Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering DockerCon 2017, brought to you by Docker and support from its ecosystem partners. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman here with the final wrap with Jim Kobielus at DockerCon 2017. The CUBE's really excited that we were here for the third year. Have to have a big shout out to our partners and our sponsors that allow us to be here. Of course, Docker's been a great partnership. They talk a lot about ecosystem. Really bringing in some of the media people like ourselves, giving us some of the great speakers from their company, the partner ecosystem, and their customers. And the sponsors for the show for ourselves, AppLariat, Cisco, Iguazio, Scality, Canonical, and Red Hat. Without them, we couldn't bring you this programming. Really excited to be able to be here. And they're starting to tear down the show here. So not a lot of time. So many things to talk to. Show itself as container. We're not even going to be able to talk about the Franklin's barbecue. But Jim, you know, absolutely. Jim, you've gotten to be on the CUBE here, see some of the show. Give us your quick hits on your takeaways from the show. First of all, my first takeaway is, this is a vibrant developer ecosystem. Clearly, this show is much larger than the year before and the year before that. It'll be probably twice as large next year. That's my prediction, based on the sheer amount of developers migrating into the Docker ecosystem, because so many organizations are docker-rising their applications, container-rising applications. That's a huge focus for me and Wikibon as an analyst, is the containerization of application development, microservices, and all that for cloud deployment, multi-clouds, hot, hot, hot across all niches. So, vibrant ecosystem. Docker, as the core solution provider and the centerpiece of this community, amazing show. The Enterprise Edition, of course, that preceded the announcement of that and the release preceded this show. That's critically important in getting Docker into new accounts that with a full stack, that's clearly, it's enterprise-ready. Developers, more developers will be exposed to Docker through the EE. Docker at this show had a couple of really important announcements for developers. Mobi, Project Mobi for customization of container images and so forth. Clearly, that's going to be a multiplier effect on the ecosystem of developers, ISVs, and so forth. Building applications and customizing containerized Docker applications and images for a wide range of opportunities. Yeah, Jim, just want to comment on the Mobi piece here, because it was really interesting. I think the last couple of years, it's been that pull and tug as to what was the open-source piece? What is the company itself doing? And I think it's clarifying. Kubernetes is a big rising tide in the environment and all they cared about is they've got the open-source pieces that they need to be able to do Kubernetes. So with Mobi, Project, it's like, okay, now I understand what's out and open, I understand what Docker's doing. I saw some humility from Solomon Hikes, he was talking, he was like, we're listening. We're working ecosystem, ecosystem, ecosystem. So it was good to see that maturity.  I'm like, I don't think anybody watching this show would say that coming out. As you said, I expect the show to grow. It's doing really well. So, you know, kudos to what they're doing and the partners are excited. It's not just lip service. Oh yeah, we did some little announcement on the side. It's no, we're excited. This is there, you know, I know you've got a bunch of pieces, but I want to ask you, are developers excited about taking those legacy? There's lots of news I'm going to analyze. Applications and like helping to move those in or they only want to work on the cool new stuff. That's a huge theme, MTA. I forget what exactly the acronym stands for, but it's wrapping legacy applications, containerizing them in the Docker ecosystem. That is so important. So all of these legacy, you know, applications will be Dockerized before along and refactored. In addition to all the Greenfield development of containerized applications. So the MTA announcement, just as critical as the Mobi announcement and so forth in terms of NEE prior to the show, of getting Docker, getting their ecosystem, getting developers working in this environment, more and more developers. This entire Docker, this entire ecosystem has a magnetic force on the developer community or will. Those were very important. Also, I thought the announcements with Microsoft in terms of containers are going into windows in a larger way, Linux containers and so forth. That also, because Microsoft has a huge presence obviously in not only enterprise, but small and mid-sized businesses. We're going to see Docker in ever smaller deployments, hosts and so forth across the board. Smaller, you know, more buyers in other words, more companies will be Dockerizing more applications. Thanks to, in part, Microsoft as clearly a forerunner. Jim, absolutely. I say it at almost every cloud show. I want to follow the data. I want to follow the applications. And you had Microsoft and you had Oracle. Two of the big players from an application standpoint. Oracle's now in the Docker store. In the Docker, Oracle's in the Docker store. That is huge. That has validated containers and Docker. How about you, from the data standpoint? I heard, we talked to Guazio about some of the, you know, analytics and things like that.  What's a data guy? Think of a show like this. Is it too infrastructure focused or did you see some of the data? No. It's infrastructure focused in the sense that it needs to be to harden this technology for enterprise deployment. But it's really DevOps focused. And you know, Kubernetes and everything and swarm and whatnot. Look at all these vendors here of these tools for the DevOps lifecycle, Kubernetes and everything. That's really, really important. It's all about developers and speeding, you know, development and putting, you know, containerized Docker applications and images into production and managing them and securing them and so forth. This, the sheer range of DevOps tools that on the show floor, that's packing up now, was amazing. I'm just uncracking my research here. Very important. So we're going to wrap up. So the adoption is amazing. There's, I mean, all these industries, including like Visa, we had a swami who have adopted Docker into core applications that they're running major businesses on. That's some serious validation. One of the feedback I got from, it was actually John White from Expedient talked about and he said, he deals with kind of the small to mid, little bit large enterprise. And he said, all this keynotes, it like reminds us of AWS re-invent a couple of years ago. It's like big global names.  It's, you know, virtualization started in a lot of small environments. You know, containerization still, you know, really started, I mean, started in the likes of Google. You know, I remember the first DockerCon. It was, you know, Google and Facebook and they're the ones that have been doing these projects pre-docker and it's slowly moving down. And part of the things I look at is, you know, where's the watermark? Where below this?  The service riders I talked to, the cloud guys, I'm going to go right, I'm going to go to Microsoft. I'm going to go to Oracle. I'm going to go to AWS.  Right. Any of them because they're going to just take care of that and I won't care that it was containerized. So at the end of the day, it's not that tool. It's the wave of that modernization. Oh, yeah. I want to end on a data note because we were talking about data. Okay. I thought Iguazi, I thought Yaron was very, that was very good to have him. There's a lot of storage vendors here like Veritas and Southport. So storage, you know, in a Docker environment and persistent storage and data protection, quickly important, but also containerizing the new wave of, you know, applications that are machine learning and deep learning and artificial intelligence. We got a fair look at some of that from Solomon yesterday because Solomon mentioned that the OpenAI consortium is based of their internal test bed training network on Docker, on Swarm and so forth. In my prior life, I just joined Wikibon a few weeks ago. I focused on data science, which is a key development theme, by the way. I'll focus on for Wikibon. I saw a lot of containerization. I saw a fair amount of Docker and a lot of the data science oriented app that's going on in the business world. That's going to be a huge theme for me under Wikibon. But also, I mean, Solomon sort of alluded to a lot and so did Yaron. A lot of the work that's going on in the AI community, Dockerize their application, TensorFlow and all that. Huge theme, we'll probably see much more of it next year's DockerCon, I predict. Containerizing AI for deployment into autonomous vehicles and whatever.  But really appreciate you coming on. I'm on this side of the table.  You know, John Furrier I know was, you know, really disappointed. He loved this show. Usually my co-host a lot of these open source shows so John, you better be down here in Austin for CUBECon at the end of the year with me. You know, so many shows kind of now through like July 4th, the CUBE has so many activities going on. If you go to thecube.net, you can see all of our upcoming shows. Always watch us live. If we're not on a show that you think we should be at, you know, go ahead and ping us, reach out to us Twitter or through the website. Jim's research, a lot of it's going to be on wikibon.com, siliconangle.com is also where we have some research corner, some of the other pieces there. So check out the whole silicon angle media for Jim, myself, Ava, Leonard, Brendan, Jay, Sam who's already, you know, heading to the airport. Thank you so much for watching the CUBE. Hope to see you at lots of shows coming around and thank you for sharing.


As someone that talks a lot about free and open source software on my channel, one of the things that I often talk about are these software forks, these forked projects, right? They take an existing free and open source project and then they fork it and then they take that code base from that point on and then they go in their own different direction because they have some different visions than what the original project had. And the software forks, they're actually healthy. They're beneficial to the community. They're a positive force. But a lot of people I've noticed in the free and open source community actually have a negative reaction to forking, right? They see all of these forks as unnecessary, as unhealthy as a drag to the free and open source community. Like we have too many people working on the same thing essentially. Too many forks is a bad thing. And I actually completely disagree with this because there are many examples of really fantastic free and open source software that originated as a fork of another project. And also there are many pieces of free and open source software that are better today because other people forked it and then forced the original project to become better. A great example of this would be the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME back in 2010, 2009, 2010, about 12 years ago. GNOME 2 reached end of life as GNOME was moving to version 3. GNOME 3 or the GNOME shell and the free and open source community, the Linux community, pretty much hated GNOME 3 because it was a radical UI change that nobody really understood at the time. It didn't operate. It didn't look and feel anything like GNOME 2. It was such a drastic change that everybody that loved GNOME 2 were really put off that GNOME 3 was something totally different, broke everyone's workflow. On top of that GNOME 3 in the early days was very crashy, very buggy, was very heavy and bloated especially for that time period 2010. Most computers were very underpowered and pretty much the community just didn't like it. So you had all of these forks that sprung up almost immediately as GNOME went from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3. All of a sudden you had Ubuntu creating Unity. You had the Mint team creating Mate and Cinnamon and then you later had Budgie and now you've got System76 creating their Cosmic desktop. Now not all of these are technically forks. Mate is definitely a fork as a fork of the old GNOME 2. Cinnamon started life as really extensions on top of the GNOME shell and Unity really isn't a fork of GNOME at all, but it was trying to be very GNOME shell like or at least it was back in the day. And all of these desktop environments they exist because they wanted to create a GTK based desktop that was something different than GNOME 3 and something better than GNOME 3. And in a lot of ways GNOME 3 was so bad for many, many years. It really forced the GNOME developers to start implementing some different changes. They started having to listen to the community as more and more the community was using these other GTK based desktops. GNOME 3 eventually started implementing some of this stuff in the later versions of GNOME 3 and now the GNOME 4D series, GNOME is a much better desktop environment than what it was. GNOME 3, the early versions were absolutely horrible, almost unusable. GNOME 4D may be the best desktop environment we've ever had on Linux. And why? It's because of the forks. And in some ways I could say the same thing about KDE. The reason it's better is because of all of these desktop environments that exploded on the scene because many people don't realize, you know, 15 years ago you really only had like half a dozen desktop environments to choose from as far as full desktop environments and really you only had two big ones. Everybody either ran GNOME or KDE, right? And now of course we have, there's 20 different desktop environments, good desktop environments that I could choose on Linux, not to mention 100 stand-alone window managers to choose from as well. So I do think that KDE is better because of all of those GNOME forks. I think all of those competing desktop environments help push KDE forward. Not to mention KDE does have some forks of its own. We have the Trinity desktop environment, which is a fork of an older version of KDE, 3.5. We also have competing cute desktop environments such as LXCute, which is a continuation of a now dead project. Originally it was RazorCute and if all of these competing projects hadn't of sprung up, then GNOME and KDE really wouldn't have any competition and we might have been stuck with some of what we had in those early versions of GNOME 3 or in those early versions of KDE 4, which is also was slow, buggy, crash-tastic, nobody really liked KDE 4 as well. And now both GNOME and KDE Plasma are just amazing desktop environments. They're pretty much universally loved among the community, which was not the case 12 years ago. And I can even make an argument that some of the stand-alone window managers out there, many of these tiling window managers that are forks of each other, that they help push the original project forward. The competition is healthy and a great example is DWM, which is one of the older tiling window managers around and one of the very early forks of DWM is the awesome window manager and the awesome window manager basically took DWM, which really had no features because DWM is a suckless project. It's so minimal and also window manager put all of this extra functionality into DWM and their fork called the awesome window manager. And although a lot of that stuff hasn't made its way into the base code of DWM, there are a lot of DWM patches that really I think exist because all these other tiling window managers have these these functionalities, right? That DWM lacks of people are creating patches for DWM. The community is creating patches for it, mainly because the forks exist. Now, sometimes forking a project is necessary to keep it going, to keep it alive because the original project is going to die because the maintainers no longer want to support it or a company is behind it. Maybe that company goes bankrupt or it's taken over by another company. A perfect example of this is in 2009, Sun Microsystems was taken over by Oracle and Sun Microsystems was maintaining things like LibreOffice and MySQL, MySQL. And the community did not want these freed open source projects in the hand of Oracle. Oracle was not a friend to freed open source software. So the community expected Oracle to come in and pretty much destroy OpenOffice and MySQL. So what did the community do as soon as the news was out that Oracle had taken over Sun Microsystems, we forked OpenOffice and created LibreOffice. We forked MySQL, created MariaDB and those projects are some of the most popular pieces of software on the planet, not just freed open source software, some of the most popular pieces of software on the planet and their forks. And lastly, we should talk about forked Linux distributions because some of the most popular Linux distributions are forks of another distribution. There's really not that many Linux distributions out there that are actually independent, that they built everything themselves, that their package manager and all of that, they maintain their own repository software. So many of these things started life as simply a fork of an existing project. Ubuntu, the most popular desktop Linux distribution on the planet, and very popular server distribution. Ubuntu essentially started life as a Debian fork, right? They just took Debian, which Debian was not meant for really desktop computer use. It was mainly a server operating system and canonical. The company behind Ubuntu wanted to make an operating system, a Debian operating system for normal computer users, normal PC computer users. So they forked Debian and created Ubuntu. Now, Linux Mint had some problems with the way Ubuntu did things. Mint forked Ubuntu, creating Linux Mint, right? This is the way the world works with free and open source software. And then when SystemD arrived on the scene about a decade ago, you had a lot of forks because of SystemD. A lot of people really didn't like SystemD. They were against it for ideological reasons. So you had a lot of protest distros that sprang up because of SystemD. So you had the Debian team that many people in the Debian team did not want SystemD, so they forked Debian to create Dev1. The same thing with Arch Linux. When Arch Linux moved to SystemD, you had some Arch guys fork Arch Linux to create Artix. And all of these distributions are great distributions. Ubuntu meant Dev1, Artix, right? And they're essentially forked from an existing project. So are forks a good thing? In my opinion, yes. I think forks absolutely are a good thing. I know the reason people complain about forks are when an open source project, something goes screwy with it. A company that we don't like owns it or the maintainers decide to change the license from an open source license to a proprietary license or whatever it happens to be, right? And then we're going to fork this project. And typically it's not just one fork. You get about 15 different forks of that project. And I understand people hate that. It's like, hey, why don't all you guys that are forking it all? Just create one fork and all work on that. And I can understand a lot of people don't. We have this complaint in the freedom of source community that too many people are all working on the same thing apart. Why don't you all work on the same thing together? I get the criticism, but here's the thing. The ones that are worthy, they are going to succeed. And that project will live. The ones that are not worthy, that project will die. The ones that are not going to put in the proper work.  Hopefully the people that were working on that that still wanted to work on that software will go to the forks that are still alive. So to some things up, you know, if there's a project out there, free and open source project that's going in a way, going in a direction that you don't quite agree with, maybe you're a part of that community and you want to fork it and you want to try going your own way and try to make it something different, something that stands out. I again, I think that's healthy because at the end of the day, we need competition. We need competing ideas. Right. Again, it's kind of it's capitalism at work, really, within the free and open source software community. Right. And those competing ideas, one will win out over the other or maybe both will survive or maybe neither will survive. But again, I think this is part of the healthy organism that is free and open source software. Peace, guys.


Let's do a good thing. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. No, that's what I'm talking about. At least some of that military assignment. All right. So glad to have you today. This is our champion seminar. Hopefully it will be able to share some information with you that will be useful. Some things you did not know. Some things that you knew. And then that you know. Help us that don't know. To grasp what information is only given to you today. And I'm just delighted to be here. Want to clear up some information. Most of this information came from last year. When we did the seminar. And the questions that generated from that particular seminar. You know. I'm mindful that this is a seminar. The job show isn't like church shows. Just say hi to everybody. Well, I guess that job's near. I don't understand. I just can't come in again. Okay. Maybe some of that didn't take back. All right. We're going to get started. I'm champion of your national champion for this year thus far. And I've enjoyed serving. Still serving. That's a champion hand. I'm still going to serve. That's what I do best. Amen. So let's get started. We want to welcome you here. The purpose of this seminar is to talk about the roles. And the responsibility of the DAB champion. And what our responsibilities are. What I do is a don't sign. What we cannot do. What we're supposed to do. The rules and regulations. We're supposed to be living life. We know someone on Tweet it. But we don't want to tweet it so far out that we don't recognize them. If we happen to visit your chapter or your department level. Okay. Everybody take a deep breath. God, you're tight in there for me. Breathe. I'm not the average. I'm just a man. But in the coming weeks this information will be available to your various chapters when you go back home on your website. Because we want all of you to be informed of what it is that we're supposed to be doing. Many have stopped to ask me questions. Email me.  Ask me different things. And I do my best to answer when you think about just one person. I'm a big person. But I still can't answer your one's question. The other one's meeting. And then fulfill my responsibilities on a national level. But I do do my best to get back in response. So if you send me an email, you call and give me a message. And I'm not returning either. That means I'm still working on something. Okay. Man. I'm going to go to church in a minute. All right. A little background in history. I'll help you get on how this all started. And also, man. Rabbi Michael Aaron, son. It was the first day of the national chapter. And then looking at this history that's up there for you. The role of the chapter had always been a unifying figure, but not always what one would expect. He was the first national chairman, had clerical exemption, and was not required to serve the military. But he had visited the United States and served during World War I to fight the war. He noticed that there's a lot of hostility there. And I had promised one of these three silver words, but anti-Semite-ism. And although the rise of the Jews was shrinking of the military duty, it would now go to the drag that comes in with the first-generation Americans that didn't sit well with him. So he just said, let's say that anyone who would avoid military duty was a hypocrite or a counter. But he served a distinction, and he was eventually promoted to the battalion sergeant major before an artillery shell blinded him. While he was saving a woman comrade during this particular offense, in addition to serving BAB, he also helped disabled children and founded the Jewish Grail Institute to make their legion text accessible. So as we continue our history, we've always, military champions, have always been unique. And not only are always we still unique in our own way, but the spirits of calling even in our own ministry, it may still sometimes call us to go in the battlefield. There are at least nine military champions who have been honored with the medal of honor for heroism, here it is, and dated back to the Civil War. Though champions are considered noncombatting in today's military, Milton Lorenzo Haney was named the fighting champion after picking up a musket and joining the ranks during the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Although BAB does his utmost not to send champions into the long way, there are similarities between the BAB champion and that both of us facilitate and support the need of all religions. And I want to put a pin in that. We must support all religions and all faith, and we're going to get down to that as the slides keep coming up. And I just want to put it out there that we are a non-sectarian organization. What does that mean? I can't faker one or the other. That should be a wrong line. If you're the only whatever in your particular chapter on your state level, you're the only one there. And everyone else that sits around you is of a different faith or a different religion. We're not to impose what we believe. I just believe that they're neutral. And when you hear me say that one voice and that one sound, that's what I'm saying to you, a voice to say but ear to ear and be compassionate enough not to force your beliefs and what you think your chapter or your department or national level should be is already written what it is before you accept that position to know what you walk it into. Agree? Now I need to talk back to the the man. Now, the AHA chapter has been dropped in comparison with our own counterparts. What does that mean? Military chapters may conduct services in a religion that are a-damning. We were a-damned as a mess at this finish. It was a-damned as a capital for them. But regardless of your name, we must meet the spirit you need of all diverse groups of soldiers. So if you don't know, I was told by my greats in worship from the years and years ago, and I am, misgluable about anything. If you Google it, you won't mind. So if you're not sure about the different religions of faith that you're going to serve, going to pray for, send a SIM in the car or a Get Well card, Google it and it's Google I promise you to tell you what you need to say. We got it?  Get Well card. That can be offensive, because it lets me know you didn't think enough of asking someone, you know, is it okay? And we're going to see the ratings of how much of our media organization is built on substantive, Protestants, this, that and the other. We don't have the numbers among the other faith, but just know, I had it before me in a little book at home I just don't know why, but I always say why. Because I choose not, it's my choice, not to offend anyone. If you don't know, a fence can go over years and years and years and years and years. People will hold it against you for years and years and years. In fact, they'll die being offended and we don't ever want to misrepresent DAV and offend no one. We got it? Got it. I'm going to start answering myself. But we must meet the spirit of all diverse groups of soldiers and doing so to support their military unit, readiness, moral, and acts as counsel for our comrades. Military chapters must be prepared to serve in a non-denominational capacity. Get yourself ready. You know, do like those children, change your mind, get in that mind or get in that mind and say that this is what I'm going with. Not only to represent DAV, but also I found out a lot more travel quick than the truth. And if you offend someone or we got away with it, then you look back at it. Thank you, amen. So now, know that we have better faith. In 2017, the army authorized beers for religious soldiers after long suit came in. But the next year, the soldiers authorized to wear beer because they prayed to their own God. By that age, chapters have been asked to support a wide range of spiritual beliefs. Not your own faith or do your own faith, but outside of your faith as a representative of what you gave at most of the mind said in a mind change. It doesn't change you. If it changed you, then you weren't secure and solid of what you believed in. You see the time and more specifically, then I dreamt in the world Christian compromise 63% of the population. But even among those who are identified or Christians that walk among other Christians, they're a box, even the same. You don't believe in it, not to be true. Because when you walked in here, you said out, so you believe in something. Alright? So don't tell about it. I don't believe in that. When you turn your constant on that moment, you know you paid for it.  So you have a belief one way of the other. So as a DME organization, we have very little to no room for this. We want to always represent ourselves as an organization that sticks together, works together. Know how to get along together. Unity is a strong word and so, you know, we can ease the calls ourselves and different ideas differently. We work better together. And we don't want any division. And our ranks and our statutes and our positions that we hold and the solutions that we can all get along if we try. But if we don't try, it's just going to fall apart. And I don't ever want to think that we're not trying. They look for you. You are written in coastal as being written because people watch you. And they watch what you do and what you say as opposed to what you think you're going to be doing and what you think you're going to be saying. So, regardless of religion affiliation, we have an obligation to make everyone feel like and welcome everyone by being champions in the membership at ours. Not the qualification. We are champions. The AB chapters are important officers who can be a unified and inspired force in chapters of board department leadership. The AB chapters do not necessarily have to have extensive training required to perform best. But our duty is to serve everyone of your faith. We are not required to have any special or chosen by the membership officers elections. Based on an election to an office, chapters do not have the authority to officiate marriages, perform religious birth rituals, grant absolution, provide spiritual counseling, or have many other duties that come to a full-time religion application. That's a whole lot that they may make itself. Just because there's one imposition in your chapter and you would name the AB chapter China. That does not give you the right to buy this dark air coat. That does not give you the right to go for whatever it is just a something that you have on Sunday and say, you know, my chapter may be the chapter. I got the lawyers at a bad time some of the time. That's wrong. Don't do that. You're a big chapter for the AB chapter level, national level, unless you have outside credentials from your particular faith wars, your petition particular organization that has license certified you to do that but not just seminaries here and plus under the AB chapter. That don't mean anything. Do it under your own credentials. All right. We don't get straight for the AB. Chapters cannot be expected to understand the tendency of all this way you go talk to Ms. Goode. If you don't know what the Goode is how you would respect them just say do what's not offensive and take the time on these smart phones on your computer and find out the information that you need to know. Being distressed is harmful for the more of that person's belief and it all keeps going back to we don't want to be disrespectful. We don't want to be alone. We don't want to have another one and these are spiritual wounds because sometimes I found that very hard to heal. A physical wound we can patch it up sew it up, put a bandaid on it and a scarring there but if it's a spiritual wound sometimes we can find it hard to put that wound to heal. What about our own characteristics? As an AB position the character should be had more standards. I call it integrity. That your integrity my grandfather used to say let your year end don't promise someone something that you already know you only have the intention but don't know. And that's how he said I'm sad and what I truly believe if it's out of your range out of your mind let the person up let the organization up somebody else says something you might not know or by the desire then don't let it be but what she said something they don't have I'm going to go get a plan with somebody else set your own tone and your own standard as fate will come with the name that's associated with you I'm going to come from the AB so I'm going to stay with the Royal Bank 99 for 99 percent of the time it's not needed but in the case of chapter members we're talking about who they select as a chapter and I know they on a personal basis know I'm going in the chapter position so people will just point it out but even with that be mindful and select who you have where that man first you're going to try to put it into a crystal criminal but later not on this Google but if you borrow people on Facebook people that you know they don't know we put too much money but you put too much information out there in fact I have a police officer and a friend of mine and he tells me all the time he said we don't have to do background checks anymore we just Google the name and find out what we need to find out first people will put the information out there so be mindful of how you're doing more characters to continue you let someone as a chapter member who has an extensive criminal record can reflect extremely important on the APA and discourages the court but how is that I did not know John Wallagham been killed half of the state and now he's just break it up and he's still laying about killing the other state why would I do that just to constantly pay good money make greater donations in the organization he'll be alright we'll just make him a chapter member anyway y'all look real strange but I know some incidents and I did to that extreme but it wasn't a chapter but someone was put in the office because of such things and oh oh I didn't know John Wallagham and now we got blood on our name because we had a big time to do what was needed to be done chapters don't need it but you should not have so much blood on your sheet that we can't read what your name is out of distraction we should never regardless of our personal or religious views could be a person of a different faith or belief that in particular somebody's door somebody's son somebody's loved one and you think about when you frown or if we frown on this particular group someone that is frowning on yours and you're supposed to have it going on you have to have a heart and compassion for all the people I don't care how you're going to be it's not just for the chapter but you just being a person of yourself you know it's not about color well not always but a lot of times I use this phrase even in the discipline that I'm in I'm going to put the brain polka dot all the desire to color what we call this the norm and what I'm saying is just to create your color if you polka dot your green just call it whatever your heart is what determines who you really are and we love people by heart I've not always been like this don't get it twisted I've had some stuff in me but I've learned to love old people old people it doesn't matter if I can understand what you're saying and speak in English to me then you're the person that we can bring in and embrace be mindful I've learned this through the years that a very person you reject and look down on that's a very person who won't have to hand your glass to the bottom right now and so be careful there's no only B&B track and support B&B mission they can also palm B&B reputation of life as real assassination of someone you can start speaking the truth you may hear it or you may not hear it but if juice is light it'll be a back and out battle before I can get back out of that these sale phones have messed people up but we used to have to buy them a diamond until how old I am to make a call you don't have to do that no more you just send a text by that person standing in front of you and can mess someone up that's not who we are yes well in the first place the role of a champion is special and I would like to thank that we are you may not need a prayer and I often share with people that's not the only thing the champions do is open and close and pray we can get to him we can pick up a mob we can do fundraisers we can do membership so on that this is a champion hat I can pick up someone make sure the veterans get to that job so don't put chapters in the box that's how we do open and close and pray and you know just there to hear somebody who jump all the issues and problems on us and it's not enough to reverse it we don't have a multitask you just give us a sign and watch us do it amen amen alright a champion represents a compassion of an anti-champer or state of DAB we provide comfort, facilitation for all the young and survivors of all men of all men just because you have a person that's a member of an American agent it doesn't mean you can't be a supporter they are veterans purple heart veterans wounded warriors of veterans they may not have that job they may be out of state somewhere so DAB chat and stick your chest way out and go see if I put you a fellow comrade or their veterans see we can't afford that, that's the former freighter but they're not a member of DAB I'm not going over there how many of the next thing I'll say if I call them on DAB they're supposed to be this great organization that would be even helping and assisting and H.I. control make it cost we were not a members of their organization they couldn't come and help us so we don't have them in another hand to a fellow veteran of the veterans so we got some other resources out there the other resources are the official ritual of DAB the National Constitution and Biodiversity and the Chantum Officer Guide and all three of these are available through our DAB website by searching if this little woman beyond this ring because we hear too often especially in my generation it just don't happen the jobs that I did on several jobs I can't bear for me with the computers there's some who don't know how to access from the computers they have to get their children and grandchildren there's some things that I still have to call my wife that your grandfather I said come show Mella how to get here she's like really now just give me your play so if you're one of those who don't know how to access the website you don't know how to get to if you find some of these children that keeps these things and you're not going to be able to find them because they don't know if you have faith so don't let shame and embarrassment cause you will not know how to access these three important tools that we need to carry on what needs to be carried on yeah, thank you the ritual and all of these these next lines I want to explain what the ritual does it identifies where our chapter might be positioned for meetings you'll see someone say you'll see the different chapter it just lets you know what's your position when you're invited to come to the various meetings seminars or whatever we may be needed for because oftentimes you come in and say where am I supposed to be there's a a table that shows how it's organized and how it's set up you know the commendices here first vice-community vice-unit we may be asked to preside over a brief ceremony to honor the POWs and the MIAs chapters can it should be the first person to be contacted when a veteran of families are in stress the ritual comes for a report on the sickness in your local chapters for insure that if you know what the sickness comrades are longing let the chapters know that this is the sidebar and it's not in this recitation today I've experienced it two or three times in my life and this go to Google I'll go to Instagram and YouTube it was expectancy that the chapter needs to know how to fold that flag how many know how to fold a flag that ceremony how many know how to fold a flag that I can't well maybe I'm a little slow in this situation because we do have representative there as some of the homegoers as some of the veterans who transition and what happened and it was just real strange thank god for YouTube they got the one that they were expecting the chapter to participate and fold another flag they had just enough time to head into the building YouTube it and learn how to fold that flag so if you don't know just a bit too much do it tonight and then if you're the person there and nobody else knows then you give them a quick lesson on how to fold that flag that in the recitation but it's good tonight I love all of them the ritual also holds a comprehensive guidance on how to conduct a memorial service but brief yourself on it so you'll know it's a little straightforward when you come to Christendom the part that we know that is one of Christians where the scripture is referred to the back of shadow dead over this Christian mind you can come and mistake you don't have to but it does some of the way that it doesn't bind the commoners to make you feel that Christian way of understanding from the truth your faith is your faith your religion is your religion and by no means are we here to change your mind about what your faith is mind and challenges whoever you are, whatever your faith is whatever your walk is whatever your religion is know who you are and hold fast to it got it? now if you ain't sure like all recommendations and should be omitted or replaced if it costs this comfort based on the belief of the fallen the same philosophy can be applied to other occasions ideas and faith in other words this got to be universal we got to have a universal mind non-criticism, judgmental mind and the good when you take that oath you say this don't say it if you don't mean it you just want the title you just want the title you just want to have on your head under that title under that hat you're going to be of this right here I praise you and in such a manner that all times and places if you keep saying it and allow it to get down into your spirit then you'll be affected about what it is we're really supposed to be doing no shame and no embarrassed on this organization myself but what about me I have to be the first part taken of what I'm saying so in an eyes and hole of the office that the chapters and all offices make when we accept this responsibility constitution and bylaws who we the national constitution and bylaws accepts that chapters are elected by DAB membership it does not elaborate much on the responsibility but it's the law of DAB and it does contain a very important status that applies to the chapters as well as all who represent DAB so we're not hanging on here by ourselves it applies to everyone from the commander all the way down from the sweeper all the way up all the rules and regulations in this organization it applies to all religious applies to the chapter everybody in this agency it's they said I'm partial, I don't show my favoritism I'm like one who with the other put a ball in one and in a melted pot I think that makes us great to strengthen whatever walks you in with a religion it just makes us unique in our own special way because you may be praying to one God I may be praying to the other but the good thing about me all of God's out there is that what we all need because you're so stubborn we're in trouble and this earth is golden you may not be praying to my God you're praying to your God and when they come together they know we've all lost the fears at the same time but now if you don't have what Brad wants to do next to you I need to be God we need to get out of trouble I'm sorry today I said it's the chapter's responsibility to put prayer in the chapter to me the chapter is the spiritual leader you appointed him, you named him you called him and me in so you at least don't need to know how to say prayer the chapter is the spiritual leader and may he call upon to represent the chapter and the funeral make sure you know what we're praying on that name slip up to the family member call one of the members who know that that person has been in that chapter for the last 40 years I had the time to discipline a brother say who he believed in and if he's not of your faith then google it so you can get a pretty small prayer but don't take all day to pray though that's right don't make it into a certain moment look that prayer up be decent and in order and say what it is it doesn't cost a gap the chapter from doing more to support the aid of members veterans and families in fact to some degree within the boundaries of non-denominational service chapters may initiate or be embodied other programs resources will allow them to be alright Mr. Dan pronounce this word for him prostitutes thank you now we know what that means yeah one thing I hope is a broad understanding that the role of the chapter can play can have a place in our organization that with the definition of it and do someone to try to convert someone to your faith or request someone to join another party institution of commerce don't do that that's enough that's enough now if you ask a question let's share what you believe share what your faith is but don't stop politicalizing rather than campaign that I don't know what you don't know that I need you to come on over here that ain't about nothing that's not your place it is unacceptable in the AP but if you tend to serve as a chapter even as they let you be in another position it is very critical to understand that it's not the responsibility to act don't let it be put on you your job our job is to meet the better that's where they are wherever they are just me you may not understand me but at least we are compassionate enough to give a compassionate ear if you don't understand share it but don't be lying I really understand no I don't understand but I hear you listening and if it's in the chair my prayer may be different but if you don't mind don't just start going in my case is right but you don't say it this way have enough compassion in a listening ear to be able to assist and have a spirit of comfort knowing that it could have been you but say she was on the other feet have some compassion there some chapters already have a defined or active in it number of faith based initiative when you elect a chapter for the AB it is very important that you do not allow your personal belief to interfere with the AB mission if you don't know what the mission is read it read it every week but this came up last year well the Bible should be at the chapter 9 so the Bible be open and closed well I call up the national it's supposed to keep coming up because it seems like it's becoming a problem and I got to worry about it I got an email back and one of the things that's in them that my response was the national organization does not incorporate a sectarian religion text and meeting or event when I say that it has to be there when I say that it has to be open it has to be closed but one of the last conclusions of that statement that I received from the English temp this is just common sense if you got a movement and they don't understand why the Bible is there it becomes offensive until you can pull it it explains why the Bible is there why it's open, why it's closed it comes as a fantasy we don't want to be again one and run off thinking that we brought it to the organization on a pre-test of something else so it's really based on what you're really doing in the longer chapter level because some don't have Bible so that Bible is a Torah and all these others are different from what they really need in the chapter and if it's rid of a problem just remove it what you have should already be in your home Amen and if it's not in that maybe you need something to read alright, someday there will be a place for a Bible to a narrative aberration this is not a mandate by an NBA policy resolution and it's potentially a divisive even within the Christian invasion there are different versions of the Bible having one versus another and setting up a final bias for a specific pre there is no regulation however, it is not really the order based on your oath of office in general it's something you should not do intentionally or unintentionally and when you get wind of it address it how many of you know we continue to allow this stuff to build up it's like a fire that needs to be put out and if we don't address it then before you know it that's when the division come in that's when the breaks of the chapter come in that's when they let the reducer think I can and they say this it rules a regulation that no one is adhering to their rules a regulation we have to do what is been put before it's our acts to do not just to make the organization look good because we do that well or what about your own personal self don't you think this is good by saying one thing and totally living another thing do not say that this can or cannot happen just speak to the consequences you have this is a perfect guideline the only way we can miss it we don't read it, we don't adhere to it we try to change it all down sales, no one voted on it but you no one said it but you we have guidelines that we aren't to live by and do the best that we can and if it's not working then write it write it down and pray it's a national get a hold of it and let someone know this is not working for us is anything that can help us that we can continue to be great and better for this organization we don't want to spew our national we want to be who we say we are we can outlive it help one another assist one another all veterans, deaf families, deaf children let's do what we say we have been sent out there to do I want to thank you for coming today and to the breakers for giving me the support not on the national level but on the state level on your chapters level whatever you need and my e-mail address is I have my phone number I reply in two minutes I can just know if you've not heard from me it's not that I've been pulling you I'm also the state chapter before the state of Alabama and this and that's not my excuse I do know how to multitask and I do it way up I don't know but I just gave you an offer at the same time but I'm getting there so I thank you again for coming and if you have any questions there's a mic right there this where you also make a day in prayer it's not just sitting you're going to be asked y'all first because I'm the first one to say I don't know about it I don't try to know it all then I know I don't know but Ms. Google and YouTube have become my best subscribers if you have a question if you hang in there in the morning I'll send it can you go back to the microphone Jeremy? no I keep my mic but it's a mistake well actually it's not that I'm on a fast day thank you I'm grateful to see a national person in this meeting that's a wonderful thing and that means a lot to me I also know that chapters are not voting members but many of the meetings they're asking to participate in to bless that meeting before and after they what I want to bring more of a computer age in all of the processes that Mr. Wills is working on what the chaplains who the chaplain is either in certain districts departments or nationally some kind of registry so I just want to make sure I understand the question are you saying that you basically want a phone book so the chaplains can talk to each other yeah absolutely I'm going to talk to Doug about that I have a lot of great feedback I'm here because I'm supporting the chaplain she brought this issue to Mark Burgess his attention last year and I followed through as late as possible because I just wanted to she made so many good jokes but she's upset with me about anything but we're going to have a guide that's going to come out what the chaplain referred to we're possibly going to do a weathering people together this if you want to this is the time to get to know one another and if someone's not here you know someone who knows them or you can get in touch with people around you in the meantime I will run that up with Doug while I speak about it and I will give you feedback from your service I certainly agree with you because I know that the chaplain has been working to try to get a list nationally just like global chaplains but I thought it would be safe and it's very difficult and so I support your work and do the work and put it in I appreciate that it would help us to be able to get this kind of training and education out to know who he is and what we're trying to send it to and thank you thank you do assistants have to take that open to I believe if you're every D&P chaplain I mean Ed Harman is the constitution by law's leader but every meeting that I've been in folks who are appointed by elected officers also take the open to office but if you're not appointed you're just an assistant chaplain would they have to take it? I think it's a type of assistant if they're held in a chapter say our chapter is not there so we have some time to review I think that's something that would need to be covered your procedure through your chaplain constitution by law I believe but like I said Ed Harman says with the Marines he crayons and he doesn't think oh that's Mark so he might talk alright thank you let me say this I received this this is a pumpkin night we went to South Carolina and she called me and wanted to know the presentation that I did when I was there it was okay for her to build off something that she wanted to do so she actually brought me which I'm not ready to yet but this is what the mid working is about that as we visit we're able to get a hold of one of them in that chaplain coca-cola department convention I was so impressed with her presentation of what she gave to the chaplain before we left the meeting I told her we were going to use that I'm working that so people think I came up with this idea but I don't know if you wrote it see this is what it's all about you must know all and draw from one another if we have as Jim said the tools to work with or some information that's out there that could be useful within all the chapters for this department and we're going to make sure it looks like I got it going on they don't know what I got I have to go to every department chaplain for the state of Georgia is there a guy or a group of singers who put on a Moritz service the one you did yesterday barely got in I really enjoyed it if there was a guy that we didn't use to follow we would appreciate working his way down to those in the separate departments and to the chaplain official he said I just want to add to that that the role of the chaplain if the chaplain formed in the great point that you said he's going to give you a framework he's going to tell you what we definitely don't want you to do as a chaplain but within that framework you have the creativity to do things but you would be surprised if you dig into the ritual there are even suggested prayers and something like that you can build on if you want to for you in Ephesians and there's extensive memorial service guides in the ritual more than I think any of the current community leaders have fully like I think when we dug into this at Chaplain Barnards Ephes we were kind of surprised there's a lot more guidance in there probably than you think and if there's more guidance needed the national chaplain is someone you can reach out to and say well let's talk about this maybe we do a webinar and we ask and invite chaplains to that if that's going to be a big trouble it's all going to stop there but we can do more if we need it just let us know and let me just answer for the chance to answer that question and reason is there are guidelines of the do's and don'ts that's how to do a thing in my mind why I could give it the do's and don'ts what to say, what not to say but you can be guided I'm just totally different in this area I'm trying to be mindful of what I'm saying what I need to say so that I don't offend everyone in the room now my personality is that I'm talking about and sharing my compassion for people I can get over excited because I'm trying to drive the point over that you are special I do hear I am passing I try to leave and be the champion on the champion level I'm mindful of I'm here for a warrior's service to encourage and to empower to let you know although our comrades are not here we're not forgotten and I sense it going into another direction and I try to pull myself back so once again I'm speaking from my Christian faith and what I believe in now it's going to come out of there but I'm trying to sit on the best I can but I do it here to the God and I understand the rituals as often as close I can get Michael but you got to really understand what's in there and that way you're going to get so far off and so that's just my faith that's what I believe but I took the same hope and I have you here today I believe in this nature's sword I'm from chapter 18 in North Carolina my question is because I had I don't know if I'm stepping out of bounds but I had I did address with my chapter and I had created a our chapter of shows to be on the Facebook page to help you know because sometimes I get a lot of I get a lot of voices like that I've been trying to add members to our Facebook page and I was wanting to hope is that something you know that's what makes me a vital order is that something I can do with a chapter chapter chapter chapter so now I'm going to get you called out because I was texting Doug off trying to sort out the the room work can I take care of that real quick according to Doug there's no such report currently we see a definite value especially for state-owned chapels I think someone else in this room might think that the national chapels might have the same exact thing and we might need to do outreach if we do seminars or something like that so Doug's saying now that we have the officer election report online this is something we can work towards and stop the feedback any other questions I want you to forgive me for being on our phone me to create a Facebook chapter account which I did get permission from our chapter but if you have permission from your chapter and you're representing your chapter that's fine I was just in a social media seminar so we counted this for guidance on social networking that comes over into the communications department Rob, this is the communications director Michael Stegner is a social media manager Michael Stegner you can always reach out to and ask for help and guidance and feedback he said Michael Stegner it's actually Stegner I think that's what I'm announcing ST, E, G, N ER and just another thought on that the big thing with these chapter sites is we talk about chapter basically in a nutshell the first rule is do no more right so if you start a department or if you start a state level or a chapter level page there has to be just like in your oath of office you will turn back to the order of the property that you've been given and trusted to do your job the same thing has to happen with social networking sites because if you don't do that and your chapter 23 your chapter 23 in San Diego, California and that person leaves whatever it's murder to go through Facebook to try and get the password released and what happens when we have bad information out there now what you're communicating to someone is that this is a defunct chapter this chapter had closed online since 2007 something's wrong with the 80 they're dead in the 80 so if you're doing that, that's just another piece of advice and another thing that if you're in a meeting this is really critical the reason why I'm really here is I help on the communication side and reputation management is on primary responsibility why and that's why I'm not qualified for the church but here we are and that's my advice on that so just feel free to start the chapter website if you have the authority but share the password and make someone else's bad memory thank you you look like a hard person that's why we're glad there's some more words than a hard person hard person well I'm James Bailey from chapter 9 and 117 well I'm Ohio and I don't have a question and sure enough everything you said is going on you don't change everybody's important you don't care what color have respect for everybody's religion I mean my name is how hard it is to have a person your character to represent that that's my question I think application does not endorse candidates for office I could say on Monday but this is an initiative by chapter 9 and it's on the producer please give her a round of applause good afternoon Brian Griebrux chapter 2 as a commander of the DAS as a department commander and as a chapter commander The family approach has had an approach in the absence of a chapter to represent the DAAs and the deceased members of the party of the chapter or the department. This day has a standard type of ritual. Anybody can use it. It's not offensive. There it is. There's a lot of moving things, especially on memorial services. I was surprised that the same thing the chaplain said about knowing who you're talking to in terms of religion. But it's pretty well laid out. It's going to surprise you. If someone wants to right now, there is something I can't pronounce. I think they spell it G-O-O-G-L-E. You'll actually see. There's several pages in there on memorial services. If you're doing one for your chaplain, by the way, the National Organization doesn't have a playbook for how we handle the national level ceremony. However, you can watch this year for the first time ever because of high demand. The chaplain memorial service is going to be posted online for the first time. Thank you.


Alright, so how to pick up a girl in a bar? Get yourself into the right mode and mindset when you're out Okay, talk to anyone when you first get into a bar or club or whatever a venue of some sort It's gonna be loud. It's gonna be there's gonna be flashing lights. There's gonna be people drunk There's gonna be people laughing around and talking in groups It's gonna seem very intimidating to you Especially if you just walked out and you haven't really talked to that many people You're not in the right mode and frequency to start having fun So what I like to do is I like to start talking to people as soon as possible Now if you're with your buddies or you're with your friends Make sure you have good energy between you guys and you're not just sitting down and saying nothing Okay, the best way to start doing this is to go to the bar order a beer Drink whatever if you don't want to drink maybe get a club soda and just talk to the person to your right Or to you to your left. I would recommend starting to talk to somebody that you think is gonna give you a good reaction Don't worry about talking to the love of your life right at the beginning of the night I take the first two hours in order to get myself into that mode So if I show up at the bar at like 10 or 9 30, I'm not worrying about getting girls until around 11 30 12 Okay, I'm worried about me and myself Remember have fun first when women go out they are looking for fun And if you're not having fun if you're not having that good positive energy where you're in the flow state They're probably not gonna want to hang out with you So that's the first thing go to the bar talk to the person to your right or your left Then maybe talk to the person in the bathroom line There's a some easy places where you can start a conversation where you'll probably at least get a five-minute talk out of it or whatever See where it goes and then just keep that momentum going. Okay, keep introducing yourself and talking to people now When midnight comes around or 11 30 or sometimes it depends on the city that you're into like people in Miami Or people in other parts sometimes they go out a little later So it might be pushed back a little bit for those people might be around 2 a.m. Or something, okay So once that happens and you're in that flow state or even if you're not in that flow state start thinking about some of the people You talk to some of the girls or maybe there's some girls that are kind of hanging around you Which ones that you like which ones that you want to speak to you more and see if they're into you as well Okay, so what I like to do is I like to kind of see which girls are hanging out around me Maybe I've talked to some girls in the past. They gave me some positive reactions Those are the kinds of girls that I'll be going for okay So once you've found your girl and you've gotten to her step number three is to figure out if she likes you Okay, and the way you figure out if she likes you is you try and move her Okay, if she moves with you like you could say something like Hey, let's go to the bar and get a drink or let's go sit down. It's kind of crowded up here I'm tired of standing if she goes and moves with you that means she's into you Okay, or you know at least in some way shape or formula There's a chance that she might have a boyfriend still and she just enjoys your presence, but she can't do anything But usually that means that she's interested in you Okay, now you can also test this out with smaller movements, too You can take maybe a slight step back and see if she comes forward or you can take a slight step forward See if she stays there or takes back as a step back herself Now a lot of times people are gonna be really nice to you to your face They'll smile be friendly charismatic or whatever, but you don't know if they're actually into you The way you find that out is with their actions people can lie with their words But rarely will they lie with their actions if a girl won't move with you Probably might be best to talk to some other girls like if they're saying things like oh no I'm good here or it's a girl's night. We're just hanging out with each other or I can't leave my friends Maybe might be good to go and talk to another girl who will move with you Okay Now once you have a girl that's willing to move you step four is to then progress it to an area where maybe you can Start touching maybe you can start getting into each other spaces a little bit more and see if she's cool with that If she's cool with that then maybe keep progressing farther. Don't go full in as much as you can Like if you're just going for what you can get away with like you're the make-out king or whatever Probably not a lot of girls are gonna be into that or maybe they will be into it for a little bit But then they'll get kind of bored and then not be into it later Okay, remember you want to build up some tension you want to build up some some push pull Have that romantic flirty dynamic going with you Okay, so you found a girl that you're into you're moving her around you're progressing it Maybe you guys are getting closer a little bit Maybe you're going to different venues or whatever and you don't have to move her just within the bar like I recommend actually Changing venues and seeing if she'll come with you to a different place Because if you're trying to bring home a girl that night and if she moves with you from place to place Chances are she's willing to go to your place as well too so when it comes down time to it if you want to bring her home and invite her back and Maybe have something to do there That's like something platonic or something where she can get comfortable with you and decide if she's like willing to do this I don't I'm not into the people that just try and go for what they came really quickly Because that's her energy even from a purely selfish standpoint doesn't work And it's also not great for the girl either But if she's not done to come home with you that night Totally cool get her phone number and try and figure out something for you guys to do that week and then follow up with her there Okay, you know not every girl's gonna be down to come home with you the same night That's totally fine. And a lot of times I find that might even be better if you want to start a relationship with this person Okay, cool a couple things that I should mention is that the night life you guys is crazy Tons of different things are happening like you can't get upset if a girl gives you like a negative reaction She's mean to you or maybe she just like ignores you or or maybe some some guys root to you or whatever Don't get frustrated Okay, the worst thing that you can do is start getting angry at the world because if you're angry you're negative women Don't want to hang out with that guy. They want to go for fun So lead them to fun be that fun positive energy that they're looking for and you're gonna have a lot more success Guys if you're looking how to do this if you're looking to learn how to do this I have a one-on-one coaching program. That's perfect for you. This is my bread and butter Although I think bars and clubs might not necessarily be the best place for everyone if you can get good at this You can meet a lot of great amazing women and also too It's gonna help you out in your everyday life because you're gonna be able to introduce yourself handle certain social situations Very well with strangers and other people and friends too So if you're looking how to do that fill out the coaching form down below if you seem like a good fit We'll reach out to you guys if you're looking to get trained by me in person I would recommend you check out my live training schedule Basically, I'm gonna be touring the United States in January and February and I'd love to see you guys there So check out the list of places that I'm gonna head to if I'm heading to it If I'm not heading to a city that's nearby you and it's a major one and enough people want me to come there I will come there so write that city down. Thanks a lot you guys. Good luck out there


Ports of call! Horizons far at the world's end, strange fascinating lands back in us, bid us revel in their exotic splendors. Come with us as we head for Ports of Call. Far away over the western ocean, 5,000 miles down the path of the setting sun, lies a long narrow chain of islands, smiling in green like an emerald diadem for the coast of Asia. We are about to visit the island empire and their beauty surpasses imagination, a lotus land of ancient shrines and temples, the fairy realm of cherry blossoms, Japan. We land at Yokohama, Japan's great modern seaport. I'll say east meets west here.  Oh please, you mind speaking English with me? Teach our saying in school, breakfast making perfect speaking. We are bewildered by our first glimpse of Japan, this land of miracles. Everywhere about us is an astonishing mixture of last-minute western modernity and age-old oriental customs, ancient temples alongside concrete office buildings, smart Japanese women and talliers from the Rudala Pei hurrayed toward the modern department stores with their sisters and gay kimonas, high glistening papyours and obis, their tiny white stocking feet shuffling along and clattering wooden gaiters. Japan is governed by an enlightened and constitutional monarchy, with a house of peers and a house of representatives. The emperor, known as the Mikado, is the direct descendant of the dynasty which has ruled Japan for 2700 years. For many centuries, the Mikado ruled an undisputed absolute sovereignty. But during the 12th century AD, great powerful families arose and their quarrels and intrigues began to threaten the solidarity of the empire itself. There is grave concern in the palace at Kyoto as the Mikado discusses the rising crisis with his lords. There is trouble and dissension everywhere, Imperial Highness. I know it only too well. There has been civil war since I was a boy and for as long as my father before me could remember. I know. The great families have become too rich, too powerful. Their jealousies keep them constantly quarreling. Their allegiance to me has become weak and I cannot cope with them any longer. May I speak, Imperial Highness? Speak, Yorimoto. Imperial Highness, it is true that the great families have become too powerful and that their jealous quarrels may prove fatal to the empire. Still, there is a way to prevent it. And what is that, Yorimoto? If your Imperial Highness will deign to signal out one of the great families above all others and bestow upon its head your gracious protection, then the others can be brought to reason. That will be difficult and very dangerous. What family would undertake the risk of being exterminated? Your Highness, if you will give me the necessary power, I pledge myself to bring all Japan to order. In what help from me would you need to do this? Your protection and good will. And then I must have control of the civil power of the empire to punish by law and also the military power to compel by force of arms. Very well then, Yorimoto. Your request is granted. You shall henceforth be responsible to no one but me. You have power of life and death over my subjects. You shall have the title of Shogun of Japan. Vigorous warlike Yorimoto made good his promise to the Mikado. Established a stern militaristic regime, bringing internal cohesion again to Japan. The Mikado continued as descendant of the Sun Goddess to be titular head of the empire. But the Shoguns with whom the offer soon became hereditary actually ruled the country through a system of barons called Daimyos. Each of whom had his following of gentlemen warriors, the two sorted samurai. No story is more eloquent of the Japanese ideal of nightly honor which developed during these feudal times than the story of the 47 Ronan, that great national heroic tale of Japan. The scene is a gallery opening on the magnificent gardens of the Shogun's palace at Yedo in the last years of the 17th century. Asano Takumi, baron al-Aqqo in attendance upon the Shogun, is approached by one of the courtiers. Good morning, Kira-san. Have you a moment to spare? Perhaps, but I'm in a hurry. I'm on my way to see the Shogun. They tell me there is an envoy coming from the Mikado. Precisely, and that's what I wanted to speak to you about, Kira. Well, what do you know about it? Well, I do know a little about it. You see, I've been informed that although I am so unworthy, the Shogun has chosen me to receive this envoy. So I wanted to ask... What? You receive the envoy? Well, I have not sought this honour, I assure you. I would be the last to do so. But you see... Yes, I see. I suppose now you want me to tell you the proper etiquette in receiving the envoy, eh? Well, if you don't know, I shall tell you. The idea. What are we coming to when such offices are bestowed upon rustic barons who would be more at home spattering about in their rice paddies than under the same roof with the Shogun? People with a knowledge of the world should be selected for such honours. The farmers should stay in their stables with their water buffaloes. The words are real temperate, Kira. I'm only asking you a courtesy. Courtesy? What do you know about courtesy? You clown. Enough of that, Kira. Enough of another word. You'd best not insult me further. I am a warrior and no little of etiquette. It's true. But I do know the... I, gentlemen, calm yourselves. I do know this, Kira. You insult me thus only because you know very well that a private brawl in the Shogun's palace would disgrace me. Ah, so you do know etiquette and it will help save your face, eh? Come, coward, I'm Mr. Goy. Adjust the strap of my gaiters. Asano, drop your sword. Think this is too much. Here's Count Rudd. Ow! Asano, what have you done in the Shogun's palace? I know. They taunted me beyond my strength and would have killed him had he not run away. But now I'm disgraced. I've shed blood in a private quarrel in the palace. Honor requires that you do away with yourself. Yes. I'm ready to take the consequences. I have been guilty of weakness and discourtesy. You will stay with me until the end, Tommy. You are my friend. I am greatly honored. Very well. Let us make ready. Here is my long sword. Stand over me as I kneel. And if my hand falters, I draw the short sword across my stomach. Tommy, you know what to do. Rely on me, noble Asano. And farewell. Farewell. I go to join my ancestors. And I calmly was present and saw this quarrel as I had described it to you, O followers of Asano. Kira is responsible for your lord's disgrace. Ah, very well. Hear me, comrades. We are now forty-seven running. Forty-seven knights without a leader. I, Oishi, and all of you have followed the noble Asano into many a battle. He was our brave, glorious, and beloved chieftain.  I propose that we devote our lives to avenging him. And then, when our work is done, we will pay the price and follow him into the land of shadows. Therefore, if you will bestow upon my unworthy self the task of organizing our revenge, I shall live but to execute it. Very well. Then listen to me. Kira is cowardly, but cunning. He is suspicious. We must be very careful. We will have to wait until he fancies himself secure. We must scatter, disappear. We must slowly gain the confidence of Kira's followers to gain access to him. I, Oishi, Kuro Nozuki, will leave my wife and my family. I will disguise myself and wait until Kira is off his guard. You must do the same. Then we will strike. Do you promise, O 46 Ronin, or masterless men? At last, come. Here is Kira's house. Walk softly, or your steps may be heard in spite of the snow. Our brothers inside the gate are waiting. Open in memory of Osano Avaco. Come, brothers. I will take you to Kira. No use, Kira. Your men have been overpowered. We have waited long for this moment. What? What do you want here? You know what we want. We are the 47 Ronin, the men without a leader. We have come to avenge the death of Osano, Baron Avaco. Make ready. What's that? You can't ask me that. Silence, Kira.  Therefore, you may take your own sword and exercise your own right to commit harakiri. Oh, no. No, no, no. The coward, stop him. He's trying to run away again. Oh, brothers. He does not know how to die. Strike him down. We have avenged our master, Osano. Thus perished Kira. The band of the Ronin cut off his head and carried it in solemn procession to the snow-covered streets of Kyoto. The news of their deed preceded them, but their progress was unchecked. Respectfully, the people watched them pass. They were fulfilling the stern code of their honor, though each one knew his life was to be forfeited. They placed the head of Kira on Osano's tomb, then burned incense and solemnly gave themselves up to the Supreme Court of Yedo. Each one was condemned to do away with himself, and each satisfied the law by committing harakiri. Today, when we visit the tomb of Osano and his followers near Tokyo, we are but a few of the many thousands who yearly visit the last resting place of these heroes of feudal Japan, the 47 Ronin. The chivalrous spirit of the old feudal system still dominates the Japanese. The feudal system itself might still obtain in Japan had it not been for the adroit, tactful diplomacy of an American naval officer, Commodore Matthew C. Perry. For in the 17th century, the Japanese, dissatisfied with their first contacts with the races of Europe, closed the frontiers of their empire to the Occidentals, and for over 200 years, the frontiers remained closed by a rigid policy of voluntary isolation. To punish belief in Christianity, forbidding foreign travel, the study of foreign languages, or the introduction of foreign customs. But Japan's isolation was doomed when Commodore Perry steamed in the Yokohama Harbor in 1854. We're bolted the gangway, Commodore. Come, Mr. Portman. Our commissioner of Japan is waiting for us ashore. Yes, Commodore Perry. Give way together. This is an anxious moment, Mr. Portman. I confess, I feel a bit nervous. The negotiations may prove momentous, Commodore. Yes, indeed. Perhaps none of us realize how important they are. The discovery of gold in California and the commercial development of our west coast make it imperative for us to open new markets in the Pacific. Steam navigations made great progress in the last few years. Our Navy will need cooling stations and the Japanese are beginning to realize that the world is moving on. Something can be done, I am certain. I sincerely hope so. Well, here we are. I must say they look pleasant enough. See how they smile. Very reassuring. It's a good omen, I'm sure. What picturesque costumes. This is indeed a cordial welcome. And now, would you do us the honor of looking at the unworthy presence we dare hope you will have the indulgence to accept? Yes. Here are gold and silver brocades. Here are embroidered socks from Kyoto. And here are rare lacquer from Isikawa. Here now are ancient ceremonial garments. Please, here are paintings by Fukuzai and Furohegi. And here is rice from Emperor's own storehouse. It is all magnificent. I am deeply touched and most grateful. You have shown me the grace and beauty of your marvelous geisha dancing girls and the strength and skill of your powerful wrestlers. And now, if you please, I would like to show you the gifts the West brings to the East. First, this miniature railway. This machine is called the locomotive. It functions by steam, the same power that moves our ships that you see in the harbor. It moves over these iron rails and pulls behind it these coaches, each one of which, in a full-size train, will carry a hundred people. Oh, and it moves by itself? Yes, indeed. With no forces? No men for pushing it? You shall see. I mean, first and start the train. Nice. Oh, that is miraculous invention. Oh, neat things. It is wonderful indeed. But here is something perhaps more wonderful still. It's called a telegram. There is the key and this is the apparatus. From it leads a wire. The wire has been strung into another room. When this man works the little key, a message is sent over the wire and the operator in the other room can receive it. Now, tell me, what shall we send to the other room over this wire? Banzai. Very well. Operator, send Banzai. Now, let us go into the other room. We will find the word Banzai written on the invisible man's pad. Show us your pad, Henderson. There. You see? There is the word Banzai. Oh, this is even more wonderful than train, I thinking. Please be good enough to accept both the train and the telegram. Oh, you are most kind. Your gifts we accept suddenly. We are happy that after all these years we have at last learned of these marvelous inventions. Japan will make good use of them. I am sure you will and I'm very happy to have the honor of introducing them to your wonderful country. Then came the long negotiations concerning the treaty. With infinite tact and patience, the American envoy finally succeeded in signing a mutually satisfactory agreement, which opened after two centuries of complete isolation, three ports, Hagodate, Simoda and Napa to American vessels. With the first barrier thus broken thanks to Commodore Perry, it was not long before the nations of Europe obtained trading privileges in other Japanese ports, and Japan's amazing era of modern development began. Two hours from busy Tokyo encircled by green hills and dotted with curving temple roofs among the somber foliage of the Japanese pine, lies Kamakura, the shrine to one of the world's most famous statues, the great bronze Buddha. Tall trees hide the statue from sight as we approach. We hold our breath with expectation and suddenly the colossal figure appears before us.  Are you frightened here? No, not frightened, but why it's overwhelming. You know it's as high as a five-story building and made entirely of bronze plates. But they fit it so closely together you can't see the joints. But come on, let's get closer. What a marvelous face, George. Who could be afraid of such a kindly guard? See those half-closed eyes. Why, they're as gentle as a child's. It seems to be the soul of the East. Perhaps that statue explains the calm joyousness of the Japanese as they worship. There seems to be no fear no sorrow. Only gladness. But George, the statue grows bigger and bigger. I have never seen anything like it. And the curls on the head, see them? Yes. The guidebook says they represent snails because Buddha was so kind to all the animals that as he sat in meditation snails crawled up to shield his head from the sun. Oh look, there's a door in the lotus blossom he's sitting on. We can climb up inside as high as the shoulders. There are little windows there. Oh no George, if you don't mind. Let's stay here on the ground. Let's contemplate Buddha from a distance. Somehow I've never felt so peaceful. So happy. I begin to feel that I understand the Japanese a little better now. Beauty will be the word most often on our lips during our stay in Japan. And our hearts will open under its spell like the cherry blossoms which every spring draw millions of these sensitive people to contemplate them in silent rapture. For in no other place on the globe is the cult of the beautiful so highly developed.  Hovering like a frozen cloud above this fairyland scene is eternal holy Mount Fujiyama. We replace our shoes with felt slippers so as not to soil the spotless rice straw matting and squat on flat cushions before low lacquered tables.  At the same time, three dainty geishas take possession of the veranda. One seats herself and begins to play the long neck three stringed samisen. Two others begin the slow graceful movements of an ancient Japanese dance. Each attitude is a faultless picture. Each gesture a carefully studied symbol. The gold and black bands flutter in their tiny hands. Their baby faces white with rice powder are unspeakably graved. The studied poses bring us the classic poetry of centuries. We divide our attention between the dancers and the contents of the tiny dishes before us. What might this one contain? And this? A right and right one. Pickle radish. Honorable visitor. And this? A baby octopus. And this? A broiled eel. And this? Fried seaweed. This cuisine requires a little practice to appreciate. In the meantime we will concentrate on the rice, the straw colored tea, the warm sake and the sweet meats. Twilight is falling. We leave our rickshaws at the tea house and continue up the hill through the trees. Our feet follow the stone steps which for centuries have led lovers of beauty to the high ridge behind Nagasaki. We pause near a deserted temple and look down at the dream world below us. The twilight deepens. Fireflies begin to glimmer here and there. The horizon is dimmed by successive layers of indigo mist. Above the mist, stars appear. Then a ship comes steaming slowly into the harbor. The magic beauty of Japan holds us enthralled. Near us in the darkness we seem to feel the presence of another watcher. The dainty Madam Butterfly, the little Chocho-san. Over the faint whisper of the pine needles comes her voice. Every day I have watched all day long and into the dark night. Every day since the big white ship sailed away with my handsome officer. It was so long ago. Perhaps he is coming back now. Perhaps the sailors are owing him ashore. Perhaps even now he is hurrying up the hill to me. Listen. Listen. Are those his footsteps? Oh no. It is only a deer in the forest. No. He is not coming. He will never come back. Never. And now we must leave.  But we hope to return someday to this marvelous land of poetry and beauty. And in the meantime Japan, we thank you for this charming interlude. May the march of progress spare your delightful manners and the picturesque customs which make you the visitors' paradise. May your hospitable people continue to smile their warm hearted welcome. May our friendship with the land of the rising sun steadily deepen and grow stronger in mutual understanding and confidence. Farewell Japan. Dainipan. Hayonara. We invite you to join us again next week in this time as we journey to another of the world's fascinating ports of call.


Welcome to Toffee TV. It is the Everton News Daily and obviously there's only one story to start with today. Everton have been referred to a independent commission for a second time by the Premier League for a breach of P&L rules. Basically the same charge that Everton have already been punished with this season and obviously we are waiting on an appeal for that. It will be heard this season so any kind of punishment will be dished out this season. It's not set to happen till Everton's appeal has been heard for the first charge. Obviously Everton have been punished by a deduction of 10 points for that. That's set to go ahead in late February and that could change the outcome of this completely. If Everton are found to have not broken the rules in that appeal then this one should go away as well. It's because two of the three years in this one are from that one as well because it runs on a three year rolling cycle so you take the third one away and you add the newest one. It is absolutely mad that Everton have been punished for what is 66% of the numbers in it already. So to be punished again seems absolutely crazy but there you go. The Premier League have said we've admitted it. It's not really true Everton have had to put numbers forward based on what has happened already. They're not necessarily Everton's numbers but going by what has happened or what the Premier League have said has happened they have to put those numbers forward and the Premier League simply put you to an independent commission for going over them and it's for them to judge whether you've done anything wrong but as we already know we have been punished 10 points for that. I'll just read out Everton's statements. Everton Football Club acknowledges the Premier League's decision to refer a breach of profit and sustainability rules for the assessment period with the 2022-23 season to an independent Premier League commission. This relates to a period which covers seasons 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23. It therefore includes the financial periods 19-20, 2021-22 for which the club has already received a 10-point sanction. The club is currently appealing that sanction. The Premier League does not have guidelines which prevents a club being sanctioned for alleged breaches in financial periods which have already been subject to punishments or unlike other governing bodies including the EFL. As a result and because of the Premier League's new commitment to a deal with such matters in season the club is in a position where it has no option but to submit a PSR calculation which remains subject to change pending the outcome of the appeal. The club must now defend the Premier League complaint which includes the very same financial period for which it's already been sanctioned before that appeal has ever been heard. The club takes the view that this results from a clear deficiency in the Premier League rules. Everton can assure its fans that it will continue to defend its position during the ongoing appeal and should it be required to do so at any future commission and that the impact on supporters will be reflected as a part of the process. So Everton obviously coming out swinging with that statement. It's an absolute mess it all has to be dealt with this season as well so the punishment happens this season. Lossam and Forrest have also been referred to the commission as well and basically if both clubs are punished and then appeal the appeal will not be heard till after the last game of the season so you could have the potential of five clubs after the last ball is kicked on the last game of the season not knowing who is safe and who has been relegated it is an absolute farcical situation that has been brought on by the Premier League and what makes it actually worse is the rules are changing in August. The rules are going to be more lenient and there's more factors that are going to come into play and really Everton would not be punished on the new rules that are set to be voted on and should come in in August and it just makes the whole thing an absolute nonsense it could see Everton being punished twice and it could see nothing for those punished ones and no one ever being punished again for for this financial crime so yeah yeah more headaches for Sean Baichmore sleepless nights for those Evertonians and let's just hope the appeal sort it all out in in February that's that's all we can hope for um yeah right let's let's actually move on to what matters which is the ball being kicked around the pitch and Sean Daich has been reflecting on yesterday's nil nil with Aston Villa his his thoughts on the goalless draw yeah um result wise first pleasing in the sense that you know it's been remarked upon this season but they're the sort of games maybe over the last couple seasons ever wouldn't get something from um I think the mentality is there I think the physicality of the side was good again today the will and desire to make sure we kept clean sheet against the team who scored goals we know that but I think they could have gone joint top today so that shows the season they're having obviously with the ball excuse me second half more so we never really got a grip with the game um although still had moments to try and you know find a find a goal and the first half we have a key moment you know if that goes in it might change the way the game feels but we didn't know or we wouldn't know yeah there you go obviously it was a it was a it was a tightly fought game wasn't the greatest um wasn't the greatest game in the world but ever getting back to taking a point um after losing the last three in the Premier League was good against a such a good opponent as well so defend as well and we got a point uh Shondesh also spoke about the retain of Abdelight Decore who's been out for nearly a month his thoughts on the player yeah I thought he did well he's you know come back in twice done excellently because he's he's had a near very serious injuries we've been very lucky literally trained yesterday morning that's it um and I checked that he was okay to try and get out there and he said yes um James of course mustn't forget fantastic serving years what he's given to the side you know playing there the record number of games and all that today you know big day for him and and deservedly so so I'm pleased for him that we got some kind of result because it would have been uh not an enjoyable moment for him um but he but he's deserved it there you go great to have Decore back didn't have a massive effect on the game obviously had a goal disallowed late on it was a great finish um but it's good to have him back because the the team simply doesn't tick without him in it so good to have him back Shondesh also spoke about the VAR decision that just seemed to take forever um certainly in the ground it was just absolute nonsense his his thoughts on Aston Villa's disallowed goal no because I did I couldn't live how long it took it's a foul on Danjuma don't worry about the offside he's coming off the post lad drags him to the floor it was a foul so I don't really I know we talk about well who's deciding what decision but the one that I talk about so the powers that be is you can make all these rules but the end of the day there should be an override button that says that's a foul end off so therefore don't even worry about the offside because it's a foul that way it cleans it up very quickly we all get on with it and no one's worried about it so that's all I'd ask today it was the right outcome uh thankfully because you never know but it was the right outcome but I just didn't think it needed to take that time I don't think a lot of these things need to take that time but it I think there is a bit of nervousness about it all there's a lot of noise about it all wiki getting asked about it we have to give an opinion of course I still believe in it but I just think things like today could have been done that quick there you go this is thought he he's obviously still a fan of VAR but the time it takes is just is just an absolute farce really it really is it really is um just in afcon news today a jisagana gait was an unused sub as senegal won 3-0 against gambia he has obviously had an injury which kept them out of the last couple of everton games before he went away uh he obviously picked that up at spares so um they're obviously using him uh sparingly he uh it was on the bench for a friendly game as well before the tournament started so good start for senegal and I'm sure he'll get more action as the tournament goes on there you go a yeah again another pretty big day for everton football club we've been reflecting on it in a live show a little bit early if you missed that catch up on that will also be live tomorrow at one o'clock 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