Good afternoon. Thank you all very much for being with us this afternoon. It's great to have you here at the United States Institute of Peace. It's our honor to have the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, his Excellency Dr. Salah al-Mutlak with us here this afternoon for his remarks, also for your questions. And so we look forward to this conversation to be able to explore the many issues having to do with the Iraq, the United States, the issues that affect both of us. USIP is very pleased to have been in Iraq for 10 years. We've been there since 2004. We've never left. Good times and bad. And our work there, we think, has had an effect on the work of others, of Iraqis, trying to find peaceful resolution of disputes. We've worked with national and provincial leaders, but we've worked on the ground. The range of activities that we have undertaken is broad. We've also sponsored discussions such as this with Dr. Budlak and other senior Iraqis who have come here to the United States, here to Washington, and here to the Institute of Peace. We've worked in Nineveh, mitigating tensions. We've been building bridges between community and police in Kirkuk, in Baghdad, in Karbala, in Basra. We've got a range of activities that we are pleased with, and we've just had a conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister. We hope that this discussion today will be next in the series of further conversations. We look forward to Dr. Mutlak's remarks. The session today is in two parts. We will have the first session with Dr. Mutlak. We will also then have an intermission, and then we will have two members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the Iraqi Parliament. Mr. Isat Al-Shabandar and Dr. Nadia Al-Jabouri will have an opportunity to have a conversation with you, answer questions, and enter into that kind of work. Dr. Mutlak, let me invite you to come make your initial remarks, and then we will have an opportunity to discuss this later on. So please welcome the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Prime Minister. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. It's my honor to be among you today to talk about our vision on how to deal with the situation in Iraq and the region. And no doubt the Middle East now is in a very difficult time, and Iraq is part of that region. As we said before, to our brothers in the neighboring countries, don't get so excited about the sectarianism in Iraq, because if it gets to cross to your countries, it will cut your parts. And this is what's happening now, and now the whole region is suffering from sectarianism, which Iraq priorly suffered from. And we told them also that Iraq is not the only country suffering from terrorism. As you know, terrorism has no borders, and it's going to be reaching you sooner or later. And I told them to cooperate with Iraq, and the Iraqis to fight terrorism, because terrorism wherever it goes is violence, blood, and killing, and abuse, and miserable life for people. A few of them listened to us, but others did not care, and now everybody is paying the price. Today, we want to help everybody to get rid of that disease, sectarianism, and the terrorism. And we can play an important role to help the region to get rid of terrorism that we all suffering from, likewise with sectarianism. Iraqis paid a high price to fight terrorism. As you all know, that Iraqis gave a huge price and sacrifices to kick Al Qaeda out of Iraq. It was really an expensive price to pay. Cruelty and abuse and marginalization can create a rich environment for terrorism and for Al Qaeda specifically. And that's why Al Qaeda is growing again in Iraq. And now we need all the effort to come together to help Iraq to get rid of that danger, likewise in the region. I would like to emphasize that your brothers Sunnis, Shias, Kurds, and Arabs are quite determined to clean the country from sectarianism and terrorism. And they really need your help. And I'm quite sure that at the end they will be able to defeat terrorism in Iraq. So we need help from the United States and the rest of the country to fight terrorism in Iraq is greatly needed. But today we need your help also to advise, give an advice to your friend in Iraq, the head of the political groups to have a kind of reconciliation in the country. Because we believe that arming the Iraqi army is not enough by itself. Because you know, there is a society, cohesive society is needed to fight terrorism. And if you don't have these two factors, things will be really difficult. And as you know, that the American army with Ismite could not defeat Al Qaeda unless they could really have the cooperation of the local people. And that's why trying to lift up cruelty and being fair to the citizen of these regions. And this is what we need again. So I would like to emphasize again, arming the Iraq is important, but to have a national reconciliation is also as important. We are about to have an election in Iraq. We only have a very short time for elections to take place. It's going to be an important day in the history of Iraq. We need free elections to take place in Iraq with a lot of transparency, monitoring, international monitoring. We're also civil society from the international community to take part. We need elections where you don't have curfew imposed on the people. Because as you know, these two things don't go together. People won't be able to go to the polls and vote. So if a curfew is imposed, would be an attempt to marginalize some size of party not to be part of the elections or the democratic process. We noticed what happened in the provincial council's elections when some neighborhoods were forbidden to participate by imposing curfew. Then the participation rate was very low. And I think this is very dangerous. And the political representation would not reflect the Iraqi society equally. And it will put obstacles on the way of the political process in Iraq. Sectarianism is really a danger threatening Iraq. I would say it's more important than terrorism because it is the base for terrorism. So now hearing some loud voice, sectarian voice, it's just a way to undermine the efforts for a free and good elections. And it's going to harm the country greatly. And I wish you to give an advice to all of you friends, people, you know, not to escalate sectarianism in Iraq, whether before or after the election. And I think there is like a kind of fever for escalation of sectarianism taking place now in Iraq. And this is very dangerous. And there is also some people using some of the problems and exaggerate them to also help sectarianism to grow bigger. And I wish for everybody to distance themselves from that topic because it represents a great danger on our country and our democracy. I have other commitments and might be able to spend much time, so let's go for questions and answers. And if there's something you would like to ask me, I'll be glad to answer. And if you don't have any questions, then I would expand and explain more. Thank you for these moments. And Saeed. To get those words out, we noticed that you also wrote these words down this morning. And they appeared in the Wall Street Journal editorial op-ed in that paper where you laid out some of those issues as well. You come from Anbar. Can you give us a little sense of the issues that you spoke about just now so eloquently in terms of sectarianism in Anbar and the situation on the ground in Fallujah in Ramadi. You mentioned al-Qaeda, sectarianism as a threat even larger than terrorism. Could you elaborate on that a little bit, please? I lived the situation in Anbar and I made continuous contact with what's taking place in Anbar. Al-Qaeda and ISIS, they're in Anbar and Mosul, Diyarah, Baghdad and even other southern provinces. And I think they have greater presence now in the last few months. They represent danger, but the greater danger is when the society will just step aside and don't take its role in fighting terrorism and fighting al-Qaeda. And this is exactly what I'm talking about, taking place in Fallujah and Ramadi. And we're talking also about the uprise taking place on these areas as a very minor. Those people who are uprising are the former military officers and soldiers in the army and some of them bathists. A lot of people also, they were in demonstration for a whole year asking for their constitutional rights which was never fulfilled, their demands. And we cautioned everybody that not complying with their demands, with the people's demand in a peaceful way would cause them and push them to gain their demands fulfilled in a different way using violence. Fulfilling these demands democratically within a year would avoid them going to use the other alternative. So we talk to everybody, don't really disappoint the demonstrators because you would push them to be extremists. Give them the space to express themselves peacefully in a democratic way. So the army went there to fight al-Qaeda in Ambar. The Iraqis were greeting them, they were on their side. But when the goal derailed to be instead of against al-Qaeda, to become against the demonstrators, then the people had a change of heart. And people started to demonstrate differently now. It's important to say that let Iraqis get unified to fight terrorism. Don't separate or marginalize people willingly because separating them or isolating them will undermine the military's efforts to fight terrorism. It's okay to arm the Iraqi army, but parallel we want to have people have the complete satisfaction and that they want to fight terrorism as well with the people also. People's will is to be going parallel with the army's will. This way all Iraqis will be unified against terrorism. Don't make these provinces or regions to be incubators for al-Qaeda because they would feel that their dignity is touched and hurt and then they will turn their back to you and they won't fight al-Qaeda. This is a great danger. And we need the people to fight terrorism and sectarianism unified with the army in the same direction to fight these two. People have some feeling that they've been, some of the people have had feelings that they've been marginalized and they're not getting their rights. So this is one country and you have to give everybody their rights and if there's no stability there won't be any development and there's no development. No one would be happy to see Iraq going through these circumstances whether U.S. or everybody is around the world. It's important for everybody else to cooperate to create a stabilized country, a stable country fighting sectarianism where there's no distinction or somebody would be marginalized and the other are given the chance to work. And we want for all the sects to have their role unified in the Iraqi society. We know in the leadership of the army of Iraq does not have a realistic representation of the composition of the Iraqi population. And there is something wrong. It's imbalanced. The state is imbalanced and we need to them to get to be stabilized and balanced again so that people would have a belief that their leadership is representing everybody equally. And when people feel that they are equal with the other they don't mind whether for their prime minister to be from this sect or another as far as they are doing their goals. If I understand you correctly it would be possible for the people of Anbar, the Iraqis to unite to oppose al-Qaeda and that weapons from the United States and recognition of the importance of dignity of the people of Anbar and the people of Iraq more broadly that combination you said in parallel both the support from the United States on the military side as well as encouraging this dialogue, this national reconciliation. So the weapons though would be part of that but not the only part of that. Exactly. Weapons alone cannot do the job. It is important but cannot do the job. We have to go in parallel to shrinking the Iraqi army plus creating the reconciliation in the country and giving the rise to the people who ask for the rise for almost more than a year. You mentioned the elections, elections coming up. You had several qualifications and several concerns about the conduct of those elections and the ability of all Iraqis to participate in those elections. If there are free and fair elections what do you see coming out of those? An ability of a government to be able to come together named more quickly than last time coalitions forming if the elections are well conducted freely and fairly. What kind of an Iraqi government would you like to see coming out of those elections? Look, I think there was a mistake which happened during the past election. Iraqis were supposed to take the chance to form the government because it won 91 seats against 89 seats but because of the pressure from Iran and because the United States did not act in a strong way things went in the wrong way and in my feeling without finding a national project, a national list, a national coalition which will be away from sectarianism this country will not be stabilized and it will not be kept united. So if there is a transparent election and fair election which till now I cannot see I think there will be a fair representation of the people and things will go in a proper way but if there will be a curfew during the election and people will be prevented from going to the election to elect and if the sectarian speech will continue the results will be not promising neither for the Iraqis nor for those who likes Iraq. In the last election as you say there were several lists. One list as you mentioned was non sectarian, multi sectarian. Do you see that, will that happen again in this election? I think even the sectarian parties they split now they are not in one list. There is a possibility of forming a semi nationalist list in the future. Providing again the election will go in a fair and transparent one and there is a supervision on this election. One of the questions from the audience asks about the government formation following an election. This is from Mark Dewever. Is it likely that government formation will take as long as it did the last time? And if so what are the implications for the security of Iraq during that period of time of government formation? I cannot predict really but it's more likely it will take time. With the split of these lists it will take some time. Staying on elections, another question from the audience, from Eric Gofteson from Epic. How much of a role is foreign funding playing in Iraqi politics leading up to the election today? This is a good question. I think one of the problems that we are facing now is that corruption in the country and also foreign aiding is going to play a big role in the results of the elections. I hope this will not be as much as people are expecting because in the governorate election it played a big role. So at this time it will play a role but to which extent I hope it will not be that much but again corruption is very high in this country and it will affect the results definitely. You mentioned both in your Wall Street Journal piece as well as your remarks Dr. Mudlak, Al-Qaeda. What are the dynamics in Anbar and the dynamics with Syria that lead to the resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq at this point? Well the borders are open and they are so long so you know the elements of Al-Qaeda are moving from one place to the another one. So definitely solving the problem of Syria would do its effect in Iraq but we cannot wait until that time. I think and I'm sure that the people of Al-Anbar by the help of the other people if there is a guarantee that they are going to be supported they are able to remove Al-Qaeda from Al-Anbar. But again if justice is not going to be there there will be a spread of violence everywhere in Iraq and I just want my friends to remember that the violence is not only in Al-Anbar. The problem in Diyala is even worse than in Al-Anbar. There are people who are being displaced from their areas to other areas and that is in a continuous way. This has to be stopped also. What's happening in Diyala will be reflected to Al-Anbar, to Baghdad and to the others. And what we see in Baghdad is also a huge problem. It's not less than or higher than what's happening in Al-Anbar. It is a must now that we should create the stability. If we create the stability we'll find development. We'll find jobs for the people. But if not this will continue and even if we defeat Al-Qaeda in that place then maybe we will face Al-Qaeda somewhere else. We need a complete solution, a solution in which all the Iraqis will gather together by gathering their politicians and the problem is not within the Iraqis themselves. The problem is between the politicians of Iraq. I cannot see that there are differences between the Shi'at and the Sunnis to the extent that they'll fight each other. But the problem is between the politicians and the politicians that use sectarianism just before the election in order to get votes. But this is going to be very dangerous to the country if we use it between time and time every day and the governorate election we are using that and the general election we are using that so and every two years we'll have a problem of raising sectarianism again. Do the people of Iraq support that sectarianism? Do the people of Iraq want to see that kind of conflict among their their leaders or are their leaders misjudging the Iraqis and their and their appeal to sectarianism in preparation for election leading up to elections as you just said? You know I could tell you that I'm definite in saying that the sectarianism is not among the Iraqis. Sectarianism is among the politicians but they can use it to agitate people by creating some problems at a specific time just before the election to move the people emotionally towards a specific line. So if the Iraqi politicians running for office perceived that their constituents whether they be Sunni, Shia or Kurdish actually would support a multi sector a multi sectarian party or reject more broadly the sectarianism that you said would that lead them? Would a government resulting from that kind of an election be able to pull all of Iraq together? If there will be a fair election and there will be enough contribution from all the sects in the country all the constituency in the country I think we might reach after some time a national project but if there be an oppression on specific constituents not to move to the election then this will create more imbalance in the political process and more damage and more sectarianism but it would be better of course if people will elect with that regardless of the sects but with the propaganda that some of the politicians are using before the election it's hard to see that at this moment. So you would call for Iraqi politicians not to appeal to sectarianism? Definitely and I want everybody to call them to call them not to go for sectarianism because it's really damaging to the country maybe they will win in the election maybe they will take power in the government but they cannot govern they cannot run the country in a proper way because they already made the damage before forming the government and they cannot run a government or run a country with such kind of damage. Dr. Malak there are implications as you've already indicated of the Syrian conflict for terrorism al-Qaeda support in Iraq. We're approaching the Geneva 2 conference. Iraqis have a great interest I would imagine in that resolution what advice what guidance what would you like to see coming out of the Geneva discussions? Well of course what's happening in Syria is annoying everybody and it is a disastrous way if you consider how many people are being killed how many people are being displaced it's a disaster so I would rather like to see that the opposition will be more reasonable and come and sit down and create a dialogue and get out of the situation with the minimum damage that might happen to the country. I would also like to see the Russian and the Americas will come to agreement before they go there because I think most of the complication is you know it's an outside. Some of the opposition are getting support and advices from some foreign countries and also the complication between the Russian position and the American position is making the whole situation more complicated. Dr. Malak another question here on the Kurdistan region of Iraq Alex Ebsari asked the Kurdistan region of Iraq is safe, secure and prosperous and has been spared from the violence by and large. What role can the Kurds play in combating the ISIS in Anbar province? The Kurds are doing a good job in combating al-Qaeda and ISIS in their region but they are not doing much in the other regions of Iraq. All of us would expect some more help from the Kurdish area to stop the infiltration of al-Qaeda to inside Iraq and also to take some measures to stop them from coming there. But their main concern now is their region. I don't think they are playing a big role in defeating al-Qaeda in the other places. Sam Kazan at CSIS asks a question about history here. You asked for America's help to fight terrorism. Last November Prime Minister Maliki visited Washington, sat right here where you're sitting and made a similar request. If America's assistance is so central to Iraq's effort against extremism, why was the status of forces agreement not extended at the end of 2011? This is a historical question I said. It happened. It did. So now are you responsible about what's going on in Iraq? Do you want to feel that you have to participate or you just say that okay you didn't want us there, we are out and we are not responsible anymore? I think you have a legal and moral responsibility towards Iraq because Iraq was a united country.  Not only regime, Mr. Zalmai is here, Karasim. So therefore Iraq in my opinion will stand up at some time and get rid of what's going on now. But what is needed from you and for the world and from the world in general is to help Iraq to stand as soon as possible in a shorter time so that the the facts, the damages will be less. And again I feel it is the responsibility of the world who decided to invade Iraq at that time to stand for Iraq and help Iraq in such a moment. And at least by the advice to your friends in the political process to tell them look we are being blamed for changing the regime there we want the real democracy to be established there not the democracy we see now. So work together and for those whom you have given them more than what they should get you should tell them now let's look you went too far stop here and sit with you with your brothers and solve the problem in a peaceful way. Otherwise if the Kurdish parties will expand from one side and the other sect will extend from other side then by that way the problem is not going to be solved. What happened in Iraq was done by an external power and I think the external power is still needed to rearrange things especially for those whom you have given more than they should get. So this is a this is a good question for all of us here in Washington the kinds of support that you are looking for from the United States you've already mentioned sale of weapons not by themselves but certainly the sale of the weapons advice to the government on inclusive advice and expectation of free and fair elections what other advice would you give us what other requests would you make of the of the United States of the US government? Look sale of weapons in parallel with the reconciliation because again I don't think the weapons alone can solve the problem the major problem is that there is no reconciliation in the country if there is a reconciliation maybe we need weapons but the weapon we need may be much less than what we need now so these two things has to go together do not concentrate on one aspect and leave the other aspect do not neglect the other aspect because still I think inclusive government I mean sharing of power in this government include in you know the presence of all the component and the security decision and the security organization is a must now the whole security issue is linked to one party and this should stop and there should be an organization which run the security part not a person not a party your president is the command general of the army isn't it commander in chief the army yeah but he can he does not take the decision alone there is an organization who tells him okay this should be done we need such an organization Deputy Prime Minister Jin Suk Lee from NBC Korea asks this question do you think life under Prime Minister Maliki is better than life under Saddam Hussein if so what are the grounds that you would say so well definitely life in a democratic system is better than life in a dictatorship system but will you tell me that life now is prosperous and good I tell you no that brings the question that brings us around to some questions of economics one of the questions here is the the energy relations between Baghdad and Erbil have been the source of some concern some interest on the part of of your neighbors how would you describe those energy relations between the Baghdad and and the Kurdish I do not agree with any decision which is going to be taken or taken now to export oil without the agreement of the central government because this will disintegrate Iraq there is a question here that has to do with a a law that was recently passed that would have the effect of of changing the way that your government is organized are there constitutional changes that need to be made there was a constant there was a you know the history of the constitution and the and there have been suggestions that constitution ought to be changed what what kinds of changes ought to make and how would those changes come across well our constitution was written in three months time and that was a mistake and during that time we fought against that and we stood against that and our friend I think he remembers he remembers very well one day we sat together and he said look we have changed the constitution and we added the article 142 which says that there will be amendment for the constitution and for months time okay this is fair then we thought if there will be a chance to amend the constitution we will agree on this constitution then we'll amend it after four months but there is a phrase written with it it says that it needs a referendum okay but it means also that there is no rejection from three two-thirds of three governorates I told my friend Mr. Zalmayla look this means there is no amendment for the constitution because the constitution was written for the benefit of a specific region that was a clear and these three governorates will reject any changes in the constitution so it means this is a dead constitution you know we cannot change it then the committee was established after some time and they said for almost more than six years now no eight years and no six years yes and nothing changed the constitution so unless this constitution is going to be changed amended we are in a problem now if there is a disagreement between the central government and any region the decision is for the region not for the central government and that means that there is no united country really so unless this and other matters are going to be amended we still in a problem and there are some some art some some matters in the constitution that is not clear people uh someone uh understood it in a way the other one in the other way so it's always making a conflict we voted against the constitution and uh we collected at that time five million people signature to vote against the constitution but the constitution passed and now if you ask mr marikey do you agree with this constitution do you want it he will say no this constitution is a problem if you ask the other politicians accept the course they will say yes this constitution has to be changed but how can we change it again this is the influence of your politicians to tell those whom you helped at that time for some reasons let's look the only way is to sit with your brothers in the country and rearrange things again because you have taken more than you should at some time there was a line uh 32 you moved more than that this is a problem also you have to solve it with your own you know country dr marikey uh joseph shivald from uh the msi tarabat project asks this question speaking of laws uh a revised law 21 parliament recently passed revised law 21 uh with much stronger language supporting decentralization where the ministry is receptive to the revision and have you seen them take any practical steps forward since its passage there is a conflict towards that article 21 and maybe it will be revised again because it gave too much authority to the governorate too much decentralization while these governorates probably they are not ready for that they are not you know equipped with enough professional people to run the governorate at this time at these sometimes before we go in such a step but the law is still there another set of negotiations we talked about the jeneva negotiations uh the negotiations on iranian policy on iranian nuclear policy have moved along we're now into the implementation phase of that interim agreement do you see any changes any uh strategic changes in the approach that the iranian government is taking toward foreign policy international relations dealing with their neighbors in particular with iraq what what do you see any of that kind of change coming from your neighbor well i think the negotiations are still going on if you ask me do you see any changes in the where the iranian gm are dealing with iraq is there something different from last year or the previous time no i don't see any change so no uh no recalibration no new structure no new policies that would affect no okay staying with broader discussions developments in the wider region in egypt in libya in tunisia these arab springs that some like in tunisia seem to still be on track others like in egypt seem to be off track libya is still working how does this affect iraq what do iraqis think about we in iraq at least we the the secular the liberal the nationalist people in iraq are very happy about what's happened in what happened in in egypt and we think that the egyptians they they awaken up in a shorter time otherwise they would have paid a bigger price because we we have the experience in iraq that this is the slamest movement will never create the stability in any country because it will definitely lead to sectarianism and sectarianism will will disintegrate any country that it exists in and we hope for the egyptian to move forward and if the egyptian will win this time and i think they will win i think this will reflect itself on the other arab countries egypt will have a big effect on on others in the region on iran um gerald chandler um asked if iran has a nuclear bomb will there be an arms race will saudi arabia uh pursue a nuclear weapon well if iran is going to have the the tambourine why shouldn't so the arabia stop definitely is going to be a struggle in the area and we want a cleaner area we don't want to struggle towards you know that kind of problem brian humphreys from rector's university asked this question does the iraqi army have legitimacy in anbar frequently you hear it referred to as the maliki forces how will it be possible to fight al qaeda without support of the people for the army al al qaeda cannot be defeated without the help of the people in anbar no matter how big the army is there must be a cooperation between the people of al anbar and other provinces and the army if you ask me is there a distance now between the army and the people i would say yes and i hope this distance will be shortened as soon as possible friend of yours mark kimit um asks this question how much of the violence sponsored by regional neighbors fighting a proxy war how much is the violence from lack of reconciliation if i have an information that you know what's happening in iraqi is being supported by foreign country i will tell you i don't have any information of that but definitely the lack of reconciliation is the problem of an increasing al qaeda existence in or a presence in iraqi doctor prime minister um several people are asking about sectarianism you've made some very strong statements clear statements on that but beyond sectarianism a qi isis beyond those issues what would be on your platform for this election coming up your policies your policy agenda for the block that you would put together i will fight sectarianism and isis and al qaeda in the same time sectarianism and al qaeda are both a danger to iraq and to the region and it has to be fought by every honest and decent person in this region and that's the main main issue for you in these upcoming elections what are there other issues that were no i will ask for also amend the amendment of the constitution as you mentioned i will ask for more inclusive government i will ask for justice and this in the coming government in the country and when you have justice i think the iraqis could live together in an appropriate way uh adel sanly from iac asks this question what do you think of the religious parties um in iraq do you believe in separation of religion and policy they say or religion in the state of course i mean this is uh this is my platform you like these easy questions that the you like easy questions well she retired military asks is he here i'm sure he's here he wrote this uh yes what is needed internally uh to move iraq toward genuine national reconciliation we've we've had some of this discussion already he he goes on to ask what can the us do to help that general national reconciliation and what legal obligations do you you believe the united states has to iraq and you have uh you have raised this issue as well but uh but rick wilts asked that question again i think he worked in this subject for a long time in iraq at reconciliation he knows what is needed in iraq and he knows that there is an obligation he studied law i think he knows that there is an obligation a legal application for the uh americans towards iraq if it's not going to be raised now it will be raised some other times and i hope we will not go to that extent i hope that the uh cooperation between america and and iraq will continue in order to solve the problems that's been created we don't want to go to the past and concentrate on it let us look for the future and how could america and iraq work together to stop violence to make inclusive government to make a fair and justice in iraq and i know that your rule now is different from your rule before i know that you are limited in your you know power towards the government and the politicians but still you have you have a relation with some of your partners that you work with for such a long time they need you and you need them and you could form a you know a source of cooperation in order to fix the problems we are talking about and fixing that those problems are not that big issue actually if i am in the others position i will do it right away i will lose nothing i will keep myself in power but i will let the other people be pleased nothing is going to be lost nothing lost uh michael keith um asked this question you mentioned weapons play an important role and you've emphasized not the only role um how would the government of iraq employ these weapons without further aggravating sectarian divides that is is there do you have any concerns about the use of these weapons that the united states might provide weapon is being used before united states has supplied the weapon and this has to be stopped right away weapon has to be used against a civilian and this has to be forbidden michael albin of the library of congress asked this question does the road to reconciliation lead through iran who asked this question michael albin where is michael michael is there michael that's the you know the answer don't you next question i take that to live a hub al hiti uh independent asks this question would you approve worldwide sanctions on the iraqi government due to corruption leading to that leads to terrorism uh we suffered a lot from the sanction so i don't want to repeat that on iraq but i think this question is a very important one i need the voices to be raised to the all politicians in in iraq to sit down and make reconciliation otherwise steps will be taken unspecified steps but there would there should be there should be consequences i mean i cannot say which step now is going to be taken but i would say that some measures are going to be taken because the absence of reconciliation in the country would affect not only iraq to an extent to the other regions let me ask you the the last question or the give you an opportunity at the end here i think you've been very generous with your time and i know you've got appointments on congress on on capitol hill and those are very important don't want to keep you from that but um when you look out you see the elections coming up let's assume that they are are good ones as in the ways that you've described what what kind of an iraq what does your country look like in two three four years if if you can look that far and make make a not necessarily a prediction but even a hope an expectation well i always hope that my country will be kept united and that the people of iraq will live together in a peaceful way as we always live uh i assure you that we never thought of sectarianism in our in our country we used to live in one room in the offices in the field and the factories but we don't know who is shia aton who is this this is only that was only created after 2003 i hope that we will go to those days in which we enjoyed our life in a in a in a nice environment nice country although we suffered from the section from dictatorship but uh we live together in a proper way and you know the intermarriage between the city and the shia he will be surprised at 25 percent yes and i'm among them we're very glad that your wife is here deputy prime minister we are very pleased that you've been able to join us i want to thank you very much for that we will have an opportunity in a moment i will take a brief intermission and we will invite your colleagues from the council of representatives to to join my colleague sarang have a seat who will lead that discussion but in let me just take this opportunity to thank you and ask the audience to join me in thanking you for your time here today


Hi, Heather. Thank you for joining us today on SuperUserTV here at the Barcelona Summit. We've talked to you a few summits ago, but can you kind of tell us what's new with OP NFE right now? Yeah, sure. We recently had our Colorado release, which is our third release. It was based on OpenStack Meetaka. In that release, we had a number of feature incremental feature improvements to help support NFE use cases including continued fault management improvements, IPv6 support, service function chaining, and better VPN layer 2 and layer 3 support. Awesome. So you talked about fault management there a little bit. So on Tuesday morning, you were in the keynotes in the Foundation lounge and we saw you do a demo on NFE fault management. Can you kind of walk us through what that demo meant and what it really means for global telecoms that are using OpenStack and OP NFE? Yeah. So that demo showed sort of two scenarios. One, using sort of older OpenStack and sort of when Mark started pulling cables, VM failed. And it took a while to detect failover so they couldn't go to the other VM, so the mobile call that we were doing dropped. And then sort of they talked a little bit about what the OP NFE doctor project had done, which was bring in a number of different blueprints and patches across a number of different OpenStack projects to increase how fast fault detection and failover could happen. And so then they sort of showed sort of the updated scenario with OpenStack Newton running on an actual 5G mobile core for a service provider. And at that point with sort of like all the things that they've added, Mark started cutting cords with scissors, but the mobile call was able to stay up and did not get dropped even though lots of the VMs and ports were being disabled rather forcefully by the chaos monkey. Yeah, it was definitely you could hear the cat collective gasp in the audience. There was like, oh my gosh, what happened? Yeah, but it just I mean, it just shows you kind of some of the strides being made in OpenStack to support some of those use cases of supporting sort of the global communications network and some of the reliability and resilience needs that they have. So it's a great example of the telecom industry, OP NFE and OpenStack working together. Awesome. And so what's next for OP NFE? What can we expect to see next for you guys? Yeah. So one of the next big things we have is that we have a plug fest coming up in December at the University of New Hampshire. So that's going to be really exciting. And then our Dan Ubrelis is coming out in spring of next year. Awesome. We look forward to talking to you then and seeing what's new with OP NFE then. All right, cool. Thank you. Great to be here.


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Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, April 26, 2023. This is chief meteorologist John Ennsworth for Longmont Public Media. Tomorrow, Thursday, April 27, the first quarter moon will be in the evening sky. You should be able to see that because it will be mostly clear. The sun's bots are pointing away from us now, but there have been reports of aurora seeing all over the place, all the way down to Florida and like that. If we had been clear, we would have seen it this week as well. Looking at drought conditions, things are getting a little worse with dry conditions kind of creaking towards Longmont and this area, but we did get some rain. We'll see that and that should hold things at bay. If the forecast is correct, we'll get a lot more water yet to come. Pre-sphere drought here in Kansas and Oklahoma Penn handles still ongoing getting a little worse, expanding a little bit, expanding towards us. This coast not much change. Looking at it out of snowpack, my rough crude animation here and you can see that it shoots way up with those bigger storms and even with the heat and fewer storms, it's still doing really well. We're way above normal, 131% statewide for the snowpack. Still have a lot of the ski resorts are closing, so, oh, there's one more. Sorry, sort of leveling off right here. This latest round did bring a foot of snow to some of the favorite locations. And speaking of that storm, it was rain in the lower elevations, we got a third to a half and an inch around Longmont, about a tenth of an inch up at Fort Collins, down around Broomfield, Boulder, you can see three quarters to eight, and then even right down here over an inch of water, so good stuff there. Looking at the overall map for the state for this last seven days, it's good for the Northern Mountains, a little shot down here south of Pueblo, so some drought conditions there. Okay, here's my severe weather animation, and here in the fourth week of April, we are in severe weather climatology time. Not great chances, but we do expect them to be kicking in at the end of April and May. And if we take a look, we got some bad stuff in Texas today, and then we have a marginal risk of severe weather, almost down to, looks like love land, and that will probably expand a little bit tomorrow when we get there. It's for strong damaging winds in the thunderstorms that do form. It's not for tornadoes or hail, but I saw that we did get a lot of hail in Longmont out of this last storm. One good freak storm did a number on cars and stuff. Then we'd go down here for the slight risk in Texas on Friday. So we're looking at the national map for Wednesday, Thursday, here comes our next chance of showers overnight. Right now, it looks like about a fifth or quarter inch of water out of this one. They always overdo the snow stuff. It seems very unlikely. Then Friday morning, and then it pulls out in the morning on Friday. Looking at normal temperatures going from 65 to 68, low temperatures from 36 now up to 40. You can see the ensembles are keeping us in the lower end of the thing, but there's some really big error bars here. We see this is Thursday into Friday morning's storm, and then we see a pulsing every afternoon of storms. So I'm going to show the water vapor prediction or the precipitable water animation in a moment. It looks like we have a bit of the spring pattern coming in where there's just enough warming, enough moisture every afternoon that there's a chance that the thunderstorms form and drift off the mountains into the plains. Here's our departing storm Wednesday from Tuesday. Next notable is that Friday morning storm, pretty strong old shortwave rotating around this big broad trough, another one up there. We see snow in the mountains and rain snow stuff right close by, but it should be too warm for snow. Next Friday is the next big event. There's little shots of storms throughout the week, like I said, but the next big one is this low moving in order to keep an eye on that because I see that it does some weird stuff. Here's all the embedded thunderstorms and the large amount of rain next Friday. So we'll put this in motion, and there goes the Tuesday storm. Here comes the Thursday Friday storm rotating through, big ridge on the west coast giving them heat and dry conditions, once that rotate out, big low rotating over the Great Lakes. It's kind of cut off low moving down the California coast for Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Thursday it kind of pushes towards us, the trough, a front coming down the plains, and it kind of backs off to the west, kind of interesting, a really weird pattern. Let's take a look at our temperatures above or below normal for each spot on the map. The blue and purple are below and very below normal. You can see a Friday cold front moving down to Texas, lots of heat on the west coast melting snow a little faster than I'm sure they want. We are right on that battleground between the heat and the cold, right there. You can see the cold turning back up, and the warm air takes over for the end of May 4th, and then there comes the next storm. There's thunderstorms. You can see the thunderstorm cold pools there, so kind of interesting, so making a change over to spring. So here's the precipitable water, the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. Green is above normal, and brown is below normal. You can see the moisture moving away from Friday, and then we have moisture in place over the weekend, and the heat is building in the west. At this time we're into Tuesday, Wednesday, May the 3rd, and May the 4th, and here comes that blow. Moisture really converges over the state for Thursday, Friday, and next week, and then it moves on out. So let's watch these storm chances, there goes the Tuesday, Wednesday storm, here comes the end of this week's storm, sweeping down the state, giving us hopefully the drought areas some good water. Looks like this area got skipped though. Unfortunately, there's another shot right there on Monday, there's some little shot of storms again on Tuesday, there's another pulse of afternoon storms on Wednesday, there comes Thursday, and this seems to just really intensify quickly, give us rain and thunderstorms, it could be quite stormy, we could see severe weather, we'll see, it's a whole week away. So over the next five days, we see an inch of water up in the mountains, more down here in the drought areas, so that's fantastic news. And over the next five days, sorry about that, we've got very little snow expected, it's going to be warm and not that big of a system, but other than this weird little hole right around Boulder and up to four towns, there's a lot of water that the GFS is expecting, so this is three inch, three and a half inch total over the next ten days, and this pattern will change, no doubt. More snow for the front range, some higher mountains, but nothing on the lower areas. So sixties, almost seventy and thursday, cool down with that storm system that comes in Thursday night, for Friday then we're back to the seventies, going to next week with an increasing chance of afternoon pulse slender storms, just keep your eye on the west, see if the sky is getting dark. New month is coming up on us, so taking a look at the also reliable NOAA map, they have below normal temperatures in the west, equal chances of above and below normal chances here, and equal chances for most of the nation, at least west, for precipitation, low amount leader, field leader, has frequent weather updates and great local news, check those out. I'm the chief meteorologist, John Insworth, keep looking up.


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One of them, Miles Hubbard, the aging sculptor, turned critic. Could hold the key to the success of Paul's career. His nod of approval could mean a future of security and position. Without it, the world might never know the talents of Paul Wilson, sculptor. And Paul was certain that his second guest, Don Alden, had arranged this meeting for the sole purpose of getting an expert's appraisal of his work. But it was no gesture of friendship. Paul's meetings with Don had never been friendly. This one would be no exception. Paul was certain of that. Their cold exchange of glances when Paul met them at the door proved that. The forced presentry is over with. Paul showed them to the studio. And this gentleman is my workshop. Mm-hmm. Fine studio, Wilson. Plenty of room. Good lighting. Everything a room can offer the artist is here. The rest is up to the man himself, eh, Wilson? Oh, that's quite right, Mr. Hubbard. The rest is up to the man himself.  Can we see your work? Whenever Mr. Hubbard's ready, I'll be glad to show him. When one grows old, Wilson, one learns the great wisdom of economy. Economy of time, economy of words, economy of emotion. Oh, yes, it's a great lesson to learn. I tell you this because when I look at your work, I shall have an instant evaluation. Either it will be good or bad, and I shall tell you immediately. It's an honor to have you here, sir. I'm anxious for your opinion. Yes, well then, may we see some examples of your sculpture? Now, please. Right now. There you are, gentlemen. My latest. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes. There is promise here. There is not yet greatness, but there is much promise. Much great promise. Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you very much. You mean it's really worthwhile then, Mr. Hubbard? Worthwhile? Yes, worthwhile. But promise. That's the word done. Mostly there is promise. I'm afraid Mr. Alden has thought of me chiefly as a stone mason, or felt perhaps that I should carve soap. I wanted to be certain that's all for Aunt Martha's sake. She's been financing your work for a long time now. She'll be repaid later. Well, perhaps if you're as good as you've made her think you are. Miss Alden thinks well of the young man's ability, Don. Very well. She told me the other evening she's planning to leave him half of her estate so that he can continue his work if anything happens to her. That's why your opinion is so important, Miles. I see. Well, he has the virility, Don. You can see it, can't you? And a strong feeling for material. There is much of mess to make here. You studied with him, perhaps, was it? Not directly, no. Mr. Vick, famous Balkan sculptor. Mr. Vick's work is very distinctive, entirely free from the French in France. You didn't study abroad, did you, Wilson? No, no, I didn't. I... Oh, it's you, Michael. Back from your shopping so soon? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. Paul, your guest. My houseman and helper, gentlemen, Michael Dubovitch. Gentlemen. Well, we must go now, Wilson. Economy or time, you know? Michael's entrance was ill time, wasn't it, Paul? You quickly look for meaning in Don's expression and then in Miles Hubbard's placid face, but you find none. Perhaps they suspect nothing after all. You grow more certain of that as you see them to the door. Miles Hubbard repeats his appreciation of your work and you say your farewells. After your guests leave, you turn angrily to Michael. Why did you burst in like that without knocking? I'm sorry, Paul. I didn't know you had guests. Sir, but couldn't you hear us talking? Well, I suppose I did hear you, but I assumed your guests were merely friends who had dropped in. My guests were merely Miles Hubbard, the greatest authority on sculpture in the West. Yes, I know. And Don Alden, nephew of Miss Martha Alden, the lady who is providing the money for us to continue our work. Yes, Paul. I didn't realize. And you're supposed to be my houseman. Yes, I know.  Yes, Paul. I'm sorry. In the future, you'll have no cause to complain, however. I shall be a model gentleman's gentleman. Okay. See that you do. And never again shall I enter the studio unexpectedly. And if there are guests present, I shall wait outside for their departure, for hours if necessary. Oh, I know it isn't pleasant playing houseman, but right now it's... Well, it's the only way I can explain your presence. This studio, Miss Alden's help, is important to both of us. Of course, Paul, and I want you to know I'm very grateful. My food, my clothing, money to spend, a place to live and work, right? I owe it all to you. Not to me, Michael. To your undeveloped talent. I recognized it instantly. Miles Hubbard simply confirmed my faith in you. It's a very great honor. Now, after one or two showings of your work using my name, my connections, I'll be proud to step aside and announce you as the promising creator. Yes, and then I shall tell them what a fine friend and benefactor you have. Yes, I'm sure you will, but until then, for our sake, for your sake, I mean we must both feed our arrangement with strictest confidence. Of course, Paul. By the way, did you study with Mestrovic? Mestrovic? Oh, yes. For the great privilege, the master himself. I'm glad. I'm very glad, Michael. Oh, for you, of course. That approach has always worked with Michael, hasn't it, Paul? You've traded on his hunger, his fears, his insecurity in a new land.  Yes, things are moving along nicely, aren't they? And your situation looks brighter than ever.  Hello? Hello, Paul. This is Linda. Linda, you should do this more often. I feel better already. Well, you'll feel still better when I tell you the reason for this call. Miss Alden's coming to the studio to see you this afternoon.  You'll be there, of course. Yes, yes, of course. But what's it all about, Linda? She didn't say. All I know is Miss Alden talked on the phone with Miles Hubbard. Miles Hubbard? Mm-hmm. And she seemed very pleased afterwards. You're sure? Quite sure. A few minutes later, she ordered her car and asked me to phone you. She'll be there at three, Paul. I'll be here. Thanks for calling, Linda. Well, Paul, the critic, Miles Hubbard's visit to your studio with Don Alden, Miss Alden's nephew, has rebounded to your interest, hasn't it? You know that Don brought him to the studio on the belief that the famous critic would brand the sculpture as worthless. Instead, he praised it. And now Miles Hubbard has told Miss Alden herself that it's good. Yes, Michael is a fine sculptor, isn't he, Paul? And a valuable houseman. You're curious as to what you'll have to say and decide it will be just as well if Michael is elsewhere during Miss Alden's visit. So you send him off to buy supplies with instructions to take his time. With Michael out of the way, you pace the studio impatiently until Miss Alden arrives. Then you lead her through the studio, past the small entrance leading to the kitchen, enter the door to your combination den and living room, and sit spellbound as Martha Alden enthusiastically explains the reasons for her visit. But Miss Alden, I can hardly believe you've left half of your estate to me. I've been thinking about it for a long time, Paul. I've had such faith in you. That's why I was so pleased when Don suggested that before I took definite action, Miles Hubbard looked at your work. Well, I wondered about his visit. And when Mr Hubbard verified my own opinion, I decided to go ahead immediately. That's why I signed the documents this afternoon. But your nephew Don, if he didn't even like the idea... I haven't told him or anyone that I've actually drawn a new will. And I don't intend to, for the present at least. Well, Paul, it's no longer a question of maybe. Martha Alden has actually willed you half of her fortune. The necessary documents are signed and sealed. It is hard to believe, isn't it? After Miss Alden leaves, you return to your den, light a cigarette, and gaze dreamily out of the window.  I came back a little while ago. I went to the kitchen. Did you? I got all the supplies. Paul, you have a visitor in the studio, Mr Alden. Don Alden? Yes. Well, I'll see him right away. Well, Mr Alden, this is a delightful surprise. Is it? Or, surely, what's on your mind? I just wanted you to know, Paul, I've discovered the truth about you. What do you mean?  In a few days I'll have the proof to expose you, publicly. Tonight's $20 Signo Gasoline book goes to Mrs. C. E. Grindel of Seattle, Washington for this limerick. Our old car had all it could take. There wasn't a hill it would make. Then with signal we gassed her. Now it runs so much faster, we drive with one foot on the brake. Say no, say no, say no gasoline. Your car will go far, but go for the gasoline. You may not actually have to keep one foot on your brake after you switch to signal, like the driver in the limerick. But your accelerator foot will thrill the signal's smooth surges of lively responsive power. That's because peppy performance just naturally goes hand in hand with signal's good mileage. So whether you're looking for economy or for sheer driving pleasure, look no farther. Just drive into a signal station and fill up with signal. The famous go farther gasoline. You reel under the impact of Don's words, don't you, Paul?   Your return is steady gaze and hope to fear and panic that you feel doesn't show on your face. You've got to keep your nerve, your composure. You need it now more than ever as Don continues to build his case against you. It seems such a coincidence, Paul, that your work showed a distinct Mestrovic influence. Especially since I've learned through his immigration papers that your houseman, Michael, comes from virtually the same section of the Balkans as the great sculptor himself. As you say, a coincidence. This cable I've just sent might interest you. I doubt it. I think it will. It's addressed to Mestrovic in Belgrade, asking a very simple but very important question. Was Michael Dobovich ever a student of yours? Your answer important to his career. Interest you?  When I get the answer I expect, I'm certain Aunt Martha will see her protege in an entirely different light. The instance I hear from Mestrovic, I will tell Aunt Martha everything. You'll be finished, Paul. You'll be completely finished. Don's been quite thorough, hasn't he, Paul? He's always hated you. You've known that. But you didn't know the lengths he'd go to to ruin you with Miss Alden. You must stop done. Somehow you're certain of that. But how? Hours later you're still wondering and thinking. It's a sleepless night for you, isn't it? What are you going to do? Leave? Disappear before Mestrovic's answer can come? By morning you know that if you leave all your dreams of money, the inheritance leaves with you. Your mind is tired from thinking and indecision. You have no answer, have you, Paul?  Yes? Hello? Oh yes, yes, Miss Alden. How are you? I'd like you to come... Yes, of course. Is something wrong? I don't want to talk about it on the phone. Can you come here right away? Of course, Miss Alden. You're breathless when you arrive. Miss Alden takes you to her upstairs sitting room where she asks a question of her own. Paul, who is Michael Dubovic? So Don has told you. You can't believe him, it isn't true. I've done the work, Miss Alden, I've done it all. Michael is just what he seems to be. He's a student. Where is Don? I've tried to locate Don. I don't know where he is right now. But he has told me nothing, Paul. Just but then how? I opened the address to Don. I opened it. He's never received a cablegram before. I thought it might be important. It seems to be very important. You don't understand, Miss Alden. You must let me... I didn't understand any of it at first, Paul. I'm just beginning to realize.  But I have, haven't I? Please, Miss Alden, you must believe me. Paul, how can I? Your own first words when you came in told me the story. It had never even occurred to me that you were using Michael... What are you going to do, Miss Alden? You haven't left me any choice, Paul. I'll change my will, of course. Change your will? Of course. Surely you don't expect me to... You're not going to change that will, Miss Alden. Paul? Paul, what are you going to do? You're not going to get a chance to change that will, Miss Alden. Martha Alden's will can't be changed now, can it, Paul? It's beyond the reach of any change. Yes.  And her position will make her death appear to be an accident. You descend the stairs slowly. That's when you see the cablegram crumple at her side. The cablegram from the great Mestrovic to Don Alden, stating that Michael Dubovic, your house man, had been one of his prize students. Quickly you snatch it, and the bright flame of the library fireplace destroys it into meaningless ashes. You must continue to act quickly. You must get out of the house, and you must not be seen. You turn to go and you hear voices. Someone is coming. This won't take long, Michael. Don't worry about it. But I don't understand. Why did you bring me here, Mr. Alden? I just want to ask you some questions, Michael. And I want Aunt Martha to hear your answers. Don, with Michael, you whirl around. It's too late to reach the door without being seen. Quickly you open the basement door, step inside, and hurry down into the musty darkness. You feel your way cautiously across the basement, to the back door. You find it locked. You stop and listen to their footsteps overhead. Then you hear them move into the library. It's only a matter of minutes until they discover the body of Miss Martha Alden. Softly you move up the stairs again. Open the door. You can hear them, but you don't dare run for the front door, do you, Paul? Perhaps we should not disturb Miss Alden. I don't want to answer any questions. The answers won't hurt you, Michael. I'm sure of that. You just sit here, and Martha and I'll be down in a minute. Please, Mr. Alden, I don't like this. There's nothing to say, and Paul... Don't worry about Paul. Michael, quick, it's Aunt Martha. Oh, where is she? She's dead. Oh, no. No, I... Stay here, Michael. No, I've got to phone the doctor. Michael! Michael seems to be running now out of the house, Paul. And as Don hurries in the other direction to phone, the side door is free for your escape. You dash out into the winter darkness. Michael will be going home, and you must be there first, Paul. You race down the dimly-lit street, hail a taxi at the next boulevard. Nothing matters now, Paul, so much as beating Michael home. And you do it. You're stretched out reading when he enters and pours out the tragic story of finding Miss Alden's body. You stand up well under the shock, but Michael's overcome. Poor Miss Alden. It was so terrible, Paul, and Mr. Alden. I'm so sorry. I don't quite understand why you were with Don, Michael. Well, I don't really know. He picked me up in his car and drove me straight there. He said there were questions. Paul, what will we do? For now, I think we'll do nothing. Don's taking you there, it's so strange. That's it, Michael, we'll do nothing. We'll say nothing. We wouldn't want to get Don in any trouble.  But if it isn't, if it's called murder, you're sure that you can put the blame on Don. You'd enjoy that, wouldn't you, Paul? His taking Michael to the house will make it seem that Don Alden was badly in need of a witness to discover the body with him. That's quite a coincidence, isn't it? And there was a strong motive for Don, too. He could have killed his aunt to prevent her from changing her will to leave you half of her fortune, a substantial half that would have belonged to him. And best of all, no one knows that Miss Alden had told you she'd already changed her will. It's perfect for you, isn't it, Paul? It will seem that you had no motive, whatever, that it was to your interest for Miss Alden to live. You turn on the radio to await developments an hour later. Miss Martha Alden, previously tapped accidental, is now believed to be murder. Details are fragmentary, but the position of the body and identifying marks on the staircase have prompted police to begin questioning all concerned. They call it murder now, Paul. They've been questioning everyone concerned, and they're making a sudden decision. Well, you've got to go to the police before they come to you. You have a story to tell them, haven't you, Paul? A story you're certain will convince them that you're innocent, and Don Alden is guilty of Martha Alden's murder. Reaching homicide, you stage a nice act. You came in the interest of justice, and the lieutenant seems interested. That's why I came as soon as I heard Lieutenant Hegstrom. I want to help all I can. Thanks. You know Mr. Alden here, I suppose? Don Alden, I'm glad you have him here, Lieutenant. There's your man, Lieutenant. Paul Wilson. Now, just a minute, I'll do all the accusing here. Either of, you could have done it. None of the circumstances, I'm sure, one of you did. Now, look here, Lieutenant. And not just a minute. The more I look at this thing, the more I'm sure it's a matter of motive. Find the motive, and you find the man. Don has all the motive in the world. He knew Miss Alden was going to change her will and leave me half of her estate before she could do it. Yeah, this is true. He told me so himself. That's true. You see, I had no motive at all. I had everything to gain by her living. She was planning to make me one of her heirs. What about that, Mr. Alden?  Before she discovered he was a fraud, I had the evidence.  Her living would have given me exactly what her death gave you. Her money. Alden was there. He even took Michael along as a witness to help him discover the body. He had the motive. What more do you want, Lieutenant? Not much. You know, Mr. Alden, if I were you, I'd be thinking up some answers for the DA. While watching some Christmas shoppers the other day, I couldn't help feeling it's too bad folks aren't as careful in selecting their motor oil as they are in selecting Christmas gifts. 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And you know the story by heart that will convict Don as you tell it to the police stenographer for the permanent record. You've just finished and started to go and... Just one more detail, Wilson. Come back a moment, will you? Of course, Lieutenant. Glad to. By Michael. Yes, Paul. Paul, I've been so worried about you. Michael seems to be a very loyal servant, Wilson. Yes. Yes, he is. You needn't have worried, Michael. I'm just fine. Oh, but he has word, Wilson. He's worried a great deal. He even thought we might be holding you for the murder. And he came here with something he says proves you couldn't have done it. Well, that's very nice, I'm sure, but... Go on, Michael. Tell him what you just told me. Yes, sir. I told him you could not have done it, Paul. I told him you wouldn't have done it. How much you thought of Miss Alden after she'd been so kind? How she'd changed her will, left you half of her money? But, Michael... Go on, Michael. Tell, Wilson, how you knew Miss Alden had already changed her will. Remember, Paul? You told me not ever to burst in on you when you had guests. So that day Miss Alden came to see you, I waited outside the room. I did not burst in, but I couldn't help hearing her tell you she changed her will that afternoon to give you half her money. Paul? Paul? Have I done something wrong? I'll answer that, Michael. You've done something right. Alden told the truth. He's the one without a motive. You lied, Wilson. You had the motive. But, Lieutenant, I... You knew Miss Alden had already put you into her will.  Like I said, find the motive, and you'll find the murderer. Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program, the Whistler. Each Sunday night at the same time. Brought to you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil, and fine automotive accessories. 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The two founders of Hibbley Days was Shady Grady, Dirty Ear, Howard Stratton. Next year we will have two pigs and they will be called Dirty Ear and Shady, so that we can keep the tradition going and these two guys have founded Hibbley Days and we're going to keep their memory going forever. Whoever the mayor of Pikeville is at 11 a.m. on the Friday of Hibbley Days will always drop the pig in the pen. You know Jimmy's always coming up with great ideas of different ways to raise money for the children's hospital. I think it's a great thing.


Hi, I am Sardar. In BMU, I teach early business models like intro to business and management and business and technology. I have two master's degrees. One is pedagogical and second one related to business analytics. So I also work it in a company. One of the largest companies in Uzbekistan was Uzbekistan Airways for five years. So I can share my experience with students. I really enjoy teaching introduction to business and management to our students. It helps them to acquire basic and fundamental knowledge in business and in their senior years it will be easier for them to acquire as a module. My teaching philosophy is that education should be accessible, comfortable and interesting for students. Therefore in my classes, I conduct a lot of interesting activities, educational games. And we have a lot of open discussions, case studies from real life. If you are seeing learning as challenging and difficult for you, take a seat in one of my classes and I will change your mind. So hello dear students. Today we will have our second seminar in our week. And we will talk about competing globally and review the topic which you covered during the election. So as far as I know guys, you learned about the methods of entering to global marketplace, yes? So you learned about several methods and now we will make a revision of it. So I will show the picture and you will tell me what kind of method is it. Okay. So first method of entering to another market, yeah? Sporting. Experting, yeah? Licensing and franchising. Yes, exactly. So we move on. Contract manufacturing. Contract manufacturing. Okay. Contract manufacturing, you are right. Joint venture, yeah? So next. So please repeat. Okay. So foreign direct investment, direct foreign investment, FDI in a short so you can say yes. And there is one last, let's say method of counter trade, yeah? Good. So we will quickly review all of these methods guys by doing one activity. Is it clear? So for these guys, I will need some volunteers, okay? So yeah. They will come here. We will start with exporting. There are cards guys, okay? Cards. So you will choose necessary keywords related to exporting, show them and explain how this happens, yeah? For example, keywords like domestic firm, foreign firm, okay? Product, is it clear? And using these cards, you will show and explain. For example, domestic firm, vice foreign firm, is it clear? So okay, what's your name? Laziza. Laziza and Kami. Okay, let's go guys. We will start with you. So look at these cards and try to choose which one best suits to describe exporting. So let's like sum up. So who will pay royalty and agreed fee? So show. Licensee pays too. And licensor does what? Pays mark, seven and they get royalty and agreed fee. To take the branding and to produce the food, fast food. So who is a licensor? Licensor is here at KFC and licensee is a domestic company that agreed to be part of franchise. I will tell you one brand guys and put the first letter, okay? H. Last letter is M. This is a brand name which does licensing guys and franchising, yeah? Heineken beer. So this is a big building guys. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. So guys, hotel chains also do licensing guys, okay? So Hilton, here, Marriott, okay? Good, thank you. And the most to try the waters in the foreign market, they usually use the contract manufacturing. So they produce their product with foreign country, but under the label of this foreign country. So to see if it's show the cards, yeah? To see if their product under the private company name will succeed in foreign market. If it succeeds, then the company, the domestic firm, will enter this market. If it's not, they will just leave it and it's beneficial for both companies. Okay, well done. Thank you very much. Can take a seat. So in a contract manufacturing is a guy's wide term, okay? In a business world, it also represents type of outsourcing guys, is it clear? So when a domestic firm with a strong brand, okay, allows foreign company to manufacture products for this domestic brand or under the domestic brand's name. For example guys, Apple, yeah? Apple manufactures their spare parts of their technology of mobile phone elements in for example China. Yes, there are China manufacturers, Chinese manufacturers, right? So they manufacture Apple parts for the Apple. Is it clear? So this is one example of contract manufacturing. Joint venture is a business like two or three companies can do one new thing or one new business activity in their accomplished business. If domestic firm offers the foreign firm to produce some kind of product or produce some kind of business activity, they will have a new field and this will be like new project or new business activity. So two companies, yes, usually foreign and domestic company, yes, join together to establish a new entity, yes, they will be equal owners. Profits are shared, a shared ownership, right? So this will be a joint venture, right? The companies may be more than two or three. Maybe two or three, yes, exactly, well done, good job, yeah? Take this, thank you. So, guys, any examples for the joint venture? Yes, please. Please explain. Toyota and Ford work together actually from the second Toyota produce an engine, an engine, whereas that Ford can produce their cars which are required for Toyota. So they want to combine their ventures to make this development. So as you can see, guys, one of the advantages of joint venture, they can use strengths of both companies, is it clear? They combine stronger size of two companies, right, to become a stronger business. But there is a disadvantage, guys, yes, of a joint venture or let's say some kind of risk, risk, yeah, what is this risk? Risk and failure. Yeah, many of them fail due to what? Takeover. Takeover, takeover. So it happens when one company in joint venture takes over or buys fully another company, guys, and the joint venture finishes. Is it the least expensive, least complicated way? The least complicated but not exactly the least expensive. Not least expensive, yeah. What about the risk, guys, is it? Least risky, no risk, all of them. So please explain. There is a great risk. Great risk, yeah. So why guys? Why there is a great risk? I don't agree, I don't agree. I think it's not so risky because you buy at least 50% of shares of the company, so you have a say in what the company is doing. So you have some kind of control and so you have a decision. Control. Control is the advantage of foreign direct investment, guys. You have the better control. So you have to get decisions and if you fail this company, it means that you fail, not the company. That you fail, yeah. That you fail and you bear all the risk yourself. Is it clear? Which means this is a very risky, okay? Because all expenses will be on your... Is it clear? So this is the largest and biggest method of entering to the global marketplace of foreign market, guys. As an advantage, you will control everything yourself as an advantage. But there is another side, where there is the biggest profit, biggest advantage, there is also biggest risk. Is it clear, guys? So you play big game, you want to earn more profit, but also there is more risk. Experting is called the least risky way because you don't build a new entity in the foreign market. Is it clear? You don't own another company, you just expert one. Let's say portion of products, you see, okay, sales is good. Let's do it more. Expert, is it clear? Okay, it's working. Let's do more. Okay, is it clear? After you become a great exporter, after your sales become very good in this market, you can go to another way of partnership. After then, after you know, test the water in the market, you can go to larger ways of entering the marketplace. Is it clear, guys? Counter-trade usually happens in the international trade between countries. Some countries may prefer instead of cash. Probably they lack cash. So to pay with what? The product which they produce in their own country as their comparative advantage, yeah? Right? We learned about comparative advantage, yeah, last time. Okay, so, okay, good job, guys. Thank you very much for your involvement. Good morning, dear students. Today we will do an interesting activity. We will play a job at the game related to our topics which we covered previous three weeks. Okay, let me tell you briefly the rules. So there are several types of category of questions and there are different types of difficulty of questions. Okay, so every team chooses one question, okay, and I will give very short time for them to think the answer. Okay, around 15 seconds. Is it clear? When the team is ready, they should answer. If they answer correctly, they get the score. Is it clear? Now, another interesting part. If they cannot answer correctly, other teams can also participate. For these guys, you have to raise this paper, okay? So the team which raises paper first will be asked first. Now, there is a small punishment for being incorrect. I mean, not for the team, for the main team who selected the question. The team who selected question, if they answer incorrectly, they are not punished. They just get zero. Okay, now, if you know the answer for the question which other teams selected and you take a risk and answer and you are wrong, you will be punished with a half of points. Is it clear? Therefore guys, when you raise a paper, raise wisely. Okay, when you are confident. But if you answer correctly, you will get the point. Is it clear? There are some half points as well. For example, you answer half the question correctly, you will receive half points. So cheating is prohibited. So I ask you to close all of your notebooks, please, yeah? So and take, take them away. Is it clear? So if you are ready guys, I will introduce you the category of questions, okay? So basic of business. Micro and macroeconomics. International trade. International organizations. Market structure. Okay, now we have four teams and they chosen the names. So we will ask outsiders to select the question. Basics of business, 1000, okay. So are you ready? So apart from donations, government funds, sponsorships, investments, how can non for profit organizations rise funds? You have 15 seconds to think. So if you don't have answer, just say skip, like pass. If you know the answer, raise a paper, yeah? Okay guys, let's listen. Non-profit organizations must may have a merchandise and they can sell it and get some profit out of it. Correct. Well done, well done, yeah? So outsiders receive 1000 dollars. Well done. So we continue. Now next team please, Howard Foxes. Micro and macroeconomics, 1000. So okay, we have a first team, like if they cannot answer, you can answer. So guys, are you ready? Are you ready? So there are two tools which which provided by the government. It's monetary policy and fiscal policy. Can you please briefly give a definition? Well, monetary policy is in short in interest rates. On the other hand, fiscal policy, it's tax. Okay, we can consider this as a correct answer. Well done, good job. So next team, monetary fiscal policy. Well done, correct. So entrepreneurs. 800, which one? Okay. So if they cannot answer, you can use your chance guys, but remember there is a punishment, yeah? So second serve. So guys, are you ready? Who will answer? Rabia, please. They try to stress the differences between the other competitors, their opponents, and by that they try to get their customers. Yeah, they stress the differences. Excellent answer, correct. Five product differentiation, exactly. So well done. So we are having here winners. Everyone is winning, well done. This is the first time I am having such a situation, yeah? Well done. So outsmarters, yeah? Can you outsmart all of them, yeah? Yeah, for the next time I will prepare 2,000 guys if you want, yeah? So competing globally, 1,000, yeah? Let's go. So you are ready? Ready to answer? Yes. Nobody raise it? You raise it first, okay. Okay, let's listen to the answer, guys. Please. So stand up. She wants. Okay, you want. Yeah. Okay. And the difference between them is that direct investment, businessmen provide their active ownership in foreign country while in a whole joint venture to companies from domestic country and foreign countries they connect with each other and produce their own new product. Correct, well done, exactly. Well done, like. I am surprised at the guys. Okay, pretty easy question, yeah? So if it was language, I think it's not. It says Tari, Tari. So be careful, we have a very tricky questions as well, okay? Yeah. Oh, I'm surprised, yeah?  It depends which country you live in, guys, yeah? In some countries. Next question is Packer. Test. Today's winner, Abutay.


God bless you Mr. Rosewater. Kurt Vonnegut gave us a gift when he wrote you into the pages of our lives. It took you eight words to peel back two millennia of theological reflection and reveal the heart of what it means to walk in gospel-centered responsibility to one another. To remind us that the presence of God grows like fruit on a tree. To call us to taste and see that the Lord is good. That one bite will flood our senses with love, with joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Anything less than this is not the gospel. And if this is ever found to be the case, then God damn it. We've got to be kind.


This 2016 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Limited is stock number 1, 2, 3, 2, 7, Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2016 Ram 2500 has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Maximum steel metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smart phone, or television, turn them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality condition and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day in the lower right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that and then click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the 20-inch painted alloy rims with the chrome inserts. And it has Cooper Discover AT3 tires. These are tire size on these are LT28560R20s. And they have probably about I'd say 60 to 70% of the tread left on them. Framing on your body is an exceptionally nice condition for a 2016 and that front fender is in excellent shape. No dents or dings. It does come with the projector lamp headlamps, the LED running lights, and the factory fog lights as we come around the front bumper here. No dents or dings on that. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. And the hood is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Passenger side front fender looks really good. No dents or dings on there. And the passenger side rim is in excellent shape as well. Maximum steel metallics got a lot of metal flake in it. It's one of my favorite colors from Ram. In the bright sunlight it looks blue. Afternoon it looks gray. At night it looks black. Really a cool color. And as you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean that body is and how reflective that maximum steel metallic paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision tell your salesman that you saw the video and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape. No scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody really nice shape. A little bit of surface rust on the welds there but other than that very nice and the whole undercarriage looks really good as all the remaining factor exhaust. And it does have the wheel-to-wheel side steps which are really nice to get into the bed. Once again didn't see any denser dings on those doors. Box side looks really good. Coming around to the back you get the rear bumper, sensors, the rear step, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring. Get the RAM stamped lettering on the back. Tailgates in nice shape. Comes with a spring and bed liner, 5th wheel and gooseneck prep package. You do get the 7 pin wiring back here and LED bed lighting. Those lights turn on with the cargo lamps. Speaking of cargo lamps you can see it does have the cargo cam as well. And coming around the driver side just as clean as that passenger side no denser dings on that box. And for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good. No major dents, no major dings. It does have the heated fold up tow mirrors. They have directional signals, they fold up like so. They also fold in. Enter and go system.  The gray piping. The stitching on the backrest. Seat looks really good. No rips or tears. Memory driver seat, lumbar power seat. Factory all other limited floor mats. Auto headlamps, power pedals, and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Once again power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing that both sides are working good so that you know all the features are working. Get the nice dark wood grain trim, the intricate stitching on the bolster there. We'll hop inside, turn the ignition on so you can check out the miles, the radio, and everything that the interior has to offer on this truck. You can see that this one has 49,224 miles. You do get the digital speedometer, temperature, compass display. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. That's that special limited instrument cluster. Comes with the heated leather wrapped and wood grain trim steering wheel. Cruise controls on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. Audio controls on the back. This one comes with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. And then you do get the Alpine premium sound system on this truck. This one has the 8.43C radio, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities as well as the factory navigation system on here. There's your AM, FM, and Sirius. You got your heated and cooled seat buttons. You got your cargo cam. You can check out your backup cam at any time. You have all your climate controls here as well, including your dual climate controls, heated and cooled seat buttons. Down here are your manual climate controls with more buttons and knobs as well as volume and tune control. Turned out a four wheel drive, factory brake controller. There you're heated and cooled seat and steering wheel buttons, stability control, tow haul, front and rear parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. That does have a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Passengers side format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. Looks really good. The headliner is in excellent shape. I didn't see any rips or tears on there. You can see the speakers in the ceiling. Part of that Alpine sound system. Map lights, power sign, rear window button. These are your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems. Just a 911 buttons on the mirror. Keyless entry, remote start. You get this nice wood grain trim slider right there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. These back seats are heated on the outboard side. No rips or tears back here. Looks really good. Power slide and rear window. You get that stitching on the back seat as well. It does have a load floor, which is a really nice feature. Put your muddy boots or tools on there. Don't get your seats nice leather seats dirty. Or if you've got pets, put both sides down. They've got a nice flat place to lay. You've got storage under there. You've got the saddle bags on the back of the front seats. Heated seat buttons. All weather floor mats, carpetings like new. And in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning. It's like you have put ice and drinks in there.  Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors are all in very nice shape. We'll start it up. Take a quick look under the hood. No check engine lights or anything like that. Turn those cargo lamps on. So you can see those LED bed lighting. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to tell and verify the quality and condition of the truck inside and out. This truck is pretty much as nice as they come. Under the hood we have the 6.4L V8 Hemi engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. Shocks are doing a nice job holding the hood up. And this truck is 100% ready to go. There's your mission sticker. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. Like I said, I didn't see a single ding on it. Pretty much as nice as they come for a 2016. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new cars, we have many vans, wranglers, half tons, three-quarter tons, one tons. You name it, we got to go to that website right there, www.SummitAuto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.SummitAuto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to www.youtube.com.com. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Auto. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left. Like this one on the upper right, a link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left, and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those checks out. We're super excited to help you with this Ultra Clean 2016 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Limited and Maximum Steel Metallic. 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