We offer you escape.  As Millard Kaufman tells it in his exciting story, The Island. The problem was what could I do with Robert Lacy? You happen to have a dream book handy with all the charts and categories precisely arranged in alphabetical order. In it you'll find a dream for loneliness about girls in soft summery dresses. You'll find a dream for hunger, a two-pound steak perhaps smothered all over with lamb chops. Here are dreams for the traveler of a hometown far away and long ago.  Awake or asleep, that was Lacy's dream. Corporal Robert Lacy's 2nd Battalion 4th Marines.  Or so it seemed until that night when Lacy's dream became my problem. May it was, 1945, in a little wood on Okinawa. Okay, de Bore, I guess we're safe. Where are we anyhow? Oh, couple of three miles behind the Jap lines. So how safe is that? You worry too much, pal. Even for a guy on his first patrol. I've been thinking of it as my last day. Relax like me, you'll live forever. What's that? Yeah, it's nothing. Just a screamin' memeie. Got some kind of a tail adjustment that cuts the wind and sorta screams. Nips shoes are to scare us. Well, they sure succeed. You scare easy, don't you pal? Yeah, sure. I'm a pushover for that Shreklikite stuff. Shreklikite? What kind of jive's that? It means terror, fright for us. The Germans got a whole arsenal of terror weapons. Well, the Japs got a few of themselves. Yeah, what do you say we sack in? Here? That's as good as the next place. What a lash-up. Three miles behind Jap lines. Got no more chance of gettin' back tonight and crawling through the hole in the lifesaver. Get knocked off, we try. You take a first watch, I'm gonna sack him. You goin' to sleep? Oh, mate. Oh, maybe I'll just sit down here and do a little dream for a while. You sure pickin' a fine time for it. Ain't I ever tell you about my island? Yeah, you told me. Well, there's this island, see? You must've told me 50, 60 times in the past month. Well, I'm gonna tell you again. This island, it's sort of a special place. There's no rain, no jungle rot, no war. Just a quiet, cozy spot where a man can lay down under a banyan tree and live off the fat of the land. There is no such place. A man that never go hungry. All you gotta do is fish a little bit with the natives and they'll all be big men and they'll be friendly, not like the nips. And all the women will be beautiful. You read too many comic books. Yeah, that's where I'm fixin' to go as soon as I find it.  Just gonna lay down under that little banyan tree. I'll let him rave on. What else could I do, argue with him? There I was, three miles deep in enemy lines with a strange yell. His eyes narrowed in a thousand-yard stare. His Russia words like a nervous twitch. He raved on about a place that don't exist with big men and beautiful women. I found myself listening sorta hypnotized and I learned something about corporal lacy and what combat weariness means. He'd forage too long among the rotten, bomb-scarred pebbles of the Pacific. He'd seen too much death, too many crack-outs. He himself was half-cracked and slightly dead, barely held together by the taut and twisted wires of his dream. So what could I do, argue with him?  I'm gonna find me a beautiful girl and I'm... Tabari. Yeah. Yeah, I'm listening. Look, Tabari, out there. Coming toward us. No, no, over there. About two o'clock, you see it?  No, it's not a bunch, it's just four. Three men and a woman. They're heading right for us. Hey, put down that rifle. What's the matter, you flipper or something? They're not Japs. Men are too big. It's funny, though. Woman with them. Maybe his eyes were better than mine, but how could I trust that brain of his all-fested with dreaming? But I tell you, they're not Japs. And that woman is beautiful. If I had only listened to Lacey then if I had only known. But Japs are no Japs, I was taking no chances. I raised my rifle and...  You hit the woman. Lacey, where are you going? I'm gonna see if she's hurt bad. Now come on. Go, Lacey, you know the Japs. It might be a trick. Don't worry about me.  You get yourself killed. Not me, Tabori. I live to spit in your grave. Now let go of me. Okay, I hope you know what you're doing. I just don't want to get involved in your cockamamie dreams. Dreams? It's no dream, Tabori. You'll find out. Okay, Lacey. So where is she? It's funny. Must be around here somewhere. Maybe she... What's that? She's coming from over there. Come on. Now here she is. She's scared of us. It's all right, lady. Go away. Go away.  I hurt you. I hurt you. Maybe she's armed. Now, she's bluffing. Break out your first-aid kit. Here. And it's a boy. Now, look, lady. Let me fix your arm, huh? See? We got bandages and adhesive tape and penicillin. She don't get what you're talking about. She gets the idea, all right. That's right, lady.  And we put it around there. You just got nicked a little, that's all. Just a flesh wound. She trusts you. Yeah, she trusts me more than you do. Didn't I tell you she was beautiful? You told me a lot of things. How about the men she was with, the big men?  Not japs and a pig's eye not japs. No. No, they're not japs.  And what were they? They were how you say my people. Who are you? What are you? What's your name? Name, Taki. I am... I know I can't say in English, but... But please go away.  Now, you scared her again. Now, it's gonna be all right, Taki. You just come over. No, I go home. I must go home. Sir, go home, scram, lose yourself. Oh, no, you don't. Let her alone, Lacey. You keep out of this. Then let her go. Let her get back to her rice paddies. You still don't catch Tabore. She ain't from Okinawa? She's from that island I was telling you about. Look, Lacey, I don't care if she's from Mars. I'm not from Mars? No kidding. Also, I'm not from Okinawa. What? I'm from Yakachi. Yakachi Shima. Shima, there, you see? Shima means an island. Yes, an island. Then what are you doing here? I do not know. The Japanese brought us in Kanu.   Taki, where is your island? Where is Yakachi? In East, in China Sea. Half day from Okinawa by Kanu. Kanu. What's it like, Taki? What's your island like? Not a mighty island. Let's find a Kanu. Don't you see, Lacey, with the Kanu, we can get back to our lines by water. I think maybe you got something there. Taki. Taki, can you find the Kanu? I think I can. Then let's go. She led us on through the wood. A lopsided moon came up and its ray filtered through the clouds and down through the jagged trees. In the moonlight, she was like one of those porcelain figurines, delicate with a peculiar tint to her skin unlike anything I'd ever seen before. The shade of waxed ivory, ancient ivory. Her hair was long and black and drawn tight over her head. She was straight and slim and she walked with dignity. She was beautiful. As beautiful as a dream. Lacey's dream. But dreams don't come true, not like this. Yet here she was just the way he described her. And the three men in the island, I couldn't figure it out. And just then I hadn't the time because... Lacey, listen to that. What? Taki led us down a slope to the water. There were Kanus and leaning against a prow at two centuries. They were safe, they thought. Three miles behind their lines snug as two bugs in a mosquito net. They were so safe they didn't know what... Get in the canoe.  All right, you take a bow. Sit down, Taki. Where to? Straight out in the channel. You know what I think, to Bury? I think we're gonna make it. Okay, to Bury. We can take it easy now. I'm not taking it easy until we cross up a remedy. Yeah? Well, just how you gonna tell at night? Will you zip, old lighter?  Maybe you think I got neon signs, huh? Well... Maybe we'll see a landmark or something. Yeah. Trouble is, distance isn't fool you at night. We're liable to paddle into a platoon of nips. What do we do, Lacey? We'll stand by the morning and head for our convoy. We'll ride ashore in style and on LST. I don't know. I think it'd be better... Well, look, whatever you think you're outvoted. You've outvoted two stripes to one. Pulling rank corporal? Why not, knucklehead? This ship's got one skipper and I'm it. You are, Lacey.  I'm warning you, don't follow up this detail. So what was I gonna do? Argue with him? Start a private firefight in the middle of the China Sea? I was getting a little combat worry myself. Lacey. He was all charged up as though his crazy dream had come true. Lying on the narrow deck of the canoe I could hear, Lacey. The more I heard, the more confused I got. And it's not like the other islands, is it, Tucky? It's different. You gotcha. Yeah, yeah. I wish I could tell you how... Oh, I know, I know. It's pretty, huh? It's very pretty, but... Is the fishing good? It's good. And we hop pigs. Yeah? Cows? Good cows. Oh, I knew it, I knew it. Cows and pigs. And Lacey getting all hopped up about them. That's the last thing I remembered. I guess I fell asleep. And then suddenly it was daylight. Tabore? Hey, look, Tabore. What? Look over there. What do you see? An island. Just an island. It's not just an island. That's my island. What's so special about it? Well, look at it. Look at it. You see, it's surrounded by mist, just like I said. Tell it to the troops when we get back to Okinawa. Stand by for a ram, Tabore. We ain't going back to Okinawa. Now, wait a minute. I don't want any more trouble out of you. Then don't make any, or I'll... You looking for your rifle? Don't bother. Because I got it right here. You get up forward. You're crazy. Move! You know, you're flirting with a purple heart. That's it, boy. All right, now lean on that paddle. That's right. We're heading for your gotcha. Escape, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, returns in just a moment. Motorists, the next time you put your foot down on the accelerator, tread easy. Remember that excess speed is the cause of most highway accidents. And pedestrians, the next time you start to cross the street between intersections, stop and think. Crossing between intersections is the most dangerous thing you can do. Whether walking or driving, be careful. The life you save may be your own. And now, back to escape. I can now scrape the coral beach at Yagachi about four hours later. It was a lovely island with terraced hills and patches of tilled soil checkering the greenery. Well, here we are. Sins believe it, aren't they, Bury? Funny. So close to Okinawa, this place looks like it never heard a shot fired in anger. Where are your people, Taki? Long way over hills, but you must not come. You go back now. Oh, no, not me. I'm sticking around. How about you, Bury? You can't miss, Farah. I'll sweat it out just for the laughs. What do you mean? Just a figure of speech, Taki. Let's go. So there I was, caught up in Lacey's dream when all the time I should have taken off at Highport for Okinawa. I should have known better, but I didn't. And what you don't know can hurt you. Plenty. Hey, look. Look at that cow. I could eat her down to the hooves.  The trail's snaked upward. The lilies and casserinas rattled in the sweet, strong wind from the China Sea. Their cones lay along the footpath and in the fields were raspberry bushes. There were lilies in the sword grass and scarlet flowers. All very nice, I suppose. But I was looking for people, the big men of Lacey's dream, the girls all as lovely as a girl beside us. I was tense with expectancy at each bend in the trail, but Lacey's tensions had vanished. That's them because he'd found Taki. Robert Lacey. Oh, Taki. My name's Lacey. Now try it again. Lacey. L. Like in, uh, this is a lily.   Tabori, I'm gonna slug you. You're so funny, Lacey, when you're mad.  It is first time in five years. It is first time I have been here. Maybe. Maybe you was waiting for me to make you happy like I was waiting for you. What do you mean, Lacey? Well, I... I mean, here. This is for you. Why you give me flower? I love you, Taki. No. No, you cannot. But why, Taki? You don't know. I don't know how to say, but you don't know me. Oh, I know you. I've been dreaming about you for two years. I always knew I'd find you. I never forget what you say. I'll never let you forget. Oh, Lacey. Oh, Lacey, honey. L, like in love. They walked on together, the tall marine and the slim girl with the ivory skin, with the flower in her hand. Now and then she'd look at the flower and then she'd look at Lacey in a paint expression clouded her face as though she didn't understand. But I did. I had to witness the refuge in a dream. Very soon now that dream would burst like a bubble but become reality. I had to find out. Huh. Man, what a climb. Be easier for you if you give me back my rifle. Now, don't you worry about me. I'll get back. Hey, we got it licked. There's the summit. Yeah. It is highest point on Yogashi. See, down there, far away in Bali. Hey, look. Look at him. They're my people. I told you they were big men. How can you tell from this distance? Well, look how broad they are. Funny how they're all in a bunch. Hey, listen. Yeah, maybe it's a... sort of a ceremony or something, huh? It is. Maybe it's for us. I bet they know we're coming. No. It is... for dead. What happened, you suppose? A war? The war not here.   It's got to happen sooner or later. Yes. Sooner... or later. It's like I always say. Here today and come tomorrow. I never heard it so well put. Oh, drop dead. Dad, dry up. Let's go talking. We went down the mountainside, down to a Cape that jutted into the Pacific like a gnarled finger of doom. Far away we saw a village. We headed toward it through the sunless gorge that the far end was a thatched hut. It looks like it's empty. As any fool could see. Wait here. I'll come back soon with Headman. He speaks English good.  Don't worry. No, Lacey. One good look at your big men and beautiful women in their native habitat. Then I'm off for Okinawa.  Yeah. There's something strange about this place. I want to know what it is. It's not strange. It's just different, like I said. You're all fouled up in a dream, Lacey. I'm not sure what it's all about, but I gotta find out.  You mean crazy like me? I didn't say that. You were giving me a bad time. It was mutual. Now you call me crazy. I know what I said. I know what you think. And I know what you'll do. Once you get back to Okinawa, you'll tell the MPs I went over the hill. And you'll tell them where I am. And they'll come after me. You are crazy.  You remember Tabore? I said I'd be around to spit in your grave. Lacey, stop kidding around with that rifle. I ain't kidding. No question about it. He wasn't kidding. He slid back the bolt of his rifle and it sprang forward a cartridge in the chamber.  But first you're gonna see I was right.   Now get back in that corner.   I suppose you could call me that. His name Hiroshi. What can I do for you? Well, I... I, uh... I want to stay here. Well, talking. I'm afraid you can't. Well, I'll work my way, you know that. That is not the point. Look, I don't want no arguments out of you. You cannot stay here. But why can't I? She is a leper. Well, she's so beautiful. I know, son. But in three years. Five years. Taki? I'm sorry. Taki. So am I. I... I tried to tell you, but I not know how. And... And then I could not, even if I want to. I wanted to... to rest one more hour, one more minute. They stood there facing each other. The tall marine and the girl with the ivory skin with the flower still in her hand. The flower already beginning to wilt. Goodbye, Raston. Goodbye. Thank you for... for the flower. That's all right. I never forget you. I won't forget either. It was like a dream come true. For a while it was. Rashi, what's this all about? It is quite simple. Two nights ago, the Japanese came to the leper colony. They took more than half my patients to Okinawa, headed toward the American lines. Why? To disrupt your advance. There was no chance of contagion, but well, my patients aren't all as lovely as Taki. I see. Shrecklish kind. Exactly. A weapon of terror. Tabori? Yeah, L.I.C.? I... I guess we better move out, huh? Are you ready, pal? Yeah. Long road back to Okinawa. For me, the road back is longer than that. Under the direction of Norman MacDonald, Escape has brought you the island by Millard Kaufman, starring Harry Bartell and Bill Conrad with Michael Ann Barrett and Edgar Berrier. The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Next week, Escape with us to the most evil city in the Orient and the story of a beautiful but unscrupulous woman who ruled it. As Herb Perdom tells it in his exciting tale, McCow. He's coming up next on most of these same CBS stations, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 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Are you lunging this morning? Here we go guys Summertime kayak adventures 104 today we got out here super super early and we're ready to go catch some fish I got to do a little bit of rigging before we get into that I got a message from my old boy Carl for you guys Hey there LFG OSG LFD TLC BLTOMG and whoever else is watching I've got a Mondo announcement for you here Carl's bait and tackle you ever heard of it It's my new tackle store that I made just for you and the best part is it's online You don't even have to go to the store. We'll have new products for you every month and a members only section You sign up you get 30% off the entire store It's like a Costco membership, but for fishing and you can find all of it right now at shopcarls.com Just go there right now. I'll wait. I'm not wearing a watch We've also got a sweepstakes going on right now. So check out the link below for all the details on that Now get out there and give it a dangle when this video is over go to shopcarls.com and see what we got going on tight lines Thanks real KVD appreciate you by the way guys You can baits it's gonna be available at Carl's very soon. Yeah You literally are just doing circles Your rudder is not down Kayak fishing always an added challenge But I enjoy doing it because it's quiet you sneak up on fish Smell the goodness and the quiet natural atmosphere. Okay. Here we go. There he is Come on. There you go.  No, just the jump was one of the best of the year. I Mean he came like five feet out of water On the slim shake guys throwing it weightless up there in the shallows Little finesse on these guys look at him. What a hammer That's a good one Wow wee jeepers. I Got a bite in there. She's still thick for a summer fish I got a bite in there. I felt a little tick. I thought it might have been a bluegill, but I wasn't sure I threw back in there and it don't and then he held on to that bait for like five seconds before I set the hook so That's awesome.  What do you think?  This is just called weightless, Texas rig style. It's really important To have a straight worm you could not do this technique unless you have a very straight worm and the awesome thing about Googen baits is that all our baits come in clam packs like this. So when you take them out of the package They're perfectly straight. They're not going to be kinked Because if the tail gets kinked at all or near the head area It's going to make that bait spiral down and that's not what you want If you see this underwater what this bait does is it glides and it's going to do a sharp twitch left and right when you move it It's also got some cool wagging action on the way down, but Throwing a little bit heavier hook like this a heavier gauge like this is an owner Four rot offset worm hook That weight helps give it a little more action to and the rod I'm using is a 6 6 Medium heavy. It's actually a pretty stiff rod. I'd prefer a little bit lighter rod for this right here Just so I can have more action to skip it, but This is just what I had on hand this morning and It's good for this kayak link this. Oh, man another one took it right away. Oh He came off Did not get a good hook set on him. So if you're ever fishing a small Lake or any lake really pond and you've got trees around it like if you look at the other side of the lake here it's Sunny over there still we've probably got an hour left of shade on this side just because of the hill and and the trees and The fish get used to that every day at the birds everything Kind of getting their little rhythms.  Anyway, I'm liking the shade right here I think this is a good move coming to this end of the lake. So we're both gonna explore it now. Oh There's a bite hang on to it Gotcha We will oh my gosh almost jumped in the boat. I don't let him take it Underneath trees. I mean it's just It's the deal because there's always stuff falling off of there. Oh, there's another bite He let it go that's always falling off of there and fish are coming and getting it and there's there's bluegill There's all sorts of stuff. So I wouldn't recommend throwing straight 30 pound braid unless you're in really muddy water, but Normally I'd throw this on like 10 pound fluoro Go pro start recording Go pro make me a sandwich, please Be a big it doesn't feel big. Oh But I'll take you go pro. Thank you for the fish. Thank you, buddy I was talking to my GoPro. We were having a little moment there. I did ask for a fish earlier, so It it actually worked. That is a nice little fish there Little two-pounder We'll let him go Having to finesse him a little bit The one thing I'll tell you guys when you're throwing these weightless worms like this Many of times you're not even gonna feel the bite the good thing is they hang on to it for a long time because different than a Texas rig They don't have feel that weight hanging out of their mouth So it really feels natural subtle to them when you're throwing a Texas rig or a jig You're feeling that weight hit the back of the fish's mouth and it's like a And you don't usually feel that with this so you got to pay attention to your line See if it's moving. Actually, I'm using bright pink line today, which is a little off the normal kilter of What I use, but I just happened to have some laying around I put it on for for cat fishing literally I could see it move pretty good. So but I'm fishing clear water. I'm gonna tie a leader on this hundred percent I'm doing this technique So another fish coming in the shade. I'm shallow subtle summer presentation I Love the smell of our baits guys. We've really spent a lot of time on this and Man, I'm not just proud of the smell. I'm proud of everything about it But I just love the way everything came out on these baits and I know everyone's been reviewing them online and everything already and I've had really great reviews and people love them and it's just exciting man. I mean me personally I don't even have that many of them Because we're still waiting on more to come in. It's just a really cool feeling to catch fish on a worm that you designed You know, this is actually Rob's worm right now and I'm using Can't believe it can't believe I'm catching fish on it Actually works. You guys probably can't see But there's like a green Film on top of the water looks to be an algae bloom those happen a lot of times in the summer and Still lakes and ponds and parts of lakes that don't get a whole lot of wind and this is the back of a pocket So it's not really good You know, don't really want to see that. Wow one just ate on that rock back there Definitely heard him when it's dead still like this and you're throwing a weightless bait. It is Really easy. There's a bite all the way in the back Really easy to see the bite That was cool. He was in the dirt. Oh Man, that was almost like a frogfish back there Come here buddy You guys probably saw how hard that strike was so easy to see When you're using that that line and super super calm That fish was all the way back there. Look at that green slime that algae Okay time for another worm dangle that's why I brought this rod right there Don't think that was a fish actually but I got excited. Oh, there he is biting it That's a tiny one. It's not some fish There's got to be more in there That is a healthy little fish though.   It's Gigantic. I think it could be a double bro Staying down. Oh my gosh. He came off Don't tell Rob, but that was a tiny one. Well, that's how I'm gonna end my day. It's about 12 inches Oh my I Am stuck boy. I Know what I need to do. I need to get my right foot wet, but I don't want to I'm too old man. I got to go in My younger days I would have I would have tried to use that crotch power, but it's just not there anymore Had a little fun there at the end in with a 12-inch or Rob thought it was a giant for a minute. It was kind of funny We got to put the yaks up on this thing not just one but two You don't want them falling off on the streets if you guys want to know a funny story about that I had a I had something fall off on the road one time and it hit a pedestrian and it was a bad deal I can tell you that in another story. Let me know in the comments. Hey, fun day, Rob How many did you catch you think yeah? Yeah, I probably had like eight or so. I mean not about summer morning I mean, it's what nine. No, it's 10. Oh nine. We're done done ski So I just want to show you guys this one little thing because I know it really will help you catch fish I'm down to my last Guggen bait out here today when you go with the weightless Texas rigging technique and it's important to use the right hook so you get the good fall rate This one is a four-ot offset worm hook and it's a it's an owner. It's a heavy gauge Hook so it's got a little bit more weight to it.  It's gonna go Off to the side and then it has a nice little shimmy fall shake And you can go through the thickest of cover with this fish it right over the grass You can go through tree limbs bushes all that kind of stuff you could skip it up under docks That's why I threw it on the spinning gear so I could skip it up under not docks was but I was fishing Bushes and trees so I knew there were some bushes and trees out there There wasn't as much water on there as I hoped but that was how I got some of my bites was taking the spinning rod and Then pitching it. This is a 6-6 medium heavy I'd say that's a little stiff for doing this to actually skip I was able to do it a medium would be better If you use braid especially you'll be able to get a good hook set that is a great setup for when it's really hot Stagnant you still want to shallow fish if you've got overhanging trees bugs and bluegill and all sorts of little fish Hang around under those trees. So you skip this up under there. It looks like something fell out of the tree nice glide and then They grab make sure to go ahead and hit the like button for today's video getting out there doing some exploration I need to go fix my AC so I got to go tend to those things but guys. I love making these videos for you It is an escape. It is a passion. It means so much To me. So thank you for tuning in subscribe right here if you want to see more Of course you do go ahead and do it hit the notifications so you can get all the videos when they pop up Be like way and bam. Thank you Sam. Go and watch LFG ma'am. I'll see you back here real soon guys I'm still working on the table tons of projects more efficient


People are in sessions right now, geeking out. We had keynotes here, Cassandra's the big data movement around NoSQL. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com. This is theCUBE, our flagship telecast. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise, and share that with you. I'm joined by my co-host, Jeff Kelly, from Wikibon, our big data analyst, the number one analyst in the business for big data. Jeff, we're joined with John Ikrid. Ikrid. Ikrid, who is the big data R&D manager, which essentially you oversee all the big data for Accenture? Yep. Accenture. Labs, Accenture Labs, you're not like in the front lines doing management consulting, you're like geeking out in the labs. A little above. A little above, okay great. Well, no better place than Cassandra's summit to talk about big data. So we've been talking about all morning some of the themes I've been, you know, NoSQL hotness around structured databases. SQL's kind of broken and busted. That's a fallacy, we kind of debunked that. Relational databases aren't going away. NoSQL is hot and has a use case. Don't know about that. So talk about that. What do you think about that? Sure, do you agree or disagree? So I agree that structured data and transactional data challenges, that things that brought the relational database to existence still exist, they're not going away. And in fact, because we have all of these other data stores that allow us to take other kinds of data that aren't well stored by those platforms, but bring them to bear on problems, it actually makes the data stored in those relational structures much more valuable than it was before, which is why you're getting people asking questions like, how do I unite these worlds? And how do I bring my new unstructured data stores to bear on my problems along with the structured data that I've been collecting in my enterprise for a long time? I mean, it's kind of like, it's like a point of view of something that's happening in front of everyone. Everyone has a different angle on something. It's a tornado, yeah, it's a disruption's happening. We know that. There's an old way and a new way. So what's happening, what's great about the stuff that we're covering is two major mega trends happening. Converged infrastructure is actually happening. Solid-state, we talked about it earlier today, and big data. So there's old way and new way. Data warehouse business intelligence, Oracle. Now, new way is reconfiguration cash layers, all kinds of cool stuff. Can you elaborate just from your perspective as you dig into the trenches with the labs as you go talk to some of the essential top clients? You kind of, on two fences, you're in the playground of the innovation, the labs, and then you got to go out in the field and talk to people with real problems. Just share with us with that context. What you're seeing in this old way, new way context. Sure, so one of the interesting things about the way these technologies have really come onto the scene is that we had things like application servers beget JBoss, but there were proprietary versions that were established and had valuable businesses that were displaced by an open source technology. In this case, there was never sort of the proprietary winner technology for unstructured data or for massively scalable data stores. It actually came from engineers at companies solving problems that no package software manufacturer was solving for them. It creates a much different dynamic in the way that these technologies get introduced into an enterprise, even a big stodgy one that like the ones I work with, and how it grows up within them. So, any engineer, and turns out most engineers in the Valley make enough money, they're not really worried about spending 50 bucks on their own personal credit card to prove an architecture will work, right? And so that's a fundamentally different conversation with the CIO that's probably maybe perhaps used to a much more structured way of introducing technology into their organization. The thing about it is the value propositions that these technologies unlock are so compelling that eventually that resistance will give way. It's just a matter of making the value of introducing that technology compelling to the organization and understanding how are we going to introduce that over time? Because obviously they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a lot of cases on data management solutions around structured data. They don't want to abandon those investments and that's a reasonable stance to take. They also want to benefit from the new technologies and the new approaches. So, the question I get a lot is how do I marry these two worlds? And whether it's because it's a bottom up, one of their developers is saying, we got to use Cassandra. And with some shadow IT in the side. Exactly. Or top down, I got an iPad, make this work. Yeah, exactly. Or we have some forward thinking CIOs and CEOs, like Bezos who famously said, thou shalt not build a point to point interface, right?  And he actually did fire a few people to try it after he told them not to and that made the message. And then now we have a successful services architecture at Amazon based on a bunch of distributed data stores. How much are you experiencing is the reluctance among more traditional organizations to adopt big data around the enterprise readiness factor that we hear a lot about? Whether it's scalability, uptime, we can't afford to take a chance on a new kind of untested technology. Where maybe over the last two or three years, how have you seen that conversation evolve? Both in the Cassandra, yes, but of course if you do. But all the other kind of big data approaches we're seeing out there. Absolutely. So the initial challenges were very much like, how do we know this is going to work at scale? And things like that. But it's pretty easy to point out that companies like Netflix are actually running this at scale and have been for quite some time. And it's like, well, if you don't think Twitter is web-scale enough for you, then you're probably the CIA or someone like that. So the technical challenges of the pure capabilities of the technologies are kind of eroding away. And where the conversation is more around the data management best practices and tools that grow up around that. So things like row-level access control or column-level access control are problems that if we solve them make it much more enterprise-friendly. We have ways around a lot of these things. And so it's more around manageability ops and things like that. You've seen a lot of development in the last year or so around Cassandra and other technologies to make them more easily managed. The joke at a Churchill Club event recently was like you don't need a team of 10 Stanford PhDs to manage your cluster because that's an awfully expensive operations team. So a lot around operations, but I think security and building the best practices around how you define and understand what's in there will undergo a revolution on top of the technologies that are driving it. Because I like, you know, I come from Accenture. We grew up as part of an accounting firm and we're really good at counting things. So we like transaction locks and things like that. In terms of our DNA, you know, introducing this new data world and organization like that is kind of challenging.  And what hasn't grown up around that is the best practices and toolings to make these data stores truly discoverable. Can I find the data in them? Manageable from terms of security, compliance, auditing, things like that, and then actionable, right? So that universe is growing up around them, but I think there's fewer and fewer doubts about the actual enterprise readiness of the technology at its core, right? So how does that play into the kind of the merging of the structured and unstructured world, where are people adapting some of the tool sets around traditional structure type, relational databases and trying to apply that in a way to the unstructured world? Kind of putting a sequel wrapper on top of it, for instance. What are you seeing there and how is that impacting how we're kind of bringing the two worlds together? Because ultimately that's what big data is all about is bringing multiple data sources together. Exactly, and it's interesting because on the one hand, we've got a lot of valuable data in those contextual systems like we talked about and what we want to do is we want to bring that to bear on the less structured data that these new stores are well suited for. At the end of the day to do anything useful, as you point out, you need to have them all in one place. So you get into things like system of record versus system of reference and synchronization schemes and so a lot of the data integration vendors, talent in the open source world, Informatica's are coming out with technologies that make it easier to move the data back and forth. You see things like the Hadoop connector is part of Green Plum as a way to make a Hadoop data store feel like a table to a relational database. The thing we don't want to have happen, there's a big distinction between accessing in a SQL like mode, right? Which is very powerful because many of us are familiar with SQL, we're comfortable working with it, we're used to it. SQL in and of itself is not a bad thing and at the end of the day when you're doing analytics the data isn't going to be in some structured form to pass it to an algorithm. The problem is demanding that you define that form when you design the database rather than when you're deciding to do the analytics. So it's fun and useful to be able to expose this data in SQL or SQL like manners because essentially at that time we need to give it structure to pass it to the algorithm anyway. What we don't want to do is go back to a world where that is a permanent feature of our data store limiting the other things we can do, right? So failure has always been a concept within Cassandra that's been core to avoid, right? Uptime and production has been the other thing. So in distributed, I would say distributed counters for example, Cassandra, that's hard to figure out.  So talk about what's happening in that world relative to other approaches like Mongo, like HBase. I mean obviously HBase and Hadoop we have high availability issues with Nameno which are being solved with Yarn and some other issues. So what is the status of that? And then two, talk bigger picture after you talk about that around the market of distributed systems because we're watching and covering the data center in large enterprises that are changing. Data centers themselves are becoming distributed systems, operating systems if you will, software. Using big data and whether it's Splunk or anyone else you can actually analyze systems within the data center like power and cooling, like predictive analytics for failures, disk drives and so on and so forth. So it's a huge theoretical grid computing like paradigm that I mean that died but it comes back around. I mean converge infrastructure is happening right now. That was talked about eight years ago, right? So talk about one, the distributed counter kind of problem, how that's being fixed and then two, distributed concept and how that's proliferating. So it's interesting in financial services they've wanted to solve the distributed counter for a long time, right? You've got a trading desk in Japan and one in New York and markets open at the same time and a person in one location takes on risk and a person in another location takes on simultaneous risk. You wanna be able to understand that that's happening. There's a distributed counter problem, right? And so what they've used are massively distributed memory catches to do that up until now with dedicated network pipes between those locations that are fairly low latency relatively speaking to enable that to happen as fast as possible and to propagate that state to go out there. So some young trader doesn't take down Barclays, right? That's kind of a concept. Well, apparently it's not perfect yet, right? I just made it, I assume that was a problem. But it goes, Dan distributed counters. Every time you have a rogue trader there's sudden interest in distributed counters. But so there's a set of architectures around things like Gemfire and Memcached around using those distributed caching layers to do that. What I'm seeing is people wanting to cut that out and we saw that this morning with some questions in some of the earlier talks around can I now use the caching features of Cassandra rather than having a separate caching layer to do that? Can I use these counters rather than doing these counts in aggregate or micro-batch or however I'm doing it, right? So what is interesting is yes, absolutely distributed counter problem is very, very hard and people are very, very excited at the work that's going on in Cassandra, Storm and things like that as well. So certainly these solutions I think it's too early. We don't have a sort of a winner yet. A winner yet, but they're popping up because there's a demand for them. And when you think about these architectures you want things at the ingest point to do value-added things to the data on the way in because once you've stored it it's harder, right? And so if you have the context already it makes sense to do what you can with that context as you're bringing the data in. I think that's a fundamental point we should capture because that's really an epic statement. Taking care on the ingest point is a good time to trap and do something because then you're more intelligent on the store. Yeah, exactly. And it may not be. Versus the I'll send it, I'll park it somewhere and I'll run some algorithms on it do some data mining and then no one ever touches it, right? I mean it may be possible to reconstruct that state or the contextual state around that data after the fact but it's hard and if there's one thing that these data stores aren't good at it's joined so if we can avoid that by putting that context in on ingest it's very, very important. So here you have a background just depributed computing and distributed networks and network theory in general it's the same kind of theory it's kind of like once you know data structures you shouldn't be able to learn any programming language right as we were talking earlier with some of the alpha geeks from data stacks. That being said, what's going on in this marketplace that you could say wow, you know all this other stuff that was being talked about in theory is actually happening right now. Because normally that's usually what happens is that like a percentage of the paradigm that was being promoted over time ends up being an implement only a portion of it. So what would you point to on the distributed side whether it's grid computing, distributed networking, machine learning, meets AI, you know all that stuff's kind of going on. What do you think's happening now that's you can point your finger at and say it's really happening? So actually and I'll back up to the second half of the previous question too which is an interesting metric to look at is the average parking spaces in a new data center? So if you looked at a data center 10 years ago it might have a hundred and if you looked at a new one it might have five. Yet they've introduced a fundamentally more complex architecture under that right. They've distributed everything in many cases. So distributed systems are everywhere. There's a sprawl going on. And it's because of the fact that if you build one well and you build an architecture it allows you to get your data into one place and make it actionable. You can go into rapidly creating value added data products and bringing things to market. And I can go through LinkedIn and Twitter and Google and Facebook and you can talk through how they organize around a data platform and create a capability to rapidly do value added analytical services and propagate those to their business or their customers or their website or however they need to action on those insight generation machines essentially to deliver value to the business. What's interesting is you're seeing transformation in the organization of those businesses to be able to take advantage of that agility. One thing we like to say is don't design a system for real time analytics if you can't take real time action. So I think one of the biggest signposts that distributed systems and the capabilities that they bring to bear. And in particular the whole idea of scale out and the fact that that means you can push data into more and more decisions. The signpost for that is actually watching what's happening in the organizations that sit on top of that and how people are organizing to take advantage of that data and build the agility into the business that comes with that. So like predictive analytics is one, others are insights whether the querying is done by the business units, right? So the data's available, there's no burning bush of knowledge that query comes in. So the apps themselves are interfacing the data. So essentially yeah, I mean data is part of the development process. Yep. So digging a little bit more about so how are these business units really kind of evolving then to take advantage of this? From a structural perspective, what are they doing to change the way they work so that they can better take advantage of this? Sure. So one thing is essentially equipping their business analysts with the language of math at the highest level or everybody doesn't have to be able to decide between a support vector machine and a neural net and know about eigenvalues. But you do need to know how to ask the right questions of the analytic outputs to understand whether you can reasonably generalize something or things like that. We see organizations on the one hand moving from centralized sort of groups of I guess highly skilled quants who sit together and get fed a diet of very hard problems but very few to a model of distributing those people into actual business units. So they become familiar with the problems of that unit and things like that. So you're changing from a virtual community between your quantitative capability and your business users to actually physically sitting your quantitative capability with your business units and creating a virtual community for the quantitative people to talk to each other. And we can make jokes about the social characteristics of statutists if we want to now. But you see that sort of shift from a sort of dedicated deep analytics team that might be centralized and works on a few problems to bringing that out to the blind of business units, combining it with the people that are used to putting together ad hoc reports and looking at things for business owners who have questions and you get that constellation of capability and now you can start to answer some questions pretty quickly. If you've got the architecture underneath that supports that well, you can truly create some profound change. So yeah, and it really gives the quant really the ability to start to understand the domain a little bit more, which is critical when you're trying to bring to find insights into business problems that when you're talking about big data, you're talking about, you don't even know what questions to ask sometimes. So the more domain knowledge you have from a statistical perspective, from a quant perspective, the better they're going to do their job. Exactly, exactly. Now that said, there's a very, very interesting phenomenon. You look at somebody like Kaggle and talk to them about who wins their competitions. It's often actually somebody coming from a different perspective, like a different industry or a different domain and thinking of a solution that wouldn't be intuitive to those people. And so in a sense, that's what we're generalizing, right? When we bring sort of a generalized quant to that specific business problem, is you're getting a broad range of analytical capabilities and applying it to a smaller set of problems. Or the people who focus on those problems for a long time tend to grow sets of blinders and sort of agree on conventional methods. One of my favorite targets for sort of analytical scorn is the clustering or segmentation processes in a lot of marketing organizations. It's not that clustering is bad, but you've created large grain market segments because you had broadcast advertiser mechanisms. Now you have one-to-one advertising mechanisms. It's not that you don't need segments anymore, but some people still just think they're building segments. They haven't changed their view of how they can operate to match the new technology, capabilities that the technology enables. Others profoundly change the way they talk to their customers, right? And the world is replete with stories of one business succeeding and one business withering when a certain company in an industry figures it out first. Right? Right, absolutely. Very interesting. Okay, so John, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate your insight. You're in a unique position. You get to talk about cool stuff and get in the weeds and get really techy and then go out in the field and talk to customers and understand what's going on in the marketplace. Thanks for your insight, for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Thanks. We'll be right back on our next guest. This is SiliconANGLE.com. Thanks so much. Live in Cassandra Summit in Silicon Valley, we'll be right back.


How's it going guys, and welcome back to another J.H.R. review and today We're gonna be looking at something kind of simple but I thought was really cute and I actually want to give it to my fiance because she has kind of a pink kind of Computer setup going on right now, and this is just a simple kind of ice cream cone shaped fan To kind of cool yourself during the summer, and it's really cute. So when you're holding it like this It's like you're actually holding like an ice cream cone So basically on the back right here. We have a little notch that you can undo So it takes two AAA batteries, and I have some right here So let's go ahead and load in one and then let's go ahead and load in the other one There we go, and then let's just attach this cover back here I like how the lines actually still line up because sometimes when they have a little back covers The lines don't match up. These are actually pretty much perfect And then it'd probably be a good idea to remove this guy right here because when it spins it's gonna drag the tag So let's go ahead and get rid of that. All right. I went ahead and removed the little tag and Now on the side we have a discrete button that allows you to just go That's actually pretty nice the air flow on that's actually really nice Let's go ahead and zoom on it a little bit farther away though. So we can kind of get the whole look I really like the waffling on the cone I just I don't know. It just it looks really nice, and I like how the plastic actually like Lifts up and has like an edge, but it's not like rigid or anything So it's like an actual ice cream cone And I wonder if it ever would fool anybody if you hold it far away if they'd realize that this was a fan or not if it was like That direction kind of like that Let's go ahead and turn on the fan again and see how much wind we can get out of this Pretty decent amount of air I wonder if there's something around here that I can show you. Here we go. Let's go ahead and grab this Paper towel All right and off And on Yeah, so it gives a pretty decent amount of air off of here and uh I don't know. I just I find this really cute and really interesting and You know, it's not often that you see a ice cream cone fan So I thought I'd show you guys because I thought it's a interesting product and I like showing stuff like this off to you guys that I find Interesting and kind of hard to come by But yeah, what do you guys think? Interesting little idea. Would it be something that you'd use at the beach or something? Let me know in the comments below A huge shout out to my patreon's. Thank you guys so much for your support You guys are awesome. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to comment, rate and subscribe And as always, I'll see you in the next video


Hey guys welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new for those of you who don't know me. My name is Sam I'm a licensed hairstylist and today We are going to be talking all about how to properly color your hair at home and my professional recommendations From sally's beauty supply long before I ever went to beauty school I was always coloring my hair myself And I practically lived in sally's for a few years there Please keep in mind that a whenever you were coloring your hair at home yourself You're doing a chemical process. So you have to you know proceed with caution do it at your own risk B. There's no guarantee like I cannot just do a quick video and teach every single person watching Everything that there is to know about hair color. There's so much to it There's a reason why we have to go to school and get licensed to do this But hopefully this video will give you like a good understanding of the basics There are three different types of color generally speaking you have your permanent Demi permanent and semi permanent permanent color is going to give you the most coverage So it's really ideal if you are trying to cover grays It's also going to last the longest and it can give you lift So if your goal is to have a color lighter than your current color Permanent is the way to go and bleach and high lift colors would also fall into this permanent color category Once you use permanent color on your hair, there's no way to Undo it and go back to your virgin unnatural hair You just have to let it grow out and cut it out and permanent colors Do you need to be mixed with a developer? Demi permanents are going to give you a little bit less coverage and they can fade over time Demi's are really ideal for toning your hair or if you want to change up your color But you don't want to be committed to a permanent color and you want it to eventually fade over time Demi is a great option and demi permanents also need to be mixed with developer And then you have semi permanents which do not need to be mixed with developer It's like what you see is what you get. These are your fashion colors typically or like color depositing shampoos It's basically just like a stain you have your color you apply it directly to the hair Let it sit for a little while and then it is what it is if say you are starting out with black hair And you want to do a pink semi permanent It's not going to work think of it It's as simple as like if you were coloring with crayons If you colored on a piece of paper with a black crayon first and then you took pink over top of that black You're not going to see the pink There's no lifting or lightening involved is literally you're taking the color of your choosing and you're putting it on top of Whatever you're starting with and they will wash out after a few weeks So as far as picking your color first you need to decide Okay, do I need a permanent a demi or a semi permanent and I already explained what all of those are So from there you can kind of determine based on what your goal is Which one you want to use and sally's does have several color brands In their store and I know it can be a little bit overwhelming But I feel like a safe bet is just going with the ion brand That's kind of like their staple and it was my go-to for years and years So it's what I feel most comfortable recommending and you know what I have experience with Now when you're actually picking the specific shade of your color All of the colors are going to have a level and then an undertone So levels are from one to ten one being the darkest black Ten being lightest blonde Some lines will have like a level 11 and 12 Also, but just know that it goes from darkest to lightest And then the undertone is either going to be cool neutral or warm ashes are going to be cool Naturals are going to be neutral typically and then golds are going to be warm What's nice and sally's is that all of their colors have swatches So I highly suggest just looking at the color swatches and not getting Too caught up on the actual color name For example a level five, which is right in the middle is technically considered a light brown But when you actually look at level five hair It's not light like most people would consider that more of a medium Even leaning on dark brown based on what I saw in sally's for all of the ion colors The swatches looked pretty accurate to What the colors are you have to keep in mind though unless you are going to be bleaching your hair first Your final color the color that you end up with is always going to be a combination of Your starting color plus the artificial color that you apply to your hair So your result may not look exactly like that swatch depending on What color you are starting with especially when you're trying to go lighter But if you are trying to go like the same shade that you are just a different undertone or darker Then you'll be pretty safe just looking at the swatches and picking your color that way Of course, don't forget with your permanent and demi permanent colors. You need developer So don't forget to grab that as well Developer is going to activate the color that you're using if you were to take a permanent tube of color and just apply that straight to your hair It's not going to do anything without mixing it with the developer first And what that developer is doing is it's opening up the hair cuticle so that the color molecules can go into your actual hair strands In sally's they have 10 volume 20 volume 30 volume and 40 volume developer The bigger the number the stronger the developer is so if you are just looking to deposit color Meaning you don't want your hair to get any lighter. You just want it to be either like the same level or darker Whether you're using permanent or demi permanent color You're going to want to use 10 volume 10 volume is always going to give you the least amount of lift It's essentially just going to deposit the color onto your hair 20 volume and higher is always going to give you lift Now generally speaking when you are using color Not bleach, but just hair color permanent hair color 20 volume is going to give you two levels of lift 30 volume is going to give you three levels of lift and 40 volume is going to give you four levels of lift So that kind of gives you an idea of what volume developer you need to use Depending on what your goal is if you are covering grays you want to use 20 volume I know you might be thinking oh well you said if I just want to deposit color And I just want to go darker then I should only use 10 volume That isn't the case with gray hair because gray hairs tend to be more stubborn and coarse So you need that extra lifting power to really open up the cuticle so that the gray hair can accept the color So if you have gray hair 20 volume if you're looking to just refresh your color But you don't want to go through the whole hassle of like mixing and formulating and all of that a color depositing shampoo Which is considered a semi permanent color is a really great way to go I saw that wella has their color fresh color depositing shampoos Now if you are trying to lighten your hair using regular permanent color is only going to lighten Virgin hair say you're a natural brunette and you've been dyeing your hair black every month for the last year And now you decide that you want to be a light brown You're not going to be able to just take a light brown color Use 40 volume developer and get a light brown Your hair is probably either not going to do anything or it's going to be like an orange color You may have heard the saying before but color does not lift color So if you have virgin hair meaning you have not colored your hair at all before it's completely natural Then yes, if you want to lighten your hair you can use permanent color You can get your light brown or blonde color You can use 20 30 or 40 volume and it will lighten your hair a little bit Is it going to give you the exact results that you want after just one application? Not necessarily depending on your starting color and the texture of your hair You may have to do that application a few times and keep lightening it more and more over time But typically I recommend if you are looking to lighten your hair to use high lift color It's going to pack a little bit more of a punch than just regular permanent color It is meant to lift your hair like the name suggests high lift sally's has the l'oreal high color line Which i've used many times in the past back in the day It's meant for dark hair. They have brunettes reds and blonde colors with high lift You're typically going to mix that either with 30 or 40 volume developer Again, if you have previous dark color on your hair, it might not lighten It really depends how many layers you have how dark that color is You might have to do a color remover beforehand Ion has a color remover now It's a powder that you just mix with water So it will kind of help to fade your color a little bit while still being gentle and not like Completely stripping your hair or bleaching it or being too harsh So if you are trying to go lighter and you have dark artificial color on your hair I would do a color remover first I love using bleach on my own hair and on clients, but you really have to be careful and Proceed with caution with it because color high lift color included will stop working after a certain amount of time But bleach will just keep going until it fries your hair off Basically and you can really cause a lot of damage if you don't know what you're doing So if you're brand new at coloring your hair, I Would caution you to stay away from bleach But if you feel comfortable using it and you want to use it Ion has a cream lightener That's going to be gentler. I wouldn't recommend the big tub of the quick blue stuff That stuff is intense and can be very very harsh and I have Oh cause a lot of damage to my hair using that stuff in the past So I would go the route with like the cream lightener It's going to be a little bit more conditioning and whenever you are using bleach you can use whatever developer you want I do not recommend using 40 volume with bleach Again, unless you really know what you're doing because it can be very drying and very damaging Typically with bleach you're going to want to use either 20 or 30 volume developer Remember how I said earlier 20 volume developer will give you two levels of lift 30 volume will give you three levels, etc That only is the case when it comes to color When you are using bleach All of that lift is just coming from the actual bleach product itself The developer when you're mixing it with bleach is only going to determine How fast it's going to lighten your hair. So 10 volume is going to be the most gentle It's going to work the slowest, but it's going to work the longest 40 volume is going to be the most intense and the driest. It's going to work the fastest, but it will burn out quicker So usually whenever I'm bleaching hair. I like to stick with 20 or 30 volume developer Now as far as application, this is super important to know if you want your results to actually look Professional and good when you are going darker with permanent color You want to apply the color to your roots first Your roots are your newest hair. The cuticle is a lot tighter So it's going to take a little bit longer for it to accept darker color At the roots whereas your ends it's old hair. It's more porous.  I also really suggest using a wide-tooth comb and kind of like You know working the color through really massaging it in make sure you're fully saturating every strand of hair Whenever you are trying to go lighter, you want to do the opposite You want to avoid the roots first? I would start like an inch or two below your root area Apply the color to the mids and ends first Let it sit for a little while and then apply it to the roots because your scalp gives off heat That's going to make the color process faster.  Okay. I think That's pretty much it. There's just so much to cover and it's like I said It's impossible for me to teach color theory and exactly how to formulate color in just one youtube video Like it's just not possible But hopefully I was able to cover the basics and you have somewhat of a better Understanding of how it all works and what to pick and what I recommend from Sally's beauty supply If you like this video and you found it helpful, please give it a thumbs up It helps me out a lot if you'd like to see more from me Don't forget to subscribe before you go and hopefully I will see you in my next video Bye


Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please be seated. It's a great pleasure to be here with all of you today. Your work this summer is going to be a great opportunity for both you and our country. You'll have a chance to get to know the other peoples and cultures and a chance to perhaps bring some of both back with you. For many generations, we Americans were able to live in a splendid isolation, bordered as we were by the two vast oceans. But in this century, we've learned the hard way that those days are over, that like it or not, this nation is the final repository of mankind's greatest dream, the dream of human freedom and a world at peace. For us to withdraw our retreat into isolationism again, that we'd known for so many years, I think would be, well, it would simply turn back and give control to those who believe in violence and war and they'd have the final say on the world that we live in. So that's why I'm delighted that you're here and why I'm certain that those you encounter in your travels will find young Americans interested in the world around them, young Americans that are open to a different way of life and different ways of looking at history and current events. And I'm certain that you will avoid having said of you what George Bernard Shaw said of a gentleman of his acquaintance. Shaw was quite a cynic. He said he knows nothing, he thinks he knows everything that clearly points to a political career. Well, many you encounter will be very curious about you and where you come from in this place called America. Bob Orban tells this story. Our son came home from college for the weekend and I asked him, how are things going? He said, good. And I said, how's the food? He said, good. I said, and the dormitory. He said, good. I said, well, they've always had a strong football team. How do you think they'll do this year? He said, good. I said, well, now how are your studies going? He said, good. And I said, have you decided on your major yet? And he said, yes. I said, what is it? He said, communication. Well, don't be afraid to tell them what you think and to speak from your heart when you're over there. There's a lot to communicate to the outside world about what's going on in this country. I just returned from Venice where I had a chance to address the young people of Europe in a speech over WorldNet. I mentioned then, as I mentioned to you now, that we're a country of peace interested not just in controlling nuclear arms but in dramatically reducing them in number. When we first made such proposals a few years ago the critics were in full cry saying we were impractical and our steps were unacceptable. Today the Soviet Union is publicly agreeing with those suggestions and for the first time we have before us a chance to radically reduce the number of weapons. And this, together with new defensive systems like SDI offer the world an historic chance to escape the cloud of nuclear terror that has hung so heavily over the last part of the 20th century. In my WorldNet speech I also pointed out that the United States is for world freedom as well as world peace. I tried to convey the excitement that is freedom and the growing realization that the only way for political freedom to prosper is to guarantee the equally important right to economic freedom. You know, we take it so for granted this freedom of ours. I've never forgotten the story told to me by a publisher, a book publisher who was of German extraction. Now he had been growing up at your age in Germany when it was, this was long before Hitler this was in the era of the Republic. Now we have a Republic, they had a Republic and I asked him once because as a publisher I noticed that he went out of his way to publish the writings of people who were writing on events and on philosophy of our country and so forth and political works of that kind. And he told me why and he said can you imagine what it was one day in a classroom to hear a professor define freedom for us and he used the United States. He said imagine that you have arrived in the United States, you are standing on the Atlantic shore ahead of you is 3,000 miles of country. He said you are absolutely free to take off through those 3,000 miles on your own stop any place you wanted to stop for as long as you wanted to stop and finally pick where you wanted to live and decide to settle down there. And he said he was talking to a class of us who lived in a society where if you wanted to move from where you lived in one town just across to the other side of town you had to go to the city hall and get a permit and then you had to explain why you were moving and where you were going and so forth and he just never forgot that and so he ended up as a publisher of books in the United States. Well it is true and as you look around at yourselves and if we took all the lists of all your names and started analyzing the background of those names it would turn out that literally every part of the world is your heritage. Here you are, all Americans and you trace your heritage to as I say every corner of the world and in other words those that we follow our ancestors happen to be people with a special a special belief in freedom and courage in their hearts that made them tear up roots wherever they lived leave family and friends if need be and travel to this new land where most cases they didn't even know the language before they got here and do it because of that extra urge for freedom that just the rest of their neighbors didn't have and we are kind of a miracle. I have always said you may call it mysticism if you will but there had to be some divine plan that placed these great continents here in the two great oceans to be found by that kind of people and that maybe is our purpose in life. Now we all have a kind of an affinity even though we aren't the original immigrants but some are and some it's grandparents some great grandparents and further back than that are parents and we in America the only place where you meet somebody the first thing you know you find out saying well I'm German American and usually it's a mix anymore because we've all lived here long enough that we get together and marry across what might have been national lines and yes it's alright to have an affinity for what was the mother country for all of us as a man takes a wife unto himself he doesn't stop loving his mother because of that but at the same time we're all Americans I'll get back to that little later on and some more about that but if you look at history I think you'll find that the first signs of decline in great nations were economic ones decline brought on by governments that spend too much of their citizens' hard-earned money and then burden them with excessive taxation and inflation in order to foot the bill all around the world today there's an increasing appreciation of this lesson an increasing realization that growth and opportunity means getting big government out of the way and letting free peoples reach as far and as high as their talents and ambitions will take them now there's more and more understanding that just as we have the right to speak and publish and assemble and vote we also have rights to enjoy the fruits of our labor and not be overtaxed and overburdened by government I once had an adventure with a state senator in California when I was governor we didn't understand that we turned up with a surplus one year of $850 million and the legislature had all kinds of ideas what to do with it I had an idea too as governor I went before the people publicly and said we're going to give it back to you one day this senator stormed into my office he said I think giving this money back to the people is an unnecessary expenditure of public funds where did you think it came from in the first place but there are some that begin to think that it's government's money and they just let us keep a little of it well in many ways this is a reflection of what's been happening here in our own country during the past six and a half years all the way along the choice has been the same more taxes, more spending, more regulation more deficits or the other choice less of all four and a lot more growth opportunity and a bright economic future for my generation and yours when I was in Europe several leaders spoke to me about the threat that too much deficit spending posed to the world economy we're that important anymore economically we can cause hard times in other countries by things we do here in America in the last few years the congress adopted something called Graham Rudman Hollings and that was a plan to gradually reduce the deficit to set a goal down here and say each year we will come closer and finally we will reach the balanced budget because for more than 50 years we've been deficit spending we made progress but now there are signs that some are going back on that commitment the very commitment that so many other nations in the world are concerned about because they know how important our economic strength is as I said to their own well-being well as I said the other day we've reached break point decision time and lately some in Capitol Hill have been upset with me for mentioning this that the people they've been counseling me through the media that the people aren't listening that they don't care anymore well I have to politely reject this advice I know these decisions are important now and they lay the foundation for our country as it faces the challenges of the 21st century the century where you will be taking charge of this country I mention all this because some of those you meet abroad will ask you about this matter and are sometimes noisy arguments over here and I hope you'll mention to them that our capacity for arguing and arguing it all out in public is actually the strength of our system that dissent is not disunity it's true there aren't many secrets here but it's also true that that's what democracy is all about and why it's stronger over the long run and why freedom has a staying power I guess what I'm hoping that you'll convey to our friends abroad is that sometimes in order to understand this country you have to step back and give it a little perspective like the cowboy who one day rode into the Grand Canyon looked around and exclaimed wow something happened here well point to America and her history and something happened here you know again I want to speak of the uniqueness of our society and I hope that you will find ways to gently portray this now that doesn't mean you have to be the way American tourists were when we first began to go back to the motherland and visit the ancestors or the families and so forth I guess we were a little brash at the time they tell a story about an elderly farm couple that went over and they were in Italy and they were looking at one of the volcanoes over there and the tourist guide was telling them the heat that came out of that volcano and this and that and all the great power of it and the old boy turned to his wife and he said we got a volunteer fire department at home put that thing out in five minutes you don't want to do that think about us and it's here in this room present with all of you you can leave here and move to Japan which can't become Japanese you can move here in France you can't become a Frenchman or a French woman Greece and not become a Greek Turkey all of these but anybody any place from any corner in the world can come to live in America and become an American and I guess we're the only place where that is true and that's what we're all about you know it's the magic and the mystery the majesty of freedom it's your heritage wherever you go be proud of it now my very best to each of you before you go there not only this summer but in all the days ahead and my watch tells me that that 11 year old girl gave me a letter one day was right soon after I got here I was amazed at 11 years old she told me all the important things I was going to have to deal with and what the great problems were and then she wound up with a PS she said now get back over to the Oval Office and go to work you know that's what I have to do but I wish we could stay here and visit and I wish that we could have a meeting when you come back again your assessment of the countries that you've been in and what you've seen and what you've learned from them but also let them learn a little bit about us that we're not against anybody and we want peace and we want to be neighbors with all the world and for one thing we've proven to all the world that the old hatreds that used to exist and the rivalries on opposite sides of borders of other countries look at us we've crossed all those borders we're a melding pot and we found out we're all human beings and it works so God bless you and have a good time while you're there I know you will, thank you Mr. President my name is Melanie Mandracchia and I come from Collegeville, Pennsylvania on behalf of the people of people international we would like to thank you for visiting with us today please extend our thanks to the First Lady as well Mrs. Reagan for a sincere appreciation for her efforts and her many accomplishments in helping the young men and women of this country to make healthy and constructive decisions in their lives I'd like to present you with this plaque as a token of our appreciation for your support in the international youth exchange well thank you very much I'm very proud to have this and proud to see you and what did you say your name was? Melanie Mandracchia what background is that? it's Italian it's Italian as I say it was just there Venice they must have had a hard spring because from the helicopter when I looked down all the streets seemed to be flooded there well I guess it's probably not as fine as Irish except that on my mother's side it was English and Scotch and uh here we are well listen I thank you very much for this and very honored as I say to have been here to see you all all right go get them


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We praise Allah swt and we thank Him for His countless bounties and gifts upon us and we testify that there is nothing worthy of worship other than Allah swt and we bear witness to the finality of the Prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Whoever Allah guides no one can send astray and whosoever Allah leaves astray no one else can guide. I remind myself and all of you with me to have taqwa, to have weariness and consciousness with Allah swt and our private and public affairs for indeed fear of Allah is the pinnacle of wisdom. Allah swt tells us in the Qur'an one of the purposes of life in the verse which many of you will be familiar with Allah swt says in Surat al-Mulk, That Allah swt tells us that one of the purposes of the life that He created for us here, this temporal world is to try us, is to test us, so that He can see which of us is best in deeds. And so here we know that this is the abode of trial and tribulation, but within it is emptied out, there is differences and our states go between states of ease and states of difficulty and our responses to each of these prospective states will tell us something about our spiritual states. The great Yemeni Mujeddin Imam al-Haddad says that he talks about the various vicissitudes of life and the responses of one who has taqwa of Allah swt, the one who has a state of ihsan with Allah swt and the one who is of the world and distant from Allah swt. The opposite of that would be someone who is of the world and he begins with the state of poverty, something that we would all deem to be a difficulty in this world. But he talks about the person of taqwa, what is their behavior when they are in difficulty, that the person of taqwa when they are in a state of poverty they are grateful for the little that they have, that they are patient with the affair of Allah swt, that they are content, that they accept this decree from Allah swt, that they will conceal their situation, that had you not known you would think them to be in a better state because of their effa, that this is the state of taqwa and Allah swt because of their contentment, because of their patience, Allah swt will give them nearness to him. And in this very same set of circumstances, if it is a worldly and corrupted, immoral person, they will complain, they will find fault with this situation, they will see others who have wealth and say why him and not me, and they will be ridiculed by people for their state. So it's the same situation, one is a heart filled with taqwa and another only sees dunya. And the inverse is also true, in a state of wealth, the person of taqwa in a state of wealth knows that it comes from Allah swt, they see this as a means to help others who are less fortunate, that they do nafaqah, they spend from their wealth in order to help others, and they see it as a test from Allah swt. One thing you will be asked about twice on the Day of Judgment as well, where did you get it from and how did you spend it, both how it came in and how you used it, and they will be aware of this because of their taqwa. And people will pray for this person, they will say this is a righteous person of wealth who helps so many people, but the same circumstances that they were given to a person distant from Allah swt, they would see that it would increase them in arrogance. And this is one of the descriptions Allah gives for one of the great kufaq in Surah iqla, where Allah swt says that that he thought himself to be self-sufficient, this is what wealth will do to the correct person. They will see this from themselves, that they are deserving of it and they will hoard it because they think that it comes from themselves. And people will see them and say what a stingy miser as a result. And here is a reminder to us that in all of these various stages of life, whether in poverty or in wealth, and this can be applied for the sick person and the healthy person. This can be applied in so many things, one can be, when you're healthy you're in a state of gratitude, you use it in order to worship Allah swt. But the righteous person will use it simply to complain and say why do I have this situation? Sayyidina Ayyub alayhi salam is the epitome of contentment with illness. And we are encouraged in that to see the lesson. People told them maybe this is a punishment from your Lord. They tried to encourage him to complain. And this is a human tendency. We see misery loves company we say because we love to complain to one another. And that when you have somebody tells you you should complain, very easy pitfall. The Sayyidina Ayyub alayhi salam saw as coming from Allah swt. And in health. So all of these come from Allah swt. What is the criteria that distinguishes us? Talk a lot of Allah swt. And when we know that these changes come from Allah swt. We will know the requisite response. Imam al-Ghazali has in his famous Ahia al-Num ad-Din, something which the title alone will teach you something. He talks about Kitab al-Tawqid wa Tawqid. That the book of Tawqid, knowing the oneness of Allah swt. And Tawqid because they cannot be separated. Why? The ulema talk about many of us, all of us as Muslims have theological Tawqid. Nobody here would ascribe to more than one Lord. But why hasn't that Tawqid penetrated us in a spiritual state? Why does even a believer steal? If you were to catch a Muslim thief, why did you steal?  Yes, I know that you wrote me here at his. Do you think stealing will increase your at his? No, technically I know it doesn't increase why it is. Why then does this person steal? Why then do we fear of our at his? Because the meanings have not penetrated our heart. And so if we want to succeed in these tests that Allah swt is putting forth in our lives, we must grow in Tawqid through increasing our certainty of the oneness of Allah swt and increasing in Tawqid. Seeing that Allah swt as he told Sayyidina Mu'ad in the famous hadith that's also in the 40 hadith of Imam An-Nabawi that in Ishtamaat al-Uma If all of the mankind in Sinjin were together to bring you a benefit that Allah swt did not write for you, that would not be for you. And if they all conspired to bring you a harm that Allah swt did not write for you, they could not bring it for you. Right? The pens have been lifted and the ink has dried. So when we know our state is determined by Allah swt then we have to have Tawqid in all of our states. We have to have Tawqid in all of our states. There's another famous hadith in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says إِتَقْلَّا حَيْفُ مَا كُونْتَ Fear Allah in whatever situation you are in. Right? So sickness, health, wealth, poverty. All of these states have a requisite form of Tawqid an expression of Tawqid there. إِتَقْلَّا حَيْفُ مَا كُونْتَ وَأَتْبَعَ سَيْتَ الْحَسَنَةَ تَمْحُوْهَ And follow up the sin with the good deed it will erase it وَخَانَكُ الْنَاسَ بِخُلُقِ الْحَسَنْ Here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is giving us a very comprehensive piece of advice that we should have Tawqid of Allah regardless of the situation. When we fall short, he reminds us وَأَتْبَعَ سَيْتَ الْحَسَنَةَ تَمْحُوْهَ Follow up the bad deed with the good one and it will erase it. We all will fall short in these states. But we have to look internally. We cannot blame the states. If I only had this job, if I only got this promotion, if only my health were better, if only I were married, if only I had this, all of us Allah puts us through different difficulties. But he tells us اَيُكُمْ اَحْسَنُوا عَمَلَا That this is the very purpose of our life here on earth and what we are responsible for is not the decree of Allah SWT but our response therein. One of the six objects of faith that are laid out in multiple places both in the Qur'an and the hadith etc. is that our belief in Qadr, Allah's decree is measuring out what each of us gives. We are not responsible for what we give. Allah SWT is Al-Raza. He gives out what He wills. Each of us must ask ourselves what is my state of contentment? What is my state of gratitude? What is my state of using the bounties Allah SWT gave me in a way that shows this gratitude? And how am I living and seeing all of the aspects in my life as coming from the decree of Allah SWT? When I get fired, do I see that as coming from Allah SWT? When I get promoted, do I see that as coming from myself? Or do I see that as coming from Allah SWT? The Prophet SAW has said, Are you balanced? And he said, what do you mean, Ya Rasulallah? And he said, are people's blame and praise the same to you? Are they equal in your eyes? Because if you're connected to your Lord, people's praise, you know they're not praising you. Like many of the scholars said, they're praising the veiling that Allah has veiled my faults. Someone praises me, I know it's that Allah has veiled my faults.  And so that shouldn't bother you if you're connected to Allah SWT. So may Allah SWT make us amongst those who evaluate ourselves and our relationship with Him and place talk to a central therein. So we're talking about the abode of dunya, being a place of trial and tribulation and also of bounties and gifts. And that our response therein is indicative of our spiritual state with our Lord. There is, there is, there is, there is, there is, there is a great summary of these states that was given, by saying that, he was sitting in a Majlis and he gave a great summation of all of human states. Each of us, everyone in this room, everyone in the world, all of their states can be summarized, summed up into four states. You are, we're either in a state of ni'mah, of bounty, or we're in a state of difficulty. That's it. State of bounty or ease in a state of difficulty. Or we're in a state of obedience to Allah SWT or we fall into a state of disobedience. If you can see all of the vicissitudes of this world in this matrix of four possible states, you will then know what it is that you're up against. And then Abbas and Mursi then went on to describe that each of these states has a requisite response. So imagine a doctor telling you if this symptom arises, take this medication. But if you get this symptom, take this medication. And this is the only possible scenario. And he said that, if you are in a state of ease and bounty, then you must be in a state of gratitude to Allah SWT. So each of us can look at our lives and find areas of immense bounty, particularly where we live in this country. Everybody has difficulty, but Alhamdulillah, on average, many of us have immense bounty. What you do, you don't feel guilty about that bounty. He says you show gratitude for that bounty. And for those that are in a state of difficulty, simply requires patience. Patience. And there's a difference in Arabic that scholars talk about the difference between Sabar and Tahammur, right? And dealing with it is different than patience, right?  Patience is to take, is to bear the difficulty with grace, with contentment, right? There's a famous hadith in which the Prophet SAW saw a woman who was standing over the grave of her son and she was weeping. And the Prophet SAW told her, patience, she didn't realize it was a Prophet SAW and she basically told him, leave me alone, you don't know this difficulty that I'm in. And afterwards they told her, do you know who that was? That was the Prophet SAW. And she was, she scurried over immediately in a state to come to the Prophet SAW and to apologize. And he taught her, and all of us along with her, that in the sabra, in the sabmat al-u'la, that if patience, truly patience, is when the affliction first strikes. When affliction first strikes, everybody can catch their, get their bearings later. Everybody can collect themselves weeks later. But when the calamity first hits, to know that this is from Allah SWT and to be firm and patient, doesn't mean that there's no sadness, doesn't mean that you don't find it difficult, right? But that there's a grace in knowing that this is from my Lord and I will stand and bear this patiently. For the state of, of being in a state of obedience to Allah SWT, one must have shawudan minna to see Allah's favor upon you. To see Allah SWT's favor upon you. That we don't grow in arrogance to say I pray, I fast, I do, whatever state of obedience we find ourselves in, to remind ourselves like we begin every hutla, whoever Allah guides, no one can send astray. And whosoever Allah leaves astray, no one can guide. So we have to see Allah's favor upon us. And if we're in a state of disobedience, then we make tauba, repentance, to Allah SWT. All of our lives, all of our ups and downs, good times and bad times, right? All of our sins, all of our prayers, all of our fasting, everything can be seen through the lens of these four. And if we follow the appropriate response, then we will be okay with Allah SWT. Because he said, If you're grateful, then I will increase you. And we know the promises for those who are patient, particularly with taqwa, whoever has taqwa of Allah, Allah will give him a way out, will create for him a way out, and give him sustenance from once he knows not. And if we see Allah's favor upon us, we will not grow in arrogance. And Allah SWT will guide us further. And if we make tauba, even if them become Allah, then better. The one who makes tauba from a sin is like the one who has not sinned. And so these are the states that are given to us. May Allah SWT give us the wisdom to look at our own lives, introspectively, and to show gratitude for what we should be grateful for, to be patient with those things that are difficult. May He give us the ability to witness His favor upon us, gathering here in this Jumu'a now. And may He make us true in our repentance for those errors in which we fall short. We fall short.  And upon the one who believed even when things seemed bleak, his companion in the cave of Abu Bakr al-Saddiq. And upon the mighty companion martyred in the Mehra, standing clearly for the truth, and upon the one who took two lights by the hand, he even made the angels shire, and upon his beloved cousin, the gate to the city of knowledge, the courageous and wise, and upon Hassan and Hussain, the princes of paradise, and upon their pure mother Fatima and ours, Khadija the wise, and upon Aisha, Hamza and Abbas, we ask the same, those who pledged and abed and uhad they came, and upon all of the Prophet's noble companions, and all of those who followed until the day of standing, Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and the Muslims, and those who worshiped them, and the polytheists, and the enemies of our enemies, and the enemies of the deen. Allahumma, guide us in those who are guided, and guide us in those who are forgiven. Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allahumma, grant us success in our affairs We have those who have difficulty with great ease and forgive them their sins and elevate all of our stations and nearness to you and grant us a true repentance before our final days. We have those who have difficulty with great ease and elevate our stations and nearness to you and grant us a true repentance before our final days.