Alright, what's up guys? We are back for another ESPN highlight reel. All you gotta do guys, if you get any value throughout this or any type of value whatsoever, you know, of any part of our brand, hit me up at 2-1-3-4-5-8-5-9-9-7 send a text and or go to the website way better is book a call with yours truly. So let's get into this guys.  As you can see, Alex has had some quite the, quite the big P&L sometimes both actually read which we're going to talk about and then the reclaim within the small account challenge and absolutely crushed it. Alex did a great week, but he did have a speed bump or two. So we're going to talk about that. So the first things first is Alex was looking at Elsid which I kind of have queued up here. We're going to the 30th guys. So you can follow along with me. This is January 30th Monday, right before we come into February, you know, a couple of days later. So Elsid the stock topped out on Friday guys. This is what you see right here. A big parabolic move. I started to short some pre-market. Alex was in here on day two and covered it already. I think this would need an extreme bounce towards 1450 to 15 for me to get interested in shorting this again. Stock will follow Tesla and other electric vehicle sector stocks guys. We always talk about the head of the snake and sympathies and things like that, but let's take a look. So this is the whole pre-market starter shorts. When it looked to have topped out at 1450 added after the first death kennel. So as you guys can see right here, added after that death kennel right there. And then what he did was he added after the lower high confirmed and then started covering on the wash guys. Alex did a wonderful job covered some into VWAP support, covered rest into the wash out. Absolutely beautiful job, really good. And that netted him 22.2K. And then the members were absolutely crushing. So let's take a look at some members. The members crushed it all week. And I'm so sorry for not putting everybody's charts up, but guys, I literally don't have time to collect 10,000 success charts. You guys crushed it this week. I did the best I can. This is an ESPN highlight reel guys. Don't shoot the messenger. So Lanacoa on Elsid did exactly what Alex did. You know, right after that death kennel started adding lower high, lower high, the break of VWAP, the covers beautiful job guys. This is why you pay for MIC. You get the watch list. You literally get the live commentary. Alex is guiding you all pre-market in the morning. Bow's guiding you through the day. The mods are there to help. This is what you pay for. So when members are like, Hey, does, you know, does the membership pay for itself?  I would think so. Tesla short for Rockmon. Absolutely. Just such a beautiful use case of lines right there. Where did the stock fail before hit right there? Waited for it patient. Hooper X, my main man right here doing a great job. BZFD. I love this. I absolutely love this push in the morning. He caught it and then covered beautifully covered on the wash onto your day job. And I'm telling you, whether Hooper X has a day job, I don't know, but he can go to it. Guys, when a stock is way under VWAP coming open, what do we always say that if it can pop to VWAP, VWAP's the outer line, but he felt the, he felt the confidence to chase it down and else it and did a wonderful job on that. So fantastic job, Hooper X. But when a stock is way deviated under VWAP guys, these things are weak. Like that's a weak stock. That's a broken, broken stock. So you have a lot less risk chasing something like that than you do something on the front side. So you guys also or, or something that's just not completely broken and it might cruise down. There's a very big difference, guys, when something is unbelievably broken and I'm not advising anyone to chase, but I'm just saying there are much better odds of chasing something like that that will continue to be unbelievably broken than something that's not or something that's definitely not. Reasonably Izzy, BZFD long. I love the catch here on the long side.  We're actually a long community as well. And Traverse here on GNS to also prove that awesome scoops right there on a support that is held, sold in the rips and then kept selling the rips. So fantastic process on Traverse end, which he's usually pretty good at. So I, hey, at this point, I expect that from the kid. I'm almost not even happy or say I expect it. I expect him to do it. So, you know, it's it's just process guys. It becomes you almost get numb to it, right? It just becomes part of it. So we come into January 31st. We're going on Tuesday. Ah, Alex, big speed bump in the small account challenge, negative 75 K day. We barely see this from Alex. We almost never do max loss day for me. But when the opportunity is there, you got a risk, right? You got a risk to play after a month of having a plus trading. I tried to slay the and I'll just pull up for reference guys. Hold on one second. MSGM. I gotta pull this up for reference. As you guys can see, this was the 31st. This guys, depending on how you look at this loss, this could have been $2 million if Alex would have held this loss, maybe 4 million. So the point is you have to understand how important a max loss is. And specifically speaking, you know, from trader to trader, it's all relative, right? So 75,000 may seem like an unbelievable substantial amount of money and all the money in the world to some, this is actually given, you know, the fact that Alex at this point is basically up 400. And I think it was like 80 grand on the year. Guys, you have to understand if the opportunity is there, he's going to take it. And this is just a speed bump. So this is actually extremely good risk management. I tried to slay the MSGM Dragon today and paid the price max loss took me out around 16 guys. This bastard went to 81 practically would save me $10 a share more of downside. So Alex was really, really smart to cut this thing. A stock going from seven to 10 is one thing, but 10 to 28 is tough to survive with any type of size. Guys, even small accounts with 30 shares, if you're caught in this, that's that that'll add up that'll compound. And then even and that's not even counting adding going to take the day off tomorrow to reset reflect and get back on the horse as they say disappointed myself today deserve the deserve to lose. Alex is very hard on himself. That's just the way he is. But you know what? He learned the lesson. But the one stock that he did do good on was BB AI. So I just want to kind of pull this up real quick guys and show you BB AI. Not everything was a loss. So right here coming into let me just scroll back. We're on this day right here. And as Alex was saying, looking for a morning pop to 375 to four to 420 with a stop. And that's exactly what we got guys. And that's exactly what Alex did.  So this brought the total guys, this was well over 400,000. I think it was at like 450 plus you guys could just do the math, but negative 75 K have brought them back to 393. But what you're going to see going into the next day is he had a $65,000 a day and then an $82,000 a day. I should preface before showing you these member charts, I should preface of my 10 years of trading and being involved in this industry nine, 10 years and knowing Alex personally and being a business partner with him for damn near five, six years.  So after I saw this 75, I didn't tell him this, but I was like, dude, I know you're going to have a monster next couple of days. And that's exactly what he did. So I try not to tell him to psych his head out.  It's very rarely gets clipped. But when he does, he comes back stronger than ever.   I love this, you know, waiting for outer lines covered a little bit and then added when it was proving, you know, lower highs, lower highs, paid himself really good job. Bond on Hills, H I L S wonderful use of scales and wonderful use of outer lines. And again, just lines in general. So really good job there, Bond. I think I'm saying this, right? But Hoaxia, Hoaxia, really good use of lines as well. Outer lines covered up on the wash. Great job. Good patients there. T dog again. Oh damn. So guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, I cannot say this enough.  You need to make sure that you're safe when these massive squeezes come. So sometimes you catch the blessing of discipline and sometimes you just catch the blessing of missing a, you know, missing a smoke show on yourself. So really good job, T dog. Amazing process there, wrapping up early and Hooper X on BZFD again, just hitting these low hanging fruit as best he can and did a really good job. Hooper X again on CVNA, guys, join the second leg of the wash. I love this. Again, he was felt, he felt like he could chase because he totally could. This was something that's unbelievably broken, unbelievably deviated under VWOP and just something that proved very fruitful. Soy sauce, awesome, awesome job. I don't like to show too many PNLs, guys, because a lot of our members post PNLs and money is truly relative in this game, you know, for one guy $200 a lot for the next guy, it's nothing. And then $2,000 for this guy too, that doesn't matter. But the process matters and show you how we do what we do. So whether you're making a great amount of money like soy sauce did on this day or $2 million, it's really just relative to the trader. So, but every now and then it's fun to kind of show how excited our members get over whatever they made. And I love that. This is a great day. Let's see, Edson coming in and just showing you guys exactly what we were just talking about on MSGM. Like just tune in your phone, guys, literally, this is the TD Ameritrade.   And this was this day, guys, this is the true Black Swans that come out of nowhere. And these are account enders, man. If you don't have risk management, which we obviously do and obviously teach at MIC. So when we say something like this, our moderator is saying, wow, he's not caught in it. He's just like, well, every now and then we expect something like that. You better be prepared. All right, guys, February 1st, we are on to the new month, Alex, $65,000 for the day, bringing the small account challenge starting at January 1st of 35K back over the 400 hump to nearly 460 grand, guys. And Alex was just on fire. So just for the sake of time, let's go in the members. And what the members were doing was awesome. Rockmon, wonderful job following down trend on the stock that's already topped out. Really good job covering in the open.  And I know this is funny, guys, but dude, that's a total win. Just block this out of your mind. You're not always going to catch offerings or drops or hit pieces or whatever would have you, warrants and AT&T, you're not going to catch it all. But this is a solid process. This is great. I wish you had 10% down here just for funsies, but it is what it is, bro. You did a fantastic job. David, CVNA and GNS short, wait for the top, hit the pop, cover it on the wash. Just beautiful. It's just beautiful. Ryan Conley, wonderful, hold on one second. I got a very sensitive mouse here. Ryan Conley, awesome job in the support, sell the rip. I mean, it just doesn't get much better than that on eBay. Highlander, wonderful job, stock tops out. He waits for the pop, hit it exactly where it failed before, key, key, key. And then I'm sure, I'm sure he was leaving room for scales right there just in case it did, which he should have, a wonderful job. And then Hooper X, again, following down trend when something breaks, dude, he's ready. And I'm all about it because you should have a mindset that says, look, I'm a shark swimming.  You know, that's terrible analogy, but that's just kind of what it is. All right, guys, the Coup de Grasse. So we're coming off a $75,000 loss. Alex makes up almost all of it the next day. Now he's like, dude, I don't just want 65. I want more 82, 82.5 K just while I was, I was not in love with CBNA short today until it had a parabolic moved and topped out near 20. And just to give you guys kind of some frame of reference, let me pull that up. So CBNA on the second, which was obviously right here. So guys, we have this monster, monster day. Alex wanted this bastard to top out. So near 20, this to me was a signal that the trend might be changing when 1620 support broke and low the day broke. I aggressively added to my winner, guys. So I mean, I'm going to pull up the chart, but this is, this is unbelievable. This is, this is amazing, especially something that's been kind of so elevated for a day and a half. So target was a move back red, obviously, which we got really thought we might have seen a bigger meltdown when red broke. But when it held, I got out and called it a day. If Alex isn't happy with a, you know, 82.5 K, I don't know where he'll be happy with. That's pretty good to me. But guys, check this out. So the view. Oh, I'll try to, I'll try to squeeze this so you guys can see, hold on one second. Let me, let me squeeze for you. As you guys can see, this big tank under VWAP is right here. So just frame of reference, VWAP projection short, 10% size each entry, add after death candles, guys, which is exactly what Alex did. Add on the support break held for a while, held for a while. I'm sure, I'm sure Alex would tell you like no BS. He was probably not shaky, but a little bit like, all right, well, this is taking some time. Like I'm ready to exit if I have to. But once he saw this tank under VWAP guys, it was game f-ing over sizing in when the trend was broken. Full 100% size on confirmation, which is exactly what he wanted. And then added into bounces on the way down, covered into the red target, which he literally got right here. You guys can see it doesn't get any sexier than that guys. Total, total Carvana trend change and bleed meltdown cascading blood. And it's just the way it is guys. And then obviously GNS was also on radar. And I'm going to just bring this up for a frame of reference as well as Alex did a wonderful job. I don't even need to pull up the TDE. So I'll just leave this open, but GNS trapped all the swing shorts and SSR is on. For now, I will ignore the stock. But if something changes at the open, I will adjust my plan waiting around for this. And then guys, this thing started to break down and then Alex did exactly what any red blooded male would do when this thing jumps up to outer lines. He's going to slam this bastard and then scale into the outer lines and then cover on the wash into the open. Just a beautiful job. I mean, it just doesn't get any better, man. Bringing the small account challenge well over 540 grand. So on Tuesday, Alex was at 393. Now he's at 541. Just showing off. Welcome to be in a Tamiz family memory. The Tamiz bloodline, man. I'm telling you. Somebody needs to inspect that DNA. It's pretty good. All right, guys. Donnie ELYS from the watch list making money from Alex's picks. Wonderful job, just beautiful. Irvin, this was a low hanging fruit play, outer lines. Dude, top tick solid, absolutely solid. Rahmin, wonderful job, outer lines. And then short where the stock failed before. It doesn't get any better than that. Hooper X, G&S, obviously doing what Alex did. Thank you for the watch list yet again. And then Fabian, waiting for a death candle, hitting the pop again. He must be watching my webinars. Bing, bang, boom. And then irresponsibly long loving that she doesn't have to just rely on bartending anymore. She's killing it. This girl's killing it. This chick is doing things, man. I'm telling you, she's going places. So guys today, Alex had a little, just a tiny speed bump. One of those speed bumps where you're at the mall and it like doesn't shake your car too much. You can ride a low rider over it, but you still, you got to slow down a little bit. So Alex lost 12.2 K today. Nothing, nothing, nothing scheme of things, especially to him, but it was a very stressful day. The very least. So, you know, just because, you know, you may lose a little or not win a lot guys, sometimes stress is there. So, and you can't kind of, you can't really play cake that it's you can't hide it. You can't, you can't disguise it. Stress comes with the job, but then, you know, obviously this job has a ton of risk, but a massive amount of reward, which you can see in Alex's PNLs, especially when he's doing good. CVNA, I'll just kind of pull it up for you. Oh, we're actually already on it. One sec. Let me just zoom into today, as you guys can see right here. Very, very stressful day. CVNA pre-market weakness had me convinced we're going to have more downside today. Sized up and paid the price. Tough, tough stock, but happy the markets are closed. Thank God it's Friday. Time to enjoy the weekend, guys. And I'll just kind of pull this up real quick as this is what I could find. Alex was hitting it. Pre-market did actually a wonderful job, but I guess, I guess, as he was saying, I think he, I think he just thought it was going to go lower. So I think he got stuck in that. So we won't harp too much on that, but Alex lost 12 K. And again, guys, it's just a paper cut. It's depending on how you look at it. So, you know, all right, members, E, absolutely frickin' crushed PXMD today and GRCL. Just really weak stocks, guys. You know, stock selection, wait for them, top out, wait for them, death candle, wait for them to hit outer lines, wait for them to be DBA or VWOP. He did it all, man. He did it all. Jan, member Jan, did a wonderful job.  Hit this on the short side. Did a wonderful job on the long side on Cal. Dude, awesome job, man. Awesome frickin' job. So he loves these nano floats, I guess. I'm diggin' it. I'm diggin' it. MSGM short, I'll ducking take it. You know that's a spelling error, but that's hysterical. That's usually something we text. So he must have been on his phone. E, wonderful job. Wait for something to top out, hit it. Just every now, I'm gonna throw a P&L in there, guys. Member Arsalan, great job. $5,200 a day. Pretty normal for him, I think, these days. And here's the thing, guys, this is the power of MIC's teaching. These are life-changing numbers for some people. So, Wolf, he's just so good at outer lines, man. I love this. Wolf, awesome job, bro. Your lifetime for a reason, man.  So, guys, you know what we're gonna do. You know what we're gonna do. Hold on one second. Where are my applications? Where's my calculator? All right. All right.  I'm kind of getting excited. So 2200. Oh, oh, that's right. 22,200. Geez. What am I saying? 2200. 22,200 minus 75,200. So, so far, we're in the red. 53,000 plus 65,000. Yowza. So, we're up 12,000 plus 82,500. Oh, my God. Now, we're up 94,000. You see how quickly that can change in your favor? And minus 12,200. So, Alex ended the week. And, guys, this is not rebates from Success Trader. This is nothing about rebates.  This is nearly $100,000 a week, I'm sure. But, essentially, just in P&L, if we're not talking about rebates at the broker level, guys, this is an $82,000 a week for Alex. And he had some substantial losses in there that kind of set him back a little bit, which, obviously, is perfect risk management like we talked about. But, in $82,000 a week, it's pretty frickin' fun. So, guys, let me just show you a couple things for those who are not MIC members. And you're looking in, this is our watch... Sorry, this is our chat room. This is the Watchlist channel, guys. We have an After Hours channel. But every single day, we take it from the Watchlist to the Main Trading Chat. What's up, George? This is Alex. This is super fun seeing what the members are doing. Main Trading Chat, guys. This is where the fun happens. This is where the business happens as well, mostly business. As you guys can see, Stefan Jr. Mod, Modern Rock, all of the members, all of the moderators, all the mentors, anyone available is educating. Warning, all day, guys. Literally, look at these times now. The all-day education and making sure... Like, sometimes funny jokes, making sure you guys are getting what you need, the education that you desperately need, some of you. And then just making veterans better, guys, literally. Like, this is a community. We make each other better. Large cap and options room. If you're not a small cap player, you have large cap and options. A disciplinary workshop in the case that we keep our members accountable. This is so sick.  Guys, it's all about getting better. It's not here to flex. It is not members going, hey, man, I had seven green days in a row.  It's not about that, guys. It is not about flexing on each other. It is about being the best version that you can of yourself. And it's always just you versus you. Guys, we have a swing trading room. We got freaking DMs down there, which I got to get to. Everything, guys. This is a full service community. So if I go to the website really quick, I'm already signed in. And the first thing I want you to pay attention to is the fact that we have... Well, three things I kind of want to point out. Guys, if you're brand new to MIC or you haven't even... Like, you haven't even joined yet. You just went to our site. Guys, watch the one-hour free training. It's so important that you watch this. Like, we're literally going to give you a one-hour free training. Number two, we have a video library that is so benevolent in content. It's just abundant in all fields, guys. Lessons, warnings, everything, guys. Everything, everything, everything. So let's say you're having a problem with FOMO. You can literally search the videos in there all about FOMO. There's so many videos. It's like 1,000 plus hours of content. And just, you know, piecemeal. Pick and match what you want to learn. Maybe you've been trading for a couple years, but you only need to make a couple tweaks and certain things like use our search feature. If you scroll down, guys, we have a full roadmap of how to get started, which you can expand upon accelerator course curriculum study guide. And then this is so cool. So Alex's live trades. Alex records a lot of his trades nowadays, guys. And what he'll do is obviously he's not commenting to the camera or to, you know, his computer screen while he's trading, because that would distract him from, guys, sometimes literally, like an 85,000-hour day. So you have to understand the commentary will come after, but he's recording his screens. So all of the trade is live. And we'll then set it to our editing bay. Our team will make sure he gets the audio commentary in, set it to music, make sure that you guys learn correctly. And these are exclusive to lifetime members. So if you want to upgrade, just send me a DM and chat. We'll get you upgraded. But guys, this is upgraded lifetime member content that you are going to have to watch because it's unparalleled anything we've ever done. Watching Alex take these big trades, guys. Or just, you know, any trade for that matter, just screw the size. It doesn't matter what we're teaching his process, but it's going to be live. And he's going to talk about it and of what he was thinking in that moment. Last things last, I already went through everything, guys. Make sure you're acclimated, see the chat room, see the website. You know, obviously we tallied up Alex's numbers, almost $83,000 for the week.  I bet that pushes him over 95. But guys, check this out. Text us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. This is the most important call of this webinar because I'm assuming you're probably not a member and we would love for you to become members and we would love for you to also love our community. So guys, book a call with me. Don't just sign up. Get on the phone with me and see if MIC is for you.   I want you to come in and know that you've made the right decision and that's what I'm here to do.  We'll get on the phone. We'll discuss maybe any concerns, any just anything guys. So like, if you guys want to see kind of like a third person view in MIC and a bird's eye view, this is what that call is going to do in being one of the creators and mentors at MIC over the last five years. And oh my gosh, we're old, man. We're getting old. I'm here to help you guys and I'm here to help you get confidence in this beautiful community that we've created and see how Alex did, who's your main educator, did everything that he did this week, even the risk management part, which kept him on track. And to show you guys, I mean, I didn't count today.  But guys, theoretically, or actually not even theoretically, realistically, Alex's small account challenge from January 1st, 100% realistically is guys near $530,000 just under that, just under five, like, like $528,000, $530,000 for the year. So he started at 35K in January, we're barely into February. So I expect big numbers from this guy knock on wood. But guys, I will leave you with that. And I will see you next week for another ESPN MIC highlight reel.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Happy Monday. Coming at you with a random number block randomizer for these two teams right here. This is part of, in fact, all the number blocks have sold out at different times. That's coming up in a different video a little bit later. So check that out. But this is actually quite easy for me because Josh picked up all the spots. So thanks very much, Josh. We appreciate you. We're gonna have you looking like that on the list next to those two teams. So basically, you bought the Bottle Orlando and OKC. Good luck. We'll see you in that video a little bit later.


Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Fifth Chrome Dev Summit. It's great to be back in San Francisco. This is my second Chrome Dev Summit. And there's so much energy. There's so much talent. It's getting better than the last year. And more talks focused on progressive web app. Which I'm really excited about. I was really excited to see us announce more work that was launched around puppeteer, lighthouse, work box. All of these tools help developers build better experiences. And take advantage of things like headless Chrome a little bit more easily. And I look forward to hearing what developers think about it. The Chrome Dev Summit is the perfect opportunity to talk to the people that you normally only meet online. It's really cool to have all the conversations with people from the Chrome team, from the DevRel team, from the community, from the GDs. You know, if you want to exchange information this is the place to be really. Get to learn new things. What I love most about Chrome Dev Summit is coming together with this community that are so concerned about building a global web. That everybody can reach. That it doesn't matter how much money you have and what type of devices you have but you can be connected to this experience. The after party was really nice. Lots of great people. Lots of lovely music. There was arcade games. It was really, really cool. We had a great couple days at Chrome Dev Summit. It was really fantastic getting to meet all of the developers and hear what everyone's working on. We want to keep the conversation going. So we've got the code labs online. We've got videos of all of the talks ready to go. And if you want to chat about any of this feel free to use hashtag Chrome Dev Summit. I'm super excited to see everyone again next year.


The Cube at EMC World 2014 is brought to you by EMC. Redefine VCE, innovating the world's first converged infrastructure solution for private cloud computing. Brocade, say goodbye to the status quo and hello to Brocade. Okay, we're back, this is Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman, we're here at EMC World 2014 and we're drilling down, this is a spotlight into the future of storage and networking, the software-defined data center, a lot of buzz around the software-defined network, the software-defined storage. Essentially what's happening here is companies are extracting a lot of the value and function that have existed for years, sort of locked inside of the box, all the metadata inside of that box and they're extracting that and over the next decade or so, organizations are going to be able to exploit that information, that data in new ways and drive new economic models. Chris Wetzel is here to talk about that, he's the director of storage products at Rackspace, Chris, welcome back to theCUBE, good to see you. Thanks, good to be back. Okay, so first of all, EMC World, every year it seems to get bigger. It's this Jack was saying, it's the premier storage show, you're a storage guy, these are your peeps. Absolutely, it's awesome, they do a great job putting the show on, it's great to see everyone, EMC people here, the partners, it's a really, really good experience, so. So, when you think of Rackspace, you think of a lot of things, but you don't necessarily think, storage doesn't not come necessarily top of mind, so talk about your role at Rackspace and how they look at storage. Sure, sure, I'd say actually over the past couple of years it's been interesting that storage has become front and center in a lot of the conversations with customers about infrastructure and where your storage is at, often time defines where you will add services to it. So, Rackspace with our hybrid model really helps open that conversation up that it isn't just one way you can do it. And we've been very successful in helping customers solve problems in a different way. That a lot of the hybrid messaging you hear today is tied right directly to that, so. Storage definitely has dragged services over the year. What kind of services you're talking about that your customers are layering that might be storage or data led? Yeah, yeah, probably the most exciting one to me right now is just the big data stuff that kind of everyone's talking about. You know, we're big fans of having multiple ways of doing kind of any one business problem or a customer problem. But, you know, as you look at that big data, as you look at the data lake concept that you'll hear a lot about around here really plays well into what Rackspace is doing. So, let's unpack that a little bit. What are we talking about? What is that sort of big data storage stack, if you will, a stack of services look like and where does Rackspace play? Sure, sure. It's still early for us. I think, you know, we have some offers today. We've got some cloud offers. We've got some where you can do bare metal servers and all the way to, you know, working with EMC on external storage. Where I think it goes is really it's going to be talking a lot more about, again, what your needs are of analyzing the data. If you're going to have some real-time analytics, you might have some persistent jobs. And starting with kind of where you want to be and then where you're going to start, Rackspace can help really build that hybrid solution for you. We don't believe any one infrastructure will work for it. But it's being able to add the different services. You know, a great example is the Pivotal story. Right, so an EMC product with Icelon and Pivotal at Rackspace, you know, something that we are continually talking about. How do we put that together as an offer for customers? So we've been watching, of course, the converged infrastructure trend and networking and compute coming together. You see all the server guys kind of going in that direction. Of course, storage is part of that. You guys have always been converged. Yeah, absolutely. Converging, storage, and networking. So I wonder if you could talk about the trends as it relates to that convergence and how is that changing?  I think in the hybrid world, very similar to kind of what we've done there in that convergence, honestly, for us is a how. It's like ways to deploy infrastructure and when it makes sense to converge it and buy it in one box and that solves the problems, we do that. When it makes sense to kind of split it out and do it different ways, we have that flexibility as well. We really try to spend our time trying to find out where is kind of two elements to it? What are the problems we're solving on behalf of the customers and then where can Rackspace apply our fanatical support with our specialists to deliver the experience that customers really need and don't want to do themselves? So how do you see the SAN as we know it evolving? I mean, it became this multi-billion dollar industry that had a tremendous value function moved further and further away from the host and created just a phenomenon. Yeah. And it's driven awesome value, but that's changing now. You know, you see these functions shift back, you're seeing those things like server SAN emerge, software defined, all the buzzwords. So what do you see? How does it relate to Rackspace's strategy? Yeah. You know, the good news for us is we will continue to partner with the right people in the industry. You know, we're very strong partners with the EMC, we've got VMware as a partner as well. And you know, I think what time will tell where it all goes in. I'm a believer that a lot of these will end up complimenting each other. There are, as you mentioned, a very large industry and a lot of infrastructure deployed today. And finding ways to compliment that with newer ways of doing things that are faster, more automated, kind of deliver that, without losing the kind of the punch of what if you really need kind of purpose-built, dedicated devices, I'll say a storage array, you could still get that and combine them together. So I think it's a very exciting time. I think storage had a couple years of a great run in terms of being more in the forefront. And I think this is just the next step in terms of delivering it in a better fashion, get better economics, get better speed, and get better experiences for the customers. So Chris, one of the biggest challenges, coming to EMC World for as many years as I have, is that the operational models of going between the storage and the network was kind of difficult. When I think about Rackspace, one of the key differentiators you guys have out there, you guys have a phenomenal operational model. In many ways, they're helping customers to adopt that operational model, whether they use your services or build a private offering based on what you're doing or some kind of hybrid model in there. Can you unpack that a little bit for us? Tell you what you guys have learned through the experience and where you see the industry adopting and what you're helping customers with. Yeah, sure. And I think it's interesting that Rackspace over time, years ago at the infrastructure level, there was a much larger value that we placed on being able to do that for customers. And as we've evolved, our ability to run it at scale and very, very large scale is actually almost table stakes for us. Our investments now are kind of working our way, either up the stack or more into the applications. We talked about kind of Hadoop earlier as a new area that trying to find those areas where customers either can't invest, don't want to invest, more often than not is actually outside the infrastructure. It's kind of expected that we're still running kind of best in class and that's just, it's up and running. Yeah, I think that's a great point. So, infrastructure should become more simplified. Can you talk to your partnership with Brocade on this? How have they really simplified the environment or what services are there helping you with kind of move up the stack? Yeah, and I think our relationship with both Brocade and EMC is very, very strong in this area. Best example we had, I believe it was last year when we went to the latest generation director class fabric and we did it in such a way that it was non-disruptive and not aware of to our customers, which is what we expect from running our infrastructure at scale. So the fact that we, again, we designed it up front with them, we had a plan in place, our implementation went flawlessly and that sets the bar for what it should be every time. There shouldn't be interruptions, shouldn't be downtime, shouldn't be any worry about that. As we continue to evolve, we're working with both those partners about how do we do a better job at expanding that outside of Rackspace data centers. So we've got a more heterogeneous solution for customers and that's just, over time, those kind of get better and we adopt them as our standards. So what are some of the biggest challenges that you see customers facing today that all this new stuff's going to address, whether it's the software-defined data center, software-defined storage, or object storage, or new network storage paradigms? Yeah, I think some of it's the same stuff. It's still speed to market, it's speed to ROI. It's price is always an area that we try to shave. On top of that, it's really access to the specialists. As all these technologies are evolving, as all these changes come, your decision is either evaluating all of them one-on-one, kind of deciding which one is best for your company in doing it, or leveraging a partner like Rackspace who has that breadth and we can actually kind of provide a better choice for you. If this is important to you, we'd solve it this way. If it's a different way, we'd do it a different way. Let's talk a little bit about partnerships and partnering. So you got, let's take the example here of Rackspace, Brocade, and EMC. You guys all sort of work together. You partner together directly. So you may partner with Brocade. You might partner with EMC. Do you leverage that triumvirate? I wonder if we could talk about the relationships there for a minute. Yeah, it's funny. We have things we're working on right now I think that we'll show it. So if this was show maybe it was three months later, we could talk a little more about it. But I think, what is it? Oh, come on, tell us a little bit. Wish we could, but a little soon, literally. But I think, again, I'll keep back on some of the, some of the big data stuff that we talked about. You know, absolutely. It's a very, very hot trend, very kind of exciting buzz. How you go do it. How the data lake concept has evolved. You know, from a Rackspace standpoint, working with the EMC team and Icelon team. Look on the other side, you know, in sand, customers that are running big sands, and how do we adopt those kind of add the services on top of it for them. It's really the areas that we work together on. And I think, you know, it's as fast as we can kind of lock down what the customers want. So what do you look for? For instance, in a partner like a Brocade or an EMC, what do they bring to the table? And what do you bring to the table? What do you reciprocate with? Yeah, the best partners we have, appreciate service providers, right? I think there were many years where many products were designed for enterprises. And an enterprise-grade product does not always work well at scale. And I'd say, you know, EMC and Brocade, put in our top category in terms of partners that understand that and get that. And then you design it differently when you're going to run, you know, hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of a device, rather than for an enterprise you may do, you know, single digits or dozens. So that's really where we've had the most success and recognizing that and aligning your development around that really, really helps. Yeah, okay, so scale is one unique aspect of the service provider. The other is the business model. Sure. It's an IT sort of for-profit center as opposed to most IT shops, which are, right, enterprise IT is not a cost center, it's not a profit center. How does that change how you work with partners? I actually do, a lot of it is the same. I think even IT shops are trying to get out of being just a cost center, right? I think Rackspace has an extension of your IT and leveraging Rackspace and our relationships to help you deliver better results back to the business as an IT leader. I think it's the same activities. The difference for us is, and we tell our customers this, you may have a problem, you may have a need. If you do, there's a good chance we probably have it dozens or hundreds of times over. So consolidating that and getting that message back into the hands of the right partners, we can fix things faster and we can innovate better. You hear a lot of talk about IT transformation and CIOs being more business leaders. How are your customers transforming or are they transforming? I presume everybody's constantly, it's an organic world, but we're constantly transforming but how are your customers transforming and how are you helping them? Yeah, I think every customer's on a different pace. And we have a wide range of customers that have, you know, house, large, private clouds, leveraging VMware and we're helping them transform by VMware, extend it into our data center as an extension of theirs that we call that dedicated eCenter product. Other customers have consumed some of our services and kind of realized the value behind not needing the staff and not needing to build that expertise in-house. And once we get that kind of foothold in place, we look to add services and add other products on top of it for them. So everyone's kind of evolving differently but I think you were a spot on. Everyone is at some point in that journey and just the question is what your next step is. Partner like Rackspace, again, we key on the specialty and for areas where business is complex and infrastructure is complex, the choice to leverage us to do that or do it yourself, it is a very good value we bring to be able to do that for customers. How do you deal with the notion, at least in my sense or perception that you guys will accommodate customers, you're very flexible for customers. If customers want to do actual support acts, if customers want to do why, it's great, let's do why. How do you rationalize that need for customer service, customer flexibility with what you were talking about before, scale? Is that where things like OpenStack might fit? Can you talk about that a little bit? Because what's changed since you guys started in the business is you have these big homogeneous public clouds that can scale at the massive levels, everybody sees that, the enterprise, the big financial services guys, you guys, how are you working through that sort of dissonance, if you will? Yeah. I'm not sure if I get to root of your question entirely, but it was just centered around. So you have, you support basically anything, right? Anything a customer wants to do, right? Well, yes and no actually, in that area there, again, since we're about the fanatical support piece, I believe we can solve almost all of our customer problems with something, not always everything, right? So in the hybrid world, again, sometimes public cloud is great for something, sometimes it's not. Along the lines of even with some given, whether it's a technology or a discipline, we might not support a given one, but we might have an alternative that we talk through. And that's really the collaborative type of a model we have with those customers to try and see. More often than not, our portfolio is strong enough that we can solve it with one of our standards. And if not, we do absolutely always look to a standard. Okay, so you've essentially rationalized in the portfolio and you've got a suite of services that you're offering to the customers. Yeah, you can't support everybody. So Chris, you know, I've got Jan here and we were talking with Brocade about OpenStack. So I need to get your opinion, talk about rationalization. Where do you see FiberChannel fitting into OpenStack? Yeah, it's a great question. I think, in my opinion, the jury's still out on that one. I will tell you that, you know, we've been talking about FiberChannel, why FiberChannel will be a dying product at Rackspace for years now. It is very, it's rock solid for us. And my opinion, as long as the FiberChannel continues to form the way it needs to, we can do to innovate in the areas that we need to, I think it still has legs in OpenStack and even across other areas as well. So, you know, sometimes I believe I'm one of the few that thinks that, but you know, so far it's proven true that as long as it delivers the value and delivers the service that it needs to, I'm a fan. Yeah, no, I appreciate your honesty on that. You know, of course Brocade does more than just the FiberChannel side. They're also working on the Ethernet side. Absolutely. Do you guys partner with them on that or just have kind of strategic roadmap? Most of what my team's done right now is more on the FiberChannel, but it's a natural extension we're talking to them about both, I would say, Ethernet is also outside of Rackspace as well. They're a strong partner there. Okay, we'll have to leave it right there. Thanks very much, Chris, for coming on theCUBE and sharing your perspectives and good luck going forward with all the changes that are happening in your business. All right, everybody, keep it right there. We'll be right back with our next guest. We're live, wall-to-wall coverage, three days here from EMC World 2014. This is theCUBE, right back.


It is officially okay to bandwagon the Patriots. That's what I'm saying right now and I'm sticking to it. For so long, I've been so frustrated with the Patriots in Boston and watching Tom Brady dominate everybody always and everything. Now Tom Brady leaves and Cam Newton, a guy who I want to succeed so much, steps in. Honestly, I couldn't give you a very good prediction for how well I think he's gonna do on the Patriots. I want to say he's gonna do amazing, but I don't know. Either way, I have dope Patriots unis on for this team. We're gonna be playing with Pat's Cam Newton. I've got the AFL anniversary away in the 2010 alternate classic. Pretty sure you can buy a Cam Newton Patriots jersey in this color right now. Either way, it's the usual team. Now, the last time I did Cam Newton gameplay, it was literally so bad. It's embarrassing, but now we have the golden ticket. So hopefully it's better. As for X-Factors, I did something interesting because he gets interesting X-Factors. I'm going with protected and escape artists. So if I want to stay in the pocket, I should have a lot of time, but if I want to scramble, I can do that too. I almost went evasive instead of dashing dead eye, but we'll see. If I get cheesy and start throwing corner routes, I'll definitely be glad that I have dashing dead eye. So without further ado, and dude, I was gonna grab Gronkowski, but technically Cam Newton's never gonna throw to him. I know Gronk was a Patriot, but there was no good Patriots wide receivers to get. They were all like 93 overall or lower. It was God awful. I guess I could get Randy Moss, but again, he's never gonna actually throw to him. I just got to go with what I have. There's not a lot to work with here, but I just want to see Cam Newton in a Patriot's jerseys. Really what we're doing here. Also, in one of the most exciting moments of my life, I'm proud to say that Lulu Lemon is sponsoring today's video. 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Playmaker, but he's out of bounds. Third one on the money. Run it. I'm gonna send the hottest Blitz. Is it not a stretch at all? And I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. Ah, ah, ah, drop that. No, he did trip. First and 10, eight-man Blitz. We got him. We got him. We got him. I'm gonna pick this off in the middle with Megatron. He's coming right across the middle. Bingo. Stop. I was too late. That was the exact route I thought he was gonna throw. Oh, no, he is running the ball. Shit. OK, good stop. So middle, we're locked up. The dig, we're locked up. Yes, sir. Should I start out with a read option? Here's the thing. I didn't give him evasive. I should have given him evasive. Bite. No, he did not bite. Barry Sanders is still fast, though. I know how badly you want to go get Barry Sanders, man.  I just kept it anyway. It was not a bubble. Fourth and two. Let's do it. Shit. Shit. Get there. No. Oh, my God. He went through. Go, Bill. Ooh, nice read option. Oh, my God. Are you kidding? Wait, did that really just happen? And he didn't even... Let's see if he throws the Dallas Clark again. Oh, it's an actual run. Wow. That's not going anywhere. See where he wants to go with this? There's no where. Oh, my God. And he got sacked. Now, I don't know what... I don't know. I don't remember the defense he was running, but I think this will be open. Barry. No. I just... Oh, I just threw that to Barry, dude. He was so open. Oh, he sees it. He knew. Shit. Pray for me. Tyree. Let's go. Got the juke, too. The no-expector juke. All right. We're finally moving the ball. Let's go. All right. Looks like he is going to clamp that route, so Gentry should be open. Wow. All right. First attempt. Camden's putting something together, but he keeps Cubie spying me, sadly. So I don't know how many rushing yards. Ooh, wait a second. There's no Cubie spy here. Wait. RB. RB, what a God.    Are you kidding me? Ooh. Ooh, I'm gonna hit A anyway. Screw it. Let's go. Honestly, A might be open here if I wait. Ah, it's probably not. You know what? It's... Oh, man, that's Shack. This is totally of Panther's theme. Dude, that's Shack Thompson. Oh, wait a second. That looks really open. It wasn't open at all. My train lane was both so big that he just needed to lob that, not bullet it. Bad decision by my friend here. It's kind of close to Hail Mary, but it's not.  No, he sent him deep. That's not open at all. No, so he sees that. Yup. Yup. Yup. You know what? Didn't fumble. Didn't fumble. That's all I care about. That's an elite play right there. Second and three. Lots of room to work with. Let's go. Get to the edge. Ah! I kind of wanted to go out of bounds there. Didn't actually work, but dude, Cam Newton does not fumble. I'm not on conservative. He's just not fumbling. So that's pretty good. I got a lot of time to just sit here and think about my decisions. Oh, I should be able to hit A in the corner. I'm almost glad I didn't again because I might not have been there. Third and 25. Let's see if there's a corner route I can just roll out and drill. Oh my goodness. Ah! That's for 18. I didn't get enough yards there. The fourth and four, we gotta go for 24 seconds left too. We really don't. This is 100% open. So he's definitely got a QB spy on me. Is someone gonna get open? RB! In the middle! Wow, that was so wet. I don't know what I did, but I love it. We're gonna go Zach Gentry on an out route here. And I think that's how we're gonna drill this one. Is it there? Is it there? Is it there? I'm throwing it. You know what? It wasn't there. Ooh, sketchy. Sketchy, get the juke. Oh my God. I don't have an X-Factor. I don't have an X-Factor on Barry. I don't think so, but Cam Newton has so much room. Oh my God. Wait, switch on. Switch on, switch on. See ya. Dude, why would you ever switch on there? Cam Newton! Seven rushes, 71 yards. Oh my God. What if I playmaker didn't? Oh, this is sketchy!  Okay, I guess we're running fake spike because I accidentally goofed this. Can I hit anything here? Honestly, some of that was open, but... Dude! It was not, but Barry's open underneath! Gets a no X-Factor juke, and I'm on the two. See, here's the thing. I think he's gonna know. Yeah, he does know peek zone, but I'm gonna throw it anyway.  Dude, Barry caught that. So I'm expecting a QB spy, but I feel like I could run this in to spite a QB.  Throw him down the street! Got rocked in the face. I just had to throw a ball. I didn't realize how hot that blitz was. I'm sending the blitz here. Oh, it's an outside run. That was genius. Actually genius. He finally has positive rushing yards. I'm so frustrated with that. I'm blitzing everybody on that right side. Yes, we're there. We're there! Megatron! Okay, so it's first in goal. Dude, I can't get anything to work on the goal line. I got to get weird. I'm throwing slip screens. Like, yes, I could run the ball, but I don't want to. I want Cam Newton to have it, you know? Okay, he does see it, but the blocks are there. AP, AP to the four. Is he blitzing? Is he blitzing? Yes. Does he see AP? No! Get in there! No! This pass to Peterson is too... Elite, elite, elite. No. I didn't even get it. Oh, is that a run? Sorry, man. Unlucky. Who, I guess, has positive rushing yards. So that's more than he can say for most of his team. I'm blitzing Megatron here, and I'm just going to do Taylor Mae's best of the field. Wish me luck, boys. Fight! Oh, thank God. I was just about to say don't throw RB. Dude, sometimes it's tough. It's tough to make the right read when everyone's coming at you so fast like that. I understand where he's coming from. Gentry? Gentry? Yes, sir. I'm throwing that. Dude. Dude, I've never completed so many absolute jank passes. Gentry. You know what? That is like instant karma. Third and eight. It is a pass. Where do you want it? No, he made the right read. Oh, my God. He finally made the right read. I'm going to do what they... I feel so bad doing that. I feel so bad doing that, but I did the thing where you... Oh, why? A triple, an actual triple option. That's sick. Going with the big blitz here. He's running the same option play he should not have pitched that one. Are you going to run triple option again on 4th and 10, bro? Please don't. Please pass the ball. Lamar doesn't want to fumble either, though. I'll say that. The Cubies do not want to fumble today. Just walked through that double team against Protected.  He came off the Tyreek to go on Gentry. Excellent catch by Tyreek. Wow. I can just hit Tyreek for an easy pass. Do I not have a face about him right now? Wait, that was dumb. Where'd my read key go? Oh my God.  Go get Barry. Go get him! Yes! Yes! The perfect read option against that defense. Wow. That was sick. Yes! Oh my God. Wait a second. 3rd and 5th going through the read. Wait, I'm excited to see how this season goes. This NFL season, assuming we get one. That'd be so sad. I'll see you boys in the next video. Thanks for watching as always. Peace out.


The election petition tribunal has admitted some presidential election results presented by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Albi, to support its claim against a victory of President Bola Tinubu of the APC. Lead counsel to Albi informed the tribunal sitting in Abuja that he had concluded, he had scheduled a more evidence which they desire to render before the court. The council continued with evidence from rivers and Kogi states presenting certified true copies of INAC election results from six local government areas in rivers as evidence. Also admitted were results from Niger, Adamawa, Oyo, Bayalsani, those states tendered by the LP. The petitioner also presented additional certified true copies of election results from BIDA, LGA of Niger, and 21 LGA's in Adamawa. Again, councils to the first, second, and third objected to the admissibility of the evidence. However, the court admitted the documents as evidence while awaiting the arguments of the respondents who are opposed to the admissibility of the documents. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


I'm just a little piece of a big... You're about to get ideas. When you start thinking about stuff, ideas... Sometimes, thinking about all that stuff is hard. I'm 27 years old, and I am finally enough. I am fluent in Spanish, and have helped move mountains fighting for LGBT and women's rights. I am a leading actress in a play Tony Award, and hold a BA with a double major in women's studies and theater. I do not have children. From growling, or folks from dying, and though she tries, she can absorb pain. But mama, she's got her own way. Her own way of being strong for you, but then crumbling within herself. Wiping your tears. But crying herself, mama's got a gift in that. Being what you need her to be. But who's got what mama needs? Who adapts for mama? Who's mama's savior? Nobody knows. But mama, she got a gift in that too. Proper herself, huh? At least for others to see what art in a place called home. Until the earth is rocked and shattered, and the world and the machine and the man send us flying in a million different directions. Like ashes of people and memories. The wind blowing us into the eyes and ears and mouths of the real people. Nobody wants to eat dust. Dust doesn't belong in the air at all. We were never born to travel. It used to be green here. Pockets used to be green here. Now even the grass shows no color. When the crops dried, hope went with it. My land, this land isn't mine to claim, but it sure feels like it. This soil knows of my footprints. This house was built from my sweat. This property feels like mine, but how come it ain't? The dust just picked us up and blew us toward California. So we went. I'm losing my home. Not a building that I slept, but a home. I grew up in this place. I lived in this place. Memories are buried so deep in these walls. If you tried picking them up, they'd probably weigh a thousand pounds apiece. I remember all the way to California, dreaming of what I thought it would be. I imagined beautiful green pastures and lots of water. When I get to California, I want lots of friends. I want to go swimming and play hot scotch with them. I want to go to school. I want to read lots of books and draw tons of pictures.  I want money so I can buy candy or a soda. I want fresh fruit. I want to build a cool sweet juice drip down from my chin. I want grapes, oranges, tomatoes, everything. I want to be a housewife. I don't want to work in those fields. I just want my family to be happy. Whether I'm nobody or I'm a nation, like the stalactites that crawl into their crystal helix shapes, I crawl, the American baby, from the Strait of Magellan where the fish gargle their lugubrious songs to the dehydrated line where the Texans close American wannabes to plunge their broken Spanish at me. I cross the frontier. And for a while I stay with the print pickers, developing into a character that cannot be defined by American citizenship. My hair crawled away from its scalp. My feet, they forgot to ask sex dances. Memories became like packaged boxes of an attic of a house to busy to care. The melanin in my skin disgusted. They didn't mean marriage. I wanted to dream, baby. So when they told me about visas, I listened.  I recited the stories of Bush and Cheney so they gave me my green card, but I forgot about my mother who scarred back at the spine of the Andes who incubated me in the smoke of a patient volcano for two centuries. I didn't remember myself until the age of 17 when, burned out from singing Yankee Doodle, I recalled the tunes of my own people, the heats and smells of Acapulco, the poverty and the richness of the tongue. And I had also forgotten the cacao that is in the eyes of sweet-faced strangers. It all came back to me. I am an American baby, but the U.S., my friend, is not America. Dear Tom Jove, wherever injustice anywhere is taken as a threat and then acted upon, everywhere, I'll be there. Dear Tom, I'll be the mirror that everyone can look into and say, I am happy with my body, with my sexuality, with my strengths, with my flaws, with my scars. I am happy with who I am. Dear Tom, I'll be there in a world where Martin Luther King's dream is no longer a dream, where poverty is a word only to describe the past. Dear Tom, I'll be wherever there is no laughter. I'll help bring kindness and joy and a little forgiveness. Dear Tom Jove, I understand you've been wandering around this beautiful land of ours like a graveyard ghost. You're fighting for us in silence, but you're screaming too. Our world today needs some help. There's so much yelling, screaming, and cursing, and I don't understand why. Dear Tom Jove, I believe that people need to realize that we are not better than one another. Black, white, gay, straight. What does a title matter? We all need one another. Dear Tom, all that matters is that I know the truth and that you know the truth. Dear Tom Jove, I am no longer going to sit on the sidelines of my country and hope for a better tomorrow. When Hillary Clinton is elected president, I will be there. I will be knocking on doors. I will be changing lives and putting the message out there. Dear Tom, I'm writing to inform you that I have decided to stand up for what I believe in. I want to be a part of the rebuilding of America. So if you come looking for me, text me when you're on your way. Yes, Tom, text. We need to enter the 21st century.


Though this past week I've had a fairly serious business-like kind of attitude working on just doing work and being happy with doing work and it's easy to kind of slip into a too serious mentality and really mindsets I believe can be very brittle if we don't have enough humor and looseness then we can just become too tight and brittle to the point where we become less resilient So good humor and looseness is I think an essential part of being resilient and able to deal with life Now I wasn't thinking about that yesterday yesterday I was just Continuing a week of work and but then at the end of the week I just started to listen to some songs and at first I was putting on some songs While I was cleaning my apartment. So this was just some background Entertainment while I continued to work as I continued to do cleaning but after the first few songs it started to become more about dancing with less and less cleaning going on and eventually it just became purely listening to songs dancing around and By around midnight I Have despite having I had nothing to drink or smoke, but I really felt high from the music it really It's amazing how just listening to songs that we love and dancing around can really change the mindset and It really it made me too too pumped up to be able to sleep And simply from these songs and the power of these songs So I I thought about What is it that makes this effect what there's something about music that? Triggers it it changes the way that we look at the moment. It changes our perception of time. I mean that's what Music is all about music is an effect made through Rhythm through patterns in time and When we have that song playing either out there coming in or it's a song playing in our minds it changes how we respond to the passage of time and kind of like get into that repeating pattern and It starts to have an energy of its own It seems like the beats in music is Certainly analogous to the heartbeat and the breaths because those are the basic rhythms of our bodies are heartbeat and breath and music sort of seems to play with that and work with that Setting a steady rhythm and An exciting repeating pattern such that it really brings Excitement to life. It really brings the feeling that there's something alive in the moment that there is It's not just I Mean if you compare it to that kind of silence, which I Could make a whole other video about the wonders of silence and that's a wonderful thing too to just have complete silence but the contrast of The music playing is really like an excitement of Something happening in the moment and then in the feeling of being alive. So That's a big part of this idea of the meaningful life is this feeling of aliveness and Music is something that can really help to bring it out Now I know that this was Affected by me not doing this too much for a long time. So it sort of came out fresh I know it's easy to become overstimulated on the music and simply it just kind of becomes noise and filler in The mind but if we allow our minds to empty out and be silent Then when that music comes back it really Hits powerfully So I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with this New realization, but I feel it. I feel a little bit different today there's a little bit more spring in my step and It seems like this is something that We can use it's a tool for setting our mindset and We can use music to increase a sense of intensity in the moment and Sometimes that's something that can be missing when there's too much work. So It's the weekend now. I'm going to enjoy some music and Tomorrow it's back to work, but the music It's all it's the music is yet another tool in the toolbox for adjusting our mindset and Developing our approach to life


In the third week of March, the annual Rice Harvest Festival was organized in the state of Rio Grande do Sul by one of the largest rice production cooperatives in Brazil. The cooperative is run by the landless rural workers movement of Brazil, one of the most significant social movements in Latin America. The MST has been in the forefront of a unique movement to take over unused land, render it productive and provide livelihoods and dignity to thousands of families. It has brought about a massive shift in social relations in Brazil. The MST was also one of the movements that has stood firm by former President Lula da Silva as he was persecuted by Brazilian state over the years. After his acquittal and as Brazil heads to a significant election, mobilizations are taking place across the country to bring about an alternative to the far right represented by President Jair Bolsonaro as well as other systemic forces. Zoe Alexandra of People's Dispatch talks about the work of the MST, what it has brought to Brazilian society and the mobilizations around the potential presidential candidacy of Lula da Silva. Hello and welcome back to People's Dispatch. Today we're going to talk about Brazil and the people's movements on the ground in Brazil that are working to rebuild the country and build a new project for Brazil. Annual Rice Collection Festival, this takes place in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul on the settlement of Santarita and it is organized by the agricultural livestock production cooperative. This is one of the largest agricultural production cooperatives in Brazil. They're the largest producer of organic rice in the country and actually the MST, which runs as agricultural cooperative, the movement of the landless rural workers, is the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America. They held their annual festival to begin the harvesting of this organic rice. It's a very important moment for the MST, for the country. It's always a moment of great celebration of not only the start of the harvest season, which for centuries is a moment to be celebrated in many communities across the world, but it is also a moment of recognition of what the movement has been able to achieve. So the landless rural workers movement has been organizing for over 30 years, organizing people without land to take unproductive land that is not being used, where the owners or the property holders of this land have in somewhat violated a certain clause of the Constitution, which says that all land must be productive, that it cannot endanger the environment, that slave labor cannot take place, and that of course all the owners must pay their taxes, and so the landless rural worker movement has been working for the past couple of decades to retake this land and make it productive again, not only to produce food, but also to give a life and a life of dignity to all these families, hundreds of thousands of families that don't have access to land. Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in not only the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, but also the world, and it has one of the largest disparities in terms of those that own land and those that don't own land, meaning that a large amount of land is concentrated in the hands of very few, and even though agricultural production, family farming is a very big aspect of a Brazilian economy and of sustaining the Brazilian people, many people are excluded from this, and so the landless rural workers movement has been fighting for decades for the people's land reform, and they're fighting not only to be able to have this land and to live on it and work this land, but also to make healthy food, and that is why when they celebrate this rice harvest festival, it's organic rice they're harvesting, because this movement is fighting so that all people in Brazil, both in the countryside and in the cities, can have access to healthy food, can have access to conditions to survive, because Brazil, like many other countries in Latin America and across the world, relies a lot on agrotoxins, on pesticides in order to grow their food, and actually under the government of far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, over 500 pesticides that were previously illegal were made able to use, he made them legal, and this means that the Brazilian people are dealing with even higher levels of chemicals in their food, of poisonous chemicals that are very, very bad for their health, and so in this sense, the landless rural workers movement has been fighting this by creating, by producing healthy food, by distributing it to the communities that need it during the pandemic, the movement organized mass amounts of food donations to poor communities both in the countryside and the city, they organized many community kitchens where hot food was distributed to the people in the cities, to homeless people, to people who lost their jobs, to anyone who needed it, and so in this moment they're celebrating for the first time in three years this rice harvesting festival, it's a moment of great victory and it's a moment of unnecessary to recognize the achievements of this movement that has really held up Brazilian society, and so concurrently at the same time that this rice harvest festival, which is so symbolic and so important, was taking place the next day, there was another large celebration that took place in Paraná, just to the north of Rio Grande do Sul, and it was at another very, very large agricultural production settlement of the MST, which is called Eli Vive, and that is in Londrina. Londrina in Paraná is the largest area that has been taken back by the people for agrarian reform in Brazil, there's over 501 families settled in this region, and all of them are engaging in family agricultural and agroecological production, and producing products such as milk, cheese, other dairy products, harvesting food, making alcohol even, harvesting beans, rice, so many different things that are so necessary to support the people, and so this weekend after the Organic Rice Festival, Lula da Silva visited this agricultural settlement along with other leaders from the MST, Joe Pedro Stegile and Joe Paulo Rodriguez visited this MST settlement and celebrated not only the work of the MST, but also the work that was done by the MST and many other social movements and organizations in Brazil to fight for the freedom of Lula da Silva, so in 2018 Lula was imprisoned on false charges over corruption, and the MST and many other movements held a vigil every single day outside of the prison demanding his release, demanding that he be freed and that the charges be dropped following the Organic Rice Festival, Lula celebrated all of those people that organized this vigil and he also along with MST launched the base committees of the movements, and so this year is an election year, it's very important to remember this, Lula is not officially candidate yet because the candidate registration has not happened, but he is most likely going to be the presidential candidate for the Workers' Party of Brazil, and so many social movements, people's movements across the country are going to be working so that Lula can be a candidate, making sure that his political rights are respected in 2018, they were not respected, he was not able to be a candidate, so there's going to be a large push to make sure that this candidacy happens, but people are going to be organizing and mobilizing on the community level to make sure that the dreams, the aspirations and the desires of all people in Brazil are reflected into a proposal for the country, and this is not only about who gets elected president, but it's about transforming the country, the last couple of years under the Jair Bolsonaro government, there has been a severe setback in the quality of life for Brazilians, the poverty levels have drastically rise, hunger which before Luno da Silva, when he was president, had managed to almost eradicate in the country because of many different social programs that he developed and that were continued by Dilma Rousseff also from the Workers' Party, however under Jair Bolsonaro, hunger has returned to Brazil, there is very high levels of unemployment, the Brazilian currency has significantly devalued which of course has many full impacts on the Brazilian economy, so right now people are really focused on organizing once again, now that the pandemic has slightly abated, the vaccination rates are high, people are beginning to organize on a community level around the project of country that Lula is presenting, but also organizing their communities and strengthening the grassroot organizing and making sure that what happened in 2018 when Jair Bolsonaro through WhatsApp through social media was able to disseminate so many fake messages about the other candidates, about what would happen to Brazil if the Workers' Party candidate Fernando Jada was elected, that all of these be combated with more organization that the base, more organization like how the MST organizes working with people directly in their communities providing them what they need and so this is a very important moment for Brazil, we see this in the strengthening of the work of the MST, we see people's movements coming together and dreaming of a new country because this is so desperately needed in Brazil right now, I think the MST is presented and has worked for creating a new model of society of where people can get healthy food, of where they can have dignified homes, where they can have dignified lives and so this is what people are working towards, it is going to be a crucial year, there's no clear candidate from the far right from the, even from the moderate right currently, there's no standout candidates, it's going to be an interesting year, Lula is the favorite in these elections, he's polling the highest currently, so it'll be interesting to see how this pans out but I think this past weekend in Londrina, Emre O Grande do Sul with these celebrations of the movement and of the work of the people's movements, it's giving a breath of fresh air back into political life, engaging people at the base in the community level and reviving all of this very important work that is done by the Brazilian people to save the country.