Antonio Banderas was a hot commodity in the 90s and while he was from Spain, he ended up putting down roots in Los Angeles for most of his career. Aside from his main mansion there, he has also lived in stunning properties from Colorado to New York City and more. Spanish film actor Antonio Banderas is probably best remembered by North American audiences for his performance as Zorro in the late 90s and early 2000s revival of the character in films like The Mask of Zorro. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Prior to becoming one of Spain's most successful Hollywood exports, Banderas longed to become a professional football player. Unfortunately a child injury would derail those plans. Rather than stick to the field, Banderas signed up for acting classes and eventually joined a theater troupe that would tour across the country of Spain. After making a name for himself in his home country in a series of critically acclaimed films, Banderas would cross over to Hollywood with his debut in the Mambo Kings in 1992. The following year, he'd play Tom Hanks' devoted lover in the Academy Award-winning picture Philadelphia. By the mid-90s, Antonio was one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood and that's when he began dating actress Melanie Griffith while shooting the film too much. In 1996, these two were married in London, a marriage that would last nearly two decades. Throughout the course of their relationship, they'd use their considerable shared net worth to purchase a series of spectacular homes like their long-time mansion in LA, a retreat in Aspen, Colorado and even a penthouse in the heart of Manhattan. But eventually this Hollywood love story would come to an end. During their divorce, the pair would sell off their properties and Antonio would move out of the country, settling into a uniquely designed kit home located in the village of Cobham Surrey in England. Hey guys, it's Kara back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment and if you've ever wondered where Zoro likes to hang up his cape, today we're checking out the homes of Antonio Banderas. Don't forget to like, subscribe and hit me up on Instagram to chat and now let's get into this video. Antonio Banderas and his newlywed wife Melanie Griffith acquired their first home, the Isidore Eisner Estate, in 1999, for a reported $4.2 million. Isidore's Gordon Kaufman, designed 1925 Spanish meets Italian revival style mansion, is located in LA's historic neighborhood of Hancock Park and was actually the first of two properties the actors bought. The following year, they purchased the house right next door to their original home for an additional $1.3 million. They then raised that second property to the ground and used additional acreage to extend and renovate your first. The end result was a double gated, 15,110 square foot mansion located on 1.55 acres of land. Listing details reveal a home that includes seven bedrooms, seven full baths and even three half baths, including a celebrity style primary bedroom with two bathrooms and double dressing rooms. Further features boast a grand entry space, a double height banquet hall and a formal dining room with coffered ceiling. And those rooms are really just a half of it. Other first-class amenities built right into the place include a panelled library, a recording studio fitness room and, if you can believe it, a stunning two-story kitchen. Of course, when you've got a culinary space that's bigger than most people's bachelor pads, you're also gonna need staff to keep the property running smoothly. Thankfully, this place comes with an apartment entirely dedicated for any on-site help. There's also an extensive security system to keep the occupants safe and, of course, a swimming pool set privately into a gorgeous central courtyard. After moving in here during the late 90s, Antonio and Melanie would make it their primary home up until they split in the mid-2010. At that point, they placed the home on the market, asking for $16.1 million. About 10 days later, Antonio and Melanie settled for $15.9 million, officially making this unit the highest price ever paid for a single-family home in the Hancock Park District. They then turned their sights to their vacay pad in Aspen. Much like with their family home in Los Angeles, Antonio and Melanie bought their snowbound home in Aspen, Colorado in two separate transactions, totaling around $5 million in February of 2002. This nearly 12-acre spread is located about 10 miles outside of town on the backside of Aspen Mountain and the main house is a 12-roomed resident. Inside, there's over 6,000 square feet of space including five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms and a garage big enough for three cars. In terms of the second property, it acts more like a guest house and boasts one bedroom in one bath along with a fully-stocked kitchen. But let's concentrate on the interior of the two-story main residence first. It features a rustic and luxurious open-plan living space under a series of high-pitched gables and a vaulted ceiling with a system of arched trusses, not to mention a freestanding fireplace that perfectly divides the lounge from the dining area. Meanwhile, the attached kitchen offers some sleek stainless steel cabinets, a butcher-blocked topped island with a raised snack counter, as well as some colorful ceramic tile countertops and accents. There's even some saloon-style swinging doors that mark the entrance to a generous walk-in pantry. Then there are multiple glass doors that line the main floor living space and open up to a wrap-around brick terrace with built-in fire pit, hot tub and some picture-perfect panoramic views of the mountains and the surrounding woods. Other amenities include a separate billiards room as well as an impressively large wine cellar and tasting room. Upstairs are the guest and family bedrooms which include a bunk bed room with two sets of beds crafted from logs. And for the master's suite it boasts wood-paneled walls, a vaulted exposed wood ceiling, glass sliders to a private deck and an en suite with twig-accented cabinets, a tiled soaking tub, as well as a steam shower with built-in bench seating. There's also a historic log cabin on the premises, it's located just below the guest house and boasts a small deck with a wood-burning stove in the low ceiling along with a cozy Skylet living room. Shortly after successfully selling their LA home, Antonio and Melanie listed this property for $10 million. Unfortunately they couldn't find a buyer immediately so they wound up simply renting the place out for a few years at $65,000 a month before eventually selling it altogether for $4 million. Then it came time to figure out what to do with their New York City penthouse. Stunning central park views, immaculate furnishings and oversized everything are just a few of the perks when it comes to Antonio's former New York City penthouse. The once happily married couple bought the property in 2005 for $4 million in New York City's Swanky District of Central Park West. Located in an opulently decorated 12-story French second-empire style building that was built in 1907, the apartment complex known as the Prasada offers its residents a long list of amenities. These include a full-time doorman, elevator operators, a live-in resident manager, private bike storage and a fully stacked fitness center. The home boasts 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms as well as details that you'd no doubt expect including 11-foot high ceilings, polished chevron-patterned oak floors and 50 feet of personal central park frontage. The penthouse also includes a boldly colored ceiling that brightens up the octagon-shaped foyer and a living room nearly 30 feet long in length with a decorative fireplace at the far end. Over in the dining room there's some jet-black lacquered work going on while the kitchen is definitely compact but also expensively outfitted and arranged with its own cozy dining space. Upon splitting up, Antonio and Melanie didn't immediately sell this home. Instead, Antonio bought Melanie out of her share of the apartment in 2016. He then listed the home in 2018 for around 8 million dollars. It's unclear if anyone has ever taken him up on his offer at this point in time. If not, it might have something to do with the common charges that can amount to as much as 8,500 dollars a month. Last but not least, we've come to the home Antonio moved into next. After splitting from his longtime partner, he needed to put some real distance between himself and Melanie so he bought a totally unique home unlike any he had owned before in the village of Cobham in Surrey, England. While searching for homes with his girlfriend Nicole Kimball, Antonio was introduced to what many believed to be the Rolls Royce of Kid Homes, a brand known as Huff House. There are roughly 200 of these distinctive homes located all across the UK and prices start at around $620,000, not accounting for the cost of land itself of course. Once buyers settled on one of these homes, they traveled to Germany where they get to choose everything from the size and layout of the rooms to even tinier details like the light switches and bathroom tiles. So let's take a look at Antonio's whatever kind home, shall we? He spent around $3 million in total on the land and design of the house which he then had transported to a beautiful parcel he picked out in Cobham. As for why he selected this out-of-the-way village in the first place, he explained, I find Surrey completely magical.  Above all, I am surrounded by nature. I love watching the deer and foxes that come to my garden. Constructed in 2015, his home spans over 5,000 square feet of space and boasts five bedrooms as well as five baths. Every room comes styled in neutral tones with white walls and creamstone floors. There's also a lot of blackwood beams located around the property to provide some stark contrast. Inside, you'll discover an extremely colorful open-plan living room that's only steps away from multiple other spaces. For instance, the dining room section of the space open-ups to both the living room and kitchen to ensure easy access and also located on the main floor is the media room that Antonio transformed into a full-fledged movie theater. Rounding things out down here is a home gym as well as a sauna. Upstairs, the butterfly split roof allows for a ton of natural light to float in through all three floors and located on the second floor is his master suite which also offers a dressing room and five-star-ons-sweet bath made almost entirely out of glass. On the very same floor are two further bedrooms which are both connected to each other through a shared bath. Up on the top floor are the two remaining bedrooms, each of which comes with a private balcony to enjoy as much nature as you can handle. And there's even a mezzanine space located on this level that can be turned into a study or an extra guest room. Despite his love for this custom home, he placed it on the market and has decided to return to his native home of Spain where he will settle back into his hometown of Malaga, a town where he built a new theater in recent years. Alright, well that's going to conclude our Antonio Banderas house tour. It's not clear where he's moving to in Spain property-wise but I'm sure that will soon find out. Well, be sure to let me know your thoughts on his homes we did look at down in the comments and don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you haven't. Thanks for watching, follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll catch you all in another video. Bye!


The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 2874 in the name of Miles Briggs on World Tuberculosis Day 2022. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I'd invite members who wish to participate to press the request to beat buttons or place an arm, the chat function as soon as possible. I invite Miles Briggs to open the debate for around seven minutes, Mr Briggs. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I'm grateful to be able to bring forward this debate to the chamber today. I thank members from across the Parliament for their support on what is an important public health issue globally, but also potentially increasingly a threat to domestic health security as well. I'd like to start by paying tribute to the Edinburgh Group of Results UK, which campaigns on international development issues, including tuberculosis. I've been working with the group since my election in 2016, and I'm pleased to welcome some of their members today to the public gallery. I've also sponsored a stand just outside the chamber, which I know a number of members have already spoken and engaged with the group. If you haven't already, I hope that there may be a chance after this debate to speak and find out more information. I want to take this opportunity to also note the contribution made by two leading professionals here in Scotland, Dr Helen Stagg, at the Centre for Population Health Sciences at Edinburgh University, and until recently, the chair of UK APTB. For those of you who do not know what that is, it's UK academics and professionals against tuberculosis. Susan Duthy, who is also the lead TB specialist nurse at NHS Grampian, has led on the recommendations of Afghan nationals' TB screening here in Scotland. I'd also like to put on record our thanks to the vital work that is carried out by clinical staff, scientists and civic society in Scotland, and civic society organisations across the country, and globally to deliver on the sustainable development goal that we all signed up to to ending TB by 2030. Deputy Presiding Officer, tuberculosis, for those who don't know, is an incredibly infectious disease spread through coughing. It has killed more people than any other single infectious agent in history, including SARS at Covid-2. TB is curable, but people need support to get through the many months of treatment that are required. As noted in today's motion, around 1.5 million people die from TB every year, and many millions more are diagnosed with the disease. That is a shocking statistic, and that is something that we all need to reflect on. Deputy Presiding Officer, if you were a teenager before 2005—I'm not sure if you were—but you may bear a small circular scar on your bicep. This is a by-product of immunisation against TB and a reminder of the prevalence of the disease in this country at one time. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and its widespread effects on diagnosis and treatment has brought the disease back to the forefront of the policy debate, especially in the context of public health in developing countries. The similarities between TB and Covid—much of the precautionary equipment, treatment centres and services, which are usually the first line of defence for the former—were refocused on the latter. The World Health Organization has suggested that the pandemic has set back efforts to end TB globally by more than a decade. Researchers at Dundee University have received £3.8 million from the Bill and Melinda Grant Foundation to develop treatments that have warned that the impact of the pandemic could lead to a rise in tuberculosis infections around the world, as some patients will simply have gone undiagnosed amid the pandemic. Indeed, as many services across our health landscape diagnosis of TB have dropped, we believe, by 20 per cent in 2020, as access to treatment became increasingly difficult, some projections suggest that progress against TB has also significantly now been set back. Dr Laura Clegghorn at the University of Dundee said that there is a pressing need to develop new treatments for illness, which some wrongly think is a disease of yesteryear, and I agree. As I said earlier, concerningly, across the world, diagnosis of TB dropped by a similar level within 16 countries accounting for 93 per cent of that drop, which suggests that countries that are already at a higher burden of disease have ffaird far worse. Of course, there have been other issues that have led to this protected problem. Fewer people, for example, have been tested for TB and the number attending for tests has been reduced. That might be because of hospitals' fear of contracting TB or because of Covid-19 or people with Covid-19 not being able to go to hospital. As we emerge from the pandemic, this is a problem that we urgently need to tackle, otherwise we risk stepping backwards in the fight against deaths from TB. Of course, this will require a sincere, co-ordinated and multilateral effort, but if the pandemic has demonstrated anything, it is that sometimes the immense benefit that can be gained from proper and targeted investment in global public health in recent years and concerted action has been taken to tackle TB and we need to see that work recovered again. In 2018, for example, we saw the first high-level global meeting on TB producing a declaration of political will that can shape our approach going forward, notably work to close the research and development funding gap. That has, to date, been estimated to be over £1.1 billion. I welcome the £20 million that the UK Government research and development funding has brought forward, and the good portion of that has already been targeted towards global health innovations around this. However, there are still many concerns around research and development, and I hope that we can address those globally. The first and most obvious are around treatment methods. Innovation will allow us to simplify treatment regimes, allowing them to be more easily deployed in all corners of the world, in contrast to what are currently lengthy and complex treatments for many patients that can take up to over three months. Similarly, we need to see progress on how diagnosis around TB is also improved. We need to be able to do it in a speedy, efficient and simple way. To circle back to my earlier points, Covid-19 has acted as a catalyst around what has been a diagnosis question. I hope that we will see investment around early diagnosis of TB, as we have seen around Covid. Finally, perhaps most important, we need to fund research that will look towards drug resilience and drug resistance. There is a worrying trend that we are all now acutely aware of. In many diagnoses, we are seeing drug resistance and multi-drug resistance to TB. Over 160,000 were recorded last year alone, which is, I think, deeply concerning to our global public health. We know that Scotland is behind also in funding latent TB screening in communities at risk and vulnerable to TB. I hope that, with the minister closing the debate tonight, she can outline what public health initiatives are being developed now to address those concerns, specifically around latent TB screening. To conclude, I am incredibly grateful to members for allowing me to bring forward this debate today and for the opportunity to discuss the issues of public health policy around the world, but also very much around domestic health security. Above all, I hope that today we can present an opportunity for Parliament to reaffirm our collective mission, and that of clinical staff, scientists and civil society here in Scotland and globally to meet the sustainable development goal to ending TB by 2030. Thank you very much indeed, Mr Briggs. I now move to the open debate. I call Emma Harper, who will be followed by Richard Leonard. Emma Harper joins us remotely for around four minutes, please, Ms Harper. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate and congratulate Miles Briggs on securing it. Apologies for not being in chamber today. Miles Briggs has laid out very well the importance of world tuberculosis day 2022, which this year marks the theme, invest to end TB-day lives. Raising awareness is one of the asks and the briefing from results. I met them in Parliament on Tuesday at their stand as well, which is sponsored by Miles Briggs. It is important to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB and highlight the efforts that are being made to end the global epidemic. Presiding Officer, when preparing for this debate, I reflected on Scotland's journey to tackle TB. In 1948, TB was killing one person every two hours in Scotland. For back then, Scotland was virtually the only country in Europe where new cases of TB were continuing to rise unchecked. Although, for ever, the disease of poverty and crowded slums, wealth provided no barrier. Young men and women were particularly at risk, and TB men and gitis was certain death for babies and toddlers. TB patients could spend a year or more recovering and resting in a sanatorium, including at Lochmayben sanatorium near Dumfries. One of my first tutors in nursing college was the first male nurse in Dumfries and Galloway at Lochmayben hospital, Mr David Shankland. Davie taught me and my colleague so much about his time at Lochmayben, helping to support people who were recovering from TB. This was a dreadful time back then, and it was made worse by the appall and stigma attached to TB. The first treatment came along, Streptomycin, and that was one of the first cures that was developed by William Feldman, a Glasgow-born vet. He helped to refine it into a medical form at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. I also want to pay tribute to Sir John Crofton for developing the first combined antibiotic regimen, multi-dose, that still forms the basis of TB treatments today. The universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Queen Margaret continue the legacy of Sir John today working across continents and disciplines. The drugs were game-changing since then, and in particular, late largely down to our fantastic national health service and vaccination efforts. The situation here in Scotland has absolutely improved. Gotten's example, however, is not replicated across the world. Indeed, according to the World Health Organization's global TB report, 60 per cent of global TB cases come from just six countries, where health inequalities are more prevalent. Those are China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Although treatments are available across the nations, the problem is largely that, even though doctors routinely advise patients with TB on the importance of following the prescribed regimen, many people do not complete the treatment plan. When patients stop taking TB medication, the risk of developing multi-drug-resistant TB is then even more difficult and more costly to treat. In 2016, the median cost of treating a single patient in a developing country with drug-resistant TB was $9,529, and treatment could last up to two years. New multi-drug combi regimes of 90 to 12 months do exist. They can cost up to £1,000 a person, but maintaining patient compliance for such long periods presents additional challenges. It is not that the patients do not care about their health or burdened by economic constraints. TB must be caused by a stubborn bacterium. It primarily affects the lungs, and it is similar to the high transmissibility of our SARS-CoV-2 virus, but it is poverty that sustains it. Treatment often means travelling long distances to clinics and giving up days wages. Donor agencies and international health organisations have often ignored the context for why people act the way they do. However, we need to work on ways of supporting and investing in the treatment, and I am interested in exploring the possibility of conditional cash transfers that have been used in recent years for medical interventions across the globe and their forms of social assistance programmes aiming to reduce poverty. Apart from extra income, conditional cash transfers allow patients to invest in their health through providing the means to access basic health services or by sending their children to school, which helps to break intergenerational poverty cycles. I am interested in hearing what the Scottish Government's position is on conditional cash transfer schemes and whether any of our international relief funds are supporting CCTs.  Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Miles Briggs for this motion and the words that it contains? If there was a vote, I would vote for it. Today is World Tuberculosis Day, and this week started with World Poetry Day in the opening lines of On The Page by the late Tom Leonard. He said, the local is the international, the national is the parochial, and this national parliament is nothing if it does not look beyond the parochial, if it does not see its place in the world. If we do not understand that we are world citizens with global horizons neither limited by passports nor narrowed by where we happen to have been born, this debate is about our common humanity. Tuberculosis is an old disease. Many of us have family experience of the toll that it takes. My own grandfather growing up in Leeds lost two older brothers and a sister, Florence, and then one by one both of his parents from this deadly disease of poverty. It is why John Wheatley, as a Glasgow Labour councillor, strove not just for slum clearance but for good quality council housing that were, in his words, homes not hutches. Yet, in 2020, over 100 years later, one and a half million people died of this preventable of this curable disease. I am bound to say that if we invested as much in the machinery of peace as we do in the machinery of war, if we invested as much in saving lives as we do in endangering lives, the world would be a far better place. In 2020, the year when TB deaths went up again, world military expenditure in that one year was $1.781 trillion. By comparison, just $5.3 billion was invested in universal access to TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care across the globe. That is a ratio of 370 to 1. Healthcare is a human right. I will give it. Stephen Kerr To Richard Leonard giving ways, giving a typically passionate speech, which I agree with. But would he also join with me in paying tribute to the global fund and the work it does across the world, especially in Africa? I have seen firsthand myself the work that is done because of the global funding. Would he also acknowledge the important funders to the global fund, namely the United States, France and the United Kingdom? I think that we need to be internationalists in outlook. As I said in my opening remarks, I think that we need to understand that we are citizens of the world and we have a global responsibility in this respect. Healthcare is a human right, but to be poor in this world is to be too often denied that human right. That is why the director general of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Addenham Gabrasus, has said recently that the struggle to end TB is not just a struggle against a single disease. It is also a struggle to end poverty, inequity, unsafe housing, discrimination and stigma and to extend social protection and universal health coverage, because the unnecessary deaths of one and a half million people a year does not just tell us where poverty lies, it tells us where power lies between the global north and the global south, between rich and poor, between the profits of corporations and the lives of people. The World Health Organization has accused big pharmaceutical giants of, in their words, exiting the field of investment in new antibiotics to deal with drug resistance, a major cause of TB deaths. As far back as 2014, AstraZeneca withdrew all early stage research and development for TB malaria and neglected tropical diseases. The biggest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, Johnson and Johnson, deliberately charged developing countries eight times the cost price of manufacture for the newer TB drug, bed aquiline, before a campaign by Medicine San Frontier pressured them to cut it, but that was their first instinct. For big pharma, it is not about the drugs with the greatest clinical or humanitarian value, it is always about the drugs with the greatest monetary and shareholder value. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty, of inequality and of global power and global priorities. Our job is to build a world where people have clean water and safe shelter, in which no one lives in fear of starvation, where no one dies from a disease for which a vaccine has existed for almost a century. That is the future that we need to build, a better, a just, a more humane world, a future of hope, a future of peace and, I hope, a future of socialism. Thank you very much, Mr Leonard. I now call on the minister to respond to the debate for around seven minutes, Ms Todd. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. On behalf of the Scottish Government, I want to thank Miles Briggs for bringing this motion to the chamber on world tuberculosis day. Firstly, let me see that my heart goes out to all of those across the world who have been affected by this terrible disease. Too many lives have been lost to TV here in Scotland and around the globe, and we can't let that continue. This is a disease that, in the majority of cases, is treatable and curable. We must keep making progress towards the end of this epidemic. With that in mind, I want to acknowledge the work that has been done across the world to support the WHO NTV strategy in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I also want to highlight the fantastic work that has been done by Global Fund, a partnership that was endorsed by the G8 that was developed to accelerate the end of TB, AIDS and malaria as epidemics. In 2020 alone, Global Fund facilitated the treatment of 4.7 million people with TB. Since its inception in 2002, there has been a 28 per cent reduction in TB deaths, excluding HIV-positive cases in the countries in which the fund operates. Although there is still undoubtedly more to be done, we should all be incredibly proud of the strides that have been taken to reduce the impact of TB across the world. Closer to home, I want to touch on the work that has been done here in Scotland. As a Government, we take the issue of this disease very seriously. We are fully committed to eradicating TB in Scotland. For over 20 years, we have monitored the disease through the enhanced surveillance of mycobacterial infection scheme, ensuring that we have access to up-to-date data on case numbers, treatment outcomes and drug resistance patterns. In 2011, the Scottish Government published the TB action plan for Scotland, setting out key recommendations on TB care and control. In the years since this plan was published, there has been a sustained reduction in TB cases across Scotland. Case levels remain well within the target of less than 10 cases per 100,000 people set in the world health organisations and TB strategy. However, as a Government, we know that we cannot become complacent. We have to acknowledge that, as numbers fall, TB cases in Scotland are becoming more complex. The patients that we are seeing in Scotland are often from underserved population groups. They may not have been born in the UK, or they are infected with a drug-resistant strain of their infection. To address the complexity of the TB landscape, the Scottish Health Protection Network's TB multidisciplinary network was established, bringing together experts from across the country. In 2017, the network published a TB framework for Scotland, built on the foundations of the TB action plan. It set out an approach to support progress towards key TB outcomes, including a reduction in the health inequalities gap of those who are diagnosed with TB. The Covid-19 pandemic put the brakes on much of the good work around TB in Scotland, as vital resources were redirected. However, I am happy to report that meetings of the implementation group have now recommenced, and I am confident that we will see good progress towards the outcomes identified. Additionally, a reference service for the whole genome sequencing of TB is now live in Scotland. That service will allow the NHS to much more rapidly predict resistance to anti-TB drugs and to assess strains to allow better investigation into clusters of the disease. To respond to Mylesbury's specific point, we acknowledge the issues around latent TB screening, and we are actively working with multiple partners to understand what more can be done in that area. I am awaiting a paper on exactly that issue, which I expect to be with me quite soon. Although there is more work to be done here in Scotland, I am proud of what we have achieved so far. As in every health debate, we have to acknowledge the effect that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the fight against TB, and we have to acknowledge the impact that that pandemic has had on the fight against TB, not just here but further afield. Across the globe, every area of healthcare has been impacted by the pandemic, and TB is no exception. We have seen a reduction in testing. Essential resources such as labs and healthcare workers have been diverted to fight Covid-19. There have been significant declines in the number of TB cases that have been successfully treated. Despite that, there is hope. Emergency funding from the global fund is helping countries to fight TB alongside Covid-19, and investments in health workers and tools and systems to combat airborne diseases are increasing. That is a huge challenge, and we must remember that we are emerging from a pandemic that has taken a massive toll on our communities, our people and our health services. However, I know that if we harness the collective purpose that has been so evident in the last two years, we can succeed. As the situation surrounding Covid-19 continues to improve, much-needed resources will be re-routed back into the fight against TB. Of course, I recognise that meeting the 2030 target will require concentrated and focused effort, and that we have to act quickly to make up for lost time. Although progress has been made, I know that our work is far from done, and that is why this Government remains committed to supporting the sustainable development goal of ending TB by 2030. We will continue to work with Public Health Scotland and other colleagues to drive this forward.  This debate has been an excellent opportunity to highlight the fantastic work that has been done to reduce the impact of TB, and it has allowed us to take stock and consider how we can move forward. The Covid-19 pandemic has left its mark as it has on so much of our lives, but we will harness the learning and the togetherness that has been so evident over the past two years as we move forward. I commit today to continuing to strive for a future where TB is eliminated here in Scotland and across the world. That concludes the debate, and I suspend this meeting of Parliament until 2pm.


Wednesday is here and that means it's time for another edition of Just The Facts. After a seven-year break, Arsenal have made a return to Europe's premier cup competition, the UEFA Champions League. To commemorate their return, the producers have crafted ten questions on Arsenal's Champions League history. The pass marks six out of ten. Ready team? No. No Arsenal supporters on the set, but we try our best. Question number one, please. Arsenal's biggest big tree in the Champions League is a 7-0 triumph over this Czech Republic club. Lance? Let's go back to that. Arsenal fans and studio, number two, please. Arsenal hold the English record for the most successive Champions League qualifications. How many times did they qualify successively? Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Good job, Ricardo. Next. Well, when we get it right, then you say, good job, Mariah. Don't be premature. True or false, only Spain's Barcelona and Real Madrid have more successive Champions League qualifications than Arsenal. I would be tempted to go true on this one. I feel false, but... You feel false? Yeah. Why? Just because of recent history, but that could just be me having recent history syndrome. I'll give true the edge. Okay. Unless you're thinking maybe like a Bayern Munich would be in that conversation as well. That would, it would be. So maybe false for real. Pick a side. All right. Let's go with the latest look and go with false. False. Yeah. All right. Number four, Arsenal hold the Champions League record for the most consecutive clean sheets with this was set between September 2005 and May 2006. Yeah. So this is the season that they got to the final and lost the Barcelona in the final. Clean sheets. So they had in the first round, they had two draws with PSG. PSG scored on both occasions, if memory serves me correct. They had a 3-2 win, a 4-0 win. What does the question say? Clean sheets. Clean sheets. Consecative clean sheets. Yeah. Which is... Yeah. So it would eliminate those results you just had with PSG. Yeah. Which is... And you said this happened between September 2005 and May 2006. So the Champions League record for the most consecutive clean sheets. Let's see. 160... Oh, it's two. I would go four or five. Five. I'd go four or five for this one. Six. Let's go five. Yeah. Because that consecutive run would have started at maybe the last match of the group stage. Group stage. Yeah. Into the knockouts. Okay. Yeah. All right. In 2002, this Brazilian scored in 20.07 seconds. To establish Arsenal's club record for their fastest goal in the Champions League. 2002, the Brazilian. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. 2002. This three times this team inflicted this score line result. I feel as much as the United. Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich. So Bayern Munich beat them 5-1. Yes. Twice in their last Champions League campaign. 2016, 2017. Yeah. I know where I think. Okay. So Bayern Munich. Number seven please. Bayern Munich. He is Arsenal's most prolific goal scorer in the Champions League. Terry Omri. Yeah. Come on. We have some time. We have questions to go back to. Which campaign did Arsenal experience their best UCL finish? 05-06. They got to the final last two on to Barcelona. But you know things about Arsenal. 05. But I know something. True or false, Arsenal is the first team in the competition's history to feel the first 11 of different nationalities. This sounds almost too specific to be false. True, true, true. So let's go with true first 11. Number 10. He holds the record for the most appearances by Arsenal player. That's Terry Omri again. Terry Omri again. Okay. So can we see the first question please? We have to go back to that. Arsenal's biggest victory in the Champions League is a 7-0 triumph over the Czech Republic Club. Prague. Sparta Prague. Yeah. Yeah. Sparta Prague. Okay. The next one please. In 2002, this Brazilian scored in 20.07 seconds. Brazilian. Who is this? Yeah, I'm altering this one. O2. Can we call a friend? We can watch out for this thing. No, we can't. Our producer said that. He makes the rules. Yeah, we'll be all right anyway. Just guess someone else. Let's pass on that one. Can't. I don't read with blank answers. Oh, wow. Excuse me, Ricardo guessing. He said Sparta Prague. What? I said Prague. Lancet Sparta. Ignore Lancet. Go with Ricardo today. Oh boy. 19. 19. Just move along because it looks like a bad day. All right. So that's one. I was feeling foolish. Counts to me. We have one. Out of three. No. 10. Wow. The most consecutive clean sheets. 10. Wow. Yeah, that's... Five multiplied by two. You all missed that. No, no, no. There's no way they had 10 consecutive clean sheets in the 0506 season. It... Gilberto for the Brazilian. Yeah. How many correct ones? One. Oh, wow. This is not going well, is it? I just want to be off with this, I guess. Bar and Munich, so that's two. This is our time now, like the Talowas. Finishing strong. Therian Rhee, three. Yeah. We're moving like the Talowas now. 0506. Second. Yeah. Four. Here we go. Two. That's five. Five. Therian Rhee, six. Like the Talowas. Five. Give me a high five. High five. Great time. I'm happy now. Yeah.


But another aspect of prayer that we all need to learn is the aspect of in prayer Not only we communicate with God and talk and fellowship and worship, but we also Have dreams and have visions Dreams and visions is not something you get when you eat too much pizza and Visions is not something you get when you're spacing out in church or in the classroom Dreams is a goal a person has inside a Faith they have inside. It's this thing that they are waiting Expecting seeing thinking Feeling and eventually speaking And we all actually have dreams whether you realize it or not Every person is in this room has faith not all of us have positive faith Faith is like a car. It can go D or R depending on where you push it Faith can be going in reverse or it can go in drive Every person here actually has a vision The only problem is some of the visions we have in our mind are not the visions we want to see in our life And so when you come to prayer many times a prayer becomes a place where you just tell God your needs Instead of sharing with God your dreams and your visions We all have dreams and visions We all have expectations and And the question has to be what kind of dream and what kind of goal you actually have like the story goes about a one woman Who was constantly paranoid that any noise at night in her house Symbolized there was a thief in the house and she kept torturing her husband every night saying hey There's a thief and downstairs you have to go check downstairs because I'm certain there is a thief So the husband would go downstairs check there is no thief come back comfort his wife says I checked no one is there and It's continued night after night year after year a decade after decade until 40 years later on The regular routine to go check the downstairs for a thief because his wife is spooked Lo and behold. There's a guy actually with the gun to his face He got surprised and The thief says don't make a noise or I shoot you give me all of your precious belongings It's a search don't don't shoot me take whatever you need to take he takes everything and before the thief leaves He said wait wait wait before you leave You gotta meet my wife She's been expecting you for the past 40 years That's faith this woman had faith for 40 years that there will be a thief 40 years she did not see the reality of her faith until on the 40th year that became a reality See whether you realize it or not, but that woman was a woman of faith Unfortunately, she used her faith against herself fear is negative faith Anxiety is negative faith people who say oh it's so hard to believe really It's very easy to be anxious. No, no, no, it's same thing as reverse and drive you choose Where you direct your faith toward you can wake up every morning expecting ah it must be cancer Ah, it must be arthritis.  Don't love me Nobody likes me.  I know that personally from my personal life I lived most half of my life believing and being convinced I was worthless Believing that I was no good and if you would look at my physical physical appearance you'll be say I'm not surprised No, what am I and I had proof to believe for that I had evidence for my faith and it's amazing how my faith was working so good Except against me Everywhere I would meet people the first question they would ask me what's wrong with your eyes How did they know I was thinking of myself as worthless How do they know that I was constantly thinking of the fact that I am deformed? How do they know see when you have faith inside of you people will feel it When you have faith inside of you that you know good people will feel it and do not be surprised if they treat you According to your faith and you be walking around saying you got to stop changing the way you treat me and so that I will Then change how I feel no no no no change your faith and people will take care of themselves and it's amazing when something come on It's amazing what happened with my personal life is that when things and inside started to change People stopped to care on how I look Even most of you right now that is not a distraction You don't even think you see beside that why because the person on inside is Confident in who God is that everything on the outside does not matter and People they immediately catch that and that then no Limitation becomes your barrier why because you know who you are and because you have a vision It's so important that prayer is not just a time where you exercise Recite your negative vision You replay the worst scenario of what could what should have and what might have happened a prayer Is the time where you play a vision keep replaying a vision of what God has promised What God has said of who you want to be and what God wants you to become Then prayer becomes enjoyable Prayer becomes a routine not because it's a religion But because your fellowship with the Holy Spirit who lives inside and then you tell him of the faith You want to see in your life you tell him of the vision remember if you say you don't have faith you do Maybe it's just in against yourself Switch your faith from reverse to drive and press the pedal to the metal and you will see what that will take you Because somebody say a man with that said let's open the scriptures to book of Acts chapter 11 verse 5 and down Apostle Peter is explaining to the council of people in Jerusalem about why he visited Cornelius house Cornelius was a Gentile Gentile means he was not a Jewish person for Israel It was prohibited to go and spend time and eat with the rest of those people It's not because they were racist But because other cultures didn't worship God and they were trying to be pure by staying away from them and Peter here gives an Explanation he was I was in the city of Joppa praying and in a trance I saw a vision so we see that Peter was praying and as he was praying he had a vision I Saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners And it came down to what I was I looked into it and I saw four-footed animals of the earth wild beasts Rebels and birds however you pronounce that Perfect verse 7 then I heard a voice telling me get up Peter kill and eat that just shows that God is not vegetarian Anyway, keep going verse 8. I replied surely not Lord Peter was Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth The voice spoke from heaven a second time do not call anything impure that God has made clean This happened three times and then it was all pulled up to heaven again Right then three men who had been sent to me From this city stopped at my house where I was staying and the spirit told me To have no hesitation about going with them these six brothers also went with me and we entered The men's house to cut the story short. They came to Cornelius's house Peter preaches the message as Peter is talking Holy Spirit falls in the room People begin to speak in other languages. God begins to move. He gets them baptized Stays there a few more days and from that point Christianity went to your country My country and our country This was the churning point where Christianity broke out of a box of Judaism that it was in for a few years Now I want us to take this story and apply it to us Christianity is not philosophical Christianity is very practical If it doesn't Rely and apply to your life, then you have to find something is wrong there because she already is meant to apply to our life The message we will title today the knocking of three men the knocking of three men if you can put up the first point before The three men will knock on your door vision will knock on your mind Before the three men will knock on your door vision has to knock on your mind We see something that God takes Peter and he Begins to give Peter a new vision in prayer and this new vision God was giving to him that Peter will need to go outside of the borders of his nation into other nations that Peter wasn't accustomed to and As God removed the barrier in his mind Something happened these nations actually started to come to him.   You have to walk around say I am accepted I am well loved happened to fight a rejection right now What that happens is that your mind fills with the promises of God and then on the bottom of the house There could be knocking many people wait for people to knock on your house before you let God knock on your mind Many of us still God Lord God you can knock on my house if you fix my car The reason why I'm depressed well I have him and her and them to answer for you change him them and them and then I will be very happy Goddess I will make you happy and because I make you happy three of them will knock on the door and make you more happy First God changes your mind and then he changes the things that happen outside of it not the other way around number two We see in this scripture That which is on the great sheet is Already on the way to you That which is on the great sheet is already on its way to you God shows Peter a dream in this dream There is a sheet that comes down There is this blanket that comes down from heaven and this blanket has four corners and the Bible says in this blanket It's all kinds of exotic animals they symbolized Nations and continents and God shows that to Peter and Peter is looking as a wow But Peter did not know these nations were already Making way to his house God was showing him something not that he's going to do he's already done it God was telling Peter last night. I already talked to Cornelius Cornelius already sent the man And I'm just giving you heads up this vision. I'm showing you it's not something I'm gonna do later It's something I already have done.  They're filled with their symptoms. They're filled with medicine They're filled with pain.  You're like well God are you going to do it? God's answer is this It was 2,000 years ago that my son took that disease So the answer is no I am not going to do it.  No, I am not going to defeat the devil. I have defeated him 2,000 years ago The vision God gives you is not something he is going to do. It's something. He's already done Peter this sheet is not something that's gonna happen.  God says no I Already have done it on the cross My son was accursed that you will receive the blessing of Abraham Blessing is not stuff toys and cars and houses blessing is God's favor Pushes you to have more than enough so you can share with others who don't Because someone say amen There was one woman in South Korea who had Cancer in her throat and she couldn't speak because of this cancer She came to her pastor for prayer the pastor prayed for her and nothing happened He she came again the pastor prayed for her nothing happened She started to bother the pastor and not necessarily because she had cancer But she always told the pastor after prayer I know you prayed pastor, but the demon in my throat is so much bigger than God inside of your heart So this pastor was really upset and lo and behold she comes again to him to ask could you pass to pray for me? And he was so mad at her so he said no I am not going to pray for you this time I'm gonna send you to a prayer mountain and you need to go there and with a notebook You need to write this scripture 10,000 times what it says by his stripes We were healed and after you write one time you need to get up and speak it loud by his stripes We were healed and after you write that 10,000 times you come then I pray for you So lo and behold some a week later this woman runs into the office hits through the door as pastor pastor Now you gotta pray for me brings the snow book. There's 10,000 times of the same verse He said I didn't think you would do it. She says pastor. I did it. He said hey, I've noticed. How is your voice doing? He said yeah, that is true It's a pastor is doing so much better He said what happened? She said I didn't even realize when I was writing this by his stripes I was healed my voice came back goes back to the doctor and realized that she has no throat cancer whatsoever see While she Had the vision By saying God's word to herself. She didn't know healing is not something God Is going to do he has done it and it was on its way to her Ready to knock and it entered in God wants to bring changes in your life, but it first happens by changes happening here God gives you a vision. God gives you a vision who you supposed to be It looks completely contrary to what you see today You receive that vision and that vision is not something God is going to do It's already done But it's gonna happen in your life because somebody say amen point number three Vision is not just something you see. It's also something you have to eat Vision is not something you see. It's something we have to eat Meaning it has to become real See God presents this vision to Peter and says do you see this exotic animals this symbolized four corners of the earth this symbolized nations This symbolized Asia this symbolized Latin America this symbolized Russia this symbolized India Africa this symbolized that and Peter's like amazing amazing Impressive until God goes step further. He says Peter start eating it No vegetarian Don't eat those things. They're really nice to look at but I'm not sure how they're gonna taste See many of us love visions But we don't want to make them our reality inside We love to think about them when good things happen, but to adopt that image inside For you to walk with inside. That's when we say no no no no no that is not for me No, no, I will look at it, but I will not eat it God wants you to have that image inside of you today Not when it happens when he says it There was a one young man named David He was a shepherd boy and the prophet Samuel comes with a jar of oil to anoint an ex-king of Israel Finds this big studs who were the brothers of David who were handsome tough buff.  I Didn't have his abs. He I mean he didn't even have a gym membership He he didn't work out a lot. He smelled like sheep He was so quiet and the prophet comes on him and he says this good-looking young boy It's going to be the next king of Israel and the prophet pours oil on his head I want you to notice where he pours oil on head When did David become a king? When they put a crown on his head or when they put oil on his head oil At the age of a young man probably 1615 Being probably on his knees receiving oil on his head. You know what David or what else David received in his mind I'm a king Nobody believed he was a king except a prophet and David From that day David's life changed You know why there was no crown, but there was a king inside Where did the king come from oil? When God's word paints an image and instead of saying no no no Lord This is too hard. This is too difficult. You see God.  You say I'm a king. I'm only 15 people will not there is a king already How will this work? But God I like your idea.  They'll invite me to the palace not to the sheep David walks around a king no crown, but a king is inside And that's what happens when a person becomes healthy Uninside but the pain is still in his ankles When the person becomes blessed and inside and their car got possessed When the person is blessed on inside, but their boyfriend just walked away and left them their heart is broken and walking on inside I'm a blessed person. I don't have a crown, but I got some oil You don't become a king when you get crowned you get it you become a king when you get anointed You don't become who you are when you become that you become who you are when God says it You believe it and then takes time for circumstances to catch up That's why the Bible says we don't have to just see the vision Eat it You make that vision a part of you you receive that vision in Jesus name Amen Some of you don't know but for the longest part in our youth ministry in our church on Wednesday nights We could never break in attendance wise. We could never break 70 65 70 was like a revival when we hit 80 That was powerful revival that means God moved even if nothing happened But we just had 80 people for the longest for 10 years of our ministry We never had more than more than 80 people maybe once in a long while last year after summer I remember this Sunday morning We were praying here and as we're praying for God to move we're praying for souls to be saved and in this prayer God starts to present a vision inside of my spirit where I have to see this sanctuary filled Today and I was like well God there's no way they could be filled on Wednesday This has never happened in 10 years plus I mean we're not those kind of people and as I began to see the vision not only that vision But the Holy Spirit started to put in my heart that I need to change things that Wednesday And some of those things was this is that instead of people sitting on this side Which something that has happened for 10 years To have people sit on both sides. I was like well God if we sit on both sides There's gonna be one and a half few filled I'm gonna be discouraged people be discouraged this and you're gonna be discouraged We all gonna be discouraged and I remember that Wednesday We sit down put the pulpit in the middle and we were still leaning toward this side all the time because you know all paths Don't die really fast They took a while an interesting part of Saudi been some months that our attendance every Wednesday has not dropped under a hundred What happens God first presents a vision you believe in that vision and people come Now we still we still inviting the same way we were inviting before But and now I started to act different not as a pastor of just a small group a small little club But you have to act now differently I became that person on that prayer and it just takes time For the crown to come first comes the oil Then comes the crown but most of you your God give me the crown Oh, Jesus give me the crown when God comes with also keep the oil to yourself. Give me the crown No, no, no God first will give you the oil and then the oil will bring the crown He gives you the revelation. He gives you the vision. It gives you the hope inside You grab it and then comes the reality not the other way around Because somebody say amen in the conclusion Let let me share with you a few practical tips on how this vision could become a reality Write down the practical tips because sometimes we hear a theory, but let's make it something practical one new vision at first Will produce painful discomfort While why why will the new vision produce painful discomfort just like you see in this image a cat is looking in the mirror and he sees a lion New vision is you will see yourself in prayer. You close your eyes and you see yourself a lion You open your eyes and your little cat And you become uncomfortable You become uncomfortable And so it's easier either to keep your eyes closed or to keep them open and never to close them again Many people when they begin to have visions because visions conflict with the reality and when there is a conflict your mind begins to suffer Meaning your mind begins to be discomforted and when there is no comfort there Many times we love comfort so much that we're willing to sacrifice a future our destiny our potential and our calling on the bed of comfort When god says to peter peter I see nations and continents The first thing that peter said He didn't say yes god. I've been praying about it. He said no lord never gonna happen The population of of israel jewish people in the world today is about six million people The population of the globe is about seven billion Now I don't know exactly how much the population was two thousand years ago But let's assume for a moment. Here is a man whose target area is six million people.  You're like, why are these people screaming? Why are they raising their hands your mind was being stretched for us? That's no longer a problem first time when I heard people jumping my mind fried I was like, this is not from god only people in the world do this First time I saw people who were girls and they were wearing makeup I said, this is definitely not from god because christian girls should never wear makeup They shouldn't have enough money to wear makeup in the first place My mind was stretched But today my mind is completely comfortable with these things But god is challenging me and is challenging you in some other areas where your mind is gonna feel like it's being fried And it's completely normal.    How could you be? I don't like it, but it's it's familiar We do that in our country. Everybody has this disease People criticize your bush judge bush such a bad president When he came for election voted for him again Barack Obama such a bad president it came for the election who you're gonna vote for Barack Obama Why because comfortable we know it's predictable We're familiar with it and we do that with our life all the time whether it's good or bad because I've been it I've done it. I know it's comfortable and something new is scary Is risky and God is coming to Peter and say Peter this new vision will make one thing You can have to pay a price not in dollars not in gold You will have to sacrifice a comfort for a little bit until you taste a new comfort You don't know what you're talking to me about somebody say amen Second tip You can't give up on your vision You can't give up on your vision Your vision is something you gotta hold on all the time when God gives vision to Peter We see something that God not only says Peter. I know this is not comfortable But God says this vision to Peter brings it three times somebody said three times God brings it once second time Third time it became so consistent That after Peter left the vision and they were eating the bible says Peter was still thinking about the vision One of the reasons why many visions die is because A vision people we don't understand about a vision is this You need vision For you But the vision needs you also The same way a baby inside of the mother's womb needs a mother We don't think of this sometimes the vision God gives you Needs you If you don't give it strength By holding on to it it will die Tatiana is pregnant how many months five months she has a baby inside This baby you don't see she feels that She could She feeds this baby Not realizing it how she feeds the baby by carrying this baby and protecting this baby If at some time she says this baby is a hindrance to my life This baby is a hindrance to my schedule this baby is a hindrance to my appearance and I can no longer carry this baby I just need to let this baby Give this baby somewhere else so this baby can grow on its own and then once it grows it can come back into my life How many of you know that the baby will die the first day the baby will leave her womb Why because though Tatiana needs the baby the baby needs Tatiana The bible says people without vision perish That means people can have money people can have a family But if they don't have a vision and purpose their life loses meaning But did you know that visions without people also perish? You know visions cannot become reality without people You know vision is looking for a womb vision says I can make you somebody great I can change your life. Could could I borrow your womb? Could you not kick me out when things get hard? Could you now throw me on the curb because you face an obstacle? Could you please feed me one day? I'll feed you. I'll change you. But when things get hard, please don't abort me And many of us that's exactly what we do We believe for something one time believe for something second time But god wants to make it happen three times means he wants it to get sealed and stick inside of you and not just something that you have But eventually something that has you You got to feed it. You got to hold on to it and just because things are tough Just because things are a little bit obstacles on your way You cannot simply throw that on the curb and saying ah my life is just too hard I'm just too too too difficult to be no no no no no Your vision needs you Your vision is waiting on you to give it food and one day When you feed it It will feed you It will change things around you because it's going to be god who's going to work through that vision Because that's going to be faith. Can somebody say amen? The last tip The holy spirit will guide a person of vision When peter's vision came three times it stuck to him and something happened that we see in the bible that The moment there was a knock on the door The moment there was a knock on the door The three men symbolize opportunity When there was an opportunity knocking on the door the holy spirit in that moment said to peter your turn People always ask me Well, I'm believing that I'm going to be financially free. I'm believing I am going to be healed I'm believing that my home group is going to grow but Vlad how This is how A person who has a vision That grows inside of him Comes a moment when opportunity knocks People without vision don't hear it Because opportunities usually are dressed like adversities And because they're dressed like obstacles we run away from them. They're dressed like strangers You don't recognize their voice only the people who have a vision inside. Ah, this is from god Another person will say ah these are strangers run People without vision miss the knocking of three men and they always say god, why are you not sending a miracle see God sends a miracle, but it's your vision inside that you keep that helps you to recognize the knocking of three men Helps you recognize financial response financial dealings help you to recognize deals that other people will say Oh, this will not work. This will fail and you say man, this will work The holy spirit speaks to the person of vision If you're not a person of vision Holy spirit can I speak to you about opportunities? You will miss opportunities Opportunities don't happen to lucky people Opportunities happen to people who are in prayer saying god give me a new vision Who hold on to that when things are tough and when opportunity presents There was people usually take advantage of those opportunities Because somebody say man There was a man named Edwin Barnes Some hundred years ago He had this dream that he wanted to partner with thomas Edison And he wanted to work with thomas Edison The only problem with this man is two problems if you can go back to the picture This man had two problems one of them.  He signs the guy. He creates things and vets things And if you don't you're not gonna partner with thomas Edison But this young man had a vision. I am gonna partner with thomas Edison buys a ticket Find some money Goes to where thomas Edison in Schedules and interview with thomas Edison when he comes to meet thomas Edison He looks like he comes from the streets He looks like he has nothing and thomas Edison looked at him and actually i'm just gonna read to you exactly what thomas Edison said He said he stood there before me looking like an ordinary trump But there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression That he was determined to get what he came after I had learned from years of experience with men When a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single churn of a wheel In order to get it. He sure to win I gave him an opportunity he asked for Because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded Synchronive events proved that no mistake was made But this is what happened thomas Edison hired him as a janitor Somebody can say well my dream came to pass I partner with thomas Edison But his dream was not to work as a janitor for thomas Edison To partner with thomas Edison He worked as a janitor for thomas Edison five years in those times He would pay close attention to thomas Edison how he walked how he dressed what ticked him off Happy moments bad moments. I mean he was like a sponge Mopping the floors, but he always had his eyes on thomas Edison People worked with thomas Edison for a long time who never partnered with him Here is a janitor mopping floors Still has a dream. I didn't come here to mop floors for him. I came here to partner with him Until thomas Edison he can show the picture releases a machine It's called the Edison dictating machine He releases that machine and none of his sales guys believe this machine Can lift the ground Means they don't believe this machine will sell In the business meeting they all start one by one saying Edison you're a great guy This is your mistake. It won't sell. We won't sell it This mopper guy went there to mop the floor and overheard how they said they can't sell it But thomas Edison already made plenty of them when everyone left he comes to him and he's a sir Would you give me an opportunity?  He sells all of the machines thomas Edison had until thomas Edison Made him a partner and the only distributor Of these machines in the state in the united states of america in a very short time. This man became a multimillionaire Thus his dream became a reality Why men had a vision Refused to give up when obstacles came An intuition kicked in it seems to sing All the co-workers did not get an idea to sell this machine When it wasn't selling only one guy in that building, you know who the guy was not the most smartest guy Not the most handsome guy the guy with the vision You know how you're not gonna miss your opportunities If you have a vision inside of you before they come When they will knock if the vision is inside you'll hear the knock not as a stranger as a friend Other people will hear the knock and say We should run away. You will hear the knock and say I gotta open the door And you will enter into the reality of your dream of your vision Because somebody say amen Christian life should not be about rules and regulations. It's supposed to be about dreams and visions Working with god and with the holy spirit. My friends. These are not fairy tales. I'm telling you from 90s These are the truths from the bible from the god's word visions and dreams You already have them the question is what kind of visions dreams Worthless bad sick. My kids are acting up. My wife is crazy. My husband is crazy My boss is crazy. My work is crazy. Everything is crazy and at the end i'm crazy That's a bad vision


The BSU women's hockey team is also back in action this weekend after a series split with second rake Minnesota Duluth last weekend. With only eight games left in the regular season, the Beavers will take on the University of North Dakota in a home and home series Friday and Sunday, providing Hawks swept BSU in a home and home series back in October. Both of us have changed a lot. Obviously this is towards the end of the year and this is like the crunch time for playoffs and these are huge points on the board that we and they both need to get so I think it's gonna be a battle like it always is against North Dakota.  It's gonna be a physical series and and we know it's it's always a battle with them and it's certainly gonna be the same thing this weekend. Friday's game will be at home at 707 as the face-off game to a Sunday at 207 in Grand Forks. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


From San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Brought to you by Oracle. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Brian Grace Lee. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live for day two of theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Oracle OpenWorld. This is SiliconANGLE's flagship program theCUBE, where we go out to the events and extract the similar noise. We are in San Francisco post game coverage, if you will, of Mark Hurd's keynote. Again, day two, a lot more keynotes coming on tomorrow. We got some big keynotes. That's the big one tomorrow. Larry is referencing that last night. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. Join my co-host, Brian Grace Lee. He's our cloud and infrastructure analyst at wikibon.com, SiliconANGLE's research team. Brian, great to see you this morning. Things were rocking and rolling last night on their opening reception, Larry's keynote. Mark Hurd's keynote today really set the tone. And I think what I saw up there was, he was kind of chilling out out there. He's on the anchor desk, which is kind of like a good grade for practice for theCUBE next time he comes on theCUBE. So, but in reality, he's trotting out the customers. And the message is pretty clear from Mark Hurd. They are in the cloud business today. The numbers and the performance on the business side are growing, pipeline is strong, and also the technologies in place, which Larry Ellison pointed out yesterday. Your thoughts on Mark Hurd's keynote. Well, I think Mark, last night Larry was talking about vision. He was taking punches at the competition. And Mark was essentially trying to say, look, he was trying to establish two things. Number one, there's a lot of hype around cloud. Some of the numbers in terms of the big cloud providers, whether it's Amazon or Azure, put him in perspective. He was saying, look, their sub $10 billion businesses were a $100 billion business, put things in perspective. And then he was trying to build a timeline for people so that those enterprise customers that might be considering the cloud, might be considering migrating into the cloud don't feel like they're behind. He was trying to say, look, this is a 10 year game. We've been in this for a long time. We've been making investments, and we got you covered. That was the message he was trying to get across. Yeah, the decade long transition and shift is what I heard as a key message. The most notable thing from the crowd that came out of Twitter on the keynote was, of all the comments, the one that really struck the court, most with the people out on the internet was, Mark Hurd says 30% of IT is testing today, that they're not testing, that they're testing cloud today, 30% of IT customers today. By 2025, 100% will be moving their data to the cloud. So that is remarkable that he can put that stat out there. 2025, pretty much conviction, Stu Miniman and Wikibon wrote a piece just yesterday saying it's in the stores as we know it. This is essentially connecting that dot with Stu Miniman and Wikibon. No, I think that's a fair prediction. I think 10 years from now, people are going to get comfortable with this idea of when I need resources for short periods of time, or if I need resources for a lot of variability, why in the world am I making capital investments for that? And if you stretch that out a little bit, that has huge ramifications across our industry. We've got lots of on-premise vendors who sell you a lot of capacity. They're going to sell you double, triple capacity so you feel comfortable. Economically, that's hard to support. Guys like Oracle are trying to say, look, bring it to me. Yeah, we just saw AIG up on stage, huge company. I mean, big IT, these guys aren't cloud native right now, I honestly have a lot of legacy. What I found interesting was the note that he said, they're going to start offering drone insurance. And he brought up this notion of self-driving cars and drone, this is the future. Self-driving cars are literally right on our doorstep. They're happening right now in Silicon Valley. We've seen the Google cars driving around, but this talks about the shift. And Oracle is in the business today with Larry Ellison said last night what Mark Hurd was reiterating today is, they're not determined to be in the cloud. They are in the cloud today. They're pipelines growing. They've made the investment in the software, replatforming of Oracle software on-prem and on the cloud to offer a comprehensive platform. That was Mark's business message today. Larry's technical message yesterday would say, hey, we got it all across the board. Question is, will customers see it that way? Your thoughts? Well, I think it's going to be a little bit bifurcated for a while. I think for a while we're going to see customers who are going to move. We heard this from GE, the GE's CIO. He said, look, I've got a ton of undifferentiated applications. I'm going to move those to SaaS applications. HR, in some cases, marketing. A lot of these ERP applications, they're realizing they're undifferentiated. Those are going to move to SaaS applications. What I don't think Oracle's in best position for today, but they're trying to get there, is these cloud-native applications. So you talk about the drone thing. You talk about being able to do, what does the new analytics model look like to be able to build an insurance business around self-driving cars? Nobody knows what that looks like yet. Those are going to be the cloud-native applications, and I'm not sure they laid out as good a vision for cloud-native applications yet as maybe they want to be. But right now, they're great for business applications. We were talking yesterday here about the disadvantage of scale, to try to replicate Oracle's model. Amazon's obviously got a clean sheet of paper. They got a green field, so to speak, in the public cloud. Mark heard this morning, talking right here on the pavilion, was saying that people have tried to copy Oracle over and over again, essentially reiterating our message around the disadvantage of scales. It is really hard. There have been people trying to copy Oracle for decades. Question is, can Oracle co-op the cloud, which they're doing, basically, and offer and move the ball down the field? And the question is, it's beyond Oracle. Oracle used to be a very nice product in the stack that it was in, ERP, database, really solid middleware. That's Oracle. And there's other stuff going on on the IT enterprise. Now, everything has to be integrated. So the integrated message really implies openness. Can they work beyond the red stack? What does Oracle need to do to do that, and are they doing that in your opinion? Well, the big question with integrated always becomes, is integrated mean slow and heavy, or does it mean microservices? We talked yesterday about middleware and how they're trying to push around microservices. If I can build my marketing cloud and be flexible and tie in things like Twitter and social and things like that, that's great. If I have to be able to do my marketing cloud and it has to tie into HCM and it has to tie into ERP, that's not flexible enough. So that's going to be the interesting thing. Can I do these SaaS applications as microservices, or is it have to be the full suite of things? That's where the real innovation and real agility is going to come from. Another thing that the conversations this morning talked about is the new set of competitors. It teases out what Larry Ellison said last night. Mark heard, really didn't talk about it much on the keynote really more about trotting out the customer, showing the success traction and whatnot. But Larry Ellison brought it up yesterday. This is a new set of customers. It's not IBM, SAP, EMC, and Dell, and HP anymore. It's Amazon, it's Salesforce. And that means they have two sets of competitors. They're fighting a two-war front right now on the competitive landscape. Coming down from the top of the stack and the SaaS vendors, a lot of Salesforce and others work day, whatnot. And then from the bottom up, from the infrastructure, that's Amazon. And it's a collision in the middle, right? And Oracle's got a fortified position there. How do you think they're going to defend this? How do they defend and extend their leadership? What do they need to do? Well, I mean, look, they've got a number of great assets. They've got very good technology. They've got embedded tech, database technology of all the things, very, very sticky, right? Number two, tons of cash, you know? And we know this from, you know, looking at what the cloud scale has, it's a billion dollar or quarter investment to be in the cloud game. Oracle can do that, right? How fast they'll ramp that. They've done it, they've done it already. Do they have the scale to do it? We're not sure because we're hearing they're hiring teams of people that have this cloud scale expertise versus what they've built so far. So that's yet to be seen, but tons of cash. And the thing is, they're very good about not putting their head in the sand and realizing who's beating them, right? They realize they need a market cloud. They went out and bought Teleo. They're trying to compete with Salesforce. I think they've got much more situational awareness that a lot of companies do. Our inside joke here in theCUBE is we always try to weave in a sailing metaphor if we can to give Oracle props with their boat. But we always talk about the data lake is the data old data warehouse. And I've been on record saying I hate that term. I like data ocean because data ocean is much more fluid, dynamic, a lot of changes in real time, different currents, different streams. But the cloud right now is dynamic. I mean it is, it's a shifting tide. The winds are changing. It is fast moving, right? So if you're that boat in Oracle, you have fortified position in the middle air. Now the question is how can they be competitive? The same conditions exist for the competition who are really trying to replicate and meet a trajectory that Oracle has which is going to be very, very difficult as Marker pointed out. So to me that's the conditions of the landscape. What's the competition going to do? What are your thoughts on the competition vis-a-vis Oracle? Well, I think if you look at this, we talked earlier, Microsoft we think has a very strong position. They've got a strong app portfolio. They've also got an install base that they can drive cash out of. It's on premise. AWS I think they're in a very good position as the 800 pound gorilla in cloud so far, but they've got to figure out how to get in the enterprise. They're making steps. I don't know that they've totally gotten into that yet. The one thing that we all talk about is competition. The big competition for all these guys is status quo in IT. Status quo in IT plays to Oracle's hands. It doesn't play into Amazon's hands. Amazon's got to convince people to change. Oracle's trying to say, stay the course, let the boat fly, you know, you know, kind of sales stream. So that's really where it is. It's they're all competing against IT status quo. And to a certain extent that some startup doesn't come in and take out their business. It's interesting on the cloud game. People talk about it as a three horse race. It's interesting. Most people don't even factor Oracle in it, but they're the big player. They say it's Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Oracle's got a bigger cloud than all those guys as they're pointing out here today. But really the question comes down to, what do they do, right? I mean, ultimately, look at Amazon. They own the public cloud. Microsoft's playing Microsoft's game. And in fact, Oracle and Microsoft are playing the same playbook. Knock down your install base and move fast with your existing assets and create leverage around that. Microsoft is doing extremely well with their cloud game. Going to their install base. This is the battlefield. So I think when they say not enough, they don't see the same competitors. I got a disagree with Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd there. Microsoft is there. I mean, they're knocking on the doorstep. Your thoughts on Microsoft. Right. I think Microsoft, I mean, you got to look at Microsoft in two-fold. Number one, like you said, huge install base, but number two, completely changing culture. I think if this was a game that they were fighting against Steve Ballmer, I think Larry'd feel really good about that. What Satya Nadella's doing is he's changing the culture. He's open to more technology. We've seen 25, 30% of Azure cloud is on Linux. We're seeing them moving to new spaces. Microsoft is going to be a big player. We think Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Azure are going to be those big five or five or six clouds. Yeah, and for the second tier or non-tier one, as you pointed out, if that's the tier one, it's HP, Dell, EMC. These guys are all trying to do cloud. Got Bert just dreaming out there with the EMC thing. But as Mark Hurd pointed out this morning, as we were talking, is that it's going to take nine months to figure out how to even operationalize that act, never mind have a go to market. So, they're very interesting dynamic there. HP just got out of the public cloud business. So, that's going to be a partner situation going on. Does HP partner with Amazon? Does HP partner with Oracle? Does Oracle buy HP? There's going to be a lot of CIOs that are maybe rethinking who their big partners are going to be. Who am I going to partner more with Oracle? Am I going to partner more with Amazon? Do I look more at Microsoft? A lot of dynamics going on. Mark Hurd was asked directly on CNBC by John Ford. Will Oracle buy HP?  He said, no, we're not going to do that. He didn't comment on that at all and it doesn't come out on M&A. But in general, that was a flat out no from Mark. I mean, I don't think that's a good move for those guys. I wouldn't want to buy them if I was wrong. But I think Amazon might be interesting buying HP. Or HP partnering with Amazon. So... I can't see Amazon. Here's the thing. There was a big article in the Wall Street Journal today. One of the biggest reasons why Amazon didn't, HP didn't succeed in public cloud. They've got so much conflict in their sales force of do I keep trying to sell on-premise, get a big commission check, sell CapEx? Amazon doesn't have that. It's all off-ex, there's a straight sales model. It's a very clean model. I can't see them trying to get into a legacy business. Yeah, this is why I think Oracle has an interesting opportunity. Their sales motion, their sales force is a huge opportunity for them. And that's where I see the big advantage over Amazon Web Services. To me, that's a home run opportunity for Oracle. They can continue the momentum on that front. They will do extremely well. I agree. I agree. Look, it's a huge install base with a lot of money. The enterprise, it's Fortune 500, it's service providers. They'll sustain that business. And I think the interesting thing is, when we look at where they're trying to go, they're moving towards SaaS applications that are undifferentiated, but they're undifferentiated cash cows, essentially. If they can drive more and more H, HCM, ERP, CRM into SaaS applications, that's recurring revenue that's going to drive a lot of other parts of their business. So hitting gem in all the Oracle Open World content so far that I like, that I'm kind of, I look for the little signals in there that kind of give me some indication of where this is going. I think John Fallow's interview yesterday, it's up now on the network, watch that interview because he actually teases out the announcement that's going to happen on Wednesday and tomorrow. This is around the M7 security. I think whoever can have the security game will win everything, because he's talking about end-to-end encryption in the cloud from premise through hybrid to public. That is a significant game changer. And it's a hard nut to crack. There's a lot of technology involved, but if you can crack that nut, that's a home run. Security is a huge deal. And it's kind of like talked about as a killer thing, but no one really talks about it. Is that a reason, because no one has an answer? Is it because cloud's too difficult to have security? Security, I mean security and agility are always sort of at odds with each other, right? So that's the thing. Yeah, absolutely, in the Unix space and trying to move off of power from an IBM, it's a huge play. It was interesting they had Intel on, kind of trying to tell a similar story with their trying to do security at the chip level with Intel. One comment that Larry made that was very interesting last night, he said, look, we sell security to all of our customers. Very few of them turn it on. It'll be interesting as they begin to move customers to the cloud. How much more security becomes part of that conversation? Because, again, security and agility are always kind of at odds with each other and very much at odds with what developers like to do in terms of all that. I just want to share with the folks out there, something I've seen coming from our analytics here at Silicon Angles, theCUBE analytics. Mark Hurd is having a conversation online, tweet to Mark Hurd, if you want any questions at 2.30 Pacific Time, he's taking questions online, tweet to Mark Hurd's Twitter handle and ask him some questions. He's going to be fielding those. This is theCUBE's Silicon Angles flagship program. Go to siliconangle.tv, get all the videos, go to wikibond.conf.com for some great research and join the conversation on our engagement application, crowdchat.net, slash O-O-W-15. Brian, final thoughts. We're going to kick off a long day today. We're going to do 48 interviews throughout theCUBE here at Oracle Open World, exclusive coverage. Mark Hurd has a swagger that's quite different than Larry, right? I mean, he's up there at the anchor desk. Like I said, you know, joking aside, he'd make a great CUBE guest. He's very playful. He's got a little bit of dry humor there, but he's not slashing the competitions as much as Larry is. Larry likes to go right at the competition and really lay it out. Mark Hurd really knocks down the buttoned up business questions, cost of goods sold, sales motion, pipeline, revenue, sunk cost of investments, filling up the cloud with more customers. Your thoughts on his performance. Well, I mean, he's known as a sales and operational genius. I think he conveys that level of consistency that people want to hear from. I mean, customers here are looking for consistency. They're looking for 10-year visions. They're looking for 10-year roadmaps. I think he comes across and says, look, I'm the guy that's going to deliver that. I'm going to put customers on stage. We're going to talk to names that you've heard of. That's his job, and this Larry's is to go and throw punches and haymakers and so forth. All right, we are here live in San Francisco, wrapping up the keynote post game coverage. 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