insight and understanding and and I think it's something we all should and that's the advantage of me presenting a show like this is that I do get to hear from people like amary whose life just change changes isn't it just in a almost what feels like in life a blink of an eye and all of a sudden you're talking about well how can I get behind the wheel or how far can I walk or how can I manage this pain from nowhere and Marie yeah I'd say the statement and from my family to you know my husband and three children at the step of a little grandchild now I've never carried her I've never pushed her in a buggy you know what I mean it is different every day when this challenges like because it is with a diagnosis like this and it's like although it's the whole family get the diagnosis to some extent as much as brave moms and dads and children try and protect everyone everyone's involved Marie are you going into that again this evening or tell the story okay lovely okay can I just say just 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sponsored by biz print letter Kenny making printing easy and affordable okay you're very welcome back to the program now a spacecraft has been deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid millions of miles away by NASA the craft hit the rocket around 15 thousand miles per hour as part of a planetary defense test David Moore editor of astronomy Ireland is back on the show to help us understand this good morning to you David good morning I suppose it's you know straight out of a 90s action movie this isn't it's I mean now obviously this is a test and there's no risk of setting this asteroid on a collision course with earth but I mean it is the stuff of movies yes sort of there's have been the deep impact movie and the Armageddon Hollywood blockbusters but they were all about blowing asteroids you have to make it exciting for Hollywood this is the actual way you do it a little bit more pedestrian maybe perhaps boring but still worth 300 million euros this particular mission and it was just to see can we hit an asteroid and how much will we move it by if we do hit it because it actually depends on what the asteroids made of so the good news is they hit the asteroid perfectly so no problem there more or less as we expected but it's nice to prove the technology now we need to find any asteroids with our name on them and to make sure that we hit them years preferably decades in advance and nudge them ever so slightly right so this thing is millions of miles away from us so really it perhaps only has to have its course disrupted fractionally we won't know if that's happened will we for quite some time or it'll take a while presumably because we'll be talking probably millions of miles out a minor movement that hopefully by the time it if this were heading to earth it would be quite a large displacement of its trajectory yeah this particular asteroid won't hit us it's not one of the ones that can hit us it was a useful test subject as in the matter how hard we hit it we couldn't possibly make it collide with the earth with such a tiny craft so it was great to do a test on it but there are other ones there's about 30,000 hazardous asteroids at the moment but the good news is if we run their orbits forward none of them are going to hit the earth but we're still surveying the skies looking for more of these objects and the idea is that even the spacecraft although the asteroids 7 million miles away it has to travel hundreds of millions of miles to get there and asteroids will go round and round the sun probably for decades before they end up hitting us if we do find one with our name on it and so if you just nudge them ever so slightly the earth is a very small target we're only 8,000 miles across so if you can nudge them so that after a few billion miles going around the sun they just miss us by a few thousand miles you only need a tiny nudge to do that and we can calculate that as long as we know how much energy we can kick into the system by hitting it and there are other ways of doing it apart from running into them like we did last night. Yeah now this has happened before this is what wiped out the dinosaurs so there is precedent on the earth so it would be naive of us to presume this couldn't happen again so the better prepared we are for this the better. Yeah indeed 66 million years ago a huge asteroid probably about 6 miles across hit the earth and the devastation that that caused in just the days further to the extinction of the dinosaurs who were in the dominant species on the planet for about 150 million years but they never evolved intelligence enough to build their own space program. Have you not seen Jurassic Park David? Next you'll be telling me that's not a documentary. Well I didn't see them with any great technology. Definitely there were clever dinosaurs around we have other clever animals on the planet as well as humans but none of them developed the technology to send space rockets up. Alright okay listen and it will be over the next while or so won't it before we find out if actually it only take a few days the reason they chose this asteroid it has a small moon going around it and the moon goes in front of the asteroid and blocks a bit of the light although we can't actually see the moon from the earth we can measure its effect and we'll know over the next few days if we have slowed the asteroid down the question is by how much and then that enables us to plan future missions much better so it was the cover story on the September issue of Astronomy Island magazine and there'll be a big report next month because the mission has been so successful. Next thing you'll be telling me that I'm able to subscribe to get that magazine. You certainly are and Astronomy.ie is the website to do it and there are thousands of people around us lots of families and kids who get it every month we cover all the international stories but especially from an Irish angle there are a few asteroid experts on this island that will be interviewing for their opinion. Lovely stuff alright David thanks for giving us your opinion appreciated as always that's David Moore there of Astronomy Ireland okay stay with us back in a moment. Would you like to win a Hyundai Kona car? Well that's the first prize in the St Unions GA Club Development Draw who are sponsors of this week's 9 till noon show. There's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at stunionsgadraw.com or any club member. Cutting through the spin the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. 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I'm okay now just so I'm clear because I find it hard when you're not on these or around these bosses here so did you hear how I'll call her earlier on would this be the same boss that we're talking about? it probably is now but I too got two different bosses called yesterday from Hiner Kenney and one of them got the boss the local link to Quigley's Point and then got another boss from Quigley's Point to Kandana so I think it was the earlier boss they got it was the later boss right okay now talk to me about your situation I think this is as it relates to the actual cost of the boss for your student yeah I have to go into letter telling I just started yesterday it's not even it's not even the cost it's even in convenience Greg there is only one boss from Kandana as I say it's 7.45 in the morning and some of the articles that run it's 13 year old return now I could drive to Quigley's Point which is only like 5-10 minutes max and I can put them on the local link at 8 o'clock for 3 euro return to letter Kenney that service is available from Mauval in Green Castle multiple times a day as I say there's only one boss from Karn and as I say that's 13 year old a day so that's 65 euro a week whereas if you would ever get the boss from Quigley's Point for 15 euro a week to letter Kenney it's a big difference it is a big difference and you add it up over a month and then over a year and we're talking a significant amount of money particularly in these times Siobhan yeah and it's not even that like John again they can offer a student 20 euro return from Kandana to Dublin you know on a daily basis and it's not against McGonagall's I know they have a service Fairplay doesn't provide the service but as regards to the students I think it's you know it's expensive we were on by the way we've made contact on a number of occasions with McGonagall's bosses now I don't know the ins and outs some of these routes are going to be better supported or supported by the state others are purely commercial we don't know the ins and outs of it so it's very likely that McGonagall's have to charge 13 euro return to cover the cost of the the diesel the drive for the insurance and yet the other bus that you talk of it's probably subsidized or subsidized more heavy so this is not about a private company is such I think it's more about what routes are available and which are subsidized and which are not yeah but I think like West should be provided with the same service like I think the students in Kandana should be provided with the same service of students and mobile and on my thought I don't know anything about Kranas for that matter it's just the service available I don't know why half of any shoulders split down the middle in regards to that transport you know the service I think it's very unfair you know and as you say like if I have to go and that's an extra 100 euro a week compared to driving to a previous point and putting the two of them on the local link and I think local reps the ATU have all of us saying this as well that Aiman Ryan has do you know what I mean the whole idea is that we if we live in rural Ireland without buses that we have access to them but also that we get out of the car and get on the bus if we can and it has to be cheaper than running a car yeah exactly a desi area as well we get lunch as provided for kids and school free and then as I say this bus has been put on for as I say the Ukrainians travel from town to town I think our own students our own Irish students and brought up here have sort of provided with a service you know as I say there's a community school here there's a tax office there's the MCT there's even people like say even you wanted to go up to Pennies if you don't have a car how do you get or a hospital appointment because we do know a lot of services that should be available in a show have been centralized there's no service available I wasn't contact with one of us there is like you can get the local link to Bunkrana and then get their bus from Bunkrana to Lerrkeny but it's been convenient even of that I think when Karn is central and on a show it should be something and it's not just Karn it's Malin, it's Konlani, it's Bale Lassan you know what time do your young ones get into college at I wonder so they got the bus this morning at quarter to eight so he hasn't just started I think two and a clock today so he is all morning to kind of waste about and then the other she's in this morning and she's not finished to half five she starts at nine and she's in the class at nine this morning and does that bus get her in on time don't think so but also neither of the two of them are sure they'll have a seat home either is that sure that's what I'm just I'm a wee bit what I heard that and I'm kind of anxious now God will even get home because he's on to half five as well so you know we can that's kind of worrying I think you know the demand is there definitely like when I drop them down now they got the local link yesterday from Quigley's point as I said three year return and then they got the one of the Lucy she got the bus home from there Kenny the McGonagall's bus home because it suited her because she was kind of I think it was half three bus or whatever and Daniel he got the local link back to but I presume this is scenario where there's a load of cars sitting at Quigley's point in the mornings there was there was seven cars yesterday morning and that bus was full yesterday morning the McGonagall's bus was full there yesterday morning I think it should be provided the service should be provided the students are there and even as I say the community's there even to travel you know as you see the lack of bus to let her Kenny anyway like if there was a border now in Derry if you let her Kenny we'd be our new skinner city or place to go to for shopping and stuff and the service isn't there even to you know that was my point then convenience is the price of it and I was just wondering who you contact to try to and as you say and some might like not to hear it but as you say and this is what I've been talking about on this program for weeks and weeks now is that you can't help but it's going to be a human situation when you look at people obviously we understand that they're fleeing the Ukraine and the reasons for doing that but when then you see services coming out of the blue and being made available it is going to make you think and go what's going on here and I get that they can do it for them and they can't do it for their own you know I think it's sad it's very sad that way you know it's not a racist comment but you don't want to be feeding that emotion you see this is the point I'm trying to make and this is why I think it's important we talk about it and no one gets accused of words like you've just used because this is perfectly human and you need a space where you have to say well what about my two children what about them why can't things be fixed as quick for them and I get that and you've made your point well Siobhan thanks for that no problem stay listening by the way we're staying on this topic all right Shauna you and we will be rejoined by Brigine shortly Shauna your daughter it was her first day in first year yesterday is that correct it was yes okay what's the story she had enough yesterday evening we didn't know if she was actually going to get on the bus in the first place because her class finished at half five and the bus goes at 26 so we didn't know if she would have that get there in the 10 months and then she got there and I phoned her then to see if she was on the bus and she says no there's about 25 of them standing here there was no room on the bus the bus driver made a phone call for another bus to come to left them but they didn't know how long they'd have to stand there and she wasn't home in the house to ten to eight last night that's a long day on day one isn't it is she's on her fall day today Wednesday she's a half day so she's in in the morning her class finishes at one thirty but the bus goes at one and when's the next bus after that there's a mid-afternoon bus is there no the next bus then is the 26 which she doesn't know she's going to get on she's going to have to kick around and she doesn't even actually know if she's going to get there and also too I have a feeling a lot of students now will sort of tweak this they're going to go to earlier stops when they can you know what I mean to try and get a seat as best as possible okay stay with me stay there Brigine's back with us hi Brigine hi yeah any updates since we last spoke to you nothing like on my end from any of the bus companies I had messaged them but I have no reply and and I basically just kind of wanted to say that like out of all the universities and colleges in Ireland like we're open to nine o'clock at night hence meaning students kind of avail of like services like the library sports the facilities the free gem access that we have study areas to nine o'clock but we students who have to take public transport we're not able to do that unlike the rest of the country and boss Aaron runs a bus as late as 20 to 10 every night from dairy to letter can but we have absolutely nothing like that over here and the way it works with doing studying in you mentioned access in libraries it's not like national school where you finish and you get out the door you know there's other stuff that you might have to do on campus associated with your course so you don't want to have to be rushing for a bus yeah so basically like the woman was saying before I would be in the same situation like I started half nine in the morning and a lot of my classes and labs don't finish to half five in the evening the bus is then leaving at 20 to six you don't know if you're getting on you don't know if you're not and if you do you're you're squished in like a pen of sardines and that's not even a lie it's so uncomfortable and you're missing out on three four hours extra that you are really supposed to be spending in college some days and you have to but we have no option what about the cost side of it what's your daily charge bridging oh gosh so I'm going from Bunkrana and as a student it is 10 euro every day so that's 50 euro a week from Sunday from Bunkrana but I know that anyone travelling from Earth Mani, Malan, Kandana it's anywhere up to 20 euro a day if not more now of course you can offset that you can offset that against if you had to get accommodation and all but there are students in Dublin who are on and off buses all day for effectively what you're paying in two days or even three like a bus in Dublin is 2, 3 euro and out of the study for them we don't have any option here we have so many students and also some students from Dublin, Lamrecht, Longford Monaghan there's only so many houses and letter canning even the general public can't even get them so us students who are actually living here in Donegal we can't get them either so let's get down to solutions then bridging from your perspective more buses on this route maybe a local link bus on this route as well to create more capacity is that what we're talking about here is that how this is fixed more regularity of service or if the bus service who has decided they want to do this run if they are not fit to the purpose or they are not going to listen to the public and give the purpose and I have to be careful here bridging that's a commercial decision if you know what I mean like and they have that the government that's commissioning this I don't know what would be there if they weren't there but I understand where you're coming from your frustration as well but that's what I mean so also a later service as well the college is open to 9pm so I don't like any other university in Ireland students can stay in college to college services or clubs we don't get that but I'm not just saying it in the sense of this bus company itself I'm saying in a show on people in wider Donegal where there is why are we still left in this old age system of travel nobody can afford travel definitely not students some people can in that position and that's fabulous for them it won't happen I'm in college trying to get my education so someday I can afford to get my own car but even with the you know the government are here and they're trying to get us to take buses and stop one car travel and all the rest but how can we do that when we don't even have the facilities to do that but even bridging listening earlier on to a caller talking about a load of cars having to land at quickly's point for people to get that bus I mean just the notion that there's a load of cars on the road to try and get to a bus in this day and age is crazy but then I have I have a friend who gets the bus outside at some of our local like bus and it's cheaper so he gets the local link bus to Bridgend he loves in Burnfoot he gets off at Bridgend and then he has to walk to his house in Burnfoot because it's much cheaper to get than to get the bus to Burnfoot the other way Thanks for your points we're going to stay on this by the way we've been in contact with the bus company just to get their side of it because they say they're a private company also and also actually I'm very interested in Eamon Ryan's department because he's the Minister for Transport and we want to see what he thinks this is young people who are crying out to be able to get to school or college or university on time maybe even help the environment in the process and they're not being able to do so thanks Bridgend I appreciate it Thank you so much for having me Thank you and we'll not leave you there and Shauna too you know we're not looking for a bus to every door in a show neither Shauna are we we're just looking for a flexible reliable and relatively inexpensive service a service that is designed for when they need to get to college when they need to get home obviously if it's private it has to be profitable but as they say we're not out with the begging bowl looking for a door-to-door service here either we just need a good service Yes exactly great but can I just make a point too on the price my daughter works in Fawn when she gets the same bus company Gary bus to Fawn to go to work it cost her 120 but when she gets the same company's letter candy bus to go to work in Fawn it cost her 320 Yeah okay there's a lot to unpack there Shauna and we're going to try and do it thanks for your time this morning and best look to the family and their studies we really appreciate everyone's time this morning and as I say we want to get all sides to this as well and we've made those calls in an effort to try and do so Would you like to win a Hyundai corner car? 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The whole idea is that the power would be the same you could make savings if you used it certain hours or at night time but the daytime rate, the regular rate is more on a smart meter yes you can, there are certain schemes with some companies whereby you can save money overnight or in certain windows of time but those things are being sold to us and people have mentioned it on this program as a means to save money and control your power usage. But if that's not the case we don't want to have to be sold a pop either we want to get all over that and also it's going to be years before the usable in terms of tracking your power usage in real time that is another thing that I wasn't told either that it might be the next day or the day after before you find out what your usage was you know on a Monday you find out no where is that so much use either so leave that with us that's something that requires that's something that requires more investigation. Greg in relation to Ukrainian cars if you drove around in a northern car it would be lifted indeed and I get that but there is a diktat down from Guard HQ in terms of licenses as well of course licenses exchange and that type of stuff my understanding is that the guards have been briefed on the situation and I've translated that where need be and pass that information on my son's class finishes at 5.30 the boss that leaves letter Kenny at 5.40 was left already at 5.38 he had to drive to collect him as he was left stranded because the boss had left before the scheduled time of 5.40 he hadn't been told another boss would get him. We're getting quite a few stories like that as it relates to the boss service particularly for ATU students but not exclusively for ATU students going to letter Kenny we're going to have to return to it if you want to get involved in that conversation you can contact us on our social media text to whatsapp 086625000 or call us 07491 25000 but that's where we have to leave it for this Tuesday thanks for listening thanks for watching


What types of sources are in the library that help you find information on a topic you know little about? Did you think books? Most people do. We also have magazines, newspapers, videos, audiobooks, and more sources of information available in the library. In order to support college-level research, you can access credible academic content through our online subscription databases. In the first part of your research project for ENC 1101 online, your task is to choose a controversial topic from the opposing viewpoint's database and to develop a thesis statement. You can access the databases through the library's website. You just have to know how to get there and how to log in to search. I will show you how to get to the library's databases and log in now. If you are able, please open a new window on your computer and keep this video up in a separate window. This way you can follow along as I give you instructions to locate and log in to the databases. Control plus N will open a new window. Then if you click on restore down on each window, you can place them side by side. Pause the video and set up your computer so you can view this video and navigate to the databases in another window. Starting out at the IRS home page, you can get to the library website by clicking quick links and then libraries in the top right corner. Next, click on databases by subject. Now you will have to log in. Before you do, please note that your pin for the library is different from your IRS C pin or Blackboard pin. Your borrower ID is your student ID and your pin is the month and day of your birth. If your birthday is January 28, then your pin is 0128. Once you are logged in, you will see a listing of subjects. The database we need for the research project is listed under current events. Click on current events and then click on opposing viewpoints. This database makes it easy to pick a topic as it lists some current and controversial topics under browse issues. Click on browse issues to see a list of these topics. The topics listed here are very broad and your job in the first assignment is to use the database to help you narrow down your choice to a viewpoint or one side of an argument that is tied to a broad topic. For example, let me show you how this works. If you are interested in mental health in general, you can read an overview of this topic by clicking on read more to start to get some ideas on what specific aspect you would want to focus on within this broader topic. Then if you go back one page, you can click on viewpoints to see over 100 articles that have information on various controversial points of view as it relates to mental health. As you can see, this list of viewpoints can help narrow your focus. I could explore issues related to the care given to military veterans and how that helps with PTSD. Or I could explore adolescent mental health issues or the use of animals in mental health therapy programs. If you see a viewpoint you like, click on the title to read the article associated with this topic in order to help you in the discovery process. If you find that the first topic you selected is not a controversial issue you would like to explore in this project, then you would return to the main page and select another potential topic. Let's review those steps. I'm going to go back to the main page and show you one other broad topic and how to use the sources in it to narrow down your topic. Click on browse issues and then look through the list of possibilities. Choose something else that interests you. I'm going to select food insecurity. Then click on read more for the topic overview. This is going to give you the background information you need to post your brief reflection on what you have learned and explain why this topic matters to you. Through your review of this topic you will be able to propose your working thesis statement. Take time now to review the wide range of controversial topics available to you in this database in order to complete the step of your research project.


I think the foundation for people is to really design the career path and with more information and continue to invest in themselves, learning different AI technology or any new technology or any new skillset so they can always be on public gain in the market.


Following the killing of Ivan Ono-Seregba, the two-year-old by stray bullet by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in a Delta state, Senator Woko Chinay-Dumanir has said, security personnel should be disciplined on how they use weapons. The senator representing Delta North's senatorial district made this statement on Thursday at the National Assembly Complex, where briefing the pressmen on the incentive to be given to the deceased family and his boy whose left eye has been damaged by the government. Ono-Ko charged that the Senate, the House of Reps, the President, the Inspector General, and everyone must protect the lives of people, but particularly this wondrous punishment is required. Arden, that for sure prescribed punishment will be penalized for whatever it is and must be applied maximum. It must be very disciplined in the way and manner they use those guns. We cannot afford to have so many such incidents anymore. What I also expect is that there should be proper investigation as to exactly what happened and that the culprit was brought to books. Whatever it is that led to this must be properly investigated.


Hi, welcome back to Hadoop Summit here in San Jose. Jeff Kelly here from Wikibon. I'm here with my co-host. John Furrier with siliconangle.com and Matt Bile is here with DataStacks co-founder. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having me. We had you guys on at Strata two years ago. Lots changed in the marketplace, a little bit, so. We also had them on more recently at the last strata as well.  We appreciate that. You guys are in early and obviously the database world is going through master change. I mean, Hortonworks comes out of nowhere a year ago. Look where they are today, heavily venture backed. So what's the update with DataStacks? So take us through where you guys are at right now, relative to all this discussion of HBase, HDFS, and MapReduce. Definitely. Where you guys sitting in that equation. So we've always been the company behind Cassandra. Cassandra is an online database. It's part of the NoSQL race, so very high performance, very scalable, very distributed. And obviously as big data's continue to grow, our focus has been, how do you bring more and more of the compute to the data so you don't have to move between different systems? So what we've done is, we've got a Hadoop offering where we've integrated Apache Hadoop and Hive and Pig, et cetera, and Mahoot with Cassandra. And then recently, we've also included Apache Solar in that. So now in one offering, you can get your online database needs through Cassandra, your analytics through the HOOP stack, as well as your search needs through Solar, all completely compatible with the Apache distributions of each of those. How about the, share with the folks out there who are like picking the tires. There's also some guys in the industry who know the inside baseball, but for the most part, there's a whole new wave of audience coming in saying, hey, I want some of that Hadoop stuff, Hadoop synonymous with big data. There's a lot of use cases outside of just pure Hadoop MapReduce. And you guys hit that, right? It's a huge search function, different data sources. Talk about that marketplace outside of Hadoop. There's a whole nother world obviously going up to the stack to OLTP and other high-end scalable systems. I think you nailed it. If you look at where Hadoop came from, it was for offline batch analytics and doing incredibly intense things with unstructured large data sets. Whereas what we've done with Cassandra came from the other side, which is give me all of that information that needs to be served in some millisecond response times, and what can you do with that? And so one of the really nice things about Cassandra is its ability to have basically as many data centers as you desire, and then have all of those be active for reason rights. So a lot of people, whether it's in the cloud of their own data center, say, I need my data around the world online at all times and have the data store keep that in sync. So what we've done with Cassandra and the search integration is whether you want to do sort of advanced key value store queries via Cassandra, or you want to do intense full-text search queries in real-time, something like a Google-type scenario. We provide that out of the box. So e-commerce is really popular if you want to do a product search. If you want to do something like even financial transactions, that's not possible with our technology. Apache is obviously growing huge, right? It's an open source. First of all, we're huge open source fans and we personally think that our research that open source is going to be absolutely going to disrupt even more than it ever has, ever. But open source is like a NASCAR race, right? Someone's in the lead. Next project comes up. HBase right now is up there. How does Cassandra play in that NASCAR analogy in the sense of you guys have a good track record. There's a huge community behind it. Not as much hyped up because you get passed with some hype. So talk about how you guys fit into the overall ecosystem for the folks trying to unpack this. I think that people have really seen Cassandra as the solution when you need your online data to always be available. One of the nice things it does really well if you look at the traditional cap theorem is it sacrifices consistency for availability in that scenario. Or it's actually tunable, but that's a longer conversation. But if you need something that can always be up, whether it's a server is up and running or a rack falls over or even an entire data center goes offline, Cassandra's the choice because you can lose any server at any time and the system as a whole is always available. There is no single point of failure like there is with the name of it in Hadoop. And so that's a real strength when you're talking about mission critical can't be down for even a second type data. Where do you guys see the sweet spot there? Your wheelhouse application wise? Is it hyper scale, financial services, all the verticals? It's honestly, we're very vertically independent. We sort of like them all and they all sort of like us. And I think the key is though really when uptime matters more than anything again across any geographical location and performance of course is the key there. When you need sort of sub 10 millisecond response times and you really need your data to be really fast, we're the key there. You know, Google and Amazon have great white papers where every 100 milliseconds of latency cost them 1% of revenue. And so you obviously don't want more latency in those scenarios. Dave Calante, who's our normally the co-host, Jeff Boss is a big horse racing fan and probably an addict on the betting side. I can imagine knowing Dave. But he has a phrase, horses, courses for horses. Courts, no. Courses for horses. Horses run better on certain tracks. So here, this is Cassandra, right? So that's essentially what you're saying is that for you guys, high availability in production environments is the preferred solution. Yeah, the phrase that we've been using is continuously available. At no time can the system be down.   Amazon East has been down a couple of times over the last few years. And a lot of the, in fact, all the guys that were running Cassandra out of two data centers didn't even notice that. I mean, let's be clear. We're big fans of Hadoop and all the rah rah around the Holy Trinity, HBase, HTFS and MapReduce, which I think is the Holy Trinity. But it's still early. Look at what they're announcing here. High availability and the name note issue, right? We didn't actually get that with everyone. I want to talk more about that. But just up until the CDH4, there was one problem, one name note, name note. So you guys are well ahead of the pack hence the horses for courses analogy. So talk about data stacks. What's going on with the company right now? What are you guys at? What's the current product focus? Give us the inside track on that. So obviously, just like probably a lot of people in the sort of big data market right now we're going through hyper growth. I mean, we are just over two years old and I remember when there were two of us and now we're up to north of 50. We did a series B, I guess, eight months ago and so that's been really successful. We're really happy with bringing on a new board member. And in terms of customer accounts. Which BC did that deal? The latest one was Crossline Capital. Eric Chin joined us on Crossline on the board. And we're very excited that our customer accounts now just, I think it's just the 200 or just under. So we've seen a lot of success there. Again, it's across all verticals. So it's really fun to go meet a lot of these users and hear about interesting use cases where they affect the end user very differently but behind the scenes a lot of the data models are actually very, very similar. So we see a lot of success across different industries as a result of that. In terms of the product, you know, we actually, I think today announced Datasax Enterprise 2.1 which is our main offering that combines Cassandra with Hadoop and Solar. And the release today integrated Mahood into that offering as well. Along with some minor enhancements where you can have multiple deployments of HDFS across multiple data centers. I'm sorry, you can run multiple instances of HDFS in the same cluster now including multiple data centers and then run independent jobs across each of those file systems. So you mentioned, you know, seeing some really interesting use cases and customers. So talk a little bit about who your customers are. How do they come to you in terms of, you know, what are their issues? Does it, do they come to you because they have those continuous uptime as the original kind of pain point they're looking to solve and you offer them now a really comprehensive platform to do some other things as well. So kind of how do they typically, how do you engage with the customer and then maybe go into some use cases, some examples you're saying. Sounds good. So, you know, obviously one of the really nice things about our business model is we are the company behind Cassandra and I believe almost 100% of our leads have been 100% inbound. So people come to us which is really, really nice. In terms of why they come to us, a lot of times and what we hear and I'll use an example in a second is whenever it comes to things like either scalability or performance or the ability to do multiple geographic regions or even on top of just commodity hardware, other solutions just can't do it. You know, we run truly on really low-end commodity hardware and so, you know, a really good example of that is Netflix who moved off of Oracle onto Cassandra on the Amazon Cloud for almost everything they do today and they run, you know, you go log in tonight and you'll, all the backend data store for that is Cassandra for almost all of it and so that's something where we see a lot of scenarios in e-commerce such as companies like William Sonoma have talked about how they use Cassandra for their registry system and other e-commerce sites where you simply can never be down or you lose massive amounts of revenue. All the way to major financials on Wall Street who are doing things like tracking ticker data in real time. Those guys are a little more secretive about their names just because they view IT as a sort of competitive edge but it's rare to find online stores that can handle that massive amount of throughput and actually keep up.  So that obviously, so managing that kind of environment, is that a, how do you go about doing that? We talk about, you know, work on management and making sure each workload is working optimally. How do you guys approach that? So there's two things that are actually really interesting about that and the first one is, unlike a lot of the other Hadoop distributions, one of our really large advantages is operational simplicity and I'll define that real easily. Every node in our cluster has the same role. There aren't different types of nodes like the data node or the name node or zookeeper, et cetera. There is a single type of server you deploy and you enable the services you desire on that. It's all one JVM which makes things really simplistic from an operational perspective. Going back to Netflix, they manage, I think, 55 clusters or they've said with Cassandra and they use three people to manage that entire system. So it's somewhat simplistic to do it operationally.  So one of the nice things about Cassandra's architecture is we utilize the strength of that architecture to afford workload isolation between the different workloads. In other words, I can have my data set between the online, the search, and the analytical piece all have the same data but I don't have to worry about one workload killing the productivity of the other. So the last thing you want to do is kick off a MapReduce job and the response time goes from five milliseconds to five seconds on the Cassandra portion of the cluster. But utilizing our workload isolation, that's not a concern but there's no manual ETL to do that. And so that's a really big strength for a lot of our customers who say, hey, I don't want to move data around between different systems. I don't want to have to worry about that. Why should you? It's not your core competency as a business. So I use this to use Data Sets Enterprise to accomplish that and that really lets me focus more on the business problems of what I'm building around the status core. And in terms of, you mentioned Netflix kind of moving from an Oracle environment to Cassandra, could you just have kind of big picture?  How is that disrupting in your opinion kind of the more traditional, certainly the traditional database market, Oracle, but also IBM who are, you know, some others are, Oracle and IBM are kind of playing in this Hadoop world a little bit themselves, but what are you seeing in terms of the NoSQL world as a disruptor? I think the key is that if you look at the past, we had relational databases and if we had an online transaction, we pushed all of our data into that relational database. And we squeezed it in. I've done it before I've ran.  But we ran it for millions of users that made it work across multiple data centers. Now that there's options finally available, I don't think that the relational database is going to go away. I think there's great use cases for a relational database. I just think in a lot of areas where scalability matters more than things like high end performance features, a lot of these new pieces or a lot of these new NoSQL offerings make a lot more sense because they solve the bigger problem, that being scalability. And that's going to be a problem.  And that's really going to put, I think, companies like Oracle a bit in the bind. I mean, their approach does not throw more money at the problem as opposed to kind of that scale-up on commodity boxes and that kind of architecture. Yeah, I think Oracle will have some sort of reaction to that.  But I completely agree. I think the future in terms of the vast majority of future data growth is going to be in this type of technology, not the relational one. So, talk about when you guys go to a customer situation or are you still dealing with, you know, Xander, it's still new just like Hadoop and HGFS, kind of a burgeoning technology to a degree. Certainly not, doesn't have the legacy or the history of that relational database. What are you encountering in terms of attitudes towards adopting a new approach to data management? We talk a lot about, in the Hadoop world, is Hadoop Enterprise ready? Of course, a lot of the work you guys do is exactly around that, to make Hadoop a more robust platform. But what are the kind of the attitudes that you're getting or you're hearing from customers when it comes to, are all these NoSQL and Hadoop-based technologies, are they ready for prime time? I think they're right about on the edge of being there. In fact, I saw, there was a great interview someone did online that said, how many of the Fortune 500 are using these new technologies? Or how many do you think are? And my gut says everyone in the Fortune 500 has at least one project and either something from the Hadoop space or the NoSQL space, if not both. I think that from our perspective on the Cassandra side, we've done a lot of work over the last year and a half to do things that make the adoption a lot easier from a development perspective. So we've introduced the Cassandra query language, which is very much like SQL, which really eases developer adoption. But at this point, we've got CIOs and VPs telling us, I can't even do this with the old technology because the vendors have told me it won't work at the scale I want to go to. So I have to go to something new. I would say 2011, at the beginning of 2011, there were a lot more question marks around, is this right and ready for prime time? And now it's almost assumed that this stuff is really going to make a difference in their business because they've seen the success stories elsewhere to know what's going to. Right, yeah, you're starting to see. That's classic vendor Olympics, which is urinary Olympics, we call it, where they're going to put the foot in the water because they don't have the products. And they own the account. I think it's just a matter of use cases for you guys.  So the two, and this is a somewhat generic answer, but there are two that really stand out to me. One is anything with time series data. I mean, that could be something as simple as a tweet stream, which doesn't have that much of a different data model than ticker data on Wall Street. It's just sequence of events that happen, or it could be when your phone is blipping its GPS every three seconds, so you can log in and see where it's been recently in case it gets stolen. And if you think about those data sets are astronomical, especially when it's coming from device-generated data. It's just gigantic, how many times, or the amount of data that one device can leap out. And at the same time, the devices per person are just going through the roof right now. My scale now hooks up to the internet to record my weight every morning. On the other side, I think anything involving the cloud from a user perspective is big. So things like SaaS are really important, because it's not that I don't think one user's worth of data is going from 50 kilobytes to 50 terabytes. I think it's that you have millions of users in one place, as opposed to being siloed previously. So those two use cases are just gigantic for us. Great, so in terms of what you're seeing here at this event, what are some of the more exciting things you've seen, what's your impressions of what's going on here, this environment? Is it more of the developer focus, less business? I mean, what's the vibe here? Well, there's 21 people here, right? So who thinks Hadoop is just a fatter isn't going anywhere. I think that's the big one, is that this big data thing starting to catch on finally, especially to the masses. On the business side too, specifically.  I think you nailed it. You know, two years ago I was at one of the private investor retreats where they have you come in and talk to all their investment bankers and CIOs just to sort of ask questions about this big data thing. And half the questions were, what is this Hadoop thing I keep hearing about? That was two years ago. Nowadays we're hearing, hey, what do you do differently than this one? What's the next thing that's coming out? And yeah, I think it's starting to hit the C-level very, very strongly. They know what they're doing with it. Val from NetApp, or Chelys, the CEO, CTO, Office CTO said, all in NetApp's business opportunities in big data are not coming from IT. And all their salespeople sell it to IT, right? So you're seeing kind of that. And when we were at last week, at the Cube to HP Discover, they bought Autonomy. So one of the cultural mismatches is HP sells to IT and does a good job at it. Autonomy sells to the business case. So it's a whole other, in the tech scene, it's a mind shift, right? So you're out in the front lines doing the solutions. What's your experience with the data stack solution? Because you guys are in that middle ground, right? You've got to bridge both worlds. So one of the really good things for us is we're an infrastructure player. And so we are selling to the guys who really understand the need for high performance, very scalable infrastructure. And we actually have a nice value prop because of the fact we run a commodity hardware that the guys that actually are at sort of the highest level there, immediately say, hey, you're going to save me a lot of money on CapEx on my hardware? Absolutely, let's talk right now. On the flip side, I do think that there's a huge opportunity for that next abstraction level up for people who are helping a lot of the business folks understand what the big guy's doing. And that's a lot of the guys here. Like commerce fear, right? Yes, exactly. I think that's a huge opportunity to start to say, don't tell me, don't answer the question I'm asking for. Tell me what data to pay attention to. And I think a lot more of the BI folks will be doing more of that and there'll be opportunities coming out of that market in the near future. Okay, Matt Fial, co-founder of Datastacks. Thanks for coming inside theCUBE. You're a DevOps guy, as we love to call it. You know, X-Rack space, I have to read that in there. You guys are selling infrastructure. Congratulations on all your success on the business. And thanks for coming inside theCUBE, appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Okay, we'll be right back with our next guest after this short break. 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Alzheimer's disease, AD, is the most common form of dementia characterized by progressive cognitive decline and impaired memory. It is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors with changes in the brain structure and function being key indicators of the disease. Functional connectivity, FC, measures have been used to identify patterns of brain activity associated with AD as they can detect subtle differences in brain activity between healthy individuals and those with AD. In this study, researchers evaluated eight different FC measures to determine which was most effective at distinguishing between healthy and AD subjects. They found that a graph neural network, GNN, model outperformed all other methods, achieving an AUC score of 0.984 and an accuracy of 92%. This suggests that GNN may be a promising tool for identifying AD patients early on. This article was authored by Dominic Kleppel, Fahy, Min Woo, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Strong fourth quarter results for Netflix were overshadowed by the departure of Reed Hastings, the company's legendary co-CEO and co-founder. Is Netflix in good shape after Hastings' departure? When visionary CEOs leave their positions, it's a blow to the company's bottom line. After all, we prefer to keep CEOs who have proven track records of maximizing shareholder value and who are heavily invested in the company's success. Wall Street first reacted negatively to the announcement of Netflix co-CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings' departure, but this was before Netflix's rough year. Hastings has decided to take a less active position as executive chairman despite having steered the company to unprecedented success over the past two decades. Rather than elevating Ted Serandos, Hastings co-CEO, to sole CEO, Netflix instead hired Greg Peters, COO at the time, to replace Hastings on the executive team. It was not shocking to hear that Hastings would be leaving his position. The corporation has spent the better part of the last decade discussing succession plans, according to the upper management. Market participants appear more concerned with Netflix's performance in the fourth quarter than they are with the news surrounding the company's leadership shift. It would be an understatement to say that the quarter completely smashed expectations. Even after adjusting for fluctuations in the value of the dollar, Netflix saw a 10% gain in revenue, thanks in large part to a 4% increase in premium subscriptions. Despite skepticism about Netflix's ad-supported plan, the end outcome has revived interest. Investors shouldn't underestimate Netflix's content slate, even if some of the success can be attributed to reduced tiered pricing due to additional alternatives for worldwide subscribers and commercials. Overperforming management's own expectations and likely driving conversions were the company's significant content victories in the most recent quarter. The releases included the highly anticipated sequel to the Knives Out trilogy, Glass Onion, and Netflix's third most popular series ever, Wednesday. As a result, Netflix's bottom line was significantly better than expected, with free cash flow of almost $300 million. Although Netflix's cash flow has been volatile throughout its history due to the company's iterative approach to creating original content, management has stated that the company anticipates generating sustainable, positive annual free cash flows going forward. This is supported by the fact that management has projected free cash flows of more than $3 billion for all of 2023.


10 Ways To Make Strangers Like You Instantly Whether you admit it or not, the truth is that we all seek to be light by strangers, family and friends. And if there is anything we want more, it is to be light instantly. Not only does it make us feel good about ourselves, but it also boosts our self-confidence in our ability to relate more with people. Even the toughest and strongest amongst us just deeply wishes to be loved and cared for. James A. Baldwin, an American novelist, playwright and activist once said, Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it. Have you ever wondered why you try so hard or worry so much about what your first reaction should be when you get introduced to someone? Well it's because you fear that they may not like you if you don't act in a certain way. How Should You Act To Get Strangers To Like You?  This I believe will help you become a successful person. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Smile Les Brown said, Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. Mona Teresa also said, Making one person smile can change the world, maybe not the whole world, but their world. Smiling is one of the best ways to win a person's heart because it shows that you are warm and accommodating. And my friend, who doesn't like the thought of being around friendly people, walking up to a stranger with a sincere smile on your face instantly warms the situation and makes you look friendlier and more approachable.  Also according to Kylie Backs, always wear a smile sometime during the day. It makes you feel happier and younger. When you smile, it tricks your brain into releasing chemicals that make you feel happier. So the mere fact that you're both happy can make both buddies get into a conversation feeling so good and excited to talk and perhaps bond more. 2. Make eye contact. Making eye contact indicates social confidence, openness and honesty. Faraz Khazi, an Indian author, said eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be. Unlike when you try to avoid eye contact with someone, looking into a person's eyes will give you an instant likeability boost. Here's the thing, when you avoid making eye contact, people will perceive you as someone who has something to hide. Say a hidden agenda. Keep an eye contact, however, makes you appear honest and transparent enough to be associated with. 3. Say their names while conversing. We all like the sounds of our names. You know, Robert C. Lee, an actor and officer of the U.S. Navy, said the sweetest sound to anyone's ears is the sound of his own name. In his book, How to Wean Friends and Influence People, Dale Kanaeji said and I quote, Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Using a person's name during a conversation shows them that you were paying attention when they were introduced and you were genuinely interested in them. This will make them feel more connected and friendly towards you. Also, repeating it a couple more times during your conversation will help you remember it, because you don't want a situation where you meet them again and you begin to stutter because you can't recall their name. 4. Let your body language reflect openness. Peter Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant and author said the most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Body language says a lot more than our mouths, so it's important to reflect openness when communicating with people, especially strangers. Remember, action speaks louder than words. So, even small gestures, twitches and stances of your body language can guide a person to liking or disliking you. 5. Get them to talk about themselves. The same way everyone likes the sound of their name, they like the sound of their voice, especially if they have to talk about themselves. So, even if you are nervous and you are trying at all costs to dismiss the awkward silence that lies between you two, because you don't have anything to say just yet, don't make the mistake of making the conversation about you, instead, get them to talk about themselves by asking them thoughtful questions and listening actively in return. If you can, subtly keep the conversation going in a direction that reveals what they are truly passionate about in life. And stay on that subject for as long as possible. Dil Kenejee said, you can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. 6. Don't be pushy. This is a tricky one, because you want to get them to talk about themselves doesn't mean you should get pushy and begin to pry into their private affairs. Be gentle and flow more with the conversation, instead of trying too hard to come up with the next question or subject of discussion. 7. Ask questions. It's human nature to be helpful, and we all have a great desire to share what we know. So, when people appear to need our help, we tend to like them more because we like to be placed in a position when we are available to provide answers and help others. 8. Listen to them more. Try not to make the conversation one-sided by either talking too much or talking too little. However, it is advisable to do more listening than talking, and make sure you listen to them with a genuine interest in what they are saying, not because you are trying to obey the rule of talking little and listening more if you want to be liked by strangers. Of course, they'll be able to tell the difference between both. Likeable people are always listeners who are curious to genuinely learn new things. 9. Stay positive. Positivity is contagious, and in a world filled with so much negativity here and there, everyone is looking to connect with people who will make them feel nothing short of better than themselves, and they're surrounding circumstances. So, make a conscious effort to avoid making negative sentences nor complain to about one thing or the other. 10. Match their common experiences. It's a known fact that we like people who are like us, and when you find a common ground between you and the person you just met, it becomes easy for them to trust and like you, because you understand who we are and where we've been. So, without being or sounding inauthentic, do all you can to relate. Listen carefully and relate how you experience something similar. This will make you likeable. Please note, do not try too hard to make things up. 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The change of command ceremony is a time-honored product of the rich heritage of naval tradition which formally reached the continuity of command to its officers and crew. Naval regulations dictate that the commanding officer and his relief shall conduct the change of command in front of all squadron personnel and the heart of the ceremony is the formal transition of authority and responsibility to the relieving officer from the officer on off button couldn't find it and there goes the speech we're winning already all right hey thanks btm appreciate the introduction bunny sparky thank you for having me here today and for letting me fly with you this morning the best speakers are fast or funny I've got nothing but but bad dad jokes at least my daughter tells me so I'm gonna strive for speed over humor I also do think it's funny how they got the tallest podium I think on the flight line for me here today so soon to be skipper sparky's gonna make it look good I don't bunny it was honored to be part of your last flight today while you're in command of the diamond backs I've thoroughly enjoyed serving with you here in Carrying 5 I've learned a ton from you during our time together here you've built a heck of a team a team that the air wing the strike group seventh fleet and all the way up to the commando command commander of Indo-Pacific Pacom Indo-Pacific command rely upon to get the job done bunny is a tenured aviator here in the air wing he was one of the few that even predates COVID here in CAG 5 he has led the dime backs through three deployment cycles including the last two that were truly unique no one likes talking about COVID but I'm gonna just for a few minutes all right COVID first impacted CAG 5 when the air wing was in Guam for detachment in 2020 just about two years ago today when COVID made its appearance bunny was part of the leadership team that had to figure out how to get the air wing back to you a Cooney from Guam within 24 hours after they got home they had to figure out how to create a COVID free bubble for 1500 you a Cooney based Batman sailors then send all of them through UO to for fclps which in only house about 600 people at a time and eventually out to the carrier for carrier qualifications and deployment they manage this cobalt COVID bubble for about eight straight weeks ever since COVID has been the elephant in the room or in the hangar tracking vaccination status arrival ROM quarantine various liberty policies and COVID's impact to readiness has been a full-time job for most on top of everything just mentioned a commanding officer also has to ensure his or her command is ready to deploy bunny did just that under bunny's leadership the diamond backs prepared themselves in CAG 5 as a whole for battle last summer CAG 5 and Ronald Reagan found ourselves unexpectedly deployed to the US Central Command the first time for CAG 5 since 2003 and the first time ever for the diamond backs while operating the Super Hornet the diamond backs of the close air support subject matter S. Brooks for carrier wing 5 they made sure we were already their efforts resulted in CAG 5 safely executing over 300 combat sorties providing armed overwatch for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and amazingly the evacuation of 10 tens of thousands Afghan citizens the diamond backs were the first to launch on our rival and the last section airport on our final day in country bunny thank you again for everything you have done for the diamond backs in CAG 5 your inspired leadership reaches farther than you will ever know I'm gonna go off script for a second here today and and this is always a bad thing when I do this but I can say that commander O'Hara bleeds naval aviation he cares more than anyone I've ever met and he showed that again this morning when COVID first hit this squadron in January of 2021 when we got back from leave last year commander O'Hara stood the watch actually in the Reading Room for about 36 straight hours when when everyone had to scatter for a little bit he cares very deeply about each and every one of you and each every one of your families and and bunny that that's a unique trait and and I really appreciate it no one serves alone back on script now no one serves alone and you have had the support we all have some sort of support network to the O'Hara family thank you for your support to bunny and thank you for the support your support to our sailors sparky I look forward to watching you lead the diamond backs into the future you Ashley Rhodes and Alexander are a wonderful people and I'm confident the diamond backs are in good hands enjoy the ride it goes by way too fast Chuckie you're out there somewhere I know it welcome aboard there is I hope you Nicole Caitlin and Johnny enjoy your time here in Japan it is a hard tour but a very rewarding one bunny thank you again I appreciate everyone's time and attention thank you ladies and gentlemen the commanding officer strike fighter squadron one zero two commander Daniel bunny O'Hara okay I don't I don't really know how to follow that but I think you are far too kind in your words I hope that I hope that you have learned as much for me as I have from you and your leadership you truly care about the men and women of this air wing and you teach that to us each and every day and you certainly did is decad you have made me a better man much like the men and women of the diamond backs certainly Tim and Ashley and I will get back to you shortly but sir I have learned a tremendous amount from you and I'm truly humbled to have served with you decad welcome it's great to have you back really enjoyed our time at top gun together and I know that you're gonna take this air wing to new heights bad man CO's and exos decad said it best you can't do this alone you guys always had a an ear a voice you would listen you would give me guidance you'd pump me up when I was down can't do this alone and you guys were always there it's been an honor to serve with you guys to the Iwakuni families and I've got something specific to all the families it really is a giant family here the thing I was the most nervous about coming to Japan was being in my mid 40s and single and feeling that I was gonna be isolated and alone and that was the last thing from the case there are several families here in attendance and I'm gonna tell you exactly what it was that they did for me that made all this even possible to the diamond back spouses the sacrifices that you guys endure for the men and women behind you are unbelievable in a measurable the support and love that you provide to allow them to be the men and women to protect our nation to go out holding the family together so there's something to come home back to is far more of a sacrifice than any of us in uniform will ever know or endure quite honestly to the world's finest fighter squadron would arrive after three years I've got some specifics and I'll get to it but I'm truly humbled to have been able to serve alongside each and every one of you I am truly a better man because of everybody in this Hanger Bay I came out here nervous I didn't know what I was getting into felt like I wasn't prepared and every day you guys gave me reassurance hope courage again an ear to vent to to get through all the challenges we faced three years together and all I wanted today I'm not a big ceremonies guy I really just wanted today to be about thanking everybody who even made this possible for 20 years the thing that I think I've learned the most it's not the jets it's not the flying it's not the debts the poor calls it's the people it really is the men and women that you share these experiences and life with or what make this what it is I've been truly humbled with the men and women I've had the chance to serve alongside names like Waldo we walled Trevor Estes Eric Ilston Brian Kessel ring Dallas Jamison Adam Cohen Tim Charlebois Colonel Senate my first air or my first on-wing in flight school butters Vespa and I could go on and on and on there's some of the best friends a guy could ever have peer leadership is difficult and they would provide that when I needed it and they were always there to bring me up when I was down I'll never forget the tight merges the days on the ski slopes the cowboy time clearly the flying but I'm telling you it's the men and women that make this all possible and this is what I hope everybody walks away with you're surrounded by some of the best people our country has to offer and I hope that you take full advantage of that I'm fortunate enough today that my first CMC was gracious enough to come down from Yacosco O'Neill I can't even begin to describe what it means to me that you're here and everything that you did for me I wouldn't have gone through EO 2020 without you I certainly wouldn't and I know you know that the first appointment was tough you taught me to look out and care for myself man you're a wonderful individual Desiree are on Budsman thank you for being the support that our families needed here to get us through these challenging times to be the conduit for Tim and I to make sure that the men and women and their families were cared for I know the challenges that you face were immeasurable but you did it with grace and you did it with style and Tim and I are forever grateful for what you did for us to take care of our families so when I mentioned it was about the people there are some families here that it took me in as one of their own and made sure that I was never alone that I always had a meal support friends and people to do stuff with to Adam Kristen Ava may Marley Jack the water die the Legos the days to park the times of the boardwalk in Oceania with the chocolate shakes all over your clothes God I'm so lucky that you guys came up here and we got to overlap again to Shannon Dave Easton Avery you guys were fantastic neighbors and friends though in the football goofing about Harry Potter you guys keeping me company Shannon to you you allow me to be the man the man that these men and women deserve to stay late at work and I could come home and there was a meal in the refrigerator I don't have the words to Brent Stacy Evan Quinn and Reese the Jake was greeted me when I first got here made me feel welcome they took me out they showed me around Japan they made me feel comfortable being overseas without my own family the Evans family with Harry Corey Asher and Everett the trampoline days the throwing them up in the air the game nights I'll never forget that stuff and finally I'll get to Tim but Ashley Rhodes and Alexander to Christmas is together you open your home to me getting to hold Rhodes read of books put him to bed take him to the park carry him in the backpack on the hikes getting to hold and feed Alexander I love you guys and Tim you know who I am you put up with me you let me be me you let me become the CEO that I wanted to be dude you are ready for this job you've been ready and I want you to know man I'll always be here for you and your family to the diamond backs it's three years of memories the ups and downs the highs and lows the positives the negatives all that type of stuff I just want to say thank you for three wonderful years full of memories I appreciate your patience and your understanding as Tim and I navigated this thing called command I didn't know what I was getting into but you made me a better person and I learned a tremendous amount from all of you and I will carry that forward for the rest of my life you guys are an extremely good hands with Tim and Lynn and John and his family Lynn you have been a godsend your energy your excitement your enthusiasm and your care for the sailors is unbelievable we are truly lucky to have you as a member of this team I only wish I had more time with you our department heads are wonderful you guys have done an amazing job mentoring the JOs into the lethal cadre of aviators that they are today and I'm forever humbled to have served alongside you see rock thank you for putting up with me during the fat case syllabus all my rants in the jet to do my last flight the chiefs and the ground officers are truly our backbone I've learned so much from you on how to care and take care of the sailors to make sure that they succeed in life and we make the right decisions for the men and women of this organization to the training officers thank you for reinvigorating the desire to be a patch wearer you know how important that is to me and I'm forever indebted to you for igniting that fire under this extremely talented jail cadre and finally for the diving backs of the Jopa Nicole a heartfelt thank you to you for even setting this up and the amount of effort that you put forth to make this day even possible the JOs and the sailors of the lifeblood of any organization when I was down when I was tired your enthusiasm and your energy or what kept him and I going I gave you the analogy of the human body yesterday but it is the JOs and the sailors that are the heart and soul of any organization flying has been my life my passion I love it with all my heart but without you it wouldn't be possible your blood sweat efforts you going above and beyond allowed the men and women in the flights is to do what they truly love to do for a living so as I walk away I want you to remember that this is a team sports about teamwork nobody can do this alone I certainly couldn't I needed Tim I needed Lynn I needed O'Neill we need each other please be there for one another to get through the challenges I asked that you become a better man or woman on the backside of this experience to make sure that it was worthwhile but enjoy yourself along the way I certainly did Tim and I will know that we truly did our job correctly and we did it properly when we see your names on the chief select or the command screen list in a couple years I look forward to seeing the names of Nordley over cash burns Robinson Vermilie Chen McGowan on those command screen lists but I couldn't finish if I didn't thank my family they couldn't be here today obviously due to the travel restrictions and I haven't seen them since December of 2018 so I think it's time for me to go home they made my biggest advocates to tell us just a little boy it took me to see Top Gunn on the first day that it came out the air shows my grandfather taking me up in this little plane and here I am 20 years later able to live my dreams as a child how many people can say that they've been my biggest cheerleaders and my biggest advocates no matter how much of a misfit or I misbehaved they were always there for me and they never let that scared little boy who stared at the skyward wishing he was part of it give up on his dreams mom dad Ryan Mike Rachel Laurie Jim Sandy grandma and grandpa this tour was for you this career was for you I'm sorry for all the birthdays holidays special occasions that I've missed however I'm finally coming home I love you all thank you for making this life possible for me well all military guests please rise for the presentation of war by captain Sweeney commander carrier wing 5 attention to award the president of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the military service metal to commander Daniel K. O'Hara United States Navy for services asset 4th in the following citation for outstanding military service while serving as commanding officer and a fit of officer in a strike fighter squadron 102 from February 2019 to February 2022 commander O'Hara superior leadership guided the largest squadron a carrier wing 5 through 8 joint and combined exercises for detachments and for deployments on board USS Ronald Reagan commander O'Hara's inspirational leadership transformed strike fighter squadron 102 into the most combat effective unit in carrier wing 5 as a carrier wing 5 strike lead coordinator he skillfully got to the entire carrier wing into combat operations during the clothing closing months of operation freedom sentinel where squadron accomplished a 100% combat sortie completion rate providing armed overwatch during the critical period surrounding the retrograde of American forces and non combat evacuation in Afghanistan fostering a climate of by the book maintenance practices his leadership yielded the command's first pass pass score in nine years during the 2020 and 2021 commander strike fighter wing Pacific material condition inspection and enabled the command's safe execution of 4,272 sorties encompassing 8,655 flight hours with an impressive 95% sort of completion rate commander O'Hara's exceptional professionalism personal initiative and loyal devotion to duty reflected great threat upon himself and we're keeping the highest traditions of the United States Naval service for the president signed MP Donnelly Ruer Admiral United States Navy military guests please be seated. All right. I will now read my orders. Beepers order number 0312 when properly relieved detach VFA 102 report to the joint staff J Washington DC. I will now me read my orders. Beepers order number 3019 when directed reports commanding officer VFA 102 as his relief. Sir, I relieve you. I've been properly relieved. Sir, I have assumed command of VFA 102 Squadron at ease. So a Wiley skipper taught me a while ago to bring my own speech, not put it in the podium. So I will unfold that before I start. I'd like to say thank you to my wife, Ashley. Ashley numerous deployments. I moved to Japan. COVID long hours. You wondering why Bunny and I are always hanging out at work. You put your career and hold and you deal with everything the Navy gives us in stride. Thank you for being my everything. And thank you for being Danny surrogate mom. Rhodes Alex. I know you guys won't remember this, but I still want to say whatever path you choose for your life, your father will always be proud of you. Chucky. Nicole Kalin. Johnny. Welcome to Iwakuni. FDNF is a speeding train. We look forward to having you here. It's a blast. Ladies and gentlemen behind me, you may notice aircraft 101. Typically 100 is our CAG bird. 102 is the CEO's bird. On the name or on the side of 101 are the names of air crew who have won this D wish flying cross while flying diamondback hardware in Afghanistan. In fact, the two behind me, Lieutenant Commander Guido Gaiman and Lieutenant Commander Ewald, both represent a skipper of mine and both of our CAG together in CAG one, Bunny and I know them well. On the other side is Lieutenant Commander Guido Gaiman and again and Lieutenant Cosma Depri, former training officer and skipper of mine. I'd like to share a little story about them. On 16 November 2001, Hamid Karzai entered what was known as a Taliban stronghold of Terran Kaut along with US Army Special Forces from ODA 574. The Taliban marshaled a force estimated to exceed 300 men and dozen of vehicles to attack the town and Hamid Karzai. Acting in support of that ODA team as a fact a Guido and Cosmo coordinated and controlled 12 aircraft and guided weapon deliveries for more than four hours. They repelled the search and ground attacks destroying 30 vehicles and a significant number of enemy casualties. Guido and Cosmo saved Hamid Karzai's life that day. But their actions, they didn't do so alone. It takes a team to fight. It takes a team to win. Diamondback air crew wouldn't have gone flying that day without diamond back maintainers maintaining every combat system in that aircraft. Diamondback maintainers would not have been working without supply ensuring they had the parts without admin ensuring everyone was getting paid without Intel providing targets. Every individual has a role to play within fighting 102. And that spirit was carried that day and before us. That spirit started with the Vietnam War. That spirit continued when we opened Afghanistan. And most recently that spirit. We all were part of as we close out Afghanistan with some of us on that final flight. When it comes to fighting spirit. Danny embodies what is meant. What did it what it means to be within fighting 102. Danny's family, Kevin, Diane, Ryan. I know you'll be watching this at home. Know that your son's fighting spirit inspired of all of us to simply be better. Whether it was in the jet, fixing aircraft or living life. He is a tremendous human being. And you should be proud of your son. Danny on a daily basis you put on a masterclass in leadership. I'm thankful for your mentorship along the way. Although I'm sure strike leads under instruction throughout the air wing will be happy. The ghost of Iwakuni no longer rages in their red air presentations. I will forever miss our conversations together about life, liberty and happiness as a collective people amongst four deployed naval forces and living here in Iwakuni. We all have to fight. The fights range from the mundane to complex. They range from dealing with the movers on an overseas tour to leading a 30 plane joint strike off the ship to getting an appointment at medical. But each and every one of us continues to fight. Nothing's comes easy. Respect must be earned. As a squadron and an air wing, we continue to fight. We fight through tricided operations. We fight through COVID. We fight through the commissary being out of milk. Every day, I am blown away by the fighting spirit demonstrated by the men and women of fighting 102. This very week, we worked long hours to get eight aircraft up for Guam. At one point going 12 on 12 off to get the fleet where needed to be. Many of you individually fought to get one on one up in the air after being a long term downer. A two years old aim to feral. I see you two separate issues. We're keeping one on one flight controls on the ground. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of the entire squadron for what you've done. It took a team effort to get our war chariots ready for the fly off. And we accomplished it together. We are fighting 102. Together there is no mountain we cannot climb. No problem we cannot solve. Together, I'm looking forward to Guam, crews and whatever else may come our way. CAG, DCAG, distinguished guests. Ladies and gentlemen, wobbly. I present the men and women fighting 102. I serve proudly along each and every one of you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our ceremony. You are cordially invited to join us for refreshments here in Hangar Squadron attention dismissed.