Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I appreciate the introduction. And just for, you know, reference for those on the on the call. I've been working with Linux foundation since about 2008 as their outside council. So I've been involved in lots and lots of LF activity on the open source side. And now more recently on the standard side as LF is becoming extremely active in this important additional area of collaborative development. So what we'll be talking about today are the antitrust laws, or as they're referred to in Europe, competition laws, and, you know, by various other names around the world, and how those laws relate to standards development. Webinar that will be posted very soon that will cover the same ground with respect to open source development. So if you're curious, keep your eye out because you'll have an opportunity to see in what ways what I'm talking about today may come out a little bit differently in the open source context. So, what are we talking about when we talk about antitrust or competition laws and why do they even exist. Well, as the name suggests in in Europe competition. They're mostly about competition and making sure that it's fair, and that the activities of competitors don't harm the marketplace. And in the US in particular, most particularly consumers of products and services in the marketplace. So in the US, where we'd like to talk about the free enterprise system a lot. They're supposed to preserve competition and make sure that the marketplaces can work in a way that's fair. And in a way that doesn't lead to companies acquiring an undue amount of power, and using that power improperly. And in the US they're based upon the assumption that free competition is, you know, a an ideal form of conduct, obviously, in other parts of the world that aren't as oriented towards a capitalist way of thinking. They might have a different somewhat different emphasis than in the US, but in the US in particular, that's what they're aimed at they want to make sure that, or the belief is that if competition is fair, that resources will get allocated appropriately that lots of competition drives down prices that where there's lots of competition quality of goods and services tends to be better because with lots of competitors on a level playing field. They have to convince people why you should hire them or buy their products rather than somewhere else's. So basically, the more competitors you have and the more level playing field, the better off everyone is supposed to be. Obviously speaking, that's what the anti trust laws in the US are supposed to do is to try and achieve that endpoint, obviously, not always successfully. If you go to other countries. The overall concept, you know, is generally the same but the emphasis might be somewhat different. For example, in the EU. There's a greater emphasis than in the US on the competition side, as compared to the consumer side. It's a bit more oriented to be sure that companies don't become dominant to the detriment of smaller companies. And you can see how this plays out sometimes. If this is the kind of thing that you pay attention to in the news that very frequently the EU will bring investigations or charges against big high tech companies where the US doesn't. If you have a long memory, you can remember big investigations and big fines against Microsoft against Intel against Qualcomm against Google, none of whom were subjected to investigations for the same purposes in the US. So as I say, while the concerns are generally in harmony, the policy ideas that drive the actual enforcement of those policies and the actual framing of those laws, you know, does have some differences. Today, China is becoming more active in any trust laws and has adopted more and is refining them and their approach to any trust is not only again, somewhat different, but much more dynamic because it's still an evolving situation. So it's hardly reasonable to expect that anyone listening to this webinar is going to actually try and understand the differences between these laws. It's more important to just sort of tuck away that the laws are different. And that they're therefore you have to sort of always be mindful of what the general rules are and staying on the right side of them. Just so you have a good margin of error. And happily that's not at all difficult as you'll see as we go through today's program. There are things to keep in mind, but this is not a tricky or difficult area as long as you keep a few best practices in mind. That said, there are penalties. They sound a bit scarier than they are. But on paper, they can be quite severe. You may have noticed in the in the EU, they'll talk about finding companies up to figure out whether it's three or 4% of their global turnover. If you're talking about a $200 billion a year company, like the major high tech companies, you're talking about six or $8 billion. So the penalties for companies can be really substantial. They can actually also even be criminal in the United States with very substantial fines, and those panel criminal penalties can even apply to individuals. Now, before you get too concerned about that. Not only is that extremely rare, but when it does happen, it happens where the violations are really flagrant, and you're usually talking about, you know, the CEO or the CFO, or another C level executive you're not talking about, you know, a programmer in an open source project or a standards working group member. So again, good to know that these laws are backed up by real penalties, but no reason why you should feel personally in endangered or personally in the crosshairs. It's really much more likely to be your employers that would need to be concerned. So it's worth noting that more often than not, actual financial penalties or criminal penalties are never assessed in the great majority of investigations that are launched relating to antitrust, whether it be in normal commercial activity or standards. They usually end up in what's called a consent decree in the US. There's a similar term in in the EU. And what that means is, is that the parties, the regulator on the one hand and the company or companies. And or sometimes the standards organization. And there was a have been some investigations in the last few years that did involve standards organizations entering to this consent decree where the defendant isn't actually found guilty and doesn't admit to having done anything wrong, but they agree with the regulator on how they're going to change their behavior going forward. One example was a standards organization called GSM where it sets a lot of the telecommunication standards and fourth and fifth generation telecom standards. And what that focused on was the fact that some types of members had more control over the decisions made by the standards organization than other participants in the organization. And as part of that consent decree, they agreed to reset the balance and influence between members and that was the end of it, as well as continuing oversight by the Federal Trade Commission that's the FTC, going forward. How often do these pop up. Well, the answer is they kind of come and go in the United States. They sort of go in sort of a sine wave. If you look back in the early part of my career. The regulators were extremely active and at one time they were trying to break up AT&T which at that time owned all of the telephone systems in the United States. They investigated IBM, they investigated Microsoft, actually brought actions against each of them and actually tried to break up all three of them. AT&T actually agreed to break itself up. IBM and Microsoft were able to escape that. But it shows you, you know, the fact that they're not shy about focusing on the biggest companies of the industry and taking serious action. These days has been more activist than the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in the US. And as I mentioned, they brought some major actions against some big high tech companies that are household names. And in most cases, either extracted a consent decree, or actually levied very significant penalties against those companies. He has launched at least one action against the standards consortium. Since I originally put these slides together, I've become aware of another one where they're investigating the standards consortium. In the US, there have been at least three investigations over the past several years. So these are areas where the regulators are do take an active interest. And usually when an investigation is launched, it's because one company or several companies go to the regulators and say, look, there's something going on over here that we think you should look into and are able to convince the regulators to do so. As you might expect, sometimes those complaints are more the result of one competitor trying to take a punch at another competitor. But nonetheless, if a standards organization allows itself to get a bit sloppy, even though the regulator may turn out, eventually saying I guess there's nothing wrong here. The impact on a standards organization in particular, which since I have very few resources and very few personnel can be very extreme because it's hugely distracting and time consuming to respond to government investigations. And as I mentioned, China's an evolving landscape. So hard to make many comments about China, nothing to say say to you will be seeing things pop up in the news there, I'm sure. So what is it with all that introduction that you need to be need to be careful about. Well, as I say principally it's abuses by competitors, but competitors act through people. And when you are representing a company or possibly acting on your own involved in the standards organization, but particularly when you're acting for an employer, the regulators will look at you as being basically the extension of your employer. So the your actions would be imputed to your employers if you're acting as your employer has asked you to act. And you want to be aware of either doing things that you shouldn't do, or almost as much concern, doing things that are totally innocent, but maybe over the line, even though you have no intent to do anything wrong at all. But what they all relate to is conduct that could be viewed as competitors getting together to strike a deal in order to advantage themselves. Now, if you think about it, open source software and open standards are basically things that competitors get together to create and then do the same way. So if you think about it, that sounds a lot like a like an antitrust violation. But in fact, standards development and open source development are viewed as being in the words of regulators pro competitive and what pro competitive means is that the results for consumers are favorable. So standards in particular, if you think about it, are a way that allow different competitors to sell products that consumers and businesses can very easily compare. You can say, well, I can buy this product or I can buy this product. And if I want to switch from that product to this product, I can do so because they both adopted the same standards. Both those products are compatible. I can move my information and I can move my software from this competitor to that competitor. And the result of that is that consumers and businesses have more choices and competitors as I mentioned earlier, have to compete on value added features on better service on better security on better functionality. So that's the sense in which the trade off comes out in favor of consumers that even though different competitors are agreeing to standardize small portions of their product to act in the same way, the benefits of the consumers greatly outweigh any impact that they have on innovation. And one of the things that you'll frequently hear about in discussing any trust is the trade off between innovation and regulation. The idea is that regulation should do no more to restrict innovation than absolutely necessary. And that's one of the reasons why standards are tolerated, because typically a standard involves only a very small portion of the functionality of a device. If you think about a computer and Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi technology in a laptop or a phone is a tiny fraction of all of the functionality of that device. But the value that you get from Wi-Fi connectivity is enormous. By the way, I should say remind people that the Q&A box at the bottom can be used to enter questions. If you have any questions in the course of my remarks, please do put them in there. We'll have plenty of time to come back to them. I probably won't stop during it because I can't see that while we're sharing the screen, but do feel free to drop your questions in there. Standards were also created by organizations, usually referred to legally as trade associations. And here's a quote from a Supreme Court case, a trade association by its nature involves collective action by competitors. Nonetheless, a trade association is not by its nature, a walking conspiracy, it's a redenial of some benefit, amounting to an unreasonable restraint of trade.  So you shouldn't worry when you participate in standards working groups. The courts are very much in agreement, both in the US, the EU and elsewhere that this is a good thing to do. When should you be alert? Well, one of the things that I tell the Linux Foundation and other clients is the board of directors has to be really careful. And we do this, we map out, you know, what the what the board of directors talks about, I review the minutes, I or another person from my firm sits in on the meetings so there's good oversight there to be sure that everything is being done properly. And we're in face to face meetings or virtual working group activities. That's another situation where you should be aware of what is proper and what's improper activity and improper things to talk about. Generally, you're not responsible for what goes in the hallways. If you know two people get together and talk about something outside, that's that may be a concern for you and your employers but it's not a concern for the other members of the working group or for the standards organization as a generality, because it's just one on one, and outside of the actual sanction activities of the organization. So, what are these things you should not discuss? Well, as probably all of you already know, you don't talk about prices. An example of any trust violation is what's usually referred to as price fixing. And the most obvious way that that is bad for the marketplace is that if the major competitors get together and say, why don't we just agree that none of us are going to charge less than X. That means that they've just killed off competition at the price level that the consumers are never going to get a bargain because the incumbent vendors have all gotten together and fix the price. What may surprise you is it can also be a violation to set a ceiling. And that may have to do less with the ceiling on price, but the fact that there's some other part of the bargain that's going on in the shadows, you know, at the same time. I never also talk about the distribution strategies of your company or their competitive strategy or their market shares or territories. I won't go through these bullet by bullet you'll have access to the slides afterwards and can take more time on them. But the general idea is, is that how a company goes about competing should be known by that company and not any of its competitors. And one of the reasons is that if they start talking about it, they can basically be signaling each other. I'm going to do things this way other people can say, ah, I think I'll do it that way as well. And that way we won't be competing with each other as directly. So the way to stay safe is to just never talk about your, your employers strategy distribution channel sales strategy, number of sales people, you name it. The good news is that almost all of this information is the kind of information that you know you shouldn't be talking about anyway. Not because it's illegal, but because your employer wouldn't want you to be sharing it with competitors. So the good news is is that as a generality, most of the things you shouldn't talk about, you wouldn't be likely to talk about anyway. But it is easy to somehow drift into some of these discussions. If you're not keeping aware of them. Again, you, you would likely be totally innocent in what you were doing. But after the fact, it might look like improper behavior. So some more do's and don'ts. As I mentioned, if your company thinks it's confidential, it's probably not something you should share for any trust reasons as well. Another aspect is you should never exclude anyone from taking part in a working group or an open source project.  This is generally outside of your, your work of your remit. But if you are, you know, part of the management of a standards project, then it is very important that you understand that standards organizations should always be open to everybody. The standards working groups should always be open to everybody because by excluding someone, you can cause harm. In particular, if a group of companies were to get together to try and exclude someone that could be a clear any trust violation. Again, this only applies if you're a manager, but when we set up certification programs or similar activities, again, everyone who's in the marketplace should have access to those programs and not be excluded, because if they are excluded from certification programs, their products may be less successful in the marketplace. So again, I'm going to sort of speed through these because they get down in the weeds, but suffice it to say that there are a number of these things that you can come back and mull over in little great greater detail because it's a rather long list. But these are all things that are should be regarded as off limits for discussion. Maybe a little counterintuitive is that when parties join a standards organization, they should not be asked to commit to implement the standard that the working group creates. Now that might seem a little bit strange and if you're all getting there to create the standard. Why wouldn't everyone have to adopt it. And the reason is partly because standards do restrict innovation. And even though it may be inconvenient to have competing standards, one of the benefits of competing standards is the marketplace can decide which one of things is best. So even though having multiple standards may seem like a dumb idea for any trust law purposes. But it's really just the same as any other product or service, the antitrust laws and the competition laws do not permit standards organizations for example to say, I'll stay out of your territory. If you stay out of mind, that would be just as big a violation as if a company did it with a proprietary product. Well, my button is not working. There we go. Okay. Let's talk about sort of the happier side, what are the things that you should do. Well, you should engage in joint marketing and planning activities. If your standards working group supports them. That's not deemed to be problematic. It's just a way of collaborating and leveraging your respective resources. It's very important if you're a chairperson right in the meeting to have an agenda for that meeting, and then stick to it because this creates a record of what the competitors in the room talked about. Do keep minutes and records and distribute them to all participants were appropriate if there's anything you're concerned about. I will ask LF to have one of its legal resources myself or Scott Nicholas or Mike Nolan or Joanna Lee to answer questions before the minutes get distributed. But again, the role of the minutes is to show anyone what it is that actually went on in that room. Be sure that chairs are familiar with the rules of proper conduct. So if you're a chair, or if perhaps a chair of a working group that you're in, who's not on this call, tell them that they that you heard a good webinar, and they might want to go check it out. So from the Linux Foundation perspective, one of the reasons we're here today is to make sure that participants and chairs are familiar with these rules. As I mentioned, there's another video that will be used to the open source side of the house. Do ask your company if you're if you have access to your own company's legal resources, or the foundation's legal counsel, a question if you're in doubt. It's another good example of the old line if you see something say something. If you're in a meeting and you think that the, or online and you think that the conversation is going somewhere it shouldn't pipe up, you know, just say I'm not sure whether I'm right or wrong about this, but I don't think this conversation or this thread is staying in between the guardrails. So don't be shy. You can always pick up that conversation again later. If you run it by legal counsel, and they say don't worry. But if they do say yep, good catch. You'll have done everybody a favor by by speaking up. So that takes me through the formal part of the presentation, and I'd be happy to answer any questions and I see that that there's a few there I'm going to stop my screen share and go over to our other slide so I can read these questions. The first one says, if a certification price is very high. Does it count as excluding some protectioners with fewer resources. That's a great question. And the way things work is that the antitrust laws generally permit these, whether it be to get a copy of a standard, or to be part of a certification program, as long as the court or even some standards and regulations actually restrict membership, and I'm sorry restrict access to standards to people who are members. All of those practices are okay, because after all there has to be some way to pay the bills for conducting the standards work and conducting the certification program, and perhaps doing worldwide trademark registrations. It's also okay to charge for these things, as long as the price is reasonably related to the cost of conducting the activity. So if a certification price was not only high, but higher than was justified by the cost of providing the certification program. Then yes, that could be enough to at least get the attention of a regulator, whether the regulator actually took any action would also have to do with whether the, or whether there was any liability, as compared to the regulator saying, we think you should the penalties would relate to whether the price was high for the purpose of excluding anyone. So in general, in order to be guilty of an antitrust or competition law violation, there has to be intent to engage in improper conduct, you had to intent to cause harm to someone. So in this question the answer would be, would it be a violation to have a high price that might exclude very small companies, probably not, unless the price was unnecessarily high, and if the intention was to exclude the little companies. So next question. You indicate that a standards organization should not allocate scope between them, but cooperation agreements are very common as a vehicle for creating unnecessary overlap. Can you spend a minute on this distinction. This is your excellent question, and you're very right. Most standards organizations enter into what are usually called MOUs for memoranda of understanding or liaison agreements with other organizations and they may have anywhere from one to 40, the more influential and the more broad the activities of a standards organization, the more widespread these liaison relationships can be. You're quite right. In asking the question, there's a very delicate balance between that. So sort of starting at the bottom, what are these organizations do at the most innocent level, relating to overlap, what they do is inform two organizations, where they are active. One is entering into an activity. The other organization may say, ah, well if they're already over there doesn't make any sense for me to do that to, you know, they do quality work. I'd be wasting my time. So at the most innocent level. It's a matter of having active communication that avoids overlap. That's accidental and needless. It would be improper, however, for the two organizations to get together and say, this is my turf. That's your turf.  So while while these organizations can therefore keep each other in in form to their activities, and very often will instead of doing two different standards will collaborate on an activity. It's very common for them to form a joint working group, which in some ways is kind of the best of both worlds, because now you get the members and the competency of both organizations, plus you get the benefit that both organizations will then be promoting the uptake of the standard that results. So great question. And the answer is great for cooperation.  You said in passing that standards slow innovation, which can be the case, but another contest they foster innovation, right. Actually, I didn't say slow innovation, but I will pause on that because there is a perception that they do slow innovation. So let me answer your first, your question first, and then come back to that. Certainly standards also foster innovation. Absolutely. If you think about what are commonly referred to as network effects. You have enormous networks. If you think about telephone voice and texting. If you think about Wi Fi. If you think about any of the, any of the things where different products plug and play with each other. If you think about even agreeing on standard performance measures, all of those bring more companies into the marketplace. And once they have more products that have incentives to come up with more value added services. So for example, if you look at a car, it's amazing how many different things pop up in a car every year. You know, originally it was power windows. You know, then it was, you connect functionality for your car to plug your phone in. You know, it was automatic windshield wipers that go on when it rains. And you think, where do all these things keep coming from. Well, where they keep coming from is the fact that there's a lot of different cars, which implement a whole lot of different standards that they make basically make them functionally similar. You know how many miles per gallon are, you know that they all use the gasoline, the same gasoline, you know that they all have comply with the same safety standards. So the more products adopt a given standard, the more likelihood there will be that there will be more innovation on top of that standard. So what you notice in standards generally is that you try and push the standard to the lowest possible layer so that there's more room to innovate on top of that layer. And generally that's exactly what you see. You also see that standards tend to follow innovation, rather than preceded. So generally standards come about after there've been lots and lots of different goods and services tried in the marketplace. So if they've started to catch on, then the standards follow on the topic of speed. And particularly because this is an open source audience. One of the concerns or one of the things that that open source tends to not like about standards is that standards by definition are slower than open source. And the reason that they are, well, let me say that. Let me say that differently. Surprisingly enough, they're not always slower. If you think about a new open source project, getting to a first release in six months would be pretty quick. There are plenty of standards organizations that actually develop standards in six months as well. And probably the majority of the time these days, it's less than a year. The amount of time to first release the time between a standard and an open source commercial release isn't necessarily that great. What is different though, is that open source releases frequently and open standards do not. And the reason that open standards do not is because open source has a significant part of its value from the freedom to change. Whereas standards get their value from not having the freedom to change. If you think about plugging a plug in the wall, if you decided you wanted to make the prongs a different length. Well, you would have created a problem rather than solved one. So the value of a standard is that everyone does things the same way. And therefore, you want to keep things the same way for a period of time that provides value to the marketplace. If you're constantly coming out with new standards, particularly if they weren't backwards compatible, you'd be holding the marketplace back rather than taking it forwards. So standards organizations tend to have a three to five release schedule. And what they're doing there is they're balancing the benefit of stability against the costs of upgrades. The other thing that it's worth saying is that standards are not like open source in that they are most frequently a text description of functionality. So they again impose the minimum restriction on innovation, because they don't tell you how to achieve the result. They don't tell you the result you have to achieve. And frequently there can be multiple technical ways to achieve compliance with a single standard. So again, the marketplace has the minimal amount of constraint necessary. Now, having said that, increasingly, people in standards organizations, you know, may get to, you know, section 3B of the outline for a standard and look at it and say, Why the heck are we describing something here?  This is silly. And increasingly that's exactly what working groups are doing. So they may put in code and say, This is normative code, meaning that in order to be in compliance with the standard, you have to use that code, or they may provide a text description so that you could write your own code. And then they also provide the code so that the implementer has the freedom to either use the code just the same way they might grab a module from GitHub, or they can write their own code based upon the text description of the functions. So that takes us through the questions that have been posted. Does anyone else have one they'd like to add or a topic they'd like me to expand on? And it looks like the answer is no. So at that point, I'll thank you for your attention today and pass the baton back to LF. Thank you so much, Andrew and Jory for your time today and thank you everyone for joining us. Just a quick reminder that this recording will be up on the Linux Foundation's YouTube page later today. We hope you join us for future webinars. Have a wonderful day.


Farmers and ranchers from across the state have gathered in Bemidji this weekend to explore leadership opportunities and to see others living their lives and accomplishing their goals. The Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation Leadership Conference has brought over 200 farmers and ranchers to the Samford Centers Convention Center. Members say it's a great way to learn from their peers and go back home to apply all that they have learned. It's a networking opportunity for young farmers and ranchers to come together and talk about their farm operation and what works and what doesn't work. Some of the events include a small breakout group, discussions, and tours of area farms. Even young farmers and ranchers are in attendance, some that are taking over the family farm and others that are starting out from scratch. Our target is kind of to get those young farmers kind of a good jump start off the ground, a good networking opportunity to network with the people who are going through the same challenges of starting a business or taking over a business in the state. The Minnesota Farm Bureau Convention wraps up tomorrow with workshops and roundtable discussions.


From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this is Spatial Atlantis Launch Control. The countdown for launch of Spatial Atlantis on Mission STS-84 is continuing on schedule tonight. The window for launch of Atlantis opens at about 407 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow and extends for only seven minutes. Work at Launch Pad 39A as well as operations here in firing room three of the Launch Control Center are continuing as planned. Just a short while ago, the external tank was filled with over 500,000 gallons of liquid propellants and those tanking operations are now complete. No technical concerns or issues are being addressed at this time and we anticipate an on-time liftoff of Atlantis and the seven-member crew from Kennedy Space Center in just about five hours. And apparently our crew have been seated for their meal somewhat earlier than previously scheduled and they are in the operations and checkout building just having left their crew quarters. They are seated for their final meal before being driven out to the Launch Pad. They've been awake since about 6 p.m. today and all seven of them will be on the same schedule throughout this mission. Elena Kondakova of course, our Russian cosmonaut flying seated next to our shuttle commander Charlie Precourt. All the crew again are well trained. This is our pilot, Eileen Collins, who is flying for the second time as pilot. And rounding out the crew, of course, we have other mission specialists, Carlos Noriega, Ed Lu, and of course Michael Full, who we saw just a few seconds ago will be actually taken up and will remain on the Mir space station for four months until Atlantis again goes back to retrieve him in September. Our mission commander, Charles Precourt, is on his third flight having served as mission specialist of STS-55 and then as pilot of STS-71. That was the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station and now he'll serve as commander of this the sixth mission to dock with the space station Mir. He is a Colonel in the Air Force and next to him of course is our pilot, Eileen Collins. Edward Lu is preparing for his first mission into space and on the other side of the room another one of our mission specialists preparing for his first flight Carlos Noriega. Michael Full, this is a special mission for him. He's flown three times before but on this particular flight of course he will be staying on board the Mir space station and John François Clairvois is preparing for his flight today. Eileen Akhandakova, a Russian cosmonaut making her first trip into space aboard the shuttle however she has spent nearly half a year in orbit aboard the space station Mir. This is a remarkable shot of the moon from one of our long-range trackers. You can see the kind of detail that our tracking cameras have. This is a shot of moon craters of course. Again the crew waving and making the final goodbyes to employees at Kennedy Space Center. Mission commander Charlie Precourt with pilot Eileen Collins, John François Clairvois, Carlos Noriega, Edward Lu, Eileen Akhandakova and Michael Full. This picture is view is a shot taken from the 195 foot level. The crew have the crew has arrived on this level and they'll be taking turns getting into the vehicle. Of course their next step is to cross the orbiter access arm on this level that leads over to the vehicle. The seven space flyers on STS-84 reflect the multinational nature of this mission. Their origins are found in six countries, the United States, Russia, England, France, Peru and China. Again our launch will occur at the opening of our seven-minute window at 407 in 48 seconds. Pilot to go. Copy that. Engineering director. Say again Rudy. Engineering is good Jim. Say that. Safety and mission assurance. Safety and mission assurance is good Jim. Copy that. Range weather. Roger sir we have no constraints to launch. Copy that. Ops management. Jim the MMT is working, no issues required to launch. Copy that. Atlantis. Everything has come together so we're ready to go. You guys have a good flight, good mission. We'll see you back here and Saturday a week. Copy that to the whole team, to all international partners around the world. We're ready to go and we thanks for all your hard work. And NTD you're clear to launch. Copy. Captain start ATU and hydraulic control. Copy. Go fight. C-L-T-O-T-C. Go ahead. Arm ATU three start. Set to work. And control surface checks are now being conducted and the gaseous oxygen vent hood is being slowly retracted away from the top of the external tank. Everything looks good and we're cleared for launch today no problems are being reported from the vehicle or the crew. And Atlantis sir copies to the whole NASA team and to our partners around the world. Thank you. We need them to go to post the discussion of the pilot. Thank you. We'll succeed in our pilot. And thanks for making Atlantis such a beautiful bird. We're ready to take it over and deal with our friends on there. One minute thirty seconds. Ten nine eight seven we have a go from an engine start four three two one. We have booster ignition and lift off of this space shuttle Atlantis maintaining America's constant presence in space. Houston now controlling the side of Atlantis. Yes. Roger roll. Echoing the words of Erie Gagarin on his launch 36 years ago Commander Trello Precourt puts Atlantis into the roll heads down wings level for the eight and a half minute ride to orbit might fall headed to the mere space station. Thirty seconds into the flight Atlantis is three liquid fuel main engines now throttling back in a three step fashion to 67 percent of rated performance to dampen the stress on the shuttle's aero surfaces as it breaks through the sound barrier. Fifty three seconds into the flight the main engines now beginning to rev up to full throttle 104 percent of rated performance the engines along with the three fuel cells and three auxiliary power units all functioning normally. Fifteen seconds away from solid rocket booster separation that will be commanded by the general purpose computers through the master events controller on board. Booster officer confirms a good solid rocket booster separation guidance is converging on all three main engines now gently stirring Atlantis for a precise keyhole in space for main engine cutoff. Atlantis performance is nominal.


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Thanks for checking out this unboxing video. This is for the December frite crate and yeah It's a little late for a frite crate But they've been running behind on shipping US Postal Service having problems and that's who they ship through But they're very good with letting everyone know when they're behind and when they're shipping and they do that via Facebook So they're pretty responsive And throwing the information out there, so I appreciate that I know some of the properties for this one and Should be a solid one. It's not the one. I'm most excited for there are a few ones a few coming up Oh, sorry, it's not that there are few coming up that I'm particularly excited for like the one for January has Something from a franchise that I really enjoy, so I'm excited about that and then the February one that I just purchased Has one of my favorite movies Which I actually have a large poster at the bottom of my basement stairs over there and I've had that for a long time I also have another poster for that movie. I need to put up at some point, but anyway, let's get into it The shirt is usually quite awesome, and I'm wondering what the shirt will be for this one Hacking material obviously. Oh real quick the the quote always do the quote and I forgot this time Horror is not a genre. It's a reaction John Carpenter Sorry, let me see if I can get the the lighting back to where it was No, not quite looks fine, though. Sorry about that. Okay, so shirt first as her huge And oh, yeah, this is cool. Okay, so this this is a film that I Wasn't like I saw it and liked it back back in the day But I wasn't like a huge fan of it at first and then time went past and I'm like, you know what? It's a genius film really and it really does hold up So I'm happy to finally have a shirt for scream And I like that it has like the the film celluloid marks on the side. That's super cool really like that the Yeah, the killer looks great It all looks good Cindy and Remember what Drew Barrymore's character's name was in it because she gets off so quickly Did she even have a name? It's been a while since I watched it, too. This looks great as usual I'm assuming max max cave did it Great artist. I always love the shirts. The shirts are my favorite thing typically All right, so here's a little Magnet resin piece. Oh, okay this okay. I was wondering what was gonna be for this one. This one is pretty solid Let me look here Okay, so we have a Magnet for candy man It doesn't look exactly like Tony Todd It looks more generic to be honest.  I will say that that look that hook looks way too large and thick in my opinion and Not the best resin piece, but it's okay It's okay. I mean, I'm happy to have a candy man, you know resin piece, but It's okay All right next the bigger resin piece Well, I'll save that for the end. I usually do at the end. So here's a Pin their pins are always really well designed and this one is actually from a film I've not seen this so let me know in the comments. Is this something I definitely need to see my impression of this Or what I've heard of this film is You don't necessarily need to see it, but it's a sleepwalkers So, yeah, I mean that looks great.  I mean in comparison to my hand. That's a pretty large one. It's like Yeah, I couldn't palm it really yeah, and I know that sleepwalkers is like cat people or something I just that doesn't really appeal to me so much, but let me know in the comments Is it one that you would recommend or is it one I should continue to stay away from okay? So there's maybe an art print or an autograph or something. Oh Man, this is yeah, it's a piece of art. It looks really good max cave who does the shirts awesome Has done a very nice leather face rendition. This is a really nice art print like look at how good this is Wow, I love like the pink and purple how that comes together. It looks sinister It looks gross it pops it looks realistic for you know being a piece of artwork Man that looks really good. I love that and I love how the saw is just sticking up there And he signed it as well. He's got a cool signature by the way 2021 he did it Yeah, that must be digital because his yeah, it doesn't look like it's wet signed or anything But that I don't care about that. That's fine. All right, so and then the big resin piece. Oh So I know what it must be I was trying to think because I can't see it to roll the bubble wrap. This is pretty cool. I like this Solid definitely solid more than solid actually. This is very nice Creep show Look at this. This is the texture on this too is really nice. This one is nice. I quite like that Look, it's the it's a skeleton from creep show the movies that is Man that looks good and even says creep show. It's not rounded out in the back so actually, you know, you could You could mount it on a wall somehow if you have enough sticky stuff. That's pretty sticky because this is Not super heavy, but relatively heavy. So you'd really have to have something that it hears really really well but look at the detail on that like That eyeball the detail on the eyeball just yeah, there's some great and then like I was saying like the texture on The cloth that he's wearing is really nice. I mean when you first look at this It looks kind of simplistic, but once you actually looked at the sculpt on this It's very detailed, especially like another thing look at look at the detail and hair There's a lot of like crevices and nooks and crannies Sorry and Thomas English Muffins reference and a lot of like nooks and crannies on this that that sculpt job is tough, man That's really nice. That's really well done. I like this a lot Excellent job and the paint job looks good too. I don't really see any paint issues Qc looking quite nice nice work nice work for a great very nice. Okay, so let me read what it was For December 2020 It's exclusive scream for me shirt What's your favorite scary movie digital art by our favorite artist max cave? Like I said big fan of max cave because of for a great Exclusive creep show bust inspired by the comic and poster art this bust is brought to you by serial resin Co as usual And they do a great job Exclusive Candy Man magnet second outing from serial resin Co inspired from one of our all-time favorite 90s flicks Yes, and I need to rewatch Candy Man. I actually have it. It's in this big stack over here of blue rays I need to watch and do reviews for so That will be coming it Hopefully on the sooner end. I don't know. I will get to it. It will happen exclusive sleepwalker print Exclusive pin two inch soft enamel double clutch and then the exclusive leather face print this month's mystery theme item Beautiful art by max cave. It is beautiful art by max cave. That is I mean just one more on that This is a really nice box because This is amazing. This is a great piece of art for anyone who likes Texas Chainsaw Massacre that should definitely go on your wall or wherever you want to put it Like I said the quality on this creep show bust is really awesome. That is wonderful It's cool to hit well I don't think it looks exactly like Tony Todd or even all that close to Tony Todd and there's some proportion issues with The hook and stuff. It's still cool to have a magnet a resin magnet Like I said, don't really care that much about sleepwalkers But the pin is executed really well, and yeah, the t-shirt is really nice I really like this t-shirt. I'm excited to finally have something scream I don't have any scream stuff, especially not a shirt. So now I do and it looks so cool wonderful I'm sorry Getting bedhead from the shirt. Anyway. Yeah, so that's a great one. I'm really excited for I'm really excited for the next one because well, okay Stop stop right here. If you don't want to know any of the franchises for the next one and then I'll tell people I'm excited for Okay, the people who wanted to drop off are gone. So there's supposed to be a Tremors item in the January box. So when I get that, yeah and if you know me I went through and watched all the Tremors films over the summer and Really fell in love with that franchise even watch the TV show from sci-fi My wife then got me the blu-ray box set of all seven Tremors films That includes the one that came out in October Shrieker Island, which is good If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth it And then I also bought on DVD because it's only available on DVD the TV series and I will be rewatching those So if you have interest in reviews on those, I have a whole playlist on my channel for all the Tremors stuff So just know that but this is a great box as usual Good job, Frank. Great Thanks everyone for checking this out. Do me a quick favor though If you like this video or any video go ahead and hit that subscribe button for me It's your best way to repay me cost you no money Just takes one second of your time and it means a lot to me personally. It really does I'm trying to grow a community here of horror nerds who like to see things like unboxings like this or do movie reviews Or haul videos or any of that great stuff, but also you can put some comments down there What do you want to see Fright Crate do that's one of the big things? What do you think they should really cover? I would like to see maybe like a resin piece from Goolies. I think would be a lot of fun What else would be a really good one? Maybe some shining stuff would be a good time. I would really like that I'm kind of looking for inspiration at this at the autographs that I have I know they've already done a hellraiser thing with howling would be nice. Okay. Anyway, I'm gonna cut this off But thanks for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal


So we watched Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom last night. Oh, nice. Yeah. My first time watching and I saw Amrish Puri doing the Kali Ma. Yes. Yes, legendary. So she watched Raiders a few days ago. She had never seen it. And then we watched that because obviously the new one's coming out. But I just thought there's got to be a porno somewhere called Indiana Jones in the Temple of Poon. Wow. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Direct so go Corbin. Indrani. I'm Harrison Ford. Oh, no. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks, Patreon folks. Should have counted like button. Today we are in part Thrice. Thrice. She's once, twice, three times a lady. She also watched Shrek for the first time. She had never seen Shrek before. She's an American classic. She loved it. How did you not? Those are great. Those are fantastic and made films. We are on to Ron Devoe with Zee, with Simi Gurwal. Gurwal. Gurwal. And Rehka. Is she still around? Who? Simi. Yes. No, what's she doing now? She has a valid name after her. I don't know. She does. Is she still doing interviews with breathy voices? No, not anymore. I wish she did. I really loved this interview, huh? Yeah. And cheesy synthesizers for her theme song. It's not cheesy. Do you know the in Lord of the Rings who's? Gandalf the Grey Wall? No, Aerosmith's daughter. What's her favorite? Aerosmith's daughter. Oh, yes. Stephen Taylor's daughter. Lily. Whoever, yeah. Her, she's known for being extremely breathy in that movie. Like everything is, watch it again. It's all you hear. Really? She just, everything she says is, oh, it's true. Because she's half whispering most of the time and talking in slow motion. Yeah. And my wife pointed out to me years ago. Because you have to go to the Shire. That's the entire interview. Yeah, it's that breathy kind of voice. I've heard worse and it really bothers me. Yeah. Anyways, so if you haven't seen the first two parts, please go check those out. Those are already out. And this is part thrice. And here we go. Oh, what? Why did you just go in the middle of the goddamn interview? Cunt. Here we go. Sharul Khan is still messing with my hair. What key is that, Rick? What key? It's a D. Oh, wow. In 1990, you took another gamble for happiness again when you married Mukesh Agarwal. God rest his soul. I knew him. But I still want to know how could two such different people get together? Well, we're not the first couple. That's for sure. That's true. Yeah. But how? Destiny. Destiny. How did it happen? Difference is also a track a lot of times. I don't think it's really important to talk about how it happened, how did we meet, who introduced us, where did it happen, how did we get married. These are irrelevant. Of course, one went through the initial, you know, feel of, OK, marriage, you know, Karnaji. OK, it was the right time, also one thought. We went through it. But what's important is the lessons that I've learned from that episode, from that marriage. That's most important. That was the time I really, really grew up. I became the woman of the world. It was as mobile as it sounds. It is the best thing that ever happened to me. Because I got a crash course of what people are all about, who my friends were, who my foes were, but every so-called pain that I went through and so-called questions that arose in my mind, they just went inside me. And I became the person that I'm truly proud to be today. Was it an arranged marriage? Yeah, in a way it was arranged marriage. It was in love, that's for sure. Yeah. And you'd only met him once? Yeah, true. So you actually married a stranger? Essentially speaking. That's a risk. Life is a risk.  That's a t-shirt. I knew that this can never work out. Really? Or in Sicily? I did. Or in Decolon. I did. I wanted to know you'd marry us. That was very Midwest. Why didn't Decolon or Decolon? I don't even realize. I didn't realize anything before I said the name complete. It was all over, all over.  Having said that, yes, the decision is mine. Ultimately, I didn't say my name. But somehow there is, you don't consciously want to hurt anybody. You don't consciously try to analyze your destructive by nature. But things happen amazingly. It's all choreographed by someone out there. And sometimes you get this feeling, I often get it, that this is a real experience. This is not me. It's not even happening to me. Someone else. But then sometimes that one small thing then have a profound effect in your life. And that did. Rekha, some months later, when he committed suicide. Oh, geez. You know, one went through the entire, I mean, the whole gamut of feelings, the initial shock and the denial. No, this can't be really happening to me. And of course, later on, this intense anger.  What did I do wrong? I never hurt it. I never meant to hurt anybody. You know, the difficulty with that, then they're trying to understand it. In vain, of course, you never really understand it. And then finally, of course, acceptance. But the point is, after that incident, it was your silence, Rekha, that people didn't understand. I spoke to very few people. I'm basically, by nature, very shy. But having said that, I've come a whole circle over a million circles. That I'm much more mature now, that I can talk. And I can talk about things which I never thought in my wildest dreams. Or even I didn't have the courage to talk about things. But 14 years had passed since that tragedy. How have you dealt with this? I think to the best of my abilities. One doesn't deal with anything. It deals with you. You know, the incident deals with you. But if you allow it to deal with you in a negative way, so be it. But you always have the choice. You're human, Simee. You can fall. In fact, I will say this with complete certainty that there will definitely be the gift of pain, trials, tribulations, confusion, misunderstanding, devastation, not to mention natural calamities. That is for sure, like death, it's everyone's life, you know?  Very difficult. Who said life was easy? Life's tough. Get a helmet. It's much more interesting when something is not given to you in a matter of seconds. A lot of t-shirt statements on this. I want the platter. I don't think so. But you are you, Simee. I am me. In my case, because I've been trained that way. Do they like each other? I said, do they like each other? How come one has never heard of... I can't tell sometimes. ...the rick-ozone drinking binge, or rick-ozone drugs, or rick-a-kai. Never, you kept yourself very clean. Of course. I have been on drinking binges. Of course I've been on drugs. I have been very impure. What kind?  Ask me with what? Oh, please. With life. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Very funny. His name's Woody. I've been lusting rick-a-kai. You're going to get married again? You wish. You should have yourself. What? Are you planning, sir? No. Why? See, to begin with, that's another show. If you want to talk about marriage, then my... No, I don't want it. I won't make it to another show. I want it in this show.  I'd love you to come back. Maybe with your husband. That woman is very alien. Like, as alien as father. At first, it helped. How would she... Husband? No. Imagine somebody saying that now. I would like to be married to life and... Sing an actress like that. You could go back with your husband. I've already married to so many things. Married to a guy. Maybe an exception. Is he talking about the superficial thing? No, I'm talking about the real thing. You're talking about the... Well, she had said earlier, a woman becomes strong because of a man. Is married to myself? We were a different breed back in the day. I married to my loved ones. But not to a guy. And who started this thing called marriage anyway? It's not gone. Not me. I mean, really, what is this all about? Okay, are you planning to get married again? Seems no. I think I already answered that. I'm pretty sure she said no. Well, not a woman, obviously. Why not? There you go. No, I'm just kidding. Don't be homophobic. See me. I don't think so. You don't think so. God! Let's be realistic here. Okay. You don't have a serious enough expression on your face. Don't be serious. I like the playfulness coming out. Serious, real, emotional. Okay, very serious. I'm not a cynical person. And nothing is forever. So, anything can happen. Taxes. You kept the door open.  That's okay. What are you doing? You're making a big deal for me. You never know. You never do. Huh? You never know. Yeah, go ahead, please. She's... You never know. The heart is open. You know, I'm pretty good at matchmaking. Oh, you really? Yeah. So, are you... And now you're telling me? Anyway, it was the last time we ever talked about this. You said, Never, never, never. I do want to get married again. She said it like twice now. It was a few months back. It doesn't... I'm involving next moment. Tomorrow I'll be a different person. Any regrets about not having children? Not at all. Not at all. And... You took his a job over. Because...  At one time, yes. I was not regretting, but I was too young. And I had no clue what was happening to me. You know, my friend Nitu and Yogita Bali and all my friends... What having babies? They were all babies and I love babies. The whole body. I want to see more of that playful side. There's a bunch of it in there. I know it. And one ladoo and one claw on the face and everything. And I was like, I want to do that too. The baby boy. Give birth to a baby to be a mother. If you were on a street and you saw a baby in a cram and a puppy on the other side of the street, are you drawn to the puppy or the baby? Really speaking, today I'm drawn to the puppy. Puppy? I knew it.  Yeah, you know that side of me. Yeah, you do. Before Pisti, I had no idea. Oh, I've got something I must show you. What? Little surprise. Okay. Who's that?  Oh, my baby. Baby. Is that her doggy she used to own? Oh, my, is she a cutie? adorable. Is this a movie? Yeah, must have been her dog. Do you notice the resemblance?  She's good, huh? She's too beautiful. Nineties were a law this time. Oh, my God. She was exactly like him. She's she's crying. I'm sorry. Gee, of course. I'm sorry. No, don't be like that. She's a deep person. Oh, she goes, hey, could you give me a copy of that? I'm a tap, sorry. She is so adorable. She's so alive. She was exactly like that, you know. Exactly.  My God. I want to share this with you.  I'm cute. Thank you. That would be amazing. So was that a movie or is that like a home video? I think it was a home video. Yeah, I have Shiva. Who's the last I have? So, little baby. The name is Shiva. Shiva I had by you. The destroyer? No, little baby.  The baby voice comes out whenever she's talking about a dog. The eyes. The baritone voice. Those eyes, it looks familiar when you did this. Does it? Looks like Shiva? Shiva's eyes are like that. No, it looks like somebody else. OK. What? You know what it is. You wrote this. I think I do too. So anyway, that's another show. OK.  That's a bit wicked. No. Not together, Jessica. No. Alexander the Great. Oh, OK. You know what I mean? And then I have Tiger. Why do people say that you become a recluse?  Not everybody likes people. Josh, you do seem to be a good social life. Me and Reika would get along. I don't think so. I do not know any person who is more privileged and who's luckier than I am. To be alone. No. Who said I was a loner? To be able to have the independence of being able to make my own choices, to get up and go and do exactly what I want, who I want to meet, where I want to go.  Which party I go, which I party I don't go. Yes. Who I invite over. Everything is in my hands. And it's become a way of life, but there are reasons I didn't plan it this way. Her follow-up question is going to be, but you don't have a husband. I didn't plan to go and live in that house alone. It's so happened. At the park, the screenplay had that my sister would get married in the interval. The other sister would get married. They went into their mankis. I mean, into their sassarals. So, and talk about friends. Yes, I do have friends that I can count on my fingertips. Mother used to say, if you have one friend in your lifetime, you are blessed, truly blessed. Two, is your lucky. Three is hardly possible. You have for Zana.  She's more than a mother, in that sense. She's everything. Everything, absolutely everything. Talk about soulmates. She is more than that. I should be... It seems forever. Couple of decades, I guess. So loyal. And effortlessly devoted. A living example is our name. Very lucky. Very blessed, absolutely.  Oh my God. Excuse me, say that again. Say that again, I'm out of here. You used to be, did you say?  I remember when you would entertain with us the whole day. I will do that. But I... Do you still do it? Try me, baby. I'm trying, aren't you? Oh, God, damn. You haven't entertained you so far. That's not entertaining. Entertain me. Dance, monkey. First, I want you to just do me one mimicry. You could do better than that than to ask me for a measly mimicry. You should have asked for something else. My heart is full of cheese. Did you just call her a bentro? I think she did. So odd. The line of questioning. I wish you guys asked that to Zakir Hussain. Like, can you entertain me? Entertain me. Just entertain me. It's not bad to be a recluse, everybody. Some people just like to be alone. If you know someone's private and they don't invite you over, it's not personal, they're private. Get along with Reka. The survivor? You know that, Bhanureka? You were born as. This is Reka you made yourself. As a child.  It is what all my experiences, all the so-called calamities that have been bestowed upon me and the way I dealt with it, because that was my choice. Would you have done it differently? No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Not a single moment, not a single thing in my life. Because if I had done something else, then I wouldn't be the person that I am today. Exactly. Even a thing like Visti's death, if I said she was alive, then I would have decried myself of Shiva. You know, when you used to tell me that you have to get another one, I never wanted another one. You know, my nephew put him on my go-d and said, okay, this is your birthday present. I never wanted to. You look so many things in my eye and now I take it as a gift. Yeah. You know, I'm just thinking. How you've changed. I remember many years ago, I asked you about if you would do things all over again. And I remember your answer. You said if I had to do it again, I wouldn't. Wow. Then I really voted for you to have to see that. Thank you. Obviously, no more tears because... Tears, I just... So many tears I shed for my baby. I'm sorry, I didn't want that to happen. No, don't be sorry. Like I said to you, if something has the ability to touch you other than self-pity, then be grateful. And your father has your relationship with him now. It's wonderful.  When did you meet up with him? Very recently. I actually really met him when my mother died. After all this years? Isn't it strange? Actually, I never thought about it. It didn't register to me, it's true. I mean, I saw him a couple of times. He used to come and meet my sister. So how was it when you met him? Wonderful. Was it not like a stranger? No. Why? Because, you know, here's a man you've spent a lifetime about. Let me tell you this. Everything that one has imagined and fantasized, he was all that and more. It was all here, you see. It was like with Amici. It was all in your mind. He was all that and more. As far as I'm concerned, I was never away from him. But you never talked to him? I did. So have you had your feel of talking to him? I had a real conversation with my dad. Yeah. I've always had real conversations with him. One on one. You mean the worldly way? The worldly way. Darling, I've never spoken to him yet. To your father? No. Wait, I'm talking to him. We talk every day. But I haven't spoken to him yet. But in eyes, you know, in touch, in a smile, maybe. You don't have to talk to the person and relish the person. We don't have a conversation. You want to know the truth? This is the only time Rekha has ever had a complete conversation ever for the record. Because she doesn't talk. She expects people to understand, especially people who care. That's very well. Now I'm just talking about between him and you. How do you relate to each other now? I think wonderfully. By not speaking? I told you before this. You don't want to talk to him? Of course I want to talk to him. And I just haven't spoken to him. What? I have. But not in words. Not in words. Semi, you're not getting it straight. OK, Rekha needs no words, period. OK? She communicates with every other medium, but words. Too bad if somebody wants to settle for something as small as words with Rekha. Because trust me, she's capable of communicating in much higher planes in many other beautiful ways, which are original, only uniquely Rekha. Try me. At the Filmfare Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award, you shared the first public platform with him when you handed him the award. That's right. My God. How did you feel? Felt very, very proud. I touched his feet. And I'm not a person who shows my personal feelings in public either. And he neither. He was a very spontaneous, sorry. He neither. He doesn't show his feelings. He doesn't express his feelings. Oh, he does. Trust me. Has he ever expressed his feelings to you? Oh, yeah. Always. Has he ever expressed regret to you? Never. Never, because there is no regrets. No, but he missed out on wonderful years of your life. That you'll have to ask him. Maybe he feels that I don't know. I really don't know. But from his behavior, I don't think so. Hey, I wish I was there for my child.  Really? But I really think that if something that you want most, as long as you're alive, there's always a chance that it can happen in exactly the way, or if not better, than your fantasies. But time runs out. You know what? Time never runs out. It does. No. No. He's not a young person anymore now, Rika. Again, you go back. It's the moments. I have got my messages. I have got my love. I've got my reassurances. I've got, oh, yeah. One look that this man really, really cares. He always did. I was right. My mother was right. I knew it. I'm so glad. Yeah. He is a hero for me, truly.  I never lost him to find him. He always was there within me. You know, Rika, it's not the cards that one is dealt. It's how one plays the game. In the end, I think you won. You think so? Yes, you won. Thank you. I think so, too, Simee. I really think so. Now, you are not leaving, even though it's past your bedtime. Wait, wait, it's past. It's my breakfast time. OK, but unless you sing me a song, you'll sing a song with me. Me? You will sing a song. I've seen Ronda Moseley sing. You could make Jai sing. This makes sense with asking artists to just perform for you. Now, let me make Rika sing a song. I can't sing without a tanpura. I mean, I need some source of it. You need a walkie. When you start doing this at the end of our interviews. What? When you start doing this at the end of our interviews? Yeah. Come on, sing. Dance, monkey. Dance. But they just get a tanpura. Is she known for her voice at all? No. Then why did she want her to sing? You he sat sa tajate The reverb. The reverb. You he sa tajate The reverb. You he sa tajate The reverb. You he sat sa tajate The reverb. You he sa tajate You he sa tajate That's how we're going to end all of our interviews now. Now that we're who they are. Now the interview is done. Sing for us. Please, on Skype. It's very fitting for an Indian interview, though. Like, the amount of times that we've just been told that, or when our interviews, we interview, you know, the great singers that we've interviewed so far, everybody's like, you should have had them sing. Like, I'm not going to have them sing on Skype with a Skype mic, but apparently people do. She has very interesting ways of looking at stuff and talking about it. She is, she has, she's Sherlock, man. She has a palace in her own mind that she has created for herself that has become objective reality through pure subjective impression. And she has actually brought about the healing of broken relationships through thought without the other person being included. Well, I hope, I hope she feels closure in those relationships. Maybe from abandoned, dad abandoned her. It comes from abandonment issues that then it just, it's a coping mechanism, I guess.  Especially being a star like she is and really not being able to talk or trust most people. And also seeming like a very introverted person who does not share personal things, which yeah, I relate to. Because people twist, she was hated so much at one point and then. Because of the amtab? Yeah, that and people blamed her for her husband's suicide at telling her that she's a witch.   Yeah. Well, they're not worthy of Reika. A witch hunt. Yeah. Maybe she's a witch. It's awesome. Witches are cool. Yeah, some of the more wild stuff. I mean, way more, the thing I appreciate about Reika is I think she's as genuine as she's, I think she's trying to be as genuine as she can possibly be and it matters to her. She's really selective with the words that she uses when she's describing things and really clarifying if you ask a question, she will immediately not let it slip. And some of the questions she was being asked and some of the statements that were counters to her clarifications were really strange. They were very patriarchal. They were very, you know, how did you get strength without a man? How can you live life without being married? It's very of the time and how people conducted interviews. Yeah.  Oh yeah. Sure. Barbara Walters. Because it's just how people thought at the time.  And people deemed acceptable to ask somebody because they're in the public eye. Like all these questions, like people would be canceled in a heartbeat if they asked some of the questions to her or said. There's a lot of Hollywood interviews with actresses that you see back from the 1960s. Oh, Britney Spears was, it was so sad to see her in interviews where people, I knew the interviewer was just making fun of her or just saying sexually inappropriate stuff. And she was just what, 17 or 16? She was just looking, didn't know what to say. Some of the answers did remind me of late interviews of Michael Jackson of like, he'd say something like.


Breaking news breaking news breaking news that you can use as you well, no all over social media. We've been hearing of the alleged abduction or the rather the missing of Carly Russell Carly Russell of Alabama is said to have made a call to 911 stating that she saw a child on the expressway by themselves and That she was going to assist the child. See what's going on. She pulled over and stops, right? She also was on the phone with a family member and According to the family member They lose contact and they can hear her screaming The cars then left they are on the expressway the police are already en route at the first call Some of her belongings are left behind The key is still in the car And the police say that they got no reports of any missing child She was leaving work Approximately 8 p.m. This call is made a little after 9 p.m They say she stopped at a nearby restaurant got some food And then they could just call later of course the word goes out all over social media and Her pictures posted People are concerned. There is an APB all-points bulletin in search of Carly Friends and family and loved ones are expressing their concerns You may have been one of the people who reposted have you seen her? This is a missing persons report and Today we find out that she's returned now According to reports she returned by banging on the parent's door pretty hard They open it. They say that she's safe. There is no report. She didn't return with a child She comes to the home virus by herself. They say they took her to the hospital to Be examined There's no report of any bruises, bruises, blood bludgeoning She has yet to make a statement And so we're now all waiting with fated breath to determine What happened? What happened? two days massive groups of people driving all over Alabama Looking for this 20 year old black woman 25 year old black woman so I Decided to do this piece this this day because The neighbor actually asked me if I would be willing to do a piece or use the traffic particularly particularly amongst black women and So I did I pulled up some information and the information I pulled up Come to find that black women And black girls are Far more likely to be abducted than any other group of people And so that's definitely concerning Extremely concerning But after mother concerns We see that most recently as a matter of fact very recently in Florida. There's a you know the young 6 year old girl gets abducted by this Latino man 36 year old Latino man in Miami and She fights and kicks and bites and scratches and he had to let her go because little mama let him have it at six Little mama let him have it and so this is a real thing. That's just too. That's two days ago as well Little mama let him have it in Miami, Alabama. There's a 25 year old black woman missing People are pushing information all over the internet the local news and the national news it makes national news It's real Human trafficking is real Very much so let me pull something up here.  I was looking at it, but there's some some numbers.  It's just it's a snapshot And here's some of the things that they have to say They say 57% according to the FBI 57.5% of all juvenile prostitution arrests are Black children. I'm bringing that up.  It's just a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot Trafficking and trafficker relationship and and then and then I'ma move into where I'm going with this research conducted in 2012 showed that around 85% of those who bought Sex on the internet Were white men this is FBI research. Don't don't is not me Don't oh, he's being racial this FBI. These are largely white men in the FBI.  Let me let me move forward So my point in saying all of that is to say that absolutely positively Human trafficking is a real thing Human trafficking is a real thing. It's a it's a thing that the black community should be Really on edge about and from the response of what I saw on my timeline these last few days The black community has been really concerned. They've been talking about it promoting it sharing information Trying to bring this sister back But I got questions One let me say that I'm happy that she is back That she's alive That we're no longer looking for her And I hope if there was a child That that child is alive and well too But I got question just keep it 100 I have questions. I have my I have questions because I'm just I'm listening to the police reports and It just doesn't make sense to me that there's no I listen Immediately that I'm sure they asked what happened the police had to ask what happened Did someone take you from that location? And if so, what do they look like? What were they driving? How did you end up leaving your car with your keys and your personal items still in there and Go missing for two days Was there any funny business involved with did a crime happen? Where are you abducted is the question? That's what we want to know. Is that what you want to know? I want to know where you abducted Because this is a serious issue and if she was abducted We we want to know because we want to know who to look for Because we want to help because it's not over because we were part of the search No matter how small big you participated if you just had a conversation with one person if you just shared if you just Shared on your social media or if you just prayed We want to know If you were abducted so we can bring this person or people to justice We want to know But I have some questions I also want to know because I want to know whether or not we've been fooled. I Want to know whether or not maybe some games were being played. I want to know whether or not we got Jesse small let Small let it remember Jesse small at the actor The actor who had other famous people Advocating for him Coming to his side Supporting him saying that we need to make sure we show support for this brother who claimed to have been Beat by Ku Klux Klan members in the wee hours of the morning in the middle of What why headed to a convenience store of some sorts They get something to eat and they put a loose around his neck And they had MAGA hats on in the middle of black Chicago early in the morning cold We had questions Only to come to find out that it was people who knew that he planned this with that participated in this act fellow actors And we won't even go beyond that the rest of the message that that we came to find out with that piece I don't I don't want to hear from you all saying I'm Whatever But I got questions. I think we all have questions and you may say well will mega You got questions.    I just got questions. I'm not pointing to blame Nope, I'm still waiting to find out like you and you probably have the questions, too Or maybe you didn't dig that deep that you would have these questions But I'm gonna tell you why I have some questions Tell you what my questions come from One just because I'm curious what She gets home the police don't share anything with us, right? The police don't share with us Any details after she gets home safely No APB we're looking out for the reports were that maybe someone thinks they saw her with a light Skin male in a gray car that had pulled to the side. There's no confirmation of this, right? That's number one. I always do looking for this light skin male in the gray car She could have come from that You may not even want to get into the details there, huh? Then there's this This one concerning This is where my questions come from. This is a news report news three Coming out of Alabama CBS news report W I AT Okay, this is what WIAT reports So I don't want to hear anyone you just making up will make I use no WIAT. This is a news report Let me see if they should Report what specific No, they don't give me a specific author Or this but the uh, oh no, this is by Courtney Courtney Chandler All right, this is posted July 16th. That's today. It's 612 a.m today, all right, that's less than It's just four hours ago from the time of me recording this Not sure what weather what time I'm gonna share this with you all but it's breaking news So you'll get it, sir As a matter of fact while you're watching it, you know, that's when you got it, right? This is what This is what Courtney Chandler writes she says that as of yesterday The Hoover police confirmed that Carly Russell was located safely at 1045 p.m Police confirmed she returned to her home her home Late Saturday night. It's 10 12 a.m. Right now 12 hours ago a little less than 12 hours Carly returned home people And you woke up like I woke up this morning And start scrolling down your timelines. Oh wow, she returned. Yes safely. Yes But I continue to read more because I'm curious I want to know what happened Are we did we find the folks to did this and I begin reading about the hundreds of folks? You know offered her support You know, they were passing around flyers Throughout the community holding prayer vigils hoping that she would come home And then I read this quote today We just want to focus on just hope and faith and trust in God like that Russell's best friend Dakota Wyatt said But Dakota went on Dakota continues to say this is her best friend That's just how we're feeling today We're hopeful We're faithful God has a final say And we're all holding on to Like those words right But then there's Kennedy Spurl who says she's been her best friend with Russell for over 10 years And they said that Russell Bring Carly Russell brings Hope enjoy wherever she goes But she also said this She gets up every day loves to make other people happy smile and make people laugh She's a big joker and Sometimes we're like Carly Let's be serious and she says Why and she says Why to let's be serious My antenna went up on that my antenna went up on that because if During these moments when people are reflecting about what type of character you have and in these type of times You they may be thinking we may not see you again. Let's be honest when these things happen We're thinking that we may not see that person again You begin to reflect about their personality their character the legacy they leave she says She's a big joker and we say sometimes let's just be serious and she's like why Remember the Joker and Batman Why so serious? Always playing pranks the Joker and Batman that is I'm not saying that This young lady is a prank player. I'm just saying Carly I got question system I got questions. We have questions. Don't you have questions? I Got questions. I hope that In the end the questions that I have that May not place her in the best light if it comes to find out that she was joking Are unfounded. I hope today That listen will mega maybe you just you you just drew conclusions too quickly. I don't have a conclusion though I just have questions And when the nation When things make national news and we know we know let's be honest America We know that when black people go missing. We normally don't get this type of treatment There are people who are in need of this type of support and I would hate to be Jesse Smollett again Because for my black sisters who are being abducted the most and placed in human trafficking sex camps or however it works We can't afford for people to be walking around thinking That's just a prank So I hope my questions are Answered soon enough Hope that this sexual abduction and human trafficking stops And if you're someone out there who have been who has been abducted and you can contact me You can contact me on this this YouTube channel Let me know I'll do my best to help you out That's how you're getting this content if I can help you I would do anything and everything I could to assist you if you've been abducted But if this is a joke America deserves some apologies Black women deserve some apologies And we deserve answers Thank you for tuning in to will mega TV until next time One God one aim one destiny


Μινίχ! Γεια σας! Όταν είμαστε πρόεδρος εδώ, υπάρχει αυτή η άλλη δημιουργία για Ευκρανία, με τα ευκρανιακά φαγητά, και είπα ένα σκοτήριο φαγητά. Βλέπεις αυτό το σκοτήριο φαγητά! Με το καλύτερο μου! Είχα σκοτήριο να γνωρίζει αυτή αυτή η πράγματα, η οποία Πουτιν ευχαριστούμε κάθε μέρα σε αυτά τα πραγματα. Ποιος είναι η καλή φαγητά της Λαδημένη Πουτινς, Λαδημένη Πουτινς. Γιατί είναι Λαδημένη Πουτινς, που προσπαθούσε να πάει Πουτιν σε ένα κρυμνικό κρυμνικό κορδί, που οι Ευκρατές δεν γνωρίζουν. Και για να κάνει αυτό, δημιουργεί Πουτινς το σκοτήριο για ένα αίσθημα, και για να διεθνώσουν οι Λαδημένες, ότι πρέπει να φεγγεί against the Americans, στην Ευκρανία. Λοιπόν, αν θέλεις να συνεχίσεις το κρυμνικό κορδί που Λαδημένη Πουτινς σκοτήρει, πρέπει να υποχωρήσεις Πουτινς. Τώρα, πείτε. Ποιος είναι η καλή φαγητά της Λαδημένη Πουτινς. Λαδημένη Πουτινς. Γιατί η Λαδημένη Πουτινς δημιουργεί τον καλή φαγητά, γιατί οι Ευκρατές δεν γνωρίζουν για τον Κρυμνικό. Και η καλή φαγητά για την never-ending war, και η καλή φαγητά της Τεξανικής Βασικής Βασικής και της Ουρφής, που δημιουργεί την Βασικής Βασικής γιατί δεν βρήσετε από την Ρεσία. Ο Λαδημένη Πουτινς και της Βασικής είναι οι καλές φαγητάς. Δεν μπορεί να είναι καλή, αλλά they need one another. Ποιος δημιουργεί Βασικής Βασικής? Ναίτο. Ναίτο δημιουργεί Βασικής Βασικής με their support of the killing of 250,000 people in Chechnya. Remember in 2001? They supported him. They created the monster. Monsters are hugging each other and dancing together. If you were Putin, if you were Zelensky, if you were Biden, if you were Netanyahu, what would your worst nightmare be? What would your nightmare be if you were Netanyahu or Biden? Peace. Because peace would mean that you are becoming politically bankrupt and at the same time that the people who support you, the arms industry, the weapons producers, they will become bankrupt. The person who was holding up the NATO flag, if you ask him or her, why are they holding you? They will say because NATO is protecting us. They believe that NATO offers an umbrella, a shield that protects them. Well, NATO doesn't protect us. NATO is like the mafia. The mafia creates insecurity to sell you security. The mafia create threats to sell you protection. It's a protection racket. NATO creates the wars. NATO creates the monsters like Putin. NATO creates the Saddam Hussein. They create all the monsters with which then to justify their own monstrosities and the fact that we Europeans have become their slaves, their vassals. There is no such thing as Europe. We are a colony of the United States of America. We are a colony of the oil producers, of the fossil fuel industry, of the banking sector, of Wall Street, of the Frankfurt Bankers, of the European Central Bank. We together, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Irish, we are all together, their slaves. This is why it's so important that you are here today. Well said. Now I've got a question. Why is the political spectrum in Germany so complicit in the genocide? Why are they so complicit in the wars? Why do they keep saying yes whether they are the... Even on parts of the left, definitely the SPD, definitely the Greens? Why are they allowing Europe, Germany to deindustrialize? Why are they allowing your country to fall back? Let me tell you why. There is no conspiracy here. It's really very simple. If you own Mercedes Benz you really want to sell your cars to the United States of America. If the United States of America has a big deficit because of that deficit they buy everything German industry, Chinese industry, Japanese industry produce and they pay them with dollars. And what does Mercedes Benz do with the dollars? They take them to Wall Street and they invest in America. Who is their constituency? Who do they care about? Not you, not the people of Germany. They care about Wall Street. They care about Washington. They care about Biden. We are a colony with the complicity of our own political class. This is why it is important that you are here. I salute you for being here because all the political parties every single one of them that are in the buddhist time have dropped the ball. They have let Germany down. The people of Germany the people of Greece the people of France have been let down by our political system. This is why it is the people of Greece it is the people of France that need to take to the streets in order to reclaim the political and civic space what you are doing today is not a demonstration. What you are doing today is political agency. You are democracy. You are the demos that need to be put back into the democracy that the political leaders together with the warmongers celebrated a very long time ago. France comrades I cannot possibly believe that today in this fine city there is a conference on security by the people selling insecurity and arguments and that we have this discussion in the media on television about our security in Germany or in Greece and our prosperity I can't sleep at night I cannot think of my prosperity when we have 15,000 children that are injured without known relatives in Gaza This is not a possibility for any ethical person to sleep at night and to talk about our security when insecurity illegitimacy is the order of the day in the land of Israel in the land of Palestine. Let me finish with something I remembered earlier as I was walking up here I remember it was 1982 and I was in Warsaw in Poland and I remember back then Solidarnosk the movement against the communist regime and I remember the Solidarnosk dissidents had written a slogan on the bridge which I thought was very clever because what they did in the communist regime they had quoted Karl Marx and it said a people who oppresses another people is forging its own chains Karl Marx was a brilliant, brilliant repost to the communist party of Poland that is the case for Israel today it is the case for Russia it is the case for Turkey it is the case for Greece if we oppress or we are complicit in the oppression of anyone we can never be free none of us can be free if a people are oppressed I have been told by my comrades in France that in the state of Bavaria I am not allowed to mention two bodies of water in the Middle East something that looks like water that is flowing I can't tell the word I can't say the word of water flowing and another body which is not flowing which is large and it's part of the Mediterranean and I'm not allowed to say that we need universal human rights and political freedoms between these two bodies of water so let us all proclaim they need to fight for universal freedoms and universal human rights between every body of water in Israel and in Palestine let us together rage rage and rage again for the dying of the light in Palestine in Munich in Holland everywhere there are people who are breathing and living let us rise up against the dying of humanism Capedium in Palestine so that we can free Germany so we can free Europe so we can free the world


Welcome to the fourth video of our suite of eight mini-videos to support you through the data requirements needed to run the local housing market assessment tool, referred to as LHMA this video. Please use these as reference resources prior to and as you populate the LHMA tool. You will have needed to have populated your housing market areas as shown in video one before starting this task. This video focuses on the sheet named income data by HMAs in section two of the tool. Here you will provide income data to develop an income percentile distribution for each housing market area. The income data needs to be on a gross and equalised basis. In these boxes you will need to select the year the income data relates to. And using the drop-down list select the data source. The options include paycheck or other. Where other is selected you will need to state here the source you have used. Moving to table 6A you will see the upper limits have been prepopulated but you can amend and overwrite these to match the income bands within your data. Moving to 6B this table has also been prepopulated with your geographical codes and the associated housing market areas. Using your data source for each geographical area enter the total number of households and the split of these households by income bands. Moving back to table 6A the tool will then aggregate this data to provide a percentage split of the total households for each housing market area and by each income band. When complete you can tick the appropriate box on the front page of section two. And that concludes the income data requirements. The further information you can consult the LHMA guidance or email Welsh Government at afdl-lhma.wales.