. And which is why you had protest from 2019 to 2020, saying all of these elites stole this party, this political party that was pushed onto people, all of them became extremely wealthy off of this Petro Caribe money. Okay, that's the missing link for me. So there's my light goes on. That's the missing link for me with, okay. So what is, oh, I had one other thing I wanted to ask about, find my notes here, I'm sorry. So with this non-UN, multinational force, and listening, mercenary force, yeah. I appreciate you using that word versus contractor, I hate that euphemism that's used in the West contracted. Yeah, well, when I was a kid, they were called mercenaries, and they still an appropriate term, a realistic term. What, so what sort of, aside from the protest in Haiti, what sort of protest pushback is happening in the region or globally? Or is Haiti on its own in this, again? I think Haiti, yeah. So often used. Yeah, I think Haiti is on its own, even though I've been heartened the past couple of weeks by how many people in the US have finally turned to Haiti and have been really pushing against invasions. And so you have people in Haiti, they've been protesting since the day of October 17th, protesting against the UN plan to send a force. There've been nonstop protests against a foreign invasion. Everyone is against the foreign invasion in Haiti. And one of the key things is, the US is saying that the Haitian government asked for a foreign invasion. Let's be clear, there is no Haitian government. There's an installed puppet minister that was asked, and I have to implicate the OAS, which Castro rightly called the Ministry of Colonies, where it was Luis Almagro, the right-wing OAS Secretary General that tweeted in October 6th, after he had come gummed to Haiti to support, and Almagro has supported every terrible dictator slash, whatever in Haiti, from the very beginning, right? But he's the one that tweeted, after meeting Ariel Henri, he tweeted that the Haitian government should ask for international support to help with this issue. The next day, Ariel Henri strongly asked, on behalf of the Haitian government, on behalf of Haitian people, for armed military intervention. And so it's ridiculous because people are protesting and say, well, this guy has no mandate, he's unelected, he has no, the only thing that's holding him up is US power. That's your reason he still has a position in Haiti and it's not a recognized position. So how could he ask for foreign intervention? So Haitians are constantly protesting this, but there've been a lot of people, I mean, groups here, you have a lot of groups, a lot of grassroots have been writing a lot of event, a lot of press releases, statements about this, against this intervention. There've been some in-person protests in all over the cities. And I can't really name all of this, but there've been quite a number. There's been a lot. Yeah, there've been some in Europe. And I hope they continue because what's happened as a response, one of the key things that happened during the vote though, is that China and Russia actually pushed back against the idea of an armed intervention. And I think there's a large, there's a Haitian group that actually wrote to China and Russia and asked for the veto. So did we have Black Alliance with these, we actually directed specific letters, we hand a little bit letters to them in Washington DC, asked them to vote no against intervention. So they brought this up saying, well, how could you have an intervention when there's an illegitimate president? That's what the Chinese representatives said during the meetings. But what we see happening, so even though now I think it's great, there's a tension to this. And we thought things subsided for a bit, right? Once they decided on sanctioning, which is ridiculous, sanctioning these individual so-called gang members as opposed to the people who financed them, which are the oligarch, right? But then despite the fact that the vote did not go through around the international intervention, the US has been nonstop working. So today, for example, you have the Pentagon sheet and the Canadian defense minister meeting to talk about a plan for Haiti. And then you have Brian Nichols announcing that by early November, they will find a force to go in and take care of Haiti. So they're relentless. So even if the point is, even if they don't get the UN Security Council go ahead, they've already decided because Canada sent a group of people today. Canada sent a plane full of equipment two weeks ago. And so people are saying, my sources on the ground are saying that Canada and the US are gonna provide logistics and the Caribbean and some African countries are gonna provide troops. So this is when we actually need to stand up and protest even more. Listening to you, it sounds to me that this international force, this non-UN force, because the UN is already there, China and Russia as part of the UN Security Council do not support intervention. So this is really very clearly a workaround from the UN. A workaround that they will continue to use later. Exactly. And specifically a workaround from China and Russia's position. Exactly. So once this works in Haiti, they will use it elsewhere. Exactly. That's why we say Haiti is the lab. They can try and get away with these things.  And I think that's the way to bypass the UN while still claiming to be working with the UN. Basically bypassing Russia and China. Exactly. Because that's part of the global fragilities act as well, it indentions Russia and China at the end. Yeah, and the whole Eurasia project versus the internet of the West or the quote, unquote, international community which is all of five countries out of 192. Yeah. Wow, this is like fascinating and also really scary. Scary. Awful. Yeah, it's horrifying. Yeah, we have a lot of work to do in the States, a lot to do. And so let's talk about work to do in the States. You mentioned so many different groups in the States that are, you know, have protest statements, letters, Black Alliance for Peace has written a letter to the president of Mexico. And maybe we should talk about that because I am talking with you from Mexico city.  And sometimes there are also slits as we're clearly seeing in the States within the government. And so what are you, you've written a letter, Black Alliance for Peace has written a letter address to Lopez Obrador. And can you share with us the content of that and what we can do to help uplift your concerns? Right. And I have to say this letter was actually an open letter to that was signed actually by a number of organizations that we were able to get quite a number. I think about 40 organizations to sign on with us against to talk to Amlo and just basically say, this is not the way to go. But one of the key things that I don't think people realize the way that first of all, the UN is an undemocratic institution. And if we began with that premise because you have five permanent seats, veto power and so on, right? So, and it was, you know, the history of the UN is linked to colonialism and the League of Nations and it's really set up to maintain European hegemony in the international community. So I wanna begin there. But so then what ends up happening is that the US really, you know, the UN Security Council has 15 seats even though you have the five permanent seats but you have rotating seats. And this is how the US has been able to actually exert its influence because you have the three African nations, you know in the rotating seat and they think they can curry favor the US if they go along with the plan. And who are those three? But Mexico's, I think it's Gabon, Kenya. I don't, the several, maybe Ghana. I'd have to double check. Yeah. So those are the three African nations. They vote along the US. Mexico also has a rotating seat and but Mexico is what's considered a co-pen holder in the UN Security Council. And co-pen holder, the role is basically to help, they focus on one specific issue. So Mexico is the co-pen holder for Haiti. And what it does is co-pen holder for the US with the US. So the US, these permanent seats, they work with different countries that are under security, rotating seats in the Security Council to take on an issue. So Mexico took on an issue, which means that they write all the resolutions around Haiti. They work with the US to come up with the UN plan. And so Mexico was very key to writing this resolution that push for an armed multinational invasion of Haiti. And they were key to renewing the UN mandate last year. We saw that, you know, they, so they write the, so they work, they work in cahoots with the US. And so we were, when we found this out, we were extremely frustrated and shocked because Amalil is, you know, a leftist president, right? Everybody's excited. He's trying to nationalize lithium and he speaks a good game, right? In terms of, if you think about his statements against, you know, the blockade against Cuba and sanctions regime against Venezuela and so on and so forth. But at the same time. And his whole vision for regional integration for Latin America and the Caribbean. It's very exciting and very appealing to a lot of people. Exactly. And, but that's the thing, right? And so, and it was similar to Brazil in 2004 with Lula, right? It's like Brazil was this, you know, leftist, you know, government growth of power and then Lula was promised a seat on the security council if they took over the military wing of the UN occupation. And so then Haiti becomes the training ground for these people to try on their military, but to also assert their, you know, their power in the region. And so I'm afraid this is exactly what's happening with Amalil. And that's exactly what's going to happen with the Karakam countries, using Haiti as a site to train, right? Or to promote themselves as a leader in the region. And so most like Palestine is used in the Middle East. Exactly.  You know, we applauded his commitment for, you know, trying to forge new equitable relations between nations and the people of the Americas, especially against Western bullying and dominance. And so we told them that we should, for that reason, he should not allow himself to carry out US and Western New Colonial policies in Haiti. And so, and we said, since you support self-determination, you should also support Haitian self-determination. And so then we went into the letter and explained what's been going on since 2004, the coup d'etat, the UN occupation, what the UN forces did to Haitians, right? The cholera, which is the other thing that's disgusting is the fact that it's the UN forces that brought cholera to Haiti, that killed up to 30,000 and sickened a million but because they don't fecal matter into the rivers of Haiti. But now they're using cholera as an excuse for an invasion, right? So they brought cholera, they never, they took them six years to acknowledge that they brought cholera. They never paid restitution, they never fixed the water system that they broke. But now they're using that as a way to come back. And so, so there's that, but also what Amlo was been frustrating is his work with Trump in militarizing the borders in Chapatua in allowing this remain in Mexico policy, in allowing the, you know, the 22, something about the COVID, I forgot the name of it, but working alongside the US to stem migration into the US. And militarizing. We're not white migration into the US. Not white, right? Because the Ukrainians came right through with the role of boys, they came in with their bags and so on and so forth. But, you know, I've been to the US-Mexico border and I've been there, you know, you have thousands of people living under a highway waiting to be, you know, waiting to come up for asylum.  And so we're saying, well, why are you doing this on behalf of the US? Does Haiti not matter, right? And so, and we said this to Carrie Com as well, because, you know, if you're asserting a sub-determination all nations should be able to chart their own destiny and not just some. And so, and we also said, you know, you must know the history of the proud Haitian people whose revolution changed the course of the world. And the thing is Mexico should contribute to ending this occupation, not to extending it. And that's the letter we sent to him. And, you know, we handed the letter in person, in the embassy, but also we emailed it and sent it in Spanish. So, somebody read it. So you delivered it in person in D.C. or here? In D.C. In D.C. To the embassy in D.C. To the embassy. And then we emailed it to the president, office here in Mexico. I mean, it is fascinating and disappointing, I guess, because, yeah, Mexico does have a really, for me personally, a fantastic vision for regional integration for Latin America and the Caribbean. And that was really overt during the SELAC summit, September of 2021 that was held here in Mexico City. And it's confounding to me also because Mexico's foreign policy is based on non-interventionism. That's the history of the country. And then, honestly, that's one of the things that I enjoy living in this country so much is that it's not a warring nation, but I'm a little wrong in that. So then what happened, that's what we say when it comes to Haiti, all of that leftism collapses. I mean, and so we have to figure out why that is. For sure. That it's okay to trample on Haitian sovereignty and dignity, but not others. Why do you think that is? I mean, what is your... I'm not sure. I think there's a way that Haiti is exceptionalized. I think it has to do with race. I think definitely, I think this black nation is demonized even among other black countries. And if we only need to review the immigration policies of the Bahamas, of Jamaica, of Guyana to see how terrible Haitians are treated, but also there's a 200 years of demonization of Haitians in the Western media. And I think people have bought into that. And so from the beginning of the revolution, you have the Western media reporting all kinds of terrible things about Haiti and Haitians.  We don't wanna have anything to do with them. So I do think there's something about the exceptionalizing of Haiti. I think it's winning its independence as early as it did, but also it being portrayed as like the savages that basically killed all the whites in Haiti. But I also think there's an anti-blackness that comes when it comes to thinking about sovereignty. And I think the exceptionalization does not allow room for seeing Haitian people as like real human beings. And their treatment is actually very similar to the treatment of other people in the region and in the world. What's been interesting to me is in tweeting, I've been tweeting a lot about this, against this invasion the past month or so, is Yemenis coming to my timeline saying, they did the same thing to us. This is the same thing that's happening. So, if we really, exactly, if we saw Haiti as like a normal group of people that are not exceptionalized as being so different, then we'd actually be able to actually make these connections and really truly have like an anti-imperialist praxis that would include everyone and not just exceptionalize this little country. I just wanna mention for our audience, I will include in the program notes, Jameema's social media handles, and I'll also put the link, Jameema of the Black Alliance for Peace Letter into the program notes. So people can reference that, and the audience can reference that. So in our last few minutes, what can we do? And how do you see, or maybe I should ask Bruce, how do you see all of this unfolding? Is it going to accelerate? Yeah. No, you think so.  I am, and I just got an email from a friend there saying that they're planning to use Karakam soldiers. And so, and that's, the US is relentless when it comes to Haiti. And it's shocking to me because they manufactured this crisis. And the reality is, there've always been like young armed men in Haiti the past, at least the past 20, 30 years where politicians are, these young guys don't have anything else to do. They don't have money, they're poor. So, the elite used to use them to settle scores with their enemies and so on and so forth. So there's always been an armed element. It's not as bad as Mexico, it's not as bad as Jamaica, which is why it's fascinating that this crisis has become such a worldwide crisis, but it builds upon the idea that Haitians are savages and can't move themselves. Everybody believes Haiti's about to collapse. It's like when the president was assassinated last summer, they're already calling for intervention back then because they're like, this place is about to collapse. And people are calm. Nobody did anything. It's like, oh yeah, the president got assassinated because people kept moving, right? But I think what's going to happen is that they are gonna do that and it's gonna be a bloodbath because these young people are so angry. Not just these young people, everyone, including my mother, who's like, you know, older conservative Christian lady, who's just like, how dare they think that they can send armed invasion to Haiti? So everyone's up in arms. And I actually think these young guys are gonna fight that. And to me, this is gonna be a bloodbath because everybody's so against this intervention and everybody's saying 2004 is not the same as 2000. 2022 is not 2004. They're not gonna sit by and let these armed people come in. So that to me is the scary part. And then of course, if people fight back, then the US is gonna come in and really use a lot of force. And that's my worry. And I think what we should do right now, I think all of us is to really get louder and push against this impending invasion. Reach out to Karakam. And in particular, you know, Black Alliance of Peace, we've also written an open letter to Karakam. We've been trying to lobby, you know, and I think we need to really push and be loud and push against this intervention because what it's gonna do is cause more trouble and also push for the US to leave Haiti alone and stop meddling. And I know people are saying, well, things are so bad. What can we do? Don't you need the intervention to unblock the gas? And I'm like, no, actually just leave Haiti alone. If the UN left, if everybody left, we would figure it out. And we have not been allowed the opportunity to figure out our own destiny. And so just really ask for people to say no to invasion. Get out of Haiti, leave Haiti alone. And that's what that's really what we want. Respect the sovereignty. Yeah. Sovereignty does not exist in the US foreign policy lexicon. Exactly, exactly. We just have determination for the entire region and everyone should be allowed the space to determine their destiny. Let me ask you just one more question before I let you go. Is the end game here with Haiti to turn Haiti into a Caribbean US military base? US military base. Well, the US has been wanting a military base in Haiti since the 1800s. I don't know if there's this small island called Moles in Nicola that they actually sent Frederick Douglass who was the US foreign minister in the late 1800s. That's a fascinating story there. Yeah. And so they sent, and I make a plug with my partner who has a great piece in the Boston Review called Frederick Douglass in Haiti. And he talks to you, he counts this history. But they sent him there to negotiate this island off of the north coast of Haiti because the US has been wanting to have a base there which is why they ended up in Guantanamo Bay. They couldn't get this island. Haitians have said no. So there's that, there's also oil, right? And so one thing my mother will say is, you go to the southwestern part of Haiti there are these ships drilling oil off the coast of Haiti and the local people have tried to go out to the sea to ask them what they're doing there and they're turned away with guns. So you have the oil drilling, you have the mineral rights that are being given away to foreigners. And so you have a lot of things. But I do think the end game is to have Haiti as a strategic location for the US to establish itself because that's the only thing that explains the fact that Haiti has the fourth largest US embassy in the world, right? And so if Haiti doesn't matter, why would the US do that? And so I think they want to have it as a staging ground because as they prepare to deal with, they think they're gonna deal with China as they prepare to engage China. Haiti provides a way to go through the Panama Canal to get to the end of the sea. So, yeah, all of that stopping the new Silk Road. Exactly, yeah, yeah.  I should, where are you today? We should let the audience know where you're talking to us from today. I'm in Dakar, Senegal. West Africa, and it's amazing. I'm here for a conference, so. Oh, great, wonderful. Well, thank you so much for making time to talk with us today. I learned so much and I'm assuming our audience has as well. I'm going to post again, as I mentioned earlier, I'll post your Twitter, your social media handles in the program notes, the Black Alliance for Peace Letter, and you know what? I'm gonna post that Boston Review article too. Amazing piece, yes, it is. I've read it and it is, it's fascinating and it's a piece of history we don't learn about in the United States and we don't care about, yeah. So, thank you so much for joining us. I wanna remind our audience, you've been watching what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean, Code Pink's weekly YouTube program of hot news out of the region. We broadcast every Wednesday, sometimes Thursday, depending on guest availability, 7.30 p.m. Eastern. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And I should also remind you to listen to Code Pink Radio, which broadcasts 11 a.m. Eastern out of New York City on WBAI and Washington DC on WPFW. That program is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. So, thank you everyone, a huge thank you to you, Jamima. I'm so thankful for our conversation today.  It's my pleasure. I'm trying. It's already evening, so, yeah. What's the time difference? It's like 7.30 p.m. Eastern between you and me. Yeah, I think it was four hours for Eastern time, but seven hours for the second time, yeah. Okay, and I'm two, so five, I guess. Five, two, two, six come fall, so. Okay, thank you again. Very much appreciate the conversation. My pleasure. Take good care. You too, bye-bye.


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Welcome to MOOC course on Introduction to Proteogenomics. In the last hands on session, you are introduced to the basics of mass spectrometry data interpretation. This knowledge is very essential while writing the course for creating softwares that can analyze the large scale mass spectrometry based data. In today's session, Dr. Karl Klauser will show you more complex spectra and make an effort to interpret the data manually. So let us welcome Dr. Klauser for today's session. Alright, let us take a look at the next one that we have here. This one I am going to tell you, give you some events warning that this is not a triptych peptide. This comes from an experiment where we are doing an immunopeptidomics, so MHC or what we call HLA peptides, human leukocyte antigen peptides have been isolated. And this comes from the allele that is B57, ok. This particular allele has a motif where the C-terminus is used to tryptophan or phenylalanine, ok. The amino acid mass for tryptophan is 186, phenylalanine is 147. If we add 19, we would get the Y1 ion mass. So Y1, if it was a tryptophan would be 205, and if it was a phenylalanine it would be 166, ok. This is consistent here with Y1, if this is tryptophan, ok. 159 is also listed on the sheet that I gave you as an ammonium ion for tryptophan, ok. This is 17 Dalton's less, so that would be Y minus ammonia. All right. We don't have a whole lot of symmetry here, so we don't readily have BY pairs, do we? Maybe 292, I guess we do have one, so this, all right. Then the mass difference between these guys is 28. Mass difference between these guys is 28. So what ion type is the 904 peak, B or Y, all right, 28, B minus 28 is A, all right, ok. And what's the mass gap between that is 83, 87, what amino acid is 87, serine, right. All right, I am going to add an extra peak here. This is 1108, ok, and that mass difference there is 204 minus 18, 186, ok. So tryptophan is what we say is that the N-termines, C-termines, sorry, all right. This mass gap is 113, ok, so that would be leucine, ok. What can we do next? This is also 28, right, so we are still BI, ok. Then if we go all the way here, that is a long distance, but that is 163, what is 163, tyrosine, tyrosine, all right. What else can we do? So let's see if we could keep going, this was a BY pair, so this should probably also be 87, all right, so that much is what I can easily do, let's take a look and see what the best we could expect to do was, ok. I said YLW, this is saying YS, so that is correct, YSW, and then we have, so there is long enough distances between these things that we do not have individual sequence, ok. This BI in here, right, is in between the R and the P, ok. Some of these other ions here in the spectrum are giving internal ion type fragmentation, ok. So there is, this right here is saying PD is at 213, and then you can go up to 376, right, that is adding tyrosine, then there is also an ion that is fragmenting to give DYIS, ok. So that is the extent of sequence that we can easily determine, all right. I am going to go on to the next one, all right. So this one is a good example of why I like to start at high mass. This one is also not a tryptic peptide, I could tell by the file name, where it says HLA in it, so this is again immuno, and then the, sorry the allele is B57, so it is again something that should end in tryptophan or phenylalanine, right here, ok. Ok, wait a minute, so that is 71, 99, let us put up this 1133, ok. What can we do? This is 101 and 38, 71, ok, 547, 53 goes to 600, this is 129, all right, so we learned this last time that 205 is Y1, ok, ok, so this is Y1. So this would be B2, and that mass difference there is at 18 or 28, it is 18, ok, B2. So that would be the 71 and the 101, and then we should be able to go 71 more or not, ok. So you want to call that 186, right, so that would be another tryptophan, that would be 156, that would be, that would work, ok, arginine, tryptophan, valine, D, not enough information to get anything else. All right, so this one is another HLA peptide, but the allele is CO701, I forget what the C-terminus is for that, so we are going to figure it out, all right, all right. So where do we start here, so 1064, 120 is an ammonium ion for phenylalanine, 101 is for Q, or K, phenylalanine's Y1 ion should be 147 plus 19, which is 166, ok, so Y1 for phenylalanine, that is a minus 113 gap, that's 128, yep. 65, 211, 147. Right here, right there, yep, that's 147, ok, that would be, that's 161, no it's 166, okay which plus 18 right okay so again that would be the 147 F this would be Q L F and these would be that would be Y and that would be B I this is 28 right it's B I 28 B I alright what else can we do here it's again 28 alright I'm gonna stop there and let's keep let's see what the answer says FLQF okay that's what I had and not enough information to get anything else the 276 Y2 okay that's here this is the 128 okay these are doubly charged ions here okay so this one is not fragmenting very completely alright so and then I think pretty sure this is the last one alright what's your first impression of that spectrum it looks it looks a lot more complicated than the other ones right okay so part of the reason is a little bit longer so things are spacings closer together but there also seems to be a bunch of peaks that are close together okay and if you look close you could see that this these peaks are separated by 18 so this is 18 18 18 that was 28 alright that is 99 37 53 129 do you want 71 this is a triptych peptide so it's arginine or lysine but we don't have it down to low mass it's gonna be lysine okay so I think this is this lysine LL yeah well I didn't intend to do that let's go back here let's keep going f 66 5 66 7 20 oh it wants to go down to that one all right well pretty close okay all right that's that's the end of that so hopefully what I've tried to give you is a feel for how much how incomplete the information is in some of these spectrum okay any other questions before before we adjourn yes how did we know what yeah yep okay okay right so the way that I've said after I've told you this is all the information is and then I tell you magically this is the answer your good question would be how do I know them magically it's the answer well the spectrum all by itself has no more information much really than we could that we were able to determine there's uncertainty in what the sequence is but if the protein is derived from something in the human proteome the possibilities that would allow for the uncertainty in our interpretation are not present in the proteome and so that's why that's why I'm describing it as a as that is the answer okay but let's suppose that after you'd had an answer none of them are in the human proteome then how do you know what's right well you don't okay if you have a lot of spectra that you you could do good de novo on and they are not in the sequence database you're looking in maybe you're looking in the wrong place right or maybe your your database is not complete okay there could be there could be mutations there could be parts of the genome that are not that are not a part of your database maybe your sample has contaminated with something else now there's another aspect to this that that I know but you don't is that when you get this loss of water happening like this that often happens when you have a glutamic acid at the end terminus of the peptide okay you can get losses of ammonia that look like this when you have a glutamine at the end terminus of a peptide so there's you know there's certain aspects of the amino acids have have chemistry associated with them that after you see enough examples starts to become more rule than exception okay okay so there there is chemistry behind these things okay slashes the slashes I just use is nomenclature to indicate what kind of fragmentation is happening between the residues I use a red slash to be a y ion a blue slash to be a b ion a pink vertical bar means there's both okay that just that's just I that's not a universal thing within the field right but it allows you when you do a lot of this to just look at the thing and know what's going on okay I hope today's hands-on session helped you to appreciate the complexity of mass spectrometry data resulting from either improper fragmentation or presence of amino acids like protein that creates problem or release of molecules such as water or ammonia due to the presence of amino acids such as glutamic acid or glutamine at the end terminus the increasing knowledge of interpretation of data by practicing more examples and even remembering the inputs provided in this session will help you greatly the mass spectrometry based proteomics have really taken big base for any kind of biological problem there is no need to look at the complex proteome analysis if you are able to interpret your mass spectrometer you can greatly benefit I just like to emphasize that sample preparation and data interpretation are the two most crucial steps you as a participant as a learner can prepare your own sample send your samples to some facilities where they have the advanced mass spectrometers such as ours at IT Bombay and then after running those samples you can obtain the raw data as long as you have no ability to interpret your mass spec data then you are pretty much in a commanding position to get the best from your data set the please do go through today's lecture as there is a previous lecture and the hands-on sessions in more detail thank you


Hey, everyone. My name is Philip Walton. And I'm Minhas Kazi. Today, we're going to show you how you can use free tools from Google, like Google Analytics 4, BigQuery, and Data Studio, to measure, analyze, and debug performance issues from real user data collected in the field. That's right. Today, we're going to focus specifically on the Core Web Vitals metrics. But the techniques discussed here will work for any performance metrics that you can calculate in JavaScript. OK, let's get started. The first step in understanding the performance of any website is to measure it. And when measuring performance, it's absolutely critical to get data from real users in the field. Tools like Lighthouse and web page tests are fantastic during development time. They help you test your pages before you deploy to production. But they don't tell you what your users are actually experiencing. For that, you need real user data, which we often refer to as field data. Google does provide tools that measure field data. For example, the Chrome User Experience Report, or Crux, as well as PageBeat Insights. And these tools are great for getting a high level sense of how your site is doing. But in most cases, they're too high level to provide actionable insights. For that, you really need analytics. And I want to really emphasize that last point and highlight why analytics is needed and what it offers that other Crux-based tools don't. First, with analytics, when you make changes, you can see your results much faster. Google tools that expose field data, they generally have a 28-day aggregation period. And 28 days is just way too long to have to wait to see if your changes actually led to a real improvement. Second, analytics tools are typically the place where your companies are already measuring important business metrics. So if you want to see how your site's performance affects your business, it's better to have the data in the same system. Third, Crux-based tools will tell you what your performance is, but they won't tell you why and how to fix it. For example, if you see that your site has a CLS of 0.5, you know you have a problem, but you don't necessarily know what's causing the problem. And analytics tools can let you capture additional data to help debug those types of issues. So hopefully I've convinced you of the importance of measuring performance metrics in your analytics tool. Now let's talk about how to do that. But first, let me start by saying that if you're already using an analytics tool and it supports the Web Vitals metrics, then I definitely recommend sticking with that tool. If you're not already measuring Web Vitals and you're looking for a great free option, then I recommend Google Analytics 4. Google Analytics 4 is the latest version of Google Analytics, and it has one specific feature that I think developers are really going to love, BigQuery Export. With BigQuery Export, you can link your Google Analytics 4 property with the BigQuery project, and then all of your event data gets automatically populated into tables that you can query with SQL. But in order to get your data into BigQuery, you have to instrument your pages to capture the data and send it to Google Analytics. So let me show you the recommended way to do that. The easiest and most accurate way to measure the Web Vitals metrics on your site is to use the Web Vitals JavaScript Library. And if you take a look at the Read Me on GitHub, you'll see instructions for how to use it with various versions of Google Analytics, including Google Analytics 4. Now I've already added this code to a real e-commerce site, and it's been collecting data for the last few weeks. To show you what that looks like in Google Analytics, let's switch over to the GA4 real-time report. Here we are in the real-time report for my e-commerce site, and this view will let us see live event data as it's coming in. Over here on the right, you can see the event report, and notice how the core Web Vitals metrics are already showing up, along with other events like page views. If we click on the LCP event to take a closer look, you can see all of the event parameters that were sent along with that event's data. So I want to highlight that with GA4, you can send basically whatever parameters you want with your event. In this case, in addition to the metric value, I'm also capturing the metric rating, whether it's good, poor, or needs improvement, as well as some other debug information, which I'll get to later. If I drill down into the metric rating PRAM, you can see a nice breakdown of all the LCP scores that have come in over the last 30 minutes. So this view is really nice after you've deployed a new version of your site to production, and you want to verify that it's performing as you expect it to be. So now that we see that our data is showing up in Google Analytics, let's set up BigQuery Export. To enable BigQuery Export, go to the Admin view in Google Analytics, and under the Property Settings section, click BigQuery Linking, then choose a BigQuery project from the list. If you don't see any project listed in here, then you probably just need to create one first. Once you've selected your project, go ahead and fill out all the rest of the fields in the form, and when you're done, click Submit. Also, before I go any further, I should mention that we've published an extensive blog post on web.dev that covers everything we're talking about in this video step by step, and we'll make sure and put a link to that post in the video description. OK, so once you've enabled BigQuery Linking, you should start to see your Google Analytics data show up in your BigQuery project within 24 hours. I actually set up BigQuery Export a few weeks ago, so you can see there's already some data here. If you click on the Events table, it'll show the table schema, and if you want to see what the data actually looks like, you can click Preview. Here, we can see that each Analytics event is a row in the table, and as I scroll down, you can see that the Web Vitals events are here, as well as all of the event parameters that I set earlier in the code. OK, now let's run some queries. So the first query I have here will aggregate all of the Core Web Vitals event values over the last 28 days at the 75th percentile. Also, don't worry about the specific syntax I'm using in these queries. All of this will be available in the blog post that I mentioned before. OK, let's run this one. OK, so as you can see from the results, we have each metric, the values of the 75th percentile, and the number of events received for each of the metrics. And while this data is nice, it's a nice overview of our scores, it's not that much different from what we can get in crux or page feed insights. So let's run another query with a few more parameters. This next query is going to show us what our LCP scores are for the most visited pages on our site. OK, let's run it. So as you can see from these results, with the exception of maybe the sign-in page, it looks like we have a bit of performance work to do since most of these pages have a score above the recommended 2.5 seconds. All right, now let's run another query that shows the CLS score for each page on our site in order from worst to best. So that should help us identify which pages need the most work. Now, if you remember from the results of the first query, the CLS at the 75th percentile for the whole site was actually 0. But that doesn't mean that the CLS for every individual page is also going to be 0. As you can see from the results here, some of the pages do have a CLS above the recommended threshold of 0.1. But even these page results are an aggregate of all users across all device types. And I happen to know from personal experience that on this site, there are more layout shifts on mobile than there are on desktop. So let's tweak the query a bit to limit these results to just mobile devices. Yeah, so as you can see, the scores on mobile are quite a bit worse than the overall scores. So it's nice that we're actually able to query that information and get that insight. OK, so far, these queries have given us insight into how our pages are performing against the Core Web Vitals metrics. But they're not helping us fix the problems we're seeing. I mentioned before that I was sending debug information along with each of the Core Web Vitals events. So let's see how we can use that information to help identify the root cause of these issues. This query lists the worst pages on the site by their CLS scores on mobile. And it's also grouped by the debug identifier param that I'm sending with each event. In the case of CLS, the debug param corresponds to the element on the page that shifted and contributed the most to the final CLS value for that page. So as you can see from these debug identifiers, an element that looks like it's probably a footer appears to be causing problems on many different pages. I also see this UL slide-out item on a few pages that sounds to me like it's probably some sort of navigation menu. So yeah, this is super helpful information. Before, all I knew was that my CLS was high on these pages on mobile, but now I have an idea of which components on my site are likely causing the problem. Anyway, that's a brief introduction to querying this data. Now I'll hand it over to Minhaas to talk about visualizing it. Thanks, Phil. Now that you've seen the kinds of insights you can get from the BigQuery data, let's take it a bit further. Suppose, rather than being a single aggregate measure of a time period, you want to understand the daily trend. We can run this query to see the daily 75th percentile values of LCP over a month. As Phil mentioned earlier, all the queries we're using in this video are available in the blog post link below. When we look at the results, it might be a bit hard to understand what the trend is like. Plotting this data in a time series chart might give us some insights. We'll click on Explore Data and then select Explore Data Studio. If you're not already familiar, Google Data Studio is a data visualization and reporting tool that is free to use. Here, we'll create a time series chart and use our metric to visualize it. Now we can see the trend of our LCP values over a month of time. Data Studio's Explorer mode with the direct link from BigQuery makes it easy to do quick ad hoc analysis for any query you are running. However, as you get more familiar with the data, you might want to look at several charts in an interactive dashboard to get a more holistic view and also to drill down into the data. You can create a dashboard using BigQuery's native connector in Data Studio. While this will work, for our use case, it is not the most efficient solution. Due to the structure of the data for the GA4 export and pre-processing required for the WebVetals matrix, parts of your query will run again and again. This creates two problems. First is dashboard performance, and second is BigQuery cost. You can use the BigQuery Sandbox mode for free. On your GCP account, you'll get the first statewide of processing free every month. After that, you can go into flat rate pricing or on-demand pricing at $5 per terabyte. For our WebVetals analysis, unless you're using a significantly large data set or are heavily querying the data set regularly, you should be able to stay within the pre-limit. But if you have a high-traffic website and want to regularly monitor different metrics using a fast interactive dashboard, we suggest pre-processing and materializing your WebVetals data while making use of BigQuery's efficiency features like partitioning, clustering, and caching. And here's how you would do that. This script will pre-process our data and create a materialized table. In addition to using the efficiency features, the pre-processing makes the data set smaller. Here's what the materialized data looks like. You can directly query this materialized table from within BigQuery or use it directly in Data Studio. To make things easier, we have a prepackage solution that will create a template dashboard for you so that you don't have to start from scratch. To use the connector, first make sure you have materialized your data set. Then visit this link. After a one-time authorization, you can complete the configuration by providing your BigQuery table ID and the BigQuery billing ID. This process will create a new dashboard for you linking to your data set. You can edit, modify, and share the dashboard as you like. If you create a dashboard once, you don't have to visit the control link again, unless you want to create multiple dashboards from different data sets. This dashboard has multiple sections. First, you can see the daily trends of the core web vitals metrics as well as some usage information for your website like users and sessions. In the second tab, you get a breakdown of the metric percentiles as well as user count by different usage and business criteria. For example, for FID, engaged users and returning users had a lower percentile value. You can also cross-veter in this tab. For example, you can look at only mobile users. It gets interesting in the third page. In the page path analysis, you can pick a metric to see an overview, but you can also see a scatter map of all page paths with all the percentile values on y-axis and the record count on x-axis. You can see these are your problem areas. These page paths are places where you have higher percentile values and you can click on them to filter and find out which debug targets you need to focus on. Finally, the revenue section is a good example of how you can monitor your business and performance metrics in the same place. This section plots all sessions where the user may departures. You can compare the revenue earned versus the user experience during a specific session. If you want to resolve performance issues on your site, this is a highly actionable tool that can help you to pinpoint problem areas. To make this dashboard more useful, as advanced steps, we recommend setting up schedule query in BigQuery to get updated data, joining first-party data like CRM for business insights, and reporting your code versions through Google Analytics Hits to monitor change results. You can find more information about these in our blog post. Thanks, Minhas. Those visualizations look great. I've built a lot of dashboards in the past and I wish I had this connector back then. Seems like it would have saved me a lot of time. Okay, so let's wrap up by going over some of the main points we covered today. First, measuring performance with real user data is critical for understanding, debugging, and optimizing your site. Second, you get better insights when your performance metrics and your business metrics are in the same system. Third, BigQuery export of raw Google Analytics data gives you unlimited potential for in-depth custom analysis.  So that's all we have for you today. I hope you learned something and I hope we inspired you to explore some of the tools we mentioned. And remember, everything we talked about today is covered in far more details in our blog post. It is linked in the description below. Thank you for watching.


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Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back finally to FNAF AR Special Delivery. We'll hop in back into the game once more because finally after so long of waiting, Olimax finally released their DLC expansion pack for the game. They teased it all the way back in July and now here we are in December with the fall update, the Dark Circus Encore DLC expansion pack. The original plan was to have this come out in the fall and then it was November, but now you know we're starting the second week of December so a bit late, but hopefully the DLC will be worth the wait. Because there's been quite a few leaks that have emerged before the update came out and let me tell you, I think Olimax kind of popped off. But of course there is only one true way to find out and I think if I hit this key, enter the Dark Circus. Visit the mixed reality world of the Dark Circus hunt down clues to solve puzzles and win exclusive content, one-time payment required replayable environments. So let me buy this real quick boys, subscribe, hit the like button, and let's hop into the Dark Circus DLC. And here we go. It has to download. Ooh, hello. So it looks like I've just entered, looks like some flammable substances over there. Now how do I, oh, okay, so I tap the screen and I move towards, let's go to Remaster Foxy. Hey dude, not entirely sure what I'm supposed to be doing. Nice, nice portrait of you, I see. Quite egotistical if you're asking me. Hey man, jeez you're creepy. So I know I think Ballora should be out this way. This is an interesting way to move around. Can I not go this way? Oh no, I can. Ooh, hey. So these masks of the animatronics, they're actually on a item frame in the photo booth. Nice mirror, don't actually see myself, that makes sense. Okay, so here's one of these things. I saw that in the trailer and I think, ooh, okay, so Ballora's gonna be out this way. It's kind of a weird way to move around, but I do like it. I think I'm getting somewhere, maybe, she's, I think she's around this corner. Yes, Ballora, hey, how are you doing? Hey, you're kind of creepy. Yeah, I don't, I don't actually know what I'm supposed to be doing, I mean. Oh, oh, I'm being timed. Oh, what the heck? Um, store it, sure. Okay, uh, I got that wrong, I guess. I'm dead. That was a cool jump scare. Uh, okay, sure. So I'm guessing there's probably like a pattern I'm supposed to find. Ooh, okay, so this is the room that has Great Escape Golden Freddy, that is the exclusive unique skin, triangle, star, and circle-ey eyeball-y thingy. Okay. Ooh, wait, there's a thing. I see a piece of paper. What does that say? Two, eight, six, three, or two, three, six, three. I don't know, man. I'm not wearing my glasses.  So we got like two, three, six, three. Can I go back to, all right, this maneuvering is quite difficult actually. Three, or an eight. Is that an eight or a three? It looks like it's supposed to be an eight. Let's go back to this, and let's try just going straight across. No. Oh, yes, wait. What, what? Hello? Did I activate somebody? Foxy? Ballora? Oh, good. Okay. Kind of confused. Let's have a look. Oh, you're moving now. Hello? Okay, I activated you. So I have a purple light. So I activated Ballora. Oh, shoot. Wait, I saw this.  I saw it over here. Hey, Foxy. It was on this bouncy ball. Triangle, store, eyeball. All right, let's try that. This is interesting, I will say. Hey, Golden Freddy. So it was triangle, store, eyeball. We're learning. All right, now what? What, what's next? Okay, let's go teardrop, kite, triangle, and eyeball. That's how we're going to do this. So three, I'm guessing that's something later on. I only have five minutes. Oh my gosh. I think my main problem is the screen is just so absurdly small. It's difficult to like properly look around. But other than that, I'm kind of loving this.   Oh, that's something else. Lightning rod, teardrop, star. Uh, shape, pentagon, I think. Oh, wait, wait, is that it? Eyeball.  Eyeball teardrop, kite, triangle. Let's try that. So it was, goddammit, my short-term memory loss. Eyeball teardrop, kite, triangle. No, I thought that was it for sure, bro. Wait, what's this? Earlier though, I'm so confused now. I thought I had it all figured out, and now I just feel dumb. If you guys know where I can find a kite and a teardrop, no. Oh, wait, this was an eight, not a three. Jesus. All right, well, let's go back to that weird thing. All right, let's try eight now. Yes. Okay, so I think getting things right gives me extra time. And now I need a two-digit numero uno. And Foxy's activated. Hey, man. Do a thing, do something cool. Do that cool animation. Yo, oh my gosh. I do love the animations in this. Any books with numbers? Oh, six, two, five. All right, six, two, five. Let's remember that. Five, six, imagine. Yeah, I think I'll go five, six. Dude. Oh my god. I don't even know if I said my thinking out loud for that. All right, six, two, five. Let's just get that done. Okay. So, yo. Yo, chill. Hey, yo, chill, bro. Hey, yo, dog, chill. All right, I remember the four-digit thing. It was down here. It was, ah, shoot. Two-four, two-four. Six, two-eight, six-eight. Good god, I can't read. Two-eight, six-eight. Let's try that. Two, two. I don't get how this thing works. How do I get that to move? Cool. So, that's Foxy all done. Wait, wait, wait, what? All right, first off, that was sick.  So, am I fighting him now? Oh, god. Oh, my god, dude, that was crazy. That animation of him coming off the chain. Oh, hey, hey. Good god, how do you play FNAF AR? I'm loving this. I'm not looking forward to Ballora or Golden Freddy, because I'm so bad at fighting those two. But Foxy, I think I can handle. Oh, hey. Hey, big guy. Wait, wait, wait, actually. Oh, my god. You're in the ground, my guy, what? So, that's Foxy. Oh, my god, I killed him. He's actually dead. Foxy's dead. Green, blue, cyan, white. Green, blue, cyan, white. Green, blue, cyan, white. Why does that not work? I don't get it. That should work. Oh, my god. Is that Golden Freddy? Hold on, I have to look. Hello? Oh, my god. Look at him. Jesus Christ, dude, chill. So I really don't get why this doesn't work. Green, blue, cyan, white. Let's try it the other way around. And of course, that's it for some reason. Yeah, sure. All right, now I got to remember. I think it was over here somewhere. The final one, this. Lightning, actually, red, blue, yellow, purple. Red, blue, yellow, purple. Red, blue, yellow, purple. Come on. Wow, it's funny. Those are not the colors that I need at all. That's crazy. I don't know why I didn't think those were the right colors. I'm editing this now.  I tried this for 40 minutes. I restarted the DLC. I started from the beginning because I was like, wow, that looks to be orange. And when I was talking, I said that was a red lightning rod, not an orange one. And I, anyways. Hello, are you good over here, girl? Hello? Oh, you're not that good. I can see that now. And your Minerinos are kind of dead. All right, as you can see, I have been very unsuccessful in finding the freaking symbol. So I'm going to restart. I've all Hort Triangle Kite. Okay. I've all Hort Triangle Kite. I've all, I've all, I've all, bada bing, bada bing, amma. And that's Ballora. All right. Yes, sir. Okay. So I think if I go and speak to Ballora quickly, we can have a little chat. Never mind. I have still one more puzzle to do. Never mind. I can't. I'm so confused. What's going on? Do I have to fight Foxy? Okay. Let's go. And I know where the last one is. It's near the, uh, chill, dude. Geez, you guys need to chill. So I've done that one. The final digits are right here. Three, two, um, nine, five. Three, two, nine, five. Three, two, nine, five. Boom. Let's go. So that's everyone done. All right. Here's Foxy. That's so sick. I want to see Ballora's. Geez. Are you what? Okay. Number one, why is this thing so delayed? Number two, why is this so delayed? Oh, it just sets me back here. Oh, that's not bad. Never mind.  Plus I totally shocked him.  Got him. Oh, this is counting to it wasn't doing this before. It was not doing that before. Wait, but now I got it. Wait, but, wait, what? Yellow, blue, cyan, purple. Imagine, I swear to God, if that's actually it, I forget what it was. Okay, but what did this do? I don't know what that did actually. Do I need something with this? Can I fight Ballora now? Oh, oh, Ballora. Oh God, I forgot. Ballora, I'm not good at her mechanic. Oh, shoot. Oh, all right. I'm in her NFL. I got to find it. Oh, I sees it. I got it. Oh, she's not that way. Okay, so let him crawl on you. Damn it. Where is it? Got it. It was going to blow up near the fumes. Jeez. All right, go away. Last Minerina. I can't actually see it. Oh God, she's not that way, but I can't turn my headphones. I got it. Oh, is that not one? Oh my God. Jeez. Oh, I got one. It's him. Oh God. It's freaking Golden Freddy. I'm guessing I just go to him now. All right, I'm coming. Oh, he broke out. He's free. Great Escape Golden Freddy has made his great escape. Go away, Twitch. I forget your mechanic. I actually forget your mechanic, dude. So this is not going to go well. All right, starting off with Ballora, I think. No, is it? I don't forget. No. All right, definitely Ballora. Definitely Ballora, because I heard him drop a thing. Where? Oh God. Oh God. Go away, dude. Hat. Got it. Drop something else. Torso, I think. That's what that was, looked like it, body or something. All right, one more thing.  All right, there it is, there it is, there it is. You need to find it. Mike, there you go. Dude, he looks so awesome. All right, let's see. If that's just Mangle, I think I should be able to use this. And I think he's doing Mangle. I think, I don't actually know. With Mangle's haywire, you stare at them. But with a traditional haywire, you look away. So I guess we're going to find out if they haywire.  Wait. No, it's definitely Mangle. Definitely Mangle. Got it, got his point. Got it, I found you little Tozies. Oh. Okay, okay, okay, okay. What the freak, just mud. Okay, okay, where, where, where? Mike, got it. Ooh. One more, one more, one more. Hello. Whoa. Hello? I got him, I think. I don't know. Oh my God, he dropped something else?  Oh, that's not it. Got it. I was just tapping my screen randomly. God, dude, I don't know what he's doing now. Normal attacks, question mark? I actually freaking know. I can't turn my flashlight on. I'm so confused. I did it and my power is running low. That's perfect. Well, I killed Ballora. Sorry. I killed Foxy. Sorry. And now, is that Mangle? Oh no, that's just an endo. Okay, I've killed, I was about to say. No way do I have time to fight more characters. And now, I've killed Golden Freddy. Okay, maybe, maybe killed was a bit extreme. Defeated him for now. And I win. And here are the rewards. You get the skin. You get the profile picture. And I think you also get the Golden Freddy CPU if you don't have it. But I think I already do. Yes, I do anyways. But I'm pretty sure you also get the CPU. So now, here is Great Escape Golden Freddy. Dude, he looks awesome.  Right, let's have a look at the old fellow. Here he is. How do I, how do I make him stay in place? Yeah, I freaking love the skin. I think it looks amazing. Great detail. Fantastic animation. And as for the DLC itself and its entirety, it's pretty good. $13 kind of pushing it, maybe like $9.99. If even that, but then again, if you beat it again, you get like the profile picture, the skin itself, the CPU, which I'm pretty sure is less than $13 if you bought them in the traditional sense. I think this is a great deal. See, I don't know what you get for prizes after beating it, you know, your first time through because obviously I can't get the skin again.  If it's good prizes, I could probably see myself doing this a couple more times. Definitely not continuously. I still think they need another game mode, one that's more replayable. And it would be awesome if they did this with other DLC, you know, like the arcade mayhem boys and the like the sizzling summer people. I think if they keep doing game modes like this with groups of skins, which kind of, you know, give purpose to having the skins in the first place, which I think was one of their planned updates. I think FNAF AR could keep going if they keep doing stuff like this. I think it's a banger update, a banger new game mode, new DLC again, 13 bucks is a bit too much. Again, I'd say like 999, but honestly, I think it's, I think it's perfectly fine. But overall, very, very good. I really do want to see more stuff like this for FNAF AR. I know we have a new character coming out this month. Hopefully they said December, so I'm hoping that it doesn't get delayed, but it probably will, which does suck. But hopefully after the character, they realize, okay, maybe we should keep doing more stuff like this because the animation is fantastic. The sounds fantastic. The gameplay itself, I need to get used to it, but I think it could work. But yeah, that was the new Dark Circus Encore DLC expansion pack for FNAF AR. If you bought it, tell me, what do you think about it in the comments down below? Are you going to buy it? What do you want to see them do next with DLC? What character do you think is coming this month? And that's going to do it for today's video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


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Okay, we're back here live in New York City for SiliconANGLE.com's coverage of theCUBE at Strata Plus Hadoop World. This is a big data week, a lot of action we're going to get right into the interview. This is theCUBE, our flagship program where we go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise, get the signal, share that with you. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and I'm joining with my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, open research, free research, go there and check it out. And we're here with Saptek Sun, who is the senior product manager at Microsoft for big data. Saptek, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, you're welcome. Good to see you again. Everybody wants to know what's going on with Microsoft. You guys were sort of the last of the big whales to sort of indicate your intention in Hadoop and you've done that. And so you've cleared up a lot of the questions last year and so we're happy about that. So thanks for doing that. So why don't you give us an update on what's new with Microsoft and what's happening? Absolutely. First of all, we made some announcements yesterday. So we announced the preview of Microsoft HD Insight Server, which is the on-prem version of Hadoop on Windows, optimized for Windows. It's totally 100% Apache Hadoop. So anybody who's using Hadoop today should work straight out of the gate. We also announced the HD Insight service for Azure. So that's the, you know, you can set up a HD Insight cluster pretty easily on Windows Azure and be able to mount Azure storage, pull in data from there, do your analytics that you need to do and that's also 100% Apache Hadoop. And you're using Hortonworks HTTP, right? You have a deal with Hortonworks. Yeah, so yeah, we are working very closely with Hortonworks and partnering on the engineering front. We are doing a lot of the optimization for Windows and Azure ourselves and we are submitting those patches back into the Apache tree. So tell me about Microsoft's role and Hadoop, I want to just clear that the air here. Obviously Microsoft's got a lot of bashing going on at Windows 8 right now and everyone likes to kick Microsoft when they're down, but you guys are doing some pretty good work. Obviously the Excel demo we saw was the talk of the show yesterday. We're going to have those guys come on. We made a slot form at 1030. So if you want to come back at 1030 and check that out. But talk about the history of, you know, it's no stranger to big data. Yeah, you had to. So just clear up for the record, you know, Microsoft's role with open source and big data, specifically. Specifically it means big data is kind of ambiguous term, but that's why we love it. It's great for our media business. Great for our research too. But if you think about it, we have been doing big data forever. We have some of the largest web properties on the planet with Bing, with Xbox Live. You can think of it, it's a super-charged social network of course. You have Microsoft.com, which is, I think one of the top 10 websites on the planet. So you'd think that we need a lot of capability in terms of scale-out infrastructure to process a lot of data. And we do have that infrastructure, and like you rightly said, we have Cosmos and Dryad around that. But we also have that experience to build a scale-out infrastructure. That's what is so cool. On the other hand, we have deep experience with the enterprises. It's hard to name a... Yeah, you guys own the enterprise. Whether it's Office on the end user side, or in the data center with SQL Server, certainly you guys rock and roll on that. No problem. But bridge the gap here. Obviously Microsoft's known for their developer community. And developers now shifting to open source. You have run WebScale, and Hadoop started at Yahweh where we talked about, the WebScale guys were the first generation to understand and build Hadoop except for the NSA, which we had squirrel on. They had their own little private version of big data. But so just talk about how you bridge that gap from the new order of the new world, the modern world of Hadoop to the old school Microsoft developer community. Because essentially HD Insights fits that. You guys have that product. So explain how that fits in, and what it means to developers. So HD Insights or Hadoop in general provides something great. It's a very robust distributed storage platform as well as a computation framework in terms of map reduce, for the timing at least on top of it. There are other computation frameworks out there for distributed computing. And we already have been doing in our HPC space with that and some other areas with our MPP database in parallel data warehouse and so on. So, but we think that Hadoop is a very important part of the overall big data platform, so to say. But it's not the be all and end all. You have, even today, means 80% or somewhere around that range, data sits on relational databases, or people need to build cubes to do kind of analytics that they want to do to have that interactivity from the end user BI tools. They have to deal with the streaming data and that's where complex event processing engines become important. Then, of course, that's the source of the data, but at some level across all these different data stores, you need to do enrichment. You want to do discovery and recommendation. And that's where I think one of the greatest value is and that's in the industry that's the missing piece where that layer works well with the data source or the data store layer. And we are super focused on that. HD Insight and Hadoop provides, of course, the raw storage and the MapReduce computation layer on top of it. But beyond that, how do you enrich that data to be and do discovery and recommendation? So let's take, let's break this down. So I just want to understand this because obviously the big thing about open sources is you can bring data to the table and data mashups is really popular. So you've got Windows Server out there and you've got Azure. How do I bring data into the cloud without paying through the nodes? Because right now, most developers are doing bare metal because it's a lot less expensive. You may or may not have an answer for this yet, but I want to ask anyway. One, I'm provisioning my own hardware and bare metal, I'm standing those up, servers up, commodity gear, scale out, all great. How do you guys provide that insight? So one of your elements is data enrichment and insight and HD insight. So how can I leverage and develop on the top of the stack without using Azure or doing anything else? So in the first part of your question, you mentioned that, yeah, it's expensive to bring data in and. So. You're smiling. Why are you smiling? It is true, right? It is true and I completely agree. And that's why data locality is so important because in today's day and age, as I'm carrying around my phone and walking around, I'm generating data. And maybe the best place to store that data is in the cloud because it's being collected from, as we today call it, internet of things. By the way, that's the next hype. I can see it coming already, yeah? Yeah, exactly. It's happening. So from all these end points that we have now, and that's where the boom is, we never had the earth of data. In fact, a very famous physicist, John Archibald Wheeler, who worked very closely with Einstein and he was a mentor of Richard Feynman, said that what we call the past is built on bits. So if all our past is built on bits or present by the same analogies, bits and future is bits, we always had a lot of bits, but what has changed is our capability with this end points, with this sensors to capture that data, and then the need to process that data and provide analytics on that data. And then, of course, our ability to store that data because the storage cost has plummeted and that's all goodness for us. So I wanted to follow up, Sceptac, on something you said about the percentage of data that sits in SQL today, 80%, nobody would disagree with that. What's interesting though is the conversation of what's going to look like five years from now or 10 years from now. And I love the Hortonworks manifesto where they talk about that within five years. Now who knows if that's the right timeframe, the 50% of the world's data will be on Apache Hadoop. So now, I don't know if it's five years, 10 years or 15 years, but is Microsoft's view that it's heading in that direction? You would you agree with that? Yeah, absolutely, means because of what I said, means data is coming in so fast and furious, often we don't have the time to think when the data comes in as to what should I do with it. So I can't determine a schema when the data comes to me, I just dump it and so naturally the best place to go for that kind of data is HDFS. We often term it as the digital shoebox. I'm just stuffing things in the digital shoebox. So, okay, so now I think back to my history if I watched this industry for a long time and I watched Microsoft essentially turn the mainframe into a place that was, it's not gone away, but it's become a dinosaur. Will the traditional data warehouse, as we know it today, become a dinosaur? And I don't think so because when I speak with customers today and a lot of our large customers are already using Hadoop, how they use Hadoop is that they have this giant drive in the cloud, especially for the enterprise. So this drive is HDFS and Hadoop MapReduce on top of it. So they are putting all this data there, but they have this for their hot data warehousing requirements, they have this data warehouse where they are keeping their last six months of relational data that they want to do dashboarding on. So the years in Hadoop, six months in the early years. Absolutely, yeah, and that's a great balance to have and especially as we evolve towards tool which is agnostic of the data stores. And that's what the demo that you will see, that's what it shows that you can keep using the tools that you are used to, means everyone knows Excel. If you give that power of ease of use and be able to pull in data from Hadoop, from relational data stores, from data markets all over the internet, that's power. And if you can even go a step further, for example, we have a data explorer plugin, if you try it out, that actually recommends what are the different data sets that you can really. Awesome, yeah. So step that we are going to wrap up and I want to ask one final question for you. Obviously, exciting to have Microsoft on theCUBE. Go is great to have the big whales kind of come in and show a little bit of a product direction and insights. Appreciate that. It's HD Insights from Microsoft. Check it out, it's in the third test preview I believe. So my final question is, share with the folks what's next, what's coming around the corner, what can they expect from Microsoft in this area? From you and your team. So yeah, one of the main areas of focus is to make sure people can get the insights irrespective of where their data is, including HD Insight and other versions of Hadoop, it doesn't matter. So they can get the insights from the tools they're familiar with, that's number one. The second is, enterprise is being able to give SLAs to their internal customers around Hadoop just like any other infrastructure. That's key so that they get a single pane of glass to say manage, monitor, deploy and do all those fun stuff from. So that's the other big area. And the third big area is that we want to be, most big data projects actually start small, sometimes with a access database or a Excel spreadsheet or even a notepad list, right? But over time, as the people generate IP, it kind of tries to, starts to take off. We want to ensure that as it goes from small to really big data, from a few kilobytes to a petabyte, we, they don't have to dramatically change how they think about that data, how they interact with that data. It doesn't break their march towards bigness. Okay, great to have Microsoft on the queue. We're going to be tracking you guys. We watching you guys. Great to collaborate and extract that signal from all the noise out there, especially around Microsoft these days. So congratulations on the great work. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break here on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's exclusive coverage of Strata plus a duper old in New York City for big data week. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.