Jeff Frick here with The Cube. We're at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for the 14th annual Association of Corporate Growth Silicon Valley Grow Awards. We've been here for a couple years now and it's a big event. 300 people coming in to talk about really an ecosystem of helping other companies grow. Always great to be on The Cube. Essentially what we are is an organization that's dedicated towards providing networking opportunities, education opportunities, programming for C-level executives and other senior-level executives at companies to help them develop their career and also grow their businesses. Tonight it's about tech as a force for good and I'm going to talk about what I call the four superpowers today. Mobile, unlimited reach, cloud, unlimited scale, AI, unlimited intelligence, and IoT bridging from the digital to the physical world and how those four superpowers are reinforcing each other today. Very sophisticated population. I mean it's just wonderful living here. Just so many smart people around. The biggest thing that we see is just the whole better together message that all of the resources from the strategically aligned businesses all working together to support the customers. Technology is evolving at a remarkable speed. You know that's being driven largely by the availability of increased processing power. Less and less expensive, faster and faster. Digital transformation, IT transformation, security transformation, and workforce transformation. Those are the big things for us this year. It's great to be able to have a computer that really understands how to generate meaningful, realistic text. It's our opportunity to improve the quality of lives for every human on the planet as a result of those superpowers and really how it's our responsibility as a tech community to shape those superpowers for good. There are issues created operationally day to day that we have to sort of always be on the watch for like you know readiness assistance or these technologies failing. It's the two sides of the same point always. You can use it for good or you can use it for bad and unfortunately the bads have been in the news more than the good but there's so many exciting things going on in medicine, healthcare, agriculture, energy that the opportunities are almost endless. Not just the first world problems, those of us here in the Silicon Valley see every day but really open our eyes to what's happening in other parts of the globe. The need for water, clean water, water filtration, clean air. Having access to information, education, so these are some things that are you know really personally dear to me. In the last 50 years we've taken the extreme poverty rate from over 40% to less than 10% on the planet. We've increased the length of life by almost 20 years and these are stunning things and largely the result of the technological breakthroughs that we're doing. That's the beauty of this right that all of these things actually create opportunities. You just have to stick with it and look at solutions and there's no shortage of really talented creative people to go address these opportunities and it's so fun to be involved in it right now. The scale that we're able to now conduct business to be able to develop software to reach customers and truly right to change people's lives. There are in many ways the technology haves and the technology have not absolutely and a lot of it is not just about making the product but then taking the product you've made and then implementing it in various use cases that really make a change come about in the world. As I say today is the fastest day of tech evolution of your life. It's also the slowest day of tech evolution of the rest of your life. I'm Jeff Rick you're watching the Q from the ACGSV Awards. Thanks for watching.


01 the time the Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals. When we virtually 6 p.m. Pursuit to chapter 30 of the acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter 2 of the acts of 2023. This meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so via zoom or by telephone. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted. But every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately to access the proceedings in real time via technological means. Do I need to read the rest of that? Rob? No, you don't. And I would recommend just going through the agenda. Each part of the agenda just to give an overview. Yeah. So to begin with, we're going to do a roll call. Then we're going to work to approve the minutes from February 8th of 2024 and February 22nd of 2024. We are going to hopefully move to continue the public hearing on FY 2024 16. That's before us to make public meeting discussion, general comment period and any other business not anticipated within 48 hours. So we'll start with doing a roll call. So myself, acting chair, Phillip White, present, Hila Greenbaum, David Sloveter, here, and Sarah Marshall, here, also on the call. We have Rob Wachillam and we're not expecting anyone else. Sorry. I hope not. I would hate to draw someone for literally like a 20-minute, max 20-minute meeting. No, just me. It's okay. So first thing, like I said, has everyone had a chance to look over the minutes for the February 8th, 2024 meeting? Okay, excellent. If no one has any adjustments, I would entertain a motion. Miss Marshall? You're muted. Some people do have adjustments. Only to the spelling of my name on the review of the minutes, approval of minutes from January 11th. Motion by Sarah Marshall. Marshall has two Ls. What page is that on? The first page. Okay. All righty. And then the third page, the top of the third page, I think this is the archipelago. So the ending of the first bullet, I didn't understand what was meant. It says cause a lot of turnover for that commercial space, but also it would take away from residential area, which is currently in crisis. I don't know what that means. Did you say it or did somebody else? No, Craig said it. It was from Tom Reedy's presentation. I mean, he said that word for word when I was watching and viewing the transcript. I will elaborate on what was meant by that. I mean, my, could you read the line again, Sarah? The bullet says, oh, you're right. Kyle answered that building commercial in a different area of the bottom floor would make it basement commercial space and could potentially cause a lot of turnover for that commercial space, which I understand. But also it would take away from residential area, which is currently in crisis. Was it just that like we have a housing crisis? Yeah. He goes like he's been using that a lot when he describes the housing situation. And I guess what he was trying to do is say that if he were to expand the commercial space, it would take away valuable residential space that's well needed. And that's kind of the way he painted that picture during his presentation. But I could definitely elaborate a little bit more. You could just say take away from residential units, which are sorely needed. He didn't agree with him, but he can say it. He said it. So I will, I will make that more clear, I guess, because it seems like it's vague. Right. And then the third page under public meeting. Just again, my name is miss belt. Right. Thank you. That's all. That's usually my line. I didn't find anything this time. This is not correct, Rob.  So that makes you feel a lot better because she's always picking them apart. I want you to know that somebody's eating them. Yeah. I appreciate it. I read and I didn't find anything this I must have been sleeping or it was another rainy day. Well, that'll do it. Well, I mean, I would entertain a motion to approve the meetings from the February 8th, 2024 meeting as amended. So move. Good. Do I have a second? Miss Marshall. Okay. We'll move to a vote. The chair votes aye. Mrs. Greenbaum. Right. Ms. Marshall. Aye. Mr. Sloveter. Aye. The vote is unanimous. Moving on to the minutes of February 22nd. Did everyone have a chance to review those? Okay. Do we have anything that when you draw attention to on that? No. But I wasn't part of the meeting. So. I don't know if it's accurate. The motion to approve the minutes from February 22nd. Well, I don't know. So rely on Phillip and David to tell us is correct. Well, I looked over them. I didn't see anything. So. But. All right, well, I'll entertain a motion. Uh, To approve the minutes from February 22nd. Oh, boat. And we have a second. Second to a vote. The chair votes. Mr. Slobiter? Aye. Ms. Marshall? Aye. The vote is unanimous. Yay! The hard part's done. No. So, I guess, Phillip, for the public hearing, so what we technically have to do is, you know how on the agenda you have the full description for that petition? Yep. So, you're going to have to read that and then just make the announcement that, you know, the public hearing's opened. Then afterwards, you know, I put a statement in there that you could read in regards to why we have to continue it and then, you know, take a vote to continue it to that date. All right. I'll just roll with that and if I mess up, let me know. We'll do. So, in the public hearing ZBA FY 2024-16, Rachel and Craig Gibson request for a modification to an existing special permit ZBA FY 2015-00027 under sections 10.33 and 3.3241.6 by the zoning bylaw or of the zoning bylaw to change the occupancy status of a converted dwelling from owner occupied to non-owner occupied with a resident manager with requested waivers from the traffic to impact study, lighting and landscaping plans at 50 McClellan Street, map 11C, parcel 189, R through G, general residence zoning district. The public hearing for ZBA FY 2024-16 is hereby open at the request of the chair who could not make tonight's meeting and the applicant, the board will take a vote to continue the public hearing to next Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is due to the fact that the board does not have a full five-member panel for this petition tonight and our chair, Mr. Judge, will join the meeting next week as the chair. Chair, the applicant and the other ZBA members all agree that next Thursday, April 18, 2024 will be an appropriate time to fully hear the petition before the board. Do I need to have a motion for that or a second? You have to call for a motion and there's actually a motion in there that you have to read off so you have to vote to continue the public hearing to April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. So if you could just state that. Okay, yeah, I see it now, yeah. So I would entertain a motion to continue the public hearing for ZBA FY 2024-16 to Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Do I have such a motion? So moved. Very good. All right, so then Ms. Marshall, we second that. All right, I'll take that to a vote. The chair votes aye. Ms. Greenbaum, do you have your hand up? Yeah, I wonder if I should make my disclosure now, I'll hold up for next week. Hold up for next week because Steve's going to read his general spiel. He'll do like the submissions and then you could probably give your disclosure then if you wanted to. Okay, okay. Okay, so the chair votes aye. Mr. Sloveter. Aye. Ms. Marshall, you're muted. Aye. I saw your mouth move but I figure we needed all the record. So I'm Ms. Greenbaum. Aye. Excellent. Voters unanimous. Motion carries. Motion carries. We need a motion to adjourn now. No, no, no. Do we need to close the public hearing? Oh no, no, so you continue it. So since you needed it. Okay, that's all right. So as far as the public meeting, we won't have a public, there's no meeting to take place, correct? Yep, that's correct. So no discussion will take place. We do need to do the general public comment period. So I don't know if we would have anyone in the waiting room. We do not. But we still need to do it anyway. So if anyone on attendance wishes to make a public comment on any matter not before the board tonight, you can indicate such by using the raised hand function or by pressing star nine if you're calling in. Remember to please keep your comments limited to around three minutes. I'm hearing crickets. I'm actually hearing crickets in the background. That's how empty this room waiting here. All right, so moving on to other business not anticipated within 48 hours. Mr. Wachila, do you have anything for us? Sure. Aside from this being moved to next Thursday at six, we are anticipating on May 9th, which is our next normally scheduled meeting after the 18th to have three petitions before the board. So it'll be a pretty busy meeting. None of them are filed yet, but they will be shortly. April 25th, my apologies. That's the next normally scheduled meeting. So it's the 25th and then the May 9th meeting. So on April 25th, we have the continued hearing for the Shoesbury Road Solar Project, which Mr. Slovidar is a part of. And then we have the continued hearing for 368 A Shea Street, which is the flag lots. Let me see what's in it. So was it Hilda, Sarah and Philip? Oh, I was. I couldn't remember whether I was on it. I was right. I think you were. David, are you on that one? I am. Yeah. Okay. Yes, you are. Sarah? I don't, at least I haven't attended a meeting where that was discussed and I cannot. Well, I have a school committee meeting very, very. Yeah. So you probably were on that panel then if you don't have that in your calendar, because they would have voted to continue that a while ago. So I know David's on that one. Hilda, you might be on that one. I'm still not sure about you, but I can't remember. I'm pretty sure I am. I would have to go back and review my notes, but I'm pretty sure I am. Why did we continue? What do you remember? Because of the lighting? Oh yeah, the lighting and because they didn't really have finalized building plans. So they couldn't show the lighting and then there was an issue with stormwater. So they were concerned that the site was so sloped that it might affect the neighbors. We should really look at the. Yeah. And I'm still waiting for planned submissions from the applicant, but I'm going to reach out to them tomorrow and see if they can get that to us sooner rather than later. If I'm in fact on it, and as I said, I can't remember, but I know I was there. I would like to see that site and I sort of wonder why we aren't doing site visits on most of these things. We did a site visit to that one. I think it was just Steve and me and Rob. Yeah, because nobody knew about it. I didn't see it. Thinking about now, Hilda, I don't think you're on that panel. I think it's David, Steve, Phillip, Everold, and Craig. That's what I think. I think I was there, the indie writer. Yeah. You're there one way or another, Hilda. You were. You're like me on the solar panels. I'm not on that one, but I keep being on meetings where it's on. And I think it always throws Steve. That's really a hard one. And the one that's coming up to conservation this week is more of these battery things from this one's going on Montague Road. And I haven't read anything about these batteries that are not scary. They're not going with power. Let's not deliberate. No deliberation. Okay. Second, well, we did. Maybe it will be relevant to remind that panel, whoever it is. We did authorize a, what was it? Supplemental energy storage site on Sundaland Road on Route 116. Yeah, I told Kelsey about them. Yep. And we won't deliberate too much on that. But I do want to also, yep, so one more, one more announcement. So I just want to congratulate and this vote went to the CRC, Mr. Sloveder and Ms. Greenbaum. So Mr. Sloveder had a positive vote to become a full member through the CRC. I don't know if it's official to Town Council yet, David. It is. They did. And I was sworn at. I've already been sworn at. Felt like it. Yeah. No, I went to Town Hall. No, I'm, it's official. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. So David is a full member taken over the rest of John Gilbert's term, who left abruptly last fall, and then Hilda is going to continue as an associate. So congrats to the two of you. I look forward to working with you. Those were all the appointments for July 1 also. Yes, they were. I appreciate having you all around no matter what way. You may not. Don't speak so fast. You may want to put a lock on my mouth. Hey. All right. If there's no other business before the board, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. There we go. Do I have a second? Second. Excellent. So to call that to the vote, the chair votes aye. This is Greenbaum. Aye. Ms. Marshall. Aye. Mr. Sloveder. Yes. As that motion is not up for debate, which we should have done before that, but we're not going to. I now call this meeting the Zoning Board of Appeals, the town of Amherst, adjourned at what? Not 11, 18, 6, 18. Yes. Guess what?


Hello Comrades and welcome back to Marxist Voice, the podcast of The Communist. My name is Jack Tai Wilson and I'll be your host for this episode. And welcome back to part three of our new podcast series towards the Revolutionary Communist Party. If you haven't listened to previous episodes then we definitely recommend jumping in from the start. We've got an episode on how to build the party and an episode on how to build the Communist press. But for this week's episode we're going to be discussing a question that we received from a listener on the topic of whether the RCP is going to be running in this year's general election. And just as a general reminder, if our listeners want to send in questions or reports about party building then please do send them in and we'll try and include them on the podcast. Just head to communist.red forward slash submit to get in touch with us. So for this week's episode we're joined once again by Banglunetsky who's the National Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of the soon to be Revolutionary Communist Party. Hey Ben, how's it going? You've been away for a few weeks haven't you? Yeah, that's right Jack. Yeah, that's it. I missed a couple of weeks, missed a recording of the podcast. I was up in Scotland visiting the Comrades, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle. So I stopped by on the way back. Yeah, that's right. It was good to see everybody, see what's going on up there. Comrades are doing very well. And you capped it off with the Central Committee meeting last weekend, is that right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I was back in time for a really good CC down in London. And what was discussed at the Central Committee meeting? It was a range of things. We've discussed the situation in Britain and also discussed the situation in the Middle East quite a lot. And then also some of the tasks that flow from that political situation, what it is that the communists need to do. And I think the main thing, to be honest, that came out of the CC meeting was there's a lot of discussion about what all these events both in Britain and across the world, what impact are they having on people's consciousness? How is it causing people to think about the world? And to what extent is it causing them to look for alternatives, look for explanations? Obviously that's where we come in. That's a good thing from our point of view. People should be questioning what's going on in the world. And when we have something to say about that we have answers. There's a lot of discussion about that. It wasn't just a list of events, you know, just a kind of summary of what you can read in the news. It was, yeah, and what impact is that having on working-class people, young people, students, and how can we connect with those people? That was really the main content of the CC. Yeah, and the CC meeting took place, I think, the day after George Galloway's victory, this thumping majority that he gained in the by-election in their Rothschilds. I think that was mentioned quite a bit in the session on the British perspectives. And yeah, what is the communist analysis, if you will, of this quite, I would say quite a seismic event in British politics? Yeah, it is. And it was discussed a lot for exactly this reason.  The symptom, the result of that is Galloway's victory. I really think that that by-election is a bit of a peek into the future, because you had ex-Labor MPs, one on the right and one on the left. The Labour Party collapsing. And the Tories, obviously, absolutely nowhere. And just lots of anger, chaos, confusion. That is, yeah, that is British politics. That is the British politics of the future. And so, and yet, like you say, a massive seismic event, for sure. And I think the main significance of it, because also it wasn't just the election, it was Sunak's speech afterwards. Yes, so he came out of 10 Downing Street onto his big podium and gave this really kind of worried speech, I would say. That was the tone that came from it, saying, you know, our democracy is under attack, all of these different things. And of course, you know, his solution is therefore to curtail democracy even further by coming down on her.  How on earth is one little by-election that, yeah, admittedly, for the establishment was a complete, was chaotic, was a real kick in the face for the establishment. But how is one little by-election suddenly a big threat to democracy? Yeah, but what you realise is that Galloway, this whole, he is a kind of lightning rod for all this anger that exists, especially around Gaza. It's been this conspiracy of silence in the establishment and the media. They've got blood on their hands, these people. They have literally been getting away with murder for months, for years. And here's a man who all of a sudden is just, it's like the Emperor's new clothes, it's just pointing to them and he's exposing them. He's saying, you're murderous, you're supporting genocide.  He's threatening to lift the veil, basically. He's going to lift the veil. He's going to go into Parliament. He's going to make these big speeches that he makes. He's going to go all over social media. Yeah, he's going to be a bit of a lie. And so the entire establishment is now, in the same way they did with Corbyn, they're going to mobilise, try and destroy this guy and bring him down. They're going to use every possible argument they can from the left, from the right, anything they can find to chip away at this guy. And this is going to be their policy now because they are scared of him. And so it's quite a significant, it's a tremor, obviously on its own. It's not a revolution starting or anything like this, Galaba is not going to do that. But it is a significant thing, I think, a bit of a tremor of much bigger things to come. And do you think potentially it could have further ramifications, like a knock-on effect, if you will, and kind of lift the sights of people campaigning in other constituencies where the Labour MP, for example, voted against the ceasefire and there's a lot of anger. For example, I work around Tower Hamlets and there was an MP there, Rishnar Ali, who I think is very hated because of the inaction of what she's done. Do you think that Galloway's victory could catalyse something else perhaps in the future, or is it a bit too hard to tell, would you say? It is hard to tell. I mean, for sure, like you say, like in East London, in Birmingham, there are these, already before Galloway, there was this talk of challenging some of the more right-wing MPs, specifically over the question of Gaza. And so that was happening anyway. Yeah, for sure, Galloway will have galvanized those people and showing that it's possible basically. There's even a challenge in Kirsten's own constituency against him from the left as well. But whether that will coalesce into any kind of coherent campaign, a united group, I don't know. I think it's pretty unlikely to be honest myself, but you can't rule it out. Anything can happen. We've got to keep an eye on stuff like that. It's certainly possible for things like that to happen and we'll have to pay close attention. And certainly if there are sizable meetings, gatherings, rallies or anything like that going on, the communists should be there putting forward a communist program, right? That's right. Yeah, for sure. We'll definitely be there for that sort of thing. And like I said, we are paying close attention to these things. We've got tabs and all this stuff and we'll get stuck in where we can. I guess that brings us nicely onto a question that we've received from a listener to the podcast series actually. A listener from Ronda Sinontaf, I believe. I think that's how it's pronounced. Apologies if my Welsh pronunciation isn't very good. I'm from up north. We don't have any Welsh town names at birth. But the question is, is the Revolutionary Communist Party, which we're founding in May, is it going to run in this year's general election? I think that's a very interesting question. Ben, what do you think about that? Yeah, it is an interesting question. We know, I think, that the Revolutionary Communist Party is not a party like any other political party. It's not designed to be like that. What we want to do is overthrow capitalism and put the working class in power in Britain. And via that means establish socialism as a stepping stone to communism.  That's our aim. That's our goal. That goes far beyond winning this or that election and getting an MP here or there or anything like this. Our aims are far exceed that. Now, obviously, we are not in a position to achieve that right now. We're very small in the grand scheme of things, very small organization, very small party. So our main overwhelming priority is getting bigger, numerically developing our knowledge, our reputation, our experience in the class struggle. This is the main task of communists at this stage. So, when you think about the election, what is electoral tactics and electoral strategizing? It is a valid tactic for communists to use even if that's not our end goal and actually our goals far exceed getting a few MPs elected to parliament. Yeah, it's a valid tactic and it can be used under certain circumstances and whatever else. I'll come on to whether that's like, exactly if we are right to be doing that right now. I can come on to that in a minute, but it is a valid thing, but we've got to think a little bit bigger as well. We've got to think beyond, like, okay, general election coming up, fine. We all know what the outcome of that election is going to be. Everybody knows there's going to be a right-wing labor government, like a Starmer labor government. And probably it's going to be a landslide as well. Yeah, probably will be a landslide. Probably will be a majority government. And that, we also know what kind of policies that government is going to carry out. Tory policies basically will attack workers. It will attack the welfare state, undermine the healthcare education, everything else. It'll be a continuation of the exact same policies we have now. So what is our main job is to prepare for that situation is to prepare for that right-wing labor government, which is going to be attacking workers and all the rest of it. What's going to happen is we're going to need the unions are going to need to struggle to defend workers' rights, workers' interests, workers' standards of living and so on. There's going to be a potentially massive eruptions of the class struggle in that period under that government. I'm thinking about examples from the 70s, right-wing labor government. It's the same thing. Communists need to get ready to get stuck into those movements. That's the main thing. That's what we have to prepare for right now. That's the RCP's main task is to prepare for that. And the point is we aren't big enough yet. We don't have the roots in the class that we need. We need to get educated, develop our reputation and knowledge, as I say, and get stuck in basically now to the class struggle as it exists.  Well, where does electoral politics fit in in general to these things? But right now that is our main task. And that is what we're doing. That is what the RCP is up to at the moment. I mean, we talked a lot throughout the party lately. It was on the front cover of the second issue of the communist newspaper about Port Talbot. That's an example. Massive cuts being proposed to... They've started even... The redundancy notices are on their way out, I think, in Port Talbot. They're going to be massive cuts to the steelworks there. The communists have been getting stuck in. We haven't just been sat on the sidelines with that. We've been going door to door. We've been putting on meetings, attending the rallies, giving speeches, trying to agitate for the occupation of the steelworks for a proper fight back. We've been in discussion with the trade unionists and so on. So we're getting stuck into the class struggle. We're developing party amongst the working class in Port Talbot. And you can see, we're trying the same thing all over the country at the minute. In Birmingham, the council has gone bankrupt and now they're imposing the biggest cuts ever in the history of council cuts. £300 million in cuts that they're going to be carrying out on top of selling off, I think, like £700 or £750 million worth in assets. Public buildings, public assets and so on. That's right. I think they're sacking 700 workers or something like this. Cutting all culture funding. Bin collections are going to be halved. Even the street lights are going to be dimmed or something like that as well. It gives a real picture, I think, of a society in decay. I think that's the effect on consciousness that it'll have in Birmingham. That's it. And it is a catastrophic situation. And obviously there's a lot of anger around that. And so what are the comrades in Birmingham doing? They're not just writing articles about it, although they are, but they're going to the meetings. They're going to the demonstrations. They're giving speeches in the town centres on the recruitment stores that we're having and so on. And they're trying to connect with that anger. They're getting stuck into the struggle. That's the point. In fact, we can actually play a clip from one of those speeches right now for our listeners. They're taking away our services, but more importantly, they're taking away our communities. They're taking away our sense of, you know, relationship with one another. But we have the opportunity to leave the struggle, to show the way forward on how we can actually fight back and turn this from just a city-level struggle to a more national one. The way in which we inspire hope, the way in which we inspire more people to get out there is if we have clear demands, I think it's been pointed out that strike action is very much a show, a force, a way in which we show that we have the power. No to paying the debts. No to the cuts. We need to kick out these commissioners, kick out Max the Axon and his lackeys and make the bosses pay for this crisis, reverse the austerity through the profit of the big multi-nationals, of the banks who have squeezed this city for two months. They're squeezing for blood now, and they'll squeeze further. Thank you very much. And elsewhere, actually, talking of voting, it's certainly not a general election, but in Sheffield, the RCP comrades have been running in a student union election campaign. They ran for president. Fairly small campaign, just a few days long. They linked the question of Gaza, the question of a proper struggle, the whole Christy establishment, everything into this campaign. It's quite a broad thing. It wasn't on narrow student issues. It was a broad political campaign. And they did very, very well, and they got a real big echo among people. They're getting stuck in. They're connecting our ideas. Look, we study the ideas of Marxism. That's fundamental to what the RCP does. It's the reading groups. It's the theoretical study and discussion. It's also about taking those ideas into the class struggle and among students like they are in Sheffield and putting them in the form of campaigns and stuff like this. In Cardiff, the comrades have been linking up the struggle of doctors, the BMA. We have a comrade who's in the BMA in Cardiff. And he's been linking up with the Unite members who are running the bin strike in Cardiff. And they've had joint meetings. They've coordinated action. This is all on the initiative of the RCP in Cardiff. And it's getting results. In Cambridge, there's delivery riders that are agitating basically. There's a lot of anger around that. The comrades, again, they've been getting stuck here. They've been talking to people, interviewing them, linking them up, pushing the struggle forward constantly. In Newcastle, there's a lot of video games industry. There are massive layoffs in the video game industry at the moment. In Newcastle, we're getting stuck into that. We're putting on meetings. We're getting the workers together to discuss how we can fight back what can be done, how the struggle can actually be taken forward. Even things like they might not seem like a kind of proletarian section of society, but in Wales, the farmers are taking action. And there've been demonstrations, rallies and stuff in Wales. And again, the RCP's been going along, getting stuck in putting our ideas out there. And we've been surprised, to be honest, at how good the reception has been to communist ideas. So this is the work of the RCP at the minute. It's building support for our ideas by connecting with the class struggle, gaining members, gaining experience, building ourselves up basically on that basis. This is how you vote for the RCP, if you like. It's not putting a cross on a bit of paper and that's it, this kind of passive thing. It's get stuck in with us in this work in the class struggle. I think what runs through all of these examples that you've given is that we're turning towards the working class movement with an openly communist program, with open communist demands. Like for example, in the Sheffield Student Union elections, what was on our program? It was abolishing rent, getting rid of rent payments and giving free accommodation to all the students. It was raising demands like having staff and students control over the universities as a means to cut the university off from the arms companies and the imperialists and so on. And similarly, with the farmers movement that we intervened in as well, we were putting forward demands like make the billionaires pay, nationalize the banks and the billionaires and these kinds of demands, they're really shining through. They're really getting an echo, I would say. But I guess that leads us on to another part of this question then is that if we're not participating in elections right now, for the reasons that you've outlined, when would we consider doing something like that? Is that something that's on the horizon? Is it something that we can expect any time soon? What do you think about that? It's a tactical question. This is the thing about elections. We're not principally in a principled way for or against running in elections even if they are to a kind of bourgeois parliament at the end of the day, as we know, that parliament with a couple of revolutionary communist MPs that is not going to be the vehicle for revolution in Britain. We want something totally different. We want a working class in power. But nevertheless, you may well use an election campaign for parliament as a platform to get our ideas out to a wider area of people and so on. Now, you could imagine, hypothetically, for example, the situation in Port Talbot.  They're dampening down that struggle there. In fact, communities even refusing to ballot for action. They're completely dampening the struggle. It's a pretty bad situation facing the workers there. The union leaders, for whatever reason, decided to put up a fight. And the movement became quite big. And there was an occupation, the steelworks. And perhaps it would link up with those Welsh farmers, for example. And the struggle actually began to spread across Wales and over the border into England as well. And you saw the steelworks in Scunthorpe, for example, also coming out in solidarity. And then it's spreading to other industries and a movement really beginning to take place. Well, then you would start to think, how can we develop this movement forward? How can we link this movement to political questions and political demands? And you might look at the local MP for Port Talbot, who is, I think, Stephen Kinnick, a very right-wing Labour MP. And the son of Neil Kinnick. Neil Kinnick, yeah, that's right. And you might say, look, here is an opportunity. As part of this mass movement, here is an opportunity for the Revolutionary Communist Party to stand a candidate in an election against this guy and put forward our programme and our idea, linked entirely to that movement, basically. And it wouldn't be an election that is kind of facing towards Westminster and thinking that we can, if only we can get that MP seat, then we can change everything from Westminster. That's not the way we look at it. We would look at that campaign as part of this mass movement in the workplaces on the streets that we could kind of connect with some political demands, basically, and use it as a platform to raise our ideas. And you could imagine that in any of these situations, in Birmingham, for example, or in Cardiff or Cambridge or whatever, if these things actually became mass struggles, then you could see the potential for us, the kind of movement giving us the potential to stand a candidate in an election as part of that. The other requirement, though, is our own size and strength. We've got to be realistic about it. It's not a small undertaking to run in, for example, a general election financially and also in terms of organisation and campaigning and so on. We don't want to half-ass these things. We're going to do it properly. And for that, we've got to be bigger than what we are right now. So I think this is the main way. These are the two things to think about, basically, when it comes to running an election. So as it is with this upcoming general election, right now, we're making no plans. It doesn't look likely that we will be running any candidates. Obviously, things can change very quickly. We could all of a sudden become a really big organisation if lots of people hit this podcast and think, yeah, I'm going to join that. But that's possible. Can't rule it out for sure. And then you might get big mass movements bringing up somewhere where we happen to be very strong. In that case, we would get stuck in on that basis. But as it stands, that's not looking likely. But look, in the future, we'll get bigger. The movement's going to pick up. There'll be by-elections and the RCP will be there. Actually, all of this reminds me of an article that we put out recently in the Communist and also on our website of our comrades about 80 years ago in the original Revolutionary Communist Party, led by Ted Grant and Jock Hastin and their followers and so on, who, yeah, in a similar sort of situation to what you're describing, unofficial strikes of thousands of Welsh miners and so on, they decided to run in a by-election in actually Neath, which is right next to Patalbeth. And they mobilized hundreds of their members across the country. They all went into this little mining village. And they really electrified this town. They gave speeches outside of the mines. They helped meet things in the big town hall and so on. Debates with the Communist Party, who at the time were obviously a Stalinist. And they went door-to-door selling their newspaper, which at the time was called Socialist Appeal, and putting forward a communist program just like we would do today. So yeah, if comrades would like to read more about that, I'd highly recommend reading the article, which is available in the link in the show notes of this podcast. I think it's a very shining example of how Bolsheviks operate and how we can use things like this to build our organization. So yeah, you mentioned if someone wants to vote for us, and actually I think the reason why that question was sent in initially was because one of the comrades had a conversation with someone who said, oh, I haven't got enough time to join right now, but how can I vote for you guys? Well, you said that if you want to vote, then you need to vote with your time, with your money. So yeah, just to our listeners at home, people who maybe aren't members yet, how can they quote-unquote vote for the RCP today? Yeah, well, that's it. There's different things that you can do. The main thing that we need, the main thing that the RCP needs, is for people to get involved, to join us basically. We are not yet a mass party, a mass organization or anything else. What we are building here is a party filled with people who are willing to put the time in to educate themselves about politics, about Marxism, about communist ideas, and train themselves and be trained. That's what we do. We train people. We educate them in those ideas and we train them in how to connect those ideas to the class struggle. What we want, what we need is people who are able to stand up in front of a crowd of people and make the case and make the case for communism or for a socialist point of view or for a particular policy to link up, as they are in cards, to link up the bin workers' strike with the doctor's strike, for example. Make that case. Make those arguments. Give that speech. And all of it is founded on those ideas. And that obviously requires time. But what else are you spending your time on? We're talking about changing the world here. What are you spending your time on is more important than that. That's the main thing we need. That's the most important thing when it comes to being a member of the RCP. And if you've got the time or you can make the time, then that's what we want. And we want you to join and we need to spend your time on that. Obviously, not everybody does have the time and there are other things that it's possible to do. We have our newspaper and you can subscribe to the newspaper and you can get your ideas. That way you can hear about what we're up to, subscribe to the newspaper. You can get the subscription for yourself. You can get a bulk subscription and you can sell a few to a few other people as well. That also is a little bit of an investment of time, but it's not that much. And that would help us get the ideas out to a wider layer of people. So you can do that too. And then of course, we do need money. We do need people who donate to us. We don't have any big donors and so we need all the financial support we can get. So if you don't have a lot of time, but you have a little bit of money that you think you could be able to free up and to send our way, then obviously you can make yourself a regular donation or make a one-off donation. And that would be a big help too. But yeah, the main thing is is that we want people to join the RCP and not just join yourself but bring other people in, whether that's meet people you meet by selling our newspaper, for example, putting up some posters and some stickers, by having a big recruitment drive at the moment, join your party, join the RCP, but it's found in Congress coming up in May. That's what this is all about. We're building towards that. So join yourself, bring others in. If you're in a part of the country where we don't have anything at the moment, set up a cell, set up your own thing. There are a lot of people, thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people who are at least interested in the ideas of communism and you can have a discussion with them. You can sell them a copy of the communist newspaper and you can talk to them and you can try and get them involved and you can build a cell of this organization wherever you are, if it's in your school or your workplace or your local area, it can be done and we can send you the material that you need to do that, papers, posters and so on. So this is all the stuff that you can do. Yeah, it's more than checking a box and voting, but this is how we will build the foundation with which we can then have a party that can properly get our program out in general elections, participating in these mass movements in this way. So really everything needs to be focused on the question of recruitment, of building the RCP into a strong organization and I've been hearing some incredible success stories from across the international actually in the past week or so even. I think things are going very, very quickly at the moment. I mean, for example, in the U.S., our comrades have launched this new party just as we are called the Revolutionary Communists of America. They had their sort of meeting, their all-members meeting where they decided to do this and immediately afterwards in New York City, the comrades marched through Brooklyn with a big banner, loads of red flags with hammers and sickles on them and so on. And it was recorded and it was posted online and this got picked up. It went viral actually. It got shared by people on the left, people on the right. Jordan Peterson, I think, shared it. But I think more importantly, it got shared across the world in places like Russia, in China. 220 million people viewed this video. Just a video of the comrades marching and chanting and so on. It really sort of caught the imagination of people. That's it. It shows there's an appetite out there. People want to see this kind of stuff and the result has been extremely good. The comrades have had hundreds and hundreds of applications to join just off the back of that one video. And another success story that I heard was in Sweden, in fact. There was a young comrade, I think, who's just joined. I just got involved with our organization in Sweden. It's also called the RCPO, the RKP, I guess. And yeah, they immediately took a stack of newspapers and they went to a factory near where they live. I'm not sure what kind of factory it was, but yeah, they just stood outside. In fact, they walked straight through the gates and just started trying to sell this paper, chanting communist slogans and so on. And the security guard came up and tried to stop them, at which point the workers then intervened and wanted to hear what this young comrade had to say. And on the back of that, they managed to get 10 contact details and they're setting up a meeting right now of factory workers who are interested in getting organized in the Revolutionary Communist Party. There's no reason why we can't be using these exact methods right here in Britain. There's factories, there's workplaces everywhere, schools, colleges. What's stopping us? That's right. It shows what is possible. One of those examples that I gave, these places where we're getting stuck into the class struggle, the aim of every single one, Port Talbot, Cardiff, Cambridge, Newcastle, the aim should be to create a cell of delivery riders in Cambridge or a couple of cells of anyone actually, because this Port Talbot business, anyone in Port Talbot because this closure of the factory, of these job losses of the factory actually will affect the whole town. Or video game workers in Newcastle. Anywhere we get stuck in like that, with the aim of building a cell basically of workers in that particular industry or people involved in that particular struggle who can go beyond just the specifics of that struggle and actually fight for communism in general, build a cell of the Revolutionary Communist Party. That's the aim. That reminds me as well actually that the issue of the paper, issue four of the communists which is coming out today, in fact I think it's arriving right now as we speak, is going to have a special party building pull out which will have essentially an instruction manual step by step on how you at home can build a communist cell, a communist branch of the Revolutionary Communist Party. So if you want to get your hands on that paper, which also includes in fact our draft British perspectives document which will be discussed at the founding congress of the RCP which Ben mentioned earlier. If you want to subscribe to that paper, get your hands on it and head to communist.red forward slash subscribe or head to the link in the show notes of this podcast. So yeah, I think that brings us really to the end of this week's episode. Is there anything else that you'd like to say Ben? I know, I think that's covered it. And what are we going to discuss next week? Do you think anything in mind? Yeah, I think next week we should have a little chat about revolutionary finance, about the need to finance the party, how we do it and how it's different to how other political organizations finance themselves and some ideas, some good examples of how we can get the best out of the work of the comrades from the point of view of raising money. All right, well thanks very much for your time Ben. It's been a pleasure having you on the podcast and thanks to our listeners once again for tuning in to Marxist Voice, the podcast of the Communist and make sure you stay tuned for future episodes covering Marxist theory, revolutionary history, current events and party building brought to you by the international Marxist tendency. Have a good week.


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Hello, and welcome back to theCUBE's continuous coverage of AWS 2021. We're here live, real people, and we're pleased to bring you this hybrid event, the most important hybrid event of the year to wrap up really 2021 and kick off next year. We're going to dig into the intersection of machine learning and business intelligence. Business intelligence, Inamar and Corian is here as the senior vice president of technology alliances at CLIC and Costi Vasilekakis is the head of product growth for low-code, no-code machine learning at AWS gentlemen. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having us. Inamar, I think the first time you were on a re-invent, it's definitely early last decade. I had black hair, maybe 2013, I want to say, so it's a big point of run. It has, and it's definitely been a privilege. I had a chance to attend pretty much all re-invents from the first one with much fewer people and see this grow a few year over year. And what's just amazing about it is beyond the scale how much it grows in a number of people. It's just the face of innovation keeps accelerating and it's just phenomenal. We're lucky that we chose data as sort of our business passion, but speaking of data, what are you hearing from customers about what they want to do with their data and bringing together business intelligence and machine learning, it's being injected in, but what are they telling you that they want, that they need? What's the opportunity that you're hearing? So I think, first of all, this is a fascinating topic because we're talking kind of about the intersection of what everybody wants to look to do is a next frontier of data with predictive data because descriptive analytics have been around for a long time, but how can we use predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics to enrich what we've had with descriptive analytics but in the end of the day, improve the business and what I love talking to people around here and just listening to customers express their needs is how can they get more value out of data? So they have the data, they don't use a lot of the data or enough of it and they want to use it in more ways and that's what's exciting to discuss those new ways they want to bring it together. Can I say anything you'd add to that from AWS's perspective? I'll tell you what we don't hear from our customers and we've stopped hearing what is AI and machine learning and on the contrary we're hearing how can we make the teams that already AI and ML a lot more productive and make a lot more of it? For example, how can they iterate a lot faster across the ML workflow? How they can train and build really large state-of-the-art natural language processing models like GDPT-3, how can we help customers build, train and tune customer-specific models for older customers to bring in hyper-personalization to their products? And the other thing we're hearing is how can we help the teams that are not tapping into AI and ML get the most power of it? In a way how could you actually potentially either democratize the building and development of machine learning models? Or how can you in another way expose machine learning into applications that analytics users are already using? Yeah, so in a way when we first met success was measured and I got the Hadoop cluster to work technically, right, but to your point customers want to get more value out of that data now. And so they want to operationalize machine intelligence. Is that what active intelligence is? So active intelligence is something that you have here click start to talk about but we believe it really represents what customers are trying to achieve. And the reason we use the word active intelligence is if you kind of think about active not being passive. So traditional BI kind of relied on preconfigured historical data sets which were great for what they did but today they're kind of out of gas in terms of supporting real-time decisioning and action. So what active intelligence is all about is really enabling customers to make it take informed informed action not just informed decision informed action in the moment. So when that action needs to happen. So in order to accommodate that, again the difference between active and passive is that active intelligence is all about innovations that bring real-time data. So it's not just historical data, I need real-time data that's relevant to what's happening now. I need a way to get an intelligent data pipeline an analytics data pipeline that makes that real-time data available in the form, in the structure that allows me to make a decision or to take action. And finally it's really to be designed to drive action. So whether it's a manual action or whether it's even completely automated but it's intelligence is informed. So that's what active intelligence is all about that by the way predictive data fits really well into that entire paradigm. Right I mean we've been talking for years about real-time and it's like okay what is real-time? Well real-time is before you lose the customer, before you lose the patient, before the machine explodes, right? To your point about predictive. Now you guys made an announcement yesterday, ADA which stands for AI for data analytics. What's that all about? Well ADA aims to address the very point I mentioned before, our customers that are asking us how can we give access to our business themes to a lot more business themes to machine learning? And AI for data analytics is a set of partner solutions that are ML powered and they're focusing across the spectrum of analytics from data warehousing, business intelligence, business process automation and other business application. And the idea is to help our partners bring to our customers a lot of those more ways. For example, we've built integrations with click, tableau, snowflake, workato, Pegasystems and through those, those usually take two flavors. Either we help our customer partners build ML and embed it into their applications and in a way make them more intelligent as it Amar mentioned. Or we help our partners expose machine learning capability from AWS right within the UI. So for example yesterday we launched a snowflake integration with SageMaker. Now snowflake user can use the same user experience and trigger the same user SQL query that they love and trigger an auto ML process in SageMaker right from the same UI and get ML into the same UI. And I'm quite excited to also discuss today about the integration we announced today with click. SageMaker integration or? Tell us about it. No other. Yeah. So I think- What a setup. Yeah exactly. As Costi mentioned, customers want to create more machine learning. They want to build faster, more machine learning capabilities, which is where by the way the no code, low code comes into mind. How can you use Autopilot, which is a SageMaker product for enabling faster creation of models. So we want to create models faster. They also want to be able to use models in a sense monetize them, turn them into value to make them available to more users, where their users are. So BI environments or experiences that as we start to think about them, such as what we provide with click, again with our active intelligence platform, is all about weaving the data into the applications, into the environments, into the analytic workflows that users have. So we introduced and we're super excited. We've announced two integrations, so very robust integration, between ClickCloud and Amazon SageMaker. That includes both our new analytic connector for Amazon SageMaker, and our integration with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot. So with integration with SageMaker, we now have click sense, interacting directly and seamlessly with any model deployed within SageMaker. So again, very much like Costi mentioned, in your experience as a user, seamlessly you now also have predictive data. So as you work in an application, as you're interacting with your data, dynamically data is interchanged between Click and SageMaker, and reaching your decision-making, your actions with predictive data sets. And that's what's so cool about it. So again, the click environment, we bring real-time data in, prepare it for analytics, and then feed that real-time data to SageMaker to get the real-time prediction back in the same experience for the user. So we're really, really excited about that. Translate what that means for customers, it's just that everything happens faster, does it unlock new capabilities? Can we unpack that a little bit? Absolutely. So we're in a way bridging the cousin between the data science world and the business teams. So the data science teams are building machine learning models to make predictions. And now with the first integration that Mara mentioned, we actually expose those machine learning models in an application that the business team uses, Click. And with the same dashboards that they are very familiar with, can now trigger those machine learning models and get real-time predictions in the dashboards themselves powered by machine learning. So in a way, this cousin between the two worlds of data science and business users is completely bridged. And the second integration we built with autopilot helps data engineers use completely their own machine learning technology powered by AWS SageMajor. So data engineers creating different pipelines and through those pipelines, they can now with a building block add AutoML capabilities in that pipeline without them really knowing machine learning. So we bridge the gap of the business teams getting access to the data science teams and also bringing the skills at gap for the data engineers to tap into machine learning. You mentioned monetization before. So this to me is key because who's going to do with you in the monetization? It's the business lines that are going to do that. Not the data scientists, they're going to enable that. But ultimately it's those data consumers that are building those, I call them data products that they can ultimately monetize. And that's, I'm interested in low-code, no-code because it's in your title too. So that all plays in, doesn't it? It does, it does. And we're heavily invested into the whole space. So for example, today, we just launched SageMajor Canvas that is a low-code capability for analysts and business users. But we realize we don't need to only innovate on the technology side. We need to also innovate on the partnerships that we built. And those integrations help expose our technology to wherever our customers want to be, they want to be in click. So be it, let them use the machine learning technology that we are innovating on exactly where they want it to be. In the market, you give us some customer examples, use cases, maybe make it real for us. For sure, and I think as you think about these use cases, one of the other things I wanted to kind of envision is the fact that all this predictive data and all this integration that we're talking about is not, can actually express itself in a lot of different experiences for the user. It can be a dashboard. It can also be conversational analytics which is part of what we offer in ClickCloud. So you can actually, you know, you can write and interact with the data. You don't have to actually look at it. It can be alerts that actually look automatically and inform you that you need to take action. So you don't actually look at it. The data will come to you when it needs you including based on predictive data. So there's a lot of options about how you're going to do it. And let me give you, let me give you an example. Let me try and maybe pick one that is intuitive, I think for many people, sales, right? So we have sales, you have a lot of orders. You want to try to close in a quarter. You have a forecast, the deals you expect to close. And then you can use machine learning, for example, to forecast or to try to project which deals you're going to lose. So now, again, that can look at a lot of different aspects of the deal, the timing, the volume, the amount, a lot of other parameters, right? And predict if you're going to lose a deal. So now if there's a deal that my sales person is telling me he's going to win, but the model is telling me he may lose, well, I probably want to double click on the debt one, right? So I can now bring that information in the moment either to the seller or to the management so they can identify it and take action. Now, not only can I bring it to them, but I can also, from the machine learning know what is the likely reason that they lose? And if I know the likely reason, it also become prescriptive. I now can know what to do to try and fix it, right? So I can either do it again manually or I can also integrate it, again, click cloud, we also click application automation, which is again also kind of a low-code, no-code environment to orchestrate processes. I can now take that automatically also update the Salesforce or the CRM, okay? So the order management system gets updated. So again, it's an example, exactly an example of active intelligence. It allows me to take informed action in the now, in the moment about making the better business. It's a great example and if sales person, maybe I prioritize and the machine's helping me, you know, direct my resources. Is this available today? Is it in general availability? Available right now. Today anyone can go start it right now and click cloud. Great, awesome, congratulations. Last question, so what's the future hold for this partnership? Where are you guys headed? Give us a little direction. First of all, we'd love to scale those integrations. So if you're a customer of Click, please go ahead and test them and do serve the feedback. And second for us, we really want to learn from our customers and improve those integrations we bring to them. We really want to hear what technologies they want to expose to a lot more users and we're aspiring to build that partnership and get a lot more tight aligned with Click. Do that. And thank you, Costi. And we see tremendous additional opportunities. I think Amazon tells it, we always say we're in day one, that that's how we kind of feel about it. There's already so much we put into it, but the market is so dynamic, there's so many new needs that are coming up. So we kind of think about it that way. So first of all, we want a journey to expand Click Cloud adding more services. It's actually a platform where we bring both data services, data integration, data management, everything related to the analytic pipeline and of course the analytic services. So it all comes together in one environment that makes it more agile, faster to build these new, modern, active intelligence type experiences. So as we do that, we're going to be adding more services, creating more opportunities to integrate with more services from the AWS side. So I'm really excited to look at that. And just like Costi mentioned with Canvas, Amazon keeps coming up with new services and new capabilities. So there's going to be a lot of more opportunity. We're going to keep, again, within Spirited for a partnership where we want to jump first, innovate quickly and create this integration that's value to customers. Up on the flywheel, that's, I love it. Great to have you guys, awesome to reconnect. All right, appreciate it. See you again. Thank you for watching. This is theCUBE and we're covering AWS re-invent 2021. We're the leader in high tech coverage. Right back.


Okay, Balash, today you had another quick draw. Tell us about it. First of all, sorry to the audience. Well, actually I can tell that yesterday evening I spent only two to three hours to decide what I play because I wasn't sure whether to try for more as I did in the last two black games when I took quite a lot of risk and against Olga it almost backfired to go for stability and of course this is what made my choice quite difficult and then it took a lot of energy. I came up with the Berlin which is quite a solid opening and I think I got quite a decent position. I didn't check this line today, I checked it once I arrived here I think on Sunday in not so much detail but I remembered for some move order tricks and plans and I think at the end it is equal seemingly better for me and when Mari offered the draw my first instinct was to play on but then I couldn't find the constructive plan. Okay, also for her so it was like a standstill position and then I decided that I think the match is going quite well today for us. I think Joe has quite a nice position so I was like, Joe is fine with black I hope we can equal the scores at least today and then we will wait for the second half of the tournament with three white games and only two blacks. Okay, that's a look at the game. I think this was one kind of key position I don't say critical but a key position in the game because here natural move would be to play Castle but I don't want to play too early because my plan would be to play Knight F8, Knight F8, Knight G6 and then Castle or Knight E6 and then Castle because Knight has a road via F8 all the time like to E6 or G6 but if I castle first then I have to move my rook and I try to put something on the board like let's say when it can make sense like okay let's say C3, Knight G6, D4 takes, I only want to show the plan with Bishop E7 and my plan is I want to play Castle and the rook is doing actually very well on F8 because I can push F5 after that and if E5 happens then Bishop E6, Bishop D5 so that's why I can postpone Castle but actually I had to make sure that Knight takes E5 instead of Bishop E3 doesn't work, it doesn't work in two ways one I spotted during the game of course I had to Knight G6, Knight takes E5 seemingly white has more than one tactics because I cannot take on E5 and Bishop is hanging also Knight G6 is threatened but I have Queen H4 I think only move but it's basically winning for me but during analysis Murray showed another I think beautiful line instead of Knight G6, Queen H6, Bishop goes back and I thought Queen must come out but actually there is Bishop E6 trapping that's an unusual way to do it yes because Knight covers everything okay previous move I had White had Bishop G5 but okay then I have a lot of material so Knight F8 I found and then she played Bishop E3 and here I could go back to E7 but then I was afraid that some C3 and D4 will come quite quickly and the move I would want to make Bishop E6 runs into typical motif Knight A5 and I cannot play B6 because Knight E6 actually at the end will take the Bishop and okay whenever I play Queen C8 or anything then still no B6 and if you go back one move let's say White plays C3 Knight's move sorry here, do you mean right back here some? yes here C3, Knight G6 I wanted to show the plan but my concrete idea was to play Bishop E6 and if White she goes Knight A5 then I can play Bishop B6 to force the Knight back because now she cannot take because Queen C8 traps the Knight and I think even in the game Bishop E3 when I took Bishop E3, Bishop E3 let's say she takes back with the pawn, Bishop E6 it is still the case because Knight A5 had B6 and if she takes Queen D6 then I cut the road back to B4 so therefore I got rid of this idea Knight D5, 12th move was one more interesting I think she mentioned that she saw this plan in one of crucial games that White goes for G3 and F4 and originally I would want to put the Bishop on the long diagonal ASAP but here I think White is too quick with F4 and I'm not in time to stop F5 she will play F5 herself and if Knight D4 C3 so it was I think clever she also mentioned that it's quite clever to start with C5 because point is that if G3 then I have Knight D4 if I go Knight D4 one move earlier then I cannot go back to C6 but now I made room for the Knight Knight C6 and if she goes for F4 instead then I can take and if I can stop it I think either Bishop A3 but Bishop is not safe there or I wanted to play F5 and Bishop E6 and actually Bishop once E5 comes then I have B6, B7 it's very good but other than that I can still play B6 and in the final position my first thought was not to accept the draw but I didn't see how to proceed because whenever I move my Knight let's say Knight D4 there comes F4 and then the structural disadvantage might tell in the long run so I wanted to keep my Knight on E6 let's say B7 now G3 especially with the King on H1 F4 doesn't really work because it's hit by F5 but okay why just keeps waiting she said she wanted to play F3, Queen F2 and what do I do? I cannot move any of my Queen side pawns because it makes the situation ten times worse F5 becomes the F5 pawn so what to do? It's kind of a standoff isn't it? Yes, exactly Okay, thanks very much Thank you


How do you feel about the Jersey Drill Club type thing?     That's not your vibes.    Like, don't get me wrong, it's something that really be hard.  Shit just, I don't know, God. That ain't me. I stick to regular drill just.  Regular drill. You're not into that? How do you feel about the whole dark Jersey club thing that the Sweepers make?   I should talk about Sweepers beat, though.  You feel like that's a Jersey thing?


My name is Sandak Nyn and I'm the author of Balignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revism. Today we're going to discuss an obscure concept in psychology, and that is the persecutory object. People with certain personality disorders, mainly borderline, narcissistic, compulsive obsessive, schizo-people and paranoid, these people have a persecutory object. What is a persecutory object? It is a tormenting, devaluing and sadistic inner voice, inner critic, known technically as introject. The introject repeatedly and authoritatively informs these patients that they are bad, worthless, weak, immoral, and generally a disappointment. Such an inner critic, a relentless, integrated prosecutor and judge, is of course intolerable. In an attempt to exercise this interminable voice, the patient projects it, and the patient usually projects it onto the nearest person, the intimate partner. The spouse, the mate, the lover, these people then become the outer embodiment or reification of the internal agonizing construct. The persecutory object also serves as an organizing and explanatory principle. It makes sense of the patient's world, life. The patient's inner processes and life events are accounted for by attributing them to the nefarious presence, intentions and actions of the malicious intimate partner, or so-known as a persecutory object. Even the patient's attachment to her spouse, or her lover, or her intimate partner, is interpreted as the lamentable outcome of brainwashing and manipulation. Everything that goes wrong in the patient's tortured existence is her partner's fault, not hers. This is an alloplastic defense. It is an almost supernatural emanation from the partner's malevolence, or at the very least indifference and rejection. This explains everything. It creates relief. It makes the world sensible. It gives meaning. The patient tries to coerce and shoehorn the intimate partner into behaving in a way that upholds his newfound status as an enemy and a threat. This defense mechanism is known as projective identification. I have a video dedicated to it on this channel. So the patient tries to force the partner to behave in ways that support her view of him as a persecutory object. The intimate partner has his own issues, however. He will comply in his assigned role. He will transform himself into an abuser. And this is known as introjective identification. If we talk to people who are not versed in psychology, they will say, well, I provoke my partner. That's why he is abusing. And to a large extent, it's true. The patient then proceeds to rebel against her externalized persecutory object, to defy her intimate partner, to punish her by behaving, for example, promiscuously and by cheating on him, being a slut or whore, by envying and sabotaging her partner's career, by passive-aggressively challenging and provoking him, by humiliating, rejecting and undermining his well-being and self-esteem, by compromising his public image and standing in society, and by penalizing him in myriad other ways. It's a war. It is a battle field. Naturally, the patient, having engaged in these unsavory behaviors, then expects a penalty commensurate with her egregious misbehavior. She becomes paranoid, hyper-vigilant and exceedingly anxious. These dissonant emotions also augment her perception of the intimate partner as a source of unmitigated sadistic control and judgment, an imminent and omnipresent threat and the fount of ambivalence, love, hate, relationship. It is a very sick dynamic, but unfortunately very common.


Ευχαριστούμε όλοι, ευχαριστούμε πολύ για την επόμενη. Ευχαριστούμε πολύ για την επόμενη. Είμαι Πέτρος, έρχομαι από Κέμβρης University. Το μόνο μου name είναι Χάντζι Παλόγλου, although I have no high expectations. Στην day will be the church formation of Sicily in the relationship with the Neolithic church artefacts from Malta. These will have three parts, the Neolithic conduct of Malta, the church formation of Sicily, and a petrological comparison between the Sicilian church and the Maltese artefacts. Starting from Malta is actually a group of islands, which lies in the middle of Mediterranean Sea, as you can see in this map. During the late Neolithic, large scale monuments, known also as stone temples, were built. Here is a picture of the islands, which shows the current cities and the main archaeological sites found. Excellent example of which you can see in these following pictures. First is Emnidra, found on Malta, and second, Cicantia Temple, which is located on Gozo, and possibly it's the most famous site of all. The archaeological research so far has found important church assemblages in the sites of different size, shape and style, and most of them are made from local material, example of which you can observe in these three pictures. However, many artefacts were made of non-local church and they are described as exotic and basically of a known source. Example of these artefacts and the different types of exotic material you can see in these pictures. And there was a theory which suggests that a Sicilian origin of this church was based on three main factors. The proximity of Sicily with Malta, the known church outposts located on the island and the Neolithic activity and generally the prehistoric activity recorded on Sicily and was part of my research to test this theory. Regarding Sicily, a picture of which you can see now and for those who still doesn't know where it is, it's in the middle of Mediterranean Sea, below the Italian peninsula and above the coastline of North Africa. In terms of geology, generally Sicily is composed, is consist of centimetary rock mainly, but all the four different types of rock material have been recorded on the island. The factor that complicates things is the age when you have rock formation from paleozoic until cutternary and we actually have, if you consider in plain numbers, we have a history of 400 million years, you can have an idea of what this could do to the diversity of the different material and rock formation we could found. In my research on the island, I focused on two main locations. The first was South of Sicily for two main reasons. The first one was that it was there that a lot of prehistoric and Neolithic sites have been reported and the second has been reported and it was possible that there was a connection between this region and Malta and from where the exotic material was important on these islands. And the second was that it is a location that presents most of the church formation reported generally on the island so it will be a very useful location to start of. On this map you have with the red dark dots the location I sample on this region and I start from Monte Tabuto, pictures of the area you can see here. The top left is possibly a prehistoric mining structure. The people from the region suggest that, I have no proof but I don't have any other argument to not believe them. And the other three pictures are from the type of church outcomes located on this area. Then I move north and close to Monte Rosso Almo city which is known for the limestone that they are intercalated with extensive church outcomes and this is a picture of a quarry not active currently that has grey and black church of important amount actually. But also, church outcomes can be located along the roads that connects the city with the whole of Sicily and they have different type, shape, size and color. And the last location I visited in this area was I think was the province of Monte Yudica and especially on Monte Santo and close to Ballona river where I located the oldest set formation report on the island an example but the importance of this location is shown in these two pictures. On the left we have an impressive sequence of red church material which could exceed the 10 meters high and on the right we have black bedded church intercalating a limestone which length could exceed the 20 meters which is really amazing for me at least. And my second location was West Sicily for one reason basically because in terms of archeology it wasn't suggested as a location because it's there that you find two specific set outcomes that you cannot locate anywhere in the island or at least in this good condition. Example of the material I found you can observe in these four pictures and I want to take special note on the bottom left picture where you have this orange shade church material and it is something I have never found in my work on Sicily similar out-rope elsewhere. And now moving to my third part and where I need your patience is the pathological comparison which is based on two main axes first one is the macroscopic examination which I use as a guide to connect artifacts with rock source and second is geochemistry which I use to prove if this link between rock and source is actually existing and I use and I do that by using major elements to examine the type of depositional environment and sediments of the rock trace elements to examine the level of oxygen during the position and rare earth elements which adjust how rich in material were the inputs during the deposition. The main principle is that it's highly unlikely different set outcropes to have similar features like this and for this presentation I have chosen to show three examples the first is these red fragments and tips of artifacts and compare them with the red radiolarian I found this out this Sicily and I start using iron, titanium and aluminium in a specific model which as you can see my artifacts are not located in the same environment as my chart from Sicily but also in another diagram that examine the type of sediments I see again that there are no connections between the Sicilian chart and these artifacts in this diagram which examine the level of oxygen make things a bit more complex and make you think further that we have a match between one Sicilian sample and two of our artifacts while the other artifacts have completed different levels of oxygen during their creation this model also is we use the concentration of vanadium, nickel, uranium and thorium and on the last model I use I see in simple terms that my Sicilian chart are more enriched on the first group of these elements which is on the left and depleted on the second group on the right while my artifacts present exactly the opposite concentrations moving to my second example where I use black flakes and compare them with different black outcrops from Sicily and using the same process again I see now that three of my samples from Sicily are from the similar environment as my two artifacts the same situation applies on the second diagram on the type of sediments a small difference are recorded on the level of oxygen which means we need further concentration but still I have one artifact that matches with one of my Sicilian chart and the rare earth pattern I could say, considering all the rest that the west Sicilian chart is not compatible with these artifacts the artifacts themselves have very similarities and some of the Sicilian chart have a similar pattern plus similar concentrations which is very strong indication of compatibility and finally I use these two artifacts you see on this picture on the top left and compare them with only west Sicilian chart outcrops and of course I include the orange I found on west Sicily which I couldn't find elsewhere and I start and I see that surprisingly both of the artifacts are in the same environment as the orange chart the same is the situation on the type of sediments and actually if you consider these two diagrams one of the two artifacts is almost exactly plotted in the same position as by said outcrop I have one more match in this model 2 where you see my two artifacts are plotted in the same region as my orange chart and finally you see that we have almost a perfect match of the orange chart outcrops with these two artifacts there are some small variabilities and concentrations but this is acceptable for many reasons which I could explain later the purple chart I use the second chart from east Sicily has a similar pattern but the problem is that is highly depleted in concentrations so we need further research on that and to sum up I have to say that the red artifacts from Malta are not related with the radialarian formation of east Sicily the black chart artifacts are possibly related with the east Sicilian black charts and highly likely with the Monte Rosso-Almo formations the purple chart must be related with west Sicilian chart just not with the orange one the purple one sorry and finally I could say with great certainty that the orange chart artifact is originated from the orange chart outcrops of west Sicily before the end I would like to thank Cambridge University, the Fragus Project and Heritage of Malta for allowing to do this research and finally I thank all of you for participating, surviving and being here thank you very much