That wall that I have right there would it would have been the mission wall that surrounded the Alamo And that's the wall that the Mexican troops hit. I'm right in the battlefield of why Texas is Texas Vince Cantu runs Moses Roses a San Antonio, Texas bar that's on the site of the famous 1836 battle memorialized on the big screen many times by the likes of John Wayne and Billy Bob Thornton He opened Moses Roses in 2010 after it had sat vacant for many years My family's been here for four generations running taverns downtown San Antonio I'm proud of my family. My great-grandfather had a tavern Four blocks that way my grandmother had a restaurant my grandfather had a restaurant less than a quarter mile that way I feel like I am on the shoulders of Giants. I like what I do and I like where I do it I never really thought about it happening to me until it happened to me I've been living under the threat of eminent domain for six years The Alamo Trust a nonprofit that manages the site wants to expand the Alamo Museum Which would include building a theater and a civil rights exhibit where Moses Roses currently stands Cantu says that in 2016 the group made its first offer of a million dollars Signed by then land commissioner George P. Bush, which would have barely covered his outstanding loans Four years later. They upped it to two million And I've told them now about times mostly because you know I'm 60 years old and it puts me out of a job come back in ten years and see what it's worth And maybe maybe that's the way y'all want to do it because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna look at ten-year money at 3% a year when it's been appreciating it like 18% a year At the outset the 400 million dollar museum expansion project was supposed to be paid for by private donors When the funding fell through the state of Texas stepped in to cover the cost The state made two more offers which Cantu rejected He said he'd sell for 15 million so state officials who declined to participate in this story countered by threatening to take his property by force using eminent domain Cantu would receive a so-called fair market price based on an independent appraisers estimate of the property's current value The appraisal came in at 2.1 million or roughly 2.8 million in 10 years In December the Alamo Trust offered 3.5 million which Cantu quickly declined They keep alleging that you're not negotiating in good faith. What do you say to that? All lies they've never called me so we never really had a negotiation They would send me an email with it with an offer. I would send them an email back saying no, thank you and some other words They've wanted to negotiate with me over my property, but they wanted a loaded gun to do it They've wanted the threat of eminent domain hanging over my head for me to take their number instead of them taking my number And running a business when you're under the threat of eminent domain is really really hard I mean, you know because you as a business person you're looking out Today tomorrow a month from now, but you're also looking out five and ten years out to see what you need You need a new AC system. You need you need to remodel a place You need to put some money into it some other way and not knowing whether the government was going to come in and take it at any at any moment Really kind of defeated the whole joy I had about thinking about the future of this place and developing 10-year strategies a Pissed off can to started tacking on an extra million dollar fee to his offer each year that the government threatened him with eminent domain And earlier this year George P. Bush who's the son of Jeb and the nephew of George W called can twos refusal to sell at the state's price Dishonorable I told my wife that if I saw him I would challenge him to a duel in front of the Alamo Would use would use squirt guns not real guns because I don't want to kill anybody And I don't want to get killed but uh, you know, I mean just to just to avenge my honor Bush didn't respond to reasons requests for comment Proponents of the Alamos plan would argue that this is necessary It's necessary that they take these buildings that they see some In order to expand the the visitor center the new theater that they're building What do you say to those people who are supporters of the Alamo really expanding their footprint in the city? Well, those people that say that That support that are the ones that read in the paper that I would not come to the table But the truth is is that I've told the museum people for six years that I would come to the table that I've been waiting for six years for My phone to ring for for them to sit down and have an honest negotiation with me Well, I've never been in the way of what they wanted to do So I would say how could I be in the way of something when I've told them I would sell to them from day one they just never have wanted to meet me even close to my price and That's the government saying we don't have to because we can emma domain you instead Cantu says that when he started Moses roses, it was in a dilapidated part of town He and his family are being denied the opportunity to reap the rewards of more than a decade of sacrifice This part of downtown San Antonio was not a place. Anybody really came. It was a bunch of homeless people here my idea was to open up a bar and grill and Um Have live music, but most of the people that played for me At first we're just homeless guys with guitars. I mean that's really kind of what we had over here really And then after a while I just kind of started clicking downtown started opening up a little bit And this part of downtown started getting a little bit more gentrified and a little bit better The San Antonio city council voted in late january to authorize the use of eminent domain Which would allow the city to condemn and acquire the property to hand to the alamo trust if cantu doesn't take their state back to offer After our interview cantu met with the trust's attorneys He says they offered him 2.4 million more than a million dollars less than what they'd offered him before the city started The eminent domain process. It was just a bad faith bullshit negotiation that they you know said they had to have Before they would start eminent domain Cantu has vowed to keep fighting Texan is small government and Um, and fiercely independent. It's stupidly ironic completely on texan


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Hello everyone. My name is Jian Wu. I'm a assistant professor of computer science at Old Dominion University. I'm very honored to give the CNI for 2021 virtual membership meeting presentation. The topic of my presentation is towards aiding research by improving access to electronic thesis and dissertations from multiple domains. My collaborators are Mr. William Ingram in Virginia Tech University Libraries and Dr. Ed Fox in Virginia Tech Computer Science Department. Our project is supported by the Institutes of Museum and Library Services. The main aim of this project is to investigate innovative ways of using machine learning and natural language processing and see how they can apply the two national corporates of electronic thesis and dissertations. We identified three research areas. The first is the document analysis information extraction. The second is adding value through automatic classification and summarization. We're also interested in building a better user services for digital libraries. The core team of our research includes Bill Ingram, who is the principal investigator, and Dr. Fox and me are co-PIs of this project. We also have two PhD graduate students, Bipasha and Montever. In addition to the core team, we also have a number of graduate and undergraduate students participating in this project. Some notable students include Samuel Uding, who was responsible for web crawling, Winston Shields, who was working on web user interface design. Hi, Marcia, who was working on the metadata extraction. Sampanaka, who designs the figure extraction framework, Palak and Emman, were working on the topic and subject classification. So in this presentation, I will first give a brief background introduction, and then I will focus on how we acquire the data and build the repository and use the data we collect to build the language model. So this is a summary of talking about our results, conclusions, and briefly talking about the future work. So after the World War II, there has been an increase in the number of graduate degrees conferred in the United States. The right graph shows the number of doctoral degrees in the United States from 1950 to 2019. The number steadily increases since then, and this reflects the number of ETDs also increase in the past years. On the other hand, the state of arts machine learning and deep learning tools, they are often data driven. For example, in the pre-trained models in computer vision and natural language processing, the VGD-16 and the VGD-19 and ResNet-100, they are trained by large scale human annotated data in ImageNet and MSCoCo. And in NLP, the large scale models like BERT and SNET, they are trained on large corporses like book corpors and English Wikipedia, ClueWeb, and CommonCrawl. So one advantage of this language model is that they are built on self-supervised training, which means that they don't need labeled data. So to our best knowledge, there are three ETD collections. The first is the NDLTD, which contains over 6 million ETDs in the world, but it only contains the records. The second is the Procrasta dissertation and thesis global, which contains 5 million ETDs, but it's not publicly available. So our collection contains 450,000 ETDs, including full text and metadata records. Our ETD collection are obtained from over 40 university libraries in two access approaches. At early time, we download the set maps and from the set maps, we find the landing pages and then we download the PDF. And later on, we use the OAPMH to obtain the metadata where we can find the landing page URLs and we can download the PDF. So this diagram shows the crawling pipeline using OAPMH. From the OAPMH portal, we first identify the ETDs and metadata prefix, and that gives us at least the ETDs, where we can download the XML metadata, and we can go to the landing page of the ETDs and download the PDFs. So the PDFs are saved in the file system and the metadata are stored in the database. We strictly follow the crawl delays in the robust.txt file. We spend a long time to collect all the ETDs and we met a lot of challenges and learned a lot of lessons. First of all, not all the PDFs are downloadable because some of them have restricted access. The second is that the HTML DOM structure varies of course repositories. So we have to write custom passers to parse the HTML files. Then not all the metadata has the same fields of information. For example, the department, discipline, subject and year issued are often missing. And even if the metadata is available, they often have inconsistent format as it's shown here, and sometimes it's just missing. So the last is that even if we strictly followed the crawl delay in the robust.txt file, our request could still be blocked. So we need to try an error to find the best crawl delay. So this is so far we have collected the 451,000 ETDs from 42 universities. So this table shows the top 10 universities with the Ohio State University has the largest number of PDFs we collected about 55,000. So we want to emphasize that our collection does not reflect the national collection of the TDS because we did not go to all the university repositories. So this is the plot which shows the number of ETDs distributed over the years. So you can see that before 1945, the ETDs increases very slowly. And after that, it increases gradually. And after 1997, it increases rapidly because that was the year when the ETD initialization was made. And a lot of universities start to require students to submit ETDs. A huge aspect here was because a significant number of ETDs dates are not available from the university provided metadata. So we're going to fix that by directly extracting the metadata from the PDFs. So we do a repository using the ETD to be collected. The right diagram shows the hierarchical structure of the ETDs. So each folder contains the PDF and the XML files. In the future, after we get the figures extracted, we're also storing figures together with the PDFs. The total size of the repository is 3.4 terabytes. It's hosted as the ODU computer science at a mirror that written in tech university libraries. We also build a database, which is hosted by my SQL. Here is the schema of the database. The main table is the ETD metadata, which contains 451 rows. We also have a PDFs table which contains 463 rows. And that's because the ETDs may contain multiple PDFs. And the subjects we extract from metadata contains 1.9 million rows. So you can see that there are also other tables which we need to populate using the information extracted from ETDs. So when we're extracting, so when we're building the database of the ETDs, a lot of information we're missing. So because of that, we developed a metadata extraction framework using machine learning. So on the left-hand side is the example of the cover page of ETD. It's a scan ETD. And so using the method extracted, we could extract the title author university degree program advisor and a year. Our papers were published in JCDL 2020 and 2021. So to briefly introduce the method we used. Our model was built on a sample of ETDs selected from 1940 to 1990 to make sure that there are scan ETDs. And the ETDs are selected from multiple universities as shown in this diagram. And we used the conditional random field model with a combination of visual and textual features. And the right panel shows the result. So you can see that we have achieved 81% to 97% of F1 mirror for all the seven metadata fields. So we also built an ETD search engine to make the ETD more accessible. The search engine was built on MySQL, which was hosting the metadata. And the elastic search was used for indexing the free text and providing the search service. And also the ETD repository, which contains the files we collected. And all of these are accessible from the web UI. So our current web UI provides the basic search functions, including a single text box search, advanced search, auto-complete, spell check, voice queries. We also allow users to vote which ETDs they are favorite and add their favorite ETDs into lists. We also offer a RESTful search API. So we have a lot of ETDs, so what can we do with them? We can build a lot of services. The first is the segmentation, which we can chunk the big ETDs into smaller sections. And the second is its summarization, which we can summarize long ETDs into shorter paragraphs so that users don't need to spend a lot of time to read the whole document. We can also classify the subject's categories, and we can extract and search figures and tables. We can also do research topic analysis. So here I just want to quote a diagram used by Mr. Ingram in the 2020 scene and presentation, which we use named entity extraction tool called WikiFire to extract name entities from computer science and biology ETDs. And this diagram shows there are many course listed name entities in these two domains. So using the ETDs, we can also train language models. And the power of the language model depends on the training text. So general language models like Bert or Roberta are trained on Wikipedia, Books, Coppers, Clueweb, CommonCrow, and Gigawarp. Sambert for scientific documents was trained on PubMed, which are predominantly for medical and life sciences. So we found in our preliminary study that pre-train ETDs may not work, pre-train language models may not work well for ETDs on certain tasks. This was likely because of the low vocabulary overlapping. For example, the discipline of specific jargons may not exist in the language models. And because of that, these terms might be encoded into default vectors. And a lot of the default vectors makes the language model as meaningful because they don't carry a lot of meaningful information. So many of the language models from scratch is very expensive. So you can see that it takes several days to train the Bert model and the Sambert models using GPUs and even GPUs. And because of that, we choose to fine tune an existing language model. And because many ETDs, they are in the scientific domain. So we start by using the Sambert as the base model. We extract the text from about 8600 born digital PDFs, and that gives us 300 million tokens. So we fine tuned the language model using PyTorch transformers. It took only about 20 hours using one video GPU. So to investigate the impact of front matters, we did two experiments. In the first experiment, we used the raw text extracted from all documents. In the second experiment, we removed the front matter including title page, table of contents and acknowledgement. So the evaluation results, we use propensity to indicate the quality of the language model. The propensity is commonly used in order to indicate the power of language model to predict the unknown worth. The lower the score, the better. So the evaluation results clearly indicate that the second language model in which the front matter is excluded, has achieved lower propensity score, which means that the front matter confuses the model and it should be excluded. So in the future, we will also perform further evaluation regarding how the language model will affect the classification. So in conclusion, we have collected 450,000 ETs, including the full text PDFs and metadata. We also collected the metadata using the OAPMH portal from multiple universities. So an analysis of the ETs, we found that there inconsistent metadata information, which we will fix using machine learning techniques. We also trained a language model using the document we collected based on 300 million tokens extracts from ETs. So our training process uses fewer resources than the existing general purpose and the scientific language models. We will investigate whether it's achieved with comparable performance on subject classification tasks. So finally wants to briefly talk about our ongoing and future work. The first is to improve the metadata quality. As I mentioned before, we have a significant fraction of missing and inconsistent data, which we could fix by directly extracting the metadata from the cover pages. So this table illustrates this problem. So you can see that the department names provided by the library metadata are different from the department name that's printed on the cover page of the EGD. We also want to resolve the university names. For example, some EGDs use the full name and some EGDs use the short name of the university. And also, so even a space around the amp stand will make the database to think that they're from two different universities. Also, we need to improve language model. One way is to increase the number of training documents. We also want to remove the traces of tables and figures from the text. And we, in terms of evaluation, we want to use a unified schema, such as the one used in the Microsoft academic graph for subject classification. So one big challenge that we're facing is to obtain clean text that's converted from PDF. So we also want to add new features into the user interface. For example, it wants to provide the multi-modality search by allowing users to search chapters, figures and tables. We also want to improve the document summary page, like the one on the right, by segmenting the EGDs by chapters and highlight the concept and provide a short explanation. And also we want to convert the existing framework like manage the extraction, segmentation, classification, and extraction and knowledge graph generation into our web services. That's it. Thank you very much and welcome any questions.


Alright guys, we're gonna start off today's haircut by sectioning straight down the center and then I'm gonna make this haircut so simple for you guys. So all I'm gonna do is follow the round of the head back to that hairline area. So I'm gonna try to give you guys the best view here of exactly what I'm talking about. But it's a slight diagonal back line and then I'll section away the back so you can see right there that perfect diagonal back to the hairline and that separates the front and the back. I'm gonna do the same thing on the opposite side and then that's gonna be the two sections that we cut in this haircut. So same thing comb the hair, get it going in the direction I want it to flow. I basically think about it as a current in the water. So as I push that hair back that makes it much easier for me to part the hair later. We're gonna be using the TriRazor by Freeslawn Education. This is my favorite tool on the planet. It's a three-sided cutting tool. We're gonna start off using the 50% cutting side. So as I scoop up that entire front section I elevate it up to the top of the forehead. So give it a little bit of elevation and then I'm gonna use the 50% cutting side of the TriRazor. The reason I use the 50% side is because that's gonna give me texture movement.  So it'll give me more of a jagged edge on that line. I'm looking for more of a shattered front on this haircut. This is a beautiful haircut for curly, wavy hair, even straight hair so you can do it on all hair types. And then the rest of the haircut, I just bring everything to the front and cut it that guideline so I just take slight diagonal back sections, pull it forward until I run out of hair and I cut it with the 100% cutting side to add a little bit of layering to the back. This will also give me that kind of V shape in the back of the hair as well because it's giving me the heaviest point in the very center back of the haircut. So really, really simple haircut, very versatile, great for every single hair type. And now we're gonna go in and style the hair up using Tea Tree Hemp Multitasking Spray. This is my new favorite product. Just came out by Paul Mitchell. This thing, you spray it in, it's very, very soft on the feel. So it gives you more of a natural look which is way more modern nowadays. So I just spray that through the hair. I do a little air kind of blow drying just with my hand. Then I finish it off with the diffuser, just shaking that diffuser a little bit around, activating some of that texture that I've already put in the cut. Check out that fringe, guys. There's so much movement in this haircut.  It's a dry delivery on this hair spray so it's gonna keep the hair feeling natural. I think that that's what makes this kind of a modern approach to a layered haircut is just finishing it with more of a natural, letting the hair naturally do what it wants. That's all about. So this haircut, again, great for straight, curly, wavy hair. You guys can use it in all those different hair types. This is the end result, guys. Let me know in the comments below what you think. Thanks for watching.


We rarely create objects and fields through SchemaBuilder, for that we generally use object manager but for pictorial representation like which object is connected with which like whether it is master detail relationship or lookup relationship so for that purpose you can have that SchemaBuilder.  Like what all objects you have, what fields are there on those particular objects. So what you can do, you can create like simple, simple slides. So if you have like 15-20 objects, so you can divide them into pieces like as per your processes and then you can take some screenshots, you can put them on your slide deck and you can present those pictorial representation of object relationships to your client.


DJ, how nice is it to see Gary come up in a big spot like that? Huge, huge.  And tonight, I mean, just a couple of massive hits for us. And, you know, he's been looking really good. He's been looking like himself the last week.  Obviously, Judge Stanton or Shella are back, and then you add Gary Sanchez is back to the lineup as well if he continues to swing that way. How much does, or how encouraged does that leave you as you head towards the postseason? Yeah, it's big, it's big. I mean, we were down in a whole day for nothing. And, you know, I had absolute confidence we were going to find a way back in this game and, you know, find a way. And, you know, it's just, it's just a really good lineup. It's a lot of fun to be part of. And when everyone's swinging it, it makes a lot of fun. Take that phone from Marley again. Hi, DJ. When you think about this streak, the winning streak that you guys are on right now before, you know, the losing streak that you had, is this win in particular different? You know, I just feel like we're playing, we're playing like we should be playing. You know, like we showed up in spring training. You know, this is the kind of team, this is the kind of competitiveness. Everyone clicking on all cylinders. And, you know, we knew what we were capable of and we're definitely playing that way right now. Do you know why the difference?   Yeah, I mean, we're just, like I said, we're all clicking offensively, offensively. I just, I feel like we're very relaxed. We're attacking, we're relaxed, confident. And you know, I guess that's a good feeling. Thank you. Next one to Brian Hoek. Hey, DJ, when you talk about being down four-nothing early like that and you have that confidence that you're going to come back, what is it like in the dugout? What's the communication like? I imagine guys are not hanging their heads or kind of slumping their shoulders. Yeah, I mean, a couple of weeks ago, four-nothing felt like 20 to nothing. And, you know, four-nothing tonight felt very within reach. You know, I just, like I just said, I just think it's the confidence we have the way we've been swinging it. I thought they're starting to did a really good job. You know, he pitched us really well, especially how we've been swinging. And, you know, I just felt like once they brought in some other guys, we'd have a really good chance and chip away. And we did. Thank you. Can we take a last question from Eric Boland? DJ, as long as you've been with the Yankees, you've consistently praised Gary Sanchez.  Yeah, I didn't know much about him before other than, you know, I knew, you know, he was extremely talented. But, you know, just playing with him, the attitude he brings every day always positive. You know, he competes, works hard, and he wants to win. That's the bottom line. And I respect guys like that. And, you know, he's definitely one of them.


Okay, this is James P. Madonna of the Facebook group. Everything is food. It is Friday afternoon. It is buffet time Lunch buffet Here's the walk of fame the walk of buffet fame All right Eddie heading towards Royal Hibachi Buffet you 46 West out of Brooklyn Jersey Forget it cricket wireless a bunch of crooks. I Hope I hope fatty our buckle is not here. I Hope that this is not going to be a fatty our buckle day with some kid leaving the The damn freezer open All right, making all the hot ice cream soft All right Hope this is not what's gonna happen today Hibachi buffet 46 West out of Brooklyn Jersey Welcome to Royal Hibachi Hopefully there won't be no little baby Chris Christie's Just hovering over the ice cream Freezer the new hard serve hard a hard scooped ice cream making it all soft letting all the refrigeration out Fatty our buckle. Hope he's not here. He might be and I enter Here we go Okay, round one James P. Madonna here. All right, not bad not bad. They got some good sushi out Ah, look at the ornagi ornagi white tuna.   I can't her own team By the way, the Your favorite ladies say hello. They're sitting right next to me Maybe you go let me Put them on video and say and wave Let's see what happens. What do we got here stuffed shells? Oh Fruit of the Mar look at all man Look at this look at this Commodore Jeff Sandbello. I will have a very different surf and turf calamari Like a saute calamari with tentacles King Neptune King Neptune's delight saute tentacles fruit of the Mar. I'm so I'm so pleased. Look at this I'm so pleased. Now. This is a very unique surf and turf because we got that chicken franchise and saute calamari with tentacles Unbelievable Here we go chicken franchise saute calamari with tentacles now we're gonna come over here. Oh Commodore Jeff Sandbello salvator mercurio, but I found its back Butterflat fried Cameroons King Kong Cameroons fried shrimp battered in coconut care with Yo, Sam and he Sam said on that cartoon when he said he hates Koki nuts Remember that he said I hate smoking this this is good. Oh, this is great. It's coconut batter What coconut shrimp?  I don't mean they're obese.  Look at that Look at it. Oh, oh I don't have room, but look at the squash look at the beautiful squash I don't have any room I have to come back for that squash But that squash will definitely be squished wash once I start chewing on it. That's what damn sure I didn't even look at the duck to be honest Let me check it out Let me check Let me see if the duck is out of luck. Oh, the duck is definitely out of luck. Look at that Yeah, it's just scraps You got to get a shot of the old craw daddies in honor of J. Terrio or southern Louisiana guarantee King Cajun Fermented beverage Emperor of the universe Yes Yes, we are having a show on my birthday August 1st up a ball about Taylor cream. Sherry our guarantee Okay, now I'm going back to my seat and I'm gonna enjoy This king Neptune's delight here at the Royal of Bacchus of faith Okay, Jeff Sanbello the ladies would like to say hi You remember these ladies, right? You better otherwise you better take Omega 3 fish oils if you don't remember them there they are saying hello Hello. Oh, I don't want her turning her neck sending their regards Sending their regards, whatever that means. All right, there they are you got it. All right Okay, this is round one Royal of Bacchi grill Rule 46 West Souther book in Jersey here my lovely lemons very medicinal and refreshing see how many lemons I took They don't they don't make money on me here anyway, I Got coconut butterfly coconut shrimp chicken franchise and marinated squid As you can see with the tennis with the tennis Gotta love it and some cherry tomatoes and hopefully Hopefully that kid won't let all the refrigeration out of the out of the hot ice cream like he did last week Remember Commodore Jeff Sanbello the old There goes the fatty our buckles there you go One left and one arrived a hot ice cream station. All right, James Pima down in here round two I got myself some yellow squash One piece of zucchini some grilled the cauliflower Round two excellent excellent Now see what we got going Let me go to my favorite section and me next to the sushi my favorite section Salmon Chicken franchise slender with shrimp in the middle Now I'm gonna go for the sushi. Oh, yeah, I was supposed to get the crab soup You know what I'll get that separately. I'll get that separately. I gotta get some unagi and white tuna sashimi Extended and pours, you know an investment Um Unagi roasted you getting too much. I guess I overdid it with the squash, huh eat this plane with nothing on it That's what I think I'm gonna do It's about it aside from the crab soup. We'll see it's over here. I think You told me about the crab soup and there it is Let me show you stir it up and scoop it from the bottom Get more liquid than anything else Okay, they had a problem with the multi-colored flashing LED lights before That's something to do with probably the kids the fatty odd buckles that Kept on swinging the door open They have to really brace the wiring with electrical wire or Gorilla tape That's what's what's causing these beautiful LED lights to keep on going out Ice cream Hopefully the fatty odd buckles will not make My hard ice cream gets off, but it's wishful thinking Look at they put out some spinach pies. Isn't that lovely cooked in the phylo dough Phylo or is it phylo? phylo I like I don't know. I like phylo as an erotic sound I love it because they if it's done right they put feta cheese. I believe inside I Think I took I think I took too many veggies. I can always come back for more Yeah, well, hopefully the LED lights will not turn off All right Arrest arrest my case as you can plainly see on video Need I say more right? so anyway Let me go back to my seat Buckle our buckle Or at least at least she's at least she's shutting the door to the freezer. That's a real good thing You know so anyway Um I have to go back to the crab soup to get more Okay, the conclusion around to Is my lemons I got Greek spinach pie well the mini ones I got some Sashimi both regular tuna and white tuna sashimi right I have some onagi, which is roasted eel roasted freshwater eel And way too much squash, I don't know what made me do it not the cauliflower, but the grilled squash. I took too much. Oh well Round two concluded Next I will get some of that nice crab soup that the owner and head chef recommended and So far the hot ice cream station is Looking good. I don't see any Fatty are buckles hanging over it Keeping the door wide open letting out all the refrigerant. I Hope to God I end up with hot ice cream Fatty are buckles Buckle hucklebuckles Commodore Jeff Sanbello I make I Make a very good point The problem the really the problem is is Not shutting the doors. It is not so much the the weight the girth The body mass index of the humanoid Homo sapien is the fact that did they do not close the freezer doors now to all you Hecklers and trolls.  I guarantee you that I scream I scream I scream I hope to God that hard ice cream is still solid when I decide to get mine I scream This man is the king of all the whole restaurant industry He's the king of the buffets. Don't you ever forget either people? Guy don't come to the ice cream station. There'll be nothing left They just relax in here. I'm almost ready to get my Congreto soup my hot crab soup Before I attempt to go for the ice cream I'm almost ready to go I'm ready now Okay, round three Royal Hibachi Buffet route 46 West Satterbrook, New Jersey Let me get some We'll be a good color for the crab soup. I'll get this one Grab soup All right our buckle fatty our buckle. I want to dedicate this lunch buffet So to the mitochondria the mitochondria The minute cellular level the muscle cells and and the amino acids that they require The protein grams the amino acids they require.  Oh look at they put out there I'm gonna have I might have to come back to some of this. Oh my god. They finally put out leg of lamb Look at that leg of lamb, maybe I don't know Or maybe it's beef all beef tenderloin. Oh, I'm sorry my mistake beef tenderloin a little too well done for me But they did put out white.  There's the crab soup, right? There's my lemons There's the lemons Our buckle. All right. There it is no obstruction. No one is through the ice cream the beautiful ice cream Hand scoop hard ice cream station. Hopefully the ice cream is still hard lovely flashing multi-colored LED lights here at the Royal Hibachi Buffet 346 West Satterbrook, New Jersey. This is James P. Madonna from the Facebook group Everything is food Okay last round time for I Time for the ice cream. Hopefully it'll be hard ice cream, but I think they turn on the lamps. I Think they turn on the lamps. Oh, look at that. They brought out the snow crabs Looks like maybe king crab There's the shrimp with the heads on shrimp and creole sauce Of course Okay, oh look at that. They got the lamp on beautiful beautiful Okay, seems to be a party going on in there Let's see. I thought this was lamb leg of lamb, but it's not There's a gentleman doing the Mongolian barbecue grill or griddle Someone Someone selected specific items. Of course you can custom make your own meal And there it is sizzling What's various sauces on it depending on what you like the Mongolian barbecue here at the Royal Hibachi Buffet Smells great though Garlic, onions. I can smell the garlic Got a little bit. The only thing is they don't have a lamb. At least I don't think there's no way. There we go. Oh boba here comes another one This guy's really busy This guy, good thing he's got a tip pocket It's like the Benihana of Tokyo at the chef of the future from the Royal Hibachi Buffet cutting up the meat But then again people have steak knives. They can cut their own But this guy's nice enough to do it All right Oh, it's good beautiful They do it. They really have a great service here, you know They really do I never seen this before the takeout container Accommodating a Mongolian barbecue And there we got he's getting ready cleaning that gorilla The gorilla grill scraping it off It's brown. There you go. He's getting ready for another one. Yeah, it's just a little less The lamb no chorizo. No, nothing fancy. No, they say sometimes they have it but right now they don't have it Poor woman spilled all those dishes Got it Okay, that's it grand finale for this week ice cream, right? And uh, it's only gonna be vanilla Nothing fancy It's going to be a vanilla week It is very hard To my surprise I am very happy that the ice cream Is not soft. It is very solid very hard and uh Which means the freezer is working well and people are closing the door And that's that that winds it up have a good one people have a safe Weekend and week it happens to be We're getting towards the end of july 2018 year And uh, I like to uh Announce that I will be live on my birthday august 1st on jay terrio's Show Which will be about taylor new york state taylor Cream sherry we have done um Shows on uh taylor port Their dessert wines this time it's going to be taylor cream sherry and uh, sometimes he does Whiskeys bourbon scotch, you know, whatever craft beer Also, but this time it is taylor Cream sherry on august 1st 2018 Don't forget to join His facebook group called alcohol lakes jay terrio Okay alcohol lakes It's about th ther iot Just look for alcohol lakes And you will get a great education in fermented beverages of all kinds I Take care and remember What comodore jeff zandbello says we eat To live but we all but more importantly we live to eat And a true athlete a true strength training athlete needs His proper grams of protein and amino acids for his Mitochondria and his muscle cells to rebuild And uh jeff explained to me there are certain individuals that are anti food culture and uh those people often eat in um nationally advertised garbage franchise establishments where they pre-measure all of the food That is served in these restaurants And and sometimes you have to actually no i take that back Most of the time you have to wait for a table for this garbage food but we um Salvatore mercurio anthony laura mario petrus mcvon raven myself jeff zandbello We prefer high quality food from uh smaller non-corporate family-owned Establishments family-owned restaurants, okay That's where you get the quality Your jabroni's out there You imbeciles your knuckleheads are the glimmering multi colored lights of leds by the hard ice cream station and the hard self-scooping ice cream station How beautiful and hypnotic those led lights are They're changing colors Isn't that nice


Hey everyone. My name is Victor Mu. I'm a Product Manager here at GitLab. Today we're going to be talking about Service Desk, a feature, a really awesome feature that we released in 9.1. What Service Desk allows you to do is it enables your customers to reach you directly inside GitLab. Your customers don't need to know about GitLab. All they need is a support email address. They can send you feature requests, bug reports and so forth. Those issues will appear directly inside your GitLab project. That's what's very powerful about it. What you see on the screen here is the documentation for Service Desk. You can quickly find it in our documentation. I want to do a quick demo for you today. Off the top, this is what an issue will look like in GitLab Service Desk. What you probably notice is it's not a special issue at all. It's just a regular old issue. It's actually a confidential issue. What we did to build GitLab Service Desk, we didn't reinvent the wheel. We were just leveraging existing GitLab pieces. The benefit is that your GitLab users are able to use Service Desk very easily because there's nothing new to learn. As you see here, the external person emailed in a support request saying that their app crashed. Then the support people, Victor Wu was the support person. He responded. Then the external customer responded back. Then they had an exchange. Eventually, the issue was closed. Let's start all the way at the top. Imagine you have a project inside GitLab. Let's call it Acme Lawn Care Android. Imagine it's an Android app for your awesome lawn care service where people can book appointments and people can cut your grass or do gardening for you. You have this project already here. To enable Service Desk, all you need to do is go to Settings for the project and scroll down a little bit to find Service Desk. You see Service Desk here. Click Activate Service Desk. Just by clicking that, Service Desk is activated. Of course, you have to save the settings, which we'll do right away so that does save it. What's important is this email address. This email address that says Acme Lawn Care Android at GitLab.com, that is the magic external support email address. What I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this email address and now pretend I am external user. Imagine I am using Acme Lawn Care. I'm on an Android phone and I come across an error and I want to submit a bug report. What I'm going to do here is submit that bug report. Imagine I'm in my email application and I'm going to submit a bug report to this project. This email address was likely shared with me maybe in the app itself or maybe through some other channel. What I'm going to say is that I was not able to log in. Please help. I'm also going to attach a screenshot. What I'm going to do is attach this error screenshot I got on my Android phone and boom, I have that screenshot there. I'm going to type a couple of lines and say I wasn't able to log in. Things were working. Oops, not walking. Working. Fine. Last week, this just happened. Can you please help? A very typical support request from your users.  What happens is that on the project side, so back inside our Acme Lawn Care Android, I'm going to click on issues and I'm going to wait a second and click on issues again. It takes a second for the issue to come in. On that third refresh, you see that Service Desk set that issue to me. What happened is that that email came in and automatically turned it into an issue. What's interesting, you see that the image was already set. Service Desk tells me that it's from thispersonvictor at gilab.com. I was not able to log in. Please help. You see the message. You see a screenshot. Now I am the support person. As a support person, I'm going to say thank you for the support request. Can you please let me know what version of Android you are running? What phone are you using? When exactly did this happen? Again, more troubleshooting steps. Very typical. I'm going to go ahead and click comment. What's very interesting is now I am the original external customer or user and in my email address, I see right away that, first of all, that gilab told me that thank you for a support request. This email was sent right away when I sent in the original email. What's interesting is in that same thread, the project sent an email back to me. It says, thank you for your support request, blah, blah, blah. This is exactly this message here. As you see. I'm going to respond back here. I'm simply going to say I am running the newest version of Android. I don't know what it is, but I know this is a new phone that I just got from AT&T. The sales rep helped me transfer all my settings and apps. We're going to find out that's actually what caused the problem. I'm going to hit send here and I'm going to go back to the issue. It's going to take a while to refresh, but I want to show you another awesome feature. These are technically not new features, but you can already see what we can do with Service Desk. That's already built into gilab. We already saw the comment, but I'm just going to click away for a second here.  I already have all these labels. I have the support label that I created previously, but I'm going to create a new label called Service Desk. Service Desk Tickets. Issues that were generated by Service Desk. I'm going to choose a nice color. I'm going to click create label. When I go back to the Service Desk issue, where did I go? I'm right here. Wrong screen. Go back to issue here. I'm going to add that label here. I'm going to call that the Service Desk Tickets label. I'm also going to have the support label. Support this label in this particular example project can come from a variety of places, but it's going to come from Service Desk Tickets and other channels. Now we're back to the message. It says the message I just typed in email now appears in the issue. I'm going to say, oh, this is a known issue that happens when you switch phones. Please refer to this link. Something like this. Then let me know if that works. We'll go ahead. I'm going to click comment. Then that should appear in the email really soon. Again, that was really quick. Then suppose the external customer says, oh, yep, that works perfect. That works perfect. Thank you for the fix. Nothing. No further help required. Thank you. You hit send. Something's wrong. My email kind. I apologize. I'm going to try that again. Thank you. It works now. I'm going to hit send. And go back to here. Then what I'm going to do again, wait for that message to show up in a couple of seconds later. But again, when you click on issues, you can see that now it has the label. Imagine you're a support team and then you're in this project and you wanted to find all the Service Desk Tickets. Now you can easily do that by clicking on and filter by those tickets or maybe the support ticket. So you can imagine a lot of support related workflows just working out of the box with GitLab because we built everything inside GitLab. Also notice that the issue is a confidential issue. We designed it that way so that not all users, public users can see the issue. Only members that have access to confidential issues can see it. So let's go back and wrap up the support ticket. So thank you. It works now and then I'm going to say that's great. I'm going to close out this issue. Close out this ticket. Let's call it. Feel free to open a new one if there is any more problems. Something really simple like this. I'm going to click comment and close issue. And just by doing that, I now I know the issue is closed. So the support person doesn't have to go back to it. Say, for example, if this was an ongoing bug and I wanted to log this ticket as a bug so that my developers and my engineering team can do so, I can easily add a label called bug and then I can start have my engineers look for all the bugs and service desk tickets. So you can see with the power of GitLab labels, we just invented an awesome support flow right inside GitLab with service desk. So again, finally, I'm going to go back to my email client and says, you know, feel free to open up a new one happens. And so that that works perfectly. So that wraps it up for service desk. It's a really awesome new feature. It's really simple to use as you've just seen. You don't need to learn any new things about GitLab. Everything just works. A reminder, all you needed to do was to go to the project settings and activate service desk. And then that provides you the email address support email address right there and GitLab does everything else behind the scenes. So we hope you try it out. Thank you.


Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Yes, We're Here. I'm Jack Curry, and I'm happy to be joined by a familiar face. Bernie Williams, the former Yankee, the beloved Yankee, joins me. And Bernie, I have to ask you, during this trying, difficult time, how is everything going in Bernie Williams' world? It's going well. I mean, I'll tell you, it's really, really strange. By the way, I want to say hi to everybody out there watching and listening. It's been really, really strange to have this kind of time to... I'm using it kind of like a resetting time. It's like one of those times that rarely ever happens in my life where you get an opportunity to sort of reset and figure out what direction you want to take your life. At this time, usually for the past, I don't know, 10, 15 years, I've been really busy doing a lot of stuff, whether it's my music or the baseball or charity events or things like that. And now it's just so strange to have this kind of an opportunity to kind of contemplate and still be productive at the same time, having a lot of limitations in where you can go. Bernie, you're the rarest of breeds in that we always hear musicians want to be pro-athletes, pro-athletes want to be musicians. You've had both of them covered in your career. I'm going to get to the music in a second because I've seen you perform and I love watching you perform, but I do want to start out with baseball. You never wanted to take that uniform off. I think you'd still be playing today if they had allowed you to keep playing. What do you miss the most about baseball? What I miss the most about baseball is the competition. I mean, it was great to have the perks and to have the notoriety and the fame and just to wear that pinstrap uniform. All those years was certainly great, but what really kept me up at night and what kept me going and the drive and the motivation to be a better player every day was because I wanted to be at my best, facing the competition that we were facing back in those years, facing the Pedro Martinez and the Roger Clements, and all those great players and you have to be at the top of your game and competing on a daily basis. There's three and a half, four hours that I spent not knowing what was going to happen if I was going to be the hero or the goat or both. Yeah, it was just great to have that in my life at that time. There's not a Pedro Martinez on stage, essentially, with you when you're performing, but is there something in the music world that equates to that? Is it competing against yourself? Is it competing within a band? Is there something that fills that competition void now that baseball is not something that you do anymore? Well, I think that's a really interesting question, but I kind of approach music in many ways the same way that I approach my training in baseball when it came down to the training. It was all about muscle memory, learning all those scales and arpeggios and all those techniques for the guitar, which is the same thing that I did in baseball and the soft jaws, batting practice, cage work is all the same. However, I know for a fact that half of the stadium at least was kind of waiting for me to strike out at some point, especially when I was on the road. You really don't get any of that in music. Music is all positive and it's all about your preparation. It's all about how you get ready to play a certain show and then you have a supporting cast that is your band members that are as good or even better that you could ever be that have this great rapport. Then we're just making music. We're making art and we're putting this music out there for people to listen and enjoy and have a great time with. Not a lot of different from baseball. You play your best. You try to get people to look at you and obviously the result of the team that they're rooting for will be a good one as well, but in many ways music and sports that are a little bit different just because of that. You can get into the music with all your heart and soul and have a positive reaction every time you go out there because everybody's rooting for you because everybody wants to be entertained and everybody wants to hear good music. I'm going to take you into the way back machine, Bernie, back to 1991 you debuted with the Yankees. I actually started covering the Yankees as a beat writer in 1991 for the New York Times and I remember you arriving in the clubhouse, but I remember stick Michael saying watch this kid, watch this player. We're going to let him mature. We're going to give him a chance. He's going to be the next great center fielder for the Yankees. How much did having the backing of somebody like stick Michael because those first couple of years you were still finding your footing, you were still finding your way? Yeah, it was nothing short of instrumental and I think if I didn't have that backing or somebody so high in the organization kind of rooting for me and letting me struggle with my what I would call for lack of a better expression growing pains. I don't think I would have been able to stay on the team as long as I did. I heard stories about him kind of like you know sort of misleading a little bit of Mr. George's time better than making them think that they were trying to trade me but nobody really wanted me so they were stuck with me and a lot of stories like that that obviously make me feel great and appreciated and just so proud to be a Yankee, so proud to be a Yankee for all these years but it took a lot of work and it took a lot of people that believed in me like like Gene Michaels you know Buck Schoewalter you know obviously Joe Torrey and all those guys and they look at things that I could do back then that I couldn't even see myself and they were projecting you know when you know when Gene Michael said to you look at him they never said that to me they just let me go you know let me go and let me perform and let me develop into the player that I became and for that I will be forever grateful to them. Well they envisioned at least stick and Buck did a switch hitting power hitter in the middle of the order with speed and that's what you turned into four world series titles a batting title four gold gloves I know you're a humble guy and you're not about individual accomplishments but when you do reflect on your Yankee career is there something that you're most proud of? Well I think you know I've been asked this question a number of times and sometimes my answer kind of you know you know deviates you know depending on the mood that I am but I am usually consistent in my answer about this particular question which is to be part of the process that this nation had you know around the time of 9-11 you know I know that everybody you know that even every people that hate it New York were rooting for New York and were rooting for the Yankees because we represented not only the city but baseball and we you know we have you know the the prayers of the country and I remember you know the guys from the Diamond vaccine but we're American too you know so it was kind of one of those things that New York and especially the Yankees in that world series was part of the process that was bigger than ourselves and when I answer this question I know that in my career there were some moments in my career that I would say well I'm witnessing history to be made and to be part of that history being part of that process of bringing normalcy to the country was one of the things that makes me the most proud of not only being a Yankee but a major league baseball player for that matter. Yeah very memorable time in our history obviously the Yankees and the Diamond backs playing in that world series and the Diamond backs prevailing in seven games I hate comparing tragedies Bernie but since you brought up 9-11 and we know what we're going through today with the coronavirus what kind of message do you give to your friends to your families even to Yankee fans who look up to you about be encouraging that if everybody stays positive and everybody stays safe and stays strong that there is eventually light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah exactly those words you know stay positive stay active stay engaged like the governor of a state said Mr Cuomo said you know social distance but still engage and connected you know with people that you love and people that you admire that has to be the key I think you know it will give you a really great opportunity to work on some things that you have really sort of put out to the wayside and things that you haven't even touched maybe in years maybe an opportunity to reorganize your way of thinking into trying to figure out what moves are you going to make you know this time on this is a really really rare and special opportunity if you know how to take advantage of it to sort of redirect your life in a more positive way this never happens I mean in my life this has never been happened in you know having an opportunity to have all this time off I think you know people would take advantage of it and have a different perspective on how fragile life is and how we have to make everything possible to live our lives to the best of our ability one day at a time because when something like this happens you know you never know if you're going to be the next one so you try to stay connected with the people that you love and try to stay active and engage psychologically and mentally and things that you find interesting and make sure that you're still a better person that you were the day before so hopefully that's what I'm trying to do to the best of my ability and you know hopefully people will do the same that's very well said Bernie I couldn't have said it better myself I was talking to Jorge Posada last week and we all know the name core four and it's Posada Rivera Jeter and Jorge said to me wait a second he said there isn't a core four if it wasn't for Bernie paving the way for us so he said slow down everyone with the core four nickname it's a cute nickname it rhymes it's nice he said but we're not there without Bernie how honored does it make you feel when one of your teammates says something like that well it makes me feel extremely honored and I know that obviously you know it was just a process that everybody kind of went through I just happened to be the one that sort of came in first and had to deal with you know kind of like the assembly of this great core players but even myself you know if it wasn't for people like you know Kevin Moss and Hensie Muellens and Oscar Asakar and Andy Stankiewicz and you know Steve Adkins and all these people that came Jim Lertz, Pat Kelly, people that came into the team because the team had this sort of change of philosophy in which they were going to give players a chance to prove what they could do in the minor league system before they would do anything with them and all those people came into the team before I did I remember coming in with I think Gerald Williams was my my my roommate and my teammate for all these years and we talked a lot about the opportunity that we have been given with this organization and thinking this never happens but we've got to take advantage of this opportunity and I think that the people that paved the way before us you know all those people that I mentioned paved the way for my you know opportunity to be there and once you get the opportunity that you work on it as best as you can to try to make it the best and then that hopefully opens the door for more people to come in you know with the same kind of mentality in the same way but thinking that the organization had I think it was a great time and we would just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Bernie you were there during some of the lean times that I mentioned in 1991 can you describe what the journey was like to win that title in 96 and then to win again in 98 99 2000 well that's a really interesting question because I think the lean years started way before the 90s started we I remember being in the minor leagues my tenure with the Yankee officially started as a minor leaguer in 1986 right after high school I spent about five and a half years in the minors just kind of like you know only my skills and that listening and observing you know the whole dynamic of the the big team what we called it at that time the big team what they were doing and how they were you know assembling a team and acquiring players and we have you thought you know the whole mentality was just to bring you know proven people that had already you know careers in the big leagues to bring them into the team to try to make the team competitive on a yearly basis and that they were just trading in you know the prospects and the people that would probably be valuable to get more of those pieces into the team 96 happened you know new administration new manager and new coaching staff you know for the most part and I think you know that philosophy that Joe Torre brought into the team did a 180 degree change you know as far as you know the attitude the team that has been put together and the pieces that were added you know sort of took everybody by surprise you know you have to realize that in 96 when we won that first title we were totally underdogs you know a team that really hasn't been proven had a whole bunch of new players and we were facing probably one of the toughest rotations in the history of the game you know in that modern time you know the Atlanta Braves you know with Mattis and Clavin and Smalls and all these guys the fact that we won I think everybody was surprised including some of ourselves so I was a little surprised about it too but I have to put up probably a little bit of a pause between 96 and 98 because what happened to me personally in 97 to me in my opinion was the the thing that catapulted me into having the years that I had subsequently in 98 99 2000 and if I'm in a good mood I might count 2001 as well which was me making that last out in 97 in that last game in the world wild card against the Cleveland Indians popping that lazy fly ball against Jose Mesa in my first swing you know that last about that was such an important at that with the time run you know with Paul Neil almost broke his his neck sliding at first you know or one of those you know disaster slides you know after a double he hit and then he was up to me to keep the game going and I failed miserably I took that so hard in the offseason that I trained like I'd never trained before mentally and physically saying to myself this situation I am going to be better prepared you know to face a situation like this like I've never had before and it just sort of took me into this sort of mentality physically I was getting ready but mentally it got me into this sort of mindset that I was going to be the best clutch hitter in my mind you know and that I could ever be and that sort of catapulted me into having the year that I had in 98 and then I think in my opinion I had even a better year in 99 Norma ended up getting the batting title but 2000 you know against the Nets and then that series and you know against their Arizona Diamondbacks all the way up to 2003 when we play the Marlins we were still a very competitive team but the president had had already been set as being the team that we were you know starting in 98 99 2000 and 2001 uh we had already had a reputation there and it was because of uh you know the people that we were able to assemble together uh you know the so-called core of the team you know that came in plus you know you have to realize you know the Davy Cones, the Tim Reigns, the Daryl Strowberry, the Chilly Davis you know the Cecil Fielder you know a white box and all these people at Mike Lucina all these people that came in to be part of the team because they believe in the philosophy that we had at that time and they wanted to be part of a successful franchise that we put together with those first couple of years uh I think it was instrumental in the success of the team. I've never heard you refer to that final out in 97 so graphically you you carried that with you so so failure and I put failure in quotes because the Yankees made 27 outs in that game you you just happened to make the final out uh but you still that stuck with you for for the future for for 99 and beyond. Yeah baseball you know kind of fancies itself by this notion that we play so many games 162 and you always have an opportunity to sort of vindicate yourself you know if you kind of make something bad happen the day before you always say hey I'll get them tomorrow after that out there was no tomorrow until the next year so uh to me it was one of the hardest things that I ever had to face in the game being the last out of us you know and such an important opportunity uh to to to actually rise to the occasion that I took it so hard that uh that became my mantra I'm gonna try to I mean I may not be the best player maybe in the regular season but I'm gonna try to do my best to make take advantage of all the opportunities that I get to be productive in the post season and uh I guess it became you know kind of like what I'm noted for. Pardon me you mentioned some of the players that you were so closely linked with during your Yankee career I have done this game with a few of them so I'd like to do it with you I want to hit you with a name and I want you to give me the first word the first phrase or the first story that jumps to mind because you spent so much time with these guys and I think it's fitting to start with Mr. November the captain number two Derek Jeter um he never made excuses he never blamed anybody else for you know not coming up uh rise to the occasion he led the team not by his words but by his actions and the way that he approached the game on a daily basis that to me that's the most important thing about Derek Jeter he carried the captain role with dignity and grace through his whole career and that was just just remarkable remarkable career to watch. How about a picture that you had a a pretty nice straight on view from center field to watch uh the movement on his cutter well it could be two guys we're gonna go with the first guy who only threw a cutter essentially Mariano Rivera. Well he tried to throw something else you know later in his career become a picture but uh to me the word that comes to mind about Mariano is blessed. He was blessed with the ability to throw that one pitch that he even he claims that God gave him to him and he was able to dominate not only one but I would venture to say a couple of generations of players with that one pitch when everybody in and and their family knew what he was going to throw and that particular day for two innings or maybe one inning and he was able to dominate his generation of players. I think that um uh it's just remarkable to be able to do that uh and uh I if you ask him he probably will tell you that he did not do it by himself he had a lot of help uh but uh he was just blessed he had a blessed blessed career. And I made reference to another pitcher who who used to cut her very heavily especially later in his career what are your thoughts on Andy Pettit? Best move to first base that I've ever seen in my career uh he was one of those guys that was a complete tiger on the field and when you talk to him on a normal basis you know like off the field he was like the most like humble and mild mannered guy that you could ever meet that seemed the same thing holds true with Apollo Neil by the way uh you know he was guys that are fierce competitors and you see them talking to themselves and answering themselves too it's like they're borderline insanity uh in those three and a half four hours you know what they play and Andy was you know the best money pitcher that I could ever think of if the game we wanted to win a game and we needed to win a game to me Andy Pettit would be the guide uh to to be uh uh to be the starting pitcher in that game. How about a fiery sword behind the plate and I think a fiery sword when he needed to be in the clubhouse Jorge Posada? Jorge had no filter he what the one thing that I admire about Jorge the most is that with him what you see is what you get if he doesn't like you he will let you know but if he likes you he'll be your best friend and you know the report that I had with that with Jorge over the years uh being close to him and his family and him doing the same thing with with my family uh it was uh is a bond as baseball players that is kind of rare to have all right still calling you know now uh you know 15 years after I retired I still call him I still consider him one of my one of my good friends uh so with him his assertiveness his drive his motivation and the willingness that he had to let you know what he felt whether you like that or not was a very important thing to have as a teammate at a very important thing to have on the team. Gurney I said I was going to get back to some music I wanted to um ask you about a trip from 2005 because I was fortunate enough to accompany you when you were a cultural ambassador for the U.S. you went to Columbia and Venezuela and it was a combination baseball trip you did some baseball clinics and a music trip where you you played with some kids and you did some music lessons and I remember being thankful to be along that trip with you but I also thought what a perfect Bernie Williams trip to be able to combine his two loves what do you remember about that trip to South America? I remember uh quite a few things I mean I remember the warmth of the people I remember how uh so how grateful they were to have you know that uh uh event to be thrown out for them uh I was surprised in how much they knew about me and my career uh and I was uh grateful to be a part of that you know uh that great thing that you know that happened uh you know now I know that things in Venezuela and even in Colombia are not really as well especially for people that you know from this country trying to get in there I wouldn't even recommend it myself so the fact that I had an opportunity to see the country before it has turned into a kind of a really hard situation to the end was a blessing for me playing music even though I wasn't as proficient as I think I am now with the music it was also a way to connect with people that may not might have not been that interested in sports but I still have that other way of communicating with them and reaching out to them with the music and the arts uh to me uh it was one of the best trips that I've ever had as far as being a cultural ambassador and connecting with people in a different country and I think we fulfilled what we were upset to do being cultural ambassadors and having this connection and this interaction with a different country and the figure out that we're not really that different after all it was obvious how much you connected with the kids and I think one of the memories that I will always hold true is you on stage playing your guitar with all these music students and I don't think you knew they were going to do this but they all popped on Yankee caps so the Yankee center fielder in the middle of all these little wannabe Yankees who were also playing music at the same time that memory is etched in my they did put the Yankee caps but they also play spain by chick korea I was like okay we're gonna give you some respect but now you got to give it to us too you got to play this so it was great speaking of your music you were supposed to perform at the car live last week for for five nights I'm sure I'm sure you were looking forward to that obviously like so many other things in our lives it was postponed how are you maintaining your music can folks out there who want to hear your music are you doing any sort of live streams is that anything you're going to try and do in the future what's going on in the burning music burning music world well not a lot I think that you know what I was saying before about taking this time to make sure that you're even even better prepared for what's coming ahead I sort of applied to my music so I've been sort of living like a hermit a little bit and practicing all the things that you know whether it was time or you know circumstances or the fact that I just didn't have enough knowledge I am trying to catch up on all of that and you know I have to realize that when you kind of make the decision to become a musician coming from that background that I came from it seems to me that I'm playing catch up every day you know I have people that are playing their whole lives and I'm trying to you know put myself into this situation and I want to be as prepared as I can be so my whole thing has been practicing structures and making sure that I have complete control and dominance of this instrument where I can just completely figure out something in my head and not have the guitar being a hindrance to that creativity I think that's part of being a good musician and since this is a thing that kind of kind of is taking a lot of my time right now I'm really focusing on that then trying to figure out ways of you know putting my music the forefront and utilizing it to reach out to people doing the music education working with kids and making sure that this you know obviously our government realizes how important arts and music is you know for us you know as a country so so the sports as well but it's a lot of time for thinking for anyone who wants updates on anything that Bernie is doing and I'm sure they will come at some point it's bernie51.com Bernie I look forward to day where I can see you performing again where I can see you at a baseball game I know we're going to get there we just all need to be patient thanks so much for giving us some time today that's right absolutely man you took me back thank you so much for that