It's my pleasure to welcome Bonnie Mayewald, who works at the Centre as the Manager of Disaster Management, but you're on circumvent from AusAid, and you were part of a panel here at the conference on civil and military co-ordination in disasters, and you focused in on lesson learning from the 2010 Pakistani floods. Could you just remind us first of all what happened in 2010 with the floods? What was the, what was happening and the impact on the people and the challenges it set? Yes, so in Pakistan in 2010 they had one of the world's largest ever disasters, and the equivalent of Australia's whole population went underwater. So 21 million people were affected.  Are you a person in your career who's been able to go out into the field? Can you give us a sense of your work history? Yes. I've actually lived through or worked in about 10 disasters, so they range from Australian floods through to the Bogenville post-conflict scenario. I was there as a civilian peace monitor, again on secondment for a Mosaic, so I was privileged to work with the people of Bogenville through the ceasefire and used to investigate ceasefire infringements. When a gun or a bomb popped off, I had to go and find out why and who was upset and where the weapons were and what was the problem and how we could settle it. So you're very much genuine field experience, so in your paper at this conference talking about the 2010 Pakistan floods, you're probing lessons. What are the two or three key themes and questions you're exploring? So I use the Pakistan floods to identify a process that the civil military centre can use. We work in the space where civil and military actors work together, so it's a higher level field than where just one agency is working. It's where we go in joint action and the civil military centre was established to in fact deliver more effective coordinated responses to overseas crises. So it's really important for us to up the ante on how well coordinated we are and in the Pakistan floods there were some really good high level lessons about what we can do better and how we might do it better. So I identified a process that would be used by the civil military centre in our thinking now on gathering lessons at that interagency level, above single agency action. Now the ordinary person, here's the word process and they just go, oh it's an instant nod off you know and yet I guess something I've learned sitting at this conference is process is everything when you've got civil and military together. Yep, so I actually described it as a dance. I said I was going to teach everybody there how to dance together because civil and military have to actually walk in step a little bit better and so it was a six step quick step dance. Anybody leading? Uh no, no a civilian lead, it will always be a civilian lead but not necessarily the one agency from one disaster to the next it may be a different lead. And why always a civilian lead? Global guidelines advise that in disaster response the host nation first of all the host nation the affected country and their priorities are the most important thing and they should be leading coordination and any foreign assistance needs to be done under the leadership of a civilian agency. That must be immensely hard to do in practice. No, no the military know that it's not their core business but that they can assist very promptly and very well and that support role is an important adjunct it's not their core business but it's an important thing they can do in addition to the security field that they work in normally. Well this whole conference is about learning lessons so what are a couple of the key lessons you feel we can learn from those floods in Pakistan in 2010? Well one of the biggest lessons was about in fact identifying the priority needs of the people that were affected and as I said before you know a couple of hundred thousand women about to give birth so in that instance Australia funded the delivery of birthing kits to help with those emergency space deliveries so that those children had a better chance of surviving. And what's that kit? They are like a small kit that gives them something safe and sterile to deliver on and to cut the embolicus with and yeah to ensure that the baby doesn't get to headness. So what's the lesson we take away from that that is about an intense focus on the needs of the humans? It's actually a little bit more than that. We know that humans are affected in every disaster but the kind of impacts are actually very gendered and it all depends who you are what age you are what group you live and work in how you're impacted so some particularly vulnerable groups will have less of a chance of surviving a big disaster. Perhaps women who've never learned how to swim have no chance of surviving a tsunami. Older people don't survive well if they don't have assistance to flee quickly. So that sort of thing we found in the last decade where we've looked at the gendered impacts of disasters that there are very many more women old and young dying from these big disasters. Your best chance of surviving in Burma when Cyclone Nargis hit was being a middle aged man. And I'm assuming and tell me if I'm wrong to make any assumptions but I'm assuming that when we talk about women there's children clinging to their legs and their elderly mum or dad just over here. Exactly in fact it has been found in one of the recent big disasters that where men died they died alone where women died they died holding on to a group of children as you just said. So for quite emotional hearing that but here in this conference there are all these people called operational planners I think that's what they're called and logistics people and so. So how do you translate those very human lessons into their work so that more women and children and old people survive the next big flood in Pakistan? Yeah okay a couple of things one is that the better we can coordinate what we do the less impact we're going to have in terms of a negative impact and the more positive impact we will have in delivering assistance and the other thing we can do is making sure that what we're taking is relevant to the particular groups that are most impacted so knowing the context and listening to the priorities by being identified by the affected communities and the the affected state so we really do need to communicate and coordinate well and in fact 80 percent of what we do is about that kind of logistical coordination and communication if we get that big four out of five of our effort right then the really good positive impacts follow. Bonnie you and I are a bit older. Yeah and one of the things when you get a bit older is you think how do we make sure the next couple of generations down hold on to the lessons that we've learned this must be the passion of our generation and why I say that is you've focused on the needs of the elderly and I've already interviewed for this center series of interviews on the conference a wing commander from New Zealand and when that earthquake happened over in New Zealand one of the challenges I had there was getting the elderly people into the airplanes finding them toilets keeping them hydrated handing them over at the end of the flight to someone who could help an old person was actually they weren't ready for it so lessons get lost how do we get the lessons and keep the lessons for the next five to ten years. It's not just an age-based learning I think in every organization there's a degree of change over in staff and you actually have to do a regular process of sharing knowledge and sharing experience and sharing the learning through action through exercises through training so we very much encourage younger graduates to come to the center we've had two graduates this year showing to them the kind of things we're doing we also encourage work across the agencies who are involved in joint responses and we do regular training and regular exercises so that we catch people as they move from job to job it's not just an age-based thing so joint exercises is that something that happens in the civil military preparation for disaster in fact you could say it's been flavor of the month this year so a lot of the large military exercises this year have actually chosen a theme on humanitarian assistance in disaster relief operations and this year we've been very busy taking part in those representing the views of civilian that is non-military agencies in a military exercise to help them to shape what the military does in line with the advice they're going to receive in a real disaster response that is going to be civilian led our time is up but is there something I should have asked you that I haven't one last thing you'd like to say um no it's just that everybody is affected by disaster it's not an unusual and in Australia most Australians either themselves or have family members affected by disasters and globally it's something we're going to experience more and more and countries in our region Vanuatu and Tonga the two most disaster risk countries um my daughter was born in Tonga and we went through Cyclone Isaac in Tonga a major Cyclone and I saw how the Tongan families lifted themselves up and rebuilt locally from local um equipment and tools um it's part of life and we need to understand it and share the learning share the love thank you so much Bonnie may well thank you right here thanks Julie


There is only so much the talent can do for you as far as wealth and success are concerned. I mean, there are so many people in the world today who aren't talented as such but making money and landing themselves one huge deal or the other. So what's happening to the talented ones that should be getting those contracts effortlessly? Does it mean that talented people aren't doing enough? Perhaps they aren't talented after all. Yes, it's that complicated to figure out. Thanks to social media platforms, people have more opportunities and easy access to show off their talents. Some will live instantly, others will wait for a little while, however, even with all those resources available to them, they still aren't making any big move. Could something be wrong? Perhaps there's something they aren't doing well. Well, in this video, I'll share with you why many talented people are poor. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Talented People Don't Have a Plan Whether you are talented or not, the first thing that anyone needs for success is a plan. It could be a business goal, financial goal, career goal, etc. A plan is an outline document that suggests the strategy and steps that you intend to take to become successful. Say you are an artist, your plan should include when you intend to draw or make your first collection of art pieces, how you intend to market them, how to reach out to your target audience, people who would love your kind of art pieces and how to build a community around them, etc. How do you think companies or individuals grow their businesses and become successful? Luck? Of course not. It doesn't mean that people don't get lucky, but no one grows on luck. You have to be intentional. Yes, you might get lucky in getting some opportunities, but you will need more than that to keep you going. Planning means putting your imagination into writing. When you do that, it brings commitment. Dennis Waitley, a writer and motivational speaker, once said, The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing their adventure with them. The truth is that it is ignorance to think that as long as you are talented, your talent will automatically attract people to you. No, it doesn't work that way. You'll need to clear the path to your doorway and put in enough work to ensure that when they look towards your work direction, their attention is caught at first sight. Do you see the difference? Your talent attracts them at first sight, but your plan is what makes them look in your direction in the first place. 2. Talented people don't know how to sell Next to not having a plan is being clueless about how to sell. Talented people don't know how to sell. Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Reach Dad, Poor Dad, want the rich teach their kids about money. That the poor and middle class do not. Once narrated an interview that he had with a book review expert. After an appropriate amount of questioning, the interviewer asked a personal question, you send my columns in the newspaper regularly, but I've written books and magazine columns and can't seem to get them published. I wondered if I might have some tips about how I could get published outside of the newspaper here. Kiyosaki replied, I think you should take sales training classes. The columnist said, why should I want to take sales training classes? Kiyosaki, tell me what you wrote under my name at the top of your notes. The columnist glanced at his notes and answered, I wrote the words bestselling author. You didn't write bestselling author, did you? Kiyosaki said, he offered more advice. The world is full of talented poor people. I think that perhaps you are just one skill away from wealth. You appear to be a very talented writer.  The truth is that it doesn't matter what position, role, profession or responsibility you have. Selling is a primary part of it, whether you like it or not. In the world, you are either selling or buying. So every day, you are selling to people without realizing it or buying from them. The problem with sales, however, is that people have a misguided opinion of it, thanks to sleazy, high-precious salespeople who have done so well in making the world believe sales is about forcing a person to buy a product that they don't need. To effectively sell anything to anyone, you have to become a sales consultant who educates prospects about everything they need to know to make a wise choice. You see, the contractor who does the best job of educating often makes the sale. Perspects put less weight on price as the deciding factor when other information can be considered. Sales have zero dependence on your talent. Your ability to show people how valuable a product is will determine whether or not they want to go for it. So if you want to become rich as a talented individual, you need to learn how to sell effectively. Three, talented people are perfectionists, always waiting for the perfect timing. Talented people mostly tend to wait for the perfect opportunity to make their move, so the goal becomes perfection instead of the actual goal of succeeding and accomplishing their vision. Waiting for the ideal opportunity or situation or result and failure, you cannot just seat and wait. Focus on yourself. It's about the journey to self-growth and development. It's a process that every successful person passes through. Success isn't a destination. It's a journey. However, talented people think that as long as they do their job skillfully, then success will somehow find them. Well, I'm sorry to break it to you. It doesn't work that way. There's no perfect time, place, situation or opportunity. Take hold of the opportunities around you. Keep developing yourself and success will be inevitable. Four, talented people aren't hardworking. Again, talented people rely so much on luck for nearly everything. They think that their talent is everything that they need to be successful. They don't understand the role of hard work to its success and wealth. Think about some of the talented professionals in any field that you know. How do you think they succeeded? They worked incredibly hard. Think of the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg and so much more. Colin Powell, an American politician, once said, a dream does not become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work. The truth is that we're all talented at something. So if everyone is to rely on talent to get the job done, then would probably all be on the same level. Successful people, on the other hand, are hardworking. It takes hard work to learn how to be a good salesperson, commit to your plan and accomplish your goals. Team Note, a high school basketball coach, said, hard work bates talent when talent doesn't work hard. So to become rich and successful, you have to start working hard. Five, talented people aren't playing the game of numbers. To create wealth consistently, you need to learn how to serve many people at the same time. Look at it this way. Have you ever wondered why a footballer and other entertainers earn so much money than some of the professions? For instance, a teacher. A footballer offers value to millions of people at a time, while the teacher provides value to a few people at a time. It's called the game of numbers. Talented people pay attention to the depth of value, forgetting that breadth is equally as important. They pay attention to their craft, but they neglect their work or reach of people. You see, to create wealth, you need to either have access to the numbers or you have access to the people with the numbers. How do you think of the likes of JK Rowling, Oprah Winfrey and other billionaires who grew up poor and became successful? For instance, JK Rowling became a billionaire from selling over 400 million copies of her book, the Harry Porter series. Again, talent alone gets no one anyplace good. You have to be willing to put in the work required to become wealthy and successful. Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you like this video, watch more videos on our channel and subscribe. We love you.


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What's going on guys? Modern day muscle back at you with another video. In this video, I got another mod going on. This video, as you can see right here, based off the thumbnail, I'm pretty sure that I'll create. We are installing brake pads and rotors at none other than a garage driven garage. I went with the power stop setup, the Z26 ceramic carbon fiber. Carbon fiber ceramic base, low dust. The reason why I went with this is because, one, this is a cheaper option. I think this is the better option. Actually, yeah, I think it's definitely cheaper than the Brembo's, but I believe it's the better option just to avoid the brake test completely. You won't see as much brake test as you would on the six pistons, because as you know in my car, I have the four piston brakes, but yeah man, Paul recommended me to this. He's installed this on a couple other friend's cars around the way over here, and the biggest thing that I like about what's going to be put on my car is these rotors, man, because they're not just slotted, but they're drilled.  Yeah, I can't wait, man. I can't wait, but I need to get these in the trunk. So let's try something out here. Whoa, where'd they go, guys? And that's through the power of editing and all that magic stuff that happens behind the scenes, but I just want to take time to just shout out a couple of things, but yeah, man, I'm owning another channel called Free Smoke. Make sure you go and subscribe to that channel as well. The link will be in the description and also to make sure you subscribe to, well, not subscribe, but follow on Instagram free underscore smoke underscore official. It'll be on the screen right now. It's on IG. Make sure you go follow us, man. Keep up to date with everything that we're talking about. Everything cars, everything going on in the car world, we're doing it for the culture. So we're doing all that right now. It's packed up.  What's going on, guys? It's the next day. I'm already at Paul's house garage driven. We are jacking the car up as you can see, parts are still in there, but yeah, man, we're just getting some work done right now. I'm super freaking tired. I had to drink a rumble. Paul's tired, but hey, man, we're going to get this done. Also got some, I guess new lug nuts, but there's nothing special about them. But yeah, I'm going to be taking off these current lug nuts that I have now because I think the key is wearing some ago, switch just some different lug nuts. Cars are already jacked up. I think Paul went inside to go get a hoodie because it's cold as F outside, but yeah, man, we're up early in the morning, man, 9 a.m. Woke up at 7 o'clock to, yeah, woke up at 7 o'clock to leave the house by 7.45, be on the road by 8, and made over here by 9, man, right on the dot, man. 8.59, but still, right on the dot, man. So just got to get this work done, and then we're going to go on about our business. We got the man, the myth, the legend, back at it again, you know what I'm saying? I turned the camera because I can't get Paul's work shirt on camera. He wants to get up all prematurely, so I have to move the camera out of the way like, ugh, like that, damn, man. No, I get it, I should. Nobody knows where I work at? I mean, y'all know where I work at, but nobody that watches me knows where I work at like that. Yeah, man, you got to keep that stuff private, man. He's digging through the cereal bowl of tools, guys. Yeah, I'm wondering how he's going to look with the wheel. If you guys don't know, actually, you guys don't know, because I think I pointed out maybe one video, but I glazed over it real quickly. I have the hub right here on my old rotors for painted black. Actually, let me just go and show you guys. So, this is my old rotor here, and as you can see, it's painted black. I got that done, and I just realized that on the new one, they're not painted black, so I'm wondering if it's going to look crazy or not. I don't think it should look that bad. Nah, it's going to look pretty good right now. Yeah, yeah. Is this the fact that adventure is going to stop like this? Well, then again, your car doesn't stay outside like you used to. I was about to say that was when I was apartment pimpin. Definitely an outside queen all the time. Outside of home. Yeah.  Oh, speaking of that, speaking of that, bro, I was coming. Yo, why I seen a state trooper light flashing everything, whizzed past me going the other direction. Guess what it was?  They're not playing. Was that lubrication? So, well, I know that's where the rods to go in the brake caliper, but I would say on those pads, so what it doesn't like seize. I thought it would come from the pad. OK. I thought it would come from like either the pad hitting the rotor or the pad itself, you know what I mean? That's where it's interesting. You just put them in. They're the squeaky. Yeah, which is weird. Which, speaking of squeaking, Brembo's squeak all the time, especially after it rains and your cars are sitting out in the rain. Look at that fresh pad. My other pads were skinny. See, I had these pads on for what? Like, three years. It's my first, we're doing brake pad change. All right, guys, definitely got the brakes and rotors on. Once again, power stop. Seize, C26 or C76. I'll put it up on the screen, I don't remember. Atop the box somewhere. Yeah, man. It looked dope, man. I like it. What do you guys think? But yeah, guys, so you know, with new brakes and rotors, as you may know, there was a braking period, so I need to do a couple of accelerations and stops before I'm actually all the way put together. So me and garage driver, we're going to go for a little drive real quick to break that in. And then you guys know how I felt afterwards. Yo, guys, it's been a day or so. I can't remember all the days, just mixed together. But we are back in my garage. Yes, the brake pads and rotors are installed. Let me show you guys real quick. Brake pads and rotors. Yeah, man, the brake pads and rotors are installed. The drilled and slotted rotors look dope. Honestly, like I said, man, the car drives way better. I couldn't really do like a drive reaction, stuff like that, because I forgot a piece to my little gimbal that holds my phone. But I'm giving you guys a little final look right here, man.  But yeah, man, I'm going to go ahead and close this out. My name is Jordan. This is modern day muscle. Shout out to all you guys commenting. Shout out to all the new subscribers coming from Free Smoke and elsewhere. Hope to see you guys on the next video.


Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE, covering Citrix Synergy Atlanta 2019. Brought to you by Citrix. Hey, welcome back to theCUBE. Lisa Martin with Keith Townsend. Wrapping up day two, wall-to-wall coverage of Citrix Synergy 2019. Keith, what a two days we have had. This was not a boring show. This has been really exciting. It has. My cheeks hurt from smiling. You know what? I've been to shows where the messaging can be repetitive. We did almost 20 interviews over the past couple of days talking to executives, three of their customers. Oh, actually more than three customers. We talked to four customers and all the conversations have been different and dynamic and exciting. And that's really great to say about Citrix again. Citrix is exciting. If I were a Citrix customer today, I'd definitely invite them in. And I didn't make the show, invite them in and have a conversation to find out what's going on. The intelligent experience is, as Christian said, they've been working on it for a few years, releasing it today. Not a surprise, but definitely a great start. Absolutely. You know, they came out of the gates yesterday morning in the general session really with this massive pivot for Citrix of really developing technology for the end user, for rather the general user, like those who are not power users, those who shouldn't have to become power users to do their job, whether they're in supply chain or marketing or finance. So that pivot towards that general purpose user, which is the majority of users, was very ostensible and it was welcome from, not just all the customers that we talked to, but the analysts as well. Yeah, I think it's one of those things that you look at, AI, you've said something repeatedly that interesting stat we heard yesterday that applications are designed for the 1%, the power user. And what we heard today was the basically commoditization of AI and ML. I've always thought that AI and ML at some point would get to the point that we can push it down to the user and the user would use AI and ML the same way that they use Microsoft Excel today. Citrix has kind of flipped it on me and presented a way to use AI and ML in a way that I had not thought of, which is to take processes, business processes, not IT processes, but business processes, package them up no matter what apps they're being used to deliver that process, package that up into a micro app and end users themselves will be able to build it. Christian Riley, Citrix's CTO, said he's mostly excited, that was a great question you asked him, mostly excited about 2019, putting this builder, the Citrix builder in the hands of not IT administrators but business process owners. So, and I wish we had more time on that front. I was curious, what does that do to shadow IT, empowering those business users just that, I wanted to get your perspectives on that. Yeah, so you know what, it's exciting and scary at the same time. You know, the idea that a business user can automate a process in which he takes data out of one system and puts it into another one on a surface is pretty cool, but I've been kind of keeping my eye out on this multi-cloud thing. What happens from a security perspective when a user builds something in AWS and they have Salesforce and they have their Oracle database online and they create a workflow, this builder will give them the capability to basically build a multi-cloud, I wouldn't even call it an app, a multi-cloud business process that becomes a competitive advantage to the business and then becomes a business critical application as a result. So, you know what, I see why the excitement is there, but from just the bureaucratic IT person that's over 20 years of IT experience just can't get out of me, there's a lot to kind of just be weary of and plan for. It's all good stuff. It is, but you're right, you bring up, you know, I just was kind of envisioning this proliferation of IP, of these sort of custom applications that lines of business users are going to be able to build a lot of enablement there, but then of course, in terms of this application exponential growth within a company, what are some of the implications you talked about security? We talked about that a lot the last couple of days, so that's absolutely critical, but in terms of that app proliferation, what are your thoughts on that? Yeah, you know, think about interesting term, IP. Early 90s or late 90s and were just in e-commerce and it was very controversial. Amazon was patting business processes. The one click to purchase was a big, big deal. Competitors couldn't do that. End users who have a completely different perspective to, this is a tool. You know, it doesn't matter if this is a Samsung phone, iPhone doesn't matter, this is a tool so that I can get a business thing done. The results, you know, where we've put imaginary barriers, you know, the AS 400 and Salesforce shall never touch. Well, business users will destroy those barriers. They'll see these applications, they'll see these uses and then we run into, you know, typical problems. You will create a thousand of these in a single organization. How do you find them? Like, you know, app discovery, when you want a new app on your iPhone, finding an app to do a specific thing, you know, I can probably search for Flashlight on my iPhone and get, what, a thousand apps. Which one is the one for my process and best for my process? I can see that app proliferation been a problem in the enterprise. Something that we'll have to keep our eyes on. Another thing I was curious to get your feedback on is RPA. You were one of the first ones in Twitter to call that out yesterday saying, all right, if Citrix wants to be delivering the future of work, automation's going to be essential, and then voila, there's the intelligent experience. But something that we heard a lot yesterday as well, and we hear this at every show, is these massive workforce talent shortages that we're going to be seeing in the next few years. Some industries are already facing them. So looking at the talent shortage and then the concern over AI and RPA taking over jobs, they seem to sort of balance each other out. I'm sure it's not that simple. Yeah, we've talked about this an awful lot in my circles. There are some people who just won't be able to make the transition to delivering higher value work output. My son talked about a coworker who did not know how to maximize Excel. And you know, we look at that now, kind of you chuckle maybe a little bit, but that's painful. What happens when RPA automates their job, their job is definitely a process that can be automated. But on the flip side, we need people to write RPA scripts.  RPA is a definitely an area that we not only need people to create the robots, we need someone to maintain them. What happens when a regulation changes? You know, Christian talks about liability. If something is automated and we forget that it's automated, a regulation changes and we continue to go along with the automated process and we're in violation of a standard or a compliance law, we need someone to go in and quickly make a change. Who are these people? Where is that talent coming from? And then this place workers, how do we find work for them to do this value add that they can make the transition to do? So it's a lot of complicated questions yet to be answered. Well, another thing that was really obvious the last couple of days is the breadth of customer success that Citrix is having. We were able to talk with, as you mentioned, four customers from the Miami Marlins, so Major League Baseball, two financial manager, a wealth manager, company Schroders in the UK. We spoke with Indiana University based here in the States and what they're doing to enable end users like you and me from students to consumers of wealth management technology to baseball fans is radically different, but at the same time, it's all about delivering this experience that's personalized, that's customized and tailored to what each individual wants to achieve. And this is without even giving the new product from Citrix. We had Dana Gardner, an analyst on earlier today who said that Citrix really needs to toot their own horn. There should be a Citrix inside. I remember early SaaS products from companies like ADP. I'd get support calls on it. I'd go to an end user's desktop and they said, I'm using this ADP software. This is before software as a service was really a big thing. And I looked at them, oh, this is just Citrix going into another, going into a data center somewhere else. Today, that is very much a SaaS service and Citrix is the underlying foundation of that. So it was no surprise from a technology perspective to see what UI are doing or is that effort was doing or Schroeder or even the Marlins. What was surprising was the impact they're having, you know, the providing accessibility applications to rural parts of Indiana via 200,000 endpoints from a university. This is not, you know, you think of 200,000, there's a lot of cloud company SaaS companies that would love to have 200,000 devices accessing its infrastructure. So extremely diverse set of customers that Citrix has and the capability even without the products announced today, pretty exciting. I'm excited to hear in the next, you know, six months or so from those beta customers who've been testing out intelligent experience and seeing what other enhanced business outcomes they're achieving. Also wanted to get your perspective on what you heard over the last couple of days with the perspective, how does it change the game for Citrix from a competitive advantage standpoint? Yeah, that's what we need out that VMware is either going to acquire or quickly announce a RPA type solution. This is something that businesses will care about. This is not something that can be ignored. UiPath, which is a complimentary solution to Citrix just got a $568 million roundy. Let's put this in perspective. We're hearing software companies get $60 million rounds to create hardware. This is a software only company, AI machine learning that does RPAs, robotic process automation. Investors are seeing the value in this company enough that they're going to give a software company who doesn't have buildings, they don't have, this is just to invest in sales people and R&D, $568 million to make it happen. You're going to see competitors like VMware, Citrix is a friend, I'm sorry, Nutanix is a friend of me of Citrix, you know, they go to market a lot together but they have their frame solution.  This is a seismic move in the industry. So I gather that you're leaving here pleasantly surprised by some of the things that were unveiled. I did not expect Citrix to move so quickly into RPA or robotic process automation and this is not something that they thought of last minute. So, you know, Christian said they've been working on this for three years. So this is something that they've given quite a bit of thought to if the same thought hasn't happened already at frame, that competitive solution for desktop as a service or if it hasn't already happened in VMware workspace and their set of VDI solutions then Citrix is obviously three years ahead. Any of your thoughts on the announcements with respect to deepening relationships and partnerships with Microsoft, with Google? Yeah, and some of that is catch up. VMware has had a solution with Azure for quite some time bringing desktops as a service there. So VMware has a slight lead on that. But Citrix, you know what, Citrix is still a verb. Even when customers are using other solutions, they say it's like, it's the Kleenex. I'm like, I would like Citrix access. It's horizon, it's frame, whatever I want. I need to get my job done. And I hear that I have to get a Citrix account to get it done. So I think Citrix has definitely caught up with both Nutanix, when Nutanix has their frame solution and VMware with horizon, with solutions in Azure. And then what went under that, what went, I think, unnoticed is that Citrix partnered with VMware to deliver the Zen desktop solution in VMware's VMware cloud on AWS. So that went unnoticed over the past couple of days. But again, more choice if I were a customer looking at VDI desktop workspace modernization, I'd be pretty excited about my options in a competitive landscape. I think they did a great job of positioning themselves as being enablers of the future of work. We talked a lot about today's workforce with five generations of active workers. We saw a great example of, I guess, a baby boomer with Dr. Madeleine Albright on stage this morning, 82 years old. Yeah, see, she a baby boomer. She's of the greatest generation.  And I hope, I'm not as sharp as that now. And I'm a little bit more than half that age. So it's not looking too good for me. Me neither. But how she talked about when she was Secretary of State, didn't even have a computer on her desk. And now she's riding in driverless vehicles. And presenting at tech conferences, and with respect, this is not always all right, but what can she have to offer us? It was an engaged audience. Even with her slight leaning on political policies, she got some, at the end, she got a standing ovation at a tech conference. So, you know, it's an amazing testament to what you can offer no matter your age. Exactly, and Citrix is doing a great job of being able to deliver and enable their customers to help all of their workers at any age, at any generation, just get the stuff done. Keith, it has been such a great time, such a pleasure working with you for the last couple of days. Thank you for being my partner in crime. Turned out better than we hoped. We said we were going to have fun. I think we had more fun than we thought we would. I agree. Well, thanks so much. Safe Light Home, I know I'll see you at the next show sometime in some city soon. You know theCUBE is at four places right now. I'm pretty sure we'll be in the same location pretty soon. I think so. Keith and I want to thank you so much for watching theCUBE's two-day coverage of Citrix Synergy 2019 from Atlanta, Georgia. We've had a blast. We hope you've had a blast watching. Thank you.


So, the story starts with Alterico Fairtrade Chocolate, a company I had founded in 1998. We wanted to offset all the products and we wanted to do it in an integrated way, yet we had no clue. We wanted to plant within our supply chain, so this is how we came up with the term insetting. And Francisco Alegriarouis in Peru is one of the 2000 cocoa farmers of Acopagro Cooperative. He had the answer and together we started to plant trees within the cocoa field and around to help his community and at the same time to offset the Alterico products. This is a situation that Francisco was facing when he was a cocoa farmer before producing cocoa. He faced severe land degradation issues like erosion, lack of organic matter in the soil, lack of revenues, lack of biodiversity to pollinate, for example, his frutal species and lack of revenues. And this is a vision that we shared with Francisco and his fellow farmers to bring back the trees, agroforestry as you all know it, and to have multiple impacts on soil, on water, on biodiversity and on farmers' revenues, on farmers' patrimony as well. Insetting via agroforestry at landscape level means not only planting within the fields but as well around in the whole watershed of the supply chain to benefit the farmers, the planet and the company which commits. We target slopes, hotspots, biodiversity hotspots, and as well we plant along the river stream to preserve water resources and the benefits of insetting via agroforestry are really multiple and exponential for the corporate, for the planet and the farmers. One time investment of 6,000 euros per hectare can generate up to 20,000 euros of ecosystem and economic services per hectare per year. This is world soil degradation today, so this is our roadmap, more than 2 billion hectares of land to regenerate thanks to, for example, insetting via agroforestry. And this is why I founded Pure Projet in 2008 to answer this take at large scale level. Today in eight years we've planted 5 million trees so we could be proud but it's only half a day of deforestation, every day 10 million trees are being cut. So our question was how to scale up. And the how to scale up story starts with another chocolate product, this time a Benangerie's ice cream, because they used to buy coconut from that same area, from Francisco and his fellow farmers, and so they engaged in the project to offset their footprint and helped us to go larger scale and longer terms, because our forest projects run on 40 years. So Francisco today and his fellow farmers, they have planted more than 3 million trees, only native and diversified species, which bring their shade and regenerate the soil and bring ecosystem and economic services to this farmer and help as well Benangerie's and Altarico to strengthen their supply chain in quality and quantity. The farms are more resilient and the project is fully designed, developed, managed by the farmers themselves. Here you can see some monitoring or some trimming to maximize the farmer's benefits. These benefits are already directly visible, for example on the cocoa yields which increase naturally thanks to richer soil and optimized levels of shade and as well the farmers have started to harvest some timber, some fruits, some seeds and even some honey as we help them to diversify their sources of income, all types of income that are linked with the forest. Their effort has gone even much more beyond than that, they've succeeded to concession for conservation, more than 400,000 hectares of virgin forest which is located in the watershed area of all the cocoa fields and all these to offset the Benangerie's footprint. Now this project is integrated into 800,000 hectares model forest project, regenerating what is degraded and conserving what is left and bringing this project to a regional and even to a national level. And next year in 2016, normally in March, it will be declared as a biosphere area, as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO on 2.4 million hectares generating multiple benefits and valuing both the archaeological sites that are present there as well as dynamizing economic activities. But when we have such a big land to protect now, we need to scale up again. So we need many more Benangeries to engage in insetting via agroforestry actually. Our goal is to help companies to see their interdependence with nature, looking at their supply chains and looking at how their ecosystem are degraded and how it threatens their supply chain and their business on the long run. And they can engage in very long term and massive project. We talk about 10 million trees program over five years for example for Nespresso or Accor to really help these beauties to stay alive and to get all the benefits for us and future generations. Here it's Francisco with one of the tree he planted and his son and he says what is this tree for? Well, it's for me, it's for my family, it's for my business and it's for humanity. I think it's very well summarized. We shall all be more aware of our interdependence with nature. We are environmentalists to preserve humanity. We are not against us, we are preserving us. And we need to make insetting via agroforestry more known. We've created the international platform for insetting with many companies, certification bodies and NGOs and you're all welcome to join this movement to integrate the climate stake more into our core activities, our core business. And what can you do today? You can plant a tree or millions of trees or billions of trees because to offset the world footprint we should plant 90 billion trees a year. So there is a lot of potential for all of us. That's all engaged in insetting via agroforestry for us and for the future generations. Thank you very much.


In the ancient times, shades were a status symbol. The Roman emperor Nero watched gladiators fight in a coliseum through protective lenses made of polished jewels. In 12th century China, dark glasses made of semi-precious smoky quartz were used in court to help judges hide their expressions. This practice was said to make trials more impartial by concealing any clues to the future verdict. Sun glasses were primed for another popularity boost when the US Air Force commissioned a team of researchers to design a protective lens for fighter pilots in 1936. The pilots needed glare reduction that was powerful enough for the bright sunlight of high altitudes, but would still live their vision precise. The Ray-Ban Evietta was a World War II invention. Sylvester Stallone wore Ray-Ban 3030 outdoorsman sunglasses with black frame and green lenses in the 1986 American action movie, Cobra. Keanu Reeves wore Matrix Neo-Metal wireframe glasses in one of brother's pictures, The Matrix Reloaded. A study by the UK's College of Optometrist finds that people who wear glasses do better in job interviews. Why do sunglasses make us look more attractive? Have you been curious as to why sunglasses make us look cool and better? Well, Vanessa Brown, a senior lecturer of art and design at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, was curious too. Her research focuses on the meaning we assign to commonplace, everyday objects.  In her academic research, she explores the cultural and psychological relationship between sunglasses and our modern idea of cool. In an email to Science of Us, Brown explained what her research has uncovered about why most of us look better in sunglasses because they really do make your face look better. According to others, glasses can make you look cool or like a dork, but they can also change your self-perception. As Rick Paulers of Psych Magazine says, sunglasses will have all of your facial features align in perfect symmetry. The dark lenses cover up any asymmetrical oddities around your eyes. A study published in the Public Library of Science on facial attractiveness shows a clear link between symmetry and our perception of beauty. Brown also noted that sunglasses provide a kind of scoff-holding effect in imposing the appearance of an external extra-chiseled bone structure on top of your relatively softer featured face. Of course, one of the benefits is protection against sun rays. Sunglasses are not just giving you look cool also for protecting your eyes from eye decreases. It is fact that if you have a habit to wear sunglasses, then your eyes will go with you till the end. Eyes are the most important part of our body, so to keep it healthy, we should wear sunglasses. If you do not wear, then change your habit and wear glasses for the sake of your eyes. Because of mystery, Dr. Neil Handley, the curator of the British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists, if the eyes are the window into somebody's soul, glass wearers are putting some obstruction in the way. In 2012, Handley analyzed the changing social norms towards glasses wearers throughout history.  Glasses are initially medical devices, according to Dr. Handley. They only became a symbol of fashion 10 to 15 years ago. As humans, we naturally make quick judgments of others just by looking into their eyes. As a result, when you wear sunglasses, you capture the attention of people around you. As Brown explained, the eyes are such a tremendous source of information and vulnerability for the human being. We can easily judge a person's intelligence, sincerity, and level of confidence just by eye contact. But by wearing shades, this will make it impossible for us to be readable. It becomes difficult for people to form a notion about you, as they cannot look into your eyes. The other side is that you also become difficult to be understood. A 2010 study published on the Psychological Science showed that people who wore sunglasses acted more selfishly and dishonestly than those wearing eyeglasses, which the researchers argue suggest that shades delude us into filling more anonymous or unknown. Also, in a study titled Why Did Passion Wain?  The researchers confirmed that an air of mystery increases sexual desire. And a 2010 study titled Uncertainty Can Increase Romantic Attraction, and authored by Erin R. Whitchurch, Timothy D. Wilson, and Daniel T. Gilbert showed that women who were uncertain of a man's feelings towards them ended up reporting more attraction to those men. In other words, we're drawn to people we can't figure out because of their historical link with edginess or glamour. As researcher Brown noted, we take their ubiquity for granted but sunglasses are a relatively everyday modern accessory. The sales of sunglasses started in the 1920s, but only became popular more than 20 years later. According to Brown, the way sunglasses were most often used prior to their commercialization helps explain some of their inherent coolness because in their early days, sunglasses were primarily used during risky water and snow sports and were also associated with new technologies like airplane travel, which made them seem daring and thoroughly modern. Brown added, soon after that, Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s started wearing sunglasses to defend themselves from being recognized by the public or harassed by paparazzi, whose flash bulbs would often explode violently, sometimes literally in their faces, but regardless of practicality, movie star's adoption of the accessory cemented the link between sunglasses and glamour. If this video inspired you, like the video. 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Let's discuss how to deal with shoulder pain when squatting. So, people who are a little bit more able bodied might be saying, when squatting, how are you getting shoulder pain when you're squatting? So, usually this happens in a barbell back squat. The bar is on the back of the back, as it's on your shoulders, right? And you grab the bar and you step under it and your arms are kind of like tilted back this way. Now, if you don't have this motion, you can torque your shoulders to get there. Like, for me, for example, my left shoulder's really flexible. So, even if I don't have the shoulder blade position that I would normally need to have that mobility, I can still find it because my shoulder's a little bit loose, okay? That's not necessarily a good thing, but for me, if I stay cranked back here, I start to get some pain right back here. It's a really common place to get pain. Couple of things that I wanna help you in dealing with this. First, why are you doing a back squat? Maybe you don't need to.   They'll give you the aesthetic development that you're looking for. The only time, just to kind of fast forward through all these, the only time that you're actually gonna need to back squat is if you're power lifting. So, maybe don't do it.  That's kind of what it was made for. Big power lifters getting some accessory work, maybe some off-season training away from meets with an implement that's not messing their shoulders up so that they can still bench, right? So that's the idea, save the shoulders. Safety squat bar, front squat, maybe just single leg stuff, right? Holding weights, maybe a weight vest, something like that. Okay, shoulder pain. If I don't want to just get rid of or avoid the backswatter, you know, maybe you just want to do it. Like it's kind of cool to do it.  I can help you find someone maybe or I can ask around if I know anyone, depending on where you're at, just leave a comment below if you need help with that. But you're gonna have to take care of some of your mobility problems.  It's too flat. Their shoulder blades, therefore, don't have anywhere to sit. They have scapular winging, you might say, they're coming off of the rib cage. The rib cage is really flat in the back and the shoulder blades are a little bit curved and they don't have anywhere to sit. So the best thing to do in this case, if you try this, if you stick your chest way up and you try to bring your hands back, you're gonna notice that they're limited. But if you exhale all your air out, let your sternum drop a little bit. Sorry, I hit that mic. Let your sternum drop a little bit and let that upper back round out a little bit more. Then you'll notice you can stretch your pec muscles a lot more and get your hands back further. This is much more comfortable for me anecdotally than sticking my chest up here and getting that pinch back here. So first piece of advice, try to find something else to use, even if it's just in the meantime. Second piece of advice, find a physical therapist. Third piece of advice, find an exercise that will increase your mobility here in your thoracic spine. Restore some of that thoracic spine flexion.  You're finishing with your arms really long. We might call that a full reach at the top. Okay, so that's one good variation. You could just do it statically. You could just hold it in a plank position. I like to do high planks here and like a pushup position so that I can really sit there and cue and get comfortable and just hang out there for a minute or two. And you can even go one side at a time. You could do something like a pushup to a one arm lift or a one arm support. So if the ground is down here, I pick one hand up off the ground and then the other hand supports me and it gets extra load. And so that extra load teaches you how to keep that back rounded as long as you're doing it correctly. Film yourself if you can, find a physical therapist, find someone to help you with your mobility problems. I do take online clients if maybe you need some help with that but you're gonna have to be very self-motivated because I can't be there to drag you into the gym. That's all I got. Enjoy, good luck. If you need help, again, leave a comment below.


They have their own comments later this evening, and I would certainly welcome them Before our traditional moment of silence. I did have a few remarks. I wanted to make this was a day of terrible tragedy and loss We mourn the life of mr. Kong Lee a beloved father and friend and member our our community Take a look at the Facebook page for his Coffee shop cafe to see the outpouring of love and devotion for mr. Lee We grieve for his family and we grieve for the families of those who were injured Especially those who remain in various serious condition at both Duke Hospital and UNC hospital And there are people who continue to be in very serious condition at the same time That was a day for of loss and grief It was a day which by the time You've been very quickly during that day. It gave me a great sense of gratitude or our incredibly brave Incredibly professional first responders Where the gave me a great sense of gratitude for the PNC public public service of North Carolina Employee who came to the site to try to cut off the gas before it exploded For the firefighters who cleared the coffee house and truly saved many many lives For those same firefighters who were literally blown down and concussed By the explosion and who somehow got up got back to their truck and turn their hoses on the fire At the Durham Bulls game on Thursday night. I threw out the first pitch and afterwards Friend of mine came up to me and told me this story He and his wife were sitting together at Caffeine in the coffee shop, which they loved they loved working there They were working there on their computers On the business that they run together this couple Their two-year-old daughter was at home with the babysitter the firefighters came into the coffee shop and Insisted that they leave According to what he told me they were the last people out of that coffee shop that morning 90 seconds before the blast And as they told me those firefighters saved their lives. I feel enormous gratitude for the emergency medical responders Just so happened that I got a ride down to the scene with chiefs oldest who happened to be at City Hall and with deputy city manager Beau Ferguson and When we arrived and got out of the car Keeps oldest drove us down We saw people Bloody lying near the corner of Morgan and Duke streets But each of them was already being attended to as soon as this was after the blast by a medic administering the care that they needed and getting them into the ambulances and Off to the hospital. It was just an incredibly smooth professional and brave operation and Meanwhile the fire was just blazing blazing so nearby I Feel tremendous gratitude for the folks at Duke hospital and Duke regional who activated their emergency protocols to take in the flood of 17 patients Several of them severely injured and then later our firefighters who went over who had been concussed as well I feel pride when I remember watching how our leadership coordinated their work on the scene Chief Davis was there with our police officers to coordinate our police officers setting a setting up a Boundary Mr. Van fleet and dr. Anjani joiner for the emergency medical services and dr. Joyner was there Making sure that people got on the stretchers and into the ambulances Mr. Jim grows with emergency management and And Especially our new fire chief literally in a trial-by-fire chiefs oldest These people did very powerful and effective work and there was never no one missed a beat. No one missed a beat Our folks were prepared and it showed they were professional and they were incredibly brave Especially those firefighters who stood up against that enormous fire with their host is just a few feet away And when they grew tired another group of firefighters stepped up to take their place. I Want to especially Express thanks tonight to two people who have largely gone unnoticed in our community's expression of communal gratitude Our city manager Tom Bonfield was at a conference across the country when the explosion occurred So in charge here at City Hall and Charge of the city was deputy city manager Wanda page and she was here at City Hall holding down the fort and running the city And on site at Duke Street was deputy city manager Bo Ferguson These are two supremely capable and wise people. I could not have been Keith Chadwell is not bad either Bo knew just when to ask a question at the site just when to step back He struck the perfect tone in the field with our managers with the press with our community Well done, Bo. I really thought you did a remarkable job on site and Wanda Thanks for running the city and keeping us going while everything was going on Finally, I want to thank all the residents who expressed themselves in an outpouring of generosity I want to call out in particular there many but just in particular Fergus Bradley proprietor of the Maverick smokehouse Who turned his restaurant Into the rest and recuperation headquarters for our first responders And for all of those who then follow those first responders on to duke street And to dawn bland a local resident who took off work to organize food and drink donations to be brought to the Maverick smokehouse and organized the volunteers to run the grill and defeat everybody who came all of our first responders And everyone who followed them And to those good folks who have organized Go fund me efforts to support the people who were harmed There if you go to leefamilysupport.com you can find ways to donate To support the lee family lee family support.com There's also a Durham restaurant workers fund for those folks who Lost their jobs because they're of the of the blast And bull city rebuilds those are both go fund me efforts I feel gratitude to the other city staff who came right in behind those first responders from public works and solid waste and others And many of them still have big jobs ahead related to this situation We are as our new hashtag says and some of you may be wearing this today this This ribbon bull city strong We will rebuild these buildings and we will support the families and their loss and grief and recovery And as we mourn and as we offer our support we will celebrate two The first 150 years of a city that can produce heroes like this And now I will ask you to join me in a moment of silence in memory of mr. Lee In support of those who remain injured and in support of their families And in gratitude for the frontline city and county staff and so many others Who served us so well in this time of crisis Thank you And now we will move on with our regular agenda and i'm going to Ask councilmember reis if he would lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Mr. Mayor and colleagues. Good evening everyone It's nice to have a full house Um, if it's your practice to do so and if you're able, please rise and join us for the pledge of allegiance Thank you councilmember Madam clerk, will you please call the roll? Mayor shul here mere pro tem johnson here councilmember austin here councilmember calder yaro here councilmember freeman present councilmember middleton Councilmember reis here. We've got a lot of great ceremonial items tonight And i'm going to ask my city council colleagues to assist me In these in these and uh, i'm going to first ask A councilmember vernetta austin to come and assist me with the neighbor spotlight award which is being presented tonight to kevin walls and uh, i will Give this to councilmember austin and she can call mr. Walls and his family up Yes, would mr. Walls and anyone here to support mr. Walls. Please join me up here at the podium Well, yeah, come on There's room for you. We'll find it on Yeah, if y'all want to what a great group.  All right. Good evening Kevin walls is the recipient of the neighborhood spotlight for the month of april 2019 The neighborhood spotlight award recognizes community members that have gone above and beyond and volunteering their time to serve the community This month kevin walls a resident of creekside at beth page Was nominated and selected because of the wonderful work. He has done in his neighborhood Including but not limited to serving as the treasurer and co-founder of the community's nonprofit pay it forward Starting several social and informational clubs including computer training sessions and weekly card games And being a supportive neighbor Often referred to as the mayor of creekside. I don't know mr. Mayor Congratulations, mr. Walls on being the april neighborhood spotlight for the city of darm and thank you for all the work He do to improve our darm community Um, you're all here and if you'd like to say a few words we'd love to love to hear him Okay, well congratulations All right We're taking a picture Thank you Yeah Thank you Well, i'm lucky to be able to do it. Thank you. Thank y'all for being here. Thank you very much, mr. Mayor Thank you so much come back to city hall anytime Thanks We're always down there. We're always down there. Good Well, that was an awesome support team there our second uh ceremonial event tonight I'm going to call up eddie davis our public historian And eddie is going to we have a history moment Concerning wilbur hobby eddie. Are you ready? Come on up. Thank you, mr. Mayor Many people have seen or have heard about the movie best of enemies Which has two real life characters from darm and atwater and cpls Uh, but folks have also been very concerned about the fact that one of the characters in that film Is a man named wilbur hobby He played a very small role in the film But a very big role here in durham and across north carolina and across the southeast Wilbur hobby was born here in durham in 1925 Uh, he was the son of a brick lair and a cleaning lady who divorced for early on in in wilbur's life And the family struggled Wilbur was here in 1934 when there was a general strike Of textile workers across north carolina And he had to during that depression period of time had to sometimes Stay out of school in order to stand in line to get groceries for his families He had many odd jobs including shining shoes Uh, and also he was the first uniformed bat boy or the durham bulls He wore the number zero And that nickname stuck with him over the years because of that baseball connection and also because Wilbur was not the thinnest person in the world He grew up in what we call the edgemont community Down near the corner of In the golden belt area in fact Council member freeman, he would have been one of your neighbors In that area Wilbur hobby was a world war one world war two veteran And he was a korean war veteran between the Two wars he was very involved in politics And was involved in the famous race between willis smith And frank portagram in 1950 for a senate seat And it is said in the information that i was able to research that during the first primary the um Discussion was about the reds at his communism and in the second rate the second Primary the runoff primary it was about race And of course, um wilbur hobby supported frank portagram He also worked at the american tobacco company and started out as a Cleaner a machine cleaner for 75 cents per hour And he joined the tobacco workers international union He was very very involved in lots of labor activities And course built a name for himself to the point where he became the statewide director statewide president of the afl cio He was very involved in lots of different activities And there were some ups and downs in his career There was a famous scandal that had to do with A an appropriation from of good of funds that Were designed to allow for worker training training And there were people who were opposed to the work that he had done Particularly the work of bringing together blacks and whites And you would think that that would not be anything that people would be upset about but certainly it was We times have changed drastically and wilbur hobby had to endure lots of the An animosity that came from people who did not necessarily support him He was involved with afl cio and i am honored to have with me this evening James andrews who is a former statewide president of the federation And i'm going to share a little bit of time with him before i stand back But i do want to let you know that wilbur hobby ran for governor in 1972 and ran a good race But he had lots of things stacked against him Including his work with blacks and whites along the way his Work for a coalition to try to deal with things that election of 1972 Was not necessarily good for people who were supportive of some of the issues that he wanted in 1972 the national election for president George Mcgovern lost to richard nixon In 1972 jessie helms went to the senate Defeating nick gallifanakis who was from durham and of course wilbur hobby was not able to win in The gubernatorial election Hagrow's stiff skipper bowls became the democratic nominee and he lost to james holshouser In that final election But all the time wilbur harby stood for things that many people might have found difficult back in those days He stood for education. He stood for workers rights. He stood for economic equality He stood against the vietnam war and the waste of money that was going on then and he stood for women's rights So wilbur harby lived a great life Even though he had ups and downs along the way. He came back to durham after serving Sentence for some Things that went on But he died here in durham and he Went back to work for the american tobacco company after he returned to durham He was a great man And many of us had the privilege to live during the same time in which he lived Here in durham So i want to share the rest of my time mr. Mayor with james andrews who knew wilbur harby personally and who Knew about the great relationship that he had with men and women working men men and women here in durham and across north Carolina james Thank you. Thank you my friend Let me thank you mr. Mayor Last time you saw my head hair Not nearly as much weight, but i want to thank you the council And my friend eddie davis for this opportunity to share this time with you I commend you and the council and past leaders of the council For allowing the space for ordinary folks To make their case before you i'm grateful for that I did not hesitate when my friend eddie davis Called me and said i need some help basically by way of our current president to share a little bit about My hero My labor hero my mentor my friend President wilbur harby did not hesitate one minute When he asked me to do that so tonight what i want to do in a fast way I want to talk to you for a minute or share with you for a minute a few remarks related in in this order I want to give you an example of president's hobby fight to organize workers in the state of north Carolina That's a little example I want to say a word about his strong commitment to racial justice And that need to build strong coalitions With other like-minded people and then I want to end with a conversation a little word or two about the legacy That he left here for all of us And throughout that I want to just sprinkle if you will I want to just sprinkle My personal history into my remarks in order for you to get a clear sense if you will a willful hobby impact on my life And the lives of so many around the state of north Carolina and indeed around the country Far beyond the dirt during far beyond during president have made a major effort To organize and support all workers effort to organize unions around the state Then all workers to organize unions around the state if there was an organizing campaign Or a contract fight in this state You can always come on willful hobby to be on the front line Not the back line on the front line of such a fight The fact that president hobble was at the front line Of many issues Of many issues That gave And then providing leadership in fact The courage to in fact stand up and do what's right And I can only point to my friend. I work with cpl Somebody missed that Relationships in community standing with black workers standing for organizing standing with civil rights organizations and women rights That gave folks who had the right heart The space and the courage to do the same The organizing principle that we operate under that will but talk me to us that We must When we go into an organizing campaign We must understand that we've got to represent all workers and all workers of right to participate What religion you are what church you go to Whether you're born uh in the united states or elsewhere we never ask that question Because we believe all workers belong in the union and all workers should have a force in forming the union To get a contract at the jp stevens plant in north and south carolina He supported the successful effort to get the honorable andrew young to address the jp stevens workers in one of the brackets north carolina As a young staff person of the north carolina state f l c i l i was assigned by wilba hobby To work in north and south carolina as a staff person of the organization organizing workers I recall a time when we were born cotton jp steven product And president harbour was with the a flip randolph institute at a national conference Because of that that more kind of jp stevens product We discovered that the hotel used jp stevens tablecloth for the banquet. It was wilba hobby Who persuaded the more than 800 delegates? to remove the tablecloth from the table in protest President harbour was a man of action Wilba hobby understood better than most the workers need the support of the community church leaders elected officials and others In order in order to overcome the fear tactics employed by anti-union corporation. Yes business roundtable and yes sometime public officials The work of the north carolina a flip randolph institute speaks to president harbour's legacy The institute made it possible For president harbour to hire a full-time person Of the public From one camp on the staff of the a f l c i l The a flip randolph institute made that possible That young man Became the first full-time Officer of any state federation in the country of all the first full-time officer Of a state federation in the country That was wilba hobby looking into the future soaring into the future That same young man is standing before you tonight Thank you wilba hobby Thank you If I had If I had enough time If I just had enough time, I'll tell you about wilba hobby said to me go down and And this republican went on down and registered some voters sign the show The community if I had enough time Name and phone them on speed dial if I had enough time, I'll tell you that joy johnson If the speed dial they would have had wilba hobby's name on speed dial If I had enough time I'll tell you about andrew mild Out of him was the north kerala city citizen federation that would have had Wilba hobby's Number on speed dial let me just end by this aim this And I want to go back to the a flip randolph institute The a flip randolph institute i just attended a i don't know can't be two three hundred people out here in derm Saturday night honoring the honorable justice Right as a keynote speaker and others But I want to just say a word about the institute Most of the redistricting and voter suppression lawsuits that have taken place recently in this state One of the plaintiffs was the organization That wilba hobby told me when he hired me that you need to build More a field where we built 12 chapters in the state of north kerala and and and now That the state leadership was a part of the plaintiff that they put those losses in Winning in and out of Winston Salem Doing that I would close with another legacy of president hobby When I think about the legacy of president hobby, I must always remember And give him credit For the leadership that's serving now As president that came behind me as president of the north kerala state f lco today We gotta pass this stuff forward he made Today mary b. Mcmillan a young lady is the first female president of the north kerala state f lco Always be grateful for the many contributions made by my friend My leader my mentor the honorable And late wilba hobby and mr. Mayor It's just so glad to see you turn a little gray, but you still got your hair I did know james when neither one of us had gray hair Thank you so much James for being here eddy. Thank you so much for that history moment as we recognize great historical figures I also knew wilba hobby and as as in the all I will say is he was a different shaped person than he was Then he was seen to be in the movie All right, so now we're going to move to national community development week And i'm going to ask mayor pro tem johnson if she would come join me here And we'll ask reginald johnson to also please join us at the podium Good evening everyone You're reading the proclamation for national community development week Whereas the week of april 22nd through april 26 2019 has been designated as national community development week by the national community development association To celebrate the community development block block grant cdbg program and the home partnership program And whereas since 1975 the cdbg program has provided annual funding and flexibility to local communities To provide decent safe and affordable housing a suitable living environment and economic opportunities to low and moderate income people And whereas since 1992 the home program has provided funding to local communities to create decent safe and affordable housing opportunities for low-income persons with over one million units of affordable housing having been completed nationally using home funds And whereas over the past five years the city of durham has received a total of nine million 224,827 In cdbg funds and four million 391 674 dollars in home funds And whereas the city of durham has used cdbg and home funds directly or in partnership To address issues surrounding homelessness including veterans homelessness To promote home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income households to develop hundreds of affordable rental units for low And very low income households To provide repairs to homes of very low income seniors To help revitalize neighborhoods and to leverage millions of dollars in additional public and private investment within durham neighborhoods Now therefore i steven schul mayor of the city of durham, north carolina do hereby proclaim april 22 to 26 2019 As national community development week in durham in support of these two valuable programs that have made a tremendous contribution To the vitality of the city's housing stock infrastructure public services and the economic vitality of our community Thank you. Mr. Mayor mayor pro tem. Thank you so much members of council for this proclamation on community development week i'm reginal johnson director of the department of community development and first i'd like to ask all of the Members of the citizens advisory committee to please stand and wave your hand if you're standing The committee is appointed by the durham city council as well as the durham county board of commissioners They appointed as representatives of the community to advise the community development department on how we should spend our money as well as Develop policies to better improve affordable housing. And so we want to thank them always for their service and the work they do Especially for community development week and indeed all year round I also want to thank some staff community development staff that are present as well And from my position as community development director for the city of durham I see the value of these two pro federal programs Home investment partnerships as well as in the cdbg program The city of durham has won many awards for our participation with use of these funds eastway village south side Has won like I said national awards as well as state awards And we're very proud of the work that we've been able to do and the most important thing is to create Housing for those who don't have affordable housing here in the city of durham And we've been in durham Are very proud of the work that we've done and we're very thankful for the opportunity that you have given us city council In supporting us in our work. Thank you so much Thank you very much reginal and now we're going to move to the week of the young child And i'm going to ask councilmember freeman if she will join me here at the podium to present this proclamation And i'm also going to ask laura benson and anyone else that she would like to have Come forward from durham's partnership for children. Thank you for the week of the child I really want to thank miss I want to thank laura benson for her work with durham's partnership for children She's been a great advocate for children in this city for a long time Whereas early childhood from birth to age five represents the most critical time in children's development And is the foundation for success in school in life According to the national association for education of young children And whereas durham's partnership for children along with children child care services association and durham technical community college Are celebrating the nationally recognized week of the young child And whereas making sure children are ready to learn is a community endeavor that involves parents Child care providers policy makers businesses congregations and community agencies and whereas high quality early child early Early care supports durham's current work for workforce for families with young children who rely on child care to work And whereas early child care And education is an economic development strategy at the beginning of the talent pipeline And whereas early childhood programs support children and families as they prepare to enter school And whereas transition to kindergarten must be smooth coordinated a smooth coordinated process for children parents and schools that greatly minimize the achievement gap and whereas comprehensive bilingual evidence-based programs in parent education And literacy increased family stability And whereas early interventions family supports education And education can help break the cycle of poverty and dismantle systems that perpetuate race Racial disparities and inequities that affects more than half of the durham's children And create opportunities in early childhood that have a lasting impact in the community And whereas our community leaders have invested significant resources and research data analysis and programmatic interventions for young children And whereas durham continues to be a leader in statewide and national efforts that prioritize Children birth to age five and their families and whereas the durham city council Do hereby proudly? Recognize that the ages of birth to five are the most critical time in children's development Which builds a foundation for success in school and in life Now therefore I stephen m. Shull mayor of the city of durham in north carolina do here proclaim April 8th through the 15th 2019 as the week of the young child in durham and hereby recognized durham's partnership for children Child care services association and durham technical community college for its exemplary exemplary model of collaboration Which continues to improve the landscape of early education for durham residents and benefits present and future Benefits presence in future generations Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the city of durham north carolina this 15th day of april 2019 And if you have comments Well, may or sure Council members manager bonfield interim attorney reberg clerk triber My name is laura benson and on behalf of durham's partnership for children on behalf of linda chappelle senior vice president of child care services association And kathy collie robinson director of the early education program at durham technical community college And the board chair of durham's partnership I'm here to say thank you for this proclamation and for your unwavering support for investing in our youngest children In the past we were often the lone voice in the wilderness about early childhood with very few followers In recent years more focus was paid to the importance of young children But we were like a solo diva on a stage singing alone to an attentive but less engaged audience Now you have shown your commitment to and participation in a movement We are simply conductors of the symphony Bringing harmony to this great chorus of champions And you with your counterparts on the county commission and the board of education Our center stage leading the way and building a stronger healthier community So tonight you might see many shirts I'd like you to wave your hand if you are a board member of one of our collaborating partners or have been a board member Are you agency staff? Keep your hands held high. Are you agency staff? Are you early educators? There should be a whole row of you now childcare owners and directors And are you students who will be our teachers and directors of the future? Thank you for joining us in this movement and making this possible As our city leadership you serve far beyond these walls as you certainly know guiding our work and making a difference in the lives of children Our collaborations and mutual Accountabilities run deep We're grateful in particular for city staff like jason jones toy emerit and laura beatiger who serve on our board and committees And many others before them We appreciate participating at city festivals and events to enroll children in literacy programs like dolly parton's imagination library We share a vision to end family homelessness And we join you in addressing the needs of young children who experience homelessness And who need the services of our diversion shelter rapid rehousing and aftercare programs As many at the recent faith summit showed we join you in a commitment to eradicate child poverty and to dismantle structural racism That holds inequity and disparities shamefully in place We know that investing in young children is the key for durham to continue being a thriving center for education and entrepreneurship Our city's burgeoning and development calls forth the need for deeper commitment to early childhood To continue to draw people to our community to improve school readiness to support the current workforce Reduce crime and prepare the workforce of tomorrow Your support of the pre-k task force and now the implementation of durham pre-k is a great example of your bold leadership We're in the spotlight as we blaze new trails for expansion We want all children in Durham to be prepared for success in school Life again. Thank you for this proclamation and for leading the way Thank you so much Councilmember freeman and thank you so much laura and to our especially to our early childhood educators Thank you all for being here and thank you for what you do every day You we are doing the most important work in the world and just want you to know we appreciate you Now i'm going to ask councilmember charlie rease Who's already here joined me at the podium? And i'm going to ask uh lavon barns and others he may want to bring with him To also join us For the young male achievers day of service and scholarship proclamation councilmember rease Let's do it Oh fantastic. Okay, mr. Mayor. I think we're going to try to take a picture after that's all right. Yes, great Lavon, I think this is about two years in the making isn't that right last first time we talked about this. Yeah um, i'm going to read a proclamation Uh, i'm declaring today young male achievers day of service and scholarship and after that Lavon barns who leads this program is going to say a few words on behalf of the young men that he is leading through this this experience Whereas mentoring is a proven effective strategy That helps young people by matching them with caring and responsible mentors who help build character Encourage success lift expectations and inspire young people to do their best Serving as friends role models teachers and sources of stability and support during a critical time in their lives And whereas mentoring strengthens our community's economic and social well-being By helping young people fulfill their potential while helping maintain healthy families and promoting more vibrant And whereas young male achievers or yma was founded in 2005 in heights for maryland It was reintroduced in 2014 by lavon barns at the school for creative studies here in durham, north carolina After he saw there was a serious need to mentor and guide young people Whereas over the past five years yma membership has increased from 24 members in the first year Through over 100 members currently and yma members have devoted over 45 Thousand hours working in service to their community in a multitude of ways Including volunteering at the durham branch of the food bank of central and eastern north carolina Sponsoring and participating in a leadership summit at north carolina state university Providing 70 meals for 70 families. Excuse me with Thanksgiving and christmas holiday meals And countless other community service projects in durham often in partnership and collaboration with other community organizations Such as alfalfa fraternity incorporated Habitat for humanity of durham the american heart association ronald McDonald house North carolina central university duke university and many many others And whereas members of the three graduation graduating classes of yma have been awarded nearly one million dollars in college scholarships all told And whereas yma has been recognized by the durham city council the durham county board of commissioners The durham public schools board of education state and federal legislators north carolina governor roy cooper and president barack obama And whereas while yma members are rightly proud of their accomplishments They are by no means satisfied And each of them fully intends to continue their service to the community in the years to come Now therefore i steven m shul mayer the city of durham north carolina do hereby proclaim april 15th 2019 as young male achievers day of service and scholarship in the city of durham Where brush your shoulders off The mayor would also urge all residents of the city of durham to commend these young leaders of young male achievers For their accomplishments and their example of service and scholarship Witness my hand in the corporate seal of city durham north carolina is 15th day of april 2019 congratulations Good evening everybody Hopefully i'm tall enough I promise i won't break because uh, they know how i get I'm gonna be strong today. I'll be strong Thank you councilman reese to mayer shul and the rest of this unbelievable council for this honor In the censored words of uncle joe. This is a big deal This proclamation is about every one of these young men that you see I would like to thank some important people first First I would like to thank my principal rene price Who is an awesome leader? I would also like to thank my colleagues From the school for crater studies some of them are here today From day one they embraced This movement and this program It's been truly a team effort to every advisor mr. Castro mr. Hodge mr. Brotsman mr. Harbison And mr. Marshall and our newest advisors mr. Goff and mr. Susanne Who represent our yma juniors from ek po elementary school? I would like to tell you it takes a village To do what we do and i'm lucky that you all are in my village To the parents If you're a parent of a yma person stand up real quick because I think that's the most important thing is to parent To the parents who have been with me since the beginning and those who are my current parents Thank you for trusting in me And uh allowing me to pay forward what was given to me to your son I just want to quickly say That it doesn't cost any amount of money to be a mentor We live in a community Where at some point you're going to be around a young person With whom you might take an interest in Just by taking the time to invest in that kid might be the difference between life and death Jail or college and failure and success We may disagree about things in this community But one thing I know is that we take care of our own Everybody who has ever been successful in some way has someone to show them the way Lastly to my guys And I won't break promise you This is what happens when your dreams When this is what happens to your dreams excuse me when you put actions to words Each one of you has made an impact in this community and in your school You've made an impact on your advisors You have made a huge impact on me And each one of you should be very proud of the work that you have done this far The guys who are standing behind me actually Uh the funny story is I'm not on the script You all catch up The very first time I Introduced this to the school. I had an interest meeting and one kid showed up That kid Daniel van Gogh one kid Oh That's why his name is inception So if you don't know about the some of these kids that were in live shirts, they got names and stories behind them, but I had to think about it differently. So I asked my colleagues to send me The names of the kids that you feel have showed leadership potential It might be on the on the other side of trouble sometimes And so I got like a hundred names. Now mind you, we only had 300 kids at the time. We're still a baby When it comes to DPS schools And out of those hundred kids the 24 kids showed up 24 to 70 24 to 45 in year two. That's when mark middleton councilman mark middleton spoke to my guys To 75 to over a hundred Where it was just high school eighth grade through 10th grade at the time now I have fourth grade through 12th grade And it's just growing. So I just want to say thank you. I know each member of this council Most of you have spoke to my guys We truly appreciate you To the community Thank you embrace these young men Because I know in Durham sometimes good things good deeds go unnoticed But today on this day Instead of it being known about known as tax day It gets to be known as young male achievers day of service and uh scholarship So thank you everybody. Thank you We're gonna have a we're gonna have a photo interlude. Just take us a minute Thank you so much Thank you so much It's great to see the young man and mr. Goff welcome to you You were the mentor to my son soli and it's great. I'm glad to see you're still doing it. Thank you so much Good job Okay our next Uh proclamation I'm gonna ask councilmember mark anthony middleton if he would join me as well as chief robert zoldis our fire chief For a proclamation regarding sound the alarm councilmember my thanks to his honor the mayor For allowing me to read his proclamation and then yield to chief zoldos for words Um chief zoldos let me know that simply being a member of the council does not allow you to drive the fire trucks I was greatly that's why it ran essentially. So I was greatly disappointed Hear these words. It's gonna wait for the chamber to be in order and get that back door


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com You're watching one of my Malaysia travel videos and today I'm taking to the national mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia This place was huge I had to enter my name and country of origin and remove my shoes before entering the mosque all of a sudden a Man came out of nowhere running towards me and trying to tell me something Eventually discerned that he was saying Justin Trudeau was a very very good man He saw Canada next to my name and came running to me just to tell me that The national mosque architecture reflects contemporary traditional Islamic art with the help of calligraphy ornamentation and other past and present The roof of the mosque was the most strikingly designed and unique It looked like a multi-fold umbrella that symbolizes the aspirations of Malaysia as an independent nation The minaret is 73 meters or 240 feet high and the main roof has a 16.8 stars 50,000 people can pray in the mosque together and It is situated among 13 acres of gardens in the heart of Kuala Lumpur There are many reflecting pools and fountains throughout the mosque a sense of tranquility and peacefulness existed throughout the complex I Notice there is a point up to which non-Muslims can go inside the mosque The employees were not letting visitors inside which seemed to be the main prayer room unless they were Muslims Some of the Kuala Lumpur skylines were visible from the mosque I saw two buildings connected on top which looked like a boat next to the Saint Regis Hotel This building complex kind of looked like the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore I was not sure if these two buildings were a part of the Saint Regis Hotel or separate Thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video. There'll be more videos coming up So I'll see you shortly. Thank you


Medvedev names options to stop war, either negotiations or nuclear strike. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has again threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine. In general, any war, even a world war, can be ended very quickly, either if a peace treaty is signed or if you do what the Americans did in 1945 when they used their nuclear weapons and bombed two Japanese cities. They really then curtailed the military campaign. The price was the lives of almost 300,000 civilians. In response to Western criticism of the lack of modernity of the Russian army, Medvedev confidently declared that it was a lie. At the same time, he assured the Russians that if the USA and its vassals would stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, the war would supposedly end within a month. Moreover, he believes that it could end in a few days if the West stopped supplying weapons instantly. In NATO, primarily the US and its vassals, stop shipping weapons and munitions to Ukraine, the special military operation would end in several months. And if they stop shipping their weapons now, then the special op will end in mere days. Medvedev said, meanwhile, the official underscored that the Russian army is modern and heroic even though it experiences certain problems like any army.