Please, as I get my screen set up, I'd like to reiterate Lisa's call for everyone to drop their names, location, pronouns in the chat so we can all say hey to each other. And at any time, if you think of anything, if you have a point that you'd like raised, it would be great to put them on the chat or put this star sign so that we can, you know, hear what you have to say about the things that we're gonna discuss today. Let me just share my screen. All right. So before I officially begin, I'd like to apologize in advance because I have someone coming in, for sure my dog is gonna make a lot of noise, but let's just think of that as him saying in dog speak climate justice now. So good afternoon from the Philippines, Magandang Hapon, or good morning, Magandang Umaga, good evening, Magandang Gabi, wherever in the world you may be. Thank you so much for joining us for the organizing session under the Global Trainings Week hosted by 350. My name, as you know, is Beatrice Talaga. You can call me Bea, you can call me Beatrice. I'm senior regional organizer for 350.org in Asia. And today, instead of, you know, a more technical, or I don't know how we can call that technical, but technical lecture on organizing and campaigning, all of that. This will be more of a reflection, a collective reflection on our organizing as a practice, as a site of continuous learning and experimentation and collective liberation. So this is called, our future is non-negotiable, building solidarity across borders towards climate justice. But before we get into it, I'd like to honor all the organizers who led us to each other today. In this Zoom room, in the sea of thousands and thousands of Zoom rooms floating all over the web, I'm gonna be really vulnerable here by saying that for the longest time, I haven't felt comfortable calling myself an activist. I'm more comfortable calling myself an organizer because I think it has the beautiful task of bringing leading people to each other. So I always begin my speaking engagements like this. So for now, I'd like to invite you all to drop the name or I don't know, any definition of the first time you were engaged in any climate justice or any social movement. If you can drop the name of the person who introduced you to activism or movement work or organizing, we'd like to honor them for a few seconds. It can be your mom, it can be your best friend, it can be your colleague, it can be a random person who handed you a flyer in the mall, anyone really. I'd like us to all collectively think back to that one person or one organization even who led you to the work that you're doing today. Okay, I'm gonna mute myself right now. Okay, I'm seeing some notes on the chat already. Monica's dad, parents got to the first protests and social media who introduced Will and Hermione to protests in general. Okay, so just keep them coming. And I'd really like us to honor the fact that we didn't go to this space, to this activism world, to this movement work through only our own doing, right? It can be always traced back to some group of friends or some person who really made the effort to include us, to make it a community towards organizing for not just climate justice but social justice in general. So thank you for indulging me in that and I'd always like us to think back to them whenever things get hard. So yeah, I'd like to honor that. Today's session will be, as mentioned, it'll be centering on two specific questions, seeking to understand our personal organizing practice as opposed to a more technical lecture where I talk about a case study or a specific organizing technique that really helped me. Although, of course, that will be interspersed in this talk. It's more really, the beauty of this session will really be towards the end where we all collectively reflect on two specific questions and we'll be able to hear from each other because I'm of the opinion that the beauty of organizing is that there are infinite ways to do it, right? According to your cultural opinion, your social political situation, there are multiple sites of resistance and the beauty of this work is that it's never finished. It's a continuous process of learning and unlearning. And yeah, with that, I'd like to finally officially begin by saying that conferences alone won't save our world and instead, people, power will win us our future. And this is, I say this as someone who has utmost respect to all the technical policy analysts, the scientists, the negotiators, the policy makers, who do the behind the work scenes in negotiating international climate agreements. But I also say this, as someone who's beginnings in the climate movement can really be traced back to being part of conferences, of being part actually of the Philippine delegation to the UN since Lima. And honoring my past, I really found my footing in climate policy research, but I still am of the opinion that the most powerful work I've ever done is organizing alongside local and international climate groups, learning as much as I could, alongside youth activists, alongside community activists, alongside frontliners. So, but I think that work really means that we are building solidarity outside these halls of supposed power, but that alone requires inquiry, right? Like what do we really mean when we say we're standing in solidarity, we're building in solidarity outside of these formal spaces, right? So that's one of the questions that we're gonna be doubling down on later today. And it's what do we really mean when we say we're standing in solidarity and it can look super different in my part of the world, in the people I organize with as opposed to the people you organize with and how you show up in solidarity in your part of the world. And again, that's the beauty of organizing. So in inquiring about solidarity, this is something that I've been thinking about recently also in like evaluating if what I'm really doing is still effective by any means. And I realized that my beginnings in organizing can really be traced to two climate stories. And the first one is during a visit to this place in Tacloban in the Philippines. Tacloban is called the Ground Zero of Typhoon Haiyan. And on a rainy January morning in 2016, this man, a city official led me to this field of white crosses. And all 2,917 of them had scribblings because they turned out to be names of the dead and the family members just chose which mound, which cross they will give and just literally handwritten their, the names of their family members who they lost. And that really made me realize then I was a policy researcher that what I'm doing, that's not necessarily automatically translate to support on the ground. And that's really what led me to organizing. But even more so, what cemented my decision to stay in this space is realizing the reality for many environmental activists. And there was this one community we organized with until now, they lost one community member because she was shot dead by still unidentified men. She was called the first extrajudicial killing under President Rodrigo, then President Rodrigo Duterte. And she was a climate activist. She was protecting their village against a coal stockpile. And she had no other political activities other than this campaign, under then safeguarding her neighborhood for her grandchildren, for her 18 grandchildren. And what these stories really make up is that organizing in the Philippines, a site of both struggle across climate impacts and the root causes of climate change. It's really different in the sense that climate change is not really something for the future. It's not a problem for the future, but rather we're facing it in a myriad of different ways. Like for example, climate impacts and also fossil fuel affected communities facing health issues, human rights violations and even violent threats and killings. And that is, we expect that to even be more intensified in the next six years under a new president. And this is so heartbreaking, but that leads back to the question, right? Like what do we do to stand in solidarity? How do we organize our communities in such a way that there is active, continued, persistent resistance against this? And we draw our strength from these stories on the ground and we really try to uplift the stories of the frontline communities facing both impacts and fossil fuel abuses in this country. So basically that leads to my first point about how the needs of communities in general will not be all addressed in conferences alone. And they serve the rubber stamp, the work that's being carried out by grassroots movements all over the world sending policy signals and what should be done. And this serve as our pressure points, our movements pressure points for even more ambition. But as we all know, we wouldn't be here today if we think conferences are gonna magically solve all our issues. How do we then mobilize and organize beyond conferences, beyond high level spaces? What's beautiful about the climate strikes is that it brought both the use of Bataan and Tacloban, the two sides of the stories that I shared earlier. They brought those young people out in the streets. They joined the global climate strike and this pushed media and even politicians in the Philippines to talk about climate justice. So it's not anymore a situate or a story about mitigation and adaptation targets, but also justice for the communities affected. And there was this one lawmaker who introduced this resolution, signifying the support of the House of the Philippine representatives for the climate strikes. And again, that just seeks to solidify the work that's being done on the ground. And this is also replicated in the regional organizing efforts of young people, climate strikers, who formed the Asia Climate Rally. So the Asia Climate Rally was organized both online and offline during COVID-19. So what happened was climate strikers from various countries organized together, first very much online, like a four-hour live stream, a social media store, Twitter spaces, all of that. But even beyond that, they hope to identify common Asian targets. Right now, that takes the form of development banks and private banking institutions who continue to fund fossil fuel projects, but they're also targeting other regional bodies in Asia. So what that seeks to uplift is that from these stories on the ground, climate strikers really mainstream climate as a justice issue that affects everyone and organizing the Asia Climate Rally to become this group of friends that pretty similar to what everyone shared on the chat earlier, to be this group of friends who sought to involve more people into organizing towards climate justice, has now been turned into actual human-to-human friendships. Like this is not just a way for these youths to get support for their climate strike or other political work, but they have started to form human-to-human relationships. And that's why I think it's super important to have this perspective, the shifting from mile-wide inch-deep movements to inch-wild mile-deep relationship building that sustains movements. And I guess if you're taking away one thing from the space today, it's really the question of how do we make sure that when we say that we're organizing ordinary people towards climate justice, more and more people to join the climate movement, how do we also ensure that this participation in this movement will be sustainable through relationship building? How do we protect and honor and really do the painstaking work of maintaining these relationships, even outside formal activism spaces, right? Like how do we make sure that relationship building and relationship deepening really takes center stage in this organizing work? Because I think organizing is really about at the end of the day, it's about building relationships, leading people into each other, yes, but also making sure that these connections are sustained enough that they overthrow not just literal governments in the case of the Philippines, but also seek to undo the damages of multiple sites of oppression. So I really like this quote that I encountered when I was studying a short course a couple of months ago about how hope is defined, right? Like hope, according to this Jewish scholar, Moses Maimonides of the 12th century, hope is the belief of the plausibility of the possible as opposed to the necessity of the probable. And I think that's really what organizing is about, isn't it, right? Like believing that a better world is actually possible as opposed to the doom and gloom of the probable. And I think it's always a question of hope, right? Like how do we intentionally infuse our organizing with this power of hope and love amidst a persistently warming world against a background of disinformation, killings, threats, extreme poverty amidst a pandemic? How do we actually continue to organize that centers hope that brings toward hope and love to the surface amidst every difficult thing that we as human beings are facing right now? That was very short, but I really hope that we can focus on the sharings and then we'll come back in plenary after. So today, we're gonna be grouped first into two groups. The first group will answer the question, what do we really mean when we say we're standing in solidarity and I should correct myself. I don't really mean that we should answer this question with finality today. It's more like reflecting on this question on what do we really mean when we say we're standing in solidarity with each other's fights? And the second group will reflect on the question, how do we intentionally infuse our organizing with hope and love no matter what your source of hope and love is and however you define solidarity for the first group. So, okay, I think Monica will be taking us into the two groups and just decide on, the first group will do the solidarity question, the second group will do the organizing with hope question. Okay, take us away, Monica. Okay, so room one will be answering solidarity question. You can see it in the more tab. You can just join the breakout group and then room two will answer the hope and love organizing question. Thank you, everyone. Hello. Do you wanna join a breakout group and viral part? Hi, and is it Envero? I've just seen your message. That's really great. Maybe your group can take one of the questions and discuss it together. And if we do feedback, maybe we can hear from your group as well, but feel free to pick one of the two questions, whichever one works best for you, maybe. Okay, I see some people are coming back. Welcome back to the main room. How was that? Okay, let's just wait for the rest, maybe a couple of more seconds. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Hi, so how was that? I was really intending to make this session, the sharing part a little bit longer, but considering that we are a relatively smaller group, I was hoping to reserve some time for like collectively reflecting on the questions, like reporting back from the groups on what you spoke about. And it's really with the intention of, taking a minute, taking a breather from usual day to day organizing and campaigning programmatic work, because I realized that the whys of why we do this can sometimes get lost in the mix over the years, like whenever I do organizing regionally, like even with training events or like with recruitment for, and alongside our partners, we really do drop these terms a lot, right? Like we say that we stand in solidarity with this event, with this organization, with this movement, with this cause, and we really say that we're organizing so that we'll have hope amidst the climate crisis and all the intersecting crisis, but it's really helpful, at least for me personally, to really take the time to reflect on these questions alongside fellow organizers. So I hope the space, however short that was, was equally useful for you all. Okay, so one of the things that I heard from when I was hopping around the rooms is that the importance of solidarity is really recognizing the need for it. And there's an impact in people not actually standing in solidarity. And from the other group, when I was there, someone was talking about how, organizing, being anchored on hope and love really traces back its roots to having a common vision and shared values, like common goals that we can work towards so that we can experience success together as a collective. But I'm wondering, of course, I'm really acknowledging my blind spots here, not just in this space, but also as an organizer whose organizing is also very limited by where I am and the people I organize with. But what else came up from your conversations? Maybe we can have someone share about what they talked about. Like anyone can just put the star sign on the chat or you can raise your hand, then you can share about either of these two questions or even both if you want to. I was hearing like a lot of like spirited discussion in both groups. So I was hoping you can share it back to the other people from the other groups. Does anyone wanna share? Yeah, after Monica, you can also put notes in this chat if you'd like, if you're in a spot where you can unmute, you can also put your reflections on the chat. Okay, I'm just gonna acknowledge the fact that one of our participants today is actually a group of like 20 people. Hello to Enviro Vito Org. Thank you for joining us today, all of you. And also I appreciate everyone for taking the time to go to this session today. But I'd like to hear from you like what you thought about like, you know, cause I'm very much limited by where I am in the world, the people that I organize with, my personal circumstances, my view of the world is very limited as an organizer and as a human being. So I would like to really inquire on what your views are on, what does it mean for you to stand in solidarity with each other's fights, with other climate affected communities, with other movements? How do we operationalize that? Oh, go ahead Hermione, sorry. I hope that I'm saying that right. Almost, but it's okay. Me talking about like the idea of a global solidarity and how, so I was saying I'm based in the UK, so like how can I target institutions or corporations or anything that are causing harm in other countries but working together with those movements as well and other countries, yeah, just the countries working together to help combat like a more global fight. Thank you for sharing that. Does anyone want to respond to that? I'm just going to call on, there were these, there was this group who talked about how organizing should be anchored on shared values and shared vision. Maybe someone from the second group can share more about that. Cause I think it all links together, right? Like, you know, we can't organize without a shared vision, collective solidarity and all of that. Like how does that play into our work? Maybe someone from the second group can share the organizing with the hope group. Savgar, are you able to share about your point or both well? Okay, thank you very much for the opportunity. Yes, from our group we discussed that there should be a sense of collectivism in the movement where we are saying that there should be a unity of peoples having the same ideology towards achieving the goal that you intend to achieve as a group. So we are having a situation whereby each and every member of the movement have to have that ability to know what is expected of them in order for us to achieve the common, the ultimate common peoples of the entire movement, of the entire group, of the entire circle that we are having. So that was another part of our discussion. And also it is also important to infuse that welcoming spirit in that movement that each and everyone who wants to be part of that movement will actually feel that they are welcome in that movement not to discriminate certain people based on race, based on color, skin color or whatever, but it should be welcoming so that our organizing can accommodate each and every person who feels that they are part and parcel of the vision that we have. Thank you so much, Mothwell, for that perspective and that reflection. With that, I would like to plug our next sessions. Since we're talking about identifying common goals and uniting behind common goals, common targets, there's actually two campaigning sessions upcoming. And also if it hasn't happened already, there's also a session on how do we sustain our movements because this work, of course, is admittedly very hard. It can sometimes be very draining. It can sometimes get to burn out. How do we sustain our movements and each other? So there's also those sessions under the global trainings. You can never just like to plug that. But I also like to uplift the ones on the chat, the importance of collaboration, fighting towards standing in solidarity across aligned groups. Yeah, so does anyone else have any reflections on before we go into the final reflections from my end? Sagar, you're on mute, okay. Yes, so a few months ago, I actually been researching about the world called sustainability. What exactly sustainability is from an Indian culture or an Indian perspective? It has a different meaning. From Western it is different, but when I was looking at sustainability from the global perspective, I found that there are three main things which are actually composed of sustainability. The one is ecology. The second is economy. And the third is equity. So any action, if it's supporting these three parameters equally, then that goal can be a sustainable. And I know United Nations or this global organization are promoting global goals and sustainable goals. And every business is actually promoting about the sustainability. So I'm okay with it, but for example, the equity part from the sustainability, if there are a limited number of people who are actually managing the industries, managing the natural resources, then that company or that industry can be a sustainable. So as Bhakt will actually say that there should be a solidarity, there should be equality, there should be a certain level of redistribution of power, redistribution of resources. In that way, any business, any movement or any initiative can be a sustainable. And that is more productive, I guess. Thank you. Thank you so much, Sagar. All right. So I think one of the things that I learned the hard way is that there are no finished conversations and that we have to accept that reflections on organizing is really an ongoing process. And I really hope that we can keep connected. I'm gonna be mentioning some opportunities to get connected in a few, but I hope that today we were able to reflect again together and inspire this culture of reflection on, because we throw this words around like in our communications, in our campaign materials and all of that, but how do we actually make sure that we constantly learn and unlearn previous preconceptions about solidarity, organizing, hope, love, collective care as we go further and further in building a better world. So yeah, basically I heard also from the group set there must be working towards across movements. We have to continue to organize and build intersectional people, power and solidarity from the ground up, taking leadership from communities from the most affected people in areas, listening to each other and centering collective care so that we can anchor our work on common values. From my end in the Philippines, I think we should also work towards pressuring our leaders for policies that don't just aim at resilience or adaptation. We also demand justice, support for just transition and reparations. And a lot, I think there are sessions not just in 350, but in the 350 Trainings website that talk about using storytelling and how we're organizing and how to work with allies so that we can uplift climate change. It's not just a technical greenhouse gas emissions issue, but also a story of resistance against multiple sites of oppression. And for those based in Asia, or if you're interested, you're not based in Asia, but you're interested in working, standing in solidarity with the Asia Climate Movement. There's gonna be the Asia Solidarity Lab on September 24th, 25th, that's I think the last weekend, if not the third week end of September. And we will be launching the registration to be this week, but you can keep tabs on that by following us on Twitter or other social media. So the ASL 2022 is a gathering. Supposedly we're targeting youth organizers, but we're also open to everyone who's just getting into the climate work, the climate movement to uplift emerging campaigns, storytelling and transformative organizing towards climate justice. We'll also be having cultural performances, open spaces to discuss, gather, reflect together, stars such as this one about co-creating our future. And we'll be focusing on four key themes. The first one is how do we, center community care in activism? There's this talk of a lot of youth organizers burning out, feeling like the work is too much, being super pressured. But how do we make sure that our activism itself is sustainable as we fight for a more sustainable planet? We're also gonna be talking about intersectional climate organizing. We're gonna be talking about fossil fuel finance campaigning or campaigns, actual real on-ground campaigns on how people are targeting financial institutions in shifting their financing away from fossil fuels and towards solutions. And with that, we're also gonna be talking about how do we reimagine a better world? How what are existing solutions on the ground towards climate and social justice that we can take inspiration for from? And with that, I think if you have other concerns, if you want to join, if you have a local group or if you're interested in organizing in Asia or even anywhere in the world, really I can connect you to my colleagues outside of the Asia regional team. You can connect with me via these emails and on Twitter. I'd like to thank everyone for taking care, I for taking the time to join this session today. It's really, really means a lot to me to be able to reflect on this questions together to continue to learn and unlearn so much about organizing as a practice in this work towards building a better world that works for people and plan. Thank you everyone.


long-run planning curve 1 long-run average cost curve को हम usualy refer करते हैं this is the long-run planning curve और यह जो long-run planning curve है it is basically comprised of points on a series of short-run average cost curves और यह आपके पास indicate करता है minimum product price at which output can be purchased अजे अगर output के price is यह से कुच कम होगी than क्या होगा आवरीज कोस्त से देन देर is nothing available to purchase और यह में help out करता है to determine the profitability against different size of operations यह जैसे हमने discuss किया क्या when farmer operate under different form sizes ही फेस से different short-run average cost curves अब यह आपके यह जो मेरे पास बले कलर लाईंज हैं बले कलर जोई शेब खर्फ जेए दीजार बसेगली शोट्रन अवरीज कोस्त कर और यह शोट्रन अवरीज कोस्त कर मुझे रिए पोट कर रही है शोट्रन अवरीज कोस्त अगयेंज दिफ्रें form sizes और जो आपके पास red-colored कलरट के लाईन केज्गर मैं यो बाद कर loon केजि दीजार ृची बाद कर दीजार न जो दो न स्पोस इस बाद कर लोग ता देजार शोट्रन अवरीज कोस्त कर यह आपके लेग लाईन करराट कर कर कर चाए Hmm बसब काअ बाभी दानी बाभी न उप्रो सभ जोगर रापखे धनन अब याद याद बभई नहीं दoc, आप एकनबोंगे देखछ़ कर खर्फार। के जो बी प्ाआएट लोग न अव्रिथ कोस्ट करर्फ के जो भी दो बड़े कुलो से प्वशने ब्त है ओं ती लोग अव्रिथ कोस्ट आप ना आप दिए अगर हैं नहीं आप रिज गाच्ज मैद लाही आपश्चानणी आप याफशच अजब आप उश्पक्या आप प्रनी याब आप पबचच आप प्चच आप शो कर रहीन हैं। अगर द्यान्यार्ढाउट आप वीघिखाते हैं, उसा एक बज़ाउट तरईई आप आप वीबघिखाते हैं। अखिय द्यान्यार्ढाउट आप अप प्शाःना पेपMaxon रफा, अगर त्देने किब आप आप घाउचा पीपेच्टी की विबईएं। then it reaches at a minimum point and after that it starts increasing and till you have longer and average cost decreases as long as longer and average cost declines so what is this indicating to me firm is operating, former is operating under economies of scale economies of scale refers to that by doubling the output there is increase in cost by less than double and after OA level of output what is it, former is operating under economies of scale that by doubling output former has to face more than cost more than double and these short and average cost curves and long and average cost curves you can observe something that as long as long and average cost declines these short and average cost are getting treated on decreasing portion as long as long and average cost decreases whatever point is long and average cost curve you are obtaining which are getting treated on decreasing portion of your short and average cost and which point you have long and average cost minimum which we are denoting with OA level of output what is there, that long and average cost and short and average cost both are at minimum point and after OA level of output what is indicating to you as long and average cost start increasing again these points are obtained by these points are obtained on the basis of tangency of the short and average cost curve and here what is short and average cost curve that in this portion short and average cost is increasing so this which we have obtained in increasing portion of long and average cost these are the points that we obtain by joining the points where short and average cost start increasing if I summarize all these then I can say that long and planning curve is also U shaped curve it initially decreases reaches at a minimum point and then what is happening it start increasing this type of the behavior which is usually observed in production that production on firm level that production on the former level usually average long and average cost curve are U shaped curve yes your behavior in agricultural in reference of output this curve will also differ


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Good morning. How are you all doing? Yeah? Here we are. This is what? When we started this, where is James here? Is James even here this morning? Back there? When we started, yeah, I know, right? When we started this, we all knew that we were on a mission, creating a religion, creating a movement. It is simply amazing. But deep down inside, when you look inside yourselves, what do you see? You're computer scientists, right? Some of you think you're superheroes? Maybe. I certainly wake up thinking I'm a superhero. But what you want to be is a computer scientist, superhero artist. We are walking around as technologists, as developers, with an incredible amount of swag. It feels great to be alive, doesn't it? We have such power, but with power comes what? Great responsibility. So what I'm going to try to do, Sam, in the next 14 minutes or so, is give us 10 steps, 10 things to think about that will help us be computer scientists, superhero artists, because we need a canvas, and that canvas needs to be stretchable. We need brushes, many different brushes. We need colors, lots of different colors, and we're going to build paintings. But the difference is that those paintings are fixed, need an extra sketch. You got to be able to change that painting, and that's what Cloud Foundry gives us. The canvas is your infrastructure. The brushes is the middleware, the databases, the colors are the APIs, and the painting, well, the painting's the unicorn, and that unicorn's moving, okay? So that's what we're going to do here in 10 easy steps. The first step, you guys got it, you're here. Thank you so much. You're at the Cloud Foundry Summit.  Get it? Platform? I'm on a platform for the people, and we're preaching, because it is a polyglot world. It's about mixing and matching runtimes. It's about getting APIs. It's about doing what you need to get the job done. So thank you for being here, and the immense amount of uptake that has just occurred in such a short amount of time is unbelievable. At IBM, we created a platform, Bluemix, built on Cloud Foundry. We've got 8,000 developers signing up a week. That is a testament to what we all have done together. It is simply amazing, and at that last conference, I challenged everyone, hey, I said, hey, please sign up for IBM Bluemix. It's good to try. And you all did with, say, mixed results. Sign up now. Give it a try. It is awesome. Learn how to use Cloud Foundry. Step number two, your brain. Now, I tend to be on the more analytical side. That building on the left makes me on the right. Looks great, but doesn't make me feel so good. There was a study done back in the 70s, on architects. Real architects, I mean, we're not real architects, but physical architects, right, who build buildings, and they found that the best architects combine the left and the right-hand sides of their brain to build something special. So if we want to be artists, we have to learn how to bring these two worlds together. It is about building function with form and design, taking a design thinking approach. Because we'll never build that cathedral if we don't think about the end user. Whether it's an API you're building, whether it's a piece of marketing material, whether it's a piece of documentation you're contributing, take that approach when you think about this. Now, number three, code, community, and culture. Okay? Code is great. Code without community is useless. And without good culture is just toxic. Okay? So we, as a community, already have great code. We've got strong community and a wonderful culture. But we need to continue as we focus on that. Because no application, no community is an island, right? I was walking by and I crashed a meeting with a finance firm. And so, you know, they certainly know this. They've been using Swift to connect, you know, banking applications. This is great, yeah? Everything's connected. But everything's hyper-connected now, right? Everything is kind of coming in and out of your value chain. You need to be able to manage that. So number four, you need to think about four things when you build on cloud. First of all, you need capability. You need capacity, compute, storage, network. You need a platform, right? You need to be able to deliver that. On-premise, off-premise. Sam, you mentioned hybrid, right? A connected cloud. But there is not a single cloud, right? There isn't one. There's many. And there's many places that you connect. So what you want to be able to do when we build out the Cloud Foundry platform, right? And we continue to innovate and drive code into the code base is to build a cloud that makes all of them behave as one, your cloud. So it is very important that as we build skills and we think about how this stuff is being used, we understand the reality of where this stuff is going to be deployed, all right? Behind your four walls, outside your four walls, everywhere in between. Because no application is an island. And, you know, we've been doing our darkness that tried to experiment with that. Let's talk about a couple of colors. Diversity, lots of colors. I love colors, right? We've got a client that's here. And they built an application. It's a gaming company. And they built an application to determine when they should offer discounts on downloadable content. I don't play video games at all. So I don't know much about this. I'm out of my comfort zone. But they used the Twitter, right? To look at what things are going on and when they should do this. But then, all of a sudden, they had access within Cloud Foundry and Bluemix to look at the weather channel. Because guess what? When it snows in the east coast or you've got bad weather, people are home bored. Their kids are, you know, sitting there. And the parents give them the credit cards. Huge! Yes, I know. You do that, don't you? That's not good parenting. Can someone call the Parenting Association? Because that's when they should be given the discounts. When it's bad weather. So this is just an example of a painting that had to change, right? If you build a monolithic painting, Mona Lisa is beautiful, right? But what if you've got to change it? You've got a new color to add, right? So that's what we're trying to do. So there's a couple of really cool brushes that we kind of tried to time to give some more excitement to the event. You talked about our friend Bill, right? We have a .NET build pack, which we'll be bringing to the community. We also have several other kind of brushes that we're bringing. Some things focused on getting access to open data, which is kind of a government format for data, some stuff around KPIs and some other interesting brushes. But a really cool brush that I think is really neat is one about getting access to proximity-aware mobile applications. Now, we all, certainly in the Bay Area, are very familiar with the idea that we're being monitored, centered, and with everything we do. You can't walk from here to here without 10,000 devices knowing what you're doing. The problem is, there's no apps. We're connected. We're not doing anything. As users, imagine the power of you can use Cloud Foundry to bring together all of this information, right? So I challenge you to do that, to start to bring in those brushes. And of course, my favorite one, which is a dating service for APIs, a dating service for colors, right? Imagine if, as a developer, you don't have to really worry about the semantics, about the data matching, about the security context. You can get at the interfaces you want and build your applications quicker, right? Those are the kinds of innovation that helps us build that cathedral, Sam. So, five. Community, I'm sorry, code. Now, look, everybody know what Knuth Volume One is, two is, because if you don't, you should just leave. Knuth, we're computer scientists, guys. I used to teach graduate level computer science, and I am appalled at the garbage open source that's out there, okay?  Look, think when you code. Reuse stuff that works. Don't rebuild. Look, we solved the sorting algorithms years ago. It's done. You don't need to do it again, right? Reuse code. Make sure that your code is well-formed, documented, reusable.  It just piles up, right? That's not good. Hashtag no bueno, right? You don't want that. So, let's work on this. Six. Now, let's talk a little bit about community. Spaces. We need to create spaces. This concept of a dojo, okay? This concept of, within your own companies, creating a center of excellence, where you give permission to yourselves. You don't need permission from your bosses. You've got that. Permission from yourselves to build with confidence, know that there's no boundary, allocate time to think before you code. Use all of that time. The very first squad was not Spotify, who does squad and kind of start talking about how they do agile DevOps, continuous integration, delivery, blah, blah, blah, with squads, right? It was Monty Python. And if you look at how they built up their squads, it was simply amazing. They reached out to experts when they needed help. No idea was bad. And their best creativity was done at the bar. Now, I'm not endorsing libations, okay? And coding. That kind of maybe goes in the wrong direction. But I am endorsing fun, okay? Having fun within your teams. And that's what we need to do here. And we do do. And we've been doing an IBM as well. When we build our software, whether it's Cloud Foundry or all application, we are having a freaking blast. These are photos from my lab here. I got to show family pictures, right? Everybody has family pictures. Family pictures of my teams here in Silicon Valley. I mean, the energy is amazing. And we're always, and we're always looking for more teams who want to come join us. If anyone wants to come, you're welcome. Give me a call. We're always hiring. But this is the kind of fun that we all have as a community. And we have at enterprise scale. And by the way, hats off to you all. Hats off to Pivotal for bringing this to an open foundation. Let's give them a round of applause. Okay? Hats off to all of the sponsors. All of you all here. And let's not forget the press and the analysts. I mean, there's maybe four or five of them in there. Because you've got to spread the word, right? Yeah, I know you think your blog is great. You know, my cat reads it and my mom reads it. That's it, right? So we need the press. We need the press to spread the word. So let's give them applause as well. Thank you all for coming. All right? Because an open community and open governance and a meritocracy and a clear vision of how you can go from an individual contributor to a project leader is how these things are successful. And we can do that now with Sam's help and what we did starting December 9th. Nine. Culture. Two examples on culture. Perfect timing. I'm doing great. Two examples on culture. I have this big clock in front of me. It's just sticking away. Culture. 3M. The sticky note. Does anybody know what a sticky note is? I was informed that cool kids no longer use sticky notes. They actually do it on like computer programs now. They're virtual sticky notes. I'm like, I'm sorry, dude. I got sticky notes at home. Put them all over my walls. You know, the sticky note, the way it was created, some engineers came up with this thing that was sticky, kind of sticky, not sticky, not sticky enough. You can unstick it, stick it. What are we going to do with this thing? Right? 3M didn't kick them out. They said, keep on experimenting. Figure it out. I would say they created something pretty cool, right? That has been very, very usable. That is an example of good culture, right? An example of perhaps not so good culture. There's this beer company in Germany, and they do distribution of their libations. At the time, they were doing it kind of early in the week, and then didn't do much later on. They always did that way. They couldn't be competitive. They basically falling behind in the marketplace. They go through World War I, World War II, modern days, what's going on. They kind of said, why do we always distribute beer on the beginning of the week? Why can't we just, you know, with the whole FedEx thing or whatever? I don't know. Can we distribute beer more times? Well, we always did it that way. And they did it, right? Because they were fuel rationing back in the war days, and horses would get tired, right? That's why they did it that way. So question things. Question, Sam. Question the community. But question with purpose, right? That was the difference here. They're trying to do something to change their market. A good thing to question. Just don't be a kind of a person that's negative, but question with purpose, okay? And in fact, one thing, Sam, that we're very proud to announce, probably the most proud thing that I'm trying to announce today, is that we're going to try to help bring all these things together. We're opening up the first of several Cloud Foundry community dojos. We're going to sponsor this one. I suspect others will be sponsoring other dojos as well, as the time goes on, in Raleigh, North Carolina. I mean, the vibrant community there is unbelievable, okay? It is like Silicon Island. Is that an applause? Thank you. Thank you. Can we get more an applause for that? Come on. Thank you. So you're going to be able to go pair up with folks who are already in the community, do pair programming, go through the dojo process in Raleigh, North Carolina. We're going to build out center of competence there. We're doing it here in San Francisco. We do it in the Bay Area.  That is how we spread the word. We spread the word by communicating. We spread the word by showing how you build that cathedral. You spread the word by hands-on keyboard, right? So number 10. What is number 10? 10 is all about you. 10 is you. It is the painting that you create. In order to do that, you need to make sure you build a cloud that is open by design and that you use a cloud that is open by design. And then you're going to wake up in the morning and you're going to look in the mirror and say, you know, my painting looks good, but man, it was a rough holidays at Sam's house and I put on a little bit of weight. I got to go hit the gym and work out a little bit and change my painting, right? Get it? Painting is your code, okay? You could also work out too. That's what 10 is about. Do not be rigid. Constantly change. Constantly innovate. If we do these 10 things, if we do these 10 things, I have no doubt next time we're here together, we're going to triple the size of this audience and there will be even more Cloud Foundry here. So thank you so much for attending and thank you for listening. Take care, everybody.


The Clyde Beatty Show! The world's greatest wild animal trainer Clyde Beatty with an exciting adventure from his brilliant career. The circus means thrills, excitement, snarling jungle beasts. The circus means fun for young folks and old. But under the big top you see only a part of the story. The real drama comes behind the scenes, where 500 people live as one family, where Clyde Beatty constantly risks death in the most dangerous act on earth. This master of the big cat has journeyed to Africa and India, hunting down his beasts in their native jungle. All of this is part of the Clyde Beatty story. This adventure is undoubtedly one of the strangest you'll ever hear. It is entitled, The Juju Stones. Whether Harriet and I are in the prairie land of Kansas or on the far continent of Africa, we seem always to be stalked by adventure. The strange and incredible incident of the Juju Stones began one afternoon in Monrovia, Liberia on the west coast of Africa. My expedition had come downriver out of the African interior where we'd captured elephants, leopards and other wild animals. While waiting for the ship that would take us home to the United States, we accepted the invitation of an American, a Dr. Jacobs, to visit him at his bungalow. No more tea then, Mrs. Beatty? No, thank you, Dr. Jacobs. Beatty? Uh, no thanks. Have my boy clear away then. Small boy. I forecome, boss. Clear the things away, small boy. Yeah, boss. You're connected with the missionary hospital here in Monrovia, Dr. Jacobs. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not that kind of a doctor. I'm a professor, matter of fact. Right now, I'm out here in Liberia making a study. A very intriguing study. Is that right, Jacobs? Yes. Of witchcraft. Witchcraft? Juju, as the natives call it. Well, we came across some of that back in the bush. It's not just the back country tribesmen who make Juju, Beatty. Maybe before you leave Monrovia, I'll be able to show you some very strange and unbelievable things. Clyde, what was that? A stone. Somebody threw it at us through the window. No use rushing to the window, Beatty, to see you through the stone. There'll be nobody there. Nobody there? It's happened before. I rushed to look time after time. There's never been anyone. But that's impossible. Yes, yes, I know, I know, but you see, that stone there on the floor is a Juju stone. We return to the story of the Juju stones in a moment. Here is Clyde Beatty. The night of the day, the mysterious stone smashed the window of Dr. Jacobs' bungalow. A telegram reached me from Freetown in Sierra Leone, telling me the ship that was to take us to the United States was delayed and would be held in Monrovia several more days. I decided to make use of the time by testing the lefards we'd taken in the interior and had the boys set up the training cage the next morning. I'm going in through the safety cage now, Harriet. Sheik is a beautiful leopard, Clyde. Sure is. I'll only be in with him a minute. I just want to try him out. Be careful, Clyde. Honey, that's how I stay alive. I went in through the outer door of the safety cage, the usual equipment in my hands. A whip in my right hand, a kitchen chair and a 38 revolver loaded with blanks in my left. Then in through the inner safety cage door and into the big cage with a leopard. Backsheet! Get back there! Backsheet! Now, you can't make it out, can you, boy? Hold that out! Backsheet! Backsheet! Okay. That's enough for the first time. I'm coming out, Harriet. Hey, honey.  You give me the willies when you do have Clyde. Sheik's never been worked before. He'll be all right. They always are if they come at you. That kind's not treachery. Oh, Jacobs, I didn't see you. Oh, hello, Betty. Glad you dropped over. Harriet, open the runway and let Sheik back to his cage, will you? All right, Clyde. Come on into the bungalow, Jacobs. Sit down. Thanks. Small boys bringing cola champagne for us. Hope you don't mind. Well, I'm afraid I take my alcohol on the outside, Jacobs. Alcohol rub down after I work my cat. No, no, no, no, no. Cola champagne's a soft drink. The native cola bean from up in the bush country. Oh, well, fine. Nothing cold, it'll go good. Full of care after the table, Jacobs. Thanks. Betty, it's quite an experience to stand there and watch you work. You get to know how exceedingly dangerous a leopard is out here in West Africa. Well, thanks, Jacobs. I appreciate that. When you stare into the leopard's eyes, are you trying to hypnotize it? I wish I could. Make my job easier. Now, you control the big cats by making them think they don't scare you, even when they do. Dr. Jacobs, has there been anything more about the juju stone? Yes. Two more this morning. These. I brought them with me to show you. Well, they look just like any other stones. Yes, yes, but they pick themselves up and throw themselves at you. Of their own power. Do you really believe that, Jacobs? I've uncovered things here in West Africa, Betty, that seem impossible to explain. Excuse me, please, boss. I make for a fetched cola champagne. Passable... Hi. Look at the expression on his face. Small boy sees his juju stones on the table. And that's a town boy who wears shoes and went to mission school. No boss who bush boy, yet he runs at the site of those stones. Jacobs, have you got any idea why the stones throw themselves at you, as you put it? To kill me. To kill you? I'm afraid the truth is, Betty, I may be in quite a bit of danger. Maybe you can help. Well, if I can. You might take a drive in my car with me this afternoon to visit a man named Hezekiah. Hezekiah's a juju witch doctor. And that was when the juju stones started to fly at you, Jacobs, huh? After the first time that I went to see Hezekiah. Yes. He lives just out here on the edge of town. We're almost there. Makes it look bad for him. All this really began when the stones started flying at a girl named Charity, Newcombe. Charity's about 16, sings in the church choir. Not the kind you'd expect to find, witch. Well, Charity went to the witch doctor for help. Uh, to this man that we're gonna see? Yes, Hezekiah. The stones led up a while, and then they started again. I heard about it, went to see Hezekiah. Now the stones fly at me. Huh, yes. Is this the place here? Yes. Back with those mango trees. Thermite with the walls, corrugated iron roof. Hmph. Hezekiah's house. Well, it's a castle in Liberia. Uh, come on, let's run for it. Okay. Look, baby. Hezekiah's coming to the door. You can see him through this port window. Take a look. I hasn't got any arms. Come in, General Mars. It's be raining. Come on, baby. All right. Be seated, General Mars. Uh, we've come about the juju stones. I wish them off, but they come back. I told you that, doctor. I can help Miss Charity Newcombe no more. Hezekiah, since I came here and questioned you, juju stones have been flying at me. You look with bad eye on juju, doctor. We part-smell juju with the heart. Go home, your country, Dr. Jacobs. Juju stones, not follow you. Very good supper here, eh? Thank you. All right? Not just now, sim. Cribe, do you think that witch doctor is responsible for the juju stones? Well, I don't know. He couldn't throw them himself. I don't know. I thought he was a pretty dignified old guy. The leopard. What's up with him? Something's upsetting him. A juju stone. Get a flashlight and follow Harriet. I'm going to see if I can find who threw that. Flashlight. Did you see anyone? No. But whoever threw that stone passed by the cage and that must have upset the leopard. If anyone did pass by the cage's car. Honey, don't let this country get you. But you ran out right after the stone broke the window and you didn't see anyone. Well, somebody with a good wing could have thrown it from a distance and ducked out of sight. Hey, wait a minute. What car? My flashlight being picked up movement over there by the elephant compound. Come on. Careful. Careful. Wait here. I'll get him. What do you want? What do you want? Who are you? Really? What are you doing here? Just walking home. You took a detour wellie in here around my cages. I hear the leopard. I come and I see somebody throw a stone. Did you see who it was? Small boy. He worked for American. Dr. Jacobs. Here is an important message. And now back to the thrilling Clyde Beatty drama, the juju stones. Mysterious stones first flew with the native girl Charity Newcomb, then a Dr. Jacobs, the American professor, and now at Harriet and me, since I accompanied Dr. Jacobs to Hezekiah's house. Willie said he saw Dr. Jacobs' native servant Small Boy throw the stone. And the next morning, a Small Boy reached Dr. Jacobs' house to report for work, Jacobs said to me, Look, you question him, will you Beatty? I can't believe Small Boy would have done it. Well, why would he?  I guess I've gotten mixed up in this by going to Hezekiah's place with you. But Small Boy... Here it comes. Boy and boss. Boy, Mr. Beatty. Good morning, Small Boy. Good morning. Boss, don't you want me for a two-fetched breakfast chop, plenty final? Small Boy, sit down a minute. Yeah, Mr. Beatty. Small Boy, last night a stone flew at me and Mrs. Beatty. Juju stone? That's what you call it, but I think it was just an ordinary stone thrown by an ordinary person like you or me. I... Mr. Beatty, I... Mr. Beatty, I cannot foreput that thing you say into my head. Mr. Beatty means it might not have been a Juju stone. Somebody said you threw the stone, Small Boy. Wow! Wow! It's not my part to do that. Mr. Beatty. Jacobs, I think he's telling the truth. Come on over to my place. There's a way we can check and be sure. You see, Jacobs, the ground here by our bungalow is still soft. It rained yesterday. Yes. Last night the ground was muddy. If Small Boy threw the stone, the Prince of his shoes will be here on the ground. Yes, that's right. You'd recognize him, wouldn't you? Oh, yes. Yes, there aren't many boys his age or any age who wear shoes in Liberia. I was counting on that. Oh, wait. Look, here are some shoe prints. No, those are mine. These are the shoes I had on last night. Look here. The sole fits into the print. Oh, yes, I see. And here are Harriet's boot prints. I see. Beatty, there aren't any other shoe prints. No. No, there aren't. Here are my prints and Harriet's, but there aren't any other footprints. Well, Beatty, that was the last place I know to look for Willie. It begins to look like Willie's not in Monrovia. The fact that you caught him right there by your camp after the stone was thrown is suspicious. When he said Small Boy threw the stone through my window, he was lying. Yes. But there could have been several reasons for that. Here in Africa there could. I don't think that we, from the outside, really penetrate the native mind at all. I've had that thought back in the bush when I was a child. I've had that thought back in the bush country. And I keep thinking, Beatty, as you described Willie, I'm sure I've seen him somewhere. Now, if I could just remember... Wait, you remember where you've seen him? Well, I could be wrong, but a boy that would answer your description of Willie, ah, yes, it was down in the waterside, the dark section of town, six or seven weeks ago, before the juju stones began. Yes, Beatty, he was walking with a girl. And I remember now, that girl was Charity Newcomb. The girl the stones flew at when this all started. We're not likely to find Willie here at Hezekiah's house. Maybe Hezekiah knows more than we thought, Jacobs. Although I don't relish paying him this visit. I know how you feel, Beatty. He's coming. No, look here through the porch window. It's not Hezekiah. Batua. Now, he's speaking Pwesi. I learned a little of it in the interior. What does he say? Just hello. Batua. Hezekiah. Te angalo guano. Vima, vima. Wait here for me, Jacobs. Tuatua. Blow shield. Ah, guano. Come on, Jacobs. Let's go. What did you find out? I'll tell you on the way. Hurry, drive to my place. Is there something wrong? Plenty. Well, what is it, Beatty? What did the Pwesi man tell you? I couldn't get all of it, but as near as I could make out, Hezekiah decided early this morning to go up into the hills. He got the Pwesi man in to watch his house. Why did he want to go? To make juju, the Pwesi man said. The words just come from the hills, Jacobs.  A leopard? I never heard of one coming so close to Monrovia. That's why there's no time to lose in getting to my camp. Harriet, Harriet, where are you? We're glad. What on earth the matter? Have you been out to the leopard cages recently? Oh, no. Not in the last couple of hours? No, I haven't. Why? Because one of the leopards must have escaped. Come on. Well, they're all here. Nubia, Sheik, Cleopatra? Yes. What made you think one of them escaped? There's a report. Hezekiah's been killed by a leopard a couple of miles from town. There's plenty of leopards back in the bush, but they usually don't come down around Monrovia. You moved too fast for me, Betty. Are they all here? They're all here, Jacobs.  We'd better get back in your car and drive up there. Well, we can't go by car. There isn't road, but there is a way. What's that? Mule, my friend. Liberian mule. There's no one around, no one at all. When the word's out, a leopard's on the stalk. You don't find spectators. I guess not. Betty, I don't like it. You're used to the big cats, but I... Wait. There's Hezekiah's body. Yes. There's nobody guarding it. Oh. Probably somebody was posted, but he got cold feet and ran away. Betty, are you sure we are... this sawgrass is high enough to hide a leopard? We'd better tie the mules here. This is close enough. Oh. Oh. And we can make our way over to that little clearing where the body is. Well, do you think we ought to walk through the sawgrass? Well, we may snag our clothes a little, but we shouldn't ride too close. There may be tracks we must up. Well, I suppose you're right. Here, hand me your reins. Well, all right. Let's go.  All right. Now, there's an act to it. Now, stay close behind me. Come on. What was that? A pepper bird, Jacob. Oh. Oh, well, I... Come on. Be careful now. Here's the clear space around the body. What are those in the dirt? Leopard tracks. Are you sure? I'm sure. And Hezekiah's head. Could leopard claws have done that? They could. I don't mind saying I want to get away from here, Betty. Now, don't worry, Jacob.  A leopard did. But you said those were leopard tracks. They are. And the claw marks. But you say a leopard didn't kill him? How do you know that? Look at our mules. Look at our mules. That's right, Jacob. Look at our mules. Betty, look out. Betty, are you all right? Yeah. Just got my side. Another juju stone. No, not juju. That stone was thrown by a dead-eyed chucker they could use in the major leagues back in the States. And I know who. Come on, Jacob. You want? Just walking home this time, Willie. Let me go. Stay still, Willie. Here we are, Jacob. I caught him. Now we'll take him back to Monrovia where he can explain to the constabulary how he killed a helpless old man with a well-aimed stone. Sugar, Mrs. Batey? Thanks. Batey? No. No, I've got a lemon. That'll do for me. Dog gone. Clever of you, Batey, about those mules. Oh, now I don't know. After the hours and hours, Clyde spent training horses to get used to the smell of the big cats. I guess he should know well enough that a horse or a mule would bolt like the dickens from any place a leopard had been. And horses and mules can detect the smell of the big cats for hours after they've gone. Well, you see how this, Jacob? The man's just never a hero to his wife. No. Well, I came here to West Africa to learn about Judo, but I've learned something about leopards and mules. Now I know a leopard couldn't have been up there, or our mules would have smelled the leopard odor and bolted. Did Willie really think he could make it look like a leopard had killed Hezekiah, Clyde? I am afraid Willie's a pretty clever boy, as well as a crack shot with a stone. He used a pair of leopard paws to make leopard tracks and claw marks. Oh, there would seem that a leopard had attacked Hezekiah. Oh, it was more subtle than that. There's a powerful secret society in Liberia, the leopard society. Savages back in the bush, dressing leopard skins and rampage over the country. Willie thought if a real leopard didn't get the blame for the killing, the leopard society would. That's right, baby. I saw him in jail this morning. Did he finally admit throwing the stones? At you and me, yes. He wanted the teachers not to interfere. Oh, well, did he say why he killed Hezekiah? He'd heard the old witch doctor had gone to the hills to make Judo, to make him stop throwing the stones at Charity Newcomb. Well, now that's an odd thing.  I'll forecome, boss. Clear away the teething, small boy. Yeah, boss. You were saying, doctor. It's an odd thing. Willie absolutely swarves he didn't throw the Judo stones at Charity Newcomb. Small boy, for heaven's sake. I, I'm sorry. I, I'm sorry. Oh, it's all right, Jacob. It'll wash right out.  Small boy, what's the matter? You're, you're shaking like a leaf. I'll go, come, boss. Get the cloth for clean clothes, Monsieur Betty. Small boy, what is it? You speak the Judo stone. I mentioned the Judo stones. What about it? They fly at Miss Charity Newcomb, boss. But that's all over now. No, boss, not so. Judo stones come today. Miss Charity Newcomb hurt bad. But Willie's in jail now. He couldn't have. That's right. You see what I mean about Africa, Betty? You can never quite solve its mysteries. So ends this intriguing Clyde Betty adventure. In a moment, you will hear a preview of the next thrilling drama. Here is a preview of the next Clyde Betty adventure, Beauty and the Beast. Well, Harriet, everything's all set for the dress rehearsal. Oh, Clyde, I'm so excited. Oh, honey, you'll be great. The act's sensational. Why all the reporters and newsreel cameramen, just for a rehearsal? Well, they know about your new act. They expect a baptism of fire for you. I don't know about that. But we'll give them a good show. Right.  Most sensational wild animal act ever performed by a woman. That's you. Are you ready? I'm ready. Now tell me something, monster. You noticed? Yes. Especially with all those cameras out there. Oh, when you get in a cage, you'll forget him. Clyde, you'll stand by. I'll be in a safety cage. Ready to now. The black maned African lion, trained and presented by the greatest woman animal trainer of all time. There you go. Good luck. Beauty and the Beast is a true dramatic story about my lovely wife Harriet. In it, though I'm mostly in the safety cage or in sick bed, a thrilling climax is reached that gave me just about the greatest satisfaction in all my years of animal training. All stories are based upon incidents in the career of the world's famous Clyde Beatty and the Clyde Beatty circus. The Clyde Beatty show is produced by Shirley Thomas. The Juju Stones was written by Roy Williams. All names used were fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This is a Commodore production.


Item number SCP-345 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-345 is to be kept inside a secure vault at Site ██, seeing as the object is inert by itself, no further containment is necessary. While seeking to solve SCP-345, need the permission of one Level 2 personnel. SCP-345-1 is to be kept inside a 5m x 5m x 5m sealed room on Site ██, following Incident 345-1. Personnel are only allowed to solve one of the six faces of SCP-345. Trying to solve all faces will result in reassignment to MTF-Epsilon-8, the midwives. Description SCP-345 is a stone cube, whose faces are each divided into 9 squares of equal size, and sections of which can be rotated in a fashion similar to a common puzzle toy. Each face of the cube measures 5.7 cm. Instead of the normal six colors commonly found in this kind of puzzle, the squares represent six different materials, an intrusive magmatic rock resembling granite, an intrusive magmatic rock resembling gabbro, an extrusive magmatic rock resembling basalt, a sedimentary rock resembling sandstone, volcanic glass resembling obsidian, and a high-grade metamorphic rock resembling granite nice. SCP-345 can be opened by forcefully pulling its sides apart. The cube is hollow, possessing a circular cavity 4.5 cm in diameter in its center. If left open for 5 seconds, SCP-345 will automatically close and shuffle itself for 2 minutes. Afterward, it may be safely handled. Note that it will not be possible to force SCP-345 open after the shuffling takes place. Opening SCP-345 is no harder than solving the common versions of the puzzle. However, if one of the faces becomes complete, one of the following situations may occur. If the completed face represents one of the magmatic rocks, SCP-345 will heat up to approximately either 1500°C, gabbro face, 1200°C, basalt face, or 900°C, granite face. The amount of time SCP-345 takes to cool down also greatly varies, with the basalt face being the fastest, up to 50 minutes, and the gabbro face being the slowest, up to 250 days. If the completed face represents the sedimentary rock, the cube will start shaking violently for up to 10 hours. The sound of either water running or wind howling can be heard coming from inside SCP-345 during the whole process. If the completed face represents volcanic glass, SCP-345 will heat up to approximately 900°C, and will take up to 5 minutes to cool down. If the completed face represents the metamorphic rock, SCP-345 will suffer the same process that would happen if the granite face was completed. After cooling down, the cube will proceed to shuffle itself at high speeds, making loud grinding sounds while it does so, for up to 50 hours. After one of the processes is over, SCP-345 can be opened again, where the sculpture made of the same material that was represented by the completed face can be found inside of it. The small sculpture will always be a planet, or planet, toward 4.5 cm in diameter. These sculptures do not represent any currently known planet. If more than one face is completed at the same time, both corresponding processes will occur, one followed by the other. The statue created will be made of both materials. For instance, the sculpture created by completing the granite and obsidian faces at the same time had its continents made of granite, and its oceans made of obsidian. SCP-345 was recovered by Agent ██████ on ██████ days after the eruption of the ██████ volcano in ██████ Ecuador. Claims to have found it near the base of the volcano, and took it as a curiosity. He learned about the true nature of the SCP after trying to solve it, suffering third-degree burns in the process. SCP-345-1 on ████, 2000, while Dr. ██████ tested SCP-345, she managed to complete all faces by not opening the cube once a face was completed. SCP-345 received the rumble for three minutes, after which it opened by itself. A small metal sphere, 4.5 cm in diameter, emerged from inside SCP-345 and hovered three meters from the ground. Shortly after, the sphere began rotating, accelerating at a rate of 5 meters per second. Strong gravitational forces were detected into the vicinity of the sphere, visibly affecting objects up to 15 meters away. Seconds later, a dense orange liquid, which an average surface temperature of approximately 4,000 degrees Celsius, began flowing from SCP-345, which proceeded to encompass the metal sphere. Afterwards, another denser liquid began flowing out of SCP-345. It also proceeded to encircle the sphere. This liquid continued to flow from inside SCP-345 until the sphere reached a diameter of 2.5 meters. At which point the flow stopped, and SCP-345 automatically closed. The resulting sphere was still slowly spinning and hovering above the ground. It was extremely dense, and the gravitational pull was strong enough to severely damage its surroundings. The temperature at the surface varied between 900 and 1600 degrees Celsius. Thirty minutes later, parts of the outermost magma began to cool down, solidifying into a thin rock crust. Twenty hours later, most parts of the sphere were solid rock, with small seas of lava flowing between them. Small volcanoes and mountains could also be observed. At this point, a special containment team with heat-resistant equipment was moved in to relocate the sphere to a safer room. The sphere was later designated SCP-345-1. Studies regarding the probability of its eventual development of an atmosphere are underway. Note, although at first we thought that SCP-345 accreted a copy of Earth as of ██████, ██████, ██████, ██████. Studies have shown that it is unlikely that SCP-345-1 will develop an atmosphere, and the composition of its magma is very different from Earth's, containing far smaller quantities of silica and aluminum, and larger amounts of titanium. It is currently unknown if the magma of other planetoids created by SCP-345 would have a similar composition. Perhaps we should have a D-class completed, preferably on an open field.


So I want to talk about the relationship between the length of an entire muscle organ and the amount of tension that that muscle organ can generate. Now I want you to just do a little thought experiment here. If you fully extended your forearm at the elbow joint, so your forearm is fully straight, you're almost in standard anatomical position.  I want it to be fully extended straight out, almost hyper extended so that your biceps brachii muscle, which is this massive bad boy right here, is as long as it can possibly be. You can't make it longer without, like, applying forces and pulling it apart and stuff like that, which let's not do that. And I want you to imagine it, and you might want to pause and do this. I grab something heavy and then slowly lift the heavy thing. So do like a biceps curl. So you're slowly flexing your forearm at the elbow joint.  And think about, see if you can figure out at what point can you apply the biggest force? At what point do you have, like, is it the weakest? And do it, stop, and go do it. And now you're back because you always do exactly what I say. And I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. When the muscle is short, you actually are generating a small amount of force. Whoa, hello, get out of there. And this is actually, like, I totally feel that is an intuitive truth. If I'm carrying something that my brick and I have to lift it, I'm actually going to flex my forearm at the elbow joint before I lift it. I'm not going to try to lift it from a fully extended position. And I don't even think about that.   And now I'm going to lift it. Now I'm going to finish the lift. But to go from that fully extended position, it doesn't feel comfortable. It doesn't feel comfortable because you really can't generate very much tension when you're, I'm on the wrong end. When the length of your muscle is really huge, you can't generate very much tension. But you get the sense that when you shorten that muscle just a tad, you can generate more and more and more tension. This is supposed to be a smooth curve.  It's a little violent. I wouldn't actually do that. Maybe, well, okay, we'll stop saying things that are violent in nature. But there is a point where you're like, whoa, I can generate a lot of force. It would be kind of in the middle of the shortening of your muscle.  You go back down and when your muscle is super short, I mean, even though you can't really move it very far because you don't have much distance to move it, it doesn't feel very strong. Like if I want to hit somebody in the face with a brick, I'm going to start from here and go like that. I'm not going to start from fully extended and I'm certainly not going to start from up here. It just doesn't feel very strong. So my question for you is, my first statement is, this is the reality. This is the truth. My question for you is why? Why is it like that? Well, to answer that question, let's go back to our friend that you are growing to know and love, the sarcomere. Keep in mind that our myofibrils got there.  And so if, now imagine this for a second. If I could take these thin filaments, the green ones, that's what I was going for. If I could stretch them out. So I'm going to fully extend the muscle and stretch those out so that maybe the amount of overlap starts like right here. And I'm going to take it all the way over here. My z-line is going to be all the way over here. Did you see what I just did? All I did was just pull it apart. And so this space in the middle is going to be really huge and the overlap between the thick and thin filaments is going to be really small. Why is that not going to generate very much force? Is it totally intuitive? If the overlap between my thin filament and my thick filament is like two myosin heads, how can I possibly generate very much force if I'm only using two myosin heads? And it's totally true. If you contract a little bit, shorten the sarcomere just a little bit, there's an optimal zone where we actually have, look at this, this is probably close to my optimal zone, where, dude, every single myosin head has access to the thin filaments to generate a contraction and generate more force. There's a point at which the actins are completely overlapped with the myosin and you can't get any shorter. If you can't get any shorter, you're not going to be able to generate very much tension. You're not going to be able to generate or smash a brick somewhere. That's not very nice with your muscles fully contract. And again, contracted, that makes intuitive sense. Think about sprinters who start, if they're in a race, the 200 meters, they get down into starting position. They don't start the race standing straight up because they want to be as explosive as possible. And in order to be explosive, they need to be partially contracted. They can't be all extended in the case of standing straight up and starting running from that position. All right, that's super cool. Let's talk about flexibility. Okay, good idea.


What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. On Thursday, March 23rd, Pike County Judge Executive Ray Jones signed another proclamation regarding child abuse. This proclamation recognizes the month of April 2023 as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Jones expresses his thoughts toward the long-standing issue and thanks to community members involved. It has been a problem across our nation for decades. Every year, thousands of kids are seriously injured or killed by child abuse and countless others are scarred for life. There's no place for child abuse in our society and I want to thank our social workers, our police officers and our prosecutors for taking the steps to protect our kids and to put perpetrators behind bars where they need to be. Throughout the next month, there will be several events such as Gatties Goes Blue on March 31st and Kids Day in the Park on April 15th. These events are just one way to highlight the importance of protecting our children. This is an issue that we can't go enough attention to and it's great that we have a proclamation that's declared in April as the Child Abuse Prevention Month. It's one of the most serious things that we deal with in prosecuting. We work with the social workers and until we have great social workers that are really dedicated to what they do, you won't find employees that are more dedicated to the job they do to protect these children. These are most vulnerable victims that we can have in our justice system. So it needs special attention and I think that things like this, what we're doing today is just bringing attention to that and will help us in that endeavor. Any time we can protect our children or elderly, as you say, then it is a service to community and something we take very seriously in my office as well as I know everybody else involved in it. We work closely with Judy's place. They do a great job in the forensic interviews, which are very important in prosecuting the case. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.


One of the important activities of mathematics is taking something that quote everybody knows about and Examining it from every possible angle in the hopes that we'll find out even more than what everybody knows So let's take a deeper look at coordinates So let's start off with our set of vectors and let's consider any linear combination of this set of vectors and So notice that this linear combination is completely specified by the n Coefficient a1 through an so I can take the n-tuple a1 through an and call these the Coordinates of my vector x with respect to my set of vectors V Now at this point we haven't committed ourselves to what this vector set V looks like but if V is a basis for some vector space V then the Coordinates of this vector x will be unique and Conversely and this is something you should be able to prove Since it's possible for there to be more than one basis for a given vector space suppose I have two different basis sets for our vector space We might consider the following problem to convert the coordinates of x with respect to one basis Into coordinates with respect to the other basis So in order to solve this problem what we're going to need to do is we'll need to Set up and solve a system of linear equations so if the coordinates of x with respect to P are a1 through an and b1 through bn with respect to q then because they are supposed to be coordinates for the same point I know that the linear combination with the coefficients a1 through an has to be equal to the linear combinations b1 through bn We can view this in matrix form on the left hand side we have the matrix consisting of the columns p1 through pn and The column vector of the coordinates a1 through an on the right hand side We have the matrix consisting of the columns q1 through qn and the column vector corresponding to the coordinates with respect to q and Purely for notational convenience will let p be the matrix whose columns are the basis p and q be the matrix whose columns are the basis q and that allows us to write our equation as Matrix p times the column vector of the coordinates equals matrix q times the column vector of the coordinates Now by assumption, we know both p and q because we have the basis p and the basis q We also know all of the a i's because those are the Coordinates of our vector with respect to p so that says that we can solve for the b i's by multiplying by the multiplicative inverse of q Provided that this multiplicative inverse exists more generally. This is the left inverse of q So let's see how that works in practice So here I'll have a basis for a two-dimensional vector space I'll have a different basis for the same vector space and suppose the coordinates of some Vector x with respect to our first basis are three one Let's see if we can find the coordinates with respect to our second basis So let's go ahead and try and set that up if we have the coordinates of x with respect to u are u1 u2 then we know that the Product three five four seven times three one is going to be the product one one four three times u1 u2 And again, it'll help to remember what this really means this is a linear combination that consists of taking three of the vector three four and one of the vector five seven and Those correspond to the coordinates of x with respect to our first vector space v what we want to do is we want to find the linear combination of 1 4 and 1 3 that give us the same vector So what I can do to solve for this vector u1 u2 I can multiply on the left by the inverse of 1 1 4 3 and We can find that in any number of ways We find the inverse and we multiply on the left by it and get u1 u2 as a product of three matrices Which ends up being negative twenty three thirty seven and because there's a lot of places where the arithmetic may have gone wrong Let's verify this so what we're claiming is that the linear combination three of three four and one of five seven is Going to be the same as negative twenty three of one four and thirty seven of one three So let's check it out three of three four plus one of five seven is fourteen nineteen and negative twenty three of one four and thirty seven of one three is Also fourteen nineteen and so these are the coordinates with respect to our vector u


Okay, so what we're going to do in this next step is we're going to create something that is being projected by the projector that we've created. But in order to do that, to make life a little bit easier, what we're going to do is hide what we've created so far so that it's not in the way. There are many different ways of doing this, but the way we're going to go with is to put it into a layer and hide the layer. For two reasons. One, it's quite neat, and two, it's a good way to show you what layers are. So the first thing we're going to do is select everything in the scene. Again, there are multiple ways of doing this. You could just shift, click everything like this, one, two, three, four, etc. Or you can go to select and select all, or you can press control, shift and A, and that will select all. So you just need to make sure you've got all the geometry in your scene selected. And then, if you can't see it, if you did what I did and you dragged down earlier, we're just going to drag up and we need to bring the layers, the layers thing back. Layers box, yeah. And what we're going to do is we're going to click on layers and we're going to create a layer from selected. And everything we've selected then goes into a new layer. I'm going to click twice on that, and that will let me rename it, so I'm going to call it room layer. You can't put spaces in this. You can put an underscore in, but for some reason when you're making a layer, you can't put spacing. And I'm going to click on save. And now, there's a little V here, and whenever you click on that, that will hide it. So that's the room out of the way for the time being. And what I'm also going to do now is turn the grid back on because we're going to use that to position a solar system that is going to be projected by the projector. So we'll turn the grid back on and then we're ready for the next step.