Everyone, welcome to this CUBE conversation here in the Palo Alto CUBE studios. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here with Vicky Chung, who's the engineering manager at Lyft and also the co-chair of CUBECon and CloudDativeCon, part of the CNCF, part of the awesome community that's doing all the cloud native. Been there from the beginning, you guys have been driving it. Vicky, welcome to the CUBE conversation. So I got to ask you, this year, more than ever cloud native is the biggest wave. You're starting to see everything emerge, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud right around the corner. All the stuff we were talking about is kind of playing out. It really is pretty exciting. Yeah, I'm super excited because I remember last time we talked about a lot of the enterprise stuff, more complicated use cases and developer productivity. And we're really seeing an uptick in all the talks in those areas. So I'm super excited to actually see what everyone else is doing. And yeah, more sophisticated at scale use cases, how to run efficiently, how to run in data centers, hybrid situations.  Yeah, I know. It's exciting. Well, I want to just get the news out there. It's in Amsterdam. It's in a couple of weeks. Last week of March and going into April, the conference is happening. So in all the anxiety around the coronavirus, you guys are having as a policy of no shaking hands, coughing your elbow, be sensitive. Yeah. What are some of the things you guys are talking about? I'm sure you're feeling a lot of questions. Yeah, I think a lot of people are worried. The message is generally just don't panic and be reasonable in how you interact with people and know the context. So stay sort of a little bit, a respect personal space. Don't like shake hands, which I know will be awkward for a lot of people because we're like trained to do that, but yeah. I was just at the RSA conference and I tried to go with the fist pump, the elbow bump or like this. I still shaking hands. Okay, I'll shake your hand. I know, I always feel bad. I just like always carry on like hand sanitizer, but I think the conference it's going to have like hand sanitizing stations. So that's going to help a lot. Well, I'm looking forward to hearing all the great stories. More importantly, really to me, again, the big story we kind of talked about is the industry is growing up and you're starting to see visibility into the technology trend where it's really kind of applying into operations. You're seeing the business benefits start to unfold as well as excitement still for kind of the next journey. So I got to ask you, what are the most exciting talks you're seeing? What is some of the themes that we'll be expecting to hear? Well, so I think I continue to be pretty excited about your latest state of security as people start adopting more sort of sensitive or critical applications. Developer productivity is like very near and dear to my heart because, you know, why change the next generation of software if you're not going to be more productive? But I also am very interested in seeing a lot of sort of the combination of all these considerations coming together and just people running large scale clusters, trying to run them efficiently while handling like business isolation needs, compliance, you know, how to handle like multi-tenant when they have like different needs. And you have like one ops team that's like doing all of that. So I think all the like combination is really what I want to see. And there's a lot of day zero activities happening which has always been popular. So you guys are recommending that people come in if they want to enjoy some of the day zero activities come in a day early. Yeah, more and more I like have been recommending people to just go to day zero. There's a lot of good stuff there. I'm personally super interested in all the lightning talks. I think people always sort of like, especially new first timers to the conference, they sort of like miss the lightning talks because they're like, oh, it's day zero. I start at like one and you know. So I was going to ask you my next question. What's your advice for the new attendees because you guys do have a good in migration of new first timers as well as the mature, you know, people growing with the industry together. What's your advice for new attendees? Yeah, I would say definitely come in for day zero, go to all the lightning talks. There's going to be a new one on one track this time based on the feedback from last time. A lot of people said it was very overwhelming. And so we put together a like one day one on one track for people to have talks that help them like navigate both the conference itself and also the community. Has also clout like CNCF projects can also be very intimidating because there's like a lot of them now. Yeah, so I would definitely go check out the one on one track. Also, the advice that I give to most people is actually just like take your time because a lot of the talks are recorded and you can watch them later.  Don't overdose, don't try to hit everything. Yeah. Face yourself, pick a groove and then identify talks you want to watch. Yeah, exactly. Also, I think like the value of these conferences is in the people. So the content obviously is great but I always, the strategy I take is like identify the topics I am interested in and also the speakers that I want to get to know. I go to their talks and I talk to speakers afterwards and start building out your conference network. So you guys get a lot of feedback. I know you guys take it seriously and you look at it. What are some of the new things or tracks that are coming this year at Amsterdam that was either part of the learnings or just new interest levels? Yeah, we have, so the one-on-one track is I think probably the biggest change we made but another thing is because the community is growing up so we had a lot of feedback about the distribution of like beginners versus intermediate versus advanced topics. I think the feedback for last time was like people wanted to see more like intense, deep technical dives into hard topics for people who've been using Kubernetes for a few years and so we sort of adjusted that a little bit this time so you should see some more interesting- Hardcore track. Yes, exactly. It's a hardcore track.  You can pick your spectrum a week or something. I think it is just like the conference is growing so there's like the audience demographics is also diversifying. If people are, obviously theCUBE will be there, we'll be broadcasting live so you guys can do keynotes. You'll be streaming live as well. The keynotes, is that going to happen? Yeah, I think so. Okay, so I think you guys are so I'm going to double check that. In terms of Amsterdam, I know, obviously you have the U.S., North America one, this is Amsterdam. What do you guys plan there? Anything local flavor there? Is there any twists to the event being in Amsterdam? Well, usually the like.  Usually all the side like social events are themed to like the whatever region we're hosted in. So yeah, I think we'll see definitely like Amsterdam flavors there. I think we also try very hard to make sure to showcase the coolest speakers or like technology or projects coming from that area. So yeah, definitely I think a lot of the talks will be from. Definitely the buzz, certainly on Twitter and the scuttle button just kind of chatter is more fun. People love Amsterdam, it's a fun city. Yeah, I think just like, you know, generally people when they show up to like the conference they traveled from like elsewhere. So they're just like the vibe is like. It should be a good vibe. Looking forward to it. So this in the 2020 year, a lot's going on with CNCF. There's a lot of different things happening. You're in the machinery, you're in the room talking about all the plans. What's the big picture this year inside the community in terms of figuring out the tracks, the events. I mean, obviously there's growth here. How are you guys handling that? What's the conversation like? Yeah, I think definitely there's like a shift happening. You know, actually the tracks for Kupkan has been pretty stable since the inception of the conference. And this is, I think the first year where we've sort of started talking about maybe adjusting the tracks or splitting them because of how use cases have started shifting. For example, like application development has always been like a really large track. And it's intentionally vague. Like, you know, there's a lot of things that people are building on Kubernetes. So we don't want to be like too prescriptive. But because there is kind of like an explosion of use cases, we're thinking of like maybe potentially splitting that or, you know, I'll leave that up to the co-chairs for next conference. But we definitely like that sort of conversation is happening. What are some of the use cases that are exploding? I mean, obviously there's a diverse broad set of new use cases. Is there a pattern in what you're seeing? Yeah, there's, for example, for like HPC, that's, I think that's always been or high performance computing. That's always been like a topic that we see from time to time. But really for the last couple of conferences has been like very consistent and quite a few of them. And, you know, that ties into how people are using GPUs and, you know, even more exotic networking options. We're seeing some of that this time as well. So yeah, that's like its own category. I think another thing is like application development is sort of right now encompasses both like the application side, which is like, oh, HPC use case or like development, which is like developer productivity or developer experience. They're like very different. And so right now they're like sort of lumped together. You know, I got to have a confession for you because one of the reasons why I love KubeCon so much because it's really the perfect blend of, you know, geeking out and nerding out on the tech. So kind of that open source software. But you said HPC, it's like up and down the stack, a lot of kind of geekiness going on and you can dig in. Then you got the entrepreneurial vibe, right? So you have open source devs who are standing up, startups that have been there and they're there and there's a lot more entrepreneurship. Then you have the big companies who have the big wallets and they're either buying companies or, and so you have that confluence of, you know, the down and dirty, getting with the tech, open source startups and big companies. So it just makes it a real fun event. So I have to ask you as you look at trying to balance all the stakeholders, what's it like? You guys see that same kind of dynamic because everyone's playing well right now in the sandbox, so to speak. Yeah, I think it's been okay, like trying to balance that just because, you know, everyone is still, I think there's still more in common that people are trying to solve than they are different. And so there are a lot of topics that there, yes, people are like solving this problem for their specific use case, but actually like there's a lot of things in common for people in small companies as well as large enterprises as well. I think the interesting thing is like, you know, a lot of cloud providers, they give a lot of talks as well and you'd think, oh, that might be like two vendors specific, but actually what we're seeing is like, they just have a lot of experience operating many, many clusters and, you know, large infrastructure and their experience sort of like scaling that out is helpful to companies like Lyft or other startups that are just trying to scale their deployments. So, yeah. What's interesting, I look at the Amazon Azure and say Google, for instance, each one of those big tech companies has a commercial interest and they do have large power, but all the people that were running these clouds, they've been at the open source community. They know the contract that they have with the culture and plus it's so early. So I think there's a nice, I mean, I see Adrienne there. I see all the Google folks there. All awesome people, right? They're not like the greedy big bad guys. And I think that's what people don't understand about that part of it, although their validation in the business side can really pull, help pull through a lot of these great projects. Yeah, for sure. I see them contributing a lot to the community as well and they definitely are very open to initiating collaboration. I see that a lot in Kupkan, you know, in the vendor booth area. People are talking about like, oh, let's start a new project or like, oh, that could be open sourced. Like that's the type of conversation that's happening in the like sponsorship area and not like, oh, do you want to buy our stuff? So yeah. I mean, I definitely think both, all three of those clouds I mentioned all have awesome people over there when it comes to this community. And also they're, again, everyone's playing well, but because it, but I think that the unification around Kubernetes and what's going on with cloud native is so powerful because I think everyone agrees that there's a bigger win beyond the short term. Yeah. There's a bigger de facto standard kind of thing going on here around hybrid and multi-cloud. And all the, all the conversations that we have on theCUBE these days is about hardcore hybrid and then the promise of multi-cloud. So I got to ask you, is there any multi-cloud in here? Is that too off the radar on the hype side for you guys? I don't think it's too off. Yeah, there definitely talks about like hybrid and multi-cloud. And I've come from companies that have done that with Kubernetes. And so yeah, I don't think it's like that far fetched. So it's right now it's happening. There's good conversations happening there. Yeah, I think, you know, obviously it depends on the use case because it does come with its own complexity, but there's just, I think the demand on infrastructure teams just keeps growing.  So yeah, it's not that far fetched. Yeah, you're hitting the sweet spot there because you talk about like the scale that's going on and the operations. And everyone's like always worried about, oh, change is going to make this happen. The fact of the matter is one, you have large scale and growth, skills gap and skills shortages going on. So the only way to solve that, by the way, and a huge data tsunami, you got cybersecurity, the only way to solve that's automation. I mean, software. Yeah. And a whole big picture. Yeah. And I think everyone's seeing the benefit of like sharing the problems we're solving on the infrastructure layer because that's not our business. Like we're not selling infrastructure. We just want to like get that into a good place so we can like actually do our business. So yeah, I think that's what's also fueling all the like community and open source. Final question.  What's the posture this year from the group? What do you hope people walk away with from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon this year? Oh, that's a good question. Well, personally, I think a lot of what's on my mind right now coming into this conference is like, a lot of talks from San Diego were about like, okay, now that we're actually putting this in the production, a lot of teams are realizing how much complexity there is and how we can abstract the complexity away from the rest of the engineering team, like outside of infrastructure. And since then I think people have made a lot of contributions and have just thought a lot more about that topic. So that's what's on my mind is like, okay, that's what we were talking about a few months ago. Let's see where we're at now. So let's see the proof. Yeah. Let's see the use cases. Let's see the results. It's a proof it's a proof it world when you start talking about operations. Yeah. Right, rubber's hitting the road. Okay, Vicky's here inside the cube. We're giving us a breakdown of the upcoming KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. She's the co-chair, puts it all together with a great team over there and also a great community. Again, as it continues to grow and there's a lot more to go, CloudNative and Kubernetes is really at the center of what I see as a de facto standardization around a whole new cloud operating model that's going to create a lot of benefits and a lot of great stuff for the community. I'm John Furrier with the cube. Thanks for watching.


It's the mat work. What are some issues that you feel that you find when artists are running their campaigns? Like I, you run into a lot of artists who are asking questions, things like that, but I'm talking about not even tactical, but more so the habits, like bad habits and just philosophy that keeps artists from understanding this is how you're supposed to be thinking to actually run a campaign. And once you understand this way of thinking, then you can learn Facebook ads, you can learn YouTube ads and execute them, right? And not just watch a course, but actually execute it. Because I think that's one of the things that I find a lot of times people will like read a course or watch a video, but then the execution part is still that other way you understand marketing that helps you actually go out there and be effective with it. What's that issue that you find? Yeah, so I was just talking about this with someone today, but a big thing is like a lot of people get sold the course that they're supposed to take in a month period and they're supposed to enable like an active strategy and they're supposed to get this result. And that result is supposed to solve every existential woe that they have about their music career. And it never works. It's never gonna happen. And so people are used to a marketing promise of, look, try this out for a month. If it doesn't make you super happy, then, you know, it didn't work and you get your money back or something like that. But they're used to like try this. And if it doesn't work, it's a failed idea. And so move on to the next idea and try it for a month. All these things, most of these things work, but your time frames are off. Most of these things work. Like most go pick a marketing course.  Like go pay $1,000 for a marketing course out there for one of these marketing gurus. It works. Is it worth $1,000? But it works. You know what I mean? It works. And so it's usually not the course. It's usually not the strategy because the people who sow to do the course are smart enough about marketing to have used marketing to sell you a course.  This is hard working me all of a sudden.   And then you scale it and you realize what's wrong with that. And then you reinvent it and then you come back and you will be, you will succeed at that, but you'll never succeed at taking a month-long course, pulling a rabbit out of the hat. And now all of your problems are solved. It's never going to work. So I think the marketing promise is off. I think people expect that if a system doesn't work after they give it a solid two-month shot that the system's wrong. It's like, no, time frame is wrong.  You know? No, man. I think you know that, man, because I actually had a talk with who's on the podcast. We started this podcast called Music Mavericks that we've been testing and we haven't even officially officially launched it yet. But one of the conversations was just a fact inspired from an artist that I had spoken to was the fact that not only did it take me a while to realize that, hey, most of these artists, and just people in general, but artists specifically, are not running their campaigns long enough. But then also, a lot of people aren't even preparing long enough, like the amount of assets and things that can go into it to even have a full campaign. You don't even have enough content to have a full scale campaign or rollout. And it takes months sometimes for these people who don't already have a system that you already have my graphic designer off.  Right. I think so, to go back to your original question, because the reason I went through that diatribe is to explain to you that a campaign-based approach is a one-off thing. And campaigns, in order for a campaign to contribute to your long-term three, four, five-year goal, it needs to have certain parameters. It needs to have one is a target audience of people who are united in their stage of awareness. So it's like, if you're targeting both people who love your music and also people who have never heard of you before, your campaign is already going to fail. Because you don't know where your people are at. You're targeting where you're trying to bring them. Because you don't need to bring people who already know who you are to know who you are. But you do need to do that for all of the people who don't know who you are. So you can't group them in together. So pick a target audience of people who are united by how much they know about you. They're completely cold or they've all heard one song or they're all your biggest fans. And then determine how you're going to use this media to deliver them to the next state. So if it's like they don't know who you are, let's take them to aware. If they're aware, let's take them to they dig you. If they dig you, let's take them to they maybe signed up for something or they bought something or they spent some time with you. If they've done that, let's take them to a higher lifetime value where they've spent more money with you. But every campaign should deliver people from one stage of awareness to the next. And you use your media to do that. And a lot of people don't realize that people people want when you ask someone to go for their campaign, there isn't a wall. There is no stopping point.  I don't know anywhere in between. Yeah. Yeah, you need to have an objective outside of the objective that Facebook makes you select. Basically, like what is your your key performance indicator? That's what it comes down to. Like, what's that next level? Because you're right. I feel like so many people will start a campaign and every single time I mark a song, my goal is fans. And that can't be your goal, right? Because who are you talking to in the first place? And it doesn't even make sense if someone who isn't even aware of me to become a fan. Is it possible? It's completely possible. But the artists that I have more ongoing relationships, so they understand enough about their just the marketing stack, or artists who have just been doing so much. And when we finally have our conversation, you can just tell they understand, it'll be very specific on what they're asking for when they might come to me, or when I'm just advising them and they're doing their own thing. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm just trying to, you know, this is more of a PR thing or just build an additional more fluff side of awareness. And this right here is I want to get people exposed to it in the first place. And then I'll retarget them later down the road for this next thing. This thing is just about the merch. It's not about my music this time, right? Like they understand and they're not hoping for all of these things in one. So that's a great point. I'm glad you said that. Also, recurring content is huge because a lot of beginner artists are doing campaign after campaign trying to get new fans. And those new fans, once they become new fans, they're just waiting around for the next time that you have a single. And a lot of them don't wait around. A lot of them forget that you exist. And you could stop that if you had something that they can expect. Like I use the example of like every week I open up HBO to watch my new show Avenue Five, right? It's going to come out every Saturday. I know that now. HBO, let me know. So I'm going to come back every Sunday and watch it because it's now on HBO Go. And I'm going to do that till the season's over. All they had to do was make me aware that it was on Saturdays. And now they've created, they've instantiated a behavioral pattern and they don't have to market to me further because I'm going to take the user action to access the content. So the second that someone becomes aware of you, do you have signage in place? Do you even have the content to say, come back to Instagram or come back to YouTube every Friday, every Wednesday? I'm going to drop this. Do you have that in place? Because if not, probably more people are losing interest than you, than otherwise we would have to. So you got a leaky bucket. A leaky bust bucket.


EFNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network, Update. Good morning, everyone. On this Thursday, the 12th of January, we're looking at the Dow down 48 at $33,926. Just have a look at what happened in the futures at 830. We had, whoops, where did it go? We had a pop to the upside, well, we had a pop to the upside, then downside, then rally and then a gap down for the following minute that's at 831. And then a rally that went back to retest the high, it's arched over and made a price time match to a low, all of the low that was made at 39, I think it was 54, retested that about 10 minutes ago and now it's starting to rally. So we're now into the, like the third part of the day session. We'll get back to the market in a moment when I do my Tiger Technicians Hour. What we're looking at is Dow did finally get to that leg D in the, that's very nice. It's trading at $33,956 down to 16 points.  But look, in the Chapman Wave methodology, we're always anticipating a buy signal goes to a buy mode that upgrades to a D. And here we are, leg D in the S&P, made a new recovery high today, just underneath the 14 period exponential moving average resistance of $39.94. It's trading at $39.58 down to 10, coming back from a pretty sharp slide. Looking at the QQQ, it's a little different. This is a leg D way under the 200 period moving of 297. It's a 275 down to $1.74 and the IWM, which is starting to show something quite impressive here is up 23 cents at $182.99, trying to get to the 184 200 period moving average. Gold had another big spike to the upside. It's coming back a little bit now, just up at 1886. This is a leg E in my show, if I can do this. I will show the left side, right side price, time match to the June highs that I was anticipating was a chance to get to where we're almost there. Looking at the dollar, the dollar is down sharply, down 72, takes that 102.53 and the TLT, this is gonna be very important. The TLT is down 72 at 104.96, which means that the bond yields are coming down a little bit and crude oil, I haven't looked at crude oil for a moment, crude oil is up 87 cents at 78.29. Other areas in the energy sector are starting to work. I'll be back for the Tiger Technicians Hour and check out my opening call. Daily News Matter, I hope you can stay in great programming here all day at TF and Ant, Saucerford 9 with Tommy O'Brien.


So let's say for example, you know, we've got our little planet running it's our program and It's just spinning along doing whatever it does, but suddenly all of a sudden it there's a crash There's a I try and divide by zero Suddenly it's on fire Everything is ruined You know even the Antarctica is on fire.  Oh, well, I don't want this to happen I don't want that to happen. You know for obvious reasons So what we're looking at suddenly is this idea give me a second boom What we're looking at is this idea that before I even Try and execute again if I execute it on fire What I want to do is I want to create a parallel world And here's my terrible art rendition for you. Here's my here you go I want to recreate the world for just a second here's I I Am surely proving to you guys right now that I am a Computer scientist not a programmer or not an artist if you will So what I did what I've just done is I've said Try try to run my program If it would catch fire if it would catch fire catch this and So what will happen is we can think of it almost as if a parallel universe has just been built if for example I Attempt this and no fire happens All right, cool. Well what Java actually says is go ahead and execute this Execute if okay That's exactly what we're saying is First kind of test it out in this Parallel universe for me if it ran fine there. Oh, okay. All right. I feel safe about it now I've seen someone else do it. I I'm gonna do it now however, if I end up Going to hell Catch me and pull me back and go. Whoa. Hey, hold on for a second instead of executing this Here's some code Here's some code to execute instead So how do we build this out?  We start off with The trikey word the trikey word Basically does that it says create this parallel universe And then do this code if that code works perfectly fine Excellent go ahead and run it again, and it will be a okay. However, if I Have an error if I break What I'm needing to expect is some type of it exception type Some type of exception and I'm just gonna call e and again, this is code that I only want to happen when Otherwise my program would crash.  It's crashing all the time But now I can at least throw this error message out on the internet and go what what does you know Received string length longer than maximum allowed Mean especially in contacts of Minecraft. So this is where we would want to Design out these conditional statements


He told me this story once, and only once. And never spoke of it again. If you like true revenge stories, you found the best place for your vengeful needs. I create them with fleaky visuals, dipped in artificial love. We start off with a rich redneck, who doesn't show of his riches, which makes him an easy target in the eyes of a new and titled community of chads and cairns. They try to sue him into submission, while being ignorant of the fact. This redneck has a protective Mima, who is madder than a wet hen. You buy a story in which a grandfather sheds light on a small town's secret, from the Peruvian town he used to live. Lastly, a kid shares the secret story of his dad, that he only told once in his life. His dad emphasized to never do what he had done. His story starts with the creation of bicycles, that were forged specifically for revenge. Before we start, make sure when you're at the like button's housewarming, you rearrange the contents of the kitchen drawers. Let's dive in. Naturally, viewer discretion is advised. These revenge acts might be disturbing to snowflakes. This is a story about my grandparents' friend. I was a young teen when I heard it, but given the outcome, this story has stuck with me. I've sat on this story for a while, but it's so satisfying to see a gaggle of cairns taken down a notch, that I figured I'd share. For the sake of this story, we will call my grandparents friend William. Now, my grandparents knew William from way back. My grandmother knew him from school and my grandfather met him after marrying my grandmother. Anyways, in the 60s, grandma was a manager at the 7-Eleven. William led a crew that went there every day. It was the only gas station and a 30-minute radius, so everyone knew everyone in that sleepy coastal town kind of way. Now, one day, William was doing a job down on the waterfront and slipped, fell, and broke his back. While he was healing from the operation and was broke as a joke, my grandma would always make sure to send him something to eat that she'd pay for. Specifically when the crew would come in to grab their snacks and gas up, knowing William would simply skip the meal to save the money for his own family. My grandpa also took him to several doctor appointments, since William couldn't drive for a while. Besides, his tiny little wife couldn't wrangle him into a car by herself, even if she tried. William never forgot that. 20 years later, when he sold off his now very successful business and was a millionaire about 20 times over, he promptly told 90% of the world to go to hell, but kept those that had always been there for him close. Meanwhile, he never moved from the house that he had since before he was rich. His only concessions to his wealth were trips with his wife to see the world and buying up quite a few acres of the forested land around him. If you weren't his friend, you'd take him for every other blue-collar worker in the town. There was absolutely nothing obvious to show that he was worth tens of millions of dollars. After his wife died in the 90s, William decided to take up a new hobby. As he lived outside of the city limits, he set up a sawmill and woodworking shop, got all the proper permits and everything. The saws were in a big old enclosed building in the middle of all that land, so in all honesty, no harm no foul, right? Wrong. The family that owned the forest behind William's land had just sold it to developers. Thus, the new luxury-gated neighborhood, the first in the area, was born. Enter a plethora of chads and carons, who were mostly from up north and had moved down south to take advantage of the better weather, and the nearby beach. It didn't take long before they decided to take a fence to his little business venture, on the other side of the 10-foot tall wall of their neighborhood because it didn't fit with the image of their community. You know, the community he was decidedly not a part of. So, they sued him. Didn't even try to start a dialogue with him, just up and sued him. William was livid. He was your typical coastal redneck and he would be damned, if those damn Yankees told him what to do on his own property, that was not within city limits nor located in Inhoa. William countered with professional noise studies that show that some of the kids in that neighborhood drove vehicles, that made more ambient noise than his little operation. Would they back off now, leave him be? Nope, the people in the neighborhood simply threw more money at the lawyers to continue on with the lawsuit. Essentially, their plan was to bleed him dry. Their lawyers, who were not locals, actually told William's lawyer that he should probably advise his client to close the shop, so that he wouldn't end up bankrupt, due to the resources being thrown at him from the homeowners. Due to the relatively modest surroundings of his home, the neighbors nor their lawyers had any idea the man, was actually richer than just about all of them put together. All they saw was an older dude, who drove a beat-up 80s model truck and wore Dickie's jeans and work shirts, that lived in what appeared to be a relatively modest home, especially compared to their McMansions. When William's lawyer told him about that conversation, William lost his mind. I clearly remember his screeching into my parents' driveway in that old work truck, cussing up a storm and ranting and raving before he even got in the house. He came to our house why? Because my grandmother, bless her heart, was known as one of the most giving people in the world.  If you hurt her or someone she cared for, she became one of the most vindictive which that could be found in that town. I am not kidding when I say that her ability for revenge served cold was legendary amongst the locals. So William had come to the house for a dose of her deviousness. Us kids weren't allowed inside during that conversation, but after he left that day, I later heard the adults talking about how he proceeded to hire quite a few private investigators, to see if there would be any dirt to dig up on them. By them, I mean the dozens of people in that neighborhood that were a part of that lawsuit. Oh and behold, there was apparently copious amounts of dirt to be had. I still remember him positively crowing about it to my grandparents, one fine summer day months later. That 60-something-year-old man, was as gleeful as the proverbial kid on Christmas morning. Why? Because after he learned what his little private army dug up, he started making some phone calls to various, acquaintances in high places. The ensuing fallout, meant that the lawsuit was dropped. There was quite a list of misdeeds that were discovered, but the ones that I heard talked about by the adults that stick out are, there were more than a handful of individuals that owed back child support. William very helpfully had the private investigators provide the mother's updated address and employment information, so that they could pursue said child support slash garnishment if they wanted to. On top of that, the IRS became very interested in several of those people as well as various other neighbors. Finally, one household ended up in prison, because the investigators realized that they were actual drug dealers. The pictures of the transactions caught by the pies were helpfully handed over to the sheriff's department, drugs or bad kids.  My grandfather grew up in a rural Peruvian town where only his family lived. They were very isolated from others. They lived about half an hour away from the nearest town. As one would assume, everyone was close. This story happened sometime around the 1940s. It's about one of my grandfather's many cousins, let's call her Mary, who was 20 years, and her husband, Earl, who was 25. Mary's dad went away to work in the capital for a while, taking Mary with him. There, she met Earl, fell in love, and married. They returned to town a couple of months after they wed. They rented the room at the local saloon while Earl worked with Mary's dad selling goods in neighboring towns to save money.  Not only did he cheat on Mary while he was away working, but he also severely mistreated her when he was home, even more than the standard at the time. It was really bad. Eventually, the owner of the saloon noticed. His name was Walter, and he was a distant cousin of Mary. He confronted her, and after a lot of prodding, she admitted to everything. She hadn't confessed before as her close family, especially her dad, opposed the marriage, and she was ashamed to admit how Earl really was. Well, she wouldn't have to suffer much longer, as Walter would take matters into his own hands. He always liked to play a prank on newcomers. He would take them to a field a half hour away to hunt. What he claimed was the most delicious bird he had ever tasted. Spoiler alert, that bird did not exist. It had a funny name I can't remember, so I'll just call it birdie. He would leave them in the middle of the field with the net while he went away to chase the birdies into the net. He would then walk back to town while the newcomer was kept waiting for the birdies. Eventually, newcomer would return to town and be mocked and laughed at for buying the story. Just some good old, rural town fun. He had yet to prank Earl, as he was mostly away working and working. However, not long after an opportunity presented itself, he was able to leave Earl away with the same story as always, but he didn't play the prank on him. Instead, he led him to a field 1.5 to two hours away instead, getting him drunk on the way. Letting him wait near a lake where the birdies could be found underwater. He then returned to town and claimed Earl had wanted to actually hunt the birds, not just wait, and it was hard to convince him otherwise as a way to excuse his tardiness. Earl's disappearance was noticed the next day by Mary's dad when he didn't show up to his house or work and when he wasn't in the rented room. Walter gave his excuse, the others at the saloon and his wife corroborated his story. A few days later, Earl was found in the lake, he drowned. It was concluded that while waiting for the birdies, he'd gotten drunk and when he attempted to return to town, he had gotten lost and fallen into the lake. Unlike her husband, Mary's life ended on a happy note. She remarried to a much nicer man, had eight children and bought a house in the capital where she lived until she passed of around 2003. Walter also had a happy life and passed in the late 1970s. My grandfather only knew this story because he overheard Walter tell Mary's dad the true story. Apart from him, no one else but the three of them knew. He told me one day I was asking about secrets about his small town. This isn't my story, but rather my dad's. I know the believability of this might be hard, but I believe this story to be true. Thus, I'm willing to share it.  But he also had a temper that could make an angry moose turn the other way if he was pushed far enough. Well, when this happened, he was definitely pushed far enough. He told me this after I told him all of the things I did to prank evil mama bear before moving out of her house. He told me this story once and only once, about 10 years ago and never spoke of it again. I wrote it down in a journal from memory back then so I wouldn't forget. So I'll try and retell it as best I can from what I wrote in the journal a decade ago and probably explains where I got my conniving side from. This story happened in the late 70s. My dad was a young man striking out on his own for the first time. He lived alone in a really crappy part of town while attending college and working at a gas station as a steady job. But the area had lots of thugs and especially lots of violence. There was a group of guys he knew from high school that just loved to mess with him. The first thing they did was spray paint graffiti all over his car, a 68 Chevy Nova. Then they started harassing him every night he was coming home from work or class because they were always hanging around his building. The leader of the gang was a big guy dad referred to as Ted. Don't know if this was his real name or not, Ted was a relentless bully to several other kids in school. He donkey conned my dad many times over the years. But during high school in particular, he hated my dad because Ted failed and dropped out during senior year and they wouldn't let him play football with his failing grades anymore. My dad on the other hand finished with some pretty decent grades and got a partial scholarship to a local community college. So to say Ted resented my dad was putting it mildly and one day when my dad was going into his apartment, Ted and his gang ambushed him and really did a number on him in a back alley. My dad lay wounded and unconscious in that alley all night. He was found in the morning by an old lady walking her dog and she called for help.  And this caused him to lose out on a lot of his college classes and he had to retake them. Of course he told police it was Ted and his cronies that did it. But the police claimed they had no evidence that Ted did it because he and his friends all supposedly had alibis and there were no other witnesses. Well, that didn't sit well with my dad. He spent some time in physical recovery after getting out of the hospital and then moved to a new apartment with a friend as a roommate. And together they schemed and plotted to get revenge on Ted.  Now a thing of note is that my grandfather on my dad's side worked at the city dump and he was always bringing things home to collect, donate, fix, resell, et cetera. My dad helped him out with this a lot. So he learned a lot about fixing and making things. And while with his father at work, he found ways of sneaking into the dump at night. As a teenager he would sneak in there at night with friends to find stuff they used to build a hidden fort in the woods nearby. My dad said the fort was so well made that it even had a makeshift wood stove that they made out of recycled bricks and a metal barrel to use in winter to keep the fort warm. This is important later. So over a few nights, my dad and his friends snuck into the dump just like they used to in order to look around for things they could use. Bit by bit they found some old stinky clothes, shoes and some old wooden baseball bats and a few other useful things for the revenge. The dump also had an assortment of used tools the employees found in the trash and set aside to be used on site but also regularly borrowed. So no one really kept track of them. My dad and his friend kept all of the stuff they were going to use hidden at the old fort they made as teenagers near the dump. So they had a perfect place to build the tools of their revenge. Next they made sure they had as solid of an alibi as they could make. My dad and his friend were living on the top floor in an old three-story apartment building and was already well liked in the building for being handy and fixing a few things for his neighbors. The walls between apartments were kind of thin so neighbors often heard the comings and goings of people on the same floor. They'd come out to greet my dad and his friend when they came home in the evening. And apparently the building had no fire escape. So the doors were typically the only way in or out. And the main door of the building was generally locked at night with a clerk sitting watch the entire time. They came home, checked in with the clerk, said their good evenings to several neighbors and then locked themselves in their apartment. They waited till midnight and then used a knotted rope found at the dump to climb down three stores from their apartment window. Which coincidentally was right above the dumpsters in the side alley. They hid part of the hanging rope behind a gutter pipe and then hoofed it a few miles to the old fort where they'd hidden what dad referred to as revenge cycles. He told me they were bicycles that they'd pieced together from junk parts found in the dump that were built and modified using the borrowed tools to have mounts for carrying the baseball baths and a few other things they couldn't fit in backpacks that they needed at the ready without making much noise or bogging them down. They rode the revenge cycles to the bungalow in an old neighborhood where Ted was living with his friends. Though squatting may be a better word. Dad said it was a house where dealing was regularly done which was good in a way because that meant they wouldn't call the police unless they wanted to risk exposing their operation. They scouted the area for a few nights to plan their attack, then waited for the perfect opportunity. First my dad and his friend put on Halloween masks to cover their faces and took a tire iron that they'd brought and quietly removed the lug nuts from two of the wheels that were on Ted's crappy van. Then they spray painted an insignia that was used by another gang from the area on the side of the van to make it look like this was a rival gang dispute. My dad and his friend then spied on Ted and his gang for hours from the windows using homemade periscopes that were painted dull black so they wouldn't be seen. Ted and his crony spent some time getting drunk and high until Ted got so wasted he went to bed. My dad and his friend waited patiently for Ted to start snoring and quietly snuck into the house through the window of the room he was sleeping in, locked the door from the inside and bolstered it with a chair. Then in unison, they donkey bashed both of Ted's spaghetti legs on the patella drums with their drumsticks. If you get what I'm saying. And when Ted tried to cover himself, they donkey bashed on his arms too. Then they held him down and emptied a plastic bag of fresh warm doodoo. They'd both contributed to making all over his face before getting the hell out of there fast because he was yelling for his cronies. Ted's cronies couldn't get into the room before my dad and his friend were out of there. They ducked into another yard and rode off on the revenge cycles from a different street before anyone saw them. But they heard from other people in the area that Ted's cronies tried to load him into his van to take him to the hospital. But as they got going, the wheels on one side of the van came off and they had to call an ambulance. The aftermath on both of Ted's patella drums made the doctor say that he'd never fully recover and would have to walk with a cane for years. As for Ted's cronies, a few of them got arrested. Police came to the hospital to take a statement from Ted and noticed a couple of them didn't look so good. They asked them a few questions, then searched them. They ended up in the slammer for drug possession, which prompted police to search the bungalow they were living in, but some of the other guys were smart enough to move all of the narcotics to another location when they thought a rival gang was after them. So the cops didn't find much. Ted's remaining cronies later got cornered by my dad and his friend when they followed them in their disguises on the revenge cycles to a back alley where they'd been known to regularly hang out and sell their garbage. And this time, they brought a plastic toy blaster to force them to disarm them of their knives and such. Then they proceeded to Bomba drum them with their baths. After this was over, my dad and his friend claimed to be with a rival gang and told Ted's cronies that if they didn't leave town, they get something a lot worse than a simple Donkey Kong bash fest. And for some added incentive, they sprayed one of their feet with lighter fluid and dropped a lip match onto them, causing the guy to freak out and kick his flaming shoes off. This seemed to work as all of them were gone from the city not long after that. My dad and his friend hid the revenge cycles and dropped the knotted rope from the window into the dumpster below where they later retrieved it in the morning while taking the trash out and disposed of it. Dad and his roommate were questioned, but they claimed no involvement in what happened to Ted. And neighbors and apartment clerk all told them that they never left the building after getting home on those days. My dad and his roommate then let the police come into their apartment to search the place. But they didn't find anything that could be considered evidence as they had already disposed of the stuff they used by taking apart the revenge cycles and at night burned the baseball bats, masks, the shoes and clothes they wore and the knotted rope in the fort's barrel stove till there was nothing left but ash. As for the plastic toy blaster, well, my dad said it was never real but was instead could come of as such. Especially in the dark. And they got rid of it by tossing it into the dump. The cops were satisfied in the belief my dad had nothing to do with the incident and just bid them good day. Dad never told anyone else but me and his younger brother that he and his friend did all of that. As for Ted, dad said he never really bothered anyone again. And he ended up eventually leaving town some years later because he was convinced another gang was still out to get him. What happened to him after that? Dad didn't know. I could tell he felt some measure of guilt for what he did back then. But also seemed to feel fairly justified in it as well since Ted had badly hurt many people around town, just like what he'd done to my dad. So I suppose it was well deserved on some level. But my dad adamantly told me to never try anything like what he did. And I can't say I blame him. Thank you for enjoying this episode, which was made with artificial love. Subscribe to receive future episodes and tickle the like button for Good Karma. Do you have any experiences surrounding this topic? Share yours below, I'll join the conversation. And I'll be seeing you in the next one.


It's my channel. My name is Sonali. You guys don't already know me and today I'm gonna be doing the school routine tag. It was created by my life as Ava and Brooke Mitchell tagged me so shout out to you, Brooke Thanks for the tag. So basically I'm just gonna answer some questions about my school routine I know a lot of my viewers go to UCF as well So maybe all of you Knights can relate to this video So the first question is how early do you wake up for school? So first of all for this semester, I was just taking general education classes So I decided to take three online and only one face-to-face The class I physically had to go to is only on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 o'clock a.m. So I'm pretty much just gonna be talking about my Tuesday and Thursday routine Because I don't really go to class every single day But on those days I set like really random alarms like everyone that's ever looked at my alarm thing It's like why do you wake up at 6 a.m. But I don't wake up at 6 a.m I make an alarm for 6 a.m. So that I can like wake up and be like Oh, I only have one more hour to sleep see See what I did there because if I woke up at 7 then I'm gonna want to sleep longer So it's kind of like a mind trick I play with myself So my first alarm is at 6 my second alarm would be at like 715 and then the last one would be at 735 So like around 730 735 I would wake up It really depends on what I have going on that day If I don't want to do my makeup then I get to sleep in a little bit longer But if I'm gonna be around campus doing errands, I'll get up and make myself look presentable I'm gonna kind of throw in some random questions that I'm gonna come up with if you guys don't mind The next question is how long does it take you to get ready? So like I said, it really depends on what I'm doing that day And if I need to put on makeup or not so if I do need to put on makeup I would say about an hour. There's always something that I want to do more like on my makeup like today I literally spent 20 minutes blending out my eyeshadow because I wanted to do like a dark eye I really need to stop doing that and just like go simple for school But it's so hard when you love makeup so much that you just want to play with it every single time you use it But I'm always like running late So I always have to rush to get my backpack together and make sure everything's good to go fill out my water bottle What do you eat for breakfast? I personally don't eat breakfast because my meal plan starts at 11 a.m And so right after class. I just eat meal plan. I've never really been a big breakfast person anyways So I'll just take water to go and if I feel hungry then sucks I have to wait for a meal plan if I am really feeling hungry. I'll just grab some honey bunches of oats That's one of my favorite cereals and just eat that really quick How long does it take you to get to school? So I live off campus, but it really feels like I live on campus because of how short it takes to get to school It takes me about I would say five to seven minutes to get to Capedalta and that's where I park so lucky me I don't have to worry about parking in those garages It'd probably take me way longer to get to class me and Laura actually carpool every Tuesday and Thursday because she's in My class so my favorite thing in the mornings is to jam out got to get my morning jams in Diviny music suggestion The real crowd Our classroom is on the second floor, but You take the elevator because we are lazy. What classes are you taking? I'm taking computer class online film class online Astronomy online and Spanish face-to-face. What is your favorite subject? I would probably say Spanish because I actually took it in middle school and high school It just didn't count because it was an AP credit So I kind of understand it better and it comes easy to me because I've already learned it But that's the class I actually have to like do a lot of work for which is not too bad But there is kind of a lot of homework my least favorite subject would probably be Astronomy or computer class film class. I literally finish in two three weeks or something like that I could have done it in a whole day, but I just chose not to so I definitely recommend taking film if you Go to UCF. Astronomy is kind of hard. I just like don't really like science So I'm not really into it and computer class is kind of helpful because it teaches you about Excel word PowerPoint access I don't even know what access is but I'm gonna be learning it in the next coming week But it basically teaches you about all those Microsoft platforms, which is pretty helpful, but it's very tedious What grade are you in? I am a sophomore in college I forgot to say this but I go to the University of Central Florida in Orlando and it's such a great school The campus is beautiful and it actually makes me sad because since I do take three online classes I barely walk around campus. What are some of your favorite places to go on campus? some of my favorite places to go are Hmm the student union is always so fun. I always feel happier when I'm a brown more people Memory mall would be another one There's these trees that you can tie your hammock on and me and my friend actually sat there and ate dinner one night And it was just cool because it was like fly on campus in the night I think it was like a Saturday night. We're just like hey, let's just you know on campus Obviously my sorority house would be one. I spend like all my time there I love it another cool place to go is Lake Claire You can rent free paddle boards and free kayaks and sometimes when I just need fresh air me and my friends will walk From Katie to Lake Claire and sit on the dock and just talk and it's really nice especially when the weather is perfect What time do you get out of school? I get out at 10 20 a.m. Yep, that's early. I know college rocks I'm the type of person that loves to schedule their classes earlier on in the day Because then it forces me to get up because if I didn't have class that early in the mornings I'd probably be sleeping in until 12 p.m. Every single day. What do you like to wear to school again? It depends on what I'm doing for the day But if I know I'm not really gonna see a lot of people I'll just go in some leggings some running shorts Maybe and a t-shirt or a tank top, but if I know I'm gonna see a lot of people I'll try to dress nicer maybe jeans and a nice top or maybe leggings and a cuter top other than a t-shirt What do you eat for lunch? Fortunately, I have a meal plan at my sorority and I live for it If I didn't have that I'd probably be so malnourished right now like I don't know how to cook to save my life I burn everything and anything so it's really helpful that I have meal plan and it changes every single day But if I don't like what's on the menu, I usually get a Caesar salad I'm actually about to go to meal plan after filming this video So I'm so pumped because I'm starving I feel like I've mentioned this before but one tip for all those people that do have meal plans Do not buy groceries and if you do buy frozen groceries or things that don't go bad fast because I definitely learned that lesson freshman year I bought groceries on top of my meal plan and I was paying for both of them So I was wasting a lot of food and a lot of money by buying groceries So if you do have a meal plan definitely take advantage of that. What's your favorite item in your backpack? I have literally everything you can ever imagine in my backpack I always think I'm gonna need like random things so I just stuff it all in my backpack My laptop is definitely one of them and my special pencil I literally can't use any other pencil But this one one of my senior accomplishments was that I kept the same pencil for a whole year And of course after I made that my accomplishment I lost it fine, but I always get these pencils So it's definitely a favorite of mine in my backpack. So that's it of this video I hope you guys really enjoyed seeing my campus and my school routine So now I tag all of you to do this video tweet me the link when you guys upload it Also, if you have any other video requests, please please comment down down below I have a lot on my planner right now, but there's never enough. So I want to add more I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye guys


Space weather this week calms down compared to that big G4 level solar storm We had last week, but it looks like the quiet respite is over as we take a look at our earth-facing disc We do have a small chrono hole that's going to be rotating into the Earth strike zone here over the next couple days And it's going to give us a bit of fast solar wind Nothing like that massive chrono hole we had but that's not the big story The big story is that we were been watching region 3256 down in the south and as of about the 28th We started watching the activity level grow a bit and sure enough on the 29th Wham right there. That was a big X1 class flare. This also launched a solar storm It looks like it's going to go west of earth But nonetheless what means we do have a big flare player on earth's disc again And later in the day wham right there. It fires an M class flare as well So radio blackouts are back on the menu at least over the next couple days until this region rotates completely out of view And then we might get a little bit of radio quiet until region 3262 Rotates over that same place and then it might start getting active So we may have some intermittent radio blackouts over the next few days and things then will quiet down after that Because it doesn't look like there's all that much on the earth-facing disc in terms of other big flare players However, as we take a look at the far side, this is the stereo a's view We're looking at the Sun just a tiny bit from the side if you look and you can see that big chrono hole About mid-disk that should get you kind of oriented That's the one that's going to be rotating in the Earth strike zone here over the next couple days But you look past it and look at the East lemon stereos view. Well, you're seeing a few bright regions here and there It's looking kind of I don't know a little bit Stochastic not a lot going on. It doesn't seem like there's any big solar flares or any big players like that or solar storm producers But what it does show is that we will still have some bright regions rotating into view This means that that solar flux will stay up and radio propagation will stay in the good range on Earth's day side So as soon as we get rid of the big flare players It looks like things might actually quiet back down a little bit and radio propagation will be good pretty much everywhere all over the globe For more details on this week's space weather including how those radio blackouts might affect you come check out my channel Or see me at space weather woman.com


We will introduce the micro and react teams, which have been put together as Mike mentioned. So, my name is Gisela, and I will introduce the micro team, which is stands for antimicrobial resistance consumption and burden estimation. And then cherry will take the lead on the drug resistant infections and disease dynamics. So, the micro team has led by Ben Copper and Christian Delochec, and our flagship estimates are the global burden of antimicrobial resistance, which is estimated by a team based in Oxford in which I will concentrate in this presentation. But it's really a team effort from people joining in the institutes for health metrics and evaluations and also in Australia and Croatia, and we have Jesse Commendas joining next week or she will be our newest member. So, Barney is the one who, well, our senior communications officer and public engagement officer, and he's the one who keeps us together in this effort, huge effort of collecting data, which is the cornerstone of our estimates. It's the network of collaborators have grown massively in the past five years, so I remember this map being empty in 2018, and now we have really collaborators in all continents, or data comes from a huge variety of sources from vital registration. Laboratory results antimicrobial susceptibility tests, and, yeah, literature studies as well. Data sets that allow us to understand the pharmaceutical sales and antimicrobial and antibiotic use. So, our most recent member of the team that joined ball is it's here with us in the front row, and he's been tracking households that use antibiotics when their children have infectious diseases such as restricted crack infections. He's also updating the consumption of antibacterials in across 30 European countries and national antimicrobial resistance that across 14 countries in Africa. Tilly, who is sitting in the middle row over there is looking at the most recent IQ via data, which is the largest source of information of pharmaceutical cells. Across countries, some countries even request official data from IQ via to to have their own estimates of a standard units concentrations variations of all doses of antimicrobial sold in in the countries analyzed and he's documenting all the findings and estimating the antimic antibiotic consumption. Freddie is also helping with all these estimations and pursuing the invasive non-time folder Salmonella resistance estimates into the into a paper that will be presented very soon in in in a conference. And finally, I also focus on the estimation of relative risk of resistant infections, compared against both no infection what would have happened if we didn't have any and resistant infection. But on or what would have happened if it if it was compared to a susceptible infection and the outcomes in terms of mortality and length of stay for patients. We disseminate our results in a global estimates, but also in regional estimates now published for in Europe and Americas, and we are in P reviewing the Africa and is Eastern Mediterranean results. So I now pass the microphone to cherry. Thank you. So, I'll bring you through some of the projects that we are working in in the dry up group drug resistant infection and disease dynamic and this is Ben's oak tree. And we are acorns on the oak trees. And this is just a give you a brief overview of the type of projects down the rose that research areas that we are doing and across the columns the methods that we are using and the acorns take care of different projects. And I'll bring you through some of the examples under each of the research areas we are working on so for Emma burdens. The robot project which stands for rethinking how to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance bacteria is aims to look at the existing statistical approaches to estimate the burden of MR and also look at the underlying assumptions of those methods. And one of the method, one of the assumptions sorry that is making is the core existence of different strength of bacteria, and we are using math models to look at the within host and between cohorts of host transmission dynamic of coexistence of different strengths of bacteria. And we have been contributing to the mass oblique mass application development. So this is a project with Professor direct in my doctor research unit in Bangkok, and the idea of the tool is to support the local hospital to analyze their routinely collected hospital and microbiology data. So that a mass events report can auto can automatically generated within the hospital. And recently it was implemented in over 1440 hospitals in Thailand. Then the flaming fun has been investing on increasing the capacity, the microbiology lab capacity in all resource limited settings. And so the question that we're interested in next was whether or not maintaining the active microbiology lab services is cost effective and whether it's worth for the government to keep the capacity to maintain the services. So this one of the analysis that we have done, and it's a project collaborating with the men's school of health research in Australia. Based on our model, it seems as very likely that maintaining microbiology lab service is safe costs with safe costs and safe lives. So this, the paper is in preparation the manuscript of this is in preparation. And we just started a project, trying to develop machine learning algorithms to optimize antibiotic prescription and reduce resistance. So we just started we just got our ethics approval granted to collect data from tertiary hospital in Thailand, which will then use to build the model and then use another hospital data to do external validation. So we've been working on the project with St. George's hospital. And in particularly we are leading on the component looking at the antibiotic use in hospital, trying to quantify the impact of different antibiotic prescription strategies on patient outcome, as well as to evaluate the observed antibiotic use in the hospital and then compare that against to what will be expected of the antibiotic use given the distribution of the disease in the hospital, as well as the assumption that the hospital would adhere to what the Agile Aware Antibiotic Guidebook says, and for the precise methods, NIOs and their poster will be the best person to talk to. And the previous work by Moyin, Sharon, we got the AP trial comparing the short duration antibiotic versus long antibiotic duration more than eight days. The trial is done, is completed and the manuscript is under review. And at the same time, we also did a bit of modeling exercise to look at how reducing duration of antibiotic can impact the prevalence of MR in hospital settings. And this project started in a group retreat event a couple of years ago back when we were all in Bangkok. And Renim sitting in the middle has just joined us a month ago and she'll be leading this project looking at the waiting household and between household transmission dynamic of MR using data from cluster randomized control trials from Burkina Faso and DR Congo. Sean, a project with Professor Paul Newton, looking at sub-substandard and falsified drugs. And Sean will be leading on the analysis looking, quantifying the direct health impact of SF medicine, and also his paper looking summarizing different possible mechanism of SF medicine on spray of MR was just published actually very fresh just yesterday. And the pre-Marvera project which stands for predicting the impact of monoclonal antibodies and vaccines on MR. And it's essentially the aim is to evaluate the effect of vaccine on reducing MR. So we'll be building models and fit that into cost effective analysis. And this is other examples of projects looking at emerging infections. This is a project by Ben where we'll estimating the burden of hospital acquired COVID using acute hospital data from the UK. And the home message is there's around one to two percent of people who admitted to hospital will acquire COVID will have hospital acquired COVID. This is the second wave and that's before the vaccine implementation in the UK. And also, you will be hearing a talk by Mark, our diffuse student just before lunch about his work on respiratory infection and he'll be also using trial vaccination to ask questions on treatment impact of treatment during outbreaks. And here are some of the direction future directions will be continue working on MR modeling, and there will be a project. And now it's preparing the proposal and what it's about to submit collaborating with the UK HSA looking at a hospital network model for MR. And there are a couple of projects that will be happening on relating to trial designs. We are recruiting a postdoc to work on Lhasa fever vaccine with Professor Sarah Gilbert's group. So if, if there's anyone interested potentially that you know, please spread the news first. And also collaboration with a Luvara from Professor Mike English Group looking at MR in the new net. And we are also hoping to work on genomic data and see how we can use leverage such data to support interventions to control the spread of MR. Thank you.


Welcome to Sportsman's Behind the Glass. In this very first episode, we are taking an in-depth look at our hull construction process and it all begins right behind me, right here in our lamination department. So without any further ado, let's step inside and let's take a look at what's behind the glass. The hull is the bottom of the boat. It's what dictates the shear line, the length and so much more. Sportsman has an innovative approach to hull construction, where we believe that these materials and processes yield the absolute best results. Like every great boat, the construction process begins with the perfect mold. Our molds go through rigorous maintenance to ensure every new hull meets our quality standards. The team spends countless hours sanding and buffing them to perfection to achieve the highest quality part. To understand our hull construction, we first need to understand that boats are built from the outside in, starting with the outside layer called the gelcoat layer. Gelcoat is a pigmented layer of resin. Unlike traditional automotive paints where gloss and the base color are layered, gelcoat is one single tough layer. This allows it to be sanded and buffed throughout its life to bring back the original finish. Once the gelcoat has been sprayed on the mold, to ensure proper thickness and consistency, a quality technician takes measurements using a mill gauge. This is just one of the many steps that we take throughout the build process to ensure consistent build quality. The results are closely recorded using a tablet at each of the quality stations. After proper curing time on that first layer, work begins on the second layer, commonly referred to as the skin coat layer. This is the first line of defense against water penetration. One key advantage that we have here is that we use a vinyl ester resin. Vinyl ester is known for its toughness and its ability to withstand blistering. To finish this layer, the team will use special rollers to make sure that any air that got trapped between the first and second layer gets released, thus avoiding any air voids down the road. Once the skin coat layer has dried, we actually fill all of the streaks with a polyester putty. This has some key advantages for us. For one, it actually makes a smooth surface down the hall, which makes it a lot easier to layer fiberglass and avoids any air voids in between layers. Secondly, the putty is very strong and adds even more strength into our hull construction process. The streaks are considered a high impact area. The added support given by this putty will give you a smoother ride and a stronger hull. Once the putty is in place, we'll add many different types of composite materials with different purposes, ranging between screw retention all the way to sound dampening. First is the hull sight. They receive a full layer of coring. This material is great for sound dampening and rigidity properties. To finish off the lamination process, we will hand lay bulk fiberglass to the specified density. This step ensures proper thickness across the entire hull. We've devised a quick demonstration here of what coring does to fiberglass. We have the same amount of fiberglass all throughout this entire piece. The only difference is on this side, we've laminated a piece of coring. So over on this side, over a long span, simple force, you could see how much bend we have. And then over on this side, I cannot get this to bend. It's very, very strong. Now the thicknesses of this demonstration have no correlation to our hull sides or any other part of our boat. It is simply to demonstrate the strength of cord versus just fiberglass. Next, we focus on the pinning flange, an area that requires high screw retention. Later in the process, we will attach the hull and deck using this flange. Arguably, the most important piece of composite material is at the transom, where engines will apply high levels of stress and test the strength of your boat's transom. In this area, we use a no-rot composite material called Couserboard, which is made up of high density polyurethane foam and is reinforced with layers of fiberglass, giving you a very strong and reliable transom. These materials significantly strengthen the transom and hull sides while providing better performance and reducing the overall weight. As you may have noticed, each of these materials are precision cut right here at Sportsman using our state-of-the-art CNC machining. This ensures that every single sportsman boat is built to tight tolerances and very precise specifications. Our first machine is used to cut the bulk fiberglass layers that are laid throughout all of our fiberglass pieces. The second machine precision cuts all of our composite coring materials that are laid throughout each part. These machines, they run from 12 to 16 hours every single day just to keep up with our production line. Later in the process, we will pull the hull out of the mold and scrutinize every single inch to make sure that it meets our high-quality standards. Throughout this process, you've seen highly skilled boat builders hand-crafting masterpieces here at the Sportsman Plants. This craft takes years to master, and even with the introduction of new technology, this is still very much a fully hand-crafted process. Over the next several weeks, we will dive into more of our processes here at Sportsman. Thank you for taking the time today to take a look at our hull construction process. This is part of our SportTech Advanced Fabrication process. This proprietary combination of processes and materials yields the best results each step of the way, and has been thoroughly tested for durability, longevity, and finish. All Sportsman boats feature 100% composite construction with zero wood. Join us in our next episode for our next installment of Sportsman's Behind the Glass, where we take a look at the spine of our boats, the Stringer system. From Summerville, South Carolina, my name is Victor, and thank you for watching.


Yeah, hello, my name is Tobias and I'm one of the main developer of the Android app And I want to show you the next upcoming features of the Android next-load app Currently you have to download an image if you want to view it and depending on your camera size you have Rough about 5 or 8 MB per each image and if you just want to download it to share it with via WhatsApp or Facebook it doesn't even It's necessary. It is better to have a smaller version And if you want to show some of your friends your Complete vacation history with about a thousand images you run very well or very soon in a space problem The solution is to use a device Adapted images and they are stream-dependent and are rough about 50 kilobyte to each image and They're stored in a cache and it's enough for sharing with a whatsapp or uploading it to Facebook and You can zoom in just about the factor of two to enhance some images It's a new future and if you use it for the first time you can Disable it via the snack bar so you can still have the old System and the old behavior and of course you can download each image manually so you can Print it out or do whatever you want with a full resolution image and to compare it You can see on the left side you have 100 images and they are taking up to 500 MBs And on the right side you have the 5 MB cache of 100 images The next thing if you saw on the last page That the next lot folder can grow very big and Especially on mid-size devices the Internet space is very limited and there was many Issues reported that the next cloud folder should be moved to the external Storage and this will be done on the next version you can choose it in the settings and the Existing folder will be recreated to the external storage or any arbitrary folder you Define and Also the images are still in the gallery app so you can just use them as the way before Currently you can see the files you have in the file Detail list with a file size or modification date or you can switch to the grid view and It is hard-coded currently for four columns in the landscape and in the in the portrait models and the landscape for six columns and If you just want to show a quick some Enhanced images you can now do it with a pinch zoom to show Yeah, more details of some images or the other way around to show less details and more columns to get a quick overview and Browse a thousand of folders images in one folder to see where the images you are looking for This is a pinch zoom and it will be available also in the next version For fresh installations we want to show a quick overview of the main four features of the next cloud app and It just shows an intro which which can be skippable and yeah, it shows the main features but we want to show it also for the Upgrading of existing users they should see the major features or we want to promote hidden features like the pinch zoom It's not obvious obviously that this pinch zoom exists. So we need to make sure that the users know that is even exist to use it But of course as Jan is said we should not promote every single feature or even show a changelog So we want to show the major features of the new version What is coming next is also to map or to enhance the sync so that we can map Yeah, even any folder on the mobile phone and to the next folder to For example back up your whatsapp image folder and Currently you want to do it first in one direction to replace the instant upload and also save solve the Android 7 problem. So we want just to go from a mobile to server and in the later versions We want to do a full two-way sync with also conflict management and Limitation to a valan or charging only and in the longer term we want to support also the real offline functionality to That allows you that you can use the app When you're on the train or on the plane where you do not have any data plan and Also, we want to enhance the navigation drawer to show Downloads like we are currently doing for uploads and also share show the sharing folders or Present the activity stream Which is currently on the server and to the last two points are more Generally to improve the performance if we or if you are open Folders with lots of 1000 images and also do UI and UX experience enhancements If you want to help us your Lucky and you can just visit the contribution file on GitHub. Thank you


We've got the emerging collaborations with IACN, WWF, WCS, CMARIC, and others. I'm going to go through this. Let me just say that we're involved now, and I'm going to end this pretty quickly here. We're involved in the strategic planning process. We want to exist beyond the life of ACSC. We started in January with an internal strategic planning process at the University of Georgia. We're now moving toward an external consultation process, which I consider this meeting part of that, to refine our research priorities. And we've identified forces, and these are a work in process. They are landscape histories and conservation planning and implementation. This is something, obviously, that a lot of people in C4 have worked on. And I'm particularly aware of the stuff in Lino, but there's obviously a lot of other work as well. But as Kev Redford once pointed out to me, he said, you know, landscape history that's always used as a hammer to attack conservation, but you're not taking account of it. Obviously, integrating landscape history into conservation planning can be a positive tool for conservation, particularly now that we're engaging with the climate agenda. We're thinking about connectivity. We're thinking about the impermanence of protected areas and so forth. Secondly, the role of the social sciences in conservation. This really gets at that last point I made in the last slide about trying to gauge how we think about the social context, local contexts, and broader social and political contexts in conservation with the shift from protected areas to more market-based and other kinds of mechanisms. Activation and collaborative methods really refers to some of the, a lot of the collaborative work that, again, people here have been doing, but then also, and here I'm speaking particularly as an anthropologist, where we've been pretty seriously attacked by a lot of indigenous communities for the way we work and, you know, the way we've worked in the past in the extractive ways. And there are, I think a lot of, there are still lessons that we are learning that are emerging in that literature that can be applied to conservation. And finally, emerging conservation strategies. And really that, from my perspective, is kind of a burning ground for identifying future research priorities. And so, for instance, the climate change agenda. What does that mean for conservation? There are lots of, again, all these emerging market-based mechanisms. Conservation is changing dramatically today, and we think it's important to kind of be tracking those changes and trying to understand them and see how they shape the broader conservation domain. And so, this is the external consultation process. So I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to end there. I've gone through things rather quickly, but I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about, whether you're talking about the framework or whether you want to have something to suggest that we're missing CSR, that it's something that we might view, or whether you build collaborations. Let's go to the floor up to suggestions, questions, comments. This is probably a good idea. What do you mean by landscape? The model that I'm seeing has involved, are we seeking over time or more of a social context? What I think, first of all, I mean, the thing that we have discovered, we've been doing some scoping on this, is that this literature is all over the place. And it's very hard to, you know, to, you know, there are folks working in European context and in all kinds of time spans. I think the thing, and here I suppose this is me as an anthropologist speaking, when I think of it, I think primarily in terms, not in the sort of deep time kind of context. Recognizing, of course, that, you know, that conservation, particularly when they're talking about restoration, they need to establish the baseline. But I think about context like the club at Highlands, where Sarah has been doing her dissertation research, where that landscape is full of history. You look at it, it looks like a forest. It's full of, it's not just, you know, baryocytes and megaliths and so forth, but, you know, rows of fruit trees and so forth. And that can be documented and that can be used as a positive tool in conservation planning. There are lots of models for doing this, but they have not been, I think, applied much at all outside of Europe and a little bit of the US and Europe. Yeah, good. Thanks, a lot of very interesting stuff. We recognize negotiation support, systems and multiple knowledge and multiple, pluralism and all that stuff. You've heard through the debate about what community means. We are very interested in the evaluation process and power of one very simple word that is at the core business of this center here, that is the word forest. And I know currently debate about climate change and all that, very much hinges on that single term. Yes. International agreements will be made soon that refer to that. The politics of the power of whose, what does it mean and what does it not mean is a very important one, right? We have asked answers to just the case studies. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we have not addressed that issue. I'm particularly aware of that issue. A lot of my previous research, in the context of that, followed a lot of Malaysian debates, and precisely about forests. And now we see this with plantations and so forth, obviously, carbon stuff and whatever. So we've not looked at that, but I'd be interested in hearing more about what you're doing on that front because I absolutely agree. And that precisely is one of those, I would consider that one of those implicit, excuse me, contexts in which power is being exercised by who's defining what a forest is. Your third bullet point there, it's kind of an influence in conservation practice. I know your phrase is a question, but have you got any insights into actually influencing conservation practice especially in the academic to the practitioner? Yes. I think, first of all, and here I think I'm trying to channel Tom McShane, who's the PI of the project, but I don't want to answer for him. He's thought a lot about this issue. So the other folks, we've all thought a lot about this issue. And I think one of the issues that we have come up against, one that we've heard, particularly, is the distinguish, the distinction between content-driven research and demand-driven research. And the point was made by someone from the maker conservation organizations that if there's no demand for it, you can do something blue in the face and who cares about it. So the question then, to me, is a strategic one, if you just sit around and wait for your work to be in demand, you're not going to be very relevant. We think this potential and the focus on trade-offs that you guys are undertaking, that there are strategic ways to ensure that it is taken into account by the conservation community, obviously one route would be through donors. And of course, what does that mean? One of the interesting, one of the other pieces of research that we sponsored is a focus on conservation funding and sort of trends in conservation funding. One of the most interesting findings, I don't know if you were there for that presentation in Beijing, but when we think of conservation funding and we think about USAID and GDAF and various other kinds of multilateral and bilateral funders and we think about the big foundations, the interesting finding of that research and the people doing the research were very careful to say, listen, we're still massaging numbers and trying to sort out what all of it, but still I think the quantum is interesting. The big foundations, like Arthur, Moore, Packard, all those, that support about 3% of conservation funding. That's a very small percentage. Whereas the bilateral's are much, I think, around 60% plus percent. Now that's interesting. That doesn't mean that you should ignore that little 3% slice because as the subsequent discussion moved forward, someone made the observation that those guys can move very quickly and very innovatively in ways that the big funders can't. We think it's important to try to influence the funding community. This is something that possibly through your work on tradeoffs, might be a nice synergy.


Hey guys, welcome to figure fantasy. We're now talking about Sun Xiang Xiang or SSX for short. I don't want to pronounce her name because it's a tongue twister but we'll start off with her skills as you can see here. She is, sorry, she is by the way part of, she's part of Snow A. So take note of that and she is a militarist guys. So terrific damage for a militarist and let's go over again her skills. First and foremost is her attack speed is going to be fast. So making it faster is one of the things that we have to take advantage of. So level 2 and 3 again a plus 50 damage from basic attack. She has terrific damage by the way. For her ultimate arrow of the wind falling feathers. Attack the current target, dealing damage and igniting the target for five seconds. Okay, that then deals a random damage two times to the target and its adjacent enemy. So she has good direct damage. She has good AOE damage for her ultimate. Level 2 is boost attack speed by 80% for five seconds after unleashing the ultimate. And level 3 random damage also has penetrating effect. This is gonna hurt. So penetration is the damage ignores the target's defense and stuns them for 0.5 seconds. So ignore defense. That is why she is very, she hits hard. So that is actually my take on that one. Her passive is end of chaos. Basic attacks have a 20% chance to trigger. So again you need to quicken her basic attack to have a better chance to trigger penetrating arrows which have a penetrating effect. The chance to trigger is adjusted based on the accuracy bonus. Again we will be discussing how to raise her accuracy bonus. And upgrade effect is deals additional burn damage to ignite targets. When triggered recovers 10 energy for herself which is nice. So that she could recycle it towards her ultimate. Again this has penetration as well. And her special is dominance of war. Boost damage by 15 when there is no surrounding enemies. She's definitely gonna be good for bosses. Boost attack by 5, attack speed by 10. And level 3 is boost damage by 25% when there are no surrounding enemies. Okay let's proceed to her parts and let's see what she has. So similar to her counterpart, no to her friend, the Outchan. She has attack speed. So if you're going to be leveling up both with the same type of gear, definitely you're gonna need attack speed a lot and you're gonna need critical rate as well. So 4p set is attack speed and 2 for critical rate. Ideally guys, you need to have eternal nightmare badge with her. So boost attack speed by 10. Basic attack set with 21% chance to bounce lighting off four times each time dealing damage equal to 80% of attack. But again if you don't have this one, let's see the alternatives for her badge. Okay so alternatives for her badge. This one if you want to build her on accuracy and if you want to trigger that passive as frequently as possible because she ready that does have a fast attack but you can actually use this. This is also good boost accuracy bonus by 25% as well as 20% chance to restore 10 energy when attack which will be adjusted by the accuracy bonus as well. So this is a good badge. If you don't have that and if you have this one this is also a good one to start because it boosts accuracy bonus by 40. If you don't have the yellow ones you could use this and also similar to Yiaochan, you can actually use this as well if you don't have any badges at all that you can use on the yellow side. So that is it. You can actually use this as well end time ultimate badge boost damage by 20% when unleashing the ultimate stacking up to five times and last until the battle ends. But this is your last recourse really. End time divinity would be good for for the purples and end time ambition badge and for the gold ones you have this one and eternal mid summer badges is good to boost accuracy and my recommendation is eternal nightmare badge. Okay so my final thoughts on SSX. So it's very straightforward problem again with them or their brand is that we'll have a problem bring her to at least five star so it will take time to bring her up there but definitely a very good value if you do. I don't see any you know any drawbacks to building her except for you know the acquisition of copies of her but if you do she's gonna hit hard she she has fast attack she has kit which has penetrating damage or penetration and she also has ignite effect so again she has a lot going for her kit it's just tough to build her at this point so probably in the future we could have another video on her with you know more copies but I don't think that would be soon and that would be down the line so again guys thank you thank you very much for staying this far take care stay safe this is the warden and I'm out of here.