Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Massimo. Hello. Hello Christian, nice to meet you. It's good to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Oh, it's great to have you and for folks that don't know you, tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you, where are you and what do you do? Okay, I am Massimo Crippa. I'm living in France, Italy and working in Belgium. So I'm just roaming around these three countries. So sometimes it's a busy life traveling. I'm working for a company called Codit and over there it's all about cloud, Microsoft cloud in this case, so Azure. And we are focused on integration, IoT and app innovation, meaning all of these cloud native, wonderful world that I like it so badly. What I would like to ask too, because on Azure MVP, I mean, Azure is a big bucket. There's a lot of things within that. So kind of like, you know, what do you specifically focus on? What are you currently like writing and speaking about? Yeah, so I just were very lucky to be awarded with this MVP in the category of cloud native means everything about containerization, everything about, let's say, application that scales, application that are elastic, application that are resilience and all of these kind of things. So I like Azure container apps so badly Kubernetes. So, and that's the abstraction that ACA puts on top of Kubernetes. I like also to, of course, all the CICD story how we can release those applications in a continuous way, security, something that I like. I love to have in general a big picture, an helicopter view on the Azure technology, but with a focus on applications. So cloud native application. Well, it's great. So, like, do you get into like the performance side? Do you work with customers that have built out solutions? Maybe they didn't architect it in the right way so they're having operational performance issues? Yeah, that's one of the side, but most of the time it's in two things. So creating new applications. So completely from scratch, we spoke kind of application. That's one case and the other one is application innovation or modernization. You know, there are a lot of different drivers why you want to move to the cloud or innovate, introduce innovate in your application in your company. So these are the two main tracks where I jump in. So a lot of those things are API platform that I'm looking at let's say mobile applications with sort of let's say scalable backend that is powering those let's say applications and solutions.  But, you know, like I started my cloud journey went to work for a startup in 2001 that had a it was a SAS software provider right in the early days because that that was a SAS as an acronym came out during the dot com era. So late 90s early 2000s. And the fact that we're still talking about a lot of that kind of digital transformation, the early days of Office 365 to Microsoft 365, you know, one of the reasons why these large customers were struggling to move over was because exactly we're talking they had built these on prem solutions. I mean, famously painfully, a lot of Lotus notes users that had built all of these, you know, domino applications. Yeah. I don't know if you ever worked in that space. Did you ever work with Lotus. Yes, I did. I mean, it's remember the old times in Italy when I started I started working in 19 2001. That was the time. And over there, or the first let's say seven years or eight years of my career, of course, cloud at least over there in Italy. It was non existing, right. So it was all the classic data center way sizing applications, putting machines and there were all the virtualization and all the things coming up. So, and Lotus was something that came up multiple times. So, and over there, we were doing enterprise application integration and Lotus was always involved. Yeah, well, and always ugly and just I'm sorry for if there's anybody that's still in that world as yeah there's no easy answer it's it was usually the answer was rebuild completely. There's no migration, I should say, there's, you know, in this up modernization stuff, you know, the rebuild is one of the main, the main way to go especially for security for compliance and all of these kinds of things. But of course, again, the, okay, I love technology so badly, I like all the new things. But of course we also have to stay real and we have to look at the value right so the value that the customer that we can bring to the customer. And now there is the pleasure of technology and then there is the reality that there is the enterprise and that's what the customer needs because otherwise we'll, yeah, it's not a kids game right. Yeah. I remember this is early on become I was I've been an MVP since 2012. And that was around 2013 2014. I got yelled at by a senior Microsoft sales person for scuttling a deal they were trying to put together, but I was closer to the customer. And my conversation with them is that their home built solution provided more functionality for more value that they should not upgrade they should not move for at least a couple more years because they were, it was the cost of moving and the reduced functionality was greater than the benefits of moving for the time being. Anyway, angry conversation. But again, it was like I kept positioning like I was interested in what's the right solution for the customer, not what is Microsoft what person's trying to hit their number. Exactly. That's how it should be. Even if, as I said, I really love this experiment new things and trying to understand the, the, the why behind the technology, the choice or the design, of course, we should always look at the value. So I think that I read a couple of days ago that linked in after all of, I don't know how many years they were planning to go to, to the cloud, let's say, now they decide to switch to stay the as is on data centers for sure. Their solution is, let's say, powered by the cloud, but cloud is not their major things, right? Of course, they are leveraging the clouds. Yeah, it's a private cloud. It's dedicated cloud private cloud. But yeah, for folks that aren't aware of that, it made news. Yeah, it was like a week or two ago. The fact that LinkedIn is not moving everything over to Azure. They're keeping it within their data centers they built out when they were a standalone company, at least for the time being. And again, that, yeah, that, that was not good PR for Microsoft.  They made the decision that was best for their customers for the performance and cost and all those things. It's not just a done deal moving to the cloud. It's not always cheaper. In general, going to the cloud, let's use a game that buzzword or whatever that up modernization or innovation is not an all in game. As you know, hybrid is still a huge reality in our customers. And then it's also one slice, one department, maybe it's on the cloud. I mean, it's extending their solution with cloud. The other department is more on premise or hybrid and then the integration realized the hybrid between the cloud only and the premises. So these kinds of things I see often with our customers. Right. Well, that's why you need to talk to people that, again, not salespeople that are just trying to hit their number, but the architects that actually understand, you know, what might be the right solution. For your company, your investments, maybe it's not even the most advanced features, but you need to let it play out and get the value out of what you've already spent before you can make that decision. I mean, that's that there's no wrong answer to that. I would argue to those companies that are looking at keeping some components on prem, whether it's true hybrid or not, at least to be piloting and be aware of don't fall behind and just being aware of what's out in the cloud, pilot something, some aspect of your business. So at least it'll make that future transition quicker because you're aware of what's out there. And that piloting things is where the clouds shine, right? So you have the capacity, the ability not capacity to fail fast, right? So you try out and then it doesn't work. It works. So you prepare yourself for the future or at least you evaluate that technology for the future. And then if it doesn't work, you know, the classic say things, CapEx versus OPEX, and that you can just try and no worries, experiment technology, and then you will be able to take a better decision, right? Well, there's usually a lot that you can do, even if you're, again, remaining on prem. I'm in the knowledge management space, share point space, and there's data cleanup that's always on to ongoing. It's just part of life. There's things that you can do. There's struct restructuring while remaining in your existing environments that will again make it a cleaner upgrade migration later. The classic example is the cloud native, or if you look at Kubernetes, per se. So there are tons of distributions that you can, let's say, configure, install, and run it in your own premise thing. This full cloud nativist follows the classic cloud native principles, all of them. But then you have all of that huge cost in complexity to maintain that kind of infrastructure, but per se, if any Kubernetes or whatever distribution certified distribution, if it's on premises or if you have your own AKS Google on Amazon at the end, the stock is the same, right? Yeah. Well, so Massimo, what was your path to becoming an MVP? I always like to ask that, like what's your origin story? How did you hear about the program? I think it's really an up and down, so just like a rollercoaster, but spread out a lot of years. So I just checked, to be honest, these things a couple of days ago when I wrote my first blog post and it was on 2007. So sometimes I go at my times in Italy, but yeah, at that time, after, let's say, 10 blog posts, something like this, I stopped and I moved to Belgium. I moved to Belgium in 2011. Over there, I discovered the passion for community. So I was, let's say, very active 20, between 2014, 2015. And then I took another break again because I was in consultancy business. So always, you know, hitting the car and other excuses that I can found. Yeah, I mean, we all know that. I mean, sometimes you get into a role that just sucks up all the oxygen, you're not able to do all the other stuff. And other times you find you've got more flexibility and there's nothing wrong with that. But when you're pursuing something, yeah. And then it comes back to 2023, where I just moved to, let's say, almost a full remote role. And then I had more time to write down, to experiment technology and things like this. At the same time, I, because I was remote, I had, I'm a very social guy, so I had the need to meet people. I want to stay in touch with community and things like this. And so I decided, okay, you know what, Massimo, let's start blog posting, writing blog posts seriously. So then I will use a blog post to find some session that I like. So then I can just give this session and being surrounded by people and talk about technology. So that's what I did. I said, okay, I will, I created my website. I said, okay, I will, I, my goal was to write around 40 blog posts per year. So I tried to, to, to have a goal and an unreachable goal so then I can settle with something a little bit less. So I end up with 21 or 22 or so. I don't recall a blog post in 2023. I did some four conferences and so on. And then, yes, at the end of the, of the year, I was talking with a Microsoft employee and we, we talked about MVP. There were nominations. I just prepared all of my keys and then I was surprised. It was so fast because in January, I got that wonderful email in my inbox because I have no clue that I didn't know that it was on January denomination. It would have been in February. Maybe I don't know when it happens. So new ones are added monthly. But I think they, I think Microsoft kind of took a break. There was a lot of people around the program, like in Q4 last year. And so I think there were some people added in October, maybe in November, but nothing in December. And, but yeah, so it's, and then it's, it's, it's, it's a black box to, to all of us, you know, how Microsoft's process and who they're looking for and which areas and which regions of the world but I was expecting the answer in three months. It came in the Christmas holiday. So I was not thinking at this. I would just focus on, on getting back to work and say, oh, that's a nice way to start. I mean, the new years. So that's how it worked. Well, congratulations again. I know it yet. It's exciting. It's, it's, you know, for again, folks that don't know the process. Microsoft handles the renewals every, you know, first week in July. So at the beginning of their fiscal year, which is July 1, then they they renew folks. So you can be added, you know, at the beginning of every month during the year. So it's, yeah, it's always a pleasant surprise. It's exciting to see like the mix of folks coming in and then, as I do I swoop I look and say, oh, hey, new MVP, somebody don't know. Get to know them say hello. I always ask, are you coming to the MVP summit. I am planning. I have a big dilemma. There is the MVP summit and the week after there is a QCon Europe. So I already have the tickets for the QCon. So, but I also want to experience these MVP summit mood and everything. The experience. Yeah. So yeah, I'm, I have this dilemma, but I will sort it out soon. I think I will be there. Well, congratulations for your 12 MVP. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I always tell new MVPs like the MVP summit, I think is the best of the perks of being an MVP because it's an opportunity to meet your peers from around the world, as well as the product teams, the engineering teams. You know, leadership across Microsoft, there's nothing like it. It's, it's a, I realize it's a short notice for you to be added. And it's a long journey and expensive journey, but hopefully, if not this year, next year, you'll be able to make it. Yes, it is. But I'm planning. I have a plan. So let's say at 70% I will be there. So I'm, I have to sort it out the last 30% and then see if there will be, you know, like the flight and all of those things. Well, I think I hope you make it out there. You know, and maybe I'll catch. I know it's with a couple thousand MVPs making it there to campus and all the Microsoft people. There's probably not a good chance that we'd see each other and being in different areas, but you never know. But Massimo, so for folks that want to connect with you, reach out to you, what are the best ways to reach you? Where are you most active in social? Yeah, I, I'm most active on LinkedIn. That's the platform I use the most. And also on Twitter, but I, I feel that I mean, a lot of things moved from Twitter to LinkedIn in the, in the latest years. So those are my two main channels. So Twitter and LinkedIn. Yeah, it's, it's still kind of the leading of the social platforms out there, although it's, you know, experienced a lot of change, but we'll make sure we'll have all of Massimo's connections out on the blog post on buckthieplanet.com, as well as out on YouTube and on the podcast. So Massimo really appreciate your time and getting to meet you. And again, congratulations. Thank you, Christian. And thank you again for having me with this in this nice chat. Thank you.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. U.S. elections will be held on November 3rd, and while much of the debate around the electoral process has been focused on the personalities of Republican Party candidate and incumbent President Donald Trump and his opponent from the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, very little attention has been paid to the pressing social and economic issues affecting millions of Americans. We are joined today by Ben Becker, the editor-in-chief of Breakthrough News in United States, to discuss some of these issues and what the candidates have to say about them. Thank you so much for joining us, Ben. Thanks for having me. So first, I just wanted to start off. We're now on, I think, month eight of the coronavirus pandemic. This pandemic has wreaked havoc on the United States society with unprecedented levels of unemployment, with rising poverty. People are really in a critical state in the U.S. right now. And so I was wondering if, in this context where we have these huge U.S. elections, one of the most expensive electoral campaigns in history, if you can kind of talk about the economic situation in the United States, what conditions are people facing right now in this moment? Yeah, absolutely. It's a tale of two Americas that we're seeing unfold before us. The stock market in a few months ago hit a new record high, and the billionaires have brought in an additional over $650 billion since the start of the pandemic. So while it's true that the people are suffering, not all people are suffering, and in fact it's been a big boom for those who own the majority of the corporate stocks in the country. And on the other side, it's the exact opposite. We're seeing people waiting in long lines for food. The poverty rate, as you said, has gone way up. The unemployment rate is officially gone down to 7.9 percent, but the unemployment rate is extremely deceptive. It doesn't count those who have stopped looking for work altogether. And if you have a very low paying, part-time job, even if you're looking for a full-time job, you're not considered unemployed. So the real number of unemployed, some estimate to be around $31 million, perhaps even up to $35 million, just in August and September alone, for instance, 1.1 million workers who dropped out of the workforce, which really means that they've given up. They have a life of such despair that they won't even be able to look for work and are just trying to survive through other means. They're not going to be counted as unemployed. By contrast, they said the economy added 600,000 jobs. So in other words, more workers dropped out of the workforce altogether than the number of jobs that were added. And notably, 80 percent of those who dropped out of the workforce altogether were women. And that's an aspect of this jobs crisis that is somewhat new. In the 2008 financial crisis, it was women who basically powered the recovery women workers. In this one, it's 80 to 5 percent are actually dropping out of the workforce altogether because they're dealing with the additional burdens, of course, of household labor and other things that are just making it impossible. And because women are concentrated in the economic sectors, whether it's the government or service work that have been deeply impacted by the crisis. And of course, if you don't have a job, you don't have money. And under capitalism, you need money for everything, especially in the United States. You need it for healthcare. You need to pay your bills.  You need it for food. So really an economic crisis or a jobs crisis is a full scale social crisis for tens of millions of workers. Yeah, definitely. And I think it's interesting to see in the wealthiest country in the world, the country that's boasted having one of the best recoveries of coronavirus. Obviously, the numbers don't speak that way. And at the same time, in the debates, the candidates are talking a lot about their heart position on China. They're boasting a lot about how they're going to get the country back on its feet. But what are the actual proposals that both Donald Trump from the Republican Party and Joe Biden from the Democratic Party are proposing to kind of pull the United States out of this deep economic crisis, a crisis of neoliberalism, a crisis of capitalism that has really been brewing for the last couple of years? I mean, you're talking about two arch capitalist candidates. So for them, they wouldn't even accept that there is a capitalist crisis or that there's something to be saved from. For them, this is sort of the way the economy has always worked. It's perhaps accelerated its basic inequality and features during this period. So I mean, to be honest, there is a difference. We couldn't say that there's no difference. Donald Trump basically has a program of a death march, just march everybody back to work. And that's really the proposal of large sectors of the capitalist class too. Get everyone back to work. People who have underlying conditions, comorbidities, older people are more likely to perish, young people won't die. It's basically a price worth paying for them in order to get the economy going again. They're even entertaining ridiculous unscientific ideas like herd immunity privately. They won't quite say it publicly, but really the Trump team is very seriously toying with these types of ideas. And you see it in terms of how they relate to the question of masks and other things that they really think that we should just rush the country back to work and whoever dies dies. The Biden camp does have a different proposal. And for instance, it's to have lots of stimulus, government payments, especially to state and local governments, which would make a big difference in terms of alleviating some of the situation. But they haven't really taken on the core aspects of the policy, which would be necessary to really stop the suffering. And that would be, for instance, to cancel rents and other payments for basic utilities, cancel the debt payments to get full paycheck protection. The government has so much money when it comes to the military, when it comes to bailouts. I mean, they just opened up the spigots and let all the money flow to the biggest banks within two weeks of the pandemic. There's nothing like that for the working class. There's been one $1,200 check. There's been very little to small businesses. Half a million small businesses have gone under during the pandemic. A lot of them are barely hanging on. And if they don't do well during this sort of holiday season, they're going to lay off lots more workers. So the scale of the problem is not being met by either candidate. I think to meet the scale of the problem, you'd have to infringe on the rights of capital. You'd have to infringe on the rights of property. You'd have to tell the landlords, you cannot expel anyone from their houses. You cannot evict them. You'd have to tell employers that you can't lay people off. But if you don't, and you'd have to tell insurance companies, you have to cover people. I think it's probably astonishing if people are around the world. But in the United States, millions and millions of people have lost their healthcare coverage during the pandemic. And one million healthcare workers have been laid off during the pandemic. So this is the anarchy of our economic system, which is on full display. And while some stimulus checks, which is what Biden and the Democrats are proposing, would be very much welcome by millions of people, they would really just be a temporary solve and wouldn't solve the problem. Yeah. And something you mentioned just now is kind of the looming eviction. So a lot of people are saying, yeah, this is the most important elections of our lifetime. November is going to be decisive. And for a lot of people, these coming months are going to be really decisive. We're seeing in a lot of cities, the more eviction moratoriums that had been in place since the start of the pandemic are starting to be lifted. Much of the country is entering into winter, the colder months. And so this is a really could be a really dire situation. I was wondering if you could comment on what are the struggles against evictions looking like and have any of the candidates commented on this crisis? Well, interestingly, Donald Trump stole a march on the Democratic Party a little over a month ago when he called via the CDC from a public health standpoint to put a ban on evictions. And this actually did have some impact because it was from the federal government and an executive order using a federal agency saying not to evict people at least until January. And that was welcome because there for many months, people were thinking that all these as you said local and state level eviction moratoriums were going to expire. And under all these rules, it's very important that everyone understand your rent is still owed. It's not a jubilee or amnesty from your from your what you owe the landlord. It just accumulates. And so when these moratoriums were to expire, it means you'd owe somehow four or $5,000 for the previous four months or sometimes $10,000, depending on what your rent is. And if you're laid off or if you're underemployed, that's completely impossible. I mean, even before the pandemic, 140 million people in this country were in or near poverty. 50% of people didn't have $500 in there, you know, they couldn't they couldn't find $500 for an emergency. So imagine $5,000 or $10,000 being owed to the landlord. So many of these big landlords have just been waiting for these policies to expire so they can begin evicting people in a large, large number. Right now, there aren't unexpected 40 million people, 40 million families really, that means that are potentially at risk of eviction. And already Trump did this thing, I think for the campaign to basically say, look, I care about people who are who are low income. But then when you got into the details of it, immediately all the landlord lobbies started saying, well, what about this exception? And what about this? And you had to be able to prove that you were laid off during the pandemic, and that you were financially impacted in order to access the ban. So in all the details, you know, they say the devil is in the details. In all the details, these moratoria have not have not really been as substantial as people need. And already evictions are beginning in the last six weeks, there have been 10,000 evictions across just five states in the south. And with the winter coming, and with the campaign ending, you know, it could be that everyone's going to be focused on that. And then the landlords who ultimately just care about their bottom line start evicting people in huge numbers. It's going to be a big crisis. There's a lot of organizing that's happening around the country. People are going into eviction courts to protest. People are physically like linking arms and stopping the eviction. Sometimes people are moving people's furniture back into their homes if it's been taken out. A lot of grassroots organizing.  We need a policy that says there will be no more evictions and that there for the course of the pandemic, rents will not accumulate. Yeah. And I think, I mean, next week, not sure when, but we'll probably have some sort of results by the end of the week about who's going to be present president. We're just wondering, I mean, either way, if Biden wins, if Trump wins, what is the way forward for working class organizations in the United States? What is the struggle going to look like for the next coming months as we kind of end or maybe a second wave or the continuation of the first wave that never ended the coronavirus pandemic? What are the kind of focuses of organizing right now in the U.S.? Yeah, the difficulty in the United States is that while left wing and sort of radical proposals, including some of the ones that I said just now, would actually be quite popular among a majority of the population. There's no political expression in the major political institution for that kind of program. So we have the Democratic Party, which is a center right neoliberal party. And then we have a far right, sometimes neoliberal, sometimes semi-populist, racist, xenophobic party with the Republicans. And so a lot of people, because they consider that the greater evil, are voting for Joe Biden, really not because they have any enthusiasm for Joe Biden. Just they have a special hatred for the Republican Party. And the way the political system has been chopped up, it's very hard for a third force to emerge. But I think that is what's desperately needed. And I think that if Biden, for instance, were to win, there would have to be a major social struggle from below to fight for, for instance, universal health care, for jobs, for a guaranteed income. All the basic things that the working class needs, it cannot assume that these things will be given by a Biden administration. Quite to the contrary. He's been in Washington, as Trump says, for 47 years. He was the vice president under Obama on the issues of imperialism when it comes to the way that both parties view China, whether they both view Latin America, the Middle East, they're equally complicit and partners in really a shared foreign policy. So I think the people around the world in social movements undoubtedly are thinking, whether it's Biden or Trump, we have to prepare for a struggle. And I think for the movements in the United States, frankly, we have to think about it the same way. I mean, the struggle will look different depending on who the president is and the demands might be different. But it's going to be a big social struggle that's necessary. This past summer, there's reasons for hope for that. This past summer, there were 25, 30 million people who were protesting during the course of the summer. They weren't protesting for Biden. They weren't protesting just against Trump. They were protesting because they want to change to the system, a change to racism, a change to economic inequality. And those people haven't gone anywhere. They're voting now for candidates who don't really express their true politics, but those true politics and those true feelings are going to remain even after the election. I do think the coming months are going to be extremely chaotic. Unless Biden wins in a landslide, we could have an almost unprecedented political crisis where we have courts up to the Supreme Court basically deciding what ballots are going to be counted. We could have mobilizations from the military, from the police, from far-right militias. It could be a very turbulent time that we're going in. I do think that activists are having to prepare for that as well, where we want to both defend democracy and defend people's right to vote without just becoming champions of this or that capitalist candidate. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And I think we'll be staying tuned to the U.S. elections following the coverage of Breakthrough News and hoping for the best outcome in a very challenging scenario. So thank you so much for joining us, Ben. Thanks for having me.


Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. First of all, what update can you give us on contract talks for Anthony Gordon, Alex Awobi and Jordan Pickford? How close to agreement with any of them are you? Close. That's the update for you. All good. What more can you say? Can you expand on it at all? No, no, we've got hopefully a situation where we want the players to stay and they want to stay here. It's always been a feeling so we're very close. Dominic Calvert-Lewin, how likely will he to be involved against Wolves and also Andrews Townsend? How close to a return is he at the moment? Dominic, he's going to be tight Wolves. He's going to be training over the next couple of days, trying to push him a bit for match fitness. The injury feels good, which is the best news. The last thing he'll want to do is go too soon with him for match fitness. That's the question mark over Wolves with Dominic. We've got a lot of games coming up so we have to be clear. With Andrews, he had a bit of a setback so he's not going to be ready for these next batch of games. Apart from that, take it no new injury concerns within the squad? No. Just looking at the potential transfer window coming up. Just wondering, Conor Coley, could his move become permanent in that window? Decor is being linked with Fulham and Forrest. Could he move on? And also what scope is there for you to bring in players? Notably, obviously we look at it and say you would maybe like to bring in a forward option. I don't want to talk about players leaving off the back of newspaper reports. I think that's just a bit lightweight. We've got our squad. We're working towards Wolves. Conor has been brilliant since he's been here in every possible way. We would love to make that permanent at some point, but that's not happening right now, but we'll keep looking at that one. The January window, we want to help the squad. We want to have more options in forward areas. If the right players become available in those areas, then we have to try and improve. Particularly where we've had Dominic injured a big part of the season, I think there's been an area where we know we want more. But we have to be smart. Our situation is clear. Some other clubs are making moves in their own ways. We have to be also smart about how we do it, and more than that, concentrate on what we have in the building. The players that we have are much prepared to fight and play well and improve every day. That's my main concern, but yes, for sure, when the window opens, we'll be looking to improve where we can. Absolutely no, Conor can't play against his parent club. It's parent club easy for me to say. But I just wonder how Conor is, how Jordan is after the World Cup, how ready they are physically and mentally to play. How beneficial was the break for yourself for the players who didn't go to the World Cup? Jordan and Conor are great because they're low maintenance and they would have hurt to leave the tournament. I think the whole nation did because we felt we were going well and they're in the bubble and I know what it's like. There's not much of a worse feeling in that moment. Maybe the beauty of this tournament being in the winter is that they come straight back in. The Premier League is a beautiful thing as well. They come back to their clubs. They know how high we regard them in their own ways and obviously Conor can't play this game. But they've come back with really good attitude. The break for me has been a good one. I've personally enjoyed it. When I speak for myself, hopefully I speak for the players in terms of we went to Australia, we had a good trip. We won a couple of games. We saw our fan base out there. We then had a break from training, which was really good for everyone. Then we've been working hard on things that we know we can improve on generally and particularly off the way we finished in the two games against Bournemouth. Before that, I think we were making really good strides in a lot of ways, but people's minds can obviously get drawn to those games that we have to think bigger than that and just keep working. When you're preparing to face walls, what are you looking at particularly with a new manager in charge and not an awful lot of information to go on as to how they're going to set up against you? Some basics are probably attributes that wolves have anyway, good players, very good players for their team. We look at all of those parts and then the manager, how he's worked before. I've gone up against him in Chelsea and Seville before, a very, very good manager. A lot of respect for his team and the way they set up then. I know just as a manager that when you come into a different group of players doesn't mean that you always play the same system, the same way as you play somewhere else, because you always be compromises and changes. So that's probably a little bit of a challenge for us, but if that helps us maybe focus on ourselves a little bit more, then that's not the worst thing. Frank, just away from the game, obviously sad news today about George Cohen. I just wanted to get your thoughts because I'd imagine you'd come across him quite a bit in the London football scene. I actually didn't, but I'm very aware of him and I know he's a fantastic career as one of the men that won the World Cup, he's a career at Fulham. I have such high regard. I grew up on stories of a young West Ham fan, man of the greats, Bobby Moore, Jeff Hirt, Mike and Peter. I'm always drawn to that group of players and it's always more than a shame when we lose one of those players. Every player I met out of that generation, that squad, were gentlemen and very humble about their achievements and the way how fast and modern days go in. It makes it even more sad to lose players and people of that sort of size, personality-wise. I think it's going to be 45 days since your last play. It's such a strange situation. What challenges does that prove to you as a coach? Can you see it as a new start, as a fresh sheet of paper? There's been certain challenges in terms of scheduling and the workload and it's staggered slightly for different players. But I don't think it's the worst. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think freshness sometimes of mind and having a break is a good thing. We forever talk about how busy our schedule is and when something comes a break to schedule, maybe you can use it in a positive way in a sense. So I think we've done that. I think there have been challenges but I hope to see a team that runs out with a freshness about them and an energy and a fitness as a basic point. I don't think we need a fresh start necessarily. A nice break, some freshness in us but we know what all the targets are. We know the games that are ahead of us, same as what we did before the break, we want to win them. How important is the Goodison factor going to be, not just on Boxing Day but for the rest of the season? I think only United and Newcastle have conceded fewer goals at home. So how important is Goodison going to be? Well it always has been and always will be. For sure in my time here we've had some incredible results at Goodison and that's been because of the joining of player performance and fans joining in and creating this atmosphere that Goodison's had through history basically. So it's a big deal for us and it gives us strength, it gives us confidence. Boxing Day is always a tough game because of the time of year it is and the honest will be on us, myself and the players to inject the energy and engage the crowd as always and if we can do that then it's always a big strength of ours. You've been involved in Boxing Day football, festive football, pretty much your whole life I guess. Is it different? Is the atmosphere slightly different? Yeah it can be, it can be. I won't speak for all the games but it can be, we're all humans I think if you spend the day sometimes eating a lot maybe having some drinks with your family like those things. I think naturally it can bring something about it and this is everywhere across the board but it's also a great tradition and game in our calendar that not many teams around the world do or leagues around the world do so I'm not talking it down as I say. If it's a challenge for us to start the game well or to inject energy into it and intensity then that's not a problem. Thank you. Hi Frank, because of the injury to Dominic and his problems Neil Mopay has bored the brunt of being the focal point for much of Everton's front play. Has the period in Australia and what you've had since given you a period of greater adaption if you like to bring the best out of him because quite often it seems in matches he gets the same sort of service that Dominic gets and the very different players? I'm not sure that last point is exact but I think we definitely have appreciated the time to work with the different style that Neil has in the team. We can't hit longer balls into Neil as we can to Dom and be able to change up that variety of the game but we can use Neil to different strengths that he has. We've worked more on a team to be fair as a group because I think off the back of Bournemouth it was 50% down at least as a team in terms of our performance and that can happen. I think all good teams and we're trying to become a better team from where we were striver consistency. So when you look at Crystal Palace going back home and you look at Bournemouth they look very different and that's the work absolutely not just for Neil but for the whole team. And we also have to understand that when you lose a striker of Dominic's abilities and quality for a team like us it's a huge deal. You've only got to look at prolific number 9s through this league and what they do to their teams that they make or break you at different times. So we have to understand that as well and work round it to try and do as well as we can. I noticed some comments from Anthony Gordon I think it was after the first game in Australia where he was talking about that he really enjoyed the game, the performance. He felt it was a lot more like the best that he can do. Obviously the levels are different but he was making the point he didn't think he'd been as near as the mark as he should have done in the first part of the season. Lots of different reasons possibly for that but do you get the feeling that Anthony is ready to reach his top levels now? Yeah I do and he's a young player so I think with young players, particularly offensive players and wingers who break onto the scene, I think we have to give some leeway to times where they might have periods where they're not as productive or they're learning the roles or trying to improve or defenders or understanding what they want to do to them and have to change their game a bit. I think there's that and then there's the areas in the game where the player has to improve and wants to work to improve. What I've seen in Anthony in this period in Australia when we're back and it culminated with his performance against Villa behind closed doors this week with a real intensity and energy and an understanding of the role that we wanted to play in the team. I've been quite big in communicating that to him from the beginning but particularly in this break so I'm looking forward to see his performances. Because goals have been at a premium recently and the importance of goals to win matches, you've made a few tweaks with maybe Alex Iwobi on occasion playing further forward and Anana similarly. Do you think that's how there's been a possible negative to that in as much as having looked as solid in some of the games noticeably not born with but against Leicester when possession was getting given away an awful lot? Yeah, I didn't feel it so much in the Leicester game. I think Leicester scored a very good team and Tillamon scored a goal that nobody would stop in the world or would see coming. And then when we opened up in the second half they scored a counter-attack in goal but I thought in a lot of parts of our performances and our opportunities to score in that game meant it was a close game. Bournemouth wasn't. It was how we do not want to play and a lot of basics were not right in that game. And as I say, a team in our position I think it can happen. The important thing is that you address it quickly. I haven't changed position with certain players with an idea too that will help us score more goals necessarily. One of the facts about our team in the top area of the pitch is that there's not a history of scoring a lot of goals so that's where we're in development and have to get better. And sometimes you don't just click your fingers and that happens, you have to really work towards it. So everyone has to take a bit of responsibility for that one but what we have seen of ourselves in the first half of the season, if you take out those Bournemouth games, particularly the league game, is a solidity in us in our game that was a big improvement on last year and we saw lots of games and we saw improvements and at times we haven't had that threat at the top end of the pitch or that clinical nature. It's allowed games to maybe swing against us or become difficult less is a great example because we had the two best chances of the game. So we want to keep working on that. Some of that will be what we do here, that's the first part as I said before. Some of that will be what can we do to bring into the club to help us in the area of the pitch. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks Mike. Any further questions in the open section? Will, we'll go and see you next. Hi Frank, just wanted to ask overall about the financial situation I think when you said in the summer you knew it was a big thing, it was after the Palace game, it was a big thing, the financial situation of the club. So heading into January, isn't it looking a lot better and do you think it will affect recruitment in terms of maybe having to compromise on play as you want in terms of maybe structuring deals, extractor or transfer fees? Yeah maybe, that's a difficult question for me to answer financially, the numbers and economics are not really for me to sit here and go through that one. Does it affect you? Yes we have to be sensible and I think some of the things before I was here I think we look back and I think as a club we want to move in the right direction and when people spoke about the summer wind everyone was getting out of this, getting out of that. Firstly you've got the budget to do it, secondly you have to believe that that player will help your team now will help grow as an Everton player, is the right mentality, is an Everton player, all these things come into the account. So we have to be smart and try and work in a smart way. I don't think that's changed from where we were in the last window. We'll do our best, what we do have is a very joined up idea of myself and Kevin and the board of where we want to get to. So we'll do our best but what we don't want to do and I don't want to do is bring in players that are not going to help improve us, that are going to sit in the squad and not help improve us and then you can have different issues within the squad for that. So that's the position we're in and that's why I always believed that we had a good summer window but it will need hopefully a good January window and then a good summer window and a period of time to try and get us aware. I think there are lots of examples of teams that are trying to transition out of a period where they feel like they've fallen down and they want to get back to where they want to be and it very rarely happens overnight. So we have to be sensible in that fact and not try and make mistakes as we try and move up the ladder again. Just come back to Jordan Pickford. He's obviously got just over 18 months on his deal. He's just finished joint top clean sheet in the world cup. He's been around players who have been playing the Champions League, etc. He's 28 now. Do you feel that Everton can match Jordan Pickford's ambitions in terms of maybe wanting to go on to the next level playing the Champions League? I like a lot of his England team-mates are doing that. I feel we can because I don't think it's straightforward to look at any individual and understand what their ambitions are. Jordan is England's number one and has secured that position relatively which has been an amazing achievement by him because we know how difficult that is. He's played in Everton and been a huge reason why we had a great run to the end of last season and stayed in the league. Jordan everybody knows was a massive part of that. Jordan feels very happy being at this club. I don't want to speak for him but that's the impression that I get for him. So I don't think it's as simple as that. I like to think that he's very happy here.  Having been a player myself, maybe I was fortunate enough to play Champions League a lot but when I felt comfortable at a club, I came in with a smile on my face every day and I looked forward to every game that came up whether it be Premier League, Caramel Cup, wasn't that then? Champions League, whatever. If Jordan feels like that and we can match each other's ambitions in terms of getting him to stay longer, I don't see that as a problem.


What's the word, y'all? I'm still trying to process what the hell I just watched in the game of basketball. Luca has 60 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists. His team was down by nine points with 30 seconds to go and they won. Undoubtedly, you just experienced one of the greatest individual games in the history of basketball. Think about that. The league been around for 75 years. You and I, on this random day in the end of December, just experienced one of the greatest games ever. And if you're strictly going on game score, which is a way to try to figure out what is the best individual games of all times, you're strictly looking at box score. This is the sixth greatest game in the history. But I would argue that it's higher than that when you consider, again, that they were down by nine points and 30 seconds to go, that this man intentionally missed a free throw, got his own board, and within a matter of a half a second, put it up on the board to send it into overtime. Man, Luca Dantzis is on a whole other level. I was watching this game and I made a decision about in the third quarter that no matter what happened in this game, this video was going to be around Luca Dantzis in the Dallas Mavericks. But in that moment, the vibes of that video were completely different. Luca had 50 points at one point and y'all was down by double digits. The name of this video is about to be get Luca help ASAP by any means necessary. And yeah, he still needs help because it took a 60 point triple double to beat a team that was missing Jalen Brunson and all-star caliber player and missing RJ Beard, who over the last month can't miss a shot. So it took almost everything to get this random win. But we can put the get Luca Dantzis help talk to the end while we just sit here and admire the performance that we just got from this guy. Any guys, I always had a conversation of what differentiates just a normal all-star caliber player from a superstar caliber player and what differentiates a Hall of Famer from one of the greatest of all time. And one thing we always get back to is taking whatever the defense gives you and making the most of it. And that's what Luca has done throughout his entire career but it was on full display today versus the Knicks. Opened up against Quinn Grimes. Quinn Grimes had a great game in his own right. He had a career hide night, shout out to Q Grimes. But it was rough on the defensive side of the ball and that's not nothing against Q because I thought he's playing good defense. But Luca, being Luca, took everything the defense gave him. These guys in the NBA just are like super computers. We're like, if we're running the pick and roll and the big man is helping up, I'm throwing that lob that's easy. I think it was the white power literally one time. I think the white power ended today with two points and 30 plus minutes of basketball but it's either it's Christian Wood on the road easily. If the weak side man is helping, I'm gonna find his player and throw him. I mean, he had 10 assists today but I promise you he generated a lot more open shots than that. Like I said, this video is gonna be getting Luca some help because those boys just breaking those shots.  It was Miles McBride, he's too little. I'm gonna take him to the post. I'm gonna use my size and I'm gonna shoot over him. Oh, it's Julius Randall. I'm gonna get physical with Julius Randall who's one of the more physical players in all the basketball and get to the basket and finish over him. And this was one of the wands, bro. This is one of the wands. They're down by eight points. There are six seconds. This possession starts for us with six seconds on the clock. Look where Luca is at and look what he does. By the time he puts the ball on the floor, it's 4.8 seconds on the shot clock, right? Here's a screen from Christian Wood.  High off glass, over one of the better shot blockers in all the basketball, it doesn't matter. With 4.8 seconds, he had the pacing to get to the basket and finish high off glass. I actually really like this set if you wanna call it that or play. I don't know, I get those words mixed up. This is a couple of possessions after what we just saw with Mitch Robinson being in drop and him throwing it high off glass, right? Similar thing, pick and roll, but this time Reggie Bullock is coming up. So this is a screen from Dwight Powell. And Dwight Powell's also gonna set a screen for Reggie. And Reggie's gonna get an opportunity to be open. But look, look at this one little move. Can I slow down the speed here?  Luca does his little hesitation. This little hesitation, let me rewind it just briefly.  And now, because two possessors ago, this man Luca went super high off glass, this man Mitch Robinson thinking the same thing as happening, but instead it is a lob to Dwight to get him, I think again, his only two point. I know this is back to Dwight, but I think that was his only two points of the game. And I know the shot that sends to overtime is ridiculous, right?  But he just did something very similar to that a couple of possessions before. 20 seconds on the clock, they're down by six. We get a deep shot from Tim Hardaway, Jr. Miss, but here comes Luca, same thing, cleaning up the offensive glass, having the hand-eye coordination to put it up and one from Luca. The crowd is going crazy. This kid is 23 years old, y'all. And after a game like yesterday, and I guess we've had this conversation for the last couple of seasons of Luca's career, how good will he get and how high can he end up on the all-time player list? He's 23 years old and he's been to the playoffs three different occasions. And he has been stellar in every single one. I know in the first two, they couldn't get out of the first round, but that wasn't because of him. Game-winning shot versus the Clippers in game three or four. I don't remember exactly which one. Game-winning shot in his very first playoff series. He's 20 years old, looking at Kawhi and Paul George. Kawhi one of the greatest, perimeter defenders of all time. Paul George was in the defensive play of their conversations a year before this season. Looked him straight in the eyes and gave him a 40-point game in a game winner in the playoff series. The year after that, they draw the Clippers again. Unlucky they end up losing this series, but it wasn't through the fault of Luka Dončić. Continuously given 35-point games, 40-point games in the playoffs versus some of the best defensive teams. And that you know just last season, he led this team to the Eastern Conference Finals after missing the first couple of games of the entire playoffs. That's how J. LaBrosa got his back. Shout out to J. LaBrosa. But this man has given us great MVP caliber performances in the regular season and in the postseason.  It typically takes players a little while to get to the point where Luka is at right now. He's arguably the top three player in basketball at 23 years old. So how good can it get? And this is why everybody's having a conversation about Luka Dončić and about the Dallas Mavericks ability to make the team better around him. Because if you have this dude who's on the trajectory to being not just a Hall of Famer, but at all time great, we need to maximize all the things Luka Dončić before it is too late. And too late for the Dallas Mavericks could be any time. At this moment, we don't know what Luka is thinking, but we've seen the clips of him going out and having 35 point triple doubles and then they're losing and his teammates are trying to get him half fast.  So when or how will the Dallas Mavericks maximize Luka Dončić to the point where he is in championship contention? Because last year, they got to the conference finals. They overachieved. They undoubtedly overachieved. So you can't look at them get into the conference finals last season and say, hey, every single season, we have a chance to win a championship because I don't think that's true. As good of a talent as Luka Dončić is, he's gonna need help. And I would argue outside of them not getting him a real secondary co-star, they've done an okay job. Obviously, you don't get to the conference finals by having a terrible roster, but they've done an okay job putting great defensive players, good 3 and D guys around him, but there needs to be more. How do they get more? Who is that more? I'm not completely sure, but a performance like tonight where it takes Luka Dončić playing literally every minute of the second half in overtime. I think he's set for 12 seconds in a random December game against the Knicks that were missing Jalen Brunson and RJ Beard. It took all of that for you to win. And that just shows that you need a little bit more help. I said on Christmas that I'm only narrowing down my MVP candidates to top five until further notice. And Luka Dončić is in that top five.  I don't know, bro. Cause yesterday I know that the 76ers lost, but Jalen Beard had amazed it before. Actually, can I talk about that just for a quick second? Luka just had a top five performance of all time. Of all time. Drew Hanlin, who's Hanlin, who's one of the top NBA skill coaches in basketball, said Luka was incredible tonight and has been all season, so fun to watch. But anytime you put in a butt on something that's all time is crazy. But to show how biased the media is, here are some facts. Jalen Beard's average of more points, more rebounds, more blocks, higher field goal percents, higher free throw percents, it seems a better record than Luka. Why? Why? Why? Jalen Beard will get his flowers. Today is a Luka Dončić day. Did you watch that game? Did you watch? Cause a couple of weeks ago when Jalen Beard put up 54 points and however many rebounds and assists, he had his nine on Twitter too. Come on, man. And I know Nbedas' guy. He's one of Nbedas' trainers. He loves Nbedas, one of his best friends. All of his tweet is Nbedas and Jason Zeta. Maybe he's Jason Zeta. But you have to read the room, bro. You have to. I don't know how we can take an all-time performance from one player and be like, but are you watching this other dude this season? Nbedas in MVP conversations, bro. He is. I don't know what else you want. I guess you want us to do what you're doing right now. Luka was great today, 60-20 in TM. But did you see Jalen Beard on Christmas? You see him tonight against the Wizards where he had 40 points, even though they lost, like you have to, every single day we, as basketball enjoyers, shout out to the news, let the link is in the description. They had a good piece about Luka Dasha today. As basketball enjoyers, everything is static. One day it could be a shade day. Shay hits a game winner. He had 40 points. It's shade day. It was Jalen B day. And today is Luka day because he puts together an all-time performance. I don't think this is media bias here. I'm not a bias guy. And here I am making a Luka video. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Luka Dasha. Shout out to you for watching this video. Leave a like, subscribe. Hit the link in the description to subscribe to the newsletter. We're trying to get to 50,000 readers. And we can't do that if you don't hit the link in the description, baby.


Mr. behaved, excellence is distinguished delegates, ladies and gentleman, it is an honor to welcome you to the 109th session of the Council. I welcome you on behalf of all our colleagues around the world in IOM and thank you for taking the time from your busy schedules to join us today here in Geneva. Seveda milliona prezettistih do prednjih vso prezett. Kaj pa se spacesfrijezovo Omskog silaga, z k Sach파, Nr. Juan Eduardo Egüguren, da je z njega vkaj, in da se prišlo za njih razovit'. Se vzelim vizoranje – v njih veliko propovodnih membrenosnyv, iom, Poz. B. nekaj K. Negas Collomb, njih povodnje, in dnevno, čepersen, Morten Jespersen, embassader Evan Garcia, in češnja repozerva, embassader Sokogo Florezliere, z Mexico. Vespoj sem da je tudi dopovo, češnja repozerva, republiku Izbekistanu in svojimi repozervami. Vzpečenje občaj je vzelo, z kvalitaj za mojšči, But both within the U.N. system and for IOM itself. IOM is giving meaning to its new, closer relationship with United Nations, in line with Council Resolution 1309, just as landmark reform of the overall system brings stronger country-level coordination to development support from all agencies. As I take my responsibilities as SDG I am cognizant of the various responsibilities in izvajati in povoljali, da je oziroma ljudi. In se je zelo obradi, da povoljali, in da se povoljali taj nekaj dojav. V poštih večjih, mnogo nosimo vse in jazem bolj v Marrakeš, da je vsega prodiža čično všednost vsega in regova migracije. Prostavno vsega vsega je, da je mladost in vsega, vsega začeli, ki se vsega vsega polega vsega, na vse, da je zelo pravdješnje, da je vse. Profesije zelo priježene z roli, kako je zelo vse, kaj je vse izgleda, vse v 2015 roli je zelo priježeno, in ni so zelo vse zelo po ključenju, da je vse vse vse zelo, jazim vse, vse, malo zelo priježeno za kooprišnju. Podle površenju, zelo priježenje, IOM has grown substantially and matured into a global leader. But size alone does not determine the strength of an organization. It is the commitment and skills of its staff that has enabled IOM to respond to complex emergencies, provide advice to governments on diverse issues, including labor migration, integrated border management and diaspora engagement, and underpin interstate dialogue, helping to foster greater space for common ground. As this is my first IOM council, I will not attempt to undertake an extensive report of the organization's activities for which I cannot yet claim credit. Instead, I would like to use this time to reflect on the breadth and scope of IOM's work, highlighting some critical areas of action. I would also like to offer some thoughts on the landscape in which IOM will find itself in the coming years, our best to consolidate and reinforce IOM's strengths and set out some broad strategic directions. Migrants are at the heart of IOM's work, particularly those who find themselves vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse. IOM has offered support to migrants in numerous tangible ways. The organization has undertaken health assessments for refugees awaiting resettlement, migrants applying for various types of visa and returnies under assisted voluntary return programs. IOM has placed increasing focus on the sustainability of the reintegration process with the aim of reducing the vulnerability of those returned. To bring this service together in a more coherent manner, IOM is developing a range of migrant support mechanisms focused on offering a range of integrated tailored services for visa applications to training assistance. IOM has worked with dozens of governments throughout 2018 to review and support the integration of international standards into national policy frameworks, as well as their implementation. This includes training of officers, roundtable discussions and sometimes one-on-one discussions. For example, IOM invests in a range of counter-trafficking initiatives from prevention programming to direct assisting assistance training people from all sectors. Indeed, IOM has specifically developed guidelines on how businesses can protect and assist victims of exploitation. The organization also works individually with governments to improve the situation of those in detention and to ensure critical access to health care. As it grows, the organization is taking steps to systematize this type of support. This year, IOM produced the end book and toolkit on unaccompanied miners and separated children and launched an institutional framework for addressing gender-based violences in crisis. Gender mainstreaming remains a priority for the organization with a significant increase in the number of IOM offices introducing a gender perspective into their projects, ensuring that women's voices and needs are incorporated into all phases of a project. In working so closely with migrants and civil society groups, IOM takes its own responsibilities very seriously. It has committed to UN-wide policies on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse by its staff, conducting in-house training while hosting trainings for other actors in the field. IOM is also piloting a framework to improve its accountability to affected populations involving stakeholders and beneficiaries in the decision-making process. The migration landscape has been characterized by a series of crises in the very recent years. The large-scale movements of people driven by diverse motivations have posed a political as well as humanitarian challenge to states. In 2018, IOM has responded to a number of urgent complex situations working in cooperation with other actors to ensure basic immediate support for those affected while working towards more durable outcomes. Mounting numbers of Venezuelans have moved to neighboring countries, a dynamic that has accelerated in recent months. The situation as I lighted, the need for and benefits for of close cooperation between IOM and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Together, and the leadership of Eduardo Stein, joint representative for refugees and migrants from Venezuela, the two agencies are working with regional governments alongside the broader alliance of agencies, civil society and face-based organizations to ensure a coordination and effective response. The continued openness and commitment of countries in the South American region and their willingness to offer various forms of status for new arrivals should be, I believe, commanded and further strengthened by states beyond the region. The situation in Libya remains a source of deep concern and distress, particularly regarding the significant number of migrants and refugees still trapped in detention. IOM has provided voluntary humanitarian return to nearly 15,000 migrants in Libya so far in 2018, including to Nigeria, Mali and Niger. But the situation remains fiddlishly complex. It is impossible to desegurgate instability in Libya from instability across West and Central Africa. The broader challenge of maritime migration across the Mediterranean and the political and practical responses to mixed migration within the European Union. IOM must work with all states to reduce uncertainty and suffering amongst the migration population while recognizing that these are symptoms of a deeper vacuum of governance that urgently needs to be addressed. Yemen has become one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world, affecting all populations, including migrants. It is an example of an enduring challenges faced by the international community in delivering effective humanitarian action. IOM is an active partner alongside other agencies, programs and funds, and is offering direct assistance to those internally displaced by conflict, as well as support to the many migrants transiting Yemen. More than 7,000 migrants journey across the Red Sea in each mouth to Yemen, many of whom are subjected to various forms of abuse and exploitation. Indeed, this week at the moment I'm speaking, IOM is conducting a delicate operation of extracting several hundred Ethiopian nationals from Yemen and support their return and reintegration. The State of Rohingya refugees, hosted by Bangladesh in Cox Bazaar, continues to be a priority for IOM and the organization has established a comprehensive response offering support in a wide range of areas from water and sanitation to prevention of trafficking and exploitation of young girls at risk. This population is also particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, such as early rains, cyclans and monsoons. As a result, IOM has invested in upgrading shelter to reduce the impact of these events on overcrowded populations. While IOM has the capacity to generate quick, life-saving responses to emergencies and disaster, it also recognizes the need to improve pre-antive action. IOM contributes to reducing the risk of disaster, helping states implement the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, and investing in crisis preparedness from camp management and camp coordination to improving on the ground real-time information on displacement and population mobility through the displacement tracking metrics. IOM provides rapid relief to address the most acute humanitarian needs while at the same time developing transition and recovery programs to address the longer-term impacts and drivers of vulnerability. This generates trust, stability and legitimacy, not least by placing communities at the art of programming. In Bangladesh, for example, IOM is already developing stabilization programming in the region alongside critical humanitarian support. This approach forms parts of IOM's commitment to strengthen the humanitarian development and peace nexus, and places particular focus on marginalized population, such as ex-combatants, refugees, and internally displaced people. The relationship between mobility and development outcomes is complex and deeply dependent on context. Economic roles may motivate individuals to move, just as the absence of livelihood opportunity can push immigration. But still more people lack the means to move, even when circumstances become dire. IOM is one of the agencies with the widest reach with respect to internally displaced populations in terms of both operational scope and financial resources. People may be displaced for a broad range of reasons, notably conflict, but also environmental disasters such as floods and droughts. In addition to meeting humanitarian needs, helping IDPs access basic services, sustainable employment, and livelihoods are a critical part of this work. When faced with multiple complex crisis situations, it is sometimes art to take the long view. IOM believes that just as sustainable development policy can determine migration patterns, migration can also contribute to stronger development outcomes, whether through remittance contributions, skills transfers, and return migration. But these benefits are not guaranteed and will only be realized with strong policies and institutional frameworks. This year, IOM has been developing a strategy on migration and sustainable development, designed to hardware migration into the implementation of the 20th certain agenda and ensure that no one is left behind. In addition, over the past five years, the need to bring environmental concerns into migration policymaking and vice versa has become a significant policy issue for IOM. IOM's dedicated unit on migration and climate change has become central to a number of interagency and multilateral partnerships focused on the impacts of climate change, building a robust evidence base and helping states build capacity to respond. Longer term responses frequently focus on redressing negative impact. But migration has enormous potential to benefit individuals, communities, and countries. Through the design of sustainable, effective legal channels for migration, whether for work, for study, or even for love, states can begin to proactively integrate migration into their economic planning and community building. This is not, of course, a new idea. Indeed, many states have designed strong programming to welcome migrants. But it can sometimes be lost amongst daily headlines centered on disaster and an anticipated change. IOM's work brings it into contact with a wide range of national government ministries from home affairs to foreign affairs to development to education, as well as local government actors. The migration governance indicators have offered dozens of governments the opportunity to reflect on how they govern migration and the linkage between separate areas of work. In 2019 IOM will include local governments in the indicators for a first picture of how local governments respond to migration. IOM offers support for governments on a broad range of issues, from labor migration policy development policy to designing mechanisms for reaching out to diaspora communities. We have developed border management information systems and supported states in developing cross-border corporations, data collection and risk analysis. IOM development fund offers states the opportunity to build capacity in particular policy areas and offers IOM an opportunity to assess where demand for support exists. For example, in recent years there have been increasing number of requests for support on dealing with the impacts of climate change from across the globe. But partnerships with states is also accompanied by partnerships between states. IOM has participated in a large number of multilateral dialogues from the negotiations of the global compact through the Pan-African Forum on Migration held in Djibouti just one week ago. We have been developing a productive and close working relationship with several regional organizations such as the European Union and the African Union. Regional consultative processes around the world from cartoon to Colombo play a critical role in building trusts between states and we offer support to this process in a variety of ways. As you might recall IOM's International Dialogue on Migration this year have set the stage for more open global exchange on migration incorporating a wide variety of actors focusing on developing successful partnerships across governments with cities and with migrants themselves in anticipation of the global compact. The endorsement of the global compact by the UN General Assembly will create a new test of partnerships across the UN system but also between states as well as between agencies and with a broad set of stakeholders. No, though non-binding the compact offers clear terms of presence and a common language. And in 2019 IOM will focus the dialogues on migration on use in acknowledgement of calls made at previous meetings to engage young people in global migration discussions and policy debate. A critical part of IOM's work is to utilize the available evidence base to inform publics about the dynamics and impacts of migration both good and bad. This includes data on stocks and flows of migrants as well as analytic assessments of emerging trends. The last edition of IOM's flagship world migration report is a key example of this covering a broad range of topics from regional trends to violent extremism. IOM has two key tools to collect and operate the global migration data analysis center in Berlin and the displacement tracking matrix. But migration also comprises thousands of stories. Tomorrow evening the IOM film festival will launch here in Geneva and around 100 countries across the globe showcasing dramas and documentaries that bring the migrant experience to life. IOMs feature stories highlight particular places that do not always make the headlines offering a rich tapestry of action and aspiration and revealing the real faces of migrants worldwide. Let me now turn to what can we expect in the next decade. IOM reach is extensive and its impact deep. But the coming decade will bring new challenges for which the organization will need to prepare itself. The drivers of mobility are constantly evolving. The impact of climate change combined with growing intercontinental demographic disparity widening economic and social inequality and unresolved instability is likely to lead to increased internal, regional and international mobility as individuals seek to establish sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families. While some countries in the world experience demographic expansion others face sharp decline. It is easy to make sweep in generalizations. Migration dynamics are an aggregation of thousands of individual context specific decisions that are often poorly understood. And reveling how developments affect micro movements and vice versa will be key to ensuring that policies can remain effective, supportive and globally created. The world also is rapidly changing. Technology created new opportunities to connect populations as well as identify them more efficiently. Widespread access to social media is accelerating migration trends and expanding the networks through which migrants can seek support. Advancements in artificial intelligence and big data collection may offer new insight into predicting patterns and ensuring timely responses. Advances in digital identification may offer migrants and others new opportunities to access public services and manage their own mobility. But to ensure continued trust between governments and migrants, the management of data, security and privacy will need to be carefully overseen. The use of new technology should not just be based on visibility, but also on desirability. And IOM will need to be a trusted partner and advisor as the world innovates. Rapid urbanization continues to transform the demographic landscape of many countries around the world. Cities today are already home to the majority of international migrants driven by opportunity as well as necessity. And local authorities becoming leaders in finding creative solutions for rapid social change supporting communities through innovation. But rapidly expanding cities are also fragile ecosystems. Governments and international agencies tasked with supporting large populations in small geographies must navigate access to resources, balance deep inequalities and rethink the delivery of public services. All of these may be exacerbated when job growth does not keep pace and the need population grows. And environmental change threatens the livability of urban centers located in coastal regions. Labor markets, never static, will value a different set of skills in 2030 than they did in 2010. And at the same time, the terms of employment are becoming ever more flexible in some cases precariously so. So to succeed, citizens across the world, including migrants, will have to become more adaptable, more resilient, and ready to take on several careers in their lifetime. And how to learn will become as important than what to learn. Though some skills will remain in critically short supplies. The investments governments make today in their working age populations, including at this is very important migrant groups, will be determinative of their success in the future. It is, of course, indispensable that governments maintain sovereign control over migration. But nowadays, non-state actors will become more influential. Migrants do not simple truth and they often choose specific locations drawn by the promise of growing industries and feedback from personal and social networks. The private sector has a huge influence over all or over all moves where as employers, as well as service providers and yet their participation in migration governance remains limited. Local governments address the real impacts of migration street-by-street and yet to often their collective experiences remain unexamined. Civil society actors and diaspora movements are increasingly filling gaps left behind by government services and yet their actions are overlooked. Smugglers and traffickers if unchecked will continue to cultivate new routes to desirable destinations. They have they may take account of public policies to reduce irregular movement but yet remain undeterred by them. As global changes increase in scope the political space to find solutions has narrowed but only through cooperation will answers to the challenging questions of the future will be found. Excellence ladies and gentlemen what will IOM need to deliver in this landscape? We are globally present responsive and flexible capable of delivering positive impact on the ground. IOM is recognized as an institution of extraordinary scope and delivery characterized by the positive impact it has on everyday lives across the globe. Increasingly the organization will be called upon not to just to support governments and migrants at different stages in the migration journey but to connect those stages in the journey. We are well positioned to understand the complete system of migration management to ensure consistency of outcome from specific policy and operational approaches regardless of where they are applied and addressed interplay between different programmatic areas. For example assisted voluntary return is a key programmatic area for IOM but success of these programs depends on understanding the specific humanitarian and development context in the country of return. Migration has become a whole of government endeavor but in spite of effect that we work with a number of ministries in national governments sometimes we have the feeling that those ministries do not work one with the others together. There is an opportunity for IOM to help connect key policy domains more strongly and ensure that migration issues thread through the full range of policy intervention. And to fully capitalize on its potential IOM will need to become a learning organization capable of offering a consistent state of the field perspective on every aspect of migration management and migration support. This is not simply a question of building policy capacity to support member states but developing a standing pool of knowledge and experience from which the organization can share new ideas and identify new developments. This requires in the body of IOMs work but presents an opportunity for the organization to build additional muscles to strengthen that body and this includes five key points developing policy capacity based on the vast compendium of knowledge and expertise that exists within the organization building on the decentralized approach that characterizes IOM. Knowledge is not simply something to be static in databases but to be drawn from the constantly expanding expertise of IOM staff. Second, strengthening foresight capacity to improve operational planning and increase preparedness for and the resilience to moments of crisis insuring the needs of individual migrants in full respect for their human rights and at the same time anticipating them, meeting them at all points of the journey. Third, pioneering new means of data collection and building capacity for research and data analysis that can enhance operational outcomes. This includes the use of new technologies and systems and in end with the responsible management of data by all its users. Fourth, ensuring policy is coherently applied across the organization taking into account the vast diversity of context in which IOM works. Principles of good governance are of course universal but the means through which they can be affected are many and varied. Fifth and last, incorporating innovative practice at every level of the organization from simple improvements and acting as a communicator bringing together distantly located staff through the ensuring that border management systems evolve alongside new developments in technology. I believe IOM will need to become a strategic partner as an implementer helping governments to adopt a long term perspective as well as to fulfill their short term perspectives. The organization as you have seen has evolved through the expansion of its membership and project base. It has demonstrated its ability as well as its flexibility to adapt to the changes scope and complexity of migration at global, regional and national level. But to be truly effective as a partner IOM will also need to ensure the internal structures are fit for purpose. The expansion of activities within the organization now needs to be matched ensuring strong processes of accountability and review. Comments made by states during the recent SCPF reinforced the need for stronger oversight within the organization. IOM is fully committed to continuing enhancing its managing systems and controls by deepening IOM's internal capacity with the aim of implementing measures to streamline and maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of its resources. Will foster a risk awareness culture which ensures that risk is embedded in this decision making process in full compliance with the international standards. This will require additional resources in some time. A key challenge in the years to come will be the consolidation and effective management of the IOM's growth which is expected to continue. IOM will need appropriate funds to match those growing and demanding roles and to keep pace with its growth. The core structure and budget must be strengthened as a sustained and continuing effort. The 2019 budget is a transition budget. It has been prepared based on the confirmed funding for planned activities and taking into consideration current trends and crucial developments in agression phenomenon in the international arena. You have the proposed administrative part of the budget and the operational part of the budget in the slide. I want to thank the member states who have honored their obligations to the organization and encourage others to do so. And I trust that the member states will approve the revised program for 2019 as proposed following the amendments introduced post the meeting of the SCPF. Your excellency, ladies and gentlemen, let me just conclude by saying that for IOM the year 2019 will be a year of continuity and change. We will be called upon new tasks in relation to the UN migration network that we will have the opportunity to discuss tomorrow with the special representative of the Secretary General Madame Louise Arbour. Collaboration will be based of course on the global compact on the UN migration network but collaboration is not limited to the network alone. IOM will place emphasis particularly with the UNHCR building upon the effective cooperation that exists already around the world. It will strengthen the productive and honest dialogue it has built with civil society organizations at all levels and seek to ensure that voices of migrants and other populations affected are heard. Over the next several months the organization will set out a series of institutional cross cutting and dramatic priorities for its work through a series of consultations with IOM offices our member states and other stakeholders. This process will identify areas of work where further investment may be needed to ensure the organization can meet your expectation. At the same time we will set a roadmap and design for a new policy that will coordinate and share knowledge and guidance within the organization. This roadmap will be made public in the early part of next year. And in parallel under the edges of the Deputy Director General IOM is reviewing its internal governance framework identifying areas of work including risk management internal justice and procurement and these reforms will be submitted to you during the first quarter of 2019. But IOM has already allocated two new professional staff positions to the office of the Inspector General responding in this way to the demands that were put forward in the recent SCPF. Across the world governments are recognizing that migration is an essential yet political sensitive topic for international cooperation. There is an opportunity for IOM to lead discussion that a knowledge and builds upon the complexity that characterizes management but also ensures that migrants themselves remain at the heart of the conversation. Over the next four days we will have the opportunity to explore some of the issues I have highlighted in my report including else internally displaced people and migrants voice and I'm also looking forward to discussing the future of IOM with you during this week and also to come. Thank you for your enormous patience.


What's going on everybody welcome to the CryFox my name is Bren Under and I'm Finn and today We're back on the 100 on 100 and everyone on 41 and yeah so today we're starting Shushan Village and we're going into the Cave of Solitude to get the Emperor's mind refreshed and better it did And clean cleanse him. We need to cleanse him. That is That is very dark anyway. We have fun here. How are you fun? Yeah, it's been a while. It's a cool clean brain, hasn't it? Yeah, it's been like I don't know what to do. The water was always pure before You said I couldn't learn faint by going through that waterfall and you're right, and I'm getting angry at you for some reason Yeah, then you ended the call and we started again, you know, this call has only been going for like two hours Yeah Perhaps he'd know what to do. Yeah, good idea. You can find in I'm going on.  It's because it's so relaxing. It feels slow, but it's actually quite fast Yeah, are you going to your your cave of solitude? You're going to Dinhou at the Cave of Solitude Same Dinhou, hello Patience, young wizard. This guy is a thunder guy He keeps you from the recipes of clothing, but we must still follow it the health of the Emperor and of all my God It's a beautiful The plague only a powerful demon has sickened our water and broken the Jade scepter that purifies our shrines We can weaken the plague only by Jesus. I get across this demon is an ancient enemy. I know it's way Yeah, I have discovered the location of a piece of the Jade scepter. It was taken by the cross of that Oh, please retrieve this piece for us. I used to teleporter I'm just gonna port to you. It's easier You just go around the edges carefully anyway We'll be right back once we've defeated a Roni mutinia and collected the Jade handle So good night Thanks to your actions. We now have the handle of the Jade Scepter. Oh, I got another level. I consulted the ancient texts once more they mention Koto at the end of the path Nightingale gave Koto a piece of the Jade Scepter for safekeeping as a faithful subject of the plague only He won't part with his piece easily Therefore, I am the second piece of the Jade Scepter.  Um, where are we going? We're going to Green, I don't know. Let's go to green. I mean Okay, okay. It's gonna be interesting Let's get a He's only got 1,500 so it's cool 1500 health, that's not too much. Who should I take?  Yeah, I do agree.  Don't need a judge or spectral blast? Blast him blast him blast him. I'm gonna blast him. I'll do that next no next round around after Let's get a few blades up so I can kill him one shot Hopefully it doesn't hit ice had good luck so far not hitting any shields. Which is good Good could do anything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and Brent begins to mumble on I do I mumble on a lot. Oh, I faint If you blade me I can go see to her. I can't blade. I've already bladed you Okay, actually, no, I haven't actually I can't blade you I Can play as I'll seem to run seem to all the balance dude Thank you. I'm because I Because I can't kill him otherwise Especially for me. I reckon I could have killed him I Doubt it No, I hadn't I'm I didn't I didn't put it like play them. Yeah one blade and a 30 trap like 20 20 and a 30 plus like 50 not too much Sentin the center is actually such cool. It is also you boost on the balance anyway, and I and he resists like crazy for me, so Probably better this way. Anyway boost Recker, Rony, Recker Rony and Pepe's Okay, let's speak to her all the blast and That should really judge. I'm gonna calm them down. I Should really judge because I had like seven perps, but oh well, you know what not ice. It's ice. Of course. It's ice I Told you I should have judgment should have judged. I'm calling him down. Don't worry about it. I should have judged No, that means he'll That means he will hit me exactly Why do you want that? That's rude? Okay, let's No Yeah, press wrong thing. Damn it. I was gonna blade and then said I It's all right, it's fine What's that funny I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's good because I didn't want to play that I'm so sorry. I would you laugh at that? It's it's it's got lower accuracy than yours and you seem to fizzle more than me That's true So really I should be laughing at you, but I don't So ha ha You know what they always say bring Double negative make it positive Yeah, it's the double negative that I used give me one more round I'm hitting now. Oh, all right.  It's not fair. I'm not So you can hit yay, I did purposely blade plus on I can't Why not? Oh just use Give me one more round What are you gonna use? You got most amazing attack ever. What school is it from? math Are you playing ninja pigs? Yes Because it's beautiful Such a waste of pips, but oh well if it kills, I suppose Yeah, no gotta live through the new penis No, it's just somewhere inside the new businesses of course and apparently it's just beautiful It's me and you fizzle lol Wait time It's the most beautiful tech in the world There we go, right you collect the shaft of the jade. Oh, I got ninja pigs. I Didn't I didn't I didn't actually well. That's a really real drop. I Leveled up. I think yeah, I live about and level 34 now. I'm level 34 34.  Yes I'm so ready for this. Let's go. You do realize we don't have to fight the person Do we have to do it peacefully? We don't have to fight them we can if we want but I don't really want to fight them. We can just leave Because we're just searching which just means inter I think is it right? No, it doesn't No, we have to fight them. That's a shame ambush Okay. Yep. Okay. We do have to fight them. That's a shame unless we flee. I Don't want to play I Ain't no pussy Yeah, I'm just saying G is we didn't have to fight them, but okay. We can fight them.  I know as he says that he uses a storm You know, it's just to get the weakness of that Enter the shield Why you don't even use storm anyway, so What even it would be me who uses storm Nobody died. Wow. He's on like to help. I bet He's on to help I bet I bet I bet he's on like to help Wow, I haven't seen this one since Colossus Boulevard. I've seen this one recently. Yeah same But like you would expect that way back in Colossus Boulevard 12 health. Yeah. Yeah, right Can you hit the yeah?  Yeah, it's bad against balance. Yeah Well, it's really annoying because they have like 80 resist against balance in your screen. Are you not hitting? I don't have any hits neither. I Can hit next Possibly but not now. I can't do anything for two cups. I took out all my scorpions. I Don't carry two hits. I can hit more. I can't Okay, I could hit the sandstorm as well, but I decided this just for loss Because I haven't seen this one in a while. I miss it Wouldn't that used to be a decent spell? It still is pretty decent. You search the hut and find nothing Really? I searched the hut and found nothing. That's a shame. It's just next heart You were attacked my sincerest apologies wizard. I led you into danger through my error It is times like these when I realized that my faith is being put to the test. I Hesitate to send you into danger again. So let me know if you would like to proceed There is a pagoda of significance to the plague only near Benoit We may be able to find information about the whereabouts of the last piece there If you are willing go there and tell me what you can find concerning the missing piece of the Jade scepter Okay, where's this place? It is green Green Sweet Are you there fun? No You dare to test your might on me? What a mistake Autonomous thing Apparently we have to defeat the boss. So we're going to defeat the boss Because you know bosses are fun to defeat. Yeah, I want that Yeah, better than mob battles. I am relieved that you have returned safely and with good news I was worried that I had sent you into harm's way needlessly. I should not I leveled up. That's right Conago is our formidable opponent. I got a ceremonial teapot.  Yeah, Jade scepter from him. We are prepared My little piggies warned me that you are coming wizard. You will never have the Jade scepter No, no, no, no, no Ripperoni and Pepe's He thinks when he's he thinks he's good. Oh Yeah, let's put a faint on the boss. Don't hit the boss. Hey Hey, Dan Because I put an impressive faint up and by impressive I mean like a 75 not just a 70 Wow God Because I have an item card faint Impressive That's a very impressive. Oh Thanks for that shield Let's say I'm gonna sandstorm. I think pick the death. Let's do sandstorm. Let's faint again Let's do 75 70 plus a 25 blade should add up to certain death Would you agree? Yeah Good as I agree as well. I'm kind of worried that he's gonna hit me for a huge number Because I've got like three tropes on me, but then I realized I've also got a minus 50 percent shield So I should okay next round. I'm hitting Yep, let's see how much this does Not too much. That's good. That could have done like probably 600 nearly seven probably If I didn't have that shield three to five Nice damage there noise damage. Oh blade What's been poppin poppin a blade a Yeah poppin a blade. Oh your sprite is just passing for walls and this is gonna use a fury No, it doesn't much as she's using a leprechaun. Oh Yeah That's what she thinks That's what she thinks She thinks he's gonna use a leprechaun, but I changed her mind needed Nothing can change her mind Something can just like do it Sandstorm for days dead plus Right. Yeah, finally. I killed something right. I'm not not that though. I'm so mean Just killed your minion for how Pips What are you doing? Are you seraphine?  He'll block it. He'll block all of it except 20% Yeah, yo, yeah, yeah, that was strong.   Please gather these flowers and bring them back to me before what a fragrant display Don't know forest spirits will be diagnosed like don't know but don't know Now gather the flowers along with the three pieces of the jade scepter and place them all over the brazier at the center of the cave Hopefully the forest spirits will hear I'll be praying for you too young wizard May you go there and return with the jade scepter intact okay I need to go to center to do jade scepter This way brazier isn't too far away. Hello Okay, gotta go to sun hang where's sun hang he's an um um the yellow yellow yellow And then after we're done the area, but here it is. I see that I just learned to collect my doubts so long So yeah To be on the long side Pretty sun hang Thank the muda. Thank the muda. Is that their god? Yeah He's the caretaker of our holy shrine if we want to weaken the plague only we need to restore the shrines to their former glory Tula quo is the one to contact about such a thing Okie dokie, thank you for watching next episode. We'll go into the kashibi village Uh, we're gonna we're gonna talk to kula ko Tula ko tula ko I don't know. I don't even I don't even japanese I don't even asian So yeah, anyway, thank you for watching. We'll see you next time. Leave a like and subscribe if you want to And remember Croft, that's not the box. Goodbye. Bye


Marine Attack Squadron 214 is departing to join the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit as they prepare for deployment. Right now we have the remainder of the 11th Mu heading out, the pilots are going to be taken off and meeting out with the ship so that they marry up with the main body and they go to the 11th Mu going on deployment. 214 is part of the air combat element, provides the close air support for the Marines in case they're needed. It can be difficult for families to cope with the absence of their loved ones. The most important thing to remember is they're professionals, they know what they're doing and also that if they run into any issues out there while the Marines are gone, keep your family ready until officer recalls, they usually get to the heart of the matter and take care of it real quick. I'm Sergeant Daniel Malta, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma.