over the weekend I let my screen recorder run over some softball games that are taking place it's the regional tournaments and then I just went through the footage and I just said let's see what I can find so this isn't the best it's not the greatest but it's what I found from the few things I screen recorded let's get into it like I saw this batter step up with a black eye no idea what happened no idea how she got it she had one though and then I saw this guy looking somewhere else after the pitch and that made me giggle I saw this batter come up for George Mason who was down by one run to Duke in the seventh inning and she took her practice swing and I thought that's normal and then she stepped in the box and she licked her bat a big old tongue swipe and I thought that's not normal that's a little odd is that going to help her out she's got a 1-0 count pitcher leans back tosses swinging a miss didn't help didn't help but she liked the way taste maybe because she steps out she looks at her bat again she goes let me get that same spot licky licky she likes the bat and it got to be a superstition maybe a big pweag fan and the next pitch ooh she takes that's a strike strike two I'm guessing she licked the bat again but they cut away and strike three so it didn't work this time but maybe it's worked in the past and maybe it'll work again in the future for the bat liquor on George Mason I kept going and I saw this game I saw this Auburn batter get hit by the pitch oh and she did not like it she walks down the pitcher was like does it did she swing does that count as a swing and the batter turns says no it hit me in my forearm right there right there that's where it hit me I didn't like it and here's the replay and the ball comes and just bam right on the forearm vibrates her whole arm the next time she comes to the plate she's got a 2-0 count that's the count you want to swing in she's got the bases loaded it's a one-run game she says hit me again never mind I hit you this time over the fence grand slam onto the plate celebrates with her teammates and she's gonna tell them like I told her I don't like that shit hit me again bitch yeah hit me again bitch yeah remember you hit me right here as payback oh duke was losing to charlotte now if charlotte loses they get eliminated if they win they go to a elimination game both teams they play again because double elimination o2 and watch this batter just foul that one back foul that one back foul this one back staying alive o2 and then she takes that one she fouls it back the next one she's gonna put in play it gets all the way to the wall splits the gap and she's gonna slide into second tying run on the base pass yeah let's fucking go and then the next batter also an o2 pitch that one's up the middle the pinch runner's gonna come around duke ties it up they don't want to play another game they just want to win this one next batter first pitch slices it down the line are they gonna send her no but the go ahead runs on third next batter right back to the pitcher and they come home and get that out but it goes to review and I was thinking well I don't know is there something I don't know about softball because I mean clearly she's out there the glove hits her before she gets to the plate and then the rule is basically the same as MLB you can't block the plate without the ball but once you have the ball you can block the plate all you want and that looks pretty clean to me but they say safe and the fans are like what the ball beater what are they talking about I guess this is what they want to catch her to do when she sets up they want her to not be there but there so even though the runner's way far away she has a lane I don't know I don't really like that call at all in the Long Island Alabama game this was kind of wild the left fielder she runs out for this ball she's gonna get her glove on it and then bounces up it lands on her head then her shoulder and she completes the catch bare-handed she's all jazzed up about it because she's like what are the odds of that so the ball goes off her glove lands on top of her head and then onto like her shoulder and she's gonna grab it you look at both frames at once it hits doink her head keeps it alive and then rolls onto her shoulder then she's like I got it they went and reviewed it and they're like yeah that's cool out great catch and then something similar happened in the Louisville Indiana game this ball's popped up second baseman's like I got it I got it I got it second baseman catches it shortstop kind of knocks it out of her glove and then she catches it bare hand and second baseman is like what because she's all excited like hey I caught it look I caught in the second baseman's like yeah I mean I caught it and then you knocked it out of my glove and then you caught it so I don't know if you get credit for doing well because look it's in my glove and you knock it out and then you catch it second baseman's not giving her extra credit for that I just caught it you didn't have to do any of that so those are some of the things that I saw


Narcissists only care about themselves, part one. They only care about satisfying their own desires, interests or needs. They don't care about you. They don't care about how it affects you. All they care about is their own desires, interests or needs. They are self-absorbed and lack empathy. They lack the ability to share your feelings or experiences. Because they are too preoccupied with their own experience. Their personal experience in life takes priority over anyone else. They have no empathy, compassion, morals or humanity. Because they are so obsessively driven to satisfy their own insatiable desires. That takes priority over anyone or anything else. The only thing that's ever on their mind is how they're going to feed their ego. How they're going to create their situation or circumstance. Where they can then feel special or important. This is the only thing that really matters to them. It's a fantasy that first exists in their heads. And once they are able to visualise it, they will do whatever it takes to make it a reality. This is why they can be so controlling. This is why they have such a strong desire for power. This is why they always have to put people down. It feeds their ego. It makes them feel special or important. But it's never really a reality. It's always a fantasy or an illusion. They just manage to trick people into validating it. There is nothing special or important about them. And they know it. And that is why they have to do all of this. To tailor make these artificial situations or circumstances. Because if they didn't intervene, it would never happen naturally. They would never experience a situation where they might feel special or important. Which is why they have to use force or threats. They have to make people do what they want them to do. Or they will trick or deceive them. They will cheat, lie or steal. Because they know it would never develop naturally. They know that they do not possess the capabilities or potential. To establish anything significant or meaningful on their own. And that is why they have to plan or coordinate the elements of a situation. To produce their desired effect. To get people to validate their illusions. To get people to believe in their fantasy. That's the only thing that makes them feel real to them. And that is why they are dependent on people. Devaliding their illusions. But it's never real. It's either developed by force. Or they've managed to trick people into doing what they want them to do. They have such a desperate need to be in control. And they always have to feel as though they are superior to everyone around them. So whenever they do have influence or authority over anything. It always results in failure. It always results in some kind of disaster. Because they're self-absorbed and they lack empathy. They only care about what they want. But when you're working in a partnership or in a team. You have to take the needs and interests of the other people. If you want to be successful. If you want to establish anything significant or meaningful. The problem is. The narcissist goes into these things like it's every man for himself. But their needs or interests are the only things that matter. Which eventually results in them not getting what they want either. Narcissists have an inferiority complex. They have an unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy. Caused by actual or supposed inferiority. And wants to fear. Which is sometimes compensated by aggressive behaviour. Where they may then be likely to attack or confront you. Because they feel inferior to you. They believe that you are better than they are. In many situations. This can cause you to become a target. You become an object of their attention or attack. Where they then direct all forms of abuse at you. They become fixated on you. They develop an obsessive attachment to you. You continually preoccupy or intrude on their mind. Where they can't stop thinking about you. They can't let things go. Because something about you has injured them. It has made them feel some type of way. But they don't want to self reflect or go with them. It's too painful for them to accept that they feel inferior to you. It's too painful for them to accept that they are envious or jealous of you. It's much easier and more comfortable for them. To assume that something is wrong with you. Or that you are trying to hurt them.  They see it as though they are getting revenge. They see it as though they are harming you. In return for something you have done to them. Because they feel hurt. They feel angry or upset. And they see their feelings as facts. If they feel angry or upset in their minds. That must mean that you must have done something to them. To cause them to feel that way. So they then believe that their behaviour is justified. They believe that it is right or reasonable. They have a dualistic mentality. They see everything in black or white. Good or bad. Right or wrong. They believe that if someone is winning. Someone else must be losing. They see people as either being winners or losers. There is nothing in between. And of course.  So any time that they see someone who they believe to be winning. They will have a desire to cause loss to them. They will feel they need to do something. To sabotage them in some way.  It is triggering them to reflect on their inferiority complex.  To sabotage them in some way. Not because they want to be the winners. But because they don't want to be the losers. They don't like the feeling of losing. Because deep down. They already believe that they are the losers. And they're just doing everything they can. To avoid having to reflect on how they really feel about themselves. So if they have to tear you down. Just to feel like they're not losers for a moment. That is something they will do. Narcissists cannot deal with someone succeeding more than them. It triggers them to reflect on their inferiority complex. And that is not something that they want to deal with. They don't want to acknowledge that they feel inferior to you. They don't want to acknowledge that they are envious or jealous of you. So instead of reflecting on these emotions. They will try to destroy you. They will try to sabotage your success. This then feeds their ego. And makes them feel as though they are special or important. It is very dangerous to be involved with a narcissist. It will never result in a favorable or positive outcome. You will always leave with less than you came in with. People can only do one of two things. They can either build or destroy. And narcissists.  They should not be trusted with anything of significance or value. Because their selfish desires or motives. Will only result in damage and destruction in the end. They are driven by their own self-hatred. To destroy anything of significance or value that other people possess. So that they can feel powerful. So that they can feel in control of something. Rather than feeling insecure. Rather than feeling a lack of confidence in their own qualities or abilities. And that is why narcissists were never meant to have power. They were never meant to have the ability to direct or influence the behaviors of others. And of course of events. Because they will only abuse their power. They will only use their power to destroy those who they believe to be superior to them. Rather than building a platform for them. And giving them the power to make decisions. Will result in a more favorable outcome for the group. Narcissists cannot see things in this way. Because they only care about themselves. They only care about their own selfish needs or desires. They have no interest in helping other people. Especially people who they see as more superior than they are. Even if it is more favorable for them in the end. Thank you for watching. I hope this video raised it with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you are liking the name. My PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries can be with me. I'm out of other coaching at gmail.com. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Thank you for having me in such an important event. As mentioned, my name is Aline Lopez-Sampson. I'm working with Katia. I'm from Costa Rica. And today I presented the lesson learned about mixed plantations in Latin America. To begin with, why mixed plantations? We know that planted forests are an important part of the global forest state in many parts of the world. A variety of reasons can explain this trend, such as one, a reduced supply of commercial timber from native forests, but also at the same time we have an increase in demand of timber and other biomaterial from planted forests. Likewise, planted forests are important for landscape restoration and climate change mitigation efforts of many countries. For example, in the Bound Challenge Initiative, 45% of countries restoration pledges are considered in the use of commercial plantations as one of the pathways for restoration. Our reforestation, we must record, is one of the three approaches used to respond to forest loss and degradation across the tropics. And we have heard that plantation forests are also expected to triple in area by the end of the century. Hence, well-managed and appropriately located plantations in the landscape are crucial for not only the accomplishment of restoration targets as we have seen, but also for safeguarding the positive outcomes from tree planting. Why mixed plantation again? Okay, mixed timber plantations are not a new concept. There are a few successful examples throughout history, such in Europe and North America and several researchers have acknowledged the multiple benefits of having mixed plantation in the landscape, not only to forest it, but also for the environment, such as diversification that is a really important thing, species selection and financial benefits for landowners. Here, I'm presenting the existing evidence on mixed plantation in Latin America that can improve both the environmental performance of commercial reforestation while simultaneously ensuring productivity. Well, we did a little literature review and retrieve recent and relevant literature from the period of 2005 to 2019 that included peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, working papers and conference proceedings written in three languages, Spanish, English and Portuguese. And we use different web-based search engines, such as the IC, Web of Science Database, Google Scholar and other regional search engines. The key war stream used were mixed plantations in combination with management or productivity or restoration or biodiversity. And the output of the search was a list of literature of mixed plantations in Latin America and their role or their potential role in landscape restoration and novel production system. Some of the key findings and results of this literature review, we have that the studies were carried out in 14 Latin American countries. We have three countries, mainly Brazil, Costa Rica and Panama, had the biggest share of the studies conducted on mixed plantations. 88% of the examine articles summarized information based on primary data. And we have the remaining 12% were review papers or meta-analysis. Most of the findings evidence of the studies were generated on research plots. 65% of the studies analyzed, just a few study, 26% presented the results from private initiatives, be in large or small-scale plantations. The remaining 9% were the results from projects. So we retrieved 140 relevant articles. From this amount of articles, only 49 were selected for further review and then grouped on teams. Eight teams were proposed based on the attributes and processes discussed in the articles. As you can see in the graph. In the vertical axis, we have the proportion of articles analyzed and in the horizontal axis, the teams or topic areas. In the left side of the graph, we have the most common topics studied in the articles and they were growth performance, species site selection and interaction and the lesser study topics were the link between mixed plantations and biodiversity or the physiological processes, mediating productivity in mixed forest plantations. The combination of species was site or context-dependent. So we can draw any comparison between countries. However, we can know that the mixtures provided evidence of intentional mixes and the complementarity or competition between species. For example, it was common, the combination of different life cycle tree species. For example, every pioneered and late colonizing tree species with multiple trees. Other result that we have is the native species where they prefer tree species to inter-crop. In this table, we have some example of species combinations, planting designs, a feature evaluated in the mixtures. In these studies or research plot, we have the opportunity to see evidence and the opportunity that the use of native forest tree species to enhance the environmental value of monocrops at the landscape level and also the mixed plantation can provide some evidence of the switchability of new approaches to produce wood-based products. For example, in these two first examples, we have the combination of eucalyptus with acacia. And in this case, the main find is where the eucalyptus grew better only in the monoculture. However, acacia performed better only within the mixtures. In the other case that is also in Brazil, this research plot combined eucalyptus with a high diversity of native species. The main resource of this trial where the eucalyptus growing in monoculture as expected yielded very biomass that their counterpart growing in the highly diverse mixtures. However, at true level, we see that eucalyptus grew better in the mixtures and occupied 75% of the mixtures of the total basal area produced by eucalyptus in monoculture. Even the tree density of eucalyptus growing in mixtures was only 50% of the tree density that is normally used in a monoculture. In regard to native species, their growth performance was affected negatively by eucalyptus, but their performance was proportional to the performance in other similar growing systems. In other countries, such as in Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica, we have that the mixed forest plantations included only the use of native species. And in these cases, their growth was comparable to the growth of non-native species or other valuable local species growing in monoculture. In general, we can see that poor growth was observed in the mixtures in comparison to more traditional tree species established in monocrops. However, mixed plantations seemed to be the best option to grow valuable timber native species. And in some cases, the growth of the native species was in range to non-native species or other valuable local species. Also, we can see that the decision of the type of tree species to intercrop varied according to the objective of the research project country and plant availability. This is really important because we have this constraint of plant availability. As we have seen, exotic species are really important in the settings for monoculture and mixed plantations. And in Latin American countries, such as in Central America, the native species are really popular. As we have seen, there is an opportunity for mixed forest plantations in the forestation schemes projects. But we need to double the effort to mainstream this approach in order to provide a more diverse landscape that incorporates native and non-native tree species in different arrangements. Of course, I'm answering the big question about productivity and environmental benefits and of course, social benefits as well. Thank you.


Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for the introduction, Jim. And I wanted to talk to you today about the bigger picture of collaboration. And to do so, I'm going to start by talking about skateboarding. So when I was preparing for this keynote, I was telling a friend how I'd been listening and watching talks for good examples and inspiration.  And Rodney Mullen's considered the godfather of street skating. He invented many of the quintessential tricks, like the flat ground ollie, the heel flip and the dark slide and so on. So I'm listening to this talk and he's describing his experience with early success and the evolution of the sport and how he had to adapt his style. And then he starts talking about how skateboarding tricks develop by creating tricks on top of foundational tricks and combining several movements. And then he starts talking about the skateboarding community. And he's really, really passionate about the beauty in that no one guy is the best. And he says that real respect is given by how much someone takes what others have done, contributes to it themselves and makes it their own and then contributes it back in a way that edifies the community itself. So at this point, I'm sitting there thinking, hmm, this sounds really familiar. And sure enough, the next slide is titled open source and hackers. And he draws a comparison saying how the basic ethos of the open source community is to take something, make it better, give it back so we can all rise further. Now I should have said earlier that my friend doesn't actually know what I do for a living. He just thought it was a great talk and it was inspirational and it was. And listening to Rodney Mullen talk about community and what I would call collaboration got me thinking about a few things. The first thing it got me thinking about is I come to a lot of these conferences as I'm sure you do. And we always talk about how powerful collaboration is and how it's such a superior way of creating things, software in particular. And Jim Zemlin has to come up with increasingly creative ways of telling us or showing examples of how and what can be accomplished through the collaborative model. I mean, if you didn't know any better, you'd think the people in this room, nope, are we gonna turn this off? Okay, great. Sorry about that. So you'd think the people in this room had invented the whole concept of collaboration. But you can actually find examples of collaboration all around us, like in the way skateboarding evolved from freestyle to street skating by adapting to a new environment. The other thing that this got me thinking about was the appeal of collaboration. I mean, when Rodney Mullen started talking about community and building off of what others had done, I was really alert. I was paying attention. I felt kind of excited. Why? I think it's because there's something inherently compelling about the values that underpin collaboration. To draw from what Mullen said and some things that ring true for me and the things I've observed in this community, I think it's about being motivated by the respect from your peers, the satisfaction of creating something others can use and being part of a community that you helped build and you can see other people contributing that and taking it to the next level. I think for many of us, there's something really attractive about that. It draws us in, it inspires us, and it motivates us. I mean, I know personally, if I think about the accomplishments that I've had both professionally and personally, they have a lot to do with one or all of these values. So this got me to thinking about my own profession, about lawyers. Can lawyers collaborate? We don't really have a collaborative atmosphere. Our work's not usually thought of creative and we generally work in isolation or in an adversarial space or both. At its worst, the legal profession is one that emphasizes pride and never admitting that you're wrong or you don't know something and emphasizes beating or outwitting or outnegotiating your peers. And we certainly don't reuse each other's work or at least admit we do. If you're an in-house lawyer, I think you're generally kept in a windowless room. Doing a good job means that you, no one notices you while you seamlessly ensure that the company stays within the bounds of the law while meeting its business objectives. So none of this really sounds like a good setup for a collaborative model. But what can lawyers learn from this? Why can't we benefit from the collaborative model? How can I convince my community that sharing and contributing is sometimes better than silos and silence? So I'll come back to that question but I wanna tell you another story. A few years ago, I was at Collabs Summit and I was asking colleagues, what have you been up to? What have you been working to do? Catching up, as you do, at these kinds of things. And I noticed that the answer was largely the same or several people said the same thing and they said I've been working on open source training. And this was interesting because so had I.  I mean, we're covering the same foundational stuff. So what a waste of time, right? Putting slide decks together, take a long time even when there aren't very many slides in them. So why are we sharing this stuff? But even if I had decided to share the slides that I did, how would I go about doing that in a way that was useful? That people could know they could rely on them or even find them. And it was the same kind of thing when I asked people about how they manage open source software in their companies. The answers were largely the same but no one was really sharing that information. It was exchange and conversations personally behind closed doors. And I noticed about a year or two ago at events like this, a couple people started to speak publicly describing their processes or lessons learned but this was rare. And it was only a few years before that some companies actually thought how they managed open source software was a competitive advantage. So it starts to sound like what I was describing with lawyers, silos and silence and secrets behind closed doors. Maybe my question from earlier should be brought in to ask what can companies and their internal processes learn from the collaborative model beyond sharing code and collaboration and collaborating on software? Cause clearly we're pretty good at that. So that's an important question to ask because we have all these companies trading in software. No one makes a product all by themselves but companies aren't necessarily good at understanding how to trade in something that's open. What companies are really good at and the lawyers employed by them protecting IP, confidential negotiations, internal processes. But that doesn't really serve the reality of software moving through the supply chain because at each step the business concerns are actually the same. We wanna protect and respect the IP rights of others. We wanna comply with the licenses for the software we're using. We wanna be aware of potential security vulnerabilities or any weaknesses. Basically we wanna make informed decisions about accurate info about what's in our products or the software from our vendors. But in order to that we have to ask what's there. Or we have to know what's there and in order to know what's there we have to ask. And even when we ask and we receive that information we have no idea how it was compiled or what processes supported putting that information together. And the result is that a massive amount of time is spent gathering that information in the first instance and then more time is spent negotiating warranties and indemnities to back it up. So back to the lawyers. But how can we take the advantage of collaboration and imply it to making software moving through the supply chain will have less friction and build trust? What if we had a collaborative group to solve this to help define what the processes look like? So enter open chain. As Jim said, open chain is a new Linux Foundation Collaborative Project with a vision of a software supply chain where free and open source software is delivered with trusted and consistent compliance information. Now open chain was a brainchild of my friend Dave Mar who's open source attorney at Qualcomm. And I'll never forget when Dave first told me his idea cause the conversation started like this. He said, Jelaine, I want to put us out of business. And by us he meant open source lawyers. Now I know there's a few of you who would love to see that day. I think the idea here was if we could establish these guidelines and do it in a collaborative way instead of hidden internal processes, then maybe we could get to a point where at least the lawyers don't have to ask so many questions. And I know that would make all of us a lot happier. So to achieve that vision, we've created a specification that describes the requirements of effective FOS management. And those requirements in the associated collateral are developed collaboratively and openly by members of the software supply chain, the open source community, and academia.  It's really important that everybody can meet those. And they are just tailored to say a bigger company. The idea here is if we can all agree this is what good FOS management looks like, then we can be able to say, I do that. And then we can trust the information that we've passed along to each other about much more. Because by peeling back the curtain, opening the closed doors, we have transparency. And as you all know, with transparency comes trust and with trust comes freedom to do other things, right? So this is a great time to introduce you to open chain. We just became a collaborative project for the governing board earlier this year. We were working for about a year before that as an informal work group. And so I just wanna start by giving an overview of sort of three key areas we're working on. So the first is the specification. This is the description of what effective FOS looks like. And there's requirements and then rationale of describing sort of why it's important. And it's organized into six goals. I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a minute. We've just released the first version of the specification this week. So hopefully you'll check it out. And one of the requirements is FOS training. So we have a curriculum team that's put together training materials to meet that requirement, sort of a stock set. So here was the answer to the question I asked earlier in the story about talking to people at Cloud Summit. Then, so that initial set of training slides, by the way, is also now available. And tomorrow here in Berlin, we're gonna start working on a teacher's guide to go along with them. So maybe some of you will join us tomorrow. And then the third group or part of the open chain that we have or team is the conformance team. So this is looking at setting up a way to self-certify that one's met the requirements of the specification. And initially this is gonna take a sort of self-test or web-based questionnaire that you can fill out or have your vendors fill out to say, yep, I do all these things. So I wanna talk a little bit more about the specification since that's sort of the nuts and bolts. It's organized into six goals. So I'm gonna walk through them briefly and remember to have this in my hand. So the first one is know your FOSS responsibilities. So this means you have a FOSS policy that's written and communicated. And you also have FOSS training for all the relevant software staff. So this goes back to that curriculum team I mentioned earlier. Goal two is that you have assigned responsibility for FOSS compliance. So this means you've assigned it internally. There's someone responsible and it's resourced for achieving FOSS compliance. And that also means you have an external contract that outside people can get in touch with in case there's any inquiries about compliance or the open source software you're using. Goal three is review and approve FOSS content. So this means that you have a process for identifying and tracking the FOSS used in your software and that process is robust enough to capture whatever the typical use cases are, how you're using the software in your organization. Goal four is that you deliver FOSS content documentation artifacts. So this is compliance, right? This is making sure that you've met those requirements and you're doing it right and so forth and so on, pretty important. In order to do that, you have to have all the information that comes before. So I think one of the keys to goal three and four is having what I would call a complete set of data about your software. And this is where another project that under the Linux foundation comes in that Jim mentioned earlier, the software package data exchange, or you might have heard of it as SPDX which is basically a common way to communicate information about software moving through the supply chain such as the license, the copyright notice, where it came from, the package number version and so forth, package name and the version number and so forth. Goal five is understanding FOSS community engagement. So this means you have a policy addressing external contributions you make to external projects and a process to support that. It might be a one-liner, it might be part of your bigger FOSS policy but I really think it's important that we included this here because as we all know, the typical entry point to using open-source software is consumption. And it's usually later, hopefully, that companies realize, oh, I should really engage with the community that's to my benefit to do that. So I like that we've recognized this even in the first version of the spec. And goal six is the conformance piece I mentioned before. How do you certify adherence to the open chain requirements? And as I said, this is gonna start out as a self-certification questionnaire that we're working on now. So easy, right? Why don't we do this sooner? I mean, if you put it all together and you can say, this is what we think good FOSS management looks like, then we can rely on the information we see and when we do that, we can build trust. And with trust, like I said before, it becomes freedom. And I think this is especially great for small and mid-sized companies. A couple of years ago at LinuxCon Chicago, Eileen Emmons did a talk on about the open-source professional, sort of a rise in the need for people who can bridge the legal engineering and business worlds, which is critical for managing open-source software and a lot of questions that we come across. And so now I feel like the people in that position have been tasked with that and their companies, who I'm seeing an increasing number of, they have the place to start. They have something to refer to that's been developed by the people who've been doing this maybe longer and more experienced. And instead of toiling away in that windowless room, they can enter a community, collaborate, and help make it better right away. So by way of example, let me tell you a little bit why this is important to the company that I work for, ARM. I think it's fair to say that ARM sits at the beginning of the supply chain. ARM has a unique business model. We are an IP licensing company, and we created an ecosystem of partners which is critical to our success. So we already know something about trust and collaboration. We have to do things right for our partners. But I think we also have an opportunity, given our position in that ecosystem, to be in an example, to start things out on the right foot. Because ARM cares deeply about our ecosystem and making our partners successful. And by being involved in Open Chain, we can demonstrate that value that we place on that partnership by helping build something others can use. And we're not the only company that thinks this is important. These are the Platinum members who comprise the governing board of Open Chain. A few familiar faces on that slide, I think. And also a pretty varied representation. But this slide doesn't even show all the community members from other companies, law firms, and community organizations who are contributing to Open Chain and working towards its success. So Open Chains run like other collaborative projects. Anyone can join, anyone can participate, and all the work's done in the open. And some of the things we'll be working on and need help with includes working on the specification. We've got the first version out, but of course we're always gonna make improvements and there'll be other versions. Also the curriculum slides I mentioned, we have the first version out, we'll be working on those. And the training module, excuse me, the teacher's guide to go with those, the conformance questions, website issues, and so forth and so on. So my question to all of you is this, if someone from your company isn't already following or contributing to Open Chain, who's it gonna be? When you go back to your office after spending time in this lovely city, who are you gonna go have a chat with to get involved with Open Chain? To make doing software business easier for all of us so we can focus on the more fun, challenging, and differentiating aspects of all of our jobs. I was going to start this talk by telling you how up until my prep for this talk and watching the Rodney Mullen video, all I knew about skateboarding was what I learned at LinusCon San Diego when I got this awesome custom Linux skateboard and got to take a lesson at lunchtime. And at that point, all I knew about skateboarding was it was really hard. I didn't really have those foundational tricks to put everything together. But as it turns out, I know a lot about skateboarding because I know about community collaboration and lots of you know about collaboration in building great software. So let's make Open Chain successful by using that knowledge here. Thanks.


This is Heidi Joy-Trathaway with the OpenStack Foundation and Jonathan Bryce, our Executive Director. This is our preliminary marketing preview for the Mitaka release. Without any further ado, Jonathan, would you please take it away for us? As Heidi Joy said, this is kind of our high-level overview of what Mitaka represents. We're still a few weeks out from the release. And so, you know, this is information that we have gathered with the help of the development leaders and the product working group who did a lot of extensive work in going through every project and gathering detailed information and bubbling it up into themes. But, you know, if there are other pieces of feedback or other things that are interesting to you, we definitely want to hear that input as we get close to the release. Mitaka is the 13th release of OpenStack. OpenStack is a framework for building cloud services and integrating all kinds of different technologies together. On the compute side, for instance, it's bringing together virtual machines, bare metal container frameworks, and doing that all under a single set of APIs so that organizations can really take advantage of the diversity of technologies within their data center, but without having to have a lot of different islands of technology in their data center. And, you know, this is a concept that we started talking about really in depth in Vancouver last year. And as we have seen adoption ramp up with new deployments and bigger deployments, it's been really cool to see how this is a message that has definitely resonated with users and potential users. This is a situation that almost every organization is facing. They have a variety of technologies. They have a variety of needs. They have existing applications that they have to run and continue to maintain, but they want to be able to develop new software to deploy new applications faster and faster. And OpenStack is really the only set of technologies out there that enable this diverse set of use cases and the ability to integrate everything from traditional enterprise storage system to distributed open source storage system. So it's a powerful set of tools and I think a powerful message that has really been resonating with a lot of the organizations that we talked to. We talked about this for the last couple of releases, but we've gotten past the core set of base level functionality, kind of the table stakes for cloud technology, and the community has really focused on making it easier to deploy OpenStack, to manage it, to scale it. And within the Metaka release cycle, another thing that I think was really important as a theme that emerged was a focus on the experience of the cloud user, not just the cloud operator, but the end user of the cloud, the developer or the application deployer. And so there was a lot of work across projects to focus on things like the API and different elements of the user experience, different pieces of kind of the user interface, to provide more consistency and a better kind of unified platform experience for end users. The manageability and scalability, a lot of work continues to go into those. We continue to see really interesting new deployments, and those operators are getting involved in bringing their feedback around what they need to see, whether it's, you know, I need finer grained security controls, I need more scalable orchestration, I need, you know, an easier way to deploy networking. And it's really awesome to see how that is feeding back into the development cycle, and we're seeing, you know, specific work items that are coming out in response to those pieces of feedback. One of the things that was pretty cool to see come to fruition was work that's been done on the OpenStack client. There's a web interface that provides a graphical interface to manage OpenStack resources. But there are also a lot of times when an end user wants to script specific actions against an OpenStack file, they want to be able to automate it or tie it into configuration management, or, you know, just work on a command line to perform bulk actions. There's a tool that's been being worked on, it's called the OpenStack client, and it unifies the interface and the access across multiple OpenStack services. And so it's pretty cool because the approach that it takes is very much how do you use OpenStack holistically as a platform, like providing a consistent set of calls for creating resources, whether you're creating a network, creating a block storage device, or creating a virtual machine. As an end user, I don't have to kind of learn the intricacies of each particular service API if I am trying to get started quickly and, you know, script against them. So this is something that really, I think, kind of provides a greatly improved end user experience. There's been improved support for software development kits across a number of different languages, again, so that programmatically developers can work with OpenStack environments more effectively. One of the API level improvements that was implemented in the Mutaka timeframe was a function in Neutron, which is informally called Get Me a Network, and it basically takes all of the steps necessary to create a network and attach a server to it and, you know, give an IP to that server and really get it on the network and accessible down to a single function. This was one of those specific pain points for people who were trying to move from NOVA network before to Neutron, because this was something that was simpler and kind of a simple NOVA network model but was more complicated when you moved over to the more powerful Neutron system for managing networks. So this is something that the work in Neutron was completed for this, and we've actually talked to some operators and asked them, you know, what are some of the advancements that you're really excited about? And this was one that they called out specifically. The next step is to integrate this fully into the compute side of things so that it really becomes a single call to basically get a server and get it on the network. It'll be even simpler than kind of in the old model. Manageability is really about how do we improve the lives of the person who's operating the OpenStack cloud, that set cloud administrator. These projects have been working on simplifying the configuration for the different projects. In some cases, that means reducing the number of options. In some cases, it means putting in more defaults so that you don't have to necessarily go through and set every single configuration option. And we definitely saw a lot of work on this in NOVA specifically. Keystone is the identity management service to improve the setup for Keystone. And, you know, if you look at all of the steps that are necessary to get from, you know, I've installed Keystone to its running, to its authenticating against the backend service, to, you know, it's handing out the tokens that users need, authenticating requests and connecting services. They've now set this up so that, again, in a default scenario, it's basically one step to get through all of that. And then continued improvements in Neutron for layer three networking. And DVR is distributed virtual router, which is basically an improvement for availability and scalability of the routers that Neutron creates on the network. You might remember that last time we talked about how there was a concept called a convergence engine that first appeared in Liberty and continued to be developed on in Metaca. And the idea there is that, you know, as you start to use heat, you end up with actions that can be split and distributed across multiple nodes, but heat has to be aware of what those actions are and if they can run in parallel or if they have to run in sequence. It's a pretty complicated logic to figure out on the orchestration engine side. And so the heat team over the last few releases has been working to build that in so that it can be acted in kind of a more distributed way and properly handle those different orchestration actions across the horizontally scaled deployment of heat. And that includes, you know, this mentioned stateless node as well. That includes the ability to distinguish between actions that need to maintain states or actions that are stateless. And as you start to build all of that into the heat engine, you get to where you can handle more complex and, you know, a higher number of actions and a greater load inside your heat system as you scale it out horizontally. Designated as the DNS service, DNS zones are basically the set of records that exist under a domain name like www.openstack.org. When you are managing a DNS zone, you want those to be distributed across a lot of servers so you have high availability, but if you end up with a lot of DNS records then distributing those around can start to impact performance and scale. And so incremental zone transfers gives you the ability to basically do partial scale and partial replication of DNS updates. It makes it much more scalable as you create more and more DNS records. And again, you know, if you think about the point of open stack, it's to automate all of those different resources. And ITs and DNS are one of the things that in a cloud world are getting set up much more frequently because they're part of automated processes rather than, you know, in kind of the pre-cloud world where this was done manually by a network administrator. So you have to adjust the way that DNS systems are managed so that, you know, if you create 100 or 1,000 of these in a day it doesn't impact the performance of your DNS servers. The Furnit tokens are the new model now for how authentication tokens get passed around. And the Furnit token model is a model that doesn't require constant lookups back to a central keystone back in. So it allows a keystone service to be able to handle more authentication requests and an open stack cloud overall to be able to perform more actions without a keystone becoming a bottleneck. And then the last one that's mentioned here is continued work on Cells v2 and the NOVA project as well as more updates on the scheduler and the efforts that were started in the Liberty cycle around Cells v2 and pluggable schedulers. As a review Cells is the concept that was brought into NOVA a couple of years ago now as a way to horizontally scale not just the nodes inside of a compute cluster but actually to kind of horizontally scale out multiple compute clusters. And the initial version was really useful for a specific set of use cases that it was initially developed for. But as we've gone through the years we have more and more cloud environments that are between past hundreds to thousands and even tens of thousands of physical nodes inside of the environment. And so having a horizontally scalable way to manage open stack environments across different data center locations, different availability zones in a data center is really becoming a key point of scale inside of open stack. Cells v2 is really the architecture of that concept and the culmination of a lot of work with different operators by the NOVA development team. So there's been more good progress in Mitaka on that. And that's really going to be kind of the long term model for scaling compute in open stack. Here we have a quadrant with a few different categories of usage that we have started to see really taking off. Enterprise private cloud, these are organizations that you probably recognize because organizations that we've had speak at different open stack summits like Wal-Mart and eBay and TD Bank. But there's a new one in here which is really, I think, one of those companies that's synonymous with enterprise technologies and that's FAP. We've talked to FAP recently and they're going to be speaking at the summit in Austin which is really exciting to have them come and join us there. But they obviously create some of the most well-known enterprise software out there but they themselves as a company, they also run a lot of different environments and have a pretty complex enterprise IT environment which they are transitioning to run on top of open stack. And so they have a great news story and they're going to come talk about that in Austin. The public cloud service providers, that's one of the original use cases for open stack and sometimes we don't talk about it as much but we really started to see some cool success with different service providers who are building out public cloud offerings on top of open stack technology. And in some cases they are vertically focused on a specific industry or perhaps regionally focused. A couple of weeks ago there were several announcements that came out from some of these companies. City Networks is a company in Europe that operates a public cloud and they have a specific public cloud offerings for financial services organizations in the European Union. They announce a big user win with a large insurance company in Europe. DataCentered is a public cloud provider in the UK and HMRC, which is the tax service in the UK, announced that they were deploying their front ends for business and individual taxes on top of DataCentered's cloud. So it's cool to see some of these end users that are building on top of open stack cloud. And then Deutsche Telecom just announced a major public cloud initiative using open stack. So it's cool to see that traction as well. We talked a lot about the telecom industry and network functions virtualization. We're going to have AT&T speaking at the Austin Summit. They made some amazing progress in 2015. They talked about how they've deployed 74 data centers now with open stack and are running production network workloads on top of those open stack environments in addition to internal enterprise workloads. They've already been deploying it at big scale, but they have really large plans over the next few years as they continue to roll this out across their whole network. And we see other telecoms all over the globe like Deutsche Telecom, at Deutsche Telecom in South Korea, Swisscom and others who are Verizon and others who are building similar services. And then the final category is research and academia and big data. Nectar has been a long time open stack deployment in Australia. It's a combination of several open stack clouds that a different university is down there that provide a big pool of resources for researchers. Chameleon is a similar effort that is being deployed here in the U.S. There's actually one of the big locations is here in Austin at the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center coordinated with University of Chicago and with the big grants from the National Science Foundation. It's running workloads already for several hundred researchers across the U.S. doing some interesting stuff from biomedical things to machine learning. And so that's something that, you know, we've had CERN, for instance, has been a marquee user and driven a lot of strong leadership and involvement in an open stack for years. And it's cool to see that continuing to develop as an area of usage. Just wanted to highlight a couple of things that have been going on in case you're not familiar, I've been following some of the community activities over the last release cycle or six months. One really cool thing that happened this last weekend, we hosted our first open stack app hackathon. It took place in Taiwan and it was in collaboration with the government as well as local universities and then a couple of different, you know, companies and organizations in the open stack ecosystem. And they had 36 teams who competed to, they were building kind of apps and projects that were focused on smart cities and kind of the future of smart cities. So it was a really cool competition. We actually had the prime minister of Taiwan that attended to support it and help give out some of the prizes. And we're actually flying the winning team to come to the Austin Summit and show off what they built. And most importantly, we've been working with the community and with the local organizers to have this kind of be the pilot app hackathon and it's a template that we're putting together to roll out in many different communities. We're hoping to run two or three more of these this year as we really focus on this app developer audience and generally educating more of that ecosystem people. Jonathan was talking about some of the new research users that we have. There's a new scientific working group that's come up. We've had a lot of interest there. They're going to be having their first meeting at the Austin Summit. And if it's something that you're interested in, there's definitely something you should participate in and follow along. I think there's a wiki page with some of the group members and how to get involved. We've talked for quite a while about NFB. We've continued to build a strong relationship with OKNFB as well as quite a few telecom operators. We're seeing a lot of momentum and traction there. I believe that next week we're going to be having a board meeting and then OKNFB is also going to be having a board meeting in the same location around the Linux collaboration summit. There's going to be some joint meetings happening there just trying to build relationships between the communities and define more of that workflow so that OpenSTAT can be the platform for NFB. Finally, just wanted to call out the Austin mid-cycle that happened in February in Manchester. It seemed like an extremely successful event. It was the first one that happened in Europe, so we weren't sure how many people were going to attend. And it ended up being at capacity, I believe between 150 and 200 people there. But it seemed like a very productive event. Overall, just getting the operators together and building out that community has really, I think, made an impact on the development process and also just helping them feel kind of more close to the community and heard. And I know that the product working group and enterprise working group were also out there and meeting and sprinting on some content and just generally getting really ingrained with the operators and users, which was great to see. The app hackathon was really exciting because there were, as she mentioned earlier, I think 36 teams, a couple hundred developers. There were actually a lot of female engineers that came to participate, and they built and deployed applications, I think almost 300 applications, on top of an open-stack environment that a local company had set up for that hackathon. Everything from an automated system for growing potatoes to things to try to solve parking problems in a big city, all kinds of interesting things. As she mentioned, the Prime Minister came, was really impressed with the community and actually, you know, since then, we've seen some really strong interest from a number of parts of the Taiwanese government and academic institutions in having a strong participation in the Austin Summit. So overall, it was a really, really cool thing to see and a big success. Hand it back to you, Heidi Julie, to talk about the timeline for the Mitaka rollout. Thank you. We've added the Mitaka release logo to our marketing assets, so that's openstack.org forward slash marketing. We'll have the press and analyst briefings coming up at the end of next week. So we are on the path to finalizing our press release and fine-tuning the messaging. You've had the opportunity to really see us in full work mode and full draft mode. That's why we call this kind of the marketing preview, so we're continuing to work on this over the next couple of weeks. And then Thursday, April 7th, it's the birthday of Mitaka. So we will have the release website live. It'll look very much like the Liberty website that you saw last round. We'll also have a demo video, and we saw more than 30,000 views on YouTube of our Liberty Cycle demo video. People are really interested in seeing how the product works, and so I'm really excited to have that as a major asset available for you. That'll also be part of our Mitaka release website. We'll have these graphics available, and then we'll be releasing the press release at 801 Pacific. Finally, you can also take a look at some of the interviews that we did with project team leaders about the Mitaka design series. We started interviewing them right after the Tokyo summit, and then all the way through the mid-cycle, talking to them about what the hot topics were for their team and then what features they were planning to deliver. If you want to get a little closer to the action, hear straight from their PTL's mouth, learn a little bit more about the background of projects or the user concerns or major issues that they identified that they were working to solve in the Mitaka release, I'd encourage you to take a look at this YouTube playlist that'll go through many of those conversations. Finally, I wanted to send a huge shout-out to the product workgroup, and specifically the roadmap team led by Shamile to hear from IBM. They really killed themselves to pull together some amazing content for us. I'm hoping at the end of next week we'll be able to see a first look at that community-generated roadmap. That includes 100-foot view, kind of at that project level, specific features or enhancements. A thousand-foot view that kind of rolls that up into bigger themes or bigger goals, and then that 10,000-foot view that really looks at themes that unite all of these projects, like scalability, modularity, manageability, some of the themes that Jonathan spoke to earlier this morning. I'd really encourage you to take a look at the roadmap when it's released. They'll also be doing a presentation at the Austin Summit, and it really helps you delve into all of the different things that are happening across the OpenStack ecosystem with regard to the projects and the new features coming out. That said, I think we can wrap up now, and I thank you very much for joining us on this call.


Ms. Will St. Lucia 2021 recently paid a royal visit to partners who have come on board with the events company of St. Lucia to lend support and ensure her success at the Ms. Will contest in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 16, 2021. Let's have a look. The events company of St. Lucia ACSL is leading St. Lucia's journey to Ms. World 2021. The entity hopes that the procurement of the Ms. World franchise will improve the quality of local patents by attracting a higher caliber of patents. The move is also expected to create international marketing opportunities for St. Lucia due to increased exposure for the country at the Ms. World patent and allow export avenues to be explored. To ensure the success of this undertaking, the ACSL has attained the support of various agencies. Tyler Pfeofan, St. Lucia's representative for the Ms. World patent, on Wednesday 23 June 2021, visits at partner agencies. Each entity will aid in her journey to Quinn Ship. The agencies collaborating with the events company of St. Lucia include Export St. Lucia, who will assist in developing a line of merchandise for the brand, Ms. World St. Lucia for sale in the local, regional and international markets. St. Lucia Tourism Authority in collaboration with ACSL will develop a marketing campaign for Ms. World St. Lucia to be rolled out in regional and international markets. The campaign will highlight St. Lucia's strengths and beauty as a nation and as a people. The Cultural Development Foundation will create a cultural training and development education program for the participant as well as a cultural package for delivery by Tyler Pfeofan at Ms. World 2021 and ensure authenticity on the matters relating to the culture of St. Lucia, including folklore, costume, music and language. Citizenship by investment St. Lucia CIP St. Lucia will use its platforms and partnerships to help access professional services and resources in support of St. Lucia's participation in Ms. World 2021. The Sao Paulo Community College, too, is playing its part, providing training and development to Tyler Pfeofan in the areas of elocution and public speaking, as well as Spanish in preparation for the contest in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tyler Pfeofan will also be pursuing a bachelor's degree in environmental science and sustainability with the Sao Paulo Community College as part of this engagement. Tyler Pfeofan will be representing St. Lucia at the Ms. World Patent on December 16, 2021, from the Government Information Service, Hrimedi Mark reporting.


People will start saying is magical or mystical simply because different dimension of perception has opened up. If you activate the energy system to its fullest possibility, transmission is natural. If you have eighty-four, you have crossed many, many limits which normally people think are superhuman. I wanted to know how does the guru transfer the yogic knowledge for information by means of transmission? The mechanics of it? The mechanics of that? How is it done? Like a cordless microphone, you know? See, without being wired, you're able to transmit. You're quite capable. It's happening, isn't it? So how? See, half the one hundred and fourteen chakras that are there in the body. A chakra literally means a wheel. But what we are referring to is the junction points of the nadis or the energy pathways in the body. These pathways always meet in the form of a triangle. A wheel means a circle. Definitely triangular wheels are more jazzy, isn't it? Better? They always meet in the form of triangles but we call them a chakra because when we see in somebody, we see it more as a circle because it's radiating a certain dimension of energy. Because it's radiating, all radiation always happens in circular form. You might throw a triangular stone into a lake. Still the ripples are circular, isn't it? Just like that, this may be a triangle but when we see it, it is circular. And another thing is, it suggests a movement from one dimension to another. We say it's a chakra because it takes you across. So there are one hundred and fourteen chakras in the system, major chakras. There are more. Major chakras which can be worked upon are one hundred and fourteen. Out of this one hundred and fourteen, two are outside the physical body. One hundred and twelve are within the body. Out of this one hundred and twelve, four, there is nothing much to do about them. That is, if you work the other things, these things will happen by themselves. They don't need any system to be worked upon. So one hundred and eight are the things that can be actually worked upon. So there are one hundred and fourteen systems of meritiveness. Adiyogi taught one hundred and twelve different ways to realize. So when he sat down with the seven sages, the saptarishis, he was expounding as to how the human mechanism functions. And they are one hundred and fourteen out of these one hundred and twelve. So he spoke about one hundred and twelve ways of attaining one's ultimate nature. Shruthi, his wife, who was a witness to this teaching, she's already attained but now she's a witness. She's just hanging around in the program. So she was looking at it and she said, why not more? Why only one hundred and twelve? There should be more ways. Shiva was completely focused in what he was doing. When she said this, he just dismissed her. And he said, there are no other ways. There are only one hundred and twelve. She felt stung that in front of these seven people, he dismissed her like that. So she said, there must be more ways. Maybe you don't know. He said there are only one hundred and twelve. This impertinence. He said, leave. So she said, I will find more ways. And she went. She withdrew into the mountains and did very severe austerities. And she, after many years of work, she came. Shiva was still expounding various dimensions of yoga. She came, being his wife, she could have to such a long absence, she could come and sit next to him. But she came and sat down one step below to indicate that she has failed. So that's the language between the two of them. She doesn't want the seven people to know that she failed. But she wants him to know that she has failed. So she came and sat one step below. So this story continues into various other aspects as to how she involved herself. And she is being used as somebody who brings doubt. He is going with such absolute power, these seven people are overawed. So she is brought in as an uncommitted observer who comes up with doubts here and there. Because somewhere, tomorrow when it is thought, not everybody may be as committed and as focused and as receptive as the seven people were. Naturally they will come up with these doubts. So she came up with these doubts, which normally people would come up with. So these 108 are the things that you can work with. The remaining four, just flower for you, this bonus. If you work well with 108, the other four will happen. It's a rewarding place. The other two will anyway happen. If these 112 have happened, the other two will anyway blossom by themselves. They are not within the physical structure of the body. So these 108, this 108 is a number that is manifested in this system because of 108 being a significant process or a significant number in the making of the solar system. So the diameter of the sun and the distance between the planet and the sun is 108 times over. The diameter of the moon and the distance is 108 times. In many ways you will see 108 being a proportion in the making of the solar system. That is the reason why, otherwise maybe we would have had 160. If suppose we were born in Mars, maybe we would have 160 or whatever. You must check the men and see. The important thing about Hatha Yoga is to constantly acknowledge that this body has taken shape like this. This body has become this kind of manifestation, mainly because the way the potter's wheel is, because of the solar system, the way it is, that is why this manifestation. So Adiyogi very clearly said if this human body has to evolve further, some dramatic or drastic changes need to happen in the structure of the solar system. Only then the structure of the human body will change because it's reached its fullest development in terms of physical structure. Now one can transmit effortlessly if all of this has opened up, if all the 112 are on, transmission is effortless. You want something to happen there, you don't have to go there. You can sit here and make it happen.  Twenty-one chakras in your body are reasonably operating. Nobody will think anything wrong with you. You will be full-fledged human being. What are the remaining things about? The remaining things if they open up, it opens up various levels of perception. It opens up dimensions of perception, that suddenly people are saying people will start saying is magical or mystical simply because different dimension of perception has opened up.  The remaining are only about higher dimensions of perception that you are no more human. In other people's understanding, at least you were very much human, but this is human system because most human beings do not the majority does not flower. See right now the coconut trees in Tamil Nadu I think our trees are yielding some ninety nuts per year per tree. A better managed farm in Tamil Nadu would yield hundred and twenty, hundred and twenty-five. The same coconut tree in Kerala yields forty-five nuts to fifty nuts. The same coconut tree in Karnataka and West Bengal yields two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty nuts. It's the farming which is different. Tamil farmers, they're trying to grow coconut trees in black cotton soil thinking it's the most fertile soil. Black cotton soil is very fertile for paddy cultivation, cotton and other things not good for coconut. We've grown where it is slightly little bit of rubble in the soil. Here if you dig it is like toothpaste, the soil. Now when you irrigate this land it's very nice. Immediately coconut tree senses life and puts out its fresh roots.  So it will squeeze all the roots all the tips of the roots will be crushed and it cannot grow every time it puts out when it dries it gets hurt. Every time it puts out when it dries it gets hurt. It needs little bit of rocky soil. You can try this.  Water it. After fifteen days you open everything else will be dry. Just beneath the rock there will be little bit of dampness. So always coconut tree goes and puts its tips of its roots beneath the stones because it knows always it is wet. Always that will be damp and it will be protected it will not be crushed. The same thing with a human being a human being will not flower to his full potential unless you create an appropriate atmosphere for him. Internal and external but largely fortunately internal because we are mobile we are not like trees we cannot stand in one place and have the same atmosphere all the time. But there are people who do this in India this culture is there this is called as Kshetra Sanyasa. Kshetra Sanyasa means we will fix a radius let's say here we will fix a radius from the Dhyanalinga we will say this much is highly energetic so those who want to just soak in that all the time they will take a vow that they will never leave this diameter this radius they will not leave and go they will always be in that only. This is a simple intelligence like a coconut tree if it decides to trek up the mountain it does very reasonably well here but if you put him up the mountain in one day he will be down the wind have you gone up the mountain? if you go to the seventh hill almost any season wind will be at least like 50 to 60 kilometers in the windy season it will touch 120 to 140 kilometers per hour if you stand like this it will just throw you out if that's strong so if this guy goes and stands there he won't stand for an hour so you better stay here but the trees are stationary they will for us to maintain an external atmosphere which is always conducive is difficult so some people take this step which is called a Kshetra Sanyasa they will not move out of that space they fix a radius and just within that so because you want to soak in that external atmosphere but the internal atmosphere is the most important thing for a human being as to how he keeps his interiority this is called a Kavacha that you build a cocoon around yourself a protective cocoon wherever you go you are in the same atmosphere as far as you are concerned it's like you get into an airplane it goes up 35,000 feet definitely your body wouldn't last there but now you are in a cocoon a pressurized chamber because of that you manage the same thing with the submarine you wouldn't manage that pressure in the sea because you protected, you managed so like this you create a cocoon of energy around yourself wherever you go you are not a part of it you are in your own cubicle that you are walking with you carry your own cubicle you don't get into anybody's space you carry your own little space wherever you go otherwise you restrict yourself but the important thing is that all the chakras are on you can simply transmit anything that you wish the problem is always of receptivity in the past I have been saying this I have initiated more people into meditativeness those that have never met and seen then people that I sit with and conduct programs with we have conducted programs at the most for a few million people but we have initiated many many more people they are meditative but many fools do not know they can meditate when they sit not for meditation they don't even know that they must meditate if they sit somewhere their experience of everything is way better than others but many of them still don't have the brain to understand that they are naturally becoming meditative without any effort somehow and they sit down but their experience of life is way better because they are meditative in nature because they have been initiated directly so we can transmit this to anybody receptivity is the problem to generate receptivity there is a lot of work to do so you can sit here and let's say you run a radio station you can transmit in the air very easily but if nobody has a radio what is the use let's say you started transmitting from a radio station before Marconi came and nobody has a radio but you are transmitting and transmitting what does it matter nothing happens isn't it so that is always there there is some impact of the transmission on people even if there is no receptivity but it is not translate into other dimensions because there is no receptivity it is easier to transmit to rocks than to human beings I am not trying to praise rocks and insult you but it is easier to transmit to rocks because certain type of rocks have the necessary physical integrity but they don't have a brain they don't think themselves out of things see the problem with human being is largely he has thought himself out of many natural capabilities that he already had aren't people thinking themselves out of their joy haven't they how they were when they were children haven't they thinking themselves out of their joy and love and natural things that they had so human beings are thinking themselves out because of that whatever you give them they can think themselves out today you teach them something well you have seen many of you they come to bow a spandana and we blow them out it's really a hit everybody is hit and fantastic and dripping with ecstasy but after six months they will think themselves out of it so not everybody knows how to use thought in a constructive manner largely they are thinking themselves out of their well-being they were quite well when they were children they thought themselves out so thought is not working always for human benefit most people do not know how to use it for their well-being largely people are using it to work against themselves if you activate the energy system to its fullest possibility transmission is natural you don't even have to go all the way if you if you activate sixty-three you can transmit quite powerfully that is the symbolism of the Tamil Tamil culture is based on sixty-three Nayanmas they call them sixty-three sages who came who transformed Tamil culture in a big way they brought spirituality to everybody's life this is one thing is those sixty-three people maybe there were more people but for the sake of symbolism they left those people and mentioned only sixty-three any temple you go you will see small small images of sixty-three images because if you have sixty-three chakras going we can say you are a sage beginning to be an early sage if you have eighty-four you have crossed many many limits which normally people think are superhuman if you reach one or eight that means you are completely there one hundred and fourteen or fully on means you and him will be same no difference if you become receptive I don't have to come here and explain things to you you don't have to do nothing you will know everything about human mechanism everything from its origin to its ultimate


Good boy, Hosea, good boy. Lean McCohen here, the elephant in the room, I know I haven't been here for a while, but I'm excited to be here. Here's the thing, today is my birthday and I didn't come on to tell you that it's my birthday, I don't really care, but something is happening today that I know you would be very interested in, and I think this is going to be one of those perfect situations for you guys to learn from, love, and enjoy this story. It's kind of a sad story, but it happens all the time. So instead of me just kind of, you know, doing what I do and helping birds, I thought that it's best if I share this with you. Something today is, there is a bird coming in who has been with his owner for 30 years. His owner is now moving into a nursing home, I don't know if it's a nursing home or like an elderly care home, I'm not sure, but she's going on to that next phase of her life where she cannot bring her bird. She lives in Florida. I was reached out to from Eldad from Hope for Paws, and he said I have a friend that his mom has a bird, and we need some help, we don't know what to do, at least give him some advice on what to do, or where to take the bird. One option was a sanctuary in Florida, but the thing is guys, a lot of these sanctuaries, they do great work with birds, and I hope this more so encourages you to help sanctuaries and donate. A lot of them are individual people that have opened up a 501C, and they need help, and they end up with tons and tons of cages. There's nothing in the state or in our cities that lends itself to helping birds. There's no laws for these parrots because they're considered invasive in a lot of states. Here in California they're called introductory species, which is an amazing thing, but still that doesn't mean we have shelters and all sorts of things for dogs and cats, but there's really nothing for birds. So a lot of these individuals end up with so many cages, and they're just the best place for the birds because they're going to do no harm to the birds, they're going to make sure the bird's taken care of and fed and everything, but that doesn't guarantee the bird a beautiful free life like they were used to. So it's been months, it's been like five months since I heard about this bird, and I kind of said, look, if you're willing to bring the bird from Florida to here, I will help find this bird a new home. And consider keeping it part of my flock, but I didn't tell George that part. The lady made a beautiful video about the bird. This is Jose. Jose is a yellow-naked parrot, and he is about, well, we don't know for sure how old he is. We've had him for a little over 30 years, so he's probably about 40. He's a very sweet parrot, and he loves to have his head scratched. Don't you, Jose? Won't your head scratch? Oh, yeah. This is what he loves to do. Any time I feed him in the morning, he's right over there with his head up against the cage for me to scratch him. He talks a little bit, not very much. He says, hello, several different ways. He says, a reba, a reba. He says, pit bull, don't know where he got that.  That's his home, isn't it, Jose? Is that your home? Huh? Yeah. What you do is pray that your baby gets a home after you, and these birds outlive so many people. So this bird's been with his owner for 30 years, and this morning at 4 a.m., he was taken from his home by the son who loves the bird and is doing an amazing, amazing job worrying about the bird. I should probably back up. So I was contacted by the son, Brew, who really cares for animals and wants to do everything possible for this bird. And I said I would possibly bring him here, but I thought about it in these five months. I was looking for anybody that might be a potential good home. A lot of you think that I have unlimited amounts of people that I can help you guys find kind of alms for your birds, but the truth is not many people are great with birds and all my friends that have birds have too many. But I found a great home for this bird potentially. The bird's not going to go there today, we're going to get to know the bird. I haven't even set anything up for the bird. So that's what we're going to do. And yeah, the main thing here today, my main goal is to make sure that this bird has comfort. A lot of parrots go through a lot of trauma when they feel like they're getting abandoned or they're losing the person they love. Luckily, he knows the son, so he knows he's in good hands. But at some point when this bird comes here, he won't be seeing Brew anymore. So I'm going to try to be that level of comfort for the bird as the bird makes this transition. Even though I do have a home for the bird, the reason I'm not going to be taking the bird right over there today is because, first of all, I want to get to know the bird. I want to get to know its personality. I want to make sure the home I have for the bird is perfect. And I want to make sure that I learn everything I can to translate this info of what they need to know about the bird. Very steady. Okay, you want to go here? You can go on my shoulder. Come here. There we go. Now, my dad, who passed in December, what he used to do is he would lay, good boy, Hosey, good boy, he would lay this way and he would press himself in and like mate with my dad. He really loved like being on my dad's shoulder and he would eat all my dad's buttons. He'd crack them in half and then he would start chewing on his shirt. He's a good boy. Hi, Hosey. So it's Hosey? Hosey, we usually call him Hosey. Because I heard your mom say Hosey. Yeah, but we usually call him Hosey. Hi, Hosey. Hi, Hosey. Well, I'm impressed. He's just so calm. Like he's never been not calm, but you know, this has been a very stressful day at Grand. That was a 14-hour travel day. He seems to be doing really well. I think so. I think so. Right? Do you want to, do you want to take him? Do you want to step up, baby? Oh, good boy. Hi. Good boy. Hi. Oh, look at you. You sniff so good. Oh, I love you. You're so cute.  He's really a human scent.  Or would my nails be scary for you? Do you want to see? My dad's life rate always took him out, right? And not always, but a lot. He was out. And then it became less and less. And I felt like he missed that sort of attention. So as you're saying that, George wasn't you closer to me? Because he's like, oh, it's a guy's third. She knows me, too. Do you want to come? Give me the other hand. The other hand. He likes the other hand. He likes the other hand. You want to come? They have, like, yeah. They do, and a lot of them tend to want to go. It's hard to explain. It's not necessarily that it was this hand, but it was this hand now. Gotcha. I don't know how to explain that. It's like, I can see the behavior and the decisions in every single bird and where they're going to want to go from where they are. This bird, I'm like, oh, it's going to be traumatized. It's leaving. Like, they love their people. But if they're going to somewhere where they can get real warmth right away, then we can ease that transition. Yeah, he loves my mom very much. Yeah, you can. I mean, don't get me wrong. Like, he can be so happy now loving us, but he will feel like the loss. Yeah, I'm sure. What is your problem? You love him already? But like, you came here for, I'm the bird whisperer. I'm going to do if it's a guy's bird. It's supposed to be for Alex. I know you guys are going to ask. I didn't get the reaction of Brew leaving the bird, but he was very emotional, understandably so. But you're doing good. Today, I brought Hozi to the office. He kind of turned down a lot of food. We drank some water. Today I can tell that he's missing his mom because I had to go run a quick errand and he didn't want to step up to me. Maybe he was just comfortable, but he had like a cry. However, I left him in here on his stand looking out the window. When I came back, he stepped right up to me. So I know he missed me. He knows that I'm like, I wouldn't go so far as to say he missed me, but he probably was uncertain and somebody he does feel comfortable with came back. Oh, who's that? It's you. Okay, guys, update on Hozi the bird. So I have been really anxious a little bit because I didn't get to see Hozi eat a lot. When I give Hozi a peanut and things like that, Hozi does eat, but I can tell that the bird is stressed just from the change, obviously. Sometimes when I give the bird things that I know that this bird specifically would love, the bird throws them at us. So excited because I'm here making a bagel, getting ready to do our podcast. I really hope I'm not going to be late. And the bird ate the bird is eating. So I'm really excited about that. You know, this is a life change for a bird. I don't expect the bird to love me and want to be best friends with me. What I am trying to do is make sure the bird spends as much time with George as possible just because the bird does seem to find a lot of comfort in George. So I'm actually trying not to get too close while the bird is eating just because I don't want the bird to stop. But as you can see, it's not going to be great video, it's going to be easy, Hosey's eating. You know, I'd go right up to a bird for any reason all the time. It's just, I don't want, I want this bird to eat. I need to make sure this bird eats. That's something you have to be aware of and pay very close attention to. When you have a bird like this, this bird right now hasn't spoken yet, hasn't made a noise. Like it could be really easy to kind of ignore the bird and forget you have a bird. I mean that happens, you know, sometimes he's worn off, but what you don't realize is that every day they get more and more family oriented, more and more. I mean, some of them have to go through this trauma first, this grievance period, then the period of acceptance and the period of opening up and then they start doing all the crazy things that you never thought this bird would do. Like Vinny dancing. Vinny didn't do that when we first got him. Could have been years before I realized Good day! I was just sitting here and he's not walking up to me. He went right up his arm. He went up my arm, I didn't know what to do. You don't understand Kenny, this bird like is really sad because it had an owner for 30 years and she's going into a nursing home. Okay. So you just got this bird? Yeah, like and the bird's like kind of picky and kind of not wanting to eat and stuff. I did see the bird eat this morning but like he he or she tends to like guys so I put the bird here and I'm like I really just hope it bonds with someone today because it needs soothing. I've never seen, is that a bird? What do you think it is? I've never seen a bird that big except for pigeons. Pigeons are not this big. This is the same kind of bird as Leo but a different species. Right, but he ate Leo. He's really big. He won't want to come to me, watch. See? Oh, you see that? Yeah. What the hell, is that a cat? But he wouldn't. I know. What do I do, take him with me? Where are you going? Home? So Chuck, I have to go to lunch, can you babysit?  Hello? Oh my god, there he is, Taki. Hello, what day today? Is it the fifth? No.  It's so warm too. I miss Jose. Jose? She's like, she speaks Spanish, I know it. She told me about pasta, she told me about beans. All the things I want to hear. Yeah, I heard you make tacos. She's like they've been giving me vegan things, so. What's going on? We're taking this back. You're kidding me. Why, you think the bird's hungry or what?  Look at Ty, Ty's like, what the hell is going on here? Like this bird? So basically, my brother sees the bird and then he was like, I wonder if I'll get along with Lucy and my brother does. Why did you ask a question like that? That's what he was thinking when I was saying it. How would you feel like the bird's stealing the bird? These birds 45 are ringing for the experience. Bye, Ty. No, I'll find out. People can see you or something. Can I just do it? Like some piece of advice. Anything you try to do in life, there's going to be a block. Wait, on your block? No, no, no, no. You're not on my block. You're like both.  I am your block? I just went and got you a battery. What block is that? I just released your block. I just confirmed that the person that just came by is not the block. Sometimes the best person in your life can also be the block and what you have to do is work around that. How about if you're going to be in a block? Because they're getting fun on this. They're enjoying this right now.


What's up guys just gonna set up our morning here right now shortly after 7 30 Eastern inside our live trading room You had students like Roger Wendy Jeff Kathleen setting up We got a new pop right here. What's this a Kli? It's up about 45 46 percent early in pre-market Actually has some pretty good liquidity out there. So that should be a fun trade You know, we have another one here so far 8 p.m. Just up about a hundred sixty percent You know over the last week and a half We've had so many of these different trades up 200 300 500 percent So just add them to the list now folks just really quickly We got our morning meeting coming up at 9 a.m. Eastern time and very important day with the Fed meeting concluding at 2 p.m. Eastern so that should bring some high volatility to the markets trade safe out there Join us inside our live trading room folks coming up