I'm John Furrier here in the CUBE studios in Palo Alto for a special CUBE conversation on some big news from Pure Storage. We're here, which had Kenny, who's the Vice President of Product Insolutions at Pure Storage, big cloud news, a historic announcement for Pure Storage, one of the fastest growing startups in the storage business went public and following these guys since creation. A great success story in Silicon Valley and certainly innovative products now announcing a cloud product, cloud data services now in market. Chad, this is huge. It's an exciting time, thank you so much for having us. So you guys, obviously great storage success story, but now the reality has changed and we've been sitting on the CUBE, nothing changes, you got storage, compute and networking, old way, new way in the cloud, gain is still the same, storage isn't going away, you got to store the data somewhere and the data tsunami is coming, still coming with edge and a bunch of other things, cloud more important than ever. To get it right is super important. So what is the announcement of cloud data servers? Explain what the product is, why you guys built it, why now? Awesome, so a couple of different innovations that are part of this launch to start with, we have cloud block store which is taking purity, which is our operating system found on prem and actually moving it to AWS. And we spent a bunch of time optimizing these solutions to make that so that we could actually take on tier one mission critical applications. A key differentiator is that most folks were really chasing after test dev and leveraging the cloud for that type of use case, whereas cloud block stores really kind of industry strength and ready for mission critical applications. We also took protection mechanisms from flash array on premises and actually made it so that you could use cloud snap and move and protect data into the public cloud via a portable snapshot technology which we can dig into a little bit later. And then the last part is, we thought it was really ripe to change data protection just as a whole. Most people are doing kind of disc to disc to tape and then moving tape off site. We believe the world has shifted, there's a big problem in data protection. Restoring data is not happening in the timeframe that it's needed. And SLAs aren't being met. End users are not happy with the overall solution as a whole. We believe that restorations from flash are incredibly important to the business. But in order to get there, you have to offset the economics. And so what we're building is a flash to flash to cloud solution, which enables folks to be able to take the advantages of the economics of cloud and be able to then have a caching mechanism of flash on premises so that they can restore things relatively quickly for the predominant set of data that they have out there. And just so I get everything right here, you guys always been on premises only. This is now a cloud solution. It's software. Correct. Why now? Why wait till now? Is the timing right? What's the internal conversation? Why should customers know? Is this the right time? So the evolution of cloud's been pretty interesting as we've gone through it. So most customers went from kind of 100% on premise. The cloud came out and said, hey, I'm going to move everything to the cloud. They found that that didn't work great for enterprise applications. And so they kind of moved back and realized that hybrid cloud was going to be a world that they wanted to leverage both. We're seeing a lot of other shifts in the market. VMware now having RDS in platform, now is true hybrid cloud kind of playing out there. Amazon running in AWS is a good mixture just to showcase where people really want to be able to leverage the capabilities of both. So it's good timing because the customers are kind of re-architecting as well. Hybrid applications are definitely what people want. 100% and the application stack, I think was the core focus that really shifted over time. Instead of just focusing on hybrid cloud infrastructure, it was really about how applications could leverage multiple types of clouds to be able to leverage the innovation and services that they can provide. You know, I've always been following the IT business for 30 years. It's always been an interesting kind of trend. You know, you buy something from a vendor and there's trade-offs. And there's always the buy, you know, the payback periods. But now I think with this announcements, it's interesting as you get the product mix that allows customers to have choice and pick what they want. There's no more trade-offs. If they like cloud, you go to cloud. If you like on-premise, as you go on-premises. It sounds like an easy concept, but the crazy part to this is that the cloud divide is real. I mean, they are very different environments. As we talked to customers, they were very lost on how I was going to take an enterprise application and actually leverage the innovations within the cloud. They wanted it, they needed it, but at the same time, they weren't able to deliver upon it. And so we realized that the data layer, fungdamentally, was the area that could give them that bridge between those two environments. And we could add some core values to the cloud for even the next generation kind of developer who's developing in the cloud to bring in, you know, better overall resiliency management and all sorts of new features that they weren't able to take advantage of in traditional public cloud. You know, Joe wants to do Miniman and Dave Vellante about the serverless trend and how awesome that is. It's just, you look at the resource pool as a serverless pool resource. So is this storage-less? So it's still backed by storage, obviously. No, it's just making it go, wait, that you're looking at it as like, what's service-less is to the user? You guys are providing that same kind of storage pool addressable through the application realm as of its source-less. And what's great about, you know, just taking 100% software platform and moving it to the cloud is customers can spin this up like in minutes. And what's great about it is they can spend many, many, many instances of these things for various different use cases that they have out there and get true utility out of it. And so they're getting the agility that they really want while not having to offset the values that they really come to love about Pure Storage on premises. Now they can actually get it all in the public cloud as well. I want to dig into the products a little bit. Before we get there, I want you to answer the question that's probably on people's minds. I know you've been at Pure really from the beginning. So you've seen the history. Most people will look at you guys and say, hey, well you're a hardware vendor. I have Pure Boxes everywhere. It's doing a great job.   You guys have done a great job, but wait a minute, this is software. Explain how you guys did this, why it's important. People might not know that this is a software solution. They might be knowing of hardware. What's the difference? Is there a difference? Why should they care? And what's the impact? It's a great question. I think, you know, since we sell hardware products, most people see us as the hardware company. But at the end of the day, the majority of Inge and Dev is software. And we're building software to make originally off-the-shelf components to be enterprise worthy. You know, over time, we decided to optimize the hardware too. And that pairing between the software and hardware gets some inherently great values. And this is why we didn't just take our software and just kind of throw it into every cloud and say have at it to customers like a lot of folks did. We spent a lot of time just like we did on our hardware platform, optimizing for AWS to start with so that we could truly be able to leverage the inherent technologies that they have, but build software to make it even better. It's interesting. I interviewed Andy Petrelstein at VMworld and he's the chairman of Arista and he's called, that's Pat Gelsen who calls him the Rembrandt of Motherlands. And he goes, John, we're in the software business. And he goes, let me tell you, hardware is easy. Software is hard. I agree. So everyone's pretty much in the software business. This is not a change for pure. Well, this is the same game we've been in. Yeah. All right, let's get into the product. So the first one is cloud block store for AWS, which is the way Amazon does the brand. So it's on Amazon or for Amazon, as they say, they use different words. So this is pure software in the cloud. Your pure companies, yeah, pure, technically pure software in the cloud as a software, no hardware. 100% storage, API support always encrypted, seamless management and orchestration, DR backup migration between clouds. That's kind of the core premise. So what does the product do? What's the purpose of the product? On the Amazon piece, if I'm a customer of pure or a prospect for pure, what does the product give me? What's the capabilities? Great idea. So I would say that the biggest thing that customers get is just leverage for their application stack to be able to utilize the cloud. And let me give you a couple of examples because they're kind of fun. So first off, cloud block store is just software that sits in the cloud that has many of the same utilities that run on premises. And by doing so, you get the ability to be able to do stuff like I want to replicate from as a DR target. So maybe I don't have a secondary site out there, a secondary site out there. And I want to have a DR target that I could spin up in the event of a disaster. You can easily set up bi-directional replication to the instance that you have running in the cloud. It's the exact same experience, the exact same APIs, and you get our cloud data management with pure one to be able to see both sites, one single pane of glass and make sure everything's up and running and doing well. You could also though leverage a test dev environment. So let's say I'm running production on-prem, our premises, I can then go ahead and replicate to the cloud, spin up an instance for test dev and run reporting, run analytics and run anything else that I wanted on top of that and spin up compute relatively quickly. Maybe I don't have it on-prem. Next, we could focus on replicating for protection. Let's say for compliance, I want to have many instances to be able to restore back in the event of a disaster or in the event that I just want to look back during a period of time. The last part is go on, not just on-prem to the cloud but leveraging the cloud for even better resiliency to take enterprise applications and actually move them without having to do massive re-architecture. If you look at what happens, Amazon recommends typically that you have data in two different availability zones so that when you put an application on top of it, it can be resilient to any sort of failures within an AZ. What we've done is we've taken our active cluster technology which is active, active replication between two instances and made it so that you could actually replicate between two availability zones and your application now doesn't need to be re-architected whatsoever. So you basically, I get this right, you had core software that made all that flash on the box on-premises, which is a hardware solution. Which sounds like it was commodity boxes, so it's components. Just like the cloud. You take it to the cloud and there's an amazing amount of boxes out there. They have tons of data centers, so you treat the cloud as if it's a virtual device, so to speak. Correct, I mean the cloud functionally is just compute and storage and networking on the back end of which has been abstracted by some sort of layer in front of it. And so we're leveraging compute resources for our controllers and we're leveraging persistent storage media for our storage, but what we've done in software is optimize a bunch of things. An example just as one is, you know in the cloud when you procure storage you pay for all of it whether you leverage it or not. We incorporate Ddupe, compression, thin provisioning, AES-256, encryption, all data at rest. These are data services that are just embedded in that aren't traditionally found in a traditional cloud. It just makes so much sense. I mean if you're an application developer you focus on building the app, not worrying about where the storage is and how it's all managed. Because if you want persistent data and you're in a managed state and all this other stuff going on. I just need a dashboard. I need to know where the storage is. Is it available? And brand to the table. And make it easy with the same APIs that you were potentially running on premises. And the last part I would say is that the layered services that are built into purity like our snapshot technology and being able to refresh test dev environments or create 10 sandboxes for 10 developers in the cloud and add compute instances to them is not only instantaneous but it's space saving as you actually do it. Whereas in the normal cloud offerings you're paying for each one of those instances. And the agility is off the charts, it's amazing. Okay, final question on this one is how much is it going to cost? How does the customer consume it? Is it in the marketplace? Do I just click a button, spin up things? How is the interface? What's the customer interaction and engagement with the product? How they buy it? How much is the cost? Can you share the interaction with the customer? So we're just jumping into beta. So a lot of this is still being worked out. But what I will tell you is it's the exact same experience that customers have come to love with Pure. You can go download the cloud formation template into your catalog within AWS so you can spin up instances. The same kind of consumption models that we've built on Prim will be applied to cloud. And so it'll be a very similar consumption model which has been super consumer friendly that customers have loved from us over the years. And it will be available in the mid part of next year. And so people will be able to beta it today, test it out, see how it works and then put it into full production in the mid part of next year. And operationally in the workflows the customers don't skip a beat. It's the same kind of format, languages and the words and the workflow. It feels like Pure all the way through. Correct. And not only are we 100% built on a REST API but all of the things that we built in with Python libraries that automate this for developers to PowerShell toolkits, to Ansible playbooks, all of the stuff we built on code.purestorage.com are all applicable to both sites and you get Pure One, our cloud based management system to be able to see all of it in one single pane of clouds. Okay, let's move on. So the next piece I think is interesting and I'll get your thoughts on this is that the whole protection piece. So like on-premises kind of really kind of held back from the cloud mainly to protect the data. So you guys got cloud snap for AWS. What does this product do? Is this the protection piece? How does this work? What is the product? What's the features and what's the value? So StoreReduce was a recent acquisition that we did that enables deduplication on top of an S3 target. And so it allows you to store an S3 deduplicated into a smaller form factor and we're pairing that with both an on-premises addition which will have a flash blade behind it for super fast restores. So think of that as a caching tier for your backups but then also be able to replicate that out to the public cloud and leverage StoreReduce natively in the public cloud as well. So that's the StoreReduce product. So StoreReduce is that piece. Is it an object store? It is, yes. And we pair that with cloud snap which is natively integrated within FlashArray. So you can also do snapshots to a flash blade for fast restores for both NFS and you can send it also to S3 in the public cloud. And so you get the inherent abilities to even do VM level granularity or volume level granularity as well from a FlashArray directly without needing to have any additional hardware. Okay, so the data services are the block storage, StoreReduce and cloud snap on 4AWS. Correct. How would you encapsulate this from a product and solution standpoint? How would you describe that to a customer in an elevator or just a quick value statement? What's in it for them? Sure. So Pure's been seen by customers as an innovation engine that optimized applications and allowed them to do, I would say, amazing things into the enterprise. What we're doing now is we're evolving that solution out of just an on-premises solution and are making it available in a very agile cloud world. We know this world is evolving dramatically. We know people want to really be able to take advantage of the innovations within the cloud. And so what we're doing is we're finally bridging the gap between on-premises and the cloud, giving them the same user experience that they've come to love with Pure and all of the clouds that they potentially need to develop in. Okay, so from the announcement standpoint, you guys got cloud block storage, limited public beta right out of the gate. Yep. So, GAA in mid 2019. Correct. Cloud Snap is GAA announcement and StoreReduce is going into beta first half of 2019. Correct. We're excited about it. So for the skeptics out there, who are they?  How do I test and get a feeling for, this is what I'm going to jump in and look at this. What should I look at first? What sequence should I try this? Have you guys have a playbook for them to either kick the tires or how should they explore to get proficient in the new solution? Good question. All right, so for one, if you're a FlashArray customer, Cloud Snap gives you the ability to be able to take this new entity called a portable snapshot, which is data paired with metadata and allow you to be able to move data off of a FlashArray. You can put it to an NFS target or you can send it to the cloud. And so that's the most logical one that folks will probably leverage first, because it's super exciting for them to be able to leverage the cloud and spin up instances if they'd like to. However, protect back to their on-prem. Also, Cloud Block Store is great because you can spin it up relatively quickly and test out applications between the two. One area that I think customers are going to be really excited about is you could run an analytics environment in the cloud and spin up a bunch of compute from your production instance by just replicating it up into the cloud. And the last part is, is I think backup is not super sexy. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it's a significant pain point that's out there. And I think we can make some major inroads in helping businesses get better SLAs. And so we're very, very interested to see the great solutions people bring with us. So I got to put you in the spot here and ask you, there's always the, I love the cliche. Is it a vitamin or is it a aspirin? Is there a pain point? So obviously backup, I would agree, backup and recovery, certainly with disaster. You see the wildfires going on here in California. You can't start thinking about what the disaster recovery plan. And then you got top-line growth with application developers, the kind of the vitamin, if you will. What are the use cases low-hanging fruit for someone to like test this out from a kind of pain point standpoint? Is it backup and what's the kind of the growth angle? I wanted to kind of test out this new solution. What should I look at first? What would you recommend? So it's a very tough, it's a very tough question. So CloudSnap obviously is the easy one. I'd say CloudBlockStore is one that I think people will, you know, if I look at my biggest, customer's biggest challenges out there, it's, how do I get applications portable? And so I think CloudBlockStore really gives you the application portability. And so I think it's finally achieving that whole hybrid cloud world.  And so there's areas where we believe we can add inherent values to them with being able to do fast restores from Flash that meets LLA's very quickly and is an easy fix. And you guys feel good about the data protection aspect of this. Yes, very much so. Awesome, I want to give you a personal take on this. You were early on and pure. What's the vibe inside the company now? So this is Cloud and we all, people love Cloud, this benefits for Cloud as well as on-premises. What's the mood like inside Pure Storage? You've seen from the beginning now you're a public company and growing up really, really fast. What's the vibe like inside Pure Storage? It's funny, it hasn't really changed all that much in the cultural side of the thing, of the business. I mean, I love where I work because of the people. I mean, the people bring so much fun to the business, so much innovation. And we have a mindset that's heavily focused on customer first. And that's one of the things, I always tell this kind of story is when we first started, we sat in a room on a whiteboard and wrote up, what is everything that sucks about storage? And instead of trying to figure out how do we make a 2.0 version of some storage array, we actually figured out what are all the customer pain points that we needed to satisfy? And then we built innovations to go do that. Not go chase the competition, but actually go alleviate customer challenges. And we just continue to kind of focus on customer first. And so the whole company kind of rallies around that. And I think you see a very different motion than what you do in most companies, because we love hearing about customer results of our products. Engineering just will rally around when a customer shows up just to hear exactly their experience associated to it. And so with this, I think what they see is a continued evolution of the things that we've been doing and they love seeing and providing customer solutions and areas that they were challenged to deal with. What was some of the customer feedback when you guys started going out, and you guys said the product, you're doing all that early work, and you got to go talk to some people and knock on them. Hey, what do you think? Would you like the cloud a little bit of cloud? How would you like cloud to be implemented? What were some of the things you heard from customers? So a lot of them said, if you can take your core tenants, which was simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and customer kind of focus around consumption, and if you could give that to me in the cloud, that would be the nirvana. And so when we looked at this model, that's exactly what we did. We said, let's take what people love about us on-prem and give them the exact same experience in the cloud. That's great, and that's what you guys done. Congratulations. It's great to hear the cloud story here, Chet. Kenny, Vice President of Product Solutions at Pure Storage, taking the formula of success on premises with Flash and the success there and bringing it to the cloud. That's the big deal in this announcement. I'm Jennifer here in the Palo Alto Studios. Thanks for watching.


Shipmates, C. and O. Gilday here with my wife, Linda, during Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate the achievements of Hispanic Americans and recognize their incredible contributions to our Navy and to our nation. Hispanic Heritage Month is an important reminder of how much strength we draw from our diversity as a nation of immigrants. Today, Hispanic Americans are the second largest minority group in the Navy, with more than 65,000 sailors serving across the fleet. From Central America to Europe to South America and beyond, the heritage and traditions Hispanic Americans bring to this country enrich all of us. Hispanic Americans have a proud tradition of service, and they've left an enduring mark on our Navy. Indeed, their service is an inspiration to all of us. Officers like Rear Admiral Lori Aguayo, who became the first female officer to oversee Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, NAFAC, Atlantic, and is also dual-hatted as the U.S. Fleet Forces Civil Engineer. Amazing. Or Yamil Kondalario, who served as the administrative leading Chief Petty Officer for two Chiefs of Naval Operations, and was commissioned last year as a limited-duty officer. And of course, our 78th Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Carlos Del Toro, and his wife, Betty. Hispanic Americans are also the namesakes of several ships that represent America around the globe, like the USS Rafael Peralta, USS Farragut, and the USS Cesar Chavez. Gracias a todos los marineros hispanos que han hecho de nuestra marinera de los Estados Unidos lo que es hoy. Well said, Linda. And we'll see you in the Fleet, shipmates.


Some of y'all, I swear you don't understand how bad this credit means. This man cannot write above a third grade level. Hey guys, this is my review for Rebel Moon Part 1, A Child of Fire. If anything Zack showed that he cannot write. We've already known this for a while. Army of the Dead was a brilliant example of it. And even his style sort of kind of lost its essence because he was the D.O.P. We all kind of made the joke for the longest time that Zack Snyder is a glorified D.O.P. But now that he's had two instances of doing so, it's kind of like maybe he's a good at telling a D.O.P. what to do. It really does look like he kept those Japanese rare lenses that he used in Army of the Dead, which, yes, on paper that sounds cool. But when you are barely in focus and the person barely behind you is a smidge, a smudge against the wall, that's not exactly the greatest lens you want to use when you're wanting to do action scenes. But that's not even kind of the biggest issue I have with it. The best way I can describe this movie, it's as though Zack saw what Robert Rodriguez has done recently, especially with movies like Hypnotic, and thought, I can do the same thing, but in my style. But Robert Rodriguez just makes movies for fun. Are they usually always excellent? No. Do they try something different usually? Yes. There are some pretty obvious Rodriguez kind of choreography, awkwardness, strange mannerisms that happen in those movies. And that happens quite a bit in Rebel Moon. Mostly at this point I would tell you what the plot is, but if you've seen Seven Samurai, you're getting the plot. There is a difference between homage, taking inspiration, and directly taking the story.   And then part two is going to be the ending of the Seven Samurai. Seven Samurai is four hours long and he couldn't fit that into a movie. That's something else I gotta say too. I have to say that the copium that the Snyder fans have been doing for this movie, I don't know what's wrong with you. I can understand when you are passionate about a director and his work, and I can understand that.   He can take a story that has been very well laid out for him already and then he can do a decent job in terms of portraying it. And this movie proves that he does not do well without guidance, without assistance in the narrative department. There are so many instances of telling not showing in this movie. There's a general character, General Titus, who we are constantly reminded that he is a great tactician, that he is one of the greatest generals in the universe.  We don't even really see him fight anyone.  You're wasting precious story development time. We're telling the audience something that you already know. This was also evident in the Snyder cut of Justice League.     The jokes that you've been hearing, it does happen. There are action parts where it's in slow motion and then a object makes contact, or a human makes contact, and then it goes into even more slow motion.  The very first fight scene that we see with the main character, Cora, fights these guards who are played by very prick, douchey South Africans. Funny enough, I'll give Snyder a point for that. If you ever wanted to use a really good bad guy voice, just have a South African. Chateau Coppoli showed that off in Elysium. When she goes in to take on all these guys, the choreography is that of like a television show. One of my friends made a comment that they could have shown her being tactical, kind of taking them out one by one, or I don't care about the size and whatnot, I know they say she's tiny, but you know, we've established that very poorly, but we have established that she's a warrior, but it's just how it happened.  Cause the choreography is good, because the choreography is intense, tight, and well laid out. That is not the case in Rebel Moon. You are so utterly bored in many of the action sequences throughout this movie, because one, you don't care about the characters. Two, you have no idea truly what the purpose of the fight scene is other than, oh, it's cool. Or three, they don't mean anything to the plot. There are a few scenes that are okay-ish. I liked the taming of the hippogriff. I thought that was cool. The introduction of the double sword lady, even though her design is a complete ripoff of the sisters from Kubo and the Two Strings, which again, another point that I should say, I already said that he ripped off Seven Samurai. Zack clearly takes a lot of things from a lot of different sources, 40K being one of them. I don't even really play 40K, but the is that you see the bad guy's armor. You're like, that's 40K. That's low grade 40K. The lacking amount of originality in this movie really weighs it down. It has some cool little things here and there to the point where you almost kind of wish you could see more of it, but the world building is so poorly done and so poorly conveyed that it doesn't invest you whatsoever. A movie that I reviewed earlier this year that is a great example of good world building, but bad narrative, The Creator. That movie had a cool world. It was intriguing. It was engrossing. The story sucked, but the visual storytelling going on in the background was really cool. This one doesn't even have that. The color grading is also really blue. I don't know if there's some people who said this movie looks gorgeous. It's kind of a variation of brown and gray with a little bit of blue and a lot of red here and there. You don't have any investment into any of these characters.  Charlie Hunnam is also in this movie too and despite the fact that this man is British, I don't know if he just forgot what Scotland and Ireland sound like because his accent dips back and forth between the two. It's really weird. Francis from Deadpool is in this too and he's just playing a different variation of Francis and that's something else to say too. Ed Scrin and Sophia Bultella, apologies if I said that wrong. Both of those two have shown that they know how to do good choreography in the movies that they've done in the past. They know how to do the job but this movie does not give them the proper choreography to do so. There's a fight between the two of them near the end of the film that's... The film leans onto this really boring cliffhanger that it's supposed to draw you in for the next one. Maybe I'll watch it.    No, apparently we needed to hold the blood for the sneaky kid.   Justice League makes sense in the grand scheme of things. This one doesn't.   It's just gonna make it longer and more boring. But in the end guys, my final rating for Rebel Moon part one is a two out of seven. This just... It was bland. It was very bland. It didn't have many redeeming features. They had a couple of cool like, oh that's an interesting thing. Like look at this weird spider slug thing that's mind controlling this dude.  Are the means in which they use distance communication even though we've shown that they can jump across planets.  I am upset I wasted two hours watching this. Anyways guys, let me know what you think.  I want you to tell me why you think this movie is as good as it is. Don't give me general blah kind of like always because everyone wants to hate it or oh it's good because it's different. Oh it's good because it's not Star Wars Disney. I want some actual critique. Some actual real good criticism as to why you think this movie is good.  Anyways guys, that's all for me. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, leave a like and if you're interested more subscribe. Until then, I'll see you guys next year.


Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of the official party and remain standing through the singing of our national anthem by Ms. Ani Keith-Kart and the invocation by Chaplain Corwin Smith. I want you to now please join me in prayer. Muddy God, as we gather for this ceremony today, we understand the significance of this day in the year 1920, women were granted the right to vote. Since that day, their vote, voice, and thoughts have been crucial to our nation. They have been and are an integral part of the success we have accomplished as a nation. And we're thankful, Lord, that you have allowed this opportunity to celebrate this moment for which this day represents. May we also take time to remember the sacrifices of many of those pioneers that fought to make this day we witness now a reality. For many of them, you, oh Lord, were their strength to endure during the hardships for the vision of equality you place in their hearts. As we commemorate this day, may we be reminded of our responsibilities we have as citizens with the privileges we have been afforded. Help us to appreciate and utilize our rights and privileges for the betterment of our family's nation and the world. We humbly ask your blessing upon this day and this time. In your holy name, Lord, we pray. Amen. Thank you, Ms. Keith-Kart and Chaplain Smith. You may be seated. Welcome to the 2015 Women's Equality Day. The theme for this great occasion is Celebrating Women's Right to Vote. I am Ms. Amanda Owens, your mistress of ceremony for today's event. The sponsors of today's program are the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the United States Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Standing Joint Force Headquarters for Elimination Joint Command, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Contract Agency, the Defense Technical Information Center, as well as our Equal Employment Opportunity Offices. It is my honor to introduce to you Mr. Kenneth Myers, Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and United States Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction. Good morning. Beautiful day. Great opportunity to be here today and I'm pleased that so many of you joined us this morning. Women's Equality Day commemorates American women achieving full voting rights under the U.S. Constitution by passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. It is an honor to introduce our guest speaker. Admiral Michelle Howard has achieved many historical firsts throughout her naval career. She is the first female four-star admiral in the Navy's history and serves as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. She was the first African-American woman to achieve the three-star rank and the four-star rank in the U.S. Armed Services. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1982 and from the Army's Command and General Staff College in 1998 with a Master's in Military Arts and Sciences. She took command of the USS Rushmore on March 12, 1999, becoming the first African-American woman to command a ship in the United States Navy. Admiral Howard deployed to Indonesia for tsunami relief efforts, participated in maritime security operations in the North Arabian Gulf, and served as commander of a counter-piracy task force where she led the rescue of the merchant vessel Maersk, Alabama from Somali pirates. Please join me in welcoming Admiral Michelle Howard. Please have a seat. That may have been premature. Alright, so this is actually a brand new presentation. So if you don't like it, give me feedback. But first of all, I can't thank you for inviting me to come speak. And I have generally end up speaking on Women's Equality Day, just as I end up speaking during Women's History Month. But it is an important day. And it's a great time for all of us, and I appreciate the prayer, for all of us as citizens to understand this journey and what it means. Now, because it's you guys, we said, oh, this is about WMD. Women making a difference. So for now on, when you see WMD, I want that to be in your head. Nice. Well, let's start with the first slide. This is actually a pretty long journey. And it is about rights. And to be honest, it started off as a journey about freedom of speech. This is Sarah and Angela Grimke. One sister was born in 1792, and the other was born in 1805. They were born and raised in a slave-holding family in South Carolina. And as they grew up, they felt that this whole institution of slavery was wrong. And they became vocal opponents to slavery and were forced to relocate to the north. They became Quakers. And in the Quaker religion, they could, in church, speak as women. But outside of the church, speaking on the topic of abolition, speaking against slavery, it wasn't norm in society. So they're adults in the 1830s. They finally find their voice through newspapers in the north, like The Liberator. And they start writing articles about slavery and condemning slavery and encouraging women of the South to also find their voice and help convince people that slavery is wrong. And then they got feedback. Women writing about slavery, freedom of speech. It was just unheard of. And later on, they actually got death threats. But they persevered. And then the sister did something really outrageous. They decided to start talking about this right to speak. Women have a right to free speech. Well, was that or was that not true? Their status, our status as women, our status as Negroes in those days, we really weren't full-fledged citizens. And so despite all of this animosity, they continue to say, we have a right to speak. Next slide. Lucretia Mott is a Quaker, and she's the friend of the Grimkees. In fact, she's about the same age. She's also friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was born in 1815. And so she's a teenager at the time the Grimkees are writing and talking about this right to speak. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is definitely a rebel. There must have been a hard time being her mom and dad.  Wow. And they didn't. But for women at this time frame, now we're in the late 1830s, 1840s, women did not enjoin many of their rights. They didn't have the right to own property. And so when you married, everything you owned went to your husband.  And so you literally could have your own wealth as a woman, but the minute you married, it was gone. Control of property was gone. For Elizabeth, this was really about property rights, as well as the right to speak. Both she and Lucretia, in their abolitionists, found that they would go to abolitionist meetings and they would not be allowed to speak. And they had enough of that. So they decided to put together the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. They are going to draft a settlement, a declaration of sentiments about women's rights. They advertised in the newspaper and then they start talking about what should this convention be about and what rights should we declare for ourselves and start this conversation across this country. And so of course freedom of speech is up front, property rights are up front. And then Elizabeth Cady Stanton on her porch to Lucretia goes, we need to add the right to vote.  It was such a far-fetched concept. There was no way it was going to happen. But they put together the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Many people came and everybody agreed on putting out this declaration of women's rights. The convention almost fell apart when they got to whether or not women's right to vote should be in this declaration. And literally Frederick Douglass stood up and gave one of the best speeches of his life and convinced everybody that citizenship, citizenship is a right to all human beings. And this is a man who's a slave on the lamb and has no rights himself. And they signed the Declaration of Sentiments. It was well published. They had such hostility after that that almost every signer within the next year said, I didn't mean to sign. And by the time we fast forward to the, when women finally get the right to vote, only one of the signers who was basically a teenager was still alive when that occurred. But that's convention put us on this path of a great dialogue and movement that women have a right to speak. Women have a right to own property. Women have a right to vote. And so it got picked up by Lucy Stone, who also knew both Stanton and Mott. And in her adulthood, started an American Suffrage Association to keep pushing forward with this dialogue and conventions and saying, we have a right to vote. And she too believed in full emancipation as a human being. And so when Lucy Stone got married, she said, I'm getting married, but I'm keeping my own name. That was really radical in the 1800s. But her husband agreed, said, absolutely. You are an emancipated human being. And I am too. Next slide. So their work continues on. In the end, there's a falling out between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone. And it was really the Civil War. And it came down to the amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, we should be pushing that the right to vote should be for women as well as black men. And Lucy Stone said, no. Let's do this first step and then eventually we will get to the point when women have the right to vote. And so they separated. But the different movements that they started continued on. And now we're up into the 19th century. And it really starts to come to the forefront in 1912. 1912. You've got Woodrow Wilson running for president, Theodore Roosevelt running for president. Who knew Theodore Roosevelt in his campaign, he's like, yes, women should have the right to vote. Woodrow Wilson was kind of lukewarm. At the Republican convention, women were there. Suffragettes were there at the Republican convention holding these great signs. This is 1912 going, you know, for the safety of the nation, a woman's right to vote. The hand that rocks the cradle, will never rock the vote. Wilson gets the nomination. He becomes president. 1916, he occasionally meets with suffragettes. But in reality, he's not so much into women voting. And so they started to pick it outside the White House, very consistently. In the 1917, Woodrow Wilson's on his way out of the White House, there's women anti-war protesters, there's women suffragette protesters, there's other anti-war protesters, and then there's people who are like, we should help defend the world. There's this huge mash-up outside the White House that everybody gets arrested. Including the women's suffragettes, we want the right to vote. They're all in jail. The women's suffragettes start a hunger strike, and then that gets in the paper. And so finally, Wilson says, let them out of jail and to pacify them and get these women from stop protesting outside the White House, agrees to have the amendment introduced in 1918, believing it's never going to pass, that women would have the right to vote. Well, guess what? 1920. It passed. It was ratified. And that's why we have this day. It is recognition of all, literally, literally at that point, over a hundred years' worth of work by both men and women for women to have the right to vote, as well as free speech. Next slide. But in some ways, the movement continues. And as women move into the workplace, it becomes clear we don't have the same opportunities as men. And in 1963, women were only making like 53 cents on the dollar to men. So President Kennedy signed out an equal opportunity. He signed out an equal pay amendment. And women started to move into the workforce. We're like 46% of the labor workforce today. We are actually 51% of the population in the United States. And then in 2007, there was a equal opportunity lawsuit where Lily Ledbetter sued a good year tire and rubber company. She figured out that the other men at her level were getting a lot more money for the same work. Her case went all the way to the Supreme Court. Well, initially, she won, and she got 3.3 million back pay. But then good year appealed and it went to the Supreme Court. And fundamentally, the Supreme Court, in a very close decision, 5-4 said, yes, we're not saying you weren't discriminated against, but we're saying that you really can't sue for back wages prior to the time you made your claim. And so in 2009, current president signed out the Lily Ledbetter Act, which basically says if you have a discrimination suit and it's found in your favor that there really was discrimination at your organization, you can receive back pay. Unfortunately, for Lily, it was too late. She not only lost with the Supreme Court, good year filed against her to pay for their lawyer's fees that she had to pay. Now, the reason when the Lily Ledbetter Act was signed in 2009, you see all the congresswomen and Senator Mikulski there, why are they wearing red? They're trying to point out that women today were now making about 76 cents on the dollar. So it takes women about 15 months of labor to reach the same level of income as a male who works for 12 months.  And so we still have a little ways to go. We have come very far from 1920 in that amendment. But we still have other areas where we can get to better equality in this country. And I refer to it since I take an oath to the Constitution that all of us get to enjoy the full rights that are guaranteed us in the 10, that first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights. So that's sort of where we are. But then that gets us to you. And you guys are basically a technical organization, engineering, math, science. And so when you think about who works for you and who does what, is it here? And is this really just this group a reflection of what America looks like? So let me give you a test I often give to folks.  I promise to stay up here on the stage.  And when I say the word scientist, scientist, what's the image that comes into your mind? And is there anybody who, open your eyes? Is there anybody who would be willing to stand up and tell me what image came into their mind with the word scientist? Yes, ma'am. A man that's highly knowledgeable. Did you have any specific image? Normally I get pocket protector. Trying to get better improvement. That's a great image. So thank you. It takes a courage to be the first one to stand up and answer. Courage is a core value in the Navy so I like to reward courage taking it. Next slide. 1983, this guy started this in order to understand when stereotyping starts. He has this, it's been going on for decades.  And of course that's a seventh grade boys version of a scientist. But in reality, that is our perspective of scientist.  Well some people, the other common one I get is Einstein. Not Madame Curie, Einstein. So if that is our belief set we have mental belief sets we have to break through in order to make sure women get into engineering and math and science. And so one of the things I wanted to do today was help break open the stereotypes of what an innovator looks like. Next slide. Who's this? Nope, not Vivian Lee. Nope, not me. Blonde hair. Close, not Eva Gardner. Come on down. Hedy Malamar. Came to this country in the 1930s. Hollywood actress. Who said Hedy? Come on down Hedy. How do you know Hedy Malamar?  Thank you. You hear a lot of women's history. Absolutely. Hedy Malamar was considered you know in my culture aviators have call signs. Hedy's moniker in Hollywood was the most beautiful women in Hollywood. 36 films over 28 years. Probably her most famous was Samson and Delilah. Hedy came to this country just as the storm clouds were brewing in Europe. She had been married to a factory owner.  So actress by day time her hobby was tinkering. She kept a draft board in her home in Hollywood. And World War II comes along and Hedy gets interested in wireless guided torpedoes. Trying to break your stereotype here. So Hedy's next door neighbor happens to be a composer. He writes you know the show scores for movies and they start talking about you know the war and munitions and wireless guided torpedoes. Turns out her next door neighbor George Ant Hill he collects antique pianos. That's his hobby and it makes sense. He's a musician and a composer. Does anybody here know how a roller piano works? The old antique pianos from the 1800s? Anybody willing to stand up and give it a shot? One shaking lieutenant had? No one? I asked this question once and a guy stood up. It was over at SSP and it turns out that's his hobby. I've got several other ones. No one wants to say none of you saw any like that when you're visiting museums as a kid? Let me walk you through it. So you have a roller piano and basically what it is is you have a long voluminous sheet with different holes stuck in it. And then as it rolls through cranks through, those holes match up to pins and then as the pins move through the holes, those are mechanically geared to the different pikes that line up to the actual key on the piano. So is this different holes? So then the piano looks like it's playing itself, but it's really just pre-staged what these holes are to make the piano keys move. So Hedy is talking to George and they're talking about wireless guided torpedoes and she goes, you know, the real issue is you've got this signal and when you think about signals they're continuous, right? And as long as that continuous tone is going or signal is going to the torpedo, it's going to do what you want it to do. That's the communication path. And Hedy goes the problem is that can be disrupted. Somebody can cut that signal off and then the torpedo doesn't do its job. So she goes why do we have a continuous signal? Why don't we move that signal and put it into burst so that it's harder for someone to cut off? And she got the idea from the piano roll from those holes she goes, you can get the signal and the sound enough movement fast enough without having a continuous beam that means the torpedo can't be jammed. Frequency hopping. Hedy Lamar invented frequency hopping. Patent. 1942, her and George. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. She tried to turn it over to the Navy. Do you think we took it? No. 1963 off of Cuba we go, wow this is a pretty good thing. 1997 the electronic frontier company called Hedy out of retirement said oh my god you know the patent of frequency hopping we would like to honor you and she goes, it's about to tie it. Her patent is the basis behind Bluetooth. Wi-Fi.   Next slide. But there is, it is important to have role models. Most of the services are involved with the Center for Creative Leadership and at different points in our careers they either provide us 360 surveys or we go and get additional training for them on leadership and then we sit in with folks from different communities. We've been running a survey on military leaders about what is the most important thing factor in being a good leadership and they list different things you know is it experience is it mentoring the most common response almost half the people regardless of rank say it's a positive role model positive role model and so we have to sometimes make ourselves aware of positive role models like Heady to know that things are possible. So in this case I've got Dr. Shirley Jackson she's the first African American woman to get a doctorate from MIT in physics and she's currently the president of Rancelier Polytech and for a while she was the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I've got Juan Andon who had bachelors in both chemistry and computer engineering and worked for the Navy over at the Naval Warfare Surface Center in Indian Head and she helped put together the T that in a very expedited manner brought a series of munitions forward during the middle of operation and during freedom. She's the one credited with sort of bringing the thermal barrack bomb to bear the one that helped destroy the caves in Afghanistan. She received a national medal and currently works for Homeland Security and then Becky Allinger who is a material expert at Los Alamos and just likes to blow things up, a critic of her. But she's also a huge STEM advocate and goes out to the local high schools and elementary schools talking about the importance of engineering and they are important but when we talk about what women make on the dollar some of it I think is just where we are and the occupations we've chosen and when you talk about engineering and science and technology and math those tend to be better paying jobs and we are very capable and innovative. Next slide. So where are we going? Well there's role models out there you just have to look for them. Sunita Williams is a Naval Academy graduate helicopter pilot basic diver qualified test pilot masters in engineering management who started to work for NASA about 1998 and she'll probably be one of the first astronauts once we get to the point where commercial industry provides space flight she'll probably be one of the first astronauts to go up on a commercial platform by say government platform so we're out there help spread the word and then stereotypes just really are important for the people coming up last month I was on a phone call with Ruer Admiral Houghtonou of the Nigerian Navy she's the first woman to make Admiral and actually the equivalent to General in any of the armed forces in Nigeria and she made two stars she'll be retiring later this year her degree is in architect and she ended up in logistics in the Nigerian Navy and of course was the first at everything she ever did on her way up to making two star she told me this great story when she was a commander and the senior woman officer at the Nigerian Navy at the time and with an engineering background she was just on the internet one day thinking about engineering and women and she came across a website on Grace Hopper and Grace Hopper is inventor of cobalt, admiral in my Navy appointed by Congress but really the heart and soul behind computer engineering as we know it today and so when she saw this and read about Grace Hopper she goes I had never heard of this woman it was fantastical to me and that she was an engineer and became an admiral and printed off and cut off Grace Hopper's picture and stuck it on her corkboard when she was a commander and she thought about Grace Hopper and what that meant to her and then what she might mean to others as she continued on that journey up so we need leaders role models who look like us to help inspire us and help us move forward and then finally you think about where I started from with the Grimke sisters the right to speak all the way up through the Seneca Falls Convention all the way up to this last entry in today and our right to vote about 66% of the women in this country registered to vote and in the last election 46% of us voted there are a lot of leaders men and women who invested a lot of time to give us this right please you have the privilege of a full citizenship please exercise it speech vote right to be an entrepreneur and to help lead this country into the next century so thank you very much for listening and if you have any questions I have time for a few questions no questions everybody's happy oh I have several I would save my mom and dad initially and then little they would give me different books to read and I was enamored first of all I was enamored with Queen Elizabeth the first and that whole flotilla thing kicked the Spanish Armada yeah Harriet Tubman when I first read about her I was fascinated by a woman who had been a slave who escaped into freedom and then had the courage to go back and lead others into freedom and then she ended up as a working for Union Army as a scout during the Civil War and actually eventually got um veterans benefits at the end of the war for her service as a scout um and then as I transitioned into the Navy um I was aware of Grace Hopper but one of the people I met when I was a Lieutenant Commander was C&O Zoomwall retired at that point and I heard him speak a couple of different times he was a champion of diversity he was the youngest C&O we ever had and he helped bring in women admirals uh and helped get the Navy on a footing of where we treat people equally and he did this uh despite the culture of the Navy and realized he had to lead the Navy to be in a better place and how we think of our people and that everyone once they put the uniform on is a sailor and to put it into context when he was C&O shortly after he came into office we had um we had sit downs on carriers the black sailors were so sick of being treated poorly they were literally doing sit downs on carriers and refusing to get the carriers to see I mean it was a crisis that unfolded nationally and he just said there's something wrong with my Navy when we don't treat every sailor like a sailor and he put us on a footing that really led to the Navy we have today and that he was charismatic but also persistent as a leader and I took a lot from hearing him speak yes sir could you follow that thread and just give us a view of what you see in today's Navy going on particularly the role of women in various combat roles absolutely so for gender integration the services are actually on different tracks and milestones for the Navy when I started on Atlas women could serve on hospital ships as nurses and doctors and women nurses serving on ships actually starts with the Army serving on some like 1908 on a hospital ship the relief but women could not serve in what would be the equivalent to combat arms and so while I'm at an Atlas there was a lawsuit after World War II we had we had the combat exclusion law which basically said women couldn't serve on combatant ships or fly aircraft in combat and the Navy to simplify just said we just won't have you serve on any ships but hospital ships and so a group of women sued and said no, not every ship's a combatant ship they're not all warships, some of them are support ships so the Navy changed policy while I was at an Atlas and they opened up salvage ships, support ships so by the time I graduated we were just starting putting women to sea as officers and enlisted but then what it did is it opened up lots of different ratings to enlisted women pretty much had been administrators but now they could be quarter masters and machinists mates then in the 80s we opened up ammunition ships and oilers and we opened up the entire logistics fleet to women so by the time Desert Storm comes around we had about 2,000 women serving on support ships in Desert Storm and for the Air Force the big change was the repeal of the combat exclusion law in 94 well that opened up everything cruisers destroyers so since then we've had more women in command of destroyers and cruisers and other ships than I can count we've had about 4 years ago we had our first woman command a carrier strike group we had our first 3 star fleet commander a few years ago 10th fleet and then Nora Tyson just took over as third fleet and these are women aviators we had a few years ago our first women carrier air group commander fighter pilot she transitioned when the combat exclusion law repealed she transitioned from support aircraft into fighters and she ended up commanding a fighter squadron in the carrier group in combat and for example the head of the CB Corps our senior CB's a 2 star is a woman right now classmate of mine so for us when that law was repealed it just opened up just about everything what we still had closed at the time were submarines and special forces because they're direct ground combat and then we opened up submarines 4 years ago and we've started with women officers and women enlisted will start going to submarines in 2016 so what's left closed in the Navy is seals and so then I'm sure all of you are aware that's the big decision for sector this this coming October so he'll so calm and the other services will make recommendations to him on infantry armored special forces so we'll see where we're going one more question sure yes sir what navy and was the military service your your primary choice yes yes yes the so let me answer two first and then one so I was 12 and I saw this documentary on TV and I was like wow service I want to do that I don't know if it was the leadership and the thought of being in charge or it was the uniforms but I thought it was pretty neat so I go to my older brother he said oh well you can't go service academies are closed women it's the law what I was in shock but it was true it was the law women couldn't go to service academies so I went to my mother and I was I was just done it just didn't seem fair to me and she said well that's that's true but you're young and but years from now if you still want to go and you want to apply we'll go ahead and apply and then if you're denied we'll sue the government just like 72 and then she maybe go look up words like precedence lawsuits you know but she said think about it she also made it a teaching moment she goes there's gonna be things in life that you want to do that the law says you can't do and she says it's it's up to you to go after things where people say no if you believe it to be right and she said if it is right the government the supreme court will eventually agree with you she said but the way things work is it could take a long long time and she said by the time you get to yes you could be too old to go to a service academy and she said but if it's the right thing to do by the time you get to yes that means some other women will get to go because you did the right thing and she said that that is just as important so fight for what's right that's what she taught me the service academy opened up in 76 and I applied when I was my junior in high school and then Y Navy I did research and went to the library and said I knew when I graduated I'd be going into military service whatever women could do in the army they could I could do if I went Marine Corps and whatever women could fly in the Air Force and if that was where I was going to go women could fly the same things in the Navy and I said well this gives me the most options and of course ships weren't open that happened while I was there and then I ended up going into ships so that's a great question to end with thank you but it is a great reminder of all of our obligations as citizens to fight for what we think is right so thank you for spending time with me today everyone here today and all of the organizations here at the DLA headquarters just kind of give appreciation for spending time with us today and your words of wisdom you guys thanks so much thank you very much on behalf of the headquarters complex equal employment opportunity offices I would like to extend the special thanks to Admiral Howard and to each one of you for participating in today's program this concludes our women's equality day observance we invite you to greet Admiral Howard and the Rotunda as you leave the podium and to view the various exhibits highlighting women in the U.S. military we also invite you to enjoy a documentary entitled Aung Sung Heroes The Story of America's Female Patriots which will be shown in the headquarters complex cafeteria today at 1130 ladies and gentlemen this concludes our ceremony please remain in place until the front two rows of senior leaders have exited


The answers we will see, but I think it's interesting to listen. What what is your sense? then treatment Question for either Charles or Peter or both the chair Neither of neither of you mentioned Illegal activity And I'm curious whether you think there's a serious danger that new forms of electronic transfer cryptocurrencies and other items Could be used in a way that would greatly proliferate the extent of Illegal activity and I have in mind of course things like tax evasion and Money laundering, but I also have in mind much more Pernicious activities the most obvious of which I think is malware attacks we had one quite public one in the United States in which a hospital was attacked and It turned out that the there's a ransom of some millions of dollars that was paid Questions, how did the people get away with that when the answer is obvious? They took payment in Bitcoin and that was that so once it becomes widely understood That people can do things like this. Do you see a danger that? the integrity of the tax system could be eroded that Regulations against all sorts things gambling prostitution drug running could become much greater once that becomes easier to hide the profits and even These more outstanding things and malware is one example, but I think there are others The answer is yes Lily yes, I know as part of the purpose of Bitcoin to make sure that no government police force Tax inspector, whatever could get their hands on you I mean that's the whole purpose of the exercise, but there is a wider issue But I thought you also referring to which is if we try and do everything electronically everything It raises our fragility in the face of cyber attack And I having both Electronic payment mechanisms and currency. I think is a protection against Cyber attack having a devastating effect on our economies and if that's true then do you think central banks have a role in Preventing the What you're seeing Yes, it's part of the integrity of the payment system, which is one of the responsibilities. Yeah, the answer is yes other Comments questions quickly If not, I mean we are get a chance at the end, but Lars maybe What is your topic now?


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FNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network, Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here on this Tuesday, the 6th of February. This is the Tiger Financial News Network, 10 a.m. Market Update. We're looking at the Dow up 72, at 38,448, 450. And there was a sharp move down and the big question for me is, we made a peak C in the Chapman Wave Methodology. It's usually at a D that other things can happen. So this C says, there's a chance that somehow or other, we just kind of roam our way to a slightly higher high or we get very close and then we start to turn down a little sharper. It could happen now, but we've been prepared. We've got a little insurance here. We've got the S&P at this particular point. The S&P is down a fraction, down 47 cents, at 49, 42. The 49, 75 high, it was made three days ago, hasn't been challenged yet. And looking at the QQQ, we're trading at, yeah, we got, made, didn't make, well, 42,925 was the high two and a half weeks ago, 430.24 was the high three days ago and today we're going to 430.22. It's down a dollar 25, at 427.23, making some kind of a little double top here. I think IWM is the Russell 2000, finding a little support there, up 72 cents at 192.65. Gold is trying to find a little bit of a support here. It's got, it's up four at 2047, still within the sideways trading band. And then you've got the dollar. The dollar has had a very strong rally. It's pulling back just as unchanged today, 104.48. Nothing technically wrong here, it's looking very good. And it's well above the 200 period of exponential, moving average now, let's go to bonds and the bonds are really important at this stage. Bonds are running 10, 30 seconds. Now, what's very interesting was a very sharp spike to the upside and then a down move. This is exactly where you could see the potential for a balance, but only if at 120.13 seconds, it manages to get to the 123 level sometime this week. Otherwise, it means the yields are going higher. And let's just look at Crude Law as we go to the break. Crude Law is up 53 cents. We'll be right back for the Tiger Technicians Hour. This is Pausel Chapman, see you in a few moments. Check out my opening call daily newsletter. See you.


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I would love them to make a tiger king tiger striped panini card Wouldn't that be cool? so I haven't really studied up on blockchain too much Josh, but to me it just seems like a kind of E-pack kind of thing digital pack kind of car digital type of card so You basically get the digital version of the card, but I do believe you can Request to get these in person, but or physical cards, but to my knowledge, I don't I didn't study up on it So I don't know that but I know with e-pack with upper deck They allow you to physically get the card if you like so there's the redemption right there at the top But again, I don't I didn't study up on it. So I can't really say too much about it But all I know it's virtual digital Virgin of a card. Oh, there isn't no physical ones for flaws. Okay, so not for flaws, I guess Yeah, it was something yeah, it's an electronic which is still good I mean you can still sell it buy it and trade it so So it's still pretty cool no matter what all right. We got a blockchain hollow-fame autographs and go to the H is really quick card number 11 and It's Dan Marino and Card number 11 would be out of 10 There you go. Very nice. There you go. Oh, sorry sports, but yes is case number three Numbers one and two have already been posted colon. How's it going man? All right We got Charles Tillman That is four out of ten didn't become like a private detective or something Charles Tillman did Chicago bear is going to Steve Josh Jacobs six out of 15 for the Raiders Pedro with the Raiders Yeah, right. He became like a FBI agent or something. I remember that that's a crazy transition from an NFL defensive back Isn't that crazy? That's that's that's pretty cool We got Sony Michelle Star swatches one out of 25. I guess you could to detect the defense well enough to apply it to the Detective world All right Patriots going to Charles Tillman are sorry Jeremy Tillman Sorry, and we got five out of ten carry on Johnson for the Lions Ah Detroit going to Matt and we got a one out of three Sacks in a career record Bruce Smith record breakers sacks in a career. So this uh Had Smith spent any more time in the offensive backfield fans may have confused the unblockable defensive end for signal caller or running back The most productive sack man in NFL history with 200 career to be take the QB takedown Smith Thunder to 13 double digit sacks in a total of 19 pro campaigns There you go Bruce Bruce Bruce Bill's going to Robert we got Honored Inc. Frank Tarkington for the Vikings that is last spot mojo Mitch. There you go and that is eight out of ten and the last one here is San Diego Chargers Dan fouts one out of three very nice Okay Let's move on to the briefcase. It's good luck. Let's go with the middle first Von Miller three out of 20 Denver Broncos going to Alex Next one we have a Nike swoosh two out of two Miko Harmon, Jr For the Kansas City Chiefs David with that one There you go little Nike swoosh two out of two very nice And the last one here is a 12 out of 20 Dwayne Haskins very very nice DJ with the Redskins that's a beaut right there very nice All right, there's one briefcase down more to go. Yeah, I was gonna say it's a helmet sticker But it didn't specifically say what where it was from so Looks like a helmet sticker because the other one did say gloves. Oh, it's Haskins. I like saying Haskins It's better cash browns Yeah, that's just something California accent right there You wouldn't understand Joe P You got the Arizona accent. Oh My god, Nick Congratulations, man. That was one of the most exciting cars I've ever seen but at the same time one of the most Heartbreaking cards I had to randomize But it's crazy. All right blockchain rookie gem signatures Card number one. Oh, yeah, you also. Yeah, good. You can look at the second break, too You got the right teams at the right break Kyler Murray rookie gem signatures and that's gonna be out of 10 for the Arizona Cardinals Rebecca Maloney There you go Sure, that's gonna sell well right there But yeah, I think you've been here long enough to Nick to would have known and understood that even no matter How big the hit is we were gonna randomize it. I know it's a tough randomizer, but Tough to tough to randomize but we did we did have to Juju Smith Schuster TJ Y and James Connor And yeah, I just know that it wasn't just me that made the decision. Obviously, that's just what we do here Where there was me Nick Joe anybody breaking Triple swatch for the Steelers going to Michael Goluchy Well, not that some people didn't think so some people did came in and said, oh, this place does it and this place You know does it why not here and then obviously I get the customer That was a part of it Obviously really wanted to not randomize it but again Both parties weren't even present first of all and then at the same time obviously that's something that we don't do right Ray Lewis out of 15 So it's tough. I mean people have their own personal feelings. I guess JJ I think a white side nine out of ten But like I told you before I'm gonna randomize bigger cards more value, right? I remember how to randomize that for Nick K that 97 and 97 caught on me David and I was just heartbroken that he had like nine out of the ten spots and didn't even win that It was ridiculous There you go. Fly goes fly. So yeah, I would have been kind of tough to change that Just for this card. So but whatever, you know, it is what it is Bob Lily 11 out of 15 So yeah, we get people coming in later Joe. We're just gonna have the bands of people You get some people just coming in here cowboys Going to Mitch who actually has a cowboys in this break as well AJ Green 11 out of 20. That's right. We're like beer pong We don't we don't have We don't have the universal rules We ain't got no celebrity shots here So that AJ green that's going to Scott's and D on Sanders for the Falcons four out of five. Oh Yes, Joe, definitely. Yeah, Nick wasn't here. Yeah, Nick wasn't here actually now. He's just tuning in whoa All right falcon Steve Locke.  I love his response All right, we got Four out of seven diamond Dalvin cook Minnesota Vikings last bomb older going to Mitch You got Nick Bosa Eight out of ten Little patch Very nice patch 49ers. That's going to John and we got John Elway Hall of Fame signatures three out of ten for the Broncos Very nice Denver Broncos going to Alex and there you go guys That was the brick So you got ourselves another shield take a photo of that nice Elway a Lot of nice stuff D on Sanders out of five Dwayne Hashkins very very nice stuff Dwayne Hashkins Amiko Harmon a lot of good photos will definitely be taken Appreciate you guys. Just pick your team number four or three. Sorry on Jasper's case breaks calm number four is really close to selling out Let's get it going appreciate it


And this team continues to roll. What do you think has allowed you guys to find your group? Does everybody rely on each other?  You know, guys stringing along, you know, quality of bat if you're quality of bat. And then when you got a pitching staff like we do, it's, it makes our job pretty easy. There are a lot of Yankees fans in attendance here. They're just chanting MVP at you. What does that mean to you? Nothing is made. You know, we've got a lot of work to do. You know, I like that we're in first place and we continue to roll. You know, let's just keep playing our game. We've got a big game tomorrow and let's do the same thing. Four hits tonight, including two home runs. What had you so dialed in at the plate?  I just, you know, trying to get some good at bats, you know, DJ love the game, you know, hit by pitch got on base for me.  I got to drive him in or do something. So I'm just, you know, we've got a good team, you know, just trying to everybody doing their part and things are going to happen. You look at that double there in the first inning. That's a home run in 29 out of the 30 ball parks. After that, are you thinking that that had a chance to go out? Did you know the dimensions would get you here? The new dimension? No, I knew the new dimensions were going to get me off the bat. I'm like, I don't think that's going.  But I just, I learned from my lesson. I decided to go to right center. Hey, you mentioned the pitching staff. What type of an asset has Michael King been out of the bullpen for you guys? Wow, he's special. You know, he can close out a game. You know, he can come in and, you know, be a starter if we need him. He can give us some length if, you know, starter doesn't go. He's impressive. It's been fun watching the past couple of years develop and continue to, you know, craft his pitches, you know, and just be comfortable here at the big league level. Aaron, thanks for the time. Thank you.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can read and print 2D array in Java. If you like this video, you can subscribe my YouTube channel. My channel contains 800 plus videos. Now, I am going to demonstrate you how you can read and print 2D array in Java. First of all, I am going to import a package java.util.scanner. So here, util is a package and scanner is the class which is pre-implemented in util package. Now, I am going to define a class whose name is 2D array. Inside this class, I am going to define main method definition. Inside this main function, I am going to declare a 2D array and then I am going to read values from user and those received values will be displayed on output screen. So this way, you can declare a 2D array. If you want to provide rows and columns, so you can write like this. First subscript is containing row size and second subscript is containing column size. Here, I have decided row and column size. If you want to read this value from user, then it is also possible. For that purpose, you have to declare more variables. This input is instance of scanner class which will read values from user. So now, I am going to read values for number of rows and columns. So the message enter row size and column size will be displayed. So first I am going to read row size and then column size. Now I am going to declare memory for this array like this. So now you can see rows and columns are decided by the user. So previously, I have used 3 and 4 constant values which were provided by me. So if you want to create an array or you can say 2D array dynamically with the help of user's input, you can do this like I have demonstrated you in this video till now. Now we have to receive values for this 2D array from user. So again, system.out.print talent. This message will be displayed and elements on output screen. So now we have to read values from user. Here I am going to implement nested loops. First loop is repeating row times and second loop will be repeating column times. And this way values will be received. So these 4 statements line number 14 to 17, these lines are responsible for reading user's input and that the user's input will be stored inside ARR 2D array. So I hope you have understood how we can receive values for 2D array from user in Java. Now I have to display these entered values on output screen in matrix format. System.out.print talent. I am going to display the message you have entered. So this message will be displayed on output screen. Again, I am going to implement 2 loops, one for rows and one for columns. So this statement system.out.print will display array element and tab will be displayed. So here I have used only print. So print talent always print elements from new line. I want to print elements of one row at single line. That's why I have used print instead of print talent. After completion of this J loop, I want to move the cursor on new line. So for that I am simply using system.out.print talent. So it will shift the cursor from current line to next line. So this way from line number 19 to 26, I have implemented the code which will display 2D array in form of matrix on output screen. So this is the complete implementation. I hope you have understood how we can declare 2D array dynamically with the user's input for rows and columns. Then reading values from user and then printing those entered values on output screen. So now I am going to compile and execute the code. So first of all I am going to compile the code. For that purpose, I have to use Java C command. Here I have to use data type at line number 12. So whenever there is an error in your code, Java prints that error in front of you. You can see here line number 12 and error was available at line number 12 in our code. So this way you can identify the errors and you can remove those errors. After removing the error, you have to save the code and again you have to compile the code. Now it is error free. So we can execute this code. It is asking for row and column size. So I am entering 3 as row size and 3 as column size. So now I have to enter 9 elements. You can see the output. Output is displayed in matrix format. In first row 3 elements, in second row 3 elements, in third row 3 elements. So I have entered the size as 3, 3. 3 rows and 3 columns. So that's why 9 elements are displayed in form of a matrix. I hope you have understood how we can work with 2D array in Java. If you like this video, you can subscribe my YouTube channel. Thank you for watching this video.


I'm very happy to be talking to Mr. Elmir Velizadeh, who is the Deputy Minister for Communication and Information Technology from Azerbaijan. Welcome. We're hearing a lot about this connection between ICTs and development. What's your experience in Azerbaijan? You know, Azerbaijan is well known as an oil country, but now policy in our country is diverse in our economy and they change our oil-oriented economy to the non-oil-oriented economy. You said that you're hoping that ICTs are going to not so much replace, but compete alongside your fuel sector. Is it going to be able to generate that sort of growth? Yeah. We're considered ICT sector as a main driver for the other sectors and in Azerbaijan exist slogan, convert our oil gold to the human gold. You've been working on establishing an IT foundation, a high-tech park, an IT university and you're hoping that through ICTs you can have business innovation. For example, in Azerbaijan established IT fund. This fund will provide support to our startups, our small and medium enterprises and they help foreign investors for the working in our country, but through our country, provide services and goods to the region. And you mentioned about tech in the park. Yes, well I established high-tech tech in Azerbaijan. This is new approach for us when we will collect our local companies in this area and the foreign investors who will produce some maybe goods and services, will provide services. You just put a satellite into space. So why is Azerbaijan going down that route? Are you going to be the sole client or are you hoping to offer it to other clients? Azerbaijan won't play a role of information hub for our region and our projects oriented on the regional needs too.


Have you ever wondered about the cryptic figures of Gog and Magog in the Bible? They're found in the book of Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39. Gog the land of Magog is the chief prince of Meshach and Tubal who prophesies against Israel. Ezekiel 38 verse 2 says, Son of man set your face against Gog of the land of Magog the chief prince of Meshach and Tubal. Ezekiel 39 verse 6 further elaborates, I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. These verses suggest a great conflict. Gog and Magog symbolize worldly powers opposing God's people. The ultimate message? No matter the adversary divine justice prevails.