Ukraine's defense forces continue to inflict losses on Russia, causing the Russians to lose 1,250 soldiers, 50 artillery systems, 40 armored combat vehicles and 21 tanks over the past day alone, General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in a morning briefing that 86 combat engagements took place at the front over the past day. The military notes that the Russian invaders were putting pressure on two directions in the Donetsk region. Russian occupiers once again attacked Ukraine using Shahid UAVs. Preliminary information indicates that the defense forces of Ukraine destroyed 38 out of 42 of these drones. Information on casualties and damage to infrastructure is being established, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. Over the past 24 hours, the following settlements were hit by airstrikes, Kislevka and Mitrofenivka of Kharkiv Oblast, Novoy Haryvka of Luhansk Oblast, Terny, Chesoviar, Bodnivka, Khurdiyomivka, Drozba, Semenivka and Boladar of Donetsk Oblast, and Melonivka and Molotokmachka of Zaparezhye Oblast, more than 140 settlements in Chernehiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaparezhye, Nipropetrovsk, Kursyn and Mikolay of Oblasts came under artillery fire. Putin ally says neighboring country will not exist in five years. Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonian has said Armenia's spat with Russia over a Moscow-led security block could see the South Caucasus country no longer exist within a half a decade, according to Newsweek. The editor-in-chief of the Kremlin mouthpiece RT is an ally of Vladimir Putin and a regular guest on state television where she pushes the Russian leader's rhetoric about his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. During the World Youth Festival in Sirius in Russia's Krasnodar region, Simonian criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. He has suspended Yerevan's participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is considered Russia's equivalent to NATO. Last month, Pashinyan said that the CSTO had failed Armenia, freezing its participation in the block because Russia could no longer be relied upon as a reliable defense partner. However, there are no formal moves from Yerevan to withdraw from the alliance. Armenia's youth must understand that Pashinyan is a traitor to the Armenian people and is leading Armenia to complete destruction if he remains in power, said Simonian, to applause from the audience. Simonian, who is of Armenian descent and has described herself as both Russian and Armenian, said that if voters continue to support Pashinyan, there will be no Armenia in five years. Simonian said Armenia will not exist at all. You will see. Pentagon warns Russian drones may fly to Europe. Russia could have stripped Ukraine of its independence in 2022 and sent drones from its territory to Europe. Assistance to Kiev from the United States thwarted this, according to Celeste Volander, Deputy Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Volander said that those UAVs that the Russians are sending from Crimea over Ukrainian cities could have attacked European capitals. The cruise missiles that the Russians use against Ukraine's critically important energy infrastructure would have threatened U.S. allies in NATO. According to her, Americans in Europe, from military personnel, businessmen and ordinary citizens to American students studying in Europe, would have been in danger. All of this was prevented by American support for Ukraine and, above all, the courage and skills of the Ukrainians, Volander emphasized. And the threat to Europe is still relevant in light of delays in the U.S. Congress' vote on aid to Ukraine, Volander said. Volander said that Ukrainians have learned to fight and are holding back the Russians, disrupting their operations in the Black Sea and have resumed grain exports, providing the global south with what it needs. But since there's not enough ammunition, air defense systems, spare parts needed on the front lines, it could very well return to the scenario of 2022 and the threat of shelling Europe. She reported that the United States ranks 16th in the world in terms of the ratio of GDP to aid provided to Ukraine.  The spread of talks among the German military about possible strikes on the Crimean bridgehead has undermined German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's position and highlighted the superiority of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was written by Matthew Karnitschnig, a commentator for the political publication. After all these years as the leader of Russia, Putin is still an intelligence officer. There is no great joy in beating Russia's rivals.  Fears are rising among intelligence experts that the German military leaks are just the tip of the iceberg as they warn that NATO secrets may have been compromised. The leak could have been just the tip of the iceberg. August Tanning, Berlin's former intelligence chief, told German tabloid build. The intelligence expert added that he assumes the Russians could have listened in on even more than 38 minute conversations between high-ranking German military officers. Even more than the 38 minute conversation between high-ranking German military officers.  The German government vehemently rejected allegations that Russia's leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication that Berlin was preparing for war against Russia. At the same time, the government sought to contain the domestic fallout from the leak and promised a quick investigation into how a conversation by top German military personnel could be intercepted and published. It is absolutely clear that such claims that this conversation would prove that Germany is preparing a war against Russia, that this is absurdly infamous Russian propaganda, a spokesman for Scholz told reporters in Berlin.


You just have a few more people coming up. So just bear with us for a minute here. OK. Good afternoon, everybody. How you doing? How you doing? OK. Welcome to One Police Plaza. This past weekend was a milestone in our ability to provide a safe event for the people of this great city. I want to repeat that again. This was a milestone to provide a safe event for the people of the city, not just in Brooklyn, but of course, throughout the five boroughs. And standing behind me to my left and my right, you're seeing many of the people responsible for that success. And boy, did they work hard. Now, we have representatives from the FDNY, the New York City Sheriff's Department office, the Department of Buildings, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Sanitation Department of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, among others. I just want to introduce some of the commissioners that are here, Jessica Tish, Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, Eric Ulrich, Commissioner of Buildings, Laura Kavanaugh, Commissioner of, of course, the Fire Department of New York, Rohit Agrawala, Commissioner of Environmental Protection, Anthony Miranda, New York City Sheriff, David Doe, Commissioner of the TLC, Ashwin Vasan, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Deanna Logan, Director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Anthony Newell, Executive Director of BEVO, Lawrence Moses, New York City Department of Transportation, and, of course, also Pastor Gilford Monroe's. He's the Mayor's Clergy Liaison. And we also have Fred Kreisman, Community Affairs Commissioner. Also, we have here a lot of other people here that are going to be speaking. But I want to introduce, of course, here we are in One Police Plaza, of course, our executive staff, starting off, of course, with Police Commissioner Keshant Sewell, Edward Caban, First Deputy Commissioner. Kim Royster, Chief of Transportation. We also have down here Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Madry. And we also have with us Assistant Chief Michael Kemper, who's Patrol Borough of Brooklyn South, and Assistant Chief Judith Harrison, Patrol Borough of Brooklyn North. Now, we are being on topic for this press conference, because tomorrow we also have another very, very important presser here, releasing our August numbers. They're very important. I think you'll find these numbers very interesting in terms of how we are dealing in this city, collectively here, to deal with the problem of combating crime and making people safe. We are going to now present the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. Thank you. Thank you so much. One thing I inherited when I became the mayor of the city when I was speaking to Bernadette from the Post, saying that this place was a mess. And it was. It was not a mess because of the people. It was a mess because we build these imaginary walls and barriers. And we really never was there to stand with the men and women every day that carry out the function of having the city this complex operate. And we saw the failures over and over again. And we had to rebuild a team. We had to rebuild a team that didn't operate in silos, that operated together. That was a challenging thing to do. And we put together the heads of agency. Some of them were veterans that were around government for a long time, but also those who were new and just had a desire of doing a job they were hired to do. If you were DSNY, you just wanted to have a clean city. If you were NYPD, you wanted people to be safe. If you were TLC, you wanted to make sure that those who were driving people and for hired vehicles were doing their jobs. And that's what we had to accomplish. And I came to a head this weekend with Juve. We all know it. We know the ritual. Pick up the paper the day after West Virginia Day weekend. And you look at the number of homicides, how many shootings took place, what happened at the parade. Didn't happen this weekend. It did not happen. Why? Because four days out, we brought together our commissioners and we said we're going to be a team. We're going to continue the teamwork that we have been producing throughout the last nine months. So instead of New York City Police Department having to do everything to keep our city safe during Juve, double-parked vehicles and residential communities that were often ignored, we did not do that. We had with the NYPD, the Department of DOT was there to immediately told those vehicles or give them a clear signal that it is not acceptable. Loud parties where people disregarded those who wanted to live in their communities and would play music into the late evening hours. NYPD was no longer there alone. We had DEP there who had sound meters. And we told the residents and those who were having the bars and other celebrations that if you did not comply, you will have a summons in a mail. And we will take equipment if need be. And those makeshift locations were year after year. We had shootings coming from every year. We knew they were trouble spot using the data from the police department. NYPD was not able to go inside in previous years to tell them they could not use their locales. But this time, we were able to do so. Why? Because we had the Department of Buildings with us who utilized their authority to go inside and close down those establishments before they became trouble spots. We used the full scope of every agency and their capabilities. These men and women who are here, here was us today, Sunday night, they were there days before from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. And they were not doing it complaining. For those four days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, they were willing to do their jobs and coming together and operating as a team to make our city safe. And because of that, we saw a celebration without that traditional violence that was attached. We walked through the parkway and during the day, people stated we were expecting to read the headlines of what we traditionally heard and what we traditionally saw wasn't there. We know our capabilities. We had to dismantle those walls. We had to bring down the feeling that we were in it alone. And we had to have the backs of each other. No one invites a cop to a birthday party. They invite them there when the party was shot up. No one invites the sheriffs to come and attend an event. They invite them there when it's time to carry out his duty or his job. But I just want to say thank you to all of our city agencies, to the men and women who came together and stated we have a good product. Now, product lies in our people. Those people have been often ignored. And they're not going to be ignored under this administration. And then our civilian partners, the crisis management team, they were out there every day making sure they quelled the conflicts before they materialized. Pastor McRose in the guard squad and the other volunteers, our city came together to stop a tradition of not allowing our Caribbean diaspora to celebrate with the level of peacefulness they deserve. I was proud to walk up to Parkway. I was proud to represent the city as the mayor as we dealt with celebrating the return of the Caribbean Day parade in Juve and making sure that we can keep people safe. Zero fatalities at the parade, zero homicides. The best of New York was served by the best people in New York, and that is the men and women that makes up the organizations and agencies of this city. And I'm proud to be the mayor of this city and agencies that are involved. I want to personally say thank you on behalf of the 8.8 million New Yorkers that watch you do your job every day, going unnoticed, but you carry out that performance every day. I want to turn it over to our amazing police commissioner, thank her and her team for what they accomplished. Police commissioner, Kishan Sun. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for being here. Again, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I want to highlight our collective hard work and the positive measures that were implemented that put public safety front and center as we approach this past Labor Day weekend. As you know, the holiday weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which this year in New York City saw the in-person return of the annual Juve and West Indian American Day festivities. Without question, the reason that the event ran smoothly and it's safely as it did is the exhaustive, collaborative efforts of many of the people representing the agencies in this room. But nothing was more important to our success than the partnerships and relationships we forge with the people we serve. I'm talking about the Juve City International and the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, of course, but I am also talking about the millions of residents, workers, and visitors to all the neighborhoods in Brooklyn and beyond wherever we had special events.  Without full community buy-in, none of this would have been possible. Prior to the weekend, Chief of Department Ken Corrie went over our plans and told you that when it comes to safeguarding large events around the five boroughs, our mantra is preparedness. And it always has to be. Arm in arm with our partners, our planning was thoughtful and comprehensive. And by working with every public and private stakeholder, we delivered a successful and enjoyable time. We are all very aware of the incidents of the past, as the mayor stated. This year, from the organizers, to the marchers, to the drummers and dancers, to all of the agency's tasks with making sure things stayed safe for all involved, there were people who believed and knew that things could be done differently, while maintaining all that is amazing about the festivities and allowing everyone to enjoy the culture and diversity that makes New York City so great. Chief of Patrol Jeff Madre will now discuss some of the details we enacted that helped make us have the third best Labor Day weekend this city has seen related to violence in the modern ComSTAT area. Chief Madre. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Commission Sewell. Thank you to everybody here. I did my first Juve 2001 as a lieutenant in the 6'7". And when I just sit here and think about it, how much I ran around that night shooting after shooting, stabbing after stabbing, tragedy after tragedy. When I look at 2022 and what we did this year, and even looking back through the years, how we continuously evolved and became better and better at celebrating Juve and policing Juve. But I think that this year, through my eyes, I've seen the best collaboration with the NYPD, multiple city agencies, a crisis management system in the community. We all had an overarching goal to make sure that this celebration came back. We wanted everyone to really celebrate. It has been a long two years, but it was all about safety, safety. We wanted a peaceful event, and the last thing we wanted to do was conduct enforcement out there. The last tool we wanted to resort to, which we would do if need be, but it was absolutely the last thing we wanted to do. And the event was incredibly successful. I mean, you could feel the love in the air out there over the past two days, the people saying thank you and the support they were given to the men and women of the police department and all the agencies. The thank yous, I took hundreds of pitches out there with people in the community because they were just so happy to be back and celebrating and celebrating peacefully. A lot of time and energy went into this plan and in preparation. And again, it was a collaborative effort, and everybody stepped up and did what we needed to do to make sure, again, that this event was peaceful, that it was safe, and that our communities can feel like they were able to celebrate and have a good time without the police or any city agency on top of them. I wanna give a special thank you to Pastor Monroe's from the God Squad, Kamara Jackson from the League Learners, A.T. Mitchell from Man Up, Anthony Newells from Bevo. Let me tell you how refreshing it was for me personally to hear members of this department calling for them, hey, we need God Squad over here, we wanna break up a party, we wanna tell people to have to turn the music down. When they were calling, seeing the elite learners standing out there four in the morning on No Shredding Church, one of our toughest corners every year, this was done differently, and this is why we were so successful. I wanna take time to say thank you to those very handsome looking men and women over there. They look so good in those uniforms there from the Chief of Patrol's Community Response Team. This was something when I took over Chief Patrol, I decided to create, and it was just really about showing leadership and be able to address quality of life and help out the communities as they called, and what they did out there over the weekend, all the men and women of the police department, what they did out here this weekend. But this group of men and women, season 40 illegal ATVs and dirt bikes out there on the parade route after the parade route during Juve. Taking two illegal firearms off the street, working closely with the sheriffs, with the Department of Buildings, with DEP, with the Fire Department, Sanitation, DOT, TLC, we were able to go to house parties and show a lot of restraint and let people still celebrate. DEP used the sound meter, and we were able to tell people the proper level they could have their music playing without it breaking the law and without disturbing their neighbors, and we did that effectively multiple times out there. As the mayor mentioned, a place on Ralph Avenue historically that we had trouble with this year going as a team, being able to use the administrative power of the other agencies, we were able to stop problematic places before they even got off the ground. So it was very important. And again, just all the men and women who were out there standing tall, alert on their feet for long hours, doing a great job and making sure everybody was safe. And that's why we're able to stand here today and report no homicides at Juve, no homicides at the Labor Day Parade. And again, thank you to everybody here for the collaboration. Now, I had a leadership role in here, we all had a leadership role, but there was one leader who I would like to bring up who lived this, who immersed himself into Flatbush, into Juve, into Labor Day. And he was able to bring the community together, bring the resources together better than any time I've ever seen before. Chief Kemper, the borough commander of Brooklyn South, please come up. And I personally thank you for what you did out there this weekend. Thank you, Chief Madre, for your kind words, Mr. Mayor, commissioner, to everyone in the room, I'm so excited to be here and I wish I had hours to speak to you about just how good I feel right now and the reasons why. Planning, execution, and results. And trust me, there was so much planning that went into this weekend. And the results, well, the results, they speak for themselves. The collaboration to ensure safety and to allow celebration for the community was like none other. A big goal of ours going into this weekend, certainly, was to recognize the deep meaning of what this weekend represents to the Caribbean community, but also to allow celebration. And very importantly, how can we as a department achieve this by avoiding unnecessary police community conflict? Think about that. How can we not make the narrative against the police and allow the community to celebrate? I just want to thank a few people in this collaboration for really, really coming together and getting this done. First and foremost, our greatest asset, in my opinion, and I might be biased and saying this, the NYPD. My team at the NYPD, in particular, Patrol Bar in Brooklyn South, worked tirelessly for months to put this together. My team knows who they are. I can't mention every name. Just understand this, I am so appreciative and thankful and I'm privileged to work alongside you. To every cop in New York City that worked this weekend, whether it was Juve, West Indian Day Parade, and I think some people forget everything else that was going on this weekend, particularly in Brooklyn. We had a series of six concerts over three nights behind the Brooklyn Museum, Caribbean themed. We had a large children's parade that occurred Saturday morning that crossed across Eastern Parkway, attended by thousands. We had a series of events in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Caribbean concerts, bands, DJ music, the cyclones were nice enough to have a couple of games throughout the weekend also, and we got the job done. To our point is that we helped, that helped us and worked with us, in particular Mayor Adams, you and your team at City Hall, to every city agency that participated. Again, not enough time to speak of all of them, but they know who they are. True collaboration with all our city partners, in particular from City Hall. Mac Jay and their relationship with us, probably a relationship and a system put in place that has never been done before. The Community Affairs Unit, led by Commissioner Fred Kreisman, active participants in our planning and moving forward. Of course, to the events organizers, Weatka and Juve City International, to our clergy, our clergy was with us in training and boots on the ground, with us on the ground at certain situations that we were trying to avoid conflict, to help mitigate problems from getting big, same thing with our violence and disruptors, to the elected officials that were with us in our planning and our execution of our plans. Thank you so much. And again, I'm gonna end it with this and I apologize if I left anyone off. There's way too many people that were involved in this. To the team at the NYPD, you guys and gals are 100% the greatest cops in the world. Keep your heads up and be proud. Good morning to everyone. As a proud son of St. Lucian parents, immigrants to the U.S. Virgin Islands and born in the Virgin Islands, again, it has always been my distinct pleasure to have the Denver President, who is now the Mayor, Eric Adams, to entrust in me the care and the culture of the Caribbean after some really high profile shootings in Brooklyn. And over the years, we have developed a really conservative, but very consistent way of dealing with community conflict. What is not gonna be reported, of course, Chief Kemper mentioned a lot of conflicts. We spent 36 hours. Our time on the ground was 36 hours. And thank you for putting this press conference at one o'clock because we'll still be sleeping. But 36 hours, the men and women of clergy stood on those familiar places, mitigating conflicts, working with the NYPD, working with law enforcement, working with Department Heads. Thank to the Police Commissioner again for giving the resources needed to do this. Thank you again to Dianne Logan and everyone at Marjie who is closely working, not only with Cure Violence, but also with community leaders, anti-violence group on the ground. Juvia and Carnival is a great celebration. And I think that it's a gem that has been hidden and really scarred by violence. But if you look at it, in the Caribbean is the safest place in the world. Zero wars, no conflicts. And so for us to be painted, even as being violent within a weekend, tied into a culture, again, the work that we do and the work that I do as the Fatal Advisor to the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, in this particular role, is to make sure that our culture is preserved. But also that people can really enjoy a weekend closing out the summer. So for me, as a faith leader, working, pasting within the East Flatbush area, working over the last eight years with the Mayor in Brooklyn and now coming to City Hall, the collaborative effort of CAU with Fred Kreisman and his team and all of the agencies, you will really see that again, community partnership really can come to this place. What I came up with this thought today is that at the expense of safety comes, is the course of availability. And we avail ourselves this weekend to be there for our community. And I wanna thank again our party promoters who really work with us, individuals, this one individual on President Street and Utica who agreed that he should turn on the music. That cause, that for us is really community partnership. So we wanna thank them very much. And I trust and pray that not only that we had a great Labor Day weekend in summer, but we also have a great winter as well. Thank you so much. Now I'll call one of our community partners who was very, who was on the ground with us throughout the weekend until the new year is for Bevo. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Glad to be here. I want to definitely say thank you to all of the agencies up here. The collaboration was great. This I normally don't bring bags to a press conference. So you gotta excuse me for bringing the bags that's under my eyes because I'm definitely tired. I'm definitely gonna share that. This took a lot of planning. We put any differences aside and the only thing that was important to us was collaboration for the city, for the people of the city of New York, safety. I'm a still Eric's Mayor Adams GSD because we definitely got safety done. We got stuff done, but GSD, hashtag that, getting safety done. And the ladies and the gentlemen and the brothers and sisters up here today absolutely did that. This was weeks and months of planning. And I want to give my crisis management system director, Deanna Logan, a praise because just when we thought we had it, not only did she, she was satisfied with it, but she came to our office to make sure we had it. That was something good. Deanna came to Brooklyn, to the Campbell headquarters of Brownsville and Violence Health and made sure that our detailed plan was accurate and it was for the safety of the people. So definitely we want to thank elite learners. We want to thank MANUP, AT, I know you didn't get no sleep. BTTM, SOS Crown Heights. This was a collaborative effort. I want to thank Chief Madre, Chief Kemper. Thank you. This is a city coming together. And I thought, and I knew it would because of the leadership of our mayor, Eric Adams. We had over 400 people on Tab Scott Street in Brownsville. And the biggest disagreement we had to resolve was if Eric Adams was coming to their Juve because the people worked together. So Eric, I did tell them, I said, Eric is not going to come to Juve. He doesn't dance as good as Gil, so he's going to sing Gil. So Gil, thank you for continuing your relationship with the community. We supported throughout Brooklyn North, Brooklyn South, whatever we was called, the crisis management system, we went. We did resolve various, many of conflicts that could have resulted to a violent act, but it didn't. We even was bribed into 10 cases of water to end the party early. Honestly. But if that's the cause of safety for this city, we are willing to do it. So thank you, commissioner. Thank you, Mayor Adams, AT, the crisis management system at NYPD. This is something that you're going to see moving forward. No more silos, no more you doing this and we doing that. It's time for the city to come together so the city can be safe. This is everyone's mayor, everyone's police commissioner. And we are here to support New York City and the safety of the residents of New York City. So Deanna, thank you for your leadership. We're going to continue to support. And Eric Adams, thank you, my brother. I appreciate your leadership and the brothers and sisters of NYPD. I have to give you all y'all due because whatever we said, we got this. Y'all step back and you gave us the opportunity to resolve any potential conflict. So I thank y'all so much. Anthony Newells, Browns, Rowland, Valence out and I represent the crisis management system and Team GSD, getting safety done. Thank y'all. All right. So overwork and second. Hi everybody. So first question I had is this obviously reminds me of the incident with Kerry Gabay a few years back and if I remember correctly, that was he was caught in a crossfire between two crews or two gangs that were shooting. Can you elaborate a little bit on if there was any incidents that got, were you able to head it off at the pass or you were able to squash any beefs before they became very violent before we had another tragic incident like that? And if you could also offer any details, were there any enforcement actions that happened in the weeks leading up to Juve where somebody that was a very known violent offender who was responsible for a lot of violence was apprehended. And because of that, there's some correlation to a drop in the violence that we saw this weekend. So broadly, I think we always have to operate using predictive analysis. And so as it relates to the drivers of violence and the drivers of crime, we have to identify those ahead of time and to be able to get ahead of it. And I think in this instance, working together as a team, we were able to do that. To your question about whether things we were able to head off over the weekend, I think we reported on a gun arrest that we made over the weekend as well. The subject was coming into that area with a firearm and it was quickly apprehended and that firearm was seized. So I think everything that we do, we have to be able to project what may or may not happen. We have to be able to deploy our resources so we can head off any trouble before it gets to us. Doing this, as the mayor stated, going up to Juve and to the West Indian American Day Parade, we were out before that time, making sure we address issues that could potentially become a problem. So having that forward view and being able to forecast the potential drivers of violence to that area I think made all the difference. So this year, when's the last time we didn't have any shootings during this event? Can you tell me, is this the first time? Chief Madre probably, I think you could address that. We didn't have shootings, is your question? You know what, I actually have the information upstairs. I actually took a look at it. I'll get back to you with it, but it's been a while. I mean, even last year, not last year, 2019, we had the big MOS involved, shooting not too far away. So let me take a look and I'll get that information. Okay, and a second question real quick. For you or Chief Kemper, what was the number one thing you did, tactic-wise, that you think really made a difference this year? Was it getting people to not celebrate at the very beginning of the parade and sort of spacing out the people who were performing? And Mike, you can jump in and help me out. But I think we had a lot of resources out there. We had the cops spread out, the cops were alert. We had crisis management out there. They were in their uniforms as well, very visible. And I think it just helped out. Mike had the clergy involved. He had the community involved. Mike did a training where every member of this department saw a video which explained what Juve was about, what the Labor Day parade is about, the meaning culturally what it's about. And I had an opportunity to turn out a group of men and women at the six, seven priests in yesterday. And when I spoke to them and told them about my experiences from 2001 to now, one thing, the main thing I pointed out to them was, did this years ago, and this roll call is totally different because there was a pastor praying for them and there was a community member out there explaining to them exactly what this weekend was all about. The collaboration was very strong, the best I ever witnessed. And I think it paid off. I think it paid off. I think everybody was out there. The message was out there. And the result show. One more thing. Thank you. What's your question? Do you have something you want to say? That was a good question. What was your number one thing? There's not enough time to go through everything we did. But since Chief Magery brought up the training, that's something I'm proud of. And it's something, it's a component that had so much value. It offered so much value for so many reasons. Transparency. But really, I said this the other day. 31 years ago, I came on this job and I used to police this event and we used to get our assignments and our direction was very simple. Take your post. Didn't understand why we were here. There was no clear direction. 2022 NYPD is different. So our training going into the weekend for our police officers has really, really been upgraded, if you will. There's many layers. One layer, I'll talk about three layers that will probably hold the most value. It was training every single New York City cop on the meaning of Juvei and West Indian Day Parade. That's number one. That was supplemented by every police officer that attended these events. While they were mustered up, were standing, ready to go out to their post, were addressed by two groups. Check this out. Two groups addressed them in person. The NYPD, again, reinforcing our training to them, explaining to them why are they here? What does Juvei represent? What to expect? And then a member of the community. Actually, multiple members of the community addressed them in person. Elected officials, every single cop that was assigned to these details or events were addressed by local elected officials and members of clergy. Right? Again, elected officials and members of clergy are also members of the community. They have an understanding of what these events mean and what to expect. So I think just to end this with a New York City cop going to an event, having an understanding of why they're there, what the meaning is behind these events, deep cultural significance. What to expect from why are people wearing makeup? Why are people throwing powder? Why are people excited? Just having that level of understanding of what they're about to experience, it's nothing new when they see it on the street, live in person. So, listen, again, I'll end it with this. There's so much that was done this weekend, but just to touch on the training, I thought it was extremely valuable and paid many, many dividends. Revane Borchat from Hamadiyah. Hi. The implication from all the speakers is that things were handled differently and better this year. So I'd like to ask one or more of the chiefs can address how specifically things were done better than in the previous administration. I'm sorry, I didn't get to the last one. Specifically how things were handled differently this year than they were in the previous administration. Thank you. Well, I said, and we already touched on the training, but then we can talk, touch on the technology, all right? I mean, our use of air support this year, aviation, being up all weekend along, using some of their technology, helping us identify parties that may be too big, being able to go there with different agencies who had the power to do things we couldn't do. I think that whole plan in and of itself gave us an advantage we've never had before in the past. Like I said, we were able to go to a place where historically we had problems. We were able to stop the party before even God started because we had the department of buildings with us, all right? We were able to go not only address 311 complaints and loud music with NYPD, we had DEP there. We allowed a lot of parties to continue because we were able to check the music, show the people what sound level they should be at, the people were very compliant, they cooperated, they did what we asked, and people were allowed to continue their celebration and we were able to accomplish our mission of answering those 311 jobs. Like I said, there was a lot of support between the various agencies with CMS. And like I said, I believe that this collaboration was the strongest it's ever been. Because it was so strong, we were able to be successful. And officers were out there. They were out there, they're highly visible, spread out. And the one little dust that we did have, the officers were able to stop it right away. So we had no serious injuries, no issues out there. I just want to add on to that, which I think is so important, that the difference I think between what we are doing and what previous administrations were not willing to do is using all of our tools, all of our assets. Public safety is not a police issue. Every agency must be involved in public safety. The training, as we're seeing with these dirt bikes and ATVs, the training that Chief Roysters Highway Unit trained our officers on how to properly go after these dirt bikes. We've removed hundreds of ATVs, illegal dirt bikes, many of them carrying weapons. When you look at what DOB Department of Building is doing, as well as what the sheriff is doing, he has, the sheriff has reinvented that office. Everything from the marijuana to on the vehicles to going in and looking at who's selling these illegal bikes. And so we're using and utilizing all of our tools. And what all of these men and women have been saying for many years, coach, get us in the game. They've been sitting on the bench and they've been trying to play on team public safety. Well, they got a coach, let's put them in the game. All right, I got time for a couple more. Bernard, did Hogan do a post? This is for anyone who wants to answer, but why in particular is this event that is plagued by violence?  So why is this event different than other festivals that happen throughout the city? So we look at all events without focusing on this one. Obviously we've talked about the events of the past and if this has been plagued by violence in the past, but we look at events across the entire city. And we recognize the fact that this event has been plagued by violence in the past. We have to put the resources there, but make no mistake about it. We do an analysis of all events before we put a plan together. And then Commissioner, you mentioned earlier that there was a gun arrest, a firearm. What specifically was that, what happened? So an individual attempted to enter the area of the parade with a firearm. He was noticed by officers who were assigned and that apprehension was made and the firearm was seized. It was in the area of the West Indian Day Parade. All right, we're gonna be our last questions. Steve Burns, 880. Mr. Mayor, I know you've talked quite a bit in your time as mayor about the sort of oversaturation of the police response at some of these events and how you were looking to tackle that. I wanted to see how the police staffing levels at this juve compared to previous juve's and also how much overtime was used this weekend. And you hear me say over and over again the deployment of our resources. And it was something that the police commissioner and I talked about, the deployment of resources, how we utilize in our resources. And all of our events, when you do an analysis to her credit and Chief of Departments credit, they have looked at all of our events and they scaled back on the number of assignments and overtime, event after event. We are analyzing every event and we're no longer just going into the file cabinet, pulling out the plan from the previous year. We're thinking differently about the proper deployment of our manpower. Anyone who has attended the parade previously, there was a noticeable difference in how officers were deployed. You didn't see the 2030 officers standing at one place. They were along the parade route and we're gonna do even better. We're gonna continue to produce a better product over and over again. Because if we utilize the manpower correctly, then we could have our police officers deployed in those areas of the city where we are dealing with real threats. So look at all of these events over this summer and you're going to recognize how the Chief of Department was successful under the leadership of the commissioner of properly retrofitting the manpower to where it was needed, looking at overtime, handling overtime correctly, turning out those who can do patrol that are in desk duties. So we're looking at the entire chessboard and produce a better product for taxpayers. They deserve better and we're going to give them better and that is what we have saw over the last few months, over the summer. So are you able to say if this year staffing levels were lower this year? As in at this event, yes, they were. Yes, they were. Thank you everyone. Thank you. It was easy with these guys. They're great guys.


Russian soldier who destroyed a German-made leopard tank in a battle in Ukraine has been given a 1 million rubel reward by a private foundation, Russia's Defense Ministry said on June 20. It published a video showing the soldier, Andrey Kratsov, sitting on a hospital bed and receiving a reward certificate from Alexander Karolin, a three-time Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. The ministry did not say when and where Kratsov had destroyed the tank or what he was being treated for in hospital. In the video, he appeared to be missing his right hand. Russia says its forces have destroyed a number of German-made leopards and US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles since Ukraine launched a counteroffensive earlier this month. Reuters could not independently verify the numbers involved. The Defense Ministry last week said it had paid individual bonuses to more than 10,000 Russian servicemen since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, something Moscow calls a special military operation for destroying or capturing Ukrainian or Western-supplied hardware. It said the rate was 100,000 rubles for a tank and 300,000 rubles for a plane.


from Las Vegas, expecting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering InterConnect 2016, brought to you by IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect 2016 exclusive coverage from Silicon Angles, the CUBE that's our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. We're on day two of three days, wall-to-wall coverage, getting the energy, bringing it back and no better guests than having the stars of the Internet's open source, coding world, GitHub, great company, and we have Matt Sharr's product marketing and Sandy Carter from IBM and Michael King product market in GitHub. Great to have you guys on. Obviously, we love GitHub. We use it extensively for our operation. I just checked the commits, 5,000 commits on one app, 2,000 commits on the other. He knows the negative deletions. I'll have to look into that later, find out who's deleting what. Hopefully it's good deletions, but thanks for coming on theCUBE. Yeah, thanks for having us, appreciate it. I think GitHub is probably one of the most successful companies that has emerged out of the open source, what I call this new generation of open source where you have full cloud, you have SaaS as a business model where it wasn't a land grab. It was essentially a very easy way to get in, small fee, collaboration with open source growth, really, and you know what? Really worked well, real value, and now I've made a lot of cash and then a big investment. So, obviously that was already when you guys cleared the runway and successful, so this validation, people put some money in their pockets, but in general it really is a showcase of, in my opinion, the collaboration of how people work and software developers in the cutting edge because they don't tolerate any BS. You know that, they need it now, I'm doing DevOps, I'm doing whatever they're doing, it has to work well, if not, you'll know about it. Well it's very true, even the way that we build GitHub is on GitHub, so we know from developers firsthand whether or not the product's working well in that collaborative environment because otherwise we're not building a good product. Dave's in the research, Dave Vellanteco is my partner, he's in the research business, and I know Dave, it's simple, the internet's easy, even when you're wrong, people will tell you you're wrong, so just listen and they'll tell you you're wrong. Sandy knows, she's on the social media maven. That's the key part, listening. Exactly. So Sandy, IBM in San Francisco in the Bay Area, big new move, we talked about earlier segment, GitHub partnership, talk about the partnership, and guys, share with the audience. People know GitHub in the open source and development, and there's different versions of it, but the deal with BlueMix is pretty significant because it's kind of a nuance, but I want to expose that value. Yeah, so we believe that for developers, this is probably one of the most significant announcements that we've made at Interconnect, and this is the partnership that's really expanded because we've had a partnership with GitHub for developers, and this is around GitHub Enterprise. So the real value here for our clients is that most of their developers use GitHub today, and they are putting things out there that in some cases makes their enterprise, their company a little nervous. Well, this agreement enables them to have GitHub Enterprise inside of their company, so now their internal developers can use and leverage all the great features and functions that they already love in GitHub today and use all the time. They can now leverage that inside the enterprise and do that on RedWin BlueMix. So is this a new announcement because you guys had GitHub last year, was there, is it too soon? For DeveloperWorks Premium, we had GitHub.com, we had five Git repositories or reposts that were available as you purchased DeveloperWorks Premium. This is now on the GitHub Enterprise side that enables the enterprise as well. The full white label, secure, people who want locked and loaded collaboration development tools. And you could hear the audience sing this morning when Michael introduced it at the opening of our DEBAT conference because everybody in the room uses GitHub. Now they can use it in their own environments too, so it's just like a double treat for them. Matt, I want to ask you guys, because one of the things I noticed and it's probably not talked about much, but GitHub is a social network and for developers. And I even was joined when Joe Hellerstein was one of the founders of a startup, came out at Berkeley. All the founders put the GitHub handles on their About page. Most people put their LinkedIn handle, they put their GitHub handle. And I love that because you don't see that there often, but in the Git community, that is very much the parlance for looking at someone's badges, if you will. Kind of like Xbox. Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, that your GitHub handle is basically a software developer's resume. It's where someone who's going to hire a software developer, someone who's going to either for a project or a job, that's where they're going to look first. They're going to see the quality of their commits. They're going to see the quality of the code they're producing and they're going to do that on GitHub. It's kind of like gaming. You see who you're going to want on your team. That's right. If you want to A player, look at the A player, I need a support player.  Yeah, and it's also to that point, conversations with several customers and for example, they're hiring a group of interns from a university and instead of there being a two to three month ramp up for them to understand all the internal processes, they're already using GitHub and their classes. So they're able to get onto their network as quickly as possible. And then we have a 12 year old boy in the queue really 10 May who's coding away. So GitHub opens up the doors. So now for an enterprise, they can come in and say, okay, the new way to work as IBM's slogan is, is to be collaborative. And it's not always going to be physical locations. I know IBM's got locations all over the world. Now, Austin, Silicon Valley, but you can have a developer in, you know, in the middle of the US, in Europe, the world is flat. The developer community is now India is exploding with full stack product guys. So now you have a global landscape. This to me under opens that up. Can you tease that out? In fact, you know, it's funny. IBM is one of our biggest customers actually for the enterprise product. And that's really what the enterprise product is all about. It's providing that same developer experience just inside the enterprise at scale. So it's enabling enterprises to both develop, collaborate, learn and teach all in a secure and managed environment. I mean, this is where it gets pretty difficult, right? Because a lot of enterprises look at the open source community. They're kind of nervous. It's not secure. I don't feel like it'll be, the right stuff will get out. And so that's why we brought GitHub to Enterprise in 2012. We invented it in 2012 and we brought it out. We've been improving it and making it better and all that great stuff. Because our enterprise, our developers demanded it. You know, they use GitHub at home. They use GitHub in school. Why can't they use it at work now? And that's the other cool thing about this announcement too is now with Bluemix where they're able to use it in shops that maybe weren't as comfortable with either running their own servers or putting it in some other cloud somewhere. They can now run it on a Bluemix local or Bluemix dedicated instance and feel pretty darn good about the security and the management capabilities. Say, talk about the local thing. This is a nuance. People might not know. They hid the buzzwords local in instance. What does that mean? And it has the size of the SaaS product on Bluemix. Is that the data center? I mean, explain this local thing. Yeah, so we have kind of three models that we believe people are leveraging cloud for. So one is a public model and we have a great use case for public. We also have what we call private and this is where local and dedicated comes out. So the enterprise can set up their own cloud, operate that cloud within their own four walls and leverage and use all the great value of Bluemix that's automatically updated. They don't have to maintain it and do that inside of their four walls. So that's what we're talking about here. It's on prem basically. It's on prem. Yeah, easy way to say it. Local thing.  That's right, that's right. But no, that's a, this is, but the benefits of GitHub is it's a geography boundary killer because it's virtual space. It's a social network. Absolutely, and you know, IBM loves developers. GitHub has also fallen in love with developers and more importantly, developers have fallen in love with GitHub. So we're absolutely thrilled with this partnership and really extending it into the enterprise where most of the developers are today. They sit in the enterprise, right? We all like to talk about startup developers and they're super cool and we love them too, but more of them sit in the enterprise than any other place today. Well, depending on how you classify developers, I would say modern developers, that number is increasing very fast. The demand is off the charts. Now there's some old school dudes out there like me. I'm not an enterprise developer anymore, but that's the transition that the host shows talking about. Okay, getting the new developers on this digital transformation is key. And that's big data. That's DevOps, mobile first. And to get them there, they need skills and they need help. And that's what GitHub provides. It provides them that community, that social network that you talked about that enables them to help each other, which is the way they like to work. So Matt and Mike, I got to ask a question and I'm not going to go into the whole, I know probably why Candy's here is the whole PR of things that GitHub's been involved in. But recently you've had some service about women coders and whatnot. But I want to ask the question a little bit differently because I don't like to go there. It's a waste of time. Culturally though, the developer population is certainly radically changing and we had Tanmay on earlier. Young kid, 12 years old. He's not going to outcoat this, he's five years old. Now that's a little bit of a black swan, but it proves the point. Developers are now changing significantly the makeup of demographics and psychographics. What are you guys doing with the product? Is the product evolving because of it? Can you share some insight around this new onboarding of developers? And by the way, developers with Swift is different than a C++ developer. So now you have designers, coders, and Sandy and I were talking about this earlier. The word developer is changing. So what are you guys doing from a software standpoint? Share some color around that. Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. And you have to think about the way that development is occurring now is very asynchronous. And I think where, as I mentioned, we dogged through the product. We're a great example. We have 500 people at GitHub and half of those are remote. And so we want to make sure we're hiring not just the best talent, but people who represent the GitHub culture in the best way possible. And you can imagine in that type of asynchronous communication environment, a lot of things can get misconstrued. And you always have to think of... It's like text messaging. Lost in translation. Yeah, it is. A lot of gestural data that you just can't really get from a face to face. Exactly. And something that we try to espouse within every communication we have at GitHub is assume no malice. Everyone is here to serve each other. We want to be empathic toward each other. And that means if we do that the right way with each other, then we're gonna build a better product for the world that is also gonna help them serve those needs. We have a great social impact team that is doing a lot of work around how is it that we make open source development as a whole much more collaborative. There's a lot of studies that show there's one report that even show that women tend to have better quality contributions to open source projects. But yet when it is shown that it's a woman contributing, their views are diminished. So how do you make it more of a gender neutral type of contribution environment? These are all the questions. There's a lot of male skewed on the male side for sure. But the data, and we were talking about earlier is showing that if you take away the gender biases on the names itself or the classification, there's a lot of women in programming and diversity across the board. Age and psychographic. Yeah, I mean we feel very, very strongly that diversity gives you a better product, period.  I think it's synchronous too, it does take advantage of the diversity. I mean, there are some translational issues. It's like text, I mean like sometimes like, did you really mean that? No, no, you're talking about like, oh my God, I thought it's hostile. I mean you don't know through unless you really need, and Leni Watson basically soon would be able to be there, but taking to the next level with virtual reality and now all kinds of new tools coming out. Sandy, this begs the next question. The evolution of the collaboration from a coding standpoint can go in many different directions. Automating QA processes or looking at push notifications on code, alerts, these are the cool things that could come out of it. Is this kind of being kicked around? Can you guys share some color around what's coming around, how to make things easier? I mean, I was looking at my GitHub, I'm like, oh I didn't know there's deletions, you spotted it out, I'm like, I better look into that. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think, you know, if you look at Watson, she is a great coder herself and she can actually help coders be a concierge and teach them how to code as well. And inside of developer works, we already have a great architecture center that we announced here where it has over 40 architectural patterns that people can learn how to go into the cloud-based world, the cognitive world. Because the cognitive coding world is different. You have different designs, you do things in a different way. We were just talking about this the other day, right? Cognitive brings a whole new skill set to bear that a lot of coders don't have today and they're going to have to learn. They'll learn it through GitHub and sharing things. They'll also learn it, you know, by being with each other and taking this to the next level, next step. Matt, Mike, I want you to share your thoughts on kind of connecting the dots a little bit to the future. So obviously the show here, it's pretty clear, developers front and center, get in early, IBM's committed, they're making some good moves. I've been tracking these guys for five years on here in the queue, but they have to execute on that. It's a whole different conversation. But the collaboration software substrates changing, right? With big data, something Sandy's mentioning is going to change the collaboration aspect. What are you guys doing and what are you guys seeing happening on that front from GitHub standpoint and what have you learned over the years looking at the patterns and how people are communicating and collaborating and writing code together? How does that translate to the next generation? Yeah, I mean, we talk a lot about the developer life cycle.  But what a lot of people miss is that next step where you start teaching and it's when you start sort of handing back into that community. That's something the open source community does very, very well. They mentor, they bring people up, you have a great commit or you have something you wanna, you put into the code and people say, hey, that was great. You know, maybe try it this time, next time. And it's like, if you look through that life cycle, you go from learning something to teaching very, very quickly. And what we're trying to do with GitHub is take that same process and say, how do we shorten that? How do we make that life cycle even more rapid? If you look at it as writing code gets, I won't say easier but more accessible, Objective-C versus Swift, right? It's a significant difference. The barrier for entry for people to code is much lower now than it was. And the demand for people who can code. So mentoring becomes an interesting thing, right? That's right. So the things are changing just naturally. That's exactly right, yeah. And so what's gonna happen is as those people become productive, both through that lower barrier to entry, but also through the way that GitHub and our community mentors new coders, we think that's the only way that demand is gonna be answered. So that's kind of what we're putting into the problem. So let's talk about the impact of the customers now. Surely, IBM's customers and now your customers. Okay, Matt, Mike, look it. I need some help. Give me the bottom line. How do I get this up and running fast? Okay, I wanna get some wins. I wanna knock down some momentum. I don't wanna boil over the ocean. I get the long game here, but I wanna get some wins pretty quickly. I wanna be agile, but I also gotta hit that proof point. How do I stand this up? What do I do? What are some best practices? What do I do? Matt knows how to do this better than me. Yeah, it's the best guy to have. Absolutely. Yeah, in my interactions with the customers, a lot of times you have this cultural dichotomy. Some of them have been using GitHub and so they're accustomed to the very collaborative element of it, the others are very hesitant to it. And I think what you have to really instill in a new customer is thinking about not seeing a commit to say, if you're gonna merge a PR or something along those lines, to seeing it as gospel. It's not canonized. It's always open for discussion. But having some degree, I think, of oversight over who is gonna make the final call on this is a really, really helpful thing to do. So it's like you're making... Well, there's a democratization aspect to it. Yeah, yeah. You're saying don't take it as a matter of fact gospel and then get dogmatic about it. Yeah. If you take it and say, hey, let's review this and commit as a group. Exactly. Consider it more like a conversation rather than a dictatorship of anything else. Yeah. Decamers just don't work. Yeah. It's the biggest... Yeah, of course. It's very true. It doesn't work at all. But I think that's the biggest cultural barrier and I find that most of the customers that really get it and see immediate returns to how effective their teams are working together, spending less time in meetings. We've seen some customers go from 25% of their time coding to 80% of their time coding because they don't have to fill up their days just with schedules and conversations because it's all happening asynchronously. And that usually occurs when you start to recognize that that's a conversation. The asynchronous is a killer app. I've no doubt about it. Yeah. The transparency too. The way that things are done out in the open. So if you have a question about why something was committed or a question about why something was done a certain way, all of those answers are right there for you. And also if people can pull stuff out and do stuff on their own, it's fully in the open. That's right. And then people can watch them like playing with the code. Oh, he's on to something. So that draws more collaboration on it versus black boxing it. Certainly. So transparency is key. How about like voting and gamification? Are you guys seeing any dynamics on the roadmap relative to GitHub having more tools around, straight up vote like a Senate vote or like next Supreme Court justice of the code base, whoever that is.  Managing the conflict is a community thing that's been solved and managed governance approaches. But voting is a good thing, right? I mean, collaboration. Yes or no. I think there's, even if you look at some of the ways that other collaborative platforms have done it, some of them have done the thumbs up, thumbs down sort of thing. The way you have to do it though is also as we talked about being empathic to your other developers is what kind of signal do you want to generate from doing that? Do you, because if you do a thumbs down, what does someone mean by that? Do they mean they don't like me? Do they not like my code? Do they not like my idea? I think the thumbs down is, I think Quora screwed up their whole product by having a thumbs down button. In Facebook, they've had a thumbs down button. They have a like button. If you only like, if you don't. So why would you want to have a negative gesture? Sure. But at the same time, I have seen, I was visiting a customer a few months ago and what they have is they have an API that automatically, if they get two thumbs up from managers, that branch is deployed. So in some ways, they've used the approval and say, this looks good to me. It segmented out the authoritativeness of the identity. So there is some, again, data behind the, Exactly.  Absolutely. But I mean, here's the thing, if you have an issue or you would give a thumbs down, there's a reason behind that. Explain the reason behind that. Recomment. Help make it better. Leave a comment. Yeah, don't just comment to be negative or say, I don't like this. Give a reason as to why and what you would change. That way you're mentoring, you're helping. Yeah, that's where the thumbs down hurts because with the thumbs down with no context, with no context, Exactly. It's like, just creates more problems because now it's like, in the absence of information, people will make stuff up. That's what communities do. That's right. And then the trolls jump in. So that attracts trolls and then I digress. Anyway, so back to GitHub. What's up for you guys now? Enterprise product feeling good? GitHub in general. Good sentiment over there right now? Yeah, yeah. It's been a really, it's been an exceptional past few years. It's been really great to see that the, I think the fun and excitement of dot com has translated really well over to customers using GitHub Enterprise. I see the same sort of collaboration that existed, that built 12 million developers on a platform now within the enterprise and I think with IBM, the ability to do more. How long have you guys been with GitHub for? I've been there for just over a year. And I've been there, I'm on my third week right now. Third week, so you guys are new to the culture. Pretty new to the culture, yeah. Although, fairly speaking, we basically doubled our employee base last year. So I look at the list of employees and I was like, God, I'm right in the middle. That's kind of crazy. What did you guys do before GitHub? So I was at a mobile app startup for a while and then I was an industry analyst for a long time. I was an engineer. Which firm? Gartner? Gartner, yeah. I was just crashing on Gartner earlier, but it's okay. Go ahead. Yeah, I was an engineer at Boeing and Rolls-Royce and then after business school, I was in strategy consulting for a bit, ran my own consulting firm for the most, was startups and nonprofits. Well, Chris is not here. I wanted to ask Chris some questions, but what I was going to ask Chris and you could pass on the messages. Can I come into the White House room? I want to see that white, have you been in there? Yeah, yeah, of course. We'll walk into it every morning. Is it totally replica? I've actually been to the White House on a number of occasions and it is legit. It is as legit as it looks. So the folks out there, they have a room that's from complete replica of the White House room. So congratulations. Sandy, congratulations on your work in San Francisco. Continues to do well. We'll be tracking and we'll see you around the town. Thank you. I'm very excited to be working with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise for all the developers out there. Yeah, guys, thanks for coming on. I think you really appreciate it. Cube Madness starts March 15th. That's when we have our March Madness Cube, we're all the nominations come in for the Cube guests and then they go, we're head to head and it ends up becoming a hackathon because everyone stuffs the ballot and so we'll see how that hackathon goes this year. So look for Cube Madness. Go to Twitter and search hashtag Cube Gems to see the highlights from this interview right now, coming off here and all the other highlights. Be right back with more coverage after the short break.


Good morning everybody, we're in Brainerd, Minnesota. This is exactly where we left off yesterday.  And then we all wanna get home to our families. So I hope you took my advice.  Take your time, there's no rush. So today we're taking this empty trailer like I explained yesterday. And we're going from Brainerd, Minnesota on a little bit of a long empty haul on a big old motorcycle doors, sailboat fuel, down to Burlington, Iowa. There's a load down there waiting for us. I gotta pick it up on Monday. When I'm filming this, it's a Friday. Yesterday I told you I was filming on a Friday too, I just realized that. That was Thursday's video, but I ended it on Friday. So today is the real Friday. So I don't pick up this load until Monday morning. So I've got some time to get down there because it's just one day drive to get down there. It's about 500 miles, 800 kilometers. So let's get out there, let's get on the road and go pick up this load. So I know I explained it yesterday already, but this is a little bit of a longer empty haul. Sometimes I do these when they ask me if I want to. There's a nice, shiny little loonie. A $1 coin or a $2 coin. In Canada, we call our loonies, our $1 coin loonies and $2 coins toonies if you're not from here. We're very creative, we're very creative people and that's what makes us awesome. So there's a shiny loonie attached to this load. It's very nice and it's calling my name. I said, look at that. Can you hear it?  He's calling me over there. I know that by the time I get there, it'll be a little bit of a duller coin. What I'm saying is that it's a good paying load and it's bringing me back to Canada up to Saskatchewan. I know that I'm cutting into my profits by going down there empty. I've put that into my calculations and with all my options that I had available to me this weekend and for next week, this was my best option and it's a good one. It's a good one, I'm still gonna be coming ahead or coming out ahead by quite a bit. So my other option was just to go empty from here home and then sit there over the weekend and then not have a plan for next week. Now I have a plan to get next week started with a good load. The only downside is I'm gonna have to sit down in Iowa over the weekend by myself. But the good news is the silver lining on that cloud is that after this next trip, like after this next week, after this is all done, I go home for about a week and a half to move, to get the whole moving process done, to get everything, all the last things packed, to get everything into the new house and to get settled in. So that's exciting. So we have that to look forward to. For now, let's point our nose south towards Iowa. I want a five and then turn right at 216 meters. We just crossed into Iowa on I-35. We're at Exit 214 at Diamond Joe's Casino exit. There's a coming go truck stop just on the other side here that according to my intelligence and my sources is the cheapest juice along my route today. So here I am showing up for my cheap juice. Technology has made things so much better, so much easier. You don't got to call ahead and ask what their fuel prices are. No, you can just put your route into a fancy app. And it'll tell you. It's an app that's attached to my fuel card. How do I get in there? Here we go here. So because we have a fuel card, we get different prices than what it says on the sign. So it says 479.9 a gallon here. My price is a lot different than that. I don't know why, but it's very handy to have that app available to me though. Because I've never fueled up these places before. It'll come and go.  Talking about how good technology is. Something messed up. Cause when I looked at it this morning, it told me that the fuel price here was 4099 for me. Of course the sign says 479.9, right? Now that I'm here, my app is telling me that it is indeed $4.79.99 for me as well here. So I'm not gonna fuel here. Good thing I double checked that before I started pumping, right? That's a big difference between $4.99 per gallon and $4.79 per gallon. Man, and I thought I was getting a steal of a deal. All right, so let's see. Where's the next nearest one? Why did it tell me? It's never done that to me before. It changed on the way here. Cause I double tripled, quadruple checked it. I was like 409, nice. That's the one. And that's why I put the address into my GPS and everything else. Ah, okay. So let's go into my app here. Let's connect it to the car. Okay, I'm gonna have to search along route. From here to Burlington, Iowa. What is the cheapest fuel stop for me? Takes a minute or two. I'm gonna have a couple of seconds here to load up. It really is too bad. Man, here I was all thinking I was being all smart. Oh, I tried to know I was gonna need your cheap juice.  You almost got me. You almost got me. You're too expensive. You don't get me. Nope. Okay, so it looks like the next one would be Casey's. It's $4.20 per gallon. And that's over in Urbana, Iowa. Got the same price as Pilot. Cause if it's the same price as Pilot, I'm just gonna go to Pilot. Where's Pilot? Pilot's 449. Waterloo Pilot 447. Cedar Rapids. Ah, I guess that.  Oh, it's still Casey's, yep. All right, so I guess we'll fuel up at Casey's instead. Sorry, come and go, sorry to get your hopes up. You almost got me. Oh, you sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. What are you doing with the app? We better check when we get to Casey's too, cause you're my witness. $4.29, like $20.9. $4.20.9, so $4.21. I hated that they add that point. There's no such thing as .9 of a cent. $4.21 a gallon. All right, well, we might fuel tomorrow then. Like I still have lots of fuel. Like all the way down to Burlington. Fuel near Burlington, sitting at $4.44 a gallon. $4.39, $4.24 up in Riverside. What about Mount Pleasant? There was a truck stop in Mount Pleasant. That was a Pilot. Pilot Mount Pleasant is, oh, $4.47 a gallon, guess. Nope, nope, that's not the winner. All right, well, I don't really have to go very far. That's the thing, like, I have, let's see. Come on, go to my next stop. I'm going to my next stop. I'll see you to the highlighted route. Four hours of driving ahead of me that I have until Monday to do. So I can do my reset here and then do the four hours Sunday. I'm gonna go a little further down the road and probably stay in Evansdale, I'm thinking. And then we'll fuel up tomorrow or Sunday or something. So I still have half tank. I might even be able to get down to Burlington, get loaded and then fuel on the way home. There's that option too. All right, well, live and learn, right? Always double check everything or check it five times because I've quadruple checked it. So the fifth time I checked it, it changed. Let's get out of here. All right, I'll get out of here. Not gonna fool me. Kind of tight in here. I don't mean to scare you, bud, sorry. I know it said 4099, 4099. I remember that because I was shocked because everywhere else, like the next nearest one is $4.20, right? Look, wow, that's a lot cheaper than everywhere else. I bet you they changed the price today on my way here. I bet you it was 4099 this morning. But by the time we got here, they already jacked up the price to 473. So 473 is my price. The sign says 479.9. So I still got a little discount, right? But not nearly enough. This is a stop sign. I'll let you go. Wasn't very nice. I was a waste of time. Where do you waste my time? Time is money. Back on high.  We have to take off. Remember, we want to try to get up to highway speed before you merge onto the highway. That's what the on-ramp is for. We're gonna use it for its attendant's purpose. How hard was that? I know some people out there need a little reminder that it is possible to merge onto the highway going faster than 40 miles an hour. So I'll throw that out there. See where it lands. See what sticks. In Urbana, Iowa, hopefully they haven't changed their fuel prices. Oh, nice. And this one's out of service. You know what? Yeah, no one. All right, so I'm gonna go down to Mount Pleasant tonight. Which is in Iowa still. There's a flying J there that looks like there should be parking there on a Friday night. We'll see what happens. I'm gonna mark down my fueling here. And let's first check to make sure that they didn't change their fuel prices like come and go did. All right, let's see here. Quickly double check. It should be $4.21 a gallon. That's what they said it was before. Are they gonna stick to it? Where's my pen? What pen? There it is. Why are you over here? Why are you over here? Here, I'm gonna have to write this down in my book too. So I have two copies. All right, here we go. You ready? I'm gonna find fuel, search nearby. One second, it's thinking. They kept their price $4.20.9. So $4.21 a gallon US. I'm gonna fill her up. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. I don't like this. I do not like this parking spot. There's like a little truck beside me there. So I picked the best one I could find, but. We're in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. I put my glasses away already, because I was going in for a shower. I got a glass to go and realize until I saw myself in the screen there. Who is that guy? It's me, I got to put my other eyeballs on. One second. One second. Oh, there you are. Hey, I didn't recognize you. Okay. So I went in to get a shower, right? I've been sitting down here trying to get the app to work. I couldn't get the app to work. I'm like, well, shoot, I grabbed all my shower stuff. I took my card and I walked inside of like, I'd like a shower please. And apparently the whole Pilot Flying J network is down right now. They can't even get me a shower. I'd have to pay for it. I'm not going to pay for it, because I bought fuel earlier this week so that I could have a free shower. I'm going to have a free shower. Dang it. I'm not going to pay for it. There's $17 now. When did that go up? It used to be $15. Now it's $17 for a shower. Everything. Can you guys remember when it was just $10 for a scale and $1 for a Reway? Remember? Doesn't it feel like it's still $10? No, no, no, no, no. It's like $20 for a scale and like $10 for a Reway. Depending on where you go, I guess it's just... I can still remember the fight. I can still remember the $5 pizza. $5 for two slices of pizza. It's like half a pizza. That's gone. You got to wonder. Is it like inflation plays a part in it? Okay, okay. I'll buy that. Inflation. But do you think it could have something to do with greedy guys at the top being like, hey, I see that inflation is going up. I'm going to just jack up my prices and blame it on that and I make more money. Right? Can you see that happening? No, people are honest. That would never happen. That would never happen in the corporate world. They never take advantage of you. They never take advantage of world events or anything.   There's a little bit of a difference here. All these corporations recording record profits and everybody's just sitting here like, how are we supposed to feed our families?  Very nice. Oh boy, I'm starting to sound like the other team now, right? Josh, we're conservatives. We don't talk like this. We don't talk like this. Prices are going through the roof. Are you guys noticing this too or is it just me? I went on a little rant there. Oh, that just came. That just popped out of me. I apologize. I apologize. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes, especially when I'm tired. Can you tell I'm tired? Very often these rants get cut out.  Maybe I'll take it out. I'll listen to it later and make my decision then when I'm not so tired. That's what I do very often. When I go through these rants I'll just leave the footage on my computer and then I'll go over it the next day. I'll be like, alright, let's see if I actually like, stand behind what I said here. Or if it was just random gibbering or if maybe I went too far.   You know, that's bad. Be very, very careful. You always got to walk on eggshells everywhere you go. Ah, well, I hope you guys know that it doesn't matter where you are on what you believe in. As long as your beliefs don't say that you want to kill me, we can be friends. If your beliefs say that I should be dead, well, it's going to be very hard to be friends. We can try, but it's going to let you. Just saying. It's time to go to bed.   We're going to be here now for the next two days. So it's Friday night when I'm filming this. And we have until Monday morning. I'm in Mount Pleasant, so I just have to be a half hour down the road Monday morning. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to stay here all day tomorrow and all day Sunday afternoon or evening. I'm going to drive the half hour down the road there's a truck stop there. I'm going to sleep there. And then 7 a.m. the following morning we're going to be in Burlington to pick up our freight and that freight is taking us to Saskatchewan. It's going to be fun. I do hope you enjoy and I do hope you join us. So remember, be safe out there guys. It's a dangerous world, especially in some parts right now and my thoughts are with all of you in war zones right now. I hope the good guys win. When you're on the road, make sure you think of me. I'm trying to get home to my family so please drive safe out there. See you tomorrow.


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Ukraine's Air Force expects that Russia will build up its number of combat UAVs, while there aren't as many missiles as last year. The matter is different with drones. It is not only about Shahid drones, whose production is increasing, but also about FBV drones.  And means of protection and countermeasures should be planned given that our enemy will build up precisely combat UAVs, Yuri Inet. The spokesperson of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this Inet noted that Russia might resort to new tactics in the war in the future, in particular, in the coming winter period. The enemy uses military trickery. They will act brazenly, perhaps, with some new tactical techniques. These techniques change during the war. The Russians invent something new, the spokesperson said. But Russian troops continue to suffer from low morale. There are shortages of ammunition, and coordination between units has remained poor. A major factor still limiting Russia's capability has been its decision to keep its air force from forging deep into Ukraine after it suffered heavy losses in the war's initial stages. Its attempts to knock out Ukraine's air defenses have failed. Thanks to supplies of Western weaponry, Ukraine now poses an even more formidable challenge to Russian aircraft. Ukrainian military analyst Ola Zhudanov notes that Moscow has maintained a numerical advantage in troops and weapons, despite any weaknesses, while Russia has increasingly tapped its Cold War arsenals, deploying tanks dating to the 1950s to replenish its massive, early losses. Such old weapons can still perform well, Zhudanov said.