Landefeld, sorry, it's Raquel Landefeld She's a serial volunteer with a young soul in 2010. She co-founded sorry guys Mode effect a Phoenix based WordPress agency that specializes in Woo Commerce integration Intentional about community building. She believes that wherever her feet are is where the building happens Okay, currently she is active in several communities from tech to government to neighborhoods and more you can usually find her Organizing a word camp or volunteering pretty much anywhere Thank you Okay Hi guys, thanks for coming Yeah, I'll let her stick to the intro and we'll just continue on I do like humans and Really truly believe in community building and I'll tell you why That's me and my good friend Shada I Co-founded mode effect in 2010 and didn't think I was going to it happened and did a lot of admin and operations and Discovered that I was good at that, but it's not what I loved and through between sometime From then to now I discovered what I do love and am passionate about and that is community building and that's what I call myself a community Builder self-proclaimed So what is community building? Anybody so I'm sure you heard it. It's very trendy. It's I believe a buzz phrase right now And I don't know about you, but I'm sure you've seen on Twitter that it's what we're supposed to be doing Everyone talks about it. It's hashtagged. It's it's buzzing right now. It's trending So what I believe community building is is intentional relationship building with humans That's what I believe it is. So how does it start? Social media is a start. We know all the platforms I do a little shout-out to swarm because I love swarm and you guys should get on swarm So we can connect and see where each other are Because we know each other that's why Networking events we meet-ups Tech networking events word camps. Those are good places to start Community building you start to meet people there and oh, yeah, that was the last one. Maybe a meet-up I feel like meet-ups are a little bit more intimate than actual just networking Those are usually the first places you'll see it. That's yeah good start to community building But what happens I believe is we get stuck there we get stuck with going to the latest meet-ups a Bunch of different ones Networking and what do we do at networking events? Yes, and what do you do with the business cards? And forget about them or or maybe you do put them in but yeah, what does that mean? Where do you connect where you go from there? and What I've noticed with social media is and I'm sure everyone's noticed we kind of get stuck there We get we hide behind social media We do a lot of interacting with others and that's kind of where it stops We tweet at each other or Facebook each other or Instagram and say hi or that's cool But I mean it doesn't go much further from there from what I've seen so far And this is what I'm passionate about changing Also, I've noticed that there are some that work for agencies and They are trained on how to engage in social media or there's maybe social media influencers I'm sure we've all heard that gurus. They're like thousands of followers and And they know how to engage but do you see them in real life? Do you see them outside of social media? So I've noticed this is a trend amongst amongst corporations and particularly in the WordPress community You know a lot of our sponsors they they're really good at that and what I love about our WordPress community Is that they're also good in real life, but Well, we have maybe ulterior motives with our It I mean is do we do we When you're meeting people are you? Do you want the business? Are you handing your business card and that's what our motives are or that's what we need to check We need to check what why we're doing this why we're going to meetups why we're going to networking events So that is what we're checking our purpose. Do you want to pass out business cards? Do you want to generate leads or? Maybe it might be relationship building so with that I've discovered that Handing out business cards and generating leads is Is Superficial it doesn't grow anything What I have discovered over the past gosh eight and a half years is that when you build relationships over time Everything gets better and everything wins With the challenges are though that we're humans and We're silly we Sometimes there's conflict Sometimes there's problems. Sometimes we're There are personalities that maybe we don't gel with and that sometimes scares us and we kind of stop there We have to check ourself Actually with community building with networking. We need to check our motives. What what do we want? What is the long run? What is the short run? Are we overly sensitive are? And you really just need to self-evaluate Agnus so those main two challenges are humans in general, but first let's look at ourselves and we can better ourselves So how does it grow? Cultivate relationships not business cards. That is my motto Be a friend just be a friend to others show up show up and and and Interact with people and but be genuine about it We could still use social media. I am very avid on social media, but I'm Love face-to-face. That's my favorite and yes be genuine on and off the computer It's important that people see what they see in social media, especially if you have a bigger presence there That it's the same in real life. That's the big one. I've noticed there's a lot of just Superficial and We're powered behind that keyboard. There's something that turns us into a superhuman I think and then we we kind of lose it in real life. So let's check that. Let's take little steps forward So what I really really believe community building is intentional human connecting and relationship growing it is others focused How can I help you? What do you need? Be make friends by being the friend to begin with that's really super important and smile I'd love this. This is Some word pressures you might recognize us We were all at Disneyland Paris for a word camp Europe last year And that's I love that picture because it's an excellent example of how communities grow and you make friends like legit friends and That's pretty much it I do like you and I do think we should go out and play and I am a young soul And so I mean that like how a kid would want to play But that was very fast and a general looks that you have any specific questions. That's where we're at now Yes Definitely going to any meetup you can networking events but with the intention of building relationships I mean bring business cards We all have I mean we are having business as we want to grow it But if you're looking for that immediate business connection, it's just going to be superficial so I would recommend smiling and And really a shift of focus that brings it toward toward making friends. That sounds silly, but I'm not kidding. That's Sorry, I got stuck. That's that's really where it starts is having this Shift of focus to not create leads to your business, but create relationships Yes, yeah Yes, like implementing with Twitter specifically. Yeah hashtags pictures on Twitter Swarm is a good one. I check in everywhere I go and I tag my swarm friends and there's a lot of wordpressers on swarm and when you post a picture and And you're you tweet the swarm check-in it actually Translates at it looks like a legit tweet as opposed to like the swarm tweet if that makes sense Yes hashtags wherever you're at for word camp Miami for instance other hashtags Asking people to hey, I'm gonna be right here come join me during an event or telling people ahead of time I'm heading to this WordPress meetup Maybe you should come with me and make sure you're tweeting the link with the with your tweet Yeah Yes, yes, and it sounds like when I first saw that I almost thought it was a little pretentious But that's where you check yourself. What is my goal is my goal to make friends with people and to build Relationships because eventually what happens is and now maybe some of you guys can test with a test This is business happens you get clients that way you you Meet bigger agencies who who are overloaded and they need to offload and then they send you referrals so Yes fiction Yes yes, I Honestly don't have any like how-to's it, but I really truly believe Fiction is what gets our brains going in our creativity and I mean how many of that it's all relationship and conflict and I mean any fiction you could think of sci-fi is my fave Yeah, yes, yes top Denim you can probably answer both I will usually answer with what they mean when they say what do you do and it means like how do you make money? I will say that but then I will talk it will direct it to but what I love is relationship building and community building Yeah, or then that if it's not going there on its own. Yes. Oh, yeah Yes, well if you one way I know that I've found mentorship becomes super easy to get into and to Take advantage of is co-working spaces I know I've been a part of several and Every single one of them has offered free mentorship and usually they're part of the co-working space So then you you are already building relationships and you see them often That's a very fast way and then otherwise if you're at a networking event and you meet one of Then it is from that point It's interacting with them probably on social media connecting with them getting their business card and then actually intentionally connecting with them on Twitter and Instagram things like that because then you already met so now there's you're seeing each other and if you're interacting then They'll see you and then eventually you can use their services and also continue a relationship Yes, there is one of the big ones. I would say Instagram is probably right with their with Twitter I tweet regularly a Lot of day in the life because people want to do business with people not with businesses and But then I make sure that they know that I work for mode effect at least once you don't have to go nuts Yeah, but Instagram I love in insta stories As many insta stories as you want And it looks like that guys, but yeah, I'll hang out because I have any more questions at the happiness bar if that's still around Yeah, she'll be at the happiness bar if you guys have any more questions. So let's give her a hand And she did forget her speaker card so make sure you find her later to get them for her She's gonna have more for later. Okay


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video I am going to be reviewing the brand new Pat McGrath opulence collection. So if you want to hear my thoughts on it, then just keep watching. Usually Pat McGrath ships to my house super fast, but for some reason it didn't this time. And you guys have been bothering me about doing this review and it is finally, finally here. I'm so excited. So the collection comes with three six pan eyeshadow palettes and then six lipsticks as well. For each eyeshadow palette there is a matching lipstick duo which you can buy together or separately. Each palette sold separately for $55 and each lipstick duo is sold for $65 separately. Or you could get all three of the eyeshadow palettes for $125 or if you get the eyeshadow palette with the corresponding lipstick that's going to be $110 and then if you get everything that's going to be $300. So there's a lot of different options which I think is super duper cool. But yeah so I'm going to start off with the eyeshadows first and then I'm going to do the lipsticks in the second half of this review. So if you don't already know, if you're new to my channel, Pat McGrath is my favorite brand ever. It is so expensive but their products are so amazing. I love Pat McGrath. I love her makeup. I love her work. I just love everything about her brand. So every time she comes out with something I try and pick it up especially with these collections because her packaging is beautiful. So we're going to talk about the three eyeshadow palettes. They're the Mini Motherships. She's already come out with three other ones and these are her new three and I love the last three so of course I had to get the new three. Now these are actually made in the USA as opposed to her big eyeshadow palettes which are made in Italy. I think because of the packaging difference the fact that it is made in the US allows these palettes to be cheaper. So I don't think you compromise the eyeshadow quality based on where it's made. I think it's more to do with the packaging and less fees because it's made in the USA. So the first eyeshadow palette we have here is the Motherships Sublime Bronze Temptation. So it has this beautiful red packaging with a lot of gold details and all of these ruby pictures and then you open it up and it reveals six shadows. This one I think is the most holiday themed one. It has that red and it has this green color. I'm so excited to use this green color but also these top two colors here are duochromes. This has like almost a yellow green shift to it and this color right here has a pink yellow shift to it and you know what looks crazy? It looks really pink right now on the camera but based on my view right here it looks very bronzy. So it is such a cool duochrome shadow. Now I will say in all of these three palettes they do not have any of the glitter formula that I love Pemagrath for. Pemagrath has a stunning glitter formula in her big palettes. None of these palettes have that. So I'm just going to give you a forewarning here now but that doesn't mean these aren't beautiful formulas. Like I said she does have beautiful duochromes in this. Some eyeshadows with bits of glitter in it but it is not that super micro fine glitter formula which is kind of disappointing because that's my favorite formula ever but I still am very happy with how this palette looks. So this one is nice because you have a matte neutral shade. That's what I use as my normal crease color today and then you have a deeper color. So this one I think is the more wearable of the three while also having these unique shades as well. So this one is really pretty and I think of the three it's the most versatile. Then we have the Mothership Subversive Metal Morphosis palette. It's the one with the pink packaging. So you open it up and this one is interesting because it is all really metallic colors. There isn't any flat shades to it so it could be very difficult to make a look with this palette. Now I am going to do a tutorial using each of these palettes within the next two weeks. So stay tuned for that. So if you want to see how I can create a look using each of these palettes individually make sure you subscribe so you can see those. These two colors right here are super silky and buttery and they're super metallic. This shade right here is one of the most reflective shades I've ever seen. It's the one that's right in the middle of my lid right now. I am obsessed with it and then we also have this shade right here. It's not a super reflective shade but it is shimmery and it has little glitter particles to it. It's what I use today in my inner and outer lid and it almost looks blue. It's very shimmery on the lid. You can see the glitter particles. I had a little bit of fallout with application but honestly it's really not too bad. It doesn't look as deep on the lid as it does in the pan. But I think this one is going to be interesting to try and create a look with. Every single shadow in this palette is really buttery smooth except for this one. This one isn't buttery smooth but it is very pigmented and works very well. But the rest of these have absolutely insane pigmentation. This eyeshadow palette is the Mothership Subliminal Dark Star Eyeshadow Palette. Now you open it up and this one I'm so excited for. Unfortunately this one got injured on the drive over here and half of this shade is gone. This palette is for those of you who love smoky eyes. I did use the black today all along my crease and my lower lash line. It isn't a matte black. It definitely has a bit of a sheen to it which I don't personally love. I would have just preferred a more flat black matte but I mean it is still very pretty. I blend it out very well. It's not the best black I've used because ironically the best black I've used is by Pamagrath and this one just it's not this one in particular but it still looks beautiful. You have a gorgeous chocolate gray color and then you know this is the color I'm about to use in the tutorial that I do with this. This is the most beautiful purple blue duo chrome. I just want to put it all over my eyelid. It kind of reminds me of the new Katie Desi palette. One of the colors from there but I will look more into that. So I think of the three. This one has the most unique color selection. Really pretty formulation wise. This is pretty intact with the other mothership mini palettes. Very good quality. Very blendable. A lot of very metallic and reflective colors which I personally love and it really forces you to get creative. So I really am enjoying these palettes. I can't wait to do separate looks for each of these. I think you guys will really enjoy them. I will say though compared to last year's I do think I prefer last year's. There's also a purple pink one that is in my drawer. But I think I prefer last year's color schemes a little more to this year's. I think they make more sense. Personally I just like how the ones from last year they had more of a corresponding theme within the palette. I feel like this year the color schemes aren't as much of a theme. Like the color theme doesn't scream out to me when I open the palette. Yeah you have beautiful individual colors but I feel like they don't, they aren't as cohesive as the other palettes. That being said that can be a good thing. That forces you to be creative. But just to the average eye the colors aren't as cohesive as the other ones. But that being said these palettes are still beautiful. I'm not knocking it. I'm just that's just something that I noticed. But anyways formulation on these 10 out of 10. My eyes are really irritated right now because I just did like five different looks messing around with the shadows to make sure I've tried everything. And I'm I mean she did it again. She really truly truly did it again. Alright so let's talk about the lipstick sets. Now they come in this super cute little box. And then you have to unwind it and open it. And then it's going to reveal the actual lipsticks. Now the packaging of the lipsticks are the same Pat McGrath packaging that she uses. However they just are in colors to correspond with the collection that they are in. Each of the three sets features a red shade and then a nude shade. So I'm going to show you the swatches right here. And I want you to tell me if you notice something. Is it just me or do most of the colors look the same? So here's the thing. I want you guys to look at the swatches. And is it just me or do the swatches look suspiciously similar? The nudes kind of look the same to me and then the reds kind of look the same. So really quickly here are all of the nudes swatched together. This is from the red. This is the pink and this is the blue. The red and the blue are very very similar. The one that's pink is slightly lighter. However I did put this one on my lips and this one on the top. And the difference was ever so subtle. And these two literally just looked exactly the same on my lips. So if you're buying the red set just know that the blue nude is identical. And they're not the same shade names. They're different. Oh by the way just so you know these are the matte trans formula. It's what I have on my lips right now. They are such a comfortable beautiful matte. They don't dry out my lips. The three reds. Now as you can see there are subtle differences. This one's a little bit more pink. This one's a little bit more cool toned red. And this one is more of a berry. So this is the red set. This is the pink set and this is the blue set. So I think the red set and the pink set have a suspiciously similar color to them to wear on the lips. You really can't tell too much of a difference. Now this one is actually quite different from the other two. But what puts me in a dilemma is if you get the red set you're getting these two. But it has a similar nude to the blue and it has a similar red to the pink. So if you buy the red and the pink or the red and the blue at one point there's going to be one kind of very similar color. I hope that made sense. But formulation wise these are the matte trans formula. They are beautiful. They are really comfortable on the lips. They are very very pigmented and they're very long wearing. They are very long wearing a beautiful beautiful formula. But I'm telling you now you do not need all three dang lipstick sets because they are too similar. If you want a set of lipsticks I honestly would only recommend that you buy one. Because after that it gets pretty repetitive. So if you have a more deep skin tone I would recommend getting the blue set. Which is called the aquamarine duo. If you have a light skin tone or very fair I would recommend you get the pink sapphire duo. Because it has the lightest nude and the brightest red. I think a pretty neutral in between the one that's not the darkest and not the lightest is the ruby duo. However in each set you're getting a red and a nude. And if you get any honestly they're all kind of gonna look the same in some way shape or form. Which I don't know I feel like they should have known better. Like they shouldn't make complete different lip sets. I don't know. I always think it's important to have a red and to have a nude. But if you get the whole collection like I did I just feel like I have a bunch of repeats to be honest. But the packaging is gorgeous so at least there's that. Anyways so that was my review of the opulence collection. Overall it's a really beautiful collection. And again Pat you did not disappoint me. I think of course as always the eyeshadows are definitely where it's at.  And if you're looking for the most wearable palette of the three I would definitely recommend you get the bronze temptation. Because it does have everyday colors here. But it also has colors that definitely let you play. And even the ones that do seem very normal they are quite unique. I really like this. This is the one palette that you can really easily create an everyday look with that is complete. Now though the metamorphosis palette is my least favorite. These I think formulation wise have the best formula of the three. Just because most of these shadows are very very creamy. It's just it's difficult to create a full look with it. But the formulation of these metal shadows are absolutely stunning. So though this is my least favorite it still has a very special place in my collection. Because the formula of this is insane. Lipsticks the formulation is absolutely beautiful. Very consistent with her regular lipstick line. Honestly some of these are actually in her regular line. But these are way cuter packaging. But you don't need all three. I mean whichever set you get you're going to be very happy with it. Just because the differences are so subtle between the three. So definitely listen to my recommendations earlier which one you should pick up. But they all are quite lovely. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this review of the Pat McGrath opulence collection. Be sure to subscribe to my channel if you want to see my individual tutorials using each of these palettes and also each of the lipstick. And I will be sure to get back to you in the next video. Bye have a great day.


Hello everybody. It's Mr. Carl and welcome to virtual story time. This story time is very special because drum roll It's all about moms. So I thought I'd do a story time all about what moms love So to start with we have to figure out what moms love Hmm Mom's mom's mom's what do you mom's love? Oh, I know moms love snails, right? They love snails are always asking for more snails I'm gonna get some snails from the garden and I'm gonna be right back here and we can start our mother's day story time Okay, you guys just wait right here. Okay. Yeah No What you mean moms don't like snails for mother's day Hmm. Okay. We'll have to keep thinking What do moms love? What do moms love?   Hmm You know what my mom loves Songs My mom loves music And it'd be really cool if we could sing a mother's day song for our moms, right? What just happens that I know one you've probably heard of it before It goes it goes to the tune of if you're happy and you know it clap your hands So do you guys know that song it goes if you're happy and you know it clap your hands If you're happy and you know it clap your hands If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show if you're happy and you know it clap your hands But since this is all about moms We're gonna change the lyrics a little bit.  We're going to change what we do. Okay Are you ready?  If you love your mommy, you know it, and you really wanna show it. If you love your mommy, you know it, clap your hands. All right, you guys ready for verse two?  Mwah!  Mwah! If you love your mommy, you know it, and you really wanna show it.  Mwah! All right, last verse, and we're actually gonna learn some sign language. We're gonna learn how to sign.  Are you ready? Okay This book is called mommy is Magic and it is written by Carl Norocke and Illustrated by Ingrid Godin and read with permission from Halton Mifflin hardcore mommy is My mommy doesn't have a magic hat or wand. She doesn't need things like that. She's just Magic and look they're wearing matching little hat bags. How cute do you wear matching clothes with your mom? That'd be fun When I have nightmares my mommy chases the monsters away Do you see that monster hiding in the closet with his silly orange toenails? There's no way he's getting past mama When I whisper a secret in my mommy's ear She guesses it before I finish telling it to her Cuz she's magic and if I hurt myself my mommy Kisses the sword place and tada It's all better When my mommy swims with me we go faster than the dolphins That is pretty bad My mommy's favorite dress is a blue one with little clouds on it when she wears it the sky is always clear When my mommy plant seeds flowers always grow How many plants did they plant? I see one two three four Five When my mommy sings butterflies come to listen Look at all those butterflies should we count the butterflies to we have a yellow one right here. That's one We have a torquoise one right here. That's two Then a red one right here. That's three and a blue one makes four a green one makes five another yellow one makes six and another red one makes seven Seven Sometimes I'm magic too when I sing and dance I always make my mommy laugh Look at that crazy outfit. She's wearing Whose shoes are those are those her shoes? I Don't think so My mommy can make things appear for my birthday. She made a cake as big As a rocket and she can make things disappear when my mommy tells me stories Everything else falls away. There's only the two of us traveling through time and Space My mommy is magic and when I grow up I'm going to be magic to The end Yourself a round of applause guys. Let's celebrate. We just read a book to our moms with our moms How exciting because moms love books So I think that's it for Mother's Day Celebrations right I mean we got the songs and we got the books they love do moms Love anything else on Mother's Day. What else? Do some moms want on Mother's Day, you know There could be one thing Mom, do you guys love cards? Should we make our moms a mother's day card? I Think we should so let's go and make a Mother's Day card for our moms. Okay All right Hey everybody, let's get ready to make our Mother's Day craft Today, we're gonna be making these Petunia and the heart cards for Mother's Day They're really fun and really cute and What you're gonna need is you're gonna need a pencil You're gonna need glue or glue stick. I have a glue stick You're gonna have scissors are either kid safety scissors or Make sure they fit your fingers and fit your hands or you can have an adult cut for you and You're gonna need five No six pieces of paper you're gonna need one for your out heart your big heart one for your little heart three for your Petunia and Then one piece of green paper for your stem doesn't have to be this big we need a tiny sliver of it Okay, so let's get started. All right everybody. So the first step is we're gonna take the paper we have for our big heart and I chose purple because that's my mom's favorite color.  I'm actually going to trace over it and Marker and again, it doesn't have to be perfect. Your mom's gonna love this part now. What you're gonna do is you're gonna take your scissors And you're just going to keep the two pages together and you're gonna cut that heart shape out and when you're done You should have a heart-shaped car Next we're gonna do the exact same thing with the inside color And we're gonna photix Hot dogs down Okay, and we're gonna turn it right side up and this time you're gonna draw a heart But you're gonna make sure that it's smaller than the first heart you drew and when you're done a heart shape Once we know where we want it. We're gonna actually glue it down Okay, so we're a little glue on our purple heart. I'm also gonna put some glue on the back with my Little heart.  So I have three colors here. I have pink Red and yellow.    We're starting to make our flower Okay, and we're just gonna repeat that A couple more times until we have all our petals on there And if you want to put them in a certain order or a certain pattern feel free. I'm just sort of Sticking them on there one after the other like this All spread out like that. Okay, so that's our flower All right, now we're gonna get our card and we're gonna do just a tiniest cut for our Stim and I'm gonna glue that down Right here in the middle Of my card then I'm gonna take my flower petal I'm gonna take the flap side. It doesn't have anything sticking out And I'm gonna put glue on both flower petals on that side.  I just traced my hand. So my mom knew it was for me All right guys, thank you for joining me for this card craft Hope you guys enjoyed the story time and I hope your mom's enjoy your card Thank you for joining me for virtual story time and I'll see you next time Bye. Bye


So, let's start with where babies come from. Now, I just like to start with something kind of fun and casual. Okay, who has not heard of Calvin and Hobbes? I was going to say this is probably one of those universally known things. But, you know, that's why we come and learn. And now you can learn about Calvin and Hobbes. It's a really great comic strip. You should really, if you have a chance. And this is one of my favorites because at the end of it, Hobbes finds out that Calvin is from Taiwan. And I am made in Taiwan. So that's when I was born. But between then and now, I've lived in three different continents. So first from Taiwan, I moved to Singapore when I was very young. And then after spending most of my kind of formative years in Singapore, I moved to US for my college to study in a university. And then I started working for Nokia over there and got transferred to Finland. So that's where I'm based currently in Finland. And I've actually lived more than a decade each in these three countries. So I won't give any more numbers. You can roughly know how I'm not young anymore, but anyway. So I've worked for these few companies. Well, I mean, I've done, you know, kind of internship in the university and in some smaller companies, but these are the major ones I worked for. And I started off as a software engineer and I've done, you know, everything from the technical side to the business side to kind of process operations. So and if you want to find me on Twitter, Facebook, diaspora, Macedon, I'm Saibat, you can search for that. So that's something, just a brief intro about me. So, okay, given that, I'm not saying like I'm fully qualified to talk about true cultural diversity, but I think with some of my experiences in the different, quite different cultural backgrounds, perhaps I can give some kind of insights or, you know, reasoning of why you might see certain things or how, why is that person thinking that way and, you know, maybe provide more understanding that way. So let's look at some meanings, definitions to kind of frame what I'm talking about here. This was actually last year at Red Hat Summit. I was looking through the different talks, abstracts to find out what are interesting and I picked out these two sessions on gender diversity, both talking about women in open source. And what struck me was like, they both seem to be quoting quite similar statistics about how many, you know, how was the percentage of women participating in open source. But actually quite different numbers. One says 11% are women participating in open source and then the one says only 3%. So I think, not saying that each one is right or wrong, but I wish I had a chance to go to these talks. I'm sure they will have quoted the source of where they got this information from, but I was also having a booth to look after so I wasn't able to attend all the talks. However, I just want to bring to the point that the source, the context and the definitions are usually important when you talk about numbers, data, metrics and things like that. For example, what do you mean by participants? Is it someone who, say, come to conferences like this? Is it someone who writes code? Is it someone who design logos and graphics? Are they all considered participants or not? So again, like these studies and surveys, how do they define these things is very important. So since we're talking about openness, so I went to find some definitions about openness. So this is what I found in a dictionary, which is like a weak key version of dictionary. And the first one is, says, accommodating attitude. So as in being receptive to new ideas, behaviors, cultures and so on. So this is like having an open mind. And then the second one is lack of secrecy, candor, transparency. So this is about sharing, sharing ideas, sharing, not keeping secrets. And then the third one is probably something we're more familiar with. Accessible viewing code, modifying computer code, so open source code. So all these are slightly different definitions, and they are all available in the wiki page, dictionary page, which is open to modification if you're interested. So another definition of openness. And before I start this time travel through my experiences, I just want to kind of make a disclaimer. I'm not in any way saying all Singaporeans behave this way or Americans or even all Finns that I've interacted with are like that, but as with any kind of culture, there are reasons or what people are used to that might affect the way they behave, the way they think, the way they interact. So just based on my experiences, and maybe you can find something interesting and learn something from it. Okay, I always lose where my notes are. So a long time ago. A long, long time ago. This is actually my high school. Yes, we wear uniforms over there. And this is a computer science class. So you can see very few girls, actually the two in the middle are teachers, they're not students. One was a math teacher, one was a physics teacher, I think. But anyway, so the rest of us in uniform are the students in this class. The teachers have heels, yeah. That's true. And I know we had rules about the trainers cannot be fancy colored. It has to be a certain height. So that's kind of the environment where I grew up in.  I'm sure things might have changed. And definitely, you know, this is from Singapore, things could be different in many other Asian countries. So but what my experience is, as always, we try to be good students. And when I say this, sometimes I get like a reaction is, we call PD Justice Homework a lot. So I know I'm not saying that the teachers or anyone officially encouraged it. But in back in that time and where I was studying homework or assignments, make up a large percentage of the final grade could be like up to 30% or something. So it's not just you knowing the material and passing the final exams. It's, you know, they want to make sure that you are doing a lot of work to get that. And we actually thought, you know, some of us are, some people are stronger in math, some people are stronger in physics or whatever, and we can kind of share homework. We can, somebody will do, you know, whatever they're good in and then let the other person copy off of it. And we do think of it as a bad thing so much because there are still the final exams or midterms or whatever, different kinds of tests and quizzes and exams. And even if you copy it without understanding, you won't do well in the exams.  And also at that time it's not as easy to control A, control C, control V to, you know, copy your homework. It's really about, you know, writing and copying pages of stuff. So through that you probably will also learn something. So all these like, we just really felt like it was more of a social, mutual, encouraging thing rather than a bad thing. And there was also things like, a class is like a literature class where we study things like Shakespeare and rap poems. And at that time we're given, I was given an impression at least that there's only like one or two acceptable answers. It's not really about what you think about a certain piece of work or how you interpret it. It's like either the teacher or some, there's some kind of a model answer that you should kind of remember and just kind of reproduce that during the exams. So it's a lot of kind of just having that knowledge and reproducing that during the exams. So good or bad, I don't know this, you know, arguable. But another thing that kind of looking back now, I found it quite surprising was during one of the computer science tests, I had something pretty close to a full grade like maybe 98% out of 100. And then when the teacher gave out like the sample solution, he actually just took my exam paper and then made a copy and gave it out to everyone. Now thinking back, I'm like, he didn't even ask for my permission. But at that time it was like, wow, he did that because when we were at that environment it's like you're usually copied things from people you respect because they have the knowledge, they have the understanding, they are the expert in the area. So again, I'm not trying to make excuses for my copying stuff, but that was how we kind of understood things. That was how our world growing up in that school environment. All right. And then that moved to the US for my undergraduate studies in computer science. And besides the computer science classes I had to attend, you know, like Texas History, I was in Dallas, Texas by the way, and government and things like that, things that was like totally new to me and I was really scared. But you know, like back in Singapore it's like if I just went home and studied the material and did my exams, I will get a good grade in past. But in the US I was like looking at the kind of course syllabus and it said 20% of the grade class participation. It's like, oh my goodness. Like what? And that's not even the most shocking thing. The next thing was like in class, people just kind of are encouraged to voice their opinions very loudly, sometimes interrupting the teacher and disagreeing with the teacher. I'm like, oh my God, mind blown. This actually is possible. You know, like there was a huge culture shock to me in the first couple of years when I was studying the US. And so, yeah, I was thinking to myself, these people are really rude, but now I come to understand this is how they were kind of brought up in their education system to be outspoken, to voice their own opinion. It doesn't have to be, and usually they are encouraged not to have same opinion. It's like, you know, it's quite different. So there was just some meetup in the San Francisco area and it's very common to just have people kind of gathering together and sharing ideas and things like that. And then I compared to, well, this is of course fictional, but it's like, we need more people who are eager to participate, but we don't, I mean, do we have to have people to ask permission? I guess it depends on what kind of permission you are looking for. But that was kind of my idea of how participation was like growing up. I have to raise my hand, get, okay, you can answer now and then speak my mind. And usually try to not antagonize the teacher or something. So quite a different mindset at least. And then I moved to Finland after somehow graduating with my computer science degree. So by the way, I did badly for all those general courses. I only excelled in my technical math and computer science classes because those are the things I understand and it fits my mode of thinking. And then I moved to a place where nobody talked. Well, that's not true, but it takes a while for things to warm up. But I noticed that it doesn't mean that they are not social or they don't come together and help each other out. So there's this thing called Daogot, which in Finland it means kind of people coming together with a common cause, with a common go in mind and just kind of help each other out. Okay, and yeah, that's what I was looking for. Communal work, like coming together, do something for the greater good of the community or of the society or city or whatever. They may not talk much, but they share in the effort. And so like I was trying to update the slides because I've given a similar talk before. So this is a picture from just earlier this week. So this is kind of one of my understanding of why people don't talk so much. You spend too much energy trying to keep warm. You don't waste your energy on small talk. I mean, even the ducks, I don't know why they are all on the snow because I think the water is probably warmer at this point. But maybe they are sharing body heat or something. I don't know. Sound is huge in Finland. It's really about that. And even talk much, you can still kind of share that moment together. So yeah, another one which I saw an article recently which later I found out is actually two years ago but it talked about the friendly countries. I think they ranked about 60 countries. And the first is Costa Rica. And Finland is like, I don't know, 59 or something. And even Czech Republic is like 40, 45 I think. But the thing is, I went to Costa Rica for a vacation a couple of weeks. People were friendly. They made me feel welcome and everything. People were nice to talk to. But I didn't get, nobody got my contact to stay in touch or anything. So I can't say I have a friend from Costa Rica. But I have a lot of friends in Finland and in Czech Republic. So a thing about statistics and information, things like that, it can be taken as like a kind of broad view of things but definitely not the definition of what people are like from each of these countries. And I definitely encourage people to, I say WTF, welcome to Finland and learn about the people in the culture who is really, really lovely. And I'm happy to be their ambassador. If they are not willing to talk, I'll talk for them. So all right, I got lost. Where are my Finnish ducks? And also this map is really bad. I grew up in Singapore, which is like what here? And that's like, it's supposed to be above the equator, but that's like two thirds of the way down. So totally inaccurate. Ignore this. I just wanted to update my slides. Okay, so like my first third of my life, I was like open sourcing my homework. The second part of my life, we open source opinions and ideas and things like that. And the third part, kind of in Finland, open sourcing, I guess, effort and kind of working together, body heat, whatever. So not saying that that's the only thing people share and be open about in those areas, kind of the emphasis. So I actually kind of saw all this coming together for me when I was more involved in open source projects, which is really cool because, well, first of all, all these, a lot of these huge events are, if not entirely, very much majority volunteer driven. So here you have the coming together of, you know, doing work together, sharing effort. So that was from my first foster in 2013. I'll be going for my sixth or seventh next week. I hope to see some of you there. Fast Asia, also really huge event. I went first time two years ago. I'm going again this year. And of course that's called my third one and really enjoying it. So, you know, so there's this whole effort coming together. There is also definitely a sharing of so-called homework, which means like, for example, we share things like the process of, if somebody has experience in organizing an event, I always, you know, can refer to get information from the person, how do you do it? And you know, sharing like the code of conduct and of course with the proper creative comments or licensing plays, you can, you know, make use of that. And also there's also the sharing of opinions because we all know open source community is very opinionated. We have a lot of strong opinions, good opinions. And I think we are not afraid to have the different opinions but still kind of work together to either resolve it or come to kind of some kind of a conclusion. I think it's one of the reasons why we have, say, different distros or different kind of versions of software doing similar tasks. But that's not necessarily a bad thing because with open source we can do that. You know, we are not restricted by proprietary or private or any other kind of restrictive processes and licenses to, you know, have that openness to be able to do that. So, all right, I think I have only a few minutes left. Talking about communication and culture, a lot of times, especially in such a diverse conferences or communities, English may not be the first language for a lot of people. Actually, for me, I would like to say that music is my first language. I've played in orchestras and bands since I was, before I was able to speak, I think. So, like, I'm in Finland, I play in an orchestra, I don't speak much Finnish, but I can still kind of make music with the people because that's the common kind of understanding. So, and things like languages evolve through time as well. Like, this tweet said, you know, somebody saw the chateau in F hashtag because they thought the sharp sign is hashtag. So, you know, like, I think the key is to just kind of share and explain. You know, instant hashtag is something else, but, you know, if you don't explain it, people might have the misunderstanding. So, as we talk about communication tools, a lot of times I find communities having a hard time deciding, you know, which tool is the best. Should we stick to RRC? Should we use Slack? Because everyone else is using Slack now. I mean, of course, you want to find the best fit tool for your community. Is it where most people are at? That's important. But I would say, like, don't sweat it too much. I mean, each tool has pros and cons. I'm sure that there's one that kind of majority people like it. And then what is good, is important also is to provide some alternatives because there are people who, you know, just can't, not used to RRC. And that's fine. You know, it doesn't... I've used it forever, so I'm comfortable with it, but I understand not everyone is. So, you know, provide alternatives, other means of reaching out. Events and face-to-face is always a great way to do that. So, focus on the communication. There's this two-way thing, you know, we talk about sharing, we talk about being receptive to open ideas. So it's definitely not just one or the other. It's, you know, listen. So receiving, speak, sharing, and repeat. And I say use broken English with pride because I believe that broken English is the most broken English, type of English in the world. And I don't have a source for that, but it's just based on my observation. So... So, and to just conclude, there's really no secret to understanding different cultures. There's really just being aware and talk to people, understand, you know, why do you think that way or what makes, influence your decision and things like that. And so be kind of, be open to sharing your views as well and be receptive to other people. And I conclude with a little tidbit from my dad. I talk with him a lot about what I do at work and I was doing this presentation last year and he just kind of thought a bit and said, openness enables connectivity for cultural diversity. Which is so true, true, because I mean, he's, I'm already not young and he's a lot older. Sorry dad, but he's true. And also for him to see, I think initially he'd understand like, why are we, you know, sharing our whole lives on social media and blogs and whatever. But now he was open to the idea that, you know, this is kind of how people change with the times and he discovers that, you know, because also we live in different countries that me sharing stuff means he has access to what I'm doing day to day in my life and things like that. And he's learned to appreciate that. So, you know, openness in the best sense is really very enabling and powerful for not just open source communities but our lives as a whole. And I think my time is up, so thank you for that. And I put the mascot for Managed IQ here whose name is George. I have a Managed IQ booth which is between the pulp and the video booths in the area. And welcome to, because I think we're short on time so welcome to talk to me there ask your questions and get some stickers, some swag. So, thank you.


This Sunday you'll see Britons great and good gathering Whitehall at the Cenotaph but there's something wrong with Remembrance. We need to talk about what Remembrance shouldn't be. Remembrance shouldn't be about poppy shaped cheese or children holding giant poppies in future soldier t-shirts. It shouldn't be about dancing poppy costumes. It shouldn't be about the Royal British Legion throwing its lot in with arms firms like BAE Systems who now sponsor and are essentially involved in Remembrance. Remembrance shouldn't be used as a means to crush dissent and we see that increasingly particularly over the last 10 years where people are attacked for a criticising tone of Remembrance even for not wearing poppies, particularly people in the public eye. Some people claim Remembrance isn't political but of course it's highly political. There's nothing more political than war and if we're going to take it seriously and really be respectful to the people who've died in wars it should be a space for questioning war and why we go to war. We also need to talk about what Remembrance can be and should be and that's an opportunity to reject the current idea that when we talk about conflicts we narrow it to our own dead. It's just our dead who matter. We need to talk about all the victims of war particularly in modern wars when the majority of victims are civilians who look at Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and places like this. The vast majority of victims aren't a military personnel. They're innocent people who are caught up in these wars which have been imposed on them and so if we're going to be really serious about Remembrance and respectful of history, our history in the world in particular we need to include all the dead on all sides whether they're Germans or Iraqis or Libyans or Afghans or whoever they may be. So if you look at the people who own Remembrance, politically own it and have agency over it, then you're talking about the same people who probably benefit from the wars. You're talking about the editors of major right wing newspapers Murdoch, Daker and so on. When you look at the people who are featured in the main event you're looking at the Queen, you're looking at Tony Blair turns up every year without fail, you're looking at David Cameron, other past prime ministers with a warmongering history. It's an opportunity, it's an opportunity to reclaim Remembrance in some sense. You will never see generals on that parade but you'll never see your average soldier and you'll never see an Iraqi who's been displaced or an Afghan who's been displaced. When I go to Remembrance I march with Veterans for Peace who are an ex-services organisation. We have members who are there on D-Day and we have people who are in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and as veterans we feel an obligation to reject the militaristic narrative and question what we've been involved in and try and rescue Remembrance and bring it back to what the original soldiers, the original World War I veterans, their ideas, the idea of never again, that was the central idea of Remembrance a hundred years ago and after World War I, that there would never be another war like this and we would seriously consider how Britain for example operates in the world and seriously consider the impacts that warfare has on people all over the world. So if you want to remember this armistice day, remember never again.


How do I get into ASMR? I don't know. Well, I do know.  I just didn't know it was called ASMR. And then I came across an article that was... So the question is, let me do this. Who asked me that? Spencer asked, How did you get into ASMR? And for me, ASMR is something that really, it has been a part of my life doing certain things, right? Doing certain things. And one of the things that gave me the tingles and just relaxed me and stuff like this was when I have beard, when I comb my beard, right? Pick my beard. And I made a beard-picking video, right? With dry hair and after I had just taken a shower with wet hair. So there's two videos I put out that were cheecho combing his beard because I made beard videos, right? Like making facial. I haven't made a facial hair video for a long time. I need to make another one. But facial hair videos, right? So one of the videos I made was me combing my hair.  Oh my God, it's so nice. That's one of the reasons I grow a gigantic beard, which is long overdue, right?  Oh, my God, there is, there is. There are very few things that are as compatible to that feeling, that are as amazing to that feeling.  It's like, one of the things, just advice in relationship. If you have a partner that has, that takes care of their hair or they love their hair and give them, run your fingers through their hair. They will, oh my God, this is an amazing sensation. Same thing with a beard, right? So those are two of the most amazing things that can happen when you have a beard. And I put out two videos of those. One of them was my partner and I called, it's two videos of my partner giving me a beard massage, right? I call it beard love and just running her fingers through my beard. It's just an amazing sensation. I have to share that with my censored tube channel at the time, right? Just share that with the world. What I love, right? This is the reason why I do what I do is because I like sharing what I love, right?  And the other thing is combing your beard. So I made those two videos. So I made two videos of my partner, two cuts of my partner running her fingers through my beard and two videos of me combing my beard. One dry hair, one wet hair. This will turn out to be a long story. And then I came across an article about ASMR. I was like, ASMR. And I read the article and I was like, sounds familiar. Is this what they're talking about? And then they had a video of embedded in the article of someone doing this with a nail on a hard cover book. And I love hard cover books. I love books. I love reading, right? Sorry if it was that loud or not. But doing this and I went, oh man, I know that sensation. That's like me combing my beard sensation. When you hear the, right?  And I think you guys are talking about this, what I put out, you know, these two videos that I put out. Is this what's referred to as ASMR? And then, you know, it made it to the number one slot. And it was the Reddit ASMR forum at the time, right? And this was back in early 2000s. Reddit ASMR forum. It made it to the top post. And people are like, yes, oh my God, this is exactly ASMR. And I said, well, and in that post I said, I can make a longer version of this if you guys like this, because I made it short the first one, right? And people are like, yes, please do another cut and upload it. So I did a new cut of both of those videos and doubled the time and loaded them up. And that's how I got into ASMR. And it's amazing. It's just life through something you're away and you just went with it, right?


Let's go back to part two of our watch-a-long of Para-Paya-Papaya The Superstar-Rajacan Classic 1999 film If you're seeing this on YouTube, you saw a very cut of version If you like to see the full-on cut version, then you can have it on Patreon I'll put it in the description below and you can go check that out And let's get back to this, huh? Scoundrel Still a rocker He's going to whack somebody in the head with it Your son is married to this girl And now you're married to another girl Do you think there's no one in town to question you? He's the past, sir He's the past My sister-in-law is my son's son When? When she was pregnant Good, dear Even if you don't like it You agreed to this marriage because the elders told you, right? Huh?  If you don't want it, I'll give it to you What? What are you going to do with this place? Are you mad? I've committed a sin to Gannan He has a great sense of humor Why are you talking about me? Where did you see me? They'll come, sir My brother's tractor is a bit of a pickup They're coming in our Benz car It's getting late I'll come home tomorrow We'll finish the registration at home Okay Everyone in their family has signed it, sir Mr. Aravadi Appan for this letter Let's go, dad It's a truck But it's not what you think it is Oh, dad came His spirit blew away the papers No Not once, not twice Not three times Dear This just got very elevated Dad What are you doing with him? I've got him married to my husband What else?  Show us when to show up Yeah, I was always looking around You're the one who's doing the granite I'm here to ask you What are you saying? Where are you? Is your mom there? She's there I can't see you Can I go in now? Why are you holding my palm? Don't bite me Yeah I don't think this is the right direction to go with her mental health issue No, no, no This is precisely what happened with the two that fell in the well Beautiful Nice, talk dirty to me Oh, she said daughter BAM She said daughter Didn't specify Well Um Droppin' the bomb Was he gonna kill himself?   The whole half of the movie gonna be about her trying to murder her Don't give up You can still do it He's so horny for Rajnikanth Yeah Who wouldn't want a girl that'd be willing to kill her own sister for you?  What's in that thing for 18 years on repeat?  They're dancing around?  We've heard this a couple of times I think from the music video and then some live stuff Yeah, I think so I definitely recognize it Is that Prabhu? No, no, okay I thought for a second It did at first glance look like it could be No, it's not I don't know who it is He doesn't defy gravity Gravity defies him What are you looking at?  I've been married for 2 years I don't know if I'll get married That's why I called your sister What are you saying? Did you get caught? No I got caught in the light That's not right Call her I'll tell you later Okay Okay Give me your hand Then I'll arrange everything for you I'm getting married I like you My darling Oh If so If that's the case, then listen to what I say. Don't listen to her. No. No, do. Tell me. I don't have any. I want someone else. I want him to get married. You want that boy? Is he in this family? It's nothing like that. I want you to get along with him. Take the garland in your neck and put it in your sister's neck. I don't want to get married to my sister. I don't want to get married to my sister. It's okay if my sister and I get married in the same day. But... I don't know who your daughter wants to marry. She has to get married to her. My first daughter and the boy she wants to marry. Our marriage will take place in the next season. In the same season, my second daughter and my sister's son will get married. Oh. Oh. Not even coming close with those slaps. Priyanka. What did you say?  She said she wants to get married to her brother's son. She won't come till the end. Come here, dear. They're calling, aren't they? Go. Does that boy want you? Yes, dad. What are you saying? I'm your daughter. I won't marry anyone. Forgive me, dad. Who is it? Yes. Go to her. It was her ploy the whole time. We end our part 2. Reaction 2. Parapapapaya. Parapapapapapaya. The superstar Rajasthan film. You saw on YouTube. And you saw on your conversion. You saw on your conversion. You saw on your patron. I pulled a scoop of the pen and commented. So you can go and check that out. And... On to part 3.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. In this week's International Roundup, we will be focusing on the war in Yemen. This war, being led by Saudi Arabia and UAE, has affected 27 million people of the country and has resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis being seen right now. Because of the different blockades by UAE and Saudi Arabia, people in Yemen no longer have access to food, clean water, electricity or medicines. And this lack of clean water has also resulted in the largest outbreak and the fastest outbreak of cholera. To discuss this crisis, we have with us today Prabir Purkayasa, the Editor-in-Chief of NewsClick. So Prabir, firstly, going to the reasons of this war going on right now. Why has Saudi Arabia and UAE done all these different blockades? Well, the attack by Saudi Arabia on Yemen is because they actually refused to accept the transitional regime that was imposed on them by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. So that is the origin of it. I will not go into the details today of that history. But it led to Houthis, who were really the forces who had been left outside of the transitional government at some point marching and taking over Sanaa. And this led to, at that time, the person who had been imposed as the head of the transitional government by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to essentially flee to Saudi Arabia. That's the start of what could be called the military war in which Saudi Arabia backs this transitional government forces supposedly, but really imposes war on the Houthis. Houthis today control about 70 to 75% or maybe 65 to 70% of the population of Yemen. But in terms of area, they control a smaller area. As you know, Yemen has a large amount of desert areas also. And different places, there are different correlations of forces which are in power. So at the moment, there are areas which are sort of broken up. Some under Saudi UAE's tutelage virtually with their soldiers, with their puppets in place. And some places, even Al-Qaeda, ISIS kind of forces controlling the ground. So Houthis are the key target as far as the Saudis and United Arab Emirates are concerned. They are what are called the Fajr Shias. They are Shias, but not like the Iranian Shias who have a different kind of, shall we say, belief systems. Even the Fajr Shias, mosques and the Sunni mosques are same. So there is really not that kind of a difference that exists, could be argued, exists between the Shias and Sunnis in other parts of the world. So this, in fact, is quite strange why you should see this kind of an attack. And why would you try and identify Houthis with Iranians? Because whatever Iranian support might be available, it's really marginal, partly because there is a blockade, partly historically Houthis have not been with Iran. So this argument that this is really a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia being fought in Yemen is not true. It's really Saudi Arabia's attempt to control Yemen, backed by United Arab Emirates and of course backed by US and the United Kingdom. So for a lot of the people in the world, it's really not a Saudi United Arab Emirates operation in Yemen. It's an operation of a colonial, it's really a colonial war being imposed to the Yemeni people in which of course Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are playing the front game as it were. As you pointed out, there is a very large impact of the colonial powers because without US, UK and France's support, I don't think the war would be possible in Yemen. So can you tell us something about this complicity of the Western powers in this war going on in Yemen? Well, first is of course what everybody knows, that huge arms sales which are being done by US, the United Kingdom and France to the Saudis and also to United Arab Emirates. We keep on talking about Iran versus Saudi Arabia, Iran being a threat in the region and so on. The reality is Iran spends probably one twentieth of its budget, of the budget that Saudis and United Arab Emirates spend on their military, militaries. The amount of rockets, aircraft that they have bought, armaments they have bought, Saudis and United Arab Emirates is way beyond what Iran ever had. So this whole question of why would you arm Saudis, United Arab Emirates on this scale when Iran does not have anything comparable is of course because you want to sell arms because that's the most profitable industry these three countries seem to have and there is nothing else they seem to be able to successfully sell to the world. So therefore the armament sale I think Saudi Arabia has bought about $115 billion worth of equipment in the last ten years from the United States. UK and France are of course way behind but there's still a very significant part of the sales and UAE also has a significant part of the sales. So this is one part of it and as you know Trump when he went I think there's a commitment to buy another ten years they will buy Saudis will buy about $110 billion worth of armaments. So recently there have been multiple arms deals done by the Crown Prince. That's right when he visited US, France and UK in every place he committed to buy a huge amount of arms and Trump went to Saudi Arabia he got commitments of selling arms. So all these leaders of these three countries act as the arms salesperson if you will but that's only one part of it other part of it the air force of these countries cannot fight without complete logistical support by the suppliers of the armaments who are there to see that everything is maintained all the equipment is serviced at regular intervals it's all the ground support for to make their air force operational is really these three countries mainly United States and United Kingdom they are personnel on the ground giving that logistical support. Third that even when this military strikes have been conducted against the Yemenis population and one third of the strikes are officially against the civilian population actual numbers are much larger then all these need in-flight fouling which is done by again US and UK aircraft their fuel as a basically gas stations in the air if you will that fuel in-flight fouling is done by these countries and it is clear that even in the command control centers you have American and British personnel who help in the military strikes. So this is a war in which UK and US are also participants though it is pretending that they really are not doing so that after 2016 they have not participated that's a US claim but in reality they are fully a part of the command control centers to execute the military strikes against the Yemenis who at the best have some 40-year-old scuds which occasionally they fire at Saudi Arabia which immediately brings up the issue oh it could be Iranian it could be this it could be that but the reality is that this is a completely one-sided war. Other part of it is unfortunately the Saudis do not seem to have the kind of armed forces on the ground you know running a feudal empire monarchy does not give you those kind of forces so therefore the Houthis of the ground have been not only able to hold their own but they have even been able to occasionally penetrate into South Africa, Saudi Arabia and conduct raids and so on. So you have this very peculiar shall we say constellation of forces where they completely rule the air and the seas therefore able to block it Yemen completely preventing food medical supplies fuel from reaching Yemen at the same time of the ground they're not able to do anything so what they're doing instead is bombing them mercilessly hoping at some point they will thus Houthis will give in at the point this does not seem to be happening so the air war the blockade is causing huge issues as you have said I think there are two million children who don't go to school because there are no schools the teachers have not been paid there are the UNICEF reports as 400,000 children are under conditions of life-threatening malnutrition the largest number of malnutrition among children are today in Yemen so all these figures look at the enormous pain that is being inflicted in Yemen but at the same time of the ground they don't seem to be able to make any headway and that's the that's a crisis that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well as the colonial powers have. Of course one part of the support comes the air support as you said comes from US and UK but the ground support is also coming from the mercenary armies which are largely composed of Sudanese people of the Sudanese forces but now recently we have seen there have been a lot of casualties amongst the Sudanese forces so you expect that Sudan will continue in supporting Saudi in this war you know the mercenary armies are not just Sudanese of course there are also other African players involved there are also white mercenary armies involved there are also mercenary armies for different parts of Asia which also they are trying to hire you know ex-servicemen from maybe Pakistan maybe other countries they're trying to hire and also armed mercenaries with the United States is using which is really what used to be called the black water which has now undergone various name changes which these are white they should these are these are actually American mercenary armies which are also being used for specific tasks as a part of privatization of US wars so this is a part of the larger game looking at the largest number of soldiers probably the Saudi Arabian ground forces if you will this is the Sudanese forces okay they're supposed to have about 10,000 Sudanese forces as a part of the Saudi attacks and trying to hold territory over there they're they're trying to hold the Aden port which is at the at the moment under the control of United Arab Emirates and Saudi forces so this Sudan seems to be a linchpin in the mercenary army as you said now the mounting casualties and there were some serious casualties that seem to have taken about a week back this has raised question in Sudan that what is the benefit of the Sudanese in Sudan in this war and yes we're getting money okay but does this money does it really compensate us for the kind of record losses we are suffering and the the initial promise the Saudis had made and the United Gulf states had made that will build your infrastructure will do this for you do that for you will help to remove the sanctions which are the US had imposed on the on Sudan so all that has not materialized neither has any of these investments materialized nor have the sanctions been lifted so there seems to be growing resentment of this involvement of the Sudanese forces in this kind of a war but at the same time you know a lot of these countries as as the US presidents and the UK prime ministers and the French prime ministers are also amenable to shall we say the larger military industrial complex all of which may mean jobs may mean political bounties in giving money to the country's concern could also be in private benefits so a lot of these countries the leaders of these countries could be in were complicit in different kinds of payoffs by which they are willing to sacrifice their people for the wars of the sky and this is I said is across the board whether it's a Trump it's a Teresa May or a Macron doing this for arms sales and sacrificing shall we see the interests of the people and the really in favor of the armaments companies or it's the Saudis who don't have arms to sell but they could be selling that people in such arms so I think the mercenary game of using the using mercenary soldiers has become important because most countries are not willing to commit their soldiers so given all of this the options the Saudis have a limited but as I said the cost to the eminence are enormous and it is something which the world is turning its face away from the United Nations is not even willing to give figures beyond 1950 2015 this 10,000 figure they've given is only 2015 figures they said we can't we're not able to count because health facilities are not there and therefore we have not been able to count how many are dying but the conservative figures are probably 70,000 have died in this attacks the others attacks of the civilians so enormous losses and enormous suffering that the many people are not being registered at all of course when the US UK France are so I mean involved in carrying out this word in all their statements condemning the war also quite ridiculous and hypocritical so apart from raised shedding crocodile tears about shall we say Syria and the civilian population in Syria blaming the Assad government in Syria continuously for the sufferings of the Syrian people while they are complicit in a party to what they're inflicting on Yemen and they're not even willing to talk about it thank you for joining us in this discussion and thank you for watching this clip