Dear friends, let's move on with our agenda. Now, point 18, we'll have a debate on the priorities of the Spanish presidency. It is my great pleasure and honor to welcome the Secretary of State for the European Union from Spain, Señor Pascual Navarro. I ask you to take your seat. I invite you to take your seat. Now, I will give the floor to the Secretary of State to present us an initial statement on the priorities of the Spanish presidency. And then we will open the floor for the political groups because we have a little time constraint, so it's only the political groups as agreed previously with them that will intervene. Señor Navarro, you have the floor for 10 minutes. Thank you very much, President. Honorable members of the European Committee of the Regions, ladies and gentlemen, I compare in the name of the Council against this plenary session of the European Union local and regional representatives assembly, I reflect on the plurality and diversity of Europe and its citizenship. As you know, the motto of the Spanish presidency of the Union is Europe closer, closer to Europe, to all its territories and to all its citizens.  Spain has assumed the presidency of the Council of the Union at a decisive moment in the construction of the European project. The Spanish presidency is the last complete before the European elections and the next European legislative cycle. We are negotiating a large amount of key experience from the point of view of European integration, approximately 120, which are major advances in the social, environmental and economic area and which are positively reflected in the well-being of our citizens. aware of this, the presidency has begun with the maximum determination, taking into account a deep European vocation and surpassing the Ecuador, we have celebrated about 30 trilogues, about nine formal advice and about 18 informal ministerial meetings. The pace will increase even more in these months and we are facing a huge opportunity to show everything we can contribute to Europe. I want to point out here that the Spanish presidency is a real country project that is nourished by the work and knowledge of multiple actors, particularly the autonomous communities and local entities whose active involvement guarantees the correct territorial implantation of the Spanish presidency. This has been reflected in itself in the celebration of informal ministerial meetings and events throughout the Spanish geography, proposed in this case both by the autonomous communities and by the local entities. The presidency program is articulated in four priorities, the line with the concerns and demands of European citizens, because the Spanish presidency's driving force is precisely the European citizen, that is, through European actions we can improve the well-being of people and solve problems. The first of these priorities is reindustrialization and open strategic autonomy. We have been working together for years in open strategic autonomy, but recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian aggression have shown the need to accelerate our work and solve, as soon as possible, our most serious vulnerabilities. We are trying to build a strong Europe. The international opening has been very beneficial for the European Union. However, we cannot deny that the Union has become excessively dependent on a very low number of countries in key sectors, and this has also negatively affected the well-being of European citizens. We have to prevent and build a Union together, which at the same time benefits from all advantages. The international trade does not depend on a very low number of actors, especially for essential goods. We have to diversify and stretch ties with our most reliable partners. In this sense, the third summit with the European Union has been a collective success that contributes to strengthening the network of external alliances of the U.S. and its strategic autonomy, resulting in the benefit of everyone. We must promote reindustrialization, placing the European Union at the head of the technological revolution, at the same time that we diversify our sources of supply. In this sense, we must advance in experiments such as the law of raw materials, the platform of strategic technologies for Europe, and the Artificial Intelligence Law, issues all of which have been set up in the final discussions and declarations of the European Council on Grana de Granada recently. The second priority is to advance in green transition and environmental adaptation. To stop the climate crisis and the degradation of the environment is not only an ineligible necessity, but also an opportunity to drastically reduce our energy dependence and our electricity bill, making the European companies more competitive and eliminating the energy poverty among our citizens. The reform of the electric market, the gas and hydrogen package, the relative normative to conservation and restoration of biodiversity, or the law of zero net emissions industry are part of the central experiences of the Spanish presidency. Thirdly, we need to promote greater social and economic justice. We need a more competitive economy, without a doubt, and also a more fair and solid economy, and both objectives are perfectly compatible to strengthen the state of well-being. Among the great experiences is the review of the Plurian annual financial framework, as well as the reform of the economic governance rules that have a structural character for the Union. We will continue, at the same time, in the initiatives and goals set in the action plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights, as well as in the adoption of measures in favor of the equality of treatment among people and its inclusion, paying special attention to gender equality, to children's issues, disability, as the directive proposal of the TARGETA de Discapacidad, which recently presented the Commission and we hope to be able to approve it soon. The fourth priority is to strengthen the European Union. It is crucial that if we continue to support Ukraine under the principles of unity and solidarity, as it is also essential to offer a real approach to our partners of the Western Balkans who, like Ukraine, want to be part of the Union. One of the most consistent messages of the presidency was the visit of the Spanish President Kiev on July 1, the first day of the presidency, which expressed in a very clear way that we are and we will be with them the time that is necessary. A message that has recently been received by the foreign ministers of the Union in its meeting precisely in Kiev on October 2. At the same time, we must advocate for an optimization of the decision-making processes so that we can act with the rapid efficiency that requires a vulnerable context. We must finally be able to agree on a more efficient and coordinated management of the migrations and asylum procedures, a management of the migratory fruits that are hand-ordered, solidary and responsible. So far, some agreements have been reached, relevant to those that would highlight the law of data, the law of support for the production of munitions, the agreement relating to the new distribution of funds in the European Parliament, the free trade agreement with New Zealand, the Unlockment of the Post-Cotonous Agreement or, as you recently know, the Agreement on the Regulation of Crisis in the Pact of Migration and Asylum. Mr. President, from the beginning of the Spanish presence, we have been maintaining a very close collaboration and coordination with the European Committee of the Regions that, consequently, is having a very active presence in our presidency. First, I highlight the consolidated document of political priorities consensualed by all the autonomous communities of Spain, presented before this meeting on February 8 by the Rioja Autonomous Community that detects the presidency of the Spanish delegation of the committee. In this document, both its collaboration with the presidency and its participation in the work of this committee in a series of policies are promoted. It is a priority of the presidency to reinforce the identity and cohesion of the Union. The Union must be involved to ensure that the benefits of belonging to the Union reach all citizens and all territories so that no one is left behind through the promotion of the balanced development of the territories and its social and territorial cohesion. In the field of territorial cohesion, the Spanish presidency impulses actions to the territories with risk of depolation, the insular territories and the ultra-peripheral regions. We share the positive assessment of the Dictament of the Committee of the Regions of February 8 on the RUB strategy, the ultra-peripheral regions of the Commission, in which the creation of a European Tourism Agency, which is of interest to Canaries, as possible, is supported, and we share the request directed to the Union to put its support policies and the investment instruments for the ultra-peripheral regions to address the weaknesses and structural limitations of these territories that require an adaptation of European policies, as established in Article 349 of the Functionary Treaty. We also promote the debate on the development of strategies for maritime regions with common geographical specifications, such as the Atlantic Marque region, and the Spanish presidency shares with this committee this same focus, and we are working to achieve the required consensus with which to advance to develop this proposal and to present it to the Council as soon as possible. We also work on a territorial issue that takes into account the natural and geographical peculiarities, promoting new initiatives that address the demographic challenge in the areas of abandoned population, progressive aging, and regions that seem to have important population fluctuations. Last September, there was a conference at a high level on aging to promote a European strategy for older people, and the conference encouraged that demographic issues, especially emphasis on aging, are an object of exchange during this semester in the Marco del Consejo in the General Issues Council. The Commission has announced that it will present approximately a box of tools, specifically today, in today's Commission, and it will be addressed in the next General Issues Council. This conference has followed a forum at a high level on rural policy in Siguenza last September 27, in which the need to promote infrastructures with activity and digitality in the rural environment, as there will only be a future in the rural world that will be sustainable and profitable. Thirdly, on November 3, a conference on demographic and policy challenges against the population in the Segovia farm focused on addressing demographic challenges and territorial challenges from the retention and talent attraction and the participation of the Committee of Regions. The Commission, dedicated to the policy of cohesion, celebrated an informal meeting last September 29 in Murcia, in which the President took part. He discussed the so-called policy of cohesion 2.0, that is to say, the direction that this policy should take once the current Marco Financiero Plurianual in 2027 and the challenges that are faced. The Spanish Presidency has found clear support between that this policy should offer greater flexibility and precision in the identification of the needs of the regions. With the aim of estimating the debate, the Spanish Presidency requested the Committee of Regions, as they know, a report on the mechanism of recovery and resilience and policy of cohesion towards a policy of cohesion 2.0, whose general lines were presented at the meeting by the President of the Committee of Regions. This report, which in the framework of this collaboration between the Spanish Presidency and the Committee, at the end of the meeting, was edited 5 dictamens, as part of the preparatory work of the Presidency. The already mentioned and other 4 on the role of the regions and cities of the Union in the fulfillment of the ODS, the trans-frontal cooperation in emergencies and fighting fires, a particular issue and the cities as health promoters. Finally, I want to remind you that on October 31, we will receive the Committee or the table, in La Rioja, where the external meeting of the table is celebrated, centered on demographic challenges, precisely and political issues. In short, we have a huge task ahead as Presidency. We are, we have a fundamental and we firmly believe in Europe and we are fully aware that the well-being of all Europeans goes through a union more united, stronger, more social and closer to the citizens. Thank you very much, President. Thank you so much. On behalf of the EPP group, I give the floor to member Marcula for 4 minutes. Please speak up. We need to bring in a few key factors that we need to be aware of. I am sure that when we are talking about the three-day meeting of the regional committee, we need to bring in the key factors that we need to be aware of. And it is very natural that Europe should be a more innovative, more responsible and safer country, where life-saving work, the opportunity to try, and the learning are the best in the world. In Europe, well-earned, sustainable growth and competition are based on the development of a much greater part of the economy, of the distribution, of the population, of the population, of the population, of the population, of the production, of the transportation industry, and of the previous experience and of the innovation. We have actively recently launched a commission on the development of a very well-prepared EU mission in the new innovation management and still in the active field, in the innovation industry and in the development of those. Spanish areas are, for example, very actively preparing and bringing together many good-looking social activities to promote innovation and innovation. In Europe, this means that we all, hopefully in every way, want to learn new, new ways to do it, to promote the development in different ways and to promote it in an environmentally friendly way and in all of society. We have long-term, strong participation in the field. We are currently taking into account the opportunities of the right to mechatrend, such as digitalization and tech, but also a number of needs, And our responsibility is also to create solutions to global problems and to respond to international questions. The Spanish-speaking leadership is very strong in the field of technology and EU innovation, but especially in the open, strategic autonomy. It is very good and wonderful that you have brought the energy, health, digital technology and food to the present. These are certainly the substances that we are no longer interested in. We especially want to emphasize that we have the opportunity and the public, that the single sector is much more vulnerable to the development of new innovations. We need them in the course of the project. The European Union has long been the target of three percent of the country's production goal, but we are still a lot after that. There is a lot of work to be done here and every leader of the conversation needs to correct this, because it is the basis for the development of innovation. And here we are waiting a lot for the Spanish-speaking leadership. Thank you. Thank you. On behalf of the PES Group, Member Catatuto. Thank you very much for the floor, Mr. President. Thank you very much, Mr. Navarro, for being with us today. Maybe this is not the perfect time for new legislation like few months before the European elections, but I think this is a perfect time to be focused on the things that has already been decided. There are a lot of goals, a lot of missions going on. I think implementation is as important, make them become real as important than having new things. So focusing on it is really good. Also interlacing strategies. We have many strategies, but we are not interlacing them. So if I look at the Green Deal, it should be interlaced with just transition. It should be interlaced with gender equality. And please don't forget the already existing city's mission. We had 112 cities in a mission to become climate neutral. Many of us are sitting here. We are cutting 112 paths, new paths, setting examples to become climate neutral. Strong support is needed. If you look around, you will find a lot of ambition in this room. A lot of ambition. But it doesn't meet the resources. So maybe this is a good time again to rethink about new resources that can be channeled into the European budget. It's a great opportunity. You were talking about the blueprint Spain is putting out. I think that's absolutely true. If I look at just transition, if I look at fighting energy poverty, or if I look at fighting violence against women. So please use this opportunity to put a spotlight on all these things and set examples. Thank you very much. Thank you. On behalf of the Renew Europe Group, I give the floor to Vili Borsus. Three minutes. I would like to focus my reaction on a particularly important chapter of your exposure. The chapter dedicated to the strategic autonomy in the efforts of reindustrialization of Europe. I see that these priorities are absolutely crucial. And I would like to mention three or four points. First, our support, our willingness to develop very important efforts in terms of research, innovation, translation in activity, in business and in employment of these efforts in research and innovation. Of course, we have the support of the Renew Europe Programme, innovation funds, dedicated funds such as the European Fund for Defense, or specific mechanisms such as alliances or the IPCU. In this context, and this is the second part, the fact that we can have skills, human resources, whether it is the fruit of education, initial training, continuous training throughout the career, is an absolutely crucial element and a priority for us. In the same context, the digital transition, which also allows Europe, our regions, our countries to remain competitive, to become competitive in a certain number of new activities and new industrial characteristics, must also, of course, be able to develop European policies, to be amplified. I finish by mentioning two more points, if you wish. The fact that it is the third flight, the access to energy, a more neutral energy in carbon, but a guaranteed energy in volume, in continuity, but also an energy at a cost that is competitive is a whole pan of the capacity of our companies to conquer global markets or to remain competitive. And the last element that I would like to highlight is that these different efforts of reindustrialization, of support for the initiatives of industrial activities must not be raised on a new competition within Europe, between regions or between countries. Thank you very much for your presentation and I am happy to continue with the Belgian President a certain number of your priorities. Thank you. Now on behalf of the ECR Group, our member Garcia Gallardo, you have the floor for two minutes, two and a half minutes. Thank you very much, President. Pedro Sánchez said a few days ago in Granada that Europe in the future will only be able to get up on the cement of security, stability and prosperity. Allow me to ask you a series of questions about this, Mr. Secretary of State. Do you think that they are betting on European security while they are on the southern border, keeping an open border policy and collaborating with people's illegal trafficking mafia? Do you really think that the growing crime in the neighborhoods linked to the illegal immigration that you promote contributes to security within the European Union? Let us know, Mr. Navarro. Do you think that it facilitates the stability of emitting with Argelia one of our main providers of natural gas in the middle of an energy crisis? Or do you think that they are betting on stability blocking an institutional and European declaration when they treat their government partners with ambiguity the terrorist acts of ever? Let us know, Mr. Navarro. Do you think that they are betting on our prosperity by financing the agriculture of extra-community countries that introduce their products into our common market without fulfilling the same health requirements as our producers? Or do you think that they are betting on the prosperity of Europeans with their industrial policies inspired by climate alarm? Let us know, Mr. Navarro. Or, if you prefer, save us. Europe supports us with more lies or more opinions, as its boss says. The reality is that its policies are the opposite of security, stability and prosperity. Europeans live in safer neighborhoods because of a multiculturalism that has failed, as we see constantly in Bilbao, Sandinis or Molenbeek. Europeans enjoy less stability because of their radical foreign policy and our lack of strategic independence in fundamental issues such as energy. Europeans have a horizon of less prosperity because of their expensive experiments of green social engineering that are facilitating the enrichment of our main competitors. I must make a concession. Mr. Sánchez does not lie when he says that the future of Europe will only be able to focus on security, stability and prosperity. The problem, as it is common in his government, is that you are doing the opposite of what they say. You have nothing European, on the contrary, that is the end of the European project and our fundamental principles. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you. Now the floor goes to the European Alliance Group, Sergio Perez Garcia. Thank you, Mr. President. Dear Secretary of State, Dear Pasqual, Good morning. Allow me to translate my joy by knowing that reindustrialization and the development of strategic industries and their technologies are one of the priorities of the Spanish presidency. As you will surely know, Navarra is the region of the most industrialized state and with a very superior level to the European media. Our industry represents 30% of the contribution of our GDP. Therefore, and in line with European policies, we are working to support and grow this data through the active listening to our industrial strategy. We were pioneers in the development of renewable energies in an innovative and strong industry. We are an innovative region according to the Corbworth Regional Innovation, one of the four strongest regional innovations in the state, along with Catalonia, Madrid and Basque countries. And we are a region with an industrial fabric that is working to apply the criteria of circularity in the processes and products and services, in line with the Green Deal and with the green European industrial plan. Because, yes, we believe in Europe. All this in the framework of our Smart and Sustainable Specialization Strategy, S4, whose sectors highlighted as strategic allow us to develop public support for the industry so that it has to face this double transition, ecological and digital, to give a brief example. In a month, the British Commissioner, competent in the industry and the domestic market, will attend Pamplona, Iruña, with the occasion of the second meeting of the Auto-Motion Regions Alliance, in the European Committee of Regions, and that unites 34 European regions that demand a fair transition of the vehicle of fuel to the new sustainable mobility. Another example of renewable sectors, we close the year with an investment of 150 million in projects of green hydrogen or strategic in the circular economy. The first recycling plant for the European generation is being built in Navarra, in Cortes. Or also the agro-food industry, where Navarra, the epicenter of the green food, is worth it. It is a last message of collaboration and to call for collaboration. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now, on behalf of the Greens, the floor goes to Member Una Power for two minutes. Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Navarro, for joining us today and outlining the work already done by the Spanish presidency on its priorities. In seeking to rebuild European industry to strengthen our economic autonomy and food security and to make us resilient to external shocks such as those that we have seen over the last few years, we must ensure that this work is done within environmental limits. A green and just transition is necessary for an economy that is stable, secure and works for its people. Our dependence upon imports of fossil fuels has left us particularly vulnerable to external factors. And I'm glad to hear you raise this today. The war in Ukraine has highlighted this in a shocking and immediate fashion. Our citizens were left at risk of energy poverty and inordinately high costs as we moved away from dependence on Russian imports. The danger of such reliance and fossil fuel imports has been echoed again recently with the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. We must invest swiftly and heavily in truly renewable sources within our union. The move to renewable sources not only insulates us from market shocks it also provides opportunities as you have said, providing more green jobs in construction and maintenance. And it also ensures that our investments are not placed in the hands of dangerous regimes. And naturally, such a move helps us to fight against the challenge of mitigating or to fight against climate change. We can look to Spain as an example of a country that has made substantial strides in decarbonisation using the Just Transition Fund and other European mechanisms to transition away from coal power and help the related workforce to adapt to green energy jobs. But we must always look for more and more ambition. The challenges of climate change and fossil fuel dependency are enormous and immediate and our action must match that scale. Thank you. Thank you so much. This concludes the interventions. The floor goes again to S. Navarro. You have the floor for 10 minutes. Thank you very much. Before doing some general observations I would like to respond to the friendly interventions of the parliamentary groups of this committee. First of all, both Mr. Marcula and Mr. Borsus have been interested in the issue of strategic autonomy and reindustrialisation. Mr. Power has also mentioned the issue of reindustrialisation. And I am sure that that is the main priority of the Spanish president, that is, to attend to the economic situation in which the Union is located, the needs of the citizens and, consequently, we all have the awareness that the solution is in adequate reindustrialisation and to achieve strategic autonomy. The previous debate in which we are, precisely, had a presentation of a series of prospective reports that the President has made, the Commission has made, whose objective, precisely, is to deepen the strategic autonomy of the Union and one of its elements in reindustrialisation. And, very important, innovation, I agree with Mr. Marcula, and very important is the issue of skills, training, also, as Mr. Borsus has said. Ms. Tito has mentioned something important and it is that, more than new legislation, you have to apply what there is. I totally agree. The Spanish president, what is being concentrated is to conclude the most important legislative experiences of the agenda of this commission. The agenda of this commission, as you all know, is basically green and digital. Some of you have also mentioned it. All digital sales are important. We are in it, data, artificial intelligence, but, above all, it is the green agenda. There is a total commitment of the Spanish president to do everything possible to complete this legislation. It is not easy. There are certain economic circumstances that advise to take into account some elements when it comes to reaching the definitive agreements, but the commitment, Mr. Tito, Mr. Appower, to complete the legislation, the program of the environmental legislation of the union, is total in the Spanish president. And Mr. Pérez García, to remember that also one of the important elements of our presidency is everything that has place with mobility, urban mobility, circularity, apart from the environmental agenda and the environmental transport agenda. In fact, there are several informal meetings in Spain that have been dedicated precisely to this whole issue, which I know is very important both for the regions as well as for local centers. Local centers, everything that is urban mobility is something essential and it is something that we have tried to focus on during our presidency. We will continue to do it until the end of the same. As I have already mentioned, if you allow me, President, some general observations. As I mentioned in my first intervention, the motto of our presidency is Europe closer and we have tried, we are trying, trying to approach Europe to all its citizens and all its territories. And proof of this has been all these ministerial meetings, seminar conferences that in collaboration with some of them, especially seminar conferences with autonomous communities, we have done. The presidency, I insist, is sensitive to the diversity of the territories and works to reinforce the economic, territorial and social issue of the Union, promoting an action in favor of the territories, I insist, with the risk of insulating, insulating, insulating, insulating, insulating, is what I want to insist in conclusion in what I mentioned at the beginning of working on the issue of insularity to fully develop Article 174 in which it affects many of the territories of you, which are islands. We will continue to work on the Atlantic region. Spain, as you know, has come to support the current Atlantic maritime strategy and that it evolves towards the creation of a regional framework strategy for the regions of the Atlantic. I have had meetings with the Atlantic arch and we hope that it is this macro region that this committee decides to have a place as soon as possible and we are working with the Commission and with the other states to achieve it. I want to insist again in the ultra-perifera regions. It is an important issue. There is a conference of ultra-perifera regions in November, as all of you know, and we hope that it advances in everything that is the revision process of the strategy towards ultra-perifera regions that have to be renewed from 2024. And they can advance in that sense. And this conference, as you know, will take place on November 8 and 9 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. And I think this committee participates, obviously not. A mention of the linguistic regime is undeniable the increasing participation of regions in the European Union's policy, even through a decided role in the debates about the future of the Union. In a moment in which the Union works constantly to increase its proximity to citizens and that worries us the disappearance of a part of the European citizenship to our common project, we are convinced that there is no better communication policy or a more direct way to approach the Union to citizens than to allow them to use in their relations with the Union the language in which it is expressed in their home, in their work and in the usual treatment with their authorities. And in this, the Committee of the Regions is a perfect example. For this reason, Spain has presented in the Council of General Affairs of last September 19, the proposal of the Government, Spanish of Modification of the Regulament 158 to include the Catalan, the Euskera and the Gallego in the linguistic regime of the Union. For the last two questions that I want to insist that they are demographic and policy of question. I have already mentioned before all the activities and proposals in demographic. I think it is very important to put in the European agenda all the issues of demographic are several, are despoilation, abandonment, aging, inequality and that there is definitely a series of initiatives and proposals and policies that put in the European agenda in a way decided in the next in the next legislation of the European Union all the issue of demographic return and all that affects to various territories that have difficulties to access inequality of conditions to the policies of the Union. In this same line I want to remember finally the important question for this Committee which is the policy of coercion. I insist that we have worked in it in our meeting on September 29 with the collaboration of the President and we hope this review of the policy of coercion that is in progress that takes into account all the territorial issues that in this debate were put to manifest at that time. In short, we have a huge task as a Presidency in which we will not waste efforts in favor to work in favor of the well-being of citizens and we have the Committee of the Regions both in what affects territorial issues specifically as in those issues of the European agenda that you have mentioned that affect in particular to the territories to the regions and to the local entities. We are at your disposal to listen to you and to collaborate with you and thank you very much for your invitation We are the ones who thank you Mr. Secretary of State for taking the time to be with us and to share with us your thoughts and reflections about the priorities of the Spanish Presidency. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you.


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We also have some of our products like SUSE Studio and SUSE Manager, which also complement the SUSE Cloud and open stack environment. And they work really well together. So some of the SUSE Cloud 3 highlights. This is our latest version that's out. Right now we're working on four for Icehouse. This is based on Havana. And it has now heat in there, which we can actually use. It's fully supported now. We have the telemetry stuff of Solometer. So we have some improvements. There's some cloud management, some new features. Full VMware support, which is awesome. Improved networking stack in block stores. We have things like the VMware, the EMC, the Cisco Nexus. SUSE Cloud 2 to SUSE Cloud 3 upgrade process. So that's really fundamental for an enterprise product. The addition of existing servers as cloud nodes. So you can go in, spin up some new servers and add them as cloud infrastructure. We also have delivered, just recently we made a big announcement for SUSE Cloud 3, high availability. I don't know if you saw the demo theater that was done by my colleague. Really awesome stuff. You can auto deploy a high availability solution throughout your cloud environment for compute infrastructure for the control plane. So what's the problem? Enterprises fear change. Cloud computing is something that's kind of fearful in an enterprise today. And there's several reasons why they fear that. There's various IT processes that they have to work around. They make large investments in their virtualized infrastructure. Whether it be VMware or some other type of virtualization platform. They invest in skilled employees. They get them trained on top of VMware. Makes it really hard to move if somebody's already been trained on one hypervisor platform. And maybe they get skilled in Linux, I hope. Or maybe they get skilled in some other area. Maybe it's Oracle. So they make a big investment there. So also lack of familiarity with open source hypervisors. So in my travels, I spend a lot of time with people that have a lot of VMware. We come up against this all the time. And I talk to them about how they can use workloads on KVM and on Zen as alternative hypervisors. Trying them out, testing those workloads out to see how well they'll run there. They don't believe me sometimes. But they try it out. They give it a whirl. Vast majority of VMware administrators are Windows users. So that's kind of a big hurdle. Getting them trained on Linux. That can be a big hurdle. That's a big investment, trying to get your staff retrained. Disaster recovery. So VMware has great disaster recovery tools. A lot of things that are built right in. You might not want to reinvent the wheel there and disrupt that process. So what do enterprises really need? It's all rainbows and unicorns, right? That's at least what we like to think, anyways. In a homogenous environment, that's not really true. These rainbows and unicorns don't exactly exist. So what do they really need? No data center is really homogenous. VMware has approximately 56% of the market. That's huge. Hyper-V is growing rapidly, although it's not necessarily on the tails of VMware. They're kind of growing in their own regard, in their own space. Cloud computing needs to be agnostic. We need to be able to plug in to multiple environments, be able to utilize current infrastructure, be able to take workloads and move them around from one infrastructure to another one, be able to have that brokering between various hypervisors. Today we have VMware, and these are the major players today. VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, the Zen project, and then KVM. These are the major players. Now there's some other things on the rise, but they're not mainstream yet. Mixed hypervisors support matters. Now why? Because you have workload optimization. There may be an application that runs really well on VMware. There may be an application that runs really well on KVM. I always suggest people that they try those workloads out on the various hypervisors, because you might find that you might be able to save some costs by running it on a KVM or Zen hypervisor rather than VMware and not paying into that VMware attacks. Cloud can simplify your control plane. You can schedule instances and workloads across the various hypervisors, and it gives you licensing flexibility on to be stuck in that VMware attacks. So how can I make it happen? With VMware, you're going to need a driver that's been added as of Grizzly. They've been doing a lot of work on that driver, and they really have expanded it quite a bit. Early on, it only supported a single cluster, which was kind of limiting, but now supports multiple clusters in Havana. Yeah, don't use Grizzly. So major upgrade in Havana. Compute node dedicated to communicating with vSphere. And so that can be easily done with OpenStack today. A direct connection to vSphere. There's also the NSX plug-in for Neutron, so if you are going down the road of doing your software-defined networking, you really want to deploy that. Clusters of clusters with VMware, so now multiple clusters are supported. And you're going to need a bridge interface defined on ESXi systems on your vSphere systems. Some of the limitations there, though, you have no IP tables. So where you were really used to that on KVM or Zen, you don't have that in the VMware infrastructure. You can't do security groups. You can't really lock that down, and so you have some limitation on that when you're running in VMware. No cinder support. Although in Icehouse, we do have the VMDK driver now in cinder, so that's kind of a nice thing. Take advantage of that. And then, of course, no live migrations. You have to rely upon the tools within VMware. So Microsoft Hyper-V. How do we do that? It's very usable as of Grizzly code. And you can set up some virtual switching. You'll need to do that within the Hyper-V environment. You have to enable the iSCSI initiator service within Hyper-V. So there's quite a few steps you've got to do here within the Hyper-V system.  And then install the Nova compute on your Hyper-V node. Some of the limitations, again, we don't have any IP tables, so we're limited again. No security groups. So if you want to go in and configure your users to have certain aspects of security within your OpenStack framework, that will not carry on over to your Hyper-V environment. And you must use RDP. So there's no way that you can use that console within Horizon. So the VLAN and routing is also supported on Hyper-V. When you use the Neutron Hyper-V agent, which is the ML2 driver, it gives you that Layer 2 functionality. So you're going to need that if that's the type of functionality you're going to want with VLANs. So Zen and KVM. This is kind of the de facto default around OpenStack using KVM or Zen. With SUSE, we give you the easy button. We make it easy for you to deploy, to consume, any hypervisor that you would like to use. Okay? So how do you do it? So this picture is a crowbar. We use the crowbar automation interface to auto-deploy all of our infrastructure for SUSE Cloud. Glance, when you are importing some of these other images for, let's say, Hyper-V or VMware, there's some things you need to look at. If you're importing an image, you need for VMware, you need to have the preallocated disk type. Make sure it's a flat image. Make sure it's ready for ESX. There may be some other images that may not actually work. So you need to pay attention to that. A nice utility from VMware is the VMware vDisk manager to do that conversion. So this is kind of a tool that you're going to need to use to convert that image into the right format that can be consumed in VMware outside of using OpenStack. And so this is kind of the end result. This is what it looks like inside of SUSE Cloud. You're going to have a Hyper-V, you're going to have KVM, you're going to have VMware all working together from OpenStack. So let's dig into that just a little bit deeper. I'm going to show you live some of this stuff. I've got everything running under VMware Workstation currently. And let me load up the SUSE Cloud dashboard horizon. And while that's loading up, we'll skip on over to crowbar nova configuration logged in here. And I have a couple of images in this environment. I have a VMware image and I have a KVM image. We can see those here. And they're automatically labeled VMX and KVM. We have a bit of a broker, I guess you could call it, SUSE Studio. We can build images in any format we really want, whether it be VMware or Hyper-V or something that's in Amazon EC2 Cloud even. But we can use that service to be able to auto populate our images in OpenStack. It's a great functionality. And you can see that here. I have VMX, I have KVM. And if I go to the basic project OpenStack, I can launch some of these here. And we'll just go ahead and launch a couple of these up. We'll start with the VMware one first. And I should have it pre-cached. It does take a little bit longer because it is, you know, it copies over the whole flat file for that image. So it just takes a little bit longer. So we'll go ahead and put that in there. And I'm just doing some very basic stuff here. And that's going to build and launch over on VMware. That process is going to take a little bit. So while that's doing that, why don't we go ahead and launch the one on a KVM hypervisor as well. And they're both spawning. That VMware one's going to take a little bit longer while that's going through that. Let's take a look at vCenter. So nice you can do this all on Linux now. It used to be you could only do vCenter from Windows. Not anymore. It's all logged in there. That'll take a little minute to load. And they're both running. I've got one running under VMware. I've got one running under KVM. And I could launch even more if I wanted to. The way that I'm making all this happen, using this broker that I was talking about, SUSE Studio, I have an image here that I've taken. I've created it. And I've selected all the software that I've wanted. I've gone through the software selection, created the image that I've wanted through this, gone through some basic configurations, set up DHCP, taken out the end user license agreement, personalized it a little bit. I can even add, you know, logo in there, whatever I like. And then also do some basic appliance modifications. This really plays into account when you're creating VMware images, the disk size for VMware. Right now it's set to two gigabytes. It will expand when you create a larger disk from OpenStack. And then also integrate it with SUSE Cloud. So we have the cloud init package there to be able to do the security settings and whatnot there for the GPG keys. And then we can also tie it in with SUSE Manager and get our full compliance in the cloud, patches and updates all ready to go for all the instances that we launch in the cloud. And then, of course, once we've set that image all up, we can build that image in various formats. And I can take that same image that I've launched in my private cloud and if I want to launch it in a public cloud, I could. I could launch that into Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure straight from the SUSE Studio Broker. Just by clicking that box, we can build an Amazon EC2 image. If I select VMware, I can go down here and click build additional and it's going to build me a VMware image. It takes about four minutes. It's pretty fast. Once it's done building, it's going to automatically show up in my OpenStack environment. We've got a listener running on the OpenStack side on our control node and it listens for that broker when it has a job that's finished. It automatically runs a glance command and brings that image right into the environment. So it'll be ready for consumption. Back over to VMware. Here's vCenter. Some of the basic configuration we've got in here. Let's go take a look at what we've got. Let's look at our hosts. More importantly, let's look at our clusters. We should have a SUSE cluster in here. Here's one of our hosts. Okay. So here's the basic networking stack. I do have two network interfaces in this particular environment. The vSwitch one has the necessary pieces. We've got the bridge interface all set up. If you look through the OpenStack documentation, there's some minimal settings that you have to set up in vCenter. Really easy to set up. Make sure you have that bridging interface and it will communicate really nice and easily. That's going to take a little bit. Does anybody have any questions? I showed you a lot of stuff. I went back and forth between several different things. SUSE Cloud. We started out with the Horizon dashboard. I've showed you the SUSE Studio, the image brokers so we can launch images into our OpenStack framework. I showed you launching instances on VMware and also KVM from the same dashboard. Really cool stuff. Yeah, question. I'm sorry. What exactly is an image broker? That's kind of my words for this. So it's basically providing the ability to create an image of an operating system so that you can actually take that image and import it easily into the OpenStack framework so you can launch it as an instance. That's really what it is. That's our product, SUSE Studio. You can go out to susestudio.com and play around with it there. It's free. Okay. So one question, which was kind of hard to see, but when you launched the different images into your different hypervisor environments, is the hypervisor kind of selected based on what the image format is? Because I didn't see a separate selection for image to hypervisor. It is. It is actually based on the image format that is used for glance when it imports that image. So in our listener that's listening from this image broker, he's actually recognizing the format and saying, okay, if it's VMware that's finished, he's extracting it, doing some modifications, and then he's importing it as a VMware image into OpenStack. So he's doing all that work behind the scenes for you. Okay. Hi. I was a little late, so I apologize if this was something you covered, but I noticed when you were booting the images, you just had one network there that you selected. If you're running a more complex scenario with a variety of neutron networks, number one, does it work? And number two, if it doesn't work, how exactly does the failure, if you select a network that is, say, a GRE overlay network? Okay. Good question. So it does work. And we're actually going to show that with some heat stacks on Thursday tomorrow. Same time. Well, actually, I think it's 11.30. It's a hands-on session. So if you want to see that working with some heat stacks, we'll be creating some alternate networks and launching those up as well. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? It's pretty straightforward. SUSE is providing the easy button for you guys. It's really quick and easy to do this using Crowbar and SUSE Cloud. It's great stuff. The SUSE Cloud admin appliance is available. This admin appliance loads up Crowbar. It's got everything you need, all the software that you need to deploy an entire open stack cloud based on Havana right now. Here's the link. Go download it. It's really quick and easy. You'll have a cloud up and running about if you're as fast as I am a half an hour. Yes, question. That's correct. That's correct. So his question was, is it the ESX driver or is it the vCenter driver? It's the vCenter driver that we use. That's the one that's fully supported. The ESX driver was in partial not really written by VMware. So we don't use that one. VMware doesn't want us to use that one if we're going to get full support for it. So they want us to use vCenter. How is the HA handled? The HA DRS, I believe there's some requirements from the documentation. You have to make some modifications to it for it to work with open stack. So there are some requirements. So look out for that piece there with the DRS. There's some modifications there. Just minor modifications. And the open stack documentation lists out those modifications. Just two steps. Any other questions? We do have some geek-o handouts as you're leaving the room. We've got some cards with this link on it. So you know where to find the appliance so you can start deploying some SUSE Cloud. Thanks for coming, guys.


Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the state of the web. My guest is Andrei Sitnik, lead front-end developer at Evil Martian and creator of many popular web development tools like Post-CSS, Auto-Prefixer, and Browser's List. And today we're talking about developing for a global web. Let's get started. All right, so Andrei, thanks for being here. I mentioned in the intro that you're the creator of many popular web dev tools. What was your motivation for creating them? The first tool, which I created, become popular, was Auto-Prefixer. And it was a few stories behind the project. And one of the reasons was that I'm originally from Russia. And in Russia, there was a very popular browser called Opera. But unfortunately, people outside of Russia and Norway didn't know about this browser. And as a result, they didn't support it. I mean, not like testing this browser. I mean that completely ignore that this browser exists, like avoid the prefixes I'm talking about, CSS vendor prefixes when you need to write, like, dash webkit, dash border radios at the moment. And they completely ignore the all prefixes. It was maybe not so big deal because all these properties was mostly about visual stuff. But it was not so great when you're using a website and they're just avoiding, don't knowing about some browsers. And especially, it's become more sensitive during the mobile development when Safari browser was extremely popular. And people just start to ignore all other browsers, like avoid unprefixed version, like writing only webkit border radios and not just border radios. And all these prefixes become very, very crazy. And as a result, it definitely should be solved by some automatical tools because it is very hard to teach people about all these best practices. It's sometimes better to just give them instrument which will care about it. So what is the user experience like for somebody visiting a website that is not developed with a global mindset? The main problem, maybe it's not like the real support because, you know, if the website doesn't have around our borders, it's not a big deal. Main problem was when websites just block your browser. Like they check user agent and just show this browser is not supported. Especially, it's a big problem right now when we have a lot of Chromium browsers and it works very similar to the Chrome. But unfortunately, still a lot of browsers just a lot of websites just block them. And of course, it's not so great. And it's beyond just a problem of not translating into somebody's language. There are other things like the date and time that are not formatted for somebody's own locale or even like first and last name fields. Do you have an example of any of these things? Yeah, I understand that if you will translate your website, it will be better. But I understand how big it is a problem. It's not a problem just translating messages. It's a problem that you need to create a community which will update the interface. And it's really hard, for instance, GitHub tried to do it, but they decided to not going there. And I completely understand it. It's a really hard problem. But sometimes, it's not a problem to use English websites. It's not so big problem. At least you can use a translator in the browser. But the main problem is when the whole interface works very well with your culture. Like my favorite example is the name field. Like a lot of people I create first name and surname or family name. But unfortunately, it doesn't fit the reality of the world. It doesn't fit even a Europe because in Europe, we have countries without a family name. They use only father names. And we have countries which use only one name sometimes. Or my favorite example, in some countries, these people with a name only with a one character. It could be like a Chinese character. Or even sometimes they just one or two or three English characters in translation. And websites just show them your name is too short. But that's my name. Unfortunately. Yeah, this is a problem. And so if you are creating a website and you need a name, just put a single field, people will figure out how it works. What they should put inside. So is the global mindset something that all websites need to consider? Or does it only affect people who intentionally try to target a global audience? I understand that sometimes developers are creating websites that are very local. I don't know, some website for university. But even in this case, we can remember accessibility. In accessibility, we have a lot of rules. But this rule is not important for the people who need stability features all the time. Sometimes every person needs some of accessibility features. You can have a very light sun on the street and can read the message or like it's to know the outside. And the same with thinking global. As I mentioned, there is a lot of people in Europe which doesn't have a surname, family name. And as a result, when you're making a website, it will be definitely people from these countries like living in New York, because like their parents came there and they will have a problem. So I think thinking global is very important for any website because it makes our solutions more flexible and flexibility is always better for the business. Because when you're creating a website only for one browser, I don't know, next time Apple creates a new browser and your website creating only for Safari wheel browser. But if you're creating it for any type of the browser, it will be automatically updated with new release of the browser. Even for a website that looks at their analytics and says 100% of my users are on Chrome, so therefore I don't need to develop for any other browsers. That could be a logical fallacy if their website is inaccessible to users of other browsers. So there's some survivorship bias going on there. It's maybe when we are thinking about short term, it may be a good idea. But if we will talk about not technology, not something being good, but just about the business, it's very important to also sometimes think about the long distance. I need to have a balance between short term and long term. And we should always remember that all the problem of Internet Explorer 6 was not because it was a bad browser. In that moment it was one of the revolution of browsers in the world. The problem was that we start to support only these browsers. And as a result, we will have the same problem right now. If we will support only Chrome, we will focus on the single browsers, it starts monopoly. Monopoly always leads us to stagnation. This is like a common rule. And stagnation in the end will affect your business. You will have a longer time to deliver a feature and this is very critical for business. And so I think about supporting all browsers. It's like for a ship company to support lighthouses. It's not looking as a part of the business, but if you will not have a lighthouses in your country, your ship business will go very bad. And same with the browsers. We need support browsers just to have a nice, easy-going business in like 10 years' perspective. I like that analogy. I want to go back to auto-prefixer. You mentioned how it adds these vendor prefixes, but it's 2019 now. Is this still a big problem that developers are facing? To be honest, I think you can safely remove auto-prefixer in the next two years. Maybe you should not do it right now because there is some prefixes which should care, like I don't know, user select or selection, which is very widely used. And also there is a lot of small Chinese browsers which you should care about and they still need prefixes. It's not a big deal to auto-prefixer. But even in Chinese market, like UC browser is growing very fast and it has a very modern WebKit engine inside. So I think it's not, it will be not a big deal in the next two years. And so, yep, year after year, you should definitely think about removing auto-prefixer. Could you describe how browsers list works and how that plays into the global web? Yep. I found that when we ask a developer to select, like, auto-prefixer, it inserts only actual browsers, not every, not inserts only actual prefixes, not all prefixes. And as a result, we need a list of the target browsers. And all companies, they have some sort of the listings, not maybe in the file, but maybe in speaking to each other. The main problem that when we ask developers to write the target browsers, they will be focused only on browsers which they know. And definitely they will ignore Opera Mini or UC browsers. Maybe not because they don't need to support it. For instance, Opera Mini has more users than desktop Firefox and desktop Safari together. It's very black market or UC browser. It's really huge. But a lot of developers just don't know it and just know of it. It's okay, but it's a problem of developing experience. If we want developers to not remove unknown browsers, we should use a very different user interface to select a target browser. And this was a reason of creating a browser list. In the browser list, you describe a query like some sort of more common way to describe what browsers you need to support. For instance, the last two versions feature browsers or not dead browsers, which doesn't have security updates or maybe bigger than 1% in my own statistics. And so browser lists do all this stuff. And it's used not only after prefecture but also in the baby and a lot of very interesting tools like PostSS Normalize or PostSS Preset Env. So we are thinking about the browser list and the single source of the truth about your target browsers. Not only for the tools, but maybe sometimes for developers, for the people when you have a new junior developer, if we will widely use browser list config, he or she will know where to go to check what is the current browser. And it will be much better to not spend your time of asking do we need to support Internet Explorer. Right. So you've described PostSS as a tool for tools, one of which is RTL CSS. Why is RTL so important? I will start talking about the PostSS to then describe RTL CSS. So PostSS is a framework to make CSS tools. It was created when I understand that when you're making CSS tools, there is a lot of common, like you need to parse CSS, you need to generate source maps. And I wanted to have a more diversity in CSS tools. I want maybe not just in CSS tools, but in CSS itself. So I wanted a lot of the people to suggest new idea for the syntax to create a polyfill to test it in the real world. And then when we have a real experience, suggest it to CSS working group. And so it was a framework to teach people to create a very different solutions. And RTL CSS is definitely one of my favorite example about what you can do with PostSS. RTL CSS is a tool. No, I need to start from linguistic. In some of the countries, like Arabic countries in Israel, people writing not from the left to right, but from right to left. And language affects a way how you think. And so writing in different direction affects how you think about the space and time. And as a result for them, the time going from different directions, the future is on the left hand. And same like the most attentional part of the web page will be in the different direction as different part. And as a result, we need to mirror the whole website. We need to put many from one site to another. We need to put a progress bar to a different direction. And RTL CSS is doing all of this stuff without changing your code. There is a very nice example in RTL CSS documentation when they just took a compiled CSS of GitHub, processed it, and create an Arabic RTL version of GitHub. It was a very nice example. So what are some things that developers can do to change their mindset and to think more globally? This is a good question. Of course, the main reason is not about that everyone must think globally. Because I understand that people don't have a time. We have really a lot of things to think about. And to make your site global, you need to do only a few simple things. For instance, don't block unknown browsers. If you see some browser in the browser list output, don't remove it just because you don't know it. Try to not remove Opera Mini if you don't really not sure that your website completely can support it. Or for instance, if you want to make your bundle smaller, don't cut all that Chinese browsers with old prefixes, just create two different bundles. One for yes models and it will be very small browsers for modern Chinese browsers for Chrome and Firefox. And the second one will be big for all other browsers. So it's not something really that you should learn every day making a website global. Just don't cut ways for other developers. But be think more global. Try to be curious about other countries. It's better for you as a developer. Because there is a lot of interesting idea around the world. For instance, the adaptive design was created in Russia by five years before it was created and become popular in the United States. Or for instance, in China right now there is a lot of interesting experiments about technology. And the American company already started to copy this as a startup. So it definitely will be better for you to know how it works in the global world. Because as a result, you will be the better developer because you will copy this great idea. What I can suggest to do it? First, I think it will be very better for our community if we will start to mix people from a different conference. Because right now there is a western conference and western speakers and they are together. And now in big countries there is local communities. And there is no so much movement between these two worlds. My biggest point that people from the small local community should go to the western conference and this will be very interesting part. I understand why they are not going there. They have a lot of great ideas. They have a lot of great talks. I don't know. You can just describe how the software is developing and working in your country and it will be a great talk. I'm really waiting for a talk about the Russian design on some western conference and about the Chinese way to do it. I don't know about how Arabic countries do all these RTL-CSS stuff. It's really interesting. But a lot of the people, a lot of great speakers in the country, they are afraid they are accent. And I completely understand them. But there is very interesting and very simple solution. If you're afraid of your accent, you just should put everything that you need to tell to your slides in the text. As a result, even if people will not understand what you're talking about, they will read it from the slides. And it's not a problem because of your accent. It's also a problem that people on this western conference in the center of New York, most of them will not be native speakers. And maybe your English will be better for that they are English. So putting everything on the slides is a good idea. So then you will not care about what you're talking about. And your voice will be just emotional addition to your information. And it will be not a problem with having a very strong accent to make your presentation. So the first idea is to mix in speakers. But the second idea is maybe more tricky not maybe about the globalization itself but about the diversity of ideas. Especially right now on JavaScript when we are all creating a reactive websites just because we are afraid to be blamed using not popular solution on some meetup. It's definitely not a good way to make... Resumé-driven development. Yeah, definitely. So we should promote smaller solutions. We should not focus on the one solution for everything. I have a rule to think twice if I want to retweet a very popular person and think less if I found interesting tweet from not popular user with less followers. And retweet some crazy interesting idea right now very interesting project called that protocol. It's a protocol to creating a new type of web protected from the censorship and also protected from all these privacy issues which we're having right now. But also there is a very nice idea of new way to making a website especially with bad internet connection. It's called Local First. It uses a very new... technically not a very new but very interesting and difficult idea called CRDT. It's not the only thing that they use like Local First is the idea that you have a database, some sort of database in your application. And instead of sending crew requests you synchronize this database with your servers. And as a result if internet is bad you can still work on your mobile application just wait a little longer until you will be sure that everything is synchronized. And so a few people creating can manifest about this way to make an application called Local First and they definitely promote it. And even right now I'm not spending so much time on Post-SS to spend more time of creating frameworks to this idea. Right now I'm creating Logax frameworks. That's great. Finally would you recommend any resources for people who want to learn more about these tools? This is a good idea I definitely recommend Manifest of Local First. It's very good idea which everyone should know about. I definitely recommend to look somewhere outside of React frameworks. Definitely recommend to look into Svelte framework which is really great and React which is very compatible with React but much better performance. It's just an interesting idea to go out of the box. And also I think we will put a link to Twitter of the people who are talking about the conference in China and other worlds where if you are speaking it definitely will be nice idea to go because it is completely new world with new ideas. It will be very interesting. And how could people find you on GitHub? My GitHub is AI and in Twitter I am Sydney Code. Great. Andre, thanks for being here. This has been great. Thank you for your question. So you can find links to everything we talked about in the description below. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.


Hi, everyone. This is Marketplace under the CDA 15. So welcome, everyone. This is Mamuna Rasheed. I am working with the Badabanshango. Badabanshango is a women's rights organization in Bangladesh. We are working with the women landowners and fisher for communities, and also indigenous communities at the belt of the Bay of Bengal. So by the project, we work with the two cities authorities. One is Mongla Port Municipality and another is Coapata. Both of the city located at the Bay of Bengal and adversely affected by the climate change. That's cyclone, erosion, salinity, and most affected target groups are the woman headed household and also the indigenous household who are living in the informal settlement of the cities. So we started our project to buy doing lots of social mobilization events. First of all, we're doing the data collection from the household level by using the GO4DK and GIS4DK. And we prepared the digital mapping with the priorities of the woman headed household and also the indigenous people. We did the consultation with the citizens committee. We did lots of consultation with the public authorities and also with the private and government officials. So by the consultation and lots of mobilization, we developed two climate resilience integrated climate presence plan for the city's residents. And both of the plans included the infrastructure plan of the 10 informal settlement, which is the most important result of the project. Thank you all. You are welcome to see our story.


Describe liquefied natural gas and how it might play a role in international geopolitics. LNG, or liquefied natural gas, being produced in much larger quantities here in the U.S., is now finding its place into a much bigger global market. That being the case, along with other countries that are now producing liquefied natural gas themselves and shipping it, along with new technology to be able to offload those cargoes and bring them ashore in countries that are dependent on natural gas and or are trending towards natural gas, very often moving away from coal or diesel or another type of fuel source, is creating a very large opportunity for both ends of that equation, whether they're the country that's exporting it or the country that's importing it. All that then combined collectively is causing a change, a very big change actually in the geopolitical situation on a global basis, meaning countries that were big producers of energy in the past, some of which may have been adversarial politically to the stance of the U.S., now are finding themselves faced with new suppliers of, in this case, LNG in the marketplace. It's really changing the economic situation in those respective countries and it's changing the economic opportunities for those that are exporting the gas. There's really a twofold implication there, one from the economic side and two from the geopolitical side. We also recognize that shale gas, as it's being developed around the world, about 80% of that or at least some of the assessments that we're seeing at this point are in countries that have about 30% of the conventional resource. What that means then is that you have large potential new players coming to the marketplace that could be exporters that in the past were importers. Again, a geopolitical dynamic there that is slowly starting to change the political story around the world and will likely have very large ramifications going forward.


Hi everybody, Lisa Larson here. I'm here with podcast Pete. Hello. Hello, Pete. How are you doing good? How are you doing? You're looking pretty sharp today. Oh, thank you Comfy and comfortable. I think so. It's a t-shirt kind of day Beautiful, beautiful color. Casual kind of day. Thank you. Nice shade. Nazaré from Portugal. So okay And you know what that word means? I don't know what it means. It's a it's a surf spot in Portugal Okay, you aware of it because Portuguese is not my language, but it looks like it has the root To depict birth like, you know, Naciento That would be interesting to find out it Nazaré is where the biggest waves in the world break Surfers go from all over the world to go there. So yeah, I can see how that would Mean your Portuguese people will tell you Okay, well, hopefully so anybody out there that knows Portuguese, please put it in the comments for us Okay, well, welcome to our I think this is our third Uh episode of my podcast Is it the third or is it the fourth? Is it the fourth? Because one we just it's episode four of what we're doing, but it's the third in the series for the book Now I understand now. Okay. I know there was a confusion there because we didn't really hawk the book in the very first one Getting our we were getting our podcast legs Yes, but anyway We're gonna be talking about My series this is part of the series for my book pause talking of course in communication for with animals Thank you very much. I'm not all the way through and I'm loving it Oh, I'm so glad and I hope you guys out there will will love it too Uh, and today we're taking what we're doing in this series is we're just taking some some concepts and topics from the book and talking about them answering some questions and today we're going to be talking about anxiety and PTSD and The title is animals hold trauma too Because animals do they feel all the same things we do so um Yeah, I think you had some some some questions or I do, uh, you know, uh, first of all, you know We we as layman's view animals Uh, especially dogs for instance as protectors First to act first to protect where we as people are more pensive we consider Parameters first and dangers and so we don't really equate ourselves to be on the same part or level with animals Emotionally and so we're surprised when they seem emotional Because we expect them to be to have brevity to have quiet strength and all this and and we don't The last thing we expect is they they that they store Anxiety or or now it's called PTSD. So if you can give us any examples of this Uh, you know, I think that that that the layman like me of the world would probably want to know need to know and Could know for the betterment of relationships with their pets with or with any animals Absolutely Yeah, that's a great point because we don't necessarily usually think of animals as having those kinds of emotions But they do we they have all of the same emotions and fears and love and All of those things they have all of those same things that we do The only difference is they don't express them in the same way that we do We expect them a lot of times to be human, but they're not human. They're animals But they're going to be affected by the same times of the things. I mean abuse Abandonment those types of things they wreak havoc with animals and you know, it's really sad When people look at animals and they just think that they can discard them at will Uh, and now this has happened a lot since the pandemic a lot of people When everything went locked down they went and they Adopted animals And then the minute they went back to work. They just took the animals back to the shelter as if they were A chair or or a computer or a book It's some kind of inanimate object And it's not fair and it's cruel And it's cruel to the animals Because those types of things leave scars And I've said in this podcast before about looking through their eyes and think about what it would be like To be a child to be helpless Because that's what they are. They are children to us. They are they are dependent on us for their food for their health for their security for their home for their love And they get into this space where they think they have that and then all of a sudden somebody just up and Take them to a shelter or even worse. I can't tell you how many animals I've talked to that have just been literally thrown into the trash or thrown onto the side of the road and it's it's enormously cruel and It's enormously depressing and it's enormously depressing for the animals and the same thing I want to bring up horses as well Because horses unlike dogs and cats who live in our home They are bought and sold Like tools You know if they all of a sudden if they can't ride if if they they can no longer carry someone on their back then they're Sent off to be killed or they're sent off someplace else and There have been horses that I've talked to Who have been so traumatized that they don't even know when I say your mom really wants to know how to how to have a relationship with you because Their mom the person that calls me isn't the one that abused them They were abused before they came to that person. Well, your mom really wants to have a relationship with you And they I've had courses to say what's a mom? They don't even they don't even know because they've never had that kind of care or love they've just always been treated as things as property and you know the thing about Animals getting anxiety and PTSD and all of the things that are normal When an animal has been abused or abandoned You know those can be with Rescue animals and bred animals alike. I think a lot of times people think That if they buy an animal from a breeder that they're going to have they're going to be problem-free And there's nothing could be farther from the truth all animals are subject to this and believe me not all breeders Very few breeders are are happy healthy Homes that they grow up in So it's it's very very difficult and they have a very difficult time and Uh, it takes a lot of work. I mean it takes a lot of Communication this first step Is communicating with them and and letting them talk things out Because imagine what it would feel like to be in home With someone that you love and never be able to express to them what you've been through So a lot of what I do when I talk to an animal who has anxiety or PTSD I look at their background. I let them tell me what's happened to them or I look and see psychically what's happened to them So that they feel like their their parents can understand and sometimes just that Understanding helps sometimes it even helps behavioral problems. We talked about behavioral problems last week And sometimes it helps that because they under the just having the parents understand what they've been through Changes the dynamic But a lot of times it's just, you know, people want to be validated. So animals want to be validated too So it's important to let them talk to help them understand and to help them understand that they're never going to experience that kind of abandonment and abuse again So I guess the insight into into building trust is key You know, again as layman We don't think about That as a possibility Other than just being kind You know, not trying to feel maybe Some of the hardships that that animal has experienced So if there's any tips, uh, as far as insights on how We can arrive at maybe a safer Loving peaceful place with them From yeah from just saying hi. How are you? I'm I'm your new owner Uh, I imagine you've been through some hardships and that's it Right, right, right. Yeah, absolutely. I mean when if we have patience and understanding With what they're going through what they've been through Then everything softens You know, because animals are so energetic. They feel our energy They feel what we're thinking they feel what we're experiencing and so To to have us understand what they've been through Really really helps them a lot and then What helps us in that way? It's not getting frustrated because a lot of times That that PTSD or that anxiety may either frustrate us on on a level of just on its own maybe a Separation anxiety so we feel like we can't leave or it may turn into a behavioral problem like we talked about before and so a lot of times if if pet parents Get upset about things and they they allow themselves to get more and more and more upset then The the anxiety raises the behavioral problems raise the PTSD raises and and escalates and then it becomes just a snowball effect But it's all then perspective if it's something that's that's just a small thing Then you have to help them understand or help or help yourself Understand what the anxiety is that may be causing this What is it that's going wrong?  There's can be a ton of different reasons why an animal will get more anxious or Whatever or start acting out from PTSD So it's all in pers if we can keep all of it in perspective and have a patience and an understanding of where it comes from That can help and then of course You know there's communicating through like what I do and there's energy healing and stuff like that But I think the big thing for a person a pet parent to understand is that patience and understanding I had a job traveling and I lived on some property at one point And a large dog came on the property and and just kind of stayed in my patio for a while So I I gave it some of my dinner and I didn't know what else to do and In the morning I was getting ready to get in my car and go to work And the dog was still in the patio. It hadn't left and I figured well, all right, you know, and I I made a leash and I tied it to a post Uh, so that way I decided what I was going to do with it And I really you know, I needed to give to somebody or find a home But I wanted to make sure it was protected and I came home from work that next day and The dog had pulled a screen door off my patio sliding glass door Hold the screen door off and shoot it metal screen door And so I had had a long day at work. I hadn't eaten dinner yet. I was grumpy And I vented And while I was venting Shouting at this animal the dog laid about as flat as is a snake on the patio deck Got as low as it could get and just looked up at me like all right. I I knew I blew it I knew I blew it and I felt so bad But it gave me the impression that that dog had been beaten before that that dog had been physically harmed And you know that body language and so I felt bad, you know, it I had the Humane society come and pick it up and find a home for it But I'll never forget that, uh, you know, because I I went too far You know and you know, we don't know histories of animals, especially Ones that just come and say hello one day Yeah, and he was that desperate that he wanted to be inside with you He didn't want to be tied up He probably had been tied up someplace else that probably triggered a PTSD in him Which would make go through what he needed to be inside with you And you know the the the bad thing is, you know, I mean, I think everybody even the the best animal lovers We've all had experiences that we regret Yeah, we raised our voices or done Done something that we regret and because now we understand more we wouldn't ever do that again, but we still Depth of our soul. We think they should know what we think they should know Yes Yes, exactly. And yet we're the ones that have to Work on the knowing end of it Exactly because they're just innocent Beings trying to tell us that they love us Tell us what they need, you know, they just don't know how else to tell us what they need Yeah, yeah, they're There are a lot of ways that that you can deal with this and and that's a great example of of just Looking through their eyes And uh, like I say if you guys out there you have animals that have anxiety PTSD definitely, you know, there's there's the option of having them, you know, calling me or another communicator and and having them spoken to so that they have an opportunity to express themselves or Do some energy healing I do reiki. There's other people that do other types and modalities I do reiki and shamanic healing other other people have other modalities But there's a lot of things that you can do It's it's not it's not a lost cause they can get better It's just that we have to help them get better and we have we have to start with ourselves We have to start with allowing them to trust us. Yeah, I'm sure with your teachings And I didn't know they these teachings existed at one point Uh, even though I've known you for years, I'm sure with your teachings These kinds of things can be not only avoided but, um Turn into opportunities where A better experience for both the animal and the person can happen Yes, that's our hope. That's our hope in doing this. Isn't it? Yeah, it is. I hope in doing this All right Well, I think we're getting did you have did you have a Pete's ponderings or was that your Pete's ponderings? My Pete's ponderings involved the fact that You know, I just don't I've never had the lifestyle to really I like to come and go and so I don't I don't really want to abandon pets And yet I come into contact with pets all the time. It just seems like everybody I know Has a pet either a cat or or a dog and I and I enjoy pets Uh as far as encountering them and so, you know There's a lot of times that I'm communicating well and finally with my friends and my relatives And then the pet comes along and we're out of things to say so to speak because they don't exist yet So that's my pondering.  This is about the best I can do right now But that's but that's really good. That's a really good point though and that is I wish more people would Be like you in considering that And being altruistic in that way because you're thinking more about the animal than you are yourself.  It's it's it comes with certain responsibilities I mean, it's the reason why I don't have a dog because I know as much as I love dogs I know that I would not be the person that would be going out and Throwing frisbees on the beach and walking them all the time So I give up that joy of having a dog because I know that it wouldn't be fair to the dog You're you don't have an animal right now because your lifestyle doesn't doesn't Equate to that right now and it wouldn't be fair to an animal But unfortunately there are too many people who do get animals when their lifestyles do not Afford them I do and then the animals suffer for it. I do have a confession A friend of mine came to visit me on the property and brought her great dame And the great dame was very disciplined because that's how my friend insisted the dog be Sit when I tell you to sit behave when I tell you to behave The woman's only five foot three. The dog is half her size already. So okay, I can understand some some road rules And so my friend says well, I'm going to take a shower Don't let the dog run Well, I've got 8.3 acres Of nice hilly property and the dog's looking out the window and looking back at me like I'm going to love it when she goes in that shower and I'm looking back at that dog saying Don't get me in trouble. I'm going to let you out. But be cool And the minute I opened the door when that shower started going that dog was gone I went, oh my god I'm in trouble now because her dogs were like her children And they're always she always had great dames and I'm thinking well About, you know 10 minutes into the shower. I'm thinking, okay, I got to go find that dog You know, and I look out the window and the dog was just prancing galloping by Like thank you.  I don't know the weeds So we escaped we escaped a foible and that's my confession And I could just see the dog coming in and looking at you and giving you It's been a good day. It's been a good day Dangerous, I wouldn't I don't try this at home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do not take Do not do not do what peep podcast peep does if that's a great day to have very short hair So none's gonna stick to it You know the dog came in with no evidence other than the smell Stade Well mom knows A mom's nose knows Okay, well you guys thank you for joining us. Thank you Pete. I appreciate it once again I hope this has given you some insight into some of your animals If you are enjoying this podcast, um, please Hit that like button and the subscribe and uh, let us know What other Topics you'd like to hear about and once again if you'd like my book It's pause talking of course and communicating with animals and I'll just say that it's One one more time that it's not just to learn to talk to animals. So I've gotten a lot of feedback uh from people who Read it and have just Learned a lot about animals even though they're they have no intention of communicating in the same way that I do so There's a lot of good information in there. I hope that it will help you and uh, and I hope you guys will come back Thank you, Pete and I will see you hopefully next week. Okay. All right. Thank you all take care. Bye. Bye


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