to Quinlan. I'm Ann Charles. I'm Keith Ghostland, and this is All Things LGBTQ. We are taping on Tuesday, the 25th of January. We record at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont, which we acknowledge as being unceded Indigenous land. And now, Linda's going to give us, hopefully, some scantillizing headlines. Yes, but I don't have a lot of good news this week. I tried, but it was hard. Then maybe we'll just move on to Ann. There you go, proper goodness for me, Adam, I don't know. Well, in the news, there seems to be a split among LGBTQ groups, and they are divided about bisexual Senator Samina. Cinema. Cinema. Kirsten Cinema. Yes. From Arizona. That Senator. Yes. We'll have more about that. A Florida bill could block kids with LGBTQ parents from discussing family and class.  Clock Summit College has banned LGBTQ students for years, and the Biden administration is trying to do something about that. Good luck. The Biden Adoption Agency uses new religious freedom to deny service to a straight Jewish couple. So, we'll have more about that. Lesbian moms found dead in a gruesome double murder homicide, murder on homicide. A married couple from El Paso, Texas, were found murdered, and their bodies were dismembered while they were visiting family in Citidad, Juarez. See you, Dad. Juarez. So, they were identified bursting because that's my headline, too? Oh, yeah. Okay. Because I just did it because they were Americans. And I have a picture. Okay. And their names are Huliza Ramirez. And Nohima Medina. Nohima Medina. Meding. Martinez. Yeah. But if you want to finish it, then I'll pick it up. Okay. They were both 28 and got married in 2021. They left behind three children. Their bodies were found 17 miles apart in plastic bags. And they'd been dismembered. Yeah. I said that. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. And I haven't up to the minute. Okay.  Oh, really? And did they say why they had done this? Well, I don't know if they did it. They'd been arrested. Okay. All right. Christians attack the dating app where Pete and Chasin Buttigieg met as a place of promoting sin. Chaston. Chaston. Christians are angry that the app hinge is attempting to normalize same-sex relationships by including same-sex couples on their commercials. So there you go with that one. A trans man was attacked in Denver while waiting for a train. And he couldn't even get home after he was beaten because an Uber driver kicked him out of the car when he said he was transgender. Ciri Klinke was on his way home at 10.30 from a gay bar.  A mother of a lesbian who died by suicide after years of attempted conversion therapy speaking out. We'll have more about that. Bring them young university threats to arrest students who protest the Mormon's anti-LGBTQ policies. We'll have more about that. Trumpers took over a small town. And the first thing they're doing is to repeal LGBTQ rights. The central Pennsylvania town would earn an ugly place in the history as the first borough in the state to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance. Jim, is it Ogelfell? Obergefell. Yeah. The man at the center of SCOTUS Marriage Equality Case is running for office. He'll be looking to become an Ohio State representative. He grew up in Sandusky, Ohio and attended the University of Cincinnati and is now running there as a Democrat in office currently held by Republican J.D. Sweringen. I hope I probably butchered that name too. American LGBTQ Muslim Museum, sorry, hires its first executive director, Ben Garcia, for their 2024 launch. He was formerly deputy executive and chief learning officer at Ohio History Connection. We have some entertainment. Comedian Tignotaro and her partner do a movie, we'll have more about that. Torita Bagdadi, Del Iber's has also done a documentary which sounds really, really interesting. And Dr. Phil, remember Dr. Phil? He invited anti-trans activists to spread hate on TV under the guise of let's all get along. He said he wanted the show to show both sides of the issue. Well, it turned into a free for all. Isn't he running for office in Pennsylvania? Is he? No, he is. And what's his name is? No, Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz, yeah. Sorry. Readout Festival of Lesbian Literatures out February 18th to the 20th. You can sign up for the festival for free. Olivia Benson of Lauren Order, Special Victims Unit. Son in the show will come out as bisexual. Sports. The NCAA's new policy for trans athletes, we'll have more about that. Andrew Blazer makes US Olympic history as the first outgaming to be in this super fast ice sport. We'll have more. It's called Skeleton. I have never heard of it. But have you? I don't mean you. You get strapped to a sled and shoot down. Yeah, basically the bobsled. Yeah. Yeah. OK, well, we'll have more about that. And in the obituaries this week, a activist who helped win marriage equality in Florida was found dead in a landfill. Florida's LGBTQ activist, George Diaz Johnson, has been found dead. In 1954, Tallahassee police have ruled the death a homicide. An outvoked director and fashion designer, Andre Leon Talley, has died at 73, has been considered one of fashion industry's most prominent figures. He was creative director and editor of Vogue. He worked with Andy Warhol, Oscar Del Renta, and Michelle Obama. So there you go. That's my stuff for now. Good. Well, I'm glad you covered that awful story from Mexico. Yeah. Another couple was found, too. I should have checked with you, but I figured they were Americans, but it could have gone either way. Well, I have three Mexican stories, so now I have two. And that's fine. But let's start with Africa. Same-sex rights for the top court to decide in Namibia. The question of whether same-sex marriages should receive legal recognition under Namibian law is likely to be taken to the Supreme Court for a decision. Three judges, this is kind of good news, three judges of the High Court in a landmark judgment yesterday said that, in their view, Namibia's constitution protects the rights of people in same-sex relationships and that there should be no discrimination. The problem is they can't change the law because the Namibian constitution reflects. It's time for the constitution to reflect that homosexuality is part of the fabric of society. And although the three judges... It's in the constitution? Uh-huh. They support it. They concluded that they're bound by the Supreme Court's decision that same-sex relationships do not have legal recognition in Namibia. So only that court can make that decision. And so they voted against these two same-sex couples, but the same-sex couples are appealing. So it's a good sign that at least three members favor it, but I don't know. In Kenya, and I have a picture before you now of protesters, people are marching in downtown Nairobi during a protest organized by the queer Republican Nairobi, which was on January 13, 2022. That's when this protest was because the education cabinet secretary, Professor George Mungoja, sparked controversy after saying that homosexual students should be banned from boarding schools. And apparently in Kenya, boarding schools are sort of like public schools. They're the order of the day. And I think in Africa, a lot of places have to pay for their kids to go to school. It's like not compulsory the way we have it here, I think. Well, it's not state-sponsored. Right. So this has caused a big uproar. Demonstrations are occurring. The education secretary now has been petitioned to withdraw his December remarks. And the petition also asks to criminalize all phobias that put people's lives at risk, including the lives of homosexual students. So that's mixed news from Kenya. Now let's go to Asia, where Samsung, two Singapore activists this May, has pulled an ad featuring a drag queen. The ad shows a Muslim woman in a headscarf hugging her son, who is a drag artist. Samsung pulled the ad in Singapore. Social media users had criticized the ad as an attempt to push LGBT ideology reports the BBC. It was meant to feature Samsung's new wearable products, such as noise-canceling earphones, as well as a smartwatch with a heart rate monitor. I've heard those are unreliable. But what do I know? In any event, in the commercial, several people listen to messages from loved ones. One of the pairs includes a mother and her headscarf, who listens to a message from her son, a drag artist. Dear mother, I'm reading this all to you because I want to show you the 52nd clip, but the subtitles are tiny.  And my heart can't thank you enough.  The son tells his mother. In a video on Instagram, the drag artist featured in the ad known as Vilavirius said it was nothing more than an example of a mother's devotion to her child. So let's take a look at this end clip.  And my heart can't thank you enough.  I remember the day you came down to support me in a club. And even though some people may have this mindset of a hijab lady in a club, we are just unbothered because you were there to see me perform. That was the most precious and proudest moment I have felt. Boy sayang kan ma, always. Yeah. More bad news from Asia. Uzbekistan sentences blogging LGBT supporter to three years. He's not going to go to prison apparently. But he was sentenced to three years of restricted freedom for slander after he publicly criticized the education system and called for same-sex relations to be decriminalized. First, well his name is Miraziz. He was charged last year after a savage beating put him in the hospital for a month. Police blamed him for provoking the attack because he'd made insulting inappropriate public statements that are not in correspondence with our mentality. His attackers were never identified. When he got out of the hospital, he was put under house arrest. So he did not serve the full three years because he's been in house arrest. That's the real high bar for blaming the victim, isn't it? That's incredible. This case has garnered significant international attention because of Uzbekistan's poor record with press freedom and also because of the state sanctioned hostility to the LGBTQ community.  Now are you halfway through your stories, do you think? Well, let me just do one more Asian story then, if I may. It involves a film script on a gay soldier in the Indian army that has been rejected by the Defense Ministry. It's based on a 2010 film called I Am, based on an interview with a gay major who quit the service and was very respectful of the army. This is in India. I said that, I think.  The problem here is that it was rejected before, before same-sex marriage was legalized when it came out in 2010, but now the Supreme Court has decriminalized same-sex relations and the story also is inspired by something that's in the public domain. Any movie or TV, web show, showing content relating to the defense forces is required to get clearance from the Ministry of Defense feeling which it won't be certified so on December 16. The filmmaker applied with his script, which treats everything with a lot of dignity and respect. He has a lot of love and respect for the Indian army. The day before yesterday when he got the email, he was told that the content had been examined and analyzed and rejected. He could sue, but he said, I'm a filmmaker. I'm not in the business of bringing suit and engaging in litigating. So we'll see what happens. Maybe you can put it someplace else. Yeah, and you can get it on Netflix, I think. No, you can get it on YouTube. It's an hour and 47 minutes. She's timed it. Yeah, I did. So Trivia considered one of the 20 best comedians of the 20th century. Had the world of comedy been less segregated, Loretta Akin would have been even more of a household name. Nonetheless, she came out of the world of Vaudeville and had a wild success at the Apollo Theater and the rest of the Chitlin circuit before eventually breaking into television. So who's Loretta Akin? And Linda got it. Events, Rainbow Umbrella. You've got a book discussion in a women's discussion group. Yes. All of the details are on Rainbow Umbrella. Facebook page. In the women's discussion group, you've been having some lively conversations at late. Oh, you know it. Always. So the Vermont Humanities Council, they do a first Wednesday series. February 2nd is going to be Walt Whitman, American poet. February 2nd, 7 p.m. This is free, but you do have to register. Their little narrative is Walt Whitman was a great poetic innovator, the poet who best sums up what it means to be an American and his song of myself is the most majestic poem written in our nation. And yet, for all this, UVN professor emeritus Huck Gottman finds Whitman to be wonderfully approachable. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's not what any of those pictures look like, so I'm going to be waiting for it. So employment opportunities, who knew that we were jobs in Vermont? Outright Vermont has two positions. One, GSA network coordinator, this is a full-time position with benefits, and looking online, it's a competitive salary. And the other is education and leadership coordinator. This is also a full-time position with benefits. There's no application deadline. They are going to, they're going to leave these positions open until they get filled. And talking with Dana, the executive director, they said that they're getting good candidates and they wanted to leave it open because they know their ideal candidate is out there waiting for them. So Pride Center of Vermont also has two positions open. One is Safe Space Rural Advocacy Coordinator. This is full-time position with benefits. However, they want the application by February 11th. Health and Wellness Program Coordinator, this is also a full-time position with benefits. The application is by February 4th, and you can get all of the details in the online application at either the Outright or Pride Center of Vermont website Facebook page. You know, every time you say with benefits, I think. You go to the bad place. You go to Grindr. We have interesting conversations over Sunday, breakfast. Pride Center also announced the promotion of Kel Arbor as their new director of health and wellness. And Kel has agreed for an interview for our next interview show. And their brief blurb is that Kel has already been working with them part-time and that this was just the right fit of somebody who really wanted to do prevention versus, you know, case management after the fact, kind of, and that they were excited. And Kel's move from Vermont Cares to the Pride Center was with everyone's agreement and that this was the right move. So we will talk with Kel more about what made this the position for them. So on Front Porch Forum, people may have noticed, you know, some conversations back and forth about Pride Flanks turning up, missing, and there seem to have been a series of incidents several months ago and then a repeat. And I reached out to the Montpellier Police Department and said, OK, what can you share with us because I had not seen anything in the mainstream press. Oh, I'm so surprised. And I had not seen the police posting anything on Front Porch Forum themselves the same as they had done with some other incidents. And what they said is, you know, they've taken all the information. If people have not reported similar incidents, please do. That, you know, they can only get a real sense of exactly what is happening if people let them know when something really does occur. And this was part of the comment back from the Chief of Police. Anyone whose flag may be missing or may have been taken, I want to remind you that Montpellier is a collective place of love and support and any act of vandalism are not reflective of our city. Montpellier Police Department takes such acts seriously because we understand the history of where such animosity or ill intent to take a symbol of national pride would come from and unfortunately where it sometimes leads to. So if you have information, please share it with them. And I saw a post, I believe it was the beginning of this week, that the last flag that got stolen, the person said, thank you to whoever left the two flags for us to replace what had been taken. So that supports that we are a community that cares about our neighbors. So there may have been some interest by some national groups about a particular Vermont race, maybe like Becca Ballant for U.S. Congress. She was endorsed by the Lesbian Political Action Committee, Equality's PAC, LGBTQ Victory Fund saying, go for it. And really quickly, legislation in our legislature, the House General Housing Military Affairs Committee is taking testimony this week on H329, this is an act relating to amending the prohibitions against discrimination. This is what I had reported on before, that the current statutory definition for harassment talks about severe and pervasive acts. That is such a high standard that state's attorneys are finding they can't prosecute. And the police at this point are, there's not much they can do with an investigation because they can't go anywhere. This provision would take that out. One of the real impacts, and this was testimony presented by Vermont's Human Rights Commission, is that it's this severe and pervasive language that really prevents them from being able to go into public schools to investigate reports of harassment against students. That's good. And why some of the school boards and school administration said, well, we've done what the law tells us to do. Is it enough? It's time to change the law. Yeah. Also looking at what has been introduced, H628, an act relating to amending a burst certificate to reflect gender identity. This bill was introduced by Taylor Small. It has actually been assigned to Taylor's committee, the House Human Services Committee. They're taking testimony the beginning of February. And there isn't a real big push to get people to testify because how this bill is constructed, it will remove everything from statute and allow the Department of Health to create rules as to how this will happen. And we will have the opportunity to input when the Department of Health is creating those rules. And then the final thing that I wanted to bring up to people's attention is S247. And I was thinking of Linda and I because this is an act relating to prohibiting discrimination based on genetic information. Ancestry, 23andMe, don't you want to know your ethnicity? Don't you want to find those relatives out there that you didn't know? Well, this bill, and Vermont would again be in the forefront, would say that insurance companies and other sort of large institutions could not take this information and use it against you. Good. Your genetic information is your information and it's private until you choose to share it. So with that, I'm going to hand it back to you. Well, we're back to Senator... Kirsten Sinema from Arizona. Oh, dear. That senator. And progressives, criticism reached a high level this week. When she was refused, well, when she refused to end the filibuster, Emily's List is polling their support for her. Many Democrats have lambasted her and Bernie Sanders, Democratic Senator from Vermont, he'd support primary challenges to her seat. LPAC says it might fall in the footsteps of Emily's List, but hasn't yet done it. The NRC, the nation's largest LGBT group, says it endorses her and did not rebuke her. So you may want to send some little notes. Lambda Legal also did not rebuke her actions as of yet. But over the weekend, the Arizona Democratic Party censored her. Yes. And Bernie Sanders said that was the right thing to do. Bingo. I agree. Yep. And then there's Florida. Okay, that's enough. We can move on. There's a bill that could block kids with LGBTQ parents from discussing family in class. Florida legislators have advanced a parental rights bill. In a 15 to five vote, a panel recommended House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights and Education Bill. This bill will require schools to notify parents if there is a change in services or monitoring around a child's mental health issues. And the district school districts to encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill will give parents the right to take legal action against these schools that violate the law and would be awarded legal fees for doing so. The bill would also require that if you as the educator, I disclose to you orientation or gender identity, you're now required to tell my parents what you have learned. And Chase and Buttigieg gave an op-ed today in opposition to this, saying students are going to die. Oh. Insanity. Yep. Florida. Christian Adoption Agency uses new religious freedom to deny service to a straight Jewish couple. The Tennessee Adoption Agency has used a new state law to deny service to LGBTQ people also. The law intended to bar LGBTQ adoptions are now being used to discriminate against Jews. The couple is suing the Tennessee Department of Children's Services in state court, arguing that the adoption agency shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against them based on their religion. They were to start training as foster parents and referred to Holden United Methodist Home for Children and refused and told that they couldn't be part of the program because they were not Christians.  Alina Chen, 24, was found dead in a park in Colorado. In an interview, she reported on a priest in high school had put her in conversion therapy. Her mother, Joyce Calvo, said that David Nix, the priest, denies meeting with her daughter in private, but her daughter's diary says otherwise. Let's see. Some interesting news in entertainment. Comedian Tignotaro and partner Stephanie Eileen make their feature direction debut with the Sundance Festival. Dakota Johnson was looking for a break from her darker roles, but was hard-pressed to find one until she found this one. Johnson portrays the fictional version of screenwriter Parranta, while actor Siona Mizuno take on the role of Parmaranzas' best friend based on Gloria Sanchez's production founder Jessica Elbaum, who is also a producer on this film. I know it's all very confusing. And what's the name of the film? The name of the film is... Am I Okay? Oh! Sundance. Sundance, yes, yes, yes. Director Rita Baghati delivers courage, compassion, and a compelling argument for a new trash-metal way of life. This is a documentary set against the backdrop of a life in the backdrop of a country on the brink of collapse, Lebanon. The documentary, Sirens Explore, the question through a 23-year-old, through 22-year-old musicians, Mayasa, who wrestles with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as a leader of the Middle East. First, all-female trash-metal band, Slave to Sirens, a Beirut-Lebanon-based group pursuing dreams of rock star fame. And here is a picture of them doing there. What trash? I don't know. What's the name of the... Sirens. Trash-metal. Trash-metal. What is trash-metal? I don't know. You know metal rock? Yeah. It's an extension off that. It's an extension off that. The same as punk is an extension off... Yeah. Yeah, okay. I just never heard punk rock, but I've never heard of trash rock, so anyway. In sports... Because we're old. I'm out of my element entirely. The NCAA's new policy for trans-athletes lacks clarity and could be difficult to enforce. The NCAA under pressure from critics say that it is unfair for Leah Thompson, a trans swimmer at University of Pennsylvania who broke multiple records at a meet last month on a women's swim team. Still, the new policy won't affect Thomas' ability to compete, but the Board of Governors voted in support of a sport-by-sport approach to trans athletes. This, they say, balances fairness, inclusion, and safety for all who compete, but it does pose a problem if you're doing it from one sport to another, or from one need to another. Then, you know, one person could be in and another person can be out, so they really need more clarity about that. And Andrew Blasser makes U.S. Olympic history as the first out-game man to be a super-fast ice-board of skeleton. But he's already asserted himself as one of the top skeleton racers in the United States.  Spandex. Yes, and he looks very cute. I still haven't seen a listing or even an account of how many out-LGBTQ-plus athletes they believe will be in this year's Winter Olympics. Yeah, no, I haven't either. Yeah, I'm not covering a story about a snowboarder. Who is, you know, but I just have too many things to cover. No more snowboarders? Well, she's gonna, I hope she, you know, enters in wins. And as I recall, Ann wasn't that big a fan of the Olympics the last time. No, I'm not either, but, you know... Go for it, Ann. Okay, because I have many, many headlines I'm gonna have to zip through them, because there are a couple I'd like to applause on. But let's go to North America, where transgender Mexicans will be able to receive amended birth certificates at the country's consulates. So show your old birth certificate, get a new one. This has been decreed by the Mexico's Foreign Affair Industry on Wednesday. Other North American news is, you know, there's this problem with anti-LGBT, homophobic chants. And they, people, fans of sports events who can be apprehended for chanting homophobic things. This is particularly involving soccer. Soccer fans will be given five-year bands from stadiums if they are found to have made homophobic chants. Who's gonna do that? I don't know.  No, no, no, is it the... The Football Federation. The Mexican Football Federation is gonna do it. And they've been trying to do things, they had fines, but now they're gonna have this five-year band. We'll see how that goes.  They have cameras that can focus in. And I believe, as I interrupted, I believe some of them actually hold up signs. I wouldn't be surprised. Okay, let's go to Chile, where the president, Gabriel Borek, has... He takes office on March 11th, the day after marriage equality begins. And he has named two LGBTQ-plus people to his cabinet.  He'll be the country's education minister. And Alexandra Bonato, a lesbian, will be Chile's sports minister. That's great. That's very good. So that's it from South America for today. Australia, I have a follow-up to a very sad story. I have a picture of you of Scott Johnson, a young man who, in 1988, was pushed off a cliff in Sydney. Scott White has been charged in 2020 for murdering the 27-year-old Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson, you may recall. The Australian authorities denied it and turned down two inquests, but his brother persevered, offered reward, and the reward yielded this Steve Johnson. No, I'm sorry. Steve Johnson's the brother's name. I always screw this up. The bounty yielded Mr. White, who was arrested at his Sydney home. Do they think he did others as well? Yes, but it's been revealed that gangs, robing gangs, pushed a lot of... We've reported on this before. They literally chased people and either pushed them over or you jumped because it was your only way out, and then the police ruled it a suicide. How are they going to go after the gangs? Gangs of men roamed various Sydney locations in search of gay men to assault, resulting in the deaths of some victims. Some people were also robbed. It was 1988, so this one relative has been persevering and finally yielded this result. I'd like to pause a little, although I don't have a lot of time, with some Asian news beginning with... Can you have a little time? I have a clip, though, but in any event, I'm kind of delighted by this story. A brotherhood of bears flourishes despite Russia's anti-LGBT agenda. It's called the Bearsburg Society. It brings together men who reject effeminate stereotypes of queerness for trips to cafe meetups, walking tours, and film nights. This is in St. Petersburg. If you didn't know Club Milovitch existed, you would never find it. There are no signs, windows, grand entrances, or bouncers at the back of the defunct industrial complex, housing its long black neon lit bar and dance floor. The location is a perfect hideaway for St. Petersburg Secret Bearsburg Society, a modern Russian incarnation of a gay subgroup which originally developed in the United States toward the end of the 1970s as a reaction against effeminate stereotypes of queer men. On a Thursday night, this... On a Thursday night in November, around 20 men have gathered to watch Dance of the 41, which I reported on last time, and that Linda and I have subsequently seen. It's a historical film based on a queer scandal involving cross-dressers at the highest level of the 20th century Mexican society. I was telling Keith that brunch is just a must-see for him. Oh, I know it. There's a lot of gay male sex, we have to tell you.  In fact, Linda and I were watching, and she said, I don't think we're the target audience. Or that much has changed, you know. As the credits start to roll, viewers scatter and make their way to the highlight of the evening of boozy session of Belting Bear Karaoke. What's also interesting, the founder says, he created my own bear state. He founded Bearsburg in 2021 as a grassroots society to bring together the larger Harrier men of St. Petersburg gay scene through social and cultural events. Like all the men interviewed for the story, he has to be anonymous, and he explains what a bear is. But a rival society, SP Bears has been active since 2013, and they represent a more formal group akin to the international LGBT private clubs with membership fees, formalized calendar events, and some collaborations with bear movements across Europe. More activist-minded bears, like Sergei, who has been heavily involved with SP Bears for years, are skeptical that groups like Bearsburg bring any tangible benefit to the LGBT cause in Russia. So there are two rival groups, and the sticking point is SP Bears is political, and Bearsburg is not. You cannot be politically... Well, they're going to be looking for them now. I'm sure this story isn't. Well, you know, I don't know. You think so? Well... Well, that's a chilling observation. Well, you know, if they know about it here, I'm sure they're going to know about it there. Well, all right, let's move on to another story, now that Linda has cast cold water on that one. I think maybe they'll prevail. I think they'll survive. Well, we'll see. Let's look at a picture of Liam Brody, who wears rainbow laces at the Australian Open to support LGBTQ players. He's British. You see him. You can't see the shoe laces that well, but there he is. Apparently, there are no out gay professional men on the tour, and very few women. So this is why this Liam Brody is supporting the cause. You know, I was just wondering why they don't... Because it made me think about that. Like, there's a lot of lesbians in golf. I never hear anything about golf, do you? Well, this is because we don't play golf. We're not interested in golf. No, but when I'm looking things up about sports and stuff... Yeah, golf is boring, maybe. I know, but there's lots of lesbians in golf. I'm just curious. If you watch Gay USA and North are playing golf, and she reports on lesbian golfers frequently, I would say. Let's turn to a picture of Monroe Bergdorf, who is the first transgender model to be featured on the cover of Cosmo UK's 50th Anniversary Issue. Other firsts for Cosmopolitan UK have occurred. In 2020, in January 2020, Jonathan Van Ness covered the publication and made history as the first non-female person to front the glossy, as well as the first known non-binary person. Then RuPaul followed them covering the publication in January 2021. Internationally, Laverne Cox covered Cosmopolitan South Africa's February 2018 issue, but here's Monroe Bergdorf. Does Cosmo have magazines all over the... Oh, sure. It's international. The same as Vogue. Let's go to Hungary. They've set a date for this miserable referendum they're having on the controversial LGBT law. It's going to be April 3rd. The European Union launched legal action against it that is unresolved. And then to follow Linda's museum story with London, it plans to host the first UK LGBTQ museum. That's going to open in 2022. The charity Queer Britain has taken the ground floor of the art building in Granary Square. I hope we get to see that, Ian. Yeah, I hope so, too. I'll wait at the theater. That's right. And it's important, the founder said, that it be free. It's important that the museum would remain free. He says, I would be heartbroken if any young queer person or any person at all couldn't get in and engage in what we're working on because they didn't have the money. Now, my lead story concerns a film from France called Ma Belle, Ma Beauty. It involves a surprise reunion in the south of France that reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers. It's called Ma Belle, Ma Beauty. And let me read you a little more about it since I have some time. Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship while living in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie. Fred loved Bertie. They had a balance that worked until it didn't and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are now living at Fred's family home in the countryside in the south of France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie's seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is now disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic hoping that her return might lighten Bertie's mood, but Bertie isn't having it. It seems time hasn't healed all wounds, so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noah, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reuniting dormant jealousies. So let's take a look at her clip from my Belle, my beauty on Netflix. What if she doesn't want to see me? She loves surprises. She hates surprises. I'll show it to my dad. What are you doing here, Lane? You disappear, never call, and after two years later you just show up to see if I'm okay. Hey, here are my girls. Hey. Were you always fine sharing her? It could be challenging. I guess it's just like, how could you not love someone who loves the person you love? The way you two do your things is none of my business. You're right. It's not. Hey Noah. Bertie, how are you? How are you? Damn. I know. You're different than Lane's here.   Hey, I'm going to watch that one. I know. I think we should check that out. Okay. That's it for me. All right. So I have a positive statement. Oh, good. And this was just released this week. The Social Security Administration will now allow gay men and lesbians to receive survivor benefits if they can show that they were in a committed relationship and would have been married had that been possible. The change could mean greater economic protection for a population with higher poverty rates than American adults overall. And sort of following up on that HRC, who we're not too sure we're liking these days, excuse me. They just released their study survey about wages. Guess what? We earn less than the median average. But they went into greater detail. We earn 90 cents on the dollar to a middle-class worker. And that our sort of marginalized status gets perpetuated by this. It could be exaggerated by the fact that women's wages generally, whether lesbian or not are... Bingo. I was going to say that was one of the things that they folded into the equation and one of the things that they pointed out is that lesbians, cisgender straight women in the general population earn the same less as...  But they went even further. Indigenous people earn 70 cents on the dollar for the typical worker. Black LGBTQ plus workers earn about 80 cents per dollar. Latinx LGBTQ plus workers are about 90 cents on the dollar. So there's sort of the average white LGBTQ plus workers earn 97 cents on the dollar. So there's some real race issues being played out even within our communities. Asian Pacific Islanders earn about a dollar per dollar, which was interesting. And I couldn't see where they were theorizing why this Asian subgroup was doing better than the rest of them. But Biden administration, if you are a trans or a non-binary veteran, you can now get that on your medical records at the VA hospital. They will go in and make that gender change for you. And I only picked this story because of the last sentence. So wait for it. A group of sad white men wearing black masks marched from Maine to New Hampshire to protest a drag queen. The show of bravado and strength involved walking across the bridge. Kiddery into Portsmouth. Kiddery, Maine, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Members of the hate group, Nationalist Socialist Club, gathered outside of Portsmouth, where the Seacoast Repertory Theater was signed in vitriol, despite the lack of public performances taking place since when the pandemic started, the venue had been closed since early 2020. When the pandemic started, the theater moved shows online with actors performing in front of empty seats. One of the productions, Honey Punch and Pals, involves a drag queen dressed as a 50s homemaker who reads books to puppets. It's for everyone, co-director Brandon James says. It really is for everyone. It's for kids. It's family friendly. It's silly. It's fun. It's puppets. When did they do this march? Kiddery, Maine to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. When though, recently? Yeah, oh yeah. This was within the last month. They couldn't find anything better to do? Apparently the Nationalist Socialist Club is looking for things to occupy their time. I have some other stories that I'm going to let hold over until our next show. We have a few minutes if you want to jump in with something. They were all HIV related. The theme throughout is that France and Greece have both changed their protocols for who can donate blood so that men who have sex with men are no longer banned. You are held to the same standard. You will get the same questionnaire that asks you your sexual activities for the last whatever amount of time and that's it. Before there was a mandatory three month celibacy. You could not have had any contact within the last three months with another man. People are screaming for blood right now. That was the other part of the story is that the American Red Cross has said that blood donations are down 34%. This is the first time they've had this kind of national blood crisis and we still have this three month celibacy requirement. We seem to be lagging behind and a sort of related story is that New Jersey has just repealed their statute that said if you transmit HIV you can be prosecuted for it and they will be only one of six states that does not have a statute criminalizing the transmission of HIV and only on my Vermont is one of those six states. Trivia. Trivia. Oh yeah. As Ann is looking up at the clock considered one of the 20 best comedians of the 20th century Loretta Akin might be Mom's Mably. Yes, I love her. Her stage persona was a toothless old woman in a flowered dress and allowed her to do edgy material about sex and racism. Mably was one of the first openly gay comedians coming out as lesbian in the 1920s. Good for her. So here's to Mom's Mably and the Bears of St. Petersburg. May they prevail. And may we resist.


Here's the tiling tip. When I tile, I want to make sure that I start with a level surface and something I recommend to help you get there is the Seca Level 125 for your self-leveling compound. First thing we're going to do is prep the floor and that's putting down a primer. Roll it on the floor, it goes down as a green and once it starts to dry it becomes translucent. The Seca Level 125 is an excellent underlayment. It's easy to use. It will bond to almost any single surface. It's great for tiles. Final floor, hardwood, you name it. It's high flow fluidity and self-leveling properties allows it to be poured up to an inch and a half and can be walked on after four hours.


Sarcoidosis is a rare inflammatory condition characterized by the formation of non-casiating granulomas in various organs and tissues. It is difficult to predict how the disease will progress, so it is important to group patients according to their symptoms and imaging findings. Recent advances in technology have allowed researchers to detect the presence of sarcoidosis in previously undetectable areas, such as the lymph nodes and distant organs. This has led to the development of four distinct sarcoidosis phenotypes, each with unique characteristics and treatments. This article was offered by Spiros A. Papyrus, Lycaurgos Cololicas, Natalia Rivera, and others.


The study found that there were significant changes in the interests of internet users from Ukraine, regarding certain topics of sexual and reproductive health during the ongoing war. Compared to the pre-war period, a marked increase was observed in active searches for terms such as condoms, rape, syphilis, ovulation, and pregnancy test. This suggests an increased need for information regarding sexual and reproductive health among Ukrainian citizens during the ongoing armed conflict. The analysis of trends among internet users' interests can be a valuable source of knowledge for decision makers, including human rights organizations, regarding the scope and coordination of activities aimed at protecting the sexual and reproductive health of the inhabitants of Ukraine. This article was authored by Joanna Blajda, Anna Kukhab, Aldona Mayaska, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Income tax 2021-2022. Business expenses. Insurance. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive it into income tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in Publication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business Tax Year 2021. Income tax formula, line one income, would be supplemented with another schedule that being basically an income statement which has income and expenses. We're focused in on the expenses. Expenses basically being deduction. The net of that schedule rolling into line one income of the income tax formula as well as the form 1040 page one. We see here where we would have the schedule C bottom line rolling into schedule one bottom line of the schedule one rolling into page one of the form 1040 line number eight. This is the schedule C basically an income statement. We're now looking at insurance. So in general, the same rule applies. We're looking at the ordinary and necessary expenses. So there's going to be the types of insurance that may be deductible. So you can generally deduct premiums you pay for the following kinds of insurance related to your business. Number one, fire theft, flood or similar types of insurance. Number two, credit insurance that covers losses from business bad debt. Number three, group hospitalization and medical insurance for employees, including long term care insurance. Number four, liability insurance of course. Number five, malpractice insurance that covers your personal liability for professional negligence resulting in injury or damage to patients or clients. Number six, workers compensation insurance set by state law that covers any claims for bodily injury or job related diseases suffered by employees in your business regardless of fault. So as we look at these insurances, we could see that these types of things would be tied to the business, possibly ordinary and necessary, which ones would be most applicable to your business will of course depend on your particular business that you're going to end what kind of insurance are you going to be needing within the business that you are in. So number seven, contributions to a state unemployment insurance fund are deductible as taxes if they are considered taxes under the state law. Number eight, overhead insurance that pays for business overhead expenses you have during long periods of disability caused by your injury or sickness. Number nine, car or other vehicle insurance that covers vehicles used in your business for liability damage and other losses. This one be a little careful on the insurance here because you want to make sure when you're looking at the bookkeeping and the deductibility like what category you're putting the insurance in and not like double dip it between the auto expenses and basically the insurance here. So if you operate a vehicle personally for personal use and when I say double dip meaning deduction twice for the same thing like automobile insurance that was included in the auto expense and possibly under the insurance category. Here we go. If you operate a vehicle partially for personal use deduct only the part of the insurance premiums that applies to the business use of the vehicle. If you use the standard mileage rate to figure your car expense, you cannot deduct your car insurance premiums. Once again, if you use the standard mileage rate to figure your car expense, you cannot deduct the car insurance premiums. So with the car, you got the different methods that we can use the actual method or the standard method. So you could take a look. We looked at that in prior presentations. You could take a look at that in more detail if you so choose. So number 10, life insurance covering your employees if you are not directly or indirectly the beneficiary under the contract. So that's the general rule, the exception if you're the beneficiary there.  Non deductible premiums. You cannot deduct premiums on the following kinds of insurance. So what kind of insurance isn't deductible? You might ask at this point after that long list we just went through. Number one, self insurance reserve funds. So self insurance reserve funds. You cannot deduct amounts credited to a reserve set up for self insurance. So you're kind of trying to set up your own insurance fund. So they're not going to give you the deduction for that. This applies even if you cannot get business insurance coverage for certain business risks. However, your actual losses may be deductible. Well, that's great. After you actually have the loss, then yeah, then you can deduct at that point. So for more information, you could see publication 547 casualties, disaster and number two, loss of earnings. You cannot deduct premiums for a policy that pays for your lost earnings due to sickness or disability. However, see items eight in the previous list. Number three, certain life insurance and annuities. A, for contracts issued before June 9th, 1997. You cannot deduct the premiums on a life insurance policy covering you and employee or any person with a financial interest in your business. If you are directly or indirectly a beneficiary of the policy, you are included among possible beneficiaries of the policy. If the policy owner is obligated to repay a loan from you using the proceeds of the policy, a person has a financial interest in your business if the person is an owner or part owner of the business or has lent money to the business. B, for contracts issued after June 8th, 1997. You generally cannot deduct the premiums on any life insurance policy endowment contract or annuity contract. If you are directly or indirectly a beneficiary, the disallowance applies without regard to whom the policy covers. Number four, insurance to secure a loan. If you take out a policy on your life or on the life of another person with a financial interest in your business to get or protect a business loan, you cannot deduct the premiums as a business expense, nor can you deduct the premiums as interest on business loans or as an expense of financing loans. In the event of death, the proceeds of the policies are not taxed as income, even if they are used to liquidate the debt. Self-employed health insurance deduction. Now we've got that self-employment deduction. You may be able to deduct the amount you paid for the medical and dental insurance and qualified long-term insurance for you and your family. Now, this is the one that gets a little bit more complex because there might be some restrictions to it. You might not take that deduction on the Schedule C. We looked at this a little bit when we were looking at the adjustments to income. You might be able to take that as like an above the line deduction or deduction for adjusted gross incomes if you qualify for it. So how to figure the deduction? Generally, you can use the worksheet and the instructions for Form 1040 to figure your deduction. So when you're looking at the Form 1040 instructions instead of the Schedule C, because it's going to be on the 1040 and it's going to be flowing through to the 1040 from the Schedule 1. And so you might find further instructions or we'll find further instructions there. However, if any of the following apply, you must use the worksheet in Chapter 6 of Publication 535. So if it's more complex in these ways, then you've got to go to Chapter 6. You have more than one source of income subject to self-employment tax. So you file Form 2555 related to foreign-earned income or you are using amounts paid for qualified long-term insurance to figure the deduction. You could use Publication 974 instead of the worksheet in the instructions for Form 1040 if the insurance plan established or considered to be established under your business was obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace and you are claiming the premium tax credits. So the payment, you cannot deduct expenses in advance even if you pay them in advance. So you can't deduct the advance payments. You can't try to prepay and get the benefit from that. This rule applies to any expense paid far enough in advance to, in effect, create an asset with a useful life extended substantially beyond the end of the current year. So anytime you have a cash basis kind of thing, then you have the ability to kind of distort it by making a prepayment possibly trying to get the deduction earlier. That's what the government or IRS is going to be skeptical of doing and possibly giving limitations upon. Example, in 2021, you signed a three-year insurance contract even though you paid the premiums for 2021, 2022 and 2023. When you signed the contract, you can only deduct the premiums for 2021 on your 2021 tax return. You cannot deduct the 2022 and 2023, the premiums allocated to those years. Sorry, you can deduct in 2022 and 2023 the premiums that are allocated to those years. So for more information, you can take a look at about deducting insurance. You can see Chapter 6 of Publication 535. You can find on the IRS website.


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not exactly a whole number or something like that because it's not picking up all the numbers which either means that it's not picking up one of these numbers or that there's some numbers that are actually higher than 100 so we could use a formula to try to make these all all exactly rounded numbers but I find the other way we could do this I'm going to delete this data is to use the frequency which is a still array formula instead so the frequency equals the frequency tab and then we want the data array which is going to be here I'm in d2 control shift I'm holding control shift down arrow takes me to the bottom then I'm going to hold down control and backspace to bring me back up and then comma the next argument are the bends which are going to be these bends it's going to look for these bends control shift down and then again control backspace to bring me back to the top closing it up and entering it spills it now so now we have a spill array uh type of system I'm going to try to remove that last bit so it doesn't do that last one double clicking up top and say what if I clip it at 101 will it then stop that it does and now let's do the total which will be alt equals there's 500 so now I picked up all 500 of them and put them into the relevant bends which is nice let's make this a header I'm going to go to the home tab and say this is going to be black and white and then we can center it so now I could graph this frequency right so I could say let's take this frequency control shift down control uh well hold on a second whoa caposso control shift down I don't want the total though all right I'm just going to select the whole thing and then I'm going to insert let's go to the insert over here and we'll say that I'm going to insert a chart let's make it a bar chart for the frequency so there's what we have on the bar chart let's click into the chart chart design I'm going to the data up top so the data is good I want to edit this side however to pick up my bends on the left so it picks up my bends and not just some generic bends control shift down and then uh shift up so it doesn't shift up so it doesn't pick up the total and then enter okay and okay so there we have our distribution and you can see it's a little choppy here we don't have as much data but it looks like it might be conforming to uh you know the poisson type of distribution so it's it's not going to be perfect because there's still randomness involved in it but if we can approximate what is happening here with the poisson distribution then we might be able to use that now I can also do the percent of the total percent of total let's make this format paint home tab format painter here I'm going to take each of these numbers and say equals the frequency divided by the total 500 I'm going to make that second number absolute because I want to take each number divided by the total so I can say f4 and enter and then I'm going to make it a percent home tab numbers percentifying it and then double click on that copying it's down and if I then double check that everything is done properly I'm going to delete this total and sum it up for the double check and it should come out to 100 which is going to be alt equals we'll give us that some function nice and easy there's the 100 so I could make my frequency my chart using this column as well so I can select a this column and I could say okay let's make our chart based on that insert and then charts bar chart boom bar chart boom let's do some formatting while I'm here on it data are this side I want to make sure that this is picking up our bends shift up and okay so so then we get the same kind of look and feel but now on the percent basis as opposed to the whole number of bases alright so then let's do let's take the a couple stats on our data I'm going to make a skinny eye here make a skinny eye and then we're going to say that this is going to be the mean calculation so I can take the mean calculation of our data so I'll say this equals the average shift nine go into our data the whole data set and control and control shift down arrow and enter so now we've got it the mean being 20 I'm going to add some decimals it's not exactly 20 because remember we used the mean as a condition to populate the data but there's still randomness in the data that we populated so the mean of the actual data that we have is more like 20.14 potholes per 100 miles and then we can calculate the variance let's do the variance with a p so it equals the variance and we'll take the variance of all of our data set control shift down and enter and let's add some decimals there and you can see it's pretty close to the mean and that's another indication that we might have something that would be we can represent abstractly with a poisson distribution here's the variance if it was a sample equals the variance s of our data and we'll add that a little bit more here so then we've got 1952 so you could see these so now if we're looking at this data we're saying okay so now we're talking about something that might conform to a poisson distribution because we have something that's happening over a certain not time element but space in in terms of the road we would think that each instance of the pothole would be independent from other instances of the pothole and so on and so forth and when i graph it it looks kind of like a poisson distribution possibly could fit that and when i pick up the variance and the mean of the data they're pretty close to each other which means that we might benefit from making predictions based on the poisson distribution curve into the future right so next time what we'll do is we'll then do the poisson distribution which will be a more perfect curve and and do some comparisons and see how how well that relates to our actual data that we populated and then think about well will will will that poisson distribution then be useful to make predictions uh as we extrapolate this information into the future for decision making


Live from the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's theCUBE, covering OpenStack Silicon Valley 2016. Brought to you by Morantis. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Lisa Martin. Hey, welcome back everyone. We are live in Silicon Valley for the OpenStack Silicon Valley or OpenStack SV as it's called, the hashtag OpenStack SV or hashtag O-S-S-V-16. This is theCUBE Silicon Angles flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Lisa Martin. Next is these past two days live action. Our next guest, Cube Luminary and living legend, Lou Tucker, VP, CTO of Cisco. Been in the industry a long time. And it actually is the only person here at the OpenStack Silicon Valley Conference at the Computer History Museum that actually has a product in the museum itself. Lou, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you, I'm afraid that dates me quite a bit. You look great, going on 35, something like that. 25, okay, thank you. We were talking yesterday, we got a great photo. I just tweeted on my timeline at Furrier. Lou and I, really on your product, that's actually in the museum. It's actually a cube shape, so cube, very fitting. It was a super computer. Exactly right. We have a super computer of media pumping out as much signal as we possibly can. But it was a super computer and it was all built from scratch. Exactly right. That's the way we did it back in those days.  So yes, we had our own processors. We had a different model though, but we were also trying to disrupt the industry much as we see it today. We were saying, one direction in super computing was make the processor faster and faster and faster. And Cray Research did that. We said, no, take thousands of computers and put them together. So take thousands of processors and we can outrun the one getting faster and faster and massively power super computing. Now we see that with the internet. That's exactly the same paradigm that people are using now to build these massively scalable applications. They're running on hundreds or thousands of servers and that's the way they serve their public. They don't build one computer to go super fast. This is a great transition because back then thinking machines, the one we were talking about, you built the hardware, you built the processor, you built the OS, you built the compiler. Everything was built from scratch, basically in a silo. But today the super computer is the cloud. So essentially people are building things from scratch in micro elements, distributed all over the place with a network, get distributed computing and you got unlimited access to software. So maybe it's all about entropy. The universe is getting more and more distributed. Things are really, really branching out. And the advantage of that is that you can move even faster because now other parts of the industry are putting in the pieces. And many things that we're doing today are assemblies. We're assembling microservices, we call them in many corners, but also taking other services and bringing them together to make a new product. That's the new paradigm. Don't build it all yourself. So let's talk about that because the digital transformation in the data center, certainly Cisco, the business that you work for now it's got a big stake in that game. But the bigger picture is the architectural mindset of doing that assembly. Runtime assembly, writing software to assemble component parts, microservices, Ryzen, Kubernetes, Docker, success, all this and now with standardization and a little open stack, open compute, all this stuff's going on, what is the mindset now? And based on your experience, you've seen a lot of waves. This wave seems to be faster. What's going on here? How do companies deal with this? I think, well, we are seeing, Moore's Law is still driving most of this even though we're beginning to see the end of the processor and speed improvements and things like that. So we're assembling that larger systems as a way to keep that innovation going. But it's almost happening, I think, at two layers. One is in the transformation, I know that Martin spoke yesterday here and I've always been a big admirer of his viewpoints, is this software transformation of the data center. We want things can move much faster when they're in software and so we're seeing that change take place and that is true for private cloud, public cloud and that's in the infrastructure layer where open stack plays. Now developers are approaching it completely differently. They're approaching, that's why we see Docker and we see containers. That is serving developers. It makes it easier and faster for you to develop applications that sit on top of now the software infrastructure. So now we're seeing those two forces sort of coming together. I think it's very interesting because there is a debate, is Docker going to overtake open stack or what's the co-existence? And I think all of us in the industry are seeing this is exactly the kind of layering we want to see taking place. So they complement each other very, very well. Yeah, and one of the things, I know she's got a question, I want to just continue that thought because Martin also pointed out that the developer way is completely developer led not supplier led. So it's a different paradigm. So you can have a gardener, all these people buy and purchase and all that stuff to how they do it. So I've got to ask you, so it used to be in the old days, you would wait for a vendor to do something. You'd set up some infrastructure and you were constrained by the infrastructure and the capability of what you had and the developers would have to deal with that constraint whether it's how much RAM is in the box or what network speeds and feeds add. Now it's reversed. The developers are dictating policy to the infrastructure. You see that? Absolutely, I think that's almost the biggest impact of cloud computing. Once we made it so that somebody can go into a Starbucks with their laptop and they can be productive, they can develop an application, they can deploy it on a public cloud, that means all of a sudden the developer is in control and the innovation can happen in that way and so you can see Airbnb starting up very quickly developing an app that allows them to serve a huge, huge market and they never want any infrastructure. So I think that the power has shifted to the developer and now they're in those. That's going to disrupt industries. Absolutely, in a very positive way. So with that power shift, and we've talked about that on theCUBE before and we were talking about it yesterday, what's your advice for businesses who are, there's so much choice, there's so many options, we could do it ourselves, we could outsource. What's your advice for customers who need to navigate the complexities with data center transformation and also the power shift? Culture is something that's quite interesting that we talk about here. What's your advice if the developers are now really empowered, how does the CEO become empowered and align with that to enable businesses to truly transform their data centers? It's a great question and it probably varied by industry. If you look at the transformation in manufacturing to a much more robotic driven manufacturing, instead of like how do you manage large fleets of people working factories, now it's fleets of robots and how do you make the capital investment for that? In cloud computing, I think the same thing is going to be true. What is interesting is now, again, power shifting towards developers and the power shifting towards delivering of applications over the internet. That's a very different model that any CIO has to now approach because what they're trying to do is really serve now instead of the systems of record or whatever, it's the systems of engagement. I think as Jeffrey Moore has talked about, that systems of engagement is really where businesses now can leapfrog each other. If they're more engaged with their customers through the internet, through an app, they're going to have an advantage. So they have to do two things. They do have to understand this. They will need developers, they will need the smart technologists and their companies knowing about what's going on in this transformation. And then they have to be aware of a larger ecosystem, ecosystem composing of open source software and of other services that are available that they can start to use that are on the cloud side. Well, the proof point too that one step further is systems of intelligence now tease out the boom of AI that we've been seeing. Then we're way back because that's what a connection machine was built for. The reason why we built that machine that's downstairs was to solve AI problems. And that's because computers weren't fast enough. We modeled it after a lot of neural net kind of technologies using many, many large numbers of very weak, small processors. So AI's now come full circle and being open. You know, we were at, Jeffrey and I were talking about our CUBE alumni, which you're part of, are so prominent. We have our own neural network. And we want to tap into that neural network. But let's talk about your product down there, thinking machines. It was supposed to solve the AI problem. So I got to ask you kind of the historical question and kind of bring it to today. Why has AI failed up to this point? Is it because of linguistic ontology not scaling? Is it because of the horsepower? Is it because of the software? Is it because of the academics, rigidity, dogma? I mean, I mean. I think almost all of those. I think there was many, many reasons. I think we were largely underpowered. So I do think even at that, even when we put 65,000 processors together, we did not have the computing power of the ganglion and a sea slug. I mean, it's really, really too primitive. Now we're beginning to see the emergence of enough power so that we can have autonomously driving vehicles. We can have Siri answering questions for us. That's a lot of computing power that we never had before. And it's still beginning to see some of the changes in how it gets applied like in healthcare and everything else. So there's been several shifts in the history of AI. We had expert systems for a while where we thought we could construct logical diagrams to answer questions. Now we're, and at that time there was also neural nets, but that weren't performing quite as well. Now we're seeing neural net technology is coming on very, very strong. And so you're seeing AlphaGo, for example, which got much better when you had one AlphaGo system playing against another AlphaGo system. They could learn from each other. And now real-time, after the data in memory, the advances of in-memory technology. Yes, exactly. But we still could not come back down to the network as the bottleneck. So back to networking, right? So how do we solve the network bottleneck? Well, we have to make sure. Martin tried that with SDN. That's true, that's true. Well, I think there's been some success there as well. I think that we're seeing that we needed to take networking from being a hardware problem that we were solving to now a software problem. And so I think what we've been seeing in software-defined networking and everything else has been that transformation. We're just at the beginning of that. And now I think that we are seeing things such as virtual network functions and NFE, network function virtualization, where we're seeing, again, software coming in which can be deployed more quickly, can be updated faster, and can be run at a lower cost for a lot of the service providers. But we're just at the beginning of that transformation. So I'd asked about open source. I had to talk with Lauren Cooney, who's working with you, and Cisco. And I want to bring a Cisco question, but I also want to bring a Lutakar question with that too, is open source is now a tier one citizen and trying major innovation at many levels. Too many to even talk about right now, but we'll have another save for that. But the old way of locking in the spec or having competitive advantage that Cisco took advantage of was a nestedness and architecture of proprietary hardware and software to have a great backbone. And it was really hard to swap out a Cisco gear, because it would take down everything. It was a great competitive strategy, product strategy. Now as the world moves to open source, how do you guys view, how should people look at competitive advantage, and how is Cisco changing their game to be more open source? Yeah, so one thing about Cisco to understand the world, Cisco's always been built around standards. And then, so we would get together with others in the industry. It's a slower moving process in open source, but the standardization process, that's how we got TCPIP and everything else. Then we would compete on implementation. And then we would say, okay, we're going to put this in the silicon, we're going to do ASICs, we're going to make the most competitive product adhering to that standard. In open source, I think it's very similar, but different motion is at play here. That's where we are seeing that. So it's tactically a different work flow. It's tactically, but it still serves the same purpose, which the customers do not want to see completely proprietary systems. What they want is something that they can avoid vendor lock-in. OpenStack has all been about avoiding lock-in of vendor, but now they're asking the vendor, show me that you have the best implementation. Show me you can deliver the service the best. Show me that you can move with the greatest speed. Or scale. Or scale. So those become the features, not the APIs and everything else. We're going to agree upon the APIs, we're going to agree on the platform, because that's what customers want. So Cisco's involved in like 35 or 40 different open source projects today. And so we're seeing it across the board within Cisco's business. So along that front, I wanted to get your take as the vice chairman of the board of OpenStack Foundation. We've talked a lot yesterday, we've seen a lot of success cases. In fact, Jonathan Bryce talked about wanting to be able to share that success. We've seen a lot, heard a lot about AT&T, SAP, some of the super users of OpenStack. With what Cisco was doing with OpenStack, when are we going to start seeing more diversity in terms of use cases in retail, in manufacturing? Are we on the precipice of that? I think we are. I mean, I think even in our shows, the OpenStack summits everything. We try to showcase different use cases that people have had from manufacturing. We're seeing a lot in terms of automobile manufacturing and IoT and those other areas in gaming. So we're starting to see that spread out. And that reflects something that the board is trying to drive very directly, which is that we want to start addressing users of OpenStack, not just the developers of OpenStack. Of course, OpenStack is an open source project and it's about the developers who are developing all of the different services in OpenStack, but we want to start focusing on how does this apply to the users and get much more input from the users so that they can inform the different project technical leads about what they need OpenStack to do for them. And that's the timing issue too, when you have incubation, you're building a foundation of OpenStack as a developer centric, obviously. Now you start to see this customer success has come in and you do see some diversity. SaaS players, you mentioned some gaming, you do. I think we haven't seen it, I think that Craig McGlocky was showing in Google and Kubernetes that they wake up every day and they discover there are new players that are using Kubernetes and in the application they never even had envisioned before. That's the fun part about building a platform, is that you all of a sudden are enabling other people to do all these wonderful things. Yeah, and the Docker is a great example. That comes, no, I won't say it came out of the woodwork, but I mean, it evolved very fast. Now Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing trends. What is the impact of Docker and Kubernetes to this whole system here? I think it's, again, it's a reflection of the fact that the developers now needed a better way for them to develop and compose applications. We've heard about microservices, something which is actually a design pattern that's not that new, it really is a design pattern around making a composite of a set of services that are each have to do a job very well and you bring them together to create your application. That is ideally suited, that's where Docker and Kubernetes don't allow that kind of thinking to take place so that you can construct smaller components, put them in containers, deploy them very, very rapidly, deploy them on your laptop, deploy them up in the cloud, deploy them on bare metal, deploy them on a virtual machine. It allows you to have the flexibility that you want, whereas in a container, you're putting everything you need into a container, that's why it's the shipping container, you know, analogy. It's an envelope. And it's a packaging system, but it's ideally suited then for developers to be able to share code and... Interoperability's been a key thing there. Let's talk about the future, let's talk about the vision. Okay, you've been around, you've seen the mini cycles, we've seen the computer industry grow from scratch. I mean, you've seen that, and everyone's talking about the main, the mainframes, the client server, all that great stuff, but let's go forward. What's the possibilities to do? When you think about IoT, you're really kind of thinking about a whole new data model, you're thinking about a whole new transit of packets, maybe different protocols. I think there's a direction. There's an arrow that we are following here, I thought, reflect way back into the mainframe era and into personal computers and client server computing, now into the internet, which is that computing is becoming distributed, it's becoming in multiple locations, that we're seeing an application has to, the more distributed you are, the more resilient you become to any particular failure. We've seen failures most recently in the airline, reservation systems, and that's why we're not fully distributed enough today, so that we can have cascading failures that can take out an entire sort of segment for a reservation system. Those need to be much, much more distributed, so we're going to rely much more on the internet and our computing, our ultimate computing platform is the internet, or the next generation after the internet to make it really a functional computer at a global scale. So if you and I started a consultant scene, we called it Tucker McKinsey Consulting, we have to advise in benchmark companies, how do you look at success of a company that's competing on a global scale? What does their company look like from an architecture from a philosophy standpoint? What is the benchmark of a good company and what is the benchmark of a marked for death company?  Yes, yes, I think it's pretty clear. The companies, I mean, if you look at Amazon or Google, even Microsoft shifting in that direction, they are becoming software-based companies. They are fully distributed in what they're serving, they're serving global markets. So they're moving very, very quickly, much more quickly than almost any of their competitors around in that space. I think that if you look at, you know, Uber, the Airbnb, the other disruptors, they are using the same model. They're using the internet to connect to their customers. They're building virtual businesses that might not have any physical, you know, infrastructure they're holding with it. They are becoming fully digital companies. And that I think is those are the companies that work. That's the asset test for you. Are they fully digital? Absolutely. And the resiliency thing around distributed means just more fault tolerance. It's got a network theory kind of concepts. While the internet was built, right? Yeah, exactly. Is there a DNS for these companies? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, great to have you on theCUBE. Thanks for your insight. And congratulations on the great product you have in the museum theCUBE. I'm old and remember our thinking machines in Cambridge. A lot of my friends went to go work there right across the river from Northeastern. Great to see you again. Thanks for taking the time to share the perspective and it's always an honor. Thanks for having me on theCUBE. Thank you so much. You're watching theCUBE here. I'm John Furrier, Lisa Martin, live in Silicon Valley with Lou Tucker, living legend, CTO and VP at Cisco. We'll be right back with more great coverage after this short break.