Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE. Covering .conf 2017, brought to you by Splunk. Welcome back to Washington D.C., the CUBE continuing our coverage here of .conf 2017. It's the Splunk get together here in Washington D.C. with the Washington Convention Center where they have a record crowd, 7,000 plus. Everybody having a Splunking good time, you might say. Dave Vellante, John Wall, Sam. We're joined by a couple of gentlemen who work with TransAlta. Kent Ferries on the far left, who is a senior analyst and security, working in security intelligence and analytics as well. At TransAlta, Kent, good morning to you, sir. Are you guys good afternoon? We've crossed that threshold here, haven't we? And Akina Woffor, who is a senior information security specialist at TransAlta as well. So good morning to you. Thank you, good morning. I can't, maybe if you can just tee us up a little bit about TransAlta. Sure. Tell us a little bit about what, core function, what you all are up to, and then how the two of you are helping that mission along its way. Sure. TransAlta is a well-respected power generator and wholesale marketer of electricity that's been in business for over 100 years. We're based out of Calgary, Canada, and we have operations in the United States as well as Australia. Okay. Myself and Akina are part of the security team based out of Calgary, and then we also have, we've off-shored or outsourced some of the security operations center function. Which I imagine is vast, right?  You are correct. That's your number one focus, right? So, talk about the complexities of that in general for our audience. It may not be familiar with your particular business, but you obviously can imagine the nuances and the sensitivities that you have to deal with. Sir, do you want to? Akina, why don't you take that? I think the fact that we are in the parallel generation business makes us a critical infrastructure, and that means working and having ties to the grid makes it very critical with protect our critical information systems from the threat landscape currently in security. So, it's a vast, it's a vast responsibility for the team, and we have regulatory requirements we need to abide by, things around our next sip and socks compliance requirements. So, that's really a very daunting task for us to meet with from a security standpoint. Right, so it's critical infrastructure that it's distributed in its nature, so it's high value for your target, and you've got to wake up every day knowing that. Yeah, sure, yes. Okay, so maybe take us through sort of your Splunk journey and what role it played, kind of the before and after, and how has it affected your business? Sure. I'll take that one. So, in the mid 2000s, we did security and everything, but it wasn't really a key focus, a senior management or anything. There wasn't a lot of real breaches. Most of the stuff that was going on was a nuisance, right, out in the marketplace. Got a hacktivist. Yeah, and different things. So, we dealt with it, a lot of it still wasn't really coming through the internet, it was still coming through other means, right? So, it wasn't at the forefront. Even though we would try, say in 2006, to make sure that security was at the forefront, the management wasn't quite ready at that time. It wasn't big breaches or anything. Around 2009 is our first introduction to what we called a SIM, the security information event management solution, basically log management. We implemented that in 2009, and then we had that running for about five years, until about 2014, but we started to lose some confidence in that tool, because it just didn't give us the information that we wanted or needed to properly detect, respond to today's threats. So, we stumbled upon Splunk. It took a little while to actually buy it. One of the system engineers tried to sell it to us, and I said, no, I'll come back later. No, no, I don't even know what it is, right? But then finally, I actually spun it up, proof of concept, and I go, this thing is amazing. Everything I ever thought of doing, I can actually do with this tool. This is, wow. So, took the POC, sold it to management. Come January 2015, we implemented it. We hired a company out of Ontario to help stand it up and bring all the data in. It was amazing. And we had everything we ever wanted, and blew away our previous security information event management system. So, the SIM fell short, you said because it didn't really give you the information, and was it also a case of, it was just too much information, that you couldn't prioritize? It was difficult to use. So, we actually went on training when we implemented the original one in 2009. So, two weeks of training down in the US, come back, architect, still had a consultant to help us stand it all up, but we couldn't build the use cases that we really needed. We were happy at the time, just to get log data, but really, there's no data enrichment or good correlation capabilities, or it was super, super difficult to implement. You couldn't search something like Splunk Answers, which you can today. I can Google anything, and the answer's out there around Splunk, which is just the community's phenomenal. So, the time you didn't know what you didn't know, and then once you saw Splunk, it sort of changed your vision of what was possible, but, so you said it was amazing, but why is it amazing? What is it about Splunk that the SEM tools don't do? I think to Ken's point, part of the challenge we had with the previous SEM tool was the fact that it required a whole lot of work to even get a single simple use case in place for security. Whereas when we had Splunk in place, one is embodying data, logs from various sources was really, really dead simple. The initial setup was within a day or half a day to basically replicate what we had from our previous SEM, which was really fast. And then the other thing is Splunk provided a whole lot of flexibility, where you really didn't need to go for some two weeks training to actually get going initially. And through the period we've had Splunk, we've seen that there's been a lot of things we've been able to achieve that we couldn't accomplish when we had our previous SEM. Like for example, what's it letting you do now that day to day that you couldn't do before? So if you buy a SEM, typically it's in a vertical, right? It's serving one purpose. So when you implement that, it's usually the security team that gets to use it, right? And you got to bring in all this log data. Your other teams say in operations or whatever, they want their log data too, but they're in a totally different system. With Splunk, it's a platform for us. So we bring all the data in. It's consumed by IT security. It's consumed by DevOps and operations. So the same amount data that you bring in, say from an endpoint, we'll use it for detection, forensic type capabilities, but the desktop team can use it as well to see is there application problems, desktop problems, do I have drivers or something on a desktop that needs to be updated? We can be more proactive and help out the user. So for us, it's just, it's like a fabric, a foundation. So once we've got that laid, yep. So all these use cases that you're laying out, previously you would have to essentially customize for each use case, is that right? You couldn't even. And previously we couldn't even do some of them because of, and then the other thing is we will most likely need to engage a third party contractor to assist us with that. Somebody who is a specialist in that field. Whereas with Splunk, some of the key things that has helped us with Splunk is maybe in the process of responding to a security event, we could think up ideas of, we need this information, how do we get it? And on the fly, we can easily build up a use case within minutes to get the information we need from Splunk. Without needing to consult anyone, without needing to read up manuals. And for instances where we really need information to help us with building up the use cases, going to, like Kent mentioned earlier, and going to Splunk answers, you will most likely get, so there's a broader community with Splunk that really helps with giving you the information you need to help you on your Splunk journey. Okay, but so it's more intuitive, I'm hearing, and it's got the data that you need. Exactly. And so, but even if you had an equivalent of Splunk answers for your previous SIM tool, you're saying you wouldn't have been able to, because it's not flexible enough to architect what you needed. Exactly. Okay. Yeah, I'd like to just put a comment in there. So I've been in IT for a long time, and I've always wanted to say build my own database to bring stuff in and do different things, so I'm pretty good at scripting. But I don't want to be designing a full application or whatever. When I saw Splunk and how easy it was to onboard data, I go, wow, this is amazing. So when I brought the consultant in and we stood up our original infrastructure, not only did we stand up ES within two weeks, Enterprise Security, we also onboarded all my custom stuff, like PowerShell scripts, everything else. So we brought in active directory data into Splunk and made it a PVR for us. So we can go back in time and look at anyone, who their manager was, anything that's happened to that account, at that exact time. And we can correlate that with IP information, everything else. As well, all of our floors are mapped out. We know where you are in any given building or facility. So we were able to do that at a point in time, because it's a PVR. We don't lose that information. And that's data enrichment, and we couldn't do that in the old system. Yeah, a time machine for your machine data. It is, absolutely. Okay, cool. Now, back to your business a little bit. So there's a physical security aspect of what you guys have to worry about as well. And I'm wondering if you could talk about that and how just the sort of attitude you touched on this before, Kent, but how the attitudes towards security have changed and evolved over the last decade. Obviously, greater awareness. Has that trickled into the lines of business, or is it still mostly an IT and a security pro problem? I'll let you kind of answer this one. So really, for us, it's been a journey for the last little while around security. And a couple of things we've had over the past few years is spreading the awareness for around security across the business. So, and that's really gained traction where it's no longer just the IT security folks talking to the business about what they need to do for security, but also the business getting back to IT security and once they want to implement certain solutions, trying to figure out, okay, what do we do for security? Can you help assist us with something around risk assessments? And really, over time, that has really helped spread that awareness. And also we do a whole lot of things around trying to build our security program through performance assessments that will be useful to identify gaps and being able to communicate with those stats to senior management around getting the necessary buying to proceed with whatever initiatives we want to go run along with from a security standpoint. You want to add to that? I think that's good. Yeah, I mean, I'm sensing that prior to Splunk, it was an uphill battle to get management to invest because they probably said, we're going to throw money at it and what's the result that we're going to get? As you can present metrics to management, it's easier to justify the investments because they're going to be able to see the outcomes. Is that fair? Yes, definitely. I think prior to Splunk, really, we had certain sets of metrics, but what Splunk has really helped us do is really consolidate all the log sources we have, get the right information and be able to actually provide a holistic view of our security program to senior management and show them across the different business units where we can get value for investment thrown into security. And have you evaluated alternatives? I know those competitors have bumped up in the past couple of years. Have you evaluated those or did you at the time? Jonas? Yeah, so in 2009, we looked at a few different vendors and we picked a market leader at the time. There's a couple that we liked more than the market leader but they just didn't scale to our size. Back in those days, certain vendors would call it events per second or whatever and we did some analysis and it just can't scale. That one back in 2009 is now a market leader, right? It's pretty good. It looks really interesting, everything. As well, there's about two or three players out there that I think look great from a SIM perspective. But if you think of us, where we are at, a SIM is a component, but we actually have a platform. And managers bought into the platform, not only a SIM. They didn't even know what a SIM really was before, say 2013. And now they just know that we can provide information when they ask for it. If we don't know, we can get the answer within minutes or maybe hours sometimes, depending on the complexity of the query. But we have all the information. We have our PVR time machine, as you mentioned. It's all sitting there. We brought in most of our data. We got a couple of little pieces we're still working on. There's different cloud information we're bringing or other data enrichment. We can tell, for example, an ISP anywhere in the world. We can tell our user visited that ISP or that attacker came from that ISP. Let's lock that whole ISP out, for example. We have a lot of interesting capabilities where we don't know if we can do that in those other tools. So what's your headache of the future? I mean, it sounds like that Splunk has done a lot to get you up to speed and get you to a very high comfort level now. Looking down the road here, what's the next? Well, quickly start with it. And I think I kind of want to speak to this as well. One of the things that we need to do is we're getting better at detecting and responding. We've really focused a lot on prevention to make sure that we can prevent what we can, but it's impossible to basically prevent everything. Everybody knows that. You see it in the news. So we're trying to get better at detection and response. One of the shortcomings that we notice is we can't always respond as humans fast enough. So we're trying to automate that, get richer information which Splunk allows us to do. So we call them high fidelity alerts or high confidence alerts. So if we see that, that should never happen in our environment.  So it'll all be automated. And then us as a team, we'll come back after the fact and look at it and go, oh, yeah, that was good. Or oops, we made a mistake. Sorry about that. And we'll bring the machine back online. Yeah, apologize after. After me. Because they move so quickly if they get, or at least what we're seeing, these adversaries move fast. How about you want to add to that? I think really the key, the way we look at our security program is just being on a journey. Because the threat landscape changes like by minutes or days really. And there's never that point where we say, we are done. We are fully okay from our security standpoint. So we constantly look at where we need to evolve. A lot of attacks now are looking at cloud services. So we are trying to see how we can show up our cloud services that we use, pull the log information where we can, and try to actually enhance what we're currently doing. There's really no silver bullet to solving the issue of security. So it's really constantly looking at where we can derive efficiencies to help our program. I wanted to ask you about pricing. Are you a Splunk cloud customer? You pay a subscription? You pay a perpetual license? We did the subscription in the term. We're evaluating potentially moving to the cloud. It would be at near the end of 2018. We're not sure how we're going to go. Maybe we'll just put it in, say, one of the AWS or Azure, instead of maybe going with a cloud offering. Because personally, we like tweaking and doing a couple of things under the hood. So there's a little more change control in cloud. At least at the moment. Maybe that'll change over time. But we like to be able to quickly onboard data and do all this as fast as we can when we need to. And you priced the Splunk charger by sort of the amount of data? Or how is it? That's by the amount of data. So my follow-up is as the amount of data exponential as that data curve, growth curve, kind of grows, reshapes, if you will. Are you concerned about just the whole pricing model? Does it have to? I'll take that one. So the interesting thing about Splunk, it's actually disruptive or disruptor war. It can displace technologies within your environment, right? So we really try to consolidate things down and take out things that aren't needed. So in certain scenarios, we do a lot of vulnerability scanning and all that. We don't necessarily go buy the top-top-end product and spend a lot of money on that. We might buy something else or maybe use open source in the future, who knows. But get the information into Splunk and then use Splunk to do all the analysis. So we're paying like one or 2% of what a typical cost would be. And that license itself would pay for Splunk. So you get an asset leverage there. Yeah. Okay, and it pays for the data growth. As well, we're finding other benefits in the environment. Using predictive analysis, for example, we've Splunked all of our storage. And I gave that to my boss and I go, here you go, what do you think? And you can predict it out a quarter, you know, half a year or a year. And he was just ready to, you know, buy basically a million dollars of hardware and said, geez, I don't need to do that. That's pretty cool. So you're using Splunk as a capacity planning tool as well. We use it for many purposes, yeah. Very interesting. So it's actually, yeah. That says like a good year and bonus to me there, kind of. All right. Good job. Are you gentlemen both came down from Canada, is that right? Yes, we did. So my apologies for the unseasonably warm weather here. But I'm glad we have the lights on, which is something you're very familiar with, right? Transaltor. Thanks for the time. Thank you. Interesting conversation. Glad you both could be here with us today. Thank you. Thanks for inviting us. All right. Continuing more on our coverage, we're here at theCUBE at .com 2017. We'll be live here in Washington, DC. Take a little break back at 1.30 Eastern time. See you then.


Hey guys, Tasha here from Stardust Gold Crochet. So I'm going to do a little walkthrough on working this border and also on how to create the tassels for the corona cover all. All right, I hope you guys enjoy it. Hey guys, Tasha here from Stardust Gold Crochet. You might hear thunder, it is really a bad thunderstorm right now. So I wanted to say thank you guys first for stopping by and checking out my corona cover all pattern. I just wanted to give you a few tips and tricks on how to work this pattern. So after you're finished completing it, I know on one part we're first going to go over the border. So for the border, you're going to start in the corner with the garment facing up towards you just like you see in the diagram that's above. So here, you're going to put, this is already completed the border. Here's the foundation single crochet row, I'm going to get a little closer. There's the foundation. So you're going to start right here basically in the edge of the foundation single crochet row. And then you're going to work your half double crochets all the way up and you're going to work it around. When you get to the slit, which is the corner right here, now I'll zoom out a little bit. This is the leg slit. So what I was talking about when I said skip over one, because it's a little difficult to kind of skip over, these aren't really stitches, right? So what I did, as you can see, I just kind of like, oops, nothing, my little tail is kind of fraying out a little bit. There we go. So what I did is you can see there's kind of a little hole here. All I did was I worked my half doubles all the way up and then instead of working into the little corner pieces there, I skipped over so that it would create more of a corner as opposed to rounding it out. So that it would drape a little bit better. And this is actually the inside of my garment that we're looking at, as you can see where I sewed it. So when you're sewing it up, I would recommend going through both sides and do a running stitch because you want it to be able to stretch just a little bit. If you did a whip stitch it would create even a thicker edge and also it would make it not as flexible and that you want this to drape because it's very stretchy. So let's get back to the border. When you're doing the border, I wanted to show you a good sample here, okay. So I started in that corner and was working my way around. What I did was I noticed, and it might be different for you depending on what sides you sew together. So I did, here's my corner stitch. The corner stitch has a half double with a chain and a half double. And then I kind of just guesstimated as to where to place these. I made them really loose so they would stretch. And it seemed like I had about four stitches per double treble, which was on the edges. And then I put one in the edge there and another one in this one or two in this space depending. But I tried to keep them loose because I didn't want to get gaps, too many gaps. But you can see when it's finished it doesn't look bad. Just do the best you can and you can see here, this is the right side I think, yes. So here on this little, I called them triangles, or half triangles. I think I've got one, two, three, and four. So you can stretch them out like that. That's why I was saying work them very loose so that you can stretch them out over the distance. See there I have one in that little hole there and then I have one in that little hole there and then I have one, two, three, four. So get a gauge because everybody's might be different depending on your gauge. Get a gauge for how many you're going to have in each and then just keep it consistent throughout when you're working this border. Hey guys, okay, so this is how I created the tassels and I put a link on there. I just used my water bottle and I went about right up to here, not to the thickest part because that would have been too big. So I put it like right about there and then I wound it around about 20 times, oops, it might slip off so you can hold it with your fingers, two, three, four, five, okay, that's not working. Wee-haw, okay, let's try this again. Okay, so I did this about 20 times and I guess I wasn't as slippery before. Yauzers, okay, let's do it this way, three, make sure you hold them back, four, five and 20. Okay, so there I had my 20, so what you do is just grab a hole.  So what you do is you grab your another piece of yarn and I don't really want to cut this because I don't like wasting yarn, so I'm going to use a scrap piece from another one that I was working on. Oh, here we go, here's a scrap piece, okay, so I would cut about I guess 6 to 8 inches and then just go ahead and insert it through there, through the hole and then pull it up.  So I usually do a double knot here or a fisherman's knot. A fisherman's knot is pulling it through once, pulling it through again and then it creates this kind of and then just pull it tight. And supposedly fisherman's knots do not come out, so once you get to this point, you're going to go ahead and cut the other side just like this and I'm not going to do it because I don't want to waste my yarn like I said.  And I recommend doing a fisherman's knot for this one too. I know this looks really funny right now because it's like pink and white. Okay, so there is partially a bit of the tassels but of course you can maneuver those around and also what I did for the garment was I twisted around a few times like that so it had a little bit more of a finished look and then I tied it, brought the string down this way and then just cut it. And when I attached it to, grab this tassel, the finished tassel, when I attached it to here, there's another little tail, I wet this, there we go. When I attached it to here I used, I tied it with a needle and with a darning needle and then you can see I went around a few times with that and then I just let the tail piece slide out. And then after I had them all the way, the length that I wanted, I kind of set them down and went and cut them so it just looked a little more finished and this is really tight.  And honestly you guys, I made mine too long. I mean it's really long. It looks cute and everything but I recommend making it a little bit shorter. Thanks guys for watching and if you want to learn how to do the Solomon's Knot, the link is in the blog. There's a full video tutorial for the Solomon's Knot. Head on over and check it out. Please subscribe and hit the little bell button. Take care.


I have some kind of gadgets, so try not to be distracted and working with them. Well, thanks, John and Jeanette. I've been doing this for six years, right, as you'll see today.  Probably about three to five, maybe sometimes six months out of the year. And Jeanette is, like, organizer number one. No question. That's not Jeanette. I'll tell you guys, he's a volunteerism. And what's happening today in Ukraine, the key to protecting Ukraine, protecting the world. We have the virtual board, possibly, you know, at our doorstep. The key is that everybody helps. It's not a question of just, you know, people have guns and giving them more money, they have more guns and it's a health, this is very important. Had we not had money and guns, we probably wouldn't have a country. I wouldn't have a country. I would have had to pack up and go. Like a lot of other people. But volunteerism is a person who takes and gone and risks his life for his brother, for his family, for his country. He doesn't have to do it. He can pick, pack up and go too, right? But everybody has a chance today to stop this craziness. Ukrainians, by nature, we are pacifists.  Now we know that type of government. We call the Moscow Empire. We don't like it. We haven't liked it for years. But now I'm very happy to say we were prepared. You know, maybe barely prepared. A lot of that is because of American support. When in about, you know, 10 years ago when the war started, it's not just one year, it's 10 years. Wednesday 1st got off the boats and off by Crimea. And at that point we had no guns. We had no military. Because the president of Yanukovych, Russian puppet, sold the country for $18 million to Putin. And one of the conditions was he had to get rid of the military. So the Russian guerrillas, they take over whenever they like. So 10 years ago, that's when Europe and America started to donate the things that we don't have. Now we have something very important. We call it the most important thing. We have our lives, right? And you might say, well, how do these Ukrainians know, you know, the world office is huge, an empire. The answer is, even more important resource, even more than our physical bodies, it's Ukrainian spirit. And so I don't have to convince you, because this is a fantastic example for the world, how to stop war. You have to have the right motivation. You have to do something. And so many people, even grandmothers, right? Grandmothers, it's unbelievable. Grandmothers, a week before the war started training and say, give me a gun. I know the Moscow Empire, I know what they do. You cannot let them take over.   You see the bombs written for children. This is not just an empire. This is the evil empire. And when I say these things, you see, I'm smiling. You know, what is this positivism? I smile because I focus on the positive, on the spiritual development of the world, the potential spiritual development. That's why we have wars. That's why God, that's the devil, the antichrist, we have it, because he gives us a chance to either do something or not do something. And if we don't do something, it gets uglier. And if we do do something, we can make the world a lot better. And the world without the Moscow Empire, not just for Ukraine, that's a good thing. Now, we don't hate Russia, right? Well, actually, a lot of people do. Let's be honest. When I ask people in Ukraine, who hates Russia? Most everybody raises their hand. How could you not hate what they're doing? But Putin wants us to hate them. He wants us to hate Russia. Otherwise, that's what a terrorist does, right? So, we, as good people, don't give Putin what he wants, right? We give him what he needs. We do not go crazy, do not go nuts, and do not help him escalate the Third World War. We keep calm. We play the bandura. We listen to spiritual songs. We get our act together, right? And there's a lot I want to say, I'll say it a little later on. But the one thing I'm going to say is God bless America. And there's not been an America, right? And a freedom-loving people who still believe in the land of the free and the brave, we would not have had Ukraine. And my ancestors, all my ancestors, they fought as much as they could at some point to preserve the next generation they fled. I mentioned my grandparents' life, and that's led to America, right? I don't like the idea, even though I was born in America, of taking part in this fantastic modern experiment we call America, I very much wanted another experiment, the idea of going back home. America's been fantastic. There's nothing against it. I mean, they're coming now and doing my work. It's fantastic. People come here on a Thursday night and listen to these things I say. But I'm very happy that my grandfather got out. But I think it would be even better to go back home and finally, in my generation, and it's a fantastic honor, that's another reason why I smile.  So, and again, the idea is not to stop them out of hate, but stop them out of love. Now, how do you do that? How do you, even somebody on the line, tell them to love your enemy? What does anybody do? They put a gun on you. But they don't do that in Ukraine. They say, thank you so much for coming. We'll think about that. We've been thinking about that. We don't have hate in our souls. It's not part of our Ukraine collective organism. We just want to go home. But we want to have a home to go to. And we want to have a Ukrainian home. You know why? And you know what? What I love about Ukraine is that they are freedom lovers, too. I had a lot of freedom in America. I had a good education. I could be with her. I wanted to be with Ukraine. It's on a different level. We've had to deal with the Moscow Empire. America's been free to develop. Canada and Mexico, even though the Canadian word is very close, is anybody afraid of Canada? We're fantastic folks. And I hope... This isn't just... As does... Just make sure I don't say that to you. I have to go to Canada tomorrow, unless the word is out. So I'm going to play some music, otherwise I'll talk and talk and talk. This is what we call the Costa. And I'll explain a lot more. This is... I consider the first Ukrainian national anthem written by a Jewish man about 8,000 years ago. This is a very good string. Isaiah. Anybody here who properized Isaiah when he wrote God is with us, he understands all languages. Listened it and knew what he said because God is now with us in the flesh. It calls us to sing this Ukrainian middle-aged spiritual hymn and the composition is not forever called Ilmus. They're written down.  And it calls us to sing this song in battle as an anthem, not singing about the price of the flesh, but the idea that when we defend our country, God will be with us and help us. Help us defend our country. Help us go back home for families. And do this the right way. So it's not anymore. I'm not seeing Russian exactly church Slavonic, the language, the literary language of the months about a thousand years ago. Also interesting to say these are instruments which most Ukrainians don't know. There's lots of instruments, but these are national instruments. These are the idea of true patriotism. Positive nationalism. Love for your country. Not hate for the neighbors, but true spiritual patriotism. And specifically the spiritual tradition known as the Kovzar tradition. The players of the Bandura and the Kovzar were played by spiritual singers who were blind. They would travel with the Bandura Kovzar from village to village to city and they would tell the truth. That was their job. Help Ukrainians be good, love one another. Everything that's in the Bible, this was the gospel, this was the Kovzar's word. These were sermonizers. And if you don't believe me, take a look at that too. It's sermonizing, let's be honest, but if something's separate, you might say parallel to vertical. Actually I've been to church quite often, but it is a good place, or a place people used to hear the term God and aren't afraid of that. But this is the tradition which existed between 1700 to 1943. It's only about 233 years when the Kovzar existed and they would practice this tradition. But it's important to note that they existed only under Russian occupied eastern Ukraine. So eastern instruments are not just Ukrainian, they're eastern Ukrainian instruments. And when a person, even today in the front says, what are these instruments? The question is why don't they know them? What happened was done to kill God, right? When it's the first time I gave it a communist, you know, matter of fact, their idea was to help another very Christian ideal, and it actually happened that way. If they actually became the socialist government which they, you know, pretended or maybe wanted at first, that would be fantastic. But unfortunately, as we said, communism was not socialism. When you keep people slaves and don't let them develop, that's not healthy, you know. And it unfortunately happened that way. And for the Kovzars, who sang about morals, about truth, about justice, about Ukrainian history, the Ukrainian version, not the Russian version, that we have no history, we have no language, it was all created by intelligentsia. They were all separatists, they didn't want to be part of Mother Russia.  So 300 years, because on a lot of different levels, they're afraid they'd fail Ukraine and they'd lose their empire. And they are losing their empire. But, you know, it kind of strange how it happens. But there's an idea that being exploited for those three years, Ukrainian resources, people, intelligence people, loving people, we became part of this Russian regime. The Kossaks were the people who fought them on the wars, and repealed this result. So without them praying, they're afraid they'd lose their empire. And I think it'll happen and that's not a bad thing. It's time for them to get their own country, into here, rather than take other countries and make them slave, right? That's the idea of the free world. Unfortunately, other, you know, dictatorships like China have other ideas. And what's happened in Taiwan? What's the big deal? They don't, you know, make their chips and do what they do. Well, it doesn't turn into World War III. Maybe it's already World War III. But in any case, again, it's not panic, but it do have to do. So this is the most Ukrainian sort of World War II. Who understands Ukrainian language? Another question. So there's some use here. So this is a very smaller version and all of these instruments, they were prohibited for five years. No players, no makers. So what we're doing with me and my friends, the cults are all part of the deal. What is that? It sounds pretty strange. We are people who are providing this spiritual tradition. The traditional cults are what sound it is my next song. And what am I singing about? I didn't come here to bore you, so I'll explain all the texts because these are all songs, they're all songs of defense, right? Just like Sonam Vok, the God who with us. As I go through the valley and through the field, will or will not, I meet a long lost relative. You might say, what does this have to do with defense? We want to hear war marches, right? Well, I know the war marches, but this is some fantastic ones. But this is simply very simple stuff. But the real spiritual songs are what I'll show you today. So we have a brother and a sister. Is your brother a sister like any brothers and sisters? We're all brothers and sisters. So the brother and the sister there for maybe Pupil region, Riley region, and Ukraine in fact. Maybe the brothers go off to Lviv, to Western Ukraine to get out of the Russian Empire to have a little bit more freedom. But he comes back home and he sees his sister, you know, reading the rye, and he says what any good brother would say. He says hello, srasvuy in the Pultava dialect. But his sister does the worst thing she could do. She ignores her brother. I have to be positive that for all these years you've heard your brother. He becomes so proud, you know, what happened? What's the problem? And she says, I haven't become proud, the opposite. I couldn't recognize me through my tears. And what is this philosophy that is very specific? She's changed. She now speaks Russian. She has learned to cope. She's a survivor. She's adaptive. But she goes on to talk about how it's very hard to work under the Russian Empire. There's nothing, no feet, there's no wood for the stove. And when the children ask mommy to give me some bread, there's nothing to eat. So this kind of recalls the Soviet side in 1933 when the cops are killed. By starvation, by mass shootings, we don't know exactly. We're working on looking for KGB documents to prove this, this theory they were killed. But, you know, stop for everybody. You don't have to be a spiritual singer or a blind one. So the idea is how to end this conflict, de-escalation, we call it, and Ukraine is a fantastic example. We've had a very specific metamorphosis. Eastern Ukraine, which was traditionally under the Russian space, Western Ukraine, originally under Western countries like Poland, Austria, they finally got together. They divided us with this line, because of, you know, different empires that wanted to take parts for all these years. But finally, with the common enemy and a common cause, even more, the Ukrainians got together and something which is very important for America. If they're going to try to label you as the left or the right, don't believe it. It's phony, it's fake, it's all made to get power and money. People are much more complex than, you know, one or two, you know, sports teams, I think. So, the idea for Americans, don't leave Ukraine to Russians. In Ukraine with America, this is going to be a very serious world. Right? And with Europe, hopefully. Hopefully, we'll teach Europe some lessons on this question. So, I'm just going to try not to talk. From the traditional 12 hours, your trial usually comes out with minor tonality, cultural association, the old world to grow from time. You try to make it more and we added some more strings. Somebody said, how many strings are on it? About three to four. That's not how you got it. Or sometimes less. She said, did you make those? You got to be crazy. I said, well, I didn't promise anybody I was staying. You can't buy these. Where do you get these instruments? We have to make them.  Again, it's probably the people. Just as a musician, I mean, you see these things in books. But in the yasra, you know, you have some banduras. The Ukrainian bandura chorus. I think I'll start with a song from their repertoire. So, this is for one. It's a baroque lute. You can also play like a bandura. We have these treble strings. They all have treble strings. So, I think it was basically to collect the most valuable poetry. Not just poetry. These are, again, songs of defense. Defense against, not just the Russian or anything like that. Defense against evil. Defense against things that are bad for you. This is good, wholesome material, even though it's very sad. They're not also sad, but most of them are. I like sad music. I don't care about what I like. I like the radio. But somebody told me on the Venice Elegency, 30 years in Agave, I played two drums in the effort first. And an older father said, you ruined our celebration. Play something happy. I said, well, I'm very sorry. But when I listen to the pop stuff that they play on the radio, I'm not so happy. That's what I listen to. So listen to this stuff. Let's hear it. So this is a song by one of the most seriously crammed leaders, the national poet. Who's heard of Khrushchevchenko? Fantastic artist, fantastic visual arts, fine arts. Fantastic poet. One of the best, really talented. He was born a slave, but some people in Russia actually bought him out of slavery saying, listen, you have some fantastic ideas of freedom. And he goes in Russia. His books were actually printed. There were some other folks in Ukraine, but really he was the first popular amongst Russian intelligences who hadn't had enough of the dictatorship. They wanted there for you, too. And they considered Khrushchevchenko one of them. So unfortunately, Tsar did not give up. They had to kill him. And what Tsar's regime was not a lot better. It's my relative to say he got a lot worse. So this is Khrushchevchenko. Some people say he was even a Khomzar. But don't be mistaken, he was not a Khomzar. He only entitled his anthology, Khomzar, because the spirit of his poetry is very much along the line of the Khomzar repertoire. So this is the song I'm dealing with today. And the question is, what would Khrushchevchenko tell we are in not Berlin, but Shelvern, Hermans. And I know exactly what he would say. Because I learned his poetry, his word, his truth. And what does he say? He says Ukraine, again, is worried. The black clouds are rising. You're not so black today. It's nice. Across the Leman, the Crimean region, the Delta. Another cloud from across the field, maybe the Donbass region. Again, Ukraine cries like a child. He compares Ukraine to a child who, you know, the boogeyman is coming again. And who will say Ukraine to the boogeyman? Whereas that in America, we don't really know who Ukraine is. They can go to the Russians. That's who we know. The Russians say, maybe it's true. Europe, give us a hand. Well, you know, sorry. It didn't happen, unfortunately, in Chutenko's time. This is written in 18, maybe 1850. Today we have a different situation. I sing the last verse in the past tense because I sing about the worst situation as Ukraine is destroyed, that the children of the freedom fighters that cause us no longer believe in God, right? And we can see in the Soviet Empire, we could not be back on that boogeyman very secretly. But today, we have a different story. Why are these boys in the trenches? Is it because they make lots of money? Now it's good that they have some money, right? Thank God the support of the family is why we're there. But as my friend, who loaned me $2,500 to fly here, my neighbor, you know why he has $2,500? Because he actually is paid for being in the front. And he sent God, he's still alive. He said, Europe, don't pay me back. Just mind your drone. I didn't tell this, I will say. I will pay you money back. I will give you not one drone, but several drones for his, for his example. Why are they in here in the trenches? Because they might not have a lot of money. They might not have any buy-in for a future, you know, for a career. I mean, it's hard to make money for Ukraine. And the things that you can do are probably better but they're there because they believe in love. And what is love? Love is God. Right? So we're not talking about the bearded the bearded family in the clouds, that's that's farce. It's not going. So love is love. Shevchenko, and a reconstruction that Shevchenko played before one, actually said he played one of these. How did that sound? So the consorts of taking these dead poets and resurrect them, continue the spirit. And through spirit defend Ukraine, right? It's something very strange. Money in weapons, you know, that's let's be honest, it's the spirit which can save your soul, can save your country, can save the world. God's we the apple of God's eye that's because that children was helping us to be hopefully trying to help. We haven't given up on that. We have this idea of a spring offense. Has anybody heard of a spring offense? That's when we take it all back. Why is that important? We have our country, okay, flying, let them out 20%. It's very interesting. All other countries, everything I've read in the New Jersey International, they say, yes, we stand behind Ukraine to take it like, why? Because he has to be pushed back. And I don't think it's so hard. We just need the right equipment, our boys are being trained, even the fiber jets, it's a question of time, but it'll happen. But this is the most critical period, because when you try to break through, that's the biggest risk. That's when you have the biggest loss of life. I have four of my friends, maybe more. I need to check after. Where all the rest of them are. And I want them to come home alive. So I've asked them, what do you need? Recently, I had a chance to visit Donetsk City, right? This is like a big city, which is still under most of our control. It's been under control for 10 years. And almost, you know, not positions where you actually have trenches, but where the boys sleep at night. We're invited to come practice this tradition. Just like today, this is in January. There was no electricity. It was quite a lot of time to get down to the front itself. A really eerie road where really no civilians come. You can see this, you know, across the hills. That's the most, you know, camps and things. But we're invited to take every invitation very seriously. Just like Jeanette, just like Jeanette, or really his wife, who said, you're having this tour of the front. Please go there and maybe help my husband. He was in a group of 300. Now he's a group of 30.  And these folks realize that, right? You can do the math, it's very simple. He's constricted. He was a journalist. But they said, you know, you've got to go defend your country. They need the dessert. You can get out. All this is his voice, but that needs their heart. Just run that away. But they don't do it. Right? Just imagine the mentality. And for me, what am I going to tell these folks? Right? They're doing the good work. I'm going around playing music, right? But I like to go to the front. I bring a certain defense there. And a certain philosophy helps you for the longer life by, number one, praying. It's a good time to start believing in God. It doesn't hurt you.  It might save your life. And as they said, there's a young man who reads the Bible in the trenches for this many hours. It's a good time to get to know who is Jesus Christ or any kind of spirituality really. We had just a fantastic time. We were rained by droughts, right? Like, hot hail. And we went across the field to get some groceries. The grocery store was closed. This was really just kind of like a shop. There were lots of long that day. He said, if you hear a whirling, it could immediately drop from ground. I said, okay, this is really just the right place. But I was so tired. I said, I need to take a nap. I don't have anything to say right now. But after a nap and a fantastic dinner, they had a nice Christmas tree. There was no electricity. It was a fantastic mason gear just pumping out the heat. I said, okay, we're ready to do what we came to do. And doing what we do, we forgot about the problems, right?  These folks are going to threaten us. They should be afraid and they are afraid, right? And hopefully in the spring events, they'll just pack up and go. If they stay, they had a choice. They built a house differently. But that's why we need now to pray and to volunteer to pray.  And if you can spread that to your communities, then that's how the Kovzars work. They don't put me on ABC. They almost did. But on a pre-interview, before they put Zelensky on, they said he will never do an interview. But he didn't say it just like that. But I told him what I had to say. Kovzars were journalists, right? And I was going to use the media to address America and tell them we're going to have a big war. Don't worry. We'll come out of this victorious and the leader of all nations. And we will help America get its act together. And I was on this division. They said, goodbye. Doing good journalist work and not, you know, doing whatever it takes and money to do it. So this is any John Dowland fans, early music, Renaissance, you know, what am I doing playing John Dowland? Because this is some particular philosophy dealing with death. In Renaissance England it was very popular, a melancholy, right, in my internationalities. Maybe he was Irish. He was actually born in Melbourne, from London. I didn't propose to go to the Soros playing. You know, it didn't happen. I was across the street in St. George's. So it was probably a proper place. But we were invited to play butchers where the mass grave is. The Russians didn't make the mass grave. They just left the black bodies lying on the ground. I didn't solve one they forgot. They didn't manage to get it. It was a terrible, terrible scene. But coming to the grave itself, it was, you know, of course, I've seen the pictures before. You can't help but not cry. But again, this incredible positive visitor, and I told my students, I'm not just alone, obviously, can imagine, during the war I was in Ukraine. I've been here for several months getting through cultural diplomacy, hoping America will help now. This is a very strategic union in Ukraine and America. But the rest of the month, I'm back home with my family. They were evacuated for the first five months, but they're even back here now. I didn't like leaving my family. But I told my wife, if you want to come, I can find a sponsor. She said, no, it's time to plant the fields. So we have somebody to eat. And she has a price for it, so she can leave if she has to. And put it, you know, he's not going to get an issue. I told my friends and my students, you know, close our funeral, to bring peace, to clean this terribly destroyed land and butchery in your being. And this is what I played, not just a lullaby, a funeral lullaby. I didn't even realize at the time, but now, seeing it, I realized he's seeing just a girl who's not just sleeping and having a rest in the world's soils and problems. She actually died because she can't see the sun.  And the idea is not to, you know, it's a huge loss. Let's never let it happen again. Let's stop it happening now. It's still happening, right? There's still long children in it. Whatever's happening is children. Some are being adopted and by the wrong people, right? So the idea is the people who've died let their souls go to heaven and be at peace, rest in peace, eternal memory, each and every moment. Don't let it happen again. But such a fantastic lullaby to, again, to not panic to get prepared to do what we have to do so this will never happen again. In any country. Don't shed your tears. My scars they're not your greed. I will spoil your love. It is unrecognisable our rest in that peace. But not the sunrise smiling when we're at to now a place sadder than to not give me a life sleeping in peace. That's actually my job is for you to take as much as you can. About 55 minutes. That's it? That's right. That's it? Yeah, seems like that. My intro clock Okay, fantastic. So, we've heard a little bit of the concert tradition but again the Torbanists or the least players like Dallons were not concerted, they were similar. Dallons maybe like the Shrugor so again, another song. I play you a folk song but this is a folk cons a folk hymn. We've heard the hymns in church. There's lots of the European form in general the European Christian cons here cons but realistically the cons actually originates in Israel. We have a lot of ideas about Jewish-Ukraine relations and that Putin says we're fascists we hate the Jews and it's Jewish. How can you possibly believe that? And it's true. And not just Zalensky but the Kovtosars would have seen King David as a proto-Kovtosar. He didn't just make the instruments the interviewers of the data actually was an instrument maker and a player. He wrote his hymns like a folk of songs and certainly he would have traveled to other parts of the kingdom spreading the truth and spirituality so these are the Ukrainian folk cons they wouldn't have been sang in church although they could have been there's again a parallel church after Sunday, what do you do? You go home with your friends and you sing cons and what a fantastic way to get to know the Bible but this isn't the biblical book these aren't songs in the Bible it's an Ukrainian version of you might say David's songs and this is the song had Putin been here today I would have dedicated it to him and this would have played for him you might say why would I play a song for Putin because the Kovtosars are not Ukrainians it's not just for friends in America or other nations it's for people who need help and everybody needs help everybody needs help so this is a song about him and for him to help him it's a good choice to push the red button or not now remember who's afraid of nuclear war we all should be right it's a terrible thing we don't want the Ukrainians either and Putin knows it and he's going to use this in his advantage to say hey I will bomb you save around when they save but remember even if he wants to destroy the world it's not his to destroy this is God's world and God destroys when God decides when the end comes or doesn't come but it's the antitrust he can't make that decision but he can't make this afraid he has a lot of evil people who work with him and evil things which which are very terrible terrifying so how do we stop the bomb we pray to God to do those things we can't do right anybody see the Olympics in Sochi and the Americans how they push the button the pirates did not go off those things can happen God can do that right so pray and work and the cons about the truth and the lie the problem with Putin is he has too much money you think Bill Gates is rich he may be the most wealthiest person on earth in terms of of mule opera but also power any talk in his hand or my little one the ring of power the bomb that's the talk he was talking about it's very Christian philosophy I'm a fan I've even had ideas of Kozari on Red Square maybe it'll happen I hope I don't have to do that but it's pretty crazy stuff maybe it's crazy so this is a song about the truth and the lie because Putin is not God God is the truth is this him who states he's love, he's truth, he's morality he's the good things in life Putin is the bad things in life so even though they paint icons dedicated to him he is not all powerful God just wants us to get together and do good things and God will help us do this thing we can't do such as get rid of his laws or so they don't go off some people say these are old laws so there is no truth in the world it's the first line that which is called the truth is really a lie why they call it Kozari sing 1933 songs in a newspaper called the truth proud we say lies that's okay but give it to me back afterwards they send it all the way to Raleigh so the free planes I have never prayed so much I even managed to get the pilot to hopefully make an exception for these national treasures these are just some old these are some of the nice not those things but the idea of having them destroyed before this would be terrible they were fine so I would like to we have this you don't have to sing it's a prayer but you don't have to believe in God or in the mother God so this is a specific song to marry the mother God and a very interesting traditionally cranes have the Kozaks to pray for Mary Mary was very specific because she appeared many times to them many instances where Kozaks prayed she even in instance a monastery where they were not even Kozaks there were monks the word came and they wanted to take her to the monastery one of the priests prayed to Mary she appeared on the cross not far from Kamenitsky and the arrows turned back and shot they were shooting these things happen when Jesus said you live by the sword you die by the sword it sounds like he doesn't want us to take weapons and he wants us to take weapons people don't want them but of course defeats very much do and for defense in today's day it's a necessary situation but as Ahusot said one of the Ukrainian screws says guns are not bad they're not good the same thing with money it's the person who wields them his motivation why is he using them that's important I understand so the Kozaks would say this particular comes the Kozak Baroque product and the language is very old it's actually composed by a spiritual leader Saint Rossovsky who is a canonized saint in the Orthodox Church and I say the verses you say the response it's very simple very beautiful this is some of the songs we sing in the bombs shelters and when the bombs are coming down you can imagine the second one the war with the field with dogs, cats everybody they have tents in the metro station I don't know how many of them but to sing these songs but it works the spiritual and also you have the spiritual conviction that you are protected that Mary closes our skies maybe NATO doesn't your fear diminishes and you might say why don't I have this fear when I go to the front I think that's why I don't think they can't kill me it's a strange feeling I will sing give us a hand don't let us suffer mother of horsey it's very simple it looks like Ukrainian a very nice song and spiritual protection for us here in Ukraine let's try the chorus together and those of you who know you're trying to sing value it's where the it's producing that comparing Maria to a flower different types of flowers like the lilies, the rose and others and the second four verses we're asking her to look down on us from heaven and protect us and to free us from slavery for her to stand with us for us and to give us the promise to take us into her protection as the mother of horsey let's try let's sing this expression this is something Ukraine you lost probably Ukraine you sang you didn't turn on the TV you didn't have a TV you didn't need a TV especially that TV which came later so people stopped singing and even the Koltar tradition 1933 that's when the Banduras the Koltars who played the Bandura were killed but the last period of Koltar lived in 1880 probably died about 1890 we'll stop that aside there are some double strings but maybe some photographs I have a photograph because the museums don't have Koltars they were all destroyed or grown so this is I played several genres in cons in general the folklore this is an example of the dances just to hear I'm running a bluegrass man I used to play I used to play in a band called Chicken Pot Pie I love it I love it I love it he called me Slippy Gila Pedic so this is a version of the bluegrass but to stop that aside those who think you know Ukrainian folk music it sounds very Turkish it sounds very Asian so that's what it was very close to the Ottoman Empire a threatless lute you might call it an oud it's true this is the Ukrainian oud with some treble strings so stop by the side how would that sound something like this the most unique of all concert genres is the one I'm going to present next the epic song anybody hear a duma? I'm not talking about a duma way a text from one of his very famous poems my ill thoughts I'm very unhappy with you what am I going to write down on these sad lines it's very depressing a song was happening to Ukraine and it's not a duma a historic song which I sometimes play in today but this is the epic song and if anybody has knowledge about Homer the blind Greek poet how we might possibly have sung a song like the Odyssey how would that sound on his his lyre a tortoise shell with the sinews from the tortoises and he would have been making guts we don't know how the Greek epic songs would have been sung we don't have noteated versions but with the Mozart tradition we know because somebody from Canada a Ukrainian Canadian bought one of the first phonograph machines the Edison he gave it to an ethnomusicologist in the youth of Philip Kulesa and said you record the most valuable things of Ukraine these are the first recordings of Ukrainian history you know what they recorded they went into Russian-occupied history Ukraine and recorded the duma and today with this old song it's very strange it sounds very strange and what does that have to do with us today about 12 minutes old the longest epic song for about an hour and a half it'll be enough it takes some training so the most valuable songs we have in Ukraine this is one of them this is an Easter duma who believes in the resurrection who really knows nobody really knows what would be a fantastic idea to have an embody to live forever with your family and friends and make new friends oh god that's me they're not really good they're like I think any of them so if the angels play the harp why shouldn't it come through as you died but Easter the meaning of the term the meaning of the term Easter oh good and Passover we know it relates to that the spirit would pass over the Jewish families and not fill the first form of the people exactly so maybe resurrection you say in the Christian world but really in Ukrainian, Easter actually means the act of becoming free right so the Jews who were enslaved in their very modern Egypt at the time the idea was to become free and do what go to that desert in Israel that's part of the world and of course they said you gotta be crazy you can go back there we'd rather be slaves here and then go back there and fight for our freedom our creative government we're training the invariants which we call the Jewel of Rolosa Woslaka right she's not Moses she's the priest's daughter she was captured and arrayed and sold into slavery and became a concubine serving the Sultan on the upper floors of this the Sultan's palace but the Jewel is the dialogue between Rolosa Mary and her Cossack brethren there's 750 of them they're in shackles they are rotting they didn't even know they'd been there for 30 years 33 cranes is a very important number because for 30 years we thought we had freedom and we found Putin has been putting sharp things in our wheels he's been annihilating behind the scenes you know, grabbing our workman officials to do what he wants he's been paying about 18 billion dollars to the country the CIA should intercept this in communication so what is Moses saying to the Cossacks she says do you know what day tomorrow is they say how do you know we don't have a calendar we don't see the sun we don't have a window in our government she says I know you don't know but just so you know today is Easter Saturday tomorrow is Easter Sunday the Cossacks do not want to hear this they're rotting they're not thinking about the afterlife they're thinking about Ukraine and what's going to happen in Ukraine when they're in the dungeon they start cursing her saying you came here to torment us you can celebrate Easter under Persian rugs with your very expensive drinks and whatever and she says no, I didn't come here to torment you I came here to save you when the Sultan goes on Saturday to the mosque she'll steal the key, risk her life and let the Cossacks go home it's a very heroic thing to do but as the Cossacks are leaving they say are you coming with us to our promised Ukrainian land where we can finally have a free country democratic people like the leaders like the Hechmans in the Cossack period and what does Moses say she says you're kidding me go back to that country it's nice here in Turkey in the empire we have lots of money we have lots of privileges fighting for freedom that's what you do Cossacks so go with God because God doesn't know the version that maybe she is not in Russia but she is Roksalana the most powerful Ukrainian woman of world history maybe she could have helped Ukraine for that composition there's different versions like Moses said let my people go and as I had let's go home America is a fantastic place and it's nice for all these smart educated people free and large to be here but there's another project it's called Leaving America and taking that kinder spirit that America has given I was the last one I was very serious about that and going back but he didn't think of so different from the last 70 years he would have loved to go back home he didn't make it but I did so if anybody else has some roots maybe some Celtic roots maybe some other roots I remember the world needs the American spirit and I'm not talking about Hollywood and commerciality I'm talking about the fundamentalist which the country was built on who is this young and talking about freedom that generation doesn't value that I haven't been in Ukraine for 25 years and I live there because I have a free life in the village with my five children with my fantastic woman or my wife it was a long drive my wife my wife, yes my wife and Jeanette asked what did your wife say when you evacuated your children to where all you looked like for five months and you went back to fight cooking with these things she said one time I believe in your mission and that's it, I didn't hear a word more and even now she knows I'm doing the work she believes in it and all my friends who've seen me what I'm doing now sometimes they say this isn't serious playing music around and I know the efficiency of my work I know the effectiveness of my work this is this is serious stuff so Lucid doesn't go back she says tell my family not to raise a ransom I'm I'll stay back but you go home and create a fantastic government and every Duma ends with the prayer Duma is spiritual like carols Jesus is all carol and each Duma ends with a prayer for you your attention you give me the most important thing you allow me to provide this tradition even in America this is on a different level I'm not even Ukrainian born and this is strange my friends or my colleagues who practice this should say you're an accent I mean you're not really so Ukrainian but I've come to realize that I'm Ukrainian for this work I've been doing this for six years but once the bombs happened I was even several days before I created a tour of Ukraine, all of Ukraine the organizers said listen we gotta flee it's not going to happen so we went to Kiev for two months then we went to the front of all of Ukraine it was my second time in America raising awareness I've been doing my work and and also yes a prayer for your attention but also for Ukraine and for the free world as I say please help us God to save us from Moscow's sabers how do I say I don't charge you anything right? free concerts around the world even the discs are free cause this is because of our philosophy God knows how much money I need and how much I don't need you to do so I'm gonna take some of the 40 songs we don't have discs go to bandcamp.com and write beautiful things the ads are written on the discs and get all the discs for free so God knows how God knows how it's called vegetables technology we've learned it's called no credits buying a house for $3,000 in several acres of land and doing what you need to do so my wife, she plans the vegetables we don't actually need so much for a whole family we actually rent most of our land out for potatoes and I grow Khomzars I have lots of students at the camp we call it Khomzarsky Tavern and the education is free it takes 3 months anybody wants to make one of these it's not just making it's actually looking to be a Khomzar I usually convince a lot of people it's very effective even in Canada in America you want to come to a village you want to have a house even if the the war administration forbade you to do a festival I did anyway I respect them, I support them but there's some defense which even they don't understand and it was actually it's a long-range service it was a plan to actually disperse in the fields but they said it's okay so if people have some questions where do our donations go I'll tell you very honestly they go to Ukrainian defense either through the Kossaks that means through that means the army my friends say they need that's either drones at this point or going to the hospital outside of Zaporizhia I wouldn't say where because it's a secret and the other costs go to our Kovzar mission that's basically gas for being able to do what we do we had a few concerts during this year that's a lot of concerts and we've done almost nothing $3,000 people just started sending me money I said God what are we going to spend money for and the answer was to Kovzar, Ukraine and but also for education nobody pays me grants I only accept alms but also it's important to say that I will take a little bit of that money to speed my family I'll be honest that's how we live through my quatering work but we really don't need so much food but as my wife said today we'll stop bumping into some concrete and she needs to do an x-ray and I've discussed with Jeanette what we need to do now so we do take a disk and if you have a lot of money in that bank account won't you lay your money in that account but yes I don't want to remind you it's nice to have to go home to something to my friends and for our work but the most important thing is do your thoughts your prayers volunteer before Ukraine that's the need the money God is the false God and you can do a lot of things without money that's how I did so God bless you all if any of you have any questions you want to take a photo or anything but come up and take it with me thank you and your name and in the lobby there's the donation table there's also Vermont sunflowers for Ukraine so feel free to take some sunflowers use


Coming up today, YouTube wants to pick your favorite YouTube ad from the past 10 years, Child Advocacy Group site, inappropriate videos on YouTube kids, and 1 and 3 will purchase a product after watching a tutorial video according to a study. Hello and welcome to YouTube News from May 20th, 2015. I'm your host Alex and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube wants to our opinion to help decide which YouTube ad has been your favorite from the past 10 years for its 10th birthday celebration. If you go to 10yearsofyoutubedads.com, you'll see the ads that are currently up for vote as well as play buttons if you need a refresher before voting. Voting will continue until the end of the month before a winner is chosen. Which ad is your favorite? Tell us in the comment section down below. Next up, Child Advocacy Groups are claiming that there are too many inappropriate videos showing up in the YouTube Kids app. Because these groups included an explicit musical number from Family Guy, that's about the beer Budweiser, Ted talks about suicide, and more. A YouTube spokeswoman has responded with the comment that YouTube takes the feedback on the kids out very seriously and if they want more restrictions for their children to turn off the search function. And last up, according to a study done by Google last month, it turns out that how to and tutorial videos are a great way to push a product. 10 and 3 millennials have stated that they will actually purchase a product as a result of watching a how to or tutorial about said product, with DIY and beauty videos being the most popular topics that this rings true for. Do you guys tend to buy something after watching a how to or tutorial about them? Tell us in the comment section down below. Anyways, that's it for me this week guys, thanks for tuning in and tune in again next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. Thanks for watching. YouTube Spaces kits superpowers with help from Stan Lee. Google says 91% of its YouTube ads are viewable and videos appear for 55% of Google keyword searches.


During the rain delay, what was going on when Phil seemed pretty agitated talking to a bunch of guys in the dugout? You know, I think just just frustrated at a situation You know at that point in the game not playing, you know to our standard and over the course of a season you're gonna have Outbursts from guys from coaches from me. Whatever, you know, so just the emotion of of the season of the game You know not much more than that Were they related to those in-field hits where I think I think it's where the whole How that game was unfolding at that point just you know some things that we should have been cleaner at doing You know where where the game was getting away from us a little bit So I think a little frustration came out was that Primarily based on I know Claver was late a couple of times. I know that the shift is you know a little different Did you have a problem with anything that Claver did defensively? Well, yeah, and in the bun situation Gabor's got to be covering first there and we were expecting a bun in that situation You know the other one is a little tricky with with how we're positioned But you got to be moving towards the bag and and a lot of that is is youthfulness is an experience You know at the position the nuances where you just do things all the time second nature which frankly He for the most part is really good at that and I talk about how instinctive he is all the time So those are a couple plays that you know he needed to be on top of a little bit more, but But I also don't want him to lose The ease with which he plays


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divestment from Israeli apartheid thank you thank you Rowan for sharing your story I say when palestine is oppressed boycott sanctions and divest when Palestine is oppressed when palestine is oppressed thank you next up we have sam bliss going to interview people now my cup I'm back I got my camera now so where do you go to school dude I'm at UVM yeah yeah what year oh that's a difficult question fourth year yeah I end up doing another one you're gonna do it are you communications or media environmental studies oh okay media related nice yeah so the media class you're taking oh no I'm doing it I'm doing it just a separate from school paid internship okay even better yeah I you know it's funny my senior year at Johnson State College before if you go on camera I don't want to say about that okay so before I worked in the state house in 88 January to June as a legislative aid a full-time intern to the ACLU that's how I learned the building I work in there I work in the state house now I just do most of it by zoom but I've been working in there over 20 years and I learned it's a trade working in the building is like a trade it's not really something you learn in college yeah no you definitely got to get the experience yeah you get you got to work in the building man it's a process yeah so it's funny because you mentioned interns I always tell people everybody should do at least a semester internship that's not just a couple hours a day but like at least half time yeah exactly mine was full I did four days a week down here I had one con law class I went to my con law class in the rush time work here yeah all in one day they do that is like Johnson they offer like semesters abroad for doing that but otherwise I'd be like a part-time yeah or if you're if the if the trade or area of expertise offers that do it in the summer but yeah that's a difficult because you need a well-paying thing for the summer right now I mean in terms of cost you can't pay for that cost of living is so high right now it's like my resume that I was a legislative aid to the executive director of the ACLU and I was like in the door yeah I'm gonna interview her over there I don't care if you even talk to me again except friendly I'm still happy to do an interview sure okay let's do it sure what's your name and who are you here with today my name is Lynn Caulfield I'm here just with my friends we're just a group we're not anything formal and what's going on today well the folks across the street are trying to free Palestine but I'm not sure they know what that means and and I think we all agree that we want peace and justice in the world but if Hamas laid down their arms right now there'd be peace but if Israel laid down their arms right now there would get annihilated because it's no secret that Islamic jihadists part of their charter is to annihilate all the Jews and they've said it they admit it so we want to stand in support of Israel um what would you what would a constructive conversation look like for you between American Zionists and American anti Zionists um I well I think if we're all going to agree in for peace in the world that the only way that can happen is through the Prince of Peace you know Jesus the Messiah came and we're celebrating his birth this month and really the only way to overcome hate is with love and the only two sorts of love is Jesus Christ so can you expand on how Jesus would help with and the discussion of Jesus would help with the conversations between Zionists and anti Zionists in America yes because if the Jewish history is in the Bible in God's word so um you know Jesus loves all people and if people embrace the truth of God's word then there would be peace on the earth because people would realize that God ordained Israel and ordained borders for Israel and they're outlined in the Bible and not to the exclusion of Palestinians or Gentiles because he came to save all Jews and Gentiles so and so Jewish people don't recognize the New Testament in their faith so are you saying that they should recognize the New Testament and that is the path to peace or are you saying that they should just they will yes yeah I mean a lot of these events that have happened recently and well Israel came a state in 1948 but in the Bible prophesies about the Jews returning to the land and actually as a result of October 7th a lot of Jewish people are returning to Israel and they're flocking back to Israel to their homeland because that's really the only place they can be safe um what has been your favorite part of being out here today talking to people like you it's been a real blessing just to have folks come across and just you know some of the couple guys came or something and we just wanted to share the love and we're glad you here you know we're we're not against anybody and so that was a real blessing to us that's really awesome have you ever been to Israel I was a wonderful wonderful experience I just I went to Israel from I had been on a medical mission trip in Uganda and I went from Uganda Israel and it was just amazing to see the land of the book to see the land of Jesus and to see where Jesus walked but we went to the shrine of the book which has like the whole scroll of Isaiah that was found in the kumran caves and we also toured Yad Vashem in our tour guide kind of let us do that on our own so we were just going through the museum and it's it was just so impactful it was it's a wonderful experience I'd recommend it to anybody I'm trying to go back to Israel I'm a nurse and a farmer and I know a lot of folks there some a lot of the farmers in Judea Samaria which is called the West Bank the farmers lost their workers after October 7th so they've got crops that need to be harvest harvested so and because I'm a nurse if I was able to go over there I tried to do some nursing work as well while you're in Israel did you meet any Palestinians or speak with any Palestinians actually went on another trip a couple years before I went digital to Egypt so we had Muslims and Christians and all sorts of people standing in line waiting to get to our sorry health clinics so yeah it's just amazing experience so thank you so much for talking with me today I hope you have a good day thank you all right you want to do a quick one what we would call it cancer or whatever was a woman and she she was leading the group and that was that she was in my group you want to do a quick one yeah do me a favor though first can you can you hand me that you can you what can I have one of these are my my wailing wall yes you can thank you I'm trying to take them all home though can you hand me the bag what I want to be ready to put them away because we might have an onslaught of people who come over to go we're gonna convince you that you're just a bunch of white supremacists I don't think they're gonna come we've got when they break up there'll be a few I'm sure a couple yeah you got our share well if I'm here with the camera for now then right I also have a nine-foot pole and pepper spray so please so what would you like to ask me young man I'd like to ask first your name and who you're here with today William Moore I'm from Johnson Vermont and I chose to come here and bring some friends there's no organization okay what are y'all here to do today what's your goal the best description I can give you is we're standing as watchmen on the wall being a witness on behalf of Israel against the false oh yeah we're trying to be watchmen on the wall and witnesses against the false policies and false beliefs of this movement which is really about erasing Israel from the face of the planet unfortunately a lot of the people there are also quite ignorant of the history and the military what's up the people there across the street at the protest are quite ignorant of the history and the ideology of what they're supporting so you know I got to give them a lot of grace for not understanding the history so that's why we're here where do you think the core disconnect comes from between you and your people and the people across the street well personally I take a biblical view of Israel's right to exist which is in Genesis chapter 12 through 18 to start with if you want to look it up but the primary idea that any people that's been kicked around for four or 5000 years by every empire and every major power over and over and has landed with their feet on the ground their language and culture intact and have a state those are people that were are worth defending I mean that the idea that Israel exists that the Jewish language exists the Jewish culture exists at all well correct that it exists at all is a miracle upon miracles upon miracle so the idea that they're here fighting for their existence yet again is not surprising what surprises me is that our young people especially are basically parroting anti-Semitic slogans and Hamas policy and Hezbollah policy as some sort of solution erases real and everything will be okay is kind of what you're hearing today and I'm oversimplifying it but that would be my answer so would you say you have a lot of knowledge of biblical texts and whatnot okay yes do you know about the Canaanites in the Old and New Testament I do Canaanites Amalekites Moabites you got it yeah I've been I've been hearing recently that people have been able to trace back the lineage of many Palestinian families to specific Canaanite families what are your thoughts on that if you trace the genealogies and genetics they're finding that the Canaanite strain is in Jordanians Syrians Egyptians Lebanese all across the whole area it's sort of a generic strain also many Jews because of intermarrying we're going back 5,000 years so there there there is no distinct Palestinian people genetically you just proved the point because there while there's no distinct Palestinian people amongst the Middle East regions they share DNA and ethnicity and culture and Islamism across many many countries in the Middle East no I was I don't have a question about Islamism I'm not sure if that's the word I would use Islam and Islamism as like a political thing that's not what my question is going to be about I want to keep on this I understand but I'd like to continue talking about the Canaanite genealogy and tracing back lineage okay they've been able to trace their lineage back to specific like homes and the exact area of the Levant and that is the geological term for that region too like on the coastline or in the mountains in a certain area back to the times of the Jewish people being in that land when Greece and Cyprus sent sailing tribes of people to the region for trade and they were the first ones to be referred to as the Philistines which is the old word for Palestine so you could argue that the only people with a proper actual right to call themselves Palestinians are people with the Greek Cypriot ancient sailing genetics so and they're not there anymore so your arguments sort of species no no I mean your point is the science is kind of specious okay so you want to we want to move off that top all right let's move off that top either one of us are experts neither one of us I'm citing specific things and asking your opinions on them I'm not trying to make a point here um I don't take a lot of stock in genetics I don't either I think genetics is a silly game to play because I have every right to be a Christian and you of course right even if you were born Irish and I was born Jewish you can become one of them by choice just as you can become you can I don't fully understand what you mean here my friend Martin my friend Martin may have grown up as whatever but he can become he could convert to Judaism right yes I can convert to Judaism yes I am a Muslim and there are a lot of them that do it can convert to Judaism or as Christianity and vice versa as well what does it have to why are they asserting an ethnic genetic tribal nations nation state right to the land that's the question that they're confronted with but wouldn't you say that Jewish people are doing the same thing are you saying they're only asserting a religious right to the land oh you'd have to ask the Jewish people that question all right I am a Jewish person and I'm I'm saying you'll see where the land was given to you okay and then they fought for it and they won it and ever since then every major power major empire under particularly the Western empires have kicked them to the curb tried to destroy them and most recently under Nazi Germany tried to eliminate them and I wouldn't even say that's the most recent no that's you could make that argument you're right yeah but the most recent in modern history the biggest in modern history yeah large scale truly yeah I'm Jewish and thank you so much shabbat shalom and shalom alaykum and so I was speaking with one of your friends here and they said that the solution would be for Jewish people to convert to Christianity do you the person I just interviewed over there I think her name is Mary yeah I don't know I don't know why she was saying that but whoever had the flag over there and left a bit ago what's your name Lynn Lynn yeah I don't know that argument yeah that was a confusing argument um that was what she said would be a constructive conversation between the people on this side of the street and the people on that side of the street what would a what would a constructive conversation between I think supposed to be BB it's it's bread and puppet doing performance art they were hitting them over the head with all their statue of the guy yeah I think what we said what would a constructive conversation look like between y'all over here on this side and people over there on that side what do you think a constructive conversation would look like I would try to teach them a little history that's all I would try to do I don't think I convinced I can't unconvince someone of an ideological position or a radical revolutionary position I can only give them the history to make those leaps on their own I mean there's so much propaganda that's been taught through this the high schools and the colleges and with that age range pretty much everybody over there has been taught that there's right it's broad yeah yeah that's what I'm saying so pretty much everybody there has been exposed to some level of propaganda about DEI and all of the self identifying by your tribalism and all of that is divisive it's not helpful what is DEI diversity equity and inclusion yeah so and also that the whole concept of identifying yourself by immutable characteristics like the color of your skin or your ethnicity that's why I'm not a big fan of DNA stuff it's it's it's irrelevant you're who you are based on who you were born with and what family brought you up in the beliefs you have that's who that's what define you're who God says you're gonna be so your values in your community define you far more than physical characteristic I can't redefine those people I can only teach them the facts of history and let them make those leaps on their own so would you say that sharing values in community with people on the other side would be an end goal of a constructive conversation it would be fantastic to think that that could happen on some level but if you were standing here a few minutes ago we had a woman who came over and was offended she was she was offended by the fact that we were quote counter protesting away said look we're just standing as witnesses we're not confronting we purposely are on the other side of the street and she started getting into it with us and then she called our arguments white supremacists and I said okay we're done once you once you try to say because I'm white I can't have a thought and I can't have free speech we're done yeah and she wouldn't let up she wouldn't let up and finally the security people came over and kind of encouraged her to step aside which was good because she doesn't represent those people those people over there want to talk they want to know something she's just an example of the kind of I don't know the kind of rage that's in this like on college campuses you know people are being beaten and Jews are being targeted because of this ignorance because of this I mean theology yes but also three Palestinian men were shot in Burlington and we can't forget that mentally disturbed and there's no evidence whatsoever that he had the slightest religious position on their ethnicity or their kafias they were wearing as far as we know it was a random event by a nut job if you're looking at the police statements and the investigative statements you'll know that hello how are you ladies can eat can you we're interviewing so yeah go ahead talk to them you want to turn around and yeah or you can just conclude and talk to them I don't care I could but I don't know if they want to be yeah sounds like they want to talk and I was distracting yeah so would you say that y'all are bearing witness in the Quaker sense of bearing witness or would you just say that you are standing here is in the sense of the Watchman and the wall in the history in the biblical history of Israel the Watchman and the wall were they did two things they they stood vigil to watch for enemies to watch for outside dangers to the Jewish people to their relationship with God to their righteousness but they also looked inward to the people's wanderings in their hearts and minds and spiritual wanderings towards idols worshipping other gods covetousness lust and so on that were be seen as sins that would separate them from their relationship with God so being a Watchman isn't to stand on a wall and look out for enemies it's also to look for the enemies within you in a spiritual sense and and within the culture that destroy it from within so that's why I use the word Watchman and who would you say the spiritual enemies are most specifically well I think the hate and rage that gets attached to the political position so there's a political position underneath all this fair enough right free speech as I told the organizers and security people I said look we share one thing today we're free speech warriors I'm gonna be on here and I'm gonna stay out of your face I'm not gonna be confrontational I ask you to do the same we all agree in order to do that you have to live in a society where that's tolerated and I'm sorry you've seen the videos on the streets of New York and the streets of some of the college campuses where people like me our flags are ripped down and we're beaten okay I've seen the same thing from both sides to be honest with you fair enough absolutely but fortunately we live in this Vermont you know and everybody's kind of we'll get along and listen that but at the same time you heard the rage if you didn't hear the rage in the speeches and the rage and the chance that feeds that instead of having discussions and arguments and so on that feeds that question related to that yeah that's a spiritual problem yes about the spiritual problems and it's when you feed someone's rage particularly if it's based on the rage is being fed by ignorance okay um I agree rage can be dangerous and the leadership and the speakers should pay for that spiritually to what would that look like also I don't have this job not mine okay that's God's job yeah um you know yeah I do what is your favorite part of being out here today other people showing up to stand with me do you have any plans related to this with future or just general plans try to keep as many of these people in contact and people who couldn't make it today and as I told the organizers over there every time they have an event like this whether it's in Burlington or Brattleboro or Montpelier or Morristown we're gonna be standing witness okay