Do you know what red and green flags actually mean? There's been a lot of talk in the mental health and wellness community lately about them. You might know that red flags refer to negative undesirable characteristics and behaviors. Green flags are their positive and healthy counterparts, which contribute to emotional maturity, healthy communication skills, and a willingness to form positive relationships. And both can exist. So if you've ever wondered what some green flags in you might be, then here are seven psychologically backed examples. Emotional management. In a very well-mined article by psychology and healthcare journalist Kendra Cherry and Shereen Lehmann, they explain, emotionally intelligent people know that emotions can be powerful, but also temporary. Hence, they take some time before responding. So if you've learned to take control of your emotions, then you know how to create a pause between stimulus and response so as to not let your feelings cloud your judgment. Nuanced understanding. Empathetic and open-minded. You'll understand that people and situations aren't black or white. You aren't judgmental or rigid in your thinking, which makes you easily able to see things from other people's perspectives. And according to psychologist Chenjani Mukherjee, open-minded people experience deeper satisfaction, inner peace, and better critical thinking skills. Good self-worth. According to licensed therapist Dr. Brian Kaplan, this is a green flag because it means that you are confident and secure in your own sense of self-worth. You have a good grasp of your strengths and weaknesses, and you're also aware of how your behavior affects others. You're willing to work on your flaws and can easily admit when you're wrong. You don't blame others for your mistakes or badmouth someone out of jealousy. Positive self-talk. Another important green flag is having a positive and empowering inner dialogue.  Examples of positive self-talk are, I'm really happy for myself, I'm doing well, or that's not great, but it could be worse. It's only temporary. I'll be alright. No guilt. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, self-care is essential for taking care of our mental health. But most people tend to feel guilty or are made to feel guilty about it because they mistakenly believe it to be selfish or self-indulgent, but as the organization explains, self-care means taking the time to do things that help you live well and improve both your physical health and mental health. Independent. According to psychologist Dr. Barton Goldsmith, having a healthy, interdependent relationship, be it romantic or platonic, means that you are able to have a life outside of your partner, such as being able to enjoy time alone, have your own hobbies and friends, and set healthy boundaries for one another. The healthiest way we can interact with those close to us is by being truly interdependent, says Dr. Goldsmith. This is where two people, both strong individuals, are involved with each other but without sacrificing themselves or compromising their values. Positive outlook. Last but certainly not least, having a positive mindset and attitude is an important green flag because it's the cutest success in life. According to mental health researcher Courtney Ackerman and psychologist Dr. William Smith. Why? Because people with positive outlooks have a strong sense of belief in themselves and their ability to improve whatever negative circumstances they may find themselves in. They are also better able to adapt to changes and bounce back from setbacks and challenges. In other words, more resilient. So do you relate to any of the things we've mentioned here? Which of these green flags do you see in yourself? By recognizing the green flags in ourselves, we can feel more confident in our ability to form and maintain healthy relationships. These green flags may also indicate self-growth. So if you notice any of these in yourself, congratulations. These are all important qualities for building healthy relationships and leading a fulfilling life. What are some other green flags in yourself we might have missed? Let us know in the comments down below. And if you enjoyed this video, please like and share it with friends and family. Until next time, take care.


So I started 2004 just, you know, betting, basically I'd buy an upmarket, you know, if the market opened up, I'd buy it, if it opened down I'd sell it, and I hit a run and it went really unbelievably well for a period of time, as is often the case with people who get involved in this. For some reason there is a beginner's luck syndrome and you, you know, you hit a run and you think you're invincible, which is what I thought I was, and then in January 2005 I remember I got off a plane in Paris, checked my black green tell-along out. I'd been averaging down basically into what was to become a huge losing position. I mean I lost a six-figure sum, so it was a gut-wrenching and sobering experience, it's an understatement. The BlackBridge didn't survive the tarmac, and yeah, so I'd, you know, I lost a lot of money and it had a big impact on me, and a big impact, you know, I got divorced through that process and found myself in a position where I knew that it was feasible, I knew it was feasible to make money from the markets. I just didn't understand how to do it, and so I networked, as I had done as a headhunter and put through contacts, got introduced to a guy who became my mentor. He basically, you know, taught me the process of trading, but more importantly than that, and something that I couldn't have conceived of at the time. When I first had, well, we exchanged emails and then I had a telephone call with him, and he asked me about how I'd got to where I was, and I'd explained, and you know, told him about the money and stuff, and he said, are you angry? I hadn't really thought whether or not, I mean, it was a meaningful sum of money, but I was fortunate I still had capital, you know, I wasn't broke, but I didn't think it through, and when I thought about it after the call, I thought, yeah, I'm really pissed off, you know, this has impacted me badly, and so the next telephone call I had with him, he said, how do you thought about glass corn? I was like, yeah, I really actually thought a lot about what this has actually meant to me, losing all this cash, and so he gave me the name of a therapist, and I didn't speak to him again for six months, but I didn't speak to the therapist, and went through a process of like self-inventory and, you know, understanding what had driven me to where I was, and what I was going to need to do to get to a place where I could come back to this and win at it, and it was a really meaningful period to change my life, and I got involved in martial arts and meditation, and just totally changed the way I was living, and then he taught me how to actually put in place a process, understand risk management, and actually turn the gambling into trading and making consistent money.  He didn't send me. After we had that conversation, the second one was that he was like, look, if it has had that type of impact on you, you're never going to make it in this business, because you're going to be coming for a place of revenge, and that's really what I would have been doing, and so I'd have actually ultimately gone through all the cash, trying to make back what I'd lost, when in reality I had to come back to it for a place of presence and perspective, and, you know, not thinking or not harboring that thought of loss and revenge.


On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans and dozens of cities around the island nation took to the streets to protest the country's communist dictatorship and persistent shortages in food, energy and medicine, all of which have been made worse by the pandemic. The demonstrations have been enabled by social media and the internet, which only came to Cuba in a big way in late 2018, when President Miguel Díaz Canal allowed citizens access to data plans on their cell phones. To better understand exactly how Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and other social media platforms are connecting and empowering the Cuban people and undermining state control, Reason spoke with Ted Henkin, a sociologist at Baruch College and the co-editor of the collection Cuba's Digital Revolution. Ted Henkin, thanks for talking to Reason. And the first question I'm going to ask is, how is the internet enabling what's going on in Cuba? Yeah, okay. I think it's important to start with what's not happening. And that is important because we tend to read foreign developments as they relate to the internet shallowly. And examples of that happened a lot with the Arab Spring and calling those things Twitter or Facebook revolutions. And I think what's important to understand in that sense in general and then Cuba specifically is that the internet is acting as a facilitator of interests and groups and protests and discontent that traditionally were silenced and didn't have any place or a channel where they could really express themselves. So they're not internet revolutions. I think it's important to call those internet enabled uprisings or protest movements. There's an old concept called the dictator's dilemma which is any technology that may enter an authoritarian system as a double-edged sword and could help the dictator rule, maybe legitimize the dictator or the authoritarian leader because of education or development or any kind of other things that this technology in this case the internet enables. But it's a double-edged sword in that it can be used for a lot of other means by other actors. And this is certainly the case in Cuba. And so that dictator's dilemma, although sometimes it was read from a perspective of technological determination. Whenever internet enters a society game over and while Gonim, the former Facebook executive who was Egyptian, regretted his overly rosy idea that you add internet and the regime is over. And he learned the hard way that yes, the internet and social media is useful and helpful to undermine monopoly control of media communications and other aspects that are fundamentally important for totalitarian systems, whether of the right or the left. But they don't declare a winner. They change the game in important ways. Can you take a step back and explain why? How did the internet come to Cuba? You've written about how in December 2018, basically data plans were allowed for phone service or 3G mobile. Why did that happen? Well, that's a head scratcher because and it goes back to the dictator's dilemma. I mean, before that, you basically have a period in the 90s when Cuba was actually pretty advanced in the region in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of its networking and internet and that kind of thing. But Fidel and the leaders at that time realized that this could be a, they called it a wild cult that needed to be tamed. And they saw it as a mortal threat because it undermined monopoly information control, which is one of the fundamental hallmarks of the Cuban system. The mass media is propaganda in Cuba. There's no two ways about it. And almost everyone right or left who understands and studies Cuba would grant that. And so the internet, in that sense, has a revolutionary or you could say a counter-revolutionary potential. But because of underdevelopment, because of priorities and because of that fear, and you could even add because of the U.S. embargo, isolating and cutting Cuba off from these kinds of communication influences, technologies, because it was part of the overall embargo, Cuba isolated itself and was isolated. That gradually ended when Raul Castro became president in 2008 and gradually thereafter, Cuban started getting gradually, but very gradually online. They started getting cell phones. They started being able to buy and use laptop computers. And so internet then grew from about 3 percent connectivity in about 2008 to around 2015 or so, you went up to about 15 or 20 percent. And that was enabled partly by the government rollout of first these very few internet cafes and then they kind of grew across the island to about 1,000 of them. Then the next big thing was that Cubans got what are called Wi-Fi hotspots. And these were set up largely in public parks throughout the island. And that was the kind of main way, the pioneering way that Cubans got online between about 2015 and 2018. Together with that, Cubans could contract to get home internet access. And all of these were kind of ways that Cubans were getting online gradually. During this period was the heyday of the blogosphere in Cuba and many independent voices established themselves, became even well known outside of Cuba, not so much inside of Cuba by being bloggers. Joani Sanchez is the most well known, but there was a whole community and she was the tip of that iceberg. But because internet connectivity grew and because the usefulness of a blog is largely about airing an opinion or an analysis, but not really communicating reliable information, Cuba is awash in opinions and Cubans are really good at airing them even with or within their system. But what they don't have is access to reliable information, what they have is access to government propaganda, partisan propaganda from the Communist Party. And so what they really needed was reliable journalism, the facts, reporting information. And so starting around 2014 up until today, you've seen the new kind of wave was independent digital journalism, media, startups, basically digital newspapers and magazines. And that was fascinating because the bloggers were largely self taught and opinionators, pundits and very many of them, the leading ones, were often very critical voices because that was what was missing. But many of the people who founded these independent websites and newspapers were actually trained as journalists in Cuba at Cuban universities, did their social service with their teeth clenched tightly, survived that one or two year commitment they had to give back to the system. And then they never wanted to work with the official media again and started independent startups, but they didn't want to become dissidents. But of course, they were targeted because they started independent websites as enemies and interrogated and detained and defamed. And so all of this was the kind of the ground work that was laid. And then in December of 2018, the government opened up the possibility for people to get mobile internet. Why did they do that? Well, I think they did that for two main reasons. Number one, there was an accumulated demand that the whole world has internet. And we're supposedly in a computerization of society program, the government has a policy they call the informatizacion de la sociedad, which is somewhat of a joke. But it is true that access has grown, prices have dropped, and the ways and means of access have grown. But Cuba is still a far cry from most of its neighbors and especially places like either China or the United States in terms of access. However, that became a before and after moment because it allowed access to the internet to become now and anywhere anytime real time phenomenon and not something that was restricted to a limited amount of time in a public park under the hot sun. And you could only really do text or maybe film yourself talking, but you couldn't show people what was happening in real time. And as we saw on Sunday, that's a key distinction because what really sparked the spread of this protest across the island was people filming live on Facebook and broadcasting that and then other people in Cuba seeing those things broadcast in the next town over did it themselves. So why did the government do that because of accumulated pressure and demand? But the other reason that did it, Cuba is in constant economic crisis, right? It's inefficient, it's unproductive. The system is totally lacking in incentive structures. The private sector is 1,001 obstacles in its way. And so the government sees the internet access as a cash cow because it is the sole internet provider through its telecom monopoly, Nauta, at Texas, the system, the company and Nauta is the particular service where you get mobile data. But it was a Pandora's box that they were opening because it's become political headaches. Probably now they can look back and say, have outweighed the economic whenfall.  The demonstrations are vast, right? I mean, they're not just happening in Havana or a couple of cities. They're all over the place. Yeah, this is what's unprecedented about them is that even if one of these had happened, it would be quite surprising in Cuba. But the fact that they happened simultaneously and probably between 30 and 50 places around the country. What are the what are besides Facebook live or kind of a video that's being shown via phone or Facebook? What are what are the other apps? Like what are the what are the ways in which people are using the internet to either protest or represent and share images of protest? Yeah, well, I guess you could say you can kind of break the apps that Cubans use in terms of what we're talking about into two groups, ones that allow horizontal encrypted private communication and others that are broadcast media, right? So Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are the go to apps to broadcast or to share with the world or with the wide public what's going on, including a live broadcast in Cuba. They even have a word they've been kind of invented for Facebook live. They don't call it Facebook live. They call it una directa because it's a transmisión directa al público, right? It's a direct transmission to the public whoever's watching and and people who might be well known because they do these things you know might announce you know five minutes I'm going to be doing a directa stay tuned and then they're out in the street talking to people or showing some abuse by the police or whatever. A fourth channel is of course YouTube, right? And there's a whole group of Cuban influencers and YouTubers and actually interestingly enough President Diaz Cannell angrily gave YouTube an endorsement on Sunday when he blamed this on these irresponsible mercenary YouTubers and influencers. It was almost laughable that he was he was blaming this on on YouTubers and influencers, right? But but that that shows really that this is broken through and maybe that's pretty gutsy though. I mean if you're doing something from Facebook or YouTube you are totally public. I mean the government knows exactly who you are and they can kind of trace you down. Well exactly and so that's been a change over the last let's say 15 years is that and this is one of the things they were chanting in the street on Sunday. We're not afraid. No tenemos miedo and this is a key part of the control in Cuba is keeping people afraid, keeping them isolated from one another and not realizing that other people share their concerns or their complaints and keeping them afraid of sticking their head up and getting it chopped off. And the internet has helped mitigate both of those because they see other people who share their concerns and then that helps them lose their fear. But there's always been in Cuban history the last 62 years under the revolution people who are brave enough to do that and those people have grown especially over the generations and and so there's a lot of people who are out of the political closet so to speak in Cuba who say the same thing in public as that they would say in private. But there's a long tradition in Cuba of what they call a doble moral or a duplicitousness that you practice strategically for survival because only among your family and friends are you going to trusted ones are you going to be critical because there's a whole network of what they call kivatos or spies of people title tales who will report back and many people who are interrogated the first time they're offered that deal like okay you can keep doing this but you have to report back to us you have to work for us right. I know I've interviewed a number of independent journalists in Cuba who had exactly that speech right. What are the what are the private or the encrypted apps or the peer-to-peer apps? I mean a signal or other types of communication systems at work here as well. There's four or five or six of them but four that I'll mention here because they seem to be the ones that people trust the most and have gone to the most. I think what started as kind of an evolutionary process people because they were on Facebook first and because everyone they knew was on Facebook it was easy to use Facebook Messenger because you're like already on Facebook use that little lightning bolt and you go and you use the private message the direct message the DM you DM somebody but people realized and learned the hard way maybe was that that's not encrypted and that can easily be hacked or if if someone gets interrogated and someone gets a hold of your account you know that stuff can get out so they migrated from Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp and WhatsApp is used in a thousand inventive ways I mean we might see WhatsApp because we have other options as mainly this or that you know we use it in the United States or in the West for these reasons but in Cuba they use it for a cornucopia of different things a lot of the independent startup media sites use it as a way to broadcast their information put a daily digest with links on WhatsApp then WhatsApp even though it's encrypted was questioned because it wasn't encrypted enough and so people then started migrating to telegram and to signal there's even a couple of apps that are Cuban engineered or Cuban developed that are that are for that kind of thing but because they're designed and in some sense approved by the Cuban government people don't trust them for real private communication so that that's the kind of situation there now after December and 2018 things heated up because you had all of this you know prologue and context and then suddenly people had access to horizontal real-time communication through mobile internet and so in the two and a half years since then culminating in Sunday's protests you had this non-stop drumbeat of every month or two you would have some major mobilization that was kind of a hashtag social media enabled internet enabled protests mobilization call to people to do things starting with a tornado that hit Havana in January of 2019 there was also this campaign on social media to get people to vote against the Constitution or to abstain from voting on it there was a an LGBT the kind of official LGBT march that was scheduled was canceled the last minute without any clear reason so people organized an independent one online and then it they went into the street and marched and then they were repressed that was actually very similar to what we saw on Sunday except it was just in one street in Havana but if people marched through and it wasn't political it was about LGBT but it was independent and so they shut it down and they dragged people off and and all of that led to the November of 2020 sit in outside the Ministry of Culture in response to a government raid of a hunger strike that was happening on the 26th of November on the 27th a bunch of mainstream mostly young artists and intellectuals literally crowded and sat down outside the Ministry of Culture demanding answers from the government about repression of people for either free speech or artistic freedoms and really the right to have rights in and of themselves that gave birth to a kind of new dynamic because it was really an unprecedented taking of public space and as we learned again on Sunday when Diaz Canal spoke La calle es de los revolucionarios the street belongs to the revolutionaries that is an old saying public space is understood to be revolutionary space and it can't be used in ways that are critical or counter to the revolution at least that's the you know that's the that's the rule unwritten but certainly spoken and reminded that they also say la revolu la universidad es de los revolucionarios the university is for revolutionaries and that began to be challenged the street wasn't for the revolutionaries only there's people in Cuba who are either non or counter-revolutionary and then the final thing I think that was really important is this thing called Movimiento San Isidro this is part of what we saw in November a group of artists mostly marginalized artists from humble backgrounds and poor neighborhoods in old Havana they they had not been doing political art street art for a few years again protesting against some new legislation that was rigidly controlling of the independent artist sphere in Cuba and you know they had kind of been a kind of a sideshow in terms of media attention in terms of government repression but because their hunger strike was cracked down on it was filmed on the cell phone it was shared and spread across Cuba that led to this 500 people or so to turn up and sit in at the media ministry of culture so that movement has continued to be a kind of sort and that neighborhood a source of protest and because that's a poor mostly Afro-Cuba neighborhood it it really stings the government because it a part of its legitimacy comes from the claim that it has been in favor of and supporting the the the least of these the the marginalized that traditionally discriminated against but those people in that movement together with some Afro-Cuban musical artists and celebrities who live now mostly in Miami all or all of whom are are Afro-descendant they just they decided to record a music video called Patria y Vida and this was in late January earlier February and that just became a viral you heard all over the island and that's what the other that's the other main chant that people had when they were out in the street Patria y Vida yeah homeland very homeland and life right right fatherland or homeland and life right that is a retort directly if you're Cuban you get it automatically because Fidel Castro used to end all of his speeches with this boilerplate declaration he would say fatherland or death we shall overcome right we will be victorious but uh patria o muerte so you got a choice between homeland or death or you have to give your life for the homeland you know you can interpret it different ways uh venceremos and so this was saying that essentially that government line is divisive it it basically turns us into revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries Cubans and traitors and we need to unify uh and we need to celebrate life and not like promised death if we're not like in line um and the video became extremely popular there were a number of other protests that happened uh in you know march april may where people sang that song were chanted that chant but they were localized in old Havana um and i think it took scarcity of medicine scarcity of food and a spike in covid cases and deaths in the last let's say month in Cuba for it to turn into what we saw on sunday how do these um protests compare to the protests uh in 1994 in Cuba which are seemed to be the reference point that um people are comparing to well i would say that in most aspects these are very different protests um it's the reference point because there has been very few public protests um in cuban history under the revolution this has been a very rare occurrence um and um and those protests are different i mean so in that sense they're similar right they're kind of a breakthrough moment of protest um but the government got very quickly control of those they were localized to uh one part of Havana uh um they only they let them last very long and they were um largely the result of the misery that Cuba was going through after the fall of the soviet union when you know exports and imports and food and fuel everything dried up and people were getting on rafts and leaving the country if it out Castro himself actually went out into the street and helped to quell the protests right um but they were you know poor marginalized mostly male probably a good portion afro cuban people who were protesting but but maybe more rioting breaking things right it was it was more of a frustration this this protest is different it seems to me in that it is pointedly political and anti it's not just breaking things it is demanding freedom it is um saying we are not afraid the other big big difference of course is that this is happening in 30 to 50 locations cities and towns all over the island and then the final difference which is probably the key one is that this is happening in the digital age right and this is happening when people have in their pockets in their hands cell phones and the cell phone is a real game changer in terms of how these dynamics work because they allow I mean you would look at any of those pictures and two-thirds of the people are filming are holding up cell phones um and you're obviously seeing it because someone is filming it and and you're seeing it because someone had a cell phone um so you don't have to rely on the cuban media which is totally unreliable you don't have to rely on the foreign media the foreign correspondents because they're often muzzled controlled or all can only say so much or they'll be sent packing very soon these are citizens or independent journalists who are filming and um and so that's why for the past two days that we've you know since the since sunday the government dropped the internet because they know that that that um that helped spread the discontent and and and the and the virus of protest is seeing other people protest or seeing them get it clubbed in the head right one of the uh you know hallmarks of kind of contemporary you know internet age protests is that they're distributed you know people have cell phones people upload footage images etc um in the arab spring you know a decade or so ago we saw similar images and similar activity it didn't really come too much in terms of transformative change in the country's most affected by it what do you think what are the lessons from the arab spring uh that might end up kind of shedding light on what's going on in cuba and where it's going to end up well i would do names come to mind or three names come to mind of people who have uh experienced and then written about this in i think smart ways the first is a guy named everyone knows is malcolm gladwell he had a new yorker article of about a decade ago was commenting on this and he was kind of poo pooing the the twitter revolution because he argued based on research that has been done this is based on weak ties it's very good at mobilizing people but it's very bad at capitalizing on that mobilization because those people have very little invested and very little authority or structure or organization to turn discontent even protest in the streets into something that could potentially replace or challenge a government so uh uh also why go name um the egyptian facebook executive who started that the facebook group that you know helped bring down the egyptian government he was very um let's say optimistic that you just need an internet right and that will help you change things and get rid of authoritarian leaders but later on he has this ted talk where he basically says i was wrong because you know as we've learned in the west in recent years right fake news amateurism can't can't replace journalism right meaning that you don't know if it's on the internet if it's true the government then knows that so it floods the internet with unbearable claims um so everybody can play that game and it doesn't get you anywhere also uh short messages on facebook or twitter tend to not leave room for reflection uh thought there's more like i got you um i think there's a distinction between calling someone out and calling them in right calling them out is kind of exposing them publicly to shame which doesn't really help build consensus or learn lessons or move together forward it's just embarrassing or humiliating somebody calling them in would be you know reaching out to them in private and saying hey you know i disagree with you for these reasons let's have coffee and talk right uh but it's more of a gotcha game and so he learned the hard way that the internet is really good at certain things that can help undermine or tear down things but it's not good at building things because it's a distributed network without a central authority structure and and glad well actually compared that to the civil rights movement and in greensboro back in the 50s and 60s where you had this structure that was born either out of the black church in the south or out of the historically black colleges and universities and those that's where the backbone of people who were willing to those were strong ties right so that distinction is important a final person is a sociology professor in the u.s. she's of Turkish origin her name is I say Zainab Tufeki is probably saying it wrong but but she's a brilliant public intellectual and has a whole book called the twitter and tear gas about this dynamic and and she certainly recognizes the power of the internet but she also talks about networked authoritarianism and how governments can play this game muddy the waters and they can easily make accessible information unusable because we don't know what to trust or believe and then of course they do have a master switch that they can turn on and what is the role I mean this was certainly the case in Egypt where it you know it was relatively you you know this I maybe not relatively easy but it was you know it was one thing to tear down a government or a secular government and a president but then the army really is calling a lot of the shots and in a country like Egypt and that also seems to be true in Cuba so that you have the government but then there's you know the guys with guns and tanks who are controlling things how do how do they fit into the equation of like what do we look for to see where this is heading in Cuba yes well I mean I think in that sense it's it's kind of it's a bleak situation because remember Raul Castro Fidel Castro his younger brother the former president of Cuba who just retired a few years ago from president and then retired a few months ago as the head of the communist party for his whole career he was the head of the armed forces he was the minister of armed forces he built the armed forces he put everybody who's in the armed forces in the places that they are the armed forces also controls the big parts of the Cuban economy a lot of the armed forces generals went to business school in the 90s through a program and and they were put in places to run different parts of the economy and so and so there's a lot that those people have in terms of power and a lot they have to lose if the regime changes economically especially right and so there's going to be I mean the police are seen by people generally and especially the secret police the state security system the ministry of the interior are seen as the bad guys but I think that the the power behind them are is the military but the military isn't traditionally seen as a bad or evil or repressive organization because they have mandatory military service for males in Cuba and so people have a familiarity with it as something normal whereas they see police and especially the state security as the kind of henchmen of repression but I don't know how true that is an actual fact it's just a good cop bad cop maybe routine and and so the other thing is that even though Raul Castro is old and officially retired and has no official portfolio he certainly has moral authority among the people who are in power including the president but also everyone else behind and beneath and around the president and you have you know how you and you have the government you have the military you have the ministry of the interior but then you also have the party but but but traditionally Fidel was really in control of all those organizations and then that was passed to Raul one thing to watch however of course is that when popular discontent overflows and expresses itself and these popular protests and street marches and etc what does the middle class do in terms of which side does it join people who or might be celebrities or people who have something to lose but also maybe a lot to gain for a change but then what elements within the governing structure might get peeled off or split inside with the protesters in one way or another or will they just obey orders and so that question is too early to ask or even answer but it's something that I think we would be watching for in the days and weeks to come what you know everyone in the United States if you're on the left if you're on the right if you're libertarian whatever you know people are going to project onto Cuba you know their ideology so you know how how do we disentangle that it is I mean is this fundamentally it's a Cuban phenomenon right and is it going to mostly be resolved you know within Cuba or what are the you know if this was happening pre-91 it would you know there would be a superpower overlay on all of this but you know how do we disentangle you know American ideology from what's actually going on yeah well I mean yeah I think that yeah it is hard to see Cuba because all of us have blinders or lenses or tinted glasses depending on what we see I have a friend in Cuba who would host delegations he's a he's a journalist there and he would often host delegations and he said whenever they had people from the third world developing world they would always ask about healthcare and education and whenever they had people from Europe of the United States they would always ask about you know human rights and democracy right and so that's certainly true the United States Cubans I mean Americans you know on on on the left they tend to do the same thing as people in the third world and on the right the same thing is you you know but I think there's also a projection and Cuba is really good at playing this role at seeing Cuba as a David and the United States as a Goliath and read having everything through the embargo and the U.S. imperial relation and if you're a student of Cuban history you certainly there's certainly reason for that frame but the problem is that many people stop reading Cuban history after 1959 or I only read it up to 59 because after that time gradually and then definitely by you know by the mid 60s or late 60s you know there's a Goliath of the Cuban government and the David of the Cuban people right and so it's important to see that Cuba is not one thing it's many things right and there's certainly a divide between state and society right where the state of course claims to legitimately represent and serve the people but that's not true in any country but it's especially not true in a country that lacks a whole range of fundamental freedoms and civic civil liberties right um and just because they have access to these other things like healthcare and education for free and for a time it was even quality for free but not anymore really um that doesn't make it okay then to not have the other freedoms right um so I think what's the most important and this is hard for Americans to do or many any outsider to do is to try to tune into the various different perspectives that are coming from within Cuba that are let's say unfiltered by propaganda right I mean everyone has different opinions or takes but if you have a system or a party that is editing or censoring or turning what you do or say into propaganda then it's really hard to hear voices so I try because you know I you know half my life is lived in Spanish I try to listen very intently to the nuances that Cubans themselves are sharing and reporting but it's hard for Americans to do that because we get an American English version and it's often watered down and it's just maybe a headline or breaking news I think that my my my I guess my advice would be this when people present Cuba as one or the other I say it's both and right when people present it as this revolutionary society that stood up to Uncle Sam and successfully resisted globalization and imperialism and capitalism I say yes and when people you know but it's also these other things that you could find in George Orwell animal farm I mean I reread animal farm recently and I was like I could have read this 20 years ago and I would have understood Cuba not totally true but all of this stuff that's an animal farm exists in Cuba even though they also stood up against a you know a Goliath an imperial power that that that was ignorant and arrogant and its policy and continues to be so largely especially under Trump but but even you know remnants of that under Obama and Biden but at the same time that shouldn't silence us or cause us to bite our tongue when it's very clear that people are out in the street chanting liberty right give me liberty or give me death I mean they're saying give me liberty and give me life right and we're not afraid and there's certainly not complaining about the US embargo they probably did that last week at a government sponsored protest so I think that it's it's it's it's hard but very important to keep two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time and even see them not as contradictory they both can be true at the same time right is there anything that the United States which obviously has a long and generally awful relationship with Cuba in terms of you know trying to dictate terms to that country you know is there anything that the US can be doing that would help facilitate a you know a flourishing of actual kind of civil society and freedom within Cuba or is it something where you know whatever whatever we do is going to end up making the situation worse as I said before the first thing we can do is realize we have you know the the future of Cuba is not going to be decided in Washington or even Miami it's going to be decided in Cuba however um I think that most of the moves that Obama made were move moves that are born out by logic reason and history the things that we tried in various ways over 50 years didn't work they didn't liberate Cuba if anything it gave the government a convenient excuse to goliath to blame its problems on um and and that's not even to talk about the you know ethical or human rights issues of the kind of embargo we had I'm not completely against you know sanctions or embargoes but they need to be targeted they need to be focused there I'd be clearly not effective if the idea was to destabilize the the Castro regime you know a complete failure right so what Obama did I thought was to continue to rhetorically celebrate and stand up for a classic liberal freedoms rights um and and he did that not just in an op-ed or in a White House briefing he went to Havana and he gave a speech to the president and people of Cuba and he said those things explicitly unapologetically respectfully he also recognized other things that were um the cubas could be proud of that cubas had in common right and then they said in motion a bunch of policies and uh that we're trying to find common ground to try to get at least pick the low low hanging fruit before they could get to the bigger issues that maybe Obama didn't have control over like the embargo like Guantanamo Able base in Cuba like democracy and human rights and freedom of speech and such so I think that a return to that policy is wise uh strategic slow maybe um right now I think the most pressing thing is humanitarian assistance humanitarian aid because of the food shortage the medicine shortage and the spike in covid cases those are all important and I think priorities right now other policies that would be uh you know returning to some kind of thaw or re-engagement um should come later I think in general we should eliminate the embargo um I mean the details about how to do that when to do that how much at first or later is important but I think Obama had the goal if he was in his power he would have gotten into the embargo um none of this is going to bring freedom to Cuba but I think it will remove the United States as a convenient scapegoat it will allow greater people to people contacts uh economic engagement that could you know at least turn Cuba into a China if not a free country right so that there's some more freedom economic freedoms there's more prosperity you know I mean many people in Cuba you know there's a quote I heard that was really good it was like we were so we were so hungry in Cuba that we ate our fear right uh and that they didn't have any more fear so they went out into the streets right and I think that uh that desperation is what's happening in Cuba and that's partly the design of of the embargo right to make people desperate so they rise up so in someone someone certainly smiling who supports the embargo right now because they're saying finally it's working and thanks to Trump right um but I think the price of that is far too high in humanitarian terms to claim it as a victory um and also it's not not clear that that's going to change anything either so do you think the Biden administration will um you know have the type of policy that you hope uh the US would take towards Cuba yes I think it's certainly uh in the wheelhouse of the Biden administration they're reviewing that policy but they're going slow I think for three reasons they're going slow first of all because there's a lot of other priorities huge priorities starting with COVID starting with repairing the carnage left by by Trump the American carnage left by the Trump administration um and at least from the perspective of the Democrats right um so that's number one number two is that the Cuban government instead of reaching across and shaking Obama's hand they rhetorically after he left in that state visit in 2016 they attacked his intentions as being you know wolf and sheep's clothing they uh circled the wagons and and and uh tightened the restrictions they increased repression so in the short term the the Obama um open hand scared them more than the bush or other presidents closed fist because they're used to having an enemy and they reacted and actually didn't take advantage of this golden historic opportunity to not just normalize relations with the U.S. but take that as an opportunity to change some necessary things within Cuba even within the structure of the system or the revolution so that then led a lot of people in South Florida to say that was a great gesture that was a great trial Obama but it didn't work Trump all the way right and that leads me to the third issue which is South Florida and presidential elections right the reason that Biden not moving quickly on this is that the the Democrats lost Florida and they lost it by a lot relative in relative terms and it's it's it's it seems very likely based on exit polling and other kind of surveys that that the Cubans and other Latinos in South Florida who are refugees from repressive leftist countries in Latin America were part of that swing away away from the Democrats there's probably a lot of Latinos and Cubans who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump twice right when he won and then when he lost the country but won Florida and and that's also for the congressional elections not just the next presidential election final question where do you think will be or where do you think Cuba will be in you know six months time well the well the protests have been swept away will be the well they have achieved some kind of goal or will they just be ongoing I am not hopeful that things will change for the better rapidly in Cuba this protest is certainly hopeful in the sense that a massive swath of people who had bitten their tongue and were silent and fearful did take to the streets and that's a that's a clear warning to the government that it needs to move faster to respond and unfortunately the government at least in the short term is blaming everything on the US and calling most of the people you know scum or traders or mercenaries but they also know that this is the most serious threat that they've ever seen in 62 years and unless they respond to the fundamental issues that are driving it this these protests are going to maybe go underground be quelled for today and tomorrow but but come back up a month from now two weeks from now some other spark if they don't get a hold of covid if they don't get a get their economic house in order and eliminate some of the scarcities but now that's going to happen quickly the government doesn't move quickly and it doesn't change these policies and it's been getting advice after advice after advice from within the country about these things and it moves extremely slowly the real question for me is the Cuban people after this taste of a day of street marches and shouting in the street and losing their fear are they going to go back and wait again for something to happen or are they going to push the issue I mean when we had a few years ago in Iran a similar like massive protests but they ended up being either crushed or you know the government outweighed them request them and then nothing fundamental changed right so at this point it was certainly refreshing I mean I have Cuban-American friends who didn't leave Cuba that long ago who spent the last two days crying from shock and happiness and concern and relief because in their whole lives they never thought they would see the day I mean these kind of things are common in little Havana in Miami but they're unheard of largely in Cuba itself and to see it happen so many places so many people is breathtaking and so it's certainly something to watch but I can't foresee how in six months things will be fundamentally different but I certainly hope they're moving in that direction all right we're going to leave it there Ted Henkin thanks for talking to reason my pleasure thanks for having me take care and we'll keep our eyes on Cuba


Markets are dynamic, evolving, adapting and changing all around us every day. And whatever the product or service, the market is the space where buyers and sellers come together and interact. Now this interaction can be personal, face-to-face, over the telephone, fax of the internet, through advertisements and through many other means of communication. The purpose of this interaction is to determine prices and exchange goods and services. We've looked at demand and then supply separately in order to understand their function. But of course, in the real world, buyers can't determine prices on their own and neither can sellers. They come together and negotiate in the market. We're now going to look at the market model, which will give us a more realistic understanding of how the economy works. The market model takes the two parties we've looked at so far, the buyers represented by the demand curve and the sellers represented by the supply curve, and puts them together. This model will show us how the interaction of the forces of supply and demand determine the equilibrium price of a product and the equilibrium quantity. So we have another tool to help us understand how economies work, and this one will eventually be able to show us how those key economic questions, what to produce, how to produce, and for whom are answered by markets. To illustrate how prices are determined in a market, we'll take our good old fried chicken example and compare the market demand and market supply. In the first column, we have the different prices for fried chicken. In the second column, the quantity demanded at those different prices. And in the third column, the quantity supplied. Now somewhere in this table, we'll find our dream position, a point where the quantity demanded is equal to the quantity supplied. It's clearly not at a price of seven rand. There, the market demand is 1,200 pieces, but the quantity supplied is 4,800. It's also not at two rand, where demand is 4,200 pieces and the quantity supplied only 1,800. But at a price of four rand, the quantity demanded is 3,000 pieces and the quantity supplied is also 3,000 pieces. Yes, at a price of four rands, the quantity demanded is equal to the quantity supplied and this position is known as market equilibrium. In this case, the equilibrium price is four rand and the equilibrium quantity demanded and supplied is 3,000. This market equilibrium position indicates that no market participant has any reason to change his or her behaviour. Buyers and sellers are happy to trade at that price and there are no further pressures on prices and quantities in the market to change. The plans of the buyers exactly match the plans of the sellers. At any other price, the market is in disequilibrium, meaning that some of the market participants are frustrated in their plans and will change their behaviour. Pressure on the market to change exists when it is out of equilibrium. Apart from the equilibrium at a price of four rand, see if you can work out what's happening at some of the other prices. Who will be the frustrated market participant in each case? The buyer or seller? If we take the market at six rand, the quantity supplied is 4,200 pieces but buyers only want 1,800 pieces so there's more than is needed to meet their needs. They're not bothered but the producers who hope to sell all 4,200 pieces are in a spot because the market is only taking 1,800. We have what's called an excess supply in the market. The excess supply is the difference between what they plan to sell and what consumers actually bought. In this case, 2,400 pieces of fried chicken. The last thing we want to do is throw away the 2,400 pieces of chicken. So what can we do as suppliers to cut our losses and sell more chicken? Well, the first and most obvious course of action is to lower the price, to try and lure buyers back to consume more. As all the suppliers in the market are in the same boat, sooner or later they'll all do the same thing or suffer further losses. A drop in price will cause an increase in the quantity demanded. Customers will want more. Now, what's happening in the market is that downward pressure is being exerted on the price. Suppliers are competing with one another to sell more fried chicken and they do that most often by lowering their prices. And this downward pressure will continue until market equilibrium is reached at a price of four round and at an equilibrium quantity of 3,000 pieces. At this point, the plans of buyers exactly match the plans of sellers. At one round the quantity demanded is 4,800 but the quantity supplied is only 1,200 pieces so the buyers are frustrated. They'd like to buy 4,800 pieces but the suppliers are only prepared to produce 1,200 pieces at that price. This is what economists call excess demand and it's equal to the difference between the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied. So 4,800 minus 1,200 is equal to 3,600 so an excess demand of 3,600 pieces of fried chicken exists in the market. In this case, it is the buyers who now compete with one another trying to get hold of more chicken. The upward pressure continues to drive prices up until market equilibrium is reached at a price of four round where demand and supply are equal. From our discussion so far, we can conclude that at a price higher than the equilibrium price an excess supply exists in the market and this will sooner or later put in motion forces that exert a downward pressure on prices. But at a price lower than the equilibrium price demand exists and this will start an upward pressure on prices in the market. We can see that there are forces that will always push this market towards equilibrium and when that is reached, the pressure relaxes. The market naturally seeks its own equilibrium. As we've done before, we can now use this table to analyse the behaviour of the market demand and supply curves. The demand curve shows how the quantity demanded changes if the price changes. If the price drops from five round to three round quantity demanded jumps from 2,400 to 3,600. Our supply curve, also based on the information in the table shows how the quantity supplied changes if the price changes. This price drop from five to three round causes the quantity supplied to fall from 3,600 to 2,400. Putting the two curves together, we get a picture of the state of the market. The demand curve reflects the behaviour of consumers and the supply curve the behaviour of suppliers. We can see that market equilibrium takes place at the point where the two curves intersect at the price of four round where the quantity demanded matches the quantity supplied 3,000 pieces of fried chicken. At this point, the plans of consumers exactly match the plans of suppliers. Note that in this market there is only one possible equilibrium position also known as the market clearing position where everything that's produced is consumed and both buyers and sellers are satisfied. At a price of six round an excess supply exists and this excess supply causes downward pressure on the price and as the price declines the quantity demanded increases and the quantity supplied decreases. This process continues until equilibrium is reached. At a price of two round an excess demand exists. Now this excess demand causes upward pressure on the price and as the price increases the quantity demanded decreases and the quantity supplied increases. This process continues until equilibrium is reached. To summarise that an excess supply forces sellers to compete more aggressively putting downward pressure on prices which declines until market equilibrium is reached. An excess demand in the market means buyers will compete with one another to get hold of the product and this forces prices to rise until market equilibrium is reached again. So that's the market model. We're slowly getting better equipped to understand the inner workings of the markets and our economy. In the next episode we're going to use these tools again. We'll try to find out what lies behind the often erratic and turbulent changes in demand and supply.


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If you'd like to learn a little bit more about Node.js, why you should be using it, why it's interesting and what Red Hat is doing in the Node.js ecosystem, then you've come to the right place. Node.js is a runtime that lets you run JavaScript outside the browser. We've all used JavaScript in the browser as it's part of almost every web application that's out there. But Node.js unlocks the ability to run JavaScript both on the front and the back end, using the same language across the full application. This leads to some great productivity benefits, and along with the great performance that you can get in certain situations has really led to its popularity and growth over the last few years. If we look at a little bit of the data that's out there, we can see from GitHub that JavaScript has been and is one of the most used languages in terms of the repositories that are out there. If we also look at the module ecosystems, we can see that the MPM ecosystem, which is where modules for Node.js are published, is one of the fastest growing and has the largest number of modules. There's a great ecosystem of modules and code that you can reuse. Again, leading to great productivity for your development teams. I mentioned performance. This is one of the reasons that people are interested in Node in that it is performant in a number of the different ways that matters today, especially for cloud native deployments. It's small, very small download and even uncompressed size. It's got fast startup and small footprint. All things that you want to do, if you're going to be deploying applications and say microservice type deployments and to the cloud. It also delivers at the same time great performance in that it's an event loop-based approach can deliver things like 10,000 concurrent connections, where runtimes with a threaded-based module would have a really hard time or struggle to be able to manage that kind of scalability. At the same time, development teams have found that they get great productivity increases by moving to Node. That's one of the reasons actually that we think as a new language or a new entrant, it's gained so much popularity. People report that you get faster development with less code. There's a study from quite a few years ago that PayPal reported that they coded the same application in Node and in Java, and they ended up with taking half the time with less people and 33 percent fewer lines of code, and less code means less code to maintain. So that's one of the great things that keeps on paying you back afterwards. This is a good example here of, in four lines of code, we have a fully working web server Hello World, but it's not a lot of code. I can write this into a file, start it up under Node, and basically I'm already serving responses with very little work. Because of the attributes that I've talked about, Node.js has found use in a lot of different applications, a lot of different use cases. This is a list of use cases that the Community Benchmarking Working Group put together a while back, and you can see that it ranges from backend services, microservices, all the way down to running in embedded systems, IoT type systems, and I just added a few of my own. There's support for using Node with machine learning through things like TensorFlow.js, and you can even do integration and graphical type programming through things like Node.Ret. So really, Node has found its way into a large number of different use cases, from running scripts to running the backend services that you're relying on. I also want to make it clear that Node has its use and is used in very large applications. One of the applications that's operated by our partner IBM is weather.com. I think this is a great Node success story. It's a large application serving weather all the way across the world, so it's internationalized, it serves more than 60 languages and 230 locales. It's a large Node application deployed to Kubernetes across four regions, seven clusters, 400 worker nodes, and dozens of services all running on a Cloud infrastructure. So again, this is an example where Node is running at scale. We also see this in a lot of other companies out in the ecosystem. Now, Red Hat is involved in a number of different aspects of the Node ecosystem. One is the community, we're very much involved in helping to build the Node runtime itself. We have four people on the technical steering committee, we're involved in a good number of the working groups, and our focus is really on the enterprise requirements. So what we believe is important to our customers and people who are running those applications at scale. So working to make sure that we have stable and predictable releases. We have Bethany Griggs, who's a member and helping to lead the release team doing releases and helping to manage those schedules. We have work, so I think people like Jerish Poonatel in the diagnostics working group to help improve our diagnostics. And if you see Node report currently called, I think just diagnostic report when we pulled it into core, that's something that we helped get in, and I think it was a very good addition. We also focus on things like security and performance, as well as internationalization and the general code quality and safety net so that the releases come out with a good level of code quality. In addition to working in the community, we also work on making sure that Node runs well and is well supported in Red Hat platforms like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where we deliver containers, both in RHEL containers and UBI containers, so that you can get and use Node.js in supported environments, as well as OpenShift, where we work to create modules like Node.Shift, which will let you very easily deploy your Node applications to an OpenShift environment. We're also working on something we're calling the reference architecture, very fairly early stage, but this is to help answer questions we get quite often around what modules, what components should we be using in our Node deployments. Now, there's lots of opinions on that, we're not trying to tell anybody what they should use, but more and more at both internally and from our customers, we get the question of like, hey, what do you think we should be using? And we're just trying to answer that in terms of what we would start with based on the experience and those large deployments like the Weather Company that I mentioned in terms of what's out there. So if you go to the Node.Shift website, you can get sort of more information about some of that, as well as to the GitHub repo, where you'll find the modules like Node.Shift that I talked about, things like Kube Probe, which is a module for health monitoring, things like Apossum, which is a module to help do circuit breaking, and other components that make up a part of that reference architecture. So I'm hoping that this is basically giving you enough insight and interest that you're now gonna wanna dive more into the resources that we have available in terms of Node and getting to know what Node is and how you can use it to solve your business problems, as well as what we're doing in the community and as well as in the Node community itself, as well as within Red Hat in terms of the Node.Shift project. And so I invite you to come and explore the resources that we're making available through this landing page, and we hope to talk to you and engage with you going forward to understand what kind of things you're looking for when you're deploying your Node applications and working towards making our platforms the best place to deploy those applications. Thank you very much, bye.


Nothing has changed in his game with his stamina his strength the things he was doing last night where he lost his shoe put it on and then just Outright sprinted and did one of his patent brawny dunks It's it's insane what he's doing and we're all literally just watching greatness every single night And for him to be doing this this stage of his life and his career. It really is mind-blowing It's crazy the greatest of all time give us flowers. Whoa. I agree


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Tezal Kuthmandu Nepal, the land of the Buddha and home to the world's highest mountain, really is a very unique location for taking a Tezal course. The TEFL International Tezal Course in Nepal is located in its capital city, Kuthmandu. With an approximate populous of around half of million inhabitants, Kuthmandu is Nepal's largest and best known city, a cosmopolitan meeting place of many diverse ethnic groups. Kuthmandu is well known as a trade center and for many years it controlled the most important trade route between Tibet and India. When you consider this along with the great many man-made and natural attractions of Nepal, it's hardly surprising that the charming city of Kuthmandu has become a popular place for tourists to visit and also a popular location for taking a Tezal course. Situated along the world-famous Himalayan mountain range, Nepal is indeed a mystical place known for its friendly people, temples and unique natural geography. Nepal's landscape is tremendous, including some of the best walking trails in the world. From the natural and amazing beauty of the Himalayas to the national parks, the ancient temples and pagodas to the lively markets, street traders and clubs and bars of Kuthmandu. Nepal really offers something for virtually everyone and memories gained during a Tezal course in Nepal will linger for a lifetime. For many visitors one visit to this beautiful country is simply not enough. 8 out of 10 of the world's highest mountains are located in Nepal, including the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, at 8850 meters. You can really say that Nepal is the top of the world. There is a huge range of activities for your free time in Nepal including kayaking, whitewater rafting, mountain biking, climbing or trekking in the parks or mountains. Visit some of the many Buddhist and Hindu temples. For a spectacular yet different view of the Himalayas, take a short plane tour. You can also visit a typical Nepalese village, spend time and speak the villagers, have lunch and dinner, spend the night in a traditional village home and then visit a school the following day. Visit Payton, where you can wander the streets and come across some of Payton's 600 stupas and 185 Biles, Buddhist monasteries, watch handicrafts being made, visit Durbar Square, the Royal Palace, Payton Museum and the Zoo. Walk around the old city, shop at the many markets for local handicrafts, visit the Royal Palace or the National Museum or one of the many temples. For those looking for more lively activities, there is a wide variety of restaurants, bars and clubs. After all that exertion, take a relaxing yoga or meditation class or learn about Tibetan Buddhism.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and it's ecosystem partner. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here on the ground here at the VM Village live in Las Vegas at VMworld 2017. People buzzing around us here on the ground floor in the hang space. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Craig Nunez. Chief VP of Marketing at Daytree AM. Andrey Liboschi. VP Solutions and Alliances at Daytree AM. Welcome to theCUBE. Good to see you. I've been looking forward to this since I arrived in Vegas. You guys are the hottest startup right now that on the track in Silicon Valley. A lot of people talking about you guys. I want to get this out there. Give you a minute to just talk a little bit about Daytree AM. You guys are a new model emerging with some real pros. Data domain, everyone knows the success of that. Thanks, Lutman, that went that way. You guys have a great team of XBMware guys. So we're going to have a really compelling, unique thing, but it's getting traction. So give a minute to explain what Daytree AM is. In simple terms, we are a very different take on convergence. We're converging VMware and Linux virtualization, even bare metal container hosts with your primary storage. We leveraged host flash for that with secondary storage and archived to cloud all in one super simple system. And I mean what a lot of our customers kind of tell us is, wow, you are a simpler, more scalable kind of Nutanix that meets Rubrik. You're like this love child of Nutanix and Rubrik. They just love it, because it's one thing that does it all. Super simple. There's a lot of free love going around this generation. You got AWS and VMware bonding together. Google's playing in here. It's the 60s all over again. Yes, yes, not that I remember. Tech hippie generation. Summer of love. Love child of Rubrik. Summer of love. That, I'm going to use that. I will do that. Okay, so love child between Rubrik and Nutanix. What specifically does that look like? Just clarify one from a product perspective. So first of all, there is absolutely zero, call it HCI cluster administration. And so growing is as simple as adding a system. You add a server, adding capacity. You add those independently as you need it. So it's super economic. Everything runs fast because it runs right out of flash in your server adjacent to your VM. And again, no backup silo. You take care of all of your protection and archiving to the cloud with the same console that you're running your business on. So that's in a nutshell what you get. So contrast that, Andre, with the classical hyper-converged infrastructure in terms of how it scales and how it's managed. Yeah, no, that's a good question. So if you think about hyper-convergence, and by the way, it was great. It really changed the data center in many ways. It simplified, removed the no silos that SAN was creating and the complexity around scalability or configuring rate, LAN zoning, all the things that need to specialize the skill to manage, right? And as you know, as you move along in your journey, in the data center, you end up with multiple different vendors. They have different skill sets to manage. So HCI really changed the game in their ways, but it also created different challenges for the data center. And we are lucky enough that HCI is only starting, right? This whole thing about conversion is only getting started. So the problem, one of the first problems that we address is being able to scale performance independent of capacity. So we've hyper-converged for the most part. You know, if you want more capacity, you need to have a computer. If you need more computing, you need to have capacity. So we enable customers to go in different directions as needed. We also enable customers to bring their own existing environment into the solution. With HCI, generally speaking, you need to buy that specific appliance or that specific HCL and sort of like port everything into that specific solution, which kind of becomes a silo as well. So we enable companies to leverage the existing environments and get the same benefits that you would get from a performance perspective that HCI is bringing data locality and read local read IOs with SSDs and VMEs, but at the same time with your existing hardware and allows you to use whatever you want. There are other benefits on the resiliency side as well, primary and secondary backup. So all the primary data leaves in the nodes in the servers, but we have the copy of the data or the backup in what we call a data cluster. So what that really makes is the solution is stateless on the server side. I don't know if you remember in the same time frame all the servers were stateless. This server went down. You would just restart the VMs or the workload in a different server and it creates. With hyperconvergence, now it's always stateful. All the data is actually living on the server. So when you lose a server, you're actually putting data at risk and to be cost effective with HCI, you need to do what they call FTT1 or replication factor two. It means like two copies of the data across the cluster, but it's not very uncommon to have a disk failure and a read error and then you're down to backup and have to restore. You want to rely on the backups as your insurance, not as your users for a day today. So there are a number of different things that we saw. We believe we solve and we solve well that hyperconvergence was not able to solve in its first instance. But you know what, that said, hyperconvergence is starting, this whole journey into convergence is starting. I think I saw Chad Sackett saying there's 450,000 VNX out there.  And now customers have the ability to see what HCI was doing the past three, four years, what worked and what was not working well and look at the new solutions and see how we are addressing those challenges. Okay, well what about the data protection side? You guys obviously have, with Brian and Hugo, a lot of experience as a target, you know? But you're talking about more, you're talking about a software platform. Yeah, from a data protection perspective, first of all you've got a platform that's, you know, totally unified with your primary storage environment.  Great scale, I mean, again, the chops that the founders bring to that. But one of the things that, you know, I think is, you know, really powerful, a lot of other platforms will talk about, hey, we can snap VMs, we can replicate, but then they will store them on expensive flash in those nodes. And we have a separate device that is, you know, cost optimized, globally deduped, compressed on very low cost capacity that is ideal for all that capacity you need to keep to protect the business. And so bringing that together with, you know, the great performance of flash, this thing really does it all end to end. And so it's a different way to think about it. And when we go in, we're typically solving problems on the, you know, compute primary storage side. But when we then describe, you know, what we do from a backup or archive to cloud perspective, the lights go on. Oh my gosh, I simply don't need to do all this other stuff. I got a two for one here. But yes, exactly. So in your file system, basically you're saying eliminates the need for any separate backup software. Is that right or? We do, I would say, 80 or 90% of what most people need because the convenience of having your virtualization engineer do it all is so good. Now, what I would say is there are a lot of requirements in the world that we absolutely are going to turn to our pals at Zerto for in a cool replication.  Yeah, right. We're not going to sugar coat that. But if there are specific requirements that those guys do that you need, we're going to give them a ring and bring them in. But what we're finding is most of our customers are looking for ways to just do it all in one spot with the guy running the business. So it's like- All right, so I want to back up. We had Brian's founder on Monday. And this is interesting. So I want you to take a minute to describe why you're doing this because a lot of people, you come in, okay, primary storage compute and then that's how I use to operate. And then the next guy comes in with his solution. You guys have an interesting perspective. With the data domain backup side, why are you guys taking this approach? Explain the uniqueness of why you guys are engaging in this way and what does it mean for the customer on the other end? Is it all in one? Is it optional? I mean, the approach is unique because of the founders. Just take a minute to explain that. Here's the world. The world is hard and getting harder, right? I mean, it's just a morning, noon, night and weekend job to keep businesses running with the pace of this economy we're in, right? And- The buyers are pulling their hair out, basically. And the- Exactly. And so the winner in the market is the one who can bring the simplest approach that gets the job done. And the problem is the bolt-on piecemeal solutions that folks are tasked to live with, if you sit down and just draw all of the software stacks and consoles that you need to put together to go from your virtualization environment, flash, your backup environment, replication, DR, security, you want to blow your room out. Give me a rope. Give me a rope. I'm hanging it from the ramp. Again, guys are trying to get the job done. They've forced to move fast. They're tight on budget. And so if you can bring them the simplest possible solution that solves the problem today and future proofs that going forward, that's what folks are looking for. And there's a lot of nuanced edges to a lot of different solutions out there, but at the end of the day, show me simple and that wins. All right, so now give me the reactions. That's important to buyers to understand what Daystream is. Thank you very much for that. Now the reaction.  Don't hang from the rafters. We got you here. This is beautiful for you. Simple works, cleans those lines up. What are they reacting? Are they skeptical? They say you're full of, you know what?  What it is? What goes on there? When you walk them through it, and I'm going to let you take this too. You've talked to a ton of people already. When you walk them through it, they totally get it. Where should flash be? Right next to the VM on the host. Makes perfect sense. It's cheaper there, right? How should you scale it? Well, stateless hosts. Servers that aren't storage nodes. You lose two and you're clustered down. That's not a great situation, right? And so, yeah, stateless hosts. Any number of servers can fail. You're still going. People love that. They get that. Bringing all of the backup capability into that one console. You know, if you've got it, people get it. And by the way, a quick demo is kind of icing on the cake. But I mean, share some color. I want to get to it. You know, customers, I've been traveling the last few weeks and talking to customers. I joined Datum more four months ago or so. And the customers understand the proposition and they like. They like that we bring performance. They like that we bring resiliency. They like that it can utilize the existing investments in the data center. And they like that we do primary and secondary backup. The customers that we're talking to, they get it. And they understand and they want to do PLCs and move on. So we're talking about a lot of VNXs out there, 400,000 plus. Obviously, that's been a target for a hyperconverged. Clearly a target for you guys. But you're also talking about stateless. And you think about these emerging cloud native apps, these stateless apps. Certain IoT apps that are being developed. Do you see the emergence within your customer base yet of those type of emerging applications that aren't staple? Absolutely. I mean, well, first of all, if you look at the public cloud world and architecturally, what those guys have had to do to kind of get latency low and scalable, they think EC2 and S3. Think of how Google Cloud is architected with Colossus. They have separated that persistent capacity from what's going on effectively on the nodes, the compute nodes. And they've done that for exactly that reason. To scale low latency workloads as you need, as you grow on demand. And to make that infrastructure invisible to the developer. Absolutely, absolutely. And so the approach we're taking is fundamentally to give customers and kind of this hybrid world a way to bring that kind of infrastructure with the simplicity, scale, performance you need, kind of on-prem. And then it's a wonderful map when you take that in a hybrid way to public cloud because you can very easily map that capacity layer to capacity layer, compute to compute. Instead of this kind of crazy dance you have to do with traditional infrastructure. That was actually part of it. She looked at VMware and there's the keynotes and embracing DevOps and containers. It's all over the place. Now we're counting the days for how many store engineers or infrastructure engineers we actually need in the data center moving forward. But the way the system that we sell was architected while I was in mind to support bare metal containers and provide all the performance benefits and really providing a way to run containers and cloud native apps across data centers, across clouds. And we're moving in that direction more and more to support Kubernetes integrated and a few other... So I want to follow up on that. I mean, everybody talks about cloud. We're at the show, it's cloud, cloud, cloud and it's obviously the big wave. But the Parlin, you know this well, John, being at all the time you spent with AWS and Reinvent and Jassy and so forth. The parlance of cloud is not VMs, right? And so is the conversation beginning to change in your customer base around more of a developer mindset and what is that conversation like? For the customers that I've been talking there's still a very VM centric. There are obviously some discussions about containers and developers embracing containers off-prem, on the cloud and on-premise. But an OVM is still pervasive in the enterprise. So that's where the money is. That's where the money is, at least for the large material. It's still a bit of an upside right now on-premise. So cloud is just a different vernacular, true. Well the reality is though folks have, they've got a VM environment. A lot of people we talk to are, they have nascent container development work going on and the challenge is though that those kinds of customers wind up having to silo out the infrastructure that supports those because they just don't have the bridge. And the point is, yeah, you can have your ESX VMs, your Linux VMs, your containers running in those VMs or you can have those containers running bare metal.  And to some extent when I talk to customers, what I figured out is that they always starting with containers running in VMs, but as soon as they figure out their framework, their management, their orchestration, they want to move to bare metal because they want to harvest that additional 10, 15% performance that they get running bare metal. And that I see constantly in talking to Docker and a few other companies out there, that's what they see on their customer base as well. So, where all that is going, I don't believe everything is going to be running in the cloud. I don't believe everything is going to be running in the data center. They'll be mixed of everything.  Yeah, and you want to set it up in a way that, you know, you set your policies and you don't care where it is, right? You set it up in an economical way that is lined with your service levels. And who cares if it's a different on-prem site, the cloud, which cloud, it doesn't matter, it's all your cloud, one cloud, right? Guys, thanks for coming on, Andre Liebovici. Yeah. Got it, right? You got it. Big newness, good friend. Congratulations on the startup. Quick, I want to give you this last word here. Talk about the company status, what you guys are hiring for, where you guys are on the startup journey. Obviously, great validation with multiple rounds of funding. How many employees? Yeah. How much revenue are you doing? How much is the product cost? Yeah, gross margin by product. Yeah, we are growing rapidly, 130%, quarter over quarter. We are hiring literally across the board. We can't hire fast enough to keep up with the demand. And for us, the number one goal is just getting in front of, you know, customers who are looking for, you know, way out from- Some sales people, you get some field organization. Channel? Yeah. Channel, we have a wonderful channel network and absolutely hiring, you know, guys to partner up with our channel, both sales and marketing. And yeah, we just- All right, I'll put you both the guys on the spot because we love big fan of startups, certainly ones that have great pedigree and products. That's unique. Again, like NewtonX in the early days, no one understood it. Founders that stayed on the course, you guys are on a similar track where it doesn't look like everything else, but it's game changing. So each of you take a minute to explain to the buyer, potential customer out there, why they should work at Datrium and what you can bring to the table to start with you. So first of all, if you are on array-based infrastructure now and you're dealing with your, you know, the performance constraints and managing loans, you've looked at a modern approach to convergence and it just doesn't scale. It's not right for your infrastructure. An enterprise or service provider has to take a look at this new approach to convergence we've got. It will change your world, literally. Your business and your personal world. And if you don't take a look, you're missing out. It is different from hyperconvergence, but fundamentally brings you that wonderful X86-based infrastructure that the whole planet is moving to. Got to take a look. You can't say the same thing he said, but in your own words, what would you say to the potential buyers that are out there, potential customers that should look, why should they look at you guys? Sure. I'll latch on on the HCI and the simplification of the data center. The HCI was great, simplifying data center, removing a lot of the complexity. We do the same things. We do in a different way. You know, we remove all the knobs and buttons that you have in the data center. As an example, our infrastructure doesn't require any tuning on performance, on enable this, the duplication, enable compression, disable a ratio coding, all those features that people know when you're managing hundreds or thousands of EMS, there's no way you know what needs to be enabled and disabled for each one of your workloads. So we latch on simplicity and that's where HCI beg, it's simplicity. And we do the same thing, but we now solve different challenges that HCI also brought into the market. And the data center. Okay, day three, start up, hot start up, it's looking valley and all around the world, congratulations. It's theCUBE coverage here at VMworld 2017. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. We'll be back with more coverage after this short break.