Thank you, Strong, and this is VOA One, The Hits. Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Today, you will hear stories from Brian Lin, Gregory Stockle, Faith Perlow, and Andrew Smith. Then, John Russell presents a new everyday grammar lesson. He uses messages from learners around the world to take a deeper look at the noun population. But first, here is Brian Lin. European farmers held protests Thursday to demand government help in dealing with rising costs and environmental rules. One of the protests happened in Brussels, Belgium, where EU leaders gathered for a summit meeting on Thursday. Some farmers drove tractors onto the grounds of the European Parliament building to bring attention to their demands. Protesters also lit off fireworks and threw eggs and bottles at police in the area. The Associated Press reported, smoke could also be seen around parts of Brussels as some farmers set pieces of hay on fire, the news agency said. Security forces put out the fires and moved in to protect EU buildings. In Paris, French farmers continued to block traffic on major roadways around the city. Farmers in several European nations have been holding mostly peaceful protests in recent weeks. The farmers say it is harder to make a good living because of high operating costs. Costs for fuel and fertilizer have risen sharply in Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They also say they have been hurt by increased competition and weather conditions. France's government sent in armored vehicles to Paris's large Rajis food market, which was targeted by demonstrators. French police told Reuters news agency they arrested 79 people who entered a storage center at the market. The market is an important supplier of fruits and vegetables to France and other nations. Rajis has repeatedly become a target for European farmers, many of whom traveled a long way to bring their tractors there. One farmer who traveled to Brussels to protest was 26-year-old Luka Muton. He told Reuters, time is up, EU leaders must think of the farmers. Talk to the farmers rather than about the farmers, discuss what is possible. We are open to dialogue. Jean-François Ricker is a farmer from southern Belgium who spent the night in the cold near EU headquarters. He told the AP he hoped a lot of protesters would show up to demonstrate how important the issues are to farmers across Europe. We are going to show that we do not agree, said Ricker. The purpose of Thursday's EU summit was mainly to approve a proposal to provide Ukraine with a new $54 billion a deal. But Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croix urged EU leaders to also hear the farmers' demands. Belgium currently holds the EU presidency. De Croix said governments need to make sure that farmers can get the right price for the high quality products that they provide. He also urged an easing of some environmental rules that farmers have said can hurt their profits. Farmers are an important voting group within the EU as well as in their own countries. This has led some leaders to offer some new proposals. The European Commission announced plans Wednesday to offer protections to farmers, facing increased competition from low-cost imports from Ukraine. The body also proposed easing restrictions on how much of a farmer's own land he can use while still receiving support from the EU. Here in the week, France's government promised to provide farmers' emergency aid and some new controls on imported food. On Thursday, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal offered more measures. They included a move to permit farmers to use more pesticides if other nations do the same and an offer to increase financial aid and tax breaks. I'm Brian Lin. Tickets for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and resell tickets have set prices for the upcoming game in Las Vegas, Nevada at almost $10,000. The National Football League championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers is on Sunday, February 11th. The Chiefs won last year's Super Bowl. They feature star quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, the boyfriend of singer Taylor Swift. Many people believe Swift will fly to the game after performing in Japan only one day earlier. The 49ers are one of the most popular teams in the western part of the US. Las Vegas is a busy tourist city known for its hotels and casinos. It is the first ever Super Bowl in Las Vegas. For many years, the league did not want to have games in Las Vegas because the city permits sports gambling. That changed when the Oakland Raiders moved to Las Vegas to play in a new stadium before the 2020 season. The combination of two well-known teams plus a city that many people like to visit means tickets on a website called TickPick are in high demand. They are reselling for almost double last year's cost. The Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl last year near Phoenix, Arizona. Before this year, the Super Bowl with the highest resale ticket price was in 2021 when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs in Tampa, Florida. That year, however, tickets were limited because of restrictions connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. TickPick said the highest prices for a non-COVID Super Bowl came in 2020 when the Chiefs and 49ers played in Miami, Florida. The average ticket that year was over $6,000. TickPick, however, noted that prices for this year might go down as the game gets closer. Brett Goldberg is the co-CEO for TickPick. In a message to the Associated Press, he wrote, Location has always impacted demand for a Super Bowl, but Vegas takes things to a whole other level. He said Las Vegas is already the entertainment capital of the world. Sometimes Goldberg wrote, Two successful teams pushed down demand because the average fan is tired of seeing them play again. However, he noted prices are high this year because fans want to experience their team winning a Super Bowl in Vegas. StubHub is another ticket-selling website. Prices on that site were over $9,000. StubHub said tickets are selling faster this year than in recent years. The demand has far surpassed the last time Kansas City and San Francisco met in Miami, said a spokesperson from StubHub. I'm Dan Friedel. Canada recently announced a two-year limit on the number of foreign students given permission to study in the country. The move is partly to ease a growing housing shortage. Reuters news agency recently reported on some of the details of the plan. Mark Miller is Canada's immigration minister. Miller said the government, led by the Liberal Party of Canada, will introduce a temporary two-year limit on student visas. That will result in about 364,000 student visas in 2024. The government said that is a cut of 35% from the year before. The new proposals will also set limits on postgraduate work permits issued to foreign students. The new limits will likely cause many postgraduate students to return to their home countries. The permits were formally seen as an easy path to securing permanent residency. People in master's or postdoctoral programs will be eligible for a three-year work permit. However, people who are married to foreign students in undergraduate and lower-level college programs will no longer be able to receive work permits. The acceptance of new study permit requests in 2025 will be reconsidered at the end of the current year, Miller said. Canada has become a popular place for international students. It has been easy to receive work permits after finishing study programs in the country. But the increase in international students has led to a shortage of rental homes. This has caused the price of rent to go up. In December, the cost of rent nationwide rose 7.7% from a year earlier. Government data shows Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's popularity has decreased, partly because of increasing living costs. Opposition Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilevra has taken a lead over Trudeau in public opinion studies. Elections are expected to be held next year. The government has also been concerned about the quality of education offered by some schools. Canada's government says international students bring in about $16.4 billion to the nation's economy. The new policy will hurt many colleges and universities. Ontario, the most populous area or province, has the biggest share of international students. Some businesses, including restaurants and retail industries, have warned that a limit on foreign students will create a shortage of temporary workers. I'm Gregory Stockle. In wealthy countries, like Japan, poverty is sometimes considered a taboo subject. But an Australian filmmaker, Ryan McAvoy, wants to share the stories of women and children in poverty in Japan. In his documentary film, The Ones Left Behind. The film was released last year. It shows single mothers raising their children in poverty. The women work hard. They sleep a few hours a night, and they try to balance working with childcare and housework. McAvoy said he wanted to deal with a topic that no one wanted to discuss. The film shows discussions with poor women and experts on poverty. He said the film also shows a different side of Japanese society, where getting married and becoming a stay-at-home mother is normal for many women. In Japan, it's very taboo. I think it's a very apt title, because I feel that single mothers and their children have really been left behind in society. The film shows one woman who works almost 12 hours a day and earns less than $1,350 a month. That amount is low for a country where the cost of living is high. Monthly rent for one small room can cost one-third of that amount. Tomoko Nakayama is one of the women in the film. She said, I have to do everything on my own. Another woman almost cries when she describes how her child stopped asking her to come to take your parent to school days. Japan has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty, although it is one of the wealthiest nations. One in seven children live in poverty in Japan. Almost half of single-parent homes are considered poor. Japanese society often favors men who work full-time. Women sometimes receive lower pay and fewer benefits than their male counterparts, while working full-time and overtime. Ayuri Makavoy produced the film and is also Makavoy's wife. She was formerly a single mother, but they say that is not why they made the film. Ryan Makavoy said that the country's traditional culture makes women accept their difficult lives and makes them ashamed to ask for help. He told the Associated Press that the women are keeping their public face and private face separate. Akihiko Kato is a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo. He appears in the film. Kato said that Japan does not have a system to legally force fathers to pay for their children if the parents are separated. The Japanese government has promised to give money to people with children, but this is slow to come, he said. Kato said that this is partly why birth rates in Japan have been so low. There were 1.2 million births in the year 2000 compared to fewer than 800,000 births in 2022. Some people believe the modern idea of the nuclear family means that single parents, mostly mothers, have to do everything on their own. People like grandparents, neighbors, and extended family members no longer seem to be able to help with children. Yanfei Zhou is a social science professor at Japan Women's University in Tokyo, who also appears in the film. She said that these changes have serious effects on children. The divide between rich and poor is growing, and children will end up in poverty, she said. The film won the best documentary prize at the Miyako Jima Charity International Film Festival last year. It was also officially chosen for the Yokohama International Film Festival. McAvoy said he has long been interested in telling the story of those who society had forgotten and who do not have a voice. He said that being on the outside of Japanese culture has helped him to share stories with a new viewpoint and without bias. He said his next film will be about young people dying by suicide in Japan. McAvoy said it's one thing we can do more of in society to try to recognize people's cries for help. I'm Faith Perlow. And I'm Andrew Smith. Pack your bags. Make sure your travel documents are in order. Today we are taking a trip around the world, if only in our imagination. For this everyday grammar lesson, we will leave behind our grammar books. We will instead look at messages from friends who are in Pakistan, Spain, Belgium, and Japan. Our goal? To learn more about the populations of different countries. We will learn about English along the way. Let's begin our journey. In a recent lesson about the noun population, we asked our listeners the following questions. What is the population like in your country or city? Is the population increasing or decreasing? Here are some of the answers we received. Said wrote to us from Lahore, Pakistan. Said noted, city Lahore, Pakistan, increasing. In 2023 was 13,979,000, a 3.23% increase from 2022. Said presented some exact numbers about the city of Lahore. Our suggestion is to use complete sentences. In other words, Said could update the statement to something like this. The population of Lahore, Pakistan is increasing. In 2023, the population was 13,979,000, a 3.23% increase from 2022. Now that we have learned some information about a big city in Pakistan, we can learn about a major European city. Rafael writes to us from Barcelona, Spain. Here is part of the message. The population in my city is decreasing due to low birth rate, although the total count is maintained thanks to immigration. The arrival of people from very different cultures creates some integration problems, but it helps to solve other important ones derived from the general aging. Rafael wrote an excellent message. Our main suggestion is to double check the spelling of a few words, population and immigration. In terms of grammar, one idea is to include an article such as the before birth rate. Definite and indefinite articles help show the difference between a specific and a general noun. So we could update Rafael's statement to something like this. The population in my city is decreasing due to the low birth rate. Now let's look at part of a message from Jean-Claude in Belgium. The population of Belgium was 11.67 million inhabitants on January 2023. The Belgian population increased by 0.98% compared to the previous year. Jean-Claude's message was clear and to the point. There is one suggestion we have. It is in the first sentence. We have the phrase on January 2023, but instead we should use the short word in, like this. The population of Belgium was 11.67 million inhabitants in January 2023. We usually use the short word on for an exact date, such as on January 4th or on January 27th. Next we are in for a long trip to the other side of the world. A friend from Japan would like to tell us about the population of the island country. Here is part of a message from an unnamed reader. According to the national statics, Japan's population has been decreasing almost 600,000 people per year. There are more than 120 million people in Japan now. However, I heard the population will be under 100 million in 30 years. We suggest the following changes to the first sentence. The term statics should be changed to statistics. In addition, we often use the short word by after decreasing. We can then remove a from its position before year, so we might update the sentence to something like this. According to national statistics, Japan's population has been decreasing by almost 600,000 people per year. That brings us to the end of our imaginative trip around the world. We received many wonderful pieces of writing, those that were included in today's lesson, and many others that were not. Overall, the general recommendations are to pay careful attention to spelling and to double check short words, prepositions, articles, and so on. We hope that you have learned a little more about the world, as well as some ideas to use when you write in English. I'm John Russell. You just heard this week's everyday grammar lesson. Now John Russell joins us to talk more about it. Hi John, welcome. Hi Ashley, thanks for having me on the show. In this lesson you discussed parts of several pieces of writing. There were many other pieces of writing we received that you were not able to discuss. Was there one issue you would like to talk about in terms of the other pieces of writing you received? Yes, absolutely. We received a lot of wonderful messages. Unfortunately, we weren't able to include all of them. One issue I noticed in many of the messages was that people mixed up popular with population. These are two different words that have similar spellings, at least at the beginning of the word. Popular is an adjective, while population is a noun. That's right. Popular means liked or enjoyed by many people. So you might talk about popular sports, popular music, and so on. Whereas population refers to a group of people. Yes, that's right. So you might talk about the population of Mexico or the population of Vietnam, for example. Well, thank you for coming on the show to talk about that point, John. And thanks for your lesson this week. Thanks for having me on the show. See you next time. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world.


From the noise, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2015. Brought to you by VMworld and its ecosystem sponsors. Now your host, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely. Patrick, Shanna's on, from member of the technical staff for Doctor. Patrick, I saw you at the end of our spring tour and now you're here at the, you know, picking up the fall tour. So thank you for joining us again. Hey, thanks for having me.  We kind of all had that. You've got some background with Microsoft, right? And VMware. Yeah, and VMware. So, you know, there was kind of the joke of, you know, oh, the old Microsoft, you know, extended brace and we'll see how we go from there. But, you know, it's been a year later. So can you give us a little bit of the update of kind of, you know, how Docker and VMware, how do you guys see each other? Actually, VMware is a great partner. You saw the announcement this morning. VMware embraced containers. So I'm super excited to be here. Some of the announcements that were made this morning is now this year is a control plane for containers. There's this notion of native containers in this year. One of the things that excites me the most is their project, Bonneville, that they talked about this morning. It's actually been made by one of my friends and ex-colleagues, Ben Corey. And what they're doing in there is that they're re-implemented the backend for the Docker engine in terms of these fear primitives. So when you're creating images, it creates a set of VMDK layers. And when you're creating, when you want to create a container, the isolation primitives are the ones of VMs as opposed to Linux containers. So that's a very good way of running containers. So Patrick, last time we were in theCUBE, you did a great job of helping us, you know, kind of walk the stack. I don't know if you saw, we actually did a research piece kind of layering the whole stack. So here, the announcement you mentioned this morning is the vSphere integrated containers. And they've got Photon and they've got Bonneville. And let me ask you, am I looking at this right that we're VMware, I mean, VMware is very much down at the infrastructure level. So when they build that Photon layer, you know, whether they call it just enough virtualization, as Kit Colbert said this morning when I heard him speak, but Docker sits on top of that. Am I getting that right? Yeah, it's exactly right. And actually, one of my reasons for joining VMware, I think four years ago, was for them to go up stack. And at that time it was with Cloud Foundry. And I would argue that maybe with Cloud Foundry, we were a little bit too much up stack compared to what VMware is at the bottom. When I present the whole stack, usually I talk about like the new hardware. The new hardware today is your cloud provider. It's Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and then the virtualization with VMware. So that's the new hardware, and that's where VMware is very strong. So they manage networking, storage, and compute. On top of that, you have the OS layer. And what really got me interested in moving to Docker is that the whole landscape just changed when containers appeared two years ago, and the whole industry is reorganizing around that. So what happened at the OS layer is that all the OS providers, starting with CoreOS initially, who started that trend, started doing minimal release of their OS that are just designed to run containers. So CoreOS started that trend, but then very quickly Red Hat followed with Project Atomic, and then Ubuntu with Ubuntu Core. The most interesting to me is Rancher OS, where they run Docker for everything. So they have two Docker, System Docker, and Userland Docker. And then VMware came out with Photon, I think it was last June or something like that. And today, I think they have a preview two of that coming out. On top of that, you have Docker. So the Docker engine running. And on top of the Docker engine, you have orchestration platforms. And these are the ones that are replacing what used to be PAS platform as a service. And when I was at Google, I was doing Google App Engine. At VMware, I was doing Cloud Foundry. Now you see Cloud Foundry reinventing itself as a control plane for containers. And so one of the announcements that excited me most in the keynote this morning is that now Cloud Foundry is running with Photon. They have an integrated distribution. So finally, VMware is going up stack with its own stack like vSphere at the bottom. Then on top of that, you have Photon. And then on top of that, you have Cloud Foundry. So really exciting times. Yeah, I think for me, one of the things that I always hear that feels like it's confusing or off the mark is a lot of people want to kind of get into this containers replaces VMs or VMs versus container debate. And as if they're both sort of infrastructure layer, which if you think about them as something that holds, then I could see you make the mistake. But Docker is something the developers love. They love to package their applications. They love this idea of right on my laptop, push it somewhere. Do you find that confusion a lot in the marketplace? I mean. Oh yeah, I find that a lot. And I think it's tied to the rise of DevOps. Really in the past five years, this new movement called DevOps really took off. And DevOps is a lot about people and processes, a little bit about products as well. And I think when Docker appeared, it was the right level of abstraction for DevOps to happen. Like the right packaging construct where developers can put all their dependencies in a container, and then ops have all the right knobs to tweak for putting that in production. But it's the same thing that you put in production that you have on your developer machine. So to me, a lot of the confusion associated to Docker is tied to that because it's a technology that is used both by developers and by ops. I think VMware is doing a really good job of giving ops the kind of control they need to put Docker in production. So we're here at VMworld. A lot of talk about VMware in containers. You guys doing a ton of stuff with Microsoft. Like talk a little bit about, because for a long time, people like to say, well, containers have been around for a long time, Linux containers, but Windows and Microsoft adopting this, like what's going on there? Yeah, so the partnership with Microsoft is super exciting. So after VMware, I actually moved to Microsoft. And at Microsoft, my role was to help all the Docker partners to get onto Azure. And since I joined, I've seen all the work that happened with Microsoft. Recently, we've done tons of stuff. We announced many, many different integration points. To me, the most important one is, finally, we have native Windows containers that ship with a Windows Server, TP3, like literally, I think, two weeks ago. So that's something that was pre-announced at DockerCon and Mark Khrushchevich came on stage with a Docker t-shirt to do a demo. Now you can run it on Azure yourself. What's exciting there is that the concepts that are at the heart of Docker are based on using C groups and namespaces, which are Linux kernel features for isolation of your workloads. The thing is these isolation primitives, similar ones, existed in Windows Server and especially the version of Windows Server that was running within Microsoft Data Center for two-power Bing and things like that to have dancer workloads in the data center. What the Microsoft team has done is that they re-implemented the Docker backend in terms of Windows containers primitives. And so now you can create a Windows.NET application running on Windows Server in Windows native containers.  Very often developers go from one to the other, or they are developers who do Java, others doing .NET. They have completely different tool chains. Now with Docker, they have a single tool chain that they can use to build a multi-container application that use different technologies behind the scene. So finally, developers can use the best tools for the job. So Patrick, one of the things we look at every year here at VMworld is, how are we doing it kind of fixing the things that broke when virtualization went into both storage and networking? And it was a big discussion point at DockerCon this year. You put out the beta of Docker networking. Storage, I'd say, is even a little bit further behind there. So what's the latest on how you guys think of that? Where are we along that maturity curve of storage and networking for containers? So I'm really glad you asked that because when I joined Docker in March, that was my first project to kickstart a project to do Docker extensibility. And the two extension points that we created based on ecosystem and customer demands were about storage and networking. And so at DockerCon in June, we announced two extension points for Docker, a plugin system, one for networking and one for volumes. And what I really love about what happened at VMworld today this morning in the keynote is that VMware implemented a networking plugin based on NSX as well as a volume plugin in collaboration with Cluster HQ who had built Flacker and helped us create that extension point for volumes. So finally, one of the big issues with containers is that when you were deploying it in a multi-host setup, especially with Swarm and Compose, when you're starting to do orchestration, before June, there was no way to move one container, one stateful container with data to another machine with a volume plugin. Now you can do that. And with the networking aspect, now you can refer to containers by instead of like doing links and there were some complicated ways to do that. Now you can use either the native networking driver that comes with Docker, but as usual, we use the philosophy of batteries included but replaceable. And so you can plug networking plugin coming from NSX if you're using vSphere under the hood. Yeah, so Stu, we're going to be doing a panel tomorrow on containers. One of the things I want to dig into, we're going to have Intel on the show. Intel's doing some neat things where they're calling it clear containers, but in essence, it's kind of the equivalent for the VMware crowd of VT technology, right? Hardware isolation of processes. Talk about just what's the potential of that for containers, the ability to better leverage hardware to make containers run faster. Yeah, so that aspect of Intel research is super exciting and it corroborates some of the things I see happening in the marketplace right now, especially on the research side where you have both, like Linux containers became super successful in the past two years. Now that we're going in production, there will be lots of different type of isolation technologies applied to containers. And so one of the first one I heard about was Project Bonneville, where it's implemented in terms of vSphere primitives. Another one is the Clear Container by Intel. And another one that I heard about that came through the OCI project that we'll talk about, that new standard that we announced at DockerCon is called, I think it's called Run V. And it's based on the HyperSH container technology based on virtualization. So I see more and more people using virtualization as an implementation for isolation in containers. Yeah, talk about what's going on with Run C. So six months ago it was we had this, are we going to have diverging container standards? You guys stood up with CoroS and 20 other companies and said, we know we're going to have one standard. What's going on with OCI and Run C and that thing? That's been super exciting. So that was my second project at Docker. We announced it at DockerCon EU that we had 20 of the biggest companies in the industry joining to create a standard container, especially CoroS joining as well as Google and Amazon and everybody. And what blew my mind is that we're three months later, less than three months later. The team right now is preparing a first draft of the spec for September. They've been working actively all throughout the summer. We started working on the spec just after DockerCon. We had the Docker contributor summit. And the working group for OCI was the largest. We had like 15 people from different companies starting to iterate on the spec. They continued throughout the summer and now we have something that's close to a first draft of the spec with a reference implementation that's Run C. One of the most interesting development that happens there and that really speaks to the power of open source and open standards is that once the spec started to mature, we started to have already a second reference, a second implementation of a spec that's called Run V that's been built by the HyperSH project based on virtualization. And then Huawei contributed a test suite for compliance of the spec. So that spec is advancing really fast. So I was having a conversation with Jim Zemlin who runs the Linux Foundation week or so ago at LinuxCon.  Like your kids, do you have a favorite project? He said, yeah, no question. OCI is my favorite project right now just because of the promise of portability that's sort of right once run anywhere. So you're working on it. It's an important project. The Linux domain is really looking at you guys to make this work and drive that portability. Yeah, and the Linux Foundation has done a really great job at coordinating the work of all the maintainers in there. It's really a neutral ground where we can advance so that all of us can innovate on top of it. Now a lot of the competition is happening at the upper layer of the stack. Like OCI, I think we all agree on the semantics of what a container runtime should be. Now at the higher level, there are lots of discussions about how the orchestration should be done. And there you have 15 different projects. You have Swarm from Docker. There's Mezos. There's Kubernetes, which is very opinionated. And one of the other developments this summer is that Google and many others, including us, Docker, we're part of that, announced another foundation called the CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where the goal there is to create reference stacks for orchestration that can interoperate together. Pretty much along the same line of the work that Docker did with Mezosphere for having a Swarm plugin for Mezos. So Patrick, boy, there's been so much movement in this space. We talked multiple foundations, a lot going on. One of the things we came out of DockerCon that we were just, I guess, a little concerned about is how many people actually run it in production?  So is it fair to kind of gauge that piece of it? What do you see when you're talking to the practitioners and the big users out there as to, how should we be measuring that success? The maturity of Docker in production. So I would say it's maturing a lot. We see more and more users putting Docker in production. There are lots of holes still in the offering that needs to be filled. And that's why I'm pretty excited to see VMware stepping in and saying, hey, for production use, we have a lot of technology that you can use to put that in production. Some of the things that we've seen is like networking and volumes, so that was really needed. Now that there are lots of plugins, I hope that people will have an easier time putting that into production. The agreement on what orchestration should be, so people are still asking a lot of question about which orchestrator should I use for my containers in production. And so I've seen, so people using Mesos, others using Kubernetes, some are trying Swarm. There's still lots of questions out there about what the right stack should look like. And I would say as usual in software project, it kind of depends on what you're running. Well, the one thing that concerns me and it's always, there's so many good things going on around Docker. I've been doing some research over the last couple of months looking at all the different platforms. So everything from Docker native to what HashiCorp is doing to what OpenShift is doing. And we were talking to Adrian Cockroft. He said, you know, Docker's reached sort of plaid in terms of speed. It moves so fast. You guys are releasing stuff every two months. How do you deal with that? Because you deal with the ecosystem. How do they deal with the fact that you're now part of their core platform but you're releasing new stuff every two months? I mean, are we going to get into something where it's like, well, it's 1.6 and 2.1 and how do you deal with that? Yeah, so Docker itself as a company is maturing. At DockerCon.eu, one of the big things that we announced is Docker Trusted Registry and Docker CS. So we have a version of Docker that is supported where we're going to do backwards porting of patches. So for people who really want to run it in production, we have an offering that's supported for them so that they're not obliged to run on the tape every time. Some of the startups that I've seen out there like large startups with more in the consumer space who have large data center and a pretty mature ops team, some of them are running on tape or on the latest version of Docker. But in the enterprise, you can assume that the adoption of new versions will be slower. And so we have that support offering for older versions of Docker. Now, the Docker open source project is continuing to fire, like to create lots of things. And there are lots of pull requests. The project is more successful than ever. I think in the last, like recently, the most prolific contributor was Microsoft in the project. But there are lots of pull requests coming. Red Hat's a huge contributor now. Red Hat's Google as well is sending lots of pull requests. So there are not lots of new features coming with each new release. But at the same time, we're really working on a platform that everybody's going to use and that needs to mature. That's why you have that really fast space of innovation in that space. Yeah, so I mean, Patrick, you're in the weeds of some of this. The other one that comes up quite a bit, of course, is security. So even just this last week, there was a big back and forth on Twitter and a couple of blog posts talking about it. What's your thought as to how we should talk about kind of the maturity and where we're going with the container security discussion? Yeah, so as you guessed, container security is one of our big focus at Docker because that's one of the things that people are expecting from a platform, especially to run in production. My colleague, Diogo Monika, did lots of blog posts recently about how to improve your security in production. Security is not only a factor of the software itself, but under all the processes that you put in place around it. And basically around Docker, you have to put in place the same kind of processes you have for operating systems, like getting the latest release of the official images. I don't know if you saw that there's been a blog post like talking where they looked randomly at all the images in Docker Hub and evaluating them for security issues. One of the things that they didn't look at is that the latest releases of operating systems that we have in there in Docker images are just tracking the upstream releases and people who have sound security practices internally are just pulling these latest releases. All right, last question I have for you, Patrick.  What I love talking to you is, this is a real small community. Over the last year, a lot of former VMware people now working over at Docker and not that they're unhappy with VMware. And Microsoft is in the mix. So this whole community is pulling together and doing a lot of work, a lot of contribution. So what do you see out there from the technology community to help mature this whole space? Yeah, I'd say both VMware and Microsoft at the operating system and infrastructure level, as well as Google, at the orchestration layer, VMware, Red Hat at the operating system layer, like everybody's trying to make Docker a sound platform to run in production. What I see in all corners is just Docker getting solidified and getting part of most people's production infrastructure with all these efforts on the security and stability and processes, as well as the development processes. There are lots of innovation in the terms of CICD integration with Docker. I don't know if you saw all the work that CloudBeats has been doing for integrating Jenkins with Docker. So Docker is both a platform for apps and for devs. And in that qualification, the ecosystem is very broad, both on the dev tool side, as well as on the ops and platform side. All right, well, Patrick, unfortunately, we're out of time. It's always great chatting with you. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll be back with lots more coverage here from VMware World 2015, and thank you for watching. Thanks, see you in six months.


Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Ann Williams Isom and I'm the deputy mayor for health and human services for this week's briefing I'm excited to be joined by the mayor of Barron Keough Columbia Jaime Puma Rero I'm also joined by the city's cooperation council judge Sylvia Heinz Radix and by dr. Ted Long senior vice president at New York City H&H Since the first asylum seeker arrived in New York City in 2022 We have talked about how this is a larger National humanitarian crisis where people are coming from number of places around the world ultimately political instability Economic depression and strife in one's home country led them to the US and for many to New York City On the heels of the UN General Assembly last week I'm glad to have an international voice with us to discuss how other International cities have dealt with large numbers of migrants coming to their cities and with that I will turn it over to mayor Puma Rero Thank you, deputy mayor It's a pleasure to Take a few minutes to talk about what we've been doing in Colombia How we've been able to receive in the last four years or around a hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelans into our city. That's at least 10% of our population In which we have found a way with the national government and the international community to grant them work permits and to grant them temporary access to our health and social programs and to school programs in which we have 20,000 kids right now from the Venezuelan families Going to our schools attending our public health system, but starting to pay their own way We've found a way through centers to integrate them into economic life So that they can start working becoming productive members of society and therefore helping us out in terms of growing the economical I would say scenario of our city and therefore Making them a part of the city instead of having to subsidize their way That's I think been the shift that we've done in the last few months instead of trying to subsidize Everything that an migrant needs we've tried to make sure that they can get a Job that they can get an income generating source and therefore they can start paying their way through paying for a lease Paying taxes and whatnot and that I think has been the difference And I think I applaud the the decision of the New York mayor's office to tackle this head-on And I think as a continent as a hemisphere We need to make sure with that we look and tackle that these issues that generate massive Migration into a lot of our countries more than two million Venezuelans are in Colombia right now and more Moving up the daddy and gap every day because they don't they can't find a job anymore in Colombia And if we don't plug the the problem in its source and if we don't look at it at our backyard and see what these systematic problems are of anti-democratic autocratic governments Making these massive exodus happen then we are gonna have this happening over and over in our backyard So it's okay to look at overseas for problems But right now in our backyard in our own hemisphere we we need to tackle these issues right now Thank you so much mayor It's just so interesting because there's so many similarities of what you're saying is is occurring for us right now and That you all have pivoted and really looking towards this path forward Which is about people working and about not subsidizing on your own and really how the federal your you know National government has helped with that We appreciate your time and hearing about the steps your federal government took to tackle the crisis in your country as we have Been saying from the very beginning of this humanitarian crisis in our country The asylum seeker issue is a national issue here in the United States as well, which requires a comprehensive National response from our federal government Just as New York City needs more help from its state and federal partners Municipalities around the country and around the globe need support as well I'd now like to share some updates on what's happening here on the ground in New York City as Many of you has probably read we're seeing another surge at the border with thousands of people passing through border towns like Eagle Pass and Despite fluctuating numbers at the border over the past few months We've never seen a slowdown of the arrivals into New York City And you all know that because I tell you the numbers week after week and those numbers have been even higher in the past couple of recent Days this past weekend We got word that the city of El Paso would resume busing on top of the buses that are still being sent from Governor Abbott and the state of Texas so today We are releasing updated flyers to combat misinformation at the border and in cities across the country where people are coming to New York City from We want people to know what New York City is able to provide and what New York City isn't able to provide any longer in The coming days we will be distributing These flyers at our shelters and intake centers in New York City as well as through NGOs and nonprofits across the country Here in our shelters because we know that there are people in our shelters who are telling their family members to come to New York City And that they'll get housing and that they'll be able to stay with them That is no that has never been the case But we want to make sure that we're being clear with people that New York City is out of space We'll also share this with other municipalities at the border and across the country While we are working to slow the front door We're also working to increase exits from the shelter system through intensive case management Our work authorization sprint and our 30-day notices I'll now pass it to dr. Long for an update on those case management efforts And a few words about what he's been seeing on the ground at the arrival center over the past few days dr. Long Thank you deputy mayor So as the deputy mayor said We're seeing a sharp increase in the number of asylum seekers coming into new york city every day This will continue to strain our already strained system Today though, I want to talk about some of our larger strategies that as the deputy mayor said Will be our path forward and for so much of this the backbone will be case management The first thing that we're doing now is we're currently undertaking a census We're asking the same set of questions to every asylum seeker at every part of our system from our dhs system To our h&h humanitarian centers or herks Those questions include what stage of the process you're in with respect to seeking asylum and work authorization And what barriers you still have that with our help you might be able to surmount And be able to complete your journey taking that next step forward and leaving our system To date we've completed these assessments on nearly 70 of all of the asylum seekers across our entire system That's going to form the basis of the case management program that we are now launching called our red yellow green program This program is going to have people in the green color category If you have a few barriers that our case managers can work with you and overcome fairly quickly So that again you can take your next step forward and leave our system Yellow means you have a few more barriers and we're going to work with you on it and give you the help that you need Red means that you have more intensive barriers and therefore might require a referral for example to a lawyer We're going to be having multiple touch points with every asylum seeking household each month as the program ramps up Another way that we've leveraged case management so far is as it pertains to our 60 day policy Now our 60 day policy is not just a time limit for asylum seekers It's a deadline for us as a city to be able to help asylum seekers to take their next step forward and exit our city system The first group of people that we gave out 60 day notices to had day 61 occur this past friday So looking at those whose uh day 61 was this past friday through early this week Because of our help on day 61 less than half of those still under our care on day 61 Needed to come back to the arrival center for another placement in our city system The majority of asylum seekers that were still with us on day 61 due to the help that we'd given them over the past 60 days We're able to take their next step forward exit our system and not need to re-enter for another placement Today I want to say a couple of things also about the future directions We're going in for work authorization and temporary protected status for work authorization The census we're doing lets us target resources by knowing where you are in the asylum application process Whether you've completed the 589 form If you then have to wait the five month period if you're ready to complete the 765 or work authorization form We're finding that some people have already been it's already been five months So we can immediately intervene even with teams on site today Help you to complete the work authorization form and then make an appointment at our application center So that you can submit that form and get work authorization as quickly as possible Same thing if you came across the border using the cbp one app We're going to know that through the census we're doing and part of our case management strategy is going to immediately connect you To completing the work authorization paperwork that you're eligible for on site and have it submitted for you as fast as possible For temporary protected status. This is an announcement that the federal government made last week What I wanted to say about this today is that the announcement is that venezuelans within a certain time period Will have the ability to apply for temporary protected status, but it's not currently live So what we're doing to prepare for that is we're using our census to determine Who is likely eligible in terms of those coming from venezuela within that certain time period and using our census data We're going to know all of that Um, and then we're going to have teams ready to leap into action to connect with those individuals as soon as they can Submit their temporary protected status applications, which are concurrently submitted with the work authorization applications So they can work as fast as humanly possible We estimate today that we still have about 22,000 venezuelans that likely meet that criteria in our system So we'll be able to engage with them immediately when the temporary protected status applications go live So in sum I just wanted to say The case management and all of these connections to how we can help asylum seekers to get the Specific help and services they need so they can take their next step forward and leave our system Is an important new direction that we're taking now at this stage of the crisis with that back to you deputy mayor Thank you ted As dr. Long mentioned despite the surge we've been seeing we're keeping our eyes on our long-term plan I want to remind everyone we're dealing with the crisis, but we're also long-term planning We know that the only way that we're going to get out of this crisis is getting people connected with the sport They need so that they can move out of shelter and build stable and self-sufficient lives But as we've always said we cannot do this alone the surge shows just how important additional financial resources and a consistent decompression strategy are to successfully addressing this humanitarian crisis I'm hopeful that the state and federal governments will see this and step in and lean in more to that Finally, I want to share an update on the news as dr Long did on the biden administration's last week extending temporary protocol status for a subset of venezuelans in our care It's a little confusing. So I want to walk through it again I want to echo mayor adams by saying to you all that we are so grateful for what the president did and for his team For taking this very important step. It is a big deal When we heard the news last week our teams immediately got to work And thankfully with our asylum seeker application help center up and running We have a strong infrastructure in place to help us identify And figure out who the eligible asylum seekers are and help them to fill out the proper Paperwork once the federal government finalizes a rule Our current plan is to try and have people apply for tps work authorization and complete the waiver application Three separate forms at the same time to best manage the process remember These forms are dozens of pages that people need to fill out along with numerous photo copies translations and supporting documents So we want to make sure to be efficient as an effective as possible during this process We're also working with our federal partners to hopefully ease some of the bureaucracy around this process And make sure that people can get work authorization as quickly as possible As many of you know, there is a fee associated with submitting these applications online And while we hope that the federal government will waive these last week We immediately reached out to philanthropy and business partners to see if we can have them contribute to help subsidize those costs Logistically tps extension is a rule that needs to go through the federal government process to be registered We expect this to take a few weeks But we're doing everything that we can right now to hit the ground running when that rule is registered We have also asked the federal government to issue work authorizations based on pending tps applications Rather than waiting until the tps applications are fully approved, which we know can take months or even years With all that said i'll now turn to our data update As of september 24th, we have over 115,200 people in our care Including over 61,400 asylum seekers Over 118,800 asylum seekers have come through our intake system since last spring We have opened 210 sites including 17 humanitarian relief centers And last week from september 18th to september 24th more than 3000 new asylum seekers entered our care New york is and always will be a city of immigrants And we will always do our part to contribute to this national crisis But one city cannot support tens of thousands of asylum seekers without additional state and federal partners with no end in sight This is an effort that needs reinforcement in the form of financial support A comprehensive decompression strategy and a declaration of a federal emergency to unlock faster support from washington With that i'll open up the floors to questions uh depending mayor so yesterday the city asked um the court to revise its initial motion to change right to shelter But it wasn't exactly clear what the city is asking for now You give us an idea of what the contents of that request will be Sure, I will let the judge ask but what I will say for I won't put words in her mouth, but I will say clearly the status quo cannot stay the way it is So judge would you like to answer that? uh yesterday I i'm and i'm sure you all know that we we went to court on that in the callahan issue and Our initial request for the court and and our initial letter was with reference to modification It is let me make it clear. We never asked to get rid of the right to shelter Uh yesterday the judge that was handling that matter recused And so we are now with a new schedule to present Uh a specific document to the court. Um that we have to um Present by october 3rd on the requests that the city is making and so While we are now in the process of looking at that We are we will um, I wouldn't tell you what our litigation strategies going to be But that will we will abide by the court's Request and have that sent by october 3rd and i'm sure you'll get a copy of that document And I think that sometimes judge when I think about it when we first went into court that was may We've been getting 10 000 people a month since then. What is that 40 000 people ago? So it is clear to everyone. I think every single new yorker that the status quo cannot continue What clearly our position is that that we want the court to to look at Where we are now, um, everybody knows this is a document that uh worked 40 years ago. Um, We're we're quite clear that what we have is not sustainable And so that is that's going to be one of the issues that we're going to be dealing With Yeah, definitely. Thanks for asking So we started to do this census a couple of weeks ago So it is remarkable that we've been able to achieve almost 70 percent of The totality of all the asylum seekers across all of our city systems in just a matter of weeks And the staff that are doing it are existing staff, but we've also brought in Agencies like pe you that have stepped up to help us to be able to move as fast as we can Because again, this data really comprises The basis for how we're going to do the effective case management to be able to connect people To the specific things that they need the help that they need in order to be able to leave our system In terms of the number of staff that are working on this it is hundreds And that is staff from my teams and again staff from pe you But we're making it a very concerted effort Intentionally because this is also a way to speed up and go as fast as possible to identify Who is eligible for work authorization have them complete that paperwork Which again, I said at our larger sites We're even starting on site to not miss a single moment to enable people to work as quickly as possible Yeah, can I just clarify you said census you mean survey So that yeah, they um We've been always looking at the census, but this is a new sprint survey sprint So just say that again. Yeah, please. Well, we'll call it an assessment survey And so to answer your question about that so at the arrival center We've collected similar information since the arrival center opened in may of this past year So for example when you came to the arrival center, you may have said if you came in may that you hadn't completed the 589 form yet Okay, so at the time we would have educated you about what it is and how to complete it But this is following up to see did you complete it now? And also if you completed it in may right after we talked to you for example You may be soon eligible to submit because that 150 days has almost passed Maybe nearing eligibility to submit your work authorization paperwork So having real-time data now is the most precise way to know who is eligible to submit their work authorization paperwork Both from when you submitted the 589 form for asylum Which we you may have told us you hadn't submitted at the time to who now has come through the board across the board Are using the cbp one app? So that enables us to basically just to target our resources right now to move as fast as we can also In this survey we're asking questions about the barriers that you currently have to be able to leave Those barriers can change over time. You may have intended to stay with your brother in chicago That might have fallen through. Maybe there was a sister in a in LA So right now again by us collecting all this data now powers Our ability to have effective case management because we know going into case management Generally what you need if you're your red yellow or green Starting with the greens seeing what help we can offer you immediately so that we can in most expeditious way Help you to be able to have the help to leave our system Two things guys. Um, so the first one is the governor greg abbott said today that they've only bussed around 15,800 migrants to new york city What do you guys kind of think of that number and if not from texas? Where else are they being bused from and then the second thing i was hoping to ask is um last week The mayor said that the number of venezuelans was about 15,000 and then they narrowed that down to 9,000 So where are we getting the 22,000 number now? And the state has been saying that they're not getting accurate numbers either So just trying to see do you guys have like a shared database that you guys are putting these numbers? And is that something that reporters can eventually access as well? Oh, there's a lot of questions. So, um Abbott, I don't know what I want to say about The accuracy of his buses and all that other kind of stuff I hope that when he's here He can get a glimpse of what it really looks like to deal with the humanitarian crisis in a humane way We've talked to you before that we know that we get buses from El Paso and other places when they're trying to decompress on decompress on their own. So we know that we're getting Buses from other cities We know that other people are coming here from from chicago from denver from other parts of the united states When their time if there's time limits in other places or they feel like they can't find work Then they come to new york city. So we know that it comes from all different places So we know that they're when we looked last week that remember we're only talking about venezuelans who've come since july 31st So when sometimes people are like, how many venezuelans do you have that? That total number could be different than the amount that are eligible for this particular program So I want us to be careful about what we're saying and the questions that we're asking for So I and I also know that my friend from immigration coalition was talking about 60 000 and he clarified today He was talking about 60 000 throughout the state, right? And so and then there's numbers like 150 000 people have done the CBP app that's throughout the united states So we'll get you very clear numbers and so we do have we have been working very closely with the state They've been great partners on helping us really look at our data look at the case management and I just want to Go back to what something that um dr. Long said these are people that we're dealing with so circumstances change So we want to keep good case practice is about going back to people and doing that management So that you can see where they are so that you can connect them to what they need to be connected to So i'm happy that we have that infrastructure in order to do that But you know of all people when you're getting 3000 people A week all of that gets complicated, but i'm i'm super proud of the way the team has been doing this work Can I have one thing to that too from just in terms of the number itself? You know as we said we're doing this comprehensive Assessment census right now to be able to give you the most precise For us to be able to use the most precise numbers in terms of understanding Where people are in the process the proportion of people that have come through the CBP one app The proportion of people that are venezuelan meeting that criteria So we're 70 through the census now so the number could change again But that's okay The important thing is for us to get the correct not just the correct number But know where everybody is that will be immediately reaching out to when they can start to submit their temporary protected status Applications that's why we're doing the census An update on how many 60 day slash 30 day notices have gone out and of the people that have had to leave so far starting friday how many people is that what's that number and Have they all gotten Intensive case management or can you give me a number of intensive case management that has been given to people It does Ted do you have those numbers in front of you? I was just going to start with your last question and back into the first numerical one. Okay, I got it Excuse me So your last the last part of your question was when we talk about intensive case management Who are we referring to and I was careful in my remarks to say We intentionally started to do the 60 day notices at one site one of my sites At that site it was paired with intensive case management And that's why over time we actually saw some people be able to leave before day 60 But in particular when we reached day 61 we did When people were nearing day 61 three days ahead. We again Talked to people saw where they were see what help they needed So that approach resulted in the the data that I shared with you which was representative of Just that one site because every 61st day that's hit so far is pretty much just at that one site going Yes going forward Very good Gwen Going forward You know at the different sites because we do have a diverse system People may have had different experiences with case management than they did at the sites that I'm in control of But what I can say is that the goal moving forward is when we've launched our new case management program Which is being launched now. So if you go to many sites now, they've never heard of this before The intention of this new program is to be able to give everybody the same experience with two touch points per household Per month at every part of our system doesn't exist today But we're collecting the data to power the program so that when it is fully launched we'll be able to be off to a running start And the numbers are um, let's see 13,500 people have received a 60 day notice and a Approximately 690 people have received a 30 day notice Several hundred I want to follow up on warden's question Whether you call an assessor and a survey or whatever will you commit to releasing today the aggregated results as well as the question The exact questions that were asked. That's the first question Second potentially for the judge for the purposes of the 60 day of the 30 day notice once the folks get their tps Situation resolved and our tps beneficiaries. Will the city treat them any differently from ordinary the traditional homeless population? And if you will what's the legal basis for treating them differently? I don't even understand a question. So I'm gonna can we do the I'm gonna do the can I do the first one? Yeah So we're gonna give you um the data as we always have when we have it And when we're we're ready to share it to make sure that it's as accurate as we need it to be And so I'm not gonna commit today to to give you something I you know what you asked me to do was to commit to give you something I said I'm not committing today to give you anything. I think what we've done always and what I've done pretty effectively We've told you we're gonna open an arrival center. We come back and we tell you what's happening and how it's going We told you we were gonna um open a legal clinic. We come back and we give you the numbers We are in the process of making sure that we have all of our numbers scrub You know the other day we were talking about somebody who who was living in ecuador Who wrote down on the form that they were from ecuador and it turned out But originally they were from venezuela. So we want to make sure that all that we're giving and how accurate the numbers are And we'll do that when when the time comes. So that's what I'm gonna say I I will let you know when just to say I will commit to using the data to help the asylum seekers in our system It's not just about statistics. This is how we know what help people need and how we're going to Effectively use case management to target resources to enable people to get the specific help that they need that I know it's not what you're asking, but that is the most important thing And then the second and and throughout and the second question is what would the city do? And I I will say to you that the city will commit and continue to follow the legal process It has been following in view of the fact that we are currently in several pieces of litigation It depends on what a court Determination is and what directive we're given from the court and based on that that was that is the procedure That the city will follow If you're relying on data like you just said you're gonna rely on the data, which means it's in a form that you can rely on Why can't we get the data that you are relying on? So the way that we so nope Asked and answered Yeah Let's let's not let's not let's not let's not be rude to each other. Don't say he dodged it. I got it In response to the mayor the other day had told us that there was 15,000 venezuelans that were eligible for tps now I'm saying it's 22. Yep. So the reason why we're asking boring to release this data is that when court rulings come out when tps destination change We need to tell the public how this actually affects them and I think it wasn't properly Communicated with the public so speak with the tps. So Craig may want this is done Craig i'm not unclear why you asked the question. I think we answered it. I understand Tps you're getting ready for this sprint of yeah, people their work authorizations. So now it's 22,000 up from 10,000 last week How long will it take to get these 20? 22,000 people the work authorizations that paperwork your side of things Yeah, so what I explained was that we're waiting for the rule to be registered and once the rule is registered I'm really happy that we have the infrastructure of the asylum seco legal clinic that we stood up that we didn't have to stand up that we decided that we wanted to do We've gotten over 4,600 people signed up for their asylum application. Now we're working. We have the federal government here this week That's with us. That's working and and doing that sprint also And so we think that we've been you know with the 4,600 applications that we started just in the in the end of june Having thousands hundreds of people working on this. I think we've been able to do it very quickly We also know that once they get that designation doesn't necessarily mean that they can work right away So we're trying to make sure that they can work right away And we're trying to make sure that the process which can usually craig take Sometimes months and years that we are able to to connect people as quickly as possible I just want you know, I feel good about new york city has this is a humanitarian crisis, right? We've gotten over 118,000 people here new york city is doing it. We are feeding people We are clothing people. We are housing people. We are trying to connect people to legal services We are working with hundreds of community-based organizations and clergy in order to get this done And so we are going to continue to do that good work that we're doing so that we have exit strategies So people can get connected to what they need to and they can get resettled. We've been doing three jobs We've been doing a federal job I've been doing the state job of resettling folks and we're doing the city part of this job We would like other people to step up and support us and I just want to add to that too craig if I may it's From a case management point of view, this is not something that you can effectively do in 24 hours and determine where somebody's going to spend the next You know several years of their life What we're doing now is we're doing the survey or assessment first and in the last couple of weeks We've done 10 we've completed tens of thousands Yeah, um, so we're we're moving very fast here and the state has supported us and given us 20 million dollars to do This case management work going forward So I don't want to diminish the importance and longitudinal aspect of case management This my mom's a social worker This is a process that takes time You have to get to know somebody work through their issues and it's not something you can necessarily solve in a day or a week When temporary protected status when people are able to apply for it Our teams are in gear to be able to immediately I did engage the people that we have um We believe are from venezuela within the certain time period that the federal government has laid out We're going to move fast We're going to as much as we can over a period of even weeks But I just want to make the important point that we're not going to solve this in a week You know with case management It's about setting things up now and then working this through with people over weeks or months to determine Where they're going to spend potentially the rest of their life Thank you. Um, all right Thank you, I just want to clarify something on all the numbers because there's a lot of numbers being put out 22,000 is that 22,000 venezuelans who are eligible for tps and a work permit or just tps? So tps though as we said we've completed 70 of our surveys now It's possible that number will change the important thing to us is not the number itself As much as this gives us a targeted opportunity to know who we need to reach out to the minute it goes live Correct. So where did the 9500 number come from that the mayor the 9500 number was the number that we talked about last week where we said out of the 15,000 9,000 were adults and the others were children, right? So he did he'll have to get you the the breakdown of the adults and the children and the 22,000 because we're collecting more data I think we're really belaboring this point, but we're collecting more data every day So when we get to Yes, I remember I remember and so we're So we're going to get it we're going to we're going to we're going to get the numbers to you Like I said, we're going to keep on doing the assessment and we're going to go from there And can I just say this you all I just want to set the tone a little bit when new yorkers ask me questions They don't say how many venezuelans are in the system. They say deputy mayor How come the federal government is not giving you more help deputy mayor when are we really going to have a $12 billion budget and what are the things that we need to do in order to get that budget down so that we don't Have to affect other services. So I understand that this is an important issue We will get you the information But please don't tell me it's because the public is dying to know the numbers of venezuelans The public is dying to know how we are in a responsible way Working to connect people to work and getting people resettled Which is what we've always said that we wanted to do We want to make sure that we are providing people with as much support as we can And that we can move them along So I just want to like balance this a little bit in terms of the telephone I understand your frustration and we'll get you the information He did he he said he had a question about Abbott Thank you deputy mayor for acknowledging. Thank you So I'm not the governor so I can't speak about what he thinks is an appropriate strategy What I can say is that I do think that the republicans in congress Along with all of congress should be working with the white house to come up with a comprehensive immigration Reform so that no one jurisdiction has to deal with an immigration national issue on its own All right, so dr. Long you had mentioned earlier that the 30 day 60 day Limits were not just for the migrants, but also a limit For you to help them, right? Yes Succeed in moving forward now if they don't Find other housing or able to transition out of your system Would you consider that a failure on your part? And if it is a failure your part to help them What else can they do if assuming of course that they're doing everything that they can Yeah, so I would not consider it a failure if within 60 days We're not able to for 100 percent of asylum seekers Determine and execute on where they're going to spend the next several years of their life It's complicated and I think it's also important as the deputy mayor said to recognize people of individual challenges That's the premise behind having what I refer to as our red yellow green program. It was the same for everybody. It would be One color, um, but we we want to group people into the different color schemes Because that shows the different barriers that different people have We have some people that come and were able to help them to complete their journeys the first day when they arrive In fact at the arrival center one out of every four people that come through the front door of the arrival center Today and every day we'll leave within 24 hours with our help Resettling new york city or being reticketed to somewhere else to complete their journey For others one day wouldn't be possible because their goal might be to stay with a family member They haven't talked to in a few years So um the 60 day deadline that we give ourselves as a city Is where we want to apply case management and help as many people as we can But if some people need more time, that's why we write wrote on the 60 day notice to return to the arrival center To talk to us about what your current barriers are See how we could help you dismount them and we'll give you another 30 day placement to enable us to have more of an Opportunity to work with you with our case managers to help you to overcome your barriers We'll now take some questions via webex first question goes to jeff maize jeff you can now unmute your line, please We got you jeff go ahead Hey, thank you. I had a couple of questions. Um one the um changes potential changes to the right to shelter I'm wondering how would the city protect? You know new yorkers who are already here In terms of their right to shelter if there if there are changes That are made to that right to shelter for migrants You know, how would you make sure that that new yorkers who are already here and experiencing homelessness are not affected And my second question is about the flyers. I'm wondering, you know, how is the city getting these flyers? Out to people at the border. Do you guys have employees? Have you contracted someone? And then secondly the the flyer itself appears to have statements that I don't know. I don't know if they're necessarily true Like isn't the city still using hotels To house people and aren't you helping people apply from for work permits? So are are you guys backing up the veracity of those statements in the flyer? I want to start yeah, I I think what you're at when you asked about the right to shelter and It's currently we're currently litigating that and and wouldn't be able to give you an answer About how it's going to affect people But it's not it's not going to be bifurcated where you say you're saying that there's a right to shelter for people here And the right to shelter for somebody else. That's not that's not what is currently being addressed So and so we wouldn't Have a different response for you with reference to the Callaghan case until we've been able to conclude the litigation that we are currently doing Hi, Jeff. This is the deputy mayor. I wanted to tell you so the flyers We are going to be distributing them in all of the above. So what's that? TikTok we're going to be talking with some of our partners down at the border the NGOs There's staff. There's federal staff that can help us hand it out. So we really want to do A full court press. We also talked about handing them out in other cities. So our sister cities We will make sure that we're doing there. I think the difference that I would say is that there's no guarantee We know that at the beginning of the crisis we were able to put people in hotels. We're no longer I think putting men in single and adult families and men in in hotels We are helping to the extent that we can people do their work authorizations But we want people to know it's expensive to live here It's hard to live here that it's not the way that it has been because I think they are hearing the word Which is like the front door is just wide open come and so being truthful Of course, we are always going to be truthful But we definitely do want to discourage people from coming here so that we can pretty much deal with the 113,000 people that are in our system right now And I think the main way that we're going to be able to bend the curve of the costs that were You know that we're spending Jeff I'd spoken to you about cutting costs to some of the ways that we are of the services that we're providing But if I still have 60,000 people the main cost is really the cost of the census and housing people So we want to be responsible and tell people the truth about what they're walking into Thank you and our last question goes to paul leota paul you can now unmute your line, please Everybody hear me? We got you paul, go ahead great, um, I know we commented on the callahan case today, but uh Judge wane azi on staten island and his decision yesterday about the shelter at the former saint john villa academy He commented on the right to shelter which Seems to be in line with what the adams administration is seeking So I just wanted to see if you know, you all would like to comment on that portion of his decision and more generally on uh, why the city's choosing to appeal it Well, we uh, first of all, uh, the the your decision that um He's his decision is looking at what we are seeking. That's not the way we read this decision this decision um from judge azi deals with basically um a violation of zoning um some suspended zoning and There was some dicta about um the right to shelter That wasn't briefed and and before the court and we will since we're in the midst of an appeal I'm not going to make I'm going to say what our position is on that. I'll wait until we have made the um the decision that we made but the the clearly the court's order also deals with um executive orders and and and other pieces and so, uh We are taking um the position that we have to protect the the city's rights And and and the mayor's ability to function as we undertake The appeal that we're undertaking and and judge, let me just um add with three thousand people still coming a week It is clear that even though we're working very hard on in order to get exits We need something we are still going to need to be able to to maintain and and to deal with this crisis We have 210 sites right now in 17 humanitarian centers This is uh a lot and I don't think one person can just say okay We don't you know want to take I think only two percent of the migrants are in statin island I understand people's frustration, but we unfortunately are in this situation because we've been asked as a municipality To deal with something that is a national crisis Thank you. 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I have three new exciting skincare products that I can't really share. I have two amazing and indispensable to me makeup tools that I'm gonna share with you. Before we get started into that please remember that I do have a numbering system. A number will come up on the screen that corresponds to whatever product that I am showing and then once you go down into the description box find that number with the product the link and it's much easier to shop that way if you choose to. Also if you're interested in fashion that I have on I have a little snippet at the end of this video where you can look close up at everything that I have on the jewelry I also have some boots and a handbag that I'm gonna show you today too that I'm really in love with right now that's great for fall. So let's get into these items I can't wait to share them with you. First of all you know that one of my absolute passions on this channel is that I love skincare and skincare has made such a big difference and I get people asking me all the time is it too late like I'll get somebody in their 60s late 60s saying it doesn't matter well for me it did. I didn't start my skincare journey until I was about 48 years old and now I'm 55 and I can tell you that most assuredly it has made a huge difference in my skin. I cannot believe how refined my pores are. How many of you raise your hand and I won't be able to see you but I can anyway. So raise your hand and tell me if you have dark under eyes. I do. I have dark spots on my face where I've had scars in the past from acne but oh my word. Okay my friend Penny from Pinsmiss skincare if you do not watch her channel I'm gonna link her channel down below so you can see that but I was just fed up because you know I have had some health problems this year and I'm tired and I'm not sleeping well and my dark circles seem to be getting darker. I knew Penny would have the answer. Penny Pinsmiss skincare dark circles. I go over there she's got the answer alright. She's explaining how they are recently finding out that dark circles and dark spots discoloration on her face can be counteracted by vitamin K. I'm like I haven't even heard of people putting vitamin K on their face. I take a D3 and a K2 supplement every single day of my life but I've never heard of it being used topically for anything. Guess what? This is Naturium vitamin K Liposome Serum 3% vitamin K Liposome 3% vitamin F and Alpha Bbobisabolol. It's working and I am so excited because in all these years it has just been my fight but I also have all this discoloration on my chest from sun damage. Really bad. Really really bad. It's working. I'm so excited about this. Down the road I'm definitely going to be showing you a simple foreign after pictures but if you want to get started right now I would say go for it. This is very thin in its consistency and it sinks into your skin very quickly which is great because that under eye area yes it does need moisture but if you're going to treat it it's a little bit harder to get stuff to sink in there and this does. It sinks in completely. I use this right after I use my essence.  I'm so excited about this and then I'm also excited and I did talk to you about this one time in a recent skin care video. This is from dermatology. This is another eye cream and this is HPRI cream. This is a medical grade skin care item and I cannot say the technical name of it but it is a retinuate and it says improve and prevent signs of aging around the eyes. This is working too. Basically a retinol product and I'm using it all the way around for the crepey skin that you get on your eyelids and then all of this crow's feet nonsense that we get and the two of them I I don't know if it's just like I'm so excited about these products that I'm feeling it more than I really is or if it's really really that good. I think it's really really that good the combination of these two and I'm just really super excited about this. Now this again this is a serum as well and so it's very thin and it's gonna sink in. So I use the vitamin K and then I use this on top of it and I'm telling you I've got the one two puncher around my eyes. I don't even use a full pump all the way around on my eyes on this. So this is a little more expensive but boy this has just been worth it to me. I'm so so so excited about this. By the way if you're not subscribed to my channel and you are enjoying the content today I would love for you to be a part of our YouTube family about 65% of you that come and visit me are not subscribed. So if you hit that subscribe button I'm gonna get 65% more subscribers. Oh my goodness I would forever love you. So please do that hit the like button the thumbs up and also don't forget to hit the bell so that you can be immediately notified of any future videos that I have up or I've got that out of the way. Let's get back to the products and then on tiktok there's this group of about six women that are in their 50s. One of those gals was talking about this is the Beauty by Joseon and this is the ginseng essence water. Now if you've been with me for very long you know that I love an essence a couple reasons. When you use essence on your face it sinks in really quickly and you can layer several essence before essences before your makeup in the morning. So you could layer three of them and not have too much on your face. The ginseng boasts being a line fighter. It's being a wrinkle fighter. I have lines that are starting to drive me insane.  So I want to treat those and I want to treat them all the time. This one is really great you can see that I've you know dipped into it a bit not a ton. Again this is three weeks so far but I will let you know further on. But the gal that was showing this on tiktok her skin was amazing and beautiful and she was just raving about how fantastic this was. So really excited about this love that it's a Korean beauty brand. Now I'm so very excited to share with you a makeup accessory. This is a makeup bag I'm always looking for what can make my life more organized what can make it better. This makeup bag is great. It does have the flap on the on the opposite side of it where you can put it over your luggage if you're traveling. You also can hang it on a door hanger if you need to do that and then it has the straps where if you want to carry it you can do that as well. That does have a top handle. This is probably like maybe 12 or 13 by about 9 maybe something like that and I love this bag. It is so easy for me to stay organized in it. It will expand some for you. What I love about this first of all these things right here are dividers and you can pull them out. It comes with more this is how I just configured mine. It comes with more of these dividers and you can make this however you want. Right here I love this. This is a flap where you can keep all your brushes. Take a look at that.  It also has this compartment right here in the back of the brushes where you can put a huge palette if you want to and see how I can let go of it and the lid of it doesn't fall back. Now you can adjust these straps right here to be either completely undone or if you want to have it done up and then it keeps it from flipping backwards all the way. On the top it has a second layer that has more storage which I think is so wonderful. Okay so see I have a full-size Natasha Genoa palette in here. I have some setting spray over here from Tatcha. I have all of my beauty tools that I use. So this is completely customizable to how you need it to be. So let me just open it and you can completely see how that compartment does and I love that this one as well has these little straps on the side that will keep it from flapping all the way back. This is just one of my loves. One of my absolute great things. I've had one of these before it was a little bit bigger. I actually like this size a little bit keeps me from going a little bit too ham when I'm traveling.  Ladies I got sent something so special and yes it's expensive and yes I hesitated. I debated with myself for such a long time about bringing it to you because it is an expensive item but I'm gonna bring it to you because this is one of the best things that I've ever been sent in PR.  Excuse my French. This is the Elio's makeup mirror slash ring light slash you know put your phone in here and make a video if you want to. I cannot begin to tell you what this has done for me. I did not realize. First of all it lights up. Here is why I absolutely love it. Not only can you blast the amount of light onto your face I mean you can make this thing go up really high. It has the three different settings for lighting cool warm and neutral kind of and it also has the best I've ever ever seen the best mirror I've ever seen. I had no idea that mirrors were completely different. I've never in my whole life had a mirror that was so crystal clear I can see anything I want to see. I have to use my readers. You guys know I'm always got my readers on and my readers are like a 2.5 so I'm kind of blind you know close-up but this mirror is so clear that I really can put my makeup on without having a huge problem but here's the cool thing about it. You just push on the side and that will swivel around and there is a magnifying mirror. It is the clearest magnifying mirror I've ever seen. You don't have to get on top of it to be able to see it. This is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. It was developed by makeup by Mario and then another gal and I don't know exactly her whole stats and everything but they saw the need for there to be on the market something that wasn't distorting something that was so clear something that had this ring light around it so you can see everything. It's a huge ring light. It swivels. It pivots. You can set this on your desk. You can take this off and you can also put it on to a tripod if you want to. It's a heavy-duty bugger. I can tell you that but this thing if this broke tomorrow I'd go out and buy it again in a heartbeat and yes this was sent to me but I'm telling you that I would not hesitate for a minute to go out and purchase this again. This is not like sponsored or anything by this mirror company but this is such a good light that I no more gatekeeping for me even though it is a little bit more extensive. It is hands down my favorite thing I've ever been sent in PR. I told I was gonna get my setup working so that you guys are able to see the shoes that I have on. Okay so first of all the top it is just kind of an eyelet type sweater. I did wear a tank top underneath it that's black and it's just really light. It's kind of a little bit of a puffy sleeve which I like about it.  I wear these I lob them I probably will forever be a skinny jean gal and I'm always looking for ones that have a ton of stretch in them and these have a ton of stretch and then the boots. The boots are so darn cute. They're a suede boot. They're like a half calf boot. They have zipper on the inside. This is one of my favorite to bags because you can wear it cross body or you can definitely you know throw it over your shoulder but it's got all this great fringe on it. Again it's suede. It matches the boots absolutely perfectly. I love this whole outfit. This is just so me. And then the drill read that I have on I fell in love with these little hoops.  I thought it was so cute. This is from the Lifetime jewelry company and it's a herringbone chain. What's great about the Lifetime jewelry company is that you register this through Amazon after you get it and if anything happens to this they're gonna replace it for a lifetime. This is such a beautiful gold too. You know sometimes when you get these gold necklaces they look kind of fakey and stuff. This one doesn't. I just I love this. I think it's so pretty. That's the end of the video. I hope that you did enjoy this today. Thanks everyone for spending a bit of your day with me. I hope you're all doing really well and don't forget to comment in the description box if there's anything that you have been absolutely falling in love with and has made a huge difference for you in your beauty routine or anywhere in your life actually. I would love to hear from you. I love talking to you all. It's part of what I love about being a YouTuber. Hope you're all happy and healthy and I hope you come and join me again really soon in my next video. Take care of yourselves and I love you. Bye bye.