Hey everyone, welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean, Code Pink's weekly webinar. My name is Leonardo Flores. I'm super pleased to have with us today independent journalist Alina Duarte from Mexico and so just a technical issue real quick. We recorded this earlier and for some reason the audio, only the audio came through. So after this first question you're only going to see photographs of us and you're gonna hear the audio. Alina was very kind and to re-record the introduction and the first question so that you can see the dynamic a little bit. Thanks so much for being here, Alina. I hope you'll follow her on Instagram and Twitter because she's been doing an amazing job of covering the George Floyd uprising here in DC. So this is the, we just passed a two-year anniversary of Andres Manuel Lopez over the election in Mexico and he's been in office now for a year and a half and he came in the office of, you know, he's talking about the fourth transformation which we'll talk about later on but I wanted to have your assessment of what you, how you think he's done in the first year and first year and a half in office. Well thanks for having me, Leo. As always it's pleasure for me to be participating with you here in this webinar and everywhere. So yeah, two years ago with a real like a high percent of the population voted for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. More than 60% was a result of that day, July the second of 2018. He has a lot of support between like even so far after a year and a half and he has more than 70% that it's still a lot of support compared to other governments or in the rest of the world. I mean after a year and a half we can say so like 70% it's a lot even when he has gone through a lot of incidents to call it like that including this pandemic. So after a year and a half I think during this fourth, this so-called fourth transformation, the first I'm going to say later also, is the independence of Mexico, second revolution and the third one is during the 19th century called these reforms, liberal reforms against the like the relationship between the state and the church and a lot of issues. Now this is, he calls the first transformation, La Cuarta Transformación, La Cuatro Te, in Spanish and he is always trying to change this narrative of what we had for the last 80 years in Mexico, 70 years of the PRI and 12 years actually of the PAN and also a new term of the PRI. So after that all of these decades he's trying to change first the narrative because we are going to get into this debate if he's a leftist or not a governor. So there have been, that's right, like a lot of changes including for example in education, he approved this education reform but there are a lot of criticizes and saying that, like critics saying that this was mostly the same reform that the past governments tried to improve in Mexico. So that's not like a real progressive reform and education but there has been a lot of investment of the education system now in Mexico. Also the health care and there is something that it saw on the debate in Mexico because some months ago say that the pandemic was the best that could have happened for the Mexican government so that was real like a polemic. It was really a mess, absolutely. So he tried to explain what was he referring to and he was saying that one of the purposes of the objectives of the Mexican government was to improve the public health care system in Mexico. So that's why he decided to improve now in this context of this pandemic. He invested and the government invested a lot in hospitals that were dismantled during the last administration. A lot of invested in doctors, in nurses, in a lot of things. For example this relationship between China and Mexico now it's stronger because of the COVID. There have been like 20 flights with things for fight COVID in Mexico that are coming from China. Also even with the US a lot of the ventilators are coming from the US, well are going to Mexico from the US and now we have a stronger health care system to fight the COVID specifically in Mexico. So that's another change that has been going on in Mexico, the issue of the health care. I think that there's a lot of, it's something really controversial in terms of for example these projects, the so-called imagined train, that it's not even imagined and is this narrative against that we heard a lot during the last government, during this neoliberal time in Mexico, that it's about the progress of the development of the communities and it is not. Actually the indigenous communities have been fighting against these projects so it's complicated to say that this is a progressive politic of an unloaded government. Also I think we need to, it's complicated the relationship with the social movements now in Mexico. They are trying to fight for a more progressive agenda that unloads not necessarily open to listen even to just to listen like the feminist movement even when we have seen not only here because it's complicated like the march of women as an example because here in the US I think that not necessarily are like real revolutionary women fighting against patriarchy and you know it's more like a liberal agenda. In Mexico I think it's pretty different, like after the war on drugs I think one of the most affected groups in Mexico have been the women. So there have been a lot of social movements during the last 14 years trying to improve this strategy against the war on drugs and mostly all of them are women so this feminist movement it's not only about young people it's like talking about patriarchy it's also about these women, mothers who have lost their children during this war so Amlo has not listened as we have been hoping. Also he has said that this feminist movement is conservative when we know that yeah there is always this opposition who has been trying to fight against the women's rights and now they are calling themselves feminist but this is not the like the reality of the feminist movement in Mexico and Amlo is saying all the time that it's a conservative movement but also there are so many feminists in the government so it's it's unfair to say that he's not listening all the feminist movement the government is doing but he's not definitely and so it's a pretty complicated situation after a year's one year and a half and after two years of the election but I also we're gonna talk about it later this foreign policy towards Latin America it has changed a lot it has been really progressive compared to what we have in the other administrations the relationship between the U.S. it's pretty complicated they have been defying for example Amlo has has defied defeat confront that confront like the government of Trump in issues like with Venezuela or yeah with the exile of everyone but at the end he has been really submissive to the migration politics so you know it's it's not it's unfair to say that he's not progressive and I think the most important part of this year and a half are the programs that the social programs that he had been improved in all of the country in Mexico we are 120 million of people and so it's approximately like 60 million of people who lives under poverty and from that part of the population around 80 90 percent now according to our law administration has now access to a social program that means that if you are indigenous you have an access to a certain program if you have a disability and you live in I don't know in the south of Mexico that are one of the poorest parts of the country you have access to another program if you are poor and you have kids so there are so many programs that have been implemented during the last year and a half and actually that's why Amlo is saying that he has been fighting it successfully the the COVID because now with this wealth redistribution we are fighting like better than we could have done with another government so I think that's the most important part of this year and a half these social programs implemented I mean we're talking about 60 million of people so it's it's amazing even not only the 60 million but for example there are for example my grandma receives a program just because she is more than 60 years and all of the population even if you are rich you are poor you have access to this program once a month I guess a doctor goes to my place and check her health so it's something that didn't happen before for example in I mean there there are so many in so many examples and of course that the reality has changed but I think that we can do better when he is saying that he's left this government we already know that he is not socialist anti-capitalist anti- progress he's not he hasn't say so for 14 years that he has been running for something or when he is he was a major of Mexico City he has not say so never like never ever and yeah so now we have a lot of contradictions in the government even when they have implemented this kind of programs we have seen like part of the the people who he used to call the mafia in power now we see that they are part of the government with the oligarchs the businessman they are really close to him after he was calling him calling them the mafia in power so let's we are seeing with this pandemic that the contradictions are getting like more profound and we will see if he radicalizes his administration and I think something's gonna happen because you cannot say that you agree with the working class and with the businessman at the same time so it's about time that we can see something like we saw in Honduras for example in 2009 or what we saw months ago eight months ago in Bolivia with the coup against Evo Morales actually we now know that it was about lithium and natural sources now in Mexico in north of Mexico they discovered not so long ago like a year ago that we also have lithium so we are gonna see I guess some kind of this civilization of the country we have seen when the murder of these binational people in the border of Mexico and the U.S. they if Trump took advantage of that saying that this was part of the war on drugs and the narcos where we should call them terrorist organizations so that was just the first goal to like hey something's going on here in their relationship but yeah it's it's all about time and but yeah it has been a long long long year and a half of this administration yeah so that's really interesting because he so he ran on a platform of against the neoliberalism and it seems like he is investing making a lot of social investments but as you said he is you know very far from a socialist and he's also has lots of alliances with business interests and you know oligarchs in Mexico and yet there is a very kind of rabid or virulent opposition to Amlo from these entrenched elite interests Amlo has something you know at one point his popularity was something like 86 percent right and now it might be a little lower but still well above 50 percent and and still then yet there's these kind of plots against him so about a month ago there was a something called the BOA the broad opposition block of document was leaked showing them you know basically laying out the steps for a soft coup in Mexico can you give us some details about that yeah well this opposition has been the same opposition I mean the same group that has always been in power for the last 80 years and now they are really pissed that they lost the elections the years ago and it's not something that we need to like it's something hide it is not absolutely we know who are these group people are former presidents like Felipe Calderon who implemented war on drugs quotes and quotes because it's only a civil war that people don't really know what's going on in Mexico and it's something that it's still going on and something that even the opposition is using against Amlo when they started this war and now there are more than 200 people killed disappear you know it's complete a mess so that's why people voted for Amlo even when they they knew that he's not a socialist anti-imperialist anti-capitalist or whatever and a lot of people I know they just voted for him because he was not the pre not the pan and he didn't want to continue this war so in this document that was leaked called let's rescue Mexico of this opposition group and its members are as I said like former presidents and even actors politicians and you know these influencers this is okay to say in English influencers yeah yeah it's another actually and so they have been doing this war against Amlo and to everything that sounds pretty like to the left and this is not something new I must insist and these are the same people who implemented the war on drugs who are calling now for a public health care system when they try to privatize it for a public education when they try to privatize it so it's those are these these people are the ones who are trying to implement this strategy and I must say that this is not the first time during this last year and a half that we see or at least I've been trying to say that it's about time to see open strategy and open attack between the like an alliance between the State Department you know like the same things that we have seen in Latin America in 2009 in Honduras now in Bolivia last year or in many many other Venezuela like for the last 20 years I think it's it's only about time to see something like openly a war an open war against Andres Manuel we've seen also these massacre in the border of Mexico and the US they were both US US and Mexican citizens that were killed and I think that that was like the first one of the first things that we're trying to make some noise against I'm low on to put these narratives against him and you remember that here Donald Trump tried to call the the narco groups or gonna say terrorist organizations and that's why because of this attack you know and this is not a new narrative actually when Hillary Clinton was at the State Department she started with these narratives and they tried to make this alliance because between these generals that was killed in Soleil money between Soleil money and the narco traffic in Mexico so you know it's it's it's it's good it's we need to say that it's not the first time that we see something like like this and yeah they been they've been also using this corporate meal like in your time the Washington Post to implement these narratives that I think it's out of context totally that even when we can say openly I consider myself a militant journalist a leftist journalist and I can say that I'm low like openly I can say that he's not a leftist president as we would have a president like him to in 2006 but because of the fraud in 2006 we didn't have this amelot who had like this leftist idea more progressive and things like that now we don't have it we we see these oligarchs in the cabinet pretty close to him one of him who is a total oligarch in Mexico Alfonso Romo he's part of the presidential cabinet and he's coming to the White House to this meeting now in here in DC so it's like it's it's it's a strategy of course of the far right that and we must remember that even this far right from the pan the party in Mexico they're really close to the Venezuelan opposition the Cuban opposition and the Nicaraguan opposition so it's not I mean it's not a surprise that they try to to do actually there was an audio leaked also more than a month ago between many of them not specifically this group but specifically between the richest persons in in Mexico saying that maybe was time to call for aid help of the US government you know it's like even when they have had a lot of opportunities in Mexico because there are so many alliances between for example Carlos Slim or Ricardo Salinas Pliego who is the owner of Tebe Azteca the one of the two principal media outlets in Mexico and his owner of almost everything in Mexico but he have had a lot of opportunities in Mexico but they're not they don't have enough you know like this they want everything that they used to have it like in other governments so yeah it's it's a constant it's not a new war against Amlo but we must say that something that Amlo was saying before that they used to he used to call them the mafia in power and now part of this mafia isn't the government no so it's part of the contradictions yeah I mean one of the things that really struck me about this this plan the let's rescue Mexico plan was how they really want to control the narrative in the media and of course in Mexico they own all of the media and they have alliances with the media here in the US and so two days ago three days ago on July 5th and I'm not bad in the New York Times I'm not sure if you were able to see it but basically he he compares Amlo to Trump which is you know totally ridiculous and it's part of a kind of this strategy right to discredit Amlo especially in the United States and so and so you know start building support for if not for a hard coup then a soft coup which is very much what they plan they then want to take over the legislature and then basically do the equivalent of an teaching Amno but one of the other things that Garauza does is he harshly criticizes Amlo for coming to visit Trump which is to me you know I think he'd be criticized either way if he said no to visiting Trump and the same actors which would be like up with her you know you know would be rioting almost saying how can you not visit you know the president of the most powerful country in the world but so now Amno has arrived you know on Tuesday night and to the US to visit Trump can you talk a little bit about what what can be on the agenda for this visit yeah well its agenda is this memorial visiting the memorial of Abraham Lincoln what I consider a total mistake I personally it's like what are you why are you doing this specifically here in the in the capital when we saw in the Lincoln Park here in Washington DC that people are trying to throw down to down this statue of Lincoln when they are like doing this education on anti-blackness and Lincoln was part of that so I think that's a wrong message I know that he admires Amlo admires a lot of Lincoln and things like that but well that's his decision also he visits the statue of Benito Juarez an indigenous president of Mexico and then he he's having this time meeting with Donald Trump a private meeting that it's gonna last only half an hour and then the bilateral commissions are gonna meet everyone and a part of what we were saying before is that the these people the owners of the media outlets the owners of everything in Mexico are gonna have a dinner with Donald Trump and with Amlo in the White House it's it's a strong message I know and as you said the narratives against the visit are really strong and I must say that actually I don't it's not that I'm a conservative but at the same time it's like Amlo I don't know if he's considering that this was necessary especially when Justin Trudeau didn't want to come to DC to be part of this meeting towards the the new NAFTA and I think it's it's it's not only about the meeting with Donald Trump I don't know if you saw that even the Democrats the Hispanic caucus with Alexandria Ocasio, Jose Castro, Joaquin Castro and they were saying that this was like a political the relation the bilateral relationships were getting like politicized and I mean I totally agree you know and we must talk actually about why Amlo is so interested in coming and during in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of not rising in the US with more than 30,000 cases now 30,000 people who have died of COVID in Mexico I mean it's not like the best moment to come to the US and specifically it's the first trip abroad of Mexico Amlo he didn't want he said is in the beginning of his presidency that he didn't want to travel that his best foreign policy will be the domestic policy so this is his first first trip in a year and a half so it's interesting because we I remember that the pan in Mexico were really it was really really closed to Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and they were calling to vote for a Hillary and I don't know if Amlo is trying to yeah to convince Mexicans and it's pretty complicated what I'm gonna say because I don't know if he's trying to convince them to vote for Trump because the pan and the far right would have a better alliance with Democrats even when Trump has called those rapists, murderers or gangsters, bad hombres and whatever he wants to so I don't know we we're gonna see what's happened what they're gonna say in this press conference that I hope they have but Amlo since his press conference yesterday he was saying that he's not trying to confront anyone that he wants to have this good neighbor policy but let's see because we know who is Donald Trump that he is not only a president but the candidate of the Republicans so it's it's complicated what was like the message or to find something good or at least like the less bad of these visits but let's see how it goes and in the days prior to the visit Trump was tweeting pictures of the wall on the border which seems kind of like either some sort of provocation or message but can you tell us a little bit about just tell us the story about Trump on the wall and Amlo? Yeah actually we have had like a lot of like episodes of the wall we remember that Trump was saying all the time that Mexico was going to pay for the wall the Mexican government didn't want to confront it during the last year but at the same time he put a lot of the Mexican National Guard in the south border of Mexico so we became the wall like you know it's like we didn't pay for it we became the wall we are the wall and now he visits Trump visited Arizona he posted these pictures of the wall two days before Amlo arrived to Washington also I was listening that Trump is gonna try to push once again this idea or this initiative of like to end DACA so 80% of the of the dreamers of the DACA recipients in the U.S. are Mexicans so that's a really strong message that's something of course that they have to talk and of course that we know Donald Trump but he's gonna say something or the press are gonna ask something about it and actually in Mexico City the press asked Amlo what was his opinion on on the wall and he said like I don't want to talk about it I want to get I'm gonna be silent about it let's wait I don't want to be confrontative and whatever so we know that Amlo it's not as Donald Trump trying to to fight all the time but it's true that that Amlo it's part it's complicit of these immigration policies with the U.S. and even when he is saying he said before this trip that he wanted to like to to defend the the migrants rights but at the same time we've seen that that's not true in Mexico that there is a lot of racism xenophobia and the the National Guard in the south border of Mexico's it's not like the best way to treat migrants and even Amlo hasn't visited for example these detention centers in Mexico that we have and that a lot of human rights organizations have been calling him out to say something to visit him to even the same congress people in in Mexico are trying to push this idea that if they are leftist they should have a better migration policy so yeah it's it's very complicated and specifically I think it's one of the or the hardest issue during this meeting like the the the issue on on migration and can you tell us a little bit about how Mexico is handling the COVID pandemic well as I was saying before like Hamlo was really he was shocking to hear this affirmation he was saying that is the best that could happen for that what he calls the the forward transformation is it okay in English like the forward yeah well the first yeah it's like the new process that's how he calls these his government and this new process social processing in Mexico that it means that we had the independence as the first transformation the revolution and then this process of new laws during the 19th century so now this is like the forward big transformation and he was saying that this was the best thing that could happen for his desires to have a better a better health care system in Mexico so that was really controversial he had to explain it thousands of times before people got the idea that he was trying to like to tell everyone and they have been investing a lot of money in in hospitals in infrastructure in in doctors nurses they've been contracting people and to handle the the COVID I mean they what something that people in Mexico I think are really grateful for is the issue that they have been really for the most possible transparent or really honest when they say that they're are gonna be people dying people sick people we need time to invest in hospitals to like have everything there this was last week there was like the 20th a flight from China something like that with things for for COVID so it's impressive what they have done in just few months and well almost yeah it's it's almost half of a year at this point but I think we have had more as I said 30 000 people who have died because of COVID in a population of 120 million people so that's I mean it's it's sad and it's but it could have been worse definitely and so now we are at the point for example in Mexico City where we have more than 23 million of people in the like in the metropolitan area and now the cases are going down and for this week was I think the first week that we we've seen this situation but they're still growing like a lot of cases and it has to to be because we have more than 50 percent of our economy it's informal it's not they don't have access to unemployment or something like that people had to work during the pandemic there are like a lot of in even in Mexico City you know like there were this principal market in Mexico City where there were thousands of cases of COVID but they didn't close they were still working every day so that was really hard and I think that they could have done specifically because we saw the cases for example in Venezuela that they gave a lot of like they took it more seriously and from a leftist like a way to do it you know like cancelling the rents or doing this like cancelling the payments of water you know these these kind of things that we didn't see in Mexico but at the same time Amlo was saying like okay this is not going to be that hard because we have implemented implemented a lot of social programs so that's how we are going to fight COVID in Mexico and that was absolutely not enough but at the same times as I said like it could have been worse definitely with another government but that's not enough to say that it would have been worse I think at this point he can do better absolutely and definitely it's a big difference for example in Mexico City if you were only suspicious to have COVID you received a package with food with 1,000 pesos that it's like 200 no like 300 dollars for like a month so you can you could stay in home you know so they tried to prevent and then they started to do this test in a lot of places so they tried to do it in the in the the best way possible but at the same time as I said we need to look at the past and we need to understand that Mexico had a complete destroyed healthcare system and it was really hard to think that we could survive this pandemic like they did I don't know in other countries when they have formal economy when they are for example even for example in Vietnam that they even having borders with China they didn't have so many cases because they close everything the state it was responsible of giving money and satisfying the necessities of the population I think Mexico would have done more but they didn't and at the same time they did it the best not the best but better than the the last governments could have done so yeah it's it's complicated to say that this is the best option it was not absolutely but it could have been worse if they didn't invest so much money in in hospitals in doctors nurses in these flights even these ventilators coming from the US from China they accept these brigades from Cuba the many Cuban doctors so I mean it's like we need to be fair with what they've done yeah and I think I just saw an article about an hour ago and this goes back to the issue of how they're building a narrative against and the article talked about how it was so shocking that Mexico the deaths from COVID in Mexico had just passed France the France's deaths and they don't mention that Mexico has twice the population if not slightly more than France and so I think that we have to be fair in terms of you know analyzing or assessing a Mexico's COVID response and it's certainly they I'm certainly done much much better than say Bolsonaro or Trump or Añez or Lenin Moreno and Ecuador you know so it hasn't been all bad and finally last question because you briefly mentioned the issue of Venezuela whenever Trump meets with the president from Latin America particularly from Latin America but anyone from over the world actually the issue of Venezuela comes up can you talk tell us just what Amno's position has been regarding Venezuela well yeah I think I've been I have been inferring this talk now that you say something about Venezuela because something that I was really pleased as a journalist as a militant from left in Mexico is to see a total different foreign policy when it comes to Latin America definitely we've seen a change or at least for example in Venezuela specifically in the case of Venezuela and we saw for more than a year the last government of Enrique Peña Nieto attacking every single day Venezuela when we had a human humanitarian crisis in Mexico because of the work on drugs because of the murder and disappearance of 43 students of Ayatnapa and they were so cynical when they came I remember I was covering here the OAS all the time and they were like oh my god Venezuela we need to talk about human rights all the time and I remember I asked him in front of like everyone like how Mexico can't say something like that when we have a human crisis in our country who do you think you are and he was like okay no we are we are open to the like to the human rights organizations so that's why like this is different and I was like okay whatever you say but now we see a new policy at it specifically at the OAS because I think that was the best example of foreign policy towards Venezuela like in Mexico and now we have an ambassador who openly denounces the case for example that we saw in Venezuela when like two months ago this kind this attempt of an intervention a failed intervention and one of so many that we have seen during the last years but she openly condemned it and she was confronting also Almagro saying like why we're not talking about this why it's always about Venezuela why it's always about another countries and when we need to talk about human rights and sovereignty of Venezuela we're not talking about that so it's totally different even when they are not openly supporting specifically Andres Manuel in his press conferences during the morning that all the people and specifically this corporate media are always asking what's your position about Maduro and what do you think are you allies all the time all the time and he's like okay I'm not gonna say it because I respect the the other countries I respect their internal policies so I'm not gonna say anything about it but in the OAS we see this like our new ambassadors saying this kind of things or even when he was asked about the possibility of sending oil to gasoline to Venezuela when we know that the U.S. is always trying to push these sanctions backcode sanctions these unilateral economic issues we saw Almagro saying that we are gonna we have our own sovereignty and we are gonna do whatever we want and it doesn't matter if the U.S. or it's another country try to do something we respect our our nations we are independent so we can take this this kind of like medias measures measures yeah so we've seen that we've seen the exile like he he accepts Evo Morales as a as an asylum you know like after the coup in Bolivia we've seen this relationship with the new government of Argentina we've seen actually the visit of the president of Cuba Diaz Canel we are seeing this new relationship with Russia that I mean it's getting closed every every day so yeah it's absolutely different and in the case of Venezuela it was a complete change even as I said when he's not openly supporting he he's trying and even with food Mexico has been sending food to Venezuela and now I think someone was sanctioned in Mexico I guess because of this situation but I mean it's not that they are close allies but at the same time it's not an enemy as we saw during the last administration great thank you so much for your time Alina if you could remind our viewers of your instagram and twitter and those that would be great because I really think they should follow you thanks again for being here no thank you yeah well my twitter is at Alina Duarte and I don't I don't know how to say it a yonvajo underscore underscore yeah at Alina Duarte underscore and instagram it's the opposite it's at underscore Alina Duarte and Alina Duarte periodista that means journalist in facebook you can find me you can follow me and and I'm trying to to now covering these uprising here in the US and during next weeks I'm gonna be in Bolivia like in the next month so I'm gonna I'm gonna cover the presidential elections after the coup and I think they are gonna be complicated and of course maybe we can do another program of Bolivia soon thank you yeah all right I'm gonna tune in again next week


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Welcome to our panel House of Card or Telco 5G and this is Kandan Khadribel from Google and we have three panelists joining today, Sana from Telus and Daniel from Bel, Canada and KJ from AT&T and we're going to talk today about why cloud native approach is very important in terms of Telco 5G deployment. As you know that 4G primarily used the virtual network functions and the private cloud to support those virtual network function. There are multiple changes and the paradigm shift is happening with respect to 5G. That's one is from the virtual network function into the container network function deployment and also transition from private cloud to public cloud and also the adoption of the open RAM and the Telcos also wants like a multi vendor solution in order to support 5G at the scale and these all need to be bring together to support the full end to an automation of the 5G and there are challenges today with respect to how the cloud native has been applied and the deployed with respect to 5G and the open source community has done a great job in supporting the container network function with respect to Kubernetes but there are still gaps that need to be addressed with respect to the open source community and in this panel we're going to talk about what is already out there, what is the gaps and things that the open source community and the standard bodies has to support it. So with that let's start with a question to Sana, why do you think cloud native principles are very important with respect to the 5G deployment? Kandan I think it's an important subject to touch and I think I first tried to ask ourselves a very fundamental question like being service providers, why did we even want that shift to happen from the virtual network functions to cloud native network functions? I think we were not happy or satisfied with the degree of fragility or the optimization or efficiency or automation that we leveraged from the virtual network functions. So I think we wanted to improve one step further. We wanted to get to better optimizes, optimized capacity, increased portability, consistent simplified operational models across all of our workloads. These were our hopes and dreams but when the transformation started happening and they started receiving the cloud native functions, these are in fact packages containers but they are not yet following all the cloud native principles today. So our first expectation that we would be able to put them on any cloud and they're truly cloud native but today they are coming with their customized requirements and each CNF has its own requirement from the infrastructure. Now each cloud native function that we are receiving has a different type of footprint which is coming from its legacy monolithic solution. Similarly you see that there is a different deployment model for each one of these. There is very complex proprietary configuration models that exist for deployment of these network functions. So we are losing that dream of consistent simplified operational models. Like we are making a shift in technology to get to the stage where there are packages containers but they are not yet finding all the benefits of agility and automation. Another quick note that I wanted to make for automation. I think a big driver behind doing all of this was our time to market a very simplified, easier, faster, better automation which we are still not seeing and a big reason for that again is not complying with all the cloud native principles which is like a checklist of 12 factors which we see that is not completely met today in our network functions. Automation today is done as like a wrapper around the big monolithic network functions rather than something which is built into the DNA of the function itself. Truly means that we are not following the 12 factor principles and management and configurations and deployment is all happening in extremely customized way for each type of CNF which is not what we are expecting and I think we need to continue discussing through this panel of a solution to the problem that exists and we can discuss that further. So great point Sanath. So your point is that primarily the Kubernetes actually automates the compute, storage and the network but there's still gaps in terms of how the network function need to be automated on top of the cloud infrastructure and I think it is a great point. So with that Daniel, what's your thought in terms of the cloud principle and how do you think that applies to the 5G? I think the notion Sanath really explained it really well around the fact that the packaging we saw from a PNF to a VNF and now CNFs in the first iterations of CNF hasn't changed that sign that you're now pulling a Docker file versus an ISO or just getting a bin from a vendor on a router. So I think this needs to evolve and the other thing that I think is important as we see the growth of the cloud service community is what impact it has on our networking infrastructures. I'm just thinking about the old management and service assurance like we used to use in the networks and now we're seeing well why don't we leverage for example a tooling that comes from CNCF like Prometheus directly on those boxes rather than having another layer of systems to try to do data collection. Those are things that as we look at cloud-native principles and we think about the CNF to me I think about the CNF on a 5G service but I'm moving more towards any network function even physical network functions can leverage a cloud-native principle in some parts of their design. I think as well as we live the burden of trying to go from a PNF which was close to go to a VNF where the burden of all those the ecosystem that is required to make evolve took time. So as we thought that VNF at CNF would go fast when it started and we'd be able to deploy in a few years we ended up like a decade later almost and still not the full promise because it took time for all the infrastructure to adapt. At the same time we see the growth of cloud capabilities and the evolution that goes in blazing speeds and this is where I think you would like to have your network evolve as fast and be able to adapt as fast as the cloud is evolving to leverage the immense learning that you get out of it. I have a particular pet peeve that I would like to be able to gremlin my 5G network rather than build a network which is around all ways of doing service assurance and resiliency. Why get my 5G core be as resilient as a Netflix system for example in the cloud would be that thing that every other would like because in the end your service is really more resilient and effective than having to over consume resources just in case some failure happens. I think this is one of the things operators would really try towards the evolve their services. The development and also leveraging the scale and the capabilities of cloud for service assurance and resiliency. Great point, Daniel. I think the scale in order to adapt the scale, the cloud native approach need to be applied to not only for the cloud infrastructure but also the workload which are network functions that need to change and adapt into the cloud native principles and I think it's a really great point. So with that KJ, what's your thoughts in terms of the cloud native principle and how do you think that it applies to the 5G? I think Sana and Daniel did a great job at covering the key points. I would go a little bit further. I also approach this from the point of view of the radio access network which again brings its own unique set of challenges given the extremely high level of distribution that it involves often the minimum being a few thousand sites to hundreds of thousands of locations for a large nationwide network operator and it's really useful to ask what are cloud native principles as it applies to networks of the scale and people talk about microservices and other things for cloud native principles but really what drives this is the need for automation the need for automation to help scale these networks to deploy faster to make changes faster to result problems faster and designing for that automation be it whether it's in the infrastructure deployment itself with zero touch provisioning automated software deployment pipeline with CI CD standardized fault and performance telemetry scaling of those network elements so that dynamic capacity or fault tolerance can be accomplished I think these are all design goals that are shared between what network designers have always wanted and what cloud native offers so I'd say design for automation is a key aspect of cloud native that really needs to be embraced by the 5G networks and aspects like stateful and stateless are effectively in support of that goal if you have stateless functions it helps you with automation it helps you with not having to have those bespoke models of making sure those state is maintained so I'd say start with automation the other aspect I would say which is relevant for cloud native principles is decoupling of the from hardware specific configurations as much as possible this is easier said than done this is still a very performance centric and intensive part of the stack but even here I think you know tools that say the cloud community has developed in terms of managing accelerators having standardized interfaces for those I think can really help pave the way for there to be true mixing and matching and operators really need this because there is an area where we do have a complex ecosystem and a supply chain where software is coming from multiple parties and without some kind of standardized cloud native approach you run the risk of sure people will give you containers but then you end up having to build a bespoke kind of collection of software to manage those depending upon which source they come from you haven't really made that much progress so I think having standardized cloud native principles really will help ease scalability of these kind of networks Thank you Gej, I think it's a great point that the container network function does exist for 5G but the real gap is like in a standard way of deploying that in a cloud native way especially a configuration management and automation that takes from top to bottom the service layer and the line layers like a ran and core you touched on and as well as the infrastructure because most of the time this network functions typically uses the custom configuration that are different for each network function even though they called us like a ran and core but each network function needs a different from the cloud and I think that's a great point that you touched on so with that I would ask one more question here which is there are CNF based deployment and we are saying that there is not a standard and I would like to hear the pain points that you know without the standard what are the pain points that primarily you guys see when you are deploying the 5G network or testing it in the lab so I would start with Daniel to watch your thoughts on this The problem I think is going to be some funny but I think the problem is a bit of the commercialization of the monetization of a CNF when you start to have open interfaces and more like a committee or open ways of doing the automation like using mechanisms like operators or CRTs or whatever we can think from the committee it's a different aspect from a VNF vendor or a CNF vendor that has his own tool set who wants to leverage that tool set so right now the trouble we have is we run our CNF they can run on a cloud native platform with a flavor of committees with the right extensions for operators but then you realize a lot of the wrapping around is done by the vendors to try to adapt to it rather than shield it or wrap it around their aura of automation to try to fit the old model of automation compared to try and leverage the mechanism that already exists so that's a challenge that's just thinking about automation the second thing is how to abstract the cloud platform the committee's infrastructure or any other separate augmented tools from the workload so actually I was at the CNF working group a few weeks ago and I said that right now we're testing the platform more than we're testing the workload so we're trying to figure out is a platform confirmant to run a specific 5G workload while in reality we should see is the 5G workload able to run on the platform and this is the approach that we see right now so for any operator right now in the world is we're trying to adapt to any CNF vendor with the way they are deployed and their tooling and the augmentations they do to operate the life cycle and automation versus well I have a common ground of a platform which is based on standard communities offerings and APIs and any other sigs that exist and can it run on it by default so this is the challenge I think industry wide every operator is dealing with right now Thank you Daniel it's a great point that the vendors does actually lock with their proprietary tool set even though it is a CNF and there is a lack of standard in the industry in terms of defining this container for function in a cloud native way using the Kubernetes methodology of CRDs and operators and I think it's really a great point so with that Sana what's your thoughts on this Daniel I think we are touching on some real interesting points here and there between KJ and Daniel and what you're bringing up right now so I think to address the pain points of deployment in the 5G I start with it all goes back to not following the cloud native principle so I want to bring up another interesting element that I have seen in this evolution which is not really happening the footprints are still very very large and the resiliency models are still based on the server type architecture like n plus 1 to n to n plus 1 things like that that was the server mindset now when you're moving into a cloud and you're defining everything in the containers it's all software centric word the reliability model has to change and why this is important because when you get the workload you need to deploy a very large footprint that large footprint requires much harder automation in all the proprietary methodologies coming from these vendors because it's not simple to decode their large configurations and their topologies in the container world so when you look at their large size I'm just trying to answer the question like where is the problem they are justifying the vendors providing these other functions that we are looking for the 5 9 reliability model that is why they're still large footprints which is of course very very operationally inefficient in smart cloud like at the same time the reliability model in the servers and now we're moving into the cloud and the containerized world has to change from not ever failing to fail fast and recover faster which refers to the degree of agility that you can have a thin lightweight cnf you have the ability as we talked about in the beginning of session the analytics are completely controlled by Kubernetes where it can scale, heal, manage the workloads it can help you recover faster and you can still get the same degree of reliability the other big problem falls around our degree of trust on the system that we are using we are probably just packaging our cnf containers but we are not leveraging the inherent characteristics of Kubernetes to actually heal, scale thin lightweight applications and get that degree of flexibility portability into our network functions I think the biggest pain point, one of the biggest pain points is this which actually brings their challenges in terms of automation you have a struggle with all these vendors with the large sized applications to deploy them, test them incrementally as we are doing in our DevOps team structure you know that the transformation happened in many different verticals across service providers not just technology but the culture, mindset, skill set everything is constantly changing and that one element is not helping us test iteratively and continuously work on improving our agility and portability the other big things I think we touched on again and again extreme customizations required by each cnf the way it's packaged and the way it expects everything around it to change like we Daniel also mentioned these cnfs are not expecting to conform to a cloud and exploit the capabilities of that cloud they're all coming in with their own baggage their own tooling their own analytics their own automation templates their own configuration models we need to treat them like cattle not pets and today they're very much behaving as cattle with this results in an increased complexity a very large operational overhead and I think these are all the kind of pain points that I can bring to the table and of course them anymore it is a great point Sanna I think you touched this pet versus cattle and this is an important mantra with respect to the cloud and that approach you know like really treating every workload as a as a cattle I think it's very important in terms of deploying this into the cloud and the network function vendors adopting that into the nature of the cloud is very important and also you touched the point that it is way of actually doing the whole automation I think it is very important point to note so with that if you talked about the challenges with respect to how the China network function is deployed into the network as of today and the need for cloud native automation not only on the infrastructure layer but from the top to bottom that's what primarily discussed about and also the challenges with respect to the multiple tooling and issues with the network functions are not truly cloud native so with that I would like to understand your perspective of you know like what do you like to see in the open source community and the standards and especially from vendors like what's your perspective on that so with that KJ what's your thoughts on yeah I think this is a really important question and I think that if you look at say the open source community Kubernetes and so on you look at standards like 3dpponn and so on they're kind of each doing a great job in their own silos but where I think the gap is in these two so far I think communities to really be working together and I think it's pretty critical because when you get into areas like network deployments for using cloud technology you're really getting into a situation where you have a mix of open source and close source you know for the most part network functions are very close source a lot of cloud technology especially Kubernetes and the infrastructure surrounding it is open source so it's really critical one one community cannot ignore the other and I think where for example we need some some improvements on both sides I think you know let me just start with things like Kubernetes I think the Kubernetes infrastructure to handle accelerators and other hardware variations there are some areas that could be improved there on the standard side I think we need also more participation from folks who are conversant and steeped in open source to be able to drive open use of open source more in the standards right and a perfect example I'll give you is say with Kubernetes there is already a lot of good tooling and technology to pull things like performance faults to do automation and so on but until the close source software that runs on it the workloads they don't agree on how those mechanisms are to be used you're still going to see this wide range of different implementations that use the core building blocks in different ways so I think you know in almost ironically I would say that there is a need for open source people to come into standards and influence standards in a way that they leverage open source building blocks more than they do today it's a great statement KJ I think I think the important message to note here from your points is that there are efforts with open source and standards and I think it is all not connected to bring together the holistic automation that are needed to make this cloud native approach possible with respect to 5G or even beyond 5G and I think it is a great point so without Daniel what's your thoughts on this I think KJ touched a great point so there's two levels of it so you need kind of an open source or community driven approach to cloud native automation and tooling from telemetry analytics close-up automation including how you define the infrastructure the workflow that needs to be deployed and the day 2 running config you need to find a way to make it more cloud agnostic or efficient in that way but that also relies on some things in the underlying frameworks to be consumable this way for example I think KJ talked about accelerators but it goes beyond like use of specialized accelerators you go to level of how we do network segmentation in communities how do we increase network profiling in communities those kind of things also needs to go and work together the challenge we have is to make those automation work in a better way using declarative models and the way we do cloud native automation and the new principles operators CRTs and others is how to consume it in the cloud and make the cloud not go overboard I'm always afraid of asking the cloud ecosystem to adapt to networking the networking ecosystem and change its ways for example we didn't think about this like PNF used to run with five nicks to do so those segmentations what we did we go to see communities and let's bring multiple interfaces because we don't want to change the way that the application is done so I think it's KJ was really right is you need to have an adaptation and everybody bring water to their glass of wine so that the cloud systems are able to adapt and be able to represent the requirements for telco needs also the VNF and the CNF and the way the vendors create the developers create those applications also change the mindset and adapt towards different ways of doing things in the cloud way of how to plug those systems together Thank you Daniel I think it's a great point Sana what's your thoughts on this where does the open source has to change in your perspective Kandan I believe great points by KJ and Daniel and what I would love to add is that I'm a huge fan of open source and really in this ecosystem and this evolution open source is the heart of everything like standards public cloud, private cloud, service providers that's what brings all of us together now what is it that we can do in the open source to talk about all the challenges that KJ and Daniel mentioned I think a big need for that is how do we standardize the deployment of these network functions in one consistent model like how do we get rid of all these vendors proprietary ways of their analytics, their tooling their configurations, how do we unify that there is a big need for that maybe open source is the best place to start and then we push those to the standards to basically bring it all together being service providers we need to prioritize that because this will help us realize our big goals and dreams of proprietary what is really ironic to me at the moment is that I've been working in the automation orchestration for the last five years and I know where the existing state of this is no matter how much we work it is still not faster, simpler, efficient it is not standard space to date we do this but we do more effort in automation than we leverage the benefits out of automation so Daniel mentioned something like declarative models I think we're losing that fundamental principle where we are not abstracting the complexities away from this underlining structure and at the same time we're talking about network sizing and all those more sophisticated fancier ways of automation on the top we need to address the fundamental problems at the root of this to extend the simplicity, the efficiency that would enable us to realize the much bigger dreams of our software-defined services and network sizing and all that that needs to be addressed and that needs to be taken care of at the open source level a standardized way of deploying these network functions a way for us to check mark all the 12 factors of the cloud-native principles in different ways configurations and how do we do that being service providers I think what do we do in open source and together with standards that actually solve this fundamental problem for all of us Thank you Sana and I think the panelist has shared their thought process around the gaps and what already exists and what are the changes that they allowed to see in the open source and standard community as well as from network function vendors adapting into the cloud-native approach and I think it's very clear that there are efforts on individual communities and standard bodies but there need to be a cohesive effort where this whole automation into an automation is exercised and in terms of Kubernetes it's a well proven technology for cloud-native approach of implementation extending that Kubernetes methodology in terms of not only for deployment of the container network function but also for into an automation would definitely bring harmony and full automation across all the layers infrastructure, the network function and the service layer and I think it is a great point and I think the community should come together and make that happen and thank you for joining our panel today and it is a great discussion and all panelists thanks for joining with us today Thank you Thank you


Russia said on November 22 it had protested to Finland after a damaged Russian tank was placed on display near the Finnish parliament. Why are they doing this, for what? Why do Finns need this? Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, accusing Helsinki of Russophobia, the damaged Russian T-72B3 tank was put on display on November 18 in an initiative by two pro-Ukraine associations in Finland to remind people of the conflict in Ukraine. Finnish Foreign Minister Alina Voltonen said they had been notified by official Russia about their dissatisfaction but added that as an open society, Finland of course can have ways to manifest our support for Ukraine in several ways. Tensions have increased between Moscow and Helsinki since Finland joined NATO earlier this year in response to the Ukraine conflict, and they rose further last week when the Nordic country closed four crossing points on its border with Russia. I think no one can explain why Finland is participating in such actions. Maybe they are not able to understand the level of leadership, as much as there are such actions on the square located in the minutes of the Finnish palace. Or are they more precious than the Russian border? I don't know. It's hard to say. But look what is happening on the Russian-Finnish border, especially because of the Helsinki actions. I confirm again that Russian authorities have not held any preliminary consultations regarding the closing of the crossing points with the Finnish side. We were simply put in front of the facts. We have brought all these facts to the Finnish ambassador. We have announced a protest in this regard. Probably this is another attempt of the Helsinki government to postpone the responsibility of the situation that has arisen. Maybe someone else will come up with something else. I think that this will not lead to the right result. But in order for everything to come to the right and the wrong result, and to regulate the situation, we need to work with Russian colleagues and border guards on the Finnish side. This is obvious. You know, it is very easy to do. Maybe you will ask the Finnish Prime Minister or the government of Finland to write a date and the name of the position, if they say that they have made negotiations with us, when and with whom did they do it. But it's easy if they insist on it. With whom did they make negotiations? Maybe with the prankers? We have been notified by official Russia about their dissatisfaction with this. But Finland clearly stands by the side of Ukraine. Ukraine is victim to a ruthless and illegal invasion of Russia. And they have all rights based on international agreements, international law to defend their sovereignty and their territorial integrity. And Finland is part of the European Union and our NATO allies. We stand firmly by the side of Ukraine. And as an open society, we of course can have ways to manifest our support for Ukraine in several ways.


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Dwi'n rhan o'r ffordd i ddweud i ddweud o drosfer ac i ddweudio'r Blynyddiol, mae'n ddweud o'r ffordd i ddweud i ddweud i ddweudio'r ffordd, ond mae'n rhan o'rifeil 11616 o'r name i'r Martin Whitfield. Ieithi'r Prif Weinidog diwrnod y Pwg Fawr, ond mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r rhwlachion proxifol, I invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request to speak buttons. I call on Martin Whitfield to speak to and move the motion on behalf of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. I'm very grateful, Presiding Officer, and it has been an afternoon of the small minutiae of law and standing orders and of how places operate, but this is no less important than the stage 3 that we have just gone through, because the motion before the Parliament invites us to agree a permanent proxy voting system being introduced. The pilot is currently running and is due to end on 31 December this year, and as members will be aware, it provides for a member to arrange their vote to be cast by another member acting as proxy in any vote of the meeting of the Parliament or indeed the committee of the whole Parliament. We recognise that there may be certain circumstances in which, even as an MSP, you may need to step away from the obligations and responsibilities of being an MSP places on you. This might be for a period of time due to illness, parental or caring responsibilities or, sadly, in some cases, bereavement. The Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee has conducted an evaluation of the pilot, including an internal consultation with all relevant stakeholders. The responses have indicated that there is support for the provisions that are currently on the temporary system to be made permanent. The committee has reflected in its report on future parliamentary procedures and practices that we consider proxy voting accords with the very founding principles of this Parliament, that to ensure it can be more inclusive and accessible. Indeed, the recent gender sensitive audit recommended that we as a committee propose a permanent standing order to introduce a proxy voting system. We wish the permanent system to be broadly mirroring the current temporary arrangements, namely the standing order sets out in principle that a member may arrange for their vote to be cast as a proxy, but the details of how such a vote may be exercised sit in a separate scheme that is administered by you, the Presiding Officer. John Mason. I thank the member very much for giving way. He has listed reasons why people might not be here. Does he think that there is also a risk of the system being abused, as with the present online system, where it appears that some members just do not bother turning up? Martin Whitefield, I am very grateful for the intervention, but I do not feel that I can be in agreement, even with the substatement about an abuse of the online system. Members of the Scottish Parliament, when they are sent to this place, are sent to this place by constituents who entrust in them a promise to represent their constituents to the very best of their abilities, and I would struggle. Indeed, I find it very difficult to understand a situation where a member who sits within this chamber or indeed rightly understanding orders is contributing in a hybrid way that they would abuse that position. To be in MSP carries with it a responsibility, and I think that it would be very disappointing if an individual chose to abuse that responsibility for whatever reason. I am happy to give way to Bob Doris. Bob Doris. I thank the committee for giving way. I think that Mr Mason is making a distinction between proxy voting and remote voting, which are two very distinct and different things. I support the proposals from the committee, and I praise the committee for its good work in relation to that. However, can I just check that reforms that the committee will suggest to this Parliament remain iterative and devolving, and you will come back at a later date with further reforms in the entire chamber when we get updated and involved in that process? I am very grateful for Bob Doris's intervention. Indeed, all the changes that are proposed sit on this iterative basis, because we will never achieve the perfect chamber. It is always going to be a journey, it will be a voyage, and it is for all Members across this chamber to contribute to that, to add their ideas, opinions, and I and I know the committee and indeed others across this chamber are always more than happy to debate proposals. I merely took the stance I did with the previous intervention because I think it lays an accusation on which there is no real evidence to base it. I was going to take that moment to indeed thank you, Presiding Officer. I hope not in any embarrassing way for your substantial support, contribution and assistance with regard to this matter, which has been both great we received both by myself and of course the committee. The practical operation of this proxy voting proposal will remain as set out in the Presiding Officer's scheme. As detailed in our report, we gave consideration to some of the practical aspects of the scheme. The scheme, I understand, has been finalised and, if endorsed by the chamber today, will be able to be published on 22 December. The only real change between the temporary system that has been in operation and the permanent system that is being proposed is that, within standing orders, we will set out the grounds that a proxy vote can be requested on. The more than welcomes. Kate Forbes. Thank you to the member for taking a third intervention. I was curious as to whether there was evidence as to how we protect members sometimes from being under pressure to adopt a proxy vote when they might be incapacitated and may not be able to actually engage with the substance at hand but might be under pressure to vote nevertheless. Martin Whitfield. The member raises a fascinating and interesting problem that has, to some extent, been handled in both the evidence that we've had but also discussions within the committee. There are a number of ways that votes can be reflected even if not cast across this chamber. The committee in various iterations have visited whether or not we wanted to address the concept that is known as pairing, for example, but what we wanted to do with proxy voting and what the committee wished to do with proxy voting and what was reflected both in the very first debates that the committee brought to this chamber and indeed the discussions that we've had is to protect the members who, under certain circumstances, need to step away from the obligations of being an MSP but still be in a position to reassure their constituents that the constituents vote through their elected representative appears in this chamber for the purposes of legislation. If there was a situation where a member was being pressured by someone else to extend a proxy vote, I deeply hope, as my response to one of the earlier interventions was, I deeply hope they can find it in themselves to reach out and say no because we are sent here. The majority of the constituency MSPs are sent here because of who they are themselves. The list MSPs are obviously sent under a party political list but we are individuals and we have an individual responsibility to our constituents and we should add to that. I realise time is late so I simply want to move the motion that is in my name but on behalf of the committee and I hope, following the vote on behalf of this whole chamber, I'm grateful, Presiding Officer. Thank you.  It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of business motion 11737 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau on a change to the business programme. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press their request to speak button now and I call on George Adam to move the motion. No member has asked to speak against the motion therefore. The question is that motion 11737 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 11723 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme and I call on George Adam to move the motion. No member has asked to speak on the motion and the question is that motion 11723 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 11724 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau on a stage 1 extension. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press their request to speak button and I call on George Adam to move the motion. No member has asked to speak against the motion therefore. The question is that motion 11724 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is consideration of two parliamentary bureau motions and I ask George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau to move motions 11725 on approval of an SSI and 11726 on committee meeting times and both moved. Thank you. The question on these motions will be put at decision time and I am mindy to accept a motion without notice under rule 11.2.4 of standing orders that decision time be brought forward to now and I invite the minister for parliamentary business to move the motion. More than happy to do so. Moved. Thank you and the question is that decision time be brought forward to now. Are we all agreed? Yes. We are. So the first question of today's three questions is that motion 11699 in the name of Siobhan Brown on trusts and succession Scotland Bill be agreed and there will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.


Land use and land cover change, LULCC, emissions are highly uncertain due to the complex nature of biological and environmental processes involved. The existing literature uses various definitions of the net LULCC flux, which leads to significant discrepancies in the estimated values. These discrepancies are further exacerbated by the fact that many studies do not take into consideration the legacy fluxes or the loss of sink capacity. Additionally, the application of inconsistent definitions of the net LULCC flux and residual sink has resulted in double counting of fluxes in the past. To reduce this uncertainty, it is important to standardize the terminology used in the literature and ensure consistency in the definitions of the net LULCC flux and residual sink. This article was authored by J. Pongratz, C. H. Reich, R. A. Houghton and others.


This might be one of the most controversial sneakers of the year, and I'm sure you're probably wondering why. It's just a blue and white SB. The founder of Born and Rais and collaborator of this shoe recently passed away a couple months ago, and because of that, you know what happens in the shoe game. Prices went through the roof, everybody wanted the shoe, and because they hadn't came out yet, what does that mean? Nike had to postpone the release. So over the past few months, sneakers have been leaking through the cracks as they have gone to retailers, and we've seen these shoe going for over a thousand dollars, and you know me, I'm a size 13, it's even harder to get the shoe. Luckily, Born and Rais just announced that they're going to be releasing the shoe, and we're not 100% sure if Nike is doing a drop yet, so stay tuned for that as well for updates. But you know me, I had to hit the homies out of untie so I could get a pair to give you guys a review. Oh yeah, and if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ, and this is The DNA Show. Now normally at this point in the video, I give you guys the history and the details of how they got to this point, but Chris Spanto actually did his own behind the design with Nike, so I'm gonna run a little bit of footage from that, and then we'll take it to the studio and break down the shoe. My name is Spanto, and I'm the owner, creator, and founder of Born and Rais. We grew up a very certain way, and I used to be very insecure about the way I grew up, right? Showing other kids in the neighborhood and other kids around the world, like the way you grew up is okay, it's all right. One block at a time is kind of a nod to like we are preserving our culture one block at a time. The whole box is actually a punk reference, the whole spirit and idea of the whole from the era that I grew up in was like it's, it was very punk, so I wanted to use a punk reference for that. So as you can see right here, you have your standard Nike SB box. We've been getting this recently on the past releases over the year. You got the sale on the box with the gray on the Nike SB branding. Now looking at the size tag, it reads Nike SB Dunklobe Pro Quick Strike, Deep Roll, White Black. Now lifting up in the lid of the box right here, you got your classic wood grain SB paper, and then you got the shoe. Oh, you got the shoe. So first impressions of this sneaker. I was very interested by these just because I saw there was a lot of details on the shoe, and after learning a little bit more about it, honestly, I feel like this is a great collaboration, and you know on this channel we love to start with the bottom of the shoe and work our way up, so let's go ahead and get into it. Looking at the outsole right here, you have your standard SB outsole translucent right here with the royal blue, and then you have a pink right here in the center area on the foam, Nike SB branding there. Then you have your born SB underneath the outsole on the right foot and on the left foot right there. Those are going to be matching, and this is a nice little touch as well when it comes to the details. Now going to the midsole all white with the white stitch, but actually if you turn to the back end on the midsole right here around the heel, you have on the turf with the Nike swoosh right here. Superdope, as you've heard from the story as well, you understand why. It's just on the turf, my home turf, the home field type thing. I understand the branding and the messaging on there right there. Now going to the upper, this thing is loaded with a bunch of different details, but the materials, the materials are really nice on these things. You essentially have a two tone upper with an iridescent swoosh. So looking at the blue suede area, just feeling it right here. It feels really nice and soft, and you can see the little punk details around the holes on the top end of the shoe, but also right here around the toe box area as well, with the white tumbled leather on that area. Now looking at the front of the shoe right here, you have one block on the right foot, and then on the left foot it says add a time. Putting those together, one block at a time, which is another thing that he talks about when it comes to representing his city one block at a time, and I like how they added that detail as well on the tongue right here, but also they switched that and they added the born SB right here on the top of the tongue, matching that same tag on the outside of the shoe. Now these come standard with a pair of blue laces to match the upper. If you unlace the shoe right here, you can see it says in loving memory. Now this has a lot of meanings and obviously yes, after he has passed away, this has added another meaning to this shoe, which is something that's making this shoe even more powerful as we go through this review because you can tell just how much energy he put into his community and the people around him just by the effort that they put into this collaboration. Some collaborations, they keep it a little bit more simple. They don't have as many details all throughout the shoe, but you can see there was a lot of effort that was put into this shoe literally on every aspect of this sneaker. So not only do you have the standard pair of blue laces, you have a pair of sail flat white laces with the in loving memory as well.  These are all super dope and honestly, I feel like these could go with any of these laces. The pink laces with the pink accents on the shoe, I think might be a really, really nice touch as well. Let me know which laces you guys think would look best in the comment section down below. Now looking behind the tongue, you have a patch that says on the turf and just below that you have the born SB and the pink square.  And honestly, I like that. I'm glad that Nike said, you know what, we'll let you put that on the shoe because sometimes people will be lame for no reason. Now continuing on with the inside of the shoe, you have a white leather right here all throughout the sock liner. And then you have an image on the outsole showing you guys a picture of Venice as well. And then you have the born SB branding with the white Nike swoosh on the back of the heel. Now speaking of the heel, this is a part that is really, really dope to me. It's giving me those old hologram vibes from back in the day growing up as a kid. But as you move the shoe, it kind of changes colors, but not only does it change colors. It actually says Nike SB. And then if you move it the other way, it says born SB, just like you see the logo on the tongue and on the outsole.  It's just all these little things that just make this shoe super dope. And I think probably make a lot of people consider this to be one of the greatest SB's of the year, which we'll get in that conversation later this year. But as of right now, just based off of materials, color blocking, story, and all the details, this is definitely one of the top threes in my opinion. Now looking at the sign embroidered right here on the heel counter, this is the capital head that they used in Venice and they decided to represent that as well on the shoe and added that embroidery on here.  So overall, let me know what you guys think about these down below in the comment section. And if you plan on picking these up or not. Now, obviously you guys can tell I'm a fan of the sneaker and I'm looking forward to adding these to my collection. Shout out to my guys over at Untied for helping me get these to you shoot a review. Unfortunately, I got to send them back because they don't have my size, but either way, I wanted to get a review out for you guys so you guys can see some detailed shots because this shoe has an amazing story and a lot of cool details and quality materials on them. Now, my question for you guys is, how do you feel about this shoe? If you were to rate it out a 10 or if it was fire or trash, I'm interested to hear that. Drop a comment down below. And if you didn't know on my Instagram, I post a poll every time asking people what they think the shoe is fire or trash. So if you haven't already, make sure you follow me on IG so you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel. Ask the people a simple question and this is what they said. 91% of the people chose fire and 9% of the people chose trash. Now, typically when we see results like this on a shoe, that means it's gonna be one of the top five or top 10 shoes of the year, hands down. The whenever it falls in the 90% tile, you're talking about a shoe that everybody likes. And you know what that means. When it's a shoe that everybody likes, the price is always going crazy on these things too. Currently, these things are like seven or 800 bucks or something like that right now. We'll see what happens when the release comes if the price dropped down. Let me know what you guys think is a realistic and a reasonable price when it comes to these SBs as well. I would love to hear that down below in the comment section. And if you guys enjoyed this, don't forget to hit that subscribe button. I'll see you on another one. I will never let you down. Yo, before you go, I just launched my Slinger Head Academy where we got everything on the inside. I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years. When it comes to sneakers, scaling, real estate, you name it, we talk about all of it in there.  I give away shoes literally way too much, honestly. But either way, I'll see you guys on the inside. Hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ Slinger Head Academy. And I'll see you guys over there. Hey, pop. She's one of those.


Hello friends. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate you how you can create formula field in Salesforce Lightning. Before starting, let me show you how you can search in YouTube. You can type my name, my channel will be available there, and you can watch video Salesforce related videos here. So first of all, I'm going to open my university app. So let's understand the requirement first, why we need formula field to be created. So if I open any existing record, so here we have two fields, price and discount. So we need to calculate final price because we want this discount to be subtracted from the price. So if you want to do this calculation automatically with the help of a formula, and you want this formula to be updated whenever price and discounts are updated. So in that case, you can create formula field. So now I'm going to create formula field on book object. So here I'm clicking on new picking up formula. So let's read this description first. So here you can see, it is saying read only field that derives itself from a formula expression you define. Further says the formula field is updated when any of the source field changes. So these two things you need to keep in mind. So now I'm going to create a formula field. So its name will be final price. Then it has various written types. So right now I'm selecting currency because a formula will return a currency value. If you want to select any other as per your requirement, you can do so. And I'm also going to create separate playlist for formulas in Salesforce. So you can watch how to create different formulas that will be using these data types. So you can follow that also. So now here you can see the place where we can build a formula. So we have two options, simple and advanced formula for simple formula. You can use these operators for advanced formula creation. Salesforce provides various functions along with operators and a large number of operators are available here and you can select a category. And based on the category, these formulas are available. You can pick any formula for calculation. So now from insert field, I'm going to select price. So I'm going to multiply it with discount. So this is the formula I'm subtracting price into discount with price so that final price can be calculated. This discount is the person feeling. So whenever we create person field in Salesforce, it is by default divided by 100. So we don't need to do that. Now we can check our syntax. So it is saying there are no errors. You can write description and help text also. Then further it says if your formula references any number currency or person field specify what happens to the formula output when the values are blank. So if you don't put source field values, then what should happen? So there are two options free blank field as zeros or treat blank as blank. So I'm selecting first as zeros. Now it is asking for the field of security. So it should be visible for all the profiles, but it will be available in the only form. You cannot edit formula field. It should be available on the layout. So I'm clicking on save. I'm just modifying the layout so that it should be available below the price and discount. So I'm simply dragging and dropping it here and clicking on save. So first time making the refresh. So here you can see final price field is available and it is in readable mode. We don't have any pencil for editing it. So now I'm filling discount percent. So let's say it is 10 and I'm clicking on save. So you can see the result. 10% of 20,000 is 2000. So it is subtracted and the final price is available here. Now if I modify this, let's say it is 5%. So you will see the formula fields value or outcome will be modified automatically. So this way we can place a formula field using existing fields. Now if I go to any other record. So here you can see discount is not available here. So that's why prices as it final prices as it is as price. If you add discount here like 10% then 300 will be subtracted and the final price will be $2,700. So this way you can implement formula fields in Salesforce Lightning and it updates automatically whenever source fields are updated and it is available only in lead mode. You cannot modify it directly. So I hope you understood how we can create formula fields in Salesforce Lightning. If you want to watch more Salesforce related videos, you can search my name Sanjay Gupta on YouTube. Thank you for watching this video.


This is stock number 9503. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used light duty truck headquarters. Today we are taking a look at this super clean 2016 Toyota Tacoma double cab short box. This truck has the 3.5 liter v6 motor which pumps out 278 horsepower. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. Nice red metallic color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. We got Firestone Destination P24575R16 tires with just about all the tread left. I'd say 95% plus frame and underbody on this truck is in really nice condition and we have the nice painted alloy rims. This is an SR package. It has the projector lamp headlamps. Headlights are nice and clear. I didn't see any dents or dings on that hood. Front bumper is absolutely perfect as well. Passengers side rim is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes and as we go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like and glass-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the truck here the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. Cab is in excellent shape. I didn't see one dent or ding down this side of the truck. It has some nice side steps. Back rim is in excellent condition as well and these back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. As we take a look at the frame and underbody of this truck it is in excellent condition. I didn't see any signs of corrosion. I mean that exhaust even looks brand new and it should with such low miles on this truck but you can see all the lower rockers look really good as well. Nice fender flares on here. As we come around to the back of the truck much of the same no dents or dings on that rear bumper. It does have a full towing package which includes that receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in excellent shape. It does have these storage rails with the cleats. The bed is in excellent shape. Bed rail covers and tailgate cover are in nice shape as well and as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side no dents no dings. This back rim is absolutely perfect. Very very clean down this side. Has power mirrors. Inside the SR package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips. There are no tears on these seats. Smells very clean in this truck. It's never been smoked in. We have the factory all-weather floor mats in here. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. As we hop inside the truck here you can see that this one has 41,000 or 4,130 miles. It does have an outside temperature display. You have Bluetooth audio controls on that side. You have your cruise controls down there. This one has the AM FM radio right here. You also let me see if it has just AM FM on here. It does have Bluetooth audio capabilities as well. This is where your backup camera shows up. You have your turned-out four-wheel drive. You have your heated mirrors and then you have your for your power outlet and then Augs and USB jack right here. Passenger seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that. Side curtain airbags. I don't know if you saw that but that's where the backup camera is and then you have stability control up there. Headliner is in really nice clean condition. Like I said this truck is very smells very clean inside. I don't think it's ever been smoked in and we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system, the sliding rear window. These seats do fold up and then down for extra storage and you do have extra storage back there as well and then there's a little compartment underneath here. Factory all-weather formats back here as well and we'll take a quick look under the hood. Thank you so much for checking out the video. We try really hard to give you the best representation of the vehicles possible. We sell a lot of these vehicles out of state so we want to make sure that you're getting the most accurate representation so you can make a smart buying decision from anywhere you're at. Engine base very clean runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and this truck is 100% ready to go. Super clean inside and out and just a really nice ride overall and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 400 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, recorder tons, one tons. You name it we got it go to our website www.SummitAuto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot. Videos of every single used vehicle that we have all at SummitAuto.com. Thank you so much for checking out the video if you want to make this one yours. Give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER>. Ask for one of our sales associates standing by to take your call. Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thanks again for checking out the video. If you want to check out more go to YouTube.com slash Summit Auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this truck and all the trucks that you see there. In fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more used halftone truck videos and light duty truck videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom a link to this truck on our website click those check us out. 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