Every company is a cloud company today, right? Well, there's one company that was in the cloud long before it was fashionable. Citrix Systems, way back in 1989, was founded, coming up on its 30th anniversary, and Citrix was a pioneer in the area of virtual desktop infrastructure, delivering desktops from servers to the, as a virtual machine, long before anybody was using the term cloud. Well, Citrix is still going strong 30 years later and its synergy conference is coming up and at the end of May, May 21st to 23rd in Atlanta. With me is Tim Minahan. I'm sorry, I almost said Stu Miniman, our analyst. Tim Minahan, who is the Executive Vice President of Business Strategy and the Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix, Tim, welcome. Thank you, Paul, it's great to be here. I am Paul Gillin, this is theCUBE and with the synergy coming up, theCUBE will be at Synergy, so we thought we'd take a chance today to look a little bit at where Citrix is going, where it's come from, a company that is still going strong, 50 acquisitions over the years, and really probably not the company that you would think of. People think of Citrix as desktop virtualization. I know you're still in that market, but I'm sure that Citrix is quite a different business today, so what business are you in? Absolutely, it's a much different business today. Paul, this is not your father's virtualization company anymore, we still, as you point out, continue to lead that market, both in market share as well as innovation. However, based on our customer needs, as they've evolved to try to operate in this hybrid multi-cloud world, as they've tried to digitize their business, Citrix has also gone on a transformation journey. Really, I would organize it around three primary transitions. One is moving from a, let's say, disparate array of individual products to much more integrated solutions that more holistically address the needs of our customers around digital workspace, around networking and security, and around analytics. The second one, as you intimated in your introduction, is making our products or solutions available, not just on-premise for customers to manage in their own data centers, but as cloud services, so that they can consume the technology in the way that they want and scale very quickly. But probably the most significant transition is moving from delivering application delivery products to really becoming this strategic platform for work. And you talk about that in your messaging, talks about powering a better way to work. What is a better way to work? Well, if you, Paul, if you think about today, really, as companies are beginning to digitize their business, as they're trying to compete around the world, one of the things that continues to come to the top is the need to drive a superior employee experience. Those companies that can attract the right talent, develop the skills needed for today's modern age, and give them the tools and the flexibility to work where and how they want becomes a competitive advantage. And so when we talk about powering a better way to work, we're bringing together our digital workplace, our networking, and our analytics technologies in order to empower companies to do that, to arm their employees with single sign-on access to everything they need to be productive in one unified experience that travels with them, whether they're working in the office, whether they're on the road at a client meeting in a hospital room, really allowing them to power a better way to work. And you say that this is particularly important for attracting this new generation of knowledge workers. What are their expectations? How do you need to frame the workplace to make it appealing to them? Yeah, Paul, I think it's an interesting point you bring up. It's a misconception that it's all about the millennials. Well, yes, we are introducing new work styles, new work types, and new generations into the workplace, but we have multiple generations in the workplace, each of which has different ways in which they engage with technologies, each of which has different ways that they want to collaborate. But the one thing that's key, if employee experience is gonna be a competitive advantage, what's holding us back? And it really is all of this choice, all of this technology that we've brought into the market has created an unintended side effects, which is complexity. And employees are actually frustrated at work because they need to navigate multiple different environments. They need to remember multiple passwords. They need to spend time in a whole host of applications that may not be pertinent to their job, but it's something that they're required to do. So it's keeping them from their core job. And so really what we're trying to do is giving that unified experience, making it single sign onto all of your applications, all of your content, regardless of where you are, and then literally bringing intelligence into the workspace to allow employees to actually be guided through their day. So they don't need to log into multiple applications, but presenting up the insights and the tasks that they need to do to remove the noise from their day and get on doing their core fulfilling work. Of course, this is not your father's single sign on anymore. It used to be single sign on was for primarily on-prem applications. Today, everything's moving to the cloud. Citrix itself has undergone a sort of reinvention as a cloud-first company. Tell us what that involved and what that means for your customers. Well, the very first thing is, I came from a host of companies that have made a transition to a cloud services model in the past, most recently SAP. And I thought I was coming here to help Citrix transition to the cloud, but it became very clear really quickly, our job is to help our customers, save our customers from the cloud, allowing them to pursue their very unique cloud strategies as everyone's on a different path on this journey, with this hybrid multi-cloud environment, and pursue that strategy with confidence, giving them the latitude to be able to have portability of their workloads. They want to move them out of the data center to maybe Microsoft Azure or AWS or Google Cloud Platform or a private cloud, allowing them that flexibility, the interoperability and the portability that they need to do that at their own pace. Now, what are the implications there for your product line because are you talking about actually helping customers to manage the multi-cloud to shift workloads or is this more in the area of creating a unified work environment where all these applications come together? Well, the first step was certainly to make our offerings available as cloud services. So customers that wanted to consume them that way, they could. The second step was indeed to provide a control plane that allowed IT to really unify their entire environment, whether that workload was in the data center or in any of the public clouds I just mentioned, and have the portability to move them between those environments as they saw fit. Related to that is unifying the employee experience so that they to your point have single sign on access to everything they need to be productive. So not just their, as you pointed out, their on-premise apps or their virtual apps, but their SaaS apps which are growing in popularity and use across the enterprise, their mobile apps, their web apps, but not just their apps too. You know, those traditional virtual desktops that they might need. Or importantly, their content which we all need to organize and have the information we need to make the right decisions at the right time. So your content needs to be available in that workspace too in a similar way regardless of where it's stored. It could be stored in any of the public cloud storage service providers that you might be stored on-premise in a SharePoint environment and you need to be able to have that with you regardless of whether you're working on your laptop at the office or on your smartphone on the train. Now you have a lot of cloud experience. You were at Ariba, which was a cloud native company. You went to SAP during their transition to the cloud. Now at Citrix, what kind of expectations are you helping the company set for how customer relationships change in a primarily cloud environment? You hit the point right on the nose. The big change, everyone thinks as well, it's making your products available as a service. Well, that's part of it certainly. Well, it's about transitioning to more of a subscription model. Well, that's also part of it, but the real big shift is the way you engage and support customers. In a traditional on-premise world, you would celebrate when the deal gets done, right? And at Cloud Services Model, you are an ongoing service provider. Your real goal is to help the customer drive adoption and achievement of their business outcomes. And so within Citrix, what we've done, as in the previous companies we had before, I was at before, is we've made investments in that post-sale adoption. We have a full customer success team that is really your coach. Come into the gym, we'll get you on the treadmill, we'll make sure you get the health benefits you want. That's the type of environment and mentality we need to have, even from a marketing perspective. There's a whole adoption marketing team now that is focused on working in unison with that customer success team. So that we are ensuring that the customers have the information they need, on how to leverage the products, what functionality is available to them, and how to drive the business outcomes they were hoping to achieve. Are you finding the customer retention is actually better in a cloud environment? Do customers tend to stay longer? Despite the fact they're not paying these large licensing fees up front? Yeah, I think the real secret to customer retention and driving that customer retention is ensuring, number one, there's clear alignment on what the business outcomes are to begin with. And number two, that you have this infrastructure in place or this coaching organization in place to make sure that they're driving to success. And because oftentimes you've been in the business for a long time, that IT projects, well, the implementation goes on for too long or we've implemented it, but now no one's using it. And really, in a cloud services model, that can't happen, right? It's similar to any service you subscribe to as an individual, whether it's your cable service or the like, if you're not using something at the end of that subscription turn, you're going to turn it off. And so in a cloud services model, the provider, like Citrix, is much more aligned with the business outcomes that the customer is hoping to achieve. Now, I know you're not a development guy, but in the process of sort of overhauling the product line, there are a lot of new architectural tools that can be used such as serverless computing, microservices. What have you done in terms of restructuring the way you build your products? Yeah, it's interesting, there's a few things. No, the biggest one is instead of in an on-premise world, you would deliver a monolithic upgrade. Here we go, every few 18 months, two years, three years, and then work on helping your customers move that way in a cloud services model. We're delivering innovation every week. And it just gets turned on as part of that service. So a much more agile development methodology. And yes, behind the scenes, you mentioned microservices and the like that, what we're seeing within our customers as they're looking at how do I begin to abstract those monolithic applications and turn them into more microservices that are much more agile, that I can test things, I can deploy them very quickly. We're using those same type of techniques within Citrix ourselves. You've had a lot of experience with SaaS providers. How do you prepare a company culturally to make that leap from selling the big licensed package to a subscription model? A lot of people are affected inside the company by a change like that. Yeah, no, absolutely. And part of it is transitioning literally from selling to being a trusted advisor. What is the business outcome you want to achieve? Let's land with this particular capability to get you going. And then as you mature, as you begin to get the initial benefit, let's expand beyond that. And so what we were talking about with the customer success for post sale adoption, really to your point, moves back up the chain to how we engage customers even at the outset. The company has done more than 50 acquisitions or I believe exactly 50 acquisitions. I know you weren't there for all of them, but do you have any thoughts? Obviously very successful. The company does this very well. What are some secrets of making acquisitions work? I think one of the biggest opportunities and secrets to making such acquisitions work is having a really solid post merger integration plan. And when I say post merger integration, yes, you need to integrate that technology into your overall solution set so that it increases the value to the customers. Obviously having a clear roadmap on that, clearly articulating that both to the organization as well as to the customers. In fact, both your existing customers and the added value they're gonna get, but the ones of the company you've acquired. But I think the bigger opportunity lies in making sure on the post merger integration side, you have a clear plan for how you're going to integrate that culture and the like. So as you acquire companies, particularly as you acquire SaaS companies for example, infusing that SaaS mentality into your overall organization, you've acquired this company because they were doing well. They had a unique capability. Maybe they had unique skill sets that you need and making sure that you have a clear plan for how to help that thrive in your new environment. One of your roles is as head of marketing and I understand you're sort of a data-driven guy. You'd be a big believer in data-driven marketing. More dashboards than you can imagine. Really, marketing and sales typically in B2B companies don't have the best of relationships. How are you using data to bridge that divide? Yeah, I think that's an excellent question and I do think data is the answer. Part of that traditional kind of yin and yang or friction between sales and marketing is the result of biases and opinions. When you organize around data, you begin to eliminate that. You get to the facts and so I mentioned I have more dashboards than I care to note but those dashboards are shared with my counterpart, the chief revenue officer, as well as his senior leadership team so we're all looking at the same data. We're all identifying, hey, where we are with this customer or where we are with the overall pipeline growth and it is not going into a meeting and not spending the first 45 minutes disputing the data but saying, hey, look, we are collectively seeing this and looking at driving solutions on how to maybe accelerate something or provide a little extra service to a customer because we're all looking at the same data. Data is absolutely a great leveler and eliminating a lot of the traditional friction that is between sales and marketing. Cydrix is one of the oldest if that's a term, I don't like to use that term in software but it's been around a long time. 30 years young. One of the things, this big celebration coming up in April, I understand you're 30th anniversary. One of the things that happens to companies that have been around a long time is they acquire misperceptions. Customers tend to view them as they were many years ago. What misperception about Cydrix would you most like to correct? I think the biggest misperception is the one you started with, that, hey, Cydrix is the virtualization company and yes, we were the pioneer in virtualization because at a time, when we burst onto the scene 30 years ago, you had this new rising information worker, you had client server technologies and that worker wanted to work outside the office and what were you going to do? Well, Cydrix provided an answer. Well, over the years, we've continued to innovate as companies move to mobile and now as they move to the cloud and they want to embrace entirely new work models that allow them to give their employees full-time, contractors, gig workers, access to the tools they need to collaborate and be very effective and fulfill in their jobs. We're there now, right? And so we've continued to evolve with and even ahead of the market. So virtualization is still relevant for some key customers and some of the most mission critical applications but they have these other needs too and Cydrix has evolved to support those as well. And in two months, at the end of May, you'll have bring your users together at Cydrix Synergy in Atlanta. How many people do you expect to have there? Just about 6,000 or so. About 6,000, huge crowd. What are you going to tell them? What are the messages you want them to take away? Well, the top line theme for the conference is really how the future works. We've talked a lot about, this is the future of work and it's coming. Well, guess what? It is here. We have multiple generations working in the workforce today. We have entirely new work styles. We have, as I mentioned, these gig workers, contractors, full-time employees. We have entirely different devices and applications that have come into this environment and people want to collaborate through different channels, teams and Slack as well as traditional emails. So how do we bring all of that together? We believe that we're delivering this today. Our customers are seeing real benefit by having this unified digital workspace experience and making that available to their employees. We're now injecting, like I mentioned, machine learning and simplified workflows or micro-apps into that environment to make employees even more productive within the workspace than outside of it, really guiding them through their day. So when we say this is how the future works, the key message is the future is here today. We're delivering the experience, the security and the choice that employees and organizations need to drive innovation, to engage customers and employees in new digital ways and to be productive anytime, anywhere. Well, it's a huge agenda, Atlanta, and if you're a Citrix customer, you certainly want to be there. Even if you're not a Citrix customer, you'll want to follow us on theCUBE as theCUBE will be on the ground in Atlanta at Citrix Synergy. Tim, have a great conference. Thanks very much for joining us. Thanks for having me, Paul. Look forward to seeing you in Atlanta. I'm Paul Gellin, this is theCUBE.


Atlanta, Georgia is a thriving city for film, TV and music industries, constantly bringing in celebrities to work on projects and a lot of them actually live there. Known as the Hollywood of the South, some of your favorite stars own impressive homes in this busy city and today we're going to check out who. Atlanta is the capital and most populated city in Georgia, home to more than 6 million people and one of the largest metropolis areas in the country. The city is located among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the state of Georgia neighbors Alabama and South Carolina. Besides being the spot where so many productions are made, Atlanta has the world's busiest airport, fun day trips and a hip night life scene to make things exciting. The city is crawling with rap legends, athletes and more who not only visit but call the place home. Atlanta celebrities are proud of their roots as they should be and the successful ones were able to upgrade to some amazing million dollar mansions to call home. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Hey guys, it's Karen and today we're counting down 10 celebrities who live in Atlanta, Georgia, some of which you may have seen on this channel before. From the likes of Quavo to TI to Celebs you may have forgot about, we have this scoop on the jaw dropping properties they call home. This is a new series and we recently did a video on celebs who live in North Carolina so if you want to see more like this, be sure to tell me down in the comments which location is next. Don't forget to like, subscribe and follow me on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this list. Impressive space on the novel pushed by Sapphire. We'll kick things off with a celebrity that you may have forgotten about, Monique. It's said that the precious star still lives in the city but her current property is unknown. But we do know about her former rental estate in the city that was once upon a time reported on by TMZ. Back in 2012, the place was up for sale with a price of $3.9 million and some years prior was also the subject of some drama. The owners of the home at the time Monique was renting sued the Oscar winner for walking out on her lease agreement and failing to pay $370,000 in rent. The start counters sued with a lawsuit of her own saying the house smelled like dog feets and other lovely odors. Anyways, the infamous home boasted 8 bedrooms, 10.5 bathrooms and sat on 10 acres of land. Looks beautiful if you have a terrible sense of smell. Despite some ongoing battles in her life, last year Monique said she was in a good place and focusing on her health and career. She also had a Showtime special Monique and friends lie from Atlanta to debut in 2020, which tells us she still calls the city home. If you are or were a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan like myself, then you know Alison Handigan from her major role as Willow in this series and she is next on our list of Atlanta celebrity residents. The actress and her husband Alexis Denisov, who funnily enough was also part of the Buffy cast at one point, on a luxury condo in Atlanta's historic meat packing district. They tried to offload the unit for around $1 million but in 2018 it was reported the couple instead opted to rent the place out at $6,500 per month. Alison and Alexis bought the 2,500 square foot penthouse around 2014 for $810,000. Inside there are 3 beds, 3 baths and dark reddish brown hardwood floors throughout. Other highlights of the couple's condo include 14-foot ceilings, walls of metal trimmed windows and views of the Atlanta skyline. Next up is film producer Tyler Perry who's not only long had massive homes in Atlanta but also has his huge 330-acre film studio here on the historic grounds of the former Fort McPherson Army base. He used to live in an ultra luxe-verse size style mansion he built in 2007 that was one of the largest in all of Atlanta but he sold it in 2016. This estate had features like a 70,000 gallon infinity-edge pool and a private helipad. Not to worry though as Tyler is building a new 35,000 square foot mansion in Atlanta as we speak on 1,200 acres of land near his studio if you can believe it. He is known for extravagant properties but this is set to be the most impressive yet with features like an airplane hangar, runway for his private jet and organic farm with animals. As you can see, T.I. is one rapper who called Atlanta home so he's next on our list. He owns a self-proclaimed bachelor pad in the upskill neighborhood of Buckhead even though he's not a bachelor at the moment. T.I. also owns a family mansion which is his primary spot but this one's in Jonesboro, Georgia so a 20-minute drive or so from Atlanta. This is the home that's most often featured on his reality television series The Family Hustle and it's a massive 10,460 square foot mansion sitting on 3 acres of lakefront land. Next we have another rap star but this dude lives about 30 minutes from Atlanta in Fayetteville, Georgia. I'm just gonna say that counts. I'm talking about Rick Ross who bought the former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield's mansion in 2014. Rick Ross's insane 54,000 square foot mansion takes up a whopping 104 acres of land and boasts more than 100 rooms including a bowling alley and theater. Not to mention it also has the biggest pool in the country. It holds 350,000 gallons of water. Of course, it's not cheap to live here and when Holyfield's own estate he claimed the mansion costs him around $1 million per year to operate. Halfway through our list and next we have an athlete, football player and wide receiver for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, Julio Jones. Considering he's been playing for the Falcons since 2011 it makes sense that he owns real estate in Atlanta. In 2018 it was reported that Jones purchased not one but three different homes in Atlanta within the span of a week. The first of his purchases was a completely renovated four bedroom wrench that hosts an Atlanta suburb for 532K and 24 hours later the athlete bought another renovated house in the Briarmore Manor area for 555K. Both of these houses are thought to be for relatives but the final property purchase seems to be where Julio currently calls home. He shelled out $2.3 million for a two-story penthouse in a luxurious Atlanta W building which is the largest unit here. Boasting three beds, 3.5 baths and a 4,154 square feet of space. The building is walking distance from Mercedes-Benz Stadium and has more than enough posh amenities to keep residents happy including 24-hour valet service, a gym, a heated swimming pool and even a high-rise helipad. This next rapper has long called Atlanta Georgia home just like the rest of his group Migos and I'm talking about Quavo. He used to rent out an epic mansion in the city that was inspired by the most prestigious castle in Francis War Valley and the Atlanta version was dubbed the castle at Cromwell. While this home was fit for a king, Quavo moved on from it and decided to purchase some homes in and around the Atlanta area instead. In 2019 it was reported that the rapper spent $2.58 million on three properties the first of which was bought in 2017 and 11,000 square foot home in Alpharetta which is just a short drive from Atlanta. The property is located in the fancy country club of the south on two acres of land with six bedrooms and features like a wine cellar, a gym, a pool with waterfall and more. Quavo also bought his mother a 560k home for Christmas in Atlanta and a third home that appears to have been for his sister and other family members. I have a lot of different dresses positioned just because there they are. For number three on our list it's Mariah Carey and while she doesn't currently live in Atlanta she's the former owner of this gorgeous estate in the upscale neighborhood of Buckhead. The sprawling Mediterranean style mansion spanned 7,100 square feet was super unique and previously cherished by the celebrity. The listing said Mariah Carey apparently loved her tenure as this property's owner and we are confident you will as well. Inside the stucco clad home had five bedrooms and perks like a screen porch, guest suites, multiple levels to hang out as well as a pool. And while Mariah's let go of this mansion, she's still been spotted partying in Atlanta since. Almost at the end of this list and the next celeb who calls Atlanta home is another famous rapper Gucci Mane. His 6,600 square foot mansion is located in Marietta just to hop, skip and jump from Atlanta and while there aren't as many details about how the interior of the home looks Gucci had friends over to celebrate when he was out of prison. The home seems to have a laid back style with warm fur carpet to complement those cool marble floors. It's valued at close to $9 million and features a full reporting studio inside along with a gigantic pool located in the backyard. So guys, we finally closed on our dream house. Finally, last but not least, we have the rap power couple Cardi B and Offset who settled down in an Atlanta mansion at the ends of 2019. Even though their relationship is hard to keep up with, the pair made this big investment together and seems to be staying put. Located on six acres of fully private land, Cardi and Offset's mansion spans over 22,000 square feet with five bedrooms and crazy features like an indoor gun range and 1800 bottle wine cellar. This estate is in the posh neighborhood of Buckhead and has beautiful landscaping and gardens all over the property. Cardi has also been spotted shopping at the Target on Peach Tree Road. Not only this, the couple has bought some more properties in Jonesboro and some land. So it looks like they're staying in Atlanta for good. Alright, so that concludes our list of 10 celebrities who live in Atlanta. What did you guys think? Did you know all of these stars called the city or just outside of it home? Be sure to let me know in the comments or if there are any celebs that I missed. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye!


When you search the medical literature for studies on berries, papers like this pop up a blueberry muffin rash, or pictures of strawberry tongues, or as a way to describe stool appearance, though stools truly resembling current jelly are not very common. What is it with pathologists' love affair with food terminology, the grossest of which may be the way amoeba chest infections are described, where you spit up pus that looks like anchovy sauce, which sounds gross even without the pus. There are actual studies on berry supplementation, like on how they can mitigate the negative effects of a high saturated fat diet on the brain and behavior, but that was in mice. Maybe a better way to mitigate would be to not feed your pet mouse a stick of butter in the first place. Then there are studies on proprietary berry-based nutraceutical supplements purported to improve cognitive performance. See how there's steeper rise in the supplement group? Old hats will instantly recognize this as the timeless trick featured in the 1950s classic How to Lie with Statistics. See how they don't start the y-axis at zero? That's to inflate the appearance. Correct the graph, and you can see the effect doesn't quite look so impressive. There are studies of actual berries on actual humans, but when they're funded by berry industry trade groups, you get studies like this. An afternoon snack of berries reduces subsequent energy intake. Great, but that's compared to candy. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries. Fantastic compared to a handful of jelly babies, which are just like coated gummy bears. Do berries offer so little that you have to compare them to candy to make them look good? There was that famous Harvard study I did a video about where berry eating appeared to delay brain aging by up to two and a half years, but you don't know if it's caused an effect until you put it to the test. And blueberry supplementation was able to improve memory in older adults in just 12 weeks' time, but that was feeding them up to six cups of wild blueberries a day. Now, this was a proof-of-concept pilot study, just to see if they get any effect, right? We just didn't have any studies using more realistic doses, until now. How about just a cup a day of blueberries? They found that the addition of easily achievable quantities of blueberries to the diets of older adults can improve some aspects of cognition, like long-term memory. In terms of the number of errors the placebo group got worse, the blueberry group got better. You can even correlate the cognitive improvements with enhanced brain activation, using fancy brain scan technology to actually visualize the improved blood flow to those same regions of the brain caused by the blueberry consumption. Does it work in kids, too? Blueberry treatments have shown positive effects on cognition in both rats and adult humans, but do these benefits transfer to children, human children? How about a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study covering about a couple blueberries to two cups to zero cups? What did they find? Cognitive performance improvements across all measures, and the more berries the better. And this wasn't after 12 weeks of eating berries, but within hours of just a single blueberry meal. Sounds like a good breakfast any day our kids are having their exams.


Welcome to all our guests on the occasion of Christmas. We'll have a quiet performance by students of Father Gnale School. Thank you, Father Gnale School. You have kept up the spirit of Christmas today. And thank you, deep down from my heart and from all the audience here. Next we have remarks by five personalities. Cardinal Oswald Gracious, Christmas Messages. Cardinal Oswald Gracious needs no introduction here in the Christian community. Welcome, Your Excellency, Honorable Prime Minister, Mr. Modi Ji. A very happy and merry Christmas to you. Christians from all over the country have come over here. Leaders, people from different fields to celebrate Christmas. And we're very grateful, Excellency, that you have come and joined us in this celebration. Christmas, the message of Christmas, the birth of Jesus is most transforming. We've heard the little children giving us the mood of Christmas. I think no event in the history of the world has inspired more composers of music, poets, dramatists, artists to speak about Christmas is the most spoken about and composed about. The message of Christmas is that God loves the world. God cares for the world. Christ came to give hope that things God is in control. Things will always be good. Christ came to teach us above all that we are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father, and therefore to live as one family caring for one another. As we speak over here, I think and I would compelled to remember our dear former Prime Minister, Bajpayee Ji, whom I also met over here, whose birthday happens to be today, and he also spoke about good governance, which Jesus came to teach us that the leaders of the world also must work for others, progress and development. Sir, thank you for all that you are doing for the country. Thank you all that you are doing for the Christian community. Well, thank you that all that you are doing all over the world. God bless you. Happy Christmas once again. Thank you, Cardinal Grishas. We are happy with that message that you gave to the Christian community and to the Prime Minister of India. Next in the line is Anju Baby George, an icon in sports category, and she has been a fighter and she will continue to fight for the cause of sports. Welcome for your message. Very good morning, Honorable Prime Minister and all esteemed guests. Merry Christmas to you all. As a sports person, I was here for almost 25 years and what I am seeing then and now, there are a lot of changes. When I got India's first global medal 20 years back, even my department was not ready to give a promotion. They were saying it's not in there. But after when Neeraj got a medal, I have seen the changes, sir. A lot of changes, the way how we are celebrating, how you are celebrating, sir, how all India is celebrated. Actually, I am envy with them because I was in a wrong era. Through Khelo India project, through Fit India project, everywhere now sports is a talk and India is now ready to accept the fitness, ready to do sports. And everybody is actually celebrating our victory. And our Indian sports person, they are doing really well in international arena. It was just during our time, one or two athletes, but now it's a bunch of athletes. It's because of your leadership, sir. And women empowerment, it's not a talk. It's just not a word. Every Indian girl is ready to dream and they know their dreams will come true one day. And it was a dream come true, sir. When you announced 36 Olympics, we are willing to host. We already started preparation. We already started meeting for that. And I'm ready to witness that big glory. India will be on the top of the world, sir. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas. Thank you, Anju baby George. You've been a fighter and you have put the representation of sports in this country on top priority on a Christmas day. Thank you. Next, joining us is Reverend Dr. Paul Swaroop, Bishop of Delhi, CNI. Would you join us, please? Thank you. Honourable Prime Minister Ji, you have given us all this blessing to celebrate Christmas with you. We are very grateful for that. Thank you so much. On the first day of Christmas, the first news that was spread in the field, the chariots, they were brought together. They were poor people. And they were told not to be afraid. Because today, I will tell you about a joyous festival. It is the birth of an example in the city of Dawood. And what is this festival? What festival did they tell you? In two minutes, I would like to tell the story. This word is a book. There is no word in it. But the whole story is in it. Prime Minister has created everything. It is green. Green for creation. But what happened? Humanity was against Prime Minister. And he was cursed. So, sin came into our world. So, it is black. But Prime Minister didn't leave us like this. He said, I will save him. So, I will send him an example. And today, when we celebrate Christmas, we are remembering that an example is born between us. And who will save us? He saves us from our sins. And that is why he has come into this world. He has lived. He is dead for us. So, he is dead for us. So, what happens when we believe in him? So, he purifies us. He purifies us. And if we are in the path of purity, in the path of goodness, in the path of Satyanishta, if we keep on living, then in the end, we will be saved. We will be saved. We will be saved. We will be saved. And in the end, we will be saved. And in the end, we know that permission is coming back. And there will be a new creation, a new creation, back to how creation was. So, this is the Gospel in a nutshell. The story of Christmas, why Christ came.  God bless you all. Thank you, Reverend Dr. Paul Swaroop. Your message. You gave a message to the environment. And we think this message is very important. Next message, Sri John Varghese, Principal of St. Stephen's College. Welcome, sir. Honorable and respected Prime Minister. I thank you for your gracious invitation to me and to the members of the Christian community on this very special day when we remember the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the savior of the world. As the only speaker here on behalf of educational institutions, I wish to thank you for your vision, for your determination and your large-heartedness that is reflected in the national education policy and also other policies. I will very briefly comment on these policies. Respected Prime Minister, your vision with regard to the national education policy has been both local and global, focusing on what is most essential. The NEP has laid tremendous focus on school education and this is exactly what should have been done. Your vision in encouraging the learning and the use of the mother tongue will have a positive and a lasting impact on the future of education not only in India but also in the world. The decision to keep board exams limited to class 12 is a very considerate decision because it takes away the stress of exams from our students. May I also request your Honorable Prime Minister to ensure that in this process we do not lose the competitive edge that we currently have among our students. At the level of higher education the promise of sharing resources among institutions and the promise of autonomy for high performing institutions is a great incentive for all higher educational institutions to perform better. You have encouraged innovation among young people like the speaker before me mentioned you have encouraged sports and good health not only among young people among senior citizens all of these will have a very positive and long-term impact on the future of India and the future of the world. Thank you very much Honorable Prime Minister. Your practical vision of the neighborhood first policy has been eagerly put into practice by St. Stephen's College with its successful young leaders neighborhood first fellowship program. It is the first such fellowship program of its kind in India where we invite young leaders, young promising leaders from the neighborhood to come and learn the good practices that we have in India. This has been enabled by the leaders of your vision. We thank you for your vision and the support that the Ministry of External Affairs has provided to implement your vision. Your recent phenomenal leadership at the G20 is one more policy that St. Stephen's College wishes to follow up on. Your honorable self very graciously announced to the Global South that you, that India will be the voice of the Global South. Since Stephen's College has just now recently placed before the Ministry of External Affairs a proposal to share the intellectual capital and exemplary skill sets that India possesses as a part of the promise that you as a visionary and responsible global leader made to the Global South. Thank you, respected Prime Minister, for what you have done for India and for the world. In telling the world that India wishes development in an equitable manner and following it up with decisive action as Stephen's College assures you our strongest support in these visionary steps that you have taken. India is a great civilization but your vision for India through the policies that your honorable self has put forward and implemented has shown splendid results. I am not a great technology person nor am I a brilliant bureaucrat. I am a teacher but as a teacher I can see the many benefits that our young people will gain through the steps that you have taken. Digital India the national education policy the neighborhood first policy your promise to be the voice of India each of these puts India in the top position globally. Thank you very much, respected and honored Prime Minister. Today is Christmas day. Last night we had our Christmas service in our small chapel in the college and like in every service conducted in our churches and chapels we prayed for you as our leader. May your good works continue to bring development peace and happiness not only to India but to the whole world. I am aware that you are very fond of one of the oldest and therefore I would like to conclude my speech here in a language that you love. Dear Prime Minister I in this small chapel I offer the love of Christ to you. I want you to be the place of God I thank you all for doing good and blessing to the people . I am grateful to you in few more years the world will be a struggling place for India. Thank you to win Pyrrhandanal vartikal, Puttandu vartikal. Thank you. Thank you, George Juvagiji, principal of St Stephen's College. Your message on national educational policy is well taken. And your conclusion in Tamil has been accepted. And thank you very much. And now I call in Archbishop Anil Kunto. He is somebody who needs no introduction. He's the face of Delhi. Please join us and give us your Christmas message. Our honorable Prime Minister, sir, your Eminence, Colonel Gracious, all our ecclesiastical dignitaries, political dignitaries, distinguished guests. First of all, I would like to thank our Honorable Prime Minister, because you have invited us all here in your Prangad. This is the first time I am here with you. This is the birth of Prabhupisukh, Manane Hithu. We are very happy. And it proves that Christmas is not only a feast of the Christian minority community, but Christmas is a national feast. Because this is what you have shown us. That is why we would like to thank you very much. And the message of Christmas, the message of love, the message of love, the message of unity, the message of brotherhood, should be fulfilled. This is our prayer. And as a speaker, Dr. John Varghese has just said, before me, we pray for you. We pray for the entire government, we pray for the country. Every Sunday is celebrated in our Holy Mass and worship service. And especially during these days, when we celebrate Christmas, we also do it on New Year's Day. So that your main issue, everyone's support, everyone's development, should be fulfilled. That is our prayer. That no one should be left behind. Everyone's development, because the Prime Minister has announced this. So we pray for this. This is what the Provisers have brought to this earth. And I would like to tell you that the Christian community has always worked for the development of the country, for the development of the country, as we all have spoken, and we always speak in so many fields, educational, in health services, social uplift, or whatever it is, we, the love and devotion for the country, as citizens of this country, with all our love, we work for the country's prosperity, for the country's development. We will continue to do it. And no sacrifice is less for us. And that is what I would like to stress here on Christmas Day, that the Christian community will give its utmost for the development of the country, for the development of the country, for the development of the country. And we pray for God's wisdom upon you. This is also the message of Christmas, that you may have the grace of God always, the counsel of God, and the strength of God to carry on this wonderful leadership that you have given for the nation, and globally, which is called Varnan, so we thank you for your leadership and pray that God may bless you with all his blessings of good health and everything that you need for this role, for our nation. Thank you, Prime Minister Ji, that you invited us. May God bless us all. And good luck to you on Christmas Day, and the coming new year 2024 may be truly prosperous for everyone, for the whole country, every citizen of our nation. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you, Anil. Thank you, Archbishop Anil Koto. Your message has been received across the Christian community, present here. And now, we'll have some thoughts from our honorable Prime Minister, Prime Minister.  This is very happy for me that on this special and sacred occasion, all of you have come to my residence. When the Indian Minority Foundation gave this proposal, that we all should celebrate Christmas together, I said, why don't you celebrate it here? And that's how this event was made. So it's a very happy occasion for me. Anil has helped me a lot. I am very grateful to him. For this event, I am also very grateful to the Minority Foundation. I have nothing new with the Christian community. A very old man has been born. And he has a very warm relationship. During the stay of Gujarat's CM, I was with the Christian community and their leaders. I would often meet them, and I would go to Maninagar from where I used to go. There is Abadi in a very large area. And I would be very proud of her. A few years ago, I was also fortunate to meet the Holy Pope. That was really a memorable moment for me. We made this land a better place. Social harmony, global brotherhood, climate change, and inclusive development. There were so many things and we had to sit for a long time and talk. Friends, Christmas is that day when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. This is the time to remember their life, message and values. Jesus has lived the lives of the people of Corona and the service. He did a work to make such a society where there is justice for everyone. And the inclusive society of our country, in our country's development journey, this is the way to guide us like a guiding light. Friends, in different ways of social life, we see so many things that unite us. For example, in the Bible, it is said that whatever gift God has given us, whatever contribution he has given us, we should use it to serve others. And this is the service of God. In the Holy Bible, truth is given very important. And where it is said that truth will show us the way to salvation. And friends, all the holy priests have also focused on knowing the ultimate truth so that we can free ourselves. We can move forward together by focusing on our shared values and our shared heritage. For the 21st century of the Indian times, this service, this understanding, this feeling of everyone's effort will take India to a new heights. Friends, in the Holy Bible, in one of our Christmas addresses, Jesus prayed to the Messiah that the people who are involved in killing the poor should receive their blessings. They believe that the poor hurt the poor. In the words of the Holy Pope, the same feeling is present that is in our mantras for development. Our mantras are the support of everyone, the faith of everyone, the development of everyone, the effort of everyone. As a government, we are making sure that the benefit of development reaches everyone and that no one is hiding from it. To the many people of the Christian community, especially the poor and the poor, the benefit of development is reaching the country today. I remember when we gathered different mantras for the fissures. So, to the Christian community, many young brothers and sisters, we took this step from a 60-degree angle, and I also accepted it. I was very surprised. Friends, at this time of Christmas, for the country, for the Christian community, I would like to say one thing for sure, that India accepts your blessing with pride. The Christian community in the freedom movement, is an important role model. In the freedom struggle, there were many thinkers and leaders of the Christian community. Gandhi himself said that the idea of a non-cooperation movement was created by the principal of the St. Stephen's College, Sushil Kumar Rudra. Friends, the Christian community is an important role model to guide the society. In the Christian community, the Christian community takes part in the movement. And your community is always ahead for the service of the poor and the poor. Education and healthcare are very important. Even today, in the whole of India, the Christian community is giving a very important role. Friends, up to 2047, the goal of developing the Christian community, along with this goal, is to increase the number of people who are trying to develop the community. In this development journey, our most important friend, is our youth. For the development of the community, it is very important that our youth physically, mentally and emotionally, keep fit and healthy. With this goal, there is a lot of knowledge. Just a fit India, the use of the millets, the focus on nutrition, the awareness of mental health and the knowledge against the drugs have become popular. I am a Christian community leader, and I would like to request the education and healthcare institutions to make people aware of these issues. Friends, Christmas is a tradition of giving gifts. I also got a very holy gift. And so, at this time, we should think about how we can give the next generation a better way of life. Sustainability is needed at this time. Living a sustainable lifestyle is the central message of the mission life. There is an international movement, which is being led by India. This movement encourages pro-planet people to lead a pro-planet lifestyle. And the small book, The Green Color, this is also one way. And for the example, Reusing and Recycling. The use of biodegradable materials, the use of millets, the use of minimal carbon-fruits, the use of minimal carbon-fruits, we can make many such things a part of our daily lives. And we can make big changes. And I believe a Christian community who is so socially conscious, can lead a pro-planet life in this mission, can control it. Friends, there is one thing that is vocal for local. When we increase the local businesses, when we become the ambassadors of local businesses in India, then this is also a service to the country. With the help of the local ministry, lakhs and lakhs of people in the country have a job, a self-employed job.  Friends, once again we wish that the festive season strengthens us as a nation to bring all the local people closer. This is your in our diversity to strengthen the bonding that keeps us united. You all are very happy with me and you have come all the time and you have come from Mumbai especially in that age. As you know, many of you keep getting blessings, meet each other, meet each other. Once again, I thank you. I thank every one of you for being with me and you have made these children a lot of blessings. Thank you.


This is coach Mack welcome to beneath the surface powered by Microsoft surface today We're going to look at four plays from the Titans Green Bay game and we're going to incorporate all three aspects of the game We're going to look at offensive plays. We're going to look at defensive plays and we're going to look at the special teams play The first play we're going to look at here. It's 43 seconds left in the second quarter We're going to see a nice touchdown throw watch the manipulation of a pocket And then Jonu Smith working himself open in the back of the end zone makes a great sliding catch Watch the pocket. This is four-man rush perfect pocket Ryan Tannehill now manipulates a pocket moves up in the big gap eyes downfield Jonu does a really good job of uncovering in the end zone Uncovers and then goes down low for the catch touchdown Titans We're looking at special teams play here now what we're going to look at now is Derrington Evans It's a really nice return. The blocking is beautiful. This is man blocking It's a middle return that breaks out to the right side does a very good job of setting his blocks up You've got to hit it hard and now he makes moves cutting off of his blocks You can see a hat on a hat makes a man miss runs through an arm tackle Nice nice return that sets up our following play Now we're looking at third and one watch everybody collapse on Derek Henry on this third and one You've got everybody collapsing Green Bay has called a run blitz take a look at number 31 Their deep safety how far he takes this run fake and by the time he realizes what has happened as they're coming on This run pressure Ryan Tannehill has got his wheels. He is gone 45 yards later touchdown Titans signature finger roll by Ryan Tannehill This was a great great example of the draw that Derek Henry is to defenses Last play with a little agar look at the defensive play now We've got a zone pressure you very seldom can fool Aaron Rodgers.  It's not man coverage He misreads the coverage Malcolm Butler does a really really good job of keeping his eyes on the quarterback Feeling the route as it's coming to him and breaks right in front of the Vonte Adams for a big big Interception and there you have four plays Including all three phases of the Titans in this ballgame against the Green Bay Packers two on offense one on special teams And then a turnover an interception by Malcolm Butler on defense


All right, here's some good news, I guess. I guess in some universe this is good news. This is what's happening to U.S. manufacturing. U.S. manufacturing is going through a massive boom. This is factory construction spending. This is the amount of dollars spent on construction of factories since 2016 or 2017. And if your standard for U.S. wellbeing is, like it was I think for Trump for much, manufacturing, how much manufacturing, how much new factories are we planning? Then you have to say Biden has succeeded where Trump has failed during Trump administration, mostly flat. Biden, it's gone through the roof. Factory construction spending has doubled since early 2022. Wow, you go. And then maybe you step back and think about this for a minute. Why? What has happened? What has changed? And one of the principles in economics is if you subsidize something, if you provide a strong monetary incentive for people to do something, they're likely to do it and do a lot of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. Generally, if you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize it, you get more of it. No, this is all pure subsidies. This is the consequence of the CHIP Act. This is why you've got a lot of billions and billions of billions of dollars going on here invested in a new CHIP manufacturing because the US government is gonna print money or borrow money to pay you to build the CHIP manufacturing plant. So you do it. And this is a consequence of the Inflation Reduction Act which basically printed money or borrowed money to give people money to do all kinds of things, but a lot of it was about building EV plants, like the vehicle plants, building batteries, subsidizing batteries. So this is all government subsidies. And look, government subsidies create economic activity. They allocate capital to where the subsidy is targeted. There's no question about that. Subsidies are very effective. If your goal is to get lots of manufacturing construction, just subsidize factory construction and it happens. And this is subsidizing the construction but it's also subsidizing the product that the answer a lot of people are rushing to build the product so that when they deliver it, it gets subsidized. This is government. This is government, quote, stimulating the economy. And this is government creating demand for the products that central planners in the government have decided are good. The problem with this, of course, is this is another broken window fallacy. This is, the money has to come from somewhere. The money doesn't just proof appear. The money is not costless. Any money spent on constructing these factories is not being spent on something else. Something else that has greater utility to people than this. How do we know it has greater utility people than this? Because people are choosing to spend it elsewhere rather than here. This is, at the end, government coercion. This is the use of force on dictating where money should be spent. The choices made in the market are choices made voluntarily. Those choices did not lead to a manufacturing boom. What is leading to a manufacturing boom is government coercion. Therefore, this is not, this is taking money from people who would have spent it differently, who would have invested it differently, and investing it the way the government wants. Now, I don't know exactly how this will end. It won't end well. I don't know when. I don't know how. I don't know how it will manifest itself and not any well. A lot of it will be, as I've said many, many times, one of the things about economics is it's very hard to say, this caused that, particularly over long periods of time because there's so many moving pieces. But what I will say is that all of this stuff, what it will cause is slow economic growth, stagnation, and a real challenging economy in the decades to come. Potential negative growth, but certainly very slow positive growth, if any at all. This might end with a lot of companies bankrupt who invested in these industries that the government is then subsidizing that then turn out to be maybe suboptimal, maybe not that profitable, even with the subsidy. Maybe some of these factories that are built now become obsolete very quickly. Maybe the construction is going to be shoddy. Who knows? Tom says Snoop, Snops or whatever they call it, is listing the Starlink and Substory as false. I have a screen image of them listing it as true. Now, maybe my source is wrong in this, but I think it was the whole Snoop thing, snop, whatever, it was listed on Twitter. And as a consequence, my guess is they changed and they realized they made a mistake. But the original was true and I have a screenshot of that. All right, anyway, government manipulating economy, you have it right there, doesn't end well. These things never do end well. So, yeah, we are, we are heading in a manufacturing boom, but where is the bus? There's a bus somewhere where all that money would have gone, if not for these distortions. Part of the distortions, by the way, are just the fact that the government has taken on more debt in order to fund all this and that budget deficit will have to be paid one day with taxes, with inflation, with some future distortion of the market, which will be much more negative and much more harming than this might be a little positive. Central planning doesn't work. Maybe you can let your politicians know. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. 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Welcome to the Tick Mill Update, I'm Kiana Daniels, CEO of investdiva.com. The biggest news on Wednesday was the Fed cut an interest rate by another quarter point for the second time this year. But the FOMC remains divided on further actions this year, which led to President Trump saying the central bank and the Fed chair Jerome Powell have no guts because they are not metting out a more aggressive interest rate cut as the global economy slows. In other news, Canada's consumer price index for August came out at 1.9% as expected. Thursday is yet another busy day for forex traders as we are looking out for the SNB policy rate from Switzerland and the Bank of England bank rate, as well as the US initial jobless claims. Today I'm looking at the dollar-sweezy pair, which appears to be in the process of forming a double bottom bullish reversal chart pattern. The pair broke above the daily Ichimako Cloud last week and reached our profit target of 0.9985. Friday Thursday could see volatility and potentially a pullback as low as the even upper band of the Ichimako Cloud and the 61% for Banachi Tracement level of 0.9842. However, the longer-term outlook remained bullish for the time being, of course. Trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss and you should only trade the money you can afford to lose. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our social media. I'll get back to you with more updates tomorrow.