Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Stephen Flanagan, Senior Vice President here, and Director of the International Security Program. And it's a pleasure to welcome you for this conversation, this dialogue, as part of our statesman's forum with His Excellency Elizabeth Mbasha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania. The minister has served in that position since May of last year, and he's here to talk to us today about the issues of Albania's aspirations for NATO membership, the important political developments throughout Southeastern Europe, and in particular, of course, the very difficult and sensitive situation of Kosovo these days. I'll just say a few words about his background you have seen in the announcement, some more details about it. He's been a member of the cabinet in previous service before coming into the foreign ministry. He served as Minister of Public Works Transportation and Telecommunications 05-07. He's been active in Albanian politics in the Democratic Party of Albania, of course, as a member of the Assembly since 2005. He also held a number of other leadership positions in the Democratic Party and was spokesman for the 2005 general election campaign. Prior to that, he held a number of positions with the UN mission in Kosovo in Pristina. He was a special advisor for transition in the Department of Justice, and he also served as deputy chief of cabinet and director and legal advisor to the Justice Department during that period of initial transition to fuller sovereignty. Prior to that, he was also involved in the Kosovo issue as a member of the investigative team as the international tribunal on war crimes in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, focused particularly on the actions of Serbian forces in Kosovo at that time. He's an attorney, a lawyer by training. He received his master's degree in the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he focused on public European and international law, so a background that serves him very well. And you can see why he ended up first in Unmeken and then now dealing with these issues of the future status and other questions in Kosovo. The minister will speak for about 20 minutes. This, as all of our statesman's forum events, this event is on the record. It will be televised on our internal network and available for the public later. He's agreed to take some questions that will also be on the record, so we look forward to a good discussion on these issues. And it's a pleasure to welcome Mr. Basha to the statesman's forum podium today, filming if we have the minister stand. Is that OK? Not a problem, OK. All right, thanks. Thank you very much, Mr. Flanagan. It's a pleasure to be back here. I recall my first time here, which was a few months, eight months ago, and a few days after I had received my appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs. We had, I recall, a very good conversation, discussion around the table. I was expecting to be around the table again, but this is also very good. With your kind permission, I think after a small introduction and update, since that last appearance here before you, I would like to take questions from you and turn this into an informational session, rather than a long speech, which, of course, I have here with me prepared. The purpose of my visit to the United States is, again, to meet with Secretary Rice and several other members of the US administration. I just came from the White House, where I had a meeting with a deputy advisor of national security and former ambassador to Tirana, James Jeffrey. I'll have meetings on the Hill with senators and congressmen. Of course, one of the most welcome opportunities for me when I'm here in Washington is to speak to influential members of the community of researchers and decision-makers on matters of international affairs. And I highly welcome this opportunity. And I would like to thank each one of you for being present here today to exchange some thoughts on the current developments in the region, as well as brief you on some of the latest developments with regard to Albania's path towards Euro-Atlantic integrations. Allow me to brief you shortly as to where we stand today. Two are our major goals in terms of reforms and political processes, integration into NATO, integration into European Union. Both processes enjoy overwhelming support of the Albanian public, 96% according to the latest polls for NATO, anywhere between 94% and 96% for the EU. And the government is trying hard to identify the missing 4%. But both these processes, which have the full backing of Albania's citizens, require reforms. And Albania has launched a path of reforms in order to come closer to these stated goals with various degrees of success. Tomorrow after the meeting with Secretary Reis, I will be flying back to Brussels to join the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense on a very important meeting with the NATO Council of Ambassadors. It is the meeting that finalizes the ninth cycle of the membership action plan, which hopefully for Albania will be the last cycle before the Bucharest summit, a summit in which we hope Albania will be extended an invitation to join, together with the other two countries of the Adriatic three charter. Our primary focus for this ninth cycle has been the reform of the judiciary and electoral reform. But before I go into that, let me update you on the three major directions on which this government has been primarily focused ever since it's swearing into office after the elections of 2005. Primarily the fight against corruption, the fight against organized crime, and the effort to continue vigorous economic growth even in what seems to be the end of the transition phase in the beginning of a more consolidated phase as far as the Albanian economy is concerned. For a long time, the problem of organized crime has overshadowed other issues in Albania and it has also become one of the major problems of its image abroad. Recognizing this, this government stated its policy of zero tolerance against crime. And as a result, we launched a number of initiatives and operations aimed directly at the activities of organized crime, one of the most notorious and powerful and rich structures in Southeast Europe. There is no special or secret strategy that we employed. In fact, it's a pretty straightforward one based on a political will to fight crime. This means that we had and continue to enjoy the full capacities at the state level at the law enforcement level to fight crime. And anecdotally, when the top brass of Albanian police was asked what they needed to pursue these criminals, their answer was pretty straightforward. They said what they needed is that once they started, they would not be stopped. One of the US congressmen who visited Albania on the eve of the visit of President Bush asked the uniformed policeman on the street. And I think the story made the rounds also on international press. What the difference was? How come Albanian organized crime two years had been hit so hard? And the policeman said, now the guys we're going for do not receive a call before we go. What is the result of this approach? Already in the first 12 months in September 2005, 207 criminal organizations and gangs were dismantled representing the bulk or the backbone of Albanian organized crime. 870 individuals are today in jail facing extradition or trial. We have seen the completion of the first trials in January, which have been administered by the Special Prosecutor's Office and the Special Heavy Crimes Court. We have a very successful moratorium on speedboats in effect, a measure that did not go without a political cost to this government, but which resulted in accordance with the figures of Italian police in a dramatic and uncomparable drop in the amount of traffic, of illicit substances as well as human trafficking. Making Albania today a country which is not any more considered a country of origin for human trafficking and not the preferred transit route for narcotics or other illicit trades. Asset confiscation and crown witness system, a system of protection for witnesses of heavy crime have also worked very effectively. And the result is that whereas crime was not simply going about its business, but was also exerting its influence and showing its presence in our squares and our cities, today, those who have still avoided the grip of justice are fleeing, trying to adopt, but we are in hot pursuit and this pursuit will not relent until they are apprehended. Crime to date does not exert influence in Albania, economic, political or otherwise. It is irrelevant and it is a story that shows that however powerful or notorious or determined crime may be, it can never compare with the power and the strength of a government that has the will to fight it, which of course everybody knows it's true, but in this case it had to be proven true once again. Crime and corruption are of course very much linked with each other and the attempt of organized crime to exert influence in political decision making was only one of the phases of corruption in the government. As I explained in May last year when I was first here, our primary effort in the fight against corruption was aimed at reducing the possibilities for corruption in the administration itself. We moved ahead by cutting by 40% operational expenses of the government, by reducing by 13% the civil service, by 30% public administration. Only the operational expenses reduction amounted in 2006 to 80 million euros, equal to the 2006 overall budget for public health care. We toughened the regulations on conflict of interest, making it impossible for members of the administration to hold private economic interests, and we passed a whistleblower law awarding 6% of the proceeds and crown witness status to those citizens who came out and reported corruption. 80% of the current cases under prosecution are the result of such reports. In the past six months, 50 middle and high-ranking officials have been apprehended and are facing prosecution, which of course is, according to the statistics, the highest number in Southeast and Europe and the highest number in Europe for the moment. The overwhelming majority of these officials, elected and appointed, are affiliated with the governing coalition. Thus, no one can claim that this is being used to enhance political infighting. But all of these results, which are coming as a consequence of political will to fight corruption, regardless of political affiliation, are of course not sufficient if there is not a systematic effort in place to prevent and address the issue of corruption in a systematic way to make these gains irreversible. And realizing this, our attention has been focused on shrinking the margin of the discretion of the administration and making administrative procedures as transparent and accountable as possible. In this regard, our energy has been focused primarily in fighting bureaucracy in those areas where it was really creating the most conducive climate for corruption. Let me give you a couple of examples. From 148 licenses in the public work sector, we are now down to 42. From four to 12 weeks, we are down to one week. From 10 to 11 to $1,500 per license, we are down to one euro per license. With half of those licenses being granted automatically upon no response within seven days. It took 42 days to register a business in Albania in 2005. We brought it down to eight days in 2006. In Tirana and Duras, now it can be done in one day in a one-stop shop and this practice will be spread throughout the country in 28 centers. It's something that we're doing in cooperation with the Millennium Challenge Account and the United States AD agency. Corruption in fiscal and customs services has been fought effectively. With the previous system of taxation, in 2006, we were able to generate a rise, a surge in revenues amounted to 2% of GDP. This year, for the first time, we have a 10% flat tax regime on personal income tax, a 10% flat tax regime on corporate tax, a reduction of 31% on social security tax. And still, we were able in 2007 to perform by collecting 27% of the GDP as revenue for the government. So as our fiscal burden declined, as our taxes declined, our revenues picked up. And of course, this is a very welcome result for the monetary, for the fiscal and budgetary policies of any government. But the primary focus was to make the procedures transparent and to fight informality, which is and continues to be a problem. The result of such moves, fighting the informality, is also tangible. In 2007, there were 12,600 businesses registered. Now, I think there is nobody who can come here and tell you that 12,600 businesses were opened up in 2007, because that is not the case. Regardless of the fact that Albanian economy grew by 6%, inflation remained 2.9 and budget deficit 2.6. But it is the result of businesses coming from the shadows of informality into formality. Paying less than they were obliged to pay, maybe those who did not pay taxes are now incentivized because the amount they have to pay to the government is less than the bribes they had to pay to the customs and the fiscal services before. But most importantly, to enjoy the benefits of being within the legal framework of being formalized. The same holds true for a major reform of legalizing assets that were built without a permit in the period 92 to 2005, amounting to about 200,000 dwellings and businesses, a collateral value of about $5 billion equal to 50% of Albania's GDP last year, a little bit more, given the rate of the dollar against the leg. The most impressive results of this policy in economic terms are those that are coming from our data on growth of certain branches of economies such as construction and tourism, foreign direct investment and exports. Foreign direct investments in 2007 last year grew by 84%, including strategic privatization or 60%, if you count those privatizations out, sorry. That was up from 2006, which in itself enjoyed a 54% increase of FDI. This year is going to be, this is going to be nothing compared to this year because last year we extended licenses and permits for 2.6 billion euros of investments in the energy sector, 1.2 billion in the raw material sector, cement, and we're expecting even more in the areas of mineral deposit exploitation and other foreign investments. Tourism grew by 74%. Rena's airport, which was completely rebuilt in February last year to house 750,000 passengers. This year has already reached the mark of 1.1 million passengers. And just a few days before in Davos meeting with the CEO of the company that runs it, they are asking permission for their expansion plan to be put into execution now and for the expansion to be bigger than anticipated. Exports grew by 28%, not counting the re-exported goods. So overall, the economic growth has been marvelous, especially in the light of a year of record drought in a country where 99% of the energy is coming from hydropower and where actual consumption by industry rose by 12.3%. The luxury of adequate revenue collection or more than adequate in terms of our agreement with the IMF has allowed us to proceed aggressively with our expenditure plan, which is dominated by five major areas. Overhaul of infrastructure, doubling of investments in education, health, appropriation of 2.01% of GDP and military expenditure starting from this year, two years before our commitment to NATO, as well as an incremental increase of pensions and salaries across the board. For this year, besides the electoral and judicial reform, which have provided not only an opportunity, but also a successful platform to launch the kind of bipartisan cooperation never witnessed before in our political scenery, pension reform is going to be on the agenda. We hope it will have a successful running. It will be a reform where, again, we will reach out to the opposition for a bipartisan effect. And it is also a year where, thanks to the reforms that we have undertaken, including and with special focus on what we expect to be successful finalization of the new law on the judiciary, a successful start of the production of biometric cards and IDs and an electronic voter registry. And a successful year as far as using the institutional tools for a constructive political dialogue between government and opposition, we will witness in Bucharest the extending of an invitation to Albania to join NATO. This is a process that we all understand to be based on individual performance and individual merit. Having said that, it is beyond any doubts that Albania's accession to the alliance is an added value to the alliance. If there is a constant appraisal vis-à-vis my country, that is the appraisal for its foreign policy and its constructive role regionally and further. We continue to play that role in the past nine months with particular attention to the situation in Kosovo where calm, restrained, moderate and confident approach by the leadership in Pristina has definitely helped the agenda of Washington and Brussels to bring a lasting solution to the issue and to open the path for a lasting solution to the region's perspective. We have continued to contribute to security operations of NATO acting as de facto allies in Afghanistan, in Bosnia. We have continued unwavering in our participation in Iraq and even increased it and are soon going to contribute to the U-4 mission in Chad to help with the humanitarian situation that is affecting that country as a result of the crisis in Darfur. Overall, the performance of our troops abroad has been ranked as very good and the confidence in the abilities of our armed forces to act interdependently with other armed forces has risen. Reform of our armed forces has been praised as unparalleled in the region and now we are hoping that the moment to harvest the fruits of all these efforts, 39 years of membership action plan, 17 years of unwavering cooperation with the Alliance, even in the darkest days for my country, is not so far away. Finally, we are hoping that the efforts that we are making but also that our neighbors are making to achieve better prosperity for our citizens and to open up the perspective of development for all strutters of society are not going to be held hostage by external developments that are still unresolved issue of Kosovo. We hope that we are now, if not days, at least weeks away from resolving it. We are mindful of the still complex nature of this issue and the impact it has primarily on Serbia. We are mindful of Serbia's internal struggle between its past and its future. We strongly believe that its future is rooted in European and Euro-Atlantic perspectives and we are looking very carefully at the electoral process that is taking place there, hoping that this will be one chance that Serbia will not miss. This is, I think, a short brief, but it's not very short that I wanted to give you and I'll be very happy to answer any of your questions or engage in our session. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Bacir, for that rather comprehensive picture and quite encouraging picture, I guess, about internal developments in Albania and hope for the region. We have just about half an hour for questions if I could just ask you to identify yourself, please, and wait for me if we have people with microphones who will come, just raise your hand. Any questions? Yes, or no? Brian Berry, a reporter for EuroPolitics. Just wondering, what's your opinion on the deployment of the European Union's mission to Kosovo? How should that come about? And also on the recognition of Kosovo, if and when do you think that should come about also? My understanding is that the deployment of ESDP is, the preparations for the deployment of ESDP are going forward. That despite the fact that there are some members of the European Union who still haven't made up their mind as to how they will react to the moment of Kosovo's Proclamation of Independence, that this is not holding the preparations hostage, that the preparations are continuing and that there is no opposition to the deployment of such mission. The legal basis for this, of course, has been a matter of discussion for some time. But now there is a consensus that 1244 continues to provide the legal basis for the deployment of ESDP into Kosovo. It's an important step because it is dealing not so much with D-Day, the moment of I-Day, I should call it the U-D-I-Day, but it's dealing with a period after status. And in doing so, it is highlighting a shift in the discussion. The discussion right now is not anymore when will this happen because this will happen. It's a matter of days, it's a matter of weeks. It could be in February, beginning of it, maybe a little bit later, it doesn't matter, it will happen. It is important to recognize now that already de facto Kosovo and its leadership has assumed all the responsibilities of a sovereign international subject. And it's acting in full partnership with the EU and the US to overcome the complexities of the period before and immediately after the proclamation of status, at the same time reasserting its aspirations to join immediately the Euro-Atlantic and European trajectory of integrations that has gripped the entire region. In this regard, Albania continues to closely consult and coordinate with Pristina, with Washington, and with Brussels. And as Pristina leaders have made it clear time over again, it will be in this fashion and in this manner that the process of formalization of independence will be brought to a conclusion to open the path for the other processes that follow or the other challenges, which in our view are the challenges that face every other nation in the area. And also for Euro-Atlantic and European integration. Mr. Minister, if I could just interject there and ask you, as you mentioned, the patience and caution that the leadership in Pristina has taken thus far. But obviously, I think the sense of patience may be wearing a bit thin or the efforts of some European governments to delay further the implementation of the autosari plan. What is your sense, without putting a timeline on it, what is your sense of the mood in Pristina in terms of what their expectations would be, and what might be seen as tolerable reasons for delay and what the expectations there are? I think the geometry of this game has changed. Everybody knows now, everybody knows that Kosovo is going to be soon a sovereign, independent state. And that this state will be recognized by the United States. By the biggest powers in the European Union and by the overwhelming majority of the members of the European Union. Just as they know that they are going to be recognized by the majority of the international community in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. So all the energy is focused now rather than on the date which has assumed a rather trivial value to the challenges that are connected to this moment and immediately afterwards. Several challenges. Those of peace and security and stability in the moments immediately after proclamation of cooperation, international cooperation between all people in Kosovo, Albanians and Serbs and other minorities. Issues that are related to Kosovo's membership in international organizations from the United Nations to international financial instruments and others. Issues that are related to the responsibility that will finally be fully vested without alibis on the shoulders of Kosovo's leaders for ensuring economic prosperity. And most importantly, their already stated goal, clearly stated goal of European and Euro-Atlantic integrations. These are the dimensions where Kosovo is already acting as a de facto as a member of the international community, as a sovereign member of the international community. And these are the factors that have trivialized, trivialized and made trivial the discussion about the date. Having said that, this would not have become so trivial if the date issue was not a matter of days or weeks at the most. This issue, and in our view, there isn't a single factor from the quaint or broader that sees this as more than a matter of days and weeks. Thank you, Mr. Ma. We take a few questions from the floor. Mr. John Sandrock and this one over here. Thank you very much, Mr. Minister. Thank you very much for coming. I have a very warm spot in my heart for Albania since I visited there for the first time in March of 1997, which was not exactly a settled time, if you will recall. I'm a very strong advocate for what is worth on a personal level of integration, your Atlantic integration for Albania and also membership for NATO. My question is, the term has been used, Adriatic III, Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia. What should happen? Should all three be integrated in book arrest? What would your country's reaction be if only one were to be nominated and accepted? What would happen as a consequence if Albania were not? What is a long-term implication, and what would your desires be? Tough question, but I think I'm not the only one who has that as a curiosity. Thank you. I'd like to see if this other question is related, perhaps, or not. But go ahead. Why don't you put it to the minister and the world? Lambros Papandoneo, Greek correspondent, Minister Basla. What is the purpose of the visit tomorrow with Condoleezza Rise, and who initiated the visit? Your side or the American side? Let me start by referring to the question that was asked just before, these two questions. We strongly believe that delays in the status issue that are not in the framework of preparing the ground logistically and moving forward, but are simply delays because of uncertainties are very dangerous, are inherently dangerous to stability in the Balkans. They are dangerous because of the situation on the ground. They are dangerous because it is delays that have strengthened the radicals and weakened the moderates, particularly in Serbia. And they are dangerous because they continue to drain away focus and energy from the process of enlargement of NATO in the southeast in Europe. So moving ahead with the status, while keeping in mind that we should all be engaged in doing our best for the moderate forces in Serbia to have a chance to push forward their cause of European and Euro-Atlantic integration. So moving ahead with the status is very important also in the framework of the expansion of NATO because bringing in the Adriatic three countries, solving the cause of the status, resolving the issue, and moving forward with integration of the three prospective members, permanently cements, in our view, the Euro-Atlantic horizon for the Balkans. Now each of the countries has an individual membership action plan to live up to. Each of the countries has its own challenges and its own strong points. Our view, although the formal appraisal will be done after tomorrow, is that each of the countries has made further progress during this ninth cycle on this internal process of reforms and other parameters. But there is an overall consensus that besides the internal reform aspect, there is also a geo-strategic aspect to this. And seeing from this geo-strategic perspective these three countries offer undisputedly added value to the alliance. They will be added value to the alliance. Bringing them into the alliance is good for the alliance. Of course, it is good for each of these countries as well. But it is, without any hesitation, I'm saying this good for the alliance. Now there are instruments to move forward in this process. These instruments have been deployed before in the case of previous accessions. And they are the appraisals of the membership action plans. Each country is appraised on its own merits. There are issues that affect one another. The issue of some issues that our eastern neighbor has with our southern neighbor, which we hope will be resolved. These are bilateral issues, in essence. But they, of course, have an impact on the overall progress of the process. Nevertheless, while fully adhering to the view that taking all three in Bucharest is value to the alliance, we are strongly committed to the individual performance system that the alliance itself has put up. And this is the way that we want to be measured. But if you ask us, all three must come in. And all three, the coming in of all three is in value to the alliance. Of course, the measurement will be on an individual basis. This is the understanding we have had all along throughout these nine years of the membership action plan. Individual performance is measured by the alliance. And so far, all the signals that we have received in our frequent, weekly, and daily contact with the allies is all the feedback, is positive feedback. We have moved forward in the reforms that we have started. We've taken steps to make some of these results irreversible and systematic in nature. We have moved forward in two strong challenges for my country, which are electoral reform and judicial reform. Just two days ago, we received the information that the bipartisan commission on judicial reform has agreed all but 15 of the 41 articles of the new law on the judiciary, which means most probably that even if we don't bring the product to Brussels after tomorrow, we will be able to bring it to the council before the Bucharest summit.  There are no red flags coming up. Country, as I said, fully supports it, 96% support. And it would be taking a lot to alter this course in these last weeks. Also, the feedback of the allies is positive. There is a fundamental shift in the stance of, for instance, of Syracuse, France towards NATO's expansion. And we're seeing the same spirit in Rome, we're seeing the same in Berlin and London, in Madrid. So we have reasons to be increasingly optimistic. But also, we are committed to work until the final day, receive the invitation, and then the work will triple. Of course. Lambras. The NATO will be. NATO will be, from our side, from my side, will be featuring very strongly my conversations with Secretary Rice, Kosovo, I imagine, and regional issues. And of course, continuous bilateral cooperation, both in the narrow sense of the word as in the multilateral sense of the word are common fight against international terror and are common fight for the values and the principles we believe in, freedom, democracy, and human rights. I'm sorry. My primary agenda was based on a visit to New York where Albania is hosting a special exhibition on Albanias, on the Albanians that saved Jews during the war. On this occasion, I asked to be in DC and to undertake several meetings. I did not ask specifically for the meeting, but between the offices, it was agreed, and here I am. Of course, I'm delighted to see Secretary Rice. Vestensen, Golden, first of all, Stanley Kober and the third brother, Mr. Kober. Stanley Kober with the Cato Institute. Why are you so confident NATO will still be around? Whether it will still be around? Yeah. Because I'm an optimist and I don't see anything better around. What is your view on NATO? Let me shoot back. No, about 25 years ago, I had an article in international affairs in London where the NATO was about the Euro missiles. I said, yes, but give it another generation. I'm not so sure another crisis will come along. And I'm looking at Afghanistan. Afghanistan does not look good. And even our officials call it an existential crisis. NATO is the best we have not only for collective security, but also the most successful proof of successful expansion of nations that are emerging from the shadows of dictatorship, suppression of human rights, of freedom of speech, into nations that are building democracy, free market economies and respecting human rights. It has moved from being a political military alliance, military political alliance to fight the Warsaw Pact to be the club that represents the values that every emerging democracy aspires to. And those are the values of democracy, respect for human rights, free market economy. And to us, it is primarily a political commitment. It is also the best investment in our collective security. It is also the only vision that we have in terms of security for the rest of our region that has not yet been integrated into these structures. And together with the EU, it forms part of a vision that Albania has, but also that the other countries have in the region. And it is important to keep this vision in mind and to keep in mind that all these efforts that we're doing, all the reforms we are doing, of course, are a purpose in itself, but they're also profiting a lot from the fact that they're being undertaken in the framework of such important aspirations. This vision is there and it's important for everybody to remember this, especially those in the region who momentarily maybe feeling a little bit the courtship of, let me say, powers that do not share this vision for southeastern Europe. Because in order to get there, you have to have the vision first. We have left behind a very difficult decade. We have left behind very difficult two centuries for the people of southeastern Europe. And we really do not see any other way to move forward and to ensure our prosperity than integration into NATO and European Union. We don't see anything else. Anything else better around? Mr. Minister, if I could just ask you in light of that comment about the support within NATO countries for these missions, extra so-called expeditionary missions, be it in Afghanistan or, well, it's not a NATO mission, your country's involvement in Iraq. How do you see support in Albania evolving over time? The Canadians just last week, the commission advising the Prime Minister Harper suggested that they could extend their stay beyond 2009 if other allies came up with additional forces. Do you see that as something, as you talk to your colleagues, do you see any resonance of that? And what about the debate within Albania? Albanian's question, what are we doing in Afghanistan and why is this, what does this have to do with Albanian security? And Afghanistan has to do with sharing the primary values which today have made the United States and Albania former false allies. And this is a belief in universal values of human rights, democracy, and rule of law. This belief in freedom, and freedom has no price, it's priceless, the belief, as our Prime Minister put it in the General Assembly, that the world without Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar, and Osama Bin Laden is a better world. And a belief that everybody in this world has an obligation to work towards such realities, including young and emerging democracies like Albania. Especially since our memories of suppression of those freedoms and what it calls to individuals, but to generations, to the course of an entire nation's history are still fresh. So I think this is the key with which one can unlock the mysteries of the commitment of Albania and other young democracies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Any more questions if there are some from the floor? No, oh, I'm sorry. All right, go ahead again, sir. Lambert Babenuq, great correspondent. Minister Basel, since Russia is, his objection is far from the independent of Kosovo, did you try somehow to convince Moscow to the same position? We have worked with all the governments to ensure the best understanding for the way forward with regard to the process of Kosovo status. And of course, we have continuously engaged with the government of Russia as well. Diplomatic levels, I've met with Minister Lavrov with other members of his diplomatic apparatus, the prime minister, the other. So we have a frequent contact with them. We maintain good bilateral relations with Russia, maintain as much as possible relations with Serbia and try for this issue, not to become an issue that has an impact on bilateral relations, but our positions on Kosovo are diametrically opposed. We strongly believe that the artistic plan is the only way forward. We strongly believe that delays are not constructive. To the contrary, that they are inherently dangerous to peace and security, which are the primary responsibilities of the Security Council. But difference of opinions in this area, we're trying for them not to influence our bilateral relations and we strongly hope and believe that once this moment has been overcome, that cooperation between all parties will further contribute to stability in the region. Just ask one more question from the chair, if you don't mind. Mr. Minister, you were involved in yourself in Kosovo and the protection of human rights there and fundamental freedoms for Albanian Kosovars. And in making other investigations and crimes against Albanians in Kosovo. What do you say to Serbia and Kosovar as today, as you look, if you were to go to Mitrovica or talking about how these rights, what do you think that Serbs in Kosovo can look to in the aftermath of full independence and the protections that are in place for protecting their rights and fundamental freedoms? I think for all of those Serbs who call Kosovo their home, there is a future in independent Kosovo. A future in which they will be treated as equal citizens. A future in which they will be guaranteed rights and freedoms under the Artissary Plan that have no parallel in the geography of this planet or in the history of humankind. And this hasn't been said enough. There is no other place in the world where a minority has enjoyed more rights than the Artissary Plan for C's for the Serb minority. So for those Serbs who call Kosovo home, there are empty opportunities to build a new life in their home in Kosovo. For this, they should be prepared to consider themselves Albanians equals and to join hands for a future to live behind the past. Albanians have to be prepared for this as well. And they have been on the receiving end of atrocities for the past century. So it is going to be even more challenging for them to take this step forward. But we have full confidence in the Kosovo leadership, in Hashem Tach's government, who has shown statemanship by reaching out to the Serbs already in the first days in government. We have also confidence in those Serb politicians in Kosovo who in their heart have the genuine interest of Kosova's and Serbs and who are not willing to be used as a ploy for third-party interests. There is plenty of space and opportunities in Kosovo for Albanians and Serbs to continue not only to coexist but to cooperate strongly for a better future for their children. And independent Kosovo will provide an opportunity to do so because if anything, the opinions of Kosovo that have very fresh memories of the structure of discrimination against them have also so far demonstrated and I'm convinced they will continue to demonstrate a readiness not to have those legacies be repeated to the minority, to the Serbs in Kosovo. And as I said, very important that there is a vision for Kosovo, a vision which is the vision shared by the majority of the countries in the region, and that is the vision based on European values and Euro-Atlantic values. And the respect for minorities, trust and confidence building between majority and minority are some of the corner points of these organizations, of the European Union and NATO. This is clearly understood by the political establishment in Kosovo and it is also understood by Kosovo-Albanians where tolerance has always been a virtue both inter-religious and inter-ethnic. And I again, I would like to refer to this exhibition. Yad Vashem is displaying in New York the fact that Albania is the only country in the region that Albania, it's the only country where the number of Jews during the war under occupation increased. I didn't know how much, but I was told by 1,000% by the organizers of the museum. Religious tolerance has been a virtue and a value that we can export proudly. In October, we are hosting in the framework of the Alliance of Civilizations inter-professional tolerance conference in Tirana. And so basically this goes to say that we have full confidence that independent Kosovo will be home for all those who want to call it home. Well, thank you, Minister. I think that's a great coda to your discussion. Thank you for your openness and your candor and for some very good news about developments in Albania. We, having watched your country grow over the last decade, the last 17 years, as you pointed out, it's really been a remarkable achievement for someone who was around when you signed your map agreement with NATO. I'm hopeful that the road to progress will be a smooth and promising one. And afterwards, as you said, some of the even harder work may begin. But in any event, I think many Americans certainly do appreciate Albania's contributions to your Atlantic stability, and we wish you well. And thank you for joining us once again here at CSIS at the Statesman's Forum. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Hello! Welcome to the ARM embed booth. Today I'm going to show you some of the demos that we have. Also I want to give you some statistics on the ARM embed ecosystem. Over the last 12 months we have increased our partnership quite a bit so we have close to about 100 partners now. Not only that, we're estimating that over the next 12 months we'll be shipping 8.5 million devices worldwide. So the partners are like chip makers, integrators, people that make devices? Yes that is correct and also that includes cloud partners as well. Companies that are actually managing IoT cloud services. So I would like to introduce you to two of my colleagues. This is Holly and that's Eric. They will show you the demos today. Hello, so who are you? Hello, my name is Holly. I'm a senior software engineer based in ARM Cambridge office and I'm working in the portal team of our embed cloud services. So what are you showing here? Okay today I'm going to show the demo of edimax air boxes. So what is that device? Right, so this is a product that you can buy on the market already and this is built on embed OS. So this is basically an air box. It can detect your air quality so you can tell the temperature, the humidity and the PM 2.5 which is really important to Asian people. So we have two version here. This one the connectivity is Wi-Fi and this is based on cellular network. So this is the cellular antennas. And what's the demo? So because this is already connecting to our embed cloud and you can get real-time information on here. So this is the world map page we built based on showing the data from the cloud. And so we have one device connecting to the cloud here in Taiwan. So you can see the location here and if you click it you can get those real-time data the PM 2.5 and temperature of humidity and and you can get the history information as well. So is this a demo app that you built on the cloud? Yeah so what it does is we have our embed cloud services which does device management and other services like firmware updates. And this is to show the device management part. So we get all the data via web services of our cloud and this is just a JavaScript page and you can also build your own app and visualization based on those data. So if a device supports embed then automatically it's gonna be easy to integrate this kind of stuff? Yes exactly. So this is running embed OS 5 and it supports to connect to the embed cloud and you can also if you register an embed cloud account on our portal which looks like this. So this is our demo account right now and you can see there are a couple of services supported device management and this is the list of registered devices and you can view your devices information and also you can control like manage your users API keys and you can do remote firmware management and for this demo this is the connected devices page which shows exactly the four devices we showed on the world map. So they are consuming the same same API but this is an example portal that we built for our cloud services but our API is available so you can always build your own application based on that. Nice and there's a lot of devices that support embed right? Yes that's correct. So my name is Sarek. I'm software engineer at ARM. I'm also based in Cambridge and I will show you today the embed device connectivity demo. So what I have here is few devices each boards each of them supports different connectivity channels. So I have like the Ethernet here. I have like six low-pan. I have a thread. I have like a Wi-Fi, GSM, Lora and BLE and what I will show you is how easy it is. So all of those devices are running embedOS. I will show you how easy it is to use them in embed device connector. So I'll just one by one you can connect them. Yes that's correct. So in embed device connector we can see here like a list of all of the devices that I have at the moment connected. So those are the devices we test and from the device connector I can send like the get, put, post request to each of this device. So each of this device is running like a very simple program which will allow me to when I send the post request it will actually bring the LED on each of the device. So I will show it to a few of them. So when I select here I can send for example a post request. I can select the device. So I will select at the moment the endpoint for this nuclear device. So I selected the endpoint. I will choose the path, so resource path. So I will choose the resource responsible for the linking. I will send the data to be posted and what will happen is it will send the post request and over the internet for five seconds the LED here will blink. So I'm sending the request right now and what you can see like here the LED actually blinks for five seconds and then it stops and I can do also the same for different parts. So for example here when you have the nuclear part that is using the Wi-Fi one I can actually do the same. So I can select the endpoint that is responsible for this device. So it's this one. I can also like select resources possible for blink. I can send also the same data and do exactly the same. So it will also like link the LED here. So as we can see I'm sending the request and the LED is blinking for like five seconds. And this demo also works for other like connectivity channels. So what it shows is how easy it is when the board supports MBETOS to use it with like a different connectivity channels. Thank you for your attention. Just for any kind of connectivity and there's all these different types of connectivity there's also Bluetooth. Yes that's correct. So we also have like a really like I mentioned before we have like six low-pounds threads and we can have like this demo working in the device connector. But over there you have more about Bluetooth. Hi, I'm Philippe, I'm from Army Cambridge working for the YSBU. So what we have here is my request from MBETOS to put together a demo showing a use case. So we've got a smart parking meter. So what we have here is the parking meter. You can see there's actually already some money paid into it. So what it does that parking meter through a beacon. So you get on your phone through the beacon on Bluetooth an app that goes to physical web to say you can put some money. And it goes all the way to the cloud through the IBM Watson IoT platform and MBET device connector to connect to the parking meter. So this is prototype based on is it specifically made by ARM? Yes, so everything is there. So we've got ARM Code Radio IP. It's our Bluetooth 5 IP. And this is a reference design from ARM? Yes, so we put this together, the whole PC we can see. There are some proxy sensors, some cameras. So it's really a use case scenario. At the moment the backbone is still to Ethernet but in our future demos you know like we've got now some NBIOT IP. So in the future the backbone will be done through NBIOT. So really to have a full compete solution from ARM, from the RF side all the way to the cloud.  And any Bluetooth phone? Yes, that would be the idea. Just to show the case, like you know, show up on the phone, it could be NFC, it could be something else. Well I don't know, at the moment just to show like this done with Bluetooth. Here what we have is showing our Bluetooth 5 IP. So we've got a sneaker showing all the different packets. So 1 megabit, 2 megabit per second. We also have 500k to show the long range that's working. So that means the Bluetooth 5 is longer range? Yes, longer range, more throughput to 2 megabit per second. So it's going to be different use case scenarios. And it's ready to go into mass production devices? Is it not yet shipping? Or are there any devices out there with Bluetooth 5? It is shipping. There's already a lot of Bluetooth 5 out there.  I'm going to show you, oh yes, so we've got also different radios that we have, different families, SMIC with Aura, TSMC-559 Miller from ARM Code URF. Because we are our own RF, so ARS application and everything from ARM. All right, and over here there's a partner showing something over there. Can you use this one? Yes, so this one is really awesome. So this is an EV charger. This is demonstrating the inside, and apparently this is the EV charger from outside. So it's real? It's real. There's a lot of power in there. Yeah, so this is based on our colleagues M4, and it's running M-Bat OS and cloud as well. So I'll show you how it works first. So because this is, so the market is in China mainland now for this product, so you have to register with, so I'm not sure if you are familiar with the WeChat social media software. You have to log in with your WeChat and subscribe to this WPI internet solution number. And so this Chongdian drone, this means EV charger, so you need to press this button. And then you will be able to see all the available EV chargers around you, actually on the map. Because this is our demo one, so this is already found here, and press Chongdian, which means charge now. And you need to press charge, and you need to press this to enter the number of the charger. So just press this. So the number of this one, this demo one is 14. So you need to enter the number 14 here and specify how long you want to charge it for. And this is the amount of the price you will pay for the... That's cheap. That's cheap, yeah, for now. And so I just pressed the start, and you can see here. It goes to the board in there. Yeah, so the green light is on, which means it is charging now. And so the point here is normally when you charge your car, it takes a long time, normally I think. So you can leave your car there charging, and you can just take your phone and walk around. Because you can track the progress of the charging. And this is the time remaining, and you can see the amount of time passed. And this application works over the embed cloud? Yes, so this application is... So let me finish this first. And if you press finish, so it will stop. The green light is off. And also you can see the history of the charge. So yeah, this is built on embedOS. And it's a demo with NXP? Yes, it is. And this is using cloud as well. So you get all the information, and it's integrated with WeChat at the moment. So yeah, it's a real helpful and useful application in China. And also you can, because in WeChat you have your bank account associated with your WeChat account. So you can just pay with your WeChat, and don't need to pay cash, or anything. Nice. So the momentum is going up with the embed, and more and more stuff is happening. Very stable, and more and more products are coming out, right? Yes, that's correct. Definitely like the embed is on the radar now. Lots of people are speaking and talking about it at the moment. And is it fun to work on? Definitely. Every day it's like a new challenge.


Okay, one of the biggest complaints in my videos is why are you so ugly and oh wait, no, that's not what it is Okay, so one of the biggest complaints I get in many of my videos Especially when I'm recording from the camera is the audio quality because I normally use the onboard mic and the lens I use actually has a very loud image stabilizer and you can actually hear the humming Which is usually why I would lay some music over the background try to cover up the humming because I usually forget to turn Off the image stabilizer even though. I don't need it when I'm on a tripod. So this is a test This is a microphone. I actually bought about 10 years ago and never used and forgot that I had it's not wireless It's actually got a very long probably 15 20 foot wire on it That runs right into the camera. So hopefully the audio to this is good I haven't tested it. So if the audio is horrible, please don't hate me too much, but I'm trying So other than that Just about a year ago almost exactly a year ago. I was working on a blender 2.6 game engine tutorial series and I think I got up to about number 13 I actually made two more than that I believe 14 15 and I even uploaded them edited them and upload them and I forgot to make them public And I just noticed this the other day So if you enjoy my blender game engine tutorials, I'll be sure to check out those two videos I made a year ago. I don't remember what they are about because I haven't watched might just realize that they were never published So publishing them now there. They are click on those to watch them Also, I just want to thank you for watching as always. Please it visit films by Chris comm that's Chris of the K There should be a link in the description again, hoping that this microphone audio is good. This is my first test Tested in the real-world situation here so hopefully that is an improvement there and And and that's it. I thank you for watching. I'm working on making things better for you guys And I hope that you have a great day Watch the videos Okay Test test test. This is a test with my lapel mic here test test test. This is a test Test test test. This is a test without my microphone hooked up and the image stabilizer on my lens going test test test Test test test. This is an audio test on board mic with image stabilization Turned off on the lens because it's not needed for the tripod test test test


Robert got sick. He got a stroke and he was basically paralyzed He had trouble speaking. There was a movement, you know, issues, etc in Van Buren Which I just I just find great. He's like, well, we're still gonna run He's still so I just think of this is sort of the original Joe Biden strategy Yes, the original Joe Biden strategy or it's sort of like a weekend at Bernie, you know We can at Bernie's right. That's the old move from the 80s. It's weekend at Van Buren's You know, he's propping up William Crawford and or it's the old Joe Biden strategy where you have someone who probably shouldn't be running for President but the powers that be are well still pushing you to run for president It was van both Van Buren doing but he was trying to reform the system So I I give him credit for that And so that that kind of hurt The Crawford can you see or the van Buren the van Buren strategy in 1824 But he played a much bigger role after the election of 1824 Yeah, right and it's interesting because you're one of things I love is that a debilitated Crawford Still gets more electoral votes in Henry Clay, which considering how much I love Henry Clay. I just got it That that that is something that just that's that's that's good karma just working against that That is really that really had to be a blow like knowing that Crawford was debilitated yet You still lost to him. He got third and you got fourth like in the act that that that's that's just got to be tough Like there's that's you know, that's bad


card number 17. King Fahad, oh snap, the Saudis are in. I'm a Contra too. King Fahad, I believe he's Saudi, if I'm thinking about the right person. Yeah, that's him. Saudi Arabian Monarch, Fahad bin Abdul Aziz. Saudi Arabia's King Fahad is one of 45 sons of Ibn Saud who founded the modern state of Saudi Arabia in 1932. The Bedouin king was the largest single contributor to the Contras. Congressional investigators traced the total of 33.6 million that passed through Adolf Kallaro's FDN bank account. Of that amount, 32 million was received from Saudi Arabia. It was a small price to pay for continued US military support for his regime. Fahad gave many times that amount to the Afghan Mujahideen, another US backed anti-communist force. The man who opened the doors to the Mullahs was General Richard Seacourt. Seacourt number 19. As the head of the Pentagon's foreign military sales program from 1978 to 1981, Seacourt oversaw sales of billions of dollars in military equipment to the nations of the Middle East. In 1981, Seacourt and Oliver North, Seacourt number 13 successfully lobbied Congress to support the 8.5 billion sale of AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia over the stiff objection of the Israeli lobby, thus assuring King Fahad's support of the Contras. King Fahad is the world's second richest monarch, with a personal fortune estimated at 20 billion. The world's wealthiest monarch is the Sultan of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich country near Brunei, although his personal wealth is estimated at 25 billion. The Sultan gave the Contras a mere 10 million, maybe a step senile.


Hey it's Alex there from AlexFigures.com and today I'm looking at another red light therapy panel. This one by a company called Rogue Keer or Rogue Red Light Therapy. Now the panel I'm going to be looking at today is the Rogue Pro. This is middle of the range. They've got Rogue have five panels. They've got their small tabletop panel which is about $600 I think it's about a hundred LEDs right through to their Rogue Ultimate which is massive. Something like 1200 LEDs in it and comes in around $4,000. Now the Pro comes in the middle of their product range comes with 300 LEDs and costs just over $1,000. In fact it's $1,100 exactly though I do have a discount code so they'll save you a little bit. Now I've got the box here and I have already opened it and that is because there was no label or anything on the outside and I was a bit confused as to what it was. So we're going to open it up again and have a quick look. We'll go through my initial impressions, I'll go through the key features, the key specs, we'll turn it on see how it looks and then later on I will be doing not in this video but after a few months of use I will be doing a deep dive review on this product. We've got the Rogue Pro in this box here. As I mentioned it's a rather plain looking box nothing special going on here on the packaging department. We've got a one sheet info setup guide. Just a quick look at that it looks like it's all the usual information which is cool. Straight away you see that it is a little bit different. Now let's start with the boring stuff. We've got some power cables, another power cable, another one of these door hooks that's far too small to use on any of my doors. The pulley system, goggles and a little case that's kind of cute. The standard hooks they got on the top but enough about that let's look at the panel.  I've based these panels off the Juve Solo. You can get panels that are so much bigger and so much smaller now but it is the standard size. It might actually even be a little bit shorter than a typical panel but 300 LEDs that's a lot of LEDs like some of the other ones in this size are only around 120 LEDs, 150 LEDs but these are quite small LEDs as you can see there are a lot of LEDs on there. 30 degree beam angle and these claim to have a 5 watt LED in them as well. 660 nanometers plus 850 nanometers again standard stuff there. It is modular design friendly so you can clip another one on top or beneath it and that's why we have the extra power cables there. When you turn it around to the back you will see four fans on there. The power switch. From a design point of view it's nothing revolutionary solid middle case rather weighty rather dense you've got your rubber feet stoppers on the back leaning against the wall. There's no custom branding or anything like that actually tell a lie we do have the rogue branding on the control panel here bottom wise you've got a pretty standard setup there with the LCD countdown timer time button okay and what wavelengths are running red or near infrared. So yeah nothing really like revolutionary or super exciting these LEDs are interesting though and I'm looking forward to testing the power outage in these when we do the full review and also the comparison because yeah a lot of LEDs in there so that could be a bit of a game changer not too sure though. Three year warranty on their panels though that's that's really good free international shipping so it's a big plus and your cost price of $1,100 though just kind of credit Alec should save you a little bit on that let's plug it in and see how it looks all right that's all plugged in turned it on as you can see there it's come on with the timer mode button simply selects between mode and infrared let's go both time simply adds minutes probably go up to 20 minutes because that seems to be standard yep 20 minutes and then okay well turn it on nothing is bright so there is a bit of a word with this with the fans at the back nothing out of the ordinary there maybe even on the quieter side which is nice I will quantify that in the comparison series yeah that is very very bright I can't even go directly in front front of that I don't know if that's because of the beam angle the concentration of LEDs on there or it's just a higher power level that will be interesting to test near infrared running there and you probably can't see it but I can see these ones here glowing red so it's a diagonal approach we'll go back and turn off we'll just have red light running yeah that's incredibly bright that's that's quite amazing really that's everything I think you really need to know there's not too much to talk about as you can see at the top here you've got those mounts for the modular design control panel vents on the side and your pulley system door handle these little clips that screw on here I just wanted to keep this short do a first impressions unboxing video I think I've done well if you have any questions leave them below I will do a deep dive review on this I will we'll get up the meters and quantify everything and I will be comparing this or including this in my 2021 body panel comparison video which is going to be out soon very very soon so be sure to subscribe and hang around for that if you have any other comments or questions leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you alright guys bye


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Hey, this is Brett with Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Wrangler headquarters. Today we are checking out a brand new 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Recon Package and Granite Crystal Pearl. This Jeep has the 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder motor with e-torque, pumps out 270 horsepower, gets you 22 miles per gallon on the highway, and 21 city for an average of 21. We're going to do a walk around here, just get a really good idea of the overall styling and looks on this Jeep, and then we're going to get up close and check out all the particular options on it. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely the best way to check out the looks and styling of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you want to check out all the photos on this Jeep in the upper right-hand party screen is a link right to our website, click that and check us out there. BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO2 tires. These are LT28570R17s. They come on the 17-inch painted and polished aluminum rims. You do get the little Jeep logo on there as well, has a very nice, aggressive all-terrain tread pattern. You get those rock slider rails right there that's part of the Recon package.  The red trail rated badge and the granite crystal and red Jeep logo. The red outlined Rubicon stickers, the LED headlamps and running lights are standard on the Recon. The metal bumpers are standard on the Recon. You can remove these side pieces as well for better tire travel. Red toe hooks. You get the gloss black grille insert, and that is a seven-slotted grille with the granite crystal trim on there. You also get the coulotte induction hood, and you get these air vents up here. I don't know if you counted them, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, kind of weird that they did that like that. Actually, I'm sure it's on purpose, just like the seven-slotted grille to signify the seven continents that Jeep has been on. Once again, those rock slider rails, part of the Recon package, has the keyless proximity enter and go system, so you just have to have the key on you and those doors will automatically unlock. Inside, we're going to take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this at any second to see all the options on here. Granite crystal is the paint colored, that's 245. The Recon package is a 2755 option. It tells you everything that you get, including the red seat belts, the wrapped instrument panel, the Recon badge, the gloss black grille, the rims, the LED lighting group, the metal bumpers, and the trail rated kit in back. The weather group is a 995 option, gives you heated seats and steering wheel, as well as remote start. It has the eight-speed automatic, the two-liter turbo. Remote keyless proximity entry is a 495 option, the hardtop's $12.95. For a total of $47,975, is your MSRP. If you want to see all the pricing on this Jeep in the upper right-hand party screen, there's another link to our website, where you can see all our discounts and incentives on this Jeep at the moment. 22 Highway, 21 City, for an average of 21, and you do get the safety range here for the front crash, which is four-star and rollover's three. It's not rated for the other ones there. So the red seat belt straps are part of the Recon package, as well as this black leather-wrapped dash and the red stitching on there. Really good, definitely my favorite dash out of the new Wranglers I've seen. The wheel disc brakes on all the Wranglers as well, and you do get the red shocks back here, the Rubicon shocks, this back bumper, this metal as well. You do get this metal cover on the rear gate, and the LED tail lamps as well, backup camera, the LED license plate lights, the red tow hook back here. This is your trail-rated kit, I believe there's some gloves and a tow strap and some other things that come along with that. This is your bag for your front hardtop pieces, and there is a little bit of storage underneath here, and you do get spots for your roof, windshield, and door hinge bolts as well. This back seat can be removed, just comes down like that, and then it goes up, you pull this bar and it'll unlock and then it can slide right out, or you can just leave it sitting up like that if you need just that little extra storage to get it back down. Just grab this strap here, and then it'll lock into place. To take this back hardtop piece off, there's three bolts on the back, one on the top for a total of four on each side, and then there's two quick disconnects right here for your electrical and windshield washer fluid, and they store conveniently right there. More LED lights on the inside. The back doors are a lot lighter now, they close a lot smoother. You get this badge for two-door, four-door wheel base and overall length as well as water forwarding, and you can see just how nice and smooth those shut. You get the metal field door. That entering-go system, just put your hand in there, it'll unlock heated mirrors. Inside the Rubicon package gives you the black cloth interior with the honeycomb pattern on the backrest, red stitching, those red seatbelts, part of that Recon package. To get to the back seats, there's a latch right here, just undo that, and then you just push the seat forward, and it'll kind of slide forward and go up. It has a side current airbag standard on the Wranglers now, and the back seats are in really nice shape, well, they're brand new, but they got that honeycomb pattern on them, and the latch child safety systems for your child car seats. That seat goes back to its original position and goes fully upright. I think the old ones, the back didn't go back all the way. Power mirrors, power locks, auto headlamps, tilt, and telescopic steering wheel. As we hop inside, you can see you get the 7-inch LCD display, digital speedometer, outside temp compass. You can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. You do get the heated leatherwrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. You do get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel as well. This one comes with the 7-inch LCD display. You connect 4C radio, AMFMN series XM radio capabilities. This is also where your HD backup camera shows up. You can see just how nice and crystal clear that screen is. Those are dynamic grid lines, meaning that they're going to turn as you turn that steering wheel and that center line lines right up with the middle of the vehicle, of course. You can do your climate control here. You can control everything on the screen. If you don't like using the screen, you can do all of it down here as well. Same thing with the radio volume and tune controls are right there as well. If you don't like doing them on the screen, you can see I can do the knob for the fan, which is nice as well. The cool thing about this radio is it has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities, so if you have a navigation system on your cell phone, you can project it to the screen.  You're going to be familiar with it, and even though this vehicle doesn't have an app, you can put it right on the screen, which is pretty cool.  Power windows, this is your media center, AUG's USB, and it's USB-C.  I'm running short on time, so I'm going to speed up here, and you got all the quick disconnects that you normally had on the old Wranglers. The new thing for this Wranglers, the JL, is that you get a homelink system, as well for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll do one more quick walk around here, and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video. You've been had a good idea of how this Jeep looks, the styling, learned a little bit about the Recon package and the Rubicon package, and just what this one in particular has to offer. If you'd like to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it, we've got to go to our website, www.summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations, all at www.summitauto.com, and if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to www.youtube.com.com. 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If you really want to know what happened, Inspector, ask Toby. Yes, Toby, who is only a vintilical dummy for who knows more than you think. If you want to hang me, let him be a witness. Out of this world, Columbia's parade about standing stories of those moments when reality turns to illusion, when fancy becomes fat, sharp, shocking fat. Tonight we're a remarkable adventure from the successful English motion picture Dead at Night. A story which for the next half hour will take you out of this world. Come in here now. Enough of that noise. You're disturbing all the other prisoners. God, tell me where it's Toby. What has it done with Miss Toby? Ah, so it's Toby again, is it? Now stop all that fuss about the dummy. I won't ever put any more noise in that solitary confinement for you. I must be Toby. Oh, God, I'll pay you anything if you bring Toby to me.  All this fuss about a talking dog. He's not a talking dog. Don't you understand him? Toby. Where is he? What's happened to him? How should I know? Probably safe enough. The Inspector will take care of him. Well, you tell the Inspector to send Toby back to me. Back to me, do you hear? Tell him I want Toby and I want him right now. For sure. The Inspector's dog will be happy to do anything you say. Oh, the President, fellow. Oh, yeah, you're a rap one, all right. You're just lucky, ain't he, if I murder. Lucky that fellow, Lesville, your shot is coming along, all right. Lesville, whatever happens to him makes no difference to me. I wish he was, then. He tried to steal Toby from me. Now, ain't that a pretty thing to say? Thank you, my child. I'm sorry, I can't let you trouble me. All I want is one trainer. Go to the Inspector, go to somebody, go to anybody, and tell them I've got to see Toby. I've got to see Toby. Constance, Inspector, he's raising a devil of a row down in the hills. Keeps yelling he wants his dummy brought back to him. I see. Well, if letting Tompkins have the dummy, we'll keep him quiet. Perhaps we can arrange it. Oh, good evidence, sir. Is that him there, in the chair? Oh, yes, that's Toby. Oh, true. Sits up in the chair real lifelike, don't you, Inspector? Amazing, isn't it? It's fantastic that a man could be attached to such a thing. Queer how Tompkins keeps saying, uh, if you want to know why he shot Lesville, ask the dummy. He's an odd one, all right. Imagine asking anything from the likes of this.  Yeah, so you're Toby, are you? So it's you that's responsible for all the trouble I'm having with your master today. Poor Mr. Tompkins.  I'd give you a real sad look, I would. All right, now, hold on there. Do you think that stick of wood will answer you? Eh? Oh, you know very well only a ventriloquist can make a dummy talk. Sorry, sir, I'm just odd. You look a bit silly here, so before we all do, we'd better get to the bottom of this. God, bring Tompkins up here. Time we had a little talk. Tompkins, if I promise that Toby will soon be returned to you, will you cooperate with me? Toby? Is he here? Is he near me here? Yes, but you can't see him yet. But I must see him in fact. You will, but not before I have certain facts. Certain facts. Tell me about your quarrel with Mel Laswell. If you tell me the whole story, I may be able to help you. Help me? Why? Why should the police help me? Because it's part of my job. If you've done your job, I've admitted I shot Laswell. I did it. What else matters? Your motive. He tried to steal Toby from me. Isn't that motive enough? Tompkins, I really can't understand you. Understand? Of course you can't understand. I wouldn't expect you to. You've never spent years, endless years, playing showbiz, cheap music halls, starving out of the elbow because you couldn't find a partner who understood you. You never saw a day and night for weeks on end, creating somebody like Toby who could go to the big town with you. Oh, Toby could tell you what it seemed like all right. Unfortunately, Tompkins, Toby has shown no inclination to speak to me as yet. There we would appreciate that, exactly. Indeed you would. What have you done? See him soon enough, I promise you. But first, I want to know what makes you think Mel Laswell tried to steal Toby. I'm not aware of that. Those intentions right from the start have made it even before I met him. I had a premonition that something somebody he might separate me from Toby. I couldn't stand that. I just want to hear him, yes, he can hear me. I see. When I met Laswell at the club that night, I realized almost once that he might be the one who caused the trouble. I thought you'd see him, Laswell, you know, the sort he is, the regular troublemaker. Yes, Tompkins, I've seen him. Now come to the point. Well, as I indicated before, Toby and I have been playing all the better music halls in the last few years. Top building, you know? And then we got our engagement at the kids' club. West End night club. That's about as high as Toby and I, or any act for that matter, can go. We were standing backstage, waiting for the dark act to finish their turn. So we were standing there, not particularly hard for us to follow. And then Bigelow, the master of ceremonies came along. Dad, see you ready to go, Tompkins.  We know our acts, Mr. Bigelow. Well, just so you know yours as well. Not Toby. Well, I don't want him to forget to take the chair out tonight.  And do us the favor of getting off the floor when you've introduced us.  Here and now, and I don't say that, I thought it was your opening night, and how was I to know your act? You did it deliberately. You were trying to cut in on our last. Oh, look here, I don't have to take this kind of stuff. Toby, that was not at all professional. Mr. Bigelow, I apologize, and Toby doesn't seem to have the grace to do it. Very well, I accept it. Huh? Well, what do you think of that? How do you think you take me, Tompkins? Do you think I don't get to thinking that dummy is a living thing?  Right, Joe, it's remarkable. Tremendously real, you know the illusion. Oh, by the way, you want to be particularly good this evening. You have a rival out there. Lazwell, Mel Lazwell, the American, the ventriloquist from the States. Lazwell? Oh, don't tell me you haven't heard him on the wireless. Yes, look, have a look. He's at the front table over to the left. Oh, yes. Yes, I've seen him. Oh, well, who's the gorgeous young lady? His wife. He's awfully good. Well, the greatest ventriloquist I've heard say. I like her. Don't you recognize Petters and Bigelow? He may be the best in the game, he may not be the best. And you're pretty jealous, aren't you, Tompkins? I'm nothing of a source. In fact, you'll feel more uncomfortable than ever tonight, working in front of a real artist. I'll see you here, Toby. But if you will, I'll carry you along. You'll carry me. Now, have you no, I carry the service. Please, please, both of you. Stay out of the stock, Mel. Now, see here, jokes are joke. But when you used to bite George, you took me up the road again, Tompkins. I thought you and this wooden limb were rowing. I thought he was human. In fact, he means thinking he's actually human.  Yes, yes, of course. And don't forget to kiss. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, here it is. Look, I'm going to introduce you to that. That's why I've been here long. You must be old man. And I'm still wondering if you could do that. Right, here's a long, long, great big hand. And I, Mr. Tompkins, see you in all the United Kingdom.  You've all heard him on the American wireless and seen him in the American cinema. Mel, that's hospitality. I'm sure that beautiful woman he's with is a much happier person on his knee than Michiel Tool, whom you've seen so many times. Stand up, Melvin. Melvin, that's what I'm offering on the next, the life of which Mr. Lideswell has never seen. Our own British friend from the Brits, Eric Thompson, and his talking timber, Toby! Well, good morning, good morning, good morning. Hey, Thompson, go easy on that morning stuff. Oh, come, Toby. Well, that man over there looks like the fluent officer. Why, that shouldn't bother you, Toby. You've been a very good boy, haven't you? Yes, but I'm out of school. Out of school? Why? I've been invited. Out of school because you have a peniphan? No, not because I have it, but because I couldn't stand it. You're my lad. You've been a once-part appendix of yours.  And then you should be a skeleton.  Yeah, that's good.  That guy's got the worst material in the British iron. I just know you're enjoying this. People are watching me. What is that? What is a skeleton? A skeleton with a lot of bones with all the people's great doors. It's the same thing the other day. Toby, are you listening to me? I said I saw a very strange thing the other day. All right, you saw a very strange thing the other day. I don't blame the dummy. You're being embarrassed. You're asking my own master. No, Toby, that's not the problem at all. We'll provide that back to you. I said I saw a strange thing the other day. The trout man standing under one of them and not one of them got wet. And not one of them got wet. I know the payoffs of this game, but I won't say. And Mr. Ladwell knows well. So what goes on here now? Some come down, Mr. Ladwell. I know you do. You get the answer. Toby, please, darling. This is embarrassing. Well, Mr. Ladwell... Now, this guy keeps writing me. I will get into this. These dummies, dummies, says that he's all 12, man, under one of them, bro, and not one of them got wet. Why not, Mr. Ladwell? Because it wasn't raining. Ha, ha, ha, ha!  I'm humiliated.  Well, if you don't like your material, why don't you try rewriting it? Rewriting? Uh, do you have anybody going into St. Paul's and offering to rewrite the Bible? Did you have me? Uh, Mel? Hey, Claudia. May I...? Hey, Mickey, oh, two 75 cents a week. He'll wind up in my fireplace and you'll work for 50. Ha, ha, ha, ha! Yeah, well, he did. He was the greatest man to fill up with in the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please don't blame me for this. It's Ladwell. He's speaking all this through Tobi. He's trying to see Tobi away from me. Mel, is that true? Do you have something to do with it? Relax, honey. Get the rest of this routine. I'm being quite sincere, Mr. Ladwell.  Mel, are you sticking through Tobi? Well, Mr. Ladwell, will you take me on? Watch him try to get out of this one, Claudia. I'm thinking about it, Tobi. Oh, Mel. Tobi, I view behavior proper. I'll take you off the floor. That's right. That's right. Just so I'm about to get a good job. Inspector, with Ladwell had taken more than casual notice to Tobi. I could have forgiven him for his interference on the floor of the club. That might have been mere professional discourtesy. But there was something else in Ladwell's attitude that made me fear the man. It was his personal interest in Tobi. Now, what is this, Tobi? I became certain of this later when he came back to my dressing room pretending friendly. Anyone in there? Who is it? No one. Well, Compton. Mr. Ladwell. Well, how do you do? You mind if we come in for a moment? All right. Please do. Oh, this is my wife, Mr. Compton. This is Ladwell. Mr. Compton. What is it on? So, those dressing gowns on the floor. Thank you. Well, so this is your boy. Nice carving job. I'm very handsome. Don't you think so, Mr. Ladwell? Well, you certainly are Tobi. Tomkins, I've been curious to know who made him for you. Don't put your hands on him. I prefer that you let Tobi alone. Well, certainly you needn't worry. I'm quite handy with dummies myself.  Your own part, and it surprised me, Mr. Ladwell. Well, believe me, Tomkins, you'll see, Mr. Ladwell, Tomkins' attitude requires some sympathy. He's quite aware he's not our equal. Keep quiet, Tobi. Tomkins, how far does this gag go? That depends on you, Mr. Ladwell. And on just why you came to my question room. Oh, on their professional courtesy. You've come to make some sort of a bargain to Tobi. I am not going to commit it. No, wait, Mr. Tomkins. I will not commit it. Wait, Tomkins. I will not commit it. Whatever the Ladwell has to say to me is my affair. You might even pretend you're a gentleman and make a great look for exit.  I'm succeeding. Yes, I know.  Very well, Tobi, as I warn you. Pay that. Pay no attention to him, Mrs. Ladwell. I don't. No, I don't understand. This fellow's amazing. Not at all.  Constantly interfering in my affairs. Mrs. Ladwell, now that we're alone, may I tell you something? Something I'm sure you've heard before. What is it, Tomkins? That you're very beautiful. But I'm very fond of you, Mrs. Ladwell. Oh, now look here. And whatever Tomkins thinks, Mrs. Ladwell, you're really a very nice woman. Well, love me. No, no, I don't like this. Tomkins. Yes? Come out here. Well, what is it? How far do you want to carry a joke? A joke? Either you apologize to Mrs. Ladwell or I don't. Apologize? For what? The best crack you just made through Toby. Did I? Listen, you... Here, Mrs. Ladwell, I don't know what you're talking about. Mel, darling, let's get out of here. You're not going to leave me, are you, Mr. Ladwell? Well, please don't.  Don't blame me for all this.  I just want to be near her. If you're afraid I'll make love to her, you needn't worry. I wouldn't. Tomkins, this is the most disgraceful demonstration I've ever heard. What can I do about him? Mel, please, come on. I love her. I'll do anything if you'll just let me go Mr. Ladwell, any... All right, Tomkins, you ask for it. What's going on? I don't know what's eating that fellow. Ribs are ribbed, but he doesn't know where to stop. I guess he got the last lap on me, making me lose my temper on him. Well, he doesn't seem to be doing much laughing. He's all right. And if it's done him, can't say he didn't have it coming, though. Oh, darling, I'm glad he didn't break the dummy when he fell. Oh, don't care what happens to me. I love you, Mrs. Ladwell. In fact, I should have known then that I couldn't prevent Ladwell from getting to me. I knew they'd be talking with two of them. Oh, I see. One question, Mr. Tomkins. Would you say that Mrs. Ladwell is an exceptionally attractive woman? Who's some men, perhaps? And since we know that you think and speak through the dummy, isn't it just possible that you may yourself find Mrs. Ladwell, uh, appealing? Oh, what is this rubbish you're talking? Are you interested in learning the truth of what happened? Or are you trying to muddle me up? I'd like to hear the matter out, Mr. Tomkins. As you well know, I was sacked by the Kit Kat on the spot. I hardly spoke to Toby all the way home. I wanted to impress upon him that it's fortunate he caused us. But first I hoped that Toby's attention and Mrs. Ladwell had embarrassed them both so much that Aswells would no longer feel any interest in him. Look, in my heart I knew the Ladwells hadn't finished, but at that very moment they must have been plotting. They're plotting their next move to get Toby away from me. I'll tell you what that next move was. In our hotel, I carefully turned the key in the lock. Toby and I were secured for the night. I put him in his own little bed and he made ready for bed myself. As I moved around the room, his eyes followed me, scorned for it. Then I thought of the revolver in my bag. I took it off. The revolver in my right hand and the key in my left. I lay down on the bed. I go to sleep. I don't know for how long. Suddenly I was awake. My eyes staring. Toby was gone! What is it? Aswells, I want to talk to you. Yes, be careful. It's Tomkin. I don't want to talk. Well, it's Toby. Get out, Tomkin. Now come to Toby very easy.  I don't know what you're talking about. But if you're referring to your dummy, I haven't seen him. Now get out. What? What's wrong, dear? On the floor. On the floor at the foot of my bed. Toby. Toby, there you are. I found you.  You've been kidnapped. Look, Tomkins. I don't know how your dummy got here. Toby. Toby speaks to me. Wake up, Toby. Look at me. Look how he's shaking now, Aswells. And he's trying to weaken me. You're not deceiving me, Toby. You know very well I'm here.  I'm thrilled with you, Tomkins. Take it easy, Claudia. We've had all we can take of this, Tomkins. Are you going to deny you stole Toby from me? I certainly am. Look here, man. You're mad. You're ill. Ill? You took Toby from me and you say I'm ill? I didn't take Toby. You brought the dummy here. You must have brought it here. Maybe while you were walking in your sleep, but you brought it here. I'm going to prove it.  No, you have to come. You can shoot at your life. But I'm going to prove to you that... Hello. Hello. Give me the desk, Berkeley. Tomkins, I won't go with you. I'm going to stay with her forever. If Mr. Aswell will let me... Look, this is Mr. Aswell in 722. I want to know if someone came to my room a few hours ago. Did some sort of trick?   Did you hear that, Tomkins? I'm not deceived by this. Will you describe the man for me, please? No, no, no.  You stole Toby from me, now you're trying to drive me mad. Well, here, take the phone. No, no! I'll take this!  This time! No, I don't deny that I shot Aswell, Inspector, but I... I believe that provocation was an... I dare say so to grief. After all, Aswell turned a friend against me. An old and a very valuable friend. He reminded me very much. Tomkins, in due time, I may ask you to sign a formal confession on the basis of the story you just told me. No, Jack, you know, I'll sign it. Well, by the way, Inspector, I wonder if now you're my captain for you, Toby, again. I'd like to oblige you, but... But you told me for a short while, so I thought rather badly about not seeing you, especially after our trouble. And if we're given a little time together, perhaps Toby and I could straighten out our affairs. Well, if you like, I think I can manage with... perhaps, uh, having brought down to yourself. Yes. Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing Toby again. I am indeed. And that's the story as Tomkins told it to me, Mr. Aswell. And it's incredible. I had some idea what was going on in the fellow's mind, but that is... No, I'm so sorry for... Uh, just one question, Mr. Aswell. You thought my asking. Yes? Did you have anything to do with what's happened to the Kit Kat?  Certainly not. Yes, so I thought this business has me battle. If I thought Tomkins might be more dangerous than he's already true... Well, I'm afraid there is that possibility, Inspector. Huh? It may be that Tomkins has become so accustomed to thinking as two persons that the personalities have actually become divided. Is that possible? For one man to have two separate and distinct personalities? Yes, that's not rare. Well, I'll admit, I've never heard of anything exactly like this business. What will happen to him now? In the battle that Tomkins will have to fight out within himself. As long as he's in that cell without the dummy, he may learn to think for himself as himself again. Good heavens, man. Look here, I've permitted that dummy to be taken to the Tomkins in his cell. You what? Tomkins was so keen on having a dummy with him that I... No, do you think that will harm him? Well, I don't know, but... It's bigger. It's bigger. Oh, here I am. It's that Tomkins, sir, that Karen knows something awful in this cell. What's happened?  It's just like two people one-eating each other. Well, as well. You were right. Come on, we'd better get to them before it's too late. Well, all I can say is I knew you'd wind up this way sometime, put away for keeps a jailbird. Oh, Toby, I can't stand you having to talk to me that way. How can you be so ungrateful? I made you everything you are. You made me, did you? You were the smallest of the small till I teemed with you. Have you forgotten that once you were an empty lifeless stick of wood... Oh, come off it, Tomkins.  Please, please be a little kind to me. Get away from me. Cut down the bigger. Why should I have anything to do with you? You've never done anything right.   Don't talk to me. I wish you had killed him, and his wife would belong to me. I could be with her.  Don't you know that's impossible?  Oh, no, I can't stand to get rid of you.  Throw you. Tomkins, take your hands off me. I'm through with you.  No, you swine.  No, tell me I've failed in everything. I've missed your face.  No matter how you try. I'll be told I've never met him. You didn't reach him in time. He seems to have fainted. I guess you'd better see what we can do for the poor devil. He certainly made a pile of kindling out of his dummy, didn't he? Oh, well, what would it do to him? He seems to have turned to Toby. How is he, Inspector? He's coming around all right. Tomkins. Tomkins, come out of there. Tell him everything's going to be all right. He's residing. He's opening his eyes. Come on now. I'll help you sit up. That's a fellow. Feeling a little better now, aren't we? It's a dog. He's looking around for the dummy. Here we are, Tomkins. I guess this is what you're looking for. The dummy's broken up a bit, but you'll be all right. He said he'd kill me, but I told him he couldn't. I killed him. Isn't that wonderful, Mrs. Lazzwell? Tomkins is dead. Now we can be together forever, the three of us. You want me, don't you, Mrs. Lazzwell? You've got to want me because I think you're beautiful. And I love you, and I'll be your slave always and always. The past 30 minutes, CBS has presented Out of This World, bringing you Charles Gussman's adaptation of the motion picture Dead of Night. Barry Kroger was featured as Tomkins and Art Connie Assobi. Original music by Albert Berman. Out of This World is directed by John Mosman for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.