Good morning everyone, I hope you're well. Welcome back to my channel or if you're new here, my name is Sebi and I'm never at the start of a vlog straight from the battle waking up and in bed. By the way, I am wearing clothes, it's just the strappers down because it was annoying me. Yeah, good morning, I hope you're well. Today is a very, very, very sunny Friday and I'm really, really shaky because I just have to take my inhaler. Is anyone else who is athletic and has a fever really feeling it right now? I need to get up and start my day, wash my face, brush my teeth and we're gonna have a fun, productive day together.  Guys, my shellac has started to come off my nails, right? My shellac has started to come off my nails, I can't show you because it's coming off my face, but basically, every time I move my hands through my hair, my hair gets stuck under this crappy shellac, so I need to take them off basically and do another one, I could do another nail polish. But my nails, in good news, have actually grown out so much, they look like they are longer than extensions. Oh, look at this stuff right now again. That's what it looks like. So it literally just gets stuck under these bits. It is really, really annoying. I'm gonna wash my face now. So I have some face washes, so I have this Kiehl's Ultra Face Wash facial cleanser and I also have this Kiehl's Caledonia Face Wash.  When my skin is all clear, I use the other one, the Ultra Face Wash. And for a scrub, Sina literally recently opened this and I am so obsessed. She got it from America, from the Bath & Beyond I think. It's called Sea Tox Mermaid Approved Sea Mineral Body Detox Polish. Don't mind that, that's just more makeup on it. But that one's like basically, because it's an all-body kind of scrub, it's not too harsh on your face, I find. So I really, really like that. So for any of you guys who own America, I really, really recommend it. Now that I'm making safety in the world, I'm gonna brush my teeth. I asked my mum to get me a new toothbrush. Yeah, this is before lockdown. Literally right before lockdown. She gets me this tiny, tiny toothbrush. Like, this is the average size toothbrush. Can you see? And she gets me this tiny one and it's so frustrating because I feel like I need to use nine times the arm power to like, clean my teeth.   So I just wash it with one water and soap. Soak now and just wash it out with that much soap. Squeeze it there, rub it in. And ooh! Alright, I can't show this on camera. And that is it, like, much cleaner. Um, obviously these bits, you're not gonna really get that out ever again. It's stained. So now I'm just gonna dry it my face and all of this with a towel. I don't know why I'm explaining what I'm doing, but everyone knows when you wash your face, you dry it with a towel. Thank God I'm not filming a morning routine. I would be awful! So I literally just grab this towel and squeeze that in there. And I literally just soak it all off. Also, if you get makeup on your towel, don't worry because makeup washes off. If it didn't, I would be in a lot of trouble. And guys, if you ever get makeup on your clothes, I don't know if you watch my New Year's Eve vlog, but my salad water gets all out. So, random top tips that I'm remembering in the morning is always helpful. And by morning, I mean like, it's kind of afternoon you know, but you know. So this is like my skin. As you can see, it's actually doing a lot better than it was. I've just got this little spot here that kind of just persisted. But other than that, we're pretty clear, sis. We're pretty clear! So I'm happy about that. Now I'm gonna go and do my makeup. Thank you. So I just finished my makeup. This is what it has turned out like. I hope you guys like it. I'm just gonna get changed and I'm gonna ask my Instagram for questions about medical-related stuff. And I'm gonna be answering them here on a YouTube video. So yeah, just gonna get changed for that and then film that video, but I need to eat something. So let's get changed. Also, guys, if you're wondering if I'm the kind of gal who wakes up and makes her bed in the morning, yes I am. As for the rest of the room, we're having a clear out and it's starting to look like this. Literally, this is the one corner in my room that looks like semi-normal and the rest of it is a bombshell. But we will cross that bridge when we need to cross that bridge, which is basically probably tonight because my mom is going to kill me because of how messy I've made my room. But I need to clear stuff out. A lot of you guys DM me and ask me if I sell my stuff on Depop. I don't. Actually, my sisters and I, my whole family, my mom, my dad, and even like my aunties, this has always been something that our family has done. Whenever we have clothes, like I have a lot of clothes sent to me from brands that are brand new, even have tags on or whatever. And I have a lot of clothes that are in very good condition and we will just pack them up in a suitcase and send them to Iran. So if my dad and mom are going to Iran or if we know family going and they have empty luggage or when we go, we literally just always take these suitcases over a few times a year and we give the clothes to people who we know kind of need them. And obviously they don't have a lot of the brands that we have here. And yeah, we just feel like that's better use of the clothes. So no, I won't be selling the stuff that you guys see on Depop. But hopefully someone else gets to wear them for free and enjoy them and I don't know, I just, it makes me happy. So let's go have some coffee, let's go have some food, let's go talk to Instagram. Why do I do this weird accent? I don't know why. I don't know why. Apologize. Apologize? Apologies. We sit in here, we out cheer. I don't know what that is. I was waiting for mommy to join in. I'm so hungry. I'm gonna have a iced coffee. The weather is so beautiful right now. I need to stop doing this accent. I'm gonna have an iced coffee because the weather is amazing and she's got my little coffee capsule. Can I just say my house is currently short of coffee capsules and my mom knows I need to have coffee in the morning. So she's been hiding, she's hidden a box for me. I'm shouting. She's hidden a box for me so that you know, Simon doesn't take it. My grandma doesn't drink coffee that's her and so that she doesn't take it. I mean my mom's not gonna take from the stash. But anyway, that and also I just want to put this out there. I'm really mad at Simon because I was doing really well in terms of health until this kid bought Cheetos, okay? These crunchy cheese ones. I will sit down and I will watch Netflix at night time. I'll be watching Money Heist. I'll have this and a little Diet Coke and it's just awful. So guys, I mean it's incredible but it's awful for your health. So guys, try not to buy snacks. We made that mistake at first. We kept buying loads of snacks because we were like look, we're not able to go out at all. Like we need to try and buy stuff that we'll be craving and won't be able to just pop to the shops for etc. So that's what we did but now I'm trying to use up all the snacks. I'm being the kind one here, using up all the snacks so that when they're finished, that's it. Khalas done. Tamam hichi. And that we can just be healthy. That means I have a few cakes to make too. I might make one tonight and show you guys. So you guys are asking me how I make my pastas and how I make my cakes. That is all on my Instagram. So if you want to see that, then don't forget to check out my Instagram. It is Persian Bunny. I'm going to turn down the timer. And my mom has made, I don't even know, Zeresh Polo. Zeresh Polo? Yes. Oh, is that a whole chicken? Whole chicken, 10 legs and... She likes the cooking bulk. I don't know why the cup is so big for such a tiny coffee. And then this is my egg and avocado. So this is my little bro. My mom has given me half an hour to do a workout before she serves the food. So I'm just going to do a quick legs and abs, like 20 minutes, half an hour. So let me lower the camera and then you guys can just watch with some pretty music in the background because this isn't going to be pretty. You're just going to be panting. Also, I'm using this band and it's from BND, which is, I don't know if you guys know Grace bit, but it's her store. So I'm just going to warm up with that. Oh, there was some pigeon jumping up behind me and the best believe I almost died. By the way, my gym leggings, these are my favorites. They're from Forever 21 and they're getting loose. That's super sad. I have lost weight in quarantine, by the way. If you guys have noticed it, thanks. Yeah, I've lost five kilos since Dubai. If you guys have watched the Dubai vlog, so I have been trying to lose my excess weight and quarantine was hard at first, but I'm trying to basically eat healthy and smaller portions. So if you guys want to see what I eat in a day in quarantine, let me know down below and I'll just get back to squatting. Now I'm going to deadlift with the bar. I'm not very good at this, but we have to start from somewhere. So I just had a quick body shower. Sorry, my battery ran out on my camera. So I couldn't show my ab kind of workout bit on my workout and my hair looks so funny like this. But I'm just going to go down to eat. I'm going to get changed. I'm going to show you guys what we have for lunch. I'm very hungry. I don't even know what's where. I've had like a million outfit changes day because I've been filming like different videos and obviously working out. So my mom's made a Zeresh polo and wow. Hello. I wasn't talking about the food. I also got a sign up. Wow. Looking like a painting. You're looking like a whole chicken. Mom. Wow. This food is so nice. Yummy. It's so, mommy means it. I'm so excited. Zeresh polo is my favorite. Yeah, I can't wait to eat. And that's polo baguist. No, that's sauce phase. Polo baguist. My favorite sauce. I just said it. So I just finished watching Saina's video that we filmed the other day of me doing her makeup that is on her YouTube channel. So if you guys want to watch that it is hilarious. I never realized I was so rough on people's faces when doing their makeup. Now I'm just chilling on the sofa with my mom. Mom and June is going to come over in a sec to this section too and we're going to put something. I love the way whenever my camera comes out like whilst the camera actually starts doing her hair. Because always my hair is open. I don't know. Can I just say don't lie. Your hair is always in a clip. Your hair. Be honest. I don't say don't lie. It's a figure of speech basically. Your hair is always in a clip. I was thinking and I might just do this tomorrow. I might give you a makeover. What do you think? Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah? You're actually ready for me to give you a makeover. Yeah.  Okay. I like how you dress. Yeah. But I want you to be like a Barbie. I'm your Barbie. We don't like cake. Oh, me too. Should I make a cake? She tells me off because it makes my skin break out if I have too much sweet stuff. I don't think so. We need to make a cake because I don't think we have loads of cake. Look. All day. This is all they watch. Every night I watch Money Heist after they've gone to bed. But before I go to bed, these lot watch old Iranian classic movies on YouTube. And their favorite actor is Fadden. And Furuzan. I don't even know who Furuzan is. It's because it was emotional, you know? It's because it was emotional, you know? It's because it was emotional, you know? It's because it was emotional, you know? She was singing all where is the owner of my heart and then all of a sudden. No, the sultan of my heart. And then all of a sudden he runs down from the bed. So we have taken a vote in the house and I am going to be making cupcakes. What batter do we have, Saina? What batter do we have? I'm just like, look at you hug me. But over my current breast area, it's quite painful. Oh, sorry. What cake batter do we have? So I have a lemon cake mix and I have coffee cake mix. So I think I'm going to make lemon cupcakes. Oh, the only problem is that because of quarantine and the virus, we have thrown out all like exterior packaging that could have virus on it. So I don't actually know what I meant to mix this cake with. The shot round the round. Looking for the box. You're not going to find it because we bought this last week. It was cool to know you searched it on your phone when I made it. So I'm going to start making this cake, make that cake girl, make that cake. All right, I'm going to start the cake.  My house does not have any baking equipment. Okay, we do not have a whisk. We do not have, we have a baking tray, but I don't know why this woman has it. Oh, she has it for Yorkshire puddings for Christmas, but she doesn't have it for anything else. And we don't have like a, what else to bake as a use? We don't have a mixing bowl thing. We don't have anything. We don't have any cook more. Feel free to post me some, some baking item. You know, a girl. Because my whisk, you whisk it away. It's a whisk. Let's just say sign as cake. You guys, that's not fair because A, as she says, we never had anything. And B, we do even have this cake mix. I literally had to substitute everything. All right, so this is my, oh look, we have that. We actually, you don't need someone to make the thing, but you can use a chocolate icing. I'm not using chocolate icing or a lemon cake.  So I'm going to put the lemon cake mix in here. Yeah. It's nice. The lemon cake is nice. Why do you sound upsetful? What about this coffee? Coffee. I think lemon cake is nicer because I'm going to make it really nice with buttercream when it's going to be lemon cupcakes. All right, man. You don't sound upset. You make all of them cupcakes. Yeah. So I didn't make a half of them cupcakes because it's double side cakes. So make one cake and then put the cupcakes on top of it. No. I'm not going for, what is this? Is this, what is that show called? What's that show called with Mary Something? The Bake Off. Is this the great British Bake Off? Just because I have an English accent and I'm currently in the United Kingdom does not mean that Betty is going to come out here and judge me. What's the guy called with the beard? It's kind of handsome. The old man. I don't know what she's talking about. My dad will be so offended that I called him the old man. He's literally the same age as my dad. He's probably younger than my dad, actually, than me about it. He's not old. He's quite young. He's like, she's scared of my dad. He's the George Clooney, you know? The more beautiful than George Clooney. Oh, George, look at that. Oh, you're just saying that George Clooney is in here right now. If you're George Clooney and daddy side by side, I wonder if you still said daddy. Of course you would, man. She's been married for that long. How long have you been married for? Like, this year, it's going to be 40 years that you're married. Number 14. So that's the cake mix. Which is at 24,000 a person. This is the cake mix. Okay, did you find the ingredients? I don't feel like this is going to help you. I need a bigger... All right, but you said you're going to find the ingredients thing as you threw out. I didn't throw it out. Said you'd put some of these... Oh, I wish you made something, and then you could put these chocolate chips in there. My grandma wouldn't have any of you a chocolate in there. Well, I thought you're making cupcakes. I am. So why can't you just put this on then? Okay, but I don't want to put chocolate chips in... Why don't you just leave me alone? But you said you don't want to make the cake. Okay, but you don't... So leave me be. But can I just say... No. Please don't eat it, and I promise I'll give you. You know this mix has got no lemon or anything inside it, right? It's... After you make this, you can buy the whole lemon, whatever... Smell it. It's lemon cake mix. Oh, she's right. It's a really kind of pie.  Okay, so now I have all of the ingredients. I'm going to whisk it together with a fork. Not bad, right? And now I'm going to put it inside this cupcake tin. So to stop it from sticking to the tin, I use spray, like, fry-light spray, and I spray it all over. I'm actually so nervous. I've never made cupcakes before, and like... I don't know if I filled them too much, because they're already looking like they're, like, going to explode. Okay, no time to worry. We've got to make the buttercream. So I'm making the buttercream icing now. I'm using a recipe of BBC. So what I'm using is 150 grams of butter, 300 grams of icing sugar, and then I'm going to add some orange juice and orange zest. Tastes amazing, by the way. And a few drops of vanilla extract, and then you can call me Martha Stewart. I had to literally think for ages to think of the name of the other one. I was saying Nigella. That's it. You can call me Nigella. So, let me get started. So this is the buttercream once it's done, and then we just spread that on top of the cake once it's cooled down. How cute are these little cakes come out? I'm just waiting for them to cool down, and then I'm going to add the buttercream on top of them, but for now they are just looking so adorable. So this is the finished product. These are my cupcakes. Wow, they look even better on camera. And these are buttercream, and this half has Nutella. I'm probably going to go eat these with my family and have some tea, and then do some editing stuff. So I'm going to end today's vlog here. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. If you did enjoy it, then please make sure to give this video a huge thumbs up. Subscribe. Leave me some comments down below. Let's have some chats. Tell me what you guys are up to this quarantine period, and what more you want to see from me. I'm so happy to show you anything you guys want to see. So let me know. Don't forget to check out my socials. They're always linked down below, but my Instagram is purgeandbunny, and my snap is sappysamay. I love you guys so much, and I'll see you next time. Bye.


We start with insight. I think there's a lot of concern among people in the AI field that the government will sort of jump the gun on rules before knowing what to do. And I think that's unlikely to happen. I think what we're really aiming for here is to establish a framework for insight so that there's at least a third party referee, an independent referee that can observe what leading AI companies are doing and at least sound the alarm if they have concerns. I don't know what necessarily the fair rules are, but you've got to start with insight before you do oversight. And here we are for the first time really in human history with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us. So it's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing, but I think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity. But I do think it's one of the existential risks that we face and it's potentially the most pressing one.


Today, I have the pleasure of meeting Andrico from Fincana. How are you today? I'm doing great, Tracy. Thank you. Every time we write about you, our numbers go through the roof. Everybody wants to know more about Fincana. Could you tell us what your competitive advantage is for an investor in the market right now? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, we're a royalty financing company focused on the U.S. space in particular in California. We finance companies in exchange for a royalty, which is basically a percentage of their top line revenues and in perpetuity. Okay. I was in the music industry, so I know what royalties were in the music industry for music, but what's a royalty in the cannabis sector? Well, it's not that much different. So, you know, our royalties average about 10% of top line revenues. So, as our companies grow that we invest in and they scale, our revenues scale with them. And of course, you're currently looking at California. I know you said that, but we had investor intel. We'd like things to be repeated. Tell us why California. Okay. So, we love California. So, California is the largest market in North America. The cannabis market is about twice the size of all of Canada put together. A lot of investors out there who are new to the market actually, a lot of millennials got into cannabis market, made a huge amount of money. They don't understand why it's not moving as quickly. Can you explain to us because we do see this market's actually growing, is it not? Yeah. So, you know, largely all the money was made in the Canadian cannabis sector. The Canadian cannabis sector has been very overvalued and has, we've seen a correction over the past three months. We're focused on the U.S. The U.S. is early days. If you missed the Canadian boat, now you got a chance to for a redo here. So, you heard it here first, if you missed out on the Canadian cannabis market, people like myself, we have an opportunity to get on this boat with the U.S. market. Is that correct? Absolutely. And the U.S. market is about 10 times the size of all of Canada put together. Okay. And of course, you have a couple of companies that you've already invested a handful of them. Would you like to go through them for us and introduce us to them? Sure. So, we've invested in four companies to date. They've all been startups. And the reason why is cannabis just was legalized in California 19 months ago. So, every company in California has been a startup. And so, what should we as shareholders anticipate, say in the next couple of quarters? Okay. So, you know, as a company, we spent the first half of last year, you know, building up some cash flow, sorry, cash base, and investing in companies. And this year, our four companies that we invested in are going to be coming online and we expect nice royalties from them. Well, Andrico, thank you so much for joining us from Fincana. Thank you, Tracy. It's been a pleasure.


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is theCUBE Conversation. Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante with theCUBE and welcome to this special CUBE Conversation. I've been running a CEO series for the last several weeks talking to leaders about how they're dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and really trying to understand how they've been navigating through and communicating to their employees and their customers. I'm really excited to have Melissa Di Donato here. She's the CEO of SUSE. Melissa, great to see you again. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. You're very welcome. You and I met last September and one of the reasons I've been looking forward to this interview, look, I'm a fanboy, self-mentioned.  We were talking about digital transformation, digital business and you were really one of my favorite guests of the year. So talk about kitchen sink. I mean, this COVID-19 thing came out of nowhere. When did you see it coming and what was your first move as a leader? Well, so for us, you know, we had a really unique position, Dave, because we have a number of people sitting in China. So we've got more than 250 employees sitting in China. So for us, COVID-19 is not new. We've been dealing with this for quite a long time since December when first part of the becoming ill in China and realizing that there was an issue. As of the 7th of January, we had to move very quickly. When China went on to lockdown, we had to find a way to get our employees to be able to work from home very quickly. And taking a couple of hundred employees that are sitting in China and being able to empower them and to enable them to work from home very quickly, nearly overnight was no short tasks. So we took all of that learning back in January and then we were able to respond as the countries fell ill and the government requirements went into place around the world since then. So for us, this is nothing new and we're really fortunate that we had the mechanisms in place to handle the pandemic first in China. And now as it came across Europe and then of course into the U.S. Yes, so you had the Canary in the coal mine, so to speak, well before you really had to start. Kind of something like that. Yeah, well before you had to start making decisions about Susa Khan and Dublin, which was scheduled to be in March. So that was your other big decision point, wasn't it? Yeah, it was really difficult for us because obviously we had customers, we had partners all wanting to come to Dublin. In fact, we were scheduled to be together there as well. And we had to give them enough time to be able to make alternate arrangements. But at the same time, we had to wait to see what the government was going to do in Ireland, because obviously that has a very big impact on the structure and the cost, et cetera. But we made an early decision as early as we could, not with the beginning part of March, to make the decision to unfortunately move it to a digital event, which was not an easy solution. The first time in our history, bringing a big annual conference that's physical and in person to a virtual event that's sitting digital, it wasn't an easy over the night kind of process and decision to make. So it was a hard one, but we're really confident. And May 20th is the announcement in the start of our SuzyCon digital event. So not too long away from where we are now.  Have you increased the cadence? How have you altered? Yeah, so much so. So we do, I do a video with my team that I announce and push out every Monday. So every Monday, I give them a business update. I tell them what's happening in the industry, what's happening with Suza, what's happening with our customers. That happens every week, once a week. That's for every employee. And it's a video call, something like this almost. Then what we do is weekly updates on what the great things that are happening around Suza. You know, we've got a lot of amazing employees here in the open source community, but also employees as well. We've had employees in Italy who created virtual classrooms for their employees. We had an employee in the U.S. who dedicated 30% of his bonus to give back to his local school. He's bought lunches for all the people in his hospital locally. We've had our entire Nuremberg, Germany office give all of their lunch vouchers to the homeless in Germany. So we also like to publicize all the good work that all of our employees are doing to give back to their local communities and globally. So the cadence has definitely been increased. We just ran a survey, Dave, this last week that closed yesterday. We got very, very favorable results. And that was definitely geared toward communication. No more so than now. Do the employees and the customers need to be aware of what's going on? You probably feel the same thing and through me and probably loads of other interviews know that, I mean, we're not a magician. We're not a scientist here that could predict necessarily the future. I think the scientists themselves don't even know what's going to happen. But we're doing our best to take outlook and to take a lot of concern and approach to educate our employees and our customers of what they can expect. Now for us, I'm in the very fortunate position that before COVID-19, 38% of our employees work remotely. So working from home for us is quite easy. It's quite natural for our community and our open source community as well as a whole. So for us to make that transition, we were uninterrupted in the way of dealing with our customers. I've been communicating with them as well through emails and phone calls and other means pretty much at least once a month if not every other week or so to communicate what we're doing for them. Again, you said it, being proactive and being communicative right now it's never been more important. So you, it sounds like maintaining productivity. A lot of organizations are actually seeing a productivity hit and they're having trouble getting work from home infrastructure up and spun up a people joke on Twitter that's the sort of new tissue paper. You can't know what it's like in London but you can't get toilet paper on the shelves here. And so work from home, infrastructure, laptops, VDI, et cetera, but it sounds like you really haven't taken a productivity hit it's sort of a natural progression for you. Yeah, I mean, you know, when we met last September we talked about the importance of open source and we've been in business for nearly 30 years and we've always run our business in open source community. And that is a community that's obviously geographically dispersed all over the world. So people have been working from home working in their community being transparent and collaborative regardless of where they sit. So from an innovation perspective we've had no impact to our business. So being able to work from anywhere across any boundary has been uninterrupted. So that's been great. 99% of our workforce are now working remotely from home versus up from 38% pre COVID. It doesn't change the fact that things like hardware and software and the means that they need to actually operate from home is difficult. So we've made the concerted effort for example, to make sure our employees in Germany had the capability to bring home their desk chairs to bring home their monitors to bring home their machine to set them up with the ability to be able to work from home. Building on the experience from China we learned we needed to provision early. So what we did in the beginning part of February was to begin to procure software and hardware that enabled us to have a bench of technology that we could utilize in case we have this pandemic run wild to support our employees to work from home. So I'm very happy to say we were well prepared. In our survey we asked the question how prepared are you to be able to work from home? And it was extremely high. It was the best practice and way of benchmarking for any employee survey to be able to provide them the productivity tools necessary to be able to work from home. So we're very, very proud of that. Well, I want to ask you about sort of the recovery. Nobody knows. I mean, we've never seen this poor shutdown of the economy before. So Bill Gates this morning on TV saying, he thinks it's really through June that we're going to have to live with this. I know the president of the United States is saying we'd like to happen before that. But assuming there is a comeback, let's say June, start to bring back the economy and waves. Well, how do you see open source in a downturn? Some prolonged downturn months, maybe as much as a year or even more. How do you see open source playing there? Yeah, that's a good question. I'm glad you asked it. I think that as the pandemic continues in any crisis for that matter, open source adoption is going to accelerate. There's no doubt. There's a huge pressure we're all going to face. Even though successful businesses like us here at SUSE, we're going to have to go under some crunch and consideration around costs. Open source adoption will accelerate digital transformation efforts and will definitely speed up organizations to respond to the crisis because they're able to utilize all of the technology innovation and standardization of Linux and other open source technologies from anywhere, whether it's on-premise and the cloud utilizing edge. They're going to look for innovations and constant uptick whilst gaining cost savings at the same time. There's no better place to achieve that besides being in an open source community. So we're very fortunate. I would have never predicted a pandemic if I had, I'd be a multimillionaire even if I had the Lotto by now. Nonetheless, I think that there's no place I'd rather be for sure. And I wouldn't want to run any other company besides an open source business right now because we're seeing an uptick rather than having it decline. You know, I want to ask you about culture because you've been in SUSE as the CEO less than a year inside of a year and you really have always focused on culture. You know, CEOs, obviously you got to worry about growth. You got to worry about profitability, productivity and the like, but I want to actually pull up something that I found on LinkedIn. It was from one of your newer employees. You just knew the SUSE. You said my first month here, amazing colleagues, high amount of trust, lots of collaboration, willing to help each other succeed, giving back to the less fortunate in the community, high amount of respect for diversity, amazing values. Leadership is open, honest, trend-setting, industry-defining, really smart and generally super caring. Wow. I mean, he said in short, best organization I've ever contributed my efforts to and been a part of. And that, I think, starts at the top. Your leadership, whether it's diversity, openness, transparency, you really have set from day one a cultural foundation, which I think is playing out well for you right now. But I wonder if you could talk about the culture that you're trying to drive, SUSE.  When you have employees that feel the sense of urgency around the criticality that they play and the role they play in the company, you can't ask for more than that really genuinely. And I think that when I came, I took it personal to make sure that we led the company leading with people first for probably one of the very few companies in the world that have one trademark. And our trademark is our SUSE, a chameleon. We don't have any other trademark marks or patents on any of our technology because it is open. So the only thing I have is the people. The link to the world and this business being successful is our people and there inevitably lies the importance that's pertaining to their culture. And I think that this is, because we're community-based and open source, it's really important that we continually collaborate. They're constantly giving back and giving insight and giving support to community. And that needs to transcend the community and be living every single day in our company. You mentioned something in that post, which is the philanthropic side of who I am. I believe very wholeheartedly in the responsibility we carry as CEOs, executives, as companies to give back to our community. When I started nearly a year ago, I instituted the month of giving, which happens to be May in conjunction with one day off every year for every single employee to give back to their local communities or a charity of their choice. Now that's proven very well, particularly now. Folks are taking time off. They're donating their time at local hospitals. They're creating that sense of community giving and care that again, bleeds itself into the fibric of what this culture is. On top of that, recently you may have read the press, I'm sure you have, about us giving any medical device supplier or any medical device and not just manufacturer, but institution for research of COVID-19. We're giving them free software and support to run and develop technologies associated with solving this pandemic. And that is truly a gift. I feel incredibly privileged to be able to give back as you, again, well know, we supply all the operating systems to many of our really important medical devices like CAT scan machines and mammogram machines. In fact, probably most of the machines being used in the US today to combat many diseases are running on a SUSE operating system. We want to offer that back again to the community. The employees went wild over the fact that we were able to give back on a big scale to solve a problem like this. So I think, when it comes down to who we are and what our culture is, Dave, people are the most important thing to me. I did an interview recently and they said, going from a CEO that's very focused on sales, and like you said earlier, very focused on outcome and deliverables and forecasts and budgets and EBITDA, is that still the case? I have to say confidently, no, that's not the thing that keeps me up at night now. What keeps me up at night now and how I wake up every morning is wondering about the health of my employees. We had a couple of employees, one that was quite ill in Italy. We were phoning him and calling and emailing him from his hospital bed, and that's what's really keeping me going and what's inspiring me to lead this incredible company is the people and the culture that they've built that I'm honoring and taking forward as part of the open source value system. Well, I think those metrics, those performance, business performance metrics, what I've learned is they're actually a symptom of a great culture. And so I'm really excited and amazed at what you're building there. And thank you. Well, you know, in this day and age, you hear, at least prior to COVID, you heard a lot of attacks on technology companies and big tech on billionaires. And it's really refreshing to see technology companies stepping up. You mentioned the example of medical device. There are many, many examples. And so thank you for that. We really appreciate it. Thank you too. All right, Melissa, great having you. I hope we can talk again, leading up to SUSECON virtual slash digital. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Great to see you again. Stay safe. It's been great to see you. Thank you very much for having me again as well and inviting me back. I look forward to seeing you next month. All right, Ditto. And thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE and we'll see you next time.


It is time for an x-factor choice pack boys. Yo, what's going on Leafernation? It's Ali for back again and welcome back to the channel. Today we are back with a x-factor choice pack. So we're gonna open up one of those choice packs. And we're also gonna show you guys what my team is looking like as of now. So before we open up the pack, let me show you what this team is looking like. I'm a fan of it. It could definitely be better, but I really do enjoy it. So my first line being Jack Eichel, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid. Obviously, if we can pull x-factor Connor McDavid, that would be absolutely huge. Because we have his base and we could just upgrade him straight away. So first line is looking pretty good. Our second line, we got 90 overall, Alexander Ovechkin, 87 overall Matt Sundeen and the Turcot that we did end up getting from our 22 and under choice pack that you get a free one from. So we could upgrade him to a 92, but I'm gonna wait for the collectible sake because I'm gonna wait for next week. I was feeling one of my Leaf boys might get one like Rasmus Sandeen possibly. So if he gets one, I would definitely want to make him regardless. Third line is looking like 87 overall David Pasternak. We could get him up to an 88 right now where we're holding off on that. We got Ryan Kessler and Evgeny Malkin. And then we got Shifley who can get up to an 87, but we're holding off on that as well. Chris Draper and Taylor Hall. So you guys are probably wondering, why did you take Draper not Pekka? Just for the synergy wise, we took Draper on D here. We got Adam Foote and all Samuel Sin. This pairing is absolutely insane. Two unreal cards. If you guys are going to do collections, get through the Metro and whatever the abs is. I'm so bad with the visions. And then our second pairing being Victor Headman and Halloween Rivals, Kail McCart. I haven't been a fan of Headman as of late, but it is a decent card. And Kail McCart is absolutely unreal. And then this pairing ain't the greatest. We have Dougie Hamilton and Yakup Slavin. I want to make Dahlene because he would fit synergy wise, but like I said, I'm waiting to see if my boy Rasmus Sandin gets one next week. And then we got Robin Laner and Yokey Erickson. And then looking at our synergies, we do have Bombarded activated. We do have Fly the Zone activated. Magician, Heart the Soul, Heart and Soul. And then eventually we'll have Protector activated once we get Turr caught up to a 92 because once he gets up to a 92, we unlock Protector there. So eventually we will get him up to a 92. Again, we're waiting to see if Rasmus Sandin gets one next week. So we'll have further do boys. Let's hop into it. Let's open up this X Factor Choice Pack. Who are we looking for? I mean, the obvious good ones that we don't have. McDavid is number one priority. We got McKinnon would be absolutely insane. Crosby, am I missing anyone else? Probably. But those are the three that I really want being McDavid, McKinnon or Crosby. Okay. So here it is, boys. We're hoping for something good. One of those three would be great. One out of five choice here. Come on, EA bless us here. We need that McDavid here. All right. Here we go. First card. Shockaturi ain't great. Second card, John Carlson. Not bad. We could probably use them on D. But again, we're looking for those high rated cards. What's the synergies? I don't even think you'd make John Carlson is an option if we do want to go that route. But again, we're hoping for McDavid and one of these Austin Matthews. We already have. That's one of the top dogs though. Leon dry settle. We already have as well. Just chilling in our collection and last card, Matthew Barzel. Oh, we got two 77s, but I have them both, man. That one hurts the soul. I really, really, really did want our boy McDavid. Kateria wouldn't be a bad shout because we can get them up. No, only 86. Maybe not Kateria, dude. I think we're going to go John Carlson, boys, in all honesty, man. To go Barzel, I don't think it really makes sense. Like my forwards are pretty stacked. I did say any better defense. We can throw in John Carlson instead of Dougie Hamilton for the time being. So John Carlson, it is boys. I'm honestly so sad we didn't pull McDavid or McKinnon or Crosby in all honesty. It hurts. It hurts a little bit. So we were able to upgrade John Carlson up to an 83. I'm just short of his base card. His base card is going for around 10k. So eventually we'll make some 5k coins and get him up to his 85. And then we need four power up collectibles, which I should be able to make. So we can get him up to an 86 or an 87 here. It's a good looking card, man.  Sucks I wouldn't get McDavid, but it's fine. The team's still looking good. The defense to get better, which is great. But yeah, that is it for today's video. Hopefully you guys enjoyed my team. If you guys have any suggestions what I should do different for my team, let me know in the comment section down below. Honestly, the only big thing I want to do is get X Factor McDavid and then I'm kind of just chilling. But when the time comes, the time comes, boys. But like I said, that is it for today's video. If you guys did enjoy it, be sure to drop a like on it. If you're new around here, make sure to subscribe button down below. Love you guys. That is it for today's video. Thank you guys very much for watching and I'll talk to you guys later. Peace.


Back we're live at three o'clock. I'm Jay Fidel. This is think tech more specifically. This is global connections with Alexander, Mara, who's a law professor. In, wait, Saint Paul, I get that right. No, American University actually over in DC. Okay. And we've been talking about war crimes and atrocities for the better part of a month. And everybody has a comment on it. But it's so far a lot of talk. And we're here. Alexander and me to figure out what what actually is going on in terms of prosecuting war crimes against Alex against Putin and Russia. And, and what is happening in the courts and what could happen in the courts. So I'm really happy to be with you. This is a show I've waited for. And it's about time we got down to the bedrock of what is happening, if anything, and what is going to happen. And what could happen in that context. Welcome to the show, Alexander. Well, thanks. I'm glad to be there. It is a topic of great importance and urgency, I have to say. In Nuremberg, there were 22 defendants 19 of them were convicted, and 12 of them were put to death. But actually they killed 6 million people, which is, you know, a very interesting ratio that although you could say you know there was an international benefit in doing that. The fact is the numbers do not speak highly of the system, because we know that there were many, many more people. And in this case, likewise, the system isn't doing very well. The system in the United Nations, the system in the International Court of Justice, Court of Criminal Justice. And for that matter, you know, the other courts and I am reminded, and I will say one more thing before I open it up to you. About a month ago, a Syrian general was tried in Germany under something called universal jurisdiction. They caught him, they tried him, they convicted him. I don't know what happened after that, but that was that was pretty interesting and that maybe that isn't a point to discuss here. But it also shows that you really, aside from the evidence, you do have to have evidence, you have a trial on war crimes. You also have to have the body of, I mean, the person, the defendant in within your physically within your jurisdiction, and this may be problematic. In any event, a lot of talk. Someone said yesterday that there are 5,000, you know, investigators, 5,000 investigators in Ukraine right now investigating and documenting war crimes. They don't have to do that for me. I've seen it on television every day. I'm satisfied beyond beyond any reasonable doubt. So your thoughts about where we are on the continuum toward actually prosecuting these people, mostly Putin, and actually punishing them. And of course, the big question which we should discuss at some point in this program is, is any of that such a threat to Putin and his generals. So as to slow them down in what they are doing every day, every minute in Ukraine, in terms of further atrocities. So the first question is, what is going on right now? Do we know? Well, yes and no, I think we know some way. We also don't know quite a bit. There's probably a lot going on that will come up as very significant, including investigations, including all kinds of legal proceedings that are not public at this point in time. You were mentioning the International Criminal Court, that is one of the international tribunals that actually is working, has been working very quickly after the invasion started. The prosecutor himself started the investigation and he kind of sent a little message, sort of a signaling to the general public saying it would be nice if somebody would refer that to me. So I actually have a legal basis for it. So by now I think 43 nations referred the Ukraine situation to the court and the pretrial chamber is dealing with it too. That's a slow moving process. I mean, if you look at the Yugoslavia tribunal, that's the most most active in the historical past. Some of those people were tried 20 years after the fact. So we can't expect those to those judges to step in and stop the war many ways. So we were looking at a multitude of things that are happening happening in the international put of justice. There we actually have the strongest legal document that we could get from that word, the issue preliminary measures that basically ordered Russia to stop its war to make sure that any of its agents stop being involved in any action that violates international law and that is actually legally binding. So from the from the legal point of view, if we look at this strictly through the lens of lawyers, everything that can happen is happening relatively quickly. The Council of Europe removed Russia from its membership lists after the reports of atrocities happening. The European Court of Human Rights on the other hand has been looking into all these matters and it recently said it will be looking into matters all the way up to September of this year. So whatever Russia will be doing in Ukraine or in Russia can be looked at from that international legal perspective. Again, will that stop the war also probably not. We have to we have to ultimately say no judges and robes are not the same as spiders and tanks. They have a different role to play but they contribute to resolving that problem.  Absolutely it is not satisfactory. We have we have flaws in the system probably more flaws than success stories in many ways. And if you start talking about non tribunals like the Security Council that is an integrated structural flaw that's been sitting there since the 1940s and nobody fixed it. How can Russia sit in the in the governing body that has to step in and stop what they're doing and veto it and basically make make make sure nothing happens in that forum at all. And, you know, I think this is at the at the base of it. It's a flaw in human nature that we have wars and we have invasions like this we have murder mass murder. We have atrocities it's been going on a long time. And I think if we look for a way that that has stopped it is usually by a war where the offending party loses or maybe the other side to that's the way that's the way these issues are resolved by violence.  We don't have that, not even close. After the war was over the US and through and the UN through the US has a fair amount of power to do exactly that. You know smack him on the side of the head if they violated norms, but that has disappeared over time and certainly during the Trump administration that the disappearance accelerated. Europe is not together enough to do a whole lot. And the US certainly is not together enough to do with political problems. And so what you have is no big brother no parent no in local parent is nobody to say, stop, you get a psychopath. That's my term of like, like Putin.  And it demonstrates that, you know, actually it calls attention to the fact that atrocities have been happening in South America, in Southeast Asia, and in Europe for a long time. And the structures that we have built in and around the United Nations have really not stopped those atrocities they continue to happen. And I think, you know, we are at a kind of inflection point. We really have to stop him.  People are understandably reluctant to do anything. And this is the problem when you're dealing with the psychopath, because he's one, he's one step ahead of you and he has no feelings. And I, I don't know what we can do either in the larger sense to stop him, or in the prosecutorial sense. I agree with you that these war crime trials take a long time. And yes, there has to be evidence evidence takes a long time. And there are jurisdictional issues right all of international law is loaded with jurisdictional obstacles. And the same here. I mean, for example, you know, you say that the Security Council is flawed because Russia sits on the Security Council as a matter of the, you know, original UN Charter. But what about the courts? What about the, you know, international courts? Can Russia foul them up too? Can China foul them up? Are they already impotent? You know, this is not Nuremberg. This is not where you have a big brother. This is a situation where any number of political considerations can intervene and pull the rug out from under these courts. So it's not clear that the evidence will be there. I mean, proven. You and I know about the evidence. We watch it on television, but proven to the satisfaction of the court. We don't don't know about the political nature of the court or the judges for that matter. We don't know about, you know, I told one of our co hosts who feels very strongly about this, that she should simply go to Moscow and make a citizen's arrest. Who is going to take him out of Russia? You know, there's no way he's going to, he's going to get the Brussels or the Hague, no way. And so I feel that, you know, this may or may not be on a track that goes somewhere. So in a perfect world, though, Alexander, if it all works out well, what, what would happen? What are the steps? And what are the possible punishments? Well, let's look at it through different lenses. One is punishment. One is criminal law. How do, who do we go after? How do we go after them? And what's the purpose and outcome? You know, you're talking about the leadership of Russia. You're also talking about those who actually work with Putin in many, many ways. The leadership of the military, civilian administration, the oligarchs, whoever is backing all of this. Who is responsible for this? What extent? That's something that the international criminal court in principle can look at. It's more of a practical question. Will they ever be in a position to actually look at that? Because you need to have defendants in court to actually try them. This court does not try people in absentia. And I think that's a good thing in many ways because it gives defense rights. Even people who are, as you call them psychopaths, have a right to defend themselves in court here. Now, our Rome Court, our Rome Statute Court is different already from the Nuremberg one because it's not big justice. It's not the states that actually one world were to put a tribunal in place. However, well, that worked actually came up with very good solid judgments, but that was a personal matter. I think of the quality of the people who were actually on the prosecutorial side, but also on the judge's side here. The Rome Statute Court is one that is set up to prevent, in a way, by deterring. It didn't work in this context here. But it looks more neutrally at things. It's not judges from the winning side that ultimately see the judgment over those who lose. There is Russian judges on that court as well. There is Russian judges in the international court of justice here. Let me, let me give you a little bit more kind of legalese on that because I think we need to uplift international law in the face of these of the weapons talking right now. Can we turn this around and get back to actually repairing the situation in a way coming up with compensation with responsibility and accountability and then build something better. It's not impossible. If you look at the provisional measures that the international court of justice ordered. It was one of the three was unanimous actually with the Russian and Chinese judges agreeing that both parties have to stop aggravating the situation that was an order issued to both parties. The Ukrainians were not happy about that. They were saying, well, we're not doing any things. But anyway, it was unanimous. When there was was two judges dissenting actually didn't file dissenting opinions but declarations to the judgment. The Russian judge merely said the courts has no competence. It didn't say the Russians are right. They just said this is a case where we don't have to restriction. The reason is because Ukraine used uses the genocide convention basically what they're saying is Russia is using the genocide convention as a pretext for just to find the military operations by saying that Ukraine was violating the rights of people in Donbass in the Donbass region. And therefore Russia had to intervene because Ukraine was committing genocide now Ukraine is arguing in the court that's an abuse because they were not. And therefore the court has jurisdiction that jurisdiction is a little wobbly in my personal opinion. And one of the judges said that actually one of the judges said I'm not sure what do we have jurisdiction but this is so bad we need to order provisional measures, which is a strange way of tackling legal questions. So, you know, I'm contemplating very seriously the question of the international criminal court that I do believe investigations indeed are starting. I have no doubt about that. And look at Karacic look at the loss of it. Nobody thought that, you know, the head of the military in Serbia or the president of the former Yugoslav Republic of Serbia would end up in trial. And they did. Right there's so many factors that can contribute to this since we don't know where this is going it's all a little speculative does a little bit of a speculation. And I can also speculate in a way where that might go. And then ultimately a crucial thing is what do we do with the victims I think that that's a question not just of accountability and compensation and making them whole again. That's also a question of preventing future victimization for the same thing and yes you can look at other major powers that are contemplating similar actions. They're out there, and they're observing the entire package of sanctions and responses and military support and so I'm very carefully and wondering what might happen if they took that step. No, I remember it was after the war was over. And most of it show didn't get tried until after the war was over. After the war is still going on. I shouldn't say war. It's a bad word at the invasion.  And so, you know, there seems to be something upside down where we were talking about war crimes that are happening real time war crimes that that are happening today tomorrow the day after. It's almost you know what strikes me is that this is not adequate. The whole concept of it is not adequate. You know, and Mr Putin has made this clear. He has shown us that our system of looking at war crimes is is is archaic. I just wonder, you know, a is there a chance that the UN Charter will be reformed. I would say zero to none. Is there a chance that the war crimes, you know, infrastructure legal infrastructure will be reformed that improved and made more real time zero to none. We have a big problem in our hands and the at the end of the day it goes to that point that I made earlier. And that is the way you solve these problems is with violence. And if you win, then you get to call the shots. And then you say no more of this. And that lasts for maybe one two generations. And then you're back doing it again. You know, we have a flawed species is what we have. And I don't know the solution now I mean we learn the hard way and then we don't. There's a question here though. Let me see if I can wait. The Republic of China is one of the five permanent members. The Soviet Union is not Russia. I don't know if this makes sense Russia sits in the Soviet seat, because it claimed to be the sole legal successor state to the Soviet Union, taking over all the old countries obligations, debts and privileges. Notify the UN Secretary General in a letter on December 24, 1991. UN appears to have done nothing to investigate corroborate or think through the implications. It's simply acquiesced. Now there's an interesting point. It's not the same country. What do you think? It's a very interesting point actually the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations brought that up very early on when he was talking in the General Assembly. There's no, there's no clarity as to why Russia is occupying the seat that formerly was the Soviet Union. There's no question of state succession basically and in that area there's a little bit of international law. But in that area a lot of sovereignty comes back in so when there is a large junk and Russia is a larger junk of the Soviet Union basically says we are the successors, and the others have to reapply for membership basically. And that is de facto and ultimately also legally speaking what it is. I think there is no legal way of questioning the legitimacy of Russia's presence as a permanent member in the UN Security Council. The state practice as well as again the principle of sovereignty essentially if you look at a divorce system that one of the divorce was for instance Czechoslovakia which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Here too, the Czech Republic was agree would be the successor and Slovakia would have to basically come and apply for membership again. In the last year doesn't make a lot of sense in that way, you could probably say all of those should be successes but that's what the status quo of the law is so that that's really not not a solid legal argument but it was a provocative argument produced by the ambassador, the Ukrainian ambassador at that point. I think what makes it interesting is if you put that question to interpret that in front of the General Assembly. I don't know what the vote would have to be but if you put it in front of the General Assembly, you're going to get this pretty much the same breakdown as there was when they try to get a condemnation when they got a condemnation resolution through. And I would say it was, you know, 150 countries out of 200 thereabouts. And the reason is that a lot of countries were were on the same side as Russia or abstained. And this and this means that it's all the much more difficult to take action within the United States. I'm sorry within the United Nations. Russia because Russia has friends there. Russia has allies and has political partners and economic partners and oil partners and so forth, which who are not going to leave it in India is a good example. From a moral point of view, you know, there's no way they can defend what Russia is doing, but from an economic and geopolitical point of view they do. And so there are a lot of countries and far worse than that in Africa and Latin America, who are never going to vote against Russia so even if there was a stark provision in the United Nations Charters saying this could be interpreted against Russia or changed vis-à-vis you know who's on the Security Council, it wouldn't it wouldn't necessarily get a unanimous vote. It's not unanimous when there's a difference between abstaining and saying no and the ones that actually said no we're just five including Russia and not necessarily the strongest when I'm in Eritrea was ever heard about that. And with Korea who wants to be friends with those people, but there were major powers including China and India that abstained in the General Assembly that that's for sure. Now let's talk about an interesting issue, why can we have Russia vetoing all these things in the Security Council and there's I mean usually a local chess club right if a chess player is being accused of violating the rules of chess, would that a chess player didn't be allowed to sit in the chess club's tribunal adjudicating his or her fault? Probably not right one would have to reuse himself or herself. Same thing we have issues in the US Supreme Court right now right, who would have to not sit on certain cases. I wish I wish you didn't you didn't bring that up. It comes back with a vengeance when you talk about Russia how can Russia not not only sit on the Security Council be one of the voices but have the voice to actually throw everything overboard by saying no we veto this. My personal opinion is it should not the Charter says so, but international treaties develop through practice right so what I would recommend if anybody listens to actually does that they should probably think about it. In the United Nations General Assembly were to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion whether Russia should take part in Security Council voting at this point in time, or let alone exercise its veto power. I think would would probably by 15 by 13 votes to two with maybe two abstentions say no it cannot because Charter has to be interpreted, given, you know, new developments essentially in a living fashion as as applied in 2022 and not 1949. Once you have that once you have that advisory opinion, the Security Council could actually move ahead and kick Russia out. Let go fast. It takes a while. Yeah, everybody suggested this publicly. Probably the first one because it's kind of aggressive strategy but it's not impossible. Will it prevent the conflict from going on absolutely not because it will take a long time. And will Russia even if it's kicked out of the Security Council all of a sudden follow Security Council resolutions probably not. So we are building for sure we're building an entire set of legal precedents the legal standards and legal pronouncements that ultimately when this interest the mapping upstate will will kick in with a vengeance. So we should look forward in this respect. I hope so. You know what troubles me is that one of the things that Putin has up his sleeve is this phony baloney settlement, you know, a truce, some kind of negotiated result, even if he said he considers it a win for him, you know, and a surrender for Ukraine. But if there is an agreement. Okay. I just know what is going to happen. Putin is going to insist on the rollback of all the sanctions. And he's going to insist on exoneration for war crimes. I don't know if you'll get that. But that would certainly be on the table.  Let's move forward. We don't need to dwell in the past. And what you need to do is forgive us for all the war crimes and let go of all the sanctions. I would myself never ever agree to any of that. But in the context of a Western Europe that would really like to get the oil flowing again and like to get back to some degree of normalcy. They might be amenable to the things like that. Yeah, possibly I think that that's probably also one of the reasons why I think strategic thinking would say let's not negotiate with Putin at persona, but let's see what do we find the way of negotiating with Russia as a legal entity. I mean, he has some more durability to an agreement if it's if it's ever reached if it's just a Putin agreement. I mean he has with Donbass with from here he had agreements there agreements in place that now with the invasion he is clearly breaching. If I was advising so lends me I would say go ahead and sign whatever is it's not going to be legally valid ever heard about the concept of coercion. Right if you sign a document under coercion and being invaded probably sounds like coercion to me, having your civilians killed having your armed forces under attack. So again, long run right even if you agree to sign away parts of his country he says Crimea shall be Russian from now on, go back to the International Court of Justice and say, can you please set this part of the agreement the armistice part of the termination of hostilities part that we stick with we agree to that. But the part with signing our country away was under coercion and small and void and the court will probably side with that. So Russia Russia Russia abide by that decision. Probably not but not Putin and Putin's Russia not but a future Russia might that there might be people you within Russia to think a little bit beyond timbers so I'm assuming there are some people who are not in their 70s that probably a little bit younger. They want to be part of a government in the future where they actually still have a job and they can probably leave Russia and travel somewhere. So I'm sure there's there's tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of educated people who are actually part of the Russian government. Who think very carefully about where this will be going and we don't know where it's going of course there's no prediction that can be made but legally speaking. There's a lot, lots of risks, right, ultimately when this is actually worked up in the courts, however important they look right now, and they do at some point these people can come back with a vengeance I have, I have very strong respect. It's a professional obligation of mine for people in robes.  We have stories that say that about the United States Supreme Court but that's another show. Yeah, that's a different show yet. It's a very specific international tribunal thing actually. And there's good examples for that actually when the former Eastern Europe the former communist countries joined international courts, especially the European Court of Human Rights, their judges were ferocious human rights activists. So these people pushed the agenda in the in a very liberal direction actually coming from recently transition countries. I have a question from another viewer. We're going to go a little over I hope that's okay with you Alexander. Isn't what Russia is this is from Chang Wang you know him isn't isn't what Russia is doing in Ukraine right now bombing hospitals and killing the billions to instill fear we don't know their purpose, but he says to instill fear just outright terrorism. That's not on the point of war crimes but you have a quite an answer to that question. There there's strong indications that bombings of civilian infrastructure including hospitals which are predicted entities of course schools theaters we have seen those do take place now. Maybe because of the lack of ability of the Russian armed forces you could all be by coincidence but the more the more incidents you have the less likely that becomes see we probably have a good basis for saying this there must be a plan behind that it's not just a coincidence. We were crimes we we also have crimes against humanity does actually fall in the in the bracket of crimes against humanity. And we also in the room stack you'd have the crime of aggression. And that was inserted in 2010 actually so the mere fact that attacks with this military Ukrainian territory is in itself an international crime that could bring not just him but anybody who participates in an international crime. So there is a lot of possible I'm not pointing is what is what is happening, deniable on his part. You know, I didn't know they were butchering people in butch up. I didn't know they were blowing up hospitals and, and residential infrastructure I didn't know they were destroying cities and shooting people in the street I didn't know. It's my wayward generals and troops they were just very frustrated with losing and frustrated with being counterattacked, and they just took it in their own hands. It wasn't me. Does he get any traction for that you know isn't there a notion of like vicarious liability. If he knew this was happening as we all do and did for weeks now by virtue of global television. He know well enough to take action to stop it. Is there a notion of vicarious liability when it comes to war crimes. Yes, you actually as a head of state specifically have obligations not to just not commit war crimes but also to stop curtail and terminate war crimes after happening. If you can do that at that point pass criminal responsibility absolutely. Plus the defense sounds very far pitched I mean, even if, even if he would claim that he watched only news from his own Russian TV channels which glorify this as an attack. That is actually a defensive action and the special military operation. We can't claim ignorance on that level, plus it would be counter to what we basically know about what heads of states know about the operation. So, so beyond mere responsibility for for command responsibility basically it is also very unlikely to succeed argument and these churches are not clowns they would look right through this and it's not a real argument. I mean presidents don't have necessarily have responsibility for every war crime that happens if you have a large military operation and a unit somewhere down the line with a captain as the commander commits atrocious war crimes he wouldn't drag the president into court. Unless there was some kind of connection that you can make actually as a prosecutor saying he would or we can condone or supported this. So on this scale where you have lots of things happening. I think that's almost impossible. First, again, the crime of aggression is always there and I cannot assume that any logical thinking judge on an international court would say this, this was done by the public or example of generals and Putin was always against. Let's talk about non United Nations and international court situations. I've had shows about about civil war crimes by banks for example there's a case pending in Paris now against BNP Bank or not see another party for war crimes in Sudan and the war crimes were are that they they supported by way of their financing. There were others who were engaging in war crimes therefore, you know, supporting those war crimes, and the victims through the French prosecutorial system are going after BNP in a French court. Nothing to do with the United Nations or the international court of justice or, you know, any of the international structures just French. And the Syrian general in Germany, just Germany. And so any country. In fact, let me add one more thing before I turn this over to you. And that is suppose I am.  And I bring him before a Ukrainian court, newly established under the laws of a sovereign nation that is Ukraine. And I find him guilty, and I punish him accordingly. Can that happen? Can France or Germany or any country in Europe do the same? Absolutely that that's the idea actually accountability in foreign tribunals with the original idea before international law actually kicked in there's jurisprudence from the 1920s about that. Yes, basically. There's the criminal prong here at the civil prong, you shouldn't forget the civil one can we can we sue people for damages for causing certain things. I mean imagine you're Ukrainian homeowner somewhere in the north of Kiev and the house has been bombed upon the orders of a Russian general. And you file a lawsuit, you like Paris currently let's say, Southern District of New York right in the Southern District of New York entertain that civil lawsuit. The answer is, yes, maybe, because we have a statutes called the alien towards statute which is an old one from 1789 which basically gives the United States tourist jurisdiction to try civil cases for towards committed in violation of international law. So basically, a US court can entertain civil action by a foreigner against another foreigner for violation of international law abroad. We have that in the 70s to article was a famous torture case for federal appeals court actually agreed the jurisdiction was there. Now we have the Cuba case versus Royal Dutch Petroleum 2013 with a Supreme Court restricted that very massive. And now there is a US security interest element in there basically so the court defers to the State Department saying would it is case should go forward by and large. Would it is the security interest of the US government in trying these civil cases. Well, let's let's assume that you can, if not in one country than in the other. And, you know, of course, put me on the jury I'm volunteering right now Alexander. I want to be there I have a few things to say. But let's assume it's it's a civil case it's compensation, the one in Paris for example it's compensation and how else do you make an impression on BNP. It's compensation. So this is a very interesting set of circumstances, because Ukraine in many cities we don't even know how many cities yet has been leveled.  And what is that worth was they're going to take to rebuild that, and you have virtually thousands of people who have been killed, and who have wrongful death claims aggression that was not in any way justified. And you can say war but it wasn't war it was murder. And then, and then of course you have all the people who were disrupted their lives are completely disrupted, and they were in mortal fear for themselves their children and their and their husbands left back at home. I mean this is all proven already proven. Okay, so what is one life worth. What is one destruction disruption of one life worth. And right now, what is it how many millions of people are refugees trying to find a place in Western Europe, which may or may not work out well for them. You know what, what is that worth one day in one life for one family with millions of families, and this would be against the nation of Russia. It would also be against individuals if you can identify them and, and so forth but mostly against the nation of Russia. The, the, the possibilities are just enormous mind boggling in terms of how much collectively, the result would be, it would be trillions of dollars. Could this happen. And what would what would happen in the world. If these people had legitimate collectible judgments from various jurisdictions against the nation of Russia. It could happen it's it's the question of how many people would pursue such a course of action it's costly as well could that be a strategy could could non governmental entities maybe even government supporting that come up with a litigation strategy that's quite possible I think that that's definitely possible. Could it be trillions ultimately depends on so many national systems I mean some some were millions and millions and damages. Some have punitive damages some don't. I forgot about that punitive damages that's why I want to be on the jury out of anger. And you can sit right next to me. And if they asked for punitive damages they got it, they got it. And so it's not just what a life is worth. It's the punitive damages that you would award any jury would award. And it would be astronomical in any one case. What is torture worth. Yep. And there's no there you can really put a number on that because it's I mean a human life is not quantifiable and our respect, but there's practice again for certain forms of inhumane treatment and torture that human rights courts have actually issued that we didn't refer to that in one way. But I think you just want to disqualify yourself as a juror because you announced what you would decide so you can sit on that jury. But there's also a bigger picture to the whole thing and that just use one word to explain it three year for a sign right the end of World War one, where Germany was hit with exactly that it wasn't civil actions it was it was the victorious they basically saying you cost this you're liable for this, and we'll take your stuff away and reduce you down to rumble, and we'll destroy your economy basically and see where that that as World War two basically. I mean that's that's the narrative of Hitler when he came to power to say, we need to remilitarize we need to secure territory for our population. There you go with the attack on Poland and the Czechoslovakia and Austria and so on. So they're the bigger picture apart from from justifiable understandable revenge and and and seeking responsibility and liability for the impact for the actions. So how can, how can you create a Russia in the future that actually is a better player in international relations. And that should be a major goal and can imagine the administration right now is is very very much looking into that would what 20 years from now what do we, how do we get to a point where we create a Russia that 20 years from now will still be sitting on a pile of nuclear weapons because they're not going to give it up, but will not be a Putin style Russian. So let me go back to a 19 late 1980s early 1990s kind of Russia that was, you know, with those style a little bit more subdued, but still a player in international relations so so in a way and I'm playing devil's advocate in a way, isn't it better if we agree or not agree but at least take into consideration some of the underlying grievances that Putin and his people are uttering to come up with a more stable future, even if we do it with with a lot of minorities and all that. Now that may be the rational approach but I started looking at the options that that are, let's say options I mean collective options that are that are available right now to, you know, to go down the pike on this, on this invasion and and none of them appear very good in the short intermediate term. I mean one is they take over Ukraine and destroy the whole liberal order of the world, and that would happen. Two is, you know, we have we have a war, a war with Western Europe and with the US and maybe even a nuclear war or a biochemical war. He really has made a mess. And I suppose everywhere you look every option at least in the short intermediate term he has made a must that is going to result in disruption of the world of the liberal order and of the global economy. All of those things will suffer no matter what happens that's the way I see it. Tell me I'm wrong. You're absolutely right and we're we are receiving that I mean a regime of sanctions the one that we have right now cannot possibly have a positive impact on the global economy. A situation where three plus million refugees overwhelmed the structure and support system of Eastern Europe and ultimately all of Europe that cannot be good in the long run. And the human suffering cannot be either maybe entire narrative behind that war cannot possibly produce a good result so we definitely in a situation where bad things can happen. I also am a natural born optimist. I think if we get through the stage right now where all these risk factors are out there, we somehow have no prediction, I can't help you there. Russian tanks rolling in Moscow and the general saying enough is enough we get rid of these people. And then mass executions of all the Putin supporters is a possibility that you didn't list. It's also not a good possibility but it is a possibility. I'm thinking we can do especially as international lawyers which I am we have to look towards a possible solution that can help us replace some of the old rules which clearly didn't work. And now we have a war right, not a world war but a substantial war in place so that could be the moment in time where we say this is not working let's throw it out and find something new one. And then maybe also, I mean China is rising in importance India is rising and importance many other nations that we have not regarded Latin America, Africa. Right. They have contributed less than they should have to be international legal order as we know. So maybe some procedures some ideas and norms some concepts from those cultures and traditions and legal systems could actually help us prop up a better system than we have. Why do we need an international court of justice that looks like the US Supreme Court have you ever seen a picture of it. It looks like a Western court right it wouldn't be recognizable as a solid foundational court and many African companies courts in Africa look different. Right maybe it's a good idea to think outside of the box. Well at the end of the day, you know in my legal practice and exposure to the law over my lifetime. I've always been led to the conclusion that international law is a paper tiger that that there's no norms you can count on that people do not countries do not respect it. countries change and ignore it what have you. No one no one feels that there's a strong body of international law out there that will save the world.  And the and the the bar so to speak the international law bar, it's time has come. And more than military, more than foreign service and diplomats who sit around tables and try to negotiate truces that are never going to happen. It's the people in the courts the international law, who the people who look at the UN Charter and find a way to fix it. It's the lawyers that can step up and save the day. Do you agree with that. Hopefully, I'm glad. I'm glad that you hold lawyers and such high esteem. I feel, I feel vindicated in many ways. I also agree with you that there's, you know, if you take the big picture and say international law is violated left and right, where is it as a paper tiger or not. Louis Hinkin actually a famous international lawyer said very wisely is international law is followed by almost all nations and almost all situations almost all the time and I'm paraphrasing a little bit it was his words were better than mine. If you pack up and take a circus and fly from Hawaii to Beijing, you fly international because you have a passport if it wasn't recognized if there was no international law accepting that US passports and Chinese passports are good for travel wouldn't work right so there you have already 100 million working situations of international law every single day.  But many times most of the times almost all of the times actually it works pretty well. And we should always bear that in mind I think if you look at the perspective that is uplifting that would be it. I think we should start from that. Okay, I would make a distinction however between the law attributable to international travel and the law attributable to affecting international war. Absolutely. Absolutely. I need you Alexander. Well thanks very much I hope we can do this again because I'm telling you now it's not going to. It's not going to get better right away and it will change and very possibly for the worst and we need to examine, you know, a status report on on these cases these tribunals. And of course violations of human rights and atrocities which are so so so disruptive. Oh absolutely I'm not predicting things usually but I would predict at least 20 good years of shows and this particular issue. You think about World War two it's still the subject of entered. I shouldn't say entertainment but documentaries and books by the thousands examining what happened 70 years ago. And this this what what is happening here in the past month will be the subject of all kinds of examination for the rest of our lives and beyond isn't it true. The whole world will be reexamined. Absolutely. There was a trap you know international tribunal sitting in Switzerland actually about 20 years ago less than 20 years ago. There was still working on allocating rightful owners of bank accounts and vaults and so on that we're sitting in Swiss banks that were all Jewish accounts and Jewish valuables. And I will have the only job of trying to find the legitimate heirs to that many, many of them of course were dead in concentration camps, 40 plus years before that happened. So international auto doesn't move fast but it's it's still working on reconciling. I hope human values with inhuman actions. Yeah, that's all we can count on that with the war crimes phenomenon that you and I have been discussing. These phenomena will last for many, many generations to examine what happened here. Thank you so much, Alexander. Alexander Mara. And where are you now? Phoenix. Phoenix. Okay, just checking up. Thank you very much for joining me today. I look forward to our next discussion. Thank you. 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All right, so next up my friend. All right, uh, Neil I wanted to share a supplemental cool stuff found last week one of the cool stuff founds was the app expressions Which I agree is a great tool for developing and verifying regular expressions. I have been using this website Reg X 101.com which has been free to use allows you to specify several different dialects of reg X's Including standard Python, Golang and others and provides a nice visual system for building and verifying to our reg X's nice Cool. Yeah, I never gotten a reg X's You know, they are super powerful and super efficient I I use them when I know that I need to be using them But I as I've said many times I do not speak reg X Natively, so I need stuff like this. So I love things like this. It's great. Very good Yeah, and you may be asking yourself, what is a regular expression? It's a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern Yeah, it's a search pattern. That's right. Yeah, you can define like like, you know, a simple one would be to say, all right Find me every file that ends in dot txt, right? And so, you know, we we we tend to think of that as like star dot txt it's red it's Represented differently in a regular expression, but that sort of thing can happen but you can also say find me all the files that start with a number any number and then have you know Somewhere between zero and and any number of other characters, but have the word John in there somewhere and then end in dot txt and you can write one right I can't but you can write one regular expression that will define that search pattern And so it becomes this really powerful thing because it's super efficient You don't have to do all of these if then else statements to parse your your text and it doesn't have to just be file names It could be anything you're just putting text through it and out the other side comes the filtered list So it's a pretty cool thing and it's pretty universal in that it's available and I guess every programming language including shell scripting


and I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Today, we'll be doing a flower frame craft that we can use from household items. If you haven't signed up for the summer reading program today, go ahead and go to longbeach.beanstack.org to sign up. And if you already signed up, don't forget to use the Activity Code Garden in the Activity tab on Beanstack. So let's get ready to do the craft. I'll be showing you two ways in how to make a flower frame. So these are two of the frames that we'll be making. I'm gonna show you this one first and I'll show you this one second. So let's put this one away and start on our frame. I'll be showing you the supplies that you'll need to make this. We're gonna put this away and we're gonna start with the supplies. So you'll need a cereal box. You're gonna cut it up and we're gonna use the back part. You're going to need a piece of paper, saran wrap, a pen, tape, and scissors. So once you have all of those supplies, you can go ahead and make your frame. I also have glitter markers, paint, and crayons as examples of what you can use or whatever you have at your house you can use to decorate your frame. So now I'll be showing you how to make the frame. We're going to use our cereal box that we just cut up and we're gonna cut the edges to make a nice frame and then we're going to get our piece of paper. So with our piece of paper, we're gonna fold it in half and we're going to use this as to help us trace to make our frame. So I already cut the edges and it's gonna look like this and I already have my outline but I'll show you how I did that.  Now, for this part, for the cutting part you might need your parent because you're gonna have to use scissors. I'm not sure if kitty scissors might be able to do it so if you can get somebody to help you cut out the outline, you'll be getting this. I already put the saran wrap on top of it to show you what it already looks like.  So I used my sister's bouquet of flowers that she had so you kind of recycle it. So you're gonna take your flowers and cut it to however height that you want it to be and I'm just gonna show you how to do this. So you're gonna make sure you use the colored side to put the first side of the saran wrap on and you're gonna put the flower on the back and then you get some tape and secure it in the back. Oops, it doesn't look really secure but that's pretty secure for now.  It's really neat. You can also decorate it if you want. You have the option of doing that. I just use markers but you can use glitter, paint, markers, anything that you have in your house to make that frame your own. Okay, so let's get started on the next frame. So for this frame, I'm gonna show you what supplies you need to make this really cute frame. It's a little bit different from the first frame and I feel like you can probably have someone use it by the home. So what I use is I use some popsicle sticks. You can use used popsicle sticks or you can use purchased popsicle sticks from the store and you're gonna glue the sticks together with glue and you're gonna put it together and you're gonna let it dry. So you're gonna need four of these, four.  So what I used for the flowers to stick, I used contact paper. In contact papers, I guess you can kind of think of it as a really big tape. Thought on one side sticking on the other. And the cool thing is you can, if you mess up, you can kind of pull it off and you can adjust things kind of. And if you don't have contact paper, you can try using saran wrap and that'll be a cool experiment. Okay, so what I did is on the back, I put contact paper. I cut it to the shape that where I can fit it in the back when I'm showing it in the front and I got some flowers and I cut the stems. I don't know if you can see it, but I cut the stems and I just put the flower heads on top of the contact paper. And that was it. You can decorate the popsicle sticks if you like. And I used yarn and that's it. That's all and it was super easy, fun, and hope you guys get to do this at home. I can't wait to see your results. If you're interested in wanting to learn about the different flowers that we have here around you, we have a great book called Wild Flowers and it tells you about the different flowers that you might see if you're out on a walk. And we also have regular books that have great stories about flowers and what they do and how they help our growth. So that's it. Thank you for listening in and I'll see you guys around soon. Bye.


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