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MI5 lost chance to stop Grande concert attack, inquiry says
"And inquiry has found that Britain's domestic intelligence agency did not act swiftly enough on key information that could have prevented the Manchester arena suicide bombing in 2017. The report found that one officer from Britain's MI 5 intelligence agency considered arena suicide bomber Salman abedi to be a security concern, however, a retired judge says the officer did not discuss these concerns with colleagues quickly enough. The inquiry concluded that if MI 5 acted on the intelligence it received, it could have led to a Betty being stopped at Manchester airport on his return from Libya just four days before the attack, a lawyer representing 11 of the bereaved families said the report was a devastating conclusion for the loved ones of the victims,
On The Media
"salman" Discussed on On The Media
"Then you have to ask yourself a why question? Why are you telling a story? What's the story? How did you answer the why question? Well, for me, in part, it was just a pleasure of worldbuilding. Just having a chance to create a big canvas on which there would be and that the book would also be about somebody who was building the world. So it's me doing it, but it's also her doing it.
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US moves to shield Saudi crown prince in journalist killing - Yahoo News
"The U.S. has moved to shield the Saudi crown prince and a journalist killing the Biden administration has declared that the high office held by Saudi Arabia's crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S. based journalist That's a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate campaign trail denunciations of prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slang The administration says the prince's official standing should give him immunity in the lawsuit filed by the fiance of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal
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World Cup ambassador from Qatar denounces homosexuality
"Former Qatari team player Khalid Salman has told a German reporter being gay is Haram forbidden in Arabic and that he has a problem with children seeing gay people in addition he describes homosexuality as a damage in the mind only two weeks before the opening of the soccer tournament in the gulf state Germany's interior minister has condemned Salman's remarks saying such comments are terrible and that is the reason why we're working on things in Qatar hopefully improving I'm Charles De Ledesma
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Ali Velshi's Worldwide Perspective on the Turn From True Democracy
"If anyone has a worldview because you report from all over the world all the time, it's that, right? Netanyahu is making a comeback. What's his name, Bolsonaro, thank God, just lost, but it is this ongoing worldwide battle, isn't it? About autocracy fascism. There are a couple of standouts though in that. So Netanyahu, mama had been Salman who doesn't have to run for elections ever. Vladimir Putin who doesn't have to run for elections ever. And Xi Jinping. We have a few people here who are in a much better position if Donald Trump were to win the election. And Donald Trump now looks like we'll declare that he's running for president on according to some sources on November the 14th. So there are people who are setting up for it, right? So Saudi Arabia and Iran got together to cut oil production to increase oil prices right before an election to hurt Democrats. And because they would like to hurt Democrats and they'd like Donald Trump in power. Netanyahu facing indictment and all sorts of things want to be prime minister of Israel looks like that's actually going to happen. And have never had a better friend than Donald Trump. So there's two themes going on in the world. There's a general lurch to the right, but not just the right toward fascism toward all these things. And I think a lot of people don't understand that having the vote does not guarantee you democracy, right? Iran has about Russia has a vote. All these people vote. But there's this lurch to the right, and then there's a bunch of people in the world setting up for Donald Trump to regain the top spot as the anti democratic guy in chief. And that's a big issue. You've now heard a lot of Republicans talking about, I don't know if we should spend this kind of money in Ukraine. Kevin McCarthy Senate Marjorie Taylor Greene said it. You know, so I am very worried that that is an abstraction to a lot of Americans, right? We're dealing with the price of gas. The price of food, and these are all very, very real issues with interest rates going up and inflation. But if democracy ends while we're worried about that, it's going to be a problem.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Anti-US Foreign Powers Are All Rooting for Republicans
"Speaking, by the way, foreign powers, Natasha Bertrand, our friend tweeted Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman, max President Biden and private making fun of the 79 year old gaffes questioning his mental acuity. He's told adviser he is much preferred former president Trump. And bob made a good point. He said, clean renewable energy pushed this unforgivable out of business, make it so. Yeah. I mean, I keep saying that calls, I don't know what to expect in the next two weeks before the actual elections. But trust me, Russia, Saudi Arabia, every actor that does not have the United States interests at heart are rooting for Republicans. Make no mistake about it.
AP News Radio
Salman Rushdie unable to see in one eye after attack, agent says
"Salman Rushdie's agents as the author lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at an August event in western New York Literary agent Andrew Wiley told the Spanish language newspaper el pais that Salman Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 wounds to his chest and torso in the attack that made him lose sight in an eye and left a hand incapacitated 24 year old hottie muta pleaded not guilty rushed to spend years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death after his novel the satanic verses which some Muslims consider blasphemous His agent told the paper the attack was something rushed he thought about a random person coming out of nowhere
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A bump and a miss: Saudi oil cut slaps down Biden's outreach
"Just months after the president fist bumped with a Saudi leader some Democrats in Washington consider Saudi support of a major cut in oil production a slap in the vase I Norman hall Three months after president Joe Biden's awkward encounter with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Saudi Arabia and the OPEC plus group say they will slash oil production by 2 million barrels a day President was asked if he regrets making the July visit No the trip was not especially for oil The ship was about the Middle East and about Israel and rationalization and position Some angry Democrats won't retaliation The U.S. provides arms and military protection for the kingdom in exchange for its supplying enough oil to the global market to keep prices stable Norman hall Washington
NPR's Book of the Day
"salman" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"I think it's got to the point where you have to stop asking me. Because it's been like 16 years since it's been okay. I ask because this is a novel that I suppose could upset some people. Oh, and everything I write is upset somebody. You know, upsetting people. It's an age in which everyone is upset all the time. All you have to do is look at the Internet. It's full of people screaming at other people for saying things they don't like. So I think we have to just turn that sound off and turn away from that unpleasant noise and just get on with doing what we do. You know, I think this is a funny book. I mean, a sense of humor is a useful tool when reading my work. The jinnah are Randy bunch, aren't they? Yes, I have this is my fault. In the literature of the, there's a little of it, but there isn't a whole lot. I just decided that they needed one characteristic, which was very exaggerated and kind of funny. And so I made them have sex all the time. Just all the time in exhaustively forever. I've always been a little shy of writing about sex. If you look at my work, most of the acts of love are off stage. They're not described in kind of lubricious detail. This time I thought, well, the way to write about sex is to treat it as comical and absurd. And write about it as comedy. And so yeah, the gin do have sex all the time, but it's ridiculous sex. And one of the reasons why they like coming down here where we all are, is that we have much more interesting lives because we do things other than have sex. So here you have this malevolent force that is in love with human beings, but it's nature is to create trouble. And one of the things that happens in the book is that there are actually the main female gin character actually falls in love with human beings and becomes their defender and champion against if you like against her own kind. Not to give anything away but towards the end of this novel reason rules the land. Well, you know, one of the things that the book is about is about a kind of conflict between reason and unreason. And I didn't want it to be a simple good, bad opposition. Because that's boring, you know? And two dimensional. So even that moment, when what I would consider to be a good outcome, which is that a world of tolerance at good sense and reason and moderation, et cetera comes into being, there's also things wrong with that. I mean, for example, it's quite dull. You say, well, I mean, I love this phrase so much. You say this is the price we pay for peace prosperity, tolerance, understanding. No such thing as a free lunch. It reminded me you must, of course, know that Oscar Wilde is in the picture of Dorian gray, brute reason can be quite unbearable. Yes, the book has a frontispiece, which is a famous picture by Goya, the sleep of reason brings forth monsters. And the interesting thing about that he says Goya as a caption to that picture is that what he means to say is that when reason and imagination are separated, then fancy can bring forth evils, but when they are united that wonderful things can follow from that. And I think that's if you like a definition of what gets called magic realism that you need, you need both things. You need the ability to dream and you need the ability to think. Salman Rushdie, his new novel, two
NPR's Book of the Day
"salman" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"In the grip of a long-term struggle between fear and still superstition and un magical reason. Two years, 8 months and 28 nights is Salman Rushdie's first novel for adults in 7 years and Salman Rushdie. It was knighted in 2007 and has won the Booker prize and written dozens of bestselling books joins us from New York. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you. Yeah, not dozens, but a dozen anyway. All right. Well, you're trying to occur on the side of a graciousness. Thanks for the budget realism. Which nicely brings up so who are these jinn? They are in the ordinary English word genies, but I've gone rather more deeply into their nature. They're kind of dark, mischievous, Supernatural beings. Who are really interested in human life because it seems to be in the end more interesting and varied and diverse than their own lives. But it's their nature to screw things up. And so they show up to do that. This story actually begins 8. But guess 8 centuries ago with the 12th century philosopher named pronounce this correctly, ibn rushd. Yes, who was a real person? A real person known in the west as Ava ruis a great aristotelian philosopher in Arab Spain. And the person after whom my father changed our family name. He admired him so much that he changed the name to rushdie to reflect his admiration for ibn rushd. Could we fairly call him by today's standards or reform Muslim? Yes. I mean, he was somebody who was one of the people who believed that you should incorporate principles of reason and logic and science broad mindedness into the world of religion. And he had adversaries. As people still do. So forgive me, but when there was the fatwa placed on your head, they got the right name, didn't they? I'm afraid they did get the right because in fact, one of the things that happened to him, 8 and a half centuries ago, is that he fell foul of the religious fanatics of his time. He was a very eminent man in Cordoba, which was the capital of Arab Spain. He was the court physician to the sultan. And a famous philosopher, but he fell foul of the then fanatics and was actually thrown out of his job in exiled and he had his books burned, so there are things we have in common beyond the name. The ibn rushd believes that I think the phrase is murderous ignoramuses are taking over the world. People who just want to forbid things. Well, I think we live in a kind of strange world, don't we in which that's becoming all too common. I mean, I think this is a kind of wild fantasy, but I think one of the things about wild fantasy is that if it's going to have any real meaning to readers, it's got to be, in fact, about reality. And I think this book, which is about crazy stuff. It's about gin's turning into monsters and surging up from the depths of New York harbor to eat the Staten Island ferry. So it's not exactly what you'd call a naturalistic novel. But at the heart of it is a desire to create a kind of vision arising out of what we see happening all around us in the world. May I ask you, do you move around pretty freely now? Oh, yeah, no, it's been good.
NPR's Book of the Day
"salman" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"Ever wonder how the world's most successful leaders got to where they are, what struggles they faced and what kept them going, there's a show for you. Each week on my new podcast, my guests reveal how to think more like a leader. Check out wisdom from the top from NPR and luminary. The author Salman Rushdie has set his books all over the world. His most famous novels midnight's children and the satanic verses take place in India and the UK, both countries where rushdie has lived. His new book is mostly set in a city he now calls home, New York. It's called the golden House, and its themes are deeply American. One character says, your country is young, one thinks differently when one has millennia behind one. You have not even 250 years. I asked Salman Rushdie, whether that youthfulness shapes his view of the U.S.. It's a very interesting thing having been brought up in one very ancient country, India. And then having lived in a kind of reasonably old country, England and then to come to a new country, and they all have slightly different characteristics. For people who spend their whole lives in the United States, I'm not sure that we feel how our usefulness as a country affects us, bringing an outside perspective, how would you describe the way that shapes what the United States is? It's just the weight of history. America clearly has. Some very heavy and even dark aspects to its history. But it's not like having a couple of thousand years or 3000 years of history. The burden of history is greater. And so one of the things that happens in this book is that people from an old country that's to say an Indian family, wealthy Indian family. In a way, trying to shed the burden of their own history comes to a country in which the subject of reinvention of the self is completely central. Everybody does it. People come through Ellis island and change their names. People move from the Midwest to the big city and try and be new people. And it seemed that appropriate for people from an old country trying to get rid of the shadow of the past to come to somewhere where it's possible to be new. Is it really possible though? That's the question that the book seems to keep returning to. Some characters believe it is others believe it's not ultimately can you escape your past? Well, I mean, I think in a novel you can't. I think. In a novel, if a family arrives in Manhattan, obviously concealing some very dark secrets. The secret will come out. It's pretty clear that the secret is going to blow up in their face at some point. Yeah. In real life, I think people do about it to leave the past behind and start again.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Discusses the Assassination Attempt on Salman Rushdie
"So rushdie is an untalented writer. He's a, he's a leftist. He's, in fact, mouths the same tired anti colonialism that I grew up with in the 1970s. It's like the guys in a time warp. So I'm not exactly a fan of rushdie, at least I'm not a fan of him as a writer. But look, the right to free speech is something that I do defend. I'm joking about my thought was, and a thought about, by the way, is a kind of a death proclamation. It's a death sentence, but it's a death sentence to be carried out by someone in the future. And it's not a sentence to be carried out by the state when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on rushdie. This was by the way for his book called a satanic verses said to be blasphemous said to be insulting to the prophet Muhammad. Now the satanic versus goes all the way back to a well 1980 8, I believe, is when that when that book was published, yeah, September of 1988. And so the thought was in effect for decades, rushdie is now an old man, he's well into his 70s. And in addition to the Khomeini fought, well apparently a religious foundation in Iran in 2012 offered a $3 million reward for rushdie's death. That's how these people are. Now, this is kind of scary because you've got a state. I'm not gonna say a religion, but a state here, the a theocratic state of Iran that is putting bounties in a sense on people. And this is, of course, terrorism. We're hearing a lot about terrorism these days oh yeah, some grandma who walked into the capitol on January 6th is a domestic terrorist. Nonsense. The term terrorist has become so debased, kind of like the word racism, that these days when I hear a terrorist, I'm not even fazed, to me it's a joke. But there are real terrorists and we're reminded here that terrorism is real, state sponsored terrorism is real.
Today, Explained
"salman" Discussed on Today, Explained
"The first was the announcement just a few days before rushed to you was attacked. By the American Justice Department. Today, the Department of Justice unsealed charging documents, revealing an Iranian murder plot against John Bolton, the Trump national security adviser. There were subsequent reports that other operations involved plots against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. As well as other officials I know about, but who have not gone public. They are all receiving now around the clock, government protection. From threats, by Iran, and its proxy Hezbollah from Lebanon. The second crisis is the Iran nuclear deal, which was negotiated by the Obama administration and finalized after two years of torturous diplomacy in 2015, and then abruptly abandoned by president Trump in 2018. The Biden administration has been trying to revive it because the Iranians turned around and accelerated their program and they're now just days away from having produced enough enriched uranium to fuel a bomb, which is a critical step in building, producing and packaging a nuclear weapon. It's no secret that we have the technical capabilities to produce a nuclear bomb. But we do not want it. And we have not decided to do so. And so there's particular urgency. And so after 16 months of broad tensions, the Iranians have said they will give their answer. Finally, now. And so we're at the denouement stage of that. But this all comes together at a time that while Biden prefers diplomacy
Today, Explained
"salman" Discussed on Today, Explained
"One. The word fatwa is thrown around a lot. I think there was a whole season of curb your enthusiasm built around how much Larry David liked saying it. I understand you have a new project. Something you're working on. Yes. Yes, I've written a musical for Broadway. It's called fatwa. Fatwa. Artois. And what is a thought was? A thought wise. A fatwa is issued by a cleric. There have been millions of fatwas over the history of Islam. There are thoughts that have disagreed profoundly with each other, and many Shiite and Sunnis disagree, the clerics disagree over the nature of the fat was and the type of instructions they give. But I told him he had tremendous power as the leader of the revolution and the de facto leader of the Iranian state. He had the ultimate voice. And so this vault was arguably far more powerful than many other fighters. He was not just a political or spiritual leader. His word was law. Not just to Iranian hardline fundamentalists, but all across the Middle East. What happened was Khomeini died four months after he issued the fatwa. And Salman Rushdie was still alive. So the fatwa lingered out there and has now for 33 years. What's the initial reaction to this declaration to this order to murder people who work in publishing? It was widely condemned in the west, neither is to say the British government was particularly concerned and immediately began providing guards for rushdie because he had to go into hiding. Particularly as more and more attacks were coming out. Somewhere in London, no one but Scotland Yard knows exactly where, rushdie holds up in a series of flats, moving to another location every time Scotland Yard special branch thinks it prudent that he do so. But it eventually led to Britain breaking off relations with Iran. There were deep diplomatic consequences. It affected Iran's trade with the international community. Its relations as a prize date for almost another decade. And so it had grave repercussions. And of course, for other people, it had consequences as well. The Japanese translator was stabbed to death. An expert on Islam and professor at the university of tsukuba was found dead this morning in front of an elevator near his office. He had been stabbed several times. The Norwegian publisher was attacked near his home and the Italian translator was also stabbed. So there have been a lot of consequences for rushdie for his publishers and in the diplomatic world. So it sounds like the west on some level came to rushdie's defense, but were there people who sympathize with the Ayatollah? Was there anyone who criticized rush Steve? For the satanic verses? There were some people who tried to parse the issue by condemning the fatwa, but expressing understanding for the fact that some Muslims may be hurt or offended by passages of the book. Even Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was destroyed by Ayatollah Khomeini, denounced the book, calling it an insult to the sacred beliefs of our Muslim Friends. And meanwhile, what happens to rushdie in the years after the fatwa is issued? For 9 years, he went underground. After the fatwa was originally deemed to be settled by the British government and by the reformers in the Iranian government, rushdie reemerged gradually, sometimes with little or no protection. You know, he did a cameo on Bridget Jones diary. It's like a whole theory of short fiction and of the novella, you know, and of course the problem with Martin's definition of the novella is really only applies to him. He became the public face of freedom of expression campaigns around the world. He was a widely sought speaker. He continued to publish books and to go out and promote them and talk about the ideas in them. So he became much more accessible and he lived in New York and acted like anyone in New York does. Visible on the streets sometimes. And was there a sense through all of this through cameos and movies and marrying Padma Lakshmi that maybe this whole fatwa thing was over with? Well, it was very interesting was that Khomeini died and a reform movement emerged in Iran. Its emergence was the political crisis that led Khomeini to issue this fatwa. But 9 years later, it's proponents had won the presidency and they wanted to end the tensions over the fight. I wanted to renew relations with Britain and other Western countries. And deal with the flat win itself. And so they were talks between the Iranians and the Brits and they agreed to terms to restore relations, which basically centered over lifting the fatwa. And I had breakfast with president Muhammad katin, who was the leader of the reform movement when he came to the United Nations in 1998. And he told me in a small group of journalists over breakfast that we should consider the Salman Rushdie affair completely over. And there was a broad sense in the intelligence communities in the west. And even among many in the Middle East, that the issue had been settled. The problem is a lives on forever. And it continued to be a football between Iranian reformers and hardliners. The current supreme leader in 2017 was asked, as one does in a fatwa, whether Khomeini's fatwa was still valid and in 2017, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the imams fatwa is as it was. In other words, it was still alive. Again, not much was made of that. But in a very interesting coincidence or maybe not, 5 days before the attack on rusty, one of the Iranian, hard line publications, reprinted the fatwa in full. And the timing was very striking. Today's episode is sponsored by click up. What would you do if you had one extra day a week? You could do your laundry, you could volunteer. You could sit outside in the sun. You could help us produce an episode of today explained. 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Today, Explained
"salman" Discussed on Today, Explained
"It was called the satanic verses. It seems to me completely legitimate that there should be descent from orthodoxy. Not just about Islam, but about anything. There were passages in this book that included dream like satirical passages that indicated human weaknesses of the prophet and questioned his credibility as a messenger from God. I think it seems to be very one of the things that a writer can do is to say, here is the way in which you're told you're supposed to look at the world. But actually there are also some other ways. The satanic verses is actually a difficult book. It's not quite
Today, Explained
"salman" Discussed on Today, Explained
"ESG. To explain Sean Rama's firm here with Robin Wright, who knows a lot about Iran. Oh, I've been going to Iran since 1973, almost every year. I covered the monarchy and I covered the revolution and the Iran rock war. I go back a really long way and have written 8 books about Iran. She's also contributing writer for The New Yorker, I asked her how she reacted when she saw the news on Friday that Salman Rushdie had been repeatedly stabbed at a speaking event in New York. I think everyone in the literary world, foreign policy worlds were absolutely flabbergasted. There had been a widespread assumption that the fatwa had been settled. It was also an attack that played out at the chautauqua institution, which is arguably the most idyllic corner of America. I have spoken on that same chautauqua stage. The amphitheater, several times, and thousands of people come to hear discussions of serious issues of our times. And rushdie was talking about freedom of expression. I had a big audience and that a young man could breach security, run onto the stage. Everything about it was just shocking. Robin's going to tell us how we got to this shocking moment. How? Salman Rushdie was stabbed a few days ago, and how his stabbing could actually influence American foreign policy. Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai, he was educated in Britain. He started writing and published books that instantly won wide attention. My favorite is midnight children, which is about the independence of India. And his fourth book was the one that created the great controversy.
Today, Explained
"salman" Discussed on Today, Explained
"On Friday, a septuagenarian novelist got up to speak in front of a bunch of septuagenarians in New York like he had many times before, there was at least one 24 year old in the crowd, which wasn't cause for alarm until it was. Renowned author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times at a speaking engagement in western New York State on Friday. It's a sad chapter in the life of the outspoken writer, author of the controversial novel, the satanic verses. No one saw this brutal attack coming even though for more than 30 years Iran has had this fatwa declared against Salman Rushdie, but it turns out that 30 year fatwa was never really about rushdie or his writing at all. It really was a tragic historic coincidence. It
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Paul Kengor Reflects on the Enchanting Olivia Newton-John
"The director of the institute for faith and freedom at gross city college. Any book with his name on it is worth your time, Paul kangal. Professor kangal. Welcome to America first one on one. 7 two kind and it's always good to be with you. Thank you. All right, I'm gonna throw everyone for a loop right now because I'm talking about the story of the day, the story of the year, probably the story of the decade, but before we analyze that and some potential connections to less democratic systems around the world, you sent me a piece just a few moments ago that a little bit out of your Wheelhouse when I looked originally at the subject, but then I realized why it's important. So why, why did you send me something about Olivia Newton, John professor kango? Yeah, so I wrote a tribute to Olivia Newton-John for American spectator. And I know we're talking about Merrick Garland today and Salman Rashid and Olivia Newton-John. But only one of the three did I have a crush on when I was a 12 year old boy. And I saw you wasn't Merrick Garland or salmon rushdie. And I think that I was representative of a lot of young boys in America around the world. She's Australian, of course. But she was really a remarkable personality. Of course, she did the movie grease in 1978, which I saw at the pioneer drive in and butler Pennsylvania when I was a 12 year old. But she was really a remarkable lady, a remarkable voice, a very charming and happy, contended person. In fact, interesting, Seth, I got an email today. I won't out the guy, but he's an executive director of a prominent foundation, and he told me he said, you know, I read your piece on Olivia Newton-John. She was the kind of girl that every young boy wanted to marry. And it was really the Olivia Newton-John of the kind of strange. I mean, everyone had that crush. I had that crossroad of the same vintage, a very fine vintage, but she wasn't even American. How weird is Apple.
AP News Radio
Iran denies being involved in attack on Salman Rushdie
"Author Salman Rushdie is on the road to recovery according to his agent This comes as Iran denies involvement in the attack on him but still justifies it Hari muta New Jersey man whose parents emigrated from Lebanon pleaded not guilty to attempted murder the DA alluded to a decades old fatwa demanding rushdie's killing over his book this satanic verses as a potential motive Henry Reese the cofounder of Pittsburgh city of asylum who was on stage with rush def Friday when he was attacked says they were about to discuss writers safety I don't think he consciously manages his life from the perspective of fear but I think and I can't speak for how he approaches that terrible history
AP News Radio
Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack
"The satanic verses author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday a day after he was stabbed while on stage about to give a lecture in western New York The 75 year old's agent confirms whose breathing on his own but remains in the hospital with serious injuries on Saturday 24 year old hottie mutal was in court pleading not guilty to attempted murder charges The judge denying the New Jersey man who was born in the U.S. to parents who emigrated from Lebanon bail prosecutors calling the attack targeted unprovoked pre planned the DA alluding to the fatwa as a potential motive That's the death threat and bounty on rushdie issued by Iran's leader in 1989 over the satanic verses and its depiction of the prophet Muhammad I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says
"Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked on a lecture stage in New York State Rushed his agent says the writers on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture the 75 year old rashti was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery after Friday's stabbing his agent Andrew Wiley says the writer has a damage liver severed nervous in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose Rushes novel the satanic verses drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s Police have arrested the man who attacked the writer and identified him as 24
AP News Radio
Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York
"Other Salman Rushdie whose novel the satanic verses drew death dress from Iran's leader the 1980s was stabbed during an appearance in western New York I Norman hall Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage at the chautauqua institution With the amphitheater presenter was just attacked on the stage or any DMF Suspect in New Jersey man was arrested at the scene rusty's 1988 novel the satanic verses was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims prompting him to go into hiding for years New York governor Kathy hochul It hits right here It hits all of us But we are undeterred then We are undeterred Rusty is regarded as one of Britain's finest living writers I Norman hall
Bloomberg Radio New York
"salman" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"O four a barrel one O four O 5 right now up by 1.4%. We are now minutes away from the latest earnings report out of Netflix ahead of earnings Netflix surging now by 5%. Recapping S&P up 2.8% best level of the day I'm Charlie Palatin, that is a Bloomberg business flash. Quite a rally today. Thanks so much for that update, Charlie pellet. This is Bloomberg. It's three 48 on Wall Street. The following is an editorial from Bloomberg opinion. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board. President Joe Biden's efforts to tackle surging inflation driven in part by high energy costs are demanding more flexibility than he might have wished. His recent meeting with Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, was arranged in hopes of boosting global oil production. Biden is also apparently relaxing his previously firm opposition to certain new fossil fuel projects in the U.S.. The economic stresses caused by Russia's war on Ukraine do demand a pragmatic rebalancing of policy priorities. But this should not jeopardize the administration's climate change goals. Indeed, the current emergency only strengthens the case for a faster transition away from fossil fuels. Strengthening energy security and fighting climate change can and must go together. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board for more Bloomberg opinion, please go to Bloomberg dot com slash opinion or go on the Bloomberg terminal. These has been Bloomberg opinion
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Biden says he raised Khashoggi murder with crown prince
"President Biden says he brought up Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's killing during the long anticipated meeting with Saudi crown pins Mohammed bin Salman I raise it at the top of the meeting U.S. intelligence believes The Crown prince likely approved Khashoggi's murder for years ago He basically said that he was not personally responsible for it I indicated I thought he was The president says he was a crystal clear in saying a U.S. president can not be silent about human rights as a candidate He said he treats Saudi Arabia as a pariah but after exchanging a fist bump with The Crown prince he's under intense criticism The Washington Post publisher called it shameful worse than a handshake that it gave The Crown prince unwarranted redemption Sagar Meghani Washington
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Biden and Saudi crown prince begin crucial meeting with fist bump
"A meeting to repair one of the world's most important diplomatic relationships has started with a fist bump Saudi television captured the scene outside a royal palace in Jeddah Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Tapping President Biden's fist U.S. intelligence believes the ground prince likely ordered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death and the president had refused to meet with him until now as concerns over rising gas prices and Iranian aggression eclipse human rights violations There was little evidence of warmth between the men and reporters were kept well away during their meeting Jamal Khashoggi were you apologized to his family sir Thank you guys Thank
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Highly-anticipated meeting between President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince
"President Biden is meeting with Saudi leaders including crown prince Mohammed bin Salman The kingdom's heir apparent greeted the president at a royal palace with a fist bump until now the president had refused to meet with the man known as MBS whom U.S. intelligence agencies assess likely ordered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing while the president had pledged during his campaign to treat Saudi Arabia as a pariah state due to human rights abuses other concerns like Iran and rising gas prices have taken center stage
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Pressed on upcoming Saudi meeting, Biden says he "always brings up human rights"
"President Biden's first Mideast trip will end in Saudi Arabia and his meetings there may determine whether the whole journey was a success or a failure While running for office he vowed to treat the Saudis as a pariah for their human rights record and as president signed off on a U.S. intelligence community finding that crown prince Mohammed bin Salman likely approved journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing Today the president will meet with among others the man known as MBS Khashoggi's fiance tells the AP in the process the president will lose his moral authority It's a heartbreaking and disappointing The president has not committed to bringing up Khashoggi's death and talks with MBS and while he says human rights are always a topic with every leader this visit is much broader To promote U.S.
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The AP Interview: Khashoggi fiancee criticizes Biden visit
"The fiance of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is criticizing President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia a teacher chengi says the president's meeting with the Saudi crown prince is a sign he is backing down on a pledge to prioritize human rights It's a heartbreaking and disappointing Cheng gui tells the AP President Biden will lose moral authority by putting oil and expediency over principles and values She thought the president was different He's doing the same And embracing dictators in the region right now Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has long denied any knowledge or involvement in Khashoggi's killing What is his body still We do not have any answer And people need to get a truth During the campaign the president describes Saudi Arabia as a pariah We can not forget what happened to Jamal I'm Ed
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"salman" Discussed on The Current
"Writing doesn't entirely come from irrational process. And when it does it sometimes feels to whittled. If you told us off. I must write a book about the pandemic. You know what usually happens is not a very good book about the endemic and sometimes the books which are about events like that are written much later. I mean warren pieces written. I think more than fifty years after napoleon's russian campaign and yet now we think of it as the greatest novel written about that time but it took office entry to show up so it may be that the novel about the pandemic will be somewhere down the line. I mean even mentioning defoe's journal of the player well. The plague was in sixteen sixty five when he was five years old. He wrote it in seventeen twenty two pretending that he'd been this so he wrote actually more than fifty years later and now it feels like the almost the definitive book about about the break play. So what i'm saying is is usually not intelligent to push yourself to write something because you feel that that's what you ought to right. You have to see what comes to you that insists on being ridden and that you can't avoid writing. We look forward to whatever it is that you produce next. I'm sure i mean theaters will open. So you're play we'll make it onto some sort of stage at some point in time. I'm hoping that we're working on it. I'm lucky in that. I have a very good producer. Who wants to do it at a very good director who wants to direct it. So we're in the process of looking for his excellent in the meantime it's real pleasure to talk to you salman rushdie. Thank you very much. thank you matt. Galloway spoke with salman rushdie in may for more. Cbc podcasts. Go cbc dot ca slash podcasts..
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"salman" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Been different in the past. I suppose it's just that i don't know that past ellen knows what we are building a future customers when they look at the service of the grand gets more usually give us a second date Frankly that's that's what i'm looking for. Which is the second reader. Describe why we've been provide valley to and do that in clear transparent terms repeatedly so our from technology. If you look at what. We've done recently outlive services for migration meaning my team those and tries to migrate customers. Work those on our diamond behalf because we believe strongly that the platform will be where you want to be. As our costly encouraged. We have found the services as our program released two three months ago we set to customers has bringer worth does so i think earning trust is a very long term thing. It's got a chip away at it. And throughout case. By case. On the while i don't have a magic bullet for it but i think customers are taking notice and giving us more even more business to us. And it's about keeping their trust now them successful deployment which is a good portion of my focus and the entire organization. The idea that effectively every other provider has in the space of. Oh we'll charge you at a discounted rate to help. You migrate in its. I don't mean to be unkind here. But i've never understood the thinking behind that strategy because once someone starts spending money on your cloud service. They are going to continue to spend money on your cloud service spoiler. I've been down this road with a bunch of different customers. And i've seen how this goes. You should be paying customers to let you migrate things on the covering. The cost is one of the least difficult steps that companies could do. But somehow you're the only ones i've seen doing this in the wild. I further point out that i've spoken to a variety oracle cloud customers now. Historically most of these have been big e enterprises very large companies. The blue chips. You would expect. But i'm starting to see you move into the startup space a bit more at one thing. I have not heard through any of those. Conversations is a complaint about oracle cloud either a technical shortcoming or a business practice. Complaint people will complain about oracle the overall company without any provocation and honest a lot of this very well deserved but oracle cloud only gets grief. That is reflected. What i start seeing that i think is a real sign of maturity and growth in the platform is. They're starting to be stories around oracle cloud that don't feature the word databases or heaven forbid autonomous databases. Which is oracle's database divisions whole big thing. These days it starts to stand on its own legs on its own merits rather than depending upon its giant install base in existing enterprises as its primary means for marketing and selling. Are you seeing an uptick in the startup. World of oracle cloud these days. I'm a super goes through Beacon system really honest so substantiate anything that i make sure i do know that a lot of startups that are born in the cloud. The user cloud half shared the same sentiment so to the extent i can give you a trend lying or some sort of an indication that starves are now a big area unfocused oracle or know. They're coming to our platform. Organically i just don't have the data points on that one but i do know is fees but with was born in the cloud neil or was that are migrating. They are so this an esa foxy. I think everyone trying to develop this offer stock in the place to put both from the price performance perspective from business practices as well but i think the overall sentiment is changing and not only because we have autonomous database or not only because we have an oracle database associated with. I think that is true. And that's a fact all have come to really appreciate the thomas. I don't know what. Change my thinking on that one but i'll leave that for different debate. But i think you're right and part because we being very deliberate about it which is oracle cloud is more than just database or is about technologies things that you come to expect from. The top providers juwan developed new software of over existing software. And the proof. Really right now that. I see in sort of big bowl. Debtors is our independence offer. Vendors is fees that are coming onto the dropping. I would like to point out that. I didn't give you a list of questions. I was going to be asking you before we did this. The best gave hope none of us gets fired by the end of this and that was a perfect example. The sort of thing. I'm talking about you could have said. Oh yeah we're seeing a whole bunch of startup stuff that sort of clients taking stuff. Adopting our service. I can't talk about any off hand of course but oh yeah that's great. This ties into in many ways. An echo of what. I've seen it your previous employer. I have never yet caught someone at. Aws oracle cloud lying to me. Even when right now you could have come out and said oh. Yeah we're seeing any receding whatever it is will sound good. You're intrinsically honest. And i appreciate that about not just you but it seems to be a cultural ethos. I'm seeing throughout my conversations with folks working with oracle cloud. This is the sort of thing that makes me tell people. Yeah i know. It sounds like i'm having a joke at your expense. Just suspend disbelief and have a conversation with them and so far. It seems to be going relatively well one day. I'm hoping i won't have to wind up giving that disclaimer. I but that's gonna take a few more years. I suspect i don't know the time i just. I'm gonna smaller bubble up as i'm in the infrastructure piece on a no customers factory. I think to be honest. Ourselves teams the oracle fusion products are doing really well with customers as well. So i'd be doing a whole bunch of ourselves. Pats on teams to run on oracle cloud. Make it a canonical Wish to deliver this as products for improve latency improve user experience and whatnot. I don't think even if i was in. Aws our say that we are ever going to be happy with the experience that we offer to customers. We just have to continue in this environment in the especially it infrastructure Discontent strive for what we can do. Better so part of my not to give a glowing scorecard giorgo orca. Anybody is just general discontent moments where we are what we can do to be better so much. We can do to be better for our customer. So i think if i busied themselves back unaided obvious i would say that about ashley. Cows starts adopting out of you know. I wish we could do better. But nonetheless i think customers are taking no his simplicity focus video tough engineering problems and transparency in hobby. Do business with them. Both at the presale side. The prosales is and support. I think the combination of this on my hope is that customers will continue to give us more business. I expect that they will. I think that you've done a lot of the right things. I think that what you're doing is heading in the right direction. I also want to thank you for taking the time to sit here and suffer my slings and arrows if people wanna learn more about oracle cloud and make up their minds for themselves. Where should they go to start. This should go to oracle dot com on the page. They should get easy link to get to our infrastructure in and get started employ first application of the am sup murphy out better. Whatever have you so good. Dot com on the main page and very infrastructure. Kick on a take you to some canned pats on probably want us go solve with todd infrastructure on hopefully takes you getting to where you need to be pretty quickly. Thank you very much for taking the time. I appreciate it. You're welcome thanks for having macari appreciate the chat salmane piracha vice president cloud engineering cloud at customer. This concludes my guest hosting of software engineering daily. But the tour of the cloud isn't over quite yet subscribed screaming in the cloud on your podcast bought from of choice to hear the final episode of the cloud tour saga. And of course. Don't forget to go to last week in. Aws dot com to subscribe the last week in aws newsletter and. Follow me on twitter at quinny pig. That's q i double n. y. Pig for all my snarky tech's..
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"One of the things i get flak for sometimes i talk about oracle cloud. Everyone gets up in arms and yells at me. They call me a sellout they call me a show etcetera which i understand that accused of that all the time for my coverage of aws. I get accused of being too mean toward aws as well as being a sell out to aws in response to the exact same thing so apparently the internet doesn't know what it wants and that's fine. My position has always been that. You can buy my attention. You cannot buy my opinion. And i will say that. Oracle cloud is technically excellent. I've spun things up there. It worked as expected the only on boarding problem. I had a few years ago. When i started down this path was there was some challenge with getting out of fraud control because i was doing this mid air so it was through some aggregate or in chicago. I think it was from an it perspective. I'm claiming to be somewhere else. And it probably look fairly suspicious. I can't really fall to work out for that. But since then that was the one dollar tampa that they then re refunded and that was the last time they charged me for anything. You're always free. Tier is always free as it says on the tin and should be. There are no surprise. Bills i read through because this is oracle. Let's not kid ourselves here. I read through the terms conditions carefully. You aren't asserting ownership of anything. i build. it's very reasonable very standard. There's nothing lurking there. That i was able to see. That made this a terrible idea. And i still get periodic. Updates on the instance. I left running telling me that there's been a maintenance event and you folks are sorry. Here's what happened so rather than leaving it to play. Guess and check further a lot of the things that you did with the iron. I oh folks acquisition to build out your service functions. It was in many ways superior to what eight lambda had been doing. There was an awful lot of really neat stuff going in there. The single big drawback that. I argue as people away the oracle at the beginning of all of that. I mean you can only put so many through the word cloud in so many times. But that's still winds up having the oracle word coming i. I'm not asking you necessarily to on your employer that seems career limiting most places. But how do you square that circle. You know been cuts on the not that focuses just on your customers so i continue to just focus on our way to serve our customers and if company mike making a very virtuous serving their customers differently on the wrong people who have done this part of the business foreign walkable change culturally inwards and than i think the best. Change the impact of you gotta be mambo Have the ability in customer saying we a platform we have business back to citizen behalf support structure as they serve you and serve you as adequately as you've been served the past by neither top provider and just give us the right to Business so yes. There is probably some of that. Overhead are because the business model has.
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"salman" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Let's dive into the story that you just mentioned miniature because one of the things that i found when i talked to folks who are using. Hp or high performance computing is outside of some very specific. Use cases generally found in academia research. A lot of hp customers don't think of themselves in the context of hp. See on some level. This is harkens back to the problem of. Oh this is for your data lake and you talk to folks. And we don't have a data lake and sort of stare at them. No you have about thirty two bytes of data sitting in your object storage. What do you think that is. Oh you mean all the logging nonsense. All the assets are all the insert. Fill in the blank. Here it becomes something that customers don't self identify with. So what is hp for the vast majority of people out there who might not know what that is. I the secondly might not realize it applies to them so hpc's category of computer technology where you're really thinking about putting clusters of computers. So they can achieve a unit of war so in manufacturing does could be computer. Aided engineering on mutational dynamics figuring out if are know car's really gonna it. Crashes is really gonna sustain body injury as an example or is it going to happen. You know be able to fit. It falls off a bridge and on the water you know what's the rate of water flow into the car. A lot of interesting simulation work in manufacturing but it needs a lot of computational power to run these types of simulations and they all need to be done in concert with each other trying to achieve a unit of work similarly and finance is like trading platforms and risk modeling exercises and media is visual effects rendering which requires like rendering farms. You need a whole bunch of those and they do coordinated work and complete that order in a reasonable amount of time in some of that work is not showing up in sort of deep learning vase like coordinated works. It's not like the old classical high performance computing which has been labelled will be seeing that technology transfer into that type of work of as well and research and medical research drug discovery genomics climate change all that requires a whole bunch of computer servers put together coordinated where run algorithms and spit out in a result and do that quickly a reasonably well last but not least life sciences in analyzing the physical movements of atoms or molecules to vom genomic sequencing these are all various types of industries dodd jews high performance computing to achieve resolve. Hope that helps though the audience what. Sbc really means and for big four that you need bare metal. Instances low latency terrestrial networks using hundred gigabits per second argument technology and high performance storage to achieve that outcome. So i hope the it gives you a bit of colorful dish. Bcs no absolutely does. I have spoken to a couple of large hedge. Fund style computational heavy workloads and they wound up discovering was for what they were doing already built out of data center. They couldn't handle interrupts for their application stack super well and they were debating and we build out a second data center. Do we build a cloud environment and the answer became pretty clear. This was a couple years ago that there was no viable path economically to put this in the cloud unless they got some truly astronomical discounting which is always on a fixed term basis. So there's no guarantee that it'll be renewed at those generous levels so it's for their use case and given their sensitivity around how proprietary all the stuff was building a second data center economically made sense. I don't normally come up with that assessment. But i'm here to help customers come up with the right answer not try and push in any particular direction. I think there's some truth to that as customers eventually if they don't have the right. Price performance economic across compute storage networking and achieve the rate of performance. The network to complete. They will choose to go business as usual until when we looked at this problem to solve this across the stop right unpacked Readily available to have the work was compete to be completed and then the data has to flow out of it also has to be super cheap so i think that combination does make sense. Mazda nissan siemens they're all using oracle co today among some many others four. Abc style workloads. And that's one category. I'd be as we talked about and then the other category Touch a little bit on was was the war but the thing i didn't mention i think is words for a few minutes of chat for sure is what do you do for all the on. Premises workloads are sitting on blade servers today or commodity servers or especially service today. Generally i will wind up pulling the fire alarm. That winds up dumping all the foam out of the burbs of servers unworkable. rabbit written-off total loss by insurance. And start over somewhere else. But that's why they don't let me in the data centers anymore. Probably not a bad reason if you were going to do all that our that. A billion dollars worth of transactions every day. But i think the other thing that we were looking at selling off problem was customers. Trading in a single ride of a blade server for example for a single radical cloud sir does not necessarily get them along their rail of transforming the data center so data center transformation happening across the industry whether customers shrinking their data centers moving into Moving at all of the out is going to happening in one of these various types of shapes. And if you look at this market space and you say what hockey hall eighty percent of that work workload get to the cloud quickly apart. Because to be honest this is where or actually has a lot of business are exited. The combination of hardware and software. Today that are today. The provides us provide some really significant performance gains for her at all that customer base looking at this eighty percent work though. This is the tough engineering problem. That i think oracle has saw for. How do you get regions to scale down to various smaller size. So you can start small. And then linearly scaled them out. I think the notion of always having multiple availability inability zones to be part of a reason deployment all has been challenged in the market. But even in the market you'll see local zones right. I know small footprints and the engineering effort to get all of your services into a package out if you would that can help..
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"salman" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Instantly scale able to use just in time provisioning etc that the benefits of cloud as customer side. The that or goal knew about its customer base was a lot of their customers were using legacy software on the continue to have some legacy software. The customers they serve have a very different journey to the cloud so know a lot of customers have changed the may think about cloud journey and have adopted principles and services for sure but oracle really wanted to sort of say if i were to get customers to using of course oracle parts on oracle serves not just database has a whole bunch of software products in our you know global business unit space in another and get them to sort of seemed to see move without. What would that look like. And i think that's that story got a bit interesting. For example has a whole bunch of investments or was made in l. to allaire to networking to virtualization it. That's tough engineering work. Because usually what happens in town environment is the layer three. The packets are version so they're digging overlay network and you can send traffic for one instance to another instance offi as if you're in a in a physical Already not so as i all a numeric a few things so there's really look deeply add it. What if we were to do their to. What if we were to start. With sovereign virtualization for increased performance of networking and networking became very cool focal point for example or the first ones to offer ardia main one hundred gigabits per second network through between instances at scale in the cloud because customers were doing all these tough workloads and didn't want to have to change there. Were close to move like the events of the price. Performance data ingress egress challenges etc. So i can elaborate on these things in more detail but the fundamentals of building drought offering. That feels very much like on premises software. Little change in the naming conference lift and shift. I think has merits. Technical matters for sure and i think customers just getting the million or offer to them. Frankly org but has been in. A second generation offering has been relatively late to what was already stopped in the marketplace right. and historically. it's been mostly a story that i've seen in public around. Oh if you have existing oracle workloads. This is the best place to clarify them for lack of a better term. That said. i'm starting to see breakthrough success stories. We're folks who do not have these day. Disclosed on oracle environment are starting to seriously consider oracle cloud for different workloads. The thing that caught my mind you allude to networking but let's be very direct here. You are ten times less expensive for outbound. Data transfer than aws which is similar to the other tier one providers. So for anything that's heavily data transfer based that immediately becomes an object of significant interest and concern. Now everyone loves to say well once you're at significant scale. Of course no one pays retail sure but that also applies to you folks as well and when you're sitting here trying to sketch out a startup that might be heavy on data transfer. You're gonna use the publicly posted pricing just to get back of the envelope calculations and when you're orders of magnitude away from being a viable answer a lot of the expensive retail pricing doesn't seem to make a whole heck of a lot of sense so folks will never have those conversations with a number of cloud providers just because it doesn't look externally to be viable. There's some truth that for sure. One of the philosophies apart from the engineering principles along the principal engineers database do now come in built out. Oracle cloud was on top of the engineering principles was simplicity option so for example pricing simplicity or reply will have same does price across all regions. So now you can budget for a half thing about this. Instance cost one reason or the other now. We do have about ten of these regions. So it's like it's not trivial and submissively of pricing and this whole notion of having a single bucket accredits that you purchase and you can complain against any services was also a novel out for its time the simplicity of pricing transparency of pricing. And what you can easily use to construct your budget against. I think it's an important additional element of the oracle cloud story which are the customers are slowly but surely seeing 'em taking advantage played the customers. We have our website that we talk about that have used or goes egress to its advantage. Zoom on others in that same bucket like eight by eight but just the general principles of making pricing simple using savings to spicing across all regions for all types of services. It's big deal. And i think customers are really appreciate up. They seem to be my question for you is. Are you seeing a improved of oracle cloud from customers that do not have pre existing deep seated decades long relationships with oracle proper for sure. So i see a few parts of the business to those more convincingly i think if you look at all the networking it has done so a lot of our customers are not thinking about how to really run team where workloads on oracle cloud part because the workload catholic without l. too so denver applications were ready for physical networks ones particularly with dusters of compute nodes share the same broadcast maine's and use features for on premises that are supported lt or genetic extact foods apple assignment of max night without a preceding api hall low.
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"Instantly scale able to use just in time provisioning etc that the benefits of cloud as customer side. The that or goal knew about its customer base was at a lot of their customers were using legacy software on the continue to have some legacy software. The customers they serve have a very different journey to the cloud so you a lot of customers have changed the may think about cloud journey and have adopted principles and services for sure but oracle really wanted to sort of say if i were to get customers to using of course oracle parts on oracle serves not just database has a whole bunch of software products in our you know global business unit space in another and get them to sort of seemed to see move without. What would that look like. And i think that's that story got a bit interesting. For example has a whole bunch of investments or was made in l. to allaire to networking to virtualization it. That's tough engineering work. Because usually what happens in town environment is the layer three. The packets are virtually so they're digging overlay network and you can send traffic for one instance to another instance offi as if you're in a in a physical Already not so as i all a numeric a few things so there's really look deeply add it. What if we were to do their to. What if we were to start with sovereign box. Virtualization for increased performance of networking and networking became very cool focal point for example or or the first ones to offer ardia main one hundred gigabits per second network through between instances at scale in the cloud because customers were doing all these hoffler clothes and didn't want to have to change there were close to move like the events of the price performance data ingress egress challenges etc. So i can elaborate on these things in more detail but the fundamentals of building drought offering. That feels very much like on premises software. Little change in the naming conference. Lift and shift. I think has merits technical matters for sure and i think customers just getting the million or offer to them frankly but has been in a second generation offering has been relatively late to what was already stopped in the marketplace right and historically. It's been mostly a story that i've seen in public around. Oh if you have existing oracle workloads. This is the best place to clarify them for lack of a better term. That said. i'm starting to see breakthrough success stories. We're folks who do not have. These disclosed on oracle environment are starting to seriously consider oracle cloud for different workloads. The thing that caught my mind. You alluded networking. But let's be very direct here. You are ten times less expensive for outbound. Data transfer than aws which is similar to the other tier one providers. So for anything that's heavily data transfer based that immediately becomes an object of significant interest and concern. Now everyone loves to say well once you're at significant scale. Of course no one pays retail sure but that also applies to you folks as well and when you're sitting here trying to sketch out a startup that might be heavy on data transfer. You're gonna use the publicly posted pricing just to get back of the envelope calculations and when you're orders of magnitude away from being a viable answer a lot of the expensive retail pricing doesn't seem to make a whole heck of a lot of sense so folks will never have those conversations with a number of cloud providers just because it doesn't look externally to be viable. Yeah there's some truth to them for sure. One of the philosophies apart from the engineering principles along the principal engineers database do now come built out. Oracle cloud was on top of the engineering principles was simplicity option so for example pricing simplicity will have same instance price across all regions. So now you can budget for a half thing about this. Instance cost one reason or the other now. We do have about ten of these regions. So it's like it's not trivial and submissively of pricing and this whole notion of having a single bucket accredits that you purchase and you can complain against any services was also a novel out for its time the simplicity of pricing transparency of pricing. And what you can easily use to construct your budget against. I think it's an important additional element of the oracle cloud story which are the customers are slowly but surely seeing 'em taking advantage played the customers. We have our website that we talk about that have used or goes egress to its advantage. Zoom on others in that same bucket like eight by eight but just the general principles of making pricing simple using savings to spicing across all regions for all types of services. So it's big deal. And i think customers are really appreciate up. They seem to be my question for you is. Are you seeing a improved of oracle cloud from customers that do not have pre existing deep seated decades long relationships with oracle proper for sure. So i see a few parts of the business. I can speak to those more convincingly. I think if you look at all the networking it has done. So a lot of our customers are not thinking about how to really run team where workloads on oracle cloud part because the workload catholic without l. too so denver applications were ready for physical networks ones particularly with dusters of compute nodes share the same broadcast maine's and use features for on premises. That are supported. Lt or genetic extact foods apple assignment of max night without a preceding api all low.
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"So thank you for joining me. Thanks for having me appreciate you bringing me on the show. of course. So you are oracle clouds group vice president cloud engineering cloud at customer. Did someone get bonus by accept the word cloud into your job title. I think it was a nice coincidence. That all came together. A part of the naming philosophy oracle also comes from from a beta past. If you folks have come into or from top provided that does a really good job aiming citing. I think that carries over. Here's all to some degree. I'm relatively unconvinced that any provider in the world when it comes to cloud has done a good job of services you could make possible exception for digital ocean but by and large every other provider tends to sort of biff it for lack of a better term. It's a long day but the goal is to mitch descriptive enough. So people can remember what we're trying to go pitch to them but let me talk about the topic category. So let's talk a little bit about your own trajectory. You were personally at aws. For i wanna say seven years something like that. Eight years would have been eight years in federal staved. Another three and a half more months. Yeah it is which feels like forever for those of us who've never stayed at a job longer than two years ourselves. Until i started this but you were there doing a lot of things you were promoted from a principal pm role in eventually became. If i'm not mistaken the general manager or i guess highest person who is directly responsible for a contained service for the service application repository. That's correct i started. My journey actually amazon dot com. Where i let a park call amazon coins. That's actually how it got into john amazon. Climbing rewards currency for kindle fire ecosystem festival spent some get some coins rewards currency in that. I can spend those coins back on apps games in game purchases. I always on engineering groups Computer science degree from the university of florida. And so i just want to get back into more engineering Join eight in two thousand fourteen. I looked over her workspaces. Our end user computing product from workspaces became a principal pm at workspaces than moved into a single threaded leader role to launch services which is the application repository and also nurtured as gm for service. Application models owned engineering and product for both of those services runs a open source. Tooling famer if you had and the others a service. But that's what. I looked over before i joined oracle back in two thousand twenty last year. Yeah that's hard to believe. But it's been a little over a year that you've been there and in that time you went from a vp of product management specifically for dedicated region cloud at customer which we'll get into and were promoted to group vice president with a bunch of the word cloud repeat recurring after that statement. So congratulations it. Promotions at margin two different companies tend to be very different things and even at a place that's rapidly growing as oracle cloud. That's no small thing. thanks.