What about the recorder? OK. So I will call the December 3, 2018 Select Board meeting to order. And I invite you to rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I'd like to welcome everyone to tonight's Select Board meeting. And just remind you, if you have a cell phone, if you could turn it to buzz, at least, off of ringer, we would greatly appreciate it. OK. So first, next thing up is agenda additions and changes. And I see we have a couple of things at our place. There's two things to add to the existing materials. First, there's a resolution and appreciation of Sarah Michelle Stultz added another whereas, which I can speak to once you get to that item. 5A. 5A, OK. 5E, some minutes corrections from Ms. Renner. OK. Anything else? Is it OK to have a motion to approve amending the agenda to add these items 1 for 5A and 1 for 5E? So moved. Sorry. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Irene. Any further discussion? All those in favor of amending the agenda signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? OK. Passes unanimously. Thank you. OK, we're on to public to be heard. This is a time for the public to speak to the select board on any item that's not on the agenda today. Is there anyone here wishing to speak during public to be heard? Yes, sir. If you could state your name and your address for the record, please. My name is Jeff Abwood. I reside at 146 North Wilson Road. Various times in my adult life, a couple of times I've resided in Essex. My father, Steve Abwood, has been a long time resident here and has served the town. And I'm here tonight to speak about affordable housing. I'd like to get, I guess, an update or the town of Essex select board's opinion on affordable housing. And then I'd like to share with the select board the lack of affordable housing that is being built over at the state's growth center at your good friends from Williston and remind the town of Essex that that is sewer coming from your town and village. And the community, this community, Chittenden County and the state of Vermont, is not getting served like two specific individuals over there. Scott Reilly, the head of the DRB from the town of Williston, and Snyder companies. Those gentlemen have built over 500 units in that growth center. And there are zero perpetually affordable homes for ownership.  And it's shameful. And I say that because that group over there came out with an affordable housing task force that they were on, state legislators, and Mr. Reilly. This affordable task force presented publication to the select board. They took it into advisement. In the year 2015-16, the select board had their annual retreat where affordable housing was their topic. And a year later, they awarded Mr. Reilly and Mr. Snyder 350 sewer allocations in the state of Vermont's first growth center, where 20% to 30% of those homes are required to be affordable. And they were required and asked to build zero. And a year later, they were given another 177 allocations. And they've been asked to build a small percentage of perpetually affordable rental homes. If anyone in this board thinks that that is going to solve our demographic problem or to serve the children in our schoolyards in this county or the people that serve us, they are sadly mistaken. And I, as a citizen of Vermont and a believer in affordable housing who has sold seven units to the housing trust beginning in July of 19 to seven perpetually affordable homes for ownership to the younger generation that is so needed. Those individuals that are currently living there and renting off of me, they get first option. Some of those people work here in Essex. They desperately need affordable housing. And to think that 500 units were used to enrich two individuals, tens of millions of dollars. And nothing was made and built for those children in this county. And in particular, their own community is a disgrace. And it's a shame when town officials and state ledgers form a task force, they study it, and they turn around and they give sewer allocation that starts from here. What I'm trying to relay to the town of Essex tonight is the days, if it was of that being carte blanche of coming to an agreement and then letting the town of Williston just use it that way, it's a disgrace. It's shameful. And I don't believe it serves any of us in this county and I certainly don't believe it serves the town of Essex. That's really all I wanted to say tonight. I hope you will consider that. I hope you will talk to the trustees. But again, when that time comes up, where they have to come here and get sewer again, my goodness folks, that's not right. That's simply not right. We're better than that as Vermonters and we have to be right now. It is the number one thing we are facing in my lifetime. Right now, the demographics problem we have and the lack of affordable housing for the younger generation and the people that are serving us and everything they've built over there are for you and for me. Thank you, folks. I appreciate it. You have a good holiday. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you for coming in. Okay, anyone else wishing to speak here in public to be heard? Okay, then we're gonna move on to our first item of business, which is 5A and that's the approval of a resolution of appreciation for Sarah Michelle Stoltz. Greg, you wanna kick that one off? Sure. So Sarah Michelle Stoltz had been the recording secretary in Essex for about 13 years, starting in 2005. She recently stepped down and put together a short resolution just showing appreciation for her. Did hand out a new resolution. It's the one, two, three, fourth, whereas down is the addition that she had placed today. It says whereas Sarah Michelle took dozens of sets of minutes for the merger task force beginning in September 2005. Ibrahim brought that to our attention just to give Sam credit where she had done some additional work that was not mentioned in here. Besides that, hopefully you've had a chance to read it and would be willing to adopt the resolution to show your appreciation for Sarah Michelle. Any comments on the resolution, including the added whereas that was at our place? Okay. Yeah, she was done, she was wonderful to work with. Really good. So Madam Clerk, would you mind reading it into the record for us? Resolution in appreciation of Sarah Michelle Stoltz. Whereas Sarah Michelle Stoltz began working as the recording secretary for the town of Essex Select Board. Oh, I'm sorry, I found a spelling mistake. Sarah's last name is spelled one way in the title and a different way in the first whereas, I'm sorry. I'll keep reading it though. Whereas Sarah Michelle Stoltz began working as the recording secretary for the town of Essex Select Board in 2005. And whereas Sarah Michelle stepped down from her regular recording secretary duties in October 2018. And whereas Sarah Michelle reliably attended hundreds of Select Board meetings and produced clear and accurate minutes to document the proceedings of the Select Board. And whereas Sarah Michelle took dozens of sets of minutes for the merger task force beginning in September 2005. And whereas Sarah Michelle has been a tremendous asset to the town of Essex. Now therefore be it resolved that the Select Board on behalf of the staff and citizens of the town of Essex here by extend our most sincere appreciation to Sarah Michelle for her 13 years of commitment and dedication as recording secretary adopted this third day of December 2018 by the Essex Select Board. Thank you, Elaine. Yeah, I think this is pretty well deserved. So do I have a motion then to approve this? I'll move we adopt the resolution. Thank you, Elaine. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Okay, any further discussion? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of the resolution and appreciation of Sarah Michelle Stoltz signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion passes unanimously. Evan, if you see her, please do tell her that the Select Board greatly appreciates her many, many years of service. Shall do. Thank you. Okay, we're gonna move on to business item 5B and that's an update of progress of unified manager goals. Evan. As you have in your packet, a memo from me about four or five months ago, the sub committee, a small committee put together four goals that were then brought to both boards at a joint board meeting and I was just giving you an update on where we are with those. I also threw in some stuff that you didn't ask for. That's what I do. About personnel and the voluminous changes we've had this year. And I kind of threw that in there because just in case I didn't get to all my goals. What are you even doing? I did, but the point is we've had a fair amount of turnover, some from retirement, some from people leaving for love and other reasons. Officer Dunning, if you can hear me, he moved to Pennsylvania because that's where his fiance went. So just that people change and so we've had a lot of change over and some part timers and things of that. Also on the list, the people we've promoted, which also creates usually some type of opening or otherwise. And then just the things that we've been working on in terms of the organization. And one of the things I have started, a monthly coffee meeting with the COO of the school district where we've started talking about operational things and where the school district and the town and village can work better and communicate better as well. And we've got some things on the burner to keep at. I can answer any questions. Yeah, any questions or comments about what's written here? Elaine. First of all, nice work. I was really pleased to see that there is some work beginning on updating the town and village websites. So I'm really excited here about that. And I would love to receive regular updates on how it's going. And is that going to be an internal staff project or is there going to be any committee work on that or anything like that? That's a staff lead. We've already interviewed and reviewed a few different firms. There is a firm called Civic Plus. They do the websites for municipalities totaling well over 70 million Americans. And so Rob is heading up, Rob Paluba is heading up that program and it is designed so that our departments can easily update their own content and we're tasking Darby from the village to help as well because she learns these things very well. She spearheaded the village website. And so the idea is that we will unify the look and feel and train everybody, at least one person in each department, how to upload but then also provide them with technical assistance with Darby and others to be able to kind of keep an eye on it, keep it fresh. And she has a good eye for things that like, hey you should put this photo up, we can do this, we can do that. So we are looking to do that and maybe standardize where you find things. And page to page department to department, that type of thing so you don't go looking all over. The other thing we eventually also wanna do is make sure that our citizens can interact with the website, like if you wanna pay for something or do something online, you don't always have to come into our offices and then standardize who we're using for those financial transactions. Great, you could ask them to keep us appraised on that process on a regular basis, I would really appreciate it. Other comments, questions? Anybody? Andy. There's comments in there about the Facebook page, it says, I asked the question about it, it says it's a village was taking over the Facebook page but then when I asked about it the response said that it was a general public outreach informational thing and the select board has never discussed that Facebook page so I'm just wondering whether we should or whether we could at least see what the policy is so we feel comfortable with it. I'd be happy to bring you what we developed for that. It's basically the village took it over because it was offered to the village twice in three minutes. I get to use Derby's name. Derby worked with Bridget and there were some, I wanna say strings but we'll call it strings, they wanted to keep it alive, they've got about 2,000 followers and we saw it as an opportunity to be able to get municipal message out to at least 2,000 people of the village and town because there are town people who are signed up for it and so I will bring that policy back to you and if the town wants to post to it we wanted to be able to get information out to as many people as part of our communications. I don't wanna say strategy because we don't have one yet, a full one but trying to get our message out to as many people about our meetings, about open houses, about things that are going on in both communities. Our one concern is we don't necessarily want it to be us being in a conversation with dialogue but that's what Facebook also allows and the one thing that we did discuss was it being a public website you have to maintain a record that somebody said something or did something we will certainly do that but part of our policy procedure is if there's vulgar language or bad tone we reserve the right to remove a posting. We wanna keep it civil, we wanna keep it upbeat and it's really, I would say 90% if not more informational. Ask real quick, is the Facebook page still called downtown as ex-junction? I believe it is. I think so. I think so. That would probably explain why it was just a village dealing with it but we keep pumping out so that's what it's called we keep pumping out information so when we send something out about a meeting or a special event Santa was at the fire station this Saturday it went out on our media outlets including Twitter. So I guess to clarify I wasn't concerned but I mean when you first had it in there you said it was a village entity and I just wanted to make sure and I just wanna understand that but the response said that it was a general one intended for the entire town and that's where I wanted to understand what the situation was and the other thing is that we had at one point Greg had given us a model social media policy that we never, that was just included in a reading file we never touched it again and you mentioned that you don't, I think you mentioned you don't want it to be a discussion platform necessarily so the thing that concerns me is whether or not it's appropriate for select board members to ever post on there because it can quickly become a discussion and that even other select board members seeing comments made by select board members can possibly be construed as an open meeting violation if you're right. So I just wanna talk through those things before we put ourselves in a position of having a Facebook page. We'll bring it back in a couple weeks. One of the things is, and I will tell you this, I recommend that you do not respond to, when we do respond we should respond from the town to the citizenry not individually and I would tend to refrain from getting into back and forth dialogue. We state the policy and what we do or don't do and try to stay away from the back and forth. That's the downside. You talking about Facebook or you talking about email? I'm talking about Facebook and Twitter and getting into Twitter war and we just, people ask why we do things or why we don't do things and we tell them but we don't go back and forth and back and forth. I think the Secretary of State's office has guidance on social media policies for municipalities. Yeah, interesting. And we've had that conversation with legal counsel. Okay, so we'll see that in a future agenda. Ari? So there's a not necessarily a companion page but there's a Facebook page called SXBT that has many more followers. And I'm just wondering if Derby and the rest of your staff have any plans or if you do to approach that similarly. That's not a town one though, right? Right, that's not an official, right. It's a community, it's not issued, it's not run by anybody here. Yeah, we haven't talked about it at this point really the downtown as ex-junction that we were the town or the village I should say was approached about taking it over. It was offered up to us at this point we're not looking to take over any others I suppose if somebody had the offer we would consider it but we're not looking to go out and take it over. As far as I was told it was we'd like someone to take it over or it's going to go away and we didn't want to lose something that had built 2,000 plus followers. So if somebody from SXBT wants to talk to us and it fits in what we're trying to do at least give it due consideration. Andy? I guess I would suggest that if we have a policy that tells us how to use the downtown SX junction or whatever it's called that if there are rules that we as a select board adopt or a policy that we adopt it needs to apply to SXBT also I don't think you can be we should have a I mean I'm not saying we're going to take it over but I think if there's a social media platform out there that's focusing on our town and town business is being discussed on it or it has the same ramifications of one that we own. It's a public record who's going to keep it and I get very worried about. No, that's not true. It's only if we control it we have to maintain it as a record. If they're talking about town business they can talk anybody can talk about town business anything they want that doesn't make it a record. But if you I'm sorry if you were talking about whether you go on it then. That's what I'm talking about right. So if I respond if somebody sends me an email and I respond and I respond them with an email then I'm the holder of that record right. I need to maintain that. If I'm on Facebook and I post some stuff about the town I own that record right. I need to keep a copy of it and you need to make it available don't I? And how do I prevent another two other select board members from reading it and having to become a discussion? That's a good question. That's why you're the owner of the record. You're not administering that site. You have what you put on there. Right, right. You don't physically control that record. Right, but if I'm talking about town and we're going off on a long discussion. I know where you're going. So yeah, we need to have that. I think we should have that discussion about our policies. Please don't do business on social websites. So when we do have a policy discussion we could have that discussion as well. The one thing I think I heard it early on and correct me if I'm saying this wrong but I think there has to be one person in charge of who is updating that website. Not one person from each department but one person in charge of that website. I happened to live with a website administrator and her work and I will tell you that the horror stories can, they happen because somebody goes off half cocked. So anyway, just one man's opinion. Thank you. So it looks like we'll have a good discussion. We'll throw a discussion in the future. Okay, any other things on the goals? Evan's goals. Thank you. A lot going on. Certainly hit the ground running. I'm excited about the alignment of the departments and the streamlining of processes. That's all excellent stuff. So, okay, no further discussion. There's no motions needed there. We're going to move on to item five C. You want to give us an update on the approval of employment separation agreements? That's what we're going into executive session along with discussion of exit interviews. Okay, so that's five C and five D which will be in executive session and we'll see about having motions to do that later in the meeting. Okay, then believe it or not we're on to the minutes then. Approval of the minutes of November 19th, 2018 to have a motion. Irene. Move approval of the minutes of November 19th, 2018 with select burden on corrections. Thank you, don't have a second on that. Second. Okay, let's start with page one. Actually before we start, yeah, you want to talk about the track changes? Yes, the track changes, that was too many hands in the pot basically. The recording secretary is doing the town and the village. We've got new people and administrative roles handling this stuff, so it was honestly just too many records floating around. But one that had the track changes as opposed to the accepted version. Since then, Kathy and I have been talking to Tammy and Darby, we think there's a more streamlined process that's going to have one person really in charge of these things so that should not happen in the future. Hopefully it wasn't too confusing for you this time around but that is why there are these odd track changes. I appreciate it seeing the track changes. I think it'd be great to include them in the packet. Which part of it you didn't. I mean those are my edits to Kathy, basically. So it's kind of just, I'd say you don't even need to see them, that's fine and correction type of thing. Well, either, we're going to see them anyway, so. Different ones. Better if they come from staff, but. Okay, so we'll start with page one. Any recommended changes on page one? If not, on page two. Arie? Line 57 with Mr. Plagueman's permission, I would change in courage to emphasize the difference. Michael? Actually, that is the better word, I think. What line was that? 57 in the middle. Encourage to emphasize. Okay, all right, if you're okay with that then what else, anything else on that? Page two. Okay, we're, let's see, around page, or line 57. As a practice we've included the usual admonition, kind of word for word. We didn't really do that here. What's the board's pleasure? Do you want to have the word for word in there so we can always point to it in case there's a violation? We can say it. I didn't say it. Okay. I mean, first of all, I didn't realize that there was a prepared script for the admonition. So I- But you did mention it. But I did mention it. Did mention it. Yeah. And I- Use the phrase, the usual admonition. Yeah. But I, for one, am not comfortable putting something in there if I didn't say it and if we didn't do it. So. Okay, but in the future I think it would be good to have it kind of verbatim. At least that piece, do you think? Or no? Just in case there's a violation, we say, well, look, we- I don't have a problem with it. Like I said, I didn't even realize that there was. A script? A script to read from. Okay, now for something. Yes, please. And we just, if you want to add, and Mr. Plagueman gave the usual admonition given to liquor license holders. But he did. Except that I did- And admonition. And right. All right. If not, let it go. I kind of like 57 with Irene's change. Okay, let's just leave it at that. That's fine. Okay, anything else on two? Or anything on two? Not okay, go on to page three. Irene. I hand it out to make it really transparent. On lines 136 and 137. Yeah. 136, should say. Mrs. Renner reminded everyone that during a previous budget year, the WVPD allocation was suggested as a budget cut, but was reinstated due to the advocacy of a resident at town meeting 2017. She asked what the select board should hear in order to adequately fund this program. Okay, anybody have an issue with it? Andy? Wasn't it at town meeting 2018? I looked at that. It was actually 2017. It was two years ago? No, it was not this March, but last March. So a year and a plus ago. So you're questioning the date? No, I just trying to remember how the sequence but if she looked it up then I'm fine. Yeah. Sorry, yeah. Everybody okay with that, Mike? Name, okay. All right, anything else on three? Anybody? Okay, if not, let's go on to page four. And page five, Irene. So once again, I have corrections spelled out. Mrs. Renner wondered if local responders, you have 35, let's see what after that. Okay, you wanted to change 196 as well? Yeah, it's not a military aircraft because I don't think that that's the same as real or. Okay, is everybody okay with that? Okay, very good. All right, and that's all there were. Page five. So all those in favor of the November 19th, 2018 select board minutes with corrections signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, most passes unanimously. Thank you all. Let's see now, where am I? Consent? Yeah. Okay, we're on to consent agenda. We have a motion to approve consent with select board comments. Check warrants? Yeah. Sure. Thank you. Okay, I mean, all right, comments on the check warrants. Anybody, Andy? On the November 31, there's a charge. It's the check number 2129 for electric vehicle charge $2,974. That's part of the installation. They're moving it over here and. On the police facility? Is that in this contract or something? That's part of the moving it over here in a three year agreement with the company for billing and maintenance. Okay, so is there any, did we ever made any money with this thing? Or is that that's why it was moved? Because it was never used. Not much at the police station where optimistic we'll have. Some more here anecdotally, I've seen people plugged in a few times already. Really? Thank you. One. Yeah. So we, maybe I'm going too far into this. Do we anticipate revenue from it? Or is it a feel good thing? I'm gonna try to be optimistic. I try to never say never. But it's gonna be a long time before we break even on that deal. But people do use it. It is environmentally friendly. It does support our mission with our energy committee. And we are seeing a lot more people use it here than they did at the police department. And I think as the app, and I'm told there are apps available that tell people where they're available. And so, but it is certainly doing better here than at the police department. I know we went and updated the fee that's charged to be compared, I think actually the energy committee did that, right? So, okay. Anything else on the check warrants in consent? Okay. Hearing no more. All those in favor of the consent agenda, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, most passes unanimously. Five zero and we're onto the reading file. Any comments about what's in the reading file? Elaine. So the memo regarding the highway tax and the village rolling stock transfer, the trustees didn't get to talk about it at our last meeting, even though it was said in our, right? We didn't cover it, we tabled it. So we haven't talked about it yet. And I'm just curious if it's going to become a subject for a joint meeting or is it gonna be handled at separate boards? That's a really good question because the village board has not asked to do it. Therefore the town may or may not have anything to act upon if you were asked. But the hope is that they will both will see it in your reading files, ask any questions and then present any questions either singularly at your meetings or together at a joint meeting slash and if one has held a joint budget type meeting to understand what's being proposed. So it could be discussed and it really would depend on whether the village is going to ask. But from a staff perspective, we think the idea has merit. Okay, the answer to the reading file. Just to add to that, if you haven't seen it already on Wednesday, staff is asking you to consider having a joint meeting with the trustees about budgeting. If you do end up having that meeting, this would be probably one of those topics. Okay, anticipate that, Harry. Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it would be more transparent if these were decoupled rather than combined. These, the same memo. You're increasing one, you're decreasing another and you're presenting the net. I think for the average resident out there, they might appreciate seeing them as two separate things and have us discussing those two separate things. So have a select board discussion only and a trustee one only first rather than, because it's going to affect both bodies. I would think a more efficient way would be to have it discussed jointly. But what's the board's thought on that? Maybe separate it by having discussions. Or separate it by topic, because we're talking about two different changes. So are you separating the topics or are you separating the people who talk about them? The changes themselves. Because I can just imagine trying to explain one of these things to a resident and then saying, but they're happening at the same time. I think the reason they're coupled is because in the end, they result in a net, help me out here, Evan. You know the answer to what I'm trying to say. I can understand. Sorry, Sarah, I ruined that, didn't I? It's a smaller net increase because we're combining them. I understand why we're doing that. And you're asking us to maybe separate it out so it's a little clearer of the two separate actions equal something. Okay. And then we can show how they impact when combined. Is that right? Should they both be things that we want to do? We may decide we don't want to get rid of the outside of the village tax, or we may decide we want to move the rolling stock, but to couple them together prevents us from all the other options that we have. When can Sabrina speak? Say that last part again. The what? By coupling these together, it's an up or down vote on doing both things. I'd like us to talk about doing one thing or doing the other thing or doing both things or doing neither. I think it's just, again, easier for the public to parse and it's easier for us to talk about things if we consider them separately rather than just as a package deal. Let's just sort of back up a little bit. Exactly. Before we get there. Okay. Okay, anything else in the reading file? Andy? I've learned that I may be out of town on January 23rd, which is a budget meeting. I think that's the date that we intend to set the budget, right? Yes. And so I am going to, I'll be in California, so it'll be three o'clock for me. I'm gonna see if I can arrange my schedule to participate on this date unless folks have a willingness to change the date and it's hard to do that. Plus, you've already moved it. Well, so I will, I guess before I ask the date, I will see what my schedule is likely to look like. Okay, yeah, well, could you do that? Yeah, yeah. I think it'll be very important to have all five of us available. It's nice that you can be at that meeting. Yeah, it's an important one. Okay, good to know. So keep us informed, please, or keep Evan informed anyway. Okay, anything else? Reading file? The town meeting prep training. I like to go to that. So you could ask Tammy to sign me up on that. That's the town meeting tune up on February 7th. Find that always educational. Okay, then if there's nothing else on the reading file, then when we get some motions to go into executive session, I think. Does anybody have that? Andy? I move that the select board enter into an executive session to discuss the employment of public officers pursuant to one VSA 313A3 to include the unified manager and deputy town manager. If we could also have Sarah and Travis in there just in case there's questions. And the, what do we call it? Assistant finance director and the HR director. Second. Okay, thank you. Any further discussion about entering executive session about employment of public officers? Hearing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? I think the one does it for both topics. Is that correct? We have two separate ones just to be safe. We had one was about employment, one was about evaluation. Okay. So they probably could have combined them but took the safe side. Andy, would you mind doing that? I move that the select board enter into executive session to discuss the evaluation of a public officer pursuant to one VSA 313A3 to include the unified manager and deputy town manager. Okay, I didn't think so. Thank you. I have a second on that one. Second. Okay, thank you. Elaine, any further discussion about going into executive session for that? For evaluation of a public officer? Michael. Why wouldn't HR be there for an evaluation? These are volunteers on our committees and commissions. Very well. Thank you. Sorry. So Elaine, you seconded it, right? I did. Okay. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, most passed unanimously, 5-0. Thank you all. We'll break to the room upstairs and let Scott break down. There's no room up there, isn't there?


Back to Oshun State, civil society organisations have bemoaned low percentage and turnout of women's inclusion in political offices in Nigeria. This year's all discloses a one-day political party round table dialogue on women's political participation, inclusion organised by a non-governmental organisation, Kimpact Development Initiative in Oshobo. In its remarks, the Executive Director, Kimpact Development Initiative Bokalai Do, said the conversation is expected to challenge or address the challenges and provide sustainable development goals that will encourage women's equal participation in leadership in political and public life. Gender inequality, lack of funding remain a significant challenge facing women in politics. Some of the panelists and participants said there is need to domesticate a policy that would mandate political parties to present a particular number of women in elected position. There are women at the grassroots level. Now, if the women are not participating at the grassroots level, how come the politicians have the women to use at the grassroots level to campaign for them? You see during campaign, you see them in policies, even with HMB. So what we are thinking is, look, let them participate beyond using them as a campaign material. We are advocating for the involvement of government and policy makers to make policies and put legal framework in place that will help women. We should factor in all these constraints and then we should create a solution, maybe a compulsory affirmative action or a legal framework that will request political parties to present female figures as their flag bearers.  There are so many things you need to build.  As a woman, you don't need to see yourself as if I'm not even ready to be in this place. As a woman, you have to see yourself that the spirit of I can do it, you have to have it.


About one in five elections in the world turns violent. Election violence is not unique to any continent or development level. Often we see that election violence occurs long before election day, so we need to start early in order to prevent it most effectively. Election-related violence can take many shapes or forms, from voter intimidation to the burning of polling stations to police crackdowns of peaceful protests and in some cases even the assassination of some of the candidates. They attacked the police to demoralize them. They were threatening to the polling staff. If you go to the election, we will target you physically.  Preventing election violence is a priority of the US Institute of Peace. Election violence can claim lives, undermine faith in democracy, and reverse years of development. But prevention makes a difference. Police training can improve security at the polls. Civic education can inform voters and reduce the risk of rumors taking hold. Election observations can provide credibility to an election, or deter violent actors. And diplomacy can encourage politicians to address disagreements in the court instead of in the streets. These efforts are critical, but whether or not an election remains peaceful is ultimately up to the police, the election commission, and above all, those who are running for office. Our research shows that prevention works, but each instrument is not equally impactful. We see that international interventions often start quite late, when the campaigns are well underway or violence has already erupted. Crisis response seems to be more common than prevention and is certainly less effective. Our research tries to determine what works to prevent election violence and what does not. Through our trainings, we improve the skills of practitioners and policy makers, professionals charged with maintaining the peace. We engage with local partners by supporting election commissions, observation teams, police officers, and civil society. Prevention works and makes peace possible.


Today we're going to be taking a look at the Dicast Metals, Hollywood Rides, Ghostbusters, Ecto 1. Stay tuned. This is Comic NTV. Hey guys, welcome back to Comic NTV, the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. Ordinarily, this is the time when I would put the toy onto my turntable and give you guys a nice 360 degree turn and view of it. However, it seems that the motor on my turntable is going out. It's solar powered, so it never shuts off. It is constantly going because of the lights I have in my room. It gets a super charge, so it spins all night long. I'm not sure why guys, but it is what it is. So anyway, here we have the Ecto 1. Very nice. It's very reminiscent of a Hot Wheels. The doors. At least the front two doors do open. Very nice. The back two do not open. A very nice paint job. Got the ladder here, the sirens. Got the Ghostbusters symbol there on the doors and on the back hatch. It would have been very nice if they would have made it to where the back hatch opened as well. Maybe you can see some proton packs back there. Got the license paint. Very nice that they included the license plate on there on both sides. The side parts here are glued on. They are not made of metal. They are like a very flimsy, softer plastic, so you do have to be careful with that guys. That's on both sides. Same with the roof mount. It's made of a very rubbery, softer plastic as well. I can't help but think if this would have been made by Hot Wheels, it would have all been made by metal with no plastic. However, it's made by diecast metal, so there's actually quite a bit of plastic on it, but still very nice nonetheless. The wheels are made out of plastic, maybe the same type of plastic as well. There you have the bottom, but very nice. Picked this up at Target the other day. My wife found it, and of course being the Ghostbusters fan that I am, I had to have it. This was the Jada Toys diecast metals Hollywood rides Ghostbusters Ecto 1. It is about $10 at Target, so if you want it, go out and pick it up. I found this in the electronics section. They're on their back wall where they keep their posters and their Funko Pops and other collectible merchandise. Who knows, maybe your local Target will have one too. Take care my friends.


Acquiring skills is extremely important. Different jobs require some skill set, and having them makes one stand out from the crowd. According to LinkedIn Learning, the most sought after hard and soft skills are creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability, emotional intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, analytical reasoning, artificial intelligence, UX designs, business analysis, affiliate marketing, sales, scientific computing, and video production. End of quote. People who possess various skills are more likely to get jobs than people who do not. As you grow older, you will no longer be able to run as fast as you did when you were younger. In this video, I'll be sharing with you 9 skills you can acquire when you are young. 1. Financial management skill Financial management is essential both for the 9-5 corporate executives and entrepreneurs. It determines a person's financial success. Unfortunately, it can only be relevant over time and through experience. When you are young, you have the liberty to spend all your money and start from square one. The major advantage you have is time. You can spend 10 years learning how to manage your finances and still have time to spare. But when you are older, your financial habits are likely more deep-seated in your mind than a younger person. This means that it is more difficult to convince an older person to change the methods of managing his finances than a young person. 2. Creativity skill The average child's mental growth is stimulated by undertaking creative activities. Creativity is a form of self-expression. There is nothing more satisfying and fulfilling for children than to be able to express themselves openly without judgment. It is a critical part of growth. If for some reason this is interfered with, one ends up underdeveloped. Creativity is a transferable skill and gets better with practice. Idea generation and problem-solving are all linked to creativity. Learning creativity at a young age enables the adults who apply it to work. If it is not learned and exercised at a younger age, it is unlikely to be learned afterwards. As the saying goes, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. 3. Resilience skill It takes an incredible amount of work, patience and discipline to accomplish anything great, according to an American writer, Greg Kincaid. No matter how much falls in us, we keep plowing ahead. That is the only way to keep the roads clear. Resilience is not a one-off activity, but a mindset cultivated over years of endurance. A person who has never stayed up all night for a straight week working on a project is unlikely to just begin, especially when they are older. According to Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, watch your thoughts, they can become your words. Watch your words, they can become your actions. Watch your actions, they can become your habits. Watch your habits, they can become your character and your character becomes your destiny. Strong habits cultivated over time are very difficult to abroot. This is why skills like resilience should be learned from a young age. 4. Problem-solving skills This skill, just like others, requires a lot of practice. You cannot claim to possess problem-solving skills without actually solving any problems. Problem-solving skills allow you to look at a problem objectively and analyze it for solutions. It helps you to be able to picture different scenarios of the problem and a proper solution that covers all probabilities. It is a crucial tool for both business owners and corporate executives. If you do not possess this skill, you will likely struggle with decision-making in your business and your workplace. 5. Growth mindset This is a fast-becoming one of the essential skills of the 21st century. Unfortunately, many people don't have it. According to John Wooden, an American basketballer, you have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming little each day and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better. A person with a growth mindset is continuously learning and resilient in his endeavors. According to Carole Dweck, an American psychologist, in growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. Brains and talents are just the starting point. This skill, unfortunately, cannot be learned when one is old. It is best to cultivate it as early as possible. 6. Critical thinking skill It involves observations, analysis, interpretation, reflection, evaluation, experience, explanation, problem-solving, and decision-making. It is a way of thinking in which you don't simply accept all arguments and conclusions but rather ask analytical questions to explore different angles of an argument and findings. Critical thinking, like other skills, takes time. You will probably have failed to assess a lot of problems critically before you get the hang of it. It is an invaluable skill every serious business person or corporate executive ought to possess. 7. Leadership skill Leadership is as outstanding as the resources available for your use. An organization that has a bad leader is unlikely to succeed. A good leader inspires action. According to Ronald Reagan, 48 U.S. president, the greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the great things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things. A good leader is tested over time to hone his leadership skills. It is a skill you learn when you are younger. Do not get me wrong. You can hold positions in your organizations when you are older, but leadership is beyond positions. According to Jack Welch, an American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer, before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. You are not a leader simply because you hold a managerial position, but also helping others grow. 8. Fast language learning skills According to Science Facts, America, the older you get, the more difficult it is to speak French like a Parisian. Learning a language is possible at an older age. However, fast language learning can only be done at a young age. Learning a new language can distinguish a person among peers. Most people rarely speak other languages beyond English and their mother tongue. Being proficient in any of the dominant global tongues can set a person apart. Unfortunately, this happens fast only for young people. It is wise to learn other languages while you are still young. 9. Receiving constructive criticism No one likes to be told that they are wrong, or even that they could do something more effectively than they did. It is easy to resent the person correcting you or to ignore them completely. As a person who is bound to interact or work with others regularly, these things are inevitable. To learn to accept criticism, it is wise to look at the intention of the speaker, not what is said. This is extremely difficult to learn at a young age and much more when you are older.


Hello, I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of theCUBE. We are here on the ground, here in Santa Clara, California, at Centrify's headquarters, with Tom Camp, the CEO of Centrify, and Parham F. Takari, who's the co-founder and senior fellow at ICIT, which is the Institute of Critical Infrastructure Technologies. Here to talk about security conversation guides, welcome to theCUBE's on the ground. Thank you. Great to be here. Great to see you again, Tom. Yeah, absolutely. Congratulations on all your success, and Parham, the GovCloud is hot. We're just in D.C. with Amazon Web Services, Public Sector Summit, and it's gotten more and more to the point where cyber is in the front conversation and the political conversation, but on the commercial side as well, there's incidents happening every day. Just this past month, HBO, Game of Thrones has been hijacked and ransomed. I guess that's ransomware, technically, and a hack. That's high profile, but case after case of high profile incidents on the commercial side. Public sector side, nobody knows what's happening. Why is security evolving slow right now? Why isn't it going faster? Can you guys talk about the state of the security market? Yeah, well, you know, I think first of all, you have to look at the landscape. I mean, our public and private sector organizations are being pummeled every day by nation states, mercenaries, cyber criminals, script kiddies, cyber jihadists, and they're exploiting vulnerabilities that are inherent in our antiquated legacy systems that are put together by, you know, with a Frankenstein network, as well as devices and systems and apps that are built without security by design. And we're seeing the results, as you said, right? We're seeing an inundation of breaches on a daily basis and many more that we don't hear about. We're seeing weaponized data, excuse me, being weaponized and used against us to make us question the integrity of our democratic process. And we're seeing now a rise and focus on what could be the outcome of a cyber kinetic incident, which ultimately, in the worst case scenario, could have a loss of life. And so I think, you know, as we talk about cyber and what it is we're trying to accomplish as a community, we ultimately have a responsibility to elevate the conversation and make sure that it's not an option, but it is a priority. Yeah, no, look, I mean, here we are in a situation in which the industry is spending close to $80 billion a year and it's growing 10%. But the number of attacks are increasing much more than 10%. And as Parham said, you know, we literally had an election impacted by cybersecurity. It's on the front page with HBO, et cetera. And I really think that we're now in a situation where we really need to rethink how we do security in as enterprises and as even individuals. And it seemed to talk about just HBO, I thought about the government you mentioned, that just the chaos that's going on here in America, you almost don't know what you don't know. And with the whole news cycle going on around this, but let's get back to this notion of critical infrastructure. I love that name that you have in your title, ICIT Institute of Critical Infrastructure because certainly the government has had critical infrastructure. There's been bridges and roads and whatnot, they've had the DNS servers, there's been some critical infrastructure, the airports and whatnot. But for corporations, the critical infrastructure used to be the front door and then their data center. Now with cloud, no perimeter, we've talked about this on the queue before, you start to change the notion of what critical infrastructure is. So I guess, Param, what does critical infrastructure mean from a public and commercial perspective, Tom, you can talk about it. And what's the priorities for businesses and governments to figure out what's the order of operations to get to the bottom of making sure I'm insecure? Yeah, it's interesting, it's a great question. When most people think about critical infrastructure as legacy technology or legacies, it's roads, bridges, it's dams. But if you look at the Department of Homeland Security, they have 16 sectors that they are tasked with protecting and includes healthcare, finance, energy, communications. So as we see technology start to become more and more ingrained in all these different sectors, and we're not just talking about data, we're talking about ICS-SCADA systems, a digital attack against any one of these critical infrastructure sectors can have different types of outcomes, whether you're talking about a commercial sector organization or the government. One of the things that we always talk about is really the importance of elevating the conversations I mentioned earlier and putting security before profits. I think ultimately we've gotten to the situation because a lot of companies do a cost-benefit analysis. So you know what, maybe in the healthcare sector, and ultimately it'll be cheaper for me to be breached, pay my fines, deal with potentially even the loss to my brand in terms of brand value, and that'll be cheaper than investing what I need to to protect my patients and their information, and that's the wrong way to look at it. I think now as we were talking about this week, the cost of all this is going higher, which is gonna help, but I think we need to start seeing this fundamental mind shift in how we are prioritizing security. As I mentioned earlier, it's not an option, it must be a requisite. Yeah, I think what we're seeing now is in the years past, the hackers would get at some bits of information, but now we're seeing with HBO, with Sony, they can strip mine an entire company, right? Yeah, put them out of business. Exactly. The money that they're dealing with ransomware, which is a little bit higher profile ransomware, I mean, there's a specific business outcome here and it's not looking good. They go out of business. Oh, absolutely. And so, Centrify, we just recently sponsored a survey and nowadays, if you announce that you got breached and you have to announce, because you have to tell your shareholders, you have to tell your customers, your stock drops on average 5% in a day. And so we're talking about billions of dollars of market capitalization that can disappear with a breach as well. So we're beyond, it's like, oh, they stole some data, we'll send out a letter to our customers and we'll give them free experience for a year or something like that. Now it's like all your IP, all the content. And John, I think you raised a very good point as well. In the case of the federal government, it's still about the infrastructure being physical items. And of course, with internet of things, it's now connected to the internet. So it's really scary that a bridge can flip open by some guy in the Ukraine or Russia fiddling with it. But now with enterprises, it's less and less physical to store and we're now going through this massive shift to the cloud and more and more of your IP is controlled and run. And it's the complete deprimitization that makes things even more complicated. It's interesting you mentioned the industrial aspect with the bridge, because this is actually a real issue with self-driving cars. This is on everyone's mind. We're just covering some content, covering Ford's event yesterday in San Francisco. Again, it's a huge problem, hacking of the cars. So industrial, industrial IoT opens up, again, the surface area. But this kind of brings the question down to customers that you guys have, or companies or governments. How do they become resilient? How do they put steps in place? Because it's just talking to someone who runs a major port in the US and the issues there are maritime, right? So when you talk about chemical infrastructure, container ships, obviously you worry about terrorists and other things, bad things happening. But just the general IT infrastructure is Neanderthal. It's like 30 years old. So you have legacy infrastructure, as you mentioned. But businesses also have legacy. So how do you balance where you are? How do you know the progress bar of your protection? How do you know the things you need to put in place? How do you get to resilience? Yeah, but see, I think there also needs to be a rethink of security because the traditional ways that people did it was protecting the perimeter, having antivirus, firewalls, et cetera. But things have really changed. And so now what we're seeing is that identity has become the top attack vector going in. And so if you look at all these hacks and breaches, it's the stealing of usernames and passwords. So people are doing a good job of, the hackers are social engineering, the actual users. And so kind of a focus needs a shift of securing the old perimeter to focusing on securing the user. Is it really John Furrier trying to access email? Can we leverage biometrics in this? And trying to move to the concept of a zero trust model and where you have to, can't trust the network, can't trust the IP address, but you need to factor in a lot of different aspects. Just following the story about blockchain because we've been covering a lot of the blockchain, immutable, encrypted, the wallets, which are. Yeah, yeah. That's like, hey, why don't, let's just go to the wallet when they store the money. Now we own that encrypted data. So again, this is, the hackers are fast. So again, back to companies because they have to put, they have shareholder issues or they have some corporate governance issues. But at the end of the day, it's a moving train. How does the government offer support? How do companies put it in place? What do they need to do? Yeah, well, from, there's a couple of things you can look at. First of all, as a think tank, we are active on Capitol Hill working with members of both majority majority sides who are actively proposing bipartisan legislation which provides meaningful movement forward to secure and address some of the issues you're talking about. Senator Marquis recently put out the Cyber Shield Act which creates a type of score, right? For a device kind of like the energy star in the energy sector. So just this week, ICIT put out a paper in support of an amendment by Senator Lindsey Graham which actually addresses the inherent vulnerabilities in our election systems, right? So there's a lot of good work being done and that really goes to the core of what we do and the reasons that we're partnering together. ICIT is in the business of educating and advising. We put out research, we make it freely available, we don't believe in commoditizing information, we believe in liberating it. So we get it in the hands of as many people as possible and then we get this objective research and use it as a stepping stone to educate and to advise and it could be through meetings, it could be through events, it could be through conversations with the media but I think this educational process is really critical to start to change the mind as far as talking about it. If I can add to that, I think what really needs to be done with security is better information sharing and it's with other governments and enterprises that are under attack sharing that information as opposed to only having it for themselves and their advantage. And then also what's required is better knowledge of what are the best practices that need to be done to better protect both government and enterprises. Well, because I wanna shift gears and talk about CyberConnect event, which is coming up in November, an industry event, you guys are sponsoring and Centrify but you guys are also involved is running the content program. It's an independent event, it's targeted to the industry, not as a Centrify user group. Param, I wanna put you in the spot before we get to the CyberConnect event. You mentioned the elections. What's the general, and I'm still looking back, so I gotta ask the question because you're in the trenches down in DC. What is the general sentiment in DC right now on the hacking? Because as explained to my son the other day, I'm like, yeah, the Russians probably hacked everybody. So technically the election fell into that market basket of hacks. So maybe they did hack you. So I'm just hand waving that but it probably makes sense. The question is, how real is the hacking threat in the minds of the folks in DC around Russia and potentially China in these areas? Yeah, I think the threat is absolutely real but I think there has to be a difference between media on both sides politicizing the conversation. There's a difference between somebody going in and actually changing your vote from one side to the other. There's also the conversation about the weaponization of data and what we do know that Russia is doing with regards to having armies of trolls out there who are with fake profiles and are creating full conversations and steering public sentiment of perception in directions that maybe wasn't already there. And so I think part of the hysteria that we see I think we're fearful and we have a right to be fearful but I think taking the emotion and the politics out of it and actually doing forensic assessments from an objective perspective to understand what truly is going on. We are having our information stolen. There is a risk that a nation state could execute a very high impact digital attack that has a loss of life. We do know that foreign states are trying to impact the outcomes of our democratic processes. I think it's important to understand though how are they doing it and is what we're reading about truly what's happening kind of on the streets. And that's where the industrial thing you were kind of tying together. That's the loss of life potential using digital as an attack vector into something that could have a physical and ultimately deadly outcome. Yeah, we covered also that story that was put out about the fake news infrastructure. It's not just the content that they're making up. It's actually the infrastructure of fake news and botnets and whatnot. And I think Micro wrote a story on this where they actually detailed you can smear a journalist with 40K. Yeah. The agencies out there that are built for specifically these counter programs. Yeah, it's as a service. You know, go on a forum on the deep web and you can contract these types of things out. I mean, it's absolutely out there. And then what do you say to your average American friends that you say, hey, having a cocktail with you at dinner, hey, what's going on with security? What do you say to them? You should be worried, calm down, don't we're on it. What's the message that you share with your friends that aren't in the industry? Personally, I think the message is, you know, you need to be vigilant. You need to, it may be annoying, but you do have to practice good cyber hygiene. Think about your passwords. Think about what you're sharing on social media. We also talk and I personally believe that some of these things will not change unless we as consumers change what is acceptable to us. If we stop buying devices or systems or apps based on the convenience that it brings to our lives and we say, I'm not gonna spend money on that car because I don't know if it's secure enough for me, you will see industry change very quickly. So I think- Consumer behavior is critical. Absolutely. Definitely a piece of it. All right guys, so exciting event coming up. The Cube will be covering the CyberConnect event in November, the dates I think November. Sixth and seventh. Sixth and seventh in New York City, the Grand High. Talk about the curriculum because this is a unique event where you guys are bringing your sponsorship to the table but providing an open industry event. What's the curriculum? What's the agenda? What's the purpose of the event? Yeah, Tom. Okay, I'll take it. Yeah, I mean historically like other security vendors we've had our users conference, right? And what we found is that as you alluded to that there just needs to be better education of what's going on. And so instead of just limiting it to us talking to our customers about us we really need to broaden the conversation. And so that's why we brought in ICIT to really help us broaden the conversation, raise more awareness and visibility for what needs to be done. So this is a pretty unique conference in that we're having a lot of CSOs from some incredible enterprise as well as government. General Alexander, the form of the cybersecurity command is a keynote but we have the CSO of Aetna Blue Cross involved as well. So we wanna raise awareness in terms of what are the best practices? What are the leading minds thinking about security? And in parallel also for our customers we're gonna have a parallel track where if they wanna get more product focused technology. So this is not a center-fi event. This is an industry event. Black Hat is great, RSA is great but it's really more at the kind of the bits and bytes. They're very narrow but here's the, but you are only in a technique layer. Yeah. This is a big issue. What about these other issues? Will you discuss that? Oh, absolutely. Is it just identity or is it more? It absolutely is more and this is one of the reasons just at a macro level the work that we've done with center-fi for a number of years now. We have shared the same philosophy that we have a responsibility as experts in the cyberspace to move the industry forward and to really usher in almost a cybersecurity renaissance if you will. And so this is really the vision behind CyberConnect. So if you look at the curriculum we're talking about corporate espionage and how it's impacting commercial organizations we're talking about the role of machine learning based artificial intelligence. We'll be talking about the importance of encrypting your data about security by design, about what's going on with the botnet epidemic that's out there. So there absolutely will be a very balanced program and it has again driven and grounded in that research that ICIT is putting out in the relationships that we have with some of these key players. So the Institute of Critical Infrastructure Technology the think tank that you're the co-founder of has those broad, you bring that broad agenda to CyberConnect, correct? That's correct, absolutely. So this is awesome, congratulations. So I got to ask on the thought leadership side you guys have been working together. Can you just talk about your relationship between Centrify and ICIT, trust that you're independent, you guys are a vendor. Tell us about this relationship and why it's so important for this event. Well, absolutely. I mean, look, as a security vendor a lot of a big percentage of security vendors sell into the US federal government and through those conversations that a lot of the CISOs at these governments were pointing us to these ICIT guys, right? And we got awareness and visibility through that. And it was like they were just doing great stuff in terms of talking about, yes, Centrify is a leading identity provider but people are looking for a complete solution and looking for a balanced way to look at it. And so we felt that it would be a great opportunity to partner with these guys. And so we sponsored an event that they did Winter Summit and they did such a great job and the content was amazing and the people they had that we said, you know what? Let's make this more of a general thing and let's just, let's be in the background helping facilitate this but let the people hear about this good information. So you figured out the community model. Is it? You underwrote the content. No, because this is really what's works. You got enable, you're enabling this conversation and more than ever in the security space, love to get your perspective on this is that there's an ethos developing, it has been developed and it's expanding aggressively. Kind of open source on one side but security is all about data sharing. You mentioned the disclosure from the packing standpoint that's more of a statutory filing but here the security space is highly communicative. They talk to each other and there's a trust relationship so you're essentially bringing an independent event, you're funding it. Yeah, absolutely. It's not your event. This is an independent event. Absolutely. Yeah, and so I mean, Tom said it very well as an institute, we rely on the cap financial capital that comes in from our partners like Centrify and so we would be unable to deliver at a large scale the value that we do to the legislative community, to federal agencies in the commercial sector and the institute's research is being shared on NATO libraries and embassies around the world. So I mean, this is really a global operation that we have and so when we talk about layered security, right, we're not into a silver bullet solution and a lot of full experts out there would say, I have the answer. We know that there's a layered approach that needs to be done. Centrify, they have a technology that plays a part in that but even more important than that for us is that they share that same philosophy and we do see ourselves as being able to usher in the change that's required to move everything forward and so it's been a great, and we have a lot of plans for the next few years ahead. Absolutely. That's great work. You're bringing some great content to the table and that's what people want and they can see who's enabling it. That's great business model for everyone. I got to ask one question though about your business. I love the critical infrastructure focus and I like the value you guys are bringing but you guys have this fellow program. Can you just talk about this, because you're part of the fellow, should be at the level. And I don't want to say accreditation, it's not really going to be accredited. It's a badge, it's a bar. You guys have to explain the fellow program. That's a great question. At the Institute we have a core group of experts who represent different technology niches. They make up our fellow program and so as I discussed earlier, when we're putting out research, when we're educating the media, when we're advising Congress, when we're doing the work of the Institute, we're constantly turning back to our fellow program members to provide some of that research and expertise and sharing, not just providing financial capital but really bringing that thought leadership to the table. Centrify is a part of our fellow's program and so we've been working with them for a number of years. It's very exclusive and there is a process. You have to be referred in by existing fellow program member. We have a lot of requests, but it really comes down to, do you understand what we're trying to accomplish? Do you share our same mission, our same values and can you be part of this elite community that we've built? And so, you know, Centrify is a big part of that. And the cloud obviously is accelerating everything, the gov cloud actions certainly in your space and we know what's going on in our world. Yeah, absolutely. The world's moving at a zillion miles an hour. It's like literally a moving train. So congratulations, CyberConnect event in November. Great event, check it out. theCUBE will be there. We'll have live coverage, we'll be broadcasting, we'll be documenting all the action and bringing it to you on the CUBE, obviously siliconangle.com and ukeban.com. John Furrier here at Centrify's headquarters in California in Silicon Valley. Thanks for watching.


Now, speaking of the hard way, there's a couple of fellows who are going to go from Dublin to Donegall the hard way this week. In fact, they're running from Dublin to Cree-Slaw, heading off this Thursday. And there's Neil McCollum, who's from Chapel Road in Dunfanahee, currently based in Kildare. And Mario Tallari, originally from South Africa, and goes to the same gym as Neil. And I'm glad that they both join us now online and on Zoom, so we're streaming as well. Gentlemen, good afternoon to you. Hello, John. He's both well, both fit, both ready to go. Yeah, you're both well and fit. Thank God, yeah. Good, good. All right, Neil, tell us how it came about. You're raising money for the people, the families of the victims. The families of the victims, yeah. Well, I mean, last year, when we heard of the explosion in that there, I'm originally from Dunfanahee, but I've worked in England and came back in 97, and I've worked in Belfast for years. But I came down here a couple of years ago to Kildare because my own sister, Marie McCollum, who was based in Kildare for 25 years, she passed away in August from cancer. So I'd done a challenge for the hospice and some bridges in Kildare town or on the current, and then I raised money for the end of life ward and Alan Ward and Nace Hospital. So after doing that challenge, I wanted to do something for Chrysler because I would know a lot of people in Chrysler obviously coming from the area. So it just came about, and I was undertaking it at the start of my own. So I started training in January and not knowing how many months it would take, but I was giving myself to the summer, obviously, with the long evenings. And then I used to see Mario in the gym, so he offered to come along as well. And the two of us to do it, so I was grateful for that. And we sat down and went through a few things.  So yeah. So Mario, when you heard about the idea, I'm sure like everybody else, you thought it was a bit bonkers, the whole notion of running from Donny Gall to or from Dublin to Donny Gall. Are you familiar with the route? I am familiar with the route. You know, people may think it's bonkers, but so was the poor incident that happened last year. And you know, so it's really heartbreaking. And it's a no brainer for me to do. I'm a triathlete myself. I'm from Cape Town in South Africa, like you mentioned. So do a lot of form of triathlete around there. So for me to support the people of Ireland, because I've been here for two years, it's almost like a give back to the community and to support Neil. And John, a few, well, a few months ago, me and Mario left and we drove up to Donny Gall, went to Dunfanahe and they met my parents. So I took them over to Tremor, which is over past Horn Head, and we ran in the beach there.  So Kieran has a lot of, he's a lot of connections and connections and stuff to Creasley and that and close to his heart. And as he said himself, the tragedy has brought a lot of people closer. So Kieran is on board and has been a great help to us. So we sat down with him and went through things. And yeah, so everything's working out fine. And you've, on logistics, you've got a denies fairy, no strange or two, a big on the road fundraising, but just as long as you're prepared, it could land you in a cold bed, pushing stuff. Yeah, exactly. I'm saying it could land you in cold, just be careful. Not deliberately, not deliberately. Well, I've been away the last couple of weeks there. I took a couple of weeks off, I went to the French Pyrenees there, I've been up training and, you know, in the south, south of France, they're just in the border with Spain. So I've been up there training. I just came back yesterday morning at nine o'clock and that there. And yeah, there's been plenty of training from January. Well, I've been training on and off and away most all the time and away.  Right. Okay. And keep myself fit and do the odd 5k and 10k, especially around the summertime. But this distance is what? Well, it works out less than 250. Like originally, I put it in as leaving Caldera, which would work out at 270 kilometers. So it works out at 245, 246 kilometers. Yeah. From the papal cross car park and Phoenix park to the crease of the chapels and my course. Yeah. And Mario, what sort of training have you been doing? I'm constantly throughout the year on and off with triathlete training, training Ironman later this year, or maybe even in the new year. But because I've been so focused on the run inside of things, it's more just on that. So got daily basis every evening. It's my stress relief as well from work. So you both train for events that are what 30, 40k? Yeah, Marathon 42k and stuff. Marathons and yeah. But then this is this is something else entirely. And how do you intend to do it? Are you going to go from start to finish? Or are you going to sleep overnight? No, we're going to go from start to finish. So say for instance, we ran four hours and we wanted to eat where we're going to walk. And support crew obviously going to give us the food and water. We need to honor it. And we could walk four or five hours, we could run another two hours, but we're constantly moving forward until we get to Chrysler. So leaving leaving on Thursday morning at what time? At 6am, we went to 6am so that we have an early start and by 6am Friday morning, I don't know how far up the road will be, but hopefully will be will be. I'm not exactly sure where we'll be, but we'll, you know what I mean? We could be enter on, we could be across the border in Tangrigui. But I'm going to put up on Facebook later the route we're taking. Okay. So I won't. Is it the route that we would drive? Is it the regular? No, it's the it's like it's the off road. So you would leave say the papal cross you'd make your way into Eichborn and then to slain and you know, through the sounds and then to Manahan and you know, you cross the border there Tangrigui, which is just on the Arama border side and then you're into Tyrone and to Cloughar, you're leaving Cloughar and then to Oma, Oma, Newton Stuart and crossing the back way into Rifol and then from Rifol at their Kenny, Kilmackrennan, Terriman and Chrysler Chapel. And the reason you choose that route is it's safer? Well, it's off road. You're not going up them one. Yeah, it's the most direct route if you're walking it. Okay. Okay. And when will you hope to finish it? I mean, you start in six o'clock Thursday morning. When would you hope to be in Chrysler? Well, we put down the 13th to Saturday, you know, but we'll know better after the first night. Yeah, we yeah, two days, three days maximum. We're not under any pressure to be there in a certain time. Obviously, the quicker it's done, the quicker it's over. Yeah. But yeah, just to do it safely and you know, walk, run and keep moving forward and just get to the get to the finish line in one piece. At the same time as well, if we do it, if we, you know, in time and not rushing it, it gets more awareness as well. Instead of just rushing it through. True. So long the way. Momentum. If we walk it, it gets more awareness, which helps. Okay. So it's really how it goes around. And what's the longest that either of you have run up to this point? Well, just marathon distance 42 kilometers. Right. But when I originally got the idea, I said to myself, I get through to athletic clubs.  He's sent me programs and sent me stuff to do, you know, you don't have to run 100 kilometers or anything. It's just consistent running. I was getting up every morning at 10 to five running, driving to Nace K Leather. I would be there about 20 past five in the morning. The gym didn't open to six o'clock. So I would have me running gear on, do me 40 minutes, go into the gym, then do a bit of stretching and a bit of core work and leave there at before half six and head on to me work, let it be Dublin and whatever, you know, John Leary and come back in the evening again, run another 10, 15 K. I done that Monday to Friday. And then Saturday, I would do a seven K run and then Sunday and then from 21 K to 25 K. I had plenty of recovery and rest. It sounds exhausting. Well, it's been it's been hard, but nothing that I couldn't manage. And Mario was doing the same. We ran a few times together, but Mario's time and my time were different. So if I was running a six a Mario could have been running 70 and you know, with I suppose with the right fuel, it's it's doable. But fatigue, fatigue might be, it might be what I get you. I'm just thinking about, you know, I've been able to keep going running through two nights, not one night, but two nights. So it's a made on no one.  So I believe we can do it. So I mean, if I didn't, I wouldn't undertook it. Yeah, we could have made it easier. We could have just run a marathon. We could have run tooma. We could have cycle tooma, you know, so we're under to run through the night, run, walk through the night safely with support crew with us back and front. And if we're feeling tired, we can walk five, six hours and, you know, well, what happens if, if, if one man breaks down gets an injury or gets overcome with cramp or tiredness or whatever. Is the other one going to carry on? You Mario said to me and me likewise Mario said, you know, we don't know that what lays ahead. Yes. The two of us in the conference will get to Chrysler and have one dozen or the other or somebody, you know, and then can happen. Yes. And Jerry's fatigue can set in. You could have to maybe stop obviously. But yeah, but it will still be there to support each other. Yeah. Today. At least, at least you each have support and and company. Well, listen, the best look and it's important, I suppose to remind listeners that there is a GoFundMe page and the title of it is Oh, they're sorry. Yeah, the run for Chrysler run for Chrysler on Facebook. And yeah, it's been out in the local papers through Kiernan Donald. And we'll have it. We'll have logos on the van as we're driving up. So people are welcome to donate and it will have buckets there and whatever way, you know, whatever every little. Yeah, absolutely. Well, listen, we'll keep an eye on your on your progress. We'll be keeping updates. And I, as I said, John, I'd be putting up shortly the route that we're taking out of Phoenix Park by the people across Carr Park and the various towns we're going through. So anybody that is in a running club or whatever or does a bit of running or free, feel free to join us on the route. And do you know what I mean? I'd be great. Yeah, a bit of distraction. Yeah. And hoping to see the former colleagues and Leatherkin Athletic Club will probably meet us in Leatherkenny or kill McCrannan. So for the last leg into Chrysler. Yeah, brilliant. Well, listen, I hope it all works out and I hope the weather's in your feet. What's the forecast like? Well, I didn't look at it. I think it's dry. It might be a few showers Thursday and that but Friday looks okay. And that they're typical, typical weather, but you know, it's going to be alright. But we've catered for all that, you know, we're all prepared for it. It's not going to rain from six o'clock in the morning to six and eight. Okay, so you know, a few showers or not, not killers. Well, I wish you both the very best and and hope you get there safely and hope you you know, you do succeed and make it all the way. But listen, we'll keep an eye on your progress and we'll have a few updates here on on the radio for you. Neil McCollum and Mario Tolotti. Thanks so much for having a chat with us. Good luck. 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The millionaire dream is real. Everyone wants it, but not everyone has it. Is it that difficult to get? To become a millionaire, not only should you think like one, but also behave like one. You need to learn how to build the habits of millionaires. Those habits become a lifestyle, and the lifestyle in turn brings about the result that you want. Dean Graziosi, an American author, said, successful people live by a different set of rules and success habits, and they don't conform or accept mediocrity. Although it appears too challenging to do, becoming a millionaire isn't an impossible task for anyone to do. Irrespective of your background or present financial status, the question is, how can you become a millionaire? In this video, I'll share with you 13 steps to become a millionaire. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Create a Reading Financial Plan According to self-made millionaire, T. 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A mentor is someone who has successfully arrived at the destination that you are pursuing, so they can lead you there faster and effectively, helping you minimize errors. You want to become a millionaire? Look for a millionaire mentor. You want to become the best businessman in your country? Make the current best businessman your mentor. That's pretty much how it works. They'll guide you and give you tips to help you achieve your goals. 11. Expand your network. Do you know that your network of friends can determine whether you will be successful or not? Look at it this way. If you have a network of influential people, making money wouldn't be that much of a problem, especially if you offer valuable services or products to them. 12. Take risks. No one achieved their dreams by sitting in their comfort zones. They all had to take risks. For instance, investing your money is a form of risk that no one is willing to take. 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Xenophagus simidniki spn, a new species of beetle, was discovered in a late Iacin amber deposit from Ravna, Ukraine. It is closely related to two other extinct species, Xenophagus popovii and Xeno-Hematium lobarskii, both found in Baltic amber. These three species are part of a larger group of beetles known as Xenosilinii, which are most closely related to the modern Mediterranean Xenosilus and the boreal genus Sivalgius. The Ravna amber fauna is one of the richest fossil insect assemblages ever discovered, containing over 350 different species. The abundance of these beetles in the amber suggests they were widespread across Europe during this time period. The authors suggest that the high diversity of these beetles may have been due to their ability to adapt quickly to changing environments. This article was authored by Georgiy Lubarskiy, Yevgeny Iprokovsky and Dmitry V. Vasylenko.


Every year, on March 22nd, the United Nations observes World Water Day with the aim of highlighting the importance of freshwater resources. The Water Resources Management Agency is the entity responsible for water conservation and management in San Lucia. This year, groundwater is being highlighted through the theme, groundwater, making the invisible visible. Water is water which is found in underground cracks and species in our soil, sand and rocks. This water source is important because it feeds our natural springs and allows our rivers to flow throughout the year. It may not be very visible deep below the ground, but its impact is quite visible and important for maintaining healthy flowing river streams and springs. With lower rainfall patterns resulting from climate change, groundwater will become increasingly critical for providing alternative sources of water to relieve future water stresses. The International Day of Forests is observed on the 21st of March, just one day before World Water Day. This year, the Water Resources Management Agency has partnered with the Department of Forestry to observe these occasions because healthy forests ensure healthy rivers. There are several planned activities to mark this occasion, such as panel discussions and school-based presentations. Let us all work together to conserve our fresh water supply because water is life.


Hello everyone, my name is Alexandra and let's see, well I'm pretty sure everyone can probably take something different from what happened but there's a lot of things that I will apply to my life but the most would have to be the love and compassion that you have to have for people. I mean I didn't realize how important that was until I was there. I was seriously emotional the whole weekend because seeing thousands and thousands upon thousands of people that are crying and are desperate and are running everywhere just to get a touch from the man of God because everyone has all of these things that they're going through or this pain that they're suffering from and you know here we pray for compassion for people but it made me realize I'm like do we really pray for that worth as much purpose as we should? How much purpose is really in that prayer from you know are you just saying oh yeah I'll pray for you later you know and Prophet said something that really has been on my heart is you know you can have all of faith in the world and have all this faith but there's no love behind it that is nothing nothing you can say oh yeah I believe you're gonna be healed yeah I believe that you know you can be saved or this and that but if you don't love the person where is that really coming from where is that faith really or those words coming from you need to love everyone you have to love your neighbor you know Prophet always like tell your neighbor I love you I mean she's my sister I gotta love it right but really keep that in mind is you know when you tell someone yeah I'll pray for you like really pray for them and and love them ask Holy Spirit to give you that spirit of compassion of love you know and you will see like that those prayers that you have for those people will come true because there's a love that's backing that up and being a Christian is not just about saying I love you Jesus and blah blah blah you know it's it's really having that love it all starts with love because that is the foundation of what God is and everything else comes from that love amen so my name is Tatiana and there's actually two things that really impacted me while I was on this trip to Mexico first thing was definitely watching all the healings that happened while I was there I never thought that that many healings could happen in that time when I went there I thought oh you know a few will be saved and my mind was completely blown I probably cried from all the healings that I saw but definitely it gave you faith that God is there God is definitely waiting to heal every single person that comes before him and if you were not a believer and you went to that you left there loving God with everything you had in your heart because that was truly the work of God there's no other thing that could have healed them the way that that did and the second thing was that it definitely taught me a lessons of patience I learned so much patience on the ship working with them but I'm glad I actually did learn that because going there I was not a patient person leaving I have all the patience in the world so well yeah that might be debatable but definitely patience was definitely something that I learned and I'm actually really grateful because that's something that I've always really needed so definitely the patience and the healing was what really impacted me the most hi I'm Katrina um during this trip I guess it was incredible it was awesome but one thing if anyone went through all limits that you had for God were just broken that God could heal anything any anyone any case and it was incredible one of my favorite healings that I saw was it was just a couple feet away from us this girl this lady I don't know how old she was but she was blind for 16 years and when prophet prayed for her like she could see and she started like screaming she started running around because for the first time she could see and just to see that like life come back to some person like it was incredible to see all these other healings besides that case and I just started crying right there like all limits of God were just broken it was just incredible this trip I loved it my name is Belisa and I also have a healing story to share with everyone one that I actually had the opportunity to be a part of not just only see this there was a young woman that I noticed was pregnant and two security guards were holding her restraining you know one security guard was training one arm and the other security guard was restraining the other arm and so um wise men went up to them was telling them to move her and they didn't understand they were all Spanish speakers and so I walked up and I was trying to help translate and it seems as though the security guards were letting us know that she was a pregnant woman with a demon of abortion and she was physically punching her stomach if they let go of her hands and I then wise men was just like let her go and grabbed her arms and like she'll be okay and so they're like let go of her arms and you immediately you could tell she was just trying so hard to like hit herself again and again and you know at the same time she was also fighting it so her hands were just constantly shaking like this and I um the husband that was standing next to her was like crying and he's like I don't know what to do I mean I'm he he could tell the fear in his in his face and so with the security guards and the husband I said let's pray and so we all circled around her and we prayed and through the power of prayer and of course by prophet she was healed her eyes opened up you could see her body filled with that light and she immediately was like so lost she's like what happened what happened she didn't even know what was going on and so just seeing that healing to see that demon you know leave her body was just an amazing experience and it touched my heart so much as well as with all the other healings that took place in that stadium. Alright I'm CJ Lord knows I have so many stories about this weekend if it's not about tacos it's about Sam you know anyway so one thing was healing so before you know I was kind of skeptical about healing like healing you know okay people get healed yeah sure I might get scars and all that kind of stuff all the time you know well anyway first thing prophet does when he comes down he goes okay stand up you know and he picks up people from wheelchairs and I'm like whoa like stand like holy cow so uh you know one after the other one after the other and then uh after he was done with that he goes to mass prayer and I'll tell you what mass prayer is something that is super intense you have people manifesting everywhere I'm over walking with two people on my hands setting them in the middle a lady's like hey come here this person I'm like okay okay I'll go pick her up you know so healings that is a whole new level healing I'll tell you what so you know we see healings here all the time and I after experience it firsthand it's like you know God does heal and you know prophet he is a medium from God to heal people and it's it's totally a new level to a new level of healing that you see and that's one thing that I got from this is people do get healed