What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreak.com 2023 pinning, sorry not pinning, hip parade, NBA playoffs edition, jaspy exclusive just sold out. This is a six box case break, random teams number four. And again guys, 30 total spots, they were biggest around team in the NBA, one card per box, high risk, but high reward guys. So we have hit a couple of these, I hit the Trey Young yesterday, I hit the Anthony Edwards when we first got these in last week. And I'm not sure who hit another hit, I moved between, it was between Joe, Chris or Michael, but still should be plenty of these big hits to the author guys, at least one in every case. Here's the dice roll, here's the guys' grenades, Wen Shun down at Dennis, got him straight up, Brian Frank down to Chad, got him from Prism 14 and 15, and there's all the teams there. Dice roll, six and a one, seven times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven times, six, one, seven, seven, Edward Petty down to Alec, there you go. Seven times, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven times, seven, seven, Grizzlies down to the Toronto Raptors, boom. And let's see what you guys matched up with guys, here we go. So Edward, you have the Memphis Grizzlies, Julian with the Knicks, Dennis with the Kings, Pacers and Hawks, Alec with the Nuggets, Canard with the Pistons, Wen Shun with the Wizards, Dennis with the Suns, Wen Shun with the Thunder, Blazers, Mavericks and Warriors, Dylan with the Nets, Alec with the Bucks, Brian with the Pelicans, Eugene with the 76ers in Jazz, Dennis with the Bulls, Eugene with the Celtics, Wen Shun with the Rockets, Dennis with the Hornets, Michael with the Heat, Dennis with the T-Woods, D-Mag, Magic, Brian Frank with the Cows, Chad with the Clippers, Jeremy Porter with the Lakers, Kev with the Spurs, and Alec with the Toronto Raptors. Now if anybody wants to trade, I'll give you guys a quick minute. Hey guys, sorry, I guess don't trade, so stick to what you got, trade when the closed. Alrighty guys, so here is a case, playoff edition, MBA. Got case 10 of 10, just randomly grab that. And let's see what we got in here, guys. Here's everybody there. All right guys, here we go. For the Cavs, how about a little Evan a Mobley patch autograph from Select? That is 51 out of 99, Brian Frank with the Cavs. Whoa, look at that, have to break someone's heart? Dual patch autograph, rookie patch autographs actually. Zion Willington and RJ Barrett, number five out of 10. And Pelicans is Brian Heyman, New York Knicks is Julian, yes. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to break someone's heart. Very nice one here though. Damn. All right, well we'll have to randomize that, guys. All right, six out of 60. We have a Michael Bridges Silver Prism PSA 10 for the Phoenix Zones. Of course he was traded this season for Durant and plus a big package, but has done pretty well with the Nets. But of course this is a Sun and this is Dennis last spot mojo. All right guys, halfway through. Still have three more to go. You have a Limitless, sorry, three out of five on card of Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz Edition, 1920. Very nice, Utah Jazz, that's Eugene. Alrighty folks, two more, 13 out of 60 now. Nice Latires Maxi, 92 out of 99. Rookie autograph from Impeccable, 76ers going to Eugene. Alrighty folks, down to the last box. It is going to be 24 out of 60. Kobe, let's see what we got here. Looks like a grader card. It's a 2020 select Lamello Ball Silver Prism and that is a Horside as well, PSA nine. Which is going to go to the Charlotte Hornets and Dennis. Alrighty folks, and there you go, that was the case. So again, this is a promo break so you guys will be part of the promo but I do have to randomize this card and make someone really, really happy, one person really, really sad. So five out of 10, there'll be Pelicans and Nicks. Team at number one after the randomizer gets that dual autograph patch to 10 but before I end this, let me put you guys into the promo. And I'll be able to cross out this one now too as well. This one here, number four this time. All right, awesome. Let me just make this a little bit smaller techs. Perfect, you guys fit in there perfectly. Awesome. So there you go guys. So we have two promo breaks down, three motor go. Now let's switch scenes here too as well. Let's get a new dice roll, new fresh list and of course it's Pelicans and Nicks. Good luck to the both of you guys and again, Nicks is Julian. Pelicans is Brian Heyman, good luck. Here we go, roll. Five out of five, 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Stays with the Nicks, I feel like for the most part. Five out of five, 10 times Nicks, which is Julian, congratulations man.  I get here, New York, Nicks. Maybe that's where Zion should have been drafted, right? If Pelicans or Nicks would have won that lottery, like this should have. So there you go guys, that was the break. Another one is in the store, JaspysCaseBrakes.com.


Thank you. We'll request everyone to kindly settle down as we are all set for our next session Which is an expert keynote presentation by Owen Meredith Owen is the chief executive of the news media association in the United Kingdom Representing around 900 local regional and national newspaper titles. He has extensive experience working across the UK media sector He will present on the latest developments in the UK regulatory landscape affecting the relationship between news publishers and tech platforms Ladies and gentlemen, we are all set to invite him on stage Can we have a round of applause for Mr. Owen Meredith to present his session? Good afternoon, and thank you so much for inviting me here It's my first time in Delhi and in fact my first time in India for that matter And it's a great pleasure to be here at the DMPA e4m future of digital media conference I'm the chief exec as I was introduced of the news media association in the UK Which is an umbrella body which represents? Let's see if the clicker works for the slide There you go so So it's an umbrella body that represents local regional and national publishers and it brought together two predecessor bodies in 2014 First of those the newspaper society Which represented local press and the second the news publisher association which represented the national press This combination is a powerful force in UK lobbying And benefits from the unique relationship that local papers have with local politicians and that the national press have with central government It's a role. I've been in for about 18 months now So I'm relatively new in post but I joined having served Previously for seven years in a similar organization the PPA which represents at the UK magazine sector and there alongside many other challenges We campaigned hard to remove the AT sales tax from the digital versions of print magazines and newspapers Which had always been zero rated as print editions in the UK? This recognized the significant shift in consumption of news and magazines and it's worth about 250 million pounds a Year to the UK publishing industry so before I speak about some Detail of what is happening in the UK in terms of legislation And address the fundamental challenges for publishers in this space especially into in the relationship with tech platforms I thought it would be first helpful to set the scene a little About the UK market particularly for those of you who may not be as familiar So there are currently around 900 news brands published in the UK that covers across local regional and national titles and together they reach 27 million people every day And 43 sorry 47 million people a month That's about 90% of the UK adult population the UK being far smaller than India That is achieved with a wide range of distribution models across all platforms from print to digital All the aimed at giving the public access to much needed trusted news and information Now among those 900 titles there are a wide variety of ownership structures from largely privately owned companies With multiple titles within the group to publicly listed companies through to put small family owned businesses with just one or two titles in their staple But all of those contribute to a diverse and vibrant and plural media scene in the UK And as the main investors in journalism in the UK news brands have a unique role in driving and shaping the news agenda However, like news media across the world the UK marketplace has been grappling with that shift from print to digital Which is called serious disruption of publishers business models And the ability to properly monetize that huge audience growth that I talked about earlier is extremely challenging And that is in large part because digital markets are not functioning properly or fairly And as I was preparing for this conference, I was thinking about how media habits have changed We all we all no doubt know that but I thought back to Sunday mornings at home growing up as a young boy in South Wales Most most weekends would jump in the car with my dad to drive a mile or two Down the road to the local news agents to pick up the Sunday papers multiple sections covering a whole range of topics and Interests and then coming back to the family table to sit down with tea and toast as my dad mum and brothers fought over different sections My mum finding it always particularly amusing that I would read through the appointment section as an aspirational 12 or 13 year old Thinking how I could craft my best application to apply to the board of Tesco BP or some other listed company Of course, we all know that that has now changed those classified adverts have gone from print in many ways And we wrestle with a very different media landscape We all spend far much for far much more time On our phones with digital media that is highly targeted to our own interests Or at least the interest that Google and Facebook think we have and that adds up to a very different battle for attention So no more so than for news publishers who by their nature must cover a vast range of topics And these challenges have been exacerbated over the past two or three years by the COVID pandemic Which other speakers have spoken to but that's really added pressure and strain to existing business models And we heard from Paul Fletcher earlier how that was particularly heartfelt in the Australian Publishing landscape, but we face very similar challenges in the UK both in terms of distribution and a fundamental collapse in advertising revenues Which have essentially become entrenched even as the economy more widely has recovered and that is especially true in the local news media market but There are reasons to be very positive and just yesterday in the UK. We published jikred which is our Audience measurement data showing that audiences continue to flock to local news publishers as a trusted source of news and Information in their local area and that growth is almost entirely online So just looking back to 2017 local news was read by about 22 percent of the population online today that figure it seeds 70 percent and according to a survey by one poll Published last week as well 81 percent of people agree that they trust the news They read in their local newspaper and on their websites and that's a rise of seven percent since 2018 and I think in a world of myths and disinformation online trust in your local paper is a really important and powerful tool that we have So things are going in the right direction and I think that and that trust Is reflected across all age groups and demographics as well Now publishers have responded to the challenging or changing audience habits and news Consumptions with a variety of strategies Such as online subscription models and we've seen strong success On that front from the likes of the times the FT in the telegraph Scaling of mass audience which mail online and the Guardian have done well and building that into international audiences as well and Membership models which have worked particularly well for some local and bespoke titles as well as the Guardian who have successfully built a Revenue bottle based on donations despite having no paywall and content freely being available to all users So there are also innovations such as axate Which aims to monetize content for smaller publishers on the basis of micro payments for individual articles via a digital wallet And we're also seeing as others have just touched on in this panel investment in audio in video newsletters and AI Which I think will all start to bear fruit as part of a blended revenue model as the years go ahead And recently several UK publishers have expanded their overseas operations particularly in the US With investment in newsrooms abroad and I think there's a real appetite for a UK perspective on some global news issues But whilst there is plenty to be positive about and I think we all should be positive I would like to just touch on some of the issues Raised in the Reuters Institute for the study of journalism report last month which highlighted that publishers are Anticipating an extremely difficult year ahead With pressures impacting on all areas of publishers businesses not least with double or triple digit inflation rises In newsprint costs and inflation pushing wages and other costs higher across the board So welcome to it was equally consumers are cutting back on discretion re-spend so that does add up to a real risk for title closures and Almost uniquely in the UK. We have to grapple with aggressive expansion by the BBC as a taxpayer funded Media institution which now dominates online news and is the number one news destination in the UK by some margin They draw eyeballs and ad revenue away from commercial publishers The BBC website in the UK does not carry any advertising and therefore loads much faster And provides a better UX which of course then translates into better search results and search ranking And the BBC has recently announced plans to expand its local news offering even more Which has caused widespread concern among UK publishers and simply just wouldn't be accepted if they were trying to do the Same in the print market, but for some reason while the government gets the fact that readers are moving online It has failed to understand the parallels in this market So I stress the point that the challenge is facing the industry I'm not a problem with audience the demand for journalism has never been greater But it is a problem with monetization largely caused by the stranglehold of the tech platforms So just to demonstrate this the challenge this slide shows The advertising revenue has shifted in the UK market over the last 10 years with a rapid and sustained growth of digital pure play advertising rising Year-on-year as you can see with a sharp rise post pandemic and that's largely going to two or three US tech companies Well, the size of the advertising market for news brands that bottom line has nearly halved in the same period So that is the reality that we're facing into and the challenge that we need to tackle So just before I move on to how I think we're going to tackle it in the UK from a legislative point of view I wanted to briefly share Some highlights here of why audiences are coming to trusted news media sites And they're turning to professional news publishers in times of crisis in particular and we've seen huge audience growth through the pandemic years and that has stuck people who came to us during the pandemic and They're sticking with us and in clearly in the UK We've had a very busy news cycle over the last 12 months not to not least with three prime ministers In a single year and the death of Her Majesty the Queen as well as the ongoing cost of living crisis And while we hear a lot about news fatigue and people actively avoiding news It is simply not reflected in the numbers People turn to us not only for news But as a trusted source of information to and 62 percent of the public believe that journalists play an important role Covering stories such as the cost of living crisis and that's Reflection of both the human side behind the inflation figures and economic numbers Which we hear in the news headlines daily But also as a trusted source of information in their local area Ranging from the cheapest liter of petrol or pint of milk to information on how public sector strikes are affecting train Tiber at tables or access to health care And on the big issues of the day such as climate change eight out ten people believe Established media is driving awareness, which is well ahead of government and social media in the same studies So despite what we sometimes read independent News media is trusted and it's valued by the public like never before and is helping people navigate an increasingly complicated and noisy world especially online So the question which I guess is very much to the heart of this conference is how do we sustain quality journalism for the long term and Maintain that investment in community reporting in investigative journalism and Holding powerful to account in the way that only news media does that is so vital for society and democracy So as I've touched on we've seen audience Audiences move online to access news and even here We've seen a shift in recent years with rapid growth of mobile in the latest audience data Which was published last week. There is an increasing number of people accessing news brands on their phones and tablets Publishers mobile content now reaches 20 million people every day That's 94% of the entire daily reach So nearly everyone who is accessing news is doing so via mobile at least in part and Younger digital native audiences also rely on news brands for trusted information in a crowded attention marketplace with 14 million readers age 15 to 34 across Princeton online news publishers reached 6 million more readers Six million more people than snapchat and five million more than tiktok But the money simply isn't there to sustain this position And as you can see from this slide, there's been such a shift of advertising revenues as one metric of change So 88% of news publishers advertising revenue was derived from print in 2013 Last year that had dropped to 53% and this year We may see digital revenues overtake print advertising for the first time so publishers are competing in the online space We are building digital models that work and that offer Advertises the key audience that they're looking to buy but growth in digital revenues is nowhere near the growth in digital Audiences and falls well short of offsetting the decline in print revenues and the reason we're simply not able to trade on fair terms And with the shift to mobile consumption that entrenched power particularly held by Google and Apple will continue to be there unless something is done So what are we doing To balance to rebalance the system and ensure The online ecosystem can be a viable place for publishers back in 2018 five years ago now the UK government commissioned Dame Francis Ken cross an independent academic to undertake a review into the sustainability of high-quality journalism And the purpose of that review is to examine and make recommendations in four key areas The overall state of the news market the financial stability of the news market the impact of search and social media and the role of digital advertising the Ken cross review concluded and Was published in February 2019 and laid bare the gross imbalance of power between publishers and tech platforms Again, I was struck with the similarities in Paul Fletcher's remarks earlier And I think the problem is clearly globally echoed and well documented And you know these publishers these platforms have a duty to act to ensure the sustainability of a diverse and plural media And they should also see this that's something that is in their commercial interest as it's our publishers content that is driving engagement on those platforms So Ken cross was followed by the Furman review in 2019 that took a wider look at competition in the UK digital market We subsequently had the CMAs digital advertising study which demonstrated the The excess profits that Google and Facebook were earning in the UK ad market and there's been further studies pointing out the consumer harm of the this exploitation and dominant market position And I think that consumer harm point is key as it's been a fundamental basis of discussion with government and that allowed us to move these arguments along So multiple reviews have taken place over many years and all of them have reached the same conclusion that we needed a new regulator in The UK to fix a broken digital marketplace the current system of competition law is simply inadequate ineffective and outdated and Highly-connected rapidly moving digital marketplace and therefore the digital markets unit was born So the DMU as it's known is housed within the UK competition authority It was set up in shadow format in 2021 it has around 40 employees today, but it doesn't yet have the statutory powers it needs to operate So in the NMA we've led the charge lobbying government to bring forward this legislation as a matter of urgency And I'm pleased to say after much delay We expect the bill to be published by the government next week Sorry next month not next week too optimistic So with statutory powers the DMU should be able to tackle the serious problems created by the tech giant stranglehold in the digital advertising and wider ecosystem and this will be achieved by Enforceable codes of conduct governing the relationship between online platforms and the businesses who rely on them, especially news publishers The first task the DMU will have once that legislation is passed is determine determining which platforms have so-called strategic market status and Designate them as such in order to do this. They have to address three questions. The first is this is whether The platform has substantial market power, which is effectively whether there is any Whether there's a lack of alternative providers of that service and whether there's any lack of real threat of competition The second is whether that market power is entrenched meaning the power is expected to persist over time And the third is whether those the combination of those two and qualifying under the first two criteria Gives them a strategic position that in other words a position that affects its market power in the likely to be particularly widespread or significant To assist in that decision-making the DMU will take account of the firm's size and scale In a specific activity and whether the firm is an important access point for consumers There'll also be a minimum revenue threshold which has yet to be set and will be set in legislation So that smaller startups or others in new areas will be out of scope Even if they have the potential to become dominant until they have reached such scale Now while we're not yet certain There will no doubt be plenty of wrangling over this as there always is when these companies are concerned But we expect Google Facebook and Apple to easily meet those criteria and be quickly designated And potentially others like YouTube and Spotify who will meet those tests quickly follow And once it's only once a platform has been designated Unlike the Australian model that the this regime will kick in and The the DMU will be given the discretion to decide where in which areas it wishes to act first It won't be directed by Parliament to do so We believe that the relationship between publishers and platforms will be one of their first priorities not least because of part of the consultation process They've specifically looked at that relationship and in their advice to government the two regulators said this would provide one of the examples Of how a proposed new regime curbing the power of tech platforms could work in practice So as part of the DMU regime we expect legislation To confirm that platforms will be instructed to negotiate for payment for content with news publishers And I think there are lessons we can learn as we've heard Different points today around the world where this is happening when working and where it's not And I am most keen to ensure that a bargaining code allows for smaller independent publishers to get a fair deal We do not want a system as some have suggested which determines a pot of money The platforms owe us then leaves the industry to fight it out over who gets what share of that pie It is not for the state either in legislation or through regulators to discerning price or commercial terms So the way the regime is envisaged to work is not rigid legislation But codes of conduct which the regulator would set out would be specific to individual platforms Unlike the EU model which is more broad and it would mean those big tech firms that have Designated status will be subject to a code and would have to agree fair reasonable terms for news publishers content And it's not solely about money It's intended to be a broader regime which can addresses concerns on transparency of algorithms Gives publishers appropriate control over the presentation and branding of their content on platforms Improves practices around sharing of data between platforms And redresses the imbalance of bargaining power So under the UK proposals the code would consist of a set of legally binding obligations on the tech firms And There will be a backstop power to impose Final binding final offer arbitration. So I say again, this is not about special pleading for publishers It's about creating a level playing field for both parties publishers and platforms with information to facilitate fair commercial negotiations So I'm nearly coming to the end. I'm I think I'm on time but So putting the problem into context the NMA commissions a study by leading academic from Cambridge University published last May That found that the British publishers content generated approximately a billion pounds in UK revenues for Google and Facebook a Number that dwarfs by miles their contribution Back to the industry this work drew on previous studies including colleagues in the US as well as new analysis to look at the Main ways in which Publishes content including the data behind it Contribute to the revenues specifically of Google and Facebook This is not designed to be a figure that suggests that those two platforms OS a billion pounds But it's simply a matter of Defining what the value of news content is to platforms and in order to start commercial negotiations The study itself highlights the lack of transparency and data available to publishers on how their content is used Displayed and engaged with on these platforms and in part that is why a new regime goes beyond payment for content Or a bargaining power and sets rules for greater transparency We believe that the new regime in the UK will provide the tools to drive fair negotiations between news publishers And the platforms on which they depend by enforcing greater fairness transparency In the relationship upfront clarity on what is acceptable will help guide platforms and preempts or allow swift action to address practices that cause harm So before I close I Just wanted to reflect that I don't believe this new competition regime is a silver bullet to fix all the challenges We face as a news media industry. This is an essential part of the toolkit Yes, and as I said it open publishes embracing new ways of working to drive new revenues Those will take time to pay off But the future will likely require mixed revenue models that draw on multiple revenue sources to fund investment in quality journalism Publishes serving audiences in different ways with news information and entertainment combined So in closing I just want to come back to this slide once again, which I showed earlier I think the business model of news has to change as audience needs and behaviors have changed We are reaching more people than ever before But we are reaching them in new ways That is a good thing but to continue investing in quality trusted journalism the rules of the game need to change And I hope that is what we can achieve. Thank you Thank you very much Owen our request you to stay with us for just a bit more I believe there's a question for you and the question comes from Ruhay El Amin who's a senior editor of Exchange for Media Group. Yes Ruhay. Hi a wonderful session, you know a lot of important points made one You know, there's a resonance in the room that the model that UK Australia has shown How much can that be replicated in a complex market like India? What's your thought on that? I think I Think it's not necessarily a question of replicating it and certainly we in the UK are looking at the Australian model as part of a Solution but we think that there are things that we want to do differently not least that the codes would apply and you would Designated whereas from Paul's presentation earlier. I think Australia hasn't actually designated anybody yet So I think there there are lessons to be learned and I wouldn't prevent to be an expert on the Indian market at all But I think what is hopefully helpful is as different territories and different Regimes around the world managed to put in place mechanisms that can support publishers and you know particularly now we've got enough time Seeing the Australian system roll out and how effective it has been it's about learning lessons and applying those in different markets Reflecting local factors. So I don't think it's a sort of copy and paste exercise I think there will be different solutions depending on the market But hopefully by getting this right in certain places there can be lessons learned Thank you very much. I hope that answers your question and while you get your question answer Can I please also request you here on stage to present a moment here to Owen and ladies and gentlemen? Let's have a round of applause. Thank you very much one for your presentation and for taking us through an in-depth Knowledge about the subject that was discussed here or the topic that was discussed here Ladies and gentlemen be kind with your applause, please come on everyone That's Owen Meredith right here for us Thank you once again


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So at the risk of repeating myself a little, okay?  They're on TV and radio telling the same story every day. Hey, everybody, welcome back. You might have noticed that lately I haven't had as many videos as I usually would. And this is not because I'm quitting or has some had suggested I'm just lazy, but it's actually because I'm getting ready to move and we've been really busy just trying to get this household. So moving on, I've been watching Brian Stelter lately trying to rationalize some sort of a case for using government to shut down his political and business opposition. This, while the party in power, his party continues to fail on every level while hacks like Tater distract from it. Currently, he's trying to convince his dwindling airport lobby viewership that his business and ideological competitors are pure evil. While CNN is just trustworthy news. And it's really maddening because literally everything that he says is wrong with right wing media is what he and the rest of the DNC media actively take part in. Whenever anyone asks me about trust in media, I try to ask, what do they mean by media? Because everyone is a member of the media now. The media includes the New York Times and also a no name blogger. So let me propose to you a different way to think about trust in media. Reporters versus repeaters. This brand new research by Gallup says American trust in the mass media is at its lowest point since 2016 and near a record low overall. All right, so he's being deceitful right off the bat here by claiming that trust in media is at its lowest point ever since 2016. And he picked 2016 to imply that this all started because of Trump. When in fact, Trump was actually elected due in large part to this distrust in media that had been growing for the last 20 years. As the media became more and more blatantly Democrat party propaganda. Almost everyone trusts some form of media. Everyone trusts something. It's just that many people trust CNN and many others trust Fox, even though we're not really two sides of the same coin. So it's obvious that when pollsters ask about the media as a whole, the results are abysmal. And that is a large part due to Republican sentiment that you see on your screen here. So you see these lines diverge over time. The blue line much, much higher than the red line. Only a few seconds after misleadingly claiming that trust in media began dropping because of Trump, he's lying again. Notice that there aren't two lines on that graph, Democrats and Republicans. There's three lines that include independence. And you'll notice that their trust is only slightly higher than Republicans. Only Democrats seem to trust in the media and this shouldn't surprise anyone because as I repeat endlessly, it's Democrat party state media. Democrats have been in power for almost a year and yet Brian Stelter is pushing this huckster snake oil in an attempt to convince whoever will listen that it's only those inhuman right wing domestic terrorists that don't trust the media. The implication here being that if you don't trust media it's because you're a fanatic. But the chasm, the canyon between Democrats and Republicans is critical to understand. Democrats say they generally trust main line news sources. Republicans say they do not. The space between them is grand canyon sized. And as Matt Gertz of the liberal media matters noted, the thing about that partisan skew is that it means that negative press coverage is much more damaging to Democrats whose voters will believe it and less damaging to Republicans whose voters generally won't believe it. It's an interesting point. And he presents exactly zero evidence to back up any of these claims. And without a hint of irony, he cites the far left media matters which is an organization that was started in part by Hillary Clinton and is solely focused on attacking critics of Democrats and their media. As if there were any negative coverage of Democrats in the first place on CNN. Where is it? A bigger point I think is about what the press is. What's the nutritional value of the content? Is it produced by reporters or by repeaters? So at the risk of repeating myself a little bit, okay?  They're on TV and radio telling the same story every day. Congratulations, you played yourself. Isn't this exactly what Brian Stelter does for CNN? Isn't this exactly what he's doing right now? You walk out of the street, you're part of the community, you're part of this country, you're part of the global community and you're contributing to killing people. That's unconscionable. There is no forgiveness. There is no forgiveness for these people.  Telling us that the other side is bad and repeating the same attacks on Fox News and the right every single day. Yes, yes it is. But these people have some sort of programmed mental defense that keeps them from having a shred of self-awareness and the deeply rooted belief that things are somehow different when they do it because reasons. All right folks, that's all a tater I can take for one day. If you enjoyed it, please hit that like button and subscribe. You might also let me know what you think in the comment section. Thank you.


Start yeah Hi, everyone Thanks for showing up Even though it's the last day of summit and probably what's the last or pre-last session that you're catching. So we appreciate you taking time with us My name is Mitry Novakovsky. I'm a solutions architect at Mirantis EMEA So here with me today my colleague Evgenia Schumacher who is our partner integrations lead and and my ex colleague Maxim Datskovsky who is Solutions engineer from HP Japan What we will do today is we will do a sort of a follow-up session to the one which me and Evgenia did in Paris last year so We'll talk about three things Thing number one is we will describe what is the the overall idea of multi hypervisor open stacks So when it might be useful how it looks why people are trying to do it while people why people are actually doing it Then I will hand over to Evgenia and what Evgenia will do is she will show you the reference architecture of Multi hypervisor opens that installation which we have been promoting and using with Mirantis product called Mirantis opens deck And also we will cover some aspects which we discussed In Paris when there are certain limitations on what you can do with multi hypervisor hypervisor open stack and what Constraints you had what technologies you had to use inside Your environment to make it work and eventually we will show you the beautiful pre-recorded demo. Yes, it's open stack summit It's so I prefer to pre-record things sometimes like you cannot get to your environment or whatever So we have it pre-recorded and max maximum will provide the commentary to it Yes, I did the introduction so already so before we actually begin. I want to ask a couple of questions So first, can you please raise your hand if you've seen our talk in Paris six months ago? Yeah, hi Second can you please raise your hand if you have something else than KVM in your environment such as this fear such as Oracle VM Wow. Yeah, that's nice and Can you please raise your hand if you tried into integrated with open stack or you want to integrate it with open stack? Wow, amazing our marketing did a good job because in Paris it was like we don't care So Multi hypervisor open stack what and why So what the idea is I guess pretty obvious to anyone who is who has been using open stack for some amount of time Right. We have the component called Nova. We have the component called Cinder We have the component called Neutron who are managing obviously computer resources storage resources and networking resources The idea of doing the multi hypervisor opens stack is to manage more than one type of hypervisors underneath single Nova installation and obviously providing some facilities to tenants to distinguish which Hypervisor type they want to schedule the virtual machine to The use cases, I mean There are tons of them But the the ones which I've seen talking to customers over last year about this and like the motivations why people are trying to do it So first of all first of all is the one which again are marketing powerfully enabled Called enabling developers, right? So many people today want to strike start trying open stack They want AWS like experience in-house despite of running VMware without VCAC or vCloud and they want their developers to be able to at least for test environment to leverage Programmatic interfaces for building the infrastructure for the applications that developers develop So in such case the idea of running open stack on top of VMware It actually makes sense because if you have the existing VMware infrastructure You can get open stack API is running there and start and abstracted completely Behind open stack from from the developers in your company That's actually the story which VMware is heavily promoting this This VIO product because the overall idea there is that you get open stack API on top of Existing VMware infrastructure, and you can start doing these DevOps agile kind of things Second idea is to avoid vendor locking. So this is a typical scenario specifically for multi hypervisor deployments and the idea here is that When you run Your compute or even your storage infrastructure from single vendor This means that at some point you might find yourself in a situation when scale and further Using this vendors pricing becomes steep to you. So like vendor a may tell you okay Now you have to pay me twice this year. We all know who that vendor was Doing this couple of times And the idea of multi hypervisor open stack enables users enables companies to Be in control of what infrastructure you will use underneath open stack API and saying that mr. Vendor a I'm happy that you want to make more money on me, but I mean my developers are using open stack API My portal is integrated via open stack. So if I want to scale further without you I will just add KVM knows on commodity hardware and it will just work and nobody will notice the difference of course, they will pass it's the further discussion and Doing the heterogeneous infrastructure in such way enables company or infrastructure owner to be in control of What decisions will be made in what infrastructure will procure and and expose behind open stack API's and the third use case which I also see quite frequently people talking about and deploying multi hypervisor open stack for is To support particular application needs because there are still applications, which we in Paris We called them classic. We didn't want to call them Enterprise or legacy or whatever we were calling them classic and the idea was that these are the applications Which are not very I will actually speak about them a little bit later, but these are the applications which are What we call non-cloud workloads, but we also can call them traditional workloads So the picture here, I mean you can download slides later It basically summarizes the idea of what is the traditional workload? What is the cloud workload and the point which I like here the most? Check one two. It was my The point which I like here the most is the SLA so the SLA of application Which is cloud ready does not depend on the availability of particular VM The apply the SLA of application which is traditional or legacy quite often depends on particular VM being not dead being running being responsible Making making sure it's job is working. So that's I mean that's like an Indicator of whether you can easily lose a VM or not. So typical web application Three-tier rights or front-end back-end worker using message queue and the data Replicated database layer in the on the back. It's a cloud radio workload the application Which expects infrastructure to be able to keep it up and running or restart it very fast if the if the VM died This is not cloud radio application So what we were what's doing multi hypervisor opens tech cloud? Enables us here is it gives us the ability to use features from VMware such as ha such as full tolerance and Apply these patterns actually to the workloads which are running on open stack. So you create a virtual machine using opens tech API or opens tech UI horizon and with a number of tricks Which we will show later you can place it on the vSphere cluster, which is ha enabled and in such situation if it happens if one ha cluster dies F1 Is excited out in ha cluster dies the virtual machine will be restored using the tools which VMware have beautifully developed over last 15 years to keep the workloads alive So this is kind of one of the ways to put this is one of the ways to bring your traditional legacy workloads to open stack faster Just connect open stack to an infrastructure, which will be able to support VM SLA unlike standard KVM deployment in case any one of you is interested in Kind of getting a good summary of cloud radio applications versus non-cloud radio applications and what are the design patterns for them? I highly recommend this book cloud architecture patterns by Bill Wilder I Was actually submitting the proper speaking proposal for summit, but nobody wanted to see it So you'll have to read it by your own Otherwise I would give you 40 minutes summary So yeah, I highly recommend this one if you want to be able to clearly contrast and compare how to Consult your customer or your user how to develop for application in a cloud radio manner so the possible conflicts the typical configurations which we see in the discussion of hypervisors open stack are four ones and I mean sir Samuel is not very happy about the amount of Docker speech In this summit and in these keynotes So I will start from the end we can combine KVM and containers in the same open-stack cloud But we will not be talking about it here Because you all probably have already seen your Docker talks in this summit there there have been just too many of them So typical typical use case here is KVM plus vSphere. That's the one which will focus typical configuration That's the one which will focus for the rest of this presentation Because vSphere as I was saying it enables many HA features it enables many things which enterprise applications needs and Thanks to the effort which VMware has been doing over the last two years They have pretty decent drivers and pretty consistent configurations in upstream so that vendors like Mirantis like canonical like redhead can easily leverage this KVM plus then over the last year and a half in Mirantis I've seen the one customer who we've been discussing this with they had Zen workload. They had work load optimized for them They were actually leveraging PCI pass through using Zen hypervisors So they were passing course from Nvidia K2 directly into VM quite cool stuff. It's really rendering inside the VM So we were discussing the configuration with them of doing KVM plus then we ended up doing two separate clouds because then Had been was tricky and tricky at that point to be combined with neutron So we had to do separate cloud with Newton plus KVM and separate cloud with Zen plus normal network and third use case which we often also sometimes see in the field is Combining KVM plus Oracle VM as an activation here is quite simple Oracle VM as a hypervisor is a solution for you to get a certified virtualized environment for Oracle applications, right? So if you're running an open stack cloud if you're transitioning your organization into using open stack as a main cloud management platform If you have Oracle applications many of them I mean perfectly are perfectly capable to run in virtualized environment and Oracle even promoting it using Oracle VM If you want to preserve the certified state and make sure that when you call Oracle for support They will not be unhappy that you are running something on KVM or even on vSphere Here is the option you can combine Oracle VM and KVM on The same open-stack cloud and have the separate like availability zone based on Oracle VMs only So yeah, and no containers this time. Sorry folks With this I would like to hand over to Eugenia Do explain the typical reference architecture of Open-stack plus VR based installations that we've been doing and supporting in our product over last year and a half Thank you, Dmitry. Can you hear me guys good? Yeah, as Dmitry mentioned We are going to focus mostly on VMware Plus KVM multi hypervisor environments running with open-stack running on top of them and the reason is pretty simple most of the Enterprise customers who actually decide to start the adoption of open-stack. They are big VMware shops So what they want to do is a first step is kind of get Stay with their VMware Environment and just to deploy open-stack on top of it and manage everything through open-stack APIs and then start adding KVM Resources there. So let's take a look at this nice picture that actually was stolen from one of VMware presentations and just kind of To just take a look and and see what VMware did for open-stack which drivers and plugins were written What and how we can use so first of all I start with Nova. We have a V center sender driver as you know guys they used to be your success driver now It's only the center. So the way it works the Nova compute for vCenter is simply a Proxy service that translates open-stack API calls into vCenter API's calls and it gets connected not to a particularly success but to vCenter cluster so you can get all the things that vCenter gives to you like all the HA and all that stuff, right? So for cinder and glance there is a VMDK driver So you if you want to use the center you have no other options You have to use VMDK driver just to be able to have all those benefits from from from vCenter in its functionality and the most interesting part. I guess it's Networking so here you see at this picture you see neutron with NSX driver though It's like NSX plug-in you guys probably saw a presentation that Marcos did on Monday about new NSX plug-in that Vmware team released so now The picture will look a bit different, but still there is a plug-in that Works well with all other stack of VMWare solutions. So that's the kind of the whole story around Open-stack or VMWare products in Open-stack Right and let's get moved to the way Multi-hyper-wise environment usually looks like that's a very like high-level picture of like what we usually What our customers usually ask for it what usually we suggest them So we can say that there are there are two availability zones in one. We have VMWare computer sources in another one we have KVM computer sources So a user can decide in in which Availability zone he wants to provision the VM Depending on a particular use case it can be like if you to climb more like production type of workload definitely he will go to To vCenter if it's something more like depth testing so it might go to KVM and as Dmitri already mentioned it all depends on the types of application you you're going to run on your VM so that's the very like high-level picture you guys see and What user gets VMWare is it for for Virtual machines running on vCenter. It's VMWare ZHA DRS we motion and in case a Customer is using an NSX and you have an a sex in your In your company, which is pretty pricey so guys I assume you are very wealthy. So if you have it Well, so if you have it you can use all all the benefits of commercial SDN solution, right? and Where's the catch So I guess I can start and Dmitri you can kind of interrupt many times you want okay good so as you Might seem at this on this picture. You don't see any like any networking things. It's only about like how the compute resources organized, right and All the catch is always in networking so If we do a sort of like retrospective I take a look at what we were discussing during our talk in Paris we said that the only like viable option that we had at that moment that we could use in Environments with vCenter and KVM running there was NSX and In particular NSX MH, which is multi hypervisor version of NSX and you probably know there is an NSX V Which is a specific version of NSX for vCenter only So that was the only option with all like enterprise level features that commercial SDN provides and the plug-in written for OpenStack and Supporting all the all those features So it's still working like that and but not everyone wants to invest a lot into very pricey very pricey solution and We are all like OpenStackers So what we want we want a sort of like open source Option because we want this type of freedom that we can decide if you want to pay or you don't want to pay so This whole slide is based on our own like experience in Marantia. So the next the next line is contrail So why contrail because there are two versions of contrail, you know guys it's open open contrail open source version of it and Juniper version of contrail which is has commercial support. So right now It's kind of it's not very easy to To have the same level of functionality that NSX provides this contrail So contrail yet support CSSI only not vCenter So it's without vCenter functionality won't be able to get the HA and all these like enterprise Features that people like when they use VMware So contrail is not there yet, unfortunately But we assume that like in a couple of like months or maybe like half a year We will see a lot of nine months Yeah, we will see a lot of traction because there is open source community there and people are really interested and Nova Network well, it's a it's always an option. You always can use instead of neutral Nova Network and that's what we actually do in For our customers now because we used to do that and we have this option even like now a distra I don't want to promote me right this open stack But yes when it comes to multi hypervisor support Nova Network is the kind of one of the most viable Options that you have it works, but it has its own limitations. It's not neutron so we can't give to people what they need and The other thing that a lot of people Have been asking about and I know like Gabrielle for example like back in in October We had a really interesting conversation in Budapest about like hey, what's about DVS? Is it working? Is there something and actually, I guess that what one of the hottest topics because having a Driver or a plug in I would say like I'm also driver in in neutron for distributed virtual switch which the center uses is a kind of Thing that everybody is looking for because that if you have it you can use Open v-switch for KVM resources and you can use distributed v-switch for v-center So what's the state of art now? Actually, there is a number of different DVS drivers available and surprisingly like You can you can just count and see the like one two three like seven of them with different types of different levels of implementation unfortunately The blueprint that was created long back like a long time ago in you in In neutral project it it seems like abandoned because nobody wants to own it a lot of people trying to contribute But it we always get stuck There are three types of implementation with their own limitation existing and most of them All of the code is available in github so you guys can go ahead and check it We actually played with one of the implementation it worked with some limitations, of course VMware team provides a DVS driver actually is a part of the NSX plugin. I guess now it's all on Stackforge and Just in case folks if you get the slides later then what what is Underlined it's actually links to to github on party of particular driver so you can go ahead and use any of these Play with it if you're interested use ours yeah, and Well, maybe it's not a very like community way of doing things, but Vietnamese realized that we need to kind of Move things to in order to move things forward. We need to implement in another version of DVS I'm also driver for This enter so we actually implemented one and we put it on Stackforge as well So and the way we think we we are going to use it and Later today like Maxim will show you the demo with this driver installed and configured and also The other the last but not least HP Helion obvious the app Option I will let Maxim comment it on that so if you guys are interested you can Come later like after the after the talk and Maxim will Answer answer to your questions. So all these options like are available They are not a part of like neutron, but they are on on Stackforge. It means that they are streamed So go ahead feel free to use them So the key here is that you don't get any of these other than the view or driver out of the box So if you install view you get the configuration the option to configure your driver out of the box If you install mirages open stack today, we have we don't yet ship the driver out of the box But we will in next couple of months But if you want to use it today, it's on Stackforge and it's tested against Mirages open stack So with Mirages open stack you can already get it and get it working just in semi-automated way thank you and I guess My part is done. So I will pass the ball to Maxim to show you To Dmitry. Oh, sorry. Dmitry starts. Okay, so you guys gonna figure it out. So anyway, like I guess If you have any questions about my part, I'll be happy to answer after the we are done. Thanks Yeah, we'll have some Q&A time in the end. So what are we going to do today on the demo on the screen right now? You see the environment which we have built and recorded demo on So basically, it's a couple of hypervisors here. I have to technically there will be three so Maxim will explain it We have to be central clusters. We have one isolated say KVM node all connected to the same switching ESXi nodes run DVS on them KVM node runs OVS on them We have Mirages open stack 6.1 development release running on top We have the configured we have configured two drivers underneath ML 2 plugin for Newton So we have configured DVS one from Mirantis. We can configure OVS one from community We also have put HAProxy load balancer in front of them using Standard standard open stack load balancer as a service. We have put both We have created two VMs every run each of them running on different hypervisors We can put them in the load balancing pool. So Maxim will show it slightly later The demo scenario will be like this. We will create two VMs. Actually, they are already created So we will not be going through them and both VMs will sit in different availability zones But in the same subnet so one VM will go to be a variable ability zone One VM will go to KVM availability zone, but they will share the same subnet. So they will be it's like they will share a VLAM We will show that both VMs each other so they can ping each other we will show that VMs are the members of the same load balancer load balancing pool and what we did we have configured both VMs to run HTTP and expose a single simple web page Which is showing it's like the host name of the VM So what we will do is we will run a script which will pull on the load balancer web And you will see that at the same time both VMs are responding and acting as a members of the same load balancing pool Yeah, I was told that non talks on not any talks on summits are not good talks unless you show some config files So here is the config file of my ML 2 plugin on Neutron. The only interesting part here is The only interesting part here is The line mechanism drivers which have to which has two drivers enabled VMware DBS and open the switch and the section ML 2 VMware where you can see that my DBS driver will be talking to the center Using standards approach with host name and API and so on. Yeah, by the way The limitation which we have today on the DBS driver and which you need to be aware of if you are going to start Experimenting with it is that we haven't yet implemented support for security groups. There are different approaches how this can be done Given how it works in VMware by default. We are thinking we're evaluating different ones We don't want to put a VM and hairpin traffic through a VM which will be running on a ESXi cluster and kind of enforcing standard IP table based rules So we are looking for a solution to do security groups So right now if you will be installing this driver security groups will work on OBS on KVM nodes They will not work on DBS on ESXi nodes. So just track the development. We will do we will get this done in the next couple of months So with this I've shown in the content. I'm going to run The video Which maximum will provide commentarity and nobody sees the video yet, right? No, everyone sees the video very good So go ahead Okay, we have two costs. We have two different type of hyperlases here We have two nodes here and another one is the KVM with one node. Let's check what instances we have here so first one is VMware instance running on availability zone for the center and another instance running on KVM In no availability zone. They have Same subnet shared between them and 14 IPs to reach them. So let's again to KVM instance and we will check We can ping from KVM instance our VMware instance. It's okay and Let's check about deep details Uh, we're running this route to check that we don't touch ESXi agent or any router between them So they're truly on the same subnet also, we created what burns as service and we put Our nodes here what burns using HA proxy with HTTP and route robin Algorithms, okay. Let's get IP address of our load balancer Oh, yeah, let's check that we have our little machines here inside load balancer pool Okay, we've got our IP address and Let's go again to external virtual machine to check that we can reach our load balancer Okay, we can get connectivity to them Then we can run scripts to check Or about board balancer Okay, so we have response from our two back ends one from KVM and another from Viva and your run-tropping algorithm They response one each after one. Okay. Me too. Just to make sure everyone understands what happens here Each response is from different virtual machine So you have like for example, if it was the web tier of your application, you would be easily able to have Front ends spawn spread across KVM nodes and these XI nodes and all sitting in the same subnets Talking to each other being exposed under same load balancer. So that's like heterogeneous That's a use case number two, right, right avoid in avoiding vendor lock-in and providing heterogeneous infrastructure um Yeah, so that's it with the demo And what we will do now is we'll come back to The slides And do some summary that summary So conclusions uh multi hypervisor open stack today It's a possible being useful So you can do it With different hypervisors combined with KVM and you can actually use it to Do a number of things enable your developers reduce the amount of money you spend on your appropriate infrastructure um and Also cater for different needs of applications that you have so you can actually speed up the adoption of open stack in your organization Since Paris i'm really glad to see that a number of companies even though we did it not in a not very structured way but a number of companies have actually Contributed and made an effort to enable proper dvs programming from neutron So today there is a number of driver options To to try one i will show the next slide which which which wants to try to which wants to try to start trying this But it's not like it was six months ago when the only way to run multi hypervisor with ESX would be to use To use vSphere to use NSX Multi hypervisor is here to use It was NSX. It's not the case anymore. Now there are open source drivers By Tokyo summit, I believe that we will have two more gaps closed So we will have the option to run this contrail which is quite a nice sdn Which is directly competing with nsx But which is lacking some features today and one of them is multi hypervisor And in the rightist driver will solve security groups by that time And I believe that we will also start shipping it with mirage soap and stack distribution So it will be completely out of the box solution How to get this this whole goodness today? three options either get mirage soap and stack you can download it for With 30 days retrial from our site and use the guides which are on github how to install dvs driver on top You can also take the video. The video is very nice I mean, I've seen the demos the design work the ux of installation is very nice I mean if you plan to run not actually multi hypervisor, but open stack on top of VMware That's a great option. So it's not really multi hypervisor But it's it will cater for your for a couple of use cases as well To enable developers and to get open stack running on top of VMware And of course, if you fill in adventures, you can get into do it yourself So, I mean all the drivers are up there in the neutron You can go ahead and figure them usually it's a couple of lines Just make sure that you can figure not only Nova in neutron, but also cinder and glance looking at the indicates That's it with the slide where let's open up for questions. Do we still have time? I believe we have about seven minutes So any questions? Everyone wants to go home and Well In terms of Nova, it's actually hard for me to comment I haven't heard of any drivers at least of those which I've been listing here like from VMware side being moved out The significance is obvious. I mean if you configure your open stack cloud to use If you if you wouldn't configure your open stack cloud to use old Citrix's ESXI driver a couple of years ago And now it would be deprecated You would have a migration effort to transition into the new driver, which is from VMware I don't expect VMware driver to get anywhere out of open stack given the level of contribution of the company So I don't I don't think it's a risk of introducing it today In terms of neutron. Well, neutron is more dynamic, but again the ml2 obstruction layer is There and I don't think it will go anywhere. So again, if you invest into building out the cloud using Mirantis driver today, for example There is certain risk because we haven't yet upstreamed the driver So yes, only us are to depend on on Keeping it running, but it's open source. It's in github. So worst case if we go Somewhere and decide not to maintain it anymore. You can maintain it by yourself The api is quite is quite stable over there. So it's not like it's a huge effort to bring it to the new version of open stack That's a very good question. Evgenia, what about IPvc support? No such plans so far. So it's a it's a very good question, but I guess the same question actually Was asked during the session that VMware team did so it was like not yet. Yeah, like we even don't look at it Well, I mean business wise Obviously for every company the investment in redevelopment this driver or that driver is like something that is being checked against attraction on the market, right? So today we have some deployments which we are doing in such manner Later people will be asking for idv6 and being ready to pay for it. We will do it Okay, okay


Keir Starmer's criticisms of Boris Johnson have got a little harsher of late, so in his response to Johnson in Parliament today he accused him of being several steps behind the curve. Forensic, it could be a bit tougher. Someone who has gone further in sort of calling out Boris Johnson is John McDonnell. He has called for the Prime Minister to be brought down. So on Sunday he tweeted this, leave aside party politics in the interest of the country. It's time for a serious cross-party discussion about the replacement of Boris Johnson. We're facing the most serious crisis since the Second World War and it's become fairly clear we have a PM incapable of fulfilling the office. Given the regular way he goes missing it may be that Johnson himself feels he does not want to do it anymore. Johnson's staying maybe advantageous for Labour but perilous for our people. Sunak has also proved to be consistently inept. We desperately need a change. So when I saw this tweet last night obviously I thought we need to get John McDonnell to discuss this very bold, very bold claim to say you know someone who's just won a general election with an 80 seat majority should stand down but we are living in extreme moments. When I spoke to John I started by asking whether this was a serious suggestion or whether he was just making an audacious claim. I think it's real and you can interpret it as an audacious point at the same time as well. You get to a position sometimes and in a crisis where you realise that the person responsible is just not up to the job and I think you have to take action. Now that can be in any situation. It can be in the private sector where a chief executive as we've just seen in British Airways is not up to the job. It can be an individual government minister. The problem that we've got is that we're facing the worst crisis since the Second World War and we have what is proved to be a completely incompetent prime minister and that puts lives at risk. So yes audacious but actually action has to take place. We can't go on like this and the second wave of the pandemic is hitting us. We knew it was coming. We knew it was coming and just as we were ill-prepared at the beginning in March when there was still a refusal by Johnson to take the pandemic seriously and even I can remember he's going around shaking hands Trump like that people then we have the bizarre theory of herd immunity being developed by him and Cummings and now we've had the complete and utter failure developing a strategy around test and trace isolate and tackle and we're now facing the second wave with huge I think health and economic consequences and we have basically someone who's completely incompetent and you do get the impression from the many occasions he's going missing at the moment whether or not he really wants the job anymore. So I think there has to be a serious discussion. This is a very naval chamber in my come afraid sometimes when you're in a crisis like this on a cross party basis you have to feel this man's up not up to the job. There needs to be a replacement and let's get on with it. And who would that discussion be with? I mean if you had discussions with backbench Tory MPs who were thinking about replacing Boris Johnson or are you getting a sense that there's a demand from that from the opposing benches because obviously the Tories have an 80 seat majority you're going to need a lot of Tories to replace Boris Johnson. I think there's rumblings on the conservative benches already about whether or not Johnson is capable of continuing on. There are those rumblings they're pretty minor at the moment and they haven't broken out much in public but it's definitely there and I think some of the wiser heads across parliament really are looking and thinking we can't go on like this you know it's all well and good having sort of a bluffer and a blusterer in normal circumstances and that's annoying in itself. In this situation real damage can be done as a result of what is basic incompetence. So I think there are rumblings I'm trying to bring them to a head now whether or not we'll get that about within the conservative party but it is down to them. I think it goes beyond also the usual conservative practice. The Tories are ruthless when it comes to removing leaders. The Labour Party is not there's always been loyalty to the leader that's been the ethos for the Labour Party. The Tories are ruthless so the men and women in those grey suits if they think there's a problem electorally they will remove their leader and we've seen that time and time again. I'm saying to them now this has gone beyond the electoral problems Johnson is causing for the conservative party in normal circumstances Labour would welcome that you'd leave him in place because the longer he's in place the more electoral damage he does to the Conservatives but when a crisis now people are losing their lives there's immense human suffering. There's an economic crisis you know rising unemployment real poverty and hardship and we have someone in charge who quite honestly comes across and I want to be serious about this isn't political not about it but he's clueless absolutely clueless and we've seen that time and time again. I mean ultimately if Boris Johnson does fall I mean it'll either be because he resigns and you're suggesting maybe he's not that interested in doing the job anymore or that the Conservatives have had enough and they topple him and I suppose a two pronged question I mean who would you want to replace Boris Johnson and who would you see as the most likely candidate to replace him if he does end up having to stand down? I don't have any preference apart from the two who have been responsible so far centrally for most of the policy developed under Boris Johnson, it's been Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and I'm afraid Rishi Sunak but I found to be particularly inept. He's implemented a number of policies that we put forward on Shadow Chancellor but he's done it in a way which is I think displayed a combination of incompetence and sheer lack of understanding so every improvement on the existing proposals that they implemented has had to be dragged out of him like drawing teeth you know failure after failure the failure to take into account the self-employed the failure to take into account basically the difference in sectoral impact of the pandemic and the unemployment and the economic problems that they face the failure time and time again to fully understand the seriousness of the consequences of the pandemic economically and not act quickly enough or comprehensively enough so I think the pair of them have proved to be just incapable so that's why it has to go beyond those two I have no particular preference I just want someone who we can have at least some confidence in to deal with this pandemic after that you know there will still be the same political differences there will still be the illogical differences between conservative and Labour and we'll contest the next election on that basis but in the meantime we just need somebody who's competent


And it's the update at 2 p.m. With David White here at TFNN. What do we have today? Well, flat as a pancake. That 1976 album from Head East. Always one of my favorites, but literally I think a quarter, not a quarter of a percent, a literal 25 cents off on the spies right now as we start this update. Of course, we had, they really were pushing pre-market for this as we went into the PPI numbers at 830. And they fell very hard very quickly. And we've kind of gone back to just flat on the day. My theory, at least the one I'm going to stick to for the rest of the day is that we are in distribution. I think that they at least many on Wall Street, why privately preaching the end of all inflation are going to have to admit, probably right after the Fed does something next Wednesday, that it's not the end of inflation, and we're going to have to continue moving. I think the idea that you get a four and a half or 5% interest rate, especially in the long 30 year housing market. And that's it. It's probably more like six. So the question, a few questions. When is everybody going to wake up to the fact that we're not there yet? And the second one is, are they going to really wake up to the news about earnings, which is going to be really impacted the first quarter of next year? It would probably be easy to see if the Fed had stopped cutting or adding to rates totally. But it's not. They're going to be adding to rates, just not 75, but maybe 50. That's kind of like saying you've been losing a ton of blood. Now you're going to only lose about three fourths of that blood. But you know what? You've been losing blood for a while. Things not going to probably get any better. So, well, we've got the economy out there on the, on the Garny undersurgery. I think a lot of people are saying it's over when it's not quite over yet. We'll be back in a minute with the show. The reality is that navigating financial markets can be risky. Markets can be chaotic and difficult to understand. Having the


Good afternoon. My name is Amiga Vargas, and I will do the presentation about the parallel risk preparedness for the conservation of archaeological and natural heritage in the case of Palenque, a war heritage site in Southeast Mexico. I am a PhD candidate here in the University of Barcelona and member of the group of public archaeology and heritage and funded by the National Commission of Science and Technology of Mexico, my foreign country. Well, the content of my presentation is divided in three. The first, I will discuss about the management and risk preparedness in war heritage sites, what is in the UNESCO policies. And the second is the case study of the pre-spandic city and National Park of Palenque. And finally, I will show you some suggested guidelines to improve the risk preparedness that is being carried on in Mexico, in this site, incredibly. Well, in the War Heritage Convention in the article number five, it was established that the state bodies should give the cultural and natural heritage a function in the lives of the community and also to have comprehensive planning programs where risk preparedness is included. In the management systems following the original guidelines of 2017, the state bodies also, when they nominate sites, they should have an appropriate management plan. And this management plan should be preferably developed through participatory means. And I would highlight participation because it's the project that we are developing. And in the guideline A118, it is established that the committee, the War Heritage Committee, recommends that the state bodies include the risk preparedness as an element in their War Heritage site management plans and training strategies. Well, however, last but not least, well, in denomination, it's mandatory now to include natural disasters and risk preparedness, mainly of natural phenomenon. And also in 2007, UNESCO launched a UNESCO strategy for reducing risk from disasters at War Heritage properties. So in this strategy, they established five objectives. The first is to strengthen the support within the relevant global, regional, national, and local institutions. And I highlight local because it's at the level that I am working now. We use the knowledge, innovation, and education to build the culture of disaster prevention, identify, assess, and monitor disaster risk at War Heritage properties, reduce underlying the risk factors at these sites. Lastly, to strengthen the disaster preparedness at War Heritage sites for effective response at all levels. It includes the local level. Well, in this strategy, I will highlight two actions. One of them is that they should take into account the community members for strengthening capacity in for risk preparedness in War Heritage sites. And in the action 4.2, also to develop social training program for communities living within the world around the War Heritage. Even if they don't live in the border of the War Heritage site, but if they live around, they should be included in the social training in social training programs. So what we do in Mexico is to compare what says the UNESCO policies with what is doing Mexico in their archeological sites. So we compare the UNESCO policy with Mexican implementation. And for this presentation, I will highlight what they do in the case of Palenque for the risk preparedness. We have three research questions in what areas and not to what extent do local people participate. The second is what's the social impact of the distribution of the sites in the War Heritage list. And the third question is how is the relationship between the sites managers and also the local communities? Well, our case studies are four. These are the 35 War Heritage sites in Mexico and we choose their archeological sites of Tiotihuacan, El Tahin, Calangmul, and Palenque. About Palenque, for the research, we follow some ethnographic tools in focus groups, participant observation, interviews in depth, in depth interviews. And in the case of Palenque, we developed this methodology in this site with what is described in 1987. It has a very small site, about 1,700 hectares. It's a national park. And over 90% of the local people are indigenous. The site is located six kilometers from the current city of Palenque, the modern city of Palenque. I have to say Palenque is a Mayan site which was inhabited between the centuries. Seven and nine, it was abandoned and it was rediscovered in 1970. So it's six kilometers from the current city of Palenque, but there are two indigenous communities, villages living just next to the national park. In this site that we can see from the plane, and they go every day and they have their work here as I was showing you some slides. Well, and this is the War Heritage property. It doesn't have a buffer zone, so it's all the War Heritage sites. And what we see here is the archaeological elements of the national park. But it is also inscribed based on Mexican legislation as a national park and as an archaeological zone. There's 1,700 hectares. But if we overlap this map with the Google Maps, we see that half of this national park is used for cattle and for agriculture and not for specifically natural heritage conservation. And well, the attraction of Palenque is not a national park, it's the archaeological site, the Pyramid of Pacal, the Temple of the Palace, and also one of the elements of the attraction is the beautyness and the combination of this idyllic and romantic idea of the ecological site in the middle of the jungle that attracted a lot of travelers in the 19th century. But now it's managed by two different institutions, the National Institute of History Anthropology, which was established in 1939, and the National Commission of Protected Areas, established in 2000. So each of these has a completely different approach to the site. They should protect the same territory, but Palenque has the policies followed by the Inna is to protect the archaeological elements, and the Konamp is to protect the natural resources. So you don't see Inna personnel inside the Pyramids, the archaeological site, and we don't see personnel of the archaeological site in the rest of the national park. So at the entrance, they are completely different signs, so they give different information to the visitors, they have different fees, and you have to pay them in different parts of the national park. So what we have found is that the risk preparedness of Inna is just for cultural heritage, and for Konamp is just for natural heritage. The main trade identified in both are anthropogenic. However, for the Inna is the housing and tourism infrastructure, the trade for heritage, and for the Konamp is the massive tourism and the cattle in half of the national park. There is no management plan implemented in Palenque, and the management plan in Konamp has been delayed because there is an error in the inscription of the national park in the Mexican installation. It's a technical problem, but that's why they have not developed the management plan yet. So there are no social participation in risk preparedness activities, and actually there is no participation in any decision making process in the site, and the social participation in Konamp is only in very specific moments, and there are public consultations. So the law established that they have to be public consultation with local communities, and they do that, but it's not compulsory to follow the conclusion of the social agreement. So the Inna has a program for risk preparedness, it's called Pre-Inna, prevention of Inna, and the Konamp has a wide frame of risk preparedness because since the threat, even if the threat is anthropogenic, they have to protect all the whole national heritage, so they are more trained by geologists and biologists, they are more aware of risk preparedness. And there is no official publication of management plans, but in Konamp, it's mandatory to have an official publication, but as I explained before, the management plan has not been developed. So yes, the guidelines, and these are my last slide for this presentation, well, some of them are very obvious, but even if they're obvious, they have not been following since 1987, and one of them is to start a dialogue process with local communities to deal with risk preparedness and management issues, to develop a long-term capacity building program to raise awareness about not only with Inna and Konamp per person, but also with the representatives of the local communities, to open up the participation of local authorities representatives. And we consider that risk preparedness can be the first step for their contribution and collaboration with local communities. And also, it's very important to translate the risk preparedness information into indigenous languages. So over 98% of the people living next to the side are indigenous, male and indigenous people, and it will be very useful to translate it into their languages. They are bilingual, but they speak Spanish too, but to have it translated into indigenous languages can increase the engagement with the local communities. And last but not least, it would be necessary to highlight the international relevance of risk preparedness in war heritage, as a war heritage, because people in Konamp, people in Inna, they don't are very aware of what war heritage description means, what are their obligations, and what are their opportunities, not for funding, because UNESCO is lack of funds, but also for other opportunities to develop exchanges with other war heritage sites or based on UNESCO guidelines to access to international resources for, in this case, risk preparedness. And, well, last acknowledgement of my supervisor of this PhD research, Professor Michael Ithides and Rihuan Shaby-Rihien, the local partners at the war heritage site and community members, sites managers, and members of the public ecology and heritage group, and some of the institutions that has been collaborating with this research. So with that said, thank you very much.


Hey guys, welcome back to Sick Sister Stuff. Today I'm making Instant Pot Cheese and Spinach Lasagna. I'm Kristen, I am sister number two from SickSisterStuff.com and I love sharing with you my Instant Pot recipes. I was really nervous starting out using my Instant Pot but after a few months I got going and now I absolutely love it. So be sure to check out all my other Instant Pot posts right there. Now if you want to see more Instant Pot posts be sure to give me a comment, a big thumbs up and of course subscribe to my channel every Monday.  Now this Instant Pot lasagna is one of the most easy lasagnas you'll ever make. I made it so there's no meat in it so it literally takes about 10 minutes to throw together. It cooks for a little bit and then you are done. Now for this recipe I'm using a springform pan, the same kind that you use for a cheesecake. Now this one is 6 inches by 3 inches. You can fit this actually in the 3 quart, the 6 quart or the 8 quart. You can go a little bit larger and go 7 inches by 3 inches if you have a 6 quart or an 8 quart. But today I'm just using the 6 inch one. So if you want to know where to find these I'm just going to put a link for you in the description. Alright guys let's go make some Instant Pot lasagna. Alright we're just going to start with our springform pan. Like I said before this is the 3 inch by the 6 inch. So you can get a little bit bigger the 7 inch but I'm using the 6 inch today. Alright we're going to start with one egg. Then I'm going to add one cup of ricotta cheese. Then when you're done adding the ricotta you're going to add your spices. So I have a half teaspoon of each one of these. We have salt, pepper, oregano, garlic powder and Italian seasoning. Then you're just going to dump those all in. Next we're going to add one cup of mozzarella cheese. Then you're going to mix everything until it's well combined. Alright when it's all mixed together you're going to set that aside and pull out your springform pan. Now I am using oven ready lasagna noodles. So I don't have to boil them it makes it a lot easier. So I'm going to kind of measure and then break them so they'll fit right into my pan. Now the noodles do not have to be pretty. What you're trying to do is just cover up the bottom of the springform pan. The best you can. So if you notice I am using little pieces and it's okay because it will cook together. Alright so I'm just adding a few more noodles on and now I am ready to put half of my cheesy ricotta mixture in there. Then you're just going to spread it around the best you can. Now I'm just going to take a handful of spinach leaves and just kind of tear them up and put them right on top of the cheese. Again it's lasagna so it doesn't have to be pretty. Next I have a 24 ounce jar of just traditional spaghetti sauce. You can use whatever sauce you like in your lasagna. Then just spread the sauce around right over the spinach. Now you're just going to repeat your layers so you're going to add your noodles again.  Next you're going to add the rest of the cheese mixture right on top of the noodles. Then just spread it all around. Now we're ready for the spinach again so I just grabbed another little handful and I'm just ripping it up into pieces so it will lay as flat as I can get it. And again you're going to add a half of a cup of your spaghetti sauce or whatever sauce you love on top of your spinach leaves. And just spread it around again. Now this is the last layer of noodles.  Again you're going to add another half cup or so of your sauce. Spread it around and now for my most favorite part the cheese. So I added about a half a cup to a cup. I like a lot of cheese so I added about a cup. Now once you're done with that you're going to take a piece of foil and put it right on top of your springform pan. Now my Instant Pot came with a steam rack and so that's what I'm going to use today to cook my lasagna. I know there are a lot of other things you can use for your Instant Pot but this came with mine so we're just going to make it easy. Alright so now I'm just adding one cup of water because you need water for it to pressurize. Then I'm going to put my pan right on top. Then you're going to put your lid on, close it and make sure that your thing is turned to sealing. Not venting, you want it on sealing. Then on your Instant Pot you're going to push manual and go up to 24 minutes. Then when it's done you're going to let it release on its own so you're not going to put it on venting for 15 minutes. So now I'm preheating my oven to 450 degrees. Take the foil off of your lasagna, put it in and watch it for about two to three minutes until it's nice and golden brown on top. Then you can pull it out. I would let it sit for a few minutes before eating it so it will stay together a little bit better. Alright you guys, that is it for my Instant Pot Monday. I hope you have a great day. Also don't forget to comment below. I would love to hear what kind of Instant Pot recipes you want me to make. Alright guys, hope you have a great day. See you later.


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