Hello everyone, welcome to Straight Talk Vermont Show. I'm Bruce Wilson, Executive Director and my guest today is Taptic Poo Moore, NWACP Director. And today we're just going to talk about racial injustice and just learn what Taptic is doing with NWACP and how you can be a part of it. First, I just want to say a couple of things about our Art So Wonderful Art Gallery opening up on August 21st. At the University of Vermont, it's going to be an incredible event. We'll have free, you know, different finger foods and drinks. And a lot of people will be there. We'll have a big event before the opening where the Deputy Commissioner will be there from the Department of Health. We'll talk about COVID and we'll have Taptic Poo Moore there to talk about racial injustice and everything she'd like to say. In case you're more there, you'll talk about voters' rights. We have Max Palmer doing a comedy show and DJ Ryan on top of all, he's going to throw some hits out there for us. And it's going to be a lot of fun. That's going to start at 4 p.m. or also we're going to have our unveiling of our 100-foot mural that's in the food court at the University of Vermont. So stay tuned for that. So, time for fun. Hey, it's good to see you. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. And I must say Tabitha has been my friend for over 10 years. And she always helped me with lots of youth advocacy work. She used to be a teacher at Mill Rivers High School and been involved with the community. She was a part of a lot of different things in Rutland County. And so I'm just so happy that I'm still able to work with Tabitha and learn from her. So tell us what's going on with the NAACP? Well, the NAACP is still alive and kicking. I think it's fairly near to Vermont. The first branch was founded in 2015 here in the Burlington area by Mary Brown Guillory. That was the Champlain area branch that's no longer still up and running. So we're trying to find somebody who would love to restart that branch because the more folks we have involved with the NAACP, the more powerful we can be. We can be in lifting the work of racial justice. But I'm the president of the Rutland area branch, which Mary actually got me started in 2016. And we were chartered in 2017. And then in 2019, I think, 2018 or 2019, the Wyndham County branch was founded by Stefan Gillum. So we currently have two active branches in Vermont and we work very closely together. Both are in the southern half of the state. We focus on a number of issues. Who is Wyndham County? Wyndham County is Brattleboro. It's like the whole southern skinny part of Vermont is huge. It's a huge region. So Stefan is holding it down down there doing some really great work. And both branches focus on five or six core issues including political engagement, political activity. Us doing legislative items pretty regularly every year. Legal issues. We help people who are experiencing just racism in the workplace or in other areas. And we try to give them support and services that they need or make sure that they're connected with the Attorney General, the Human Rights Commission. We do a lot of educational work with our schools. As you know, there's a lot of problems in Vermont schools with racism. And we continue to be active in what is now Act One, which is the Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools Act. So we do a lot around education stuff. We also do a lot of educational programming in the area. Because by and large, Vermonters, especially white Vermonters, which make up 96% of Vermont, don't really have a lot of information. But we grew. Right. So people like me, it's like, what do I look like 2% now? You know, we're about that. I think there's 7,890 black people ages, you know, birth to near death in the state. You know, and I grew up here and it didn't feel like that much. And so it was nice to come back. But so, you know, we do a lot of outreach and education stuff for folks in the area about how do you deal with racism when you see it? How do you spot it? What do you do in your community? Ways that you can encourage and attract diversity? Those kinds of things and help. You know, right now with COVID-19, we're this far apart. Yeah, sure. So trying to make sure that black and brown people, people marginalized positions are taken care of. You know, a lot of that kind of stuff. Yeah, so I know that you spoke for Juneteenth event. We was on the activity on June 14th in front of City Hall in the Burlington. Yes.  I know you're going to. It's good to have you there. Thank you. I just want to feel it. And so, where do you think about Juneteenth, actually? What do you think about, you know, the meaning of that is for yourself, you know, and maybe some of the history you think about? Because I don't think a lot of people, even black folks, know about Juneteenth. Right. Yes. Well, I knew about Juneteenth as being June 19th because it was my parents' wedding anniversary. But growing up, I didn't know what it meant. And I grew up here in Vermont.  And I was like, gosh, there's so much missing. So I really appreciate that we have a day where we celebrate, you know, the gratification of the 13th Amendment. But we still have a long way to go as we talked about during that event. Vermont especially has a really long way to go. I love to see it recognized as federal holiday. Oh yeah, definitely. You know, because it's so significant to the building of this nation. Sure, and who doubted about it, you know. Yeah, so that was very important. And then our good friend, Casey Ram, was the coordinator of that event. Yes. And so, you know, I was happy she did that, you know, and you came to speak and people came to listen. Yeah. And I've seen it. Actually, I'm CCT 17 was out there and I saw the show. Have you seen it? That? The show? No, I haven't. No, I haven't. You've been telling me about it forever. Yeah. So you just look it up on CCTV Channel 17, because they film the whole thing.  Yeah. But CCT 17 does. And it's probably on Peck TV too. Oh, OK. And also, you know, you were part of the Racial Justice Chalk Project.  That was one day, I forget what day it was. I think it was like two weeks ago, maybe? Yeah, it was. It was a really wonderful opportunity. Nice day too. And the good thing about that was people would come out and they would be there.  Justice or something was on the ground. And people would come in and the kids and parents and, you know, seniors. That was a wonderful day.  But people don't realize that racial justice is a human issue and we need to connect with people wherever they are and however they come to the table. And that chalk event, I thought was a really wonderful way for anybody could come. And you didn't have to talk about anything. You could just, you know, pour your heart and soul into making a beautiful community project to say, yeah, you know. Yeah, I care about you. Yeah. Here's some words that I'd like to say, you know. You know, I'm just going to put it out there. Yeah, so I enjoy that event too.  And I like Rutland County. I like it. It's so beautiful out there, you know. And I like the greenery, you know. It's really nice.   I mean, what's the numbers of? Me, my brother. No, we have a pretty low percentage. I mean, Shannon County pretty much took all the brown and black people. Thanks for that, by the way. But they're really, I don't know what our percentage is, but I know it is low compared to the state. Yeah, yeah.   Usually we'll do monthly Soul Food Seppers. Oh. Soul Food Sunday. Oh, man. And people just get together. Right. And bring whatever they want.  And Castleton would bring students. And it was just an opportunity for people to get together and see each other. You know, that's awesome. I hope you're going to really get that kick in again because I guess the schools are going to be open or whatever. What is it doing here? What are the schools doing? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I don't know if it's going to be virtual or if it's going to be, you know, well, I see a lot of students coming back to town, you know. And I just love Church Street. And it was a lot of costumes out there, you know. Really? Yeah. Yeah. They were like getting shopping on.  And so I really don't know. I got to find out though because I got to find out. Right. Like, I'm a commissioner, so I need to know. Right. Yeah, I should probably know. But so we'll see, you know, but I love that, you know, Casatoon has moved downtown there in Rutland. They do have a couple of buildings downtown. I'm not quite sure what they're doing with them though. Well, so one, two of them are dorms. Oh. One, you know, not the dorms. This is State Street. That's the, yeah. West Street. West Street. And then they have one on Center Street that's our gallery. Right. So nice in there. And so when I write downtown there and they're, you know, for years I worked with Casatoon, you know, for the Art Department of Students. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. So I'm hopeful that I can still, you know, continue to do that work with them. So I'm also a Rutland Chamber of Commerce member. And so I'm trying to figure out, you know, because I'm going to be doing some more work down there in Rutland County. Right. So I'm trying to figure out, you know, what should we, how can we, what should we do? And also, you know, Rotarian. So I, you know, I've been to a lot of Rutland Rotarian meetings. Yep. And so how can we get the Rotarians? You should, well, I can get you in there. We can speak. You know, I'll be with you about NWCP and the Rotarians, Kuanas, and as well as the Chamber of Commerce. That's very important that they should help out, here, learn some things, and find a way so they can help.  You know, it's been popular for us all our lives. But now everybody likes, have it hard to feel that they should do more or accept Black, I don't know, work.  What should they do for us? How can we, what should we do to work with people who are not of color? What should we do more of? Right. Well, and I think, you know. What should they do? Right. Well, one of the things that we try to do is offer educational opportunities because a majority of our membership is white. We'll often ask, what is it that you need?  What do I do? So we'll offer workshops for people and like, how do you have difficult dialogues and take care of yourself but at the same time try to remain in healthy, you know, relationship with that person. So a lot of what folks need first is education because they don't know what they don't know. Right. And then after, you know, they kind of get that basic grounding. It's a lot of self-reflective work and understanding the ways that white supremacy and systemic racism has impacted and imprinted on ourselves and then on everything that we do, a lot of what I hear from folks, and this isn't specific to the rotary or the Juarez or anything, but what I hear from a lot of white folks when you ask them, like, what do we do? And it's like, well, step outside your boundaries and do this. And they're like, well, we've never done it that way before. And we're like, exactly. That's why you've never been able to engage people in minority positions. So really encouraging people to do things differently than they have is a lot of what I recommend. Yeah.  And so consciously, I think it should be, for me, like, it's like a stop sign almost, like, you know, that what should we do? I mean, that Black Lives Matter. And, um, and so, yes, that's right, Black Lives Matter. And so how can, what is my, how do I feel about that, you know, if I'm a white person? Right. How do I feel about that? Right. And what should I do to help? Yeah. What is important, you know, for me to teach my kids or view around my family or friends or peers, what other things should we do and should we write, you know, like, guess who's coming to dinner, like City 48 or whatever. The original, yeah. The original, right? Should we invite them to dinner? Invite a Black person to dinner? Oh.  And I'm like, yeah, you know, just listen to what we say. Yeah. And it's so much easier if a non-person of color, if they really want to do something to help a person of color or want to change their thinking or just want to be more, you know, involved, you know, just, just do what the person of color say because they, we lived it, you know, our ancestors lived it.  I don't know how many words I can use, you know. All the things. All the things. But so we know, we have some ideas. You know what I mean? We have some great ideas. We've had to study white culture since we were dropped here. We've had to understand the whims and needs of white people and the way that they think and the way that they learn and the way that they process and the way that they undo things. So we are very well versed in whiteness. We're also very well versed in our own needs. So, you know, I, I don't know anyone better positioned to lead the conversation about, you know, the direction and the outcomes than people of color. Right. And it's so much easier.  Yeah. You know, I don't go around and tell youth that they should do this, that and that. I said, what do you need? What do you need? How can I help you?  If you say you want to be a doctor, my job is to help you be a doctor. You know what I'm saying? So, so it's how easy is that for me that, that's how we've been so successful and with youth and you too, you know, since we've been doing work with you, it just pretty much acts them. What's your goals, dreams and aspirations? How can we help you? And they say, boom. And so, and that's how it is. And we help them with the same deal. It's how easy is that for me. How easy is that? That's easy. Right. Just tell me, you know, let me tell you how you can help work with a person who looks like me. Right. You know, and it should be easy for them to be like, thank God. You know what I mean? Well, I think, you know, I think so many folks get uptight about it because, you know, it's been over 400 years and we're still having the same conversation.  And I just encourage everyone to just like hold that because you're always going to find out things about yourself that maybe you weren't prepared to learn. Yeah. But that doesn't mean that you can't learn from it and, you know, change if you need to. Yeah. Well, I know for a fact that white folks and non-people of color, you know, should I say, have been more blinded since I was before I was born. Absolutely. You know, about what's real.  You know, if I didn't like white folks, I would be came to the White States of America. Yeah, you're in the wrong place. In 1989, I'm in the wrong damn place. I'm from Chicago. Yeah. So anyway, so just like Obama, President Obama, you know, he came in. I thought he, I think it was out of his mind to do any coming to anyways, because he had come in three wars, you know, pretty much. And it was a recession, you know, oppression, whereas that we were gag on broke. You know what I mean? America was on the verge of bankrupt, you know, the whole country. And then he had to deal with that. And then, you know, how funny it was, you know, so a lot of people, not a couple, would say Obama started his three wars. He started, he came in on it. Now he started those wars and then he made the economy worse. And what he did was the smartest recovery, you know, economic stimulation that I had thought could never be done. He like, okay, so what are we going to do? You know, we're going to use our own two dollars, you know, American God, whatever, and spend it on ourselves. We're going to build our roads. We're going to build our schools. We're going to build our, you know, we're going to spend money on ourselves. And now we're going to have the bridges and the roads. And so that put people back to work and that's going to stimulate our economy. Now, how smart was that? And so, oh my God, he spent, he did this, he did that. He put us in, he broke the country, you know what I mean? And he did one of the smartest stimulus package ever, you know what I mean? And so people have blinded zone for what really is good, you know what I mean?  And so they just got, I think they're doing it now, taking those blinded zone and actually see that, you know, what black people were in slavery for 405 years. We really were, you know what I mean? And we really did build this country. And we really did do build it out for at no cost. You know, we were slaves. And then we came into your service. We paid for it. We paid for it. We paid for it. And worked for absolutely zero dollars. And then, you know, then falsely people say, well, you keep working for us when Juneteenth came around or whatever. And before that and said, you know, we'll give 40 acres in a mural. You know what I'm saying? I want my 40 acres in a mural. That'd be nice. I want it. You know, I forget a lot of stuff. I would take two in a cat. Yeah. Give me my 40 acres and my mural. How about you just stop oppressing me? That would be great. I don't know what you mean. You know, that's what I'm saying. It's funny. It's kind of funny, but it's in theory. You know what I'm saying? And so what I'm trying to say is many people who are not of color through years have just, have lied. They have put us in hardship. Yeah. We built a country. You know, they challenged us economically. We put us in the poorest places. Took our ticket. All our riches. Like our gold and oil and different things that we, like from Africa. Our music and our culture. Music and our culture. And so, and Amy's blind is on like, you know, they created this. So, so now we just want you to take those blinds off and understand number one, understand that everybody and no black person created this or set this or discovered this, that number one person came from Africa. So no white person was born in Africa. They're all black. So everybody from everybody who was born in this world and this first man came from Africa. And that, I didn't, I didn't. That wasn't my footprint that created that. Or said that. That's true facts. So let's, let's understand that we all are came from the same peeps. And so. It's interesting. You should say that my friend was just telling me, I had no idea that one of the Queen Elizabeth's, and there was a couple of other queens of England who were half black, but the history is buried because to recognize blackness is to recognize an excellence. Right. That for some reason Caucasians did not want to be. Right. They didn't, they didn't want to be seen as like, you know, you know, anything a part of. Yeah. And it's so fascinating because I mean, when you look at algebra and math and libraries and irrigation systems and farming and all of those things, they came from Africa because that's where humanity originated. Right.  That's all I'm trying to say. Yeah. You know, no white person ever built the pyramids. Not one. Oh, this is where you get the people talking about it. The Jewish people were enslaved, you know, right in the pyramids. And I am always very curious about, you know, what that meant in terms of racial makeup. Because I don't think that are Jewish people considered white? No. No, no. So the history is all twisted and on the blinders that stays on, they just don't want to be, you know, people just don't want to be like, okay, we ain't a part of the black people. Not at all. Not even tiny bit. But they are. See, I think what's happening is that they realizing it. You know what I mean? And then the history just says to itself, we didn't write that stuff. We didn't write the Bible where it says that God only looked like that his hair was woolly and his skin was bronze, like it was burnt in the fire. That's how he looked. You know what I mean? So who said, we don't wave for our ancestors? That's revisioning of history through the eyes of whiteness based on ideals that white should be supreme. And that's where white supremacy began. So long ago that people today are so disconnected from white folks, I should say, are so disconnected that they don't understand how incredibly ingrained those beliefs are in everything, all the ways that our societies have been set up. And so that's why I think that education is so critical. Yeah. Yeah. So that's another thing too. When I come up in my kitchen, Vermont told my mother, I was coming to Vermont. I think I'll tell you the story. But I said, Mom, I'm coming to Vermont. I'll tell you the story, because it's funny to me. I said, Mom, I'm moving to Vermont. And she said, that's good. You're going to make a difference. And so I didn't know what she meant because I was part of the supervising there. And she said, that's coming out of Jackie. I remember why she's coming to our house when I was young. And so I was part of it all growing up. So I didn't know what she actually meant. But I knew that she meant something around that I was going to make a difference being black in the white state of America. So one year, I called my mother up. I said, Mom, I made a difference. I made up different. She said, what you do, what you do? I said, Vermont is the second white state now. So nothing else I made a difference in. So now you say it's 2%, right? Yeah, we're somewhere around that. I think it was like 0.1% when I came to Vermont. Yeah. Yeah. It's still pretty. It's still, I feel like it might be good. It was the second white state now I think, right? Yeah. We were number one. Now we're number two. It's us and I think like Wyoming and Maine. Yeah. The three states kind of go back and forth. I don't think we've ever been lower than two. Yeah. Number two. I don't think we've ever fallen into that third position. So if we did nothing else, we made a difference, right? Just being, you know. Just by existing. So that's funny.  She's cracked up about that.  Yeah.  Like I do, you know, how can I work with everybody? I'm not mad at nobody. I'm not mad at, for what? I'm not mad at anyone. I'm just trying to say is that, you know, I'm glass, some of the blinders are coming out. People's face and whereas they can understand what they're doing. There's, they seem to be, I guess that I really don't know, in hope, what non-people color are doing right now. They've done a lot of protesting and a lot of, you know, Black Lives Matter stuff.  You look at them, they really mean non-people color. They out there. They, you know, they don't have to wear Black Lives Matter shirts. They don't have to have signs.  And so, why are they doing it? Obviously something, why, why? Well, I think that, right. I mean, why now? You know, I think that, you know, I think that, you know, I think that, what's going on in the reaction in 2016, it's harder for white people to pretend that racism isn't an issue.  And I think, you know, part of it is that they're now listening to us when we're like, oh, wait, this is what you meant. Yes, this is what we meant. And so more heads are turned and more heads are asking us, you know, what to do. And through that process, I think that they're realizing that it's not just us who are dying, but they're dying, too. Because they have been sold a whole bill of lies about what this world is, what this country is like. I mean, think about it historically, you know, what we've been taught about the history of this world and how it evolved around Europe, you know, so I think they are waking up in some really important ways. And if they don't stay awake, we'll just keep going back to the cycle until we're all dead and nobody wakes up. And I think that that's starting to get through. Yeah, I believe that. And so part two is like, those are younger people and middle-aged people.  They get it. And I love it. And that's why I think we both have always preferred working with younger people because the level of ingrained hate is just not there. That entrenched sort of, I know what the world's about. It's just this natural curiosity and desire to connect with another is still there. And so, you know, for me, I like listening to younger people. It's weird when I'm considering myself older now, but they just have wonderful ideas in ways of being and technology and the way technology, they're digital natives in ways that you and I aren't. And so their ability to make human connections in ways that we never could is just, it's incredible. Yeah. My whole team is probably up to the age of 24, you know, from like, I don't know, 17 or 24. Yeah. It's always been like that. It's so funny. Because like, I just meet one of my, I just wanted for a mural coalition and it's like 20 of them and we do, they do all the murals and we just, before I came here too, it was met downtown. Yeah. It's about another mural. And one of our muralists is going to do a portrait of one of our sponsors on the building.  They so in charge.  I mean, like, you know, we don't like, that's what we always have youth advisory boards, you know, and who makes the decisions on our programs, projects and events. And it just makes so much sense, you know, because we want them to lead themselves, you know, a peer-to-peer model. And we know, we just want to be like, how can we help them? What do you need? Right. We need to talk to one of our sponsors. You know, and you talk to the top of the pool more or, you know, about something or, you know, what do you need from me? You know, and then they, they write on it. Like you said, they write on it. So they have the energy, they have the creativity. Yeah. They get it. All the things.  We don't want her.  You know, that's not it. They don't, they color by him. You know, when they come in, so the culture of all the youth that come together, my team is all diverse. You know what I mean? Right. You know, they are all diverse. I didn't, I didn't create that group. Somebody in our group created, brought their friends together to, to work on our coalitions or work with our youth group or work with our programs, projects, events. And they always are. Some kids from all over the world or something. Well, see, I think that they're color conscious, not color blind. They're very aware of how people from different backgrounds add richness and depth. And they want that. They, they realize, unlike our generations that think that, you know, the 40 acres in a mule or the little suburban house with the two dogs and that, you know, unlike our generations that were taught that that's what you aim for. They're aiming for diversity. They're aiming for enrichment through understanding difference. Yeah. And that is just to me, that's what's powerful and that's what's going to undo all this stuff that we've created. Yeah. It's so funny, you know, you know, in like a lot of, a lot of, you know, wonderful nonprofits and other agencies that use service providers. So, still today, we've been doing this work. I've been doing this since 1999 for youth and graduate board. And you put youth centers in malls since 2003, free chill out centers and loft 89 and all these cool places, you know, and free for this, right, for years. And then all the programs, the projects we do all around in the car or whatever, you know. And so when I started, when I talked to a dog, it's still the same. When I talked to a dog about these programs, they're like, wow, I'm surprised I've never heard of these things. I'm surprised that, you know, and, and, and, and the reason why they didn't have never heard of it, because I don't have talked to them about it, you know, because it's not, it's not about them. It's about the youth who I serve. Right. That's why they have youth advisory board. Ask any youth about chill out centers or Life's A Boy Remind or, you know, I still want to for all I play, they know about them. Ask any, just by any youth about some chill place like chill out centers or whatever. They know all about, you know what I mean? Ask any adult, they don't know about them because, first of all, I don't, I don't have the time to present to them. I work with the schools, like I worked with your school, Mill Rivers, I work all the high schools and colleges around, and I present to the youth who I serve. See, I serve youth. So I get there, I talk to them and they tell me what's good. I see a lot of people think that youth, for some reason, that you've served them and they're in the capacity of being like an executive director or director. And they think they can write a grant without talking to the people who they serve. I don't go, that's not how I do it. That's not how I do it. My art director, she's 24, she write our art grants. I don't, you know, she wants some words from me or something, I give it to her. But she knows what our art galleries need because she's also the curator, Alondra De La Cuesta. She's also our curator, you know what I'm saying?  So what I look like, and she worked with them. She can probably meet with somebody right now. I don't know.  And she does the work. And why should I talk, you know, that's what it is, you know what I mean? So that I get the youth of leadership to be able to lead based on what their growth stream and aspirations are and things they want to do. And it's, now I've done that forever. And since you've known me, you helped me put together youth boards and run this right all the time.  I say, first thing I got to do is put together youth board. I'm not going to make no move. I ain't going to say nothing. I want to know until I get a youth board together and tell them, and here's some ideas about what some of the youth groups have done in Chilling County. There's some things they've done. It's how they operate the youth centers. So here's some ideas for you, but take this whole different county. So we do what we need to do in this county. So that's how I do it. And I'll stand by that forever. I will never turn from that. So that's what I do. So that's why a lot of adults don't hear about our programs. That's why they know we don't have over 50 awards. I will say this. I'm going to talk about all our 50 awards. Because this is two awards that I'm proud of the most. And that is, we have the Greek award from UVM, and Mr. Fraternius Roy-Roy, and we got that like 2,000 awards.   It means a lot. It means a lot to them, too. It means a lot to me, too. And we have the Kids Safe Collaborative Award, which is a big award in the state of Vermont for youth safety and families, work with law enforcement, the court for the safety of youth and families. And we got four of those. Wow. So those are all of the 50-some of the ones we got those two out of my most proud of. So I'm, you know, people, I don't go around saying all that stuff to me. But it's don't mean I don't need to. I don't really need to. A lion will never have to tell you it's a lion. That's right. That's why I read one. All I know is that, you know, I can tell somebody just at the end of the day, that I work for the people who I serve. I work for you. They don't work for me. I work for them, because that's what it's supposed to be. So what's coming up now? So tell me, what's the job description for the NAACP person in the Chilling County? Oh, so it really wouldn't. It would be, well, it's not application and it's not paid. And I think people forget that we're all volunteers, which in some people, some people look at the scope of what we do, they're like, no. But really every branch is locally based and does what its community needs it to. Again, the NAACP has five game changers, which are the key areas in which we operate. What that looks like is based on, you know, what your community needs within those areas. So this person would basically, they would want to talk to myself and stuff on Gillum and we would put their name forth to our state area conference president, Juan Cofill. And Juan would have a conversation with them and then we would help them get the number of folks needed to reactivate the branch. And then they would install officers. And typically your person that has your organizing committee becomes the president, but it doesn't have to be that way. So if there are folks that are interested in being part of it, but don't necessarily want to be president, but they would be secretary or maybe they want to be the head of the environmental action committee, there are different ways that people can get involved. But this person who's organizing committee chair, typically, you know, their job is just to get the number of members and then to start holding the meetings.  And then, you know,


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What's going on, Infinite Fan? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. Turn on your post notification bell. Leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a post notification shout out at the end of today's video. So guys, I had to lock myself in the room. And I don't know if you guys can hear Janice out in the living room right now. Baby in blooper like he's an actual baby. She's literally singing to him, that's my baby. But yeah guys, I had to lock myself in the room because Janice was being really nosy with a little like kind of surprise kind of gift that I kind of wanted to give her. So I'm gonna show you guys after like I tell you everything that's going on. But I have a really big Dior box that I saved from a book bag that I got not too long ago. For those of you guys that don't know what Dior is, it's basically a really expensive designer brand. Now my plan for today is basically to give Janice that Dior box. Her thinking that she's gonna be getting something from Dior. In reality, she's not. I have nothing from Dior that I plan on giving her. One, I want to see her reaction to her not getting anything Dior when I give her a Dior box. I personally do not think that she's gonna get upset because Janice is not one of those people that are materialistic. That's just not us in general. We're not like that. We can care less about all that stuff. Don't get me wrong. It's nice stuff to have, but it doesn't make you happy. What I am gonna be putting into the Dior box is basically gonna be, and this is why I had to lock myself in the room, is a very long no essay paragraph kind of thing. Again, I'll show you guys after I make this little clip. It's a letter basically telling Janice how much I appreciate her and it's gonna get really sappy and really emotional. And the goal is to not make her cry or make myself cry because I don't know if I want her to read it or me to read it. But we're gonna see how everything goes. But yeah guys, that's basically what's gonna be going down. She's gonna be getting a Dior box and inside the Dior box is gonna be nothing Dior.  So one, we're gonna see her reaction to her reading the note and we're gonna see her reaction to her not getting anything Dior. So yeah guys, I'm gonna need you guys to comment down below. How do you think she's gonna react to not getting anything Dior? And how do you guys think she's gonna react to that love letter that I'm giving her? And with all that being said guys, let's get into today's video. Okay guys, so this is the Dior box. It's literally nothing but just stuffing, you know? So I'm probably gonna put the notebook all the way at the bottom. So she's gonna be confused when she opens that up and she sees nothing. But I'm gonna tell her to dig because there is something in there and this is the notebook. Yes, I used her notebook. But this is the note that I wrote to her that she was being nosy and I had to like lock myself in the room. So yeah, this is, it's pretty long. I'm gonna let you guys pause that if you want to read it. But I'm gonna be reading it myself or maybe have her read it. Like I said, I don't know. Your boy's kind of nervous. I don't know if you could tell, but yeah, let's get into it. Alright, so she already knows that I'm up to something. Okay, so I already made the intro in the bedroom and all that. And I told her that you were being nosy and whatever. Okay. And another disclaimer, excuse the fan and the TV on the floor. We are in the process of moving as you guys know. But I have a surprise for you in the room. I'm gonna bring it over. Ooh. And yeah, I just wanted to get your reaction on camera. What? A surprise from what? It's not even my birthday. Okay, you need to quit and I'll be right back. Give me one second. Ooh, I'm excited. What could it be?  This for you. What? You're in love. Do you want me to hold it while you open it? It's already open a little. You want me to hold it? Yeah. Open the magic box. If your gift is in there, it's... Give me that bag back. This is actually the one that's in my book bag that I bought a couple months ago. You thought she was gonna sign it from Dior? You signed it. Excuse me? Babe, this is... Open that book. The option to let me read it to you or you can read it yourself while I read it. I can read your handwriting. Okay, here we go. It's not that bad. A little nosy while I was doing it. Yeah. Do you really want me to read all this while it is as you put it in there? Give me from person Dior Dior. Oh my God. Oh my God. You're doing it with our D-box mode. That is a note full of love and appreciation letter for how much I truly love you. Little did I know back in 2015, my life would change dramatically. As weird as it may sound, growing up as a kid, all I wanted was someone to call my own. I wanted my dream girl. I wanted my soulmate. People may think that's crazy to want at such a young age, but I can't thank God enough for bringing you into my life freshman year of high school. I wanted you from the jump and it may have seemed like I was rushing things in the beginning of our relationship, but the truth is that I was genuinely ready to spend the rest of my life with you. Now I'm going to spin off topic real quick and talk about your physical appearance.   I wish you could see what I see. A beautiful goddess, a queen, a strong, ambitious woman that can do anything she says her mind to. From your eyes, your hair, to your sexy, hot body, you're perfect all around. And I know they say there's no such thing as perfect, but you're perfect to me and perfect for me. Aw. Think about you. Yes, nothing, not even that. Added to be crazy. You just had to do that. Added to be crazy. I wouldn't change it. I feel like I don't tell you these things enough and I should, but I hope you can forgive me for that. However, I'm going to end the note here because you're starting to be nosy. Sorry, this is true. This is true. That was all facts in there, okay? All facts, no caps. I'm going to need you to rip that out of the dispose of it because that's evidence. It's evidence, I'm keeping it. That's evidence of my emotional side and we got to get rid of that. No. That can't be seen. Aw, I love you. So that was your little surprise. That's better than Christian Dior or anything else. I'm happy to hear that. However, if you want something from Dior, I will be more than happy to go for you. But yeah, so this is kind of like a two-part video. I already told them that I wanted to get your reaction from you getting nothing in there when I gave you the Dior box and then the reaction to you with the letter. So yeah. I just want to hug you forever. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I love you. I love you too. You got anything you want to say? No, I just said I want to hug you forever and I love you so much. So that's it? That's the end of the video? Mm-hmm. And then it jumps, look at me. Alright guys, so that is it for today's video.  Trying to keep it a little funny though because I don't know how to react in situations like that. So that's why I was making, you know, little gestures with my hands when she was reading as well as little sound effects because I really don't know how to get in those type of situations. But anything else you want to say? No. So I guess that's missing the countless. When all that being said, that is it for today's video. Today's post notification shoutout goes out to you just for being the best girlfriend ever from day one up until now. And I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you.   I don't really show too much of that. But yeah, when all that being said, shout out to you for being the best effort. And we'll see you guys in the next video. I'm going to cry now.


Hey everybody, it's DJB. Could you guess it? It's another unboxing. This is one of the last things that I have received for Barrier Fest, so I have paid customs on every single package I've received thus far, which is getting really annoying. So when we open this up, it's going to be very obvious from what this is. It's Jolie. I find this kind of interesting that they are being shipped separately. Double Jolie sticker. Double thank you card. Double certificate. I didn't realize I had a picture of her on the back of it, but it does. This is so cool. So this is Kylie Parkes' Barely Jolie. And essentially, she's the version which has less hair around the feet, so she has more of like a defined hoof. She has a twitched ear and slightly more flared nostrils, and then obviously the roached mane with a kind of swishy tail. So Kylie was really smart in the marketing department in sculpting one of these guys and then casting different variations of the same sculpt. This is my Truly Jolie. And Truly Jolie is supposed to be the most accurate representation of the real Jolie. So my intention is to paint this one and sell it. I believe I will paint her to some form of a solid, but the intention was to actually sell her. And then this one I wanted to paint but keep for myself. Because I want to do an apollusi fun color on this one. I really like the roached mane and short tail. I've always loved this in a draft cross in an apollusi color. It's kind of a dream horse for me. So this is Jolie, and this is the last resin that I had ordered. And I pretty much have my solid resin horse collection now. Thank you so much for watching and I hope that you like my Barely. I like her too. It's really fun. I really like her nose.


All right. So I'm here with Sid this afternoon to talk about the financial services regulatory compliance issue. I wanted to hear how Sid is talking about it with customers and prospects at events and we're recording it so that we can use it with sales and for sales enablement and potentially with customers as well. Yep. This is the page. I made the first start of this and then you helped to make it better. It's great that it's better because it really resonates. A lot of customers ask like, hey, kid lab, I know you're very focused on developers are you also we're in the compliant industry. So can we also use it? And the answer is yes. And a lot of people do, including most of the regulators are using get lab to stay compliant. And we understand exactly what kind of regulations you're talking about. These are the ones that are relevant to you. And probably one of the biggest things that companies do is segregation of these. This means that no single person should be able to abuse the system, like wire money to their own account or have some really malicious code out in production. So get lab helps with that with things like protected branches, merge request approvals and protect permission, which means that even the people in the team cannot undo the branch protection on the admin scans. And then two person access controls will be a future feature that could really help them as well. They also love the security that we provide. I think that the how get lab helps isn't mapping one to one to some of these rules, role based access controls and revocation of accounts. We have that, but it's not this feature. So I think we should do a bit better here of listening what we do. Some of this is already here under auditing. But they are very happy to hear that we have many of the security technologies they're looking at. Sometimes they already have vendors for this for static application security testing and dynamic. Many times those vendors give them a solution, but it's super hard to integrate into their pipeline. So that's where get lab comes in. Get lab makes the adoption by developers much, much easier because it's a part of get lab. And we took special care so that we don't break anybody's work stream. For example, many vendors, when there's a vulnerable dependency, they just break the build and prevent you from releasing to production. It sounds like a good thing, but it's actually a bad thing. For example, you can have dependency in production. It might become vulnerable just because of vulnerability is discovered. So now your production contains the vulnerability. Your new code contains the vulnerability. Deploying it won't make anything worse. And there might be like a big outage through some work you introduced. And now you can't solve that, even though you're not making any security thing worse. So that's not the way to do it. The way to do it is to start early. So in get lab, as soon as you push code, we start scanning that code and we give you visibility. A month from now, in November 22nd, we'll release a security dashboard that gets CSO and other people visibility and what's out there. And you can agree on a security budget with the teams that work in the company. They have to respond quickly to things that become vulnerable. If they're not showing that they can do that, you could, for example, restrict them and say, hey, from now on, everything you ship has to fix the security issue until you're back to a normal cadence. The auditing, really important that no information gets lost. We were pretty good there. Change management, automated deploys, et cetera. The license management to make sure you don't do any code that's not compliant. So that's all resonating. I think what we should talk about as well is auto remediation. Auto remediation is something we'll launch next year and it's an integrated cycle. If you work at a company that doesn't have auto remediation, when there's a dependency that is widely used, for example, take Heartbleed last year, vulnerability is detected, now you got to fix all the applications that use it.  With auto remediation, GitLab fixes all those applications and that we can do because we know what's vulnerable. The source code isn't GitLab. Fix that, deploy it, and monitor whether the fix is causing any problems and if needed, refer to it and create an issue. Results, you come in in the morning, you have only one issue instead of 100, only the application where there was a problem with the service level objectives after the fix. Another thing we should probably look into is requirements management. It's really important that you can link anything you've changed to something you wanted to achieve and of everything you wanted to achieve to be compliant, you're sure that that is tested. I think it's a big benefit that we do monitoring integrated with GitLab. So you're not deploying into a black hole that helps with the meantime to resolution that's becoming increasingly more important. It's not that you're never going to have any problems, but that if you have a problem you can respond soon and the regulators are catching up to that. GitLab's also coming out with incident management next year that should be good, that will help you reduce your meantime to resolution and keep everyone on the same page and communicate effectively. So those are some of the things that I think are helpful. Okay, thank you Sid. I appreciate you sharing your pitch basically. Do you get a lot of questions around how it might differ for a financial services firm versus healthcare or anything like that? Yeah, I think we should have the same thing we do here. We should have something for healthcare. I think there's a lot in common, there's a lot we can reduce, but I think people want to know that hey, I want to see tax from HIPAA, how it relates to me and I think our current HIPAA tax is not good enough. GitLab HIPAA, it's better than it was a while ago. No, I understand it needs some more, but it needs some work. Okay, well should we explain to anybody watching the video that it's almost Halloween? It's almost Halloween and it's a Friday afternoon. Okay, well thank you Sid, appreciate your time and as always if people have questions around security they can always reach out to me, Cindy Blake. Thanks for letting me do my pitch and thanks for improving it so much. That's great, thank you. Have a great afternoon. You too. Bye.


So, this is the talk I gave last year in Vienna and so I'm going to recycle it and hopefully y'all will find it useful. And I keep in mind the talk in Vienna was, I was talking with Wikimedia developers, so it was focused on them and telling them why people outside the foundation, why they would want to use MediaWiki and why they find it so useful. So, without too much more, let's see if, no, no, no, what has focus right now? Linux, there we go. What are others, others? You all are others. Who are others? You. Non-MediaWiki, third party government agencies, corporations, NGOs and individuals. I think that covers everyone here. Does anyone not feel like they've been covered in that? Okay, fine, association. So, you know, if I'm Wikimedia board member, I'm saying, why do I care about these people using MediaWiki outside of the foundation? Why would anyone want to do that? We have this, our vision is the sum of all knowledge, freely sharing the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. So why would we want, so why not use Wikimedia? So, yeah, maybe, yeah, your baby pictures don't belong on Wikimedia. If you put your baby pictures on Commons, I can 99% guarantee you they will be deleted. Maybe not. So, again, not everything is suitable for Wikimedia. There's game Wikis and stuff like Bulbapedia and NASA's Wiki. You could set up a Wiki, for example, about tightlining. Who knows what tightlining is? No, that's what I thought too. Tightlining is some sort of makeup thing, you know, I don't know, tightlining. My daughter told me, I'm trying to be cool. Yeah, okay. So, yeah, and the other thing, there are various interpretations of knowledge, you know, the same piece of knowledge. The thing, and you don't want the people who have these drastically different interpretations of knowledge necessarily on the same Wiki, for example, if I'm a Mormon, a devout Mormon, and I have a Wiki about the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith, I'm probably not going to be very friendly to contributors who are completely academic, you know.  So, that's what Media Wiki allows you to do. Go get your own Wiki, because it's open source. So, the foundation has released, perhaps without really thinking through the whole thing, they've released Media Wiki, and it's open source now, so everyone can use it. It's out there, it's GPL, you know. And even if they went, even if they stopped today and took everything away, what is out there is out there. So, anyway, oh, I still talk about this. So, why do people use it? Because they're familiar with it. Everyone knows Wikipedia.   Reliability. So, there can be some improvement here. But it is, Wikipedia is a fairly reliable distributor of software. They have security updates. They have regular six-month releases. They give you access to the code that's running on live Wikipedia, you know. So, as far as from a corporate standpoint, there's a pretty good stream of updates there. What's this thing? Findability. So, oh, yeah, that's why you want to set up your own Wiki. Sorry. I'm reading these over again. Maybe on your Wiki, you have about tightlining. You want to have this one tightlining technique. And it would be hard to find that on Wikipedia, because it's a sum of all knowledge. You don't want the sum of all knowledge. You want the sum of everything about tightlining. I hope I didn't screw that example up. Shareability. So, yeah, MediaWiki is made for sharing knowledge. Chris, you use the example of one-to-many. When you talk about it, I don't think it's one-to-many. I think it's many-to-many, because there are many people contributing to the software. And so, they're contributing to the Wiki. And a lot of people come and they read the Wiki. So, yeah, that's another reason to use MediaWiki. And look, I'm not done yet. Agility. MediaWiki, as we all know, is very flexible and adaptable to the needs of everyone. Or various people. Not everyone. I should not go that far. Transparency is awesome. There's this whole audit trail that's built into MediaWiki. A lot of people, they don't understand this. They say, oh, a Wiki, anyone can edit that. But then, what they don't realize is, yes, editing is more open, but there's this transparency and accountability. And I think that helps when you're looking at the classification of knowledge that goes on there. Again, I don't work with ITAR in this stuff. But I think the transparency and accountability helps you deal with some of this classification thing. I see Darren kind of smiling. He's like, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's right. I don't. Oh, yeah, that's the other reason. There's a significant community as hard as it is for us to find each other. I mean, I'm looking here and there's less than 40 people here, I think. But there's still a community of people. Oh, look, we have another slide. Why do third parties use MediaWiki? Like I said, the value of MediaWiki is apparent to everyone or a lot of people. I shouldn't say everyone. Everyone uses Wikipedia. It's a huge brand. And so when you put up a Wiki and you say, this is like Wikipedia, they almost immediately know what you're talking about. Some of you guys have demonstrated a real passion for what you're doing in MediaWiki. And that's been pretty impressive as I've watched this over the past few days here. Oh, yeah, we were talking about top-down versus bottom-up sort of things the other day or earlier. And so MediaWiki is personal and autonomous. You have control over what you put in the Wiki or your individual users do. I was just telling Evita that she can do a lot more things on the Wiki than she realizes. And it gives her more power. What she has out of the box does not depend on me. I mean, sometimes it does. Sometimes I have to go and install an extension. But there is a lot that you can do out of the box. So yeah, it's knowledge sharing. So, okay, I have a couple of examples I'm going to give you here. This kind of goes with Conway's Law, which someone... Who gave me Conway's Law? I forget. Someone at the Vienna Conference gave me Conway's Law. Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. So Wikimedians have created software that captures their communication structure. So when you install MediaWiki, you're getting not only the way to share information, but basically it's encoded. The whole culture is captured in code. And that's what you're getting. So okay, some examples from... I believe this is last year's MWCon. The South Dakota Legends for Excellence Wiki. I met the woman who designed this. It's kind of fascinating. She's been working with computers since 1983. She has... Which, you know, I'm like, yeah, that's kind of... When I started, I had a Commodore 64. But anyway, I didn't have one. I played with one. So yeah, it's... She has minimal experience with MediaWiki, but she's been using computers for a long time, personal computers. And yet she's managed to create this with her minimal knowledge. She's managed to create this Hall of Fame. That's what HOFers. Hall of Fame Wiki. The families of people who have been recognized by South Dakota... I bet you didn't know that South Dakota had Legends of Excellence. Now you do. Anyway. So these are people that often have passed away or died. And their families come along and want to update the Wiki entry for the person that they care about. And they can do that through forms on the page that she has set up. So it's built around... The fascinating thing about this is because it's a Wiki and not a web application, although Wiki is a web application, because it's a Wiki, it's built around the content and not necessarily... Oh, look at this GWiz JavaScript DoHickey I can do. Yeah, this is another one. Let me hang up. So this is called a WikiX because I didn't have permission to actually use the name of the Wiki. But they use MediaWiki and they point out how the use of MediaWiki gets people to stop hoarding information. There's some discussion about this as well. Wikis allow information to grow and it frees your time because people aren't going to that one person who knows something and saying, hey, can you help me out? And so it saves time. That's a time saving right there. I bet there's a metric for that somewhere. You all should think about that when you're doing your metrics. Oh, yeah, the people who are the creators of knowledge, again, it empowers the endpoint of knowledge rather than the gatekeeper of the knowledge, the manager, whoever. It empowers the individuals. So yeah, in the example that they gave was an editor since his organization is spread over a large area. They have to organize meetings by time zone and all that. That was trouble. So someone, an individual, how an individual exercised the power that they had to create a template that would show the local time of the user viewing the Wiki when they went to that page. You could just go to the page and instead of using a web app, like what time is it, or I forget the media app that I was using. Instead of doing that, they just used a template that's built into the Wiki to show the local time. Mitre Corporation, I think we've heard a lot about them. I'm not going to add any more. Plus, I'm at half of my time here, so. And like I said, you know, people before me went over, so I'm cutting mine short, so. Anyway. So yeah, these are just some quotes that I got from people who had been, I met at EMWCon last year. Other types of Wikis don't have the same focus. This is huge. This first thing is huge because if you use Confluence, or you use SharePoint Wiki, or these other things, the whole ethos is completely different. And it's not because they couldn't build it that way. It's because they didn't have the community of Wikipedia shaping the software and showing them, you know, this is how we want this software to work. So now you all benefit from that community that built that software. And instead of a manager saying, I want the software to be able to do X, it has to have these controls. It's not built on control from the start, which can be a problem. But it's also an advantage because it's user-focused from the start. It's a result. It's an emergent property there. I got to use my word. So, yeah, again, I believe this was the woman from South Dakota Wiki. She said, a lot of what I've done is insulate people from technical details. I'm a technological guy. I like the technical details. And I appreciate when my users can ask me, you know, questions and say, can you do X for me? But at the same time, the Wiki gives those users the ability to hide, as this person has done, hide all this power and all the moving parts from the people who are using the Wiki. So, someone said about semantic media Wiki and forms. They said, what Yaron has done? Yaron and Yaron. Yaron didow and Yaron Korn have done borders on magic. So we have magicians in our midst, in case you didn't know. Oh, yeah, and it's so easy. People couldn't do it themselves. There might be a little learning curve to learning WikiJax, but even that has been gone away. I was thinking about this. Who was I talking with on the way home last night? Yeah, you. I'm sorry, I'm horrible with names, and here I just demonstrated in front of a huge crowd of 40 people. I'm so embarrassed. Yeah, so it's so easy. People couldn't do it themselves. Okay, so what I'm thinking of here is the visual editor. The Wikimedia Foundation created the visual editor because they thought it would reduce barrier to entry. But then my understanding, what I got from all their postmortems and all this was it didn't change the editor retention in the way that they thought it would, initially going into it. And I think it was because they focused on making the Wiki easy to use, and the people who were already using it didn't care. Whereas if they wanted to capture new users, they should have gone out and met and completely, or at least done a lot more, a lot better job of imitating Microsoft's word toolbar or whatever you call it. And then people would click on edit, but it's Microsoft Word. I know exactly what to do.  There's no cursor. Anyway, anyway. Conclusion. Media Wiki is an opinionated software. Wikipedia's way of sharing knowledge has been codified. And I have 10 minutes left to lather on, or I can go sit down and you can get another cup of coffee, or you can ask me questions, or you tell me why I'm wrong. Okay, yay.


What do you think it said? Are beaches? Care of London. A very famous iconic site of Petra because it is the most visited site in Jordan. The Recoleta cemetery, famous for the tomb of Eva Perón or Evita from probably Istanbul and Cappadocia. The colonial city of Antigua, because a lot of influencers go to Antigua and post a lot about it. So it's the algorithm. It said the island of Palawan, is that good recommendation? Absolutely, since Palawan has been declared one of the best islands in the world, of which we're very proud. It said Stonehenge. I think AI did. That's pretty good. I'd say that's in the top 10. Is that true? Yeah. Wow. Really? You're correct, that is what AI said. It said the ancient mines killed your guys. Actually, I'd hire them. They did a pretty good job.


Hello, I'm Kevin Casasamora, the Secretary General of International Idea. I am delighted to be speaking with you on Partners for Democracy Day, an initiative of the Global Democracy Coalition. I want to thank all the organizations that have made this event possible. And I want to thank all of you who are joining in person and online from all over the world. You're all vital defenders of democracy in your respective countries and regions. And this is your day. As you may know, International Idea is an intergovernmental organization with 34 member states from all regions and a mandate to support democracy globally. We are also honored to co-coordinate the Global Democracy Coalition, which now includes over 100 organizations. I have proudly watched the Coalition grow into a valuable multi-stakeholder partnership in a bit less than two years. In today's event, we will benefit from the tremendous diversity and generosity of this community, from small NGOs in the Solomon Islands to the European Commission, who will share their perspectives in a remarkable program of over 60 sessions. Above all, this is a forum for non-state actors to continue contributing to the Global Democracy Conversation, in parallel to the Official Summit for Democracy. These contributions, which have been ongoing since the genesis of the summit, have proven critical. I particularly want to underscore civil society's role in sustaining the summit's ongoing initiatives, the Democracy Cohorts. The success of the cohorts is largely thanks to the effort and energy of civil society groups from all over the world, who co-lead the cohorts with governments and international organizations. International Idea has just told this success story in a new paper, which also includes recommendations to further strengthen the cohorts' inclusiveness with respect to civil society in the global south and also to youth. Just as civil society has been essential for the success of the summit, so too is civil society essential for the success of democracy. The serious and global threats facing democracy today can only be addressed through collective action that puts citizens at the center. And let's face it, the more I look around me, the more convinced I become that the drive and ideas to renew the democratic project are not coming from governments. They are coming from civil society activists. Every day civil society organizations, including those here, show through both words and deeds that democracy truly is a universal human aspiration and a human achievement worthy of the work it demands from all of us. Thank you all for your contributions to protect, sustain and strengthen democracy worldwide. And thank you for being here today to share your experience, to learn from each other and to reinforce this remarkable collective project to support democracy.


British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has addressed the Ukrainian parliament, Vakovna Radda via video link, receiving a standing ovation from Kiev's parliament as he promised Ukraine will win in the war against Russia. The prime minister became the first western leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the invasion and praised the courage of President Volodymyr Zelensky, MPs and civilians in their fight for their country. Day after day missiles and bombs continue to rain on the innocent people of Ukraine and in the south and the east of your wonderful country, Putin continues with his grotesque and illegal campaign to take and hold Ukrainian soil. And his soldiers no longer have the excuse of not knowing what they are doing. They are committing war crimes and their atrocities emerge wherever they are forced to retreat as we've seen at Bukha, at Erpin, at Hostelmael and many other places. And we in the UK will do whatever we can to hold them to account for these war crimes. So you get notified about fresh news updates.