You two team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video It's gonna be brief. We're here to talk about the Texans and the bingles the first Thursday night matchup that we watched This is the very first one and I was some people gonna be like oh engraving there was a game on last Thursday That wasn't Thursday night football. That was more of a Sunday night football presentation But this was the first Thursday night football game first color rush game between the Texans and the bingles And this boy this thing was ugly It was a nasty one but first before we get into the game Let me introduce myself because I don't want to be rude me. 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I picked the bingles in a bounce back game I said the bingles are at home even though they were they were at home last week against the Baltimore Ravens But I said the bingles are at home. I said I feel like this is where AJ Green where he comes back This is where the Texans are gonna miss AJ Buye. I said all that stuff and I was dead wrong. I was dead wrong Bingles just they have just been looking bad They've been looking bad. They look terrible against us the Ravens. They look terrible this week against the Texans They just look bad This game started very slow. It progressed slow. It ended slow. It was just a very slow game There were bits and pieces like the Sean Watson He is he's growing this was his first NFL start and he got it to he got his win in his first NFL start So shout out to the Sean Watson. I'm sure he's going to get better Now one thing that I saw with him That I did I did see in the preseason two was that It was more so as the game continued to progress He got more comfortable he got more calm at the beginning of the game or really all throughout the game that offensive line was just breaking down man That offensive line was breaking down. It was bad. It was bad It was bad And it was just it was disgusting to see man It was disgusting to see because like somebody mentioned in um in the in the week One prediction we did for the Bengals and Ravens game. They mentioned they said engraving The offensive line it that's that's the difference between a win and a loss. That's the most important part of the game So, yeah, that is a very important part of the game but Just to just to put the how much just to put the emphasis on it right of how much That offensive line impacts the entire game It just it's hard to put a number on that like a percent like oh it impacts 60 percent of the game blah blah blah But that it does really really impact the game. You have a bad offensive line You can't run the ball. You can't pass the ball You can't do anything with the ball offensively because you have no time you can't open up run lanes You can't have good pass protection.  It's week two of the NFL season, man It's not preseason. It's not OTA. This is week two of the actual NFL season. So games are real now, man They're real Texans at defense First back to Bengals Andy Dahl and he continued just It was nasty man It was nasty It was kind of sad watching it because it's like, you know this guy got talent You know he can put up some numbers and I know he he ain't he hasn't done anything in the playoffs I know that but Andy Dahl has been besides last year and obviously starting this year But any dog has been a pretty decent regular season quarterback He puts up some numbers in the regular season that are like, okay Andy, we see you I got respect for Andy Dahl. He's killed my Ravens plenty of times man. What's up earthquake?  Oh Anyway Mmm. Oh in Green Bay, too Wow, that's that game might be sad but anyway Andy Dahl and it's like man, I just I felt like like I said, I thought this was gonna be a bounce-back game I really thought it's gonna be a bounce-back game. I see a lot of y'all more recently Vegan King. He said Marvin Lewis is done. See I Would agree with you But the way the Bengals are set up Marvin Lewis apparently has some dirt on the Bengals because this guy cannot get fired for nothing This and I'm not saying what I think he probably should have been gone a long time ago Because if you get to the playoffs over and over and over and over and over five times in a row and you have Not one not two not three not four not five wins, but zero wins in the playoffs after being there Not one not two not three not four not five. Oh, but five times. Excuse me. It was five times If you get there you got there year after year after year after year after year and You just do nothing but lose What can you do? What can you do What can you do? What can you really do for that team? That team it seems There's sometimes where it kind of sounds cheesy but when you actually take a step back and actually look at things and um And you actually like even just as a fan When you just look at things look at teams look at the way they operate Look at the way the players do things look at the way The just the coaches vibe is on the sideline Look at the players vibe while they're on the sideline on the field When you just look at the game take a step back and look at the game And just look at the attitudes of the players. Look at just everything going on with them throughout the games You can see that like I said it sounds kind of sounds cheesy, but you can see how Marvin Lewis Doesn't have a grip on the team But there's penalties just dudes getting suspended for this and that um Just boneheaded stuff and then and like I said last week last week was just For me it was like Marvin Lewis like what are you doing? What are you doing when they were playing us when they were playing the Ravens? um When they were playing the Ravens, they were down I think that yeah, they were still down 17 0 fourth quarter 17 0 in the fourth quarter and 17 0 in the fourth quarter were like I think less than nine minutes left maybe 10 minutes around there and they They were driving on the Ravens It was fourth and like eight something like that And they were like on the maybe on a 50-yard line or maybe the Ravens 40 something like that and they punted the ball Fourth quarter you're down by three scores. It's 10 minutes left in the game. This is regular season This is not preseason. This is regular season. It's not joint practice. This is regular season It's not OTA's And they punted the ball with 10 minutes left regular season game one at home down 17 When I saw that I said I wasn't complaining because I'm a Ravens fan So I was glad he did it, but I'm thinking like Where's your level of competition and what are you trying to do with your team? What are you trying to do? What are you trying to do? Um, yeah, the anti dog didn't miss some wide open receivers They kept highlighting one play where it was early in the game I think it was like third and long and he missed. Um, I forgot which receiver it was But he missed him and that was that was a big Um, that was a big play. It might not have been a touchdown. It might have been but it was a real big play And no cdj. I'm not sleeping on the Browns at all. Trust me. I'm not not at all Not at all The Browns are better than the Bengals right now. I mean, it's We'll see We'll see we got to give it time Got to give it time because as easy as the Bengals went on to Browns could go on too But then the Bengals could end up winning four straight then the Browns could lose four straight So this is a conversation that we would have to revisit Really at the end of the season. We can't really have this conversation right now Um, but yeah, the Bengals just been looking bad the Texans They didn't really look so good either. I mean it but the Texans with Deshaun. I was about to say Deshaun Jackson with Deshaun Watson um He he seemed to He seemed to take some steps forward during this during the game. I was about to say during the season But he seemed to take some steps forward during the game. Um, and he He didn't have a lot of time in the beginning of the game. He really did not have a lot of time at all He took a lot of he took a lot of sex um, he took a lot of hits He had to dance around in the pocket. He had to scramble tried to he tried to he had to try to make plays for himself Because in the beginning of the game I get it. He's he's a rookie. This is his first start He's a rookie. Um first start prime time your first start is on prime time You if your first start a 39 football the world is watching Well, it's thursday night football sunday night football monday night football either way That's a time when the world is watching. There's only one game being played and that's your first start That's a lot of pressure man. That's a lot of pressure So shout out to him for in the beginning. I felt like he was feeling that pressure maybe it overwhelmed him but What he did um, because in the beginning of the game He was like locked on to his receivers and when I say locked on he was locked on An example I'll use is when you play madden Because I want to use an example that we cannot relate to when you play madden And you you feel like you you got a good play called and you know exactly who you want to throw it to And you're like, okay, i'm gonna throw the b.  But you're so locked on to that guy That's what the shan watson. I keep wanting to say to shan jackson But that's what the shan watson was doing. He was locked on to his receivers. There was uh one one One almost pick was by pac-man jones and the other one I forgot who the other guy was but he was like locked on to uh The andre hopkins like locked on he would not take his eyes off of him And he tried to throw that ball to him Uh one the one with pac-man jones, I know I know it was a screenplay to the andre hopkins The other play I forgot what it was but he was locked So Oh, yeah, there it goes Dark dark keys the nought was a dark quest. I forgot how to say his name, but the nought that was the one. Appreciate you monta Thank you um But yeah, he did what uh monta you right? He was locked on to um to the shan I mean The andre hopkins all this the shan and the andre is going to be confusing all season But he was locked on to the andre hopkins in the beginning of the game But then he started I guess his eyes started opening up the pressure was off a little more um, he got to kind of relax take everything in and then he started He started just seeing more and he started forming that connection with the andre hopkins and the andre hopkins became his safety blanket He trusted you can you can tell he trusts the andre hopkins more than anybody on that team I mean and that's understandable the andre hopkins is the best receiver on that team by far It's like the andre hopkins is up here and then nexus I don't know who what braxton miller jaylen strong Will will fuller didn't play but who else Who else? um So yeah, but he started finding the andre hopkins more and more as the game went on Especially in the fourth quarter And they end up getting the win that play that the the I don't remember how long that russian touchdown Not the andre the shan watson got was but it was a nice one. What's up kdg. It was a nice one. Um It was really nice it I don't want to say reminded me of vink Because it the way that he cut in though because he could he could always 49 yards. Okay. Appreciate that jordan Thank you. He could have um, I thought he was gonna run out of bounds But then when he cut back in it It kind of reminded me of vick not his run style or the speed because vick was a lot faster But it reminded me of vick just because of how he was trying to make a play for his team He was putting the team on his back literally because I mean they weren't doing anything else. I'll remind you russia wilson. Okay. Well, yeah, that's a little better than Don't mention vick in his name. Keep it clean now Oh, why you don't you don't like michael vick? Vic made it look smooth.  Oh, you love vick. Okay. Got it Okay Got it He said reminded me of quincy carter. You know crazy, man. Um, but anyway, vick was a criminal Oh, let's not even start this. Anyway, moving on moving on um So, yeah, the shot the shot Watson he He grew in this game and he's gonna be growing throughout the season He's gonna be growing throughout the season But he showed that he really wanted to make a play for his team He really wanted to make a play for his team and he was trying to do that he was trying to do that because Nobody else was really making plays shout out in the end toward the end of the fourth quarter though Shout out to Lamar Miller because that run that run that Lamar Miller did was a thing of beauty where he Um, they handed the ball off to Lamar Miller He almost got tackled but he broke a couple tackles and then he was falling and then let's bring it back to Madden again So we can all relate to He he was falling But then he put his hand on a turf and then he did the uh He pressed the analog up and down when you got a balance yourself and he called his balance and he he got a bunch of yards again Man that guy that was nice man. That was a very nice play. I loved it Um, so yeah Texans and help Texans run out that clock and get another field goal and really sealed a deal Um bingles john ross. He made his debut tonight He made his debut tonight very first catch very first nfl catch He catches the ball Does he have some hands? We got to see him catch some more passes first Caught the ball started running and then pop there it goes pop goes the weasel there it goes ball out ball out and the way that it bounced it It's like jadevian clowny had a magnet inside the ball because the ball came out It bounced right to jadevian clowny and jadevian clowny picked it up But he started running like he was like a Receiver or something or fast tight in that dude took off jadevian clowny took off that guy took off but It was nice, man Starve included press conference looking like he's on the way to unemployment line I don't man. I don't even think so man I don't even think so because Every time you think marvin louis is gonna get fired He does not get fired. He doesn't Like I said, he must have some dirt on the bingles ownership What's going on village boy? He wants to have some dirt on bingles ownership because this guy just does not lose his job He doesn't but anyway, um, so that was that and Bingles with the bingles he's gonna get an extension. Yeah, he probably will man He probably will eagles of cheese. We're gonna do a video on that later on So I hope to have all those videos done for the games the game predictions. I want to do by um by saturday Um, definitely by sunday morning, but I wanted to Get them out. I don't want to put them all on sunday morning again like I did last week because that was a lot of work um So I have that throughout the weekend. I hope hopefully I'll start tomorrow. I'm a cheese fan slayer No, not me man Not me, you know, I love fans from everywhere. Every way of me. I'm not a cheese fan slayer You know, you know, if somebody come at me about my team and if they If they want to try to pull out numbers and facts and all that way when they want to come at me about my team You know, I got to defend them, man That was that's it. That's it. I know you came to me about the Ravens before a couple times and It's fine though That's the pass we've done. I would love a j green cut if came if he came to the Ravens Oh, yeah, that'd be a beautiful thing That'd be a beautiful thing. Why would they put that on prime time whenever whenever they play is terrible? Well Everybody's got to play on thursday night football. So Last year on thursday night football a lot of the games weren't very entertaining so to speak. Um So, I mean, it's it's luck of the draw I think it was toward the end of the season they got they started getting a little better, but Just the entire thursday night for thursday night football presentation. It's not very entertaining. It's just not The commentary was I think was it to riko. I think it was my to riko on there So he's he's a good commentator. I forgot who the other guy is But just the presentation the the songs do just the presentation makes a big difference It does to me. I don't know about y'all the presentation makes a big difference to me I wish they would have never changed a sunday night football song Um, I think it was faith heal. That's something the best one Was a faith heal. I think it was but they changed it like Oh, chris collins worth is the other guy.  Oh man when they drafted me Oh, man with my quarterback was throwing me the ball. Oh man me. Oh man me this. Oh man me that But I hated him and madden when he talked sometimes on I don't mind him on tv though. I liked him on sunday night football I did like him on sunday night football But anyway, like I was saying engraving is a closet packers fan. No get out of here. No No Presentation is key, which is why I hate cbs broadcast foxy mvc broadcast is better Yeah, but yeah sunday night football just their presentation when they had that old song They had an old song with faith heal that song I didn't care who was playing I didn't care who oh this is uh jj. What I didn't care who was playing on sunday night football That that song got me so hyped every single time man Every single time that song got me so hyped to watch the game that thing got me too hyped But then they changed it and I'm like come on there But the way that they did it for sunday night football that song got me so hyped and then um, yeah, it was faith heal I believe and then they will put in little clips from um, and they still do that, but this is a different song but um they will put in They might that's how to make a blow up But yeah, they were they will put in different clips from your team and they will put in some some of your players Like on a sunday night football set and man, it just got you so hyped man It got me like super hyped every single time and then um I just loved it. The commentary was great when it'd be a great play um, oh I'm not what's the the old guy's name the old short guy He's a white guy commentator Because when when when when it's a big play and he gets hyped he gets you hyped because of his commentary He's like, oh I forgot his name though I forgot his name Oh, he said y'all remember when money night football was on abc. Well, you took it back only the old people remember that Only the old people out michael's. Thank you. That's him. Thank you That's why I love these live these live streams, man because y'all y'all put me on if I forget something y'all always let me know That's him out michael's. I love his commentary Love his commentary Love it when he get hyped. He get me hyped commentators makes such a big difference They make such a big difference And I mean y'all can see it in people youtube videos, too The did you think watch and used all of his running ability? Yeah, he had to he didn't have no choice He has no choice because nobody else was doing anything um, but Yeah, so we we could talk about presentation all day, but bottom line Yeah, for for Sunday night football. They always give me hype esp ESPN money night football They um They get you hyped too because I like how before like an hour two before the game They'll be having all these different interviews with the players They'll be showing like the background of the area that they're in It's always interesting because I feel like with money night football Like if say for instance, if my wife is watching with me, too um Then I love how they'll they'll be showing the food and stuff They'll they'll be showing stuff that keeps her interested in in in the game too Because they'll be showing like people making food in the background. Y'all know what I'm talking about during money night football They'll be showing people making food in the background. They'll be showing like the city They'll be showing the downtown area They'll be showing outside by the stadium and stuff and they all I love when they do that too I love when they do that so that makes a big difference, too You think I'm crazy thinking the Ravens can go 14 and 2 or 15 and 1 Don't you I'm talking about the Ravens It's possible. I don't see it. I would love to see it. What's up tj? Um, I don't see it happening uh, only I would Their offense would just have to explode in a good way. They would have to go off They would have to be great If the office doesn't explode and go off then no ain't happening Will the Bengals be worse than the Browns this year? Hey, I don't know man John Madden and Al Michael legendary You're right You're right You're right But yeah presentation makes a big difference to me Um, and obviously what it what it all comes down to the most is the actual gameplay. Oh, yeah, too Oh, it's already midnight. Oh 2k is officially out.  I need to download it though. I gotta buy it first though. So, um, anyway That's pretty tough to go 14 and 2. Yeah That's true. They have a better team complete. They have a better team a complete team Well, let's see how the offense does. Let's see how the offense Someone give you boy 2k at I am hoping that's what I would love I would love a 2k 18 code. I really would Um, that would make my life a lot better uh Basketball game wise I already deleted 2k 17. I deleted I deleted 2k 17 a couple days before madden came out um They hadn't played it since Uh qb celebrating like Watson does Tacky or not not at all if you got rhythm Then do your thing man. If you don't have rhythm Still do your thing I remember last year when flakko played flakko and ravens played uh the browns on thursday night football And they scored a touchdown flakko and that's when the whole uh The black beaters The uh the racer in the song the black beaters. Um What was that challenge called the mannequin challenge? There we go That's when that was going on. Um and flakko and they scored. He threw a touchdown And he just stood there And it was the weirdest thing I thought i'm so used to flakko being so stiff and so awkward I thought he was just being his regular self But he was actually doing a mannequin challenge because then when I saw everybody else start doing it I was like, okay got it. I just thought flakko was being his regular self because he pretty much is a mannequin um Because he don't have any emotion or anything like that, but I was he was kind of a relief to see okay He's actually having fun. So good job flak. Um, but anyway Who you think will win the a of c north? Oh, we're gonna talk about that soon My evolution had been fighting a long time ago. He's bad His job Oh, he's had his job longer than any coaches and it has accomplished nothing. That's true That's true He emotionless. Who's emotionless more flak or Eli? Hmm I don't know. They're very similar. They remind me of each other so much They remind me of each other so much because um They're both Roller coaster quarterbacks. They up and down round and round. You never know what you're gonna get You know what they can do. You know what they have done. They've obviously accomplished plenty um But you just don't know what you're gonna get every week um and they When they get knocked out of the game like when they're just doing bad and they're getting hit and beat up and stuff Their face just looks so dumbfounded. They can make they can make the the the saddest looking faces ever ever but I don't know that's a toss up man. But anyway, appreciate y'all man. Thank you. Um, if anybody got a 2k 18 code They want to send me let me know I'll be more than happy to take it But anyway, appreciate. Yeah, they all play off quarterbacks regular season They're up and down playoffs. That's when they'll be on point. Um, but anyway Thank you. Is any dawning on on the coats a better fit? It's just that line because Andy dawning has he's put up great numbers before he put up the numbers put up the stats He can score But I guess I'd have another offensive line. Can you score anything without that? But anyway, I'm going for real this time. Y'all appreciate it, man I didn't think that we were gonna do this stream for that long. I thought this I literally thought this thing was gonna be five minutes I even told my wife and I told carter. I said, okay, see you in about five minutes I'm gonna come right back And here we are 30 minutes later You know how this goes All the time always say it's gonna be quick and it never ends up being quick Even in my mind when I'm 100% sure like, okay, this is going to be a fast stream. Let's knock it out but Never works that way. Anyway, appreciate y'all man. Thank you again Make sure you leave a like on the video if you haven't done so already And if you're new here, make sure you subscribe to the youtube channel If you're old here, make sure you stay subscribed to the youtube channel Turn your notifications on so you never miss any of these videos. What's going on big mic? And that's that man. I appreciate y'all. Thank you for everything Because this channel wouldn't be what it is without y'all man and team keeping clean So thank you and I'll see you Tomorrow morning, we should do a stream since since we got Team mobile service back in our area after the hurricane. So we're good to go now Appreciate y'all and I'm out. Love y'all. Bye. Good night Enjoy the game. Well, you just watched the game. I'm talking about enjoy the game. Okay. I'm rambling. I'm going. Goodbye


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I know if one thing was reinforced, listening to all our speakers today, it's that actionable insights are vital. And that's something we really think about at Storyful. If our insights end with a presentation, or they end with a meeting and there are no action points after that, we've failed. That's not to say presentations aren't great, but there needs to be a next step. And if you're not providing actionable insights, something's gone wrong. So I'm going to start off just by talking a little bit about crisis management. And a crisis manager might not be a role you're too familiar with. So I tried to break it down really simply. This is not a crisis. This is the monitoring stage. And crisis managers spend most of their life in this stage where it's almost like institutional paranoia, always watching, always wondering if they're missing something. And then at some point it becomes a crisis. Now, for us at Storyful, our job is to ease that pain. And we do this through a number of ways and we use a lot of data sources to do it. But I want to talk about a very specific type of crisis because crisis can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. For us we're specifically talking about reputational crisis here. That is a crisis where your consumer base or even the wider audience has lost faith in your brand. Now, with the advent of social media, this has become a massive issue for big companies and small companies. And if you think of reputational crises, it breaks into kind of two stages. And it's almost, it's a little bit like a pathogen. The first kind of the starting point is often an issue, which is a non-acute risk to an organization's interests. And these can fly under the radar or they can be very well known issues that a company is not in the place to resolve or frankly they just aren't interested in it. If you think of incidents then, that's almost like the symptoms. This is the outbreak. And this is where a company suddenly realizes we've messed up here, something has happened. It's by nature unplanned. If it was planned, we would be in serious trouble. And it can either evolve from an issue that's already known or it can happen completely separately. Now, at this incident stage, in order to mitigate against it, you do require a quick or targeted response or else you may face financial or permanent reputational loss. So I won't read out the definition of a crisis management. Basically, that's working quickly to mitigate against issues and incidents. So roughly speaking, issues and incidents can be divided into internal issues and incidents and external issues and incidents. It's actually inaccurate to put these in a quadrant because they shift, they change, they overlap, but it was the easiest way just to present this. So giving you some examples of internal issues, these are often the ones that lead to reputational incidents.  External issues then are the bigger problems that face many corporations at once and that can include infrastructure problems in the country, regulation, environmental problem, politics shifts, economic changes, and cultural shifts as well. So then, as I said, all of these can change and kind of swap and I wish there was a nice way to kind of predict what was going to happen. But these are some of the classic internal incidents. You've got your lawsuits, your accidents, HR issues, product defects, which can be also an external incident as well. Same with hacking and one of our favorite is disgruntled employees. Then, if you look at your external incidents, these can be stuff like GDPR and Uncle Blinds, pollution, exposés, boycotts, or wider perception problems. So this is your classic crisis management model. This is where we can use a lot of data to measure these things. So it starts with prediction. I didn't just write predict because this is a predict conference, but I also don't mean telling the future here. This is just the stage where you assess likelihood of issues and incidents across the company's verticals and you're never going to get full coverage here. It's just about trying to get as close as you can identifying the issues that are present. After that, then you have your planning stage. This is all about building action plans. What we see time and time again in Storyful is that the foundations are not strong, processes fail especially at times of crisis. So you need to go over these action plans, rehearse again and again and again. So then, ideally, that's the end of the model. We never have to deal with a crisis. Unfortunately, that's not the case in reality. Usually, after a crisis starts, we enter the control phase, which is the company reactive. So they've changed from passive to reactive. And this is about implementing those action plans and mitigating against long-term damage. Only then, when the crisis begins to slow down, can you assess the damage. And what you're trying to do here is we're working to return to norm. It's not often that you can actually work to return to a better stage than norm, but at least you've learned something along the way. Unlike many classic models, it finishes with the learning stage, which is the integrations of lessons you've learned into your action plans, further strengthening the processes and starting again. So how can we use data in this? These are just some ways we can use data, or many. We can perform an analysis of the landscape. That can be internal or external. We can look at consumer behavior, and we can assess the audience. Now for audience, here I pretty much mean the general public. So during, and this is my favorite part, during the actual crisis stage, everything becomes a little more real-time, and stress levels start to rise, and people want answers instantly. So really what you want here is a real-time monitoring and threat detection system and solid crisis reporting. What we often see as horrible is at this time of crisis, the highest levels, they don't know where to turn. Their classic channels of communication have broken, and they just need to find a signal. Then afterwards, you can do your brand perception assessments, where you measure, engage to see, has your reputation changed because of this crisis? And once more, you can look at the landscape, assess, and see if you need to make changes. So, Storyville, have you heard of Storyville? We're more classically known for the verification of social media, specifically to provide publishers with information and content that they can use in broadcasts or online publications. So as Paul mentioned, we kind of started during the Arab Spring where there was a dirt of content that came through social media, because people there didn't have any other avenues to share this content. And as that happened, publishers quickly found out they didn't know who to trust, they didn't know what content was real, and they didn't know whether they were allowed to use it. And honestly, those problems still exist in 2018, but we have worked with the biggest publishers in the world to ensure that they have verified content at hand, especially during the bigger breaking news stories, for example, this week, the earthquake in Indonesia. So this is kind of how we work. I had to get a Venn diagram in there as well, and we use unique data. Usually, when I say that, it is to whom I'm talking to, it is unique for you guys. It's probably not that unique, but we've built proprietary technology on top of that, and we always have a human layer, which means our data sets, they come to a human to analyze. Now, we obviously use a lot of machine learning to assist us to do that, but we still trust our team of analysts, strategists, and journalists as well. So how do we do this? You see some data inputs here on the right for today. I specifically focused on social media. This is not an exclusive list, but it does take in a large portion of social media space. For some of these platforms, we use API access. For some, we are a partner, and for some, we have elevated access as well. And I won't talk about this too much, but we suffer the same problems that I've heard in many other conversations this morning, which is we have to normalize this data. As you can imagine, the data from Facebook is very different from the data you get from 4chan. So we have to track the information flow, sequence this event, trace your origin to ensure that our data, the veracity of our data is in place, unify it, and sensorize it. And then, when we have all of that done, we work to understand the context of the data, separate fact from fiction, especially in the age of myths and disinformation, and work to verify authenticity and sources. So after that, then, this is our battle to create actionable insights. We have our inputs, which includes existing research, hypothesis, brand pillars. We look at trends from proprietary to digital. Social media monitoring tools, as well as our own data sets. And we try to blend in strategic vision and competitive intelligence. At that research phase, then, we try to attune as much as possible our insights towards that product or brand. We are usually working to test an assumption that a client has brought to us and then provide a layer of analysis on top of that that includes building customer journeys, brand touch points, understanding consumer motivations, and often very important is purchase considerations, as well. So very quickly, then, I'll just run you through a project that we're currently working through at Storyful, which is to answer those two phases of crisis management, control, and we've called it CEMIFOR, which is like an old-timey system of flag signaling. And really, what it's trying to do is not only track how a crisis spreads on social media, but also react to it and to give our clients enough time that they can make rational decisions. So this is kind of how a crisis spreads. Usually, and again, this is quite like a pathogen in its kind of how it spreads. So it usually starts with a post or a small group of posts. Let's take a product defect, for example. A picture can start on Instagram. From there, then, a contamination occurs where these original posts, they gain some traction through engagement on that platform. It spreads, then, through engagement, shares, retweets, and essentially, and a moment of real importance, is a shared cross-platform. So it's no longer contained on a single platform. Once more, it starts to bloom, where these two spreads pick the end. Usually, this is where mainstream media come in and kind of blow it out of digital media coverage. Makes everything exponentially larger. And then you reach your peak. Now, this is the point at which the crisis begins to slow or diminish due to company actions or the moving news cycle. So you can kind of see the exact... This is a real-life crisis. You can see the exact same thing happening here. What we've done with this project is we're trying to alert as close to origin as we can. So if you see the pink dotted line, that is the threshold point. So we've built a dynamic threshold for every single platform where if it goes above that threshold, that's the point it sends an alert to us. So to make this actionable and workable, our analysts are able to use flexible Boolean querying, which allows for a very broad query to be set up or a very specific query. We've also used historical backfill, which allows us to set those thresholds right there and then. And my favorite part, what we're working on right now is that these are smart alerts. So we're trying to separate, using machine learning, we're trying to separate out spam, non-entities, and make these alerts as smart as possible. And finally, clever integrations. This will only work if we can get the alerts to the person at the right time and actually, you know, wait them up if needs be. So we've actually integrated semaphore with email, Slack integrations, even phone calls if we need to do it. So right now this is a project that we're still working on. It's not out there in the market, but it's something hopefully one day we can work with a client on and hopefully true doing this will mitigate these reputational crises. I've been Dara Healy. Thanks very much. Enjoy your lunch and enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you, Dara.


headline. News update. Welcome folks. We have it now. Industrial is trading up 4.46. Nasdaq is up 2.37. S&P is up 62. Gold. Gold contract down $5.00. Trading 17.62 an ounce. We have Silverflat $22.64 an ounce. The late-sweet crew continues higher. Catches a bid once again. Up a buck 37. $78.99 a barrel. Make it 79 bucks a barrel. That energy market has some juice behind it, folks. Notes and bonds. A 10-year note down 11.6. Trading 131.23. The 30-year off a full point at $159.04 in Kingdala. Kingdala's up $207.00. Trading out at 93.983. Euro 115. Yen 111.5 and the British pound is at $136.01 U.S. Dollar. We get over and take a look at the spy. We get a nice bounce going out here. It is on light volume. Bottom line is that we're going up at $64 million. You hit a low yesterday with a $128 million. That being said, bottom line is that this thing can get up somewhere that's spying to like $4.32. $4.43, rather. That's kind of where ICE is. That's kind of where that's setting up there. NDX100, the same type of setup inside the NDX. Bottom line, you get the cues right now. You get a huge contraction of volume. You have only 36 million chairs. We hit a low yesterday with 76. They'll do 46, 48 million somewhere around there. That being said, bottom line, if we hold price in this queue going into the close, it's going to be the same setup, meaning that this thing can get up into this free 73 right now. You're at $359. Now, that being said, the bottom line is that we'll put this on a weekly and see what happens. What happens is that we are going to have another high volume low. We had a high volume low last week. We're going to have another one. That's saying that lower prices are coming at us. Gold. Gold contract right now trading out at a price point of $17.62. We got the $17.48. Rejected lower price. Gold wants to go to the top of its consolidation. This is a nice little move out here today, actually. The top of the consolidation inside the gold market is at $18.3690. We'll see how it handles the downdraft. We've been up there three times already. Each time we get up there, the downdraft that was out there from June basically just sent it right back downtown. Good old King Dollar. King Dollar right now trading up 200 ticks. We're at $93.984. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.


Two Shakespearean-inspired superhero films do battle. It's the Lion King, I mean Black Panther, versus Thor on movie feuds. Planet Asgard and the hidden African nation Wakanda are both rich with culture and the people that populate these fictitious places are interesting and varied. The Asgardian clothing, buildings, and leadership are based on Norse mythology, which helps Thor's film stand out when compared to the typical big city locations in the other Marvel properties. Anthony Hopkins rules this small planetary body as Odin.  It's amazing how much of a change he goes through in three Thor films and two Avengers titles. He's almost unrecognizable in Thor Ragnarok, coming off more as a lovable yet naive college frat guy. Black Panther's title character T'Challa was introduced in Civil War, but in his first solo film we really get to see his place in this universe. Chadwick Boseman reprises his role effortlessly here, but I do think he suffers in the same way Captain America did. He's a good man, a good man with a good heart, and it's hard for a good man to be interesting. In fact, I was far more excited when just about anyone else in Black Panther showed up. The female guards of the throne are simply amazing in this. Thor has his own band of brothers, who look a bit like Lord of the Rings cosplayers. Jamie Alexander has Sif being the only real standout and would have been a damn fine pick for Wonder Woman. We have a couple siblings here as well. T'Challa's sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, has it all. Brains, beauty, and a great sense of humor. The same could be said about Loki. He's a troubled trickster as well, who has been one of the strongest Marvel villains for like 18 films. Although Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger gives him a bit of a run for his money, with many calling Jordan's portrayal of the bad guy one of the best yet. I still think Loki takes the crown, but Killmonger is no slouch. They both have very compelling backstories the audience can sympathize with, but we'll talk more about that in round two. Angela Bassett and Renee Rousseau add a touch more class to the pictures, as the mothers of our leads.  Andy Serkis is a crazy arms dealer. Idris Elba is a badass, all-seen gatekeeper of a magical rainbow road called the Bifrost. There's a Mario Kart joke in there somewhere, but I'm not in the mindset to make it. Forrest Whitaker is once again doing his goofy accent shtick, and Kat Dennings is trying her hardest to make Thor funny. To be fair, I think she does succeed more than she fails, so props to her. These movies both have a half-assed love arc too. Thor is as far more successful as the relationship between Hemsworth's character and Portman's Jane Foster is baked into the narrative.  And this goes on in the second film, and by the third one they just don't even bother. Like, she's just ridden offscreen. They're like, oh yeah, Jane, we broke up. Like, how much does that tell you when two full movies can't even build this relationship fully? I do have far more hope for Lupita's character and Black Panther, but we'll see. We'll see. As it stands, Lupita has very little to do in Black Panther. I'm just happy she's in the picture. I could watch her peel an orange for two hours. She's just a treat. Let's move on to round two. I really chose to feud these two movies together because the stories are oh so similar. We have two heirs to the throne who have to prove they're the right men for the job. But there's a past mistake that comes back to pose trouble for both parties. In Black Panther's case, it's a pissed-off cousin going by the name of Killmonger, an outcast from the beautiful and lush lands of Wakanda. He comes back to claim what he believes is rightfully his, a spot at the top.  Terrible Thor Ragnarok callback joke. Subscribe. The god of mischief lays out a plan to get his brother banished from Asgard so he can take his place as ruling king. Thor, now on earth, needs to prove he is worthy of wielding a magical hammer to one day return home. The first half of Thor really works well for me.  But once the god of thunder hits earth, the movie slows down hard and we get very little in terms of exciting events. There's a Hawkeye cameo. That's, that's something. Panther, on the other hand, ramps up a lot in the middle for me and really picks up steam when Killmonger is in the mix fully. Unfortunately by the final act, it falls into the Ben there done that territory and I lose a lot of interest. Thor is front heavy in the action department too, with the battle against the Frost Giants being the only real highlight. Black Panther's all over the place with the action. The hand-to-hand waterfall fights are great and far more intense than the extremely lackluster end battles that rely far too much on green screen and CG work. Come on, let's talk more about that. From a production standpoint, Thor seems to be a little bit more even-keeled, a little bit more consistent. The CG work is on the higher end of things and somehow manages to look more practical, which is odd considering half the movie takes place on other planets. It's doubly amazing considering this movie only had a budget of 65 million. The music composed by Patrick Doyle is appropriately weighty. The London Symphony Orchestra created 24 powerful tracks that showcase the might of Thor's fall and his rise back to the top. Black Panther is an interesting movie for a myriad of reasons. The African-American influence is all over this thing. The look of the tribes, the inspired art, the historical events woven into the story lines and of course the cast themselves.  Not even prominently black characters, but like one black guy. You have the Blade Trilogy. You have Meteor Man. You have Blank Man. You have Hancock? Spawn? Steel? I'm running out. There might be one or two more, but that's just sad. And most those movies suck. On top of that, none of these aforementioned flicks had a budget anywhere near the massive $200 million one Panther did. So for cultural significance in the real world, this is a big deal. I understand.  This is huge and there should be far more of these. The numbers don't lie either. This thing's making bank. People want representation, Hollywood. Make it happen. All that said, I don't give movies 10 out of 10s because they have an all female cast or some other gimmick attached to them. Black Panther, however, is no gimmick. It's the real deal, but it is an inconsistent one. So it's no 10 out of 10 for me. It could have benefited significantly from a tighter runtime and much better effects, especially with the budget director Ryan Coogler had to work with. The music is a beautiful blend of different themes and styles. Switching from South African inspired beats to the more familiar Kendrick Lamar jams, where appropriate. Let's close this thing up. With similar arcs and ideas going on, this feud ended up being a tad bit harder than I initially thought it would be. I enjoyed Thor probably a bit more than the average moviegoer, but it has some problems and it mainly circles around that love story I previously mentioned and a terrible middle act with a budget that clearly was restricting them. Black Panther is far from perfect, but this is a great initial solo film and it got me actually interested in further films to come. But I'm very eager to hear your thoughts below. Leave a comment, vote for your winner, and remember, this is more than just reviews, this is movie feuds. I started a new segment where I turned to Twitter to end these out.  Anyway, let's see what they had to say. Paul tweets, All in all, I feel Black Panther is one of the better MCU movies, but not the best. Good action, relatively good CGI for the most part, great acting, and one of the best MCU villains. Thor has most of these as well, but with less likable characters and forced earth plots. He essentially summed up my seven or eight minute feud in less than five sentences. Great. Johnny Bellow says, Martin Freeman's appearance in Black Panther was more interesting than Natalie Portman's entire two films with hers. Not the best constructed sentence, Johnny, but I get what you're putting down. Natalie Portman was not good in these, although I love her. I do love her. She could have done better. They should have done better with Portman. All right, we're gonna stop there. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


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Welcome again to the International Affairs Capsule of Shankar AIS Academy. This time we'll talk about America is back. Diplomacy is back. These are the words with which President Joe Biden started addressing the State Department for the first time. As you know the State Department is the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Government of the United States. So this was his first visit to the State Department and he made use of that opportunity to outline some fundamental aspects of his foreign policy. We have already talked about his statements before the election, then the executive orders he issued on the day he was sworn in and in the next few days about 30 of them. All of them have given some indication or the other of the way his foreign policy will be shaped. But this particular address he gave to the diplomats in the presence of his new Secretary of State, Mr. Blinken, Anthony Blinken, who is a very well-known professional diplomat. He spelt out the contours of his foreign policy, not exhaustively, but from the point of view of immediate priorities of his foreign policy. So we have to take into account the statements he has done before the elections, statements he have done at the time of issuing the executive orders, and then also the statements made by his Secretary of State as well as Secretary of Defense. So all these we take into account, we will see a clear perspective of Mr. Biden's policy. Of course, we all know that the whole purpose of his foreign policy is to repair and rebuild because in the last four years American foreign policy has been rather less or in a sense confused. And so his idea is to bring back into the global stage, that's what he, why he said America is back. And also he said that diplomacy is back because United States is now going to engage the world in a different ways. If you look at this whole perspective from India's point of view, we will find that he gives prominence to India only in the context of Indo-Pacific as well as China. It is not that India does not figure anywhere else, but if you look through his speech you will find, though he did not mention India at all. We can of course see that his thinking about the Indo-Pacific and China, India is very much part of it. Of course he is not mentioning India is not particularly significant because his defense secretary, Young Lloyd Austin and his Secretary of State have spoken about India in the context of the Quad, the Quadrilateral we have spoken about earlier. And the Quad security dialogue has been mentioned specifically in those statements. And both of them have also spoken to their counterparts, that is the Secretary of State as well as the National Security Advisor have already spoken to their counterparts in India. Anyway, India apart, he dealt with several issues. Of course the pandemic, the climate crisis and nuclear proliferation, etc. We already know his positions. But what he's felt out clearly this time were about Myanmar, Russia and China. Myanmar because it is a new issue, mostly unexpected that it came up at this time. And therefore he devoted some attention to Myanmar. His specific emphasis there was democracy. But here there's a problem because the democracy that we had in Burma or Myanmar, they normally use the word Burma for Burma, not Myanmar. Americans normally refer to it as Burma. So the cool that took place very recently, upstaged a government which was not really democratic. The military had a very important role in it. And the civilian component of the army was dormant rather than dominant. So he did not take that into account. But he characterized the administration in Burma as democratic. And therefore he said force should not be used to upstage democratic regimes. He expressed concern about the situation. And in a democracy force should not be used. And it should not seek to overrule the will of the people. So this is more metaphorical, but in strict terms, the government was not a majority rule government or a democracy of the kind that we are used to. So what he said was that he should ask the military to relinquish power, the release the prisoners, which means Ong San Suu Kyi, the state counselor, the president, and several others who are in house arrest. And he also said that the telecommunication should be restored and refrain from violence. So he has characterized the Burmese government as a classic democracy. And he used the words which would normally be used in the sense of a democratic government being upstaged. So there is a lack of clarity there, because countries like India, China, Thailand have reacted differently. They are asking for both the sections that the army as well as people's representatives to be working together. And they are not talking about some democracy, pure and simple. So there is a little difference there. And countries like India, China, Thailand, etc. would not demand restoration of democracy in the way it was. But they have talked about the importance of respecting the elections and working out a formula between them. So there is a slight difference in perception when it comes to Myanmar. Then he spoke about the importance of alliances and allies. And he said that United States will resume the pattern of cooperation, because American alliances are our greatest asset. Leading with diplomacy means standing shoulder to shoulder. So in diplomacy, the countries which will stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States will be its allies. So this is a fundamental difference between President Trump and President Biden. Because President Trump did not treat his allies with respect. He wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany and also reduce the funding of NATO in various ways. He has irritated his allies, not only in Europe but also in Asia. And so he said that he would certainly go back to the allies and give them the most important positions in their calculations. Specifically, he also said he was halting the withdrawal of American troops from Germany that President Trump had ordered. Surprisingly though, when he started talking about the adversaries of the United States, he mentioned Russia first rather than China. This is a little bit surprising because if United States is looking at their adversaries, we would have thought that he would put China as number one. Of course he has said that that is the most serious competition that they have, but he has dwelt at length on Russia in rather strong terms. Of course he gave the good news that he has agreed with Russia to extend the existing START treaty. This is arms limitation treaty for five years. Because arms limitations treaties were all in danger because these bilateral treaties that is United States and Russia treaties which were created during the Cold War have become somewhat redundant because it is not a matter between Russia and the United States anymore. There are other players in the nuclear game, particularly China. So President Trump's view was that these bilateral treaties may not be of much significance since China is not part of this arrangement. Because as you know, arms limitation is basically balancing numbers of arms. When you have a capacity to destroy each other, what is the need to accumulate weapons beyond their requirement? And that was the logic of arms limitation.  And that was the idea of a reduction. And countries like us did not consider this important because if they have already capacity to destroy the world, what is the point in reducing something or the other just to save their funding situation? So we did not give much importance, but any limitation of arms, any reduction of arms is welcome and that is why the world accepted it. So having said that this has been extended for five years, which means there is time to negotiate this further. And then he accused Russia of several aggressive actions, as he called them. First of all, he talked about interfering in the elections in the United States, which has actually been established in many ways by various commissions. But of course, Donald Trump did not accept that. So interfering with elections was one of the points that he made. And he also talked about cyber attacks, which have been mounted by Russia. And then he spoke of the internal situation of poisoning and arresting rebel leader, Mr. Navalny. And he asked that such activities should be stopped. So he gave specific indication that Russia will continue to be an adversary of the United States. This, as you can imagine, creates a certain problem for us because we have very good relations with Russia. Not that this would be linked, but in the process of our purchasing arms from Russia, etc., the United States might look at us with some concern. Of course, he did not spell it out, but it is clear that this kind of a confrontational approach to Russia may also mean some concern about India's relations and India's purchase of arms from Russia. Then he came to what he called the most serious competitor. So it's a slightly diluted expression than what Trump would use in the sense that he's not talking about China as an adversary, but as a competitor. And so the impression is that a pragmatic approach will be used, not the Trump approach of a sledgehammer, but more a gentle approach to China. But at the same time, he made it very clear that when it comes to certain matters, he will take on, that's the word he used, take on directly the challenges to security, prosperity and democratic values. And he also said that he'll confront economic abuses, aggressive and coercive action. And then he said that he'll push back attacks on human rights, intellectual property. So various areas in which the United States is concerned, security, prosperity, democratic values, aggressive and coercive action, economic abuses, and various of the various these issues in which he specifically spelt out that he'll confront China, take on China, that's what he used, the word he used. In this context, you did not mention Quad, maybe because he's speaking specifically of China rather than about Indo-Pacific or Asia as a whole. But he immediately followed it up with readiness to work with Beijing. This is an interesting formulation, that is it is not an altogether confrontational relationship. But with those conditionalities, that is China does not spoil United States principles or try and work against it. Whenever it meets the interests of the United States, he said that he is willing to work with China. Here again, we didn't find any mention of India, unlike the Trump administration, when the Secretary of State Pompeo talked about Chinese flexing of muscles. He not only included the South China Sea and Southeast Asia and Taiwan and Hong Kong, but also the Himalayas. So here again, there is a slight dilution of that position as far as India is concerned. But earlier, before President Biden spoke about China, a significant remark was made by Secretary of State Blinken. He said that President Biden will continue Trump's policy on China. That is probably the only policy of Trump that he is willing to continue. And there he had mentioned, Secretary Blinken had mentioned the South China Sea, Indo-Pacific, strategic approach to Quad. And there he also mentioned India, US, Japan and Australia. But in Mr. Biden's statement, he talked about China's issues with China, plus he also talked about readiness to work with China if American interests are involved. So it's a very significant statement, which will also be demonstrated as we move on. He mentioned Paris Agreement again, because he had announced that he would join Paris Agreement that has already been done.  And work must have started in talking to other countries, etc. But here there is one disturbing thought, which he expressed. And he said in our pursuit of limitation of greenhouse gases, etc. Not only that, United States will pursue its policies, but also we can challenge and quoting him. We can challenge other nations, other major emitters, which incidentally includes India. So he said that we can challenge them and try to bring them in line with the policy of the United States. And this is of course the proverbial difference between developed and developing countries. Developed countries have to reduce emissions because they are luxury emissions. While for the developing countries, they are survival emissions. The basic debate between development and the environment for which many compromises were found earlier, but all that disappeared at the time of the Paris Agreement. So here we may have some problems with the United States position. And the campaign that they will now follow will perhaps be somewhat in conflict with what we ourselves want to pursue. Because we want per capita emissions to be taken into account. And also the special responsibility of the developed countries. These are two principles which we hold very dear. Then he moved on to a general policy on what is called securitization of foreign policy. What he said that the foreign policies would be aligned with national security priorities. This of course need not be stated because every country naturally aligns its foreign policy with security concerns. And that is where the importance of the alliance, alliances coming, the allies coming. Because where you deploy your forces, what equipment you buy, all this will relate to security considerations. And as I mentioned, of course, he again talked about the troops being withdrawn. He will not withdraw the troops from Germany and he will strengthen NATO. But our external affairs minister has also been speaking recently about securitization of foreign policy. So we may not have any dispute with that. And with all the threats that we have from media sources, we also approach foreign policy with the concern about security. But another important announcement that he made was about Yemen. As you know, there has been a war going on in Yemen since 2015. This is a leftover of the Arab revolution. We changed many governments in many countries. And Yemen where the revolution came a little early and it resulted in the change of the president. The two parties, basically the Shias and the Sunnis, continue to have a confrontation all these years. It is virtually divided into two, it has two presidents in position. And they have been continuing rather fierce war in that country, creating a threat not only to the people, the innocent people inside the country, but also threats to the area through which a lot of shipping takes place via the Gulf of Aden and so on. But nobody took much interest in this outside the region. On the one side it was Saudi Arabia, the Sunni leadership and the other side was Iran. So these two countries were virtually having a proxy war in this area, which resulted in a huge humanitarian crisis. The UN and others were expressing concern about this. But at the same time, since the big powers were not involved, this was considered a kind of civil war and much attention was not given. This is also because of the United States special interest in Saudi Arabia. Normally, United States, particularly President Trump, would not have liked to displease Saudi Arabia to any extent, particularly since he was selling a huge amount of weapons to Saudi Arabia. And also in the case of the murder of Khashoggi, the journalist, Mr. Trump had taken a very soft position also because of that. So it was clear that some of these weapons which went to Saudi Arabia were also being used in the Yemen war. And this was a concern for the Democratic Party as well as Democratic forces in the United States. And Mr. Biden decided to deal with it and declare a policy right at this moment. And so he has said that he will try to end the war in Yemen and said that relevant arms supplies, he didn't say to whom, where, by whom, etc., but the relevant arms supplies relating to the Yemen war will be stopped. But in the same breath, he said, but he will continue to assist countries in Saudi Arabia to defend its sovereignty. And he also said that whatever policies that United States will pursue in Yemen or in Saudi Arabia will not be at the expense of our existing good relations, which is, he did not mention Israel, but that's probably what he meant. And this is significance because the United States was instrumental in bringing about reconciliation between some Arab countries and Israel because Saudi Arabia has not done that, but UAE has done it. And therefore, this significant announcement may appear to be rather causing some concern in Saudi Arabia. But it's very clear that this is only in the context of the Yemen war that the President was speaking. So these were the main elements in the statement that he made. But he also made some policy relating to the other countries and particularly the third world, as he's called it. Third world, that world is normally not very much used these days. But what he said was a little bit interesting because he said that he would, if necessary, he did not say it in so many words, but he implied that the United States will take preventive action in these developing countries so that anything that happening in those countries do not have an impact on the United States, whether it is trade, whether it is health or whether it is internal disturbances, it is violation of human rights. So since the world is all one these days, you cannot be unconcerned about any disturbing elements in the third world countries, as he called it. That means his interest will not only be in allies in strengthening them, etc. He will also keep an eye on the third world, as he said. And he said that America cannot afford to be absent any longer from this region. So here there is a little bit of a warning here that America will be conscious of negative developments in other countries. And if necessary, there will be intervention, humanitarian intervention, threat to people, economy, all these issues, trade issues, immigration and the pandemic, of course. It is a benign intervention in the sense that he is talking about helping them. But at the same time, there is a ring of warning that the United States cannot wait for any of these crises to spread to the United States. Though they will probably, the United States will look at this, any such development with interest and try to prevent it permeating into the United States. So these were the fundamental points that he made, but it was generally a friendly speech to the world. In the United States, America is coming back. And there is a very clear signal to China, where China should not be unnecessarily aspiring to fill the vacuum of the United States. But of course, when he speaks this, he also is aware that he has many, many problems. From India's perspective, we need not read too much into his not mentioning India that has been mentioned by some commentators. But in my own article, I wrote that India was not mentioned among the allies because we are not an ally, we are only a friend. So we need not look at that as a concern. But like in climate change, like in general development issues, there may be on Russia, on Myanmar, etc. There may be differences between our perspective and US perspective. Otherwise, there is no cause for any concern in what he has said. And Russia also, our interest in Russia and our close relations may have some implications for what he has done. But so now we really know what are the dimensions of the foreign policy. And he has also given a very good signal to the diplomats, to American diplomats that he will be using them effectively. I believe President Trump did not even go to the State Department for one year and did not seek any advice from them on foreign policy. They probably understood about Trump's foreign policy when he read the tweet in the morning, what he was tweeting in the middle of the night and then act accordingly or not act accordingly. That was the policy that they followed. So what President Biden gave them the assurance that they will be at the center of his foreign policy, which is the right position. And he spoke also about the qualities of the Secretary of State, how they had worked together for many years. And he said that what the Secretary of State says will be what he says. So complete identity of use. So the American diplomats will also be happy with what America is going to do. So I think the world has a reason to feel comfortable that America is back, but he did not hold back any, any information. They clearly outlined where the friends are, where the adversaries are, and where the United States may need to intervene in one way or the other. And now we have to look for specific issues, which he will deal with. The immediate point is Obama, because there the demonstrations have started, pro-democracy demonstrations have started. The Security Council has demanded the release of the prisoners. And it all depends how much the western countries, particularly the America will be willing to use force in the sense of sanctions. They had sanctions for many years, but whether they'll reimpose sanctions or give the military some more chance to bring about peace. And they would want to avoid any conflict with China in Burma. So this probably will be a test case. And one other point I would mention is that in intervening Yemen in a peaceful way and trying to end the Yemen war, he may have given a slight hint to the Iranians that America will be reasonable with Iran. As far as the GCPO is concerned, which you are familiar with, the nuclear deal, the US position is that as soon as Iran goes to the implementation of the deal, in the sense that reduce enrichment, then the sanctions will be lifted. And so it is the chicken and the egg, which one will come first? United States want implementation first and Iran wants lifting of sanctions first. So this debate is going on and they will have to find a way. And also they will have to find a way how they bring in the question of the involvement of UAE and Saudi Arabia in these nuclear arrangements. Generally, talking about UAE, I'd like to mention another development which is not related to the United States, is they have dramatically announced that they will be giving dual citizenship to foreigners living in the UAE. This is very new. As you know, citizenship was not being given to any foreigner in most of these Gulf countries. They can live there, long visas are given, permit is given to work, etc. But no citizenship. But this initially there was some enthusiasm among the Indians, but they suddenly realized that India itself does not allow dual citizenship. So if any Indian acquires UAE passport, he will have to surrender the Indian passport. But there are some countries which allow dual citizenship. United States, UK and Israel is one of them. So my suspicion is that this has been brought into being basically to encourage Israel to send people to UAE and also to invest there because those who invest huge sums of money will have the advantage of dual citizenship. Because nobody is saying this, but this is my conjecture that may be the reason why they have come up with this. It doesn't apply to the Indians unless they take a UAE citizenship and surrender the Indian citizenship. That's no great advantage to India. Government of India has examined this issue many times and we have decided that according to our constitution this is not possible because dual loyalty is not possible. You can have dual passport, but how do you vote for two in two countries and how can you be loyal to two countries? This is something that we have not accepted. So these new UAE rules regarding dual citizenship created some kind of excitement in India in the initial stages. But now everybody has settled down because this will not benefit Indians in UAE. But it might benefit other countries which allow dual citizenship including Israel. I stop here at this point. Thank you.


Thank you all for being here today. I am always moved by this event and impressed with all these people that came To show our survivors that they matter and their story matters and how important it is to believe I am Christine Downs with the Denver Police Department and we have some esteemed people here to speak First we'll hear from well second. We'll hear from Beth McCann with the district attorney's office the district attorney Denver Police chief Ron Thomas Forensic program nurse at Denver Health Michelle Mets and Laura Plotin Petland with the blue bench, but first Something that is important for all of us is to hear from the people that matter. So we're gonna start with three brave survivors We have Jen Merz the color queen Tali and D Like to come forward and tell your story Good morning Should I give my name again? Sorry. You're okay. I'm Jim Merz color queen I am a survivor of sexual assault by my stepfather the monster It started when I was eight and continued for nearly 10 years Like so many of us. I kept this hidden for a very long time Thanks to the me-two movement. I began my journey of sharing my story publicly. I Am originally from New Jersey After relocating to Colorado. I had a difficult time. I Found the blue bench and the services I received and still do as needed have made Colorado a safe place and my home Our art exhibition relationships slowly started in 2020 during my first solo show on disguise which featured seven self portraits portraying emotions and body image issues that come with being a survivor a few blue bench staff members came to my opening night in a knee-high snowstorm and They didn't even know me To this day, I am blown away by their support and dedication to survivors Since 2022 I have been working with the blue bench to put on an annual art exhibition rise For survivors of sexual assault and violence Its purpose is to elevate our voices our stories Spread awareness and Provide a community to do so This year they have named me co-founder which I am so humbled by Our submissions have tripled since last year and our participants are slowly growing starting from 20 and 20 22 33 and 2023 and this year's 2024 rise exhibition includes 65 survivor artists There's just so much power and bravery in this exhibit and I'm so honored to be a part of it My pieces for this year's exhibition represent three different versions of myself In the physical exhibition, I have my painting dynamic from my undisguised series of 2020 I chose her for two reasons one. She is how I met Megan Carvajal from the blue bench the executive director in 2021 when she came to another art exhibition by the women's caucus for art the work of women she came to my artist talk and That's how we connected The second reason is she is power and represents the ability to face the pain and adversity with the healing light within The second piece is a small mixed media installation with drawing crowns and little girl toys This is something totally new for me and is expressing what my younger self couldn't the title is inspired From scowls dead to me song lyrics from scowls dead to me song and Lastly in our virtual gallery is a painting that I reworked for the sex years exhibition Silent all these years title inspired by Tori Amos's song Representing the feeling of imprisonment in chains and no voice It is such an honor and a privilege to have these pieces of part of the exhibition And has been so imperative to my healing journey and process Thank you all very much for being here today and this opportunity to speak Hello My name is D. I Am a visual artist and mirrorless here in Denver, Colorado I Wow, there's so much I have to say that's amazing about the blue bench the rise show the artists involved I was really really glad to find the art call for this show In 2023 and I submitted a piece that I had made many many years earlier That just represented tragedy from being a survivor of sexual assault Repeatedly in many different situations So that that represented that to me And I was glad to have a place and a platform to actually speak about that I am ever so grateful to blue bench and Jen Merz for just putting together this space and these women this incredible talent and The ability for us to use our voices in the world and express ourselves Because often that we unfortunately do have situations where we are not believed We are not believed by friends. We are not believed by family We are not believed by law enforcement sometimes and it's absolutely exhausting to be retraumatized Have to relive experiences in order to bring them to light and sometimes in order for people to believe They need details and I don't think that's fair. I don't think it's right and That is why I appreciate this show so much and why I'm involved in this show because none of those are requirements We had Monday. We hung this show as a group. We had an exhibition team of their survivors and artists that are in this show It was one of the most amazing experiences. I have ever had with a group of women There was camaraderie we had fun and we made friendships and I think that they'll last quite a while so There's not really much more that I have to say except for thank you. Thank you. Thank you blue bench Jen Merz Hi, my name is Tali and I am rise 2024 featured artist I make pieces like wholehearted and this are all yando for everyone and everywhere My art is a story that started with believing Believing in a survivor says a lot about our world our society and our community Whether you are a student whether you are Someone who was born in the States or whether you came to the States as an immigrant whether your sexual assault happened years ago or none I Want to say that? We stand together and the perpetrators will always stand alone I want to say that rape is rape. No matter how many how many how many or how much people try to categorize it It doesn't have a category No matter how much people try to silence and ignore it. It exists and it's not okay Many times people will try to build cement walls on top of quick sand But rise is a proof of a rose blooming through those concrete walls I am beyond grateful to be a part of rise with many talented and strong artists and strong Individuals who have came together to really create this community and create a safe place not only in my heart Not only in my life But for everyone here in Colorado for everyone in the state for everyone in the country and in the world Thank you And now I'd like to introduce the district attorney Beth McKinnon Thank you Christine and Thank you all for being here for this important event. This is really a an amazing turnout I also want to take a moment to thank everyone at the Denver Police Department who is here the Denver Health Medical Center and the Blue Bench For highlighting the importance of supporting victims of sexual assault and helping them come forward To report these things. I also want to recognize a couple of members of my office who are here Who are working every day to prosecute and hold accountable people who commit this terrible crime So Maggie convoy is the assistant district attorney and she oversees all of our special victim Units and cases and Bree Beasley back there in her beautiful teal Is our sex assault specialist in the office and they work every day to hold those accountable who commit this crime Like so many of you I've been very touched by the stories of these powerful women that have Been brave enough to come forward today and talk publicly about what happened to them But I'm also touched by the powerful works of art that we see around us I'm inspired by your strength and your bravery in coming forward to share this person very personal experience as you probably know this campaign is about encouraging victims to come forward and Talk about what happened to them To end their silence and bring attackers To justice studies show unfortunately that at least half and possibly as many of two as many as two-thirds of all sexual assaults go unreported Ultimately if we are to hold sexual predators accountable and stop them from assaulting others We need victims to report their abuse to the police and then stick with us through the criminal justice process It's never easy. It's intimidating. It's grueling but I Assure you that the folks in my office will do everything they can to support our victims as they go through this process We will be by your side every step of the way. I Speak for everyone in my office when I say that we will always start by believing and I would encourage everyone in Denver and throughout Colorado to do the same I'm honored to be here today And I want to again salute the artists who are so willing to express what happened to them through these beautiful works of art and then Be visible about coming forward. So, thank you all very much Now I'd like to call up to Thomas Thank you, and good morning everyone You know, we just start by saying it's an honor for me to be here today for the 10-year recognition of the start by believing campaign You know, I understand talking about sexual assault is never easy, especially if it happened to you And so, you know, I think it's important I think to recognize the bravery of these these young artists for coming forward with their stories and I just think I just want to thank you for the bravery that you've shown You know, I truly believe that you know, we need to keep bringing awareness to this issue and and really stress the importance of believing survivors Also, I want to recognize that you know survivors may not want to report a Sexual assault that they've that they've suffered and I certainly respect and honor that decision But I just want you to know That you know, we have a dedicated team of investigators and supporters and advocates That are here for you if and when you do choose to report that now I see a number of our investigators and advocates here in the room I just want to say thank you for the hard work that you do So on behalf of Mayor Johnson who unfortunately could not be here today I know that he recognizes how important today is and so he did a sign of acclamation that it's an honor for me to read today and so It starts off by saying Whereas the start by believing campaign encourages Community members to start by believing victims of sexual assault just as they would believe a victim of any other crime And whereas one into women one in three men and one in one and two Trans non-barrett non-binary individuals will experience sexual assault in their lifetime One in four girls and one in 13 boys will experience sexual assault as children And whereas research shows that victims often tell a friend or loved one that they were sexually assaulted And how that person reacts has to has a direct correlation to whether the victim takes steps to receive the help They need which can be reported to police contacting a victim advocacy group or receiving medical aid or mental receiving medical aid or mental health care and Whereas research around sexual assault so it shows that 90 to 98 percent of sexual assault reports are true 80% of them a 80% of the time the suspect is known to the victim and Saying I believe you significantly increases the chances that they will seek Help and decrease the likelihood of victims engaging in self-destructive behaviors And whereas this year marks the 10th year anniversary of the start by believing campaign in Denver Where the Denver Police Department Denver District Attorney's Office Denver Health and the blue bench remain committed to believing and supporting victims of sexual assault While reducing the number of sexual assaults holding account holding offenders accountable and providing Support to survivors of sexual assault and whereas throughout the week of April Denver City and County Building The McNichols building Ellie Cockens Opera House and the Buell Theater at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts ball arena and a power field at mile High will all be illuminated in teal to shine a light on the importance of believing victims of sexual assault And it concludes by saying now there I've Mike Johnson mayor of the city and County Denver by virtue of the authority invested in me do hereby proclaim today April 3rd 2024 to be known as start by believing day. Thank you. Thank you chief Michelle Mets with Denver Health Hello, I want to first off thank the survivors for speaking. This is very daunting When you just have one-on-one let alone here in front of another group, so I want to honor that because I know that is not easy I've had the privilege of being a part of the Denver Health Forensic nurse or same nurse team since 2006 Our nurses start by believing by providing compassionate patient-led care We recognize coming to the hospital can be daunting We ensure that our patients are educated on their options And we also make sure that those decisions that they make are honored We empower patients to do what's right for them a Forensic exam is about making sure the patient is okay. It's about making sure that they have access to resources to help with their healing It's about ensuring that they have access to medications to prevent in front infections All in a trauma-informed and patient-centered way. It's about the patient. It's not about us We're not there to push them one way or the other. We're there to support them as We enter the 10th year of the start by believing campaign I've looked back on that time because I've had the privilege of being part of it this entire time and Though there isn't actual data. I can't say for sure These are the numbers that says whether or not this has made a difference what I've seen is it has I have seen increased in communication Between our multidisciplinary team holding each other accountable and having hard conversations with each other sometimes I Have seen our staff at Denver health now Staff-wide our entire system has have all been educated at least on what the options are available for patients And trust me, I've gotten plenty of those phone calls about what do I do to best take care of people? I've had calls from family members and loved ones who are reaching out asking how they can support Their loved one who's been impacted by some form of sexual violence. Those are changes. This is making a difference So being believed is important I feel like we live it there at Denver health and we will always start by believing and now Laura with the blue bench Good morning. Thank you all for being here and thank you to our community partners and the amazing survivors who have already spoken before me My name is Laura Patlin. I am the co-director of client services at the blue bench The blue bench is Metro Denver's only sexual assault prevention and client services Organization providing comprehensive care at little to no cost to for survivors and we always start by believing. I Have had the honor of being a part of the movement to support survivors and end sexual violence for over eight years During that time. I have met all kinds of survivors from all walks of life Their experiences and healing journeys are unique to them But one thing that I have seen echoed across their stories is the significance and importance of being believed The simple act of saying I believe you and I am here for you and meaning it Can make all the difference for a survivor? It is the metaphorical act of extending a hand of holding space for their experience Recognizing they are that they are not to blame and acknowledging their bravery and courage in sharing with us their story Healing should never have to happen alone It is our responsibility as a community to believe and support survivors when they choose to disclose Whether that be to a friend a loved one a medical professional or the criminal legal system Only then can we move together into a world or sexual violence no longer exists. Thank you Thank you all for speaking just some closing notes the art show runs through April at the remain real fine art gallery, which we think wholeheartedly for letting us have this event and I'm sure the blue Bench Also feels that way because this is a beautiful beautiful show. We encourage the the public to come down Learn about the pieces learn about the people learn about the impacts it has and then also just always remember It's as simple as I believe you. I'm sorry this happened. It doesn't have to be you don't need to ask any questions You just need to listen and listen without judgment and that will make more of a difference than you can ever imagine So with that we just invite you to visit our Denver police Facebook and Instagram pages were throughout the month Sexual assault awareness month is April. We share all sorts of information like consent Other sexual assault awareness and start by believing messages. So thank you all