Christmas Eve 1964. One special reindeer will go down in history for guiding Santa's sleigh through the harsh winter storm. For me though, our red-nosed protagonist will be remembered for something quite different. Today I look back on this children's classic and relive the torment, the verbal abuse, the psychological pain and anguish, and the immense pressures Rudolph would have to overcome by virtually everyone he would come into contact with. Let us roast Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. Before we venture off to the North Pole, why don't you venture off to that subscribe button? Go ahead and hit it now as I post tons of movie roasts, movie reviews, reactions, live streams, everything, everything movie. Would love to have you stick around. All right, let's begin. This short presentation fires up with black and white articles flying at the screen. What kid wants to see this? I watched this film every couple years and it throws me every single time. Is this the right movie? Is this Rudolph? One of the papers talks about the sanitation department. I don't know what's going on over at the Daily News, but it sounds like a shitty situation. My favorite character of the presentation shows up. Presentation short for presentation, of course. Sam the snowman. He's rocking a bowler hat, a dapper vest, and a pocket watch. Oh, excuse me. Call me Sam. We're at the North Pole, aka Christmas Town. And it's known very early on that the Claus family really rules the roost here. Bit excessive with the flags, but Santa's an excessive guy. We get a glimpse into a Claus dinner, where Mrs. Claus is furious that Santa hasn't put on enough weight. Eat. Eat. Full blown skinny shaming him right out of the gates. All right, the snowman's about to rev up to the main event, which is the Rudolph storyline. However, I am completely transfixed on Sam's appearance. He's coming off like the KFC Colonel. And there's our title card. I love this section. It's cute. It's whimsical. It's very good. There's our titular character himself. Look at the little tyke. Let it be known. This is the only happiness that Rudolph's red nose reindeer will have in basically this entire film. The parents are thrilled for about five full seconds before Rudolph's nose starts blinking like a blinking beacon. How can you overlook that? Income Santa in hunting gear, I guess? I don't know what he's doing. Right away, he's put off by Rudolph's hideous nose. Great bouncing iceberg. Keep in mind, Rudolph's been on Earth for about six minutes now, and Santa's already laying into the kid grilling him about how he will never be able to fly his sleigh. Rudolph has no idea who this clown is. This old foggy comes in and starts berating him. I'm the king of jingling. All right, now we have a song. Kringle, full peacocking around the cavern, starts talking about how he's the king of jingling.  Come here, boy.   He feels ashamed of his son and immediately tries to bury the kid's nose in some mud. That's right, Rudolph makes his son wear black nose. As an aside, Mrs. Donner, she's looking like a full meal. We fast forward to just a few days before Christmas where a bunch of elves are literally slaving away in a workshop.  Hermie! Aren't you finished painting that yet? He starts drilling into Hermie about how he's not working hard enough. Hermie, the gayest elf on the planet, doesn't like making toys. Not happy in my work, I guess. What? He's also the only normal-ish looking elf. The others look possessed. This head elf is about one step away from shooting up the entire place. He has lost his mind. Look at the people Santa has in charge of his affairs. Just before the elf foreman is about to choke a bitch, the elf whistle blows. Signaling a full 10-minute break for our elves. 10 minutes for lunch. What is going on at Santa's workshop? Not for you! Dude! The head elf just threw a hands with Hermie. I think I'd rather go to an apple sweatshop than whatever is happening here. The head elf is at a 10 all the time. Hermie starts singing a depressing three-second song and mercifully the camera cuts away back to Rudolph, whose story has to be more upbeat and chipper than this, right? Right? Wrong! Why did my parents make me watch this as a child?   I recently rewatched Schindler's List. I think that movie's more upbeat than this. And so time passes. I love this shot where Santa's just full professional waiting for his cue to start talking like it's a live on air report.  Whoa! Let's talk about what's going on over with Rudolph. Silver and gold.  I instantly hate this kid, his blonde hair, his freckles. You think you're better than me, Fireball? You think you're better than me? So apparently the elf foreman is also in charge of the festivals. He's a conductor. He leads a beautiful procession from the elf staff, really for the audience of one that's watching. Mrs. Claus is into it. Santa doesn't give two shits. Look at this bozo. He can't wait to leave.  Well, it needs work. I have to go. Santa does a mic drop, gets up, leaves the room, flips everybody off that participated in this event for him. Just a real, real classy guy here. Looks like those future 10-minute lunch breaks are going to be spent practicing harder for the next musical. Why weren't you at elf practice? Shot out of a cannon, the Chef Ramsay equivalent of an elf smashes through the door. He needs to have some words with their lead tenor who is M.I.A. Good grief! Charlie Brown called. He wants his catchphrase back. The female deers start making doe eyes with the boys, but they're immediately buck blocked by Comet. All right, all right, guys. All right now. He's the flying coach.  And I know he's another adult because he's about one second away from bombing an orphanage. Every adult in this is unhinged.  She calls him cute, which sends Rudolph over the moon, as it's the first compliment he's ever had since being born. Kringle shows up at this very moment to see the impressive display. Rudolph celebrates by getting horny with his buddy. Unfortunately, all that jostling is gonna pop that cherry nose covering right off of Rudolph. Everyone loses their minds.  Santa is disgusted again by Rudolph. Honour, you should be ashamed of yourself. Blaming Comet for the entire ordeal. How is this on Comet? I knew Fireball was a prick. I called that day one. I'm concerned Clarisse might be dead because she's got the voice of an angel. Before this relationship can even get started, Clarisse's dad comes out of nowhere, shuts this relationship down. The adults are pissed 24-7 on edge.  Almost sitting on Hermie's face, which might have been the elves' plan all along. R2 leads, prance, sing, and frolic around the snow for a while. Bottom line, they're dipshits. I mean misfits. No, I was right the first time. I'm not sure what the plan was at this point, but they decide to trudge through the snow into Nowheresville in the dead of night during a cold harsh winter storm. You know what, freezing to death still better than the alternative, which is getting screamed at 365 days a year. The next day, the real hero of the picture shows up, Yukon Cornelius. He's, um, he's not all there, but he means well. If this came out in 2023, I am 100% confident Cornelius would be mining Bitcoin. Silver and gold propaganda aside, we now have an abominable snowman chase. Mondays, am I right? Back at the Donner household, Rudolph's dad is feeling bad, I think? He's at the very least upset that Rudolph hasn't come home, so he's gonna go out and look for the kid. Mrs. Donner's eager to come with. It's 1964, dear. That's not gonna fly. Donner has like one smidgen of a second where he's a decent dad, and then boom, right into the sexism. Look at the faucet of tears coming down Mrs. Donner's face. They don't give her a name. She isn't worthy of a name. She's lesser than the men. And just to reiterate, what a snack she is. She's a snack plus extra desserts. Everyone in this movie is yelling everything. Yukon is out of his freaking gourd here. After hitting land, they're greeted to a jack-in-the-box named Charlie. Well, that is an unnatural name for a jack-in-the-box, so he's been cast here. Where's here?  I don't even know what's wrong with half of them, an owl that can't fly but swims. The kid doesn't have to put you in the water. He's pretending with you, an elephant with polka dots.  What's even wrong with the doll? I think they're all just clinically depressed. That's the bottom line. Is it because she's a redhead?  I'm not sure if I blacked out for a few minutes, but when I came to, we were now at a penis palace with a griffin king who is granting wishes.  Mufasa lives in this massive palace where he oversees an island of crappy toys that no one wants and they can't stay in the palace with him. Why? The place looks like it can hold hundreds of toys. I'm a little nervous. Now this king wants the three Stooges to go back to Santa and ask if he can come pick up the crappy toys because the lion clearly doesn't want him on his property anymore. But all I'm thinking is you have wings and can fly. We just saw you flying around.  Zip over. Take an hour. Zip over to Christmas town or whatever the hell it's called.  The Lion King eventually does permit them to stay, but just for one night. And it's not going to happen in his castle. Show our friends to their chambers. Now they're going to be going to the Sleazy Motel down the street, staying at an Airbnb for Methodics with a single bed for all three of them to share. Hermes probably loving this. Rudolph suffering from red nose guilt, so he opts to leave in the middle of the night, sneak away to fight the abominable himself. And he makes his way back home to the cave where, oh look, Santa's around. That's wonderful, says no one. Don't worry Rudolph, Santa has a few months in the chamber of shame to throw at you. He's going to blame Rudolph for Christmas essentially being cancelled. He's going to blame him for his parents and his friends worrying sick, roaming around the island looking for him. Kringle is an emotional terrorist of the highest caliber. Suddenly, just two days before Christmas Eve, the storm of all storms blows in. The newspapers warned us about this folks. Remember the black and white intro? Here we are. Rudolph attempts to take shelter in a nearby cave, only to find his friends and family fighting the abominable. Clarice is about to be eaten. Rudolph thinks fast though and quickly rams the abominable's ass, hard. He didn't even buy him dinner first. And now this is the only way he can achieve climax. After finishing, Bumble knocks Rudolph into next Christmas.  This laugh is pure uncut nightmare fueled, matching, nay, surpassing even the scariest of horror flicks. Yukon and Hermie show up just in the saint nick of time. The two form a plan and Hermie springs into action, getting on all fours and oinking like a pig. Oddly, that had nothing to do with the plan they came up with, but it still worked all the same. Yukon says, I used to see you. Hermie, not one to shy away from an opportunity, seizes it. Nothing needs to be said here. Oh my god, he ripped out all of his teeth. I guess that also made the Bumble smaller, because he's now 50% the size he was before, which gives Yukon the advantage to start swinging at him. But oh no, they both go over the cliff! Yukon, no! He's gone! Good night, sweet prince. It's been a long day without you, my friend. The gang's all back together again.  The following line is presented without context.   I'm sorry to Rudolph for the way I acted. Stating that he's sorry for how he acted, what, like when, Donner, your entire life? Or just this last few minutes with Rudolph? Like, you have to be very specific, because everything you've done up until this point has been garbage. Cornelius lives!  And he's brought with him a new slave for the workshop. The Abominable now gets to put the star on top of the tree, and for the remainder of his life, we'll sit in a prison cell somewhere, getting rocks thrown at him by the fellow elves and deer. I imagine that's what they'll do, because everybody in this film are trash. Mrs. Claus is back to her old tricks. Why hasn't he left her yet? Oh, can I eat? Not that the force feedings are gonna matter at this point, there's only a few hours to go before Christmas Eve, and we're gonna need a miracle again if we're gonna salvage. What, what? That beautiful, wonderful nose! Santa is super pumped right now that Rudolph's ugly affliction that everybody has mocked the entire time, now can be a benefit to him. And so now Rudolph has value, because Santa can use him for his benefit.  He's very underage, I would imagine, to pull a sleigh, but yeah, we're gonna throw him at the front, we're gonna use him because of his nose. Things are really looking up in Christmas Town.  Yukon waves goodbye before once again licking his axe. And no, that's not a euphemism.  They perk up though when they hear the jingle-jangle of the sleigh coming their way, not realizing at the time that Santa's only doing a fly-by and he's gonna drop about five tons of napalm, decimating everything it touches. Sorry, depressing me, Elmo's. No kids for you. I'm joking, he does pick these things up, he flies around while the credits go, and then he drops them all off at Sid's house from Toy Story One. That's Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, a very, very strange flick.  And my family watches this almost every year, getting a kick out of this, but not for the reasons it probably intended at first. Or maybe it was just really ahead of its time and it's like, let's make a show that's for families, but it's about all these awful monster people and how Rudolph has to overcome them and Hermie has to overcome them. It'll be great. All right, now I wanna know your thoughts on Rudolph. Let me know if you watched her recently or if you remember it from your childhood and ran away as far as you could. Please like the video if you had some fun here.  Obviously, this is a classic, it's iconic. The art style's so good. There's plenty of great one-liners and good music.  Please subscribe if you haven't. I have a lot of roasts now on the channel, plus I do reviews all the time. I have live streams, everything's movie-based, just having a good time here. All right, thanks for watching. Hope you have a good holiday and I'll see you soon.


You may be seated. Good afternoon and welcome to the ninth annual Unsung Heroes Awards. My name is Linda Brooks-Burden and I'm the branch manager at the Bayview-Wadden Library in Bayview Hunters Point and it is my pleasure to introduce our master of ceremonies for the afternoon. For 49 years, Dr. Arthur Coleman has been practicing family medicine in Bayview Hunters Point. He has been politically, socially, economically active in this community for the same number of years. Along with his wife, Dr. Coleman co-chaired the African American Affinity Group, which raised nearly $600,000 for the African American Center here at the New Main Library. Dr. Coleman has been a hero in our community for many, many years. How appropriate it is to have him help us recognize our Unsung Heroes here today. Please help me welcome Dr. Arthur Coleman. Thank you very much Linda and good afternoon to everyone. It's a real privilege and pleasure for me to serve as your master of ceremonies this afternoon and I say that for several reasons. First of all, as I understand it, and this is a, this affair today is a joint effort between Western Edition Ocean View and Bayview Hunters Point and I think that's so important that the library branches are coming together and Unison put on this affair today. The second reason why I'm so happy and feel so glad that you're here is that I hope each and every one of you, if you have not, will avail yourselves of the opportunity to see the African American Center on the third floor. It's a beautiful part of this building and this building itself is beautiful and I think you will be very proud of our representation in this part of the library. What I would like to do first before making a presentation of awards is you have another selection from that young and gifted choir. We enjoyed that first one, I'm sure everyone did and I know they will give us great spirit and great uplift in their next song. Wonderful way to start our program, young and gifted. So much needed. We're going to take a program a little out of order in terms of the awardees and so when I call the awardees the name, will that person please start coming forward and that will save a little time. First we're going to have Hazel L. King. Mrs. King was born in Arkansas but moved to California with her husband in 1951. As a mother of six children, she became active in the old Bayview School PTA. Mrs. King was instrumental in the building of the school now known as Charles Drew Elementary. In 1959 she became a member of the Bayview Hunters Point Coalition Parent Action Group that aggressively pursues matters in the community that relates to the welfare of the child. During the late 60s while helping her brother in his store, Mrs. King became cognizant of the problems people had of not being aware of the services available to support their needs. Through research, she became involved with the Economic Opportunities Council known as the EOC and has been actively involved in distributing food through the Senior Food Program. At the same time she works distributing food for anyone in need in a program called Temporary Food Assistance. In 1980 she assisted in forming the Bayview Hunters Point Democratic Club to address issues and needs in the community. She has been president since 1995 in that organization. Mrs. King actively worked to help elect Willie Brown and increase voter registration in the Bayview Hunters Point community. The Democratic Club awards numerous scholarships every year to students of all ethnic origins. Mrs. King is a board member of the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Foundation, an organization that gives free legal assistance to all. Since 1985 Mrs. King has taught a senior citizen exercise class at the Bayview Hunters Point Multicultural Senior Center and since 1951 she has been a member of the Friendship Baptist Church in South San Francisco. Mrs. King is truly an unsung hero who deserves recognition for years of devotion and hard work for the members of our community. Mrs. King. I'd just like to say I'd just like to thank the committee for choosing me. A lot of things that you know you're doing in communities you don't realize people are noticing you just start just going so much until you think you know it's just a part of life. But then there's someone watching and I'm glad that someone actually saw me because sometimes you think that no one see all the things that you do but I also like to thank the women's that set this up and providing refreshments and stuff and really thinking about all of us and I just appreciate this to the highest and those that just really looked over and out in the community and see so many needs and I think the world would be much better if we all would just take a look around and there is something that you can do also just don't always point the finger get out there there's plenty plenty to be done especially now that we having this welfare reform it's going to take all of us to try to make it work so get on your job and join us thank you the next awarding Eric Dupree could not be with us today because he's ill but he's being well represented by of course his mother Ella Price and by a nephew Carlton Dupree they please come forward Eric Dupree is spearheading the lead of a 40-year-old institution into the 21st century he is an activist at heart a consultant by trade and an administrator in practice he has paved the way for young people and technological innovators to take the African-American historical and cultural society and all people to the next level and beyond Eric also honors the elders the pioneers who have paved the way before him and continue to lead us all Eric educates and motivates everyone who enters the historical society through his inspirational tours highlighting artifacts and relating shared experiences that tell the true story of a people he also goes out to visit senior senior centers schools organizations and individuals to speak read poetry provide historical information give walking tours and to document events and experiences on videotape one visit with Eric leads to a spirited work relationship that extends be throughout the community he brings together educators artists and young people and others to share their resources skills and talents to produce events and more he is a communicator a networker and an organizer who leaves no door closed and who strives to open access and maximum activity and opportunity in 1997 alone he has guided the career of a young singer songwriter who has been featured on the radio and in African-American history month events he has produced a historic and innovative multimedia conference honoring innovators and pioneers he has brought new members to an institution and is working on a 1998 national preservation conference he trains young people to open their books after school and to do their homework motivates them to write and read their poetry and trains them and how to use a video camera and to conduct interviews as one young person said in her nominating Eric quote makes us known in our communities so that we will all be more interested in doing things throughout our communities he builds lives institutions and communities close quote let us recognize that huntsung hero through his representative his mother and nephew good evening stage fright good afternoon Carlton and I are here to accept this award on Eric's behalf Eric is home with the flu he has a very bad case of the flu but in his absence we'd like to say thank you for honoring Eric with this award thank you very much the third awardee and we'll break after this one for some more entertainment also is not with us today but I believe we have a substitute yes and that's the awardee is Shirley Jones and the person who's representative would please come forward I've had the pleasure of knowing Shirley for at least I would say 30 years I don't want to date her but I know it's been at least that long well since I've been in the community 49 years I still leaves her as a young person she's lived in San Francisco for most of her life and in the Bayview Hunters Point for over 20 years she's a mother of five daughters grandmother of six she has been the executive director of Kheed the California Association of Health Education Employment and Dignity for 26 years and is the epitome of community activism before Kheed became a nonprofit in 1978 it was known as the San Francisco welfare rights organization besides advocating for women on AFDC this organization handled and distributed up to 12 million dollars in food stamps when no one else would since then Miss Jones as the executive director has been involved in the development and implementation of numerous projects and programs which serve the needs of the Southeast community and she is an expert in community health care services aimed at addressing the needs of minority communities she's been active in the Bayview Hunters Point area as I said for many years and is one of our most respected leaders she presently is the chairperson of the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard Advisory Committee many of you may know to know that the shipyard of course is being turned over to San Francisco and Shirley wants to make sure and that the African-American community is well represented and the development of whatever development that takes place in that area and so she's been put countless hours and much work and watching over the changes taking place at the shipyard she's also president of the board of directors of the young community developers she's on the board of directors of the Bayview Hunters Point community defenders and she's a member of the National Association of Community Health Centers Enterprise Council just to name a few currently she is a key he does a lead agency for the Southeast family support network a collaborative made up of 14 agencies that service the Southeast community the network has just been awarded a community challenge grant in excess of $600,000 to implement teen pregnancy prevention programs under our guidance the organization has survived in a time when the access fall in as we know on many social programs as a result of the conservative Congress we have so in my opinion and I hope you will share with the committee and it's your opinion also that she is truly an unsung hero good afternoon everyone on behalf of Shirley Jones and her family I'd like to thank all of you and the San Francisco library for this honor thank you I think we will go back to the program and if you notice we have a dance and drum troop at a gun Cypher Gola cap era good afternoon I'm Terry Baruti and I'm the director of Arigun Sipu and Gola cup with a dance troupe today we have a special guest to bless this program since we're bridging the gap of African history we have one of our ancestors from the Congo who is my instructor my drum instructor and our dance instructor and he's a master drummer master senior and master choreographer the former director of the Congolese National Ballet I want to introduce to you master Sandoor jeep a kawaisi from the Congo so that we can hear some of our traditional music right from the root of the tree not from the leaves right from the root fresh out the soil so we hope that you're gonna enjoy what you're about to see and what you're about to hear and it's very important that we understand the connection of our ancestry I consider myself not only an African-American but a new world African because they kidnapped our ancestors out of the old world brought us over here to a new world so what we are a new world African that means you can be anything Cuban Puerto Rican Jamaican Chicago Cleveland from Canada with new world Africans thank you next awardee Galon Logan jr someone rep you okay Mr. Logan has resided in the baby hunters point for almost for most of his 32 years from his experience as a youth years of being a single parent and close to eight years of working in and around the San Francisco unified school district as an advisor his organization called infusion one was created was founded in 1994 and it's a non-profit community-based volunteer organization whose mission is to empower at-risk youth living in the southeast section of San Francisco through programs and community forums and infusion one seeks to stimulate dialogue and develop activities that promote positive change in the lives of youth and their families infusion one current programs include one life skills in America an elementary and middle school program that is founded on the basic principles of responsibility respect and reality second academic and athletic olympics a seasonal event for elementary school children that offers a fun way to learn the virtues of being a balanced individual by combining academics and athletic competitions three youth speakers bureau a program which provides intensive public speaking and leadership training for youth ages 11 to 20 besides being a single father of three galon is also a member of simba an african-american male mentoring program and a co-facilitator of a proactive father's group at bernette elementary school as a member of the southeast community collaborative uh galon will be taking on the responsibility of forming the bayview hunters point youth council which will be part participating in the citywide youth empowerment conference put on by the mayor in may he is a true advocate and a true unsung hero for our youth who has dedicated his time and efforts to raising their self-esteem and broadening their horizons for a young man in a black male he is ready to be rewarded i'm nervous as hell excuse me i just want to start first off by giving thanks to my creating um and secondly for all of the elders who are currently present and not present um there were so many things that i wanted to say this afternoon but i'm gonna stick with just a couple uh first of all this is a unsung hero award and i just want to share with all of you that there's been a song being sung in my heart which continues to sing loud which is both peaceful and also angry which has guided me to do what i do um last night i went and saw a movie called rose bloom or rose rosewood thank you very much i might not have the title right but i got the content of the movie and it was uh it was something that i didn't want to it was one of those kind of movies that you don't like to see but you have to see um i just want to end by asking if you all would indulge me uh infusion one is based on three principles which are respect responsibility and reality those are three things that seem to be missing to a large degree in our society today but are also missing very much so on our youth today i would like to ask if you would join in with me we have a pledge which is a life's pledge if you all would join me in reciting that is that all right it starts out like this i will always strive to respect myself others and my environment i understand that respect is brother to responsibility and that i must continuously take responsibility responsibility for my thoughts actions successes successes and failures i understand that brother cannot and will not exist without sister reality i understand that i must always base my life choices on nothing other than what is real not fantasy or make believe now i make this pledge i make this pledge for no other person other than me myself and i for the purpose of achieving great harmony and success and love for myself and others thank you the next award is susie lucas she will come forward she is the ocean view engleside district's unofficial scribe a low-profile activist who puts her excellent writing skills at the service of the people of the community a retired federal employee a mother of eight grandmother of 13 great grandmother of nine and mrs lucas still works she still works part time as a medical secretary after hours she somehow finds time to write and edit the newsletter of the ocean engleside lions club serves as secretary of the bay area service league volunteers with omi pilgrim senior center omi neighbors in action senior action network big brothers big sisters of san francisco christmas in april and the list goes on what makes mrs lucas really unique though is her unofficial unsung role as letter writer and scribe for the community people tell me the story and i put it in a letter form she makes it sound so easy but mrs lucas has put in countless hours helping community members and they're dealing with city officials and departments family and social services civil and criminal courts she has helped neighborhood activists publicized and organized by writing those vital letters to news organizations churches activist groups and business leaders beyond this she has given freely of her time to serve as advocate and go between in personal matters writing the letters of reference and character that help young people gain interest to the college of their choice or land them the land that job or just writing the letters that smooth people's dealing with stores banks the electric company etc the community comes to susie lucas with problems and concerns large and small trusting her quote put it in writing close quote providing them with a strong clear voice when they might otherwise go unheard susie lucas is a true unsung hero well first i want to thank you but i wanted to tell dr colman i was a little bit upset the way he called his honorees making me put a fourth or fifth in line because that means i have to stand in the shadow of all these beautiful dancers and all these people have done so much my goodness i mean true activists and i just felt that what i do as they say i'm a low-key person and i've been in the ocean english side since 1960 and i've always been a part of everything that goes on you can believe i will be a part of it you know but what i need to say today everybody has a gift everybody in this room has a gift that they can do and thankfully i am able to write good letters and today communication if you have to be able to write a letter because you cannot take care of business on the phone because you can't get to anybody on the phone now by the time you go through the press one two and three and i'm sorry all of our operators are busy and this that and the other if you have a complaint with someone or anything you want to say you've almost forgotten what you wanted to say because you've been on the phone so long so this is the reason why to be able to write letters for people who have problems or we always write letters about problems so this is where i really am able to help my community and in other ways too but i really do love somebody says susie i need a letter or i can be somewhere where things aren't quite right in the store luckies anything and i say uh i think i feel a letter coming on we have to do something about this you know so i just like miss king said a lot of time to do things that people don't even pay any attention to and that's the position i find myself in so i'm really very honored to be able to be a part of this today and receive this award thank you the next honoree is uh el norah maybond miss maybond is a dedicated volunteer on behalf of homeless people and others who find themselves in need she has been an active member of pleasant hill baptist church for 50 years and currently serves on the board of directors of the united council of human services for 10 years he served as a foster grandparent visiting seriously ill children at san francisco general hospital every Saturday evening you will find el norah maybond in the tenderloin district serving dinner to homeless people at hospitality house during the week she catches the bus to deliver books to homeless shelters somewhere in between these activities she finds time to act as clothing distributing distribution manager for the united council of human services providing free clothing to those in need on pacific islands as well as here at home in the words of her friends and fellow volunteers el norah maybond is a 73 year old with the energy of a 30 year old a tower of strength all who know her agree that she is one of the true unsung heroes of san francisco i begin to guard and to each one as president to dr. colman no end to my gratitude for this award i enjoy my work i believe it's my calling i see so much suffering among the homeless people so i just keep on going going going thank you i believe at this time we have a 10 minute intermission you stand stretch your legs you have to make a pit stop stop it's right around the corner uh just don't be too long let's get back so we can get started within 10 minutes please how to recognize you guys ready to tell them let's go truly been an inspirational day at least for me oh our next uh honoree is um dr. martha mack henry she gave service in public education as a teacher and counselor in the elementary middle and high schools of san francisco for almost 40 years monumental 40 years of raising the minds hearts and souls of young people she began her teaching career in austin texas at the elementary school she attended as a child after moving to san francisco she continued to teach in the elementary division she also served as a counselor and summer school administrator for special classes a counselor on a team for middle schools and an educational counselor for a high school in san francisco she earned a bachelor's degree from toteson college in austin and a master's degree from san francisco state university she received a cultural doctorate in literature from world university in 1999 and 1990 she continues to raise a little head of myself there she continues to raise the minds and hearts of us all as the coordinator of the bimonthly open poetry readings the annual african-american history month poetry a festival and the youth poetry readings for the african-american historical and cultural society she found that this program which is now in its fifth year poets and would be poets all have an opportunity to read in the words of nominator elwes mckinney johnson quote dr mchenry has given generously of her talents her time and her personal funds to establish in the poetry readings a positive community resource that is already a tradition wherein she consistently reminds participants no profanity please end of quote she is the author of three books golden books book of poems living poems in today and time to read short stories for young people she has been described as a superior poet she's also a dedicated member of third baptist church zeta five beta sorority and the national council of negro women she attends meetings and produces events year-round but still finds time to travel to literary and other conferences to bring us even more education and inspiration let us raise up in celebration to honor this mind heart and soul razor dr martha mckinney unsung hero thank you also thank you to the persons on the committee that accepted me for this award thank you to those who submitted my name i am uh in we are beginning our fifth year as the uh coordinator i was a founder of the organization as i started to say that before when it didn't and now we are beginning our fifth year as the coordinator we give this program by monthly it's a community project we reach out in the community we invite people anyone who writes poetry uh many people who read their poetry published authors but not all of them if you'd like to write to read your poetry you may come we only have one standard rule no profanity we are there from seven to nine it's a program that we want everyone to come and really enjoy and participate poetry makes a contribution to human understanding which creates a better world for all of us and let us look into poetry more and please let us let the little children also learn to read and write poetry on them ever since we've had this program the month of may has been dedicated to young children to that's our youth night program so may 8th i think it is the 13th whatever the second thursday is at seven o'clock bring all of your little children to uh 762 Fulton street and let them read their their poetry or listen to others if they listen to others they will also be motivated to read so i thank you for this opportunity the next award is will reno it will come forward it's a name everyone in the ocean view engleside community recognizes a community businessman activist humanitarian and friend reno came to san francisco in 1959 after he was honorably discharged from the navy he settled in the ocean view engleside area in 1960 and opened reno's community barbershop in 1967 the barbershop today is a clearing house for community concerns he immerses himself in the community and takes a leadership role in the solution of its problems he is responsible for obtaining refuse containers on broad street and bus stop shelters in the omi area he works with southwestern neighborhood improvement group called snag co-founded in 1976 in the omi lions club organized in 1985 these groups provide thanksgiving dinner for senior citizens a toy giveaway at christmas and easter egg hunt and annual trips for underprivileged neighborhood kids to raging waters great america and the center cruise boardwalk he serves as a role model and mentor to african-american children and youth from female headed households his involvement in these children's lives frequently deters poor performance and an abandonment of academic pursuits whenever he is needed he lends a helping hand frequently reaching into his own pocket and given of his personal resources when crisis strikes the native community the first question asked is does reno know about it a child has not been fed see reno a mother for hundreds of reasons does not have all the rent money and is threatened with eviction see reno government and the vast demarc bureaucracy is wielding the big stick of authority there is a community meeting to see what can be done about it count on reno to be there leading the discussion fully exploring the possibilities advising swapping ideas within the group calling just the right person to get their take on the situation his devotion and commitment to building and strengthening the community and its people are unconditional and ongoing we can never repay his kind of service we can only honor him and we do so today as an unsung hero mr reno thank you very much and i am surprised and honored to receive this award i have done quite a lot of work throughout the communities and throughout all the communities very few hundreds of points and a few more every but i've done most of my work in the ingleside area i'd like to thank everyone here who has supported me and wrote my name in to receive this award i actually received this award for the ocean ingleside community because without them uh it wouldn't i wouldn't be here accepting this award uh the ocean ingleside lines club which says that's there uh mr robson who told me he couldn't make it today because he uh had to babysit god knows he made it thank you mr robson Naomi Williams who is the coordinator and planner to uh help me with the trips that we take to santa cruz great america and the likes with all the kids 160 kids per per uh trip uh her and her mothers here and i thank them both i thank everyone in here to uh who is here to provide and help community needs as they see fit thank you very very much at this point we will be entertained by the uh dance and drum troop i believe they're ready good evening again now this is second half of uh adigone seafoods production uh what we're going to do now is another dance number from the conga lee set and the dance is choreographed by mrs lorraine bowser brooty who works in the bayview community at gloria davis and uh maybe gloria davis school might take in consideration to use uh some of the people that are in the community to teach our children in their own community that would be kind of nice uh it would also be kind of nice for a little support for adigone seafood who's been in the bayview uh district for the number of years and have been existing for 12 years so we are there and we're waiting for you to bring your children and waiting for you to show up yourself uh and maybe if we utilize some of our own community assets uh we'll have a little more going so we appreciate the opportunity to be here and to join our spirit please have a good time uh enjoy the dance and the music we'll be showing you some cupwood angola which is a rite to passage dance that come from the same band two people that originated the conga lee style dance that we do and it was a dance to initiate the young men who were picked by their elders to set into manhood they were females who were picked by their elders to step into womanhood and they would do a separate dance and the young men would do a dance called ungulu and ungulu means zebra dance which was reminiscent of the zebras when the males fight for dominance during mating season so the band two people took elements of that dance and made it into a rite to passage dance uh because in that society you just didn't marry because you wanted to uh you had to first be groomed and picked by your elders and that means if you were a young man it wasn't your father because your father could be prejudiced and say that he feels you're ready simply because uh you are his son so it had to be one of his elders either his father or his older uncle or maybe the chief of the village same for the young ladies it would have to be your mother's mother or your mother's auntie or the senior elder female of the community would pick your daughter so uh i think it would be good if we would bring some of these elements back into our community and one thing about these different arts and these styles of music and dance is something that you can do that's spiritual and that is relative to your existence that you could do every day you don't have to talk with your mouth and then do something different you can live it every day it could be a part of your spirituality that you can practice so uh let us get right to the dance that was a wonderful presentation i'm sure we all enjoyed it one more the hour is getting late and the library does close at five i believe today so we're going to move the program along and uh we have two more awardees the next one is Dwayne Robinson if you'll come forward he grew up in baby hunter's point and has been involved in mentoring and counseling use for a number of years as an assistant basketball coach at city college and a head coach with the adult basketball mid-light league in the early 1990s he gained the ability to motivate players to their peak performances this skill was easily transferable for mentoring and counseling at risk youth dwayne is a role model that young men can especially identify with for he has been where many of these youths find themselves as a prevention specialist with baby hunter's point youth service he had the task of tracking students in attendance and grades at that same time he was also a counselor for the home detention program whereas duties included aggressive monitoring of youth to ensure compliance with court orders he's been a tutor and counselor with the family uh prozac project and a san francisco uh educate uh and the san francisco educational services he is currently a coordinator for the baby hunter's point healthy start collaborative which works with the six elementary schools in the community to promote the health of the total child mentally emotionally as well as physically uh dwayne is also executive director and owner of the bayview barbers college which will be opening this summer providing jobs and training to youth in the bayview hunter's point also he is a member of uh exposure pronouncing cag cag community advisory group uh for the muni light rail on third street and he's also involved with the enterprise zone council he's a he's the uh a youth member of that so without further due i'd like to introduce dwayne as an unsung hero uh as well as being married and the father of five i'd like to give thanks and foremost to our creator god almighty i'd like to give a special thanks to my grandmother i'd like her to stand up for if not her i would not be here today she's 89 years old she's a very inspiration to me um working in bayview um it's it was really hard in the beginning when i first took on a job of working with youth trying to get them in school and try to realize the realization of what their lives in the future would be but as i go throughout bayview and throughout the city working with our youth i think that all of us have a tendency to look at the ones who hang out in the corners as being bad but this is what we saw today the kids who were up here they could be one of these kids who were up here today but i would like to keep this short and one of the things that i really want to um get to the point was my son right here this is my my baby son right here and did you want to say something oh what do you say thank you thank you okay and the last awardee is larry gray should athletes be role models for young people do they have any social responsibilities beyond negotiating the best contracts they can get for themselves that question has been debated in newspaper columns and radio and tv sports talk shows today we're honoring an athlete for whom there's never been any doubt about the answer to those questions coach larry gray has been using his talent to help kids in his community for over 20 years following high school graduation gray divided his time between continuing his education and playing professional basketball including a stint in the nba with a la lakers probably needing him up here but the warriors but he was down there he earned a bachelor's degree from evansville university in indiana and a master's degree from san francisco state majoring in secondary education he coached basketball at redwood high school city college of san francisco and in san francisco pro-am summer leagues at the same time he was a recreation coordinator at elahill hill hitch community hutch sorry elahill hutch community center in the western edition there he was a co-founder of the highly successful midnight basketball program this program is not just about basketball its participants also get g ed preparation employment training and hope and purpose for the future thanks to larry vision and commitment larry is presently director of athletics at bow ball high school he also gives to capricorn a non-profit organization he has founded capricorn operates as a referral service contacting coaches to alert them to promising athletes girls as well as boys larry gray has was nominated for this award by more than a dozen young people their respect and regard for him is apparent quote he's always helping kids stay out of trouble close quote quote he helped put me on the right track close quote quote many are able to look up to coach gray close quote these are typical of the comments they make about him we're proud to honor you as an unsung hero you're being presented as last but that doesn't mean you're still not first okay first of all i could give honor to my creator because we know without him i would not be here today i'd like to give honor also to jimmy magnil who sort of uh i won't say trick me but he sort of got to me by asking me for my resume and i never knew why he said he was going to send it to some coaches because there were some jobs that was available because myself i just believe that what i'm doing is part of my life's work i don't feel like i'm doing anything that should be recognized this something that's a part of my daily work but i wanted to say that uh with our student athletes especially african-americans uh i'm trying to help them get their fair do what i mean by that is we do not have enough african-american student athletes leaving san francisco going to college and my goal is as director of athletics at balboa to make sure that our young people get that rightful do get their grades up and be recognized as students athletes second thank you at this point i would like to turn the program over to john jackson who is an honorary unsung hero thank you dr colman um i have a lot of people to thank uh and i think i will begin with the other librarians who worked with me on this program this year you know this is the ninth annual uh and this program began in 1989 nine from seven that's when it began um and it began at the western edition library which i'm very proud to say is the library that i'm the manager of uh and this is the first year that we've had a librarian's committee uh to work on it and i think that uh it's been four times as successful this year because of that uh these are the members of the committee uh dark darkest thomas of ocean view branch amy holloway who is the librarian of the african-american center here in the main library and you already met linda brooks burton who is the manager of the bayview widen and we four would all very much like to thank dr colman for doing such a wonderful job and to show our appreciation we have a gift certificate for you dr colman from marcus bookstore so thank you thank you well before i close there is another unsung hero um and i would not dare leave here without introducing her and that's my wife i'm not quite finished yet uh in uh in addition to the hardworking librarians committee uh we also had a great deal of help from a number of people in our communities and i would like you to meet them now um there's my wife um majoria louise dickie standing in back um merriam pavis merriam dorthy strickland donald ray young i haven't seen donald ray this afternoon i i don't think he was able to be here but he was a tremendous amount of help and has been for years in in putting this program together um and another person who has been a big help for years who may also not be in the room and that's martha tippaddle who is the uh member of the national council of negro women who has been with me since what was that year who figured it out when did this program 88 1988 martha and i have been working together on this program and martha is in uh the room across the hall supervising the preparation of a fabulous reception with a banquet i've been over there and i've had some samples and i can tell you there is plenty and it's delicious and we want you all to go over there and have some in a minute when i finish talking uh i would also i would also like to introduce if she's in the room still uh marcia snider who's the uh chief of branches for the library is she there she is she's waving hi marcia and she's she's just been out helping us get permission to stay here late so that we don't have to get out of here by five o'clock we can stay later uh i would also at this time i would like to introduce um sharon johnson miss johnson you've waited a long time for this moment it's come miss johnson is from assemblyman kevin shelly's office please come thank you thank you uh dr colman and uh the great committee but especially thank you to all of the unsung heroes that were mentioned today and for all of those of you that are out there doing the work of for the community and behalf of yourselves and your families unfortunately assemblyman kevin shelly cannot be here with you today but he asked me to send his best regards to all of you and i have uh certificates of recognition from the california state assembly that i will leave with jones so that you may collect them and congratulations and thank you oh they're very nice uh i also have certificates from senator quinton comps office senator quinton comps office did not send anyone here uh but they they send over their certificates so um award winners please stop by and see me at the reception and um you get your certificates and now i wish to introduce someone who's been very dear to me for a long time uh this lady was one of the very first unsung hero award winners um and she's been helping us ever since then uh this is vera clanton she is the president of the northern california life members guild of the national council of negro women and uh from this plant thank you jones jones is one of the most giving women that i know she has given to this community the western edition since 1889 and before but we brought it to the public in 1889 this oh i'm sorry listen this is very important i just got through with this black history month visiting the schools talking about frederick douglas sojourner truce and all these 1889 and so it's a part of me right now but anyway you know i would like to say for jones and that committees that worked with the unsung hero since 19 since 1989 they have done a marvelous job and the national council of negro women has been a co-partner with them we have served with them in more ways than one and you know it takes a good cook to sometimes keep the audience together see all of you are going to stay here now until you go in that reception room and you should because it's very very beautiful but marcia tipido as she stated is our second vice president of the golden gate section and she has worked on the committee and also in sharing with the food so she's in there now but one of the things i had to say about john i got to find my little nose she's the courageous woman because she has stood up and went through with this for eight years over in the western edition at the library 1550 scott street where we were cuddled in there between books but we had a beautiful celebration each year but this year look at us we have the big uh auditorium so now next year i'm sure we'll be here again so we are so pleased to have the ocean view angle side bay view and honus point and you know i was so glad to see them today because all of them remember me when i was working with their children so now when i saw them today everybody remembered me even when i was a robinson but you know i'm glad to see you because i'm getting up there and i'm forgetting faces but not i'm forgetting names but not faces so i'm very pleased to be with you so i was i gotta tell you just a little bit about the national council of negro women it is a council of 34 organizations called affiliates and 250 community-based sections and that is we're not leaving out anyone men and women men we need you and you are our affiliates we're so glad to see clerk clerkly over there he's one of our life legacy no he's a life member a life associate member with us so men join him that means that he paid 300 but anybody can be a member and support us each year at 25 so we're going to have application blanks and more information i even had a sheet printed because i knew i wouldn't have time to say the things i want to say so we're going to have a sheet it'll be over in the social hall i'll be sitting at a table so you come by and see me and i'll tell you much more about the national council of negro women so thank you very much for this little time also i want to say thank you to dr colman he's one that helped me with my little girls also so thank you i just happened to see that uh i believe that's martha tibodeau in the back there in blue uh we've already thank you martha but at least wave so everyone knows it's you and i think oh i have one more person to thank i saw her a minute ago uh carol and cooly who has been the stage manager here today where is she did where did she go there she is hi here she did a wonderful job i don't think we could have done this program without you caroline uh and of course today shawabi who's uh videoing the program and i believe people who want tapes uh if you get in touch with one of the members of the committee will make sure that you are able to get one um you want one okay good well you just let us know we'll make sure you get one you know something i feel bad i was going to urge everyone to go up to see the african-american center on the third floor i know it was mentioned early but i wanted to reinforce that i don't think we can do that now can we Amy it's it's yes the the the library closes at five so i don't think we can go up there today but i urge everyone to go back and see it it's a wonderful place and we thank dr colman very much because he was so instrumental in raising the money to that to achieve it i think that's all the talking i have to do but of course there's still a very important part of the program left and that is the reception uh that will be held when you go out the door outside uh you want to sort of go to your left not a hard left but but sort of diagonally to your left to the latino hispanic room and that is where the banquet and reception is and i i hope that while we're in there i hope that people who've received awards we could kind of gather and have a photo opportunity for the the group um that concludes my remarks anyone else


What's your favorite book and why okay, so I don't know my favorite favorite book, but I did I am reading a book called Tampa right now And I've read a book one of my favorite books was the child called it It was so emotional. It really was like graphic and it was deep and it brought you into a world of a child They had really tough abuse of life. It was hard to believe, but it was a true story. What should I read? That's what you should be telling me Since you know what books speak to you the most true stories You have to be true realize things that have happened in our autobiographies. I love I only watch documentaries or reality TV I'm obsessed with a real thing Contiki have you ever heard of this book? It was a guy nobody believed in him So he took a boat and he lashed together nine logs and he floated across the Pacific Ocean Just to prove it could be done and that's a real story. It's a true story


Sharp's Havoc, by Bernard Cornwall, read by Paul McGahn. Miss Savage was missing, and the French were coming. The splintering noise of sustained musket fire was sounding just outside the city, and in the last ten minutes five or six cannonballs had battered through the houses, high on the river's northern bank. The Savage house was a few yards down the slope, and for the moment was protected, but already the warm spring air hummed with spent musket balls that struck the roof tiles with a loud crack or else ripped through the dark glossy pines to shower needles over the garden. It was a large square house built of white painted stone. House Beautiful. It seemed an odd name for a building high on the steep hillside where the city of Aporto overlooked the river Duro in northern Portugal, especially as the house was ugly. Fugitives were fleeing past House Beautiful, running down the hill towards the ferries and the pontoon bridge that would take them safe across the Duro. Richard Sharp, lieutenant in the Second Battalion of His Majesty's Ninety-Fifth Rifles, unbuttoned his britches and pissed on the Narcissae in the house Beautiful's front flower bed. A howitzer shell arched overhead, sounding like a ponderous barrel rolling swiftly over attic floorboards. It left a small gray trace of smoke from its burning fuse. They're getting too bloody close, Sharp said to no one in particular. You'll be drowning those poor bloody flowers, so you will, Sergeant Harper said, then added a hasty sir when he saw Sharp's face. The howitzer shell exploded above the tangle of alleys close to the river, and the French cannonade rose to a sustained thunder. Some of the guns were very close. A new battery, Sharp thought. It must have unlimbed just outside the city, maybe half a mile away from Sharp, and was probably whacking the big northern redoubt in the flank, and the musketry that had been sounding like the burning of a dry-thorn bush now faded to an intermittent crackle, suggesting that the defending infantry was retreating. Some indeed were running, and Sharp could hardly blame them. A large and disorganized Portuguese force, led by the bishop of a porto, was trying to stop Marshal Soot's army from capturing the city, the second largest in Portugal, and the French were winning. The Portuguese road to safety led past the house beautiful, and the bishop's blue coated soldiers were skidaddling down the hill as fast as their legs could take them. Meanwhile, Miss Savage was still missing. Captain Hogan appeared on the front porch and swore fluently. Sharp buttoned his britches, and his two dozen riflemen inspected their weapons as though they'd never seen such things before. Captain Hogan spat as a French round shot trundled overhead. What it is, Richard, he said, is a shambles, a pocked bollocks of a shambles. Captain Hogan took out his snuff box and inhaled a mighty pinch. Bless you, Sergeant Harper, said. Captain Hogan sneezed. Kate Savage, Hogan said, is nineteen years old and in need of a thrashing.   A mother thinks she may have gone to Villa Real de Zedis. The family has an estate there. He rolled his eyes in exasperation. So why would she go there, sir? Sergeant Harper asked.  Hogan was stocky, middle-aged, a royal engineer with a shrewd face, graying hair, and a charitable disposition.  This Villa Real de whatever, Sharp said, is it far? Why don't we just fetch her? Which is precisely what I've told the mother you will do, Richard. You will find the wretched girl and you will get her across the river to Villa Nova. He paused as he penciled these instructions on the scrap of paper. Don't get the silly girl pregnant, he went on. Don't give her the thrashing she bloody well deserves, and don't, for the love of Christ, lose her, and don't lose Colonel Christopher either. Am I plain? Colonel Christopher's coming with us? Sharp asked. Appalled. Didn't I just tell you that, Hogan inquired innocently, then turned as a clatter of hooves announced the appearance of the widow's savages' traveling coach and a coachman leading Hogan's black mare. The captain hoisted himself into the saddle. You'll be back with us in a couple of days, he assured Sharp. Say, seven hours to Villa Real de Zedis? The same back to the ferry at Barca de Pintas? And then a quiet stroll home, you know where Barca de Pintas is? No, sir. That way, Hogan pointed eastwards, four country miles. What I don't understand, Sharp began, then po- Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Please welcome Ms. Karen Brown-Henoux, VP Commercial Business EMEA at Red Hat, who is a long-standing supporter of OFE and a Gold Sponsor of our Summit. Please. Good morning. Bonjour. Hello, online attendees. Good news is that I'm the last speaker before we have lunch, at least for those who are physically in this room. Revolution and evolution. What a difference one letter can make. And I'm French, so you know, revolution is not something unknown to us. Since 1789, we do know what revolution made to our country. We at Red Hat started 30 years ago with a revolutionary mindset to open up the IT market and unlock the world's potential with open source. Today, we have a somewhat evolutionary mindset thanks to the fact that open source has won, was said multiple times today in this room. It has won both as a development model for software, but also as a way to understand, collaborate, and solve problems together. Defending open remains front and center, whether it is at the command line or complying with the EU policy, as well as engaging with policymakers to discuss unintended consequences for open innovation and its underpinning global commons. Red Hat and our wider community of several million innovators continue to apply the same open logic to technology and policy objectives. I think there is something wrong with the presentation. Okay, so now let's stay on this one and then I'll do it myself. Thank you. Where was I? Continue to apply the same open logic to technology and policy objectives. We saw this with Linux. We saw this with cloud, with containers, and now with AI and Edge. Our common challenge in the future will be less persuading the world about the power of open. I think it's almost a given now. But defending highest possible hygiene levels of what we actually understand open to mean in law and practice. The advantages of default to open have convinced many people, companies, authorities, for good reasons. It's not limited to just software development. It has created new ecosystems that employ thousands and thousands, if not millions, of people all across the EU. Open Source is about a culture of sharing between hobbyists, communities, companies, civil society, and government. The borders are blurry in a positive way, creating a cooperative ecosystem. And this ecosystem is what Red Hat had created and fostered over more than 30 years.  The number of people we employ and revenue we generate are but the smallest part of this success. It is the ecosystem and cooperation on many levels that generates benefits everywhere. And rest assured, this ecosystem keeps on growing. So many numbers. We've already got a lot during this morning. Last summit, we celebrated the AU study, which called out the significance of this bubble, bottom left, about those amounts 65 to 95 billion euro, representing the value of the open source business in Europe. The numbers we heard earlier from the competitive advantage panel from Numeum and Bitcoin, Merci Jean-Philippe, provide further evidence of the core role these global open commons play across all European verticals. With today's imminent AI Act adoption, it makes sense to also call out bottom right just for having you following what I'm talking about with all those bubbles, that 420 million open source AI projects are on the GitHub platform. 420 million. Red Hat has long been contributing in developing open source AI email to provide customers with both predictive and generative AI. We are fully 100% open source and make available projects and tools on open data hub. And last, I will not comment on the 8.8 trillion dollars already covered at two occasions this morning, to save time and to be closer to the lunchtime. So, we are not only in the beautiful Brussels today, but also in the midst of the Belgian AU presidency. Let me mention a couple of success stories in Belgium, which is another fabulous demonstration of what open source can bring. I hope I pronounced it correctly. Digital Vlanderen. Am I right? Memo and Gantt University, they upgraded their legacy data platform to a modern open source and open standards based approach with OpenShift. Under many benefits, Digital Vlanderen saw what's to improve efficiency to deliver a critical COVID certification project in only six weeks' saving lives. This is also the contribution of open source to our citizens. I'm also proud to say that we have many open source success stories across the public sector in Europe. So, similarly, in the private sector, with German, Austrian, and Swiss Hellways, Deutsche Bahn, OBB, and SPB, to name them differently, they joined together in multiple hackathons in order to use open collaboration so as to better understand and serve their customers, in that case, their passengers. These companies brought together their developers to work on practical but also sometimes fun problems. The rules were simple. Sharing is compulsory. There are no secrets. Transparency is also an open source value. We all know that. So, together, they found timely solutions and improved services for their passengers, leading to both cost savings and growing their customer satisfaction. Happier customers, happier passengers. Those previous open source examples do showcase the power of open innovation and cooperation based on principles derived from open source. Open is the new lingua franca in the connected world. And we have found Europe to be a natural culture fit for all of these and expanded our footprint accordingly. Red Hat has its biggest development and engineering center for good reasons in the Bruno, Czech Republic. We see the AU as vibrant and innovative place to be. The key, though, is to understand open source as key to choice and sovereignty to tackle lock-in and drive transformation. Europe is a significant and growing contributor to the global commons. This is surely another metric when evaluating the success of default to policy in the future. We at Red Hat actively engage and provide policy, legal, developer, and operational resources, meaning tangible things, to support the open source community across a number of key policies from procurement, research, and development funding, cyber security, through two standardization and intellectual property. The Cyber Resilience Act has been one such example of defending what is key to open source communities as well as downstream deployments. And we call out and we thank all those who, such as OFE, NLNet, Eclipse, Linux Foundation, Apache, Python, and many others, who all engaged successfully across multiple institutions to help create a level playing field for open, in the wider sense, and mitigate unintended consequences. Clearly, we are all now working on several AU policy files, such as the CRA, and we look forward to carrying on this successful collaboration. These weekends, FOSDEM and OFE's policy works are excellent examples of the importance of us all to work together to analyze and map out these requirements as well as our collaboration on a range of open related items in both implementing guidance or standards, as well as new legislation in the next mandate. We grow when we share. Today's provisional agreement of the AI Act is a timely reminder that open has never been so important. Failure to double down on our collective defense of open policy over the past 25 years risk a repeat of the third, fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Remember the Brother War? A perfect example. The risk of concentration of an emerging market on a selected few companies, diminishing opportunities for small and local players, for instance. Much more work and collaboration is needed. An organization such as Open Forum Europe will play an important role in facilitating a timely discussion and articulation, so as not only to defend open in the emerging field, but also how open creates growth and opportunities, especially here in the EU. So let's back to the R question at the beginning of my intervention. Open Source has won, and the need for any kind of revolution has become very much an evolutionary path. Never has there been a more compelling time to embrace open source and further boost contribution across Europe, verticals, and public sectors. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with you all during the next upcoming EU mandate. Thank you very much. Merci.


9 Signs That You're Dating AssocioPath How do you know when you're in a relationship with the wrong person? Sometimes you can't tell when you're in such a relationship, as love can often blind you. So here are 9 signs to help you identify if you're dating associo path. 1. They're motivated solely by their own personal desires. Basic human needs like food, water, or money are what drives them. If you talk to them about making the world a better place, they won't be motivated. In a relationship context, only things like money, sex, food, or whatever you can offer are interesting to them. 2. They're highly manipulative. Socio paths usually prey on your emotions. They find your weak spots and take advantage of them. They socially isolate you from your friends and even family, not allowing you to go anywhere such as the grocery shop, without letting them know and gaining their approval first. This behavior weakens your relationship with other people, so you end up needing your partner more and more. 3. They don't walk the walk. Your partner will tell you one thing, but do another. Or they'll say how they hate certain things, but allow those things into their life. They tell you their grand plans, but none of this shows in their actions. This behavior can be confusing and disorienting, especially when they're being hypocritical. For example, they may tell you that they hate when you're late to dates because it shows that you have no respect for them, yet they themselves will often be late or even reschedule plans with you with no valid explanation or apology. 4. They lack sympathy. Empathy is the ability to understand someone's emotions. Socio paths certainly understand your emotions. They just have no sympathy for you. When you're feeling sad, they simply don't see it as something that should concern them, but rather as an opportunity to exploit your perceived weakness. 5. They don't take responsibility. Socio paths are usually narcissistic, so they believe they are never at fault no matter what. When confronted on their behavior and asked to change their ways, they will say yes to keep you by their side. However, there won't actually be any changes, continuing the cycle of mistreatment and manipulation. 6. They constantly insult you. Your partner's jabs don't always have to be direct. Let's say you're wearing an outfit similar to another person you both encounter.  7. You're always guilty. You're the one at fault for every mishap, and your partner will never admit when they're wrong. They'll manipulate situations to become the victim when they're clearly not. In the end, you're the one apologizing. 8.  This is the result of their narcissism and manipulation habits, as they're always trying to look perfect or at least better than the rest. 9. They can adapt themselves. In negative ways, they will adapt to the situation and to you if need be.  In the long run, however, they actually become more manipulative, causing you to become even more insecure. Based on these characteristics, do you think you know anyone who may be dating a sociopath? Have you ever been in a relationship with a sociopath before? Feel free to share your stories in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out our website and other social media. And don't forget to subscribe. Thank you for watching.


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