what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video and in today's video I want to talk about Oryx challenge mode today the final Kingsfall raid challenge mode a drought that being Oryx and the speculation and what the challenge would be prior to today has been crazy but in today's video I want to clarify the challenge and what's needed to be done to defeat Oryx and receive them challenge mode rewards and also we can check at the loot obtainable for the challenge itself and the collection of all 50 calcified fragments okay so let's start the challenge well it's as simple as destroying 16 orbs yes that's actually the challenge all it takes is a perfect run four runs of killing ogres and detonating all 16 orbs at the end of the four runs it doesn't matter about deaths either as long as the orbs are activated it's all good now you can wipe as many times as you want also so you don't have to worry about that I thought personally it would have been at least a different run at every time but nope Bungie wanted to keep it easy again they look like the war please challenge a lot of people will be doing this without even realizing but yet that is it guys you kill them all good guys you do this with four perfect runs that way you'll have 16 orbs to activate at the end don't forget you want to kill them all gives in the same position otherwise them orbs are gonna be all over the place and when it comes to activating all 16 at the end it's gonna be near impossible once you've done this you are ready to collect your rewards so the rewards obtainable from this challenge mode on hard it's basically 320s of anything the raid has to offer doing it on normal three tens is what you'll be getting doing on hard mode also rewards you two artifacts one from normal being a 310 and one from hard being a 320 defense you also get the emblem which is called of light and hunger there's one guaranteed 320 doing it on hard mode like I said could be anything from the raid I'm all weapon wise doing our normal this is a 310 I can confirm also doing this on hard mode you will receive the agonar carve ship I'm not sure if you see that doing it on normal if anyone can clarify that in the comment section that would be epic doing it on hard you do get that epic looking ship now for the collection of 50 calcified fragments you are rewarded a shader and that is it which is received after talking to eris morn and you are all done challenge mode is completed and as it seems there is nothing other than the shader for the collection of 50 calcified fragments which to me is very disappointing I mean like without the help of a calcified fragment locator on the internet or an app a lot of people will struggle to find all 50 of these and for it you get a shader which is called the bautane which in my opinion don't look that good they're black and it's way too dark you can't even see the features of the armor but still each their own a lot of people probably love this shader but me personally I think for the collection of 50 calcified fragments we deserve something a little more but hey who's to say a quest won't trigger sometime down the line like it did for the sleeper simulant we're just gonna have to wait and see but that is it guys I want to give a massive shout out to Doug117 who done this challenge first thing this morning and allowed me to record his rewards also giving me some information I needed for this video so a massive shout out to Doug117 now if you guys have done the challenge mode let me know what you got down below in that comment section I'll be grinding this out later for sure but guys that's it that's the end of the video hope you enjoyed it do drop a like I'd appreciate the support subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you guys on the next one peace out till next time peace


I lean towards letting people do their own thing if I see a person who is blind at a traffic light or in a cafe. But after listening to Deb, our guide, she really encourages that you do just check if you're at a traffic light. And I would normally not do that, so now I will.  And I've actually learnt now from the guide how I can better help people with vision impairment, which is spectacular. When people stand on the train line indicators that actually help them to determine where the end of the platform is and where the direction changes. Particularly when you think about 9-5 peak-hour traffic, everybody standing everywhere, I think I would make a conscious effort in future to clear that space if I saw somebody that was looking for guidance. Well, I've learnt that the city or any environment needs to consciously accommodate blind people and vision impaired people. And Rory assured us that Melbourne isn't doing too badly, but for me it would have to do a lot better. Good planning, I'm sure, on the part of the city is a very important part of this. If you're on public transport, for instance, a simple gesture by tapping the seat next to you is actually going to help someone to tell them that there's a seat next to you rather than sitting there in silence. That's why I have such so much more of an understanding of what they go through every day. I'll be a lot more lenient and be probably off my hand in help more than I would have beforehand. We have friends that are fully sighted and they moan and they'll complain and they whinge about such meaningless superficial things. And I think people that are visually impaired or blind, the challenges that they face on a daily basis is just remarkable. We were aliens in the room that we were just all led through. Those that are vision impaired aren't life impaired. There's another quality of life that they can have that we don't experience and we can experience something they may not be able to do, but it doesn't make it worse or better. It's just different.


Hey, you guys so here is a spring dress try on haul Disclaimer many of these dresses I purchased last year and a couple I purchased this year So this first dress is a navy blue dress that I got from ASOS My first discovered this site about four or five years ago I really love this chiffon layered look and it's a fishtail meaning that it hangs in the back and then comes up in the front Yeah, it's it fits really nice. So I typically wear a size 12 Through ASOS, but I'm noticing definitely at the top part. I need to start getting altered So this next dress I got from Venus this body con fitted dress Yes, honey, I do not need a bra with this dress or I rather I should say I wouldn't wear a bra with this dress Now this is a type of dress. Honestly, I would feel more comfortable if I lost about 10 more pounds or so Then I will definitely feel more comfortable comfortable wearing this out Next dress is also from ASOS the floral print even though it's black and stark due to the floral print I would consider it a spring dress. I absolutely love the cut I love that it hangs off the shoulder and this is also on a size 12 at ASOS I Here's a close-up of my DIY press line nails I did myself you guys just in time for the springtime. This is my favorite dress so far I purchased this dress from Ross just a couple of weeks ago It is a floral blue light print maxi length dress with a split in the front. Yes, girl To show a little leg. It has a skinny belt that I tie around the waist. I can dress this down or I can dress it up I recently paired it with a pink purse of the pink bow purse that I also got from Ross last year from my birthday So yes, I absolutely love this particular dress. Now next up. We're gonna get a little bit more formal Going back to ASOS. We have this tangerine Chaffon dress with layers. This is more in my opinion formal formal or semi-formal even for church I definitely would need to have the top part altered some because it's just a little too big Even the sleeves here just a little too baggy So this next dress here you guys this would typically be my fit But for some reason I don't know if it's because I'm so short. It's just not hitting me right But I'm going to be pairing them or pairing this dress with these shoes I got from Ross last spring I may have to have some alterations done to get the look that I'm going for But this is typically my style. Okay, this retro fifties look, but I'm not sure how it's how I feel about this dress right now And here is the last dress absolutely love this dress that I got from ASOS. What does this remind you of you guys? UK Yes, retro Retro clock sisters 80s look definitely that's exactly what I thought up and honey It is praise approval. You can do a praise stand. So again, I'll have to have some alterations done For this particular dress, but I absolutely love the cut. I love the color. So that is it you guys I hope you enjoyed this video. Take care.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to theCUBE. Live coverage here in Las Vegas for VMworld 2018. This is our three days of exclusive wall-to-wall coverage. Two sets, it's our ninth year covering VMworld. When Dave and I started theCUBE nine years ago, Paul Maris was the CEO and they actually got a reference on stage by Pat Gelsinger. I'm Geoffrey Dave Vellante. Next gets Ray O'Farrell, CTO, Chief Technology Officer at VMware, keynote today on stage with Pat. Great to see you again, thanks for coming on. Great, good to see you guys again. So reaction from the keynote was very positive. Probably from a content standpoint, probably one of the most medius content pieces I've seen, mega news, serious announcement with Amazon, with Andy Jackson coming on stage, releasing the relational database service, RDS, on VMware, on-premises. Monster News, that is like, I don't think the world has yet felt the reverb for this thing yet. And that was only one of the many stories. That was just one, that was just a, and then the cloud health acquisition, and you had tons of demos, pretty intense. Yes, well, summarize what you did in the skin. Summarize all of that, so the key thing that we wanted to achieve with the keynote was obviously to make sure Pat drives the vision that VMware has and a lot of focus on that was focused on multi-cloud. This view of the world that you've now got multiple clouds emerging, and one of our key roles is to make sure that enterprises are able to work across all of those, networking, how we do management, how we work across all of these. And cloud health is a key part of that, making it easier to use cloud in particular multi-cloud. As the CTO, I get the fun part of trying to let our customers know all the cool work that the engineering teams are doing. So one of the things we want to do is make sure we put a lot of good demos in there. The feedback we get from our customers at VMworld over and over again is they want to see demos. They want to know that stuff is real. You can take a look, for instance, at the Hands On Labs. I came in here on Saturday night, walked down there about 6.30 a.m. on Sunday morning, and there was people lining up to go in there and use those labs. So what did we talk through? Broadly speaking, we spoke to how you can use VMC on AWS and the easy way it is to migrate vSphere applications onto vSphere on AWS. We had some new features there around live migration. The next thing we spoke about was around RDS itself and what this project is about. Broadly speaking, at its most basic, it allows you to take the RDS components from Amazon but run them in your data center. With all of the implications of that in terms of how your developers work and they build those applications. We spoke about project dimension, which is also now delivering as a service, a cloud experience, but again, at your infrastructure, whether it's at the edge or whether it's in your data center. And we spoke about what we're doing in blockchain, some open source components that we're doing over there, new features of Workspace One, particularly around the relationship with Dell and how that will now be combined with some of their laptops.  And I suspect I've forgotten something in that list. Yeah, hit the pillow tonight and have a good nap on the crash. Project Magna, which is a very future looking concept around basically where we think AI and ML is going to be used to drive a lot of the automation moving forward. Self-driving data center, right? Self-driving data center, yeah. Pointing a new term there. No, it's great when you can reuse an old term and rebrand it a little bit. Autopilot, put your data center on autopilot. I want to just drill down on the Amazon relationship because that was obviously the high news that I was talking about is the depth of the relationship is deep on the partnership side. I want to, you guys, and you pointed that out, I want to amplify that. I also want to ask you around the RDS demand. I'm talking to some of the Amazon sources, they tell me that the demand for this was very strong over multiple years. So, first on the RDS, the demand, some of the customer feedback, this is not just you guys in a room, well hey, let's just do this, makes sense, but it's a customer driven. Yeah, when you look at what VMC and AWS actually is, it's creating this bridge between the on-prem and the private cloud, sorry, and the public cloud on Amazon. But initially most of that is really an IaaS relationship. Yes, we can move workloads. Yes, we can move VMs. Yes, we can manage networking. But one of the key things you want from a public cloud or from cloud in general is access to services. So, as we went down that first part of saying, we'll give you this basic infrastructure, very quickly customers began to ask for some other, some other aspects of that, and that of course was services. So, after lots of discussions around what are the services, one that are appropriate to be able to put into this new type environment, but which had the demand, RDS certainly rode very quickly to the top of that. In the end, almost everybody has some form of database in their application, and so it's a very likely start for us to make that. So, I remember when customers first started wanting to run to virtualize Oracle, with of course VMware. And Oracle didn't really embrace that early on. If they would say, the sales guys would scare the customers, we're not going to certify it. But then some of the customers said, damn the torpedoes were going to do it, it actually worked great. Now, I don't know if that's because, just that's the inherent nature of VMware, or you guys had to do some work. So, my question is, two-fold, was that just the inherent nature of VMware, and what did you have to do, or will you have to do, to get RDS running the way that customers want it, trust it on AWS, I mean on VMware? Yep, so in the case of the Oracle situation, we didn't have to do a whole lot to make that happen. We are virtualizing in X86, Oracle runs on X86, and so you got that basic pattern in the mix. In the case of RDS, the actual database that you are running on your VMware infrastructure are databases such as MySQL. We run an enormous amount of those databases already. So that core aspect of getting the database running is not something that's fundamentally difficult for us to do. The challenging part is how do you bridge all the management aspects of that? The RDS components, the APIs that a developer wants to use in which they're used to using over with RDS on AWS. So that's where the work is involved. Now by the way, you're implying that maybe this is a future thing, right? A lot of that work has already occurred. In fact, the demo you're seeing is not based on, this is what we could do at some possible time in the future. It is actually tied to some very close future releases. So recovery, that's future release of recovery and all the things, if something goes wrong, I'm going to be comfortable as a customer that you'll give me back. Correct, correct. Some of those things we still need to work through because there's tons of features that you can be into add on to this. Disaster recovery, backup, all of those sort of things. And they're not all going to be there on day one, but you can expect us to continue to have a roll of maps. Correct. Now the other question I got to ask you is about migration. When I hear the term migration, I go, you know, IT practitioners, they tighten up and they, but what I heard on stage today is, we're going to make this really easy, but moving data, help me square that circle Ray because, you know, data, people say data has gravity, speed of light, network bandwidth, proximity. What's the secret sauce that enables you guys to solve those problems? So the core secret sauce there is, if you're virtualized on VMware on premise and you're using VMC on AWS, the basic unit of execution is still that virtual machine. And that virtual machine encapsulates the storage, the networking, everything associated with that box, right? So virtual machines have that very core strength of encapsulating not just the application or some aspect of the, even some aspect of a minimal piece of the operating system. It encapsulates everything which is tied into that box almost at a physical level. So when you say I'm going to move a virtual machine, you're moving the disk, you're moving the storage, you're doing all of those things. So now think of a database running in a virtual machine, it might not even be the applications, just the database, we're able to capture that and represent that and as we move the virtual machine, you're moving all of that as well. Now there's two aspects to that. One of them is moving the underlying storage, the disk, which might well be even a virtual disk on NFS or something like that. That's a slower task, and that's why we leverage vSphere replication for that. And then the final live part, which is in some ways the cool part, but is in fact in this stage, maybe not the most difficult part in what we're describing here, is moving the actual memory contents of a given VM and flipping it over to VMC on AWS. Okay, so the key there is you got the replication piece and then you just unhook the original and then you're up and running. Correct, traditional vMotion relies that both servers access the same disk. So I don't need to move to disk. In this case, I need to actually move to disk and that's what the replication does. Ray, I want to ask you about something that Pat Gelsinger kind of cheesed out on the keynote. You can tell he had so much content he wanted to expand on this one section, but he got a couple of digs in on it, but he did point out that the telco piece was very big and only he had a percentage in 10% or 20% is virtualized when enterprises are like 80. Correct. I've hit the exact number, but his point was huge opportunity in telco. What was he referring to there? So broadly speaking, if you look across most of, where workloads run, you look at your IT infrastructure, you look at most of the public clouds and private clouds, they are virtualized to enormous extent. Now when you go into the telco side of things and you begin to look at what's happening at the edge, what's happening in the large telco infrastructure, both a little bit from a cloud point of view, but also from everything to do from all the services and so on that they run. Much of that is not virtualized. Now we actually made a very distinct focus on that over the last few years. We created a basically a product line and a mini business unit focused on telco and that's where you see products like the virtual network functions, all of those technologies coming from. But actually the key product from that area is actually VIO, VMware Integrated OpenStack. That's because the telco providers to a large degree attempted to leverage OpenStack, had some challenges of getting the reliability, the stability, the need on that. So what we did was merge the hypervisor, the infrastructure of VMware with the OpenStack management APIs, produced VMware integrated OpenStack and the telco providers are very aggressively taking that on. Now, I got to ask you, what do you got against CapEx? See, Pat said you should never spend CapEx for DR again, it was basically. So I mean, I think the key part of that solution is, it is now so, I would use the word easy, the technology behind it is not easy, but it is easy for an end user to be able to say, I can connect my application from a private infrastructure to a public infrastructure in a way which is very highly connected using NSX, which is easily replicated, which is easily moved. Therefore, I now have a ready ability to be able to create DR scenarios leveraging the public cloud. It is easier than it's ever been before. So instead of building another data center to do that, leverage VMC and AWS, leverage those type of technologies to be able to do that. Rick, can you clarify or amplify the VMware cloud foundations? Had its trials and tribulations over the years it's evolved, it's now front and center in the conversation. How has that evolved from the product standpoint tech as an integration layer? How are you guys looking at that? What is the role of VMware cloud foundation and what does it mean for your partners and customers? Yeah, so I think your comments about having a kind of an early mixed reaction or so on is actually partially because a naming challenge that we called, right? VMware cloud foundation is a unified story where we basically take the core elements of the SDDC and we combine a management infrastructure with that, which is actually called SDDC manager. We don't necessarily spelled it out, but it's combined into that. But that's the key aspect of this. And then we build architectures based on that. So VXrack is based on VMware cloud foundation. The infrastructure which runs in Amazon, which we manage as part of the VMC and AWS is built on VMware cloud foundation. So it's an architectural statement as opposed to a product statement. Where the confusion arises, we also have products that people call VMware cloud foundation. One of the ones there which now as an instance of that is for instance VXrack, right? Which is basically a rack of infrastructure. Think of it as a really big VXrail, but it's got all of this management software combined with it as well. And actually, you know, your comment about that having some mixed reaction, some of that is because of our renaming that we've done along the way. But that is actually a growing and quite successful product at this stage. It's getting a lot of good buzz. It's getting a lot of good buzz, yes. And the value is what? It's time to mark it on our solution building or what's the main value. In some way it goes back to the core value of hyperconverge infrastructure. Somebody else is taking care of making sure that the software components all blend together. Somebody else is making sure that there's an easy way to update and manage all of these things together. And in many cases making sure it's well integrated with underlying hardware. So it's all around making it easy to get that basic SDC open running. So I got a question on your architecture. And I honestly don't even know how to ask it, but maybe you can help me as a technologist. You've got, you know, the VMware architecture which was developed, you know, initially decades ago. And now you've got all this microservices and Kubernetes and containers coming into the fore. And you see the quote unquote modern architectures, speed and deployment, you know, software releases much faster, much more cloud like cloud first. How do you go from, you know, the historical architecture to that level? How do you bridge the two worlds? Right. So as with any company, as these transitions have taken place, we've had to be able to make sure we invest in those new techniques and new technologies as well. So you see, for instance, VMC and AWS. You see, for instance, Project Tango, the cloud based VR, VRS product. All of those are cloud based infrastructure using, you know, those more, I guess what I was trying, new or modern ways of developing applications, microservices, containerized, leveraging Kubernetes and so on in the mix. So just like the rest of the industry, we've been doing the same as part of those that broader, sorry, that broader industry momentum. There isn't the conflict that you, I think, might think is there. The bottom line is our primary purpose is to deliver enterprise software which is solid, stable, secure, easily connected to the rest of the infrastructure. And that might sound a little bit boring, but it's the thing that keeps most of the data centers running and safe. VMware's ESX architecture, VMware's VC architecture has been at the very heart of that. And while they have matured over the years, right, they're still at the very heart of that virtualization part of what we do. But all of the other things we do, what we do in terms of cloud monitoring, what we do in terms of wavefront, what we do in terms of VMC and AWS, they are new code, new architectures, broadly expanding that story, leveraging microservices and all the things you would expect in that space. Well, VMware has proven to be the gold standard in that regard. Maybe it is boring, but it's super important. Yeah. So you got some compliments on theCUBE today for the work you guys are doing. Andy Bechelstein was on earlier, arrested a well-documented career he's had. He knows a thing or two about networks. He said, quote, VMware is NSX, this is quote from today. It's the best solution that's available today that I can use for the use case of what a large network has between smooth connection, between on-premise and off-premise public cloud and to the future to Edge and Telco and all other things cloud. Yeah. So I'm not going to argue with that quote. So instant testimonial. Okay, NSX has become really, this impact was giddy about this last year. He's all like, oh, you watch more NSX, more goodness coming. It seems to be the centerpiece to the, a lot of the VMware's connection strategies to cloud and other things, including manageability. What's the big thing about NSX? What should people know about NSX? I think the single biggest thing is software defined networking had a promise and the promise is this highly flexible, easily configured and in many ways, automated or policy driven in some cases, networking infrastructure. So it's all around that flexibility and fluidity of software defined networking. The key strength that NSX does, it delivers on that promise. So it's easy to say software defined networking, it's not easy to build it, right? And that's where I think NSX is proving all of its strength. It is a very strong implementation. I would argue obviously the best implementation of software defined networking. So that testimonial is an echo of that. It's delivering on all the things you expect from a software defined network. What is NSX enabling? In terms of the cloud connectivity story, which you just described a second ago, what it enables is really in some ways, because it is not tied to a specific infrastructure. I am able to run NSX on a public cloud infrastructure and on a private cloud infrastructure or on a hyper-converged infrastructure, but it's essentially the same NSX. It's the same control plane. It's managed in the same way. All of those different instances know how to inter-operate with each other. So what it's enabling is this massive ability to have these networks very quickly brought up, connect to each other, and reliably communicate with each other. I mean, manage in a unified fashion. It's targeting one of the hardest thing people are working on, which is interoperability. Correct, it's also targeting security. I mean, one of the things when we think about networking that you should never forget is this key aspect of security. And NSX is clearly targeting that as well. So some of the things, the features you see around app defense, a combination of app defense and NSX gives you enormous power. Pat's made a good presentation today where he was talking about the adaptive micro-segmentation. You can only do that because you have a great NSX underlying that network. What's interesting about the NSX I just want to get your reaction to is that the people are talking about here on theCUBE and also in the industry is that by having the security at the application portion of it, where NSX plays, takes the pressure off the network teams. Security teams can have comfort in their piece and then you don't intertwine them. Is that true, or is that? So I'm reluctant to say it's true because the bottom line is everybody needs to be paranoid, right? From a segmentation standpoint, from a cohesiveness, not those finger pointings. Correct. It's not in thorny. Because it moves the networking layer up a level and that level is closer to the application. But when I really looked at it, I think the key strength there is because it's software defined, because it's flexible, where you get a lot of the problems is when applications change. Here's a new version of the application or we're now popping up a new many instances of the application. Now because NSX is this software layer beneath that, it is able to react to that. So instead of the finger pointing back to the security or a networking person saying you didn't reconfigure the network to deal with my new application, instead the application and the network are intimately bound together. Actually Pat used some phrase today where he said, I think the app is the network in some way. Something like that. He was talking a little bit differently about that. But broadly speaking, that's what's going on there. It's all around the flexibility and the fluidity that you get from NSX. The application is a network. Correct, that's what he said. That's his word. Which I love, I think. He's right on the money. Complex and some services involved. Service measures are right around the corner. Highly interconnected, you know. Think of any application on your iPhone or your Android device, which doesn't rely on about 20 other applications or databases or cloud services. Well Ray, we have the case you on a whiteboard sometime and you have to do a deeper dive. Love this conversation. Congratulations. Final word I want to ask you. What is this VM world all about on stage? If you can knock down the technical engineering successes that you've had this year. What's it about this year? What's the theme from your perspective? So I think one of the key things is we've had a lot of products, a lot of technologies under development for the last few years. A lot of them are now starting to see fruition and the light of day. You know, you spoke about NSX. NSX is now reaching a real strength, right? But that's where we've had to start two and three and four years ago. So to me, that's probably the strongest thing here. Products, ideas, research that we've done over the years, development we've done over the years is now becoming real. It is getting out and making available to customers. And in the end, you know, that's what we're about. Trying to get those technologies behind the customers. And we're going to do our job to share that and we're going to be tracking the successes. And also thank you for inviting us to your radio event where you had your top scientist. Oh yeah, it was great. Very good to see you guys there. Great to see the energy and the engineering prowess of VMware continuing. Strong technical team, community, and customer base is theCUBE, bringing you hardcore tech coverage here at VMworld 2018. Three days, we're on day one. Stay with us for more after this short break. Herschavek. People obviously know you from Shark Tank, but the Herschavek...


When there is a scene, all the streets are closed. Mexican authorities said on Sunday, January 1, that at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez, and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city. The Chihuahua State Prosecutor said in a statement that among those who died in the prison attack were 10 security personnel and 4 inmates, while another 13 were hurt and at least 24 inmates escaped. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. An inmates relative who did not want to identify herself said all the attackers were in black and better armed than the police. The prosecutor said initial investigation found the attackers arrived at around 7 a.m. local time at the prison in armed vehicles and open fire. Minutes earlier, authorities had reported a nearby attack against municipal police. After a chase, four men were captured and a truck was seized. In a different part of the city, two more drivers died later in the day, following what authorities called an armed aggression. The state prosecutor did not specify whether the three incidents were related. In August, hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to Juarez after a prison phase between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts that killed 11 people, most of them civilians.


Hello and welcome to live at 525 on channel 17. My name is Debbie Ingram and I'm the executive director of Vermont interfaith action And we're the organization bringing you this show tonight The title of our show is what you can do about climate change because we're sponsoring an event that we're going to be talking about at Ohavi Zedek synagogue and We'll tell you all about how you can join us. It's on December 12th And what what you'll learn at that event, but first let me just tell you a little bit about Vermont interfaith action If you don't know us we are a coalition of congregations all across the state 42 member and affiliated congregations and we work together to Effect systemic change around issues of social justice over the years We've worked on things like affordable housing and homelessness on health care reform on public education criminal justice reform public transportation and And now we're turning some of our attention to climate change So let me introduce my my guests tonight or have them introduce themselves This is Rabbi Amy Small from Ohavi Zedek synagogue. Hello It's my pleasure to be here. Thank you. And this is Karen Corpman also from Ohavi Zedek synagogue She's a board member both of Ohavi Zedek and of Vermont interfaith action. Hi. Happy to be here as well. Great Thank you very much. So let's let's just start with you Karen and Ask you what what prompted this this event that's coming up on December 12th Basically after the excitement in 2015 and 2016 where the world finally came together and Virtually every country in the world with the exception of two Nicaragua because they wanted something stronger and Syria because it was in the middle of a civil war everybody joined and signed to move in the right direction and the beauty of what they the plan they had was that everybody Made their own goals and did what they could that would fit their country and They then were going to track these and they will and the idea being that as technology improves These and goal these goals will then move forward at a faster rate as Happened with various other things that were done in similar ways Then we elected Trump and President Trump has announced that he's pulling us out of the accord which he can't do until November 2020 So this may or may not come about from or if it does come about it will last only a few months If a different president has a different view the reaction in the states was immediate and Washington State California and New York led the rest of the states and were Alied with people like Michael Bloomberg who was an UN special envoy for climate change and created we're still in Vermont immediately joined it and then I Received the email that you sent that v.i.a. was invited to attend the announcement by Governor Scott and Mira Weinberger to You know come up with our response and our response was essentially to have a summit which was described as a mini Paris where all the businesses all the NGOs the municipalities and the state itself would bring to the table what they could bring to the table and Meryl Weinberger also had a different analogy which is he said this is a lot like a Vermont potluck and What better thing could we have for the religious communities in Vermont to get involved with than a potluck because it's what we do and So the idea here is that we could through the IA host an event that would basically take the message that was at the summit that the state had and Spread it to both the congregations So that they when they're making their plans going forward can consider climate change as they're doing things with their facilities And then in addition the congregants could decide what they can do And we can use the tool that Vermont has created called the dashboard where people can put their commitments in Great, okay, right so both people people can do this both at the individual level make changes in their own their own households Mm-hmm, and we're encouraging people to come from from congregations, but also I guess other organizations too We'd be happy, you know, I think probably like schools and maybe businesses Could take steps as well So yeah, so everybody's welcome to to come and you'll and they'll learn about This the dashboard is part of is that part of the state's plans? It's part of what the state put together and it's a way that you can put the commitments in and the idea of it is If you see your neighbor putting something in you might say, you know, I can do that too and The same with municipalities where when they see each other doing things They can follow or they could call up and say you had this in a year ago. Did it work? and So I mean there could be a lot of synergies in people seeing what other people are doing and it could create momentum Great, great. Excellent. All right, good well Rabbi Amy, I'd like to turn to you and Can you tell us a little bit more about why the by the synagogue? Thought that this was something that was important to follow up on and what the purpose of this is from the From your point of view. Well, we're very concerned about climate change and from a religious perspective there are a few things more urgent than this and that is preserving God's creation and There's a rich tradition within our with within Jewish texts But I know many of our faith traditions as well that speak to The glory and grandeur of creation as coming from God that it is given to us as a gift But it's a gift on loan We don't get to use it up consume it and leave nothing left but rather to enjoy it and to leave it for the next generation and so this this feels like a very powerful religious issue and even While we know that as a religious community and as our various religious traditions will support and even as people in Vermont know that this is a Calling to us Not everybody's on board yet so we thought that if the religious communities could motivate people and Help them give them tools then we could actually be part of the solution right so So other other congregations them will be will be in attendance. Is that right? Yes Part of our goal in bringing VIA into this was so that we could spread it with everybody in the Vermont community Who it would like to attend and is able to attend and there will be a series of clergy speakers We have besides myself the Unitarian pastor We have six different religious traditions that will be speaking Unitarian Congregational UCC Catholic and Lutheran so so our goal is to demonstrate that this is not a Jewish issue. It's not a Christian issue. It's not a specific Denominational issue. This is a human issue each one of our religious tradition speaks to it So the clergy that are going to be part of this panel will be able to represent that from our own text And we hope that people from all across the religious spectrum will join us Yes, great sounds sounds good And that is something that VIA tries to do is to show the the similarities between all of our different faith traditions because as we as we know we People of faith have sometimes not behaved well in trying to work together with one another, but That's something we're trying to change and something that we do I think we do quite well and And apply to our social justice issues here here in the state and no question about it And and in fact as much as via is the model for how all of our religious communities can work together on issues that we care about So too is vermonta model politically. We have a republican governor the democratic mayor of the city of berlington They are working together on this. There are no partisan lines here This is for us a human issue and we can demonstrate how you don't need to be in your own corner When it comes to this issue, but rather to be united together Absolutely. Yes, we can be proud of that. Yes, we can be definitely So um karen can you tell us a little bit more about maybe what some specific things are that on the dashboard or things that people Might be able to do Basically what we have is what we're going to do is we're going to give people as part of The on one side it'll be a commitment card of what they can commit to on the other side We're going to provide information including two links to the dashboard One link will take you to where you can register as a residence and On the same link it has something you could click on which gives you A three page checklist explaining different things that could be possibly done And so this provides you a bunch of things that you can say are you know, that doesn't quite work for me This one does but at any rate they would have that the other thing we would do is we would Be on the back of it as part of the information part putting in The organizations that provide either tools or our advocacy groups So that people can have One piece of paper they can take home They could fill out the one side saying i'm committed to be involved and then to check how they're going to be committed On a really high level at the top, but then turn turn it over And have some information that helps them go about doing it. The other thing is After the main event, we're going to have refreshments because we always have refreshments and At the same time we will have tables where We are asking groups that are either Providers of information to help on various issues or our advocacy groups if they would like to man tables We've put some feelers out. We've gotten some yeses, but Anybody who wants if they can sense Could we have it sent to the IA if somebody is interested who's listening and Wants to be involved in it and we'll get back to you and You know you can have a tape. Yes, great great. Yeah, and some of the some of the names we've talked about are vermont interfaith power and light right, um efficiency vermont The chitin and waste because of composting which gets rid of a lot of methane gas um And then for average 350 350 is an advocacy group and v perg Which is another advocacy group um And we have one person who's an expert on solar and so he will have some information on that Great great excellent So if I may first of all in naming a few of the religious communities who will be speaking That was not to say that everybody isn't part of this But that just happens to be the panel we were able to put together This is for everybody and speaks to everybody So forgive me if I've left somebody out only because we couldn't have every single religious community represented In that in that particular moment But I want to say that this is the first night of hanukkah December 12th And for us that's a perfect match because hanukkah is called the festival of lights And here we are thinking about what does it mean to use electricity and to And to warm our homes and our businesses and our synagogues and our churches and our mosques And so for us that goes together. This is where we think about what is the the oil that's going to be used To make that happen So to conclude the program we will light the hanukkah lights together And we have special treats in our in our um In our food that we'll have that are special for hanukkah as well that we'll share That's really uh really something that i'm looking forward to because it does really make it a more meaningful Um connection between the the faith and and what we're trying to do in a in a practical way and um, yes Yeah, that'll that will be be very nice very special So glad you're able to do that So, um, let's talk a little bit more about why um You know why states and cities feel they Need to to do this the the paris climate accord you gave us some good background on that um before and Some of my knowledge of it actually comes from uh watching the documentary that al gore did about the an inconvenient sequel Because they really showed how how difficult it was you you mentioned that in your opening remarks about how hard it was But i know you've had a real passion for this for for a long time Could you could you share with us a little bit more of the the history of the movement? Your passion for it. Well, um I was probably more involved intellectually and politically than I was in any of the advocacy groups on it So what I actually know more about is um the history of the um Efforts made by you know of the two people that are political Obviously the two are al gore and john carrey who did an amazing amount of the Lift in getting it to happen Al gore after he lost the presidency even though he genuinely got more votes and really won for it But at any rate he Never got he never got inaugurated as president But he then went out and then a year later came back with the documentary that you spoke of and I think that was what Really changed it into a political issue for most people Although not to the extent that you could actually I mean it was it was really Something that more people said they were interested in but every time you had a survey and you'd go and say what are the three things that you Will determine your vote it was never one of them and it probably still isn't Because there are other more pressing needs that people usually mention But at any rate it changed it so that people took it as an issue then um with When um secretary carrey became secretary he had gone to Talking to president obama before he you know became secretary Indicated he wanted climate change to be his issue as women's and children's issues were hillary's issues in that context and He had been involved in it. He and gore had been he had gone He was on the same committee where gore had the early senate hearings gore had done some hearings actually in the in the house of In the house before he became senator, but um Then When he became secretary he basically Had all of these contacts because he had gone to all the summits And so he worked with the chinese and uh where it was able to get the agreement With the u.s. China agreement which then led to getting similar agreements at lima, which was before Paris and so then at paris you had basically this Whole new definition that people instead of having one set of rules for States You know for countries to abide by each country put their own goals in and the thing that is good about that is Every in reality it makes it a complete lie that the president Had to pull us out because we were being treated wrong We said our call and the different and we also could change it You know, but so it was totally political red meat to The people he had believing him that it was not a good deal But the thing is when doing it They pulled in the cities They pulled in the states the tech companies all of them had representation in paris and in particular among the cities mayor blumberg As the un special envoy had worked with our state department And they pulled all the cities together the big cities together and internationally And they had a few conferences the idea being that Every city spends a lot of money trying to do things And some paths are paths that go nowhere So the idea was It would be good if they all got together and said we did this and here's how it worked We did this and it didn't work Because it was as important to know what didn't work as it was to know what did work, which I'm stealing that quote from bloombergs Had He also The state department also made sure that all of the u.s tech companies All of whom have a vested interest in being in this big huge market Of new technology that's going to replace the fossil fuels and The the Tech companies wanted to be there They Were excited to be called in and have a place at the table and they did and they were at paris And as you saw in the gore movie there were times where some of the countries were actually influenced by people who were tech companies saying we can help you on this and You know because for many companies the the problem was It will you know they they don't have a lot of resources And if it was going to cost a lot more to do clean energy than dirty energy, they weren't Able to do it. So that was why the Some of the state the the wealthier countries were actually funded Efforts so that some of the countries that were third world countries could be assisted But in addition to that you had independent things done by companies. I see right, okay Well, I'm bringing up the whole business aspect of it. You know, I've heard from different sources that That there are a lot of Ways that our economy will be boosted by by these renewable energy Pursuits and and jobs will Will be will be created So we're kind of losing out on that and pulling out of the accords as well as well, but Rabbi, I know you know a lot about this subjects as well. Do you think that that Just our cities and states being able to implement certain changes. Will that actually will that Really make a difference or do we need the federal, you know, the federal support? Well, I'm not giving up on the federal support But the the the fact of the matter is that most of the work gets done by the folks That's us the people and By laying the groundwork in towns and cities in small communities and and growing it And making the network rich and connected. We can affect what should be done by the federal government by doing it from the ground up Well, and that's really a metaphor for For the way VA does our work, right? I mean, we're a grassroots organization And that's exactly what we believe in as well is that top-down solutions are not What we're after it's talking to the people on the ground people who Who are affected directly by issues and and having the Confidence in them that they understand what solutions need to to Come about in order to to fix these problems. That's right. Yeah The other thing is you have one example Where during the george w bush years where It wasn't possible to have a federal Effort to do a cap and trade on carbon. You have all of the northeast states That join something called reggie, which is essentially a cap and trade. Vermont actually gets Money from other states because we've gone faster in cutting our carbon Then we were required to under the models and so other states that traded off Moving as fast as they were supposed to You know instead paid Vermont to you know, because we didn't use ours Interesting. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, great well I'm so grateful to Javi's attic for sponsoring this event and we're really looking forward to it and I certainly want to encourage folks who are watching us today to To come out and and participate and see and hear from Some of our guest speakers. We're hoping that that the mayor will be able to come right? We're not We're hoping yet, you know according to his schedule, but we we will definitely have folks from Burlington Electric has been has been really kind of a pioneer in this. Yeah, and um, jennifer green is Definitely going to be able to come. She is somebody who I believe she's in Uh, the mayor's office and she's but she's located at Burlington Electric because The mayor has put Burlington Burlington Electric at the front of the effort and Burlington Electric has basically Uh, accomplished basically had Burlington become I think the first city in the united states that was actually Uh totally renewable energy If not the first it was one of the very first and Major accomplishment and the city itself Intends to try to move to net zero Overall, which is really much much broader and much more difficult and it will be a very daunting challenge Yes. Yes. Well, and I want to offer some kudos to other parts of the county as well because I for instance don't live in in burlington My my electric carrier is from my electric co-op and they've they've also created a very user friendly website that helps me to track, you know when my Usage is is greater than it is and you know at other times and so I can do things like you know program my My heating and you know for like the times when I'm not in the house and you know reduce my consumption that way and And look at all kinds of other other things You know regard to my electricity and set up timers and and that kind of thing So, um, and I know I'm sure the green mountain power is probably doing the same kind of thing So for you know our other chinton county residents who might be watching this they're you know, they're there's there's a lot of They don't have to that's right. That's right. This is regional Yes, and as yes as we said for all of romanta. I think it's doing you know, it's doing a really good job so um, so uh, just to recap again then the um Uh The event will be on tuesday december 12th, which is the the first night of harika and uh, that will start at 7 30 um go until about 7 30 to 9 p.m And uh refreshments will be will be provided. Absolutely, right and when we'll have many organizations Uh besides for monitor faith action will be their tabling and providing information for people to Uh to be able to figure out how they can be more personally involved You know at different levels whether it's uh advocating for changes in the legislature or Or are doing other other kinds of things around their their homes or their organizations or their congregations So great. Well, thank you so much for being here and thank you We hope that everybody uh everybody comes out and look forward to it. Thanks very much for tuning in and We'll see you again in a in a month or so


There's been some sleeping consciousness, some pushed down consciousness that needs to come up. Even when you have a cut, you want to get it out to the air and the sunshine and let it mend. And we have to do the same with our consciousness. We have to let that up and out. This truth is deep down inside of us and it's coming up. I mean, I just went to the volcanoes. They were showing the inside of the Earth, like the molten lava, hot, the core. This molten lava just kept pushing up and pushing up and pushing up. And of course it would hit the water and it would cool and become rock, but it would just build layers and layers over hundreds of thousands of years and then up above the surface. That's kind of like the light in our mind. I was like, look at that, it's even light. It's like this light, light yellow color, like a light and it's just pushing up through the crust. And I thought, pushing up through the crust of consciousness.  There's some kind of light energy in my mind that just wants to erupt. And it just, no, I believe I'm a human being. Take this. No, I'm a man. I'm masculine. No, you're not. I'm feminine. No, you're not that either. It's just blasting up. I am, of course, a miracle seeker. No, you're not. Anything, any concept that we can hold onto, any self-concept, any object that we can identify with, this molten lava, this light of mind is pushing up and it is just erupting. Once you start to realize that that's what's going on, you can just give in to the light. You no longer would try to protect it, hold it in, keep it down, keep it under. It's taken me, this little character's been in 29 countries and I've been going around giving these chatakwas for over 25 years, over a quarter of a century of letting the body be used by the light, for the light. And you know what that will do? That'll get you happy. If you do this for a quarter of a century, it can take an instant. You don't have to go the route that I did. I always tell people, listen, it's not a matter of time. We're here to save time. We're here to collapse time. We're here to bring the Alpha and the Omega together in one beautiful, holy instant and we're going for it. And there's nothing that can stop us. What happens when 2,000 degree lava comes into contact with a mountain or a hill? It just goes through, through the mountain. I'm telling you, this stuff is hot. And this light in our mind is hot too. It can just sizzle anything. You've got a major grievance, a block, whatever it is. I've got HIV or I've got cancer or this and this. Oh yeah, the light's like, oh yeah. You're going to stop me with this cancer? The C word? No. So that's what we're getting into. And also, we're just inviting everybody to join in with us. That's why we're having the chatakwa. And we're going to keep doing chatakwas and having fun for as long as it takes until the world disappears. Let the light just stream through. Well for me, what I started to see was that all my definitions of life were wrong too. Because I think of life and I think of alive and vibrant. But I started to realize I had a lot of associations with life being biological, with life being evolutionary, with life being rowing. All of those were false associations too. I remember one time I was listening to this course teacher teach the course on tapes. Some of you who know the course have become optic. And somebody from the audience said, what does the course teach about life on other planets? And he said, well the course says that there's no life on this planet. I just got the biggest smile on my face. And you know, once you start to go with that a bit, I laughed like everyone and then I started to say, okay, you're going to have to show me that. That's a big stretch. But ultimately, you got to say take me there. You got to say the spirit. I want to know life that's eternal. I want to know life that is never born, never dies. In fact, a couple days ago, it was David's biological birthday. Actually the first email I got was simply these words. You were never born and you will never die. And I said, yeah, now that's a greeting that I can relate to. It's if we're going to celebrate the day that a body seems to come out of a womb. I think we can raise the bar a little bit when we start to forgive. Because when we start to forgive and release all of the heaviness of our concepts, including our biological concepts around life, and life is of the body, life begins at birth, life ends at death, once we forgive all that stuff, then we're really getting into the happiness of eternal life. In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says the world will end in laughter. Laughter, now that's the way to go out. And that's what our life is. Not that we're laughing at anything. It's just a laughter that wells up in your soul. It's the spirit's laughter. So for me, I have to admit it was a big journey. Even when I went into this vegetarian study years ago and they were going to take my blood to test something out or whatever. But it was good practice. When someone's sticking needles and poking around for veins, when I was growing up, they had to bring smelling sauce. Every time they would even try to take blood from the body of David. And so what did I do when I got into the spiritual journey? I went right at my fear, right at it. There's some kind of association in my mind about blood, that I can't handle blood. So what better way than to enroll in a vegetarian study where they pluck your arm and the further the study goes, they whack it again and they go more and more. And if you're queasy about blood, that'll help you get over your blood associations. What's wrong with blood? Is it good? Is it bad? But really, is blood so bad? No, it's just our thoughts and our associations and our concepts around blood. And I've had experiences where I've seen people die. I've had a raising the dead experience like Jesus had. Even that's no big deal. Why?  Really. I wasn't even blown away by raising the dead experience because I knew there was something more. I knew that was just a symbol. Jesus coming out of the sepulcher. So he did that 2,000 years ago. It was kind of an out-of-pattern experience. We don't have that every day, but people coming out of graves got our attention. But there's no need to build a religion of sacrifice and penance on one simple resurrection scene and teach people that they're sinners. We need to teach innocence. We need to teach original innocence. We don't need to teach sin and punishment.  His message was much bigger than that little skit, too. They make a big drama. They re-enact it every year. You got to go through Good Friday, and the clouds come, and you go, oh, good Friday. Always wonder why it got so dark and cloudy on Good Friday. What's it true? Did it really happen? It's so dark out here today. Easter. Yay! Why can't every day be Easter? Why can't we celebrate the resurrection 365 days a year? Why just have one day in April? Let's do it all year. That's what this is about. So it's really about eternal life. And it's just a different view of life. And it took me a lot of seeming just, okay, I'll give it over. All right, I'm wrong about that, too. Okay, okay, okay. So what you are saying is that everything is illusion, nothing exists. Everything is the correction of the mind. And spirit is real. And when you're connected to your source, then you really... There's nothing to get up about, oh, see? That's it. When you're in alignment, then no problems.